!!NOTE: This webcomic has nothing to do with the [[Film/CarryOnSeries British comedy movies of the same name]].

A [[WebcomicsLongRunners long-running]], [[UsefulNotes/FurryFandom furry]], SliceOfLife webcomic written and drawn by Kathy Garrison-Kellogg, wife of the author/artist of ''Webcomic/TwentyFirstCenturyFox''. It began in July 2004 as basically a FanFic of the latter comic but soon came into its own, with a few signs of a futuristic setting. Read it [[http://www.hirezfox.com/km/co/ here]].

This site also hosts the author's other, completed webcomic projects, including ''The Legend of Anne Bunny'' (a fictionalized retelling of the story of famous pirate Anne Bonney), ''Of Mouse and Moon'' (Johann Maus travels to the moon for a job), and ''Pirates of Penumbra'' (Johann Maus has an adventure with pirates while traveling through space, but [[spoiler:it's AllJustADream]]).
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!!Tropes found in each of Kathy's comic series:
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[[folder:Carry On]]
* AbnormalAmmo: The [[KillerRabbit rabbits]] are attacking with blowguns. [[http://www.hirezfox.com/km/co/d/20161102.html Those aren't pebbles!]]
* AllAnimalsAreDogs: The hyenas, unlike RealLife ones, wag their tails when happy.
* AllJustADream:
** The middle 3 panels of [[http://www.hirezfox.com/km/co/d/20170320.html this page]].
** Looks like the whole Rackenroon superarc may have been this [[http://hirezfox.com/km/co/d/20210106.html this page]]. Or maybe not [[http://www.hirezfox.com/km/co/co1024/ this page]].
* AmazonianBeauty: A reader reaction to Mama Fisi. (Mama Penthesilea may be too much of a HotBlooded {{Cyborg}} for that.)
* AnimalStereotypes: Several examples of various species/breeds doing exactly what you'd expect them to be doing.
** Helen: A raccoon with [=OCD=] tendencies.
** The Deacon and the Preacher: A Great Pyrenees and a border collie who lead the flock (of sheep) of the Church of the Golden Fleece.
** Mr. Howe: A hammerhead shark lawyer.
* AnimalsNotToScale: Invoked when a bunch of confused makeup monkeys make Kathy look like a famous rabbit, while remaining the size of a hyena. But averted when she meets [[http://www.hirezfox.com/km/co/d/20130710.html the real thing]].
* ArrangedMarriage: Kathy was promised to Lt. Frederik Kruger (not [[Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet that one]]). Neither one is happy about it at first, but it's shaping up to be something of a PerfectlyArrangedMarriage.
* ArtisticLicenseBiology: Not as common in this comic as you'd think. It was probably more pronounced early on, when the cartoonist had done less research on hyenas.
* AwesomeMomentOfCrowning: Kathy gets a literal crown as the next duchess of Rackenroon.
* BabyTalk: Sandy, in adulthood, says, "I wuv you, gweat-gwamma!" Duchess Songween replies, "You little apple-polisher!"
* BarefootCartoonAnimal: The entire cast.
* BehindTheBlack: General Rumer, on [[http://www.hirezfox.com/km/co/d/20210524.html this page]].
* BigBallOfViolence: Kathy and Sandy [[http://www.hirezfox.com/km/co/d/20160525.html fighting over a bottle of meds]].
* BigEater: Both Kathy and her sister can be seen pigging out to the point of becoming pear-shaped and complaining about being over-stuffed. Followed by asking what's for dinner in the last panel.
* BlindWithoutEm: Freddy as seen [[http://www.hirezfox.com/km/co/d/20170501.html here]].
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Seems to be the case for hyena tradition.
* TheCameo: Numerous examples. Most notable during the wedding arc in the comic's early years.
* CerebusSyndrome: A mild example. For all the times that Kathy's been embarrassed or hurt, she didn't become TheWoobie until she stressed out over having little choice but to marry a man she hardly knew. He too has had his (often [[StoicWoobie Stoic]]) Woobie moments since -- probably more so, as he's had very little say in his whole life course, and any alternative to marrying Kathy is liable to lead to his untimely death. The comic retains much of its sense of humor, but many episodes forgo a punchline for drama or adventure as their party makes their way through hostile territory.
* ConvenientlyTimedDistraction: While being chased towards a high cliff, [[http://www.hirezfox.com/km/co/d/20140723.html a zebra porter throws a rock and manages to hit one of the warthog warriors]] bearing down on Kathy and Co. Which leads into Disproportionate Retribution, below.
* DisneyDeath: [[spoiler:Trader Horn falls into croc-infested waters that fill with blood. Much later, he surprises his party by reappearing in good health.]]
