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* [[Author Appeal]]: McEldowney loves the female form (especially the legs) and isn't shy about it.
* [[Author Tract]]: Once Thorax, the dairy farmer from another galaxy, became prominent, the readers were treated to strip after strip detailing McEldowney's take on the world. Lately it seems that Seth is taking over that role.
** {{spoiler|The current{{when}} arc about Edda possibly being pregnant seems to have exposed Brooke's pro-life stance: ''Seth'' is telling her to get married and have kids, a straw-woman thinks abortions are the only solution to unplanned pregnancies, Edda's grandma Edna is there to remind her that Edda's mother was unplanned (the sentiment is kind of weakened if one remembers that it basically ruined Edna's life: love for her children aside, she went from being an opera singer in New York City to a housewife in a tiny Midwestern town in a passionless marriage, which is implied to have turned her into the sour old woman we know and love). It's possible this is a response to ''Doonesbury's'' satirical week of strips about abortion.}}
* [[Babies Make Everything Better]]: {{spoiler|Not for Juliette and her now-ex-husband; unknown for Edna and Bill (AKA Gam-ma and Gam-pa); quite probably for Edda and Amos.}}
* [[Batman Gambit]](?): {{spoiler|Apparently Edda's tyrannical director has been wanting to get rid of her for a while, so he pushed her to the Nicolette Cygnet guys hoping she'd either ditch ballet for fashion or screw up so badly she wouldn't be welcomed back. Neither happened but she did give a scathing interview to a magazine, which the director hopes will be enough to fire her.}}
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** Very likely {{spoiler|Seth, his boyfriend, and Fernanda - nope, Seth and Fernanda just end, and his boyfriend has hardly said anything about it}}.
** [[Love Dodecahedron]] (now retired): Edda, Amos, Isabel, Burkhardt, and Janice. Violist Burkhardt Kriegl was first introduced as the boyfriend of Edda's fellow ballerina Janice; he later focused his attentions on Edda, who was not dating Amos van Hoesen at the time, leaving him "fair game" for his accompanist, pianist Isabel Florin. This was later resolved by [[Pair the Spares|pairing Isabel with Burkhardt]] and allowing Janice to pull a [[Brother Chuck]].
* [[Trickster God]] / [[Trolling Creator]]: God/"God", an incredibly smug, wormy-looking little man in a suit who previously decided to replace humans with cockroaches because he couldn't stand that such petty things resembled him, starting with a pregnant ex-nun's fetus {{spoiler|she gave birth to a perfectly normal baby human girl}}. He's currently{{when}} talkingtalked about quitting his job and letting "the suits" take over and claiming that he prefers the "small talk" of said ex-nun's prayers to "Sister Caligula's" strict performance reviews.
* [[Twist Ending]]: Bill, [[Memetic Mutation|you're not the father!]] But is it really a twist [[Anticlimax|if everyone saw it coming?]] The only surprising thing about the ending was its abruptness after months of Edna and Kiesl's romance.
* [[Ugly Guy, Hot Wife]]: A flash-forward showed Edda and Amos as a [[Happily Married]] couple reminiscing about their childhood.
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