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* QuirkyWork: This is a very bizarre comic strip. According to Gallagher, [[https://theoutline.com/post/4084/the-internet-oddballs-who-think-the-heathcliff-comics-are-deep he just tries to avoid "typical punchlines" and has a strange sense of humor.]]
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* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs: This is a very bizarre comic strip. According to Gallagher, [[https://theoutline.com/post/4084/the-internet-oddballs-who-think-the-heathcliff-comics-are-deep he just tries to avoid "typical punchlines" and has a strange sense of humor.]]

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* BileFascination[=/=]GuiltyPleasure: For [[Website/FourChan /co/]] to the point where Heathcliff threads are a regular occurrence on there.

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* BileFascination[=/=]GuiltyPleasure: BileFascination: For [[Website/FourChan /co/]] /co/]], to the point where Heathcliff threads are a regular occurrence on there.



* EpilepticTrees: Heathcliff is written by [[ComicStrip/{{Garfield}} Jon Arbuckle]] and is based on his observations of his cat, {{ComicStrip/Garfield}}.
* FandomRivalry: With ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'', to the point where ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'' even acknowledged the similarities between the two cats.
** [[https://www.gocomics.com/heathcliff/2018/02/26 And acknowledged in-strip.]]

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* EpilepticTrees: Heathcliff A common fan theory is written by [[ComicStrip/{{Garfield}} that ''Heathcliff'' is the in-universe comic strip that Jon Arbuckle]] and is Arbuckle writes based on his observations of his cat, {{ComicStrip/Garfield}}.
ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}.
* FandomRivalry: With ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'', to the point where ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'' even acknowledged the similarities between the two cats.
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cats. It's even been [[https://www.gocomics.com/heathcliff/2018/02/26 And acknowledged in-strip.]] [[https://www.gocomics.com/heathcliff/2021/09/06 Several times.]]



** the infamous I'M BAD NEWS panel.
** [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext The garbage ape]].

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** The entire comic rose to online fame around the infamous I'M BAD NEWS panel.
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late 2010s and early 2020s for its strangely Dadaist nature, especially when the "actual heathcliff comics" Twitter account was created, which caused several of the comic's more peculiar gags -- such as the various name-labeled helmets that various characters wear, Heathcliff riding across town in a meat tank, Heathcliff hyping up a frog named Jimmy, and [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext The the garbage ape]].ape]] -- to become inside jokes among a certain subset of the Internet.
** The infamous I'M BAD NEWS panel.



** "Children love the meat tank."



* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs: This is a very bizarre comic strip. According to Gately, [[https://theoutline.com/post/4084/the-internet-oddballs-who-think-the-heathcliff-comics-are-deep he just tries to avoid "typical punchlines" and has a strange sense of humor.]]

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* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs: This is a very bizarre comic strip. According to Gately, Gallagher, [[https://theoutline.com/post/4084/the-internet-oddballs-who-think-the-heathcliff-comics-are-deep he just tries to avoid "typical punchlines" and has a strange sense of humor.]]
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* WereStillRelevantDammit: The aforementioned Facebook was mentioned in a 2013 strip.
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* CommonKnowledge: Due to ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'''s fame, It is common to see people assume ''Heathcliff'' to be a rip-off of ''Garfield''. However, ''Heathcliff'' actually predates ''Garfield'' by 5 years.

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* CommonKnowledge: Due to ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'''s fame, It is common to see people assume ''Heathcliff'' to be a rip-off of ''Garfield''. However, ''Heathcliff'' actually predates ''Garfield'' by 5 years. Heathcliff also has little-to-nothing in common with Garfield outside of looks.
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* CommonKnowledge: Due to ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'''s fame, It is common to see people assume Heathcliff to be a rip-off of ''Garfield''. However, ''Heathcliff'' actually predates ''Garfield'' by 5 years. It also predates the ''Garfield'''s first incarnation, ''ComicStrip/{{Jon}}'', by 3.

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* CommonKnowledge: Due to ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'''s fame, It is common to see people assume Heathcliff ''Heathcliff'' to be a rip-off of ''Garfield''. However, ''Heathcliff'' actually predates ''Garfield'' by 5 years. It also predates the ''Garfield'''s first incarnation, ''ComicStrip/{{Jon}}'', by 3.
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* CommonKnowledge: Due to ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'''s fame, It is common to see people assume Heathcliff to be a rip-off of ''Garfield''. However, the first strip of ''Heathcliff'' actually predates the first strip of Garfield by 5 years. It also predates the latter's earlier incarnation, ComicStrip/{{Jon}}, by 3.

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* CommonKnowledge: Due to ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'''s fame, It is common to see people assume Heathcliff to be a rip-off of ''Garfield''. However, the first strip of ''Heathcliff'' actually predates the first strip of Garfield ''Garfield'' by 5 years. It also predates the latter's earlier ''Garfield'''s first incarnation, ComicStrip/{{Jon}}, ''ComicStrip/{{Jon}}'', by 3.

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