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** Another example involves Porkchop's age. Flashbacks in episodes such as "Doug's Christmas Story" and "Doug's Dog's Date" show Porkchop as having lived with Doug since he and Doug were both infants or toddlers, which would put Porkchop's age anywhere from 7 to 11 (49 to 77 in dog years). There's also a children's book released during the Disney series called ''Porkchop's Puppy Days'', which seems to suggest the same. However, the official Nicktoons trading cards list Porkchop's age (during the Nickelodeon series) as 1 1/2, which would, assuming Doug got him as a puppy, mean Doug got him when he was about ten, and would make Porkchop about 10 or 11 in dog years (or roughly the same age as Doug).

* GiveGeeksAChance:
** [[ShortTank Patti]] with [[{{Adorkable}} Doug]].
** As well as [[LovableAlphaBitch Beebe]] ([[ChickMagnet not only her]]) and [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Skeeter]].

* AccidentalMisnaming: {{Subverted|Trope}} by Patti in the later Quailman comics who keeps pronouncing Guy Graham/Rupert Schmupert's last name the French way which he keeps correcting.

* {{Megane}}: The Sleech brothers.
* {{Meganekko}}: The unnamed girl with curly hair and OpaqueLenses who often appears as an extra in the Nickelodeon series, and a short pudgy girl with a beehive hairdo identified as Dory in one episode. Also, several friends of Judy's, including Queue.

** ''Disney's Doug'' had as much merchandise as say, ''Film/HighSchoolMusical'' or ''Series/HannahMontana''. Compare this with the Nickelodeon version which had relatively little merchandising (although a prototype for an unreleased Nickelodeon Doug doll apparently exists, and some merchandise, including a board game and Valentine cards, did make it to stores).
** Also during the Nickelodeon run, the fast food restaurant Hardee's featured a "Nicktoons" promotion in which kids' meals included "Nicktoons Cruisers." ''Doug'' characters available were Doug himself and Porkchop. This may have been Doug's first fast-food tie-in, but it wouldn't be the last.

** Also, having Patti Mayonnaise speak in actress Constance Shulman's natural Tennessee dialect has been noted by some as a daring move, although Patti displays no SouthernBelle tropes and just happens to be a "normal" girl who speaks with a drawl. Beebe Bluff's parents also speak in Southern accents, although Beebe does not.

* AmbiguouslyChristian: Although never shown explicitly in the series (the closest it gets to a mention of God is Doug declaring that "someone up there must like me" when he finds out that Patti ''didn't'' get his video tape by mistake in "Doug's Secret Song"), Jim Jinkins has mentioned in interviews that the Funnie family are churchgoers, and that one would have to look for subtle hints such as the way they're dressed on Sunday afternoons (i.e. Phil in a dress shirt but loosened up) to notice this. This is another way in which the series reflects the childhood of its creators, as both Jinkins and David Campbell were raised Christian. The pair and their production company would later create a more explicitly Christian animated series titled ''Hoop Dogz''.

* TokenMinority: Refreshingly averted in this series due to its AmazingTechnicolorPopulation, with the possible exception of Fentruck, although he's not so much a minority as a CanonForeigner (on the other hand, Loretta, who is also of Yakestonesian descent, does not have an accent, owing to the fact that she's revealed to know very little of the Yakestonesian language). Also, having Patti Mayonnaise speak in a Southern accent has been noted by some as a daring move, although Patti displays no SouthernBelle tropes and just happens to be a "normal" girl who speaks with a drawl.

** In "Doug Meets Fentruck," Doug tries speaking in broken [[GratuitousFrench French]] to ask Patti to be his lab partner.

* MadeASlave: It's the main point of the Nickelodeon episode "Doug Is Slave for a Day" (aka "Doug's Servitude"), in which Judy makes Doug her personal slave in return for not telling Mom that Doug broke a vase. Doug flips the script on Judy when he ends his servitude by confessing to Mom, and makes Judy ''his'' personal slave in return for cleaning her costumes out of the basement so she can attend a party.
* ManOfAThousandVoices: Billy West (Doug, Roger, and Boomer in the Nickelodeon series) and Fred Newman (Skeeter, Porkchop, and Mr. Dink among others) are the most notable examples in this series of an actor voicing multiple characters who sound virtually nothing alike, but Doug Preis (Mr. Bone, Phil, etc.) and Becca Lish (Judy, Connie, etc.) are no slouches in this department either.

* GreenAroundTheGills: This happens to Doug in "Doug's Fat Cat", after he tastes some not so appetizing cat food to show Stinky just how good it is. But he ends up feeling queasy and excuses himself to vomit.

