Newton the Newt

A web comic created by TV Troper Newton The Newt. Frog endures his friend Newton's crazy sense of humor and awful puns. Wise Old Bullfrog, a self-proclaimed philosopher, and Angry Betta, a bitter Siamese fighting fish support the strip as recurring characters.

The first season introduces these four characters and develops them, for lack of a better word. There's no storyline; it's a Gag Per Day comic. It appears to be defunct, with its most recent strip as of this writing released in 2017.

Read it at deviantArt or at ComicDish. The deviantArt page includes a blog with occasional humor entries, which are a heckuva lot better than this article.

Tropes used in Newton the Newt include:

• Butt Monkey. Turtleye, out of canon.
• Catch Phrase. Wise Old Bullfrog: "Indeed!"
• Cloudcuckoolander. Newton.
• Drill Sergeant Nasty.
  • Angry Betta, the fighting fish.
  • Especially in this strip ^{[dead link]} .
• Glasses Pull. "Classified ads".
• Gone Horribly Wrong. The Macbeth one.
• Incredibly Lame Pun. Oh, so many. Usually made by Newton.
• Know-Nothing Know-It-All. Wise Old Bullfrog ^{[dead link]} .
• Negative Continuity.
  • Newton fails high school science in one strip and is lecturing a class in another.
  • Also, Bullfrog flips between taking college classes and applying to teach college classes.
• Private Detective/Amateur Sleuth. Turtleye, complete with fedora and longcoat.
• Rule of Funny: In particular, Water Is Air. There is only one strip in which it matters whether the characters are underwater or not.
• Straight Man.
  • Frog.
  • At the moment he's also the Only Sane Man.
• Shout-Out.
  • To David Lynch's Angriest Dog In the World ^[dead link] .
  • One strip has a fish with muscular arms as a reference to TROOOOGGGDOOOR!!
  • Maxell logo ^{[dead link]} .
  • Oliver Twist and Tom Lehrer in one strip? ^{[dead link]} You might think the author had read the book, but he hasn't.
• White Gloves. Frog and Newton always wear white gloves.