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| 3 | ''[[http://www.rhjunior.com/comics/nip-and-tuck/ Nip and Tuck]]'' is one of Creator/RalphHayesJr's webcomics (''Webcomic/GoblinHollow'' and ''Webcomic/TalesOfTheQuestor'' are among his others). |
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| 5 | The main focus is on Nip and Tuck Todd, two fox brothers of the somewhat loopy Malarky County, located somewhere (judging by the cast's accents) in the [[DeepSouth southern USA]]. Throughout the series, the brothers get mixed up in various hijinx, including babysitting a pair of rival budding evil geniuses, accidentally entering Tuck's girlfriend into a porno photoshoot, helping a rookie journalist try to prove the existence of the local lake monster to the world, training a junior boxer to fight the town bully, and even MST-ing Nip's movies. |
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| 7 | The strip has started up again after a long period of hiatus (with a cameo from the characters in ''Webcomic/GoblinHollow'' at one point), but the storyline regarding the financial problems of the Purloined Letters Studio has been put on hold for the time being. The first ones are also collected in three volumes. |
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| 9 | Not related to ''Series/NipTuck''. |
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| 13 | !!This comic provides examples of: |
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| 15 | * AbhorrentAdmirer: |
| 16 | ** Initially, this is how Tuck thinks of Thelma. He gets over it, to put it mildly. |
| 17 | ** When Hortense gets flirtatious calls from the gator men aboard the cruise ship, initially, she's very flattered, since she's not used to being seen as "sexy" by men. [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0758/ When they keep it up all day despite her lack of reciprocation, then she gets angry]]. |
| 18 | * AccessoryWearingCartoonAnimal: Coot the turtle, who owns the military surplus store. (Turtles are literally the only species in any of the author's comics to get this trope, which is understandable given how much a turtle's shell covers and how hard it is to put clothing on.) |
| 19 | * ActuallyPrettyFunny: |
| 20 | ** In [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0012/ strip #12]], whilst Tuck is raving about how ''VideoGame/RedneckRampage'' is built on offensive stereotypes about rednecks as dim-witted, inbred, violent, gluttonous, flatulent drunkards, Nip is giggling to himself over the ability to use exploding chickens as weapons. |
| 21 | ** When Tuck responds to the sleezy reporter trying to mock him by pantsing the guy on live TV in [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0017/ strip #17]], the reporter's own video crew find it ''hilarious''. |
| 22 | * ADegreeInUseless: Deconstructed in [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-62/ post-revival strip #62]], which points out that based on the timing of when you get it, '''any''' college degree can be useless in the practical sense. |
| 23 | * AgeInappropriateDress: Thelma dresses ''extremely'' conservatively. As in, Hortense, Malarkey County's resident "angry feminist", [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0733/ tells her she dresses down too much at one point]], and hangs a lampshade that if ''she'' is criticizing Thelma's lack of sex appeal, then she is ''desperately'' overemphasizing her modesty. In the "lost strips" from the Nip & Tuck-WebVideo/TheFundayPawpetShow crossover, Thelma actually states [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0926/ at one point]] that she takes her wardrobe advice from her great-grandmother. |
| 24 | * AlcoholInducedIdiocy: A variant; in [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0752/ strip #752]], Hortense apologizes for her wildly unusual behavior, in particular snatching Thelma's bathrobe away to force the possum into showing up her new bikini for Tuck, by explaining that the intense heat of the tropical Caribbean sun is so different to what she's used to in Malarkey that she was effectively drunk. |
| 25 | * TheAllegedCar: Zigzagged with Daisy, the Todd Brothers' jeep, which is initially presented as an absolute wreck when Nip buys it in [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0040/ strip #40]], but which is ultimately patched up and made into a hard-running, reliable workhorse of a car. |
| 26 | * AllMuslimsAreArab: In [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0595/ strip #595]], when one of the workers on the action movie asks if Schlepp the Camel is offended by the movie featuring so many Arabian and Muslim characters, Schlep corrects him that he is Arabian, but he is actually an Arabian Christian who fled his homeland to escape persecution by Muslims. |
| 27 | * AllNaturalSnakeOil: The unnamed local herbalist, who makes an appearance in [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0612/ strip #612]]; her remedies are effective, but they leave the victim in a coma for ''days''. |
| 28 | * ArmiesAreEvil: [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0601/ The initial plan for Moby's schlocky action film]]... until the decidedly pro-UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror actors themselves find out, and remake it as a pro-America, pro-military movie. |
| 29 | * AsleepForDays: [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0612/ The side-effects of taking the local]] AllNaturalSnakeOil. |
| 30 | * AuthorTract: Taken to great lengths with various attacks on environmentalism, feminism and liberalism in general right from the first couple of pages. |
| 31 | ** And despite Nip and Tuck largely being irresponsible gun-loving pyromaniacs, Southerners are '''definitely not''' [[StrawmanNewsMedia as portrayed in the media.]] |
| 32 | ** Transgenderism is treated as a mental deviance that should be corrected with physical pain and punishment, with the author commenting in the argument on the same strip that homosexuality is also a sin and should be punished as such in much the same manner. |
| 33 | * BadassPreacher: Downplayed, but the Malarkey County reverend is a ''huge'' wolverine; in [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0288/ his introductory strip]], Tuck notes that very few people are willing to refuse a request from him to attend services, whilst in [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0504/ strip #504]] it's established that every church picnic has a tug-of-war consisting of every churchmember who wants to partake against the reverend alone. It's implied they've ''never'' beaten him. |
| 34 | * BarefootCartoonAnimal: Most of Malarkey County, though Gus Gunthry and Gilly are usually [[TheOneWhoWearsShoes the ones who wear shoes]]. (Plus occasional guest characters, such as that crazy cat at the bus station.) |
| 35 | * BeautifulAllAlong: Played straight with Thelma [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0543/ here]], with help from Tuck. Then again, Tuck admits that he had feelings for Thelma from the very beginning and had no idea how to deal with those emotions. |
| 36 | ** A bit with Zelda Porcupine as well. |
| 37 | * BerserkButton: Downplayed, because it doesn't come up much, but Tuck really does not like the stereotypical portrayal of "rednecks" in the media, and so really doesn't cotton kindly to media playing on those stereotypes. For this reason he has a particular distaste for the videogame ''VideoGame/RedneckRampage'', and he '''hates''' ''Film/{{Deliverance}}'' -- at the very least, it incenses him when Nip decides to play the infamous "Dueling Banjoes" music whenever out-of-towners happen to be around. |
| 38 | * BewareTheNiceOnes: |
| 39 | ** The Todd brothers themselves, in a sense. Normally, they're affable and laidback jokesters, but the residents of Malarkey County have learned you ''don't'' pick a fight with them. |
| 40 | ** Denise, the CatGirl at stunt school with a crush on Charlie, looks like a sweet and innocent woman, with her oversized glasses and girlish twintails emphasizing her semblance of youthful innocence. When Charlie breaks her heart, she readily joins in on Nip's prankfest and plays the role of an [[Literature/{{Misery}} Annie Wilkes]] style psycho fan with chilling realism. After they mend ties and hook up, she also shows herself to be a ruthlessly skilled agent for Charlie. |
| 41 | * BigBeautifulWoman: |
| 42 | ** Played straight when [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-57/ Nip comforts Zelda that he likes her curvy figure]]. |
| 43 | ** Subverted when, after several strips of well-formed, skimpily clad beach-going Malarky County women, [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-68/ we are presented with the nameless obese pig]] "radical feminist" [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-68/ in her bikini]], which is presented as pure {{squick}}. |
| 44 | * BlackComedy: In [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0645/ strip #645]], a Jewish rabbi jokes that he likes to read the virulently anti-Jewish Arabian newspaper "Al Jazeera" because every other page talks about how the Jews are rich, powerful, and secretly rule the world -- he finds it so hilarious that it puts him in a good mood all day. |
| 45 | * BrainBleach: [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0582/ Nip learns to take care when admiring photos from a time before you were born.]] |
| 46 | * BrickJoke: Given the comic's length and love of comedic {{Call Back}}s, this happens a lot. One example? After the founding of "Purloined Letter Productions", [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0639/ strip #639]] shows Tagger and Eugene being used as a focus group and blithely suggesting that Nip's next film "needs more ninjas". At the end of the "Rebel Cry" storyline, [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0725/ the second Nip movie that he previews]] is "10,000 Ninjas!", an action-comedy about a man being attacked by an enormous army of ninjas, each of whom is only granted 60 seconds to try and kill him in. |
| 47 | * BrutalHonesty: After Nip brings up his woes about his dating life in strip #776-768, Tuck points out that Nip's main problem may be the fact that he's a natural risk taker who likes to do stupid stuff for kicks and then made a career out of it, which understandably tends to intimidate women. |
