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* {{Fanservice}}: In issue #13, Teen Angel Taffy is wearing a skimpy bikini.
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The ''Laff-a-Lympics'' comic book series is an adaptation of the cartoon of the same name. The comics were produced by Creator/MarvelComics. All issues were written by Mark Evanier and drawn by many Hanna-Barbera staffers including Jack Manning, Roman Arambula and Pete Alvarado.

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The ''Laff-a-Lympics'' comic book series is an adaptation of the cartoon of the same name. The comics were produced by Creator/MarvelComics. All issues were written by Mark Evanier and drawn by many Hanna-Barbera staffers including Jack Manning, Roman Arambula Arambula, Owen Fitzgerald and Pete Alvarado.
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The ''Laff-a-Lympics'' comic book series is an adaptation of the cartoon of the same name. The comics were produced by Creator/MarvelComics.

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The ''Laff-a-Lympics'' comic book series is an adaptation of the cartoon of the same name. The comics were produced by Creator/MarvelComics.
Creator/MarvelComics. All issues were written by Mark Evanier and drawn by many Hanna-Barbera staffers including Jack Manning, Roman Arambula and Pete Alvarado.
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* NoodleIncident: When Daisy Mayhem brings up the fact rule 996-W is the rule against doing high-dives into tapioca pudding, Yogi is surprised "they ban that again".

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* NoodleIncident: When Daisy Mayhem brings up the fact rule 996-W is the rule against doing high-dives into tapioca pudding, Yogi is surprised "they ban surprised: "They banned that again".again?"
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* ImposterForgotOneDetail: In "The Day the Rottens Won", [[spoiler:Dynomutt figures out there's an imposter pretending to be Blue Falcon when he asks why Radley Crown didn't show up for the opening ceremony and the imposter, not knowing Crown is the real Blue Falcon, asks how he should know.]]

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* ImposterForgotOneDetail: In "The Day the Rottens Won", [[spoiler:Dynomutt figures out there's an imposter pretending to be Blue Falcon when he asks why Radley Crown didn't show up for the opening ceremony and Taffy of the imposter, Teen Angels, not knowing Crown is the real Blue Falcon, asks how he should know.]]
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* OhCrap: Mr. Lucky Starr in "The Purple Pig Puzzle" when he finds out that the Rottens have all the clues to the puzzle of where the ceramic purple pig but hasn't solved it yet. That's because he bet a bundle on the Rottens to win the contest.

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* OhCrap: Mr. Lucky Starr in "The Purple Pig Puzzle" when he finds out that the Rottens have all the clues to the puzzle of where the ceramic purple pig is but hasn't solved it yet. That's because he bet a bundle on the Rottens to win the contest.
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* OhCrap: Mr. Lucky Starr in "The Purple Pig Puzzle" when he finds out that the Rottens have all the clues to the puzzle of where the ceramic purple pig but hasn't solved it yet. That's because he bet a bundle on the Rottens to win the contest.

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* AndImTheQueenOfSheba: Brenda tells Shaggy he can't enter the yodelling contest because his yodelling sounds like someone calling a pig. He says that if she's a judge of yodelling then he's Fred Flintstone.

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* AndImTheQueenOfSheba: Brenda tells Shaggy he can't enter the yodelling contest because his yodelling sounds like someone calling a pig. He says that if she's a judge of yodelling then he's Fred Flintstone. When Shaggy does yodel and does attract pigs:
-->'''Brenda:''' You said if I was a judge of yodeling then you're Fred Flintstone!
-->'''Shaggy:''' (''bitterly'') Yabba dabba doo.



* BaseballEpisode: "Take Me Out to the Brawl Game!" features two baseball matches. The Yogi Yahooeys and the Really Rottens play against each other for the right to play against the Scooby Doobies for that story's laff-a-lympic trophy.

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* BaseballEpisode: "Take Me Out to the Brawl Game!" features two baseball matches. The Yogi Yahooeys and the Really Rottens play against each other for the right to play against the Scooby Doobies for that story's laff-a-lympic Laff-a-Lympics trophy.



