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* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Regularly to Paige, every now and then to Peter.
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* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Regularly to Paige, every now and then to Peter. The most likely reason he goes out of his way to annoy Paige so much is because [[FreudianExcuse he was terrified of Paige's stuffed bear as a baby, and Paige would torment him by waving it in his face]].
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** She buys a "[=MomVo=]" that strictly monitors everything her family watches, but later returns it when it doesn't let her watch soap operas. "You should have seen how fast she pulled the wires", Jason tells Peter.
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** She buys a "[=MomVo=]" that strictly monitors everything her family watches, watches on TV, but later returns it when it doesn't let her watch soap operas. "You should have seen how fast she pulled the wires", Jason tells Peter.
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* HoistByHerOwnPetard: In one arc, she bought a DVR called a [[BrandX MomVo]], which drastically monitored what the family watched, programmed to replace the usual mindless shows they watch with "quality programming" (it wouldn't let Paige watch ''[[Series/NewlywedsNickAndJessica Newlyweds]]'' and suggested ''Series/MasterpieceTheatre'', for instance) whether they liked it or not. The story ends with Andy returning the [=MomVo=] because it wouldn't let her watch her soaps.
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* HoistByHerOwnPetard: In one arc, she bought buys a DVR called a [[BrandX MomVo]], which drastically monitored monitors what the family watched, watches and is programmed to replace the usual mindless shows they watch with "quality programming" (it wouldn't won't let Paige watch ''[[Series/NewlywedsNickAndJessica Newlyweds]]'' and suggested suggests ''Series/MasterpieceTheatre'', for instance) whether they liked like it or not. The story ends with Andy returning the [=MomVo=] because it wouldn't let her watch her soaps.
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** To further expound on the Momvo: "You should have seen how fast she pulled the wires", Jason tells Peter.
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** To further expound on the Momvo: She buys a "[=MomVo=]" that strictly monitors everything her family watches, but later returns it when it doesn't let her watch soap operas. "You should have seen how fast she pulled the wires", Jason tells Peter.
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* HypocriticalHumor: A key trait of Andy's is that she's a MoralGuardian until it's [[HoistByHisOwnPetard inconvenient for her]].
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* HypocriticalHumor: {{Hypocrite}}: A key trait of Andy's is that she's a MoralGuardian until it's [[HoistByHisOwnPetard inconvenient for her]].her]], which is often [[HypocriticalHumor played for laughs]].
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* ChildProdigy: He's only ten years old, but he gets very high marks in school (and will even do his teenaged siblings' homework for fun) and is a skilled computer programmer in his spare time. That said, he's also [[DitzyGenius rather lacking in common sense]] and [[ComplexityAddiction tends to cook up unneccesarily complex solutions]] to various problems.
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* ChildProdigy: He's only ten years old, but he gets very high marks in school (and will even do his teenaged siblings' homework for fun) and fun), is a skilled computer programmer in his spare time.time, and apparently built a "miniature warp engine" when he was at science camp. That said, he's also [[DitzyGenius rather lacking in common sense]] and [[ComplexityAddiction tends to cook up unneccesarily complex solutions]] to various problems.
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* ChildProdigy: He's only ten years old, but he gets very high marks in school (and will even do his teenaged siblings' homework for fun) and is a skilled computer programmer in his spare time. That said, he's also [[DitzyGenius rather lacking in common sense]] and [[ComplexityAddiction tends to cook up unneccesarily complex solutions]] to various problems.
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** Will do his sibling's work for fun. And can even do homework on autopilot. The most extreme was when his math teacher assigned the chapter review as homework without saying which chapter, so he did all of them. In several textbooks, up to advanced calculus.
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** Will He's willing to do his sibling's work older siblings' homework for fun. And fun, and can even do homework on autopilot. The most extreme was when his math teacher assigned the chapter review as homework without saying which chapter, so he did all of them. In several textbooks, up to advanced calculus.
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* TechnologicallyBlindElders: Roger is described as still trying to catch up with the technology of TheSeventies. In a comic strip that gleefully uses ComicBookTime, it only gets worse (at one point he buys the Windows version of a program instead of the Mac, and doesn't understand why it won't work because there's a window in the room).
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* TechnologicallyBlindElders: Roger is described as still trying to catch up with the technology of TheSeventies. In a comic strip that gleefully uses ComicBookTime, it only gets worse (at worse: in one point strip, he buys the Windows version of a program instead of the Mac, and doesn't understand why it won't work Mac; when Jason tells him it's not working because there's they don't have Windows (software), a confused Roger points to the wall and says, ''"there's a window in the room).right there!"''
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* CannotTellFictionFromReality: He has moments of this, such as trying to get a job with the FBI's "[[Series/TheXFiles X-Files]]" division or getting upset that ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'' movies didn't use actual Ringwraiths.
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* CannotTellFictionFromReality: He has He's such a nerd that he occasionally forgets that his favorite series aren't actually real, leading to moments of this, such as trying to get a job with the FBI's "[[Series/TheXFiles X-Files]]" division or getting upset that ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'' movies didn't use actual Ringwraiths.
