History Trivia / BloomCounty

* ExecutiveMeddling: There were several strips that were [[http://www.platypuscomix.net/otherpeople/bloomtrilogy.html inexplicably censore
** and edited]] in the phase of going into book prints. Breathed claimed that usually after finishing making the strips, he would simply mail them off to the company and never kept any copies of them himself, so he likely didn't notice that they were altered, either. Whereas other times, [[InvokedTrope he edited the strip himself]] upon putting it in a book. Most of the time, these were just subtle changes in dialogue; Berke has frequently expressed frustration with how wordy some of his strips got.

* ExecutiveMeddling: There were several strips that were [[http://www.platypuscomix.net/otherpeople/bloomtrilogy.html inexplicably censored and edited]] in the phase of going into book prints. Breathed claimed that usually after finishing making the strips, he would simply mail them off to the company and never kept any copies of them himself, so he likely didn't notice that they were altered, either. Whereas other times, [[InvokedTrope he edited the strip himself]] upon putting it in a book. Most of the time, these were just subtle changes in dialogue; Berke has frequently expressed frustration with how wordy some of his strips got.

* OldShame: The paperbacks are missing a lot of strips, apparently due to Berke's embarrassment of them. In particular, most of the first year-and-a-half was tucked away because Berke was flat-out embarrassed by how crude and unfocused the strip was at the start. Even now that the whole shebang has been gathered into ''The Complete Library'', Berke's commentaries on certain strips (particularly in the 1980-82 volume) smack of "dear God, why did I ever write this?!".
** He's not a fan of the ''WesternAnimation/AWishForWingsThatWork'' special, either, as mentioned above.
** ''The Academia Waltz'', his college strip and ''Bloom County'''s direct predecessor, is so shameful to him that, for many years, he even refused to release them all in the ''Library'', instead only a small sample of the least offensively bad comics are included. He finally relented and allowed IDW to republish them in a collection in 2015 - six years after he allowed the rest of his output to be published. He's still embarrassed about it - the title of the collection is ''The Academia Waltz and Other Profound Transgressions'', and the cover shows Opus opening a box with content warnings and that had been chained shut.

* NamesTheSame: Weird Harold, a Yaz Pistachio SatelliteCharacter who only appeared in a few strips, shares his name with a character on ''WesternAnimation/FatAlbertAndTheCosbyKids''.

** Zig-zagged with the classic books. Some have the edited strips, while others have them as they originally appeared in the newspaper. ''The Complete Library'', a definitive collection of sorts, seems to be sticking to the latter, delegating the edited versions to bonus features in the back of each volume.

* ColbertBump: Garry Trudeau putting ''{{Doonesbury}}'' on hiatus in 1983 directly benefitted ''Bloom County'', since newspapers and readers turned to it to fill the void.

* AccidentallyAccurate: The 1986 strips suggesting that Music/OzzyOsbourne's Prince of Darkness persona was just a big act and that he was a fairly down-to-earth bloke seemed like a cheeky TakeThat to rock image-making at the time. But ''Series/TheOsbournes'' showed that it was the truth after all.