| 48 | * BulletTime: Parodied once [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0584/ here]]. |
| 49 | * ButtMonkey: Gilly Gopher. |
| 50 | * CallBack: As a comic with a strong consistent story, references to previous events happen all the time. One of the most far-reaching is during Nip and Zelda's second date back in Malarkey County; [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0867/ after Nip "sees off" Gilly Gopher and Zelda mentioning she sometimes thinks people like Gilly need a blow to the head to get the message]], he mentions he's seen Gilly being hit with a 2x4 and not improve -- referring to the time he smacked Gilly in the head with a 2x4 for arguing about subjective morality back in [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0008/ strip #8]] -- 859 strips earlier. |
| 51 | * CampStraight: Skippy, the lion hairdresser from WebVideo/TheFundayPawpetShow, is a flamboyant and at least mildly campy individual. He's also happily married to an '''[[TinyGuyHugeGirl enormous]]''' and very female gorilla, which comes as [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0924/ quite a surprise to Thelma]]. An annotation from the author on his introduction notes that this is a trait Skippy has in his native webshow, along with getting very angry when people insinuate that he's gay. |
| 52 | * CanCrushingCranium: Played with when a drunken and belligerent Gus Gunthry picks a fight with Nip Todd by [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0215/ crushing his beer can against Nip's head]]. |
| 53 | * CatsHaveNineLives: And according to Tuck, their [[FurryConfusion pet cat]] is running up credit on some more. |
| 54 | * TheCavalry: Nip is tied up and about to be beaten by a bunch of Gus's friends when the [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0829/ Ladies Division of the Indy Wrestling Foundation]], whom he'd called earlier, show up. |
| 55 | * ChangingOfTheGuard: Played for laughs when [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0278/ Lil Bit tells Thelma she's taken up pester-flirting with Tagger to keep alive the spirit of Thelma's own pursuit of Tuck after their]] RelationshipUpgrade. |
| 56 | * TheChessmaster: [[ObfuscatingStupidity Nip Todd]] and Eugene Possum have shades of this. Most notably Nip's plots to humiliate Gus, Charlie, and Michael Moby. |
| 57 | * CloudCuckoolander: Toober the Otter, who is Malarky County's resident "special thinker". |
| 58 | * ComedicSociopathy: Whether it's knocking Gilly out with a board or electrocuting a reporter, this is pretty common. Slightly subverted, in that Tuck doesn't approve of such methods. |
| 59 | * ContrivedCoincidence: Lampshaded [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0633/ here]] during a ShowWithinAShow. |
| 60 | * CoolPeopleRebelAgainstAuthority: Deconstructed [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0706/ just before]] the final battle of ''Rebel Cry''; |
| 61 | -->It's easy to be a rabble rouser; to be admired and lauded when your trouble making amuses the crowds. Easy to live "wild and reckless and free," accountable to none. But it's an entirely different matter when the consequences track you down. |
| 62 | ** However, it's ''reconstructed'' at the [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0706/ end]] of the arc; |
| 63 | --->A thousand years ago, a small island became a worldwide empire, but in its decay it chased away-- and even threw away-- its best and brightest. And when they rebelled--- they were too far away for the empire to tighten its grasp again. The empire crumbled, and its castoffs surpassed its glory a thousandfold. |
| 64 | * CreepyChild: Tagger on occasion. |
| 65 | * CrossOver: In 2001, R.H. Jr. did a set of about 39 comics in which the cast of the online puppet troupe "WebVideo/TheFundayPawpetShow" wound up temporarily stranded in Malarkey County. He took it down, citing "ethical differences", but then reuploaded the strips into the archive after the Todd Brothers' wedding. |
| 66 | * CurbStompBattle: Zelda vs Moby [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0791/ here]]. A verbal rather than a physical beatdown, but no less overwhelming for that. |
| 67 | * CuriousAsAMonkey: [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0574/ Hortense's niece]] |
| 68 | * DCupDistress: Candy (a waitress at recently-opened bar "Green Chicks") is notably buxom, and she's only working there to save up for a breast reduction surgery. The backaches alone are making the expense worthwhile. |
| 69 | * DamselInDistress: Subverted when Thelma Possum, trapped in a lousy contract with a porn studio, becomes a professional wrestler to pay it off (surprising the heck out of poor Tuck's rescue party). Averted when Zelda Porcupine, confronted by a studio-barging Gilly Gopher, turns him into a pincushion. And lampshaded to a fare-thee-well when Tuck [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0762/ winds up rescuing overly aggressive, dyed-in-the-scales, capital-F Feminist Hortense from a guy she punched in the breadbasket]]! (She takes it with all the "grace" you'd expect, too, [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0765/ something that Tuck calls her out on]].) See Values Dissonance; as noted, female characters in this strip aren't likely to be the fluttery, useless type. |
| 70 | * DeadpanSnarker: The Todd brothers tend to take this attitude when dealing with things they find either utterly stupid or utterly hilarious -- or both, as in the recent poke at the feminist slogan, "My Vagina Has A Voice". HilarityEnsues, though radical feminist Estelle is starting to foam at the mouth... |
| 71 | * {{Defictionalization}}: An InUniverse example; a mini storyline in [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0872/ strip #872]] revolves around Solidus opening a sci-fi themed restaurant catering to the "nerdy" crowd, which he names "Green Chicks", after a bar that appears in the in-universe movie "Rebel Cry". |
| 72 | * DepartmentOfChildDisservices: Tagger's family after their son aces an aptitude test. [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0075/ Oh, the torture]]. |
| 73 | -->'''Tuck:''' Well, I s'pose you're learning all sorts o' new things...\ |
| 74 | '''Tagger:''' Yeah. I learned tofu gives you th' scoots. |
| 75 | * DescriptionCut: |
| 76 | ** In [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0748/ strip #748]], Nip is confident that the notoriously shy Zelda will have no problems doing an interview with him for their radio station back home. Cut to Zelda having a panic attack in her cabin. |
| 77 | ** In [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0773/ strip #773]], Nip thinks he's offended Zelda by asking her to be his date, but what's actually happened is that she's actually so dumbfounded that her shyness has made it impossible for her to say yes, despite ''desperately'' wanting to. |
| 78 | ** An unusual variant can be seen in [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0792/ strip #792]]; the first and third panels are Tuck opinioning that his parents must have retired for a quiet, relaxing soak, because they're too old to party, whilst the central panel shows they're actually having a naked game of chase before making love. |
| 79 | ** In [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0244/ strip #244]], Tuck initially blows off the notion that he'll miss his twin brother whilst the latter is off at stunt school for 12 weeks. Cue the last panel showing Tuck up at night, looking very mournful. |
| 80 | * DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife: Downplayed, but after the Harvest Dance, with Tuck hooking up with Thelma and having been shut down by Beebee because her then-beau Gus Gunthry has a pretty well-paying job, [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0232/ Nip finds himself questioning what he'll do with his life]]. Fortunately, fate intervenes and he finds himself on the road to being a professional stunt man. |
| 81 | * DestructoNookie: Downplayed. Thelma (who is a porcupine) has her dangerous quills pulled so that Nip doesn't have to be so careful during their lovemaking (amongst several other reasons). Nip, too, is fairly pent up, and [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-92/ the couch does not fare at all well.]] |
| 82 | * {{Determinator}}: Bandit during a boxing match against a pig a ''lot'' bigger than him. He gets beaten to a pulp and still refuses to drop for a while. |
| 83 | ** Gilly Gopher is also one. While others would have realized long ago that Malarkey County isn't too kind to {{Know Nothing Know It All}}s, he just keeps on trying to convince his neighbors he has the right idea. |
| 84 | * DidNotGetTheGirl: To say that Nip is less than happy to hear that his crush Beebee broke up with Gus Gunthry whilst he was at stunt school... and then found herself an actual NiceGuy to hook up with whilst he was gone... [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0465/ is an understatement]]. |
| 85 | * DisasterDominoes: Tuck is on the receiving end of one that starts from [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0066/ strip #66]] and lasts until [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0069/ strip #69]]; he gets covered in fire ants, chased naked across the paddock by a swarm of angry bees after he smashes a hive whilst trying to brush the ants off, unwittingly streaks in front of Thelma, and then dives into a pond full of crawdads that object to his intrusion whilst trying to escape the angry bugs. |
| 86 | * DomesticAbuse: Downplayed, but Gus' relationship with Beebee has some very unsettling overtones, particularly when he shows up drunk at the Harvest Dance and gets ''very'' angry to find she's been dancing with someone else. Fortunately, the closest he ever gets to hurting her is when he [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0217/ roughly grabs her arm]], and Beebee breaks up with him afterwards. |
| 87 | * DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale: Averted. Female characters who abuse male characters in this strip will receive a talking-to at least, a physical retribution at worst. Never subverted, though; males who abuse females get just as much of a smackdown. |
| 88 | * DramaticWind: Wind, leaf blower, same diff... |
