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%% * 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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* BlondeBrunetteRedhead: Holly, Alix and Val respectively.
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* CampGay: Simon the hairdresser.
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* CoolOldLady: Evie.
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* TheGloriousWarOfSisterlyRivalry: Holly and Alix.
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* LastNameBasis: Dickerson.
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* ShoutOut / MassiveMultiplayerCrossover: Val once joined a book club consisting of Elly from ''ComicStrip/ForBetterOrForWorse'', Alice from ''ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}}'', Rose from ''ComicStrip/RoseIsRose'', and Connie from ''ComicStrip/{{Zits}}''.
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* ShoutOut / MassiveMultiplayerCrossover: ShoutOut: Val once joined a book club consisting of Elly from ''ComicStrip/ForBetterOrForWorse'', Alice from ''ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}}'', Rose from ''ComicStrip/RoseIsRose'', and Connie from ''ComicStrip/{{Zits}}''.
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* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Alix and Holly, respectively. Alix has a fondness for playing in the mud, among other things.
* VomitDiscretionShot: A fair few over the years.
* WillTheyOrWontThey: Joan and Wally, early on. Also happened with Val and Phil until he proposed during the Christmas 2014 storyline.
* VomitDiscretionShot: A fair few over the years.
* WillTheyOrWontThey: Joan and Wally, early on. Also happened with Val and Phil until he proposed during the Christmas 2014 storyline.
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[[caption-width-right:288:They won't.]]
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* TheDiseaseThatShallNotBeNamed: Tom, Val’s first husband and Holly and Alix’s birth father, died from some sort of illness, but what it was is never specified.
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* TheDiseaseThatShallNotBeNamed: Tom, Val’s first husband and Holly and Alix’s birth father, died from some sort of illness, illness ([[https://www.gocomics.com/stonesoup/2010/06/03 according to one strip]] he was sick for less than a year before he died), but what it was is never specified.
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* TheDiseaseThatShallNotBeNamed: Tom, Val’s first husband and Holly and Alix’s birth father, died from some sort of illness, but what it was is never specified.
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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Biscuit's anus has been drawn into the strip several times.
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** Alix doesn't think flip-flops are quite the same. She's particularly thrilled when "it's warm enough for bare feet", but at least two separate strips deal with her misadventures walking barefoot outdoors, such as treading on slugs, melted ice cream, bees and hot pavement. According to her, it's worth it.
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** Alix doesn't think flip-flops are quite ''quite'' the same. She's particularly thrilled when "it's warm enough for bare feet", but and happily walks to the park and runs around a lakeside campsite without shoes. However at least two separate strips deal with her misadventures walking barefoot outdoors, barefoot, such as treading on slugs, melted ice cream, bees and hot pavement. According to her, it's worth it.
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--> '''Alix:''' It's '''summer!''' I need to feel the earth between my toes.
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--> '''Alix:''' It's '''summer!''' I need to feel the [[EarthyBarefootCharacter earth between my toes.toes]].
* EarthyBarefootCharacter: See Alix's quote above. She loves nature, mud, and going barefoot.
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* GroinAttack: Wally and Andy are occasionally subject to accidental ones; usually it's from playing with Max or Luci. Holly once nailed Andy with a basketball. Everyone treated it as unintentional, but it was ''heavily'' implied that [[DeadlyPrank Holly orchestrated the "accident" for fun]].
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* GroinAttack: GroinAttack:
** Wally and Andy are occasionally subject to accidental ones; usually it's from playing with Max orLuci. Luci.
** Holly once nailed Andy with a basketball. Everyone treated it as unintentional, but it was ''heavily'' implied that [[DeadlyPrank Holly orchestrated the "accident" for fun]].
** Wally and Andy are occasionally subject to accidental ones; usually it's from playing with Max or
** Holly once nailed Andy with a basketball. Everyone treated it as unintentional, but it was ''heavily'' implied that [[DeadlyPrank Holly orchestrated the "accident" for fun]].
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* GroinAttack: Wally and Andy are occasionally subject to accidental ones; usually it's from playing with or Luci. Holly once nailed Andy with a basketball. Everyone treated it as unintentional, but it was ''heavily'' implied that [[DeadlyPrank Holly orchestrated the "accident" for fun]].
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* GroinAttack: Wally and Andy are occasionally subject to accidental ones; usually it's from playing with Max or Luci. Holly once nailed Andy with a basketball. Everyone treated it as unintentional, but it was ''heavily'' implied that [[DeadlyPrank Holly orchestrated the "accident" for fun]].
