Cool Stuff

Here’s a page for interesting things we found in the strip: references to pop culture or actors’ names, for example, or first appearances by favourite characters. Browse this list to see them.

Addams Family reference Aeschylus reference Age of Aquarius reference Alcatraz reference Alfred Lord Tennyson reference All Together Again song Andrea's first appearance Angela McGraw - friend of Lynn Annette Funicello reference Antonie van Leeuwenhoek reference April's 13th Birthday April's first appearance Ardith first appearance Arnold Roth reference Auld Lang Syne song Auntie Grace (mystery relative) Aunt Ruby's first appearance B.U.M. Equipment sweater Backstreet Boys reference Baloney and Bannock - a friend's cartoon Barbie and Ken reference Barenaked Ladies reference Beatles reference Beatrice's first appearance Beatrice Alfarero translates to Beatrix Potter Becky's first appearance Bette Midler reference Better Homes and Gardens reference Bible reference Big Ben Black Velvet Band song Blondie's 75th anniversary Blondie reference Blue Suede Shoes song Bobby and Shirley Womack reference Bobby Curtola reference Bob Goulais - friend of Lynn Botox Reference Breaking Up Is Hard To Do song Brian's first appearance Bride of Frankenstein reference British Parliament Building Buddha reference Butterscotch's first appearance Candace's first appearance Capilano Suspension Bridge reference Carleen's first appearance Carol's first appearance Castaway Movie Reference CBJ 386 - Lynn's teacher's license plate number Charles Dickens Reference Charles M. Schulz Birthday Charlie Chaplin Reference Chattanooga Choo-Choo song Cher Reference Cheryl Ladd Reference Chinese characters Chuck Haskins - friend of Lynn Cinderella Reference Climb Every Mountain song clown costume Coming Round The Mountain song Cosmopolitan Magazine Crime Stoppers Reference Daffy Duck Reference Dante Reference Darling Buds of May Reference Darwin Reference David Bowie Reference David Letterman Reference Dawn Dawn's first appearance Dead Plant Dean's first appearance Deanna's first appearance Dennis Goulais Sr. Descartes Reference Dickens Reference Dickie Dee ice cream man Dinah Shore song Dirk Dagger's first appearance Disney World reference Dolly Parton Reference Don Quixote Reference Dr. Eckler - friend of Lynn Dr.Foell - a neurologist Lynn knows Duane's first appearance Duke Ellington Reference Duncan's first appearance Echo McLeod - friend of Lynn Edelweiss song Edgar Eleanor Rigby song Elizabeth Elizabeth's son's first appearance Elly Elvis Reference Emma Louise Reference Empire Hotel Reference - a real hotel in North Bay Eric's first appearance Ernest Tubb Reference Eva's first appearance Extreme Makeover reference Family Circus homage Famous Explorers Reference Farley's first appearance Fear Factor reference Felix Powell song Fickle Finger Fickle Finger's first appearance Fiona's first appearance first daily first strip first Sunday Flanders Fields reference Frank Norris quote Frank Sinatra reference Frank Sinatra song Fred Flintstone reference friend of Lynn's funny cereal names funny movie names Garfield piggy bank Garfield reference Gary Crane's first appearance Gayle's first appearance General Custer reference Georgia's first appearance Gerald's first appearance Girl From Ipanema song Glenn Paul reference Godzilla reference Gone With the Wind reference Gordon's dad's first appearance Gordon's first appearance Greg's first appearance Hank Williams reference Harry Dacre song Harry Potter book Home On The Range song Horseshoe Bay reference Hulk Hogan reference Hume Paint Hockey Team - a friend's business If You're Happy and You Know It song I Got You Babe song Inconvenient Truth reference Incredible Hulk reference Indiana Jones reference Inspiration for porcelain April doll Iris' first appearance It Don't Mean a Thing song Jack the Ripper reference Janice's first appearance Jeremy's first appearance Jesse's first appearance Joan Baez reference John Denver reference Josh Hirsh - son of Lynn's friend Joy of Cooking reference Judy Garland