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[[File:beanoresize_1146.png|frame|The 68th Beano Annual with a few of the longer running characters appearing on the front.]]
 
''The Beano'' is a long running [[British Comics|British children's comic]] that's been in circulation for almost 75 years, having entertained several generations of kids since 1938, making this one hell of a [[Print Long Runners|long runner]]. Published weekly, for over 70 years and with more than 3500 issues, it's famous for iconic strips such as ''[[Dennis the Menace UK|Dennis the Menace]]'', ''[[Distaff Counterpart|Minnie the Minx]]'' and ''[[Wacky Homeroom|The Bash Street Kids]]'', and is a huge influence in (and a reflection of) British culture. A number of spin-off comics have been released as well including The Beano Annual (which continues to sell 100,000+ every christmas and is released every year in time for christmas), the monthly [[Beano Max]], The Beano Summer Special, a yearly reprint Annual featuring content from both [['''The Beano]]''' and ''[[The Dandy (comics)|The Dandy]]'', Plug comic a weekly comic which ran from 1977-1979 featuring as it's main star one of ''[[Wacky Homeroom|The Bash Street Kids]]'' , the Beano Comic Libraries which evolved into the Fun Size Beano and recently went defunct. Other spinoffs include a few animated series (some of which were [[Direct to Video]]) and video games.
 
The comic is easily the most well known British Humour Comic and is also one of the longest running comics of it's genre only ''[[The Dandy (comics)|The Dandy]]'' from the same publisher has run longer. It has outlived numerous generations of competitor comics, such as ''[[Whizzer and Chips]]'', ''[[Film Fun]]'', ''Smash'' and ''Buster'', and continues to introduce new characters and innovate. It's readership peaked in 1950 before the introduction of it's most iconic characters and some consider it to have [[Jumped the Shark]] in the mid 60s when the artists [[Leo Baxendale]] and [[Ken Reid]] left to draw for DC Thomson's (The Beano's publisher) rivals. However [[Your Mileage May Vary/Quotes|Your Mileage May Vary]] on this as the comic continued for long after these artists stop drawing altogether, however the pair were a big influence on the comic.
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=== This comic (and its strips) provide examples of: ===
* [[Abhorrent Admirer]]: Calamity James occasionally fell victim to one of these.
** Daisy also considers Ernest to be one of these in the 'Crazy for Daisy' strips.
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* [[Canine Companion]]: The Bash Street Kids have the Bash Street Dogs. Dennis has Gnasher.
* [[Canon Immigrant]]: In 2007 the comic started running reprints of Fred's Bed, formerly a strip in the defunct ''Beezer and Topper'' comic, as a cost-saving measure. Then for the 70th Anniversary special edition of the comic the following year they ran an all-new Fred's Bed strip, as the strip's setup made it a convenient way of exploring the comic's history. This led to a full revival of the strip in the following months.
** This is not a new thing--manything—many characters from defunct comics, most famously the Beezer and Topper, have migrated to the Beano or its sister comic the Dandy over the years.
** Following the cancellation of the 2011 ''Dennis & Gnasher'' animated series and its own seperate comic adaptation, characters such as Mrs. Creecher and Athena have been moved to the main Dennis & Gnasher strip.
* [[Can't Get Away with Nuthin']]
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** But subverted in that it's sometimes stated that those are their ''[[Prophetic Names|actual names]]'' (Dennis' Dad was christened "Dennis' Dad", and Teacher's full name is Algernon Teacher).
* [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]]: Alexander Lemming is a [[Captain Obvious|Lemming]]. Also Roger the Dodger likes to Dodge things.
* [[Expy]]: Number 13, a strip about a supernatural family of monsters was pretty much [[The Munsters]]. Also Kat and Kanary is pretty much Sylvester and Tweety from [[Looney Tunes]]. The character Joe Jitsu from the 00s seems to be an expy of an earlier chracter entitled Karate Sid from the 80s. Meebo and Zuky are this for [[The Simpsons (animation)|Itchy And Scratchy]].
* [[Extreme Omni Goat]] Fatty from the Bash Street Kids and whenever a goat is featured in a strip.