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* BlondeBrunetteRedhead: Holly, Alix and Val respectively.
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Alix had shades of this in the early strips.
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** Alix in particular is thrilled when "it's warm enough for bare feet", but at least two separate strips deal with her misadventures walking barefoot outdoors, such as treading on slugs, melted ice cream, bees and hot pavement. According to her, it's worth it.
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** A downplayed example with Holly in a series of strips in which she tried to get away with wearing flip-flops in November.
** Alixin particular is doesn't think flip-flops are quite the same. She's particularly thrilled when "it's warm enough for bare feet", but at least two separate strips deal with her misadventures walking barefoot outdoors, such as treading on slugs, melted ice cream, bees and hot pavement. According to her, it's worth it.
** Alix
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--> '''Alix:''' It's '''summer!''' I need to feel the earth between my toes!
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--> '''Alix:''' It's '''summer!''' I need to feel the earth between my toes!toes.
* GroinAttack: Wally and Andy are occasionally subject to accidental ones; usually it's from playing with or Luci. Holly once nailed Andy with a basketball. Everyone treated it as unintentional, but it was ''heavily'' implied that [[DeadlyPrank Holly orchestrated the "accident" for fun]].
** Val's quite happy about this, as boys' clothes are cheaper.
* KidsRaidingTheWineCabinet: [[IntoxicationEnsues Holly, Alix, Andy and Max have all done this at one stage or another]].
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* NakedPeopleAreFunny: In late 2001, Evie joins the local Senior Center and signs up for a painting class, where she draws a naked man and submitts it to the art fair. Val and Joan are mortified, while everybody else finds it funny.
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* NakedPeopleAreFunny: In late 2001, Evie joins the local Senior Center and signs up for a painting class, where she draws a naked man and submitts submits it to the art fair. Val and Joan are mortified, while everybody else finds it funny.
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* OutdoorsyGal: Alix has a fondness for playing in the mud, catching creepy crawly things, and going exploring in her backyard baby pool.
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** Wally was a bit like this with Joan for a while.
* OutdoorsyGal: Alix has a fondness for playing in the mud, catching creepy crawly things, and going exploring in her backyard baby pool. Luci's probably going this way as well.
* OutdoorsyGal: Alix has a fondness for playing in the mud, catching creepy crawly things, and going exploring in her backyard baby pool. Luci's probably going this way as well.
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* VomitDiscretionShot: A fair few over the years.
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* DoesNotLikeShoes: Most characters don't wear shoes indoors and the girls usually go barefoot in the garden in summer. Alix in particular is thrilled when "it's warm enough for bare feet" and at least two separate strips deal with her misadventures walking barefoot outdoors.
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* DoesNotLikeShoes: Most characters don't wear shoes indoors and the girls usually go barefoot in the garden in summer.
** Alix in particular is thrilled when "it's warm enough for barefeet" and feet", but at least two separate strips deal with her misadventures walking barefoot outdoors.outdoors, such as treading on slugs, melted ice cream, bees and hot pavement. According to her, it's worth it.
-->'''Holly:''' Why don't you just wear ''sandals?''
--> '''Alix:''' It's '''summer!''' I need to feel the earth between my toes!
-->'''Holly:''' I don't think that's ''earth''.
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-->'''Holly:''' Why don't you just wear ''sandals?''
--> '''Alix:''' It's '''summer!''' I need to feel the earth between my toes!
-->'''Holly:''' I don't think that's ''earth''.
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* PrintLongRunners: 1995 to present.
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* PrintLongRunners: 1995 to present.2020, nearly a quarter-century in syndication.
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* DoesNotLikeShoes: Most characters don't wear shoes indoors and the girls usually go barefoot in the garden in summer. Alix in particular is thrilled when "it's warm enough for bare feet" and at least two separate strips deal with her misadventures walking barefoot outdoors.
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strip is ending in July 2020
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''Stone Soup'' is a comic strip created by Jan Eliot. It began in 1990 as a weekly strip called ''Sister City'', and went syndicated in 1995 as ''Stone Soup''. In 2015 the strip ceased daily strips but Sunday strips will continue. The strip centers on two sisters who live next to each other, as well as their families. These families consist of:
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''Stone Soup'' is a comic strip created by Jan Eliot. It began in 1990 as a weekly strip called ''Sister City'', and went syndicated in 1995 as ''Stone Soup''. In 2015 the strip ceased daily strips but continued with Sunday strips will continue.until Eliot ended the strip entirely in 2020. The strip centers on two sisters who live next to each other, as well as their families. These families consist of:
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* GirlyGirlWithATomboyStreak: Holly is definitely much more feminine that Alix is, but she's an excellent basketball player.
