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''The Bojeffries Saga'' is a humour comic strip created by Creator/AlanMoore and Steve Parkhouse. Early installments were published along with ''ComicBook/VForVendetta'' and ''ComicBook/{{Miracleman}}'' in the AnthologyComic ''Warrior''. After ''Warrior'' ended subsequent installments were published in various comics titles around the turn of the 1990s, and a new DistantFinale strip was created for the complete collection published in 2014.
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''The Bojeffries Saga'' is a humour comic strip created by Creator/AlanMoore and Steve Parkhouse. Early installments were published along with ''ComicBook/VForVendetta'' and ''ComicBook/{{Miracleman}}'' ''[[ComicBook/{{Miracleman}} Marvelman]]'' in the AnthologyComic ''Warrior''. After ''Warrior'' ended subsequent installments were published in various comics titles around the turn of the 1990s, and a new DistantFinale strip was created for the complete collection published in 2014.
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* TheUnseen: Baby Bojeffries, who is some kind of unknowable nuclear entity who lives in the basement and speaks in complex mathematical formulae.
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* NuclearNasty: The [[TheGhost never-seen "baby"]] is powerfully radioactive and, in the Distant Finale, is being used as a nuclear energy source.
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* HolyBurnsEvil: Festus can't even see a hot-cross bun or hear the bible quoted without crumbling to dust.
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* HolyBurnsEvil: Festus can't even see a hot-cross bun or hear the bible Bible quoted without crumbling to dust.
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* VegetarianVampire: Festus only drinks "Soy Blood" and will get into arguments with Raoul when he hears that he's eaten another dog.
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* CreepyFamily: the comics has been described as a homage to ''Series/TheAddamsFamily'' and ''Series/TheMunsters'' in England.
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* SymbolSwearing: Parodied with Colin's girlfriend Sheena, who has "[=*****=] OFF" tattooed on her forehead. As in, she literally has "[=*****=] OFF" tattooed on her forehead, with the asterisks.
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* SymbolSwearing: Parodied with Colin's girlfriend Sheena, who has "[=*****=] OFF" tattooed on her forehead. As in, she literally has "[=*****=] OFF" tattooed on her forehead, with the asterisks. Lampshaded in the DistantFinale when she remarks how glad she is that her tattoo doesn't read "''FUCK'' OFF".
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* BlackComedyRape: Barely averted when Ginda tries to have a one-night-stand. [[spoiler:It's averted because she thinks "safe sex" means masturbating in different rooms.]]
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* BlackComedyRape: Barely averted when Ginda tries to have a one-night-stand. [[spoiler:It's averted because she thinks "safe sex" means masturbating in different rooms.rooms, and the man she forces to come home with her takes advantage of this by leaving when he has the chance.]]
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* {{Malaproper}}: Ginda shows signs of this in the story ''Sex with Ginda Bojeffries'', in particular using the phrase "premature ''evacuation''"
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** Reth's memoir was adapted into a dreadful film called ''Meet the [=MacJeffries=]'', which is a parody of the various poor-quality adaptations of Alan Moore's films, especially their dubious grasp of British culture and language.
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** Reth's memoir was adapted into a dreadful film called ''Meet the [=MacJeffries=]'', which is a parody of the various poor-quality film adaptations of Alan Moore's films, comics, especially their dubious grasp of British culture and language.
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* NeckSnap: Ginda does this on [[spoiler:a NoCelebritiesWereHarmed version of David Cameron during Prime Minister's Question Time.]]
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* NeckSnap: Ginda does this on [[spoiler:a NoCelebritiesWereHarmed version of David Cameron UsefulNotes/DavidCameron during Prime Minister's Question Time.]]
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* MiseryLit: Reth gets disowned by the rest for writing one of these about his upbringing.
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* MadwomanInTheAttic: Grandpa in the greenhouse, and "baby" in the cellar.
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* ShoutOut: Colin's girlfriend Sheena, who [[Music/TheRamones is a punk rocker]].
