Bizarro Episode: Issue 36, Oink! Goes Peculiar has a framing story about Uncle Pigg going loopy after a bump on the head, which leads to all sorts of weird things happening in many of the strips, such as Pete and his Pimple not having a pimple, Harry the Head being drawn by the wrong artist and undergoing a major Art Shift, and Tom Thug having to write the ending to his own story, with major Stylistic Suck.
Harsher in Hindsight: "Jimmy Saveloy", a caricature of Jimmy Savile was a regular character during the first year or so. The real Jimmy Savile was posthumously revealed to have been a serial child molester.
Nightmare Fuel: The Big Bad Jimmy "The Cleaver" Smith's appearances became increasingly macabre.
Retroactive Recognition: The comic in later years has become renown for launching the career of a young Charlie Brooker, who contributed several one-shot strips.
Too Good to Last: The comic only ran for two years, but helped to launch several writers and artists' careers.
Ugly Cute: Horace "Ugly Face" Watkins, his Uncle Bruce, and his girlfriend Mandy.
