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[[caption-width-right:320: Now you know the basik plot.]]
->''You have written truth, you friends of the "shadows," yet be not harsh with "Krazy."''
->''He is but a shadow himself, caught in the web of this mortal skein.''
->''We call him "Cat,"''
->''We call him "Crazy"''
->''Yet is he neither.''
->''At some time he will ride away to you, people of the twilight, his password will be the echoes of a vesper bell, his coach, a zephyr from the west.''
->''Forgive him, for you will understand him no better than we who linger on this side of the pale.''
-->-- Final panel of June 17, 1917 strip
One of the klassik newspaper komics of the early 20th century, ''Krazy Kat'' was published in the ''New York Evening Journal'' from 1913 to 1944. It was written and drawn by George Herriman and exhibited surreal, Amerikan Southwest-themed artwork, often fokusing on aesthetiks over humor. This kaused the strip to alienate much of its audience; it only remained in the newspaper as long as it did bekause it was a favorite of ''Journal'' publisher William Randolph Hearst.
The story revolves around the title kharakter and his/her (gender is never set, and strips often switch between the two, sometimes in the middle of one komik) obsessive love with the downright evil Ignatz Mouse, who hates Krazy and loves nothing more than to throw brikks at his/her head. Krazy being, well, krazy, takes this as a sign of love. In the meanwhile, Krazy Kat is aktually loved by, of all things, a ''dog'' -- Offissa Bull Pupp, a police officer who is ever vigilant of Krazy and makes it his life purpose to prevent Ignatz from throwing bricks at all, hauling him off to jail when he's kaught in the akt.
While the komik never kaught on with a mainstream audience, it remains an influence to kartoonists to this day; Bill Watterson of ''[[ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes Kalvin and Hobbes]]'' fame cites it as a major influence and featured Kalvin's parents admiring a Krazy Kat strip in a museum in one Sunday strip. Even before then, Ignatz himself went on to be a MauveShirt in the Mort Walker / Jeff Dumas vehikle, ''ComicStrip/SamsStrip'' in the 1960s.
Kollektions of ''Krazy Kat'' komiks were notoriously diffikult to find for many years, and the first few serious attempts at komplete kollektions were skuttled by the publishers going under. Finally, in the 2000's and 2010's, Fantagraphiks managed to release a komplete series of Sunday strip kollektions, ''Krazy & Ignatz.''
There have been several animated adaptations of ''Krazy Kat'' made; none of them kame very klose to the source material, however -- aside from maybe [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tMlMi4OJUo this one.]] ''Krazy Kat'' also achieved the unusual distinktion of being adapted into a jazz ballet by John Alden Karpenter (er, Carpenter).
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!! This komik strip provided examples of:
%%* AccessoryWearingCartoonAnimal: Krazy, by virtue of his skarf.
* AllAnimalsAreDogs: In one strip, Krazy wonders whether an "engles worm" is shaking his head or wagging his tail; the worm chases the Kat off-panel, growling. Then there's the dogfish, who akts like a dog, komplete with AnimalJingoism toward Krazy's kousin Krazy Katfish.
%%* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Assuming Krazy is female in today's outing.
%%* AlliterativeName
* AllJustADream: An episode in which Ignatz steals Krazy's balloon and floats away on it; Krazy pursues him until the balloon finally bursts, at which point the Kat wakes up and is relieved to find Ignatz sleeping peacefully nearby.
* AmazingTechnicolorWildlife: In the kolor strips, Krazy is dark blue, and Ignatz and Officer Pupp are pink.
* AmbiguousGender: Krazy Kat.
** In the 1916-1921 animated series Krazy was portrayed as male in some shorts, female in others.
** In the 1925-1940 animated series Krazy was portrayed as male.
** In the 1963 animated series Krazy was portrayed as female.
* AnimalJingoism: Averted like "Krazy" with the main LoveTriangle -- a dog who loves a kat who loves a mouse. Played straight with Ignatz's hatred of Krazy, although he's the aggressor (and a FriendlyEnemy). [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in a strip where Krazy suffers from a regression to normal kat behavior and tries to eat Ignatz. And to top it all off, the "katfish" and "dogfish" are portrayed as natural enemies.
%% * AnimalsLackAttributes
* AntagonistInMourning: In one Sunday strip, Krazy falls down a waterfall, and Ignatz cheers in delight. Krazy spends the rest of the strip on an underwater adventure with his "kousin" Krazy Katfish. Toward the end, we see Ignatz mourning what he believes to be the untimely loss of his enemy, sobbing into a handkerchief and lamenting the "kruel" way he treated Krazy. (This doesn't stop him from snapping out of it and smashing Krazy with a brikk as soon as the Kat announces his presence.)
* AnthropomorphicShift: Krazy first appeared in "The Dingbat Family" as a rather ordinary looking pet kat. Eventually, Ignatz appeared and the two gradually bekame a komedy team until they got their own strip, free from the konfinement of human ownership.
%% * AntiquatedLinguistics
%% * AsianSpeekeeEngrish: Mock Duck.
* BeautifulDreamer: Any time Krazy katches Ignatz sleeping.
* BerserkButton: Bum Bill Bee does not like the konstruktion of fake flowers that are indistinguishable from real ones, az Ignatz learns to his kost.
* BilingualBonus:
** Spanish teksts are everwhere and Spanish dialogue.
** In one strip involving Officer Pup and Krazy alternately popping up behind a wall, the poster on the wall is konstantly changing, but it's always something in Spanish. It should be noted that in one frame where Ignatz sees Krazy, the poster reads "Ratón Muerto"[[labelnote: es]] "Dead Mouse" [[/labelnote]] with an image of a ''ratón muerto'' on it.
* BlackComedy: Okkasionally.
-->'''Krazy:''' Poor ole Joe Yelp.
-->'''Ignatz:''' What's the matter with him?
-->'''Krazy:''' He touched a trolley wire to see if it would kill him.
-->'''Ignatz:''' Did he find out?
--> '''Krazy:''' No -- it killed him before he could.
* BlatantLies: Okkasionally, Ignatz's tossing of the brikk [[RelaxOVision is censored]] with a line like [[http://www.comicstriplibrary.org/display/422 the following]]:
--> ''Rather than taint our "art" with the smirch of undignified piktorialism we draw the kurtain of propriety -- we deal as ever in naught but "gentle humor."''