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** Colin's girlfriend Sheena, who [[Music/TheRamones is a punkrocker]].rocker]].
** One of Ginda's justifications for her extreme idea of "safe sex" is a direct reference to Larry Niven's notorious essay "ManOfSteelWomanOfKleenex".
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** One of Ginda's justifications for her extreme idea of "safe sex" is a direct reference to Larry Niven's notorious essay "ManOfSteelWomanOfKleenex".
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* SymbolSwearing: Parodied with Colin's girlfriend Sheena, who has "[=****=] "[=*****=] OFF" tattooed on her forehead. As in, she literally has "[=****=] "[=*****=] OFF" tattooed on her forehead, with the asterisks.
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* SymbolSwearing: Parodied with Colin's girlfriend Sheena, who has "**** OFF" tattooed on her forehead. As in, she literally has "**** OFF" tattooed on her forehead, with the asterisks.
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* SymbolSwearing: Parodied with Colin's girlfriend Sheena, who has "**** "[=****=] OFF" tattooed on her forehead. As in, she literally has "**** "[=****=] OFF" tattooed on her forehead, with the asterisks.
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* PresentAbsence: The mother of the family, (who presumably is Raoul's and Festus's sister, given their different surname) is noticeably never seen or mentioned.
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* {{Uberwald}}: Both Raoul and Festus are Eastern European in accent, and their surname is "Zlüdøtny". (Actually no language uses both ü and ø.)
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* CloudCuckoolander: Raoul is... somewhat strange. (For example, innocently giving white supremacist propaganda to a black workmate because he finds it too stupid to take seriously, and not noticing that all his relatives have moved out and the house is derelict.
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* CloudCuckoolander: Raoul is... somewhat strange. (For example, innocently giving white supremacist propaganda to a black workmate because he finds it too stupid to take seriously, and not noticing that all his relatives have moved out and the house is derelict.)
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''The Bojeffries Saga'' is a humour comic strip created by Creator/AlanMoore. Early installments were published along with ''ComicBook/VForVendetta'' and ''ComicBook/{{Miracleman}}'' in the AnthologyComic ''Warrior''. After ''Warrior'' ended subsequent installments were published in various comics titles around the turn of the 1990s, and a new DistantFinale strip was created for the complete collection published in 2014.
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''The Bojeffries Saga'' is a humour comic strip created by Creator/AlanMoore.Creator/AlanMoore and Steve Parkhouse. Early installments were published along with ''ComicBook/VForVendetta'' and ''ComicBook/{{Miracleman}}'' in the AnthologyComic ''Warrior''. After ''Warrior'' ended subsequent installments were published in various comics titles around the turn of the 1990s, and a new DistantFinale strip was created for the complete collection published in 2014.
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* PerceptionFilter: The rent collector's intrusion on the house is blamed on the "curiosity damper" breaking down.
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The basic concept of the series, similarly to ''Series/{{TheMunsters}}'' and ''Series/{{TheAddamsFamily}}'', involves a family of weird horror entities trying to live a normal life in an ordinary world. Except in this case, the "ordinary world" is a council house in Northampton.
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The basic concept of the series, similarly to ''Series/{{TheMunsters}}'' ''Series/TheMunsters'' and ''Series/{{TheAddamsFamily}}'', ''Series/TheAddamsFamily'', involves a family of weird horror entities trying to live a normal life in an ordinary world. Except in this case, the "ordinary world" is a council house in Northampton.
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* AlienGeometries: A trapdoor that should lead up to the house's loft opens in the back garden.
* BlackComedyRape: Barely averted when Ginda tries to have a one-night-stand. [[spoiler:It's averted because she thinks "safe sex" means masturbating in different rooms.]]
* BlackComedyRape: Barely averted when Ginda tries to have a one-night-stand. [[spoiler:It's averted because she thinks "safe sex" means masturbating in different rooms.]]
