Zits/YMMV
- Acceptable Inevitable Targets: Both teens and adults are lampooned from the opposite perspective.
- Ensemble Darkhorse: Pierce!
- Harsher in Hindsight: One of the earliest strips is Jeremy musing on how his generation didn't have the life changing events his parents' did (such as the Kennedy assassination and the moon landing). This was before 9/11.
- Tear Jerker: Connie sadly looking at Jeremy, while imagining herself "unzipping" his body to reveal his happy childhood self, who proceeds to play with his mom. She looks at the current Jeremy and sighs. Mothers still write in telling the creators it's their favorite strip [dead link].
- Unfortunate Implications: The infamous "Signs of the Apocalypse" strip. The strip has Walt waxing eloquently on his opinion of 50 Cent 's career arc. Connie, by contrast, stands there with a glazed, hollow look in her eyes and an unsettling smile and only says "Ditto!" That's right, guys, women not only should unquestioningly agree with their husbands, but they shouldn't even elaborate on their feelings, am I right?
- We're Still Relevant, Dammit!: Averted. Despite the fact that the comic began in 1997, and the creators haven't raised a teenager in quite a while, they're still able to perfectly capture teenage and parent life without feeling like you're watching a rerun from a really old sitcom.
