History WesternAnimation / DoUg

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Has [[Radar/{{Doug}} its own page.]]

* ZettaiRyouiki: Connie wears Grade C after her [[FanservicePack beauty farm visit]].

* PantyShot:
** Judy gets [[http://imgur.com/bgdCRiP one]] in "Doug's Mail Order Mania" when she falls over rollerskating. Notable in that her character model usually always wears black tights.
** Pattie had a brief panty shot as well.
** In "Doug Battles The Rulemeister", Patti and Beebe stand on their heads as one of the absurd rules made by the Rulemeister. They're panties can be seen from above and afar as Quail Man and Quail Dog fly away.
** There's a view of Beebe's panties again in "Doug's Christmas Story", after she falls through thin ice and she sinks in the chilly water as Porkchop goes to rescue her.
** Loretta Lequigly has a couple seen from behind in "Doug Throws A Party", when she backs away with some of the other party-goers.

** In the Disney incarnation of the series, BeBe Bluff Middle School opens when it's halfway constructed. Throughout the series, Doug or one of his friends would encounter an incomplete part of the school or a room where something is malfunctioning. A construction worker would reply "We're working on it/that!"

* 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 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. Not that its replacement (Happy Meat - the guidance counselor's idea) [[HereWeGoAgain is any more appetizing]].

** "Doug Gets His Wish": Principal White tries to fire Ms. Krystal on the grounds that she didn't teach Willy anything, and because she didn't vote for him as mayor. When Doug finally tells the School Board, Principal White thinks that he can use the opportunity to slander Ms. Krystal further. Before he can start, Tippi Dink give him a reality check: "You can't fire a teacher because they didn't vote for you." Then Doug proceeds to prove that Willy got a thorough education on English literature, dispelling his dad's claims that she didn't teach anything. Mayor Tippi Dink had heard enough; she not only reinstates Ms. Krystal but punishes Mayor White for blatant abuse of his authority.

* YouNeedABreathMint: Doug has an ImagineSpot wherein Klotzilla captures Patti, who must be rescued by Quailman. In the course of the daydream, Patti tells Klotzilla he needs a breath mint--and then throws an entire pack of them down his bottomless throat.

