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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: The series ran during the mid- to late-Main/TheNineties. Many captions reference famous personalities and popular media of the period (such as Film/PulpFiction).
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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: The series ran during the mid- to late-Main/TheNineties. Many captions reference famous personalities and popular media of the period (such as Film/PulpFiction).
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* ScrewedByTheLawyers: How the site was shut down.

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* ScrewedByTheLawyers: How That King Features Syndicate would send a "cease and desist" letter to Galcik was something he had expected for a long while. Due to Bil Keane having previously mentioned that he didn't really mind the DFC's existence, the initial scuttlebutt was that KFS wanted to eliminate competition from their official ''Family Circus'' site and Galcik began preparing a legal counter-defense. However, it turned out that Keane had a change of heart regarding the DFC and was the one behind the C&D letter; one phone call to Keane later, Galcik had his own change of heart and took the site was shut down.

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* MissingEpisode:
** 3 of the cartoons, plus the yellow and red zones.
** [[http://www.zompist.com/dfc404.htm This page]] had some of the yellow and red zone preserved, but NSFW language on the red zone captions.

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KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Following the shutdown of the cartoons, plus original site, several archives have popped up to preserve the comics.
* MissingEpisode: Due to technical problems, some cartoons lost a bunch of captions in the archiving process. Numbers 52, 420 and 421 in particular lost so many that they had to be left out of the archive entirely. The
yellow and red zones.
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zone captions were deliberately not carried over to the archive; [[http://www.zompist.com/dfc404.htm This this page]] had some gives a glimpse of the yellow and red zone preserved, but NSFW language on the red zone captions.these zones.
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* MissingEpisode:
** 3 of the cartoons, plus the yellow and red zones.
** [[http://www.zompist.com/dfc404.htm This page]] had some of the yellow and red zone preserved, but NSFW language on the red zone captions.
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* OlderThanTheyThink: The concept for new captions on Family Circus pictures date from the mid eighties on zines.
* ScrewedByTheLawyers: How the site was shut down.
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