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* ADateWithRosiePalms: A ''very'' common topic of conversation, usually from Spigot.
* TheAlcoholic: Deuce, if the [[https://www.bonequest.com/search/?q=%23drunk-deuce Drunk Deuce]] tag is any indication. The infrequently reoccurring [[https://www.bonequest.com/search/?q=%23inebriated-crustacean Inebriated Crustacean]] likely also counts.
* TheAlcoholic: Deuce, if the [[https://www.bonequest.com/search/?q=%23drunk-deuce Drunk Deuce]] tag is any indication. The infrequently reoccurring [[https://www.bonequest.com/search/?q=%23inebriated-crustacean Inebriated Crustacean]] likely also counts.
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* ShowWithinAShow: Spigot sits down to watch ''[[http://jerkcity.com/_jerkcity5871.html Space Nuts]]'' and the next few strips take place within the show.
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* ShowWithinAShow: Spigot sits down to watch ''[[http://jerkcity.com/_jerkcity5871.html Space Nuts]]'' and the next few strips take place within the show. [[MindScrew And then Pants & Deuce take over the show.]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:One of the more comprehensible strips.]]
[[caption-width-right:350:One of the more comprehensible strips.]]
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''Jerkcity'' (renamed ''[[https://www.bonequest.com/ Bonequest]]'' in 2018) is a LongRunner of a webcomic, starting in August 17, 1998 with strips coming out almost every day after that. It follows the adventures of Pants the "christmas tree monster", Spigot the beatnik, and Deuce the tiki. The story is inconsistent, but the three (plus some other minor characters) are almost always HavingAGayOldTime.
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''Jerkcity'' (renamed ''[[https://www.bonequest.com/ Bonequest]]'' in 2018) is a LongRunner of a webcomic, starting in August 17, 1998 with strips coming out almost every day after that. It follows the adventures of Pants the "christmas tree monster", Spigot the beatnik, and Deuce the tiki. The story is inconsistent, but essentially non-existent, with much of the dialogue coming from real IRC chat logs rather then being written specifically for the comic. That being said, the majority of strips feature the three (plus some other minor characters) are almost always HavingAGayOldTime.
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* RefugeInAudacity: Very commonly used, especially early on.
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* SurrealSymbolicHeads: Minor character Effigy is a muscular man in a suit with a pool ball for a head. In some strips the individual pool ball used changes.
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* DemotedToExtra: To the point of almost being a case of {{Retgone}}. There was a fourth main character, Rands the alien, and he was almost entirely removed from the comic when it renamed to Bonequest. Trying to use the website's search function for Rands leads offsite to a series of web seminars for middle managers. [[note]]Searching for [="Rands:"=] uncovers two strips[[/note]] Given that the real-life Rands and co-creator of the strip, Michael Lopp, is now Vice-President of Engineering at Slack, this might be some variety of TakeThat.
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* DemotedToExtra: To the point of almost being a case of {{Retgone}}. There was a fourth main character, Rands the alien, and he was almost entirely removed from the comic when it renamed to Bonequest. Trying to use the website's search function for Rands leads offsite to a series of web seminars for middle managers. [[note]]Searching for [="Rands:"=] used to uncover two strips, but now uncovers two strips[[/note]] a tweet about discovering the previously mentioned easter egg.[[/note]] Given that the real-life Rands and co-creator of the strip, Michael Lopp, is now Vice-President of Engineering at Slack, this might be some variety of TakeThat.
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** A much more minor retcon is Effigy's pool ball head. Formerly depicted as an 8 ball, old Effigy strips were redone to give him different pool balls for his head.
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* SurrealSymbolicHeads: Minor character Effigy is a muscular man in a suit with a pool ball for a head. In some strips the individual pool ball used changes.
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* DemotedToExtra: To the point of almost being a case of {{Retgone}}. There was a fourth main character, Rands the alien, and he was almost entirely removed from the comic when it renamed to Bonequest. Trying to use the website's search function for Rands leads offsite to a series of web seminars. seminars for middle managers. [[note]]Searching for [="Rands:"=] uncovers two strips[[/note]]strips[[/note]] Given that the real-life Rands and co-creator of the strip, Michael Lopp, is now Vice-President of Engineering at Slack, this might be some variety of TakeThat.
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''Jerkcity'' (renamed ''[[https://www.bonequest.com/ Bonequest]]'' in 2018) is a LongRunner of a webcomic, starting in August 17, 1998 with strips coming out almost every day after that. It follows the adventures of Pants the "christmas tree monster", Spigot the beatnik, Deuce the tiki, and Rands the alien, who serves as the AuthorAvatar. The story is inconsistent, but the four (plus some other minor characters) are almost always HavingAGayOldTime.