* ShoutOut:
** The "Spacemonks" game that Doug plays is a small tribute to ''VideoGame/WingCommander'', using several similar scenes from the game, including the infamous space funeral.
** "Silver Skeeter" (see SuperpowerLottery below) is a tribute to the ''ComicBook/SilverSurfer''.
** A rather blatant one to ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'' appears in the first episode of ''Disney's Doug''. (It was actually written by Joe Fallon, one of the writers from the show.)
** The "Bangin' on a Trash Can/Think Big" music video has a few. Doug dreams he, Skeeter and Beebe perform in a concert wearing [[Music/TalkingHeads a really big suit]]. A few Music/MichaelJackson homages are present, including Doug performing wearing one glove and a shout-out to the "Black or White" video in the segment in which Beebe morphs into Doug who morphs into Porkchop who morphs into Skeeter. And just before the "big suits" performance, Beebe's wearing a very Madonna-like outfit for her solo bit (see AuthorAppeal above).
** Similarly, the Disney episode "Doug's Dougapalooza" features several that should be instantly recognizable to music aficionados. One of the bands participating in the song contest is a fairly blatant homage to ''Music/{{Devo}}'', with a song reminiscent of "Whip It." And Connie comes up with an off-the-cuff song called "Retainer Blues," with a vocal sounding eerily like Music/JanisJoplin. Connie's rock star ambitions themselves may have been an homage to the massive popularity at the time (late 1990s) of female alternative rockers like Music/AlanisMorissette.
** Doug lives on 21 Jumbo Street, a shout to the then-popular cop show ''Series/TwentyOneJumpStreet''. And to the show's production company, Jumbo Pictures.
** Dr. Klotzenstein's game show in "Doug vs. the Klotzoid Zombies" is called ''Wheel of Snack Food'', a takeoff on ''Series/WheelOfFortune'', right down to having the audience yell out the name of the show in unison.
** In one episode, Doug goes to see a Smash Adams movie that opens with an evil dentist about to torture the titular character with a dental drill while shouting [[Film/MarathonMan "Is it safe? Is it safe?!"]]
** "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 ''WesternAnimation/LadyAndTheTramp''. Not a case of ProductPlacement, as this was in the Nickelodeon series.
** In the episode where Doug has to get used to a new barber in his new hometown, his old barber's name was [[Theatre/SweeneyToddtheDemonBarberofFleetStreet Mr. Sweeney]]. Maybe Doug should be glad to have a new barber...
** When Doug, Skeeter and Roger visit Bloodstone Manor, notices can be seen that says [[Literature/TheDivineComedy "Abandon all beverages, ye who enter."]]
** Doug wants a Smash-O skateboard in "Doug Inc." Smash-O is likely a takeoff on Wham-O, inventors of such childhood favorites as Hula Hoops, Frisbees, Silly String, and the Slip 'n' Slide. The TV commercial jingle also is reminiscent of 1960s surfer pop music like Music/TheBeachBoys and Music/JanAndDean.
** Judy does a Creator/MaeWest imitation ("Come on up and see me sometime, big boy") to try to trick babysitter Mrs. Stinson's bird Sunflower in "Doug's Babysitter."
** One of Doug's imagine spots is a near duplicate scene from the movie of The Who's "Music/{{Tommy}}", specifically, Music/EltonJohn's character getting out of the limo at the start of "Pinball Wizard". Similar styled music is even used for the scene.
** The local theme park, Funkytown, is accompanied by a piece of background music somewhat reminiscent of the classic disco hit of the same title by Lipps Inc.
** In an episode where Doug's home alone for the first time, what's the first thing he does? [[Film/RiskyBusiness Slides across the floor in his underwear, jamming to rock music.]]
** "Family Court" in the episode "Doug's Servitude" is a fairly obvious homage to ''Series/ThePeoplesCourt''.
** The "Doug's Cookin'" episode has several. Mr. Dink's new "cooking machine" is named "Julia" and talks with a [[Creator/JuliaChild high-pitched East-Coast accent]]. In a later scene Mrs. Wingo rushes over to help two classmates named "Jimmy" and "Vanessa" who are having trouble with their recipe; it's possible this could be an homage to Jim Jinkins himself and Nickelodeon producer Vanessa Coffey.
*** A classmate named Vanessa (assumedly the same girl) also appears in "Doug's Secret Admirer."
** The VJ on the music-video TV channel seems to be an homage to '90s MTV icon "Downtown" Julie Brown.
** In a fantasy sequence in "Doug Rocks the House," Boomer yells, "The whole world is watching!" before Patti throws the rock that destroys Doug's old house in Bloatsburg. This phrase entered the popular lexicon in 1968 when it became a mantra for antiwar protesters at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
** In "Doug's New Teacher," he imagines himself profiled on a true-crime TV show called ''[[Series/AmericasMostWanted Bluffington's Most Troublesome]]'', with Mr. Bone in the John Walsh role.
** When Doug tries to sneak into Moody School, the security guard is seen passing the time by playing ''VideoGame/{{Tetris}}''.
** In "Doug's Nightmare on Jumbo Street", Doug's second nightmare has the monster disguised as his dog, he comes toward Doug saying "[[Film/TheShining Here's Porkchop!]]".
** "Doug's Bum Rap": Doug, in comparing himself to Chalky, imagines himself being eliminated in his third-grade spelling bee for misspelling "baloney" while Chalky won for correctly spelling "antidisestablishmentarianism." The latter word was the one that won a 12-year-old girl named Gloria Lockerman the grand prize on the infamous TV game show ''Series/The64000Question'' (despite the show's reputation, she denied having received any behind-the-scenes coaching).
** "Doug Goes Hollywood" has Doug imagining that his success will lead him to become a wildly popular action film star who's very tall and strong, wears a ponytail and has a soft-spoken voice. [[Creator/StevenSeagal Sounds familiar?]]
** The Beets are a shout-out to Music/TheBeatles by more than just name: There's even an ugly split (actually, more than one), and there's one of the band members' new project; see below.
*** Flounder's name may be inspired by the former Music/{{Marillion}} singer Derek "Fish" Dick. It's highly unlikely that "Flounder" is his real name, let alone his full name.
*** Monroe Yoder, singer and guitarist, is [[Music/TheWho Roger Daltrey]], down to his singing, [[JustForFun/XMeetsY meets]] Music/JohnLennon.
*** Wendy Nespah, the bald female keyboardist, seems to be inspired by Sinéad O'Connor who had [[OneHitWonder her only big hit]] with "Nothing Compares 2 U" the year before the show started.
** Post-split, Flounder starts a new project with his then-girlfriend Judy Funnie named [[Music/JohnLennonPlasticOnoBand Plastic Judy Band]]. Interestingly, Judy is only about 16 at that point whereas Music/YokoOno is seven years older than Music/JohnLennon, and Flounder isn't even the actual Music/JohnLennon {{Expy}} in the band.
** The Psychedelic Fuzz for which Phil Funnie played the drums are named after the Psychedelic Furs.
** The scene in which the Fuzz are spontaneously joined by the Beets to jam together may be a reference to that famous Music/MuddyWaters gig that had Music/TheRollingStones first in the audience and then joining Muddy, one of their role-models, on stage for a jam session. The Psychedelic Fuzz happen to be role-models to the Beets, too.
** Flounder and Connie Benge make a deal: Flounder helps Connie become a rock musician, and she teaches the analphabetic face of the Beets to read and write. [[Film/TheProfessional Sounds familiar?]]
** Speaking of Connie as a rock musician: Her guitar which alternates between four and five necks within the same episode could be a nod to Rick Neilsen of Music/CheapTrick who is famous for wielding unwieldy but fully functional quintuple-neck Hamer guitars.
** 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 seen in a Madonna-esque outfit in the "Bangin' on a Trashcan/Think Big" music video.

