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Nickelodeon's Doug

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The Quail Eye!
  • Patti's team, the Pulverizers, beating Coach Spitz after he rejects Patty because she's a girl. Doug even contributes to the victory; when Patti realizes Doug is left-handed, she shows him how to properly hold the bat and hits a double.
  • Skeeter ends up having to stay home from a Beets concert that he and Doug were looking forward to. Doug chooses to skip the concert and stay with Skeeter, with Roger going by himself. Later, to cheer up Skeeter, Doug takes him to the Honker Burger, where the Beets happen to show up while the two friends are jamming to their song. The Beets jam to "Killer Tofu" with Doug and Skeeter for a few moments, throw them their jackets, and leave. It's later made even sweeter when Roger attempts to brag that he saw the Beets, but he was in the last row of the concert and could barely see them with binoculars, meaning Doug and Skeeter got far closer than Roger ever will. Even though Doug and Skeeter admit no one will ever believe them when they say what happened, for one perfect moment, they hit the Karmic Jackpot.
    Doug and Skeeter: THE BEETS! JACKETS!
    Doug: No one's ever gonna believe us!
    Skeeter: Who cares, man?!
  • Doug in "Doug, Mayor For A Day", when he makes the decision to "let the chips hit the fan".
  • You ever watch a show where a bully character or some nasty individual humiliates or otherwise upsets a character, and knowing you'd do so, practically beg the victim to punch the bully? Well, unlike most examples, Connie listened and obliged.
    • To expand: in the episode "Doug Throws a Party", Connie got invited to a party at Doug's house, but to hide a bad haircut she wore a large hat. Roger dared Doug to knock over Connie's hat, and when Doug couldn't bring himself to do it, Roger did. Connie is horrified, and while Roger is laughing his ass off (and was the only one laughing), Connie slugged him in the gut.
      Connie: Why don't you grow up, you big baby!
    • She then rallies everyone into a partying mood. As this was one of the last episodes of the Nickelodeon series, one could make the case that this was the beginning of the more confident, self-assured person Connie became in the Disney series.
  • In one episode, Doug is walking out of the bank and finds an envelope full of almost $15,000 note . That is a lot of money today and would have been worth even more when the episode first aired. Doug turns the money in to the police; when no-one claims it after thirty days, the money is legally his. Doug then sees a report on the news about the woman who lost the envelope. The next day, Doug finds the woman and returns the money. Doug not only handed off a huge amount of cash twice but the second time, the money was legally his and he had no obligation to return it. He did it anyway because it was the right thing to do.
  • During "Doug's Derby Dilemma," Doug and Skeeter gave up winning first place in the soapbox derby to help Beebee and Chalky. Chalky accidentally activated the airbag in his and Beebee's racer, which could've potentially suffocated the two. Doug and Skeeter, and later Patti and Connie, stopped to save the two. As a result, all six of them lost the race, but it also meant they weren't saddled with the "mystery prize" like Roger (which turned out to be him answering the Mayor's mail for an entire day).
  • After Doug gets treated as a literal slave by Judy for nearly a week after he signs a contract so she wouldn't reveal he accidentally broke one Theda's knickknacks, Doug reaches his limit and decides to get his dignity back. How, you ask? After Judy tells Theda she (or rather Doug) will scrub down the entire basement so she can go to a party, Judy's in for a nasty surprise the night of the party. Doug rendered their contract null and void by admitting to Theda what happened, figuring his mom's punishment was worth no longer being Judy's servant. And as it turns out, Theda didn't care about the aforementioned knickknack (some ugly little statue she didn't even remember owning) and only grounds Doug for a week because he hid it from her (and Doug only did so because Judy made it sound like Theda absolutely loved the knickknack and would've gone ballistic on him). Judy's left begging Doug to clean the basement for her so she can attend the party, promising she'll do anything. The episode ends with Doug spending his week being grounded with Judy now serving him.
  • In "Doug is Hamburger Boy", Doug uses Mr. Dink's Hamburger Boy suit to save his friends from drowning. All while keeping his identity a secret.
  • Beebee standing up to her Stage Mom in "Doug Wears Tights" after she purposefully tanks her ballet audition. When Mrs. Bluff somehow thinks Doug cost Beebee the starring role (despite it plainly being clear that Beebee was dancing like a maniac and Doug was trying to stop her) and starts yelling at him, Beebee tells her mother to back off explaining it was the only way to make the woman understand Beebee just wanted to work on costumes.