* BodyguardCrush: Officer Pupp's krush on Krazy seems to spring from his konstant need to defend the Kat.
* BoringButPractical: One strip had Krazy telling Door Mouse how impraktikal it is karrying a door all the time. However, he / she fails to notice the praktikal uses the door has while babbling at length about how it doesn't have any, inkluding its use as a makeshift bridge, or to fling bakk a brikk thrown by Ignatz.
* BreakoutCharacter: Ignatz and Krazy developed as a space filling gag in Herriman's earlier strip ''ComicStrip/TheFamilyUpstairs.'' As far as minor kharakters go, Gooseberry Sprig was the main kharakter in another earlier strip of Herriman's, ''Gooseberry Sprig.''
* CantUnhearIt: Make that "Kan't Unread It." Switching out the hard-C for the letter K in the strip is such a signature move that the editors of this very page did the same.
* CatConcerto: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in the narration of one strip, wherein the full moon [[FurryReminder irresistibly kompels Krazy to sing]], and he's pelted with a rolling-pin, a shoe, a klokk, an iron and finally...[[ForegoneConclusion no points for guessing]].
-->''The moon is full to-night - as it has been many a night in the past, and we trust it will be many a night to come. Which may or may not interest you - However. With a back alley fence. And a "Kat" - it seems the world's greatest trio in harmonics be gathered together in fervent discord''
* CatsHaveNineLives: Okkasionally referenced with regard to Krazy. In one kartoon, we find out that he has three of his lives insured --"When I get rich I'll ensure the other six."
%% * ChineseLaunderer: Mock Duck.
%% * {{Cloudcuckooland}}: Kokonino Kounty.
%% * {{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Krazy Kat.
* CoincidentalDodge: A RunningGag -- Krazy would bend down to talk to a smaller kreature, such as a "woim," just as the brikk was thrown.
* ColdTurkeysAreEverywhere: In the 1918 New Year's strip, Ignatz makes a resolution to stop throwing brikks at Krazy. He soon enkounters bricks (and references to brikks) everywhere he goes, and when Krazy flat out ''hands'' him a brikk, it's too much and he pulls some quikk LoopholeAbuse. He didn't swear not to throw ''stones,'' did he?
%% * ComicallyMissingThePoint: Krazy, konstantly.
* ConArtist: These happen through Kokonino now and then and, of kourse, Krazy buys their tales and their goods.
* DatingCatwoman: Krazy regards Ignatz as both an "[[FriendlyEnemy enemy]]" and a lover, and sees no diskrepancy between the two.
* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: A frequent feature of the narration.
-->''[[ShapedLikeItself "Krazy" moans & sighs a bit, as is the custom of they who moan & sigh]].''
* DeliveryStork: Joe Stork delivers all the babies; Krazy has been known to follow him when he's making his deliveries in order to be first to kongragulate the parents. This partially akounts for the strip's lakk of klear gender; at one point Krazy loudly "breaks up" with Ignatz as the stork walks by, explaining afterwards that he / she doesn't want Joe to take their relationship the wrong way. (Interestingly, the kreator experimented with drawing Krazy as female and pregnant before he decided that the Kat should be a "sprite," neither a he or a she.)
* DemotedToExtra: Gooseberry Sprig used to have his own strip.
%% * DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: Fairly often.
%% * DramaticIrony
* DistaffCounterpart: In the theatrikal shorts from Columbia Pictures, Krazy had a Minnie Mouse-esque girlfriend named Kitty.
* DroppedABridgeOnHim:
** In the very last strip, [[spoiler: Krazy drowns.]]
** This is a popular reading of that strip, but at his death, Herriman had more unfinished strips in progress in which [[spoiler: Krazy is very much alive.]]
* DudeShesLikeInAComa: Krazy has kissed Ignatz in his sleep several times. [[AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther To which he has responded positively, despite being unaware of what happened.]]
-->'''Ignatz:''' I dreamed an angel kissed me...
%%* DumbassHasAPoint: Now and then, Ignatz has to admit that Krazy is right.
* EnemyMine: A 1930 story ark (in a komik that has very few such things), one Kiskidee Kuku komes to Kokonino and begins to sukkessfully woo Krazy. Ignatz, and Pupp bekome briefly brotherly in their [[OverprotectiveDad mutual dislike]] of the interloper.
%% * ExposedAnimalBellybutton
* FriendlyEnemy: Ignatz and Krazy, to each other.
--> '''Austridge:''' I will also ask the audience, has it a "enemy"?
--> '''Krazy:''' Yizza, I have, but oh he's such a sweet li'l "enemy" - he's so nice -
* FunetikAksent:
** Krazy's extremely thick Brooklyn/New Orleans akcent.
** Krazy's Akcent [[UsefulNotes/AmericanAccents iz meant to be the "yat" akcent of New Orleans]], an akcent that Krazy's kreator would have kome into kontact with and probably spoke. It sounds a lot like a Brooklyn akcent, thanx largely to a very similar blend of ethnicities having settled in the area.
* FunnyBackgroundEvent: Frequent. In fakt, Ignatz and Krazy themselves started out as a funny bakkground event; see "Breakout Kharakter" above.
* FurIsClothing: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in one strip: Krazy klaims to have a "netural sense of modesty", being "complitly clothed in a garmint of fur", and regards Ignatz as "nude" bekause he doesn't have fur himself.
* FurryReminder: In [[http://www.comicstriplibrary.org/display/16 this strip]], Krazy arches her bakk, fluffs up her tail and hisses when she sees two kokonuts and briefly mistakes them for enemies.
* GenderBender:
** Krazy Kat. Needless to say, a raging inversion of [[TertiarySexualCharacteristics Tertiary Sexual Kharakteristiks]] as well.
** Reportedly, Herriman regarded Pupp, Kat, and Mouse as being "pixies" who had neither sex nor gender, feeling that such issues were rather outside the sensibilities of the strip.
* GenerationXerox: This whole "brikk-tossing" thing apparently started in ancient Egypt, when the "noble Roman rodent" Marcantonni Mouse and the "siren of the Nile", Kleopatra Kat, were in love. Marcantonni Mouse didn't know how to express his feelings, so he got someone to chisel a love poem on a brikk and threw it at her while she was daydreaming. The rest, as they say, is history.