* 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!" Later, when Doug noticed his wrapped present looks weird (standing out among the boxed presents), Skeeter agrees and tells Doug he's lucky.

* NoHonorAmongThieves: Roger's gang may follow his lead in tormenting Doug, but their allegiance to him isn't undying. In "Doug on the Trail," Willie, Boomer and Ned let Doug, Skeeter and Porkchop take the canoe to find Mr. Dink despite Roger's rule that only he can use the canoe, and they later lead the revolt against Roger as head Scoutmaster. And whenever Roger gets some kind of comeuppance for his bullying (such as when he's bullied by Percy Femur or when Connie slugs him and calls him a big baby), they seem to enjoy it as much as everyone else. It's telling that when Roger needs someone to babysit Stinky, it's Doug he turns to and not one of his own gang, suggesting that Roger himself knows his own gang aren't trustworthy whereas Doug will always do the right thing (or try to).

** Or it could be Franchise/{{Archie|Comics}}: Doug=Archie, Skeeter=Jughead, Patti=Betty, Beebe=Veronica, Porkchop=Hot Dog (even though he's Jughead's dog)

* TheSouthpaw: Doug is left-handed. It was a plot point of two episodes: One where Doug is on Patti's baseball team (never having played baseball before) and she realizes that he is left handed and tells him to stand on the ''right'' side of home plate so he could have an easier time swinging at the ball. He manages a hit almost instantly. In the other his journal goes missing and he start freaking out over the possibility of someone reading it, except they can't because his left-handed writing is smeared and illegible.

%% ** [[ShortTank Patti]] with [[{{Adorkable}} Doug]].

Not to be confused with the Website/YouTube series WebVideo/DougDerky.

* AbhorrentAdmirer: Todd Bentley, an eight-year-old in "Doug's Fan Club" who looks up to Doug with something like BigBrotherWorship and even changes his ''own'' name to "Doug." Doug enjoys being idolized until Todd literally starts following him everywhere, and finally loses it when Todd embarrasses him in front of Patti. Todd also has an AnnoyingYoungerSibling named Wesley who insists on imitating everything Todd does, so Doug ends up with ''two'' Abhorrent Admirers.

* AccidentalAthlete: Doug becomes field goal kicker of the football team.
* AccidentalMisnaming: Doug is the victim of this occasionally, called "Dan" by Mayor White and "Dirk" by Mr. Bluff. Patti isn't immune either, as Mayor White mistakenly calls her "Peggy" and Doug's mom once refers to her as "Patsy."

