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''[[http://www.offthemark.com/ Off the Mark]]'' is a NewspaperComic strip by Mark Parisi.

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!!Provides examples of:

* BlackComedy: Occasionally, such as [[http://www.offthemark.com/cartoons/1996-01-02/ "What really happened to]] [[ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes Calvin."]]
* BullSeeingRed: [[https://www.offthemark.com/image/cache/data/cartoons/2000-06-09B-240x331.gif This strip]] has a bull get pulled over by a cop thanks to this.
-->'''Bull:''' Oh, come on! It turned red! This is entrapment!
* ConeOfShame: One strip has a dog who wears a cone ''on his butt''. [[DontAsk He doesn't want to talk about it]].
* CirclingVultures: One - a turkey vulture, to be exact - appears in [[https://www.offthemark.com/image/cache/data/cartoons/2004-11-27B-240x331.gif this strip]].
-->"It's like Thanksgiving in reverse!"
* DeliveryStork: They show up in quite a few strips.
** [[https://www.offthemark.com/image/cache/data/cartoons/1991-12-03B-240x331.gif "In my opinion, storks shouldn't get vacations..."]]
** [[https://www.offthemark.com/image/cache/data/cartoons/2000-04-04B-240x331.gif "I can't take many more of these multiple births..."]]
** [[https://www.offthemark.com/image/cache/data/cartoons/2002-04-02C-240x331.gif "Dad, what are we having?" "Stork."]]
** [[https://www.offthemark.com/image/cache/data/cartoons/2002-09-25B-240x331.gif Stork safety training.]]
** [[https://www.offthemark.com/image/cache/data/cartoons/2005-11-11B-240x331.gif "Only one?" "It was a long flight..."]]
** [[https://www.offthemark.com/image/cache/data/cartoons/2012-07-24B-240x331.gif "We've had reports that you've been hoarding..."]]
* DogsHateSquirrels:
** [[https://www.offthemark.com/image/cache/data/cartoons/2007-05-23B-240x331.gif "How'd you do that?"]]
** [[https://www.offthemark.com/image/cache/data/cartoons/2007-12-18B-240x331.gif "Isn't it true that you scurried by my client knowing full well he was tethered to a tree?"]]
** [[https://www.offthemark.com/image/cache/data/cartoons/2014-01-27B-240x331.gif Dogs running on treadmills are motivated by TV screens showing running squirrels]].
** [[https://www.offthemark.com/image/cache/data/cartoons/2019-02-20B-240x331.gif "I get the feeling he's determined to catch a squirrel this year..."]]
* TheEighties: The strip began in 1987.
* ElderlyFutureFantasy: [[https://www.offthemark.com/cartoon/leisure-hobbies/food-drink/1997-12-01 This strip]], based on ''Literature/GreenEggsAndHam'', features an elderly version of Sam-I-Am offering the equally-elderly nameless Tall Guy[[note]]named "Guy-Am-I" in [[WesternAnimation/GreenEggsAndHam2019 the 2019 Netflix series]][[/note]] Green Prunes and Bran, only for him to turn them down.
* ExactWords: [[https://www.offthemark.com/image/cache/data/cartoons/2010-02-27B-240x331.gif "But... but... online you said you were an anteater!"]]
* FlyInTheSoup: [[https://www.offthemark.com/image/cache/data/cartoons/2013-07-23B-240x331.gif "Waiter, there's a fly in my ants."]]
* FunnyOctopus:
** [[https://www.offthemark.com/image/cache/data/cartoons/1992-11-21B-240x331.gif An octopus named Otis prepares for a big date]].
** [[https://www.offthemark.com/image/cache/data/cartoons/2016-04-15B-240x331.gif Introducing the nadapus]].
** [[https://www.offthemark.com/image/cache/data/cartoons/2016-09-17B-240x331.gif "THEY'RE NOT EXTENSIONS!"]]
* HollywoodChameleon: [[https://www.offthemark.com/image/cache/data/cartoons/2008-01-09B-240x331.gif If]] [[https://www.offthemark.com/image/cache/data/cartoons/2008-02-10C-500x259.gif a]] [[https://www.offthemark.com/image/cache/data/cartoons/2009-05-17C-500x259.gif chameleon]] [[https://www.offthemark.com/image/cache/data/cartoons/2009-12-06C-500x259.gif shows]] [[https://www.offthemark.com/image/cache/data/cartoons/2015-06-07C-500x259.gif up]], [[https://www.offthemark.com/image/cache/data/cartoons/2016-04-12B-240x331.gif they're]] [[https://www.offthemark.com/image/cache/data/cartoons/2016-06-05C-500x259.gif going to]] [[https://www.offthemark.com/image/cache/data/cartoons/2016-08-14C-500x259.gif be this]].
* InformedSpecies: [[https://www.offthemark.com/image/cache/data/cartoons/1996-04-17B-240x331.gif This strip]] features an aardvark that looks more like an anteater.
