Gintama has taught me to always check for ninja's; calcium is very important; having a drag queen persona can be extremely useful; if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, it MUST be an old guy in a duck suit; zura ja nai katsura da!; a surprising amount of Japanese; you don't have to be a super duper awesome drafstman to be a kickass mangaka (sorry Sorachi-sensei XD); Studio Sunrise seems to have all of the epicly good crack; and when you fight, it's to protect something.
Oh, also, you can get away with creating something extremely phallic so long as you call it the Neo Armstrong Cyclone Jet Armstrong Cannon and make up some sort of interesting history to accompany it. XD
Back in the day, Freakazoid taught me that I'm not crazy and weird, I'm advanced. XD