* AccidentalPublicConfession: In ''Doug Didn't Do It,'' Roger steals Mr. Bone's yodeling trophy and plants it in Doug's locker. When Doug is punished for the crime, Roger shows up in the office and gloats about getting away with his frame-up, not realizing he accidentally turned on the P.A. System by sitting at Mr. Bone's desk and putting his feet on the P.A. button. Everyone in the school hears his gloating, including Mr. Bone, who immediately returns to the office and reassigns Doug's punishment to Roger.

** Silver Skeeter was this in his first appearance, much to the annoyance of Doug

* 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. Not that its replacement (Happy Meat - the guidance counselor's idea) [[HereWeGoAgain is any more appetizing]].

--> '''Beebe:''' Daddy, PLEASE! We don't have Show and Tell! We're not babies!

* BerserkButton: Implying that Mr. Bone wears pink underwear, which earns the offender one of his harshest punishments. Doug and Roger both trick each other into running afoul of this.

* BewareTheNiceOnes: Connie proves this when Roger knocks her hat off at Doug's party and exposes her bad haircut, causing her to [[MegatonPunch punch him in the stomach.]]

* BlameGame: In the final episode of the Nick version, Doug and Judy blame each for getting lost on their way to the Painted Gorge. Bored from the long drive, Doug wanted to visit two places he thought were fantastic, only to find them to be lame tourist traps. While mocking Doug, she asked what's the next stop. Doug mentions Blythe Field, which Judy wants to go, which is just an empty field with a rock imprinted with Blythe's name, which is many miles from their course. So Judy is essentially correct to blame Doug.

* BraveTheRidePlot: In the HalloweenEpisode, Doug and Skeeter are scared to go into a haunted house ride with Roger taunting them all the while. Eventually they work up the courage to do so but it shuts down halfway due to the park closing. They later find out Roger was still in the ride and did a few scares on them. But they get even by teaming with a mysterious figure who shows them the inner workings of the ride and use it to scare Roger.

* 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. But when she finds a [[labelnote:sick]]pregnant[[/labelnote]] Stinky in her costume chest getting fur all over, she wants the "beast" out of the house.

* ChairReveal: In "Doug Graduates", Doug finds himself in [[TheGhost Mr. Buttsavich]]'s office, with the back of the office chair facing him. Doug nervously asks for Mr. Buttsavich a few times, and the chair spins around to reveal... [[TheUnreveal Roger]].

* CoolShades: Judy.

* EverythingsPreciousWithPuppies: As seen at the beginning of the Nickelodeon episode "Doug's Dog's Date," puppy Porkchop is adorable. A picture book featuring Porkchop as a puppy was also published during the Disney years.

** The Beets' name and Liverpool accents are obviously based on Music/TheBeatles (although singer Monroe Yoder looks more like [[Music/TheWho Roger Daltrey]]). Sonically, their music bears more resemblance to The Who (particularly "I Need Mo' Allowance") or even punk rock acts like Music/TheRamones than the Beatles.

* EverythingsPreciousWithPuppies: The handful of times Porkchop is shown as a puppy in flashback sequences.
* FakeAFight: In "Doug's Big Brawl", Doug accidentally beats Larry in a fight and the two are forced into having a rematch. Neither Larry nor Doug want to fight again, but the other members of the AV club demand a rematch and threaten to kick out Larry if he backs down. Doug and Larry stage a fight on the school TV, conveniently knocking the camera to the side so that nobody can see the nonexistent fight, with Skeeter providing sound effects.

* FightingBackIsWrong: In one episode, Doug accidentally punches Larry, leading to Doug being challenged to fight him again, which Doug considers. However, his father finds out and isn't encouraging, giving him the saying "Show me a man who resorts to violence and I'll show you a man who's run out of good ideas". In the end, [[spoiler:it turns out Larry doesn't really want to fight (he had pressure from the AV club since it embarrassed them), and Doug felt pressure from the rest of the school to go through with the fight, so they end up pretending to fight behind closed doors, with the other students watching on a deliberately bad monitor, thinking that they are actually fighting.]]

