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* TakeThatMe: Mike and Tom are both radical {{Flanderization}}s of both writers' most ridiculous traits.

** Tom's [[VoiceOfTheLegion "big voice."]] Represented by extreme distortions of font.

%%* WidgetSeries

%%* EverythingsBetterWithPenguins: Or a walrus.

%%* RichIdiotWithNoDayJob: Any storyline involving the Masked Benefactor ''will'' play with this.

* FiveManBand: Attempted in an incident referred to by one character as "total [[LampshadeHanging lampshade]] failure."

* TheAce: Eaten by the Living Room Angel upon learning that she played bass with Music/TheBreeders.
* ActionGirl: Lorena Q. is a [[ZigZaggingTrope decidedly skewed]] take on this. Also, Bus Stop Girl.

* AlienGeometries: It is implied that Tom's house is like this.
* AllJustADream: The "introduction" parodies this trope with vigour.

* AssumedWin: The "political parties" episode [[ZigZaggedTrope messes with this one]].
* AuthorAppeal: See Genius Bonus.

* BewareTheNiceOnes: Bus Stop Girl, although Lou the pianist [[BerserkButton has his moments]].
* BlackComedy: The darker sketches that are not outright BlackComedy are mostly this.
* BlackComedyRape: Deconstructed with the Kenyan Rape Owl.
* TheBlindLeadingTheBlind: All over the place.
* BloodyHilarious: The "introduction," in which the entire cast is brutally murdered. [[UnexplainedRecovery This doesn't last, naturally.]]

* BlueAndOrangeMorality
* BoomerangBigot: Mike the über-hipster.
* BreadEggsMilkSquick: Literally used with Tom's grocery lists.
* BrokenAesop: If there is a moral, it's this.
** FantasticAesop: And it's ''still'' broken.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Bus Stop Girl is a BunnyEarsLawyer among a ''cast'' of {{Bunny Ears Lawyer}}s.
* ButtMonkey: George. Possibly one-upped by Lou, the only character known to survive being eaten by the Living Room Angel.
* CalvinBall: Anything with rules or instructions devolves into this fairly quickly.
* CannotTellAJoke: Tom.
* ChaoticStupid: Mike ''tries'' to be this.
* CloudCuckooLand: The world at large.
* CloudCuckooLander: ''Everyone''. Special props to Tom and Bus Stop Girl.
* CoatFullOfContraband: Harold does this with ''knives''.
* CosmicHorrorStory: Some of the more baffling interludes have their roots in this.

* CuteAndPsycho: Lorena. Inverted with Harold, who has sudden bursts of inexplicable normalcy.
* DontExplainTheJoke: Especially if it's not even a real joke to begin with. Yes, Tom, I'm talking to you.
* DownerEnding / GainaxEnding: All the time.

* EverythingsBetterWithPenguins: Or a walrus.
* TheFaceless: The Living Room Angel and Tom to a lesser extent (he's nearly always wearing a beekeeper's mask).
* FailedASpotCheck: The Fearless Adventurers.
* FauxAffablyEvil: The Living Room Angel.

* FunnyBackgroundEvent: ZigZagged often.
* GallowsHumor: Here and there. Most prominent with the Fearless Adventurers.
* GenkiGirl: Lorena.

* {{Hipster}}: Mike. See Take That Me.
* HumanoidAbomination: Bus Stop Girl may be one of these.

* InJoke: Where else do you think half of these characters would come from?

* {{Jerkass}}: Mike, quite frequently. [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Sometimes he redeems himself;]] [[JerkWithAHeartOfJerk sometimes... he really doesn't.]]
* {{Kaiju}}: Apparently, the main characters' hometown is invaded by these on a regular basis. [[NothingExcitingEverHappensHere It's nothing major.]]
* KeeperOfForbiddenKnowledge: The Living Room Angel claims to be this; whether these claims have merit is up to debate.
* LargeHam: Mike, the Living Room Angel, the Fearless Adventurers...
** ''THE MASKED BENEFACTOR!'' [[RunningGag "HUZZAH!"]]
* LightmareFuel
* LovecraftLite: Played straight, parodied, subverted, and deconstructed on various occasions, usually for comedy.

* MightyWhitey: Mercilessly parodied with the Fearless Adventurers.
* MindScrew
** MindScrewdriver: [[SubvertedTrope It only makes things worse to explain them.]]
* NightmareFuelStationAttendant: {{Played for laughs}} (mostly) with Bus Stop Girl and, sometimes, Tom.
* NoodleIncident
* OnlySaneMan: George. [[NotSoAboveItAll Sometimes.]]