| 89 | * DrivesLikeCrazy: Thelma and Nip both make for extremely crazy drivers, although Nip is so bad that he makes ''Thelma'' nervous. Strips [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0655/ #655]] and [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0656/ #656]] even contrast the two. |
| 90 | * DrugsAreBad: Subverted, which might come as a surprise given the author's rather blatant Southern American Conservative values on display in this comics. |
| 91 | ** In [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0113/ strip #113]], the first of a 3-strip mini-storyline, resident "idiot liberal" Gilly Gopher is dumbfounded when he finds out that hardcore Rightwing Tuck Todd actually supports the legalization of marijuana. Tuck subsequently explains in the next strip that he primarily supports the legalization of hemp - marijuana's non-drug cousin - although he does also believe marijuana itself should be legalized. The last strip, #115, has him explaining why he has this belief, telling Gilly that hemp can be used to make soap, cloth, rope, and string, it produces four times as much potential paper as an equivalent amount of wood pulp and ''without'' all of the nasty chemicals required as part of the process, it has the most clean-burning natural oil in the world, and its oil and seeds are highly nutritious. Marijuana, meanwhile, can not only do everything that hemp can do, but can also be used as a safe, effective treatment for the symptoms of chemotherapy, glaucoma and multiple schlerosis. |
| 92 | ** [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0859/ Nip's last planned movie]] before Purloined Letter Productions is foreclosed is an "anti-War on Drugs" themed action movie, in which a rural cop tries to fight off South American drug cartels who want to mule drugs through his territory, whilst regarding the government's anti-drug enforcement agents to be just as much of a threat. The protagonist's narration in the trailer directly compares the War on Drugs to Prohibition, particularly in how it has given people who would have been small-time criminals a chance to become ultra-rich crimelords. |
| 93 | * DrunkOnMilk: Cats in this universe can ''literally'' get drunk on milk. |
| 94 | * DueToTheDead: The admiral in the ''Rebel Cry'' arc. |
| 95 | * TheEmpire: The BigBad of Nip's second movie, ''Rebel Cry'', and literally called just that. |
| 96 | * EvenEvilHasStandards: During [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0310/ the opening stages]] of his plan to get back to Charlie, the resident JerkAss at stunt school, Nip asks Charlie about the girl who she thinks had sex with her whilst she was passed out drunk. Charlie reveals he took her home when she was absolutely plastered, and then when she fell asleep on the toilet, he put her in his bed and spent the night in the bathtub. He never laid a hand on her sexually... he just couldn't resist teasing her after she ran out the next morning rather than talk to him, leaving her panties behind in her hurry. |
| 97 | * EveryoneLovesBlondes: Hortense rants about this. |
| 98 | * ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: Thelma and a vixen in Halloween costumes find Jack-O-Lantern bubble gum in a bowl of Halloween candy; [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-98/ they both try it]] and see why it's called that when they both blow bubbles. |
| 99 | * FanGirl: A canine teen has been awfully keen on Nip since he got into the movie business. |
| 100 | ** Earlier Charlie Bengal had a fan girl who joined in Nip's revenge scheme after he told her to shove off. She partly reenacted ''{{Film/Misery}}''. |
| 101 | * FanService: And FanDisservice, in the same comic [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0489/ here,]] and implied [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0123/ here.]] |
| 102 | * {{Flashback}}: To explain why Tuck hates reporters so. |
| 103 | * AFriendInNeed: Nip to [=LilBit=] at the harvest dance. Beebee's friends after the fight at the dance. |
| 104 | * FrivolousLawsuit: Tuck [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0287/ averts one]]. |
| 105 | * FreudianExcuse: Hortense gives one over strips #492 to #494; she's the only female lizard in all of Malarkey County, so she feels extremely insecure about her gender, because the only examples she has on what a "woman" is like come from the mammals around her, which she's biologically incapable of emulating. She clings to an aggressively independent form of feminism in no small part to try and comfort herself in the face of this insecurity. |
| 106 | * FunnyForeigner: Both [[RussianGuySuffersMost Mikhail]], a Russian fox transfer student, and Schlepp, an Arabian camel immigrant convenience store owner. |
| 107 | * FunetikAksent: Skip this comic, especially the early years, if you have no patience for these. |
| 108 | * FurryReminder: Whilst for the most part the character's species is aesthetic, reminders of their furry nature do pop up from time to time. |
| 109 | ** Zelda's quills, which routinely make themselves problematic, to the point that the punchline for one strip after Nip's film studio is shut down is the fact he's been distracted from losing his job because one of her quills is lodged in his earlobe. |
| 110 | ** Hortense, and by extension all female lizards, lack breasts, despite the female anthros from mammalian species all having prominent bosoms. Even the female opossums like Thelma have them. |
| 111 | ** The Lapin family's massive array of kids is somewhere between a nod to their status as rabbits and a tongue-in-cheek acknowledgement of the "rednecks have huge families" stereotype. |
| 112 | ** The first appearance of female possums in the Nip & Tuck world having pouches is way back in [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0036/ strip #36]], where Thelma manages to sneak some of her mother's famous hard candy away by smuggling it in her pouch. |
| 113 | ** The Todd brothers get a reminder of what a possum's pouch is for in [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0047/ strip #47]]. |
| 114 | ** Thelma's pouch is visible as a scar-like line on her belly in strips [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0157/ #157]], [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0439/ #439]] and [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0745/ #745]]. |
| 115 | ** In [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0485/ strip #485]], it's mentioned that Todd's "strong musky cologne" is actually his natural musk glands; in reality, male foxes do have musk glands, and produce a notedly strong odor. |
| 116 | ** In [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0492/ strip #492]], Hortense has a Freudian slip about how being a reptile means she's hairless, coldblooded, scaly, and completely lacking in female mammalian sexual characteristics. This is followed by her asking Thelma to carry her back inside before the cold puts her into torpor two strips afterward. |
| 117 | ** When a mongoose door-to-door salesman [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0728/ shows up at the Todd household]], he instinctively attacks the lawn sprinkler when he mistakes the sound of it turning on for a cobra. |
| 118 | ** In [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0731/ strip #731]], Thelma pulls out her cellphone that she's been keeping in her pouch, with Tuck admitting that he keeps forgetting about it, and Nip dumbfoundedly asking how when she's developed a liking for wearing belly shirts. |
| 119 | ** In [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0752/ strip #752]], Hortense explains her unusually chipper behavior of the last few strips has been due to being effectively "drunk" on the heat, as she's from temperate Malarkey County and is now in the distinctly hotter tropical Caribbean. |
| 120 | ** In [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0754/ strip #754]], a couple of male gators that take a liking to Hortense's traditional lizard swimsuit respond by letting out belch-like mating calls. Hortense even mistakes what they are at first, and has to be corrected by an embarrassed Thelma. |
| 121 | ** In [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0780/ strip #780]], when Zelda's personal assistant Charlotte gently asks if a backless dress isn't a little racy for Zelda's first date with Nip, the porcupine actually forgets about her pre-date nerves to snarkily point out that ''all'' of her dresses are by necessity backless, or end up that way after she's worn them once, since her back is covered in needle-sharp quills. |
| 122 | ** The gag of [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0938/ this strip from]] WebVideo/TheFundayPawpetShow crossover is that, as foxes, Nip and Tuck have a much higher hearing range, so the high pitches of the singer's are absolutely unbearable for them exclusively. |
| 123 | ** Played for laughs in [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0087/ strip #87]], where Pa Todd loses a log-sawing contest as part of their annual pioneer's day celebration to a beaver for... obvious reasons. |
| 124 | ** In [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0247/ strip #247]], Thelma is shown hanging upside down from a tree branch by her tail, with Tuck implying that this is normal behavior for her and other possums. |
| 125 | ** Arguable, but [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0504/ the Malarky County's Reverend going unbeaten in the church picnic tug-of-wars]] is a little nod to the legendary strength and stubbornness of wolverines. |
| 126 | ** Hortense uses her lizard's prehensile tongue to snag the wedding bouquet in [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0434/ strip #434]]. |
| 127 | * {{Gasshole}}: |
| 128 | ** Thunder the Bull, as you'd expect of a beast whose daily feeding consists of [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0103/ gallons of 3-bean vegetarian chilli]]. |
| 129 | ** [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0925/ Yappy Fox from the Funday Pawpet Show]], which the author's notes lampshade. |
