Harsher in Hindsight: This strip, at the time a throwaway gag about Pip being a perv, loses a lot of its humor after he was played for a fool and subsequently dumped by Hilary, especially after the reveal that Pip was truly happy not to be alone anymore, whereas Hilary felt nothing for him.Considering the kind of setting this is, he probably did see the boogeyman."It wasn't a crank call! I saw the boogeyman!".So if anthropomorphic animals are so accepted, why would the police not, say, believe a call that a squirrel girl broke into the house? There are at least two other anthropomorphic animal background characters (the cat-boy Kat meets at the club, and the cat-man Hilary seduces). Kat and Hilary both apparently attended a public school, Kat has a job with a human boss and Hilary is a client for Art's company at one point and the head of a lingerie company. Yet no one bats an eye when Pip, Kat, or Scarlet go out in public. Regular enough for humor value, but one of the weird things that no one believes (or he thinks no one will believe) is that his housemates are anthropomorphic animals. Fridge Logic: Art is often unable to convince the authorities to help him with various situations, with the idea being that the situations are too weird for anyone to believe.They're a legion of tiny shadow-people that never make a sound, who consider chainsaws to be practical tools, and use high-tech weaponry to cook popcorn, but darn it if they aren't adorable. For starters, she once made a lawn mower design that incorporated A BLACK HOLE and, more recently, cracked perpetual motion with a Slanky. Crazy Is Cool: Scarlet, even more so once her sisters start helping.
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