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Like ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes''' Susie Derkins, she is more likely to get the drop on Jason than the other way around.
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One of Jason's classmates. While Eileen has very similarly nerdy interests to Jason, she's not as much of a social outcast. Like ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes''' Susie Derkins, she is more likely to get the drop on Jason than the other way around.
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* DisabledLoveInterest: Is a longer-term girlfriend than most examples of this trope, although see ChuckCunninghamSyndrome.
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* ExtremeDoormat: Roger is usually incapable of saying no. As a result, he was a clown at his boss's son's birthday party, and salesmen show up every other day.
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** This attitude is also shown at work where it's shown that he is incapable of saying no. As a result, he was a clown at his boss's son's birthday party, and salesmen show up every other day.
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* CharactersMostHatedSong: "Macho Man" by The Music/VillagePeople. She made the mistake of admitting that to Jason, so naturally he and Marcus wasted no time dressing up in a construction hat and headdress and singing it to her.
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--->'''Roger:''' Why the long face?
--->'''Peter:''' I got my first week's paycheck today. I'd forgotten how much that stupid movie theater deducts. This thing is hardly worth cashing.
--->'''Roger:''' Welcome to the wonderful world of taxes.
--->'''Peter:''' Taxes? The taxes are nothing.
--->'''Roger:''' ''[looks at check]'' How many tubs of nachos did you '''eat?!'''
--->'''Peter:''' It was a slow day! I was working the snack bar!
** Peter has been like this since he was a ''baby''. One baby picture chronicled the first time he was given solid food aka "The Night of a Thousand Jars". Andy says that was preferable to the 23 hours a day he would spend nursing.
--->'''Peter:''' I got my first week's paycheck today. I'd forgotten how much that stupid movie theater deducts. This thing is hardly worth cashing.
--->'''Roger:''' Welcome to the wonderful world of taxes.
--->'''Peter:''' Taxes? The taxes are nothing.
--->'''Roger:''' ''[looks at check]'' How many tubs of nachos did you '''eat?!'''
--->'''Peter:''' It was a slow day! I was working the snack bar!
** Peter has been like this since he was a ''baby''. One baby picture chronicled the first time he was given solid food aka "The Night of a Thousand Jars". Andy says that was preferable to the 23 hours a day he would spend nursing.
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--->'''Roger:''' Why the long face?
--->'''Peter:'''face?\\
'''Peter:''' I got my first week's paycheck today. I'd forgotten how much that stupid movie theater deducts. This thing is hardly worthcashing.
--->'''Roger:'''cashing.\\
'''Roger:''' Welcome to the wonderful world oftaxes.
--->'''Peter:'''taxes.\\
'''Peter:''' Taxes? The taxes arenothing.
--->'''Roger:'''nothing.\\
'''Roger:''' ''[looks at check]'' How many tubs of nachos did you'''eat?!'''
--->'''Peter:''''''eat?!'''\\
'''Peter:''' It was a slow day! I was working the snack bar!
** Peter has been like this since he was a ''baby''. One baby picture chronicled the first time he was given solidfood aka food, a.k.a. "The Night of a Thousand Jars". Andy says that was preferable to the 23 ''24 hours a day day'' he would spend nursing.
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'''Peter:''' I got my first week's paycheck today. I'd forgotten how much that stupid movie theater deducts. This thing is hardly worth
--->'''Roger:'''
'''Roger:''' Welcome to the wonderful world of
--->'''Peter:'''
'''Peter:''' Taxes? The taxes are
--->'''Roger:'''
'''Roger:''' ''[looks at check]'' How many tubs of nachos did you
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'''Peter:''' It was a slow day! I was working the snack bar!
** Peter has been like this since he was a ''baby''. One baby picture chronicled the first time he was given solid
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[[folder: Other Fox household residents]]
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* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Not many people remember that Roger's first act in the comic was to beat Andy at chess. (He had actually done so several times before he was made to be possibly the worst player ever, with the not-too-subtle implication that the only people he even stands an actual chance at winning in internet chess are three-year-olds and preschoolers.)
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* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Not many people remember that Roger's first act in the comic was to beat Andy at chess. (He chess (he had actually done so several times before he was made to be possibly the worst player ever, with the not-too-subtle implication that the only people he even stands an actual chance at winning in internet chess are three-year-olds and preschoolers.)preschoolers).
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** At least not in the early years, where he's actually more of a clueless dad and actually admits to not knowing some stuff and being terrible at it. (Such as, for example, not knowing how to use computers at all. Silly example nowadays, but back in even the late 80s, it's more realistic than you might think.)
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** At least not in the early years, where he's actually more of a clueless dad and actually admits to not knowing some stuff and being terrible at it. (Such it (such as, for example, not knowing how to use computers at all. Silly example nowadays, but back in even the late 80s, it's more realistic than you might think.)think).
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** When they got their first iFruit, Jason absolutely detested the thing and had a sort of love-hate relationship with it(with the machine even sometimes threatening him if he doesn't hug it). He's taken a liking to iFruits since then, which is especially pronounced in the Steve Jobs tribute comic.