| 130 | * GirlyGirlWithATomboyStreak: Thelma Possom, hand's down. She seems like a sweet Southern gal, all shy and polite and demure... and, for the most part, she is. She's also a huge wrestling fan, to the point that her idea of a romantic date, as seen in [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0290/ strip #290]], is to get front row tickets to a match featuring one of her favorite wrestlers. She's also a skilled wrestler herself; first displaying it [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0422/ when she blatantly threatens Toober into bringing his band to the wedding of Corporal Bo]], she later wrestles as an indy female fighter under the name "The Hillbilly Hellion" during the "beauty contest scam" story arc. Tuck walks in on her manhandling a hulking bruiser nearly twice her size in [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0522/ strip #522]], and in [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0523/ the next strip]], she effortlessly pounds on that same wrestler when he foolishly interrupts her conversation with Tuck. Then there's her solution for a replacement romantic activity when Tuck strains a groin muscle and can't dance with her: [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0787/ skeet shooting]]. Or the fact that her husband [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-32/ gets her a pistol for her birthday]], to her delight. |
| 131 | * GloryHound: Nip's friend, Charlie, his initially annoying roommate at Stunt School, introduced in [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0291/ strip #291]]. |
| 132 | * {{Gonk}}: [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0277/ THIS]] [[NoNameGiven guy.]] |
| 133 | * GoodThingYouCanHeal: Deconstructed in [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-77/ post-revival strip #77]], when Tagger argues that ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} is a ''terrible'' superhero, because he's '''constantly''' being hurt quite badly, whereas other superheroes like ComicBook/SpiderMan take far less damage and are much more adept at avoiding it. |
| 134 | * GoshDangItToHeck: Subverted on maybe [[SymbolSwearing one or two occasions]], both times, surprisingly, by Nip Todd. |
| 135 | * GossipyHens: Malarkey County is apparently full of them. To the point that, when Thelma wants to spread the word about Corporal Bo and his fiancee needing a hand to pull off a wedding, all she has to do is [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0409/ quietly call out into the air that he's getting married, and her mother rings her 3 seconds later]]. |
| 136 | * GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe: In ''Rebel Cry''. Carries over to a non-space version outside the film. |
| 137 | * GroinAttack: |
| 138 | ** Thelma's [[Film/TheBeverlyHillbillies Hickory Nut Crunch technique]], first seen in [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0535/ strip #535]]. It appears as painful as it sounds, but hey, the guy did KickTheDog first. |
| 139 | ** A variant; Tuck painfully pulls a muscle in his groin when he does a kung fu high kick [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0762/ saving Hortense from a pissed-off gator that she punched]]. |
| 140 | ** [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0857/ Nip's attempt to do]] ThatRussianSquatDance [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0857/ goes poorly]]. |
| 141 | ** Self-inflicted by Jam on himself in [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-26/ revival strip #26]]. |
| 142 | ** [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-58/ Used on a transwoman who tries to enter the ladies' restroom, as a way of "proving" the victim's true gender]]. |
| 143 | * HandOrObjectUnderwear: Found in the very first strip when Nip knocks his own and his brother's dress clothing in the river right after throwing their old clothes in. |
| 144 | * HeelFaceTurn: After hearing Nip's explanation about the importance of movies presenting a realistic view of the world as much as possible, and the other actors commenting on how horribly it would hurt the people who have family in the Armed Forces, the script producer [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0599/ breaks confidentiality and reveals to them that the movie they're working on is a sleazy cashgrab of a picture hoping to cash in on the apparent market for anti-American Armed Forces sentiment]] -- [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0589/ something that made the original lead star of the movie walk out in protest]], which is how Nip got the position of star. She then works with them to help remake the movie in a more pro-military light, which helps them get off the ground as an indie movie company. |
| 145 | * HeelRealization: Charlie undergoes this over his behavior at stunt school in [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0329/ strip #329]]. |
| 146 | * HeroicBSOD: Both Todd brothers tend to do this when sexually aroused. |
| 147 | * HillbillyIncest: Rebuffed with the "redneck rebuttals". Jeff Foxworthy jokes about inbreeding, and Tuck responds with a quip about European {{royal|Inbreeding}}ty. |
| 148 | * HistoryRepeats: Invoked by the Empire Commander in [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0723/ the final strip of the Rebel Cry storyline]], likening the dissidents of the Empire and the rebels of Promethia fleeing to colonize a remote star system beyond the Empire's reach to the founding of America (not explicitly, but the subtext is obvious). In particular, he muses that, given how "that colony of rebels of old" went on to surpass its parent empire "a thousandfold", it's possible the same thing will happen again. |
| 149 | * HumiliationConga: Nip's elaborate {{revenge}} on his JerkAss roommate, complete with a ShoutOut to ''{{Film/Misery}}''. |
| 150 | * HyperventilationBag: Zelda uses one before interviewing Nip on the radio. He's her crush, you see. And it's a PoolScene. |
| 151 | %%* IGaveMyWord: Tagger, regarding revenge on Eugene. |
| 152 | * IgnorantOfTheirOwnIgnorance: Gilly, the Todds' next-door neighbor. He's not really stupid, but he has a tendency not to think beyond the liberal philosophies he's been taught and follows and the inconsistencies therein, and has issues not putting his foot in his mouth when trying to get his points across, as he is basically parroting what he's been taught. |
| 153 | * ImagineTheAudienceNaked: Subverted when Zelda Porcupine is having to face Nip as her interviewee... And ends up getting an [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0750/ eyeful of Nip]] (complete with BishieSparkle) at the PoolScene! [[EatingTheEyeCandy Not that she's complaining about the sight of him in his swimwear]], [[InUniverse mind you...]] |
| 154 | --> Zelda's friend and assistant, Charlotte: "You put his clothes back on right this minute, young lady!---" |
| 155 | --> Zelda (blushing & grinning hungrily): "No. Go 'way." |
| 156 | ** For Zelda, this was a true MrFanservice moment. |
| 157 | * InelegantBlubbering: Tuck [[spoiler:after seeing Thelma in a bikini]]. |
| 158 | * InsecureLoveInterest: Thelma, in the early days of her relationship with Tuck, [[IAmNotPretty is extremely uncertain that she's physically attractive enough]]. She grows out of it as time passes and Tuck very amply demonstrates he desires her, with the biggest step towards it coming in [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0543/ strip #543]]. |
| 159 | * InterspeciesRomance: Whilst there's certainly plenty of same-species couples, the "current generation" is full of attractions across species lines: |
| 160 | ** Tuck (fox) and Thelma (opossum) are a case of ChildhoodFriend romance that ultimately ends up with them getting together, even getting married. |
| 161 | ** Nip is very attracted to all three of Pop's Auto Girls; Beebee (rabbit), Janine (mouse) and Sasha (squirrel), leading to his efforts to ask all three out for the Harvest Dance. |
| 162 | ** Beebee the rabbit is initially dating Gus Gunthry (pig), and crushed on by Nip (fox). After she breaks up with Gus, she ends up getting together with Gary, a mountain lion (or possibly a bear). |
| 163 | ** An Interspecies LoveTriangle can be seen between Zelda (porcupine), who is attracted to Nip (fox), and at the same time desired by Gilly (gopher). [[spoiler:She very decisively ends it by getting married to Nip, after he proposes at Tuck and Thelma's wedding.]] |
| 164 | ** Lil Bit the girl rabbit has a crush on Tagger, a male beaver. They get to go on a date after aging to be more in their teens. [[spoiler:Things end on a humiliating note when she accidentally farts whilst he's doing the gentlemanly "pull out her chair" routine... though they get back together after she learns that Tagger went the extra mile and claimed responsibility for it, in order to lessen her humiliation.]] |
| 165 | ** Bandit (raccoon) has something for Sierra, a female tiger. |
| 166 | * InTheBlood: |
| 167 | ** Several strips imply that Nip and Tuck are practically a DecompositeCharacter of their father; whilst he's normally a stoic, no-nonsense sort, much like Tuck, he's also shown to have a Nip-like affinity for pranks and wicked humor, as seen when [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0302/ he instructs Nip on how to pull off the ultimate revenge prank on his jerky roommate Charlie at stunt school]]. He also has at least some of Nip's borderline pyromania; his efforts at lighting the barbecue at the church picnic in [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0501/ strip #501]] even prompt the pastors to comment on how close the apples fell to the family tree. Plus, he's pretty accident prone, which applies to both his sons. |
| 168 | ** [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0573/ Gus Gunthry apparently inherited his misogyny from his father and grandfather]]... although, in an act of generational LaserGuidedKarma, ''both'' of their wives ultimately ran out on them, just as Beebee ultimately dumped Gus. |
| 169 | * {{Irony}}: In [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0650/ strip #650]], [[spoiler:Beebee]] explains that "Magical Princess Usagi" was CutShort at twelve episodes because an executive complained that she didn't have enough appeal for teenage boys. She promptly grew up into one of Malarkey County's most notoriously ''gorgeous'' women. |
| 170 | * ISeeThemToo: Captain Walker's sidekick in '''Rebel Cry''' at [[spoiler:the memorial]]. |