* WhatCouldHaveBeen: A fourteenth issue, about a vengeful college professor who makes the Yogis and Rottens shrink to tiny size, went unpublished.
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* NotMeThisTime: In the unpublished fourteenth issue, the Yogis are shrunk to tiny size, and Yogi accuses Dread Baron of staging another cheat. But the Baron and the rest of the Rottens have also been shrunk (the Baron thought it was a neat idea, anyway).


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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: A fourteenth issue, about a vengeful college professor who makes the Yogis and Rottens shrink to tiny size, went unpublished.
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* UpToEleven: In a flashback from when Dread Baron and Dick Dastardly used to play cards together, Dread wins by having 72,468 aces.
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* ImpossibleTask: Yogi uses these words to describe the job of being the Yogi Yahooeys' cook.


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* LiteralMinded: Upon reading from a cook book that he must add a "can of tomato paste", he literally throws an unopened can into the pot.


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* OvenLogic: Huck decides to turn the heat higher to cook faster. No numbers are mentioned.


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* ReversePsychology: Yogi tricks Huckleberry Hound into becoming their team's cook by claiming the latter isn't fit for the job.
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* SelfDeprecation: [[{{Crossover}} George]] [[WesternAnimation/TheJetsons Jetson]] describing his son in "The Toys from Tomorrow".
-->'''George:''' Elroy is a bright boy. He takes after his mother's side of the family.
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* MyLifeFlashedBeforeMyEyes: After being saved from a long fall, Hokey Wolf says every sheep he's known passed before his eyes.

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* DescriptionCut: Some athletes gave taped interviews.
-->'''Blue Falcon:''' We do it for sport! Only a disreputable and vile person would be interested in the cash prize.
-->'''Dread Baron:''' I am only interested in the cash prize!


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* IronicEchoCut: Some athletes gave taped interviews.
-->'''Blue Falcon:''' We do it for sport! Only a disreputable and vile person would be interested in the cash prize.
-->'''Dread Baron:''' I am only interested in the cash prize!
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* DescriptionCut: Some athletes gave taped interviews.
-->'''Blue Falcon:''' We do it for sport! Only a disreputable and vile person would be interested in the cash prize.
-->'''Dread Baron:''' I am only interested in the cash prize!


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* LiteralMetaphor: Yogi says his team "doesn't know the meaning of the word '''defeat'''... Several of them don't even know the meaning of the word '''cabbage'''! Boy, are they '''dumb'''!".


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* NoodleIncident: When Daisy Mayhem brings up the fact rule 996-W is the rule against doing high-dives into tapioca pudding, Yogi is surprised "they ban that again".


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* PunnyName: Snooper says Mount Ono is called that "'cause that's what most folks say when find out they've gotta climb it!".
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* TwoOutOfThreeAintBad: The cover for the first comic describes the teams as "two teams of funtastic heroes and one team of these guys! (well, two out of three isn't bad)"

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* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: In "The Man Who Stole Thursday", Mr. Mastermind is charged with grand larceny, resisting arrest and doing the Pennsylvania polka in Rhode Island.

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* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: AndImTheQueenOfSheba: Brenda tells Shaggy he can't enter the yodelling contest because his yodelling sounds like someone calling a pig. He says that if she's a judge of yodelling then he's Fred Flintstone.
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In "The Man Who Stole Thursday", Mr. Mastermind is charged with grand larceny, resisting arrest and doing the Pennsylvania polka in Rhode Island.Island.
** Using a stolen magic credit card in "The Discount of Monty Cristo", Dread Baron buys a car, jewels, gold and a pound of sugar.
** In "The Miraculous Moon Meet!", an alien offers 50 tons of gold to whoever defeats him. Dread Baron thinks about using that gold to buy "Cars! Yachts! Airplanes! Even a pound of coffee!"


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* BeyondTheImpossible: Shaggy's yodelling can attract several pigs including a piggy bank.

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* BigEater: Dinky Dalton can't watch a baseball match without eating several hot dogs.



* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Dinky Dalton upon being criticized over his eating habits.
-->'''Dastardly Dalton:''' Dinky, you shouldn't just sit there eating hot dogs with mustard, mayonnaise and raspberry jelly!
-->'''Dinky Dalton:''' You're right! Next batch, leave off the mustard!