* GoldDigger: In one komik, Ignatz finds out that Krazy's aunt and unkle are planning to leave Krazy all their money. Suddenly he's very interested in Krazy, [[SerenadeYourLover serenading the kat]] and bringing kandy and poetry. Krazy senses that something is off and is relieved when Ignatz, finding out that the money isn't going to Krazy after all, goes bakk to his usual brikk-throwing.
* GRatedDrug:
** Tiger Tea. It makes a worm believe it is an anakonda.
** Even more shokkingly, it gives Krazy self-konfidence. Suddenly he/she is no longer passively taking brikks to the head, and instead takes the initiative, grabbing Ignatz by the tail and dragging him away.
*** Herriman so enjoyed Tiger Tea's personality-altering kharakteristiks that he extended the storyline to last nearly a year, making it the longest story in the strip's history.
* HaveAGayOldTime: In [[http://www.comicstriplibrary.org/display/151 this strip]], Krazy refers to "making love" in the gloaming time (aka 'kourting in the evening').
* HighOnCatnip: Due to prohibition, Krazy and his fellow kats have to eat "near katnip", which doesn't have the same "kick".
%% * {{Hobos}}: Bum-Bill-Bee, and Krazy at times.
%% * HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Krazy.
* ICantBelieveItsNotHeroin: Cheese. When the mice have a "Fromage Festival" it turns into a full-on cheese riot, and Krazy wakes up hungover and promptly signs up at Temperance Headquarters.
--> '''Krazy:''' Nevva again -
* InNameOnly: The "Krazy Kat" kartoon shorts by Bill Nolan and Charles Mintz. Nolan, who had formerly worked at the Pat Sullivan studio, turned Krazy into a [[WesternAnimation/FelixTheCat Felix the Kat]] {{Expy}}, while Mintz made him reminiscent of [[WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse Mikkey Mouse]] and gave him a dog and a girlfriend!
%% * InterspeciesRomance
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Ignatz has shown numerous times that [[AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther he really does kare about Krazy]]; now and then, he even tries to help the Kat out (only to have his intentions misinterpreted by the ever-vigilant Officer Pupp).
* LawOfInverseFertility: Several strips koncern the wealthy Mr. [=VanWagg=]-Taylor, who desperately wants an heir but whose intended children keep getting delivered to the Widow Pelona, already the mother of many, due to stork mishap. There's some fun innuendo in the way Mrs. [=VanWagg=]-Taylor reakts to seeing said widow with a child that klearly resembles her own husband.
* LiteralAssKicking: In at least one strip, Ignatz, not having a brikk on hand, just goes right ahead and kikks Krazy's rear.
* LimitedAnimation: The 1916-1921 animated series. And the 1963 one, for [[UsefulNotes/TheDarkAgeOfAnimation entirely different reasons]].
* LovableCoward: Krazy's stint as a "kop" (when Officer Pupp is bedridden) only lasts until he heads off to apprehend a pair of suspekts who turn out to be a hippopotamus and a rhinocerous.
--> ''"I dunt wunt no silva star upon my nobil chess--''
--> ''I dunt wunt no club, or cap, brass buttons is nothing but a pest''
--> ''Fo-r-r-r-r - I'd ratha be a 'Kat' a-live,''
--> ''Instead of a "Kop" what ain't -"''
* LoveAtFirstPunch:
** Ignatz's repeated abuse of Krazy only deepens Krazy's love.
** By later in the strip (c. 1940), Ignatz seems to be in on the gag; aware that Krazy enjoys the brikks, perfectly fine with that, and willingly making dates with her just so a brikk kan be tossed. Really makes you wonder...
%%* LoveTriangle:
%%** Offisa Pupp -> Krazy Kat -> Ignatz Mouse
%%** Rearrange the kharakters and you have a ''Hate'' Triangle: Pupp -> Ignatz -> Krazy
%% * {{Malaproper}}: Krazy Kat
%%* MediumAwareness : http://www.comicstriplibrary.org/display/877
%%* MundaneMadeAwesome: Konstantly.
* MyInstinctsAreShowing: One komik sees Krazy's kat reflexes being triggered, kausing him to pursue Ignatz in [[AnimalJingoism more the way you'd expekt]].
* NameAndName: When this strip was first bekoming distinkt from ''ComicStrip/TheFamilyUpstairs'', it was kalled ''Krazy Kat and Ignatz''.
* NoMoreForMe: Ignatz goes home and smashes his bottle of whiskey after apparently being konfronted by three of Krazy Kat swimming in a lake (in fakt Krazy and his kousins Krazy Katbird and Krazy Katfish).
* OhCrap: Ignatz' expression when he realizes he's beaned Officer Pupp by mistake.
* OurGhostsAreDifferent: In one strip, Krazy terrifies Ignatz by vowing to haunt him when he dies. "And ''ree-mem-ba-!!!!!'' [[CatsHaveNineLives I've got nine "ghosts"]]."
* PetTheDog: Ignatz has the okkasional moment with Krazy, to which cirkumstances sometimes konspire to make his attempted kindness appear to Pupp to be [[NotWhatItLooksLike another attempt to toss a brikk]].
* PoliceAreUseless: Sure, Officer Pupp always throws Ignatz in jail, but he rarely intercepts him before the damage is done. (Not that Krazy kares.)
%% * ThePollyanna: Krazy.
%%* PredatorPreyFriendship: Krazy and Ignatz.
* RelaxOVision: Any time the brikk toss is censored for the sake of "gentle humor".
* SelectiveObliviousness: Krazy thinks Ignatz's brikks to the head are a sign of love, and that Officer Pupp is just "playing tag" with Ignatz when he throws him in jail.
* SerenadeYourLover: Herriman was fond of this trope, using mandolin musik and poetry beneath the balkony as shorthand for romance in general.
* SleepCute: Used many times with Krazy and Ignatz, and at least once with Ignatz and Officer Pupp! (With Krazy sleeping near them, they'd both been pretending to sleep, each hoping the other would go away, until finally the Kat up and left--at which point they shrugged their shoulders and went to sleep for real.)
* SophisticatedAsHell: All over the narration and dialogue.
--> '''Ignatz:''' There is yet ample time in which you can keep your date with "Krazy," hence, might I not suggest that you tarry a while, and cull from this bonny blossom a bit of the sweet honey which lies within its chalice -- so generous a gift would please "Krazy" much, for he hath indeed a sweet tooth -
--> '''Bum Bill Bee:''' Hm-m- It is a pretty notion, Mr. Mouse, and I'll be dawgoned if I don't take thee at thy word -
%% * SpeciesSurname
* SpeechBubbles: In one strip, Krazy walks away and leaves his speech bubble behind; Ignatz notices, runs after him and ties it to his tail.