| 171 | * JackBauerInterrogationTechnique: In "Man On The Border", Nip's character at one point [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0627/ uses torture to force a captured jihadi to tell him where the others took the bio-weapon]], [[EyeScream jabbing a lit cigarette into his eye]] and telling him that he will ''not'' [[ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight let the Geneva Conventions prevent him from stopping a terrorism attack]]. |
| 172 | * JerkAss: |
| 173 | ** Gus Gunthry, who is the most hated man in Malarkey County for a reason. He actually provokes the normally mild-tempered Tuck to attack him in a rage when he [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0255/ brutally mocks him for hooking up with somebody as "ugly" as Thelma]]. |
| 174 | ** Gus' buddies aren't any better than he is, as you'd expect. |
| 175 | ** Micheal Moby, before and after his stint in Malarkey County. |
| 176 | ** Charlie Bengal. Downplayed in that he was acting that way because he thought he was supposed to, and didn't consider that the prima donna actors he was emulating didn't get good roles anymore, if any BECAUSE of said attitude. |
| 177 | ** Given how the protagonists and supporting characters are often shown running roughshod on anyone whose opinions the author disagrees with, verbally or ''physically'', it's safe to say that even the protagonists can come off like this at times. |
| 178 | * JerkassHasAPoint: Hortense may be an annoying, opinionated prick of a woman, but... she's not exactly ''wrong'' when she [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-70/ calls out a pair of women for being blatant skanks]]. |
| 179 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Hortense the lizard. She's a smart-mouthed asshole who practically goes out of her way to pick fights, especially with the Todd brothers, and is pretty much angry towards the world, but does have a good heart under it all and is ultimately shown to be motivated more by uncertainty, insecurity and a lack of a good role model. |
| 180 | * JustTheFirstCitizen: In "Rebel Cry", the obvious absolute monarch (and RoyalBrat) is "Madame Chairwoman." |
| 181 | * KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: "Sweet Momma" Smith in the "Model Search / Finding Thelma" story arc.]] |
| 182 | ** Subverted in the case of Gus Gunthrie, the town bully. |
| 183 | * KickTheDog: |
| 184 | ** [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0255/ Gus' mockery of Thelma's looks after he learns she and Tuck are dating.]] |
| 185 | ** Thelma finding out that the beauty contest Tuck entered her into was actually a scam to lure her into being a porn actress. |
| 186 | ** Invoked in [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0469/ strip #469]], when Hortense privately whispers to Thelma that she can't turn away someone as lonely and pathetic-looking as Zelda, likening it to "kicking a puppy in a cancer clinic". |
| 187 | * LaResistance: The heroes in the movies ''Man on the Border'' and ''Rebel Cry''. |
| 188 | * LaserGuidedKarma: After Gus [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0255/ insults Thelma]] and [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0260/ agrees to a race to settle the fight]], Nip goes out of his way to ensure that karma comes back to bite the JerkAss pig ''big time''. Firstly, Nip sets the course of the race, deliberately stacking the deck by picking a route that goes through terrain where his brother's jeep will have the advantage. Secondly, he gives the route an obvious "short cut"... that happens to run right through the battleground of the annual Malarkey County demolition derby. Which also happens to be running on the day that the race takes place. Sure enough, Gus tries to cheat, and winds getting his beloved truck absolutely ''wrecked'', to the extent that when the storyline finishes in [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0270/ strip #270]], Tuck adds insult to injury by refusing to take Gus' truck, despite the wager, because he reckons it isn't worth the effort of hauling away. |
| 189 | * LastRequest: Captain Walker gets a free meal in the bar "Green Chicks" during ''Rebel Cry'' because this was the last request of the bar's original owner, who died fighting for the rebels and made it his last will and testament that all rebel veterans get a free meal and pay half-price. |
| 190 | * LeaveNoSurvivors: One of the villains in ''Rebel Cry''. |
| 191 | * LittleStowaway: The sidekick in ''Rebel Cry''. |
| 192 | * LoopholeAbuse: How the "Man on the Border" film gets made to Nip's specifications; they can't allow Moby's version of the film to air, because he ends up with money and they end up with their names smeared by association with an anti-UsefulNotes/WarOnTerror film either way. But, [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0610/ as Nip points out]], it's the film's '''editors''' who decide what the finished version of a film actually looks like... |
| 193 | * LoveTriangle: Gilly has a crush on Zelda, while Zelda has a crush on Nip, and it's unsure at what point he starts to reciprocate. Ends when Nip proposes to Zelda. |
| 194 | * LuminescentBlush: Nip when he is told something... rather explicit. |
| 195 | ** And let's not forget Thelma... right [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0745/ here]]! |
| 196 | * MagicalGirl: Turns out that [[spoiler:Beebee]] used to be a voice actress and model for a short-lived MagicalGirl anime called "Magical Princess Usagi", which is revealed in [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0648/ strip #548]]. |
| 197 | * MaliciousSlander: Invoked in [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0597/ strip #597]], when an outraged Nip objects to a "joke" in the movie's script likening the UsefulNotes/KuKluxKlan to the National Rifle Asssociation. As he points out, the statement that they "go together like peanut butter and chocolate" is completely fallacious, given that the [=NRA=] was ''founded'' by Union officers (in contrast to the [=KKK=] being founded by Confederate soldiers), its 8th president was Ulysses S. Grant -- the man who would use the [=KKK=] Act and Enforcement Act to arrest over 5000 Klansmen, and in the 1950s the [=NRA=] was responsible for founding entire chapters of African-Americans to assist them in defending their communities against [=KKK=] lynch-squads. This "one line joke" would have had the [=NRA's=] lawyers up in arms if it had gone through. He then follows this up by explaining the importance of movies subverting RealityIsUnrealistic, since so many people derive so much information about the world from the media that they take in. |
| 198 | * MassiveNumberedSiblings: The Lapin family, being that they are redneck rabbits, naturally has a ''huge'' army of kids, with at least 14 children at the first count given in the series. |
| 199 | * MeaningfulName: |
| 200 | ** "Malarkey" means "meaningless talk" or "nonsense", which is fitting given that Malarkey County is a comedic UrbanFantasy setting full of all kinds of bizarre and sometimes goofy occurrences. |
| 201 | ** Nip calls his movie company "Purloined Letter Production" and uses a vase for a logo as a combination of this and an in-joke; it refers to how the whole company got started because Ruth the script writer purloined Moby's copy of the script and smuggled it to Nip, whilst the vase refers to a vase used as part of their plan to make the "real" version of "Man on the Border"; [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0611/ that vase was hidden in every scene that was secretly "fixed" by the actors, as a note to help the cameramen know which reels to set aside]]. |
| 202 | ** Nip and Tuck call their "pet" bull Thunder because of... well, [[{{Gasshole}} what happens when you feed a bull gallons of 3-bean vegetarian chili on a daily basis]]. |
| 203 | * MissingEpisode: In spirit if not in actual media; in 2001, the author did a prolonged storyline crossing over Nip & Tuck with the cast of WebVideo/TheFundayPawpetShow, having the cast be an in-universe show of actors who get stranded in Malarkey County when their tour bus breaks down, and so they need to broadcast their show from there until it gets fixed in a fortnight. The author took it down after it was initially posted, citing ethical differences and interpersonal issues, but then reuploaded it and made it canon to the comic again on [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0909/ February 18, 2014]]. Various annotations were added to these strips to explain the strips return, in particular confirming that [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0923/ this strip and its follow-ups]] was the canonical reason behind Thelma's art upgrade from her super-frumpy original dress and twin pigtails to the slightly more modern outfit and two loose tails she began wearing in [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0157/ strip #157]]. |
| 204 | * MissingMom: Gus Gunthrie's mother left his father for being abusive, and his grandmother did the same to his grandfather, as he admits in [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0573/ strip #573]] |
| 205 | * MotorMouth: Thelma turns into this [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0516/ when she gets selected for the Top 20 in the beauty contest.]] |
| 206 | * {{MST}}: The strips presenting the movies that Nip makes as part of Purloined Letter Productions are presented in this format, with scenes from the movie making up the bulk of the strip's imagery, and with the Todd brothers and Thelma at the bottom of the bottom-most strip, in shadow, commenting on what they've watched. |
| 207 | * MyDefenseNeedNotProtectMeForever: Invoked; when Toober and his brothers arrive to perform as the band at Corporal Bo's wedding in [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0430/ strip #430]], Thelma declares that if he does a good job, she'll forget about him getting drunk and fouling things up at her 16th birthday, and if he ruins it, she'll hunt him down to the ends of the earth. Toober's brother's suggest they make a break for it, telling Toober that they don't need to outrun her, just ''him''. |
| 208 | * MyEyesAreUpHere: Why Hortence opted for the wig; it was a less humiliating way to convey her femininity to mammal men then getting fake breasts implanted. |
| 209 | * NakedPeopleAreFunny: Just see the icon. Plus, [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0068/ Tuck once accidentally streaks Thelma while she's taking a picture]]. |
