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* Pixellation: Tim's penis is censored with this method.
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* MaleFrontalNudity: Tim does end up showing his penis on-screen. Unsurprisingly this was censored on TV airings but it remains censored on the unrated DVD.



* TheRoast: Rallo and Roberta give one to Junior.

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* TheRoast: Rallo and Roberta give one to Junior.Junior.
* ShoutOut: Cleveland references [[ETTheExtraTerrestrial ET]] when Tim exposes himself.
-->'''Cleveland:''' ET's finger! Phone home!
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*HumiliatingWager: Terry offers to buy Tim a steak in exchange for showing his penis.
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* GotMeDoing: In the opening, when Rallo and Cleveland bicker about being Herbie Hancock fans, Cleveland attempt to hum the song "Rockit", but sings "Axel F" instead. When Rallo tries to correct him, he ends up humming "Axel F" as well. In his own words, Cleveland "Herbie Hancock-blocked" him.

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* GotMeDoing: GotMeDoingIt: In the opening, when Rallo and Cleveland bicker about being Herbie Hancock fans, Cleveland attempt to hum the song "Rockit", but sings "Axel F" instead. When Rallo tries to correct him, he ends up humming "Axel F" as well. In his own words, Cleveland "Herbie Hancock-blocked" him.

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* GotMeDoing: In the opening, when Rallo and Cleveland bicker about being Herbie Hancock fans, Cleveland attempt to hum the song "Rockit", but sings "Axel F" instead. When Rallo tries to correct him, he ends up humming "Axel F" as well. In his own words, Cleveland "Herbie Hancock-blocked" him.



* {{Retirony}}: Parodied. On Cleveland's job hunt, one of his jobs is a cop, thwo days from retirement. During this job, Cleveland and another cop, have to brave it all, and enter a building, with an active shooter. Cleveland refuses to risk his life, as he's too close to retirement to die, so the other cop goes in for him, and gets himself instantly killed.

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* {{Retirony}}: Parodied. On Cleveland's job hunt, one of his jobs is a cop, thwo two days from retirement. During this job, Cleveland and another cop, have to brave it all, and enter a building, with an active shooter. Cleveland refuses to risk his life, as he's too close to retirement to die, so the other cop goes in for him, and gets himself instantly killed.
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* BreakingTheFourthWall: Rallo is too lazy to get up off the couch, to turn on the TV, so he throws a book at it, hitting the "power on" button. He turns to the camera of his own TV show, and tells the audience, "Don't laugh, America. Don't laugh.", as [[TakeThatAudience this is supposed to be a social commentary, on how lazy audiences are in real life]]. Yeah, you there, reading this. That's not really much of a joke, as ''you'' would totally do this, wouldn't you?

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* BreakingTheFourthWall: Rallo is too lazy to get up off the couch, to turn on the TV, so he throws a book at it, hitting the "power on" button. He turns to the camera of his own TV show, and tells the audience, "Don't laugh, America. Don't laugh.", as [[TakeThatAudience this is supposed to be a social commentary, on how lazy audiences are in real life]]. Yeah, you there, reading this. That's not really much of a joke, as ''you'' would totally do this, wouldn't you?
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Cleveland looks for a job. Meanwhile, Rallo and Roberta don't like how well behaved Junior is being with Donna, as it's making them look worse, by comparison.
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* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: When Cleveland gets employed at Waterman Cable, he starts one-upping the former best worker, Tim at everything, slowly driving the latter to jealousy, and later, depression.
* BreakingTheFourthWall: Rallo is too lazy to get up off the couch, to turn on the TV, so he throws a book at it, hitting the "power on" button. He turns to the camera of his own TV show, and tells the audience, "Don't laugh, America. Don't laugh.", as [[TakeThatAudience this is supposed to be a social commentary, on how lazy audiences are in real life]]. Yeah, you there, reading this. That's not really much of a joke, as ''you'' would totally do this, wouldn't you?
* EmotionSuppression: Contrary to his delightfully, innocent demeanor, Junior turns out to be bottling up some very deep pain, regarding the divorce of Cleveland and Loretta. When Rallo and Roberta mess up his bed, he teeters on the edge of an emotional breakdown and says "The sheets must not be divorced! The sheets must ''never'' be divorced."
-->'''Rallo:''' ''[stunned]'' ... Fuck, dude ...
* NiceGuy: Junior becomes hated by Rallo and Roberta for being this.
* OverlyLongGag: Cleveland's cutaway gag, about singing about Mini-Malls.
* {{Retirony}}: Parodied. On Cleveland's job hunt, one of his jobs is a cop, thwo days from retirement. During this job, Cleveland and another cop, have to brave it all, and enter a building, with an active shooter. Cleveland refuses to risk his life, as he's too close to retirement to die, so the other cop goes in for him, and gets himself instantly killed.
-->'''Cleveland:''' ''[deadpan]'' Oh well, ... I'm two days from retirement.
* TheRoast: Rallo and Roberta give one to Junior.

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