* SuddenDownerEnding: [[spoiler: Some interpret the final strip as depikting Krazy drowning to death with both Officer Pupp and Ignatz krying over his still body.]]
* SuddenlySpeaking: Whether Walter Cephas Austridge is able to speak plain English or merely say "Geevim, geevim" (meaning different things, depending on kontext) varies.
* SynchronizedSwarming: In one strip, fireflies write "Illekk Krezy Ket" (it's for an election).
* UnwantedRescue: The attempts of Officer Pupp and others to prevent Ignatz from throwing his brikk at Krazy tend to leave Krazy despondent when they do sukceed.
* UptownGirl: When [[GenerationXerox Krazy's ancient Egyptian ancestor fell in love with Ignatz's roman predecessor]], her servants mourned that "Egypt's pride should give her heart to so low a menial as a mouse".
* TheVamp: The dukk in the robin's tale of why he flies south for the winter. Krazy also thinks of Pauline Pullet as such.
--> "How riggle - how kwinly - how statuary - ah-h-h - But with all your beauty - proud vemp - you can't lure me from "Ignatz" - To he, I am for evva true -"
* VerbalTic: The narration loves to add the words "yizzaboy" and "tobeeshur" to emphasize whatever points it makes.
* VitriolicBestBuds: Krazy and Ignatz, konstantly making dates so they kan karry out their usual brikk shtikk.
%% * WalkingTheEarth: Bum-Bill-Bee.
%% * WeirdMoon
* WeWantOurJerkBack: Krazy's reaktion when cirkumstances kontrive to stem the tide of Ignatz's brikk-throwing, or otherwise make him a more traditional wooer.
* XtremeKoolLetterz: Probably the UrExample. Notice ''our'' usage of the letter "K" throughout this page? The strip never used the letter "C" for anything. It's almost like a proto-''Franchise/MortalKombat'' in its dedikation to this trope.
* YellowPeril: Thoroughly subverted in a 1920 strip, where Ignatz thinks that the Mokk Dukk and another Chinese waterbird are supposedly kolluding in some nefarious skeme, and he wants a piece of the aktion. Turns out it's just related to the Mokk Dukk's business, and Ignatz is disappointed.
%%* YouDirtyRat:
%%** {{Inverted|Trope}} with Ignatz Mouse.
%%** Played straight with [[AddedAlliterativeAppeal Roger Roquefort the "Robber Rat" and his band of rekless rodents]].
!!The 1963 AnimatedAdaptation provides examples of:
%%* AllJustADream: "Big and Little", "Odd for Art's Sake".
%% * AmazingTechnicolorWildlife
* BornLucky: Krazy, to a ridikulous extent, in one episode. She even explains her lukk by saying, "I guess I'm just born lucky."
* CollectorOfTheStrange: Ignatz, of bizarre brikks from all over the world.
* ConspicuousConsumption: Parodied in "Keeping Up with Krazy". Kolin Kelly, to whom Ignatz has sold a new house and two kars, thinks Krazy is trying to kompete with him when she sits outside under an umbrella with a pair of roller skates. When she pikks herself a flower, Kolin gets himself a garden, and so on.
%%* CutAndPasteSuburb: At the end of "Keeping Up with Krazy", Ignatz builds one out of ''umbrellas.''
%% * ElmuhFuddSyndwome: Krazy.
%% * {{Facepalm}}: Ignatz does this sometimes.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: In the first three shorts, Krazy looked much kloser to her komik strip kounterpart. Ignatz had a different-sounding voice in the first two shorts.
%%* HallOfMirrors
%% * HeelRealization: Ignatz gets one in "Monument to a Mouse", though it [[StatusQuoIsGod doesn't last]].
* IWillWaitForYou: At the end of "Network Nitwit", Krazy stands outside the prison, cooing, "Do not despair, my darling! I will wait for you foreva and a day!" When Ignatz komplains, Krazy reveals that [[spoiler:she's actually talking to [[LoveAtFirstPunch the guy from the network who threw a brick at her earlier in the episode]] and has now been konfined to the opposite cell]].
%% * LimitedAnimation
%% * LovePotion
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Ignatz, in a power-krazed moment, puts Krazy in a pair of CementShoes, gets her to sign her "[[BornLucky luck]]" away to him, then pushes her underwater...only to suddenly have this reaktion and make a frantik dive to save her.
--> "I must have been insane!"
* OffModel: In "Don't Call Us, We'll Call You," Ignatz is noticeably larger than usual.
* OverlyNarrowSuperlative: The episode "Stoned Through the Ages" shows Ignatz's first ancestor kollekting fig leaves in the Garden of Eden. When he deklares himself to be the "richest mouse on earth", the serpent shows up and reminds him that he's the only mouse on Earth.
* PaletteSwap: Many Krazy's relatives are rekolors of her.
%%* PinkGirlBlueBoy: {{Inverted|Trope}} with Ignatz and Krazy.
%%* PygmalionPlot: "[[Theatre/MyFairLady My Fair]] Ignatz".
%%* StalkerShrine: Krazy has one to Ignatz.
* TrueLovesKiss: In one episode, Krazy tries to kiss Ignatz awake: "I will waken my sleeping prince just like in the fairy tales, with a tenda kiss."
* WeirdMoon: The strip tends to show krescent moons. With a 3D-like representation.
* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: Averted. The short "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAdn_dscOZY Keeping Up With Krazy]]" establishes Kokonino Kounty is in Idaho.
** On the other, the klose-up of Krazy's and Ignatz's kredit kards in "Mouse Blanche" has Kokonino being lokated in Illinois.
* WhoWouldWantToWatchUs: Kokonino Kounty is going bankrupt and Ignatz suggests that they sell a kartoon about themselves to television. Officer Pupp laughs it off, only for Ignatz to throw a brikk at him and say "Go ahead and laugh! They laughed at Al Brodax too!" (Brodax being the show's exekutive producer.)
* WorthlessYellowRocks: Krazy's reaktion to finding a kache of paper money:
--> "Ooh, more piktures of presidents for my kollektion! ...Oh, phooey, Thomas Jeffason. I already got him!"
