History Trivia / PlatypusComix

** The website celebrated the 25th anniversary of ''Series/FreeSpirit''[[note]]the anniversary of when Creator/{{ABC}} televised the pilot, as opposed to when the show began its regular Sunday night airings[[/note]] with [[http://www.platypuscomix.net/top222.jpg this banner]], and a review of the last episode ABC aired, "[[http://www.platypuscomix.net/darkvault/winniewedding.html Blast From the Past]]".

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* BreakawayPopHit ([[http://platypuscomix.com/educational/burythatfilm.html "Bury That Film! Starring Michael Eisner"]])
* RepeatingAd ([[http://www.platypuscomix.net/videos/ohatlanta.html "The Ads Of The Atlanta Olympics Were Weird"]])

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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: While most of the shows in the article [[http://www.platypuscomix.net/kidzone/comingtodvdnever.html "Why you may never see your favorite childhood shows on DVD"]] still fall under KeepCirculatingTheTapes territory, the article closes by using a moment from ''WesternAnimation/BobbysWorld'' as an example of one that can't be legally purchased. That show wound up getting a complete series release on DVD in 2012.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: While most of the shows in the article [[http://www.platypuscomix.net/kidzone/comingtodvdnever.html "Why you may never see your favorite childhood shows on DVD"]] still fall under KeepCirculatingTheTapes territory, the article closes by using a moment from ''WesternAnimation/BobbysWorld'' as one that can't be legally purchased. That show wound up getting a complete series release on DVD in 2012.

* RepeatingAd ([[http://www.platypuscomix.net/videos/ohatlanta.html "The Ads Of The Atlanta Olympics Were Weird"]]

* RepeatingAd ([["http://www.platypuscomix.net/videos/ohatlanta.html The Ads Of The Atlanta Olympics Were Weird"]]

* AttentionDeficitCreatorDisorder: As of 2016, the site has three ongoing comics all created by Peter, along with humorous articles added every so often. He also has to edit the publication, ''BANG! Magazine''.

* OneOfUs: From the articles, it's rather evident that Peter is a gamer, and very in tune with pop culture. Plus, a few comics and articles refer to tropes by name.

** The "[[http://www.platypuscomix.net/bored/tvguideads13.html Fall 1989]]" installment of "The Ancient Lost Art of ''TV Guide'' Advertising" includes [[http://www.platypuscomix.net/bored/tvguideads13-11.jpg a promo]] for a TV movie called ''Brand New Life''. The promo shows Barbara Eden, of ''Series/IDreamOfJeannie'' fame, carrying seven little people on a silver platter, so Peter admits that he'd only watch the movie if Eden's character magically shrunk people.

** Peter displayed [[http://platypuscomix.net/top191.jpg this]] a few days after JoanOfArc's 600th birthday.

*** The death of OsamaBinLaden got a banner which looked more cheery than the ones listed above.

** The [[http://www.platypuscomix.net/darkvault/misfits/misfit46.html review]] of ''Cricket on the Hearth'', a special hosted and partially voiced by Danny Thomas, instructs, "...make room for Danny Thomas" before he appears, as a reference to the sitcom ''Make Room For Daddy'', which starred Thomas.

* AttentionDeficitCreatorDisorder: As of 2013, the site has ''four'' ongoing comics all created by Peter, along with humorous articles added every other week or so. He also has to edit the publication, ''BANG! Magazine''.

* AttentionDeficitCreatorDisorder: As of 2013, the site has ''four'' ongoing comics all created by Peter, along with humorous articles added every other week or so. He also has to edit the publication, ''BANG! The Entertainment Paper''.

** During the week of April 15-21, 2012, the banner featured a working countdown to midnight April 23 ET, at which time Peter Paltridge would make "the most important announcement in Platypus Comix history." Peter [[http://platypuscomix.net/top195.gif extended the countdown]], then [[http://platypuscomix.net/top194.jpg shortened it]], [[http://www.platypuscomix.net/top196.jpg then]] [[http://www.platypuscomix.net/projects/bang.html revealed]] that he plans to collect stories and comics for an independent publication: ''[[http://www.bangpdx.com/ BANG! The Entertainment Paper]]''.

** The "[[http://www.platypuscomix.net/bored/tvguideads13.html Fall 1989]]" installment of "The Ancient Lost Art of ''TV Guide'' Advertising" includes a promo for a TV movie called ''Brand New Life''. The promo shows Barbara Eden, of ''Series/IDreamOfJeannie'' fame, carrying seven little people on a silver platter, so Peter admits that he'd only watch the movie if Eden's character magically shrunk people.

** "[[http://www.platypuscomix.net/otherpeople/libbyspineapple.html Sabrinas Trough Time III]]" refers to Creator/WayneKnight as "Dennis Nedry", the name of his ''Film/JurassicPark'' character, when he appears in a Frosted Cheerios commercial.

* OldShame: In its formative years, the site contained no archive. Some cartoons were literally up for only one week and then banished forever. The practice was originally due to limited storage space (it began as a [=GeoCities=] site) but was continued until 2006 as a means of quality control (anything Peter didn't regret making was given a position in a selective archive section). Most of the pre-2006 works are still offline, but lately they have turned up in book collections.

** Exactly 25 years after Creator/{{ABC}} first televised ''Free Spirit'', Peter reviewed the last episode ABC aired, "[[http://www.platypuscomix.net/darkvault/winniewedding.html Blast From the Past]]".

** The website celebrated the 25th anniversary of ''Series/FreeSpirit''[[note]]the anniversary of when Creator/{{ABC}} televised the pilot, as opposed to when the show began its regular Sunday night airings[[/note]] with [[http://www.platypuscomix.net/top222.jpg this]].

** The [[http://www.platypuscomix.net/darkvault/misfits/misfit46.html review]] of ''Cricket on the Hearth'', a special hosted and partially voiced by Danny Thomas, instructs, "...make room for Danny Thomas" before he appears, as a reference to the original title of ''The Danny Thomas Show'': ''Make Room For Daddy''.

** The [[http://www.platypuscomix.net/darkvault/misfits/misfit46.html review]] of ''Cricket on the Hearth'', a special hosted and partially voiced by Danny Thomas, instructs, "...make room for Danny Thomas" before he appears, as a reference to the original title of ''The Danny Thomas Show'', ''Make Room For Daddy''.

*** [[http://platypuscomix.net/top202.jpg The end]] of ''CulDeSac''.

* RealitySubtext: Numerous examples, such as the ''Mulberry'' comic "Murphy's Lawn" (built up on Creator/BrittanyMurphy's death) and the ''Keiki'' comic "Beefer in the Time of Cholera" (set during the economic recession of the late 2000s). Peter also traditionally makes comics about Dan Blather covering the OlympicGames and Mulberry trying to influence the Presidential Election.