History ComicBook / TheAdventuresOfBarryWeenBoyGenius

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-->'''Barry:''' And I don't sleep. ''Ever''.

* DirtyKid: Barry's friend Jeremy tends to be obsessed with seeing girls naked, a fact which Larry lampshades in "How the West Was Weened".

* TakeThat: The introduction of the story "E.T., Go Home" has Barry mention that he made his first telescope by cannibalizing a video camera and an UsefulNotes/Atari2600. He remarks that no one's going to miss the former.

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* MistakenForMasturbating: Inverted. When asked by his parents why he's been in the bathroom so long, he shouts back "Go away, I'm masturbating!"; while trying to dispose of the results of his latest failed experiment (which stubbornly keeps trying to climb back out of the toilet).

** Another sterling example: When Barry and Jeremy's classmates are trapped in a museum with armed thieves, The local police argue with the curator on why the latter has a security system installed when the former can do the job. Then the argument devolves into [[ManChild childish levels]] with the curator replying that the cops couldn't "catch the clap in a whorehouse" The cop calls the curator a "sissy" and the latter responds with "pig", thus forcing Barry and Jeremy to take matters into their own hands.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Very firmly set in the mid- to late '90s. Jeremy is obsessed with the short-lived syndicated TV show "Relic Hunter," the Internet has barely gotten off the ground, nobody has a cell phone, and one issue has a lot of jokes about ''The Phantom Menace.''

* ImpossibleTaskInstantlyAccomplished: In a storyline, inhabitants of a parallel universe asks Barry's help to retrieve a MacGuffin from a TempleOfDoom that no one has ever survived. They acknowledge it's a desperate task, and they just hope that in the time he can spend in their dimension (two days) Barry will find out some clue they can build upon. When they finish talking, they realize with horror that Barry has left for the temple in mid-explanation -- and he gets back one minute later, MacGuffin in hand.

* BerserkButton: "Oh dude. He went and touched Barry." Barry is bad-tempered at the best of times, but do ''not'' lay hands on him against his will if you value your appendages.

* AdultsAreUseless: The only thing Barry's parents do in the comic is fail to notice anything weird in their son (it's implied Barry mind-wipes them when they do, to be fair). Jeremy's parents hardly ever appear, though it's made clear his mom is overprotective and zealously religious.

* SuperIntelligence

''The Adventures of Barry Ween, Boy Genius'' is a comic book by Creator/JuddWinick, published over the course of three series between 1999 and 2002 (which, incidentally, makes it older than [[WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGenius another famous boy genius]]).

The series is known for its profanity-rich dialogues and has been described as "''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'' [[XMeetsY meets]] ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark''"; and it delights in subverting and [[LampshadeHanging lampshading]] many common comic tropes.

'''''The Adventures of Barry Ween, Boy Genius''''' is a comic book by Creator/JuddWinick, published over the course of three series between 1999 and 2002 (which, incidentally, makes it older than [[WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGenius another famous boy genius]]).

* ChildProdigy

* DeathRay
* GadgeteerGenius

** Another sterling example: When Barry and Jeremy's classmates are trapped in a museum with armed thieves, The local police argue with the curator on why the latter has a security system installed when the former can do the job. Then the argument devolves into [[ManChild childish levels]] with the curator replying that the cops couldn't "catch the clap in a whorehouse".

* AwesomenessByAnalysis: The probable explanation to the insane amounts of {{badass}}itude Barry harbors. See below.

** Another sterling example: When Barry and Jeremy's classmates are trapped in a museum with armed thieves, The local police argue with the curator on why the latter has a security system installed when the police can do the job. Then the argument devolves into [[ManChild childish levels]] with the curator replying that the police couldn't catch the clap in a whorehouse.

** Another sterling example: When Barry and Jeremy's classmates are trapped in museum with armed thieves, The local police argue with the curator on why the latter has a security system when the police can do the job. Then the argument devolves into [[ManChild childish levels]] with the curator replying that the police couldn't catch the clap in a whorehouse.

'''''The Adventures of Barry Ween, Boy Genius''''' is a comic book by JuddWinick, published over the course of three series between 1999 and 2002 (which, incidentally, makes it older than [[WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGenius another famous boy genius]]).