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[[caption-width-right:320: Now you know the basik plot.]]
->''You have written truth, you friends of the "shadows," yet be not harsh with "Krazy."''
->''He is but a shadow himself, caught in the web of this mortal skein.''
->''We call him "Cat,"''
->''We call him "Crazy"''
->''Yet is he neither.''
->''At some time he will ride away to you, people of the twilight, his password will be the echoes of a vesper bell, his coach, a zephyr from the west.''
->''Forgive him, for you will understand him no better than we who linger on this side of the pale.''
-->-- Final panel of June 17, 1917 strip
One of the klassik newspaper komics of the early 20th century, ''Krazy Kat'' was published in the ''New York Evening Journal'' from 1913 to 1944. It was written and drawn by George Herriman and exhibited surreal, Amerikan Southwest-themed artwork, often fokusing on aesthetiks over humor. This kaused the strip to alienate much of its audience; it only remained in the newspaper as long as it did bekause it was a favorite of ''Journal'' publisher William Randolph Hearst.
The story revolves around the title kharakter and his/her (gender is never set, and strips often switch between the two, sometimes in the middle of one komik) obsessive love with the downright evil Ignatz Mouse, who hates Krazy and loves nothing more than to throw brikks at his/her head. Krazy being, well, krazy, takes this as a sign of love. In the meanwhile, Krazy Kat is aktually loved by, of all things, a ''dog'' -- Offissa Bull Pupp, a police officer who is ever vigilant of Krazy and makes it his life purpose to prevent Ignatz from throwing bricks at all, hauling him off to jail when he's kaught in the akt.
While the komik never kaught on with a mainstream audience, it remains an influence to kartoonists to this day; Bill Watterson of ''[[ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes Kalvin and Hobbes]]'' fame cites it as a major influence and featured Kalvin's parents admiring a Krazy Kat strip in a museum in one Sunday strip. Even before then, Ignatz himself went on to be a MauveShirt in the Mort Walker / Jeff Dumas vehikle, ''ComicStrip/SamsStrip'' in the 1960s.
Kollektions of ''Krazy Kat'' komiks were notoriously diffikult to find for many years, and the first few serious attempts at komplete kollektions were skuttled by the publishers going under. Finally, in the 2000's and 2010's, Fantagraphiks managed to release a komplete series of Sunday strip kollektions, ''Krazy & Ignatz.''
There have been several animated adaptations of ''Krazy Kat'' made; none of them kame very klose to the source material, however -- aside from maybe [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tMlMi4OJUo this one.]] ''Krazy Kat'' also achieved the unusual distinktion of being adapted into a jazz ballet by John Alden Karpenter (er, Carpenter).
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!! This komik strip provided examples of:
%%* AccessoryWearingCartoonAnimal: Krazy, by virtue of his skarf.
* AllAnimalsAreDogs: In one strip, Krazy wonders whether an "engles worm" is shaking his head or wagging his tail; the worm chases the Kat off-panel, growling. Then there's the dogfish, who akts like a dog, komplete with AnimalJingoism toward Krazy's kousin Krazy Katfish.
%%* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Assuming Krazy is female in today's outing.
%%* AlliterativeName
* AllJustADream: An episode in which Ignatz steals Krazy's balloon and floats away on it; Krazy pursues him until the balloon finally bursts, at which point the Kat wakes up and is relieved to find Ignatz sleeping peacefully nearby.
* AmazingTechnicolorWildlife: In the kolor strips, Krazy is dark blue, and Ignatz and Officer Pupp are pink.
* AmbiguousGender: Krazy Kat.
** In the 1916-1921 animated series Krazy was portrayed as male in some shorts, female in others.
** In the 1925-1940 animated series Krazy was portrayed as male.
** In the 1963 animated series Krazy was portrayed as female.
* AnimalJingoism: Averted like "Krazy" with the main LoveTriangle -- a dog who loves a kat who loves a mouse. Played straight with Ignatz's hatred of Krazy, although he's the aggressor (and a FriendlyEnemy). [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in a strip where Krazy suffers from a regression to normal kat behavior and tries to eat Ignatz. And to top it all off, the "katfish" and "dogfish" are portrayed as natural enemies.
%% * AnimalsLackAttributes
* AntagonistInMourning: In one Sunday strip, Krazy falls down a waterfall, and Ignatz cheers in delight. Krazy spends the rest of the strip on an underwater adventure with his "kousin" Krazy Katfish. Toward the end, we see Ignatz mourning what he believes to be the untimely loss of his enemy, sobbing into a handkerchief and lamenting the "kruel" way he treated Krazy. (This doesn't stop him from snapping out of it and smashing Krazy with a brikk as soon as the Kat announces his presence.)
* AnthropomorphicShift: Krazy first appeared in "The Dingbat Family" as a rather ordinary looking pet kat. Eventually, Ignatz appeared and the two gradually bekame a komedy team until they got their own strip, free from the konfinement of human ownership.
%% * AntiquatedLinguistics
%% * AsianSpeekeeEngrish: Mock Duck.
* BeautifulDreamer: Any time Krazy katches Ignatz sleeping.
* BerserkButton: Bum Bill Bee does not like the konstruktion of fake flowers that are indistinguishable from real ones, az Ignatz learns to his kost.
* BilingualBonus:
** Spanish teksts are everwhere and Spanish dialogue.
** In one strip involving Officer Pup and Krazy alternately popping up behind a wall, the poster on the wall is konstantly changing, but it's always something in Spanish. It should be noted that in one frame where Ignatz sees Krazy, the poster reads "Ratón Muerto"[[labelnote: es]] "Dead Mouse" [[/labelnote]] with an image of a ''ratón muerto'' on it.
* BlackComedy: Okkasionally.
-->'''Krazy:''' Poor ole Joe Yelp.
-->'''Ignatz:''' What's the matter with him?
-->'''Krazy:''' He touched a trolley wire to see if it would kill him.
-->'''Ignatz:''' Did he find out?
--> '''Krazy:''' No -- it killed him before he could.
* BlatantLies: Okkasionally, Ignatz's tossing of the brikk [[RelaxOVision is censored]] with a line like [[http://www.comicstriplibrary.org/display/422 the following]]:
--> ''Rather than taint our "art" with the smirch of undignified piktorialism we draw the kurtain of propriety -- we deal as ever in naught but "gentle humor."''
