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** In the stories in the Halloween Special, this is in full effect. [[spoiler: Rigby's [[KillEmAll takes this to its logical conclusion.]]]]

* KillEmAll:
** According to Benson, [[spoiler: the only way to get rid of unicorns.]]
** The Destroyer of Worlds too.
--->'''Skips:''' You fools! Destroyer of Worlds will kill us all!
** [[spoiler:The final story in the Halloween Special has the entire cast dying in a car crash, although they do reappear as ghosts and don't really find their demises to be the most shocking news.]]

* MundaneMadeAwesome: The show's formula is basically "Mordecai and Rigby take some perfectly normal situation way too far until something supernatural and ''absolutely ridiculous'' happens".

* FrenchJerk: The Maître d' turns out to be this in "Fancy Restaurant".

* DisproportionateRetribution: Lots; one of the show's running themes is minor issues or problems that spiral into world-threatening peril. A few examples:

* AbsenteeActor: Benson doesn't appear in a handful of episodes.

** In "Exit 9B", after the park is destroyed, we see Skips now works as an auto mechanic. His voice actor, Creator/MarkHamill, played Burke, one of ThoseTwoBadGuys who tormented a pair of auto mechanics, Chance and Jake-- aka the [[WesternAnimation/SwatKats SWAT Kats]].

* HumanMomNonHumanDad:
** It's implied that the deer-man had a human mother and therefore a... deer dad.
** Reversed with Margaret's parents.

** The international airings of this show are either edited to pieces or have [[MissingEpisode missing episodes]]. The biggest offenders are the versions shown in the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, Southeast Asia (particularly the version shown in the Philippines), and Latin America.

** For the first three seasons, 60% of the plot seems to be driven by Rigby being this. Offenses include making bets he has no intention of honoring or playing out fairly on multiple occasions, [[spoiler:abusing the rules of the Solid to make Mordecai ruin his chances with Margaret on a night out, almost causing the park to be destroyed in an audit by refusing to give his brother a hug, nearly killing himself during the Eggscellent Challenge ([[DidntThinkThisThrough he's allergic]] [[WhatAnIdiot to eggs]]) and then forcing Mordecai to complete it for him, stealing Benson's good luck out of spite]], and generally being the least reasonable and most selfish person around. [[KarmaHoudini Somehow, he has remained Mordecai's best friend in the series despite all of the abuse.]]

* GoingCosmic: The final story arc, where the Park is launched into space, deals with the revelation that Pops is a PhysicalGod personification of all the universe's goodness, destined to confront his EvilTwin brother who seeks to erase everything, with galactic conspiracies seeking to support them both. They're so evenly matched that they destroy the universe, which resets to [[EternalRecurrence repeat this cycle]] indefinitely until Pops finally breaks it by sacrificing himself so he and his brother both die.

* FanDisservice: Naked Pops in "Brain Eraser".
** Mordecai describing Pops' genitalia after he walks in on him naked. Luckily, Rigby stops him before he can continue, but by then the detail has already been discussed.

** "Thomas Fights Back" and [[spoiler:"The Real Thomas"]] for Thomas.

** "Skips Strikes" has [[spoiler:Rigby making a bet with Death: If Death's Team wins he'll get the team's (which is everyone working at the park except Muscle Man and High-Five Ghost) souls and if Rigby's Team wins he gets... a bowling ball filled with souls.]] Mordecai, Pops and Benson aren't happy about this in the slightest.
** "Over the Top" has [[spoiler:Skips arm wrestling Death for Rigby's soul.]]

** Creator/TimCurry literally is [[Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow a hot dog]] in "Meat your Maker".
** Crew Crew is voiced by three actual rappers: Music/ChildishGambino, Music/TylerTheCreator and MC Lyte.

** While Creator/RobertEnglund doesn't voice a character who can control dreams, Anti-Pops was introduced in the episode, ''[[ANightmareOnElmStreet3DreamWarriors The Dream Warrior]]'' in which one of his henchman could invade dreams.

* AIIsACrapshoot: "Internet" in "Format Wars II" is portrayed as a towering robotic monolith that serves as the ally to "DVD". However, Internet suddenly kills DVD's father (Laserdisc) with the sheer morality that Laserdisc is obsolete, and using its streaming abilities Internet turns on DVD and starts becoming hellbent on killing everyone. [[spoiler:However, it is finally brought down once its Wi-Fi source is destroyed.]]

* AllJustADream: The basis of "Mordecai and Rigby Down Under" is that the two wind up falling asleep in a crate that gets shipped to Australia. The episode ends with [[spoiler:Mordo and Rigs waking up in the crate after passing out on the airplane back home and believing that the whole of the episode's events were merely a dream. [[SubvertedTrope They then get out of the crate to find that they never left Australia.]]]]

** In "Every Meat Burritos", when listing some of the meat in the burrito in during the commercial, while there are some familiar names, the names of the animals that sound made-up are in fact real animals, except "long pig" which is [[BlackComedyCannibalism human flesh]]:
--> Gila monster, pigeon, marmot, dik-dik, baboon, bushpig, long pig, aardwolf, manatee, bat-eared fox, red bat, spotted bat, dog-faced bat, opossum, emu, hairy long-nosed armadillo, big hairy armadillo, screaming hairy armadillo, colocolo, spectacled bear, lowland tapir, red deer, shy albatross, komondor dog, hagfish, sonoran sidewinder, snorkel viper, oak-leaf rattler, bacon, narwhal, kookaburra, aha ha, blobfish, bulldog stargazer, tufted titmouse, screaming cowbird, green jay, lady amhersts pheasant, polish chicken, quetzal, surinam toad, tomato frog, turtle frog, Christmas tree worm, vampire squid, coelacanth, mugger crocodile, aya-aye, dumbo octopus, and platypus.

* AngstNuke: When Benson finally releases all his pent up anger in "Think Positive", the results are explosive.

** In the stories in the Halloween Special, this is in full effect. [[spoiler:Rigby's [[KillEmAll takes this to its logical conclusion.]]]]

* AuthorAppeal: There's frequent references to older pop culture, especially from the 1980s. Mordecai and Rigby still [[PacManFever play 8-bit/16-bit video games]], watch movies on VHS (and once on UsefulNotes/LaserDisc), and are also fans of hair metal rock bands. The anachronistic nature of the show makes in unclear whether they're very nostalgic or all of this is still commonplace.

* AxCrazy: A majority of the villains they face are this. They make sure to take their insanity to absurd levels as they simply have a extreme disregard of innocent lives and do not really give a damn who they kill all for the sake of petty reasons. While some of them end up joining the Park employees as their allies or friends, the rest are simply too murderously unstable to even think about their actions.

* BabiesEverAfter: [[spoiler: At the series' end, Mordecai and his unnamed bat-woman wife, Rigby and Eileen, and Muscle Man and Starla all have a bunch of kids running around. Hi-Five Ghost and Cecilia also have a kid.]]

** In "Yes Dude Yes" Rigby set up Mordecai with several woman, including three human, a flamingo and a canary, and he ends up with a humanoid cloud called CJ. Also when CJ's (human) friend's thought Mordecai was good-looking.

** "Last Meal" has Death showing up after Muscleman enters a Hot Dog Contest, and even has a flashback to the end of "Dead by 8", where he tells Muscleman, Mordecai, and Rigby that Muscleman will die in a hotdog eating contest.

* HiddenHeartOfGold: Muscle Man.

* {{Camp}}: Pops. Whether this is because he's a CloudCuckoolander or if he's AmbiguouslyGay is left open.

* BeautyBrainsAndBrawn: Margaret, Eileen and Starla.