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The wonderful TV Tropes site has an O&M page listing storytelling tropes associated with the comic. Feel free to check it out here.

I saw this a while ago. It's nice to see Ozy and Millie have a page on there, and I do like that website a whole lot.

... even then, I'm kind of split on the entire place. A TVTropes listing means you're very popular, but at the same time it sort of points out how trite and commonplace a fiction element can be. It's a great resource for all fiction writers, but is it one to follow, or something not to follow? Considering the deficit of originality out there these days, I really can't tell anymore.

The main page of TV Tropes hastens to point out that tropes are not the same as cliches. Not all of them are shameful. Besides, what we call creativity is really just good synthesis. Finding common elements among diverse franchises can even enrich the experience.

Oh I am not going to that site again anytime soon. Last time I went there it was a Saturday, I closed the tab to find it had become Sunday.

Oh I am not going to that site again anytime soon. Last time I went there it was a Saturday, I closed the tab to find it had become Sunday.

I've done that before on many sites...
**smiles**
...Pitiful, isn't it?

Feel free to check it out here. (WARNING: TV Tropes Will Ruin Your Life)

Fixed. Every link to TV Tropes needs that warning.

I figured O&M would get its own article on TV Tropes eventually, it was only a matter of time...

Yeah, I was late to a party tonight because I clicked that link.

Given that for every trope, theres an anti-trope its almost fair to say that every author will use at least one trope.

Given that for every trope, theres an anti-trope its almost fair to say that every author will use at least one trope.

I'd think it'd be nearly impossible to NOT use any tropes, since pretty much everything has been done before, even if it was remote.

Is it leviticus that says theres nothing new under the sun or does it limit itself to telling people not to do things?

And 20 minutes later, I finally close all the TVTropes tabs to reply to this topic. Good lord, it's like Youtube and Wikipedia all over again.

Tell me about it. The only reason I'm not on there right now is because I read it all.

Is it leviticus that says theres nothing new under the sun or does it limit itself to telling people not to do things?

That would be




...uh....


...hang on... King Solomon, in the book of... uh.......


... "everything is vanity" ... calls himself "the Teacher"...


... >_< ...


DAMMIT
*Wikipedia*

...ECCLESIASTES. I KNEW THAT. SHUT UP.

Also, seconding the warning thing. I hopped over here at like midnight as part of my nightly comic check, and the next thing I knew, it was almost dawn. It's way worse than Wikipedia. Wikipedia isn't awash with hilarity.

My advice: When you read Ecclesiastes, imagine it being spoken by Alan Rickman.

Actually one thing that's pretty neat, now that I've become hopelessly addicted to that site (thanks for that, btw ), is discovering pages that use Ozy and Millie and other stuff I've seen or read in ways other than merely listing it as an example of a trope.