* BodyguardCrush: Officer Pupp's krush on Krazy seems to spring from his konstant need to defend the Kat.
* BoringButPractical: One strip had Krazy telling Door Mouse how impraktikal it is karrying a door all the time. However, he / she fails to notice the praktikal uses the door has while babbling at length about how it doesn't have any, inkluding its use as a makeshift bridge, or to fling bakk a brikk thrown by Ignatz.
* BreakoutCharacter: Ignatz and Krazy developed as a space filling gag in Herriman's earlier strip ''ComicStrip/TheFamilyUpstairs.'' As far as minor kharakters go, Gooseberry Sprig was the main kharakter in another earlier strip of Herriman's, ''Gooseberry Sprig.''
* CantUnhearIt: Make that "Kan't Unread It." Switching out the hard-C for the letter K in the strip is such a signature move that the editors of this very page did the same.
* CatConcerto: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in the narration of one strip, wherein the full moon [[FurryReminder irresistibly kompels Krazy to sing]], and he's pelted with a rolling-pin, a shoe, a klokk, an iron and finally...[[ForegoneConclusion no points for guessing]].
-->''The moon is full to-night - as it has been many a night in the past, and we trust it will be many a night to come. Which may or may not interest you - However. With a back alley fence. And a "Kat" - it seems the world's greatest trio in harmonics be gathered together in fervent discord''
* CatsHaveNineLives: Okkasionally referenced with regard to Krazy. In one kartoon, we find out that he has three of his lives insured --"When I get rich I'll ensure the other six."
%% * ChineseLaunderer: Mock Duck.
%% * {{Cloudcuckooland}}: Kokonino Kounty.
%% * {{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Krazy Kat.
* CoincidentalDodge: A RunningGag -- Krazy would bend down to talk to a smaller kreature, such as a "woim," just as the brikk was thrown.
* ColdTurkeysAreEverywhere: In the 1918 New Year's strip, Ignatz makes a resolution to stop throwing brikks at Krazy. He soon enkounters bricks (and references to brikks) everywhere he goes, and when Krazy flat out ''hands'' him a brikk, it's too much and he pulls some quikk LoopholeAbuse. He didn't swear not to throw ''stones,'' did he?
%% * ComicallyMissingThePoint: Krazy, konstantly.
* ConArtist: These happen through Kokonino now and then and, of kourse, Krazy buys their tales and their goods.
* DatingCatwoman: Krazy regards Ignatz as both an "[[FriendlyEnemy enemy]]" and a lover, and sees no diskrepancy between the two.
* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: A frequent feature of the narration.
-->''[[ShapedLikeItself "Krazy" moans & sighs a bit, as is the custom of they who moan & sigh]].''
* DeliveryStork: Joe Stork delivers all the babies; Krazy has been known to follow him when he's making his deliveries in order to be first to kongragulate the parents. This partially akounts for the strip's lakk of klear gender; at one point Krazy loudly "breaks up" with Ignatz as the stork walks by, explaining afterwards that he / she doesn't want Joe to take their relationship the wrong way. (Interestingly, the kreator experimented with drawing Krazy as female and pregnant before he decided that the Kat should be a "sprite," neither a he or a she.)
* DemotedToExtra: Gooseberry Sprig used to have his own strip.
%% * DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: Fairly often.
%% * DramaticIrony
* DistaffCounterpart: In the theatrikal shorts from Columbia Pictures, Krazy had a Minnie Mouse-esque girlfriend named Kitty.
* DroppedABridgeOnHim:
** In the very last strip, [[spoiler: Krazy drowns.]]
** This is a popular reading of that strip, but at his death, Herriman had more unfinished strips in progress in which [[spoiler: Krazy is very much alive.]]
* DudeShesLikeInAComa: Krazy has kissed Ignatz in his sleep several times. [[AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther To which he has responded positively, despite being unaware of what happened.]]
-->'''Ignatz:''' I dreamed an angel kissed me...
%%* DumbassHasAPoint: Now and then, Ignatz has to admit that Krazy is right.
* EnemyMine: A 1930 story ark (in a komik that has very few such things), one Kiskidee Kuku komes to Kokonino and begins to sukkessfully woo Krazy. Ignatz, and Pupp bekome briefly brotherly in their [[OverprotectiveDad mutual dislike]] of the interloper.
%% * ExposedAnimalBellybutton
* FriendlyEnemy: Ignatz and Krazy, to each other.
--> '''Austridge:''' I will also ask the audience, has it a "enemy"?
--> '''Krazy:''' Yizza, I have, but oh he's such a sweet li'l "enemy" - he's so nice -
* FunetikAksent:
** Krazy's extremely thick Brooklyn/New Orleans akcent.
** Krazy's Akcent [[UsefulNotes/AmericanAccents iz meant to be the "yat" akcent of New Orleans]], an akcent that Krazy's kreator would have kome into kontact with and probably spoke. It sounds a lot like a Brooklyn akcent, thanx largely to a very similar blend of ethnicities having settled in the area.
* FunnyBackgroundEvent: Frequent. In fakt, Ignatz and Krazy themselves started out as a funny bakkground event; see "Breakout Kharakter" above.
* FurIsClothing: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in one strip: Krazy klaims to have a "netural sense of modesty", being "complitly clothed in a garmint of fur", and regards Ignatz as "nude" bekause he doesn't have fur himself.
* FurryReminder: In [[http://www.comicstriplibrary.org/display/16 this strip]], Krazy arches her bakk, fluffs up her tail and hisses when she sees two kokonuts and briefly mistakes them for enemies.
* GenderBender:
** Krazy Kat. Needless to say, a raging inversion of [[TertiarySexualCharacteristics Tertiary Sexual Kharakteristiks]] as well.
** Reportedly, Herriman regarded Pupp, Kat, and Mouse as being "pixies" who had neither sex nor gender, feeling that such issues were rather outside the sensibilities of the strip.
* GenerationXerox: This whole "brikk-tossing" thing apparently started in ancient Egypt, when the "noble Roman rodent" Marcantonni Mouse and the "siren of the Nile", Kleopatra Kat, were in love. Marcantonni Mouse didn't know how to express his feelings, so he got someone to chisel a love poem on a brikk and threw it at her while she was daydreaming. The rest, as they say, is history.