* DisproportionateRetribution: After being hit on he head by a rock, one of the warthog warriors [[http://www.hirezfox.com/km/co/d/20140725.html thinks his neighbor did it]]. Which leads to a BigDamnHeroes moment in the following strip.
* DistractedByTheSexy: When Kathy is made up to look like buxom bunny newscaster Michelle Bambi, she causes multiple men to have injurious accidents, in a ShoutOut to Eric Schwartz's "A Walk in the Park."
* DoubleSubversion: Triple, really. The masked attackers look scary until they take their masks off; then they get scary again with their weapons until the weapons turn out to be mere nuisances....
* DumbMuscle: Murphy was genetically engineered for brawn, not brains. Oddly enough, she's become an EnsembleDarkhorse.
** Vyschuss is typically thought to be this, partly because of her speech impediment, but [[SubvertedTrope she knows enough to avoid Jinjur's mistakes]].
* DungFu: The bunnies don't shoot darts or pebbles with their blowguns....
* {{Foreshadowing}}: As seen [[http://www.hirezfox.com/km/co/d/20160801.html here]], Sandy is painfully aware of this trope. Mother Nature seems to be aware of this trope as well.
* FunnyBackgroundEvent: As Koz and Madam Jade enjoy tea together, Fred chases Kathy with a sword. ItMakesSenseInContext.
* GargleBlaster: In one bar in Rackenroon the typical tropical fruity, slushy cocktail "Lava Flow" is [[http://www.hirezfox.com/km/co/d/20190401.html made differently]]. If you back up a page, you get to [[http://www.hirezfox.com/km/co/d/20190329.html see it being poured]].
* GenderBender: The airport security agent is having trouble correctly identifying [[http://www.hirezfox.com/km/co/d/20131004.html Corporal Taffy's gender]]. Then again, since she's a spotted hyena, it's [[JustifiedTrope understandable and possibly expected]].
* AHandfulForAnEye: Kathy has been losing a duel to determine who will be the next duchess of Rackenroon and has been [[http://www.hirezfox.com/km/co/d/20201221.html knocked down]] by [[NamesToRunAwayFrom Jinjur Maiham]]. She [[http://www.hirezfox.com/km/co/d/20201223.html applies]] this trope, turns a sword fight into a surprise [[GoodOldFisticuffs fist fight]], and [[CurbStompBattle mops the floor]] with Jinjur's face.
* HeadTiltinglyKinky: The artwork Kathy and Sandy are looking at [[http://www.hirezfox.com/km/co/d/20141015.html here]].
* HeinousHyena: Zigzagged. The main hyenas are usually far from heinous, but the land of Rackenroon features a good deal of barbarism.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:When a zipline proves unable to support both their weights, Trader Horn deliberately falls to his apparent doom to save Sandy.]]
* IgnoringBySinging: Kathy hints at having a thing for steam engines. [[http://www.hirezfox.com/km/co/d/20161128.html Sandy doesn't want to know about it]].
* IHatePastMe: Fred's present and future selves have different ideas of what has to be done. Future!Fred privately declares that he'd kill his slightly younger self if not for the obvious drawback.
* IHaveToWashMyHair: After Kathy proposes having Freddy sleep in the only bed with her ''and'' Sandy, he needs to [[http://www.hirezfox.com/km/co/d/20141010.html go check on dinner]].
* IkeaErotica: Kathy is concerned about Freddy falling victim to this trope because "he needs a ruddy guidebook."
* ILied: "But you said you were going to make me Duchess--!" "And you believed me?"
* IncrediblyLamePun: Quite common among names of characters and especially locations.
* InstantLeechJustFallInWater: In keeping with the arc's ''Film/TheAfricanQueen'' reference, [[http://www.hirezfox.com/km/co/d/20170310.html one page]] features Sandy hopping out of the swamp / river, covered in the little bloodsuckers.
* InterspeciesRomance: Two prominent ones. It's stated in-universe that these are sterile.
** Scooter Killdall (tiger) and a horse.
** Kathy's sister Sandy and her river otter husband. [[spoiler:Boyfriend, actually.]]
** Bo the boa once proposed to Kathy and talked her into a couple dates (yes, in that order), but the attraction wasn't mutual.
** A milder example: Arfur Jr. and a striped hyena.
** One of Scooter's sisters married a housecat, and a genetic engineer made them a litter of [[http://www.hirezfox.com/km/co/d/20120820.html plaid kittens]].
* InTheOriginalKlingon: Freddy does this with [[http://www.hirezfox.com/km/co/d/20170630.html Shakespeare and the original Crocutan]].
* JapaneseRanguage: Kuchiku suffers from this despite being of Chinese descent. A language coach is unable to help her. It appears to be a psychological sticking point.
