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1	* AdaptationDisplacement: More people are familiar with [[WesternAnimation/HeathcliffAndTheCatillacCats the DiC cartoon]] than the comic strip or Ruby-Spears series.
2	* BileFascination: For [[Website/FourChan /co/]], to the point where Heathcliff threads are a regular occurrence on there.
3	* CommonKnowledge: Due to ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'''s fame, It is common to see people assume ''Heathcliff'' to be a rip-off of ''Garfield''. However, ''Heathcliff'' actually predates ''Garfield'' by 5 years. Heathcliff also has little-to-nothing in common with Garfield outside of looks.
4	* EpilepticTrees: A common fan theory is that ''Heathcliff'' is the in-universe comic strip that Jon Arbuckle writes based on his cat, ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}.
5	* FandomRivalry: With ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'', to the point where ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'' even acknowledged the similarities between the two cats. It's even been [[https://www.gocomics.com/heathcliff/2018/02/26 acknowledged in-strip.]] [[https://www.gocomics.com/heathcliff/2021/09/06 Several times.]]
6	* FriendlyFandoms: That said, there's no real friction between fans of ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'' and ''ComicStrip/{{Heathcliff}}'', primarily because they're both very different cats save species and color.
7	* MemeticMutation:
8	** The entire comic rose to online fame around the late 2010s and early 2020s for its strangely Dadaist nature, especially when the "actual heathcliff comics" Twitter account was created, which caused several of the comic's more peculiar gags -- such as the various name-labeled helmets that various characters wear, Heathcliff riding across town in a meat tank, Heathcliff hyping up a frog named Jimmy, and [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext the garbage ape]] -- to become inside jokes among a certain subset of the Internet.
9	** The infamous I'M BAD NEWS panel.
10	** ''Orkliff'', the process of re-mixing Heathcliff comics by giving them a ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' theme.
11	** "I'm thinking of unfriending him on Facebook."
12	* OnlyTheCreatorDoesItRight: Some fans of the strip feel that it declined after Peter Gallagher took over.
13	* QuirkyWork: This is a very bizarre comic strip. According to Gallagher, [[https://theoutline.com/post/4084/the-internet-oddballs-who-think-the-heathcliff-comics-are-deep he just tries to avoid "typical punchlines" and has a strange sense of humor.]]

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