History ComicStrip / FoxTrot

** Andy's food; It's literal NightmareFuel. In different arcs, Jason had ''Literature/AChristmasCarol'' nightmare, Paige had a ''Theatre/TheNutcracker'' nightmare, Peter had an ''[[Literature/TheOdyssey Odyssey]]'' nightmare, and Roger had a [[WesternAnimation/ThePolarExpress Polar Express]] dream.

* StealthPun: The characters occasionally make reference to watching Creator/BillOReilly and Sean Hannity on TV. It takes a while to realize the joke -- The Fox family is watching ''Creator/{{Fox News|Channel}}''!

** In one arc, Peter is working at a multiplex with only one film showing on every screen: ''Film/StarWarsEpisodeIThePhantomMenace''. At the concession stand, he rings up two kids dressed in Jedi robes and says their bill comes to $13.75. They wave their hands and tell him a dollar '''will''' be sufficient. Peter FacePalm{{s}} and asks them not to hold up the line.

* EveryoneHasStandards: Quincy (an iguana) throws up on the sofa while trying to watch a segment of Fox News, in which Sean Hannity, Alan Colmes, Neil Cavuto and Creator/BillOReilly all preface their "news" reports by plugging their upcoming books.

* ItsAllAboutMe: One series of mid-90s strips had Paige and her best friend Nicole trying to get dates to the prom. Nicole eventually gets asked out and Paige becomes upset and starts guilt-tripping her, essentially because it meant she wouldn't have someone to share her dateless misery with. After being called out on her attitude by Andy, Paige realizes she was being selfish and mends fences with Nicole...but they still argue about what color dress she's going to wear (to which Andy responds "Good friendships take time").

* EveryoneHatesMimes: Roger is delighted when Paige is assigned to do a history paper on UsefulNotes/ThomasEdison, who just happens to be the subject of Roger's college thesis. Paige tries every tactful way she can think of to leave her alone, by saying it [[ParentProducedProject isn't allowed for someone else to tell her the answers]]. Roger excitedly says he can ''mime'' them, and she locks him in a closet until she is finished.

* EverybodyHatesMimes: Roger is delighted when Paige is assigned to do a history paper on UsefulNotes/ThomasEdison, who just happens to be the subject of Roger's college thesis. Paige tries every tactful way she can think of to leave her alone, by saying it [[ParentProducedProject isn't allowed for someone else to tell her the answers]]. Roger excitedly says he can ''mime'' them, and she locks him in a closet until she is finished.

'''Andy''': [[SuddenlyShouting Not without '''gloves''', he's not!]]

** In one story arc, Paige accidentally reveals that she's been regularly seeing R-rated movies despite being underage. While her mother frets in horror at how much sex and nudity her daughter has been exposed to, Paige quickly adds "Some were just the violent kind, though."

* Shortly after he starts dating Denise, Peter decides he needs to break up with her, explaining to Andy that a high school boy is expected to "play the field" and date as many girls as possible, so that he will be ready when it is time for him to settle for just one. Andy stares at him and asks if he can hear himself.
* Paige asks Jason if there's some way of texting heart and "kissy-face" emojis to a boy she likes, but in such a way that all he'll see is ordinary "likes" and "smiley-faces", so she doesn't come on too strong. Jason, confused, asks why she doesn't simply text smiley-faces, if that's what she wants him to see?
'''Paige''': [[AskAStupidQuestion Because he's cute and I want to text him hearts and kissy-faces! Duh!]]

* Jason: before trying to juggle half a dozen eggs in the living room, he yells, "everyone but Mom, look at me!" then complains about her not listening to him.

* EveryoneHasStandards: In one strip, Jason, disgusted with his mom and dad kissing each other, has a T-Rex ignoring a Triceratops and other potential prey, even a sleeping Brachiosaurus due to disgust at witnessing Roger and Andy kissing, and also even begs for some Velociraptors to [[MercyKill put him out of his misery]].

* HormoneAddledTeenager:
** Both of the elder Fox siblings but occasionally exaggerated with Peter. In one strip, Peter even buys a CD by a band he hates solely because of the "hot-looking half-naked babe" on the album cover, and asks Roger, "Dad, at what age does a boy's brain regain control of itself?"

** In another series of strips, Peter agrees to get a discounted haircut from a cosmetology student because she's a former magazine model. He's so distracted by her talking about bearskin rugs and taking off swimsuits that he doesn't even notice when she cuts his ear, and in the final strip he still calls it the best haircut he's ever gotten despite the fact that his head looks like it was stuck under a malfunctioning lawn mower.

* JustLikeMakingLove: Used in an early strip, with Roger getting glared at by his wife after trying to lecture his son... on the fine art of lighting a fire.

** Andy is just as bad, as [[http://www.foxtrot.com/2014/05/05112014/ this strip proves]]. (In fact, even using the Exact Words argument, she's wrong; lima beans and peas are almost always classified as legumes, ''not'' fruits.)

* WhipItGood: Peter and Jason wield whips (with varying degrees of success) while emulating Series/YoungIndianaJones.

** In one strip, Jason is working on creating an animated film called ''Finding Hemo''. When Peter calls him out for doing "a total ripoff of Creator/{{Pixar}}", Jason asks what's wrong with that and Peter replies, "That's Creator/DreamWorks' turf."