History Series / BlueMountainState

* HollywoodNerd: The only ones that appear in the show are Type 1.

* TheStoner: Harmon.

* However, when the assistant coach suffers the same fate, Marty suggests using two ice rods and gleefully asks the film crew if they're still recording.

** Thad's concussion symptoms in "The c-word" resemble the symptoms from Leonard's anterograde amnesia in the movie Memento

* ItIsPronouncedTroPAY: Thad, calling pronouncing 'sluts' as 'sloots' instead.

* {{FanDisservice}}: In the the Pilot, Thad punishes Alex, Sammy and Craig during initiation by forcing them to run from end zone to end zone in nothing but jockstraps [[ToiletHumour with Oreo cookies wedged between their cheeks]].

* {{FanDisservice}}: In the opening credits, there's a shot of a beautiful cheerleader bending over, followed immediately by a closeup of an overweight man's butt crack
* ExperimentedInCollege: Season Three sees Mary Jo enter her "college lesbian" phase, much to Alex's displeasure.
* GayBravado / ArmoredClosetGay: Thad, depending on your interpretation.
* GirlOnGirlIsHot: Occurs of a lot but as of Season Three this seems to be Mary Jo's entire m.o.

* HomoeroticSubtext: Frequent with Thad, especially in some of his more sadistic moments. Forcing the freshmen to shave each other while he watches, running a race in jockstraps with Oreo's clenched in their buttocks, threatening Alex in bed in the middle of the night, the "oil change"... Plus the entire "Dic Pics" episode. The list is extensive, and the trope is often played for laughs.

* APartyAlsoKnownAsAnOrgy: Every single Goathouse party.

* RealityEnsues:
** The RuleOfFunny only lasts for a certain amount of time, [[spoiler: as the team's indiscretions finally catch up with them at the end of season three and the program gets in serious trouble with the NCAA. They are spared the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_penalty_(NCAA) death penalty]] but Coach Daniels and most of the team's starters are prohibited from playing in the national championship game against Blackwell, who proceeds to [[CurbStompBattle curbstomp the depleted Goats team.]]]]
** Also the Main Characters‘ Antics hurt the Schools reputation
* RuleOfFunny: Let's just say that the real NCAA would not be too happy with BMS' program. [[RealityEnsues The tail end of Season 3 addresses this, as the program does get into trouble with the NCAA.]]

* WhamEpisode: [[spoiler:"The Death Penalty." The NCAA ''[[RealityEnsues finally]]'' investigates Blue Mountain State and has no shortage of rule violations. BMS does manage to avoid the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_penalty_(NCAA) death penalty]] but Coach Daniels and most of the starters are suspended from the national championship game, which the depleted BMS team loses. [[CurbStompBattle By a lot.]]]]

[[caption-width-right:280:Gimme a hell... gimme a yeah!]]

* HopeSpot: In "Death Penalty", it initially seems that Alex has managed to get the NCAA of the team's back by pointing out to the investigators that giving BMS the death penalty would cost them hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue. But then they hold a press conference and announce BMS will be punished by having Coach Daniels, Alex, Thad, and most of the starters suspended from the national championship game.

* GottaPassTheClass: The episode "Midterms" has Alex and several of his teammates threatened with being kicked off the football team because of their poor grades and [=GPAs=] (Alex has a 1.6 GPA, Thad has 1.7, and Harmon has ''0.5'') unless they pass an upcoming midterm. All of them refuse to study, Thad especially because Shiloh is forced to tutor them as he has a high GPA, but Alex finds a way around it by hanging out with the professor's elderly mother and [[DirtyOldWoman secretly performing sexual activities for her]] in exchange for an A-. The other guys do the same, until they're caught and forced to take the test anyway. That is until they come [[ZanyScheme up with a plan]] to blackmail the professor into giving them all Cs by threatening to post a live video of [[{{Squick}} the guys having sex with his mother]] all over campus, to which he breaks down and obliges to.

* HomoeroticSubtext: Frequent with Thad, especially in some of his more sadistic moments. Forcing the freshmen to shave each other while he watches, running a race in jockstraps with Oreo's clenched in their buttocks, threatening Alex in bed in the middle of the night, the [[{{Squick}} "oil change"]]... Plus the entire "Dic Pics" episode. The list is extensive, and the trope is often played for laughs.

* [[IHaveYourWife I Have Your Mother]]: In "Midterms," Alex offers not to spread video of the professor's mother [[spoiler:[[{{Squick}} having sex with some members of the football team]]]] in exchange for a C grade.

* OpposingSportsTeam: Inverted. Though the rival Overland University team wears black and kidnaps their goat as a prank, they seem relatively benign compared to the things the [[DesignatedHero designated protagonists]] do to their opponents, let alone each other. Played straight with Blackwell.

* TheCallKnowsWhereYouLive: Sometimes, despite Alex's best efforts to stay off the field, the universe conspires to make him start at QB during crucial games.

* UnreliableNarrator: The first episode of Season 2, "The Fingering" is full of this. Each segment of the story is told by a different teammate, and many contain glaring inconsistencies or embellishments (Alex and Thad claim that Daniels said different things, Donnie's segment features him being massaged by hot girls in the locker room, Larry portrays Thad as admiring of him, etc.) Hilariously, Thad's version is the most outlandish.

* UnreliableNarrator: The first episode of Season 2, "The Fingering" is full of this. Each segment of the story is told by a different teammate, and many contain glaring inconsistencies or embellishments (Alex and Thad claim that Daniels said different things, Donnie's segment features him being massaged by hot girls in the locker room, Larry portrays Thad as admiring of him, etc.)

