History YMMV / MallardFillmore

* MemeticMutation: [[https://twitter.com/nekoewen/status/1238562328943030273 "Oops! I forgot to tell a joke!"]], a parody strip used to sum up how many feel about the strip.

* BileFascination: The only reason some people read it. There are a number of blogs devoted solely to reading Tinsley's strips just so they can mock them. Mocking Mallard Fillmore was in fact the genesis of [[Website/SomethingAwful SomethingAwful's]] political cartoons thread, which has seen expanded to include other editorial cartoons and resulted in a number of off-shoot blogs. (On the other hand, The Comics Curmudgeon site specifically bans ANY discussion of ''Mallard Fillmore''; merely mentioning it is grounds for banishment.)

* BileFascination: The only reason some people read it. There are a number of blogs devoted solely to reading Tinsley's strips just so they can mock them. Mocking Mallard Fillmore was in fact the genesis of [[Website/SomethingAwful SomethingAwful's]] political cartoons thread, which has seen expanded to include other editorial cartoons and resulted in a number of off-shoot blogs. (On the other hand, The Comic Curmudgeon site specifically bans ANY discussion of ''Mallard Fillmore''; merely mentioning it is grounds for banishment.)

* BileFascination: The only reason some people read it. There are a number of blogs devoted solely to reading Tinsley's strips just so they can mock them. Mocking Mallard Fillmore was in fact the genesis of [[Website/SomethingAwful SomethingAwful's]] political cartoons thread, which has seen expanded to include other editorial cartoons and resulted in a number of off-shoot blogs.

* UnfortunateImplications: Tinsley did not take kindly to a parody strip done for [[Series/TheDailyShow Jon Stewart]]'s ''Literature/AmericaTheBook''. He responded by dedicating several actual strips to complaining about [[http://jewishworldreview.com/strips/mallard/2000/mallard070505.asp Stewart "stealing" his work]], culminating with a rather disturbing [[http://www.jewishworldreview.com/strips/mallard/2000/MFT50708.jpg Jewish caricature of Stewart]] proclaiming himself a pedophile, with a JustJokingJustification disclaimer. Tinsley (who apparently does not grasp the idea of "satire") did not get the overall joke, as the strip was on a page with other comic parodies, including a similar mocking of rival strip ''ComicStrip/{{Doonesbury}}'' (along the same lines as too political and unfunny) and even ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'' (which, of course, was never a political strip). Incidentally, the Fillmore parody wasn't drawn or written by Stewart himself, but by Maria Schneider (a cartoonist who also writes for ''Website/TheOnion'').
** Tinsley's response to the controversy? "Honestly, I didn't even know Jon Stewart was Jewish."
** Tinsley's issue wasn't so much that his comic was parodied by Stewart but rather that Stewart didn't subsequently invite him on ''Series/TheDailyShow'' like other famous conservatives. [[SarcasmMode Which naturally justifies insinuating him to be a pedophile.]]
** Creator/StephenColbert [[Series/TheColbertReport responded]] to Tinsley's attack of Stewart by joking that the caricature may have been "clip art from ''Literature/TheProtocolsOfTheEldersOfZion".
*** "Racial or religious profiling makes just as much common sense as being afraid of predatory animals" is common enough that the UnfortunateImplications are probably deliberate.

* InformedRealLifeFame: Tinsley did a two-week-long series of strips promoting the drafting of conservative economist Walter E. Williams as the 2008 Republican presidential nominee. In the strips, he depicted the groundswell of popular support for Williams' drafting as being so huge that it causes a frightened Howard Dean (who was Chairman of the DNC at the time) to throw a tantrum out of frustration. In reality, Williams was little-known other than by hardcore listeners of the Rush Limbaugh Show where he sometimes guest-hosted when Limbaugh was on vacation.

* InformedRealLifeFame: Tinsley did a week-long series of strips promoting the drafting of conservative economist Walter E. Williams as the 2008 Republican presidential nominee. In the strips, he depicted the groundswell of popular support for Williams' drafting as being so huge that it causes a frightened Howard Dean (who was Chairman of the DNC at the time) to throw a tantrum out of frustration. In reality, Williams was little-known other than by hardcore listeners of the Rush Limbaugh Show where he sometimes guest-hosted when Limbaugh was on vacation.

* BileFascination: The only reason some people read it. There are a number of blogs devoted solely to reading Tinsley's strips just so they can mock them.

* {{Anvilicious}}: It's rare to find a strip that ''doesn't'' fit this trope.

* ConfirmationBias: A standard of political strips.

* NeverLiveItDown: After Bruce Tinsley's DUI arrest in 2006, many people started nicknaming his character as "Drunk Duck" or worse. It's still going on today, nearly a decade later. It doesn't help that Tinsley spent years making fun of Ted Kennedy for his drunken antics. He only stopped after the news of his DUI came out. Even worse, he did a [[TakeThat take that]] on the judge who sentenced him. Regardless of what you think about the strip, that's incredibly petty.
* SnarkBait: Like many newspaper strips of late, even this comic [[http://duckcover.blogspot.com has a snark blog]].
** ''Blog/TheComicsCurmudgeon'' [[http://joshreads.com/?cat=72 said of Mallard Fillmore]]: "I think papers carry this strip for 'balance', ''i.e.'', to shut up the ''ComicStrip/{{Doonesbury}}'' critics so they can keep it on the comics page. A nice little irony for Mallard's author."
** There's been so much negativity and vitriol whenever the comic is discussed on ''Blog/TheComicsCurmudgeon'' that it is now taboo to talk about it -- one of the few strips to have a blanket ban.