History WesternAnimation / DoUg

* {{Adorkable}}: Both Doug and Skeeter.

* ActuallyPrettyFunny: Doug finds himself in trouble with Mr. Bone after a cartoon he drew making fun of the [[MysteryMeat Magic Meat]] in the cafeteria gets published in the school paper, resulting in the paper itself getting banned, and the the students themselves nearly revolt. The whole incident gets defused when Mr. Bone receives a call from the principal, saying he saw Doug's cartoon and thought it was really funny. Mr. Bone, as a result, is forced to eat crow and reinstate the school paper, and Magic Meat is officially taken off the school menu.

** Bill Bluff is this for Beebe in the Nickelodeon season 2 premiere, "Doug Takes the Case," while lecturing Mrs. Wingo's class about his radio which went missing after Beebe brought it to school. He hugs his daughter and rails about the injustice of her property being taken during Show and Tell, which causes Beebe to hide under her desk in embarrassment while her classmates laugh.

* CatsAreSuperior: In Judy's opinion at least, as she states it in "Doug's Fat Cat." Porkchop is not amused. She even goes goo-goo over Stinky (she's never been shown to do the same with Porkchop) and tells Doug about how the ancient Egyptians worshiped cats.

* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Skeeter many times, especially in the Nickelodeon series. For example, in "Doug's Got No Gift," Doug unveils the towel rack he made as a gift for Patti. As Porkchop is sitting next to the towel rack, Skeeter's reaction is: "You're giving Patti your dog? What a guy!"

* CreativeClosingCredits: Opening credits in this case; the Nickelodeon opening credits featured a line being drawn against a white background and interacting with the main characters in different ways, like Doug first appears as though the line was the bottom of a curtain and Patty tightrope walks across the screen, with the line turning into a heart shaped balloon. Shortly into the episode a standard title card showed Doug would also enter a dark room and turn on the light, revealing his name along with the episodes title being revealed in some fashion, typically via paint with Porkchop filling in the rest.]

** In "Doug's Secret Song", Doug and Skeeter hear Mr. Dink apparently moaning in agony. They ran to his house to see a video of Mr. Dink singing badly.

* 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 helping clean her costumes out of the basement so she can attend a party.

* MeatOVision: In "Doug's Dinner Date," Doug dreads having dinner at Patti's after she tells him she's serving his least favorite meal - liver and onions - and asks Skeeter to hypnotize him so he can work up the nerve to try the noxious dish. It succeeds only in Doug having a hallucination of Skeeter as a hot dog (ItMakesSenseInContext). Later, at Patti's, she clarifies she was joking and is really serving Honker Dogs and fries for supper. Doug suddenly has a vision of ''all'' of his friends as hot dogs and faints. At the end of the episode, Porkchop, after hypnotizing himself, has a hallucination of Doug as a soft-serve ice-cream cone and goes after him.

** Also happens in "Doug's Doodle," when a mortified Doug realizes that he accidentally turned in his sketch of Mrs. Wingo instead of his homework essay. He tries to remain calm since he hopes that Mrs. Wingo might not even know he drew it. But then Mrs. Wingo holds up a paper before the class and asks who did this, and a panicked Doug yells tearfully that he did it. Turns out Mrs. Wingo only wanted to know who had written the essay titled "My First Pair of High Heels," since it didn't have a name on it (it was Beebe's).

* TemptingFate: After Doug's aunt gets him on a children's cowboy show, Skeeter repeatedly tries to comfort him by telling him that "No one over the age of five watches this show." Cue Roger bursting through the door, wearing a cowboy hat and spurs...

** In "Doug on the Wild Side", Grandma Opal suggests Doug tell Patty "You look nice today." In Doug's daydream, he tries it out but Patty takes it the wrong way: "I don't look nice ''other'' days?" Doug shrinks in embarrassment and walks away.