* ItRunsInTheFamily: Dastardly Dalton says so when Dread Baron's brother, Dick Dastardly, says he never won any "of those WesternAnimation/WackyRaces".
* MysteriousMiddleInitial: The games played in "The Day the Rottens Won" took place at the Gerald K. Doonton memorial coliseum.

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* ItRunsInTheFamily: ItRunsInTheFamily:
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Dastardly Dalton says so when Dread Baron's brother, Dick Dastardly, says he never won any "of those WesternAnimation/WackyRaces".
** A page in the comics describes the Creeplys as direct descendants of [[WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones the Gruesomes]] and states that, like their ancestors, like gloomy weather, ants at picnics and monster movies where the monster wins and hate rock music.
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The games played in "The Day the Rottens Won" took place at the Gerald K. Doonton memorial coliseum.coliseum.
** "Take Me Out to the Brawl Game" features the Horace W. Underburger stadium.
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* MysteriousMiddleInitial: The games played in "The Day the Rottens Won" took place at the Gerald K. Doonton memorial coliseum.



* SpotTheImposter: During a relay race in "The Meet at Mount Ono", the Great Fondoo creates duplicates of Huckeberry Hound so Quick Draw [=McGraw=] won't know who to pass his team's rod to. Quick Draw eventually figures out who the real Huck is by having them sing "Oh My Darling, Clementine". The real one is more off-key than the impostors.

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* SpotTheImposter: During a relay race in "The Meet at Mount Ono", the Great Fondoo creates duplicates of Huckeberry Hound so Quick Draw [=McGraw=] won't know who to pass his team's rod to. Quick Draw eventually figures out who the real Huck is by having them sing "Oh My Darling, Clementine". The real one is more off-key than the impostors.impostors.
* WrongTurnAtAlbuquerque: In the special story "The Man Who Stole Thursday", Tempus tries to leave [[WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones the Flintstones']] time for present time but arrives at [[WesternAnimation/TheJetsons the Jetsons']] time instead. Tempus believes it happened because he made a wrong turn at the Spanish-American war.
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* ClearTheirName: In "The Discount of Monty Cristo", Dread Baron and Mumbly steal a magic credit card and frame Hokey Wolf. While Hokey is in jail, his friends try to find the card. [[spoiler: Yogi and Boo Boo eventually trick Dread Baron into revealing the card to its owner and a cop]].
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* ImposterForgotOneDetail: In "The Day the Rottens Won", [[spoiler:Dynomutt figures out there's an imposter pretending to be Blue Falcon when he asks why Radley Crown didn't show up for the opening ceremony and the imposter, not knowing Crown is the real Blue Falcon, asks how he should know.]]

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The Laff-a-Lympics comic book series is an adaptation of the cartoon of the same name. The comics were produced by Marvel Comics.

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The Laff-a-Lympics ''Laff-a-Lympics'' comic book series is an adaptation of the cartoon of the same name. The comics were produced by Marvel Comics.
Creator/MarvelComics.



* BrickJoke: In "The Ends of the Earth", Huckleberry Hound asks an ice cream man (Fondoo in disguise) to make him a banana split and Fondoo literally turns him into a banana split. At the end of the episode, [[spoiler:upon a similar request, Fondoo turns Dread Baron, Mumbly, Dastardly Dalton and Daisy Mayhem into WesternAnimation/TheBananaSplits]].
* ExactWords: People asking the Great Fondoo to make them banana splits will be either turned into the dessert or [[WesternAnimation/TheBananaSplits another kind of banana split]].
* HowWeGotHere: The story "The Day the Rottens Won" starts with the Rottens having already won and other characters showing their displeasure with the fact and then the readers get to see the games being played. [[spoiler:Then it's revealed how they cheated and the Scoobies are declared the real winners.]]
* ItRunsInTheFamily: Dastardly Dalton says so when Dread Baron's brother Dick Dastardly says he never won any "of those WesternAnimation/WackyRaces".
* OffOnATechnicality: In the special story "The Man Who Stole Thursday", a criminal arrested by Dog Wonder had to be released because his trial would take place at thursday.
* SpotTheImposter: During a relay race in "The Meet at Mount Ono", the Great Fondoo creates duplicates of Huckeberry Hound so Quick Draw [=McGraw=] won't know who to pass his team's rod to. Quick Draw eventually figures out who the real Huck is by having them sing "Oh My Darling, Clementine". The real one is more off-key than the imposters.