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* GirlyGirlWithATomboyStreak: Holly is definitely much more feminine that Alix is, is with her dislike of gross things and her liking wearing makeup and jewelry, but she's an excellent basketball player.player and part of the middle school girls’ team every winter.
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* IntoxicationEnsues: Holly ends up drunk after the grandmother unwittingly let her taste the batter of the rum cake she was making in one strip. Needless to say, Val wasn't pleased.
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* IntoxicationEnsues: Holly ends up drunk after the grandmother unwittingly let her taste the batter of the rum cake she was making in one Sunday strip. Needless to say, Val wasn't pleased.
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* ParentalFashionVeto: While it's not unusual for Holly to favor pieces that are both high-priced ''and'' slutty, in one strip she managed to outdo even herself in such a way that her mother Val finally laid down the law: "NO DAUGHTER OF MINE IS GOING OUT LOOKING LIKE THAT!!!"
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* ParentalFashionVeto: While it's not unusual for Holly to favor pieces that are both high-priced ''and'' slutty, provocative, in one strip she managed to outdo even herself in such a way that her mother Val finally laid down the law: "NO DAUGHTER OF MINE IS GOING OUT LOOKING LIKE THAT!!!"
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* {{Stripperific}}: Holly really likes wearing provocative clothing, much to Val's displeasure.
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* {{Stripperific}}: Holly really likes wearing provocative clothing, clothing and tries to get away with wearing it whenever she can, much to Val's displeasure.
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* GirlyGirlWithATomboyStreak: Holly is definitely much more feminine that Alix is, but she's an excellent basketball player.
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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Holly. Just like any other big sister, she fights with Alix regularly, but still cares for her as well.
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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Holly. Just like any other big sister, she fights with Alix regularly, but still cares for her as well. And when Val temporarily lost her job, Holly went out of her way to find one as an advice columnist on an online teen-zine that a fellow middle-schooler had started to help her family get some income.
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* PlagiarismInFiction: A 2013 storyline had Holly downloading someone else's term paper and passing it off as her own. She got busted instantly because [[WhatAnIdiot she forgot to change the original writer's name with her own.]]
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* PlagiarismInFiction: A 2013 storyline had Holly downloading someone else's term paper and passing it off as her own. She got busted instantly because [[WhatAnIdiot she forgot to change the original writer's name with her own.]]
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* PlagiarismInFiction: A 2013 storyline had Holly downloading someone else's term paper and passing it off as her own. She got busted instantly because [[WhatAnIdiot she forgot to change the original writer's name with her own.]]
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** Biscuit, a hyperactive dog
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** Biscuit, a hyperactive dog
dog not above sleeping the whole day
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** Luci, Joan and Wally's first kid who was born July 8 2007
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** Luci, Joan and Wally's first kid who was born July 8 8, 2007
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* ParentalFashionVeto: While it's not unusual for Holly to favor pieces that are both high-priced ''and'' slutty, in one strip she managed to outdo even herself in such a way that her mother Val finally laid down the law: "NO DAUGHTER OF MINE IS GOING OUT LOOKING LIKE THAT!!!"
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** Wally Weinstein, Joan's neighbor, whom she married in 2001
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** Wally Weinstein, Joan's neighbor, whom she married in 20012000
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* {{Stripperific}}: Holly really likes wearing provocative clothing, much to Val's displeasure.
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* Susan, neighborhood vet/basketball coach whom Wally used to date
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* Susan, neighborhood vet/basketball vet/Holly's basketball coach whom Wally used to date
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* AwwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: While Holly and Alix get on each other's nerves all of the time, they really do care about each other:
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* AwwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: While Holly and Alix get on each other's nerves all of the time, they really do care about each other:
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* BrattyTeenageDaughter: Holly.
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* BrattyTeenageDaughter: Holly.Holly, who obsesses over boys, freaks out over anything gross, and tries to get away with wearing provocative clothing. She does have her moments of compassion and decency, though.
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* ComicBookTime: The characters initially held the same age, but have since been bumped up by a year.
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* ComicBookTime: The characters initially held the same age, but have since been were bumped up by a year.year after the birth of Luci.
