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  • Aluminum Christmas Trees: Openly Gators isn't wrong about Disneyland loving Gay Day. While the park doesn't arrange them, they are extremely permissive of regular independently-organized "gay days."
  • Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: The random dance party that ensues after Dr. Laura chases Queer Duck out of his house. And just to make it extra meta, the character who says "Let's dance!" is an alligator!
  • Crosses the Line Twice: The Running Gag of Oscar Wildecat trying to kill his mother. It's treated as such a silly non-issue that you can't by any means take it seriously.
  • Fair for Its Day: As this is a show about gay characters written by a straight man in the 2000s, it's a tad on the regressive side. All of the jokes are based around even then-dated gay stereotypes, including some of the more harmful ones like drug addictions and AIDS, and most of the focus is exclusively on gay men while the rest of the LGBTQ+ spectrum gets a passing mention at best (transgender people, currently the spectrum's most outspoken group, are mentioned exactly once in the movie). Meanwhile, the verbal abuse Queer Duck gets from his parents is now recognized as the key source of depression and suicide in gay people, making it harder for it to be played as absurd. However, the gay characters always get the last laugh and heteronormative crusaders are rightfully depicted as total scumbags.
  • Harsher in Hindsight: The episode "Ku Klux Klan & Ollie" has Queer Duck laugh with his friends after he jokingly states that he believes Kevin Spacey's claim of being straight. This doesn't age well in light of the controversy of Kevin Spacey's allegations of sexual assault and his attempt to use his coming out as gay to deflect attention from Anthony Rapp blowing the whistle on being molested by Spacey at 14.
  • Heartwarming in Hindsight: The episode "Santa Claus is Coming Out" contains a song called "Santa Clause Is Gay." Almost twenty years later, a children's book titled Santa's Husband, in which Santa is depicted as a gay black man, was published.
  • Suspiciously Similar Song: The theme song is a sound-alike of the theme song to Top Cat.
  • Tear Jerker: After turning HIV Possum's funeral into a disco, Queer Duck steps out and looks sadly at a picture of his deceased friend.
    Queer Duck: (sighs) I'll miss ya...

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