* LovableLizard:
** [[https://www.offthemark.com/image/cache/data/cartoons/2006-12-10C-500x259.gif Lizard parties]].
** [[https://www.offthemark.com/image/cache/data/cartoons/2008-02-10C-500x259.gif "Wannabe..."]]
* MeatOVision: [[https://www.offthemark.com/cartoon/medical-health/optometry/1999-03-28 Mike Tyson sees everyone's ears as food]].
* MediumAwareness:
** [[https://www.offthemark.com/cartoon/leisure-hobbies/food-drink/2018-11-22 "We give thanks for the meal the cartoonist drew for us. In appreciation, we won't use place settings becaue he hates to draw those..."]]
** [[https://www.offthemark.com/image/cache/data/cartoons/2005-04-01B-240x331.gif "Watch what happens when I startle Alfred..."]]
** [[https://www.offthemark.com/cartoon/technology-computers/computer/2005-04-19 "I figure if we have to live with them, we might as well incorporate them into the decor..."]]
* MouseHole: [[https://www.gocomics.com/offthemark/2021/09/12 This strip]] shows a cat wearing the Cone of Shame and crouching at a classic cartoon-style arched mouse hole, while all around mice frolic ''just'' outside the cat's (temporarily peripheral vision free) sight.
* NeverSmileAtACrocodile:
** [[https://www.offthemark.com/image/cache/data/cartoons/1993-07-24C-240x331.gif The test-marketing of alligator shoes]].
** [[https://www.offthemark.com/image/cache/data/cartoons/1994-06-03B-240x331.gif "C'mon! C'mon! The tour group is coming!"]]
** [[https://www.offthemark.com/image/cache/data/cartoons/1995-02-11B-240x331.gif "The first coach to be doused with]] [[{{Pun}} Gatorade."]]
** [[https://www.offthemark.com/image/cache/data/cartoons/2004-06-22C-240x331.gif And speaking of Gatorade]]...
** [[https://www.offthemark.com/image/cache/data/cartoons/2012-05-29B-240x331.gif "Now THAT'S diplomatic immunity!"]]
* NotSoImaginaryFriend: [[http://www.offthemark.com/cartoons/2001-01-08/ They have a support group]].
* OurWerebeastsAreDifferent: Werewolves DO show up, but sometimes other werebeasts appear as well.
** [[https://www.offthemark.com/image/cache/data/cartoons/2011-03-21B-240x331.gif "Big deal!]] ''I'M'' turning into my ''MOTHER''!"
** [[https://www.offthemark.com/image/cache/data/cartoons/2014-10-07B-240x331.gif This strip]] features a werekangaroo.
** [[https://www.offthemark.com/image/cache/data/cartoons/2017-10-03B-240x331.gif When a balloon is exposed to the full moon]], they turn into [[FauxHorrific a balloon animal]].
* {{Pun}}: Quite a lot of them.
* RedundantParody: Inverted with one comic where a Barber cutting [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Bart Simpson's]] hair couldn't tell where his head ends and hairline begins. The show itself did that joke years after the comic ran.
* ReferenceOverdosed
* RougeAnglesOfSatin: Mark says that the first fan letter he got was a GrammarNazi telling him that in [[http://www.offthemark.com/cartoons/1997-01-06/ this strip]], he spelled Dalmatians "Dalmati'''o'''ns", and that "I have since made the correction".
** Also discussed [[http://www.offthemark.com/cartoons/2001-01-06/ here]].
* StockAnimalBehavior: [[https://www.offthemark.com/image/cache/data/cartoons/1993-12-07B-240x331.gif These]] [[https://www.offthemark.com/image/cache/data/cartoons/1994-10-19B-240x331.gif strips]] [[https://www.offthemark.com/image/cache/data/cartoons/1997-02-18B-240x331.gif feature]] [[https://www.offthemark.com/image/cache/data/cartoons/1998-09-14B-240x331.gif squids]], [[https://www.offthemark.com/image/cache/data/cartoons/1999-12-18B-240x331.gif thus]] [[https://www.offthemark.com/image/cache/data/cartoons/2006-07-20B-240x331.gif they]] [[https://www.offthemark.com/image/cache/data/cartoons/2006-08-06C-500x259.gif have]] [[https://www.offthemark.com/image/cache/data/cartoons/2012-03-24B-240x331.gif them]] [[https://www.offthemark.com/image/cache/data/cartoons/2018-10-22B-240x331.gif squirting ink]].
** If a chameleon shows up in the strip, it's going to be changing its color. For specific comics that feature this, please see the aforementioned entry for HollywoodChameleon on this page.