Disney's Doug

  • Doug borrows one of Judy's hats for a school project that Roger finds and decides to keep. Doug ends up being Roger's slave and has to avoid telling Judy what happened, as he had to sign a contract in order to borrow the hat. After being involved in a scheme to steal a plastic cow (It Makes Sense in Context), Doug finally admits to Judy Roger has the hat and won't hand it over. Her response is that he should have just said that.
    Judy: Why didn't you just say that in the first place? (walks off-screen to Roger) HEY! YOU! GIMME MY HAT!! (punches Roger)
  • One comes from Beebee at the end of the movie. After Doug and Skeeter successfully get Herman, the Lucky Duck Lake monster, into the cleaner Crystal Lake, Bill Bluff begins threatening to make their lives a living hell before Beebee screams "DADDY! KNOCK IT OFF!" and proceeds to talk him into backing down and doing the right thing from then on.
  • The moments when Mrs. Dink demonstrates how she's a Reasonable Authority Figure as the Mayor and helps out Doug and Skeeter when they need it, like the time she had a shady record store owner arrested for stealing from Doug and making threats against him.
  • Mr. Dink, of all people, gets one in "Doug's Minor Catastrophe" when he quits his job working with Mr. Bluff and the head of Nic-Nac manufacturing. Mr. Dink caught on to their underhanded marketing strategy of using a cartoon mascot character, the Nic-Nac Yak, to advertise their product in a way that would make underage kids want to buy Nic-Nacs. Mr. Dink cannot and will not stand for that.
    Mr. Dink: Sure, I'm a team player. A team player on a team called humankind! I QUIT!
    • Later on, Dink is struggling to make a new career for himself as a writer before Tippy convinces him to focus on the big words he has to say instead of struggling to find the little ones. He gets a job at the local paper. His first article? The controversy and arrest of the Nic-Nac Yak.
    • Also from the same episode, Doug manages to ignore his temptation to try the suspicious candy and after investigating discovers that eating them leads to paralysis of the jaw. Doug quickly goes public with his findings and before long, everybody stops buying Nic-Nacs altogether. When the same company produces yet another candy that leads to full-body paralysis, even Roger who was making a fast buck off of Nic-Nacs refuses to have anything to do with them.
  • "Doug and the Bluffington Five" for showing a realistic view of a student protest: the students manage to get their voice heard in a debate, but fail to make an actual change because the adults were just humoring them to look good and in part because Patti's Acquired Situational Narcissism breaks up the original protest group. Fortunately for the students, the PTA can't agree on a uniform design.
  • The Weight Woe episode has been cited as one of the more realistic portrayals of eating disorders in television. It even has Patti visualizing herself as fat and ugly when everyone around her can see that she's anything but.
    • In the same episode, when Coach Spitz tries to force Patti to continue the Track and Field tournament after she regains consciousness from passing out, Emily tells him to can it, and that Patti will not be running anymore.
      Emily: Carry yourself away, Coach! This girl isn't running anymore today.
    • While not as serious in tone as "Doug's Chubby Buddy," "Doug Tips the Scales" had a similar CMOA when Doug arrives at Beebe's pool party and finds that, like him, all the other kids (except Beebe, who is frustrated and upset that no one is having fun) are too self-conscious about their own bodily shortcomings to be seen in their bathing suits - Skeeter's too skinny, Patti has bony shoulders, and so on. Doug finally says enough is enough, decides to have fun and swim, encouraging everyone else to do the same.
  • In "Doug's Secret of Success", Doug calls out the members of the secret club for mocking Skeeter and cheating on tests and telling them that Skeeter is a better person than any of them because of it.
  • In the series finale, "Doug's Marriage Madness", Principal White faints and everyone starts arguing. Doug asks, "What's wrong with everybody?" and says it again a little louder. Finally, he silences everyone by going up to the podium, and slapping his shoe on it, saying loudly, "I said, what is wrong with everybody?!".
  • A couple of examples from "Dougapalooza":
    • Doug goes along with Connie and Roger's ridiculous ideas about how to become rock stars, but Doug finally puts his foot down and makes it clear he's not dropping out of school despite Connie's belief it's unnecessary.
    • Connie's eventually proven wrong when she learns Flounder of the Beets — despite being famous even though he dropped out of school — can barely read, write, or spell, and is in massive debt to the record company. Turns out most of the Beets had their stuff repossessed by the record company when they broke up because they couldn't understand their contracts. Only Wendy Nespah's still living the high life, specifically because she not only graduated from high school and college, but was smart enough to get a law degree just to make sure the record company's contract didn't screw her over like her former bandmates. It's a decent way to actually explain the point of the "stay in school" Aesops so many shows force down their viewers' throats by showing how Wendy used her higher education to ensure she has a comfortable lifestyle.
    • Flounder also acknowledges while talking to Connie that he messed up by dropping out. They both re-enroll in classes, with Flounder deciding to take music classes as well this time around.
  • "Judy's Big Admission" had the Vole University admission board mistakenly assuming Doug's artwork was created by Judy, and it gets her admission in. To put into perspective, Doug, a middle school student who is mostly self taught and has a lot of anxiety issues and self doubt, created artwork that was good enough to get his sister admitted into a prestigious art college.
  • In "Doug's Big Comeback" when Roger makes fun of Doug, Doug counteracts that he's never seen Roger with a girl at all which Roger does not have a response for resulting in him being humiliated in front of his friends. Even if Doug does take his insult comedy a bit too far after that, one can't deny it was satisfying seeing him put Roger in his place for once.

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