* HerCodeNameWasMarySue: Male version; many of Doug's {{Imagine Spot}}s fill this role. There's also the episode where Doug and Skeeter collaborate on a comic, with both of them as superheroes. Patty also joined in during the Disney years.
** 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 InvincibleHero and avoided making the character too much wish fulfillment.
** Silver Skeeter is a ''very'' straight example though, and is even criticized for using his abilities without considering the possible consequences.

* InsanityDefense: In one episode, Roger is attempting to frame Doug for stealing Mr. Bone's trophy. Judy suggests attempting the Insanity Defense, only for Doug to say that the last person who tried it ''still'' got in trouble ''and'' has had to go to the counselor every day since (Doug passes by the counselor's office door later in the episode and exchanges greetings with the student in question).

-->'''Roger:''' It doesn't mean that we're getting married or anything.

** In "Doug Takes the Case," Beebe is not punished by Mrs. Wingo for fabricating a story about the theft of her father's radio to cover up the fact that she broke it.

* KarmicJackpot: When Doug has ticket to see the Beets, Doug wants to go with Skeeter, but Skeeter's been grounded and can't go. Doug decides to just stay with Skeeter, grounded or not, giving up his own good time to make his friend happy. Mr. Valentine eventually un-grounds Skeeter later that night, but by that time, the concert is long over. They go to the Honker Burger, where they meet the Beets in person, and even briefly rock out with the band itself, getting their jackets.

* LaserGuidedKarma: Roger is often hit with this. Whatever transgression he pulls, karma will never hesitate to smack him back to reality.

* LastEpisodeNewCharacter: Invoked [[spoiler:and ultimately subverted since we BARELY miss seeing him]] in the final episode of the Nickelodeon run with Principal Buttsavage.

* LetsSeeYouDoBetter: In ''Doug's Big News'', the kids of Mrs. Wingo's class criticize Mr. Bone's news show for being dull and boring, and Mr. Bone responds by challenging them with this trope. The kids take Mr. Bone up on his challenge.

* LimitedWardrobe: {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d and turned into an episode. Doug always wears brown khaki shorts with a green vest over a white shirt. When their favorite TV star wears the same outfit, everyone copies the style, and they think Doug has, too. He spends the entire episode trying to prove that he isn't a lemming, even showing everyone his entire wardrobe of identical clothes, but to his frustration everyone still thinks he's trying to be like the TV star only taking it too far. So he tries to dress differently, then eventually gives up, figuring that it's not worth the trouble... only to find everyone is now copying a different outfit the TV star wears, which looks the same as Skeeter's.
** Via the {{Imagine Spot}}s changes to their wardrobe do happen regularly, as Doug will become James Bond or Indiana Jones with an appropriate outfit, with his friends also taking on comparative roles in the story.

* LoveMakesYouCrazy: Skeeter readily [[EasilyForgiven forgives Doug]] for ditching their game of Barnyard Chess to play Beetball with Patti because "I know Patti makes you crazy. Beet salad has the same effect on me."

** Patti's mother died in a car accident. This actually makes her the first character from a Nicktoon with a dead parent - Chuckie's mom being dead on ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' wasn't confirmed until after ''Doug'' had left for ABC and during the time ''Doug'' was on Nickelodeon, the writers of ''Rugrats'' were keeping where she was ambiguous.

* NothingIsScarier: In "Doug's Nightmare on Elm Street", Doug has nightmares of a shapeshifting monster from a scary movie, which he didn't even see what he looks like. Until he manage to face his fear by seeing the ending of the movie, which is a [[NightmareRetardant guy in a ridiculous-looking suit with his zipper showing]].

* OffModel: The Nickelodeon series at least had its fair share of animation errors. For example, in "Doug's Comic Collaboration," there's a scene in which Doug's left arm appears to be in front of Skeeter and around Skeeter's shoulder at the same time.
** In "Doug's Nightmare on Jumbo Street," Tippi Dink is colored turquoise-blue like Skeeter, instead of purple as she normally is. And in the pilot episode, her hair color goes from blonde to green repeatedly in one scene.

* PantyShot: Judy gets [[http://imgur.com/bgdCRiP one]] in "Doug's Mail Order Mania" when she falls over rollerskating. Notable in that her character model usually always wears black tights.