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''Jerkcity'' (renamed ''[[https://www.bonequest.com/ Bonequest]]'' in 2018) is a LongRunner of a webcomic, starting in August 17, 1998 with strips coming out almost every day after that. It follows the adventures of Pants the "christmas tree monster", Spigot the beatnik, and Deuce the tiki, and Rands the alien, who serves as the AuthorAvatar. tiki. The story is inconsistent, but the four three (plus some other minor characters) are almost always HavingAGayOldTime.
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* DemotedToExtra: To the point of almost being a case of {{Retgone}}. There was a fourth main character, Rands the alien, and he was almost entirely removed from the comic when it renamed to Bonequest. Trying to use the website's search function for Rands leads offsite to a series of web seminars. [[note]]Searching for [="Rands:"=] uncovers two strips[[/note]]
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''Jerkcity'' is a LongRunner of a webcomic, starting in August 17, 1998 with strips coming out almost every day after that. It follows the adventures of Pants the "christmas tree monster", Spigot the beatnik, Deuce the tiki, and Rands the alien, who serves as the AuthorAvatar. The story is inconsistent, but the four (plus some other minor characters) are almost always HavingAGayOldTime.
In 2018, ''Jerkcity'' was renamed ''Bonequest''.
It can be found [[https://www.bonequest.com/ here.]] '''NOTE: NotSafeForWork'''
In 2018, ''Jerkcity'' was renamed ''Bonequest''.
It can be found [[https://www.bonequest.com/ here.]] '''NOTE: NotSafeForWork'''
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''Jerkcity'' (renamed ''[[https://www.bonequest.com/ Bonequest]]'' in 2018) is a LongRunner of a webcomic, starting in August 17, 1998 with strips coming out almost every day after that. It follows the adventures of Pants the "christmas tree monster", Spigot the beatnik, Deuce the tiki, and Rands the alien, who serves as the AuthorAvatar. The story is inconsistent, but the four (plus some other minor characters) are almost always HavingAGayOldTime.
In 2018, ''Jerkcity'' was renamed ''Bonequest''.
It can be found [[https://www.bonequest.com/ here.]]'''NOTE: NotSafeForWork'''
It can be found [[https://www.bonequest.com/ here.]]
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* NoFourthWall: [[http://www.jerkcity.com/jerkcity1110.html This strip]] has Rands point out a real bug in [=OpenBSD=] to a real person.
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* NoFourthWall: [[http://www.jerkcity.com/jerkcity1110.html This strip]] has Rands Atandt point out a real bug in [=OpenBSD=] to a real person.
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* OrwellianRetcon: At some point in 2020, a number of strips were edited, some to change mentions of "Jerkcity" to "Bonequest", while some removed the Rands character, often putting Atandt in his place. A few strips were replaced altogether.
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* ShoutOut: [[https://www.bonequest.com/7397 This strip]] is a wholesale reference to the famous "shinebox" scene in ''Film/{{Goodfellas}}''.
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* DadaComic: The comic often has intentional production errors that make the dialogue illegible. It also has some pages that are [[http://www.jerkcity.com/tags/picture/ not comics at all]].
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* DadaComic: The comic often has intentional production errors that make the dialogue illegible. It also has some pages that are [[http://www.jerkcity.com/tags/picture/ [[https://www.bonequest.com/search/?q=%23picture not comics at all]].
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It can be found [[http://www.jerkcity.com/ here.]]
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In 2018, ''Jerkcity'' was renamed ''Bonequest''.
It can be found[[http://www.jerkcity.[[https://www.bonequest.com/ here.]]]] '''NOTE: NotSafeForWork'''
It can be found
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It can be found [[http://www.jerkcity.com/ here.]]
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* ShowWithinAShow: Spigot sits down to watch ''[[http://jerkcity.com/_jerkcity5871.html Space Nuts]]'' and the next few strips take place within the show.
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* AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent: ''Space Nuts'' appears to center around three all-new characters: "Sparky" the rabbit, the uncredited Korean man (known now as Private Jim), and a man simply called Captain.
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* CensorBox: More often used to redact dialogue as though the comic were a sensitive document, but sometimes used in the more traditional way, over a character's crotch. Sometimes in an upward diagonal. It has also been used to obscure characters' eyes, including Pants, whose nine eyes were individually covered.
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* WeWait: [[http://www.jerkcity.com/jerkcity652.html Pants says this]] after seeking help from the dick cache god.
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* WeWait: [[http://www.jerkcity.com/jerkcity652.html Pants says this]] after seeking help from the dick cache god.
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''Jerkcity'' is a LongRunner of a webcomic, starting in August 17, 1998 and strips have come out almost every day after that. It follows the adventures of Pants the "christmas tree monster", Spigot the beatnik, Deuce the tiki, and Rands the alien, who serves as the AuthorAvatar. The story is inconsistent, but the four (plus some other minor characters) are almost always HavingAGayOldTime.
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''Jerkcity'' is a LongRunner of a webcomic, starting in August 17, 1998 and with strips have come coming out almost every day after that. It follows the adventures of Pants the "christmas tree monster", Spigot the beatnik, Deuce the tiki, and Rands the alien, who serves as the AuthorAvatar. The story is inconsistent, but the four (plus some other minor characters) are almost always HavingAGayOldTime.