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* BrickJoke: In "The Ends of the Earth", Huckleberry Hound asks an ice cream man (Fondoo in disguise) to make him a banana split and Fondoo literally turns him into a banana split. At the end of the episode, story, [[spoiler:upon a similar request, Fondoo turns Dread Baron, Mumbly, Dastardly Dalton and Daisy Mayhem into WesternAnimation/TheBananaSplits]].
* ExactWords: People asking the Great Fondoo to make them banana splits will be either turned into either the dessert or [[WesternAnimation/TheBananaSplits another kind of banana split]].
* HowWeGotHere: The story "The Day the Rottens Won" starts with the Rottens having already won and other characters showing their displeasure with the fact and then the readers get to see the games being played. [[spoiler:Then it's revealed how they cheated and the Scoobies Scoobys are declared the real winners.]]
* ItRunsInTheFamily: Dastardly Dalton says so when Dread Baron's brother brother, Dick Dastardly Dastardly, says he never won any "of those WesternAnimation/WackyRaces".
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: In "Trouble at the Track Meet!", WesternAnimation/{{Snagglepuss}} and Mildew Wolf are replaced by Roger Rankle, a caricature of Howard Cosell.
* OffOnATechnicality: In the special story "The Man Who Stole Thursday", a criminal arrested by Dog Wonder Dynomutt had to be released because his trial would take place at thursday.
on Thursday.
* SpotTheImposter: During a relay race in "The Meet at Mount Ono", the Great Fondoo creates duplicates of Huckeberry Hound so Quick Draw [=McGraw=] won't know who to pass his team's rod to. Quick Draw eventually figures out who the real Huck is by having them sing "Oh My Darling, Clementine". The real one is more off-key than the imposters.impostors.
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* ExactWords: People asking the Great Fondoo to make them banana splits will be either turned into the dessert or [[WesternAnimation/TheBananaSplits another kind of banana split]].
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* BrickJoke: In "The Ends of the Earth", Huckleberry Hound asks an ice cream man (Fondoo in disguise) to make him a banana split and Fondoo literally turns him into a banana split. At the end of the episode, [[spoiler:upon a similar request, Fondoo turns Dread Baron, Mumbly, Dastardly Dalton and Daisy Mayhem into WesternAnimation/TheBananaSplits]].
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* BaseballEpisode: "Take Me Out to the Brawl Game!" features two baseball matches. The Yogi Yahooeys and the Really Rottens play against each other for the right to play against the Scooby Doobies for that story's laff-a-lympic trophy.
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* OffOnATechnicality: In the special story "The Man Who Stole Thursday", a criminal arrested by Dog Wonder had to be released because his trial would take place at thursday.

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* OffOnATechnicality: In the special story "The Man Who Stole Thursday", a criminal arrested by Dog Wonder had to be released because his trial would take place at thursday.thursday.
* SpotTheImposter: During a relay race in "The Meet at Mount Ono", the Great Fondoo creates duplicates of Huckeberry Hound so Quick Draw [=McGraw=] won't know who to pass his team's rod to. Quick Draw eventually figures out who the real Huck is by having them sing "Oh My Darling, Clementine". The real one is more off-key than the imposters.
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* AdaptedOut: Sooey Pig and Scooby-Dum don't appear in the comics.
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The Laff-a-Lympics comic book series is an adaptation of the cartoon of the same name. The comics were produced by Marvel Comics.

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* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: In "The Man Who Stole Thursday", Mr. Mastermind is charged with grand larceny, resisting arrest and doing the Pennsylvania polka in Rhode Island.
* HowWeGotHere: The story "The Day the Rottens Won" starts with the Rottens having already won and other characters showing their displeasure with the fact and then the readers get to see the games being played. [[spoiler:Then it's revealed how they cheated and the Scoobies are declared the real winners.]]
* ItRunsInTheFamily: Dastardly Dalton says so when Dread Baron's brother Dick Dastardly says he never won any "of those WesternAnimation/WackyRaces".
* OffOnATechnicality: In the special story "The Man Who Stole Thursday", a criminal arrested by Dog Wonder had to be released because his trial would take place at thursday.

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