* RichIdiotWithNoDayJob: Any storyline involving the Masked Benefactor ''will'' play with this.

* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: The Masked Benefactor.
* StylisticSuck: "Hooray for cardboard!"
* SurrealHumor or SurrealHorror? [[MathematiciansAnswer Yes.]]

* TokenEvilTeammate: Tom and the Violist. Lorena has her moments.
* TooDumbToLive: "He opened the freaking cupboard, didn't he?!"
* {{Troperrific}}: Indeed.
* {{Tsundere}}: Lorena.
* UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist: Mike.

* WorldOfHam: Strips involving [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Drama Movies Inc.]] and the Fearless Adventurers.
* WorldGoneMad
* WidgetSeries

* PlotInducedStupidity: Averted due to the fact that [[CloudCuckooLand everyone is already highly illogical]].

* CoatFullOfContraband: Harold does this with ''[[KnifeNut knives]]''.

* PsychopathicManchild: Harold, who subsists on sugary breakfast cereal, [[TalkativeLoon speaks in non-sequiturs]] and randomly shaves in public. [[KnifeNut With a machete.]]

* NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly: Mike's band is generally described by fusing together the names of totally disparate musical genres (often ones which [[BoomerangBigot Mike ostensibly hates with a passion]]) followed by "but with" and some unusual instrument. Example: "We're like Romanian folk-punk meets Goa trance, but with more free-jazz oboe solos."

* CompletelyMissingThePoint: Tom does this quite often.

* TheAce[=/=]BlackHoleSue: Eaten by the Living Room Angel upon learning that she played bass with Music/TheBreeders.

** FantasticAesop[=/=]SpaceWhaleAesop: And it's ''still'' broken.

* NaughtyTentacles: The Japanese schoolgirls that regularly cling to Handsome Bill have these.

* TheAce[=/=]BlackHoleSue: Eaten by the Living Room Angel upon learning that she played bass with TheBreeders.

* SlidingScaleOfAntiHeroes: Running the gamut from Type I (the band, George) to Type V (the Living Room Angel).

* BlackComedy: The darker sketches that are not outright DeadBabyComedy are mostly this.

* DeadBabyComedy: Often, especially the title sequence.

* NightmareFuelStationAttendant: {{Played for laughs}} ([[HighOctaneNightmareFuel mostly]]) with Bus Stop Girl and, sometimes, Tom.

* CargoShip: Lorena and Mr. Friend, ''the'' OfficialCouple.
** "I love you, Horse Painting, I love you so much."

* CompleteMonster: The Violist tries ''really'' hard to be this... [[PokeThePoodle And fails.]]

* CrazyAwesome: Everyone. Basically propels a solid three-quarters of the show.
* CreepyAwesome: What isn't run on the above is powered by this.

* CrowningMomentOfFunny: [[YourMileageMayVary If you're into this sort of thing]], relatively often.

* GeniusBonus: The abundant obscure references to music and literature in some of the sketches borders on ViewersAreGeniuses.

* HighOctaneNightmareFuel: Some of Tom and ''especially'' Bus Stop Girl's [[CrypticConversation cryptic throwaway comments]] are [[FridgeHorror utterly terrifying in retrospect]]. What's worse is how oblivious they are to them.
** "Of course you couldn't see it, silly! It doesn't ''want'' you to see it!"
** Many of the products or television programmes advertised in the "commercials" are exceedingly creepy.
** In-universe, [[NoodleIncident Harold's "costume party."]] To be fair, on Tom and his part, it was [[ObliviouslyEvil completely unintentional]].

* HoYay: The Fearless Adventurers are ''very'' close...

* {{Squick}}: [[TheBlindLeadingTheBlind Tom's dating advice.]] Or, well, most of his advice.

* RapeAsComedy: Deconstructed with the Kenyan Rape Owl.

* BloodyHilarious: The "introduction," in which the entire cast is brutally murdered. [[IGotBetter This doesn't last, naturally.]]

* YouWannaBuyAWatch: Harold does this with ''[[KnifeNut knives]]''.

* AndTheWinnerIs: The "political parties" episode [[ZigZaggedTrope messes with this one]].

* DroppedAWidgetOnHim: Subverted.