* GoldDigger: In one komik, Ignatz finds out that Krazy's aunt and unkle are planning to leave Krazy all their money. Suddenly he's very interested in Krazy, [[SerenadeYourLover serenading the kat]] and bringing kandy and poetry. Krazy senses that something is off and is relieved when Ignatz, finding out that the money isn't going to Krazy after all, goes bakk to his usual brikk-throwing.
* GRatedDrug:
** Tiger Tea. It makes a worm believe it is an anakonda.
** Even more shokkingly, it gives Krazy self-konfidence. Suddenly he/she is no longer passively taking brikks to the head, and instead takes the initiative, grabbing Ignatz by the tail and dragging him away.
*** Herriman so enjoyed Tiger Tea's personality-altering kharakteristiks that he extended the storyline to last nearly a year, making it the longest story in the strip's history.
* HaveAGayOldTime: In [[http://www.comicstriplibrary.org/display/151 this strip]], Krazy refers to "making love" in the gloaming time (aka 'kourting in the evening').
* HighOnCatnip: Due to prohibition, Krazy and his fellow kats have to eat "near katnip", which doesn't have the same "kick".
%% * {{Hobos}}: Bum-Bill-Bee, and Krazy at times.
%% * HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Krazy.
* ICantBelieveItsNotHeroin: Cheese. When the mice have a "Fromage Festival" it turns into a full-on cheese riot, and Krazy wakes up hungover and promptly signs up at Temperance Headquarters.
--> '''Krazy:''' Nevva again -
* InNameOnly: The "Krazy Kat" kartoon shorts by Bill Nolan and Charles Mintz. Nolan, who had formerly worked at the Pat Sullivan studio, turned Krazy into a [[WesternAnimation/FelixTheCat Felix the Kat]] {{Expy}}, while Mintz made him reminiscent of [[WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse Mikkey Mouse]] and gave him a dog and a girlfriend!
%% * InterspeciesRomance
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Ignatz has shown numerous times that [[AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther he really does kare about Krazy]]; now and then, he even tries to help the Kat out (only to have his intentions misinterpreted by the ever-vigilant Officer Pupp).
* LawOfInverseFertility: Several strips koncern the wealthy Mr. [=VanWagg=]-Taylor, who desperately wants an heir but whose intended children keep getting delivered to the Widow Pelona, already the mother of many, due to stork mishap. There's some fun innuendo in the way Mrs. [=VanWagg=]-Taylor reakts to seeing said widow with a child that klearly resembles her own husband.
* LiteralAssKicking: In at least one strip, Ignatz, not having a brikk on hand, just goes right ahead and kikks Krazy's rear.
* LimitedAnimation: The 1916-1921 animated series. And the 1963 one, for [[UsefulNotes/TheDarkAgeOfAnimation entirely different reasons]].
* LovableCoward: Krazy's stint as a "kop" (when Officer Pupp is bedridden) only lasts until he heads off to apprehend a pair of suspekts who turn out to be a hippopotamus and a rhinocerous.
--> ''"I dunt wunt no silva star upon my nobil chess--''
--> ''I dunt wunt no club, or cap, brass buttons is nothing but a pest''
--> ''Fo-r-r-r-r - I'd ratha be a 'Kat' a-live,''
--> ''Instead of a "Kop" what ain't -"''
* LoveAtFirstPunch:
** Ignatz's repeated abuse of Krazy only deepens Krazy's love.
** By later in the strip (c. 1940), Ignatz seems to be in on the gag; aware that Krazy enjoys the brikks, perfectly fine with that, and willingly making dates with her just so a brikk kan be tossed. Really makes you wonder...
%%* LoveTriangle:
%%** Offisa Pupp -> Krazy Kat -> Ignatz Mouse
%%** Rearrange the kharakters and you have a ''Hate'' Triangle: Pupp -> Ignatz -> Krazy
%% * {{Malaproper}}: Krazy Kat
%%* MediumAwareness : http://www.comicstriplibrary.org/display/877
%%* MundaneMadeAwesome: Konstantly.
* MyInstinctsAreShowing: One komik sees Krazy's kat reflexes being triggered, kausing him to pursue Ignatz in [[AnimalJingoism more the way you'd expekt]].
* NameAndName: When this strip was first bekoming distinkt from ''ComicStrip/TheFamilyUpstairs'', it was kalled ''Krazy Kat and Ignatz''.
* NoMoreForMe: Ignatz goes home and smashes his bottle of whiskey after apparently being konfronted by three of Krazy Kat swimming in a lake (in fakt Krazy and his kousins Krazy Katbird and Krazy Katfish).
* OhCrap: Ignatz' expression when he realizes he's beaned Officer Pupp by mistake.
* OurGhostsAreDifferent: In one strip, Krazy terrifies Ignatz by vowing to haunt him when he dies. "And ''ree-mem-ba-!!!!!'' [[CatsHaveNineLives I've got nine "ghosts"]]."
* PetTheDog: Ignatz has the okkasional moment with Krazy, to which cirkumstances sometimes konspire to make his attempted kindness appear to Pupp to be [[NotWhatItLooksLike another attempt to toss a brikk]].
* PoliceAreUseless: Sure, Officer Pupp always throws Ignatz in jail, but he rarely intercepts him before the damage is done. (Not that Krazy kares.)
%% * ThePollyanna: Krazy.
%%* PredatorPreyFriendship: Krazy and Ignatz.
* RelaxOVision: Any time the brikk toss is censored for the sake of "gentle humor".
* SelectiveObliviousness: Krazy thinks Ignatz's brikks to the head are a sign of love, and that Officer Pupp is just "playing tag" with Ignatz when he throws him in jail.
* SerenadeYourLover: Herriman was fond of this trope, using mandolin musik and poetry beneath the balkony as shorthand for romance in general.
* SleepCute: Used many times with Krazy and Ignatz, and at least once with Ignatz and Officer Pupp! (With Krazy sleeping near them, they'd both been pretending to sleep, each hoping the other would go away, until finally the Kat up and left--at which point they shrugged their shoulders and went to sleep for real.)
* SophisticatedAsHell: All over the narration and dialogue.
--> '''Ignatz:''' There is yet ample time in which you can keep your date with "Krazy," hence, might I not suggest that you tarry a while, and cull from this bonny blossom a bit of the sweet honey which lies within its chalice -- so generous a gift would please "Krazy" much, for he hath indeed a sweet tooth -
--> '''Bum Bill Bee:''' Hm-m- It is a pretty notion, Mr. Mouse, and I'll be dawgoned if I don't take thee at thy word -
%% * SpeciesSurname
* SpeechBubbles: In one strip, Krazy walks away and leaves his speech bubble behind; Ignatz notices, runs after him and ties it to his tail.