** In "Doug on the Wild Side," Phil calls Grandma Opal "Mom," indicating that she's Doug's paternal grandmother. But in "Doug Tips the Scale" and in the Disney series Phil's mother is a completely different character named Grandma Edna Funnie, implying that Opal must be Theda's mother.

** In "Doug on the Wild Side," Phil calls Grandma Opal "Mom," indicating that she's Doug's paternal grandmother. But in "Doug Tips the Scale," Phil's mother Grandma Funnie is a completely different character, implying that Opal must be Theda's mother.

* StageMom: Beebe's mother in "Doug Wears Tights" - she's prepared to pull strings to get her daughter the lead role of the Beet Fairy although Patti is a better dancer, until Beebe blows the audition. Mrs. Bluff rails against Doug for "sabotaging" Beebe's audition, until Beebe tells her mother that she blew it on purpose because she didn't want the role.

* GoldDigger: In "Doug and the Little Liar," Doug imagines that Loretta might be trying to do this to Skeeter (in a fantasy he imagines Loretta goading Skeeter into buying her an entire ''mountain range'').

*** The first half is apparently a ShoutOut to Creator/JulieAndrews movie musicals, complete with stratospheric high note. For example, the intro is reminiscent of "A Spoonful of Sugar" from ''Movie/MaryPoppins''.

** Mrs. Stinson's "According to the Rules" song in "Doug's Babysitter" seems to be an homage to "A Spoonful of Sugar" from ''Movie/MaryPoppins''.

** It really goes to show that [[AuthorAppeal Jim Jinkins is a fan of]] Music/Madonna: The superheroine based on Beebe Bluff in the ''Quailman'' universe is named Material Girl. Also, Beebe is once seen in a Madonna-esque outfit.

** "Doug's Derby Dilemma" has Doug imagining the prize for winning the derby being a night on the town for two, complete with himself and Patti re-enacting the famous spaghetti-eating scene from ''Disney/LadyAndTheTramp''. Not a case of ProductPlacement, as this was in the Nickelodeon series.

** Quailman is actually more of an aversion, as he had [[WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway few real superpowers]], but solved most problems with cunning or diplomatic solutions. When Doug shares his Quailman stories with friends, it's shown he is aware of the BoringInvincibleHero and avoided making the character too much wish fulfillment.

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[[caption-width-right:350:The main characters as they appeared during the Nickelodeon era.[[note]] Bottom left: [[AloofBigSister Judy Funnie]]. Middle row, L-R: [[DeadpanSnarker Tippy Dink]], [[TheHyena Bud Dink]], [[RightHandCat Stinky]] (Roger's pet cat), . Top: .[[/note]] ]]

[[caption-width-right:350:The main characters as they appeared during the Nickelodeon era.[[note]] Bottom left: [[AloofBigSister Judy Funnie]]. Middle row, L-R: [[DeadpanSnarker Tippy Dink]], [[TheHyena Bud Dink]], [[TheEveryman Doug Funnie]], [[NonHumanSidekick Porkchop]] (Doug's pet dog), [[LoveInterests Patti Mayonnaise]], [[RightHandCat Stinky]] (Roger's pet cat), [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Skeeter Valentine]]. Top: [[TheBully Roger Klotz]].[[/note]] ]]

* CheatersNeverProsper: The Disney Chapters book series "Doug Cheats," in which Roger finds a copy of the answers to Mr. Mayonnaise's history exam. Doug gets a copy of the answers but decides at the last minute not to use them and to take the test honestly. Good thing, because unfortunately for Roger and his cronies, the answer key is a decoy with all the ''wrong'' answers.

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Doug is on the receiving end of one from Patti in "Doug's Magic Act," when Patti gets angry that Doug made her miss her beetball practice and accuses him of being selfish. Even though her anger isn't really unjustified, she immediately apologizes when she realizes she hurt Doug's feelings.

* SadistTeacher: Doug had Mr. Bone & Mrs. Wingo in Doug's own nightmarish imagination.