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* DisappearedDad: Holly and Alix's father died from an unspecified illness a few years back. Max's biological father also walked out on him and Joan a year before they met Wally.
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* DisappearedDad: Holly and Alix's father died from an unspecified illness a few years back.when they were five and one, respectively. Max's biological father also walked out on him and Joan a year before they met Wally.
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* HatesWearingDresses: Alix refuses to wear dresses.
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* HatesWearingDresses: Alix refuses to wear dresses.dresses unless it's for special occasions, and even then she wears shorts underneath.
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* IntoxicationEnsues: Holly ends up drunk after the grandmother unwittingly let her taste the batter of the rum cake she was making in one strip.
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* IntoxicationEnsues: Holly ends up drunk after the grandmother unwittingly let her taste the batter of the rum cake she was making in one strip. Needless to say, Val wasn't pleased.
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* NakedPeopleAreFunny: In late 2001, Evie joins the local Senior Center and signs up for a painting class, where she draws a naked man and submitts it to the art fair. Val and Joan are mortified, while everybody else finds it funny.
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* AwwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: While Holly and Alix get on each other's nerves all of the time, they really do care about each other:
** In June 1998, Holly and Alix, when they are supposed to be watching Max, get distracted at the park, so he wanders off and winds up at a donut shop near-by. Val initially only grounds Holly for it, but then Alix asks to get the same punishment because she was also partially responsible for what happened and thinks it's unfair for Holly to take all of the blame.
** In June 1998, Holly and Alix, when they are supposed to be watching Max, get distracted at the park, so he wanders off and winds up at a donut shop near-by. Val initially only grounds Holly for it, but then Alix asks to get the same punishment because she was also partially responsible for what happened and thinks it's unfair for Holly to take all of the blame.
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--> '''Andy:''' At my folks' I can do whatever I want, whenever I want. It ''sounds'' cool. But I realized that even though Uncle Wally is geeky, clueless, and uptight, at least he cares.
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--> '''Andy:''' At my folks' I can do whatever I want, whenever I want. It ''sounds'' cool. But I realized that even though Uncle Wally is geeky, clueless, and uptight, at least he cares.''cares''.
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--> '''Andy:''' At my folks' I can do whatever I want, whenever I want. It ''sounds'' cool. But I realized that even though Uncle Wally is geeky, clueless, and uptight, at least he cares.
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* DisappearedDad: Holly and Alix's father died from an unmentioned disease a few years back. Max's biological father also walked out on him and Joan a year before they met Wally.
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* DisappearedDad: Holly and Alix's father died from an unmentioned disease unspecified illness a few years back. Max's biological father also walked out on him and Joan a year before they met Wally.
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* ParentalNeglect: Andy lives with his Uncle Wally because his parents are so occupied with work that they dont pay any attention to him. In fact, when they got divorced, Andy wanted to stay with Wally because he actually cared about him
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* ParentalNeglect: Andy lives with his Uncle Wally because his parents are so occupied with work that they dont don't pay any attention to him. In fact, when they eventually got divorced, Andy wanted decided to stay with Wally because he actually cared about himgave him the attention he needed.
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* LethalChef: Wally implied that Joan is this, explaining why he does most of the cooking in the house.
** Val is explicitly stated to be this, to the point that her mom told her to stay away from the stove when she saw what she tried to cook.
** Val is explicitly stated to be this, to the point that her mom told her to stay away from the stove when she saw what she tried to cook.
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* LethalChef: Wally implied that Joan is this, explaining why he does most of the cooking in the house.
**Val is explicitly stated to be this, to the point that her mom told her to stay away from the stove when she saw what she tried to cook.
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* CensorSteam: [[https://www.amazon.com/Privacy-Wussies-Syndicated-Cartoon-Stone/dp/096741024X/ref=sr_1_1 The cover for the book collection "Privacy is for Wussies".]]
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** Val is explicitly stated to be this, to the point that her mom told her to stay away from the stove when she saw what she tried to cook.
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* ParentalNeglect: Andy lives with his Uncle Wally because his parents are so occupied with work that they dont pay any attention to him.
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* ParentalNeglect: Andy lives with his Uncle Wally because his parents are so occupied with work that they dont pay any attention to him. In fact, when they got divorced, Andy wanted to stay with Wally because he actually cared about him
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* WillTheyOrWontThey: Joan and Wally, early on.
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* WillTheyOrWontThey: Joan and Wally, early on. Also happened with Val and Phil until he proposed during the Christmas 2014 storyline.
