- Colbert Bump: It's unlikely the strip would even have a TV Tropes page if it wasn't such a popular target for The Comics Curmudgeon.
- Outlived Its Creator: Just like Shoe, it has continued after the death of Jeff MacNelly thanks to Gary Brookins (although unlike on that strip, Brookins took over several years prior to MacNelly's death).
- Recycled Script: Many Pluggerisms get recycled over time because two different readers send in essentially the same line:
- The premise of a "Plugger beeper" being a microwave timer was used three times between 2001 and 2003.
- The Comics Curmudgeon pointed out that April 4, 2008
◊ was essentially repeated only five months later◊. - Sometimes a strip is intentionally recycled, with the only difference being that the "Thanks to..." panel reads "A Classic thanks to..."
- Running the Asylum: MacNelly originally wrote most of the strip himself, but after fans began submitting their own gags, it was changed so that all the scripts were user-submitted.
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