Fox. Trot (Comic Strip) - TV Tropes. Just a hint of the kind of rivalry and one- ups that are typical of the Fox family. In this world, there are notable hotbeds of conflict and violence. It centers on the Fox family, a reasonably average 3- child household. Most of the humor comes from the characters or commentary on pop culture, occasionally both at once. The characters are known for their quirkiness. The end credits from an episode of Casualty back in 1995, very long, usually announcerless and you wonder why they shortened them in recent years?!Richard Curtis, Writer: Love Actually. Richard Curtis was born on November 8, 1956 in Wellington, New Zealand as Richard Whalley Anthony Curtis. A comic strip begun in 1988. It centers on the Fox family, a reasonably average 3-child household. Most of the humor comes from the characters or commentary on pop. The Shoo Out the Clowns trope as used in popular culture. Some stories manage a nice balance of silly and serious. But one of the most foreboding aspects of Peter starves himself for three days before each Thanksgiving and is an overall Big Eater to the extreme. Paige has an imaginary boyfriend named Pierre who factors heavily into her dream life (the strips involving him usually repeat the phrase . Jason plays Dungeons & Dragons with his Black Best Friend Marcus, but their battles are usually against fictitious versions of Paige. Andy, the health- conscious mom tries to sneak tofu into their diet on a regular basis (and doesn't like the thermostat set above freezing). Roger, the techno- fossil dad should never be allowed to plan vacations. And Jason occasionally draws a comic book called Slug- Man, whose nemesis is the evil Paige- o- Tron. Written and drawn by a genuine nerd, which makes for a lot of in- jokes with Jason's video games, comic books and general geekery. Trending in Home 12 Feng Shui Color Tips for a Beautiful Home; 10 Uses for Vinegar You Never Knew About; 5 Things That Make a Home Look Cheap. At the end of 2. 00. Sunday Strip- only. You can find it here. A Nigerian widow is offering to give me $1. I send her $5. 00 for paperwork. Roger: Andy, Andy, Andy, just delete the the e- mail. Andy: (sarcastic) Gosh, you think so? I'm getting $2. 0 million from a Ugandan for $3. Andy: This is where you say . As he ponders how it would work indoors, Peter shows off his new 5. Accidental Aiming Skills: Peter throws a baseball at an apparently far- off tin can sitting on a fence post. In the final panel, we see that he was actually aiming for Roger's much closer glove. The Ace: Grandma, although she also ends up deconstructing The Ace a bit in her first appearance when she learns that her Monty Oum levels of awesome had given Andy resentment and a desire to prove herself since the seventh grade. Acid Reflux Nightmare: Andy's food; It's literal Nightmare Fuel. In different arcs, Jason, had A Christmas Carol nightmare, Paige, had a Nutcracker Suite nightmare, Peter had an Odyssey nightmare, and Roger had a Polar Express One of the final series of daily strips had Peter and Paige eating tons of gingerbread cookies, resulting in a dream sequence where they became such cookies. Acting Unnatural: Paige and Nicole shoplift a CD. Nicole tells Paige to act naturally. Paige holds her breath. Nicole tells Paige that acting naturally includes breathing. Paige immediately starts loudly panting as Nicole Face Palms and adds . O'Dell, but this Trope truly came into play when she dozed off while watching her and Katie started playing with scissors. O'Dell still hires her after that is unbelievable.)Affair Hair: Andy thinks she finds one on Roger's jacket during an uncharacteristic fit of jealousy. Affectionate Parody: Of The Boondocks when Jason attempts to fill in for Aaron Mcgruder, despite knowing nothing about . And when Paige was on the JJV (junior junior varsity) cheer squad, she was sent to cheer at events like chess matches and debates. All Just a Dream: Several strips have the characters dreaming an absurd situation (Jason giving Andy the keys to a fancy car and vacation tickets because she raised his allowance to $1. Disney really did have plans to do this at the time. Always Someone Better: Eileen is this to Jason. She seems to trump him at everything (schoolwork, video games, you name it), much to his rage, and his attempts to one- up her always end in disaster. The fact that she has a crush on him only makes it worse. This is sometimes taken to ridiculous extremes. In one strip, Jason found a Four- Leaf Clover right before class started, and then gloated to Eileen how it would help him get the highest grade on the math test.. And then Eileen found a five leaf clover. In the last panel of the strip, Andy is yelling at Jason because he apparently flunked the test because he missed it, because he was spending the whole time searching for a clover with more leaves. Amusing Injuries: Whenever Paige beats Jason up, he has broken glasses. Analogy Backfire: Peter once used The Metamorphosis as an example to Jason, who had been transformed into a girl (It Was All Just A Dream), commenting on how well things had worked out for Gregor Samsa. Jason says that Gregor starved to death, abandoned by his family. Peter then admits he had never read past the first page of the book, as usual. Animated Actors: Some strips use this premise for Rule of Funny. In one Sunday strip, Peter lights up the grill in Roger- stylefashion; in the last panel, Roger walks in, script in hand, and says he was supposed to do that. A scorched Peter says . On one April Fools' Day, Fox. Trot featured the same punchline as Get Fuzzy and Pearls Before Swine, where one character uses a Ouija board to spell out a message to kick the other character in the shins. There's also this memorable strip, where Jason is watching the season 2 premiere of Game of Thrones, only for them to show a fake episode using My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic and knight toys. What's really impressive, though, is that Bill Amend got the name of the fandom, and even the design of the characters, right despite not actually being a brony. Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: Andy: Jason, I told you two weeks ago that I didn't want Mortal Karnage II coming into this house. You have no one to blame but yourself. Jason: But.. but.. Andy: You're too young for this sort of thing. I mean, look at what it teaches: that human disembowelment is entertainment.. Also attempted in this strip: Peter: So, Dad, I was thinking maybe I'd join the Marines. Roger: That's nice. Peter: And become a vegan. Roger: That's nice. Peter: And start dating married women. Roger: That's nice. Peter: And have . Partway through 1. Jason's hair strands became equally spaced, the lettering became mono- spaced, etc.) but still had a high attention to detail. Most of the detail was simplified in the latter half of the decade. Artificial Outdoors Display: During the Caribbeany resort arc (Roger takes the family to a tropical resort a thousand miles from the ocean), we see Roger and Andy looking at the sunset together.. Invoked when Paige gets fish - she puts guppies in with an angelfish, resulting in this: Paige: That's right little guppies, eat the fish food. That's right mister angelfish, eat the fish- FOOD! I said eat the fish FOOD! One strip seems to explain that her internal clock is 1. Author Avatar: Jason is used to project Amend's nerdy nature. Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: As much as they fight, the Foxes are still family, and are there for each other when they need it. Axe Crazy: Paige worries that she'll become this after not only not getting grossed out by dissecting a frog for a science lab, but actually enjoying it. It doesn't help that Jason keeps telling her that. Peter becomes this (with an actual axe!) when Jason and Marcus try to shoot Paige in the face with a bunch of darts with glue on them, but miss and hit Peter instead. He cuts down the tree they've chosen to hide in, then asks if they've ever seen The Shining. Backwards- Firing Gun: Used with a squirt gun in one strip. Bad Boss: J. P. Pembrook, Roger's boss, who does things like giving himself a giant pay raise while the company's in the red, insisting that the employees make themselves look bad on photo day so he'll look better by comparison, and at one point hired Roger to be the clown at his son's birthday party — though to be fair, Roger had actually listed . In the series where Roger briefly quits his job and then comes back for it, Pembrook shows his nice side by simply counting it as spent vacation time.. Jerkass side is much stronger, since he essentially forces Roger to get on his knees and beg for the job back (and shine his shoes), and he cuts Roger's pay immediately after admitting that other companies would pay a man with his level of skill and experience six times what they were paying him. Bait And Switch Commment: Near the end of Roger's temporary retirement arc, when he admits that . Peter wanted to do it another time too, after Roger only offered to pay him five cents a hole after a particularly grueling job as a caddy. Be Careful What You Wish For: After Andy expresses joy at seeing The Passion of the Christ become a success, she says that she wishes that more of the . She then sees a trailer for Alien vs. Also, Roger's rants about either gaining a lot of money in regards to developing a website or the excessive costs of christmas cards were the reason why Jason decided to do money- making schemes relating to these things. Bedsheet Ghost: Peter does this and gets an appropriately horrified reaction from his mother, but only because he has cut holes in her new Ralph Lauren sheets. Bedsheet Ladder: Jason places a ladder constructed of tied together handkerchiefs in Quincy's cage, along with a book on lock picking and a few paperclips and hair clips, in an attempt to create plausible deniability when turns the iguana loose in Paige's sleepover. Bedtime Brainwashing: There's one where Jason tries to convince his mother to increase his allowance by getting her to dream of all the ridiculously expensive stuff he's buying for her. Beef Gate: A strip featured Jason trying to fight his way through one of these, only to have his sister discover that if you don't attack, it will let you pass by in peace. Before Peter went out on his first date with Denise, he was telling one of his friends that he had a date that night, and when his friend jokingly suggested that . A little known fact is that Roger was originally the only Big Eater, but Peter only got into it around the mid- 1. Thanksgiving 1. 99. Andy: Well, I'm full. Jason: I'm extra full. Peter: I'm teetering somewhere between full and sick. Roger: So who's ready for some PIE?!
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