- Crosses the Line Twice: Again, Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden as a married couple.
- Harsher in Hindsight: Possibly Hilarious in Hindsight depending on how much you sympathize with the subject; one article was about a man who was allergic to clothing and thus pretty much had to go naked for the rest of his life. Later, a real life news article came out about a farmer in India with that exact same condition.
- Hilarious in Hindsight: One article from the mid-2000s had a story about a time traveler from a possible future where Bat Boy was president. Bat Boy's VP? Barack Obama.
- Memetic Mutation: Bat Boy. Everyone knew who he was in The '90s, even if you never bought a single issue.
- Misaimed Fandom: Ed Anger's pretty blatant Stealth Parody of the archetypal raging conservative triggered Poe's Law so hard that he actually had a loyal conservative readership that took him completely seriously.
- Special Effects Failure: The photoshopping, sometimes more than others.
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