This reminds me of The Simpsons episode in which Barney is on the wagon and goes to a baseball game. He is shown to be the only non-drinking fan in the stands and muses, “I never realized just how boring this game is.”
I think she hosted an SNL one time where she starts to remove her clothing during one sketch, and another character says, “Hey, we’ve already seen you in your underwear.”
As I recall it, several years ago there was an arc where Heart travels to the New York City theatre district and looks around for her dad. I think she and Dean took the train without telling anybody. Anyway, she is unable to locate him and tosses some handwritten thing she had made for him in a sidewalk trash can. In the final panel, with Heart walking away in the distance, we see part of a figure with “back to camera” taking Heart’s note (or whatever it was) out of the trash can.
To my knowledge, this is the one and only time in the entire run that Heart’s dad has appeared.
Heart’s father made a brief appearance a few years ago, or so it seemed. He appears in the final panel of a strip where Heart is in New York City to find her actor-dad in the theatre district. She gives up and walks into the distance; someone (whom we see only from the rear) is watching her depart. He also removes something from a trash can that Heart had wanted to give him. If it is the dad, it’s the only appearance he has ever made in the entire run of HOTC.
I like how Leopold has to use a little mallet to get access to the bigger mallet.