| 210 | * NaughtyByNight: Invoked in [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0221/ strip #221]], when Nip teases Tuck that the normally very prudish-acting Thelma may turn out to be quite the little bundled of repressed desires now that they've gotten a RelationshipUpgrade. Turns out to be {{foreshadowing}}; through CharacterDevelopment, Thelma ''does'' go on to be much more uninhibited in the bedroom, with the girl who [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0488/ couldn't initially bare to partake in a lingerie party]] and [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0744/ had to be forced to show off a new bikini to her boyfriend]] gravitating to [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-69/ buying some Victoria's Secrets products for her husband]]. |
| 211 | * NiceToTheWaiter: Subverted in ''Rebel Cry''. The chairwoman, having been advised by her general to refrain from humiliating their defeated foes, asks her handmaiden what she thinks. When the handmaiden agrees, she reveals it was to show that she cared no more for what he thought than what the handmaiden did. |
| 212 | * NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Invoked in [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0818/ strip #818]], when Nip and Tuck explain to Bandit that Gus's GoodOlBoy buddies will ambush Bandit after the fight and give him a good old fashioned curb stomping if Bandit does win in the ring. |
| 213 | * NoMoreForMe: A variant; after his [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0912/ groggy early-morning encounter with Carrot]] as part of WebVideo/TheFundayPawpetShow crossover, Nip muses he shouldn't have bought coffee off of "that goofy-looking frog". |
| 214 | * NonMammalianHair: Subverted with Hortence the lizard, who wears a wig. |
| 215 | * NonMammalMammaries: Played straight for the most part, but averted for Hortence the lizard. |
| 216 | * NoOSHACompliance: Anything that Nip does that causes an explosion, but being a stuntman helps. |
| 217 | * NotQuiteDead: [[spoiler: Nip's character in ''Rebel Cry'' fakes his own death]] |
| 218 | * NotSoAboveItAll: Tuck Todd is ''usually'' the StraightMan to his brother's crazy antics, but he can get involved in weird or stupid stuff too from time to time. Like when Corporal Bo visits and Tuck [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0370/ switches from scolding them for using his ordinance to wanting to give it a try himself in mid-sentence]]. |
| 219 | * NotSoDifferentRemark: |
| 220 | ** There was a period of comic strips early in the series' run, titled [[TakeThat Redneck Rebuttal]], that pointed out that many redneck stereotypes can also be applied to numerous Democrats, yuppies, city slickers, Hollywood elites.... |
| 221 | ** The "family tree not branching" joke was applied to European Royalty. [[RoyallyScrewedUp The Hapsburgs]] come to mind. |
| 222 | * ObfuscatingStupidity: Nip, despite acting like a moron with no sense of self preservation, ends up outsmarting quite a few people and delivering a few of the {{Aesop}}s. Although, in a way, this isn't completely his fault, as outsiders often assume he is an idiot based on his accent and looks. |
| 223 | * OddShapedPanel: For dreams and flashbacks. |
| 224 | * OpenMindedParent: To Tuck's surprise, [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0238/ their parents congratulate Nip on deciding to pursue a career as a stuntman]], pointing out he was always being a crazy ThrillSeeker anyway, so at least now he can make money off of it. |
| 225 | * ParentalSexualitySquick: |
| 226 | ** When Tuck and Thelma [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0335/ unwittingly walk in on Tuck's parents about to make love during Nip's stint at stuntman school]], Tuck is horrified and embarrassed. |
| 227 | ** When Nip learns in [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0582/ strip #582]] that his mom used to be one of "Pop Otto's Auto Girls" -- the skimpily clad beauties who work at the local auto shop -- after unwittingly ogling a picture of her from when she was one, he is so repulsed he [[BrainBleach asks Tuck to ram a toilet brush into his ear and scrub his brain clean of the image]]. |
| 228 | * PervertRevengeMode: Deconstructed in two strips, which shows what happens when the man isn't a friend who would just let the hits go. |
| 229 | ** In strip [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0536/ 536]] Thelma beats the ever-loving tar out of a man for his sleazy attempt to trick women into starring in pornos. She destroyed multiple pieces of film equipment in the process and ends up in debt. There is also the implication she has to pay his medical bills. Reconstructed when it turns out the photoshoot was a scam and Thelma's accountant got suspicious and [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0548/ never sent them a cent]]. |
| 230 | ** In strip [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0759/ 759]], Hortense punches a large gator man in the stomach for catcalling her all day. Within five strips it is clear that a man around three times her size is now pissed off at her and she needs Tuck to bail her out when it is clear he and his friends are going to retaliate. |
| 231 | * PetTheDog: The admiral in ''Rebel Cry'' [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0722/ laughs admiringly at the hero's victory, right in front of his boss]]. |
| 232 | * Post911TerrorismMovie: Nip's first big break into movie business is as the star of an action movie with this motif. The director plans to cast it as a film opposing UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror; the actors learn this and shoot their own pro-war version instead. |
| 233 | * ThePrankster: Tagger and Eugene both relish in pulling off elaborate pranks on people they don't like. They were initially enemies because [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0457/ Tagger provoked a prank war between them]], but they call a truce after [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0481/ each learns]] [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0482/ the other]] has an embarrassing hobby -- Tagger is into "Bitty Pretty Pony", and Eugene into "Magical Princess Usagi". |
| 234 | * PretentiousLatinMotto: The stunt man school that Nip attends [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0243/ apparently has the motto]] "Exos Integro, Sugilato Curatio, Y Femellas Amo Cicatrix", which Nip translates as meaning "Bones knit, bruises heal, and chicks dig scars". |
| 235 | * PunnyName: The naming tradition of the Whehthehekawee tribe of Native Americans. A famous chief was called "Doggonifeyeno" ("Dog Gone If I Know"), whilst the modern heir to the tribe who reclaims the tribe's land (a half-acre or so of the Todd farm used for pole beans, which Pa Todd was happy to get rid of) has a name that translates as "Runs-with-Scissors". |
| 236 | * RageAgainstTheAuthor: Not rage so much as confusion, but Bandit Ringtail's owner was somewhat let down by the way that his comic commission ended (no closure, didn't adhere to his script). |
| 237 | * RealWomenDontWearDresses: Respect isn't very high for women that box or wrestle in Malarky County, and Bandit gets badly injured trying to defend the honor of a female boxer named Sierra. On the bright side, she was touched that he made the attempt, and at least he managed to flatten the guy once -- a pretty impressive feat when the male chauvinist in question is Gus Guntrie, formerly a central villain of the strip who could take on both Tod boys at once. |
| 238 | * ReasonableAuthorityFigure: The producer who was originally bankrolling Michael Moby, who, [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0616/ upon seeing Moby's original version]] of "Man On The Border", [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0617/ immediately sides with Nip and his fellow actors, legally punishes Moby as much as he can, and helps them found Purloined Letter Pictures.]] |
| 239 | %%* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Zelda calling Michael Moby out on his so-called status quo. |
| 240 | * RealityIsUnrealistic: [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0599/ The solemn importance of trying to avoid this.]] |
| 241 | * RedOniBlueOni: The title characters, Nip and Tuck. While they're twin brothers, Nip is the rambunctious, loud one and Tuck is the cool, cynical one. |
| 242 | * RelationshipUpgrade: Thelma and Tuck go from "swooning girl, rejecting guy" to the OfficialCouple in [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0204/ strip #204]], after TheBigDamnKiss in [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0199/ strip #199]]. Then repeated again when they get married in [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0907/ strip #907]], with Nip and Zelda getting their own RelationshipUpgrade from "dating" to "engaged" (married offscreen) in [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0908/ the very next strip]]. |
| 243 | * RightBehindMe: [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0810/ Comic 811]]. Lampshaded on the same page, and then the lampshading gets lampshaded. |
| 244 | * RightThroughTheWall: After Nip and Zelda get married, [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-109/ the whole neighborhood can hear it when they get busy]]. |
| 245 | %%* RoyalBlood: The first Redneck Rebuttal. "If your family tree doesn't fork..." |
| 246 | * RoyalBrat: The chairwoman in ''Rebel Cry''. |
| 247 | * ScrewedByTheLawyers: In-universe with the Michael Moby arc. Nip was having some objections with the script that was given. The [[JerkAss pot-bellied, potty-mouthed producer]] calls in his lawyer, [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0604/ Willard]], a pine marten, who makes it quite clear that he will eagerly carry out Moby's plans to sue Nip's family into poverty if Nip tries to walk out of Moby's anti-UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror movie. Then zigzagged when, after Moby gets his long due comeuppance, faces [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0617/ THE STUDIO'S]] [[ThreateningShark LAWYERS]]. |
| 248 | * SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale: Lampshaded by the admiral in ''[[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0686/ Rebel Cry.]]'' |
| 249 | -->'''Admiral''': Madame Chairwoman, in the time it took you to ''say that order'', he travelled-- on an unknown vector -- the equivalent of ''half the width of this solar system.'' |
