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- Hilarity ensued when he started believing he was real high school student and behaved as such, including dating the high school hottie Connie D'Amico.
Source: Back to School -
His covers started being re-enacted in real life — and since the comic book he was drawing for was Tales from the Crypt, mayhem ensued.
Source: Art Initiates Life - Hilarity ensued when people started running several warriors with pets (which also count as allies) and PETA took notice.
Source: My Death Is Just the Beginning
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Started and Ensued. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 29, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/ensued/started
Ensued & Started. N.p., 2016. Web. 29 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/ensued/started>.
Started or Ensued. 2016. Accessed July 29, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/ensued/started.
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