History Radio / TheKevinAndBeanShow

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: When Big Tad developed "Taditude" and started refusing to do wacky stunts for the show, Lightning laid a huge speech on him about how Lightning himself had to do similarly crazy stunts when he was Tad's position because that's what was expected of him and they expected tad to do the same.

* "TheReasonYouSuck"Speech: When Big Tad developed "Taditude" and started refusing to do wacky stunts for the show, Lightning laid a huge speech on him about how Lightning himself had to do similarly crazy stunts when he was Tad's position because that's what was expected of him and they expected tad to do the same.

* BigBrotherBully: Lightning has described Kevin and Bean as having this sort of relationship with him when he worked on the show, claiming it motivated him to work that much harder.

* UnderTheSea: Kevin and Bean once did a show live while [[http://www.kevinandbeanarchive.com/audio.php?dir=audio/Kevin%20and%20Bean-%20Before%20the%20show%20or%20early%20in%20the%20history%20of%20the%20show&file=The%20Kevin%20Bean%20Underwater%20Show-2009-08-24.mp3/ SCUBA diving]], complete with bad audio of air hissing into their masks and Kevin and Bean sounding like they had head colds.

* TakeThat: Perhaps the meanest thing the show has ever done was telling Creator/KeanuReeves that he's the worst actor in Hollywood during an in-studio interview promoting ''Film/AWalkInTheClouds''. After making an attempt to defend himself, Reeves stormed out of the studio and has refused to associate with the show ever since.

** After Kevin and Bean played a prank on Sam where he was led to believe he would be performing at the 2009 Almost Acoustic Christmas concert, Sam called the station and angrily threatened to blow it up, claiming he had "connections" with the Armenian Mafia. Whether he actually intended to go through with this threat or not, the LAPD definitely took it seriously. It resulted in Sam being arrested, having to spend a long holiday weekend in jail, being sentenced to community service and anger management classes, and being slapped with a restraining order that forbade him from contacting KROQ for two years.
** Sam has made reference to an incident when he was a New York cabbie, in which he had a near-miss with a lightning strike. For reasons Sam thinks should be obvious to everyone but aren't, he has long interpreted this incident as a sign that he was destined for greater things. Thus, on top of his dubious talents as a comic and musician, Sam is also convinced that he can achieve world peace if people would actually listen to his (utterly nonsensical) ideas.

** Subverted by Sam the Armenian Comedian: his near-constant high, coupled with his own unshakable belief in his comedic "abilities" make Sam legitimately believe he's the funniest comedian in the world, a belief that virtually everyone around him greatly disagree with. Those few who do find Sam funny find the humor in how bad he is and how unaware Sam is of the disconnect between Sam's confidence and the embarrassing reality.

** Sam is convinced that he is both the funniest comedian and the greatest musician in the world, despite constantly proving himself to be remarkably inept at both, despite legitimately investing decades of his life into it. His lack of success, coupled with his floating through an endless string of haircutting jobs, forced Sam to admit his wife was the primary breadwinner of the family in a rare moment of self-awareness.

** Sam has made reference to an incident when he was a New York cabbie, in which he had a near-miss with a lightning strike. For reasons Sam has never really made clear, he has long interpreted this incident as a sign that he was destined for greater things. Thus, on top of his dubious talents as a comic and musician, Sam is also convinced that he can achieve world peace if people would actually listen to his (utterly nonsensical) ideas.

** Sam is convinced that he is both the funniest comedian and the greatest musician in the world, despite constantly proving himself to be remarkably inept at both.

** Sam auditioned for ''LastComicStanding'', and was declared the worst audition the show had ever had. Discussing the audition afterward on Kevin and Bean, Sam was convinced the audition had gone "great".
** After Kevin and Bean played a prank on Sam where he was led to believe he would be performing at the 2009 Almost Acoustic Christmas concert, Sam called the station and angrily threatened to blow it up, claiming he had "connections" with the Armenian Mafia. Whether he actually intended to go through with this threat or not, the LAPD definitely took it seriously. It resulted in Sam being arrested, having to spend a long holiday weekend in jail, and was sentenced to community service and anger management classes. He was also slapped with a restraining order that forbade him from contacting KROQ for two years.

** Sam has made reference to an incident when he was New York cabbie, in which he had a near-miss with a lightning strike. For reasons Sam has never really made clear, he has long interpreted this incident as a sign that he was destined for greater things. Thus, on top of his dubious talents as a comic and musician, Sam is also convinced that he can achieve world peace if people would actually listen to his (utterly nonsensical) ideas.

** Sam is convinced that he is both the funniest comedian and the greatest musician in the world, despite constantly proving himself to be [[BlessedWithSuck/remarkably inept at both]].

** Sam is convinced that he is both the funniest comedian and the greatest musician in the world, despite constantly proving himself to be [[BlessedWithSuck/ remarkably inept at both]].