| 250 | * SenselessPhagia: When made the lead in "Man on the Border", Nip [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0591/ celebrates]] by introducing a friend to "Mad Dog Smoothies". He enjoys it - until he realizes what the "rainbow colored speckles" are. |
| 251 | -->'''Nip''': Pop rocks.\ |
| 252 | '''Chris''': '''''THEY'RE FIZZING IN MY BRAAAAIN!!!!''''' |
| 253 | * SexlessMarriage: Very, '''very''' much averted with the Todd seniors; despite having two grown sons and running a big farm, they still have a very active and healthy sex life, which is shown in multiple strips, starting as early as [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0062/ strip #62]]. |
| 254 | * ShipperOnDeck: |
| 255 | ** [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0249/ After it gets out that Tuck and Thelma have hooked up, the entire town is supportive of the two of them.]] |
| 256 | ** Downplayed, but in [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0542/ strip #542]], Hortense privately admits to Nip that she hopes Tuck and Thelma work things out and get back together - they're currently in the middle of emotional drama after Tuck's attempt to give Thelma a confidence boost backfired - because she believes they're good for each other. |
| 257 | * ShotgunWedding: Invoked by a horrified Thelma in [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0473/ strip #473]] when she gets a glimpse of the lingerie they're going to wearing as part of the party. |
| 258 | * ShoutOut: There are a ''lot'' of shout-outs to various things in this webcomic. |
| 259 | ** Strips [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0489/ #489]] and [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0490/ #490]] both make a joking nod to ''Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow''. |
| 260 | ** The "Bitty Pretty Pony" series is an obvious homage to ''Franchise/MyLittlePony'' (which is extra obvious if you know that the author himself is a fan of ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic''). |
| 261 | ** The "Magical Bunny Princess Usagi" is an expy of ''Manga/SailorMoon''. |
| 262 | ** Tagger mentions watching ''Anime/{{Voltron}}'' in comic #463. |
| 263 | ** Hortense's choice of movies for the sleepover in [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0453/ strip #453]] are all "female revenge movies"; ''Film/GIJane'', ''Film/SheDevil'', ''Film/FriedGreenTomatoes'', ''Film/ThelmaAndLouise'', and ''Film/ISpitOnYourGrave''. |
| 264 | ** Hortense is seen wearing a [[Franchise/StarWars Princess Leia]] wig in [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0579/ strip #579]]. |
| 265 | ** When discussing his then-upcoming sci-fi movie "Rebel Cry" in [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0660/ strip #660]], Tuck likens it to ''[[Series/BuckRogersInTheTwentyFifthCentury Buck Rogers]]'' and Nip tells him it's more like ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' |
| 266 | ** In [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0664/ strip #664]], Nip, his scriptwriter and his leading man discuss the plot of their planned sci-fi movie "Rebel Cry", likening it to ''Theatre/LesMiserables'', ''Film/SilentRunning'' and ''Film/TheLastChase'' |
| 267 | ** During the strips running "Rebel Cry", several ''Franchise/StarWars'' jokes and references are made. There's also a ''Film/{{Casablanca}}'' reference in [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0697/ strip #697]]. |
| 268 | ** Big Malarkey is compared to [[Series/SigmundAndTheSeaMonsters Sigmund the Sea Monster]] in [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0737/ strip #737]]. |
| 269 | ** Hortense quotes [[Franchise/StarWars Darth Vader's]] "I have altered the deal" line from ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack'' in [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0741/ strip #741]]. |
| 270 | ** Thelma makes a reference to ''Series/XenaWarriorPrincess'' in [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0754/ strip #754]]. |
| 271 | ** During Nip and Zelda's first date together, the lyrics from "I Could Have Danced All Night" are featured in [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0784/ strip #784]]. |
| 272 | ** [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0896/ When Solidus explains why he founded "Green Chicks"]], aside from direct references to ''Franchise/StarTrek'' and ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'', there's also two ''Franchise/StarWars'' references (a Princess Leia hostess and roast Bantha on the menu) and a ''Literature/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'' reference, in the form of the Pan-Galactic GargleBlaster. |
| 273 | ** [[Series/TheDukesOfHazzard Daisy Dukes]] gets praised by Tuck in [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0020/ strip #20]] for, ah, obvious reasons. |
| 274 | ** The sight of Gilly Gopher in his bathing suit in [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0125/ strip #125]] prompts Thelma to note he looks like [[UsefulNotes/McDonalds the Hamburglar]] gone to seed. |
| 275 | ** In [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0154/ strip #154]], Tagger responds to Gilly asking if he misses hanging out with other students due to being home-schooled by giving him a copy of ''Literature/LordOfTheFlies''. |
| 276 | ** [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0283/ After seeing Tuck trying to catch a nap on the roof of his pokey new trailer home]], Thelma can't resist teasing him by comparing him to [[ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}} Snoopy]]. |
| 277 | ** When Nip [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0295/ meets Charlie's lovestruck fan Denise at stunt school]], he asks Charlie if he's ever read ''Literature/{{Misery}}'' by Creator/StephenKing. The first stages of Nip's revenge plan on Charlie, starting from [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0312/ strip #312]], are patterned on Misery as well. |
| 278 | ** [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0637/ At the end of "Man on the Border"]], Crow and Tom Servo from ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' show up ready to {{MST}}, only to complain that they missed the whole movie. |
| 279 | ** When Nip [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0603/ attempts to see Michael Moby about the plot of "Man on the Border"]], he has a mental image of himself as the sacrifice in a scene out of ''Film/KingKong1933''. He even mentally notes he needs to stop watching late-night monster movie marathons. |
| 280 | ** The videogame [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0602/ "Kung Fu Alien Showdown"]] is a nod to fighting games like ''Franchise/StreetFighter''. |
| 281 | ** During the storyline in which [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0166/ Nip tries to catch Gilly's six-legged rooster]], he claims that [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0171/ they have a "cousin Wiley" who used to hunt a roadrunner with the aid of Acme products, then retired from that and started a turtle farm]] -- this is an obvious reference to the Roadrunner cartoons from ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes''. |
| 282 | ** Thelma's [[GroinAttack Hickory Nut Crunch]] is a "wrasslin' move" used by Ellie-May in the film version of ''Series/TheBeverlyHillbillies''. Though Thelma's Two-Step Twister and Double Ankle Lock are unique to her, in contrast to Elly May's Clampett Clamp and Possum Pretzel. |
| 283 | ** In the first storyline of the post-TimeSkip, a Native American comes to Malarky County who belongs to the Whehthehekawee tribe -- an homage to the Hekawi tribe from black & white comedy western serial ''Series/FTroop''. |
| 284 | ** When talking about how Moby's superiors [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0617/ canned Moby's version of "Man On The Border"]], Nip says that the producer described it as being "more toxic than ''Film/TheBirthOfANation1915''" -- which is the infamous movie created to glorify the founding of the UsefulNotes/KuKluxKlan. |
| 285 | * ShowWithinAShow: Nip's movies. |
| 286 | * ShrinkingViolet: Zelda at first, to an almost painful degree. She gets better. |
| 287 | * SickeninglySweethearts: Thelma and Tuck become this trope occasionally. |
| 288 | * SlasherMovie: Hortense and her girl friends watch one called "Hardware Store Prep-School Massacre Six" as [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0486/ part of their slumber party]]. |
| 289 | * SnipeHunt: Tagger manages to send the entire protest bothering their Pioneer Days festival on one. |
| 290 | * SomethingAboutARose: [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0104/ This]] occurs when the Todd's bull, Thunder, learns he is going to be used as a stud. |
| 291 | * SouthernFriedGenius: While Nip is not entirely an idiot, in early strips he is quite reckless; on the other hand, Tuck is definitely displaying this trope. Tagger and his rival Eugene are ChildProdigy versions of this. |
| 292 | * SpeechbubblesInterruption: Mrs. Lapin when Mr. Lapin starts getting too detailed about why they have so many younguns in [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0002/ strip #2]]. |
| 293 | * SplashOfColor: The ''Rebel Cry'' arc uses this. |
| 294 | * {{Squee}}: |
| 295 | ** [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0640/ Nip's first]] FanGirl. |
| 296 | ** [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0408/ When Thelma learns Corporal Bo is getting married in Malarkey County.]] |
| 297 | ** [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0410/ When the rest of the women of Malarkey County learn about Corporal Bo's upcoming wedding]]. |
| 298 | ** [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0427/ When Corporal Bo's fiancee sees the makeshift chapel that the Todds have assembled for the wedding.]] |
