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** [[http://www.gocomics.com/mycage/2011/05/17 Parodied here.]]
* TheGadfly: Ashley is this to Norm.

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** %%** [[http://www.gocomics.com/mycage/2011/05/17 Parodied here.]]
* %%* TheGadfly: Ashley is this to Norm.



* SheCleansUpNicely: Bridget comments how good Norm looks in a suit. He tells her to savor the image as the suit makes him sweat in buckets.



-->'''Ashley''':And Norm, if you tell anyone about this, I will hurt you in ways Film/TheThreeStooges would envy.

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-->'''Ashley''':And -->'''Ashley''': And Norm, if you tell anyone about this, I will hurt you in ways Film/TheThreeStooges would envy.



* {{Hyperaffixation}}: Norm imagines himself as Batypus, gets hurt, and asks for a bat-ambulance as he thinks he's ruptured his bat-spleen.



* SheCleansUpNicely: Bridget comments how good Norm looks in a suit. He tells her to savor the image as the suit makes him sweat in buckets.



* ToTheBatnoun: Norm imagines himself as Batypus, gets hurt, and asks for a bat-ambulance as he thinks he's ruptured his bat-spleen.

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* EverythingsEvenWorseWithSharks: Actually in Jeff's case, everything's even worse '''for''' sharks.
** Serves as one of many examples of how the strip subverts AnimalJingoism.
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* PaperThinDisguise: "Sam".

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* %%* PaperThinDisguise: "Sam".



* PerkyGoth: Ashley.

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* %%* PerkyGoth: Ashley.



* PowerTrio: Norm's Brain, Heart and Libido.
* PerpetualFrowner: Violet.

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* %% PowerTrio: Norm's Brain, Heart and Libido.
* %%* PerpetualFrowner: Violet.



* TooDumbToLive: Jeff, on occasion.

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* %%* TooDumbToLive: Jeff, on occasion.



* UnusualEuphemism: "Go hunt yourself."
* VitriolicBestBuds: Norm and Ashley.

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* %%* UnusualEuphemism: "Go hunt yourself."
* %%* VitriolicBestBuds: Norm and Ashley.
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Per wick cleanup.


%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.

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%%* InterspeciesRomance: Norm and Bridget.

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%%* * InterspeciesRomance: Norm and Bridget.Bridget, a platypus and dog respectively.
* ItCameFromTheFridge: Norm's dirty dishes have formed a civilization called "Dishopolis." After Norm and Bridget's daughter is born Dishopolis frequently goes to war with a genie formed from the diaper pail's stink cloud.

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Hair Colors is an index, not a trope.


* HairColors: Violet's hair is uh... violet, Bridget's is pink. Not many other characters have hair over their... fur. (Norm, who is prematurely bald, doesn't even have fur on his head.)
* [[SheCleansUpNicely He Cleans Up Nicely]] Bridget comments how good Norm looks in a suit. He tells her to savor the image as the suit makes him sweat in buckets.

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* HairColors: Violet's hair is uh... violet, Bridget's is pink. Not many other characters have hair over their... fur. (Norm, who is prematurely bald, doesn't even have fur on his head.)
* [[SheCleansUpNicely He Cleans Up Nicely]]
SheCleansUpNicely: Bridget comments how good Norm looks in a suit. He tells her to savor the image as the suit makes him sweat in buckets.



* InterspeciesRomance: Norm and Bridget.

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* %%* InterspeciesRomance: Norm and Bridget.
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* NeverLiveItDown: The 05/28/2008 strip. The various panels skip from Monday to Wednesday to Friday with different characters pointing and laughing at Maureen.

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* NeverLiveItDown: The Invoked in-universe with the 05/28/2008 strip. strip. The various panels skip from Monday to Wednesday to Friday with different characters pointing and laughing at Maureen.
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* NeverLiveItDown: The 05/28/2008 strip. The various panels skip from Monday to Wednesday to Friday with different characters pointing and laughing at Maureen.
--> '''Maureen''': (Thinking) But you excuse yourself from ONE meeting by saying you have to "go potty..."
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The strip ran from May 6, 2007 until it was suddenly canceled, with its finale running on October 31st, 2010. Ed and Mel's blog for the strip seems to have expired after some severe technical difficulties, but the strip has been in reruns on [[http://www.gocomics.com/mycage gocomics.com]]. Now moved to Webtoons.

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The strip ran from May 6, 2007 until it was suddenly canceled, with its finale running on October 31st, 2010. Ed and Mel's blog for the strip seems to have expired after some severe technical difficulties, but the strip has been in reruns on [[http://www.gocomics.com/mycage gocomics.com]]. Now moved to Webtoons.
[[https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/my-cage/list?title_no=539047 Webtoons.]]
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The strip ran from May 6, 2007 until it was suddenly canceled, with its finale running on October 31st, 2010. Ed and Mel's blog for the strip seems to have expired after some severe technical difficulties, but the strip has been in reruns on [[http://www.gocomics.com/mycage gocomics.com]].

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The strip ran from May 6, 2007 until it was suddenly canceled, with its finale running on October 31st, 2010. Ed and Mel's blog for the strip seems to have expired after some severe technical difficulties, but the strip has been in reruns on [[http://www.gocomics.com/mycage gocomics.com]]. \n Now moved to Webtoons.



* GoldDigger: Maureen the "poverty avoider," though she's been shown to have HiddenDepths. Furthermore, she wants money less to blow it all on superficial things and more to ensure financial stability for her daughter.

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* GoldDigger: Maureen the "poverty avoider," though she's been shown to have HiddenDepths. Furthermore, she wants money less to blow it all on superficial things and more to ensure financial stability for her daughter. As her character develops she comes to realize that money isn't that important, [[spoiler: and then she starts dating a rich doctor, and they genuinely love each other.]]
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** Their first child, Sally, is a blue platypus with pink hair, matching the daydream.
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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Showed up from time to time, and the official blog used to run the ones that did get caught. It became increasingly common during the final couple of months.

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%% * GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Showed up from time GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to time, overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the official blog used to run future, please check the ones that did get caught. It became increasingly common during trope page to make sure your example fits the final couple of months.current definition.
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* HairColors: Violet's hair is uh... Violet, Bridget's is pink. Not many other characters have hair over their... fur. (Norm, who is prematurely bald, doesn't even have fur on his head.)

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* HairColors: Violet's hair is uh... Violet, violet, Bridget's is pink. Not many other characters have hair over their... fur. (Norm, who is prematurely bald, doesn't even have fur on his head.)



* WingdingEyes: Apparently in this universe such pupils are medical condition. When Maureen learns her date makes 500K a year, her eyes bug out with dollar signs, which frightens her date and means she has to be taken to the emergency room, where she is treated for the "Creator/TexAvery [[EyePop Virus]]." (The doctor reacts similarly to the sight of her.)

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* WingdingEyes: Apparently in this universe such pupils are a medical condition. When Maureen learns her date makes 500K a year, her eyes bug out with dollar signs, which frightens her date and means she has to be taken to the emergency room, where she is treated for the "Creator/TexAvery [[EyePop Virus]]." (The doctor reacts similarly to the sight of her.)
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* BiTheWay: In the new 2015 strips Ashley tells Norm that she is bi.

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