History Series / BoredToDeath

* KickTheSonOfABitch: [[ItMakesSenseInContext After accidentally almost killing Dick Cavett while trying to get the curtain to drop on Jonathan's segment]], Louis was arrested, lost his job, and ended up working as a busboy at Richard and Sons where Richard delights in humiliating him ForTheEvulz

[[caption-width-right:350:[[IncrediblyLamePun A noir-otic comedy.]]]]

* ThreeAmigos: Jonathan, Ray and George. They form an inseparable trio despite their great differences in lifestyle.

* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: An interesting case. In the first season, all the episodes are "The Case of the [Blank]" or "The [Blank] Case" except for "Take a Dive" and "Stockholm Syndrome". For the rest of the series, all the episode titles are lines from the episode (with an [[ExcitedShowTitle exclamation point in the second season]]), with the exception of "Escape From the Dungeon!" and the final three episodes of season 2.

* ExcitedShowTitle: For all of season 2.

* AbortedArc: In the season 2 finale, Jonathan is trying to decide if Nina should move in with him. She is never mentioned again in the third season.

* AllLesbiansWantKids: A lesbian couple hit up Ray for sperm in a coffee shop. When he obliges, they turn around and sell his sperm on the black market to all the other lesbians in the neighborhood, all of whom are also desperate to reproduce.

* TheBoxingEpisode: The first season finale is a fight between GQ and Edition with Richard Antrem versus George Christopher plus Louise Greene versus Jonathan Ames. Ray ends up fighting their cartoonist for verisimilitude.

* GoneHorriblyRight: George sent Jonathan out to have a great youthful time so that she would realize that she wouldn’t marry her 60 year old fiancée. Unfortunately Jonathan did exactly that.

* HitMeDammit: The guy Ray boxes in the first season finale is eager to try S&M.

* IAlwaysWantedToSayThat: Jonathan's [[spoiler: real father]] has always wanted to say "The prodigal son returns".

* InsufferableGenius: Louis is a pompous author with literary pretensions.
** He later became a SmallNameBigEgo after his HumiliationConga in Season 3.

* KickTheSonOfABitch: [[ItMakesSenseInContext After accidentally almost killing Dick Cavett while trying to get the curtain to drop on Jonathan's segment]], Louis was arrested, lost his job and ended up working as a busboy at Richard and Sons where Richard delights in humiliating him ForTheEvulz

* MayDecemberRomance: Ray and Belinda.

* MostWritersAreWriters: Though, while Jonathan is a novelist, Ray is a webcomic writer, and George is Jonathan's boss at a publishing company, writing isn't much of a plot point until season one's final two episodes.

* ShoutOut: Frequently made to great authors and books.

* TheShrink: A Flavor One sends Ray into an [[CompressedVice extremely short-lived]] bout of self-awareness, which in turn causes depression. Said shrink goes on to "solve" all of Jonathan's issues in under five minutes, although [[spoiler:it might've been because he knew Jonathan wasn't there for advice and wanted him to cut to the chase.]]

* WomenAreWiser: Rose to Jonathan.

* RefugeInAudacity: The entire premise of the show is that Jonathan attempting to be a HardboiledPrivateDetective despite being a mild mannered pot smoking writer.

* SmugSnake: Lewis Green.

* TheBoxingEpisode: The first season finale.

* CastingGag: Ted Danson's character dating a woman played by Mary Steenburgen. The two are married in real life.

* RefugeInAudacity: The entire premise of the show.

** Susanne, Jonathan's ex in the pilot, drops out of the show after four episodes despite being Jonathan's primary motivation.

* CloudCuckoolander: Creator/JimJarmusch, full stop. His apartment is completely bare so he can ride laps on his bike in it.

* AmateurSleuth: Jonathan becoming one of these is the premise for the show.

* InsaneTrollLogic: Edition demands George go to rehab, even though (supposedly) he was smoking because he had cancer. Even though he (again, supposedly) thought it was being used strictly medically, they are going to [[KickTheDog force him to go to rehab anyways]] just because [[spoiler: the charts got mixed up and he was wrong]].

* InsufferableGenius: Louis.

* IrrationalHatred: It’s never explained why Louis hates Jonathan so much
* JewishAndNerdy: Jonathan.

* HeterosexualLifePartners: The three main characters.

* ThreeAmigos: Jonathan, Ray and George.

* UngratefulBastard: After Jonathan saved his life, Green wrote an insulting story about him to the New York Times and later tried to steal his job.

* TheyFightCrime: A failing novelist, a comic-book artist, and a wealthy magazine editor, all of whom are stoners.

** George has a rival in the form Richard Antrem (Oliver Platt), editor of ''GQ'' magazine. Cranked UpToEleven when after George leaves his post as editor of ''Edition'' to focus on his restaurant. A few episodes later, Richard opens his own restaurant specifically to try and drive George's out of business.

->'''George:''' This all very insane and illegal, isn't it?\\
'''Ray:''' It's very illegal. And insane.\\
'''George:''' I like insane.

* PaperThinDisguise: Jonathan once tried to break into a spa using towels as fake boobs, butt and to cover his face. [[RealityEnsues It doesn't work.]]

The series was cancelled in 2011 after its third season.

An {{Creator/HBO}} {{Sitcom}} created by Jonathan Ames that first began airing in September 2009. It stars Creator/JasonSchwartzman as [[AuthorAvatar Jonathan Ames]], a non-licensed private detective who [[ArcWords believes he can help people]]. After breaking up with his girlfriend Suzanne and discovering that she was the only thing he had, Jonathan puts an ad on Craigslist hiring himself out as an investigator. He attempts to juggle this life with working for a magazine run by George Christopher, a middle-aged man who is actively attempting to recapture his youth through drugs and sex. Jonathan's best friend, Ray Hueston, is a comic-book artist with relationship issues who begrudgingly helps Jonathan in his exploits any way he can.

* BourgeoisBohemian: George.