** Referring to Doug's journal as a "diary" in "Doug's Runaway Journal" provokes this reaction in him. He even screams "JOURNAL!!!!" at the top of his lungs in the library.

* LameComeback: Played absolutely straight with Doug, who isn't particularly known for thinking up snappy comebacks - his stock response to being heckled or insulted by Roger seems to be "Oh yeah?!" In the Disney episode "Doug's Big Comeback," he attempts to do something about this, even watching footage of stand-up comics to learn new insults. The result is that he becomes something of a human version of Triumph the Insult Comic Dog, hurling funny but hurtful insults at everyone from Porkchop to Patti to ''his own mother'', and gains a reputation as the town's number one {{Jerkass}} (bigger even than Roger, because none of Roger's insults ever made a teacher ''cry''.)

* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: In "Doug Didn't Do It", after Roger brags about stealing Mr. Bone's yodeling trophy, Mr. Bone orders Roger to polish trophies for him all night long.

** The pilot is animated with LineBoil and Doug calls his journal his diary. Also in the pilot, Mr. and Mrs. Dink hung out with the kids at Bluffington Elementary School, and Roger was Doug's romantic rival for Patti (the role would later be given to Guy in the Disney series) and he had a different gang (whether they're early versions of Ned, Willy, and Boomer or completely different characters is unknown, as none of them were given names).
** In the first season, Connie has purple skin and yellow hair, as opposed to green skin and black hair.

** In "Doug's Nightmare on Jumbo Street," Tippi Dink is colored turquoise-blue like Skeeter, instead of purple as she normally is.

** Another example involves Porkchop's age and how long he's lived with Doug. According to Nicktoons collector cards distributed by Hardee's fast food restaurant chain, Porkchop is 1 1/2 years old during the events in the Nickelodeon series, which would make him about ten and a half years old in dog years (or roughly the same age as Doug). Thus Doug would have been about ten years old when he got Porkchop (assuming Porkchop was a puppy when he got him). However, in "Doug's Christmas Story," when Doug thinks back to the Christmas he got Porkchop, he looks considerably younger than nine - more like three or four. In addition, Doug is clearly an infant when riding on a puppy Porkchop's back as shown at the beginning of "Doug's Dog's Date." Also, a children's picture book released during the Disney era, ''Porkchop's Puppy Days'', plainly depicts Doug as a toddler while Porkchop was a puppy.

* CreditsJukebox: A unique aspect to the cartoon is that there was never a consistent closing credits theme; it was always different, and usually a piece of BGM recycled from the episodes that just played. In earlier episodes, the music changed once Porkchop slipped on his headphones and started playing his Walkman.

** Many of the characters are reminiscent of ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}} characters. Doug is kind of like Charlie Brown in personality and character design, Porkchop is Snoopy, Patti Mayonnaise is a cross between Peppermint Patty and the Little Red Haired Girl, Skeeter is a quirkier Linus, amongst many others. This is lampshaded in the series premiere of the Disney series when Doug sees a computer simulation of possible haircuts and one is that of Charlie Brown. He even says, "[[CatchPhrase Good grief!]]"

** The Nickelodeon series qualifies as well, as it begins with Doug moving to Bluffington and ends (except for "Doug's Bad Trip") with his graduation from sixth grade.

** Beebe's Madonna-esque, midriff-bearing outfit in the "Bangin' on a Trash Can/Think Big" music video.

* {{Meganekko}}: The unnamed girl with curly hair and OpaqueLenses who often appears as an extra in the Nickelodeon series. Also, several friends of Judy's, including Queue.

* FunnyForeigner: Fentruck's occasional malapropisms due to not being a native English speaker. But at the same time the trope is averted, as he's otherwise portrayed as not being that different from his Bluffington-native classmates - he even finds Mr. Bone's having the class welcome him with a traditional Yakestonesian greeting (while wearing traditional Yakestonesian clothing) amusing, as the people of his country are now as modern as the rest of the world.

* {{Bowdlerise}}: In 2015, Disney briefly released the Christmas episode, along with the Christmas specials of their other '90s cartoons, on On-Demand services. With that, they cut part of the scene where Doug and his father finally have TheTalk, in which Doug outright utters the word ''sex''. The episode is uncut on Disney+.

* {{Bowdlerise}}: In 2015, Disney briefly released the Christmas episode, along with the Christmas specials of their other '90s cartoons, on On-Demand services. With that, they cut part of the scene where Doug and his father finally have TheTalk, in which Doug outright utters the word ''sex''.