* {{Beatnik}}: The way Spigot dresses, though nowhere near the way he acts. However, he does sometimes recite poems.
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* DadaComic: And how!The comic often has intentional production errors that make the dialogue illegible. It also has some pages that are [[http://www.jerkcity.com/tags/picture/ not comics at all]].
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* MediumAwareness: Often the characters are aware that they are in a comic, excepting Pants, who has more trouble recognizing that he isn't real.
* NoodleIncident: ''Everything.''
* OnlySaneMan: [[http://www.jerkcity.com/hanford1.html Hanford]].
* NoodleIncident: ''Everything.''
* OnlySaneMan: [[http://www.jerkcity.com/hanford1.html Hanford]].
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* MediumAwareness: Often the characters are aware that they are in a comic, excepting Pants, who has more trouble recognizing that he isn't real. \n* NoodleIncident: ''Everything.''\n* OnlySaneMan: [[http://www. [[https://www.jerkcity.com/hanford1.com/jerkcity1966.html Hanford]].Atandt attempts to point this out by reading his thoughts.]]
* NoFourthWall: [[http://www.jerkcity.com/jerkcity1110.html This strip]] has Rands point out a real bug in [=OpenBSD=] to a real person.
* NoodleIncident: Nearly every comic is an InMediasRes situation with zero context.
* OnlySaneMan: Hanford acts as stage manager for the strip, and often has to tell the others things that should be obvious.
* NoFourthWall: [[http://www.jerkcity.com/jerkcity1110.html This strip]] has Rands point out a real bug in [=OpenBSD=] to a real person.
* NoodleIncident: Nearly every comic is an InMediasRes situation with zero context.
* OnlySaneMan: Hanford acts as stage manager for the strip, and often has to tell the others things that should be obvious.
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* QueerPeopleAreFunny: The creators have said that the strip is a satire of this sort of humour.
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* WeWait: [[http://www.jerkcity.com/jerkcity652.html Pants says this]] after seeking help from the dick cache god.
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* AmbiguousSyntax: [[http://www.jerkcity.com/_jerkcity23.html "Wanna Pounda]] [[http://www.jerkcity.com/_jerkcity956.html Dope?"]] Spigot soon realizes ''he's'' the dope.
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* PlatonicProstitution: [[https://www.jerkcity.com/_jerkcity1789.html Pants and Spigot get whores to do chores.]]
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* MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext: Yeah...pretty much every strip.
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* OnlySaneMade: [[http://www.jerkcity.com/hanford1.html Hanford]].
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* OnlySaneMade: OnlySaneMan: [[http://www.jerkcity.com/hanford1.html Hanford]].
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* OnlySaneMade: [[http://www.jerkcity.com/hanford1.html Hanford]].
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** [[http://www.jerkcity.com/_jerkcity4014.html [20~]] [[http://www.jerkcity.com/_jerkcity4015.html [20~]] [[http://www.jerkcity.com/_jerkcity4016.html [20~[20~]]
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* AuthorAvatar: Rands.
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->"Slurping and drooling and hurr."
--> The comic's unofficial motto
''Jerkcity'' is a LongRunner of a webcomic, starting in August 17, 1998 and strips have come out almost every day after that. It follows the adventures of Pants the "christmas tree monster", Spigot the beatnik, Deuce the tiki, and Rands the alien, who serves as the AuthorAvatar. The story is inconsistent, but the four (plus some other minor characters) are almost always HavingAGayOldTime.
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* BrokenRecord: [[http://jerkcity.com/jerkcity4415.html Home On]] [[http://jerkcity.com/jerkcity4416.html The Range.]]
* DadaComic: And how!
* NoodleIncident: ''Everything.''
* WeWantOurJerkBack: The obviously intended reader reaction to the Kinder Gentler Deuce storyline (starting [[http://jerkcity.com/_jerkcity4806.html here]] and featuring at least once every two strips).
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--> The comic's unofficial motto
''Jerkcity'' is a LongRunner of a webcomic, starting in August 17, 1998 and strips have come out almost every day after that. It follows the adventures of Pants the "christmas tree monster", Spigot the beatnik, Deuce the tiki, and Rands the alien, who serves as the AuthorAvatar. The story is inconsistent, but the four (plus some other minor characters) are almost always HavingAGayOldTime.
[[WMG: '''This webcomic provides examples of:''']]
* BrokenRecord: [[http://jerkcity.com/jerkcity4415.html Home On]] [[http://jerkcity.com/jerkcity4416.html The Range.]]
* DadaComic: And how!
* NoodleIncident: ''Everything.''
* WeWantOurJerkBack: The obviously intended reader reaction to the Kinder Gentler Deuce storyline (starting [[http://jerkcity.com/_jerkcity4806.html here]] and featuring at least once every two strips).
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