* [[Failed a Spot Check]]: Calamity James is constantly surrounded by fortunes, from gold bars lying in the street to [[Eccentric Millionaire|eccentric millionaires]] throwing around fistfuls of money in the background, but he never notices.
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** [[The Chick]]: Minnie
* [[Four-Fingered Hands]]: Played straight or averted [[Depending on the Artist]].
* [[Frame Break]]: Used occasionally especially in [[The Beano]] Video where among other things Gnasher is used to break a frame.
* [[Friend to All Living Things]]: Sidney from the Bash Street Kids' defining quality. Some writers tended to forget this, leaving him as the only Kid without a 'hat', and essentially becoming [[The Generic Guy]].
* [[Funny Animal]]: Biffo the Bear, Big Eggo, The Three Bears and numerous other strips.
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* [[Hot Teacher]]: Minnie the Minx's teacher.
** Oh yes. And the small knickers that hang on her washing line wehn Minnie terrorises her at home...
* [[Hypocritical Humor]]: One ''Les Pretend'' strip in ''[[The Beano]]'' had Les's dad discussing the daft things Les pretended to be with his friends, and them all laughing about it. It was at the end of this strip that we first learnt Les's dad and his friends are all [[Elvis Impersonator|Elvis Impersonators]]s.
* [[I Thought It Meant]]: One of the reasons why the series will probably never take root in the US (apart from how severely British it is) is that Bean-O is a well-known gas medication in the US.
* [[Inexplicably Identical Individuals]]: Many characters have occasionally glimpsed international counterparts who look identical except for wearing stereotypical national costume.
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* [[Mirror-Cracking Ugly]]: Plug (who used to be called "Pug" until Smiffy gave him an extra L he had left over from spelling a word).
* [[The Munchausen]]: Uncle Windbag.
* [[Name's the Same]]: The British Dennis the Menace and the American Dennis the Menace. Same name, different clothes, completely different publisher and strip, independently conceived at the [[wikipedia:Dennis the Menace (UK)|same time]] to within a week. The two are often confused. The British Dennis is several years older than the American and is more of an ''intentional'' mischief maker than his American counterpart. Indeed, the British Dennis is rather more like [[The Simpsons (animation)|Bart Simpson]] than he is like the American Dennis.
* [[Naughty Is Good]]: Dennis The Menace, Minnie The Minx and The Bash Street Kids.
** Also Roger the Dodger, though he's more of a schemer.
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** It has been argued that the Beano was instrumental in changing Hermann Goering's reputation in the English-speaking world from potentially dangerous war hero to idiotic, overpromoted [[Fat Bastard]].
* [[Print Long Runners]]: The comic itself (70 years as of 2008) and the following strips:
** Lord Snooty (1938-491938–49; 1950-901950–90, intermittently until 2000)
** Biffo the Bear (1948-1986, 1989-991989–99)
** [[Dennis the Menace UK]] (1951-present1951–present)
** Roger the Dodger (1953-present1953–present)
** Minnie the Minx (1953-present1953–present)
** The Bash Street Kids (1954-present1954–present)
** Billy Whizz (1964-Present1964–Present)
** Ball Boy (1975-Present1975–Present)
** Ivy the Terrible (1985-2011)
* [[Prophetic Names]]: Something of a [[Running Gag]].
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* [[Super Strength]]: Pansy Potter
* [[Talking Animal]]: Biffo the Bear and The Three Bears are good examples of this. Also Gnasher can speak but always buts the letter G in front of N for example "Gno way".
* [[Take That]]: ''[[The Beano]]'' and ''[[The Dandy (comics)|The Dandy]]'' have a friendly rivalry which often involves taking potshots at each other (e.g. characters being threatened with the possibility of getting sent to the other comic).
* [[Theme Naming]]: All of the Bash Street Dogs are named similiar to their owners eg Sniffy and Smiffy, Enry and Erbert, Pug and Plug, Blotty and Spotty. Dennis the Menace's pets have this too with Gnasher, Rasher and Dasher. Gnasher's puppies are named Gnipper, Gnaomi, Gnatasha, Gnanette, Gnora and Gnancy.
* [[Tomboy]]: Minnie the Minx, the world's wildest tomboy. Also Toots from the Bash Street Kids.
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