* ArtisticLicenseHistory: Thad's video tribute to the life of Coach Daniels, where he plays all the characters including Daniels at 5 years old and Daniels' mother, an Italian butter churner.

* BiTheWay: [[spoiler:Harmon]], as confirmed in "Dic Pics".

* TakeThat: "The Death Penalty" essentially calls out the NCAA for making millions of tax free dollars at the expense of the athletes who are forced to abide by their ridiculous rules to be able to play (not the ones regarding drugs of course, but the ones regarding the athletes not receiving pay or benefits).

* UnreliableNarrator: The first episode of Season2, "The Fingering" is full of this. Each segment of the story is told by a different teammate, and many contain glaring inconsistencies or embellishments (Alex and Thad claim that Daniels said different things, Donnie's segment features him being massaged by hot girls in the locker room, Larry portrays Thad as admiring of him, etc.)

Creator/SpikeTV once decided to bring its viewers a smart, social drama focusing on young men and their lives, loves and losses in the hallowed halls of their first university... yeah, it wasn't possible to read that with a straight face.

-->'''Alex:''' (to Daniels) Is any of this even close to being true?
-->'''Coach Daniels:''' I was born in New Jersey and my mother was a secretary.

* TheBroCode: Alex invokes this in order to get Thad to keep quiet about [[spoiler: Alex banging Coach Daniel's ex-wife]]. However, Thad becomes confused since he considers both Alex and [[spoiler: Daniels]] his bros.

* TheCameo: Bill Romanowski ("The Fingering")

** MMA fighter Chuck Lidell and ESPN's Dan Patrick ("Trap Game")

* ColdTurkeysAreEverywhere: Sammy tries to avoid getting a boner in "Midterms" after [[YouDoNOTWantToKnow an incident with a razor]], so as karma would have it, the girls start actively teasing him, which only makes the situation worse.

* CountryMouse: Harmon.

* CurbStompBattle: [[spoiler: The Goats are on the receiving end of one of these in the national championship game against Blackwell in season 3, due to the NCAA banning Coach Daniels and most of the team's starters from participating because of rules violations.]]

* DepravedBisexual: [[spoiler: Denise.]]

* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: "The Cougar."

* HypocriticalHumor: Blackwell's players tell the media that their win against [[spoiler: a BMS team with most of the starters and coaches suspended]] should not be questioned because they played by the NCAA's rules, unlike BMS. In the next scene we see them, they're drinking and snorting cocaine, exactly what got BMS in trouble with [[spoiler: the NCAA.]]
* ICallHimMrHappy: Coach Daniels named his penis Ernicio. His ex-wife named her vagina Michelle Branch.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: While the rest of the team treat their nerds rather poorly, Radon is ''ecstatic'' to meet his and treats him really well, drinking with him and letting him sleep it off in his bed.

* LikeASonToMe: The premise of "Ransom," where a creepy obsessive fan tries to offer one of his daughters to Alex in hopes that [[spoiler:they'll produce a football-playing grandson because all his children were girls]].

* OpposingSportsTeam: Inverted. Though the rival Overland University team wears black and kidnaps their goat as a prank, they seem relatively benign compared to the things the [[DesignatedHero designated protagonists]] do to their opponents, let alone each other.
** Played straight with Blackwell.

* ProfessionalSlacker: Alex, to the point where he actually fights to keep his second-string job when he is in danger of becoming the starter ("Rivalry Weekend") or dropping to third-string ("There's Only One Second Best").
--> Coach Daniels (to Alex): ''"Y'know, this is the fire I've been looking for from you! I was hoping it would be for the starting job, but ehhh..."''\\

** Alex's ultimate goal in life is not to go pro but to become a high school gym teacher like his dad [[spoiler: At least until "The Peak" when he realizes he could make it to the NFL and do well if he applies himself.]]

* PutOnABus: [[spoiler:Craig]] in Season Two is {{Handwaved}} as having transferred out of BMS, considering the actor playing him was arrested by the DEA for [[http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/world/smallville-star-in-drug-bust/story-e6frfkui-1225789800489 intending to sell large quantities of oxycodone]].

* RealityEnsues: The RuleOfFunny only lasts for a certain amount of time, [[spoiler: as the team's indiscretions finally catch up with them at the end of season three and the program gets in serious trouble with the NCAA. They are spared the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_penalty_(NCAA) death penalty]] but Coach Daniels and most of the team's starters are prohibited from playing in the national championship game against Blackwell, who proceeds to [[CurbStompBattle curbstomp the depleted Goats team.]]]]
** Also the Main Characters Antics hurt the Schools reputation

* TestosteronePoisoning: Whether this trope is being [[RatedMForManly played painfully straight]] throughout the show or parodied into oblivion is debatable.
** Thad. And how.
* [[TheyreCalledPersonalIssuesForAReason They're Called Personal Issues For A Reason]]: In "Drunk Tank," some of the team talks about their issues with each other while under the influence.

* TookALevelInBadass: Harmon after getting advice from a psychic regarding Thad's constant teasing about his failure as a placekicker.
** Both Harmon and Donnie were third string players--meaning ''dead last'' in the ranking order--in Season 1. By Season 3, they're both starters.

* WhamEpisode: [[spoiler: "The Death Penalty." The NCAA [[RealityEnsues *finally*]] investigates Blue Mountain State and has no shortage of rule violations. BMS does manage to avoid the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_penalty_(NCAA) death penalty]] but Coach Daniels and most of the starters are suspended from the national championship game, which the depleted BMS team loses. [[CurbStompBattle By a lot.]]]]