* DirtyCop: After a fight breaks out at Raoul's works party (due to Raoul giving a black workmate white supremacist propaganda), the cops turn up, violently beat up and arrest the black guy, and promise to meet the white supremacist guy at "the meeting next Wednesday".
* DoYouWantToCopulate: Ginda's attempt to pick up a guy is this.
* MonsterMash: The basic concept of the comic.
* MusicalEpisode: The "Song of the Terraces" story.
* MusicalEpisode: The "Song of the Terraces" story.
* NuclearNasty: The [[TheGhost never-seen "baby"]] is powerfully radioactive and, in the Distant Finale, is being used as a nuclear energy source.
* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: Raoul sometimes becomes a pure wolf and sometimes a WolfMan, based on RuleOfFunny.
* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: Raoul sometimes becomes a pure wolf and sometimes a WolfMan, based on RuleOfFunny.
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* TheyKilledKennyAgain: Festus keeps horribly dying after falling foul of various vampire weaknesses, and having to be resurrected.
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* TheyKilledKennyAgain: Festus keeps horribly dying after falling foul of various vampire weaknesses, and having to be resurrected.resurrected.
* YouNoTakeCandle: Raoul's dialogue has weird grammar and is sprinkled with Scandinavian "ø"'s.
* YouNoTakeCandle: Raoul's dialogue has weird grammar and is sprinkled with Scandinavian "ø"'s.
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''The Bojeffries Saga'' is a humour comic strip created by Creator/AlanMoore. Early installments were published along with ''ComicBook/VForVendetta'' and ''ComicBook/{{Miracleman}}'' in the AnthologyComic ''Warrior''. After ''Warrior'' ended subsequent installments were published in various comics titles around the turn of the 1990s, and a new DistantFinale strip was created for the complete collection published in 2014.
The basic concept of the series, similarly to ''Series/{{TheMunsters}}'' and ''Series/{{TheAddamsFamily}}'', involves a family of weird horror entities trying to live a normal life in an ordinary world. Except in this case, the "ordinary world" is a council house in Northampton.
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* CloudCuckoolander: Raoul is... somewhat strange. (For example, innocently giving white supremacist propaganda to a black workmate because he finds it too stupid to take seriously, and not noticing that all his relatives have moved out and the house is derelict.
* DecoyProtagonist: The first arc introduces us to the family through the eyes of a rent collector trying to get a century's rent arrears out of them. It ends with Grandpa turning him into a geranium plant.
* DistantFinale: The final installment created for the 2014 collection, which happens twenty years after the last strip.
* EldritchAbomination: Grandpa Podlasp is some kind of muck-monster who has reality-warping powers and speaks in a mixture of garbled malapropisms and Lovecraft-speak.
* FastForwardToReunion: The Distant Finale works on this.
* GeniusBruiser: Ginda has super-strength and also super-intelligence.
* HolyBurnsEvil: Festus can't even see a hot-cross bun or hear the bible quoted without crumbling to dust.
* IHaveNoSon: In the Distant Finale, Reth has been disowned by the rest for becoming famous by writing a memoir in which he expressed his loathing for them all. [[spoiler:And when they're reunited, instead of being reconciled, they '''kill him'''.]]
* IntelligibleUnintelligible: Festus mostly speaks in cod-Cyrillic gibberish, which all his relatives can understand.
* MrMuffykins: A negative attitude to little dogs is probably implied in Raoul's self-defence at the beginning when accused of dog-eating:
-->'''Raoul:''' Was not dog anyway. Was '''poodle'''.
* NeckSnap: Ginda does this on [[spoiler:a NoCelebritiesWereHarmed version of David Cameron during Prime Minister's Question Time.]]
* RealityShow: The Distant Finale ends with the family being reunited on ''[[Series/BigBrother Celebrity Big Brother]]''.
* RunningGag: Raoul eating dogs, and Festus constantly dying.
* ShoutOut: Colin's girlfriend Sheena, who [[Music/TheRamones is a punk rocker]].