* KillerRabbit: Kathy, Sandy, and Fred get surrounded by scarily masked forces who [[TheReveal turn out to be]] mere bunnies -- but with blowguns. (Then the blowguns shoot mere [[DungFu rabbit pellets]].)
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Sandy has been sent ashore to gather firewood. How to get it back while keeping it dry?
--> '''Freddy''': "[[http://www.hirezfox.com/km/co/d/20170308.html I told her to improvise -- our writer can't think of everything."]]
* LieBackAndThinkOfEngland: Fred has expected an ArrangedMarriage to a woman he doesn't love. His mother advised him to lie back and think of Rackenroon. [[BrainBleach That advice backfires.]]
* MadScientist: Dr. Bowman, possibly even more than [[Webcomic/{{Freefall}} the original version]]. A geneticist who created Murphy (a hyena SuperSoldier the size of a rhino), experimented with wolf/chimp hybrids (but they already have hyenas), injected Kathy with regenerative nanobots, [[spoiler: and attempted to produce an heir for Songween by IVF, though didn't work.]]
* MeaningfulName: Kathy's new honor guard, the [=SBD=] (Songween's Bodyguard Detail) all have these.
** Keela, "...because she's good at killing things." Bonita, "...because she likes gnawing on bones." Dixie [[SureLetsGoWithThat "She's from the South]]."
* TheMedic: Sandy is an [=EMT=]. Possibly a DeadlyDoctor. She is a hyena, after all.
* NeatFreak: Helen, as befits a creature who washes her food.
* NeverMessWithGranny: Mama Fisi and Mama Penthesilea, Kathy's warlike grandmothers.
* NobleDemon: Quite a few of the traditional hyenas come across this way. Not least Songween, who borders on TheCaligula but promotes Kathy as an heiress and [[PetTheDog is quite grandmotherly to orphaned hyenas]].
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: [[http://www.hirezfox.com/km/co/d/20151026.html This]] page as well as 3 of the 4 following pages.
* NoMoreForMe: When an elder who's known Fred for years sees him acting out of character by giggling and running in a state of undress from Kathy, she deliberately drops her flask.
* OverreactingAirportSecurity: Corporal Taffy [[http://www.hirezfox.com/km/co/d/20131004.html has a hard time at the metal detector]].
* ProudWarriorRaceGuy: Both grandmas. Probably most hyenas in Rackenroon, for that matter.
* PuppyDogEyes: Sandy, surprisingly enough, uses them on her great-grandma before parting for the night. Kathy uses them as well, when trying convince Scooter to go to a restaurant he thinks is too expensive.
* PutOnABus: Scooter Kildall left for Colliefornia to develop his comic ''Pepe the Fire Ant'' for a movie. WordOfGod says that the cartoonist's husband, on whom Scooter was based, had always found the character dynamic off-putting and wanted him out. May qualify as ShipSinking, since many readers had expected the friendship between Kathy and Scooter to blossom into romance.
* ReptilesAreAbhorrent: Bo isn't a rotten guy, but he sure leaves something to be desired as a date.
* {{Retcon}}: Fred's diary diverges from the story in the comic in several little ways. The cartoonist tries to keep it to a minimum.
** Also, while Kathy's hair was once revealed to be a wig, with the implication that all the women were like that, the cartoonist has indicated that that's no longer the case.
** Then there's [[http://www.hirezfox.com/km/co/co1024/d/20220909.html this page]].
* TheReveal: [[spoiler:The walking trunk made it to Kiyanti -- with help from a still-alive Trader Horn. To avoid spoiling this, the LyingCreator had said he was KilledOffForReal.]]
* RightBehindMe: [[http://www.hirezfox.com/km/co/co1024/d/20110801.html One poorly timed comment]] gets a tiger into trouble.
* RoadTripPlot: Kathy, Freddy and Sandy were on an epic Type 1 / Type 2 hybrid trip for [[http://www.hirezfox.com/km/co/d/20130909.html a while]].
* RunningGag: The chocolate ganache, which is, apparently, "...to die for." Takes its first step [[http://www.hirezfox.com/km/co/d/20210521.html here]]. Still jogging along [[http://www.hirezfox.com/km/co/d/20210702.html here]].
** Complete with a LampshadeHanging in the comments section on the author's Fur Affinity [[https://www.furaffinity.net/view/42597276/ post for the July 2nd page]].
* ShoutOut:
** [[http://www.hirezfox.com/km/co/d/20140718.html This page]] looks like it's lifted straight from the opening minutes of ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk''.
** One Christmas, the Grrsns get a leg lamp reminiscent of ''Film/AChristmasStory'', only more predatory.
** Fred's high-tech walking luggage resembles the one from ''Literature/{{Discworld}}''. Someone even mentions sapient pearwood at one point.
