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* ContagiousCassandraTruth: In ''Doug's First Movie'', Doug and Skeeter tell the Mayor about the swamp creature they found, but she can't publicly declare its existence without backlash. They try, but an attempt to capture the beast by a CorruptCorporateExecutive impedes this.

* GreenAesop: While not quite as in-your-face as other examples, this is a major plot point of TheMovie. Mr. Bluff's pollution of Lucky Duck Lake results in the creation of a monster, which he then wants to kill to cover up his tracks. [[spoiler: In the end, the monster escapes, Mr. Bluff's actions are exposed and he then volunteers to clean up his mess.]]

** Doug and the Mayor toss this to each other in TheMovie, from Doug talking about exposing Mr. Bluff's plot in front of Guy who happens to be good friends with Mr. Bluff and thinking that Herman is dead despite knowing that said death is in next week's paper, to the Mayor, despite being, y'know, the Mayor and knowing that Mr. Bluff is polluting the lake and had hired goons to capture Herman, doesn't do anything about it. Though with the latter, you can justify it with the good ol' ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney trope.

* KarmaHoudini:
** Slightly in TheMovie, how was Mr. Bluff '''''not''''' arrested at the end? Yes, he did get comeuppance but he broke so many U.S. laws it's ridiculous. He polluted a lake he didn't even own, he bribes the police, he bribes the media. He bribes everyone! That's just the beginning.
** He now has to devote his time and effort to clean up the messes he made, and probably a lot of other messes as well. It's either that or Mrs. Dink could probably have him hauled off to jail after he just plainly threatened to destroy the lives of two innocent young men in front of a ''lot'' of witnesses. It just makes more sense that someone with his power and money could get a lot more done in terms of cleaning up pollution then if he was behind bars. Not to mention, added to the fact of his verbal threats to Doug and Skeeter, that he was just emasculated by his own daughter in front of said witnesses, so at this point it's pretty obvious how petty and spineless he really is, so he's got a ton of work to do to clean up his image.

A theatrical film, accurately titled ''[[TheMovie Doug's First Movie]]'' was released in 1999. It also got its own stage show in Disney-MGM Studios, ''DougLive!'', which ran from 1999-2001.

* AnAesop: Most (if not all) of the episodes had one.

** In the episode where Doug has to get used to a new barber in his new hometown, the original barber's name was [[Theatre/SweeneyTodd Mr. Sweeney]].

** Doug lives on 21 Jumbo Street, a shout to the then-popular cop show ''TwentyOneJumpStreet''.

* TheEuropeanCarryAll: "It's a journal, not a diary!"

* The EuropeanCarryAll: "It's a journal, not a diary!"

* InsistentTerminology: It's a journal, not a diary!

* HeWhoMustNotBeSeen: Principal Buttsavitch.

* HerCodeNameWasMarySue:

One of the first three original Nicktoons, featuring eleven-year-old Doug Funnie and his experiences with his friends, family and community. Creator Jim Jinkins developed the concept and drew inspiration from his own experiences growing up. Beginning with Doug's arrival in Bluffington, he dutifully writes about his every adventure in his journal, which frames almost every episode. Very early on, he gained a best friend in Mosquito "Skeeter" Valentine, a nemesis in school bully Roger Klotz, and a love interest in the [[ShortTank tomboyish]] Patti Mayonnaise. His dog Porkchop frequently steals the show with his antics, not unlike [[ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}} Snoopy]]. Many other colourful characters (both literally and figuratively) were featured.

** Doug and the Mayor toss this to each other in TheMovie, from Doug talking about exposing Mr. Bluff's plot in front of Guy who happens to be good friends with Mr. Bluff and thinking that Herman is dead despite knowing that said death is in next week's paper, to the Mayor, despite being, y'know, the Mayor and knowing that Mr. Bluff is polluting the lake and had hired goons to capture Herman, doesn't do anything about it.

** Doug and the Mayor toss this to each other in TheMovie, from Doug talking about exposing Mr. Bluff's plot in front of Guy who happens to be good friends with Mr. Bluff, to the Mayor, despite being, y'know, [[ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem the Mayor]] and knowing that Mr. Bluff is polluting the lake and had hired goons to capture Herman, doesn't do anything about it.

** Doug and the Mayor toss this to each other in TheMovie, from Doug talking about exposing Mr. Bluff's plot in front of Guy who happens to be good friends with Mr. Bluff, to the Mayor, despite being, y'know, the Mayor and knowing that Mr. Bluff is polluting the lake and had hired goons to capture Herman, doesn't do anything about it.

* IdiotBall: The Nickelodeon-era Christmas episode has Pork Chop bite and injure Beebe to keep her away from thin ice/hole in the ice and is then taken away because he is believed to be dangerous. Out of context the logic can at least be followed if one didn't know of the thin ice, however; the thin ice was marked as such then a hole formed in the ice that she was heading straight for, he had never shown any signs of aggression at any point and during his "trial" Bebe was instructed to recreate the incident i.e. walk on ice towards a hole in but now in a cast with crutches and Pork Chop seems to be the only one who notices she is about to die and has to break free to save her again. Granted, ''everyone'' that wasn't Doug and his inner circle was holding the IdiotBall that episode. Bill Bluff, Beebe's father and owner of Bluffington, had went to great lengths to paint Pork Chop as a monster and everyone believed him over Doug, no one gave a care about the dog come Christmas and it forced Doug to call everyone out at Pork Chop's trial.