| 1 | %%* EnsembleDarkhorse: Pierce! CloudcuckooLander, animal lover, and DeadpanSnarker. |
| 2 | * HarsherInHindsight: One of the earliest strips is Jeremy musing on how his generation didn't have the life changing events his parents' did (such as the Kennedy assassination and the moon landing). No generation can relate to this now, as 9/11 happened just a few years later, and now the latest generation is growing up with the COVID-19 Pandemic and the Russian-Ukranian War. |
| 3 | * HilariousInHindsight: One arc involved Jeremy teaching Walt how to use the computer's new voice recognition software. Walt says, "Call the plumber" and is disappointed to see the computer merely typing the words instead of actually calling the plumber. Thanks to [[TechnologyMarchesOn technology marching on]], apps such as Siri, Cortana, or Alexa would fulfill Walt's desire to have voice recognition software obey his requests. |
| 4 | ** In terms of internet slang - the strip was ahead of its time by naming Jeremy's ParodySue older brother [[TheAce Chad]]. |
| 5 | * TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: We never do find out why Jeremy's {{Sadist Teacher}}, Mrs. Butcher, hates him enough to write his grades ''in her own blood''. |
| 6 | * ValuesDissonance: |
| 7 | ** In a mid-90's strip, Jeremy sees his dad smoking a cigar. Walt explains that one of his patients gave them out in celebration of a new baby, and then asks Jeremy "What do you think? Pretty cool, huh?" Not exactly something you'd expect to hear a responsible dad say to his son, especially in times of so many anti-drug campaigns. |
| 8 | ** Another 90s strip has Jeremy and Hector telling Connie how they aced their lifeguard training, only for Hector to reveal that Jeremy got points off for gagging on the CPR dummy while doing mouth-to-mouth; Jeremy responds "So ''sue'' me! The thing looked like Richard Simmons!" Nowadays, this joke would be derided as homophobic. |
| 9 | * ValuesResonance: In a 1999 strip published during the height of post-Columbine hysteria, Jeremy responds to his father's claims that [[TheNewRockAndRoll the video game industry is the cause of youth violence]] by jokingly accusing the automotive industry of causing the high amount of deaths in car accidents. After the Sandy Hook shooting in 2012 and the Parkland shooting in 2018, claims like those of Jeremy's dad would end up resurfacing again and facing just as much derision from actual youths and gamers and, unlike in The90s, enjoyed far less support in the mainstream media. |
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