- Crosses the Line Twice: One strip in 2002 had them go on a road trip through Colorado and talk about how beautiful its Scenery Porn is... only for them to find the state apparently burnt down
◊. At the time, Colorado was in the news for wildfires, and the timing caused a lot of people to find it Actually Pretty Funny. - Heartwarming Moments: The January 22, 2017 strip features Sergio and Baldo volunteering at a soup kitchen, with Sergio talking about how it's better to help the homeless instead of just complaining about it, and saying that he hopes Baldo will teach the same lesson to his children. The last panel shows an older Baldo volunteering at the soup kitchen with his young son, telling the boy the same thing Sergio told him.
- A couple of near-Christmas strips have Gracie pondering on what she can do to raise more money to buy Christmas gifts for her family. Her solution: dress up in her best party dress and tiara and hold a dollar dance. All the men in her life line up to dance with her: her father, Baldo, and Baldo's pal Cruz. Afterward, she excitedly tells her father that she has enough now to cover her gift fund. Sergio admires her in her dress and tiara and tells her she'll make a beautiful bride one day...then bursts into tears, hugs her, and says she'll still be his little girl no matter what.
- Harsher in Hindsight: An in-universe example. Fairly early on in the strip's run, Baldo was banged up in a car accident when a friend of his, known to be a reckless driver, flipped the car while speeding. Since both were wearing their seatbelts, they were more or less okay despite some bumps and bruises (Baldo did get a nasty cut on the head), and were cleared to be released once they'd been patched and bandaged up. Sergio showed up at the hospital all ready to chew Baldo out for getting into a car with a guy whose driving he'd warned him about, but his expression changed to tearful relief ("I'm so glad you're okay, mijo") when he came face-to-face with his son. The "harsher" part comes with finding out, later in the strip's run, that Baldo's mother Rosa died in a car accident—and Baldo and Gracie had been in the car that day as well, with only Gracie's car seat and Baldo's soccer ball protecting them from serious injury or death. With that in mind, you realize that when Sergio arrived at the hospital and saw his injured son, he must have been reliving the worst day of his life...and realizing how close it may have come to happening all over again.
- Squick: One series of strips featured Baldo romancing a bottle of conditioner in the shower.

- Values Resonance:
- One early collection was "Night of the bilingual telemarketers". Telemarketing suffered a resurgence in The New '10s.
- One story involving a gang activity monitor named Mr. Harold (falsely) accusing Baldo of being in a gang based on his ethnicity and misinterpretation of gang activities (such as "rock, paper, and scissor" as gang signs, and sharing adult magazines as plans) became more relevant as many crime-prevention methods based on "tough on crime" policies—especially anti-gang activities—has been scrutinized on their harsh punishment on relatively minor crimes and use of racial profiling that often had people who ended up in prison where many either failed to reform or became hardened criminals.
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