History Webcomic / GooberGrove

* CallASmeerpARabbit: * InsistentTerminology: Georgetta has a pet pelagic siphonophore, which she consistently refers to as a dog. Her veterinarian, Dr. Masimasi, is not happy about it.

* InsistentTerminology: Georgetta has a pet dog, but her definition of "dog" is a little bit... loose.
-->'''Razzlyn:''' "That is a pelagic siphonophore on a leash."* {{Jerkass}}: Rosco holds up convenience stores, regularly burns down houses, and forces Razzlyn and Georgetta to rob graves when he cuts off his own hand. Even the stars think he's "a huge jerk". Fortunately, he's also a ButtMonkey.

* CoolPet: Zigzagged. Georgetta has a pet dog, but her definition of "dog" is a little bit... loose.
-->'''Razzlyn:''' "That is a pelagic siphonophore on a leash."

* {{Jerkass}}: Rosco holds up convenience stores, regularly burns down houses, and forces Razzlyn and Georgetta to rob graves when he cuts off his own hand. Even the stars think he's "a huge jerk". Fortunately, he's also a ButtMonkey.

The series updates on Wednesdays and Sundays, and can be read [[https://twitter.com/TheGooberGrove here]].

* UnusualChapterNumbers: Decimal points are often used to designate "Goober Grove Mini" comics with a simplified art style that occasionally interrupt an ongoing story arc. For the first Hourly Comics Day, these were used in tandem with letters for each new comic. The second Hourly Comics Day utilized letters again, but without the decimal point.

* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: The series takes place in West Virginia, but where exactly ''in'' West Virginia is left unspecified.

* CostumeEvolution: Humorously downplayed. While most characters have retained their LimitedWardrobe over the course of the comic's run, roughly a year after the comic started, Rosco's shirt changed from having the number 15 to the number 16. The shirt is otherwise identical.

* SeldomSeenSpecies: Georgetta's pet "dog," which is actually a pelagic siphonophore.

** Another occurred during Hourly Comics Day, where the characters adopted monochrome color schemes to match their speech bubbles, and backgrounds were drawn simply as lineart, a change made to make drawing a new comic every hour actually plausible.

* ExtremeOmnivore: Rosco apparently is one, as he expresses a desire to taste road salt, and later makes Razzlyn a "pretzel" made from bread and road salt. When Rosco later goes fishing, Razzlyn asks him if he's planning to eat the pond scum "like you did when you were 8".

* RaisedByWolves: Razzlynette was apparently kidnapped as an infant and raised by birds. They were never able to teach her how to fly.

* AllThereInTheManual: Several details about the characters and setting are revealed in the author's Twitter posts, including some characters and details that haven't yet appeared in the comics. For example, Dr. Masimasi is bitter divorced lesbian, and Razzlyn has an older sister named Dazzlyn.

** "Speedrun" features Georgetta playing ''[[VideoGame/RhythmHeaven Rhythm Heaven Megamix]]'', with the screen featuring a Goober-fied version of the Tap Trial minigame.

* '''Razzlyn''' is the gold-and-cyan goober. She's a [[EccentricArtist quirky artistic type]], but also the [[StraightMan most level-headed]] of the group. She likes pottery, spaceships, and death metal.
* '''Georgetta''' is the green goober with a head shaped liked a rabbit-ear TV. She's a StreetSmart [[TheHeart sweetheart]], and likes reality television, magazines, and string beans.
* '''Rosco''' is the frog-like maroon goober. He's [[HotBlooded energetic]] and [[ThePrankster rascally]], and enjoys hockey, shoe-shopping, [[BreadEggsMilkSquick and arson]].

* Magic8Ball: One of the hourly comics has Rosco treating the Night Sky like this, repeatedly asking if he'll make a million bucks tomorrow until the Night Sky straight up gets tired of him.

-->'''Rosco:''' "Maybe she died. I've seen people die before. It could happen."

* LiteralMetaphor: Rosco constructs a literal [[StrawmanFallacy strawman]] to argue his stance that [[{{Pyromaniac}} arson is okay]].

%%* {{Transgender}}: Razzlyn is transgender, and her mother supports her.

* CallBack: During Hourly Comics Day, when Rosco prepares Razzlyn a pretzel, which is actually a slice of bread with salt, something Georgetta did towards the start of the comic. The twist? [[spoiler:This time it's road salt, as a further callback to the comic immediately before.]]

** Seen when Razzlyn criticizes Rosco's failed ''Wayside'' reference; her speech bubble covers the entire background of the last panel.

* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Parodied with Razzlynette, a [[PinkMeansFeminine pink]] version of Razzlyn has [[TertiarySexualCharacteristics eyelashes and lipstick]] to indicate her being Razzlyn's designated love interest. The joke is that Razzlynette is deliberately a SatelliteLoveInterest with no real character of her own outside of her infatuation with Razzlyn... who's ''already'' a complex female character.