| 299 | * StalkerWithACrush: When Gilly falls for Zelda after debating with her under her initially anonymous identity as a local Malarkey county deejay (from [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0561/ strip #561 onwards]]), he becomes so obsessed with finding out who she is so he can ask her out that he breaks into the radio station to find her, unwittingly outting her identity to the whole of the county. Deconstructed in that this is an absolutely '''terrible''' idea on his part, which quite permanently torpedoes any chance he may have ever had of getting her to like him, even if they didn't have opposing political views. Most obviously, the first time he sees her after that in [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0570/ strip #570]], she immediately maces him when he is foolish enough to approach her again, and [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0571/ in the next strip]] she gives him a quick TheReasonYouSuckSpeech and then ''deliberately'' jabs him with her quills, the first time she is ever seen acting that violently in the series. |
| 300 | * StrawFeminist: [[DefiedTrope Defied]] with Hortense, who is intended as a portrayal of a woman with self image issues trying to define herself using feminism, [[FreudianExcuse and being not just unsuccessful, but very troubled because there are so many contradictory feminist philosophies.]] |
| 301 | ** Newly-introduced character Estelle the shrew, and her as-yet nameless pig friend, seems to be this as well, but they're both more akin to an AnthropomorphicPersonification of the worst, most radical feminist philosophies and its members, AKA, the sort that have been quoted as saying that men are only good as walking sex toys for women and that they deserve to be treated like garbage for not being women. [[TruthInTelevision Yes,]] [[RealityIsUnrealistic those exist.]] |
| 302 | * TechnoBabble: Lampshaded in the ''Rebel Cry'' arc. |
| 303 | * ThereIsNoKillLikeOverKill: In the "Rebel Cry" movie, TheEmpire is a big believer in excessive force. It's lampshaded in [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0688/ strip #688]]. |
| 304 | * ThroughHisStomach: Invoked, when [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0371/ Corporal Bo asks why so many Malarkey County women are gifting him with food]], and is told that it's standard courting behavior for Malarkey spinsters when an eligible bachelor shows up. |
| 305 | * TimeSkip: Possibly? After Tuck and Thelma get married, and Nip proposes to Zelda, the comic features WebVideo/TheFundayPawpetShow crossover, and then starts its numbering over, with Nip now having married Zelda offscreen. |
| 306 | * TheTrickster: Eugene and Tagger. What's worse is that they're bitter rivals. |
| 307 | * TooDumbToLive: |
| 308 | ** Nip does things such as [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0004/ make ball lightning in a microwave]] and [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0095/ try to repeat stunts that he saw while watching]] ''Series/{{Jackass}}''. He ends up [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0343/ graduating from stuntman school]] so he can make these moments into a career... whilst still loving every single moment of it. |
| 309 | ** Tuck's cat, which [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0118/ jumps up on a live stove]] and [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0121/ tries to sleep inside a car's engine]]. |
| 310 | ** Pa Todd tries to get relief from a flea infestation by rubbing himself down with a kerosene soaked rag... [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0142/ and then goes to light his pipe]]. |
| 311 | * TurnTheOtherFist: Tuck gets in a Turn the Other Foot KICK [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0762/ here....]] with some rather painful consequences. |
| 312 | * UnderdogsNeverLose: Subverted during the commissioned Bandit story arc, where the plucky underdog goes up against a bully twice his height and four times his weight and promptly gets creamed. |
| 313 | * TheUnfairSex: Averted. Despite Pa Todd saying [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0061/ a man automatically loses a fight with a woman when she starts crying]], the comic never allows women to use their gender as an "I win" button. Outright subverted in [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0206/ strip #206]], when Nip responds to the Pop's Auto Girls -- Beebee, Janine, and Sasha -- getting angry about him "two-timing them" by bluntly and firmly pointing out that he asked them all out, was turned down each time, and then came to the Harvest Dance on his own; it's not ''his'' fault that each of them spontaneously decided that they'd change their plans and give him a pity dance without telling him. The girls are all visibly embarrassed, and after he's walked away, they find him again and apologize for their actions in [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0211/ strip #211]]. |
| 314 | * UsefulNotes/UnionsInHollywood: The Screen Actor's Guild is treated as an "enemy organization" during the "Purloined Letter Productions Founding" storyline, [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0606/ because of political reasons]]. |
| 315 | * UrbanFantasy: Downplayed, particularly compared to ''Webcomic/GoblinHollow'', but Malarkey County is a ''weird'' place. Fairly early in the comic, Gilly [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0112/ genetically engineers six-legged chickens]], which become a semi-regular backdrop element after his rooster [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0178/ impregnates Ma Todd's hens and they hatch clutches of six-legged chicks]] -- [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0179/ a flying cow]] and an [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0180/ invisible pig]] are also mentioned as some of his creations. The local lake is home to a goofy-looking StockNessMonster named "Big Malarkey", who actively poses for pictures - [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0395/ but does so in such ridiculous costumes that nobody could send them in to the media]] -- it's mentioned by Tagger that even the ''tabloids'' won't take 'em. A story that runs from strip [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0376/ #376]] to [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0402/ #402]] involves an appearance by an alien, setting up for a joke where the alien's ship is not only shaped like a pie-dish, but has the logo of a pie baking company ("Bluebird Bakery") painted on the bottom. |
| 316 | * UseYourHead: The Malarkey County Volunteer Fire Department's preferred method for breaking down obstructions? Pick up its turtle member, Old Man Coot, and use his head as a battering ram, [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0351/ as a visiting firefighter learns to his shock]]. |
| 317 | * VictoriousChildhoodFriend: Thelma, to Tuck. |
| 318 | * VisibleSilence: On occasion. |
| 319 | * WallOfBlather: Thelma in the beauty contest arc. |
| 320 | * WatchingTroyBurn: Captain Walker in the ''Rebel Cry'' arc. |
| 321 | * WeddingEpisode: A story that runs from [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0403/ strip #403]] to [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0435/ #435]] involves Corporal Bo, a character from an earlier story, showing up with his fiancee, and needing the help of his Malarkey County friends to pull off his wedding after the professionals all can't make it, for whatever reason. |
| 322 | * WeNeedADistraction / WildGooseChase: Nip in the Bandit vs. Gus arc. |
| 323 | * WhatIsEvil: Subverted by Nip early on, simply by taking it to a logical conclusion. |
| 324 | * WhatTheHellHero: After Bandit's savage beating by Gus in a boxing match, his idol, Sierra, comes to visit him in the hospital wing. She pulls on his nose briefly, then gives him a scathing speech about how stupid the situation was, saying that not only did Bandit get into a fight unnecessarily, he also let his temper get the best of him and nearly got himself killed challenging a guy twice his height and weight to defend the honor of someone he'd never met in person. While Bandit cringes from this, the scene turns out to be kind of sweet, since Sierra then kisses him on the cheek for the thought. |
| 325 | ** Also when Hortense blasts Tuck for forcing Thelma into a beauty contest in [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0510/ strips #510-#514]]. As she points out, beauty contests are stressful, degrading and vicious, and if Thelma comes in last, it'll surely destroy her fragile self-confidence. |
| 326 | * WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: Malarky County is somewhere in the DeepSouth. Or possibly Texas, judging from a skit following Gilly's rant and unsuccessful attempts to save face. They get some strong winters, but that's not out of the question in Appalachia. |
| 327 | ** Sorting through the strips tells you only that they're near a swamp -- home to supporting character Toober and his moonshine-making family -- and have some large lakes as well (home to Big Malarky, the local lake monster). |
| 328 | *** All of that said, the writer hails from Ohio. Ohio has large lakes, swamps, tough winters, and a sizable population of proud rednecks. |
| 329 | * WontTakeYesForAnAnswer: |
| 330 | ** [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0235/ An impressed film-maker has a hard time understanding that Nip isn't actually rejecting the money he's offering.]] |
| 331 | ** During the post-Timeskip storyline involving the heir to the Wehethehekawee tribe, he's so primed himself that Pa Todd will refuse to return the land his ancestors once claimed (now making up 1 acre of pole bean field) that [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-7/ he's dumbfounded when Pa Todd simply gives it to him]]. |
| 332 | * WretchedHive: The Rusty Bucket, hangout of Gus Gunthrie and his equally nasty friends. |
| 333 | ** Malarkey County was thought of as this in the early strips, no thanks to the StrawmanNewsMedia. |
| 334 | * WriterOnBoard: As with all of R.H.Jr's works, he makes no bones about working in his views on politics into the comic. Unlike, say, ''WebComic/QuentynQuinnSpaceRanger'', the preaching tends to be reserved more to single strips or two-strip comics set aside for that purpose, and the comic mostly revolves around SliceOfLife antics. |
| 335 | * ZombieApocalypse: [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0724/ At the end of the "Rebel Cry" storyline]], Nip presents a preview trailer for his next film, revolving around a grave-digger turned zombie killer in a post-apocalyptic world. |
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