* PetsAsAPresent: "Doug's Christms Story" reveals that Doug recieved Porkchop as a Chiristmas present.

** [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DINKY DINK (or DINKY)]] is slang for an affluent couple with no children.

* PutMeInCoach: Doug goes in for the [[DownToTheLastPlay final play of the football game]] in "Doug's Big Feat".

* RatedMForManly: "Targetman"- the violent action movie all the kids in Bluffington want to see in "Doug's Movie Madness". It's a Robocop/Terminator/Judge Dredd sci-fi film starring Creator/{{Bruce|Willis}} [[Creator/JeanClaudeVanDamme Claude Von]] [[Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger Rockenwagner]] complete with a HurricaneOfPuns (most of which involve missing body parts). There's concern from adults about kids seeing it (even the normally laid-back Mr. Dink thinks it's too violent for kids) and aside from Connie, none of the female characters have any interest in seeing it (Judy argues that it has no redeeming social value of any kind). Roger and Doug are forbidden from seeing it by both of their parents (Roger by his normally absent father, who drags him out of a showing at the theater). Doug goes anyways and this trope gets subverted when it turns out Doug and Skeeter both really aren't prepared for the levels of violence in the film, resulting in Doug having nightmares and unintentionally confessing to his parents that he saw the film, resulting in him getting grounded.

* SadistTeacher: Doug had Mr. Bone & Mrs. Wingo in Doug's own nightmarish imagination. Mr. Bone is one in real life, although Mrs. Wingo, although sometimes a SternTeacher, isn't.

*** Monroe Yoder, singer and guitarist, is [[Music/TheWho Roger Daltrey]], down to his singing, [[XMeetsY meets]] Music/JohnLennon.

** Flounder and Connie Benge make a deal: Flounder helps Connie become a rock musician, and she teaches the analphabetic face of the Beets to read and write. [[Film/LeonTheProfessional Sounds familiar?]]

** 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 seen in a Madonna-esque outfit in the "Bangin' on a Trashcan/Think Big" music video.

** "Doug Throws a Party": Listen closely in Doug's daydream sequence in which mad scientist Roger's "truth ray" makes Doug confess his love to Patti, while Patti is yelling "Somebody stop him! Don't listen to him! I HATE you, Doug Funnie!" and you'll hear Doug sing "I love you, Patti/Oh yes I do/I love you, Patti/You know it's true" to the tune of "We Love You Conrad" from Theatre/ByeByeBirdie.

* SternTeacher: Mrs. Wingo when students misbehave, although usually she's quite kind. "You're knocking on trouble's door"

-->'''Doug:''' ''(anxious)'' Skeeter, don't give me any ideas!\\

* 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).

* TookALevelInJerkass: While Doug wasn't always the soul of tact in the Nickelodeon series, several Disney episodes had him taking the Jerkass factor up to eleven. It seems out of character for Doug to insult Skeeter, Porkchop, his own mother, and even ''Patti'' - for absolutely no reason - the way he does in "Doug's Big Comeback." And he didn't begin to feel remorse until after he insulted Patti. In addition, Connie, a target of Roger's bullying in the Nickelodeon series, turns somewhat of a bully herself in "Doug's Bloody Buddy" by becoming a malicious gossip.

** Beets, for most everyone in the town (interestingly, creator Jim Jinkins hated beets as a kid). For Doug, banana pudding, as explained in one of the early Nickelodeon promos. And for Porkchop, Peanutty Buddies (an apparent takeoff on Nestle's Drumstick ice-cream treats) - to the point where when Porkchop turns down a Peanutty Buddy in one episode, Doug figures he must be sick and takes him to the vet.

* TurnsRed: Skeeter's dad, literally, when he loses his temper.
--> '''Mr. Valentine:''' One, two... TEN!!!!

* UnfortunateName: "Doug Funnie", "Mosquito Valentine", "Patti Mayonnaise", "Guy Graham", just to name a few.

** Doug wants a Smash-O skateboard in "Doug Inc." Smash-O is likely a takeoff on Wham-O, inventors of such childhood favorites as Hula Hoops, Frisbees, Silly String, and the Slip 'n' Slide.