* StockAnimalDiet: [[https://www.offthemark.com/image/cache/data/cartoons/1994-10-28B-240x331.gif If]] [[https://www.offthemark.com/image/cache/data/cartoons/1994-11-19B-240x331.gif an]] [[https://www.offthemark.com/image/cache/data/cartoons/1996-06-22B-240x331.gif anteater]] [[https://www.offthemark.com/image/cache/data/cartoons/1997-05-20B-240x331.gif or]] [[https://www.offthemark.com/image/cache/data/cartoons/2007-08-27B-240x331.gif an]] [[https://www.offthemark.com/image/cache/data/cartoons/1996-04-17B-240x331.gif aardvark]] [[https://www.offthemark.com/image/cache/data/cartoons/2009-10-08B-240x331.gif shows]] [[https://www.offthemark.com/image/cache/data/cartoons/2010-02-27B-240x331.gif up]], [[https://www.offthemark.com/image/cache/data/cartoons/2013-03-10C-500x259.gif chances]] [[https://www.offthemark.com/image/cache/data/cartoons/2013-07-23B-240x331.gif are]] [[https://www.offthemark.com/image/cache/data/cartoons/2013-11-25B-240x331.gif the]] [[https://www.offthemark.com/image/cache/data/cartoons/2014-04-27C-500x259.gif strip]] [[https://www.offthemark.com/image/cache/data/cartoons/2014-11-19B-240x331.gif will]] [[https://www.offthemark.com/image/cache/data/cartoons/2015-09-07B-240x331.gif reference]] [[https://www.offthemark.com/image/cache/data/cartoons/2015-11-10B-240x331.gif their]] [[https://www.offthemark.com/image/cache/data/cartoons/2017-01-31B-240x331.gif habit of]] [[https://www.offthemark.com/image/cache/data/cartoons/2016-04-04B-240x331.gif eating]] [[https://www.offthemark.com/image/cache/data/cartoons/2018-07-27B-240x331.gif ants]]. However, [[https://www.offthemark.com/image/cache/data/cartoons/2012-08-24B-240x331.gif this strip]] features an anteater who's a little different.
** Surprisingly, very few strips reference [[https://www.offthemark.com/image/cache/data/cartoons/1997-07-19B-240x331.gif bears eating honey]] [[https://www.offthemark.com/image/cache/data/cartoons/2008-02-19B-240x331.gif or salmon]]. Usually, bears featured in the strip go after humans...
* TakeThat: [[https://www.offthemark.com/image/cache/data/cartoons/2011-09-15B-240x331.gif This strip]] takes a jab at Donald Trump - [[ComicStrip/Blondie1930 Dagwood]] is seen watching him on TV and thinks, "Even I don't understand that hair..."
* ThreateningShark: Well, the sharks that appear in this strip aren't exactly THREATENING, but...
** [[https://www.offthemark.com/image/cache/data/cartoons/1992-05-19C-240x331.gif "Figures...]] I '''just''' flossed..."
** [[https://www.offthemark.com/image/cache/data/cartoons/1992-06-10B-240x331.gif "You're right... we each get more by taking out the middleman..."]]
** [[https://www.offthemark.com/image/cache/data/cartoons/1992-07-20B-240x331.gif "My doctor told me I needed more fiber..."]]
** [[https://www.offthemark.com/image/cache/data/cartoons/1993-04-26C-240x331.gif "How nice... a meal that comes with its own floss..."]]
%%** [[https://www.offthemark.com/image/cache/data/cartoons/2005-06-17B-240x331.gif "That's what I love about this country... the big portions..."
** [[https://www.offthemark.com/image/cache/data/cartoons/2006-07-02C-500x259.gif "I hope everybody likes 'em cooked on the outside and pink in the middle!"]]
** [[https://www.offthemark.com/image/cache/data/cartoons/2007-03-04C-500x259.gif "Yes, mom, I had a salad with my meal..."]]
** [[https://www.offthemark.com/image/cache/data/cartoons/2007-04-15C-500x259.gif "Okay, so that was a dumb idea..."]]
** [[https://www.offthemark.com/image/cache/data/cartoons/2007-07-08C-500x259.gif Fishing for sleepwalkers]].
** [[https://www.offthemark.com/image/cache/data/cartoons/2008-07-28B-240x331.gif Sharks lure fishermen into the water with cash]].
** [[https://www.offthemark.com/image/cache/data/cartoons/2012-07-08C-500x259.gif We can get the double stuff..."]]
** [[https://www.offthemark.com/image/cache/data/cartoons/2012-11-05C-240x331.gif "You go ahead. I'm on a gluteus-free diet."]]
** [[https://www.offthemark.com/image/cache/data/cartoons/2013-02-08B-240x331.gif One of them climbs onto dry land and tries going after some antelope]].
** [[https://www.offthemark.com/image/cache/data/cartoons/2013-06-21B-240x331.gif "Geez, Larry, is that you? Do you know how close I came?"]]
** [[https://www.offthemark.com/image/cache/data/cartoons/2013-08-19C-240x331.gif "What's with everybody posting pictures of their food?"]]
** [[https://www.offthemark.com/image/cache/data/cartoons/2013-08-29B-240x331.gif "I prefer cage-free."]]
** [[https://www.offthemark.com/image/cache/data/cartoons/2014-03-29B-240x331.gif "The doctor said my salt intake was too high so I switched to lakes."]]
** [[https://www.offthemark.com/image/cache/data/cartoons/2015-09-08B-240x331.gif What this young and very fat shark did on his summer vacation]].
** [[https://www.offthemark.com/image/cache/data/cartoons/2017-08-11B-240x331.gif "I heard they've been showing up in warmer waters..."]]
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