* StrawFeminist: This is pretty much the only joke where Ginda is concerned.
* SymbolSwearing: Parodied with Colin's girlfriend Sheena, who has "**** OFF" tattooed on her forehead. As in, she literally has "**** OFF" tattooed on her forehead, with the asterisks.
* TakeThat: Several in the Distant Finale:
** Festus is lead singer of a ridiculous BlackMetal band called [[Music/CradleOfFilth Pram Of Shit]].
** The art presenter "Mark Glasses" is a caricature of BBC presenter Mark Lawson.
** Reth's memoir was adapted into a dreadful film called ''Meet the [=MacJeffries=]'', which is a parody of the various poor-quality adaptations of Alan Moore's films, especially their dubious grasp of British culture and language.
* TheyKilledKennyAgain: Festus keeps horribly dying after falling foul of various vampire weaknesses, and having to be resurrected.
The basic concept of the series, similarly to ''Series/{{TheMunsters}}'' and ''Series/{{TheAddamsFamily}}'', involves a family of weird horror entities trying to live a normal life in an ordinary world. Except in this case, the "ordinary world" is a council house in Northampton.
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!!This comic provides examples of:
* CloudCuckoolander: Raoul is... somewhat strange. (For example, innocently giving white supremacist propaganda to a black workmate because he finds it too stupid to take seriously, and not noticing that all his relatives have moved out and the house is derelict.
* DecoyProtagonist: The first arc introduces us to the family through the eyes of a rent collector trying to get a century's rent arrears out of them. It ends with Grandpa turning him into a geranium plant.
* DistantFinale: The final installment created for the 2014 collection, which happens twenty years after the last strip.
* EldritchAbomination: Grandpa Podlasp is some kind of muck-monster who has reality-warping powers and speaks in a mixture of garbled malapropisms and Lovecraft-speak.
* FastForwardToReunion: The Distant Finale works on this.
* GeniusBruiser: Ginda has super-strength and also super-intelligence.
* HolyBurnsEvil: Festus can't even see a hot-cross bun or hear the bible quoted without crumbling to dust.
* IHaveNoSon: In the Distant Finale, Reth has been disowned by the rest for becoming famous by writing a memoir in which he expressed his loathing for them all. [[spoiler:And when they're reunited, instead of being reconciled, they '''kill him'''.]]
* IntelligibleUnintelligible: Festus mostly speaks in cod-Cyrillic gibberish, which all his relatives can understand.
* MrMuffykins: A negative attitude to little dogs is probably implied in Raoul's self-defence at the beginning when accused of dog-eating:
-->'''Raoul:''' Was not dog anyway. Was '''poodle'''.
* NeckSnap: Ginda does this on [[spoiler:a NoCelebritiesWereHarmed version of David Cameron during Prime Minister's Question Time.]]
* RealityShow: The Distant Finale ends with the family being reunited on ''[[Series/BigBrother Celebrity Big Brother]]''.
* RunningGag: Raoul eating dogs, and Festus constantly dying.
* ShoutOut: Colin's girlfriend Sheena, who [[Music/TheRamones is a punk rocker]].
* StrawFeminist: This is pretty much the only joke where Ginda is concerned.
* SymbolSwearing: Parodied with Colin's girlfriend Sheena, who has "**** OFF" tattooed on her forehead. As in, she literally has "**** OFF" tattooed on her forehead, with the asterisks.
* TakeThat: Several in the Distant Finale:
** Festus is lead singer of a ridiculous BlackMetal band called [[Music/CradleOfFilth Pram Of Shit]].
** The art presenter "Mark Glasses" is a caricature of BBC presenter Mark Lawson.
** Reth's memoir was adapted into a dreadful film called ''Meet the [=MacJeffries=]'', which is a parody of the various poor-quality adaptations of Alan Moore's films, especially their dubious grasp of British culture and language.
* TheyKilledKennyAgain: Festus keeps horribly dying after falling foul of various vampire weaknesses, and having to be resurrected.
