History Radio / TheKevinAndBeanShow

** Nick the Sign Holder, who stood on the sidewalk, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin holding a sign advertising for a cellphone store]], had pretensions of becoming a screenwriter. He even managed to get an internship at a company that read screenplays and provided coverage on scripts. Despite this, and Kevin and Bean finding a movie business professional willing to read Nick's work, Nick only seemed to want people to tell him his work was good rather than give him honest criticism. What little Nick revealed about the script showed signs of some serious ''MagnumOpusDissonance''.

** Nick the Sign Holder, who stood on the sidewalk, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin holding a sign advertising for a cellphone store]], had pretensions of becoming a screenwriter. He even managed to get an internship at a company that read screenplays and provided coverage on scripts. Despite this, and Kevin and Bean finding a movie business professional willing to read Nick's work, Nick only seemed to want people to tell him his work was good rather than give him honest criticism.

* MagnumOpusDissonance: The screenplay Nick the Sign Holder spent years writing showed signs of this, whenever he would share bits of it. Ostensibly an adventure/thriller meant to star Amber Heard, it had overly descriptive exposition not meant to be seen, arch and repetitive dialogue, and was already too long to be filmed in its' present shape (at one point, Nick suggested the script was already over 200 pages). The writing process seemed to be hindered by a reluctance on Nick's part to self-edit his work.

* HollywoodNerd: Ralph's character Roland, a classic angry young nerd who calls in to comment on comic book-related matters. Since Ralph is actually OneOfUs, Roland's knowledge of comic books is quite detailed.

** ''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.

* RaceLift: PlayedForLaughs in regards to Psycho Mike's portrayal of Kevin Federline, or "Federlezee". The character is a white man evoking stereotypes of black culture for himself, even going so far as to refer to himself as a black man, while [[condemning the appropriation of black culture HypocriticalHumor]].

* RaceLift: PlayedForLaughs in regards to Psycho Mike's portrayal of Kevin Federline, or "Federlezee". The character is a white man evoking stereotypes of black culture for himself, even going so far as to refer to himself as a black man, while [[ Main/HypocriticalHumor hypocritically condemning the appropriation of black culture]].

* RaceLift: PlayedForLaughs in regards to Psycho Mike's portrayal of Kevin Federline, or "Federlezee". The character is a white man evoking stereotypes of black culture for himself, even going so far as to refer to himself as a black man, while [[ HypocriticalHumor hypocritically condemning the appropriation of black culture]].

* CelebrityImpersonator: Between the show's cast members (Ralph Garman, especially), literally ''dozens'' of celebrities have been impersonated on the show.

** Big Tad may be the most literal example of this trope. His antics on the show garnered him a tremendous amount of recognition and popularity; according to Lightning on The B-Team podcast, market research showed at one point Tad had become as synonymous with KROQ as any of its DJs. Unfortunately, this attention fed into Tad's ego and he developed a bad attitude (or "Taditude" as it came to be called), that led to his being dismissed from the show. On The B-Team Podcast episode dedicated to him, Tad would admit this attitude would re-emerge when he later worked on ''Series/JimmyKimmelLive'', at a time when the show was struggling, and Tad admitting that it wasn't his place to complain about lack of upport from ABC.

* [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Sleepwalking Sleepwalking]]: Kevin, who has been known to have problems with insomnia, once sleepwalked while carrying a bowl of strawberry ice cream. When he woke up, the ice cream was splattered all over his bed and the floors & walls of ''his bedroom and bathroom''. At the time he first related the story, Kevin had no idea why he did this; it later came out that he had taken a dose of Ambien, before its' notorious side effects became common knowledge.

** One recurring moment is "A Moment With...," which highlights a host's previous blunder or gaffe.

*** 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 Sam meant the threat or not, the LAPD took the threat 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.

* AGoodNameForARockBand: A cast member will usually quip "I hear they're headlining at Coachella" or some variation whenever a good example pops up.

* CelebrityImpersonator: Between the show's cast members (Ralph, especially), literally ''dozens'' of celebrities have been impersonated on the show.

* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome:
** Michael the Maintenance Man, a significant member of the show in the 1990s, was apparently fired from the show and filed a wrongful termination suit. The hosts are prohibited from speaking about the suit publicly, so they have to behave as if Michael never existed.

The titular hosts are Kevin Ryder and Gene 'Bean' Baxter. Kevins plays the [[Main/ManChild simple man who only barely grew up,]] (to the extent that he orders off the kids menu at fancy restaurants) whose foibles include a love of soccer and a hatred of baseball, and child-like glee for general mayhem and practical jokes. His partner, Bean, plays a sensitive sophisticate, but expresses a strange obsession with unusual deaths, a joy for bad puns and arguing over minutia (such as his famous finger-wagging over anyone who refers to "Daylight Savings Time.")[[note]]According to the official US act that enacted it, the term is "Daylight Saving Time" - despite the fact that virtually everyone adds an "S" to the word Saving.[[/note]]

The Kevin and Bean Show is a long-running morning zoo radio show on the seminal Los Angeles alternative rock station KROQ. It began in 1990 and is still running today. It is perhaps most notable for launching the careers of Creator/AdamCarolla and Creator/JimmyKimmel.

* VoxPops: "Man-on-the-street" interviews have long been a staple of the show, as have interviews done on the red carpets of movie premieres. However, their entertainment value lies as much in the ineptitude of the interviewer (most recently, Beermug) as in the ridiculous answers the public provides to the questions asked.

** Beermug has his own recurring segment, "Cheers with Beermug", in which he puts questions to the patrons of his neighborhood bar. Not only does this get Beermug some funny questions, but he himself gets progressively drunker as the interviews go on.

* TokenMinority: Anel Rivers, frequently referred to Kevin and Bean's "(only) black listener", would call in to discuss issues related to the African-American community and eventually got his own periodic segment called "Jive Talkin'".

** In March 2018, Beermug has been in a contest called [[http://www.kevinandbeanarchive.com/audio.php?dir=audio&search=Fatness March Fatness]] against Dave the King of Mexico, wherein whoever fails to lose the most weight by March 31 must dress as BritneySpears and perform "Hit Me Baby, One More Time" at the 2018 April Foolishness concert.

* [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Sleepwalking Sleepwalking]]: Kevin, who has been known to have problems with insomnia, once sleepwalked while carrying a bowl of strawberry ice cream. When he woke up, the ice cream was splattered all over his bed and the floors & walls of ''his bedroom and bathroom''. He had no idea what caused him to do what he did or how.

* Sleepwalking: Kevin, who has been known to have problems with insomnia, once sleepwalked while carrying a bowl of strawberry ice cream. When he woke up, the ice cream was splattered all over his bed and the floors & walls of ''his bedroom and bathroom''. He had no idea what caused him to do what he did or how.