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* "Magicians perform [[InsistentTerminology illusions.]] Tricks are something a whore does for money... also cocaine"

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* "Magicians perform [[InsistentTerminology illusions.]] Tricks are A trick is something a whore does for money... also or cocaine"
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* During Season 2, Gob's inability to use the office phones.
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* A near-constant is the ability for the family members to have conversations where they think they understand the conversation but are in reality are on two entirely separate subjects.

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* A near-constant is the ability for the family members to have conversations where they think they understand the conversation but are in reality are on two entirely separate subjects.subjects (or, conversely, having the same conversation but not realizing it).
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* A near-constant is the ability for the family members to have conversations where they think they understand the conversation but are in reality are on two entirely separate subjects.
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* Someone running over Tobias in their car and saying "what the hell was that?"
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* The Charlie Brown walk, with original Peanuts music.
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* Don't call it "The OC".
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* George Michael is ''StarWars'' Kid

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* George Michael is ''StarWars'' ''Franchise/StarWars'' Kid
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* Over the course of season 4's last few episodes, Michael repeatedly suffers injuries to his left eye.
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** Tobias ''does'' actually tip them--with quarters (for "decorating his [living] quarters"). [[FunnyBackgroundEvent They do not approve.]]


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* "Do you know China Garden?"

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** The black silhouette on the cover of "The Man Inside Me"
** Lucille refers to Tobias as a "colored person"
** Tobias thinks Linsay's attraction to Ice might have something to with them having the same body-type

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** The black silhouette on the cover of "The Man Inside Me"
** Lucille refers to Tobias as a "colored person"
Me".
** Tobias thinks Linsay's attraction to Ice might have something to with them having the same body-typebody-type.
** Lindsay says that the name "Tobias" makes everyone think of a "big black guy", and Tobias answers that he is "not a big guy."
** Lucille is shocked by a blue painted Tobias, and refers to the event as an assault by a "colored person".
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** Herbert Love rally.


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* There are (very subtle) references all over the show to Tobias being a black man with a skin condition making him look white.
** The black silhouette on the cover of "The Man Inside Me"
** Lucille refers to Tobias as a "colored person"
** Tobias thinks Linsay's attraction to Ice might have something to with them having the same body-type
** Lindsay flirts with Herbert Love ([[ScaryBlackMan Terry Crews]]) specifically because he reminds her of Tobias back when they first started dating.
** His middle name is Onyango
** You do occasionally see him wear something that looks like a dashiki
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* A very minor one in season 4: No matter how hard he tries, George Michael can't get a nickname that isn't associated with a celebrity who was caught in a sex scandal (specifically, George Michael, Boy George, and [[spoiler: George Maharis, which was the name of an actor from the 1960s who was arrested for having sex with a hairdresser named Perfecto Telles in a men's room]].)
-->'''Michael:''' How about Boy George?
-->'''News Anchor (in a flashback):''' Singer Boy George was arrested on charges of sexual assault today.
-->'''George Michael:''' I'll stick with George Michael. ''(quietly)'' At least it was consensual.
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* The Bluths have the worst [[SoundEffectBleep f*cking]] attorneys.
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** And then "More touching!"
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** "How did I get into the boulder"
* Pete Rose being used as a metaphor in conjunction with the bases in baseball for the stages of lovemaking.
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* In Season 4, not tipping black men. George Sr. draws attention to it in the first episode, but the rest of the family follows the same practice without realizing it.
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* [[spoiler:"Hello darkness, my old friend"]]
* [[spoiler:Maritime law]]

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* [[spoiler:"Hello [[Music/SimonAndGarfunkel "Hello darkness, my old friend"]]
friend..."]]
* [[spoiler:Maritime law]]Maritime law.
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* "Hello darkness, my old friend"
* Maritime law

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* "Hello [[spoiler:"Hello darkness, my old friend"
friend"]]
* Maritime law[[spoiler:Maritime law]]
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* Maritime law
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* STEVE HOLT!
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* [[RealLifeWritesThePlot In reference to Netflix's limited budget for season 4]], any past video clip shown has a fat "SHOW STEALER PRO TRIAL VERSION" watermark on it.

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* [[RealLifeWritesThePlot In reference to Netflix's limited budget for season 4]], any past video clip shown has a fat "SHOW STEALER PRO TRIAL VERSION" watermark on it. [[spoiler:The trial expires during the last episode]].
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* "Hello darkness, my old friend"
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* Tobias' new license plate for his new start in life; ANUSTART
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* [[RealLifeWritesThePlot In reference to Netflix's limited budget for season 4]], any past video clip shown has a fat "SHOW STEALER PRO TRIAL VERSION" watermark on it.
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* A new one for season 4 is the narrator and a character in the actual scene overlapping each other with the same line.
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** "Watch out for live-ins."

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** "Watch out for live-ins.""
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* "Magicians perform [[InsistentTerminology illusions.]] Tricks are something a whore does for money... also cocaine"
* "I've made a huge mistake."
* "Going to Portugal... down ole' South America way..."
* "Have these people ever even seen a chicken?"
* "Her?"
* "If Tobias is straight, I'm sober..."
* "Where did the lighter fluid come from?"
* Never-nudes
* "There are dozens of us. DOZENS!"
* George Michael is ''StarWars'' Kid
* The Board is incompetent.
* "Come on!!"
* "Well, this is the last time you'll see these!"
** "Spring Break! Woo!"
* "It's the final countdown..."
* "Marry me!"
* "Look at Banner, Michael!"
* Family love Michael.
** Michael love family.
* "You're killing me, Buster."
* "You can't do that on the ''balcony'', buddy?"
* "There's always money in the banana stand!"
* "''NO TOUCHING!''"
* "Hey, brother.." and other variations.
** "Hey, Hermano..."
* All the Bluth men's love of ice cream
* [[{{Leitmotif}} Dramatic music playing whenever Oscar says something that reveals he might be Buster's father]].
* Variations of "Watch out for the hop-ons. You ''will'' get some hop-ons."
** "Watch out for live-ins."
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