* ColbertBump: It's unlikely the strip would even have a TV Tropes page if it wasn't such a popular target for ''Blog/TheComicsCurmudgeon''.
* OutlivedItsCreator: Just like ''Shoe'', it has continued after the death of Jeff [=MacNelly=] thanks to Gary Brookins (although unlike on that strip, Brookins took over several years prior to [=MacNelly's=] death).
* RecycledScript: Many Pluggerisms get recycled over time because two different readers send in essentially the same line:
** The premise of a "Plugger beeper" being a microwave timer was used ''three times'' between 2001 and 2003.
** ''Blog/TheComicsCurmudgeon'' pointed out that [[http://joshreads.com/images/08/04/i080404pluggers.gif April 4, 2008]] was essentially repeated only [[http://joshreads.com/images/08/09/i080901pluggers.gif five months later]].
** Sometimes a strip is intentionally recycled, with the only difference being that the "Thanks to..." panel reads "A Classic thanks to..."
* RunningTheAsylum: [=MacNelly=] originally wrote most of the strip himself, but after fans began submitting their own gags, it was changed so that all the scripts were user-submitted.
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