Line #37 Webcomic/RedMeat


1	->''"It's true... no man is an island. But if you take a bunch of dead guys and tie 'em together, they make a pretty good raft."''
2	-->-- '''Bug-Eyed Earl'''
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4	''Red Meat'' is a three-panel gag-per-day comic by Max Cannon that started in 1989 before moving to the web in 1996. It specialises in [[CrossesTheLineTwice crossing the line twice]], starring a host of bizarre characters talking in supposedly normal situations that are turned on their heads by the punchline. Stark, motionless art and a lack of backgrounds add to the feeling of straight-faced madness.
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6	Recurring characters:
7	* Milkman Dan, the most evil and depraved milkman ever. Forever in conflict with his boss, customers and his eternal foe Karen, the little girl.
8	* Ted, the devoted family man with some very strange [[{{Fetish}} hobbies]].
9	* Bug-eyed Earl, [[CloudCuckoolander whose viewpoint of reality is at 37.34572 degrees to the rest of us]].
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11	Main website [[http://www.redmeat.com/redmeat/ here]]. Not as active as it used to be -- [[FillerStrips posts repeat or touched-up strips]], but there are some new ones as well.
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14	!!Tropes provided:
15	%%* AddedAlliterativeAppeal
16	* ButtMonkey: Ted's son.
17	** Lemonhead Johnny, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin a man with a lemon-shaped head]], is the whipping boy of the neighborhood.
18	* CatchPhrase: Sooner or later, every character who isn't Milkman Dan will utter the magic words:
19	--> '''''I hate you Milkman Dan!'''''
20	* ChewToy: Johnny Lemonhead.
21	* CloudCuckooLander: Earl is this in his more benign or plainly weird strips.
22	* ComedicSociopathy: Every character has their own version of this: Ted has weird and offputting ideas he insists on seeing to completion regardless of what other people think of them, Milkman Dan torments Karen and his boss just for his own amusement, Earl often has "unique" ideas on how to interact with people or animals, Wally [[ScrewPolitenessImASenior has long since given up on trying to be nice to people if being an asshole gets results faster]] and he's a disgusting senior to begin with, Bix masks his behavior as either being uncaring towards humans as he thinks they're an inferior lifeform or as misunderstandings brought on by faulty programming and Papa Moai and God naturally don't care what people think of them as none of the characters could realistically be expected to enforce them to act any better.
23	* CutAndPasteComic: A deliberate choice, as Max wanted the text to stand out.
24	* EldritchAbomination: A floating skull sometimes haunts Bug-Eyed Earl. Or tries to.
25	-->'''Skull:''' Gaze upon me...
26	-->'''Earl:''' If I didn't look while it was screamin', what makes it think I'll look now?
27	* ForTheEvulz: Milkman Dan. Dear God, Milkman Dan. There is nothing that's off-limits for him.
28	* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: Each comic is given a bleakly funny title that describes the general tone of ''Red Meat''.
29	* IntercontinuityCrossover: An early example: [[http://www.strangecult.com/mrt/t_vs_redmeat.html Mr. T vs. Red Meat]].
30	* KingOfAllCosmos: {{God}} is a [[http://www.redmeat.com/redmeat/1997-09-22/index.html jerk]].
31	** Papa Moai sees all, knows all -- [[http://www.redmeat.com/max-cannon/polychromatic-peacock-pulp/Content?oid=2133141 but can't be bothered to help a little boy because it'd strain his back.]]
32	%%* NegativeContinuity
33	* PhraseCatcher: I hate you, Milkman Dan.
34	* RecycledInSPACE: Some of the Milkman Dan comics take place in a futuristic setting with Dan and Karen wearing FutureSpandex suits and using futuristic technology to torment each other.
35	* RobotBuddy: Mr. Bix is a subversion. A [[http://www.redmeat.com/redmeat/2000-02-01/index.html vomiting]], [[http://www.redmeat.com/redmeat/2003-01-21/index.html kid-microwaving]] subversion.
36	* SmugSnake: Milkman Dan tries to be one and usually succeeds. It makes him getting pwned by little Karen all the funnier.
37	* StandardFiftiesFather: Ted is a very deranged parody of one: he looks and sounds the part, but even discounting his strange bedroom ideas, most of the things he comes up with are just out there, such as tying his son to a movie theatre seat to prevent him from escaping or getting both of them a blow-up doll for a Christmas present that he insists they put to use in full view of the entire neighbourhood.
38	* TheVoice: We almost never see Ted's wife, just her speech bubbles. (She has appeared once from behind in a strip but otherwise follows this trope.) One strip implies she may be some kind of alien.

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