song Kabuki House - North Bay restaurant Kai Xing - friend of Lynn Keith's first appearance Kenny Rogers reference Kilroy reference King Lear reference Kiss Me Once Kiss Me Twice song Kortney's first appearance La Bamba song Laurie McLeod Shabogesic - friend of Lynn's Leaving On a Jet Plane song Lily Petrucci's first appearance Linda Evans reference Lois Lane reference Lone Ranger reference Louis Armstrong song Lovey's first appearance Luis' First Appearance Lynn's favourite sound effect Lynn Greets Real-Life Friends Lynn has a cameo Lynn Sneaks In a Butt Madonna reference Mae West reference Mamma Don't Allow song Marie Curie reference Marlon Brando reference Martha's first appearance Mason's first appearance Mel Gibson reference Melville Kelpfroth's First Appearance Mennonite woman Meredith's first appearance Miami Vice reference Michael Jackson reference Michael vadeBoncoeur reference Mickey Mouse Millie Bush reference Mira Sobinski's first appearance Miss Edwards' First Appearance Miss Lyon's first appearance mistake Moira's first appearance Molly's first appearance Monopoly reference Moosejaw reference Mount Everest reference Mount Pinatubo reference Mr. B's first appearance Mr. Bergan's first appearance Mr.Rogers reference Mrs.Dingle's first appearance Mrs. Zadorozny - staff member's name My Fair Lady song Named after Lynn's family Jade plant Rupert National Geographic reference Ned Tanner Ned Tanner's first appearance Neil Sedaka reference Nelson Toulouse - friend of Lynn Night Court reference Nora Bayes song Norm Piche - friend of Lynn Not Tonight Deer - deer repellant Oakville reference oddity Olive Oyl reference Olivia De Havilland reference Olivia Newton-John reference Once In Love With Amy song Oprah reference Oscars reference Our Lady of Sorrows School - real school in Sturgeon Falls Parmino's: reference to Lynn's hairdresser Patsy Cline reference Paul Wright's first appearance Peanuts reference Percy Shelley reference Perry McLeod Shabogesic - friend of Lynn's Peter Mansbridge reference Phantom of the Opera reference pie Plautus reference Put A Light in the Window song Quasimodo reference Queen Elizabeth reference Raising Readers poster - campaign Lynn helped with Reality Bites reference Red Skelton reference Rhetta's first appearance Richard's first appearance Robert Bateman reference Robin is born Robin Williams reference Romona Keveza wedding dress Royal Family reference rubber chicken Rubens reference Rudy's first appearance Rue Des Feves a.k.a. "bean street" Rut cologne Sam The Record Man storefront Scotts family reference - friends of Lynn Sera's first appearance Sesame Street reference Shakespeare reference Shania Twain reference Shannon Lake's first appearance Shaving Mug salon owned by friend of Lynn Shawna-Marie's first appearance Shiimsa's first appearance Show Me the Way to Go Home song Silent Night song silly cookbook silly makeup names Sistine Chapel reference Snoop Dogg reference Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Reference Sonny and Cher reference Sound of Music reference Spice Girls song Stanislavsky reference Stanley Cup reference Stanley Park reference Stevie Wonder reference Stompin' Tom reference Stop In The Name Of Love song. Superman reference Super Mario reference Susan's first appearance Sylvester reference Tarzan and Jane reference Tarzan reference Terminator reference The Gambler song The Lion Sleeps Tonight reference Therese's first appearance Three Stooges movie Tim Horton's reference Tina Turner reference U-Need-A-Cab reference - North Bay business Uncle Sam reference Uncle Tony reference Unicef reference Viagra reference Vivian Crane's first appearance W. Sloane quote Warren Blackwood's first appearance Weed's first appearance What Child Is This song Wheel of Fortune reference When The Saints Go Marching In song White Christmas song Wildgrubes - shout out to friends of Lynn Wild River song Wildwood Flower song Wilf's first appearance Winnie Kelpfroth's first appearance Woodstock reference Wrestlemania reference WWF reference Wynton Marsalis reference