** Sam is convinced that he is both the funniest comedian and the greatest musician in the world, despite constantly proving himself to be [[remarkably inept at both/BlessedWithSuck]].

** Sam is convinced that he is both the funniest comedian and the greatest musician in the world, despite constantly proving himself to be [[remarkably inept at both/ BlessedWithSuck]].

* CloudCuckoolander: Sam the Armenian Comedian, ''big time''. With a combination of his own supreme overconfidence in his (lame) comedic and musical talents and a near-constant high, Sam claims that he is the funniest comedian and most talented musician on earth, and will not allow the point to be argued. He cannot (or will not) recognize the obstacles in his way, including his rather limited English skills, his misunderstanding of basic joke structure and inability to play any instrument more complicated than a recorder with any sense of skill or rhythm. Despite all this, and literally decades of largely spinning his wheels on the extreme fringes of show business, Sam still holds to the belief that breakout stardom is just around the corner.

* PutOnABus: Big Tad, who started as a call screener then moved up to do ridiculous stunts and bad celebrity interviews for a period in the 90s. His considerable popularity led him to develop what came to be called "Taditude", making him difficult to work with and eventually led to his firing. Also, a real-life (double!) example of TheBusCameBack, as Jimmy Kimmel persuaded Kevin to rehire Tad as his manservant Thaddeus, a situation that lasted one day as Bean and Ralph threatened to quit the show if Tad remained; Tad also returned to be interviewed for an episode of The B-Team podcast that was dedicated to his exploits.

** Kevin and Bean also once had listeners gather hundreds of KIIS-FM antenna balls and ceremonially buried them in a coffin with a cardboard cutout of Rick Dees and performed a live on-air mock funeral.

* Cloudcuckoolander: Sam the Armenian Comedian, ''big time''. With a combination of his own supreme overconfidence in his (lame) comedic and musical talents and a near-constant high, Sam claims that he is the funniest comedian and most talented musician on earth, and will not allow the point to be argued. He cannot (or will not) recognize the obstacles in his way, including his rather limited English skills, his misunderstanding of basic joke structure and inability to play any instrument more complicated than a recorder with any sense of skill or rhythm. Despite all this, and literally decades of largely spinning his wheels on the extreme fringes of show business, Sam still holds to the belief that breakout stardom is just around the corner.

** Played with in regards to Sam the Armenian Comedian: Sam frequently smokes weed, but this doesn't make his unfunny comedy any funnier. If anything, it only makes ''him'' believe he's funny.

** Played with in regards to Sam the Armenian Comedian: Sam frequently smokes weed, but this doesn't make his unfunny comedy any funnier. If anything, it only makes "him" believe he's funny.

** When word came that Dees was going to be inducted into the National Association Of Broadcasters Hall of Fame, Bean (impersonating Dees) called the head of the organization live on-air to turn down the induction, claiming that "he" (Dees) was totally unworthy of the honor.

* StonersAreFunny: See the [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/PlayingWith/TheKevinAndBeanShow/ PlayingWith]] page in regards to Sam the Armenian Comedian. Played straight with Mole, whose copious drug use routinely causes him to miss important KROQ events, always calling into the show a day late, trying to see if tickets are still available.

* SitcomArchNemesis: Kevin and Bean hated Rick Dees when he was a crosstown rival at KIIS, frequently mocking him and occasionally playing pranks on him. The reason for their ire? In Kevin's and Bean's minds, Dees was the epitome of everybody they hated about phonies in radio.

** The B-Team Podcast, hosted by former producer Lightning, current producer Dave the King of Mexico, and sound editor DJ Omar Khan, takes a look behind the scene of the show, answers listeners' questions, and examines old audio from the show's 25-year plus history.

** Kevin and Bean's Cinco De La Tarde, a one-hour show that aired during afternoon drive time for about a year from 2008-2009. For that period, the morning show ended at 9:00 am, with the afternoon show basically replacing the morning show's last hour. On an episode of The B-Team podcast, Lightning remarked that the show was pre-recorded, but Beer Mug still had to come back to the station every afternoon to run it.
** Same Shit, Different Day, a "best of" Kevin and Bean program that KROQ aired for a time on Saturday mornings from 7:00 to 10:00 am.

** Sam achieved such a level of notoriety that he became the subject of a documentary called [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1329319/ Born Hye: The Armenian Comedian Story]], a title playing on his Armenian heritage and his liberal use of marijuana.

* MissFanservice: Any of the various winners of the yearly Miss Double December contests, held to find a hot girl to function as a sexy representative of the Kevin and Bean show at various KROQ events. The contest was ended due to the belief the contests had become played off, and the changing attitudes about ogling women.

* Ms.Fanservice: Any of the various winners of the yearly Miss Double December contests, held to find a hot girl to function as a sexy representative of the Kevin and Bean show at various KROQ events. The contest was ended due to the belief the contests had become played off, and the changing attitudes about ogling women.