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** When they got their first iFruit, Jason absolutely detested the thing and had a sort of love-hate relationship with it(with it (with the machine even sometimes threatening him if he doesn't hug it). He's taken a liking to iFruits since then, which is especially pronounced in the Steve Jobs tribute comic.
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* EarthyBarefootCharacter: In her dreams where she dates a Frenchman named "Pierre", she is a forest nymph who never wears shoes.
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Given that Pembrook is the CEO, the fact thathe frequently meets with Roger implies that Roger is of reasonably high rank such as a VP.
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The patriarch, whose activities include watching most sports, playing golf (or trying to and failing miserably), losing at chess to anyone who will play him, setting himself on fire while barbecuing, regularly reformatting the hard drive on the iFruit by accident, and obliviousness to his own incompetence, a trait he has passed onto his children. He works a white-collar job as a pencil-pushing dilbert for a MeanBoss.
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The patriarch, whose activities include watching most sports, playing golf (or trying to and failing miserably), losing at chess to anyone who will play him, setting himself on fire while barbecuing, regularly reformatting the hard drive on the iFruit by accident, and obliviousness to his own incompetence, a trait he has passed onto his children. He works a [[OfficeDrone white-collar job as a pencil-pushing dilbert an unspecified high-ranking executive]] for a MeanBoss.
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* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: They haven't appeared in the strip in quite some time.
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* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: They haven't appeared TheBusCameBack: Finally reappeared in the July 23, 2023 strip after vanishing for over a ''decade'' in quite some time.real-time.
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* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: An early arc had him beat ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros'' before Jason did.
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* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: An early arc had him beat ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros'' ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros1'' before Jason did.
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* IncrediblyLamePun: Jason loves making these. Once, when asked to bring Roger coffee, he coughs into the mug and explains that "I am the coffer, so this mug is the coffee."
** Another time, after Jason saw ''Film/{{Avatar}}'', he dreams that he becomes a Na'vi with the ability to connect his mind with that of a computer - which wanted him to "write some object-oriented code". He describes it to Peter as his "Javatar" dream.
** Another time, after Jason saw ''Film/{{Avatar}}'', he dreams that he becomes a Na'vi with the ability to connect his mind with that of a computer - which wanted him to "write some object-oriented code". He describes it to Peter as his "Javatar" dream.
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* {{Pun}}: Jason loves making these. Once, when asked to bring Roger coffee, he coughs into the mug and explains that "I am the coffer, so this mug is the coffee."
** Another time, after Jason saw ''Film/{{Avatar}}'', he dreams that he becomes a Na'vi with the ability to connect his mind with that of a computer - which wanted him to "write some object-oriented code". He describes it to Peter as his "Javatar" dream.
** Another time, after Jason saw ''Film/{{Avatar}}'', he dreams that he becomes a Na'vi with the ability to connect his mind with that of a computer - which wanted him to "write some object-oriented code". He describes it to Peter as his "Javatar" dream.
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* ObliquelyObfuscatedOccupation: We never really get any details on just what exactly he does for a living. The most we can figure out is that he's middle-management at some white-collar office.
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* DitzyGenius: Jason always does his homework and gets incredibly high marks in school... yet will pull off incredibly dumb, and sometimes dangerous stunts, half the time just to torture his sister. He's a kid smart enough to program absurdly effective computer viruses, and dumb enough to send them to people who want to see if his website has any content.
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* DitzyGenius: Jason always does his homework and gets incredibly high marks in school... yet will pull off incredibly dumb, and sometimes dangerous stunts, half the time just to torture his sister. He's a kid smart enough to program absurdly effective computer viruses, and dumb enough to send them to people who want to see if his website has any content. He's also such a nerd that he sometimes seems to [[CannotTellFictionFromReality forget that his favorite fantasy and sci-fi series aren't actually real]].
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* NerdsSpeakKlingon: Yes, he does. In one strip he goes to a ''Franchise/StarTrek'' movie in Klingon cosplay and demands fresh ''[[AlienLunch gagh]]'' from the beleaguered movie worker. Another strip has him ask Peter to check whether he's memorized the Klingon-English dictionary.
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* NerdsSpeakKlingon: Yes, he does. In one strip he goes to a ''Franchise/StarTrek'' movie in Klingon cosplay and demands fresh ''[[AlienLunch gagh]]'' ''gagh'' from the beleaguered movie worker. Another strip has him ask Peter to check whether he's memorized the Klingon-English dictionary.
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* GamerChick: It's not just academics that she constantly beats Jason at. A series of strips shows the two of them playing a game on Eileen's [[BlandNameProduct Gamestation 2]] and it's implied that Jason didn't even win a single round of whatever game they were playing.
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* HeManWomanHater: He's built up such a reputation as a one that he knows he'll be relentlessly teased by the rest of the boys at school if he admits that he likes Eileen.
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* HiddenDepths: Despite being a stereotypical {{nerd}} is ''still'' a better baseball player then [[FailureHero Peter]].
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* HiddenDepths: Despite being a stereotypical {{nerd}} nerd is ''still'' a better baseball player then [[FailureHero Peter]].