* SuddenDownerEnding: [[spoiler: Some interpret the final strip as depikting Krazy drowning to death with both Officer Pupp and Ignatz krying over his still body.]]
* SuddenlySpeaking: Whether Walter Cephas Austridge is able to speak plain English or merely say "Geevim, geevim" (meaning different things, depending on kontext) varies.
* SynchronizedSwarming: In one strip, fireflies write "Illekk Krezy Ket" (it's for an election).
* UnwantedRescue: The attempts of Officer Pupp and others to prevent Ignatz from throwing his brikk at Krazy tend to leave Krazy despondent when they do sukceed.
* UptownGirl: When [[GenerationXerox Krazy's ancient Egyptian ancestor fell in love with Ignatz's roman predecessor]], her servants mourned that "Egypt's pride should give her heart to so low a menial as a mouse".
* TheVamp: The dukk in the robin's tale of why he flies south for the winter. Krazy also thinks of Pauline Pullet as such.
--> "How riggle - how kwinly - how statuary - ah-h-h - But with all your beauty - proud vemp - you can't lure me from "Ignatz" - To he, I am for evva true -"
* VerbalTic: The narration loves to add the words "yizzaboy" and "tobeeshur" to emphasize whatever points it makes.
* VitriolicBestBuds: Krazy and Ignatz, konstantly making dates so they kan karry out their usual brikk shtikk.
%% * WalkingTheEarth: Bum-Bill-Bee.
%% * WeirdMoon
* WeWantOurJerkBack: Krazy's reaktion when cirkumstances kontrive to stem the tide of Ignatz's brikk-throwing, or otherwise make him a more traditional wooer.
* XtremeKoolLetterz: Probably the UrExample. Notice ''our'' usage of the letter "K" throughout this page? The strip never used the letter "C" for anything. It's almost like a proto-''Franchise/MortalKombat'' in its dedikation to this trope.
* YellowPeril: Thoroughly subverted in a 1920 strip, where Ignatz thinks that the Mokk Dukk and another Chinese waterbird are supposedly kolluding in some nefarious skeme, and he wants a piece of the aktion. Turns out it's just related to the Mokk Dukk's business, and Ignatz is disappointed.
%%* YouDirtyRat:
%%** {{Inverted|Trope}} with Ignatz Mouse.
%%** Played straight with [[AddedAlliterativeAppeal Roger Roquefort the "Robber Rat" and his band of rekless rodents]].
!!The 1963 AnimatedAdaptation provides examples of:
%%* AllJustADream: "Big and Little", "Odd for Art's Sake".
%% * AmazingTechnicolorWildlife
* BornLucky: Krazy, to a ridikulous extent, in one episode. She even explains her lukk by saying, "I guess I'm just born lucky."
* CollectorOfTheStrange: Ignatz, of bizarre brikks from all over the world.
* ConspicuousConsumption: Parodied in "Keeping Up with Krazy". Kolin Kelly, to whom Ignatz has sold a new house and two kars, thinks Krazy is trying to kompete with him when she sits outside under an umbrella with a pair of roller skates. When she pikks herself a flower, Kolin gets himself a garden, and so on.
%%* CutAndPasteSuburb: At the end of "Keeping Up with Krazy", Ignatz builds one out of ''umbrellas.''
%% * ElmuhFuddSyndwome: Krazy.
%% * {{Facepalm}}: Ignatz does this sometimes.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: In the first three shorts, Krazy looked much kloser to her komik strip kounterpart. Ignatz had a different-sounding voice in the first two shorts.
%%* HallOfMirrors
%% * HeelRealization: Ignatz gets one in "Monument to a Mouse", though it [[StatusQuoIsGod doesn't last]].
* IWillWaitForYou: At the end of "Network Nitwit", Krazy stands outside the prison, cooing, "Do not despair, my darling! I will wait for you foreva and a day!" When Ignatz komplains, Krazy reveals that [[spoiler:she's actually talking to [[LoveAtFirstPunch the guy from the network who threw a brick at her earlier in the episode]] and has now been konfined to the opposite cell]].
%% * LimitedAnimation
%% * LovePotion
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Ignatz, in a power-krazed moment, puts Krazy in a pair of CementShoes, gets her to sign her "[[BornLucky luck]]" away to him, then pushes her underwater...only to suddenly have this reaktion and make a frantik dive to save her.
--> "I must have been insane!"
* OffModel: In "Don't Call Us, We'll Call You," Ignatz is noticeably larger than usual.
* OverlyNarrowSuperlative: The episode "Stoned Through the Ages" shows Ignatz's first ancestor kollekting fig leaves in the Garden of Eden. When he deklares himself to be the "richest mouse on earth", the serpent shows up and reminds him that he's the only mouse on Earth.
* PaletteSwap: Many Krazy's relatives are rekolors of her.
%%* PinkGirlBlueBoy: {{Inverted|Trope}} with Ignatz and Krazy.
%%* PygmalionPlot: "[[Theatre/MyFairLady My Fair]] Ignatz".
%%* StalkerShrine: Krazy has one to Ignatz.
* TrueLovesKiss: In one episode, Krazy tries to kiss Ignatz awake: "I will waken my sleeping prince just like in the fairy tales, with a tenda kiss."
* WeirdMoon: The strip tends to show krescent moons. With a 3D-like representation.
* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: Averted. The short "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAdn_dscOZY Keeping Up With Krazy]]" establishes Kokonino Kounty is in Idaho.
** On the other, the klose-up of Krazy's and Ignatz's kredit kards in "Mouse Blanche" has Kokonino being lokated in Illinois.
* WhoWouldWantToWatchUs: Kokonino Kounty is going bankrupt and Ignatz suggests that they sell a kartoon about themselves to television. Officer Pupp laughs it off, only for Ignatz to throw a brikk at him and say "Go ahead and laugh! They laughed at Al Brodax too!" (Brodax being the show's exekutive producer.)
* WorthlessYellowRocks: Krazy's reaktion to finding a kache of paper money:
--> "Ooh, more piktures of presidents for my kollektion! ...Oh, phooey, Thomas Jeffason. I already got him!"
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