** Kathy's great uncle Leonard resembles [[Franchise/BackToTheFuture Doc Brown]] but has a [[Series/DoctorWho TARDIS]].
** The second panel of [[http://www.hirezfox.com/km/co/d/20160601.html this page]] is pretty much [[WesternAnimation/ACharlieBrownChristmas Lucy's reaction to being licked by Snoopy]].
** The bunnies speak of "secret bunny business," a phrase lifted from ''Webcomic/DocRat''.
*** They also use [[CallARabbitASmeerp "hraka,"]] a term from ''Literature/WatershipDown''.
** [[http://www.hirezfox.com/km/co/d/20161118.html This page]] begins with a shout out to ''Film/TheAfricanQueen''.
** A briefly appearing gorilla calls himself Franchise/{{Tarzan}} and certainly acts the part.
** The first panel of [[http://www.hirezfox.com/km/co/d/20180711.html this page]] is swiped directly from ''Series/{{Newhart}}'', just with the genders flipped.
** [[http://www.hirezfox.com/km/co/co1024/d/20231211.html At the carnival]], Kathy is drinking a can of [[WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}} Slurm]].
* ShownTheirWork: Kathy, as a hyena, suffers from the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spotted_hyena spotted hyena's]] slightly [[BizarreAlienBiology bizarre]] reproductive biology, bits and pieces of which have been shown and/or discussed. ([[WordOfGod The cartoonist has said]] that she learned a lot more about hyenas ''after'' starting the comic, and she would've done some things differently earlier on had she known.)
* SpitTake: An appropriate thing to do when you find out you [[http://www.hirezfox.com/km/co/d/20140829.html almost had an arrest warrant]] or hear [[http://www.hirezfox.com/km/co/d/20160603.html something like this.]]
* SureLetsGoWithThat: In [[http://www.hirezfox.com/km/co/d/20180709.html this page]], Songween's Captain, [[MeaningfulName Azkikkia]] is introducing her subordinates.
--> '''Azkikkia:''' "and this [Hyena with dreadlocks] is Dixie." \\
'''Kathy:''' "--She's from the south?" \\
'''Azkikkia:''' "Yyyeah. We'll go with that."
* TapOnTheHead: Trader Horn finds it necessary to KO a hormone-crazed Fred in order to stop him from taking advantage of Kathy in her sleep.
* ThereIsOnlyOneBed: The first thing the three hyenas find amiss about the large luxury tent on their journey. It soon becomes evident that somebody meant to evoke a honeymoon suite.
* TimeTravel: Care of Leonard, [[IncrediblyLamePun from time to time]].
* TookALevelInJerkass: Sandy becomes harder to like as the trek to Rackenroon goes on. She has reasons for losing patience, but they don't excuse her behavior toward Kathy or especially Fred.
* {{Unicorn}}: Trader Horn is one, somewhat surprisingly, given the previous absence of mythical creatures (other than anthropomorphic animals) in the comic.
* VomitDiscretionShot: When Kathy drinks Dead Man's Chest beer, she fails to follow Sandy's advice to make sure it misses her tongue completely....
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[[folder:The Legend of Anne Bunny]]
* HeadTiltinglyKinky: Anne looks for her shipmate in a brothel. The first time she peeks into a wrong room, she slams the door and thinks, "I didn't know you could do that outside of [[ZeroGSpot space]]!"
* IncrediblyLamePun: Boatloads of them. The most notable examples:
** The Brutish (British) Empire.
** The Spaniels (Spanish/Spaniards).
* PirateGirl
* RecycledInSpace: The original Anne Bonney lived in the 16th Century. This takes place [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin in interplanetary/interstellar space]].
* RoyalWe: Queen [[IncrediblyLamePun Elizabeef]] of the Brutish Empire.
* ShoutOut:
** When Captain Bonnet tells Anne that if she joins the pirates and the Marines catch her, they will kill her, she replies "[[Literature/WatershipDown But first they must catch me.]]"
** Calico Jack calls the cargo "[[Film/TheMalteseFalcon The schtuff dreams are made of]]," apparently imitating Creator/HumphreyBogart to do so.
* SpacePirates: Anne falls in with a crew of these. [[spoiler: She becomes the captain of the same crew]].
* SweetPollyOliver: Anne's initial tactic once she finds herself on a ship, with the alias "Andy Bunnymore."
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[[folder:Of Mouse and Moon]]
* InterspeciesRomance: Johann (mouse) and Veronica (bat) These are stated in-universe to be sterile without some kind of medical intervention.
* MeaningfulName: [[Series/CaptainKangaroo Captain Bob Keeshan]], the kangaroo commander of the lunar base.
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[[folder:Pirates of Penumbra]]
* AllJustADream: [[spoiler: Johann's, to be exact.]]
* SpacePirates: Looks like the same crew that Anne Bunny fell in with in another comic series.
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