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* MushroomSambaMushroomSamba: Jon gets kidnapped by a crazy hillbilly couple In "Camping". They force him to swallow (what appears to be) a suicide pill... which trips him out so much that he has a threesome with the two.

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* KnightOfCerebus: Sergei in his season 2 introduction makes the show's tone much darker. Though more like a darker shade of BlackComedy as the show didn't actually cease being one.
** Lampshaded when he first meets with Mighty Joe Jon

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* KnightOfCerebus: Sergei in his season 2 introduction makes the show's tone much darker. Though more like a darker shade of BlackComedy as the show didn't actually cease being one.
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* ImAHumanitarian: Downplayed, but still horrifying nonetheless; while Sergei isn't a cannibal, he still swallows some of [[spoiler:Jon's mother's ''ashes'']] just to spite him.
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** Creator/JimmyFallon appears AsHimself in “Kim’s Crafts”, where he talks about Kim’s popular tortilla hats on his show.

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** Creator/JimmyFallon appears AsHimself in “Kim’s Crafts”, Krafts”, where he talks about Kim’s popular tortilla hats on his show.
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** Creator/JimmyFallon appears AsHimself in “Kim’s Crafts”, where he talks about Kim’s popular tortilla hats on his show.
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** [[spoiler: Jon's bodyguard and best friend, Mike]] is killed in episode 2.
** [[spoiler: Jon's parents]] are KilledOffForReal in episode 4.
** [[spoiler: Mighty Joe Jon, The Black Blonde]] bites the bullet (literally) in the Season 2 Finale.
** [[spoiler: Qi-qang, leader of the Wang Cho Chinese mob, is killed by Sergei]] in the 3rd season finale.
** [[spoiler: Finally, David, TB and Sergei in the series finale]].

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** [[spoiler: Jon's [[spoiler:Jon's bodyguard and best friend, Mike]] is killed in episode 2.
** [[spoiler: Jon's [[spoiler:Jon's parents]] are KilledOffForReal in episode 4.
** [[spoiler: Mighty [[spoiler:Mighty Joe Jon, The Black Blonde]] bites the bullet (literally) in the Season 2 Finale.
** [[spoiler: Qi-qang, [[spoiler:Qi-qang, leader of the Wang Cho Chinese mob, is killed by Sergei]] in the 3rd season finale.
** [[spoiler: Finally, David, [[spoiler:David, TB and Sergei in the series finale]].
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* LongList: By multiple people after Paul Rudd's death, of all the movies he has been in.

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* LongList: By multiple people after Paul Rudd's [[spoiler:Paul Rudd]]’s death, of all the movies he has been in.
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* BlackComedy: ''Delocated'' is an absurd, yet surprisingly dark comedy where characters (both major and minor) are killed quite frequently, especially from Season 2 onwards. While some deaths are treated seriously, most of them are strictly PlayedforLaughs.

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* BlackComedy: ''Delocated'' is an absurd, yet surprisingly dark comedy where characters (both major and minor) are killed quite frequently, especially from Season 2 onwards. While some deaths are treated seriously, most of them are strictly PlayedforLaughs.PlayedForLaughs.
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* BlackComedy: ''Delocated'' is an absurd, yet surprisingly dark comedy where characters (both major and minor) are killed quite frequently, especially from Season 2 onwards. While some deaths are treated seriously, most of them are strictly PlayedforLaughs.
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** Creator/MichaelShannon plays Mike (the guy in the bush) in Season 1’s “Sick of It!”.

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** Creator/MichaelShannon plays Mike Mark (the guy in the bush) in Season 1’s “Sick of It!”.

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* TheCameo: Creator/PaulRudd briefly shows up in the pilot. [[spoiler:He gets mistaken for Jon and is killed immediately]].

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Creator/PaulRudd briefly shows up in the pilot. [[spoiler:He gets mistaken for Jon and is killed immediately]].
** Creator/MichaelShannon plays Mike (the guy in the bush) in Season 1’s “Sick of It!”.

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* {{Cameo}}: Paul Rudd in the pilot.

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* {{Cameo}}: Paul Rudd TheCameo: Creator/PaulRudd briefly shows up in the pilot.pilot. [[spoiler:He gets mistaken for Jon and is killed immediately]].


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* DeathByCameo: In the pilot, Jon runs into [[spoiler:Paul Rudd]] at a clothing store. He says exactly three lines before getting shot to death.
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* TheUnmasking:
** Downplayed with Susan and David, who remove their masks (and voice disguisers) offscreen in “Bar Mitzvah”. They show their faces for the remainder of their screen time.
** Played straight with [[spoiler:Jon in the series finale, where he ''finally'' takes his mask off at the end, signifying that he no longer needs to hide from anyone]].
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* AnyoneCanDie: Season 2, thanks to Yvgeny's brother. So far we have the crooked producer from season 1, an assistant, [[strike:Jon's parents]](Jon lied about them being killed) and 2 body doubles. And that's just episode one....

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* AnyoneCanDie: Season 2, thanks to Yvgeny's brother. So far we have the crooked producer from season 1, an assistant, [[strike:Jon's parents]](Jon lied about them being killed) and 2 two body doubles. And that's just episode one....



** [[spoiler: Mighty Joe Jon, The Black Blonde]] bites the bullet(Literally) in the Season 2 Finale.

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** [[spoiler: Mighty Joe Jon, The Black Blonde]] bites the bullet(Literally) bullet (literally) in the Season 2 Finale.



** [[spoiler: Finally David, TB and Sergei in the series finale]]

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** [[spoiler: Finally Finally, David, TB and Sergei in the series finale]]finale]].

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* TheMafiya: The Mirminsky Family
** Comedian [[AsHimself Todd Barry]], though pretty much just hangs out at their social club.
*** Implied that he [[BecomingTheMask joins them for real]] after he gains a taste for killing people under Sergei's tutoring.

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* TheMafiya: TheMafiya:
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Family, whose crimes put Jon and his family into hiding in the first place. Their ruthless hunt for Jon is what drives the show’s main conflict.
** Comedian [[AsHimself Todd Barry]], Barry]] counts too, though he pretty much just hangs out at their social club.
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club. It is implied that he [[BecomingTheMask joins them for real]] after he gains gaining a taste for killing people under Sergei's tutoring.



* OnlySaneMan: Kim has the patience of a saint. [[spoiler:Her patience runs out when at the end of season 2 when Jon emphatically tells her that he'll never marry.]]

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* OffingTheOffspring: In the series finale, [[spoiler:Sergei brainwashes Jon and trains him to kill his own son. He sadly goes through with murder against his will, and is rightfully devastated afterwards]].
* OnlySaneMan: Kim has the patience of a saint. [[spoiler:Her patience runs out when at the end of season 2 when Jon emphatically tells her that he'll never marry.]]

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* TheReveal: Yvgeny in the pilot.



* TheUnreveal: Jon's face in the season one finale was blurred when he took off his mask.

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* TheParody: Reality shows.

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* TheParody: Reality shows.Of reality television. The show satirizes the genre with the absurd premise of giving a TV show to folks who are supposed to be ''in hiding''.



* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Jon ''loves'' sandwiches, so much that it gets him in trouble.
** And got Jon in several RealLife Subway commercials.

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* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Jon ''loves'' sandwiches, so much that it gets him in trouble.
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* UnexplainedRecovery: Possibly one, at the end of S03E08, [[spoiler:"Jon" goes to the dry cleaners where Eun Mi works, only to find her mom explain to him that she died. He's very skeptical, as he thinks this is all a cruel joke that she set up. It ends without a full explanation of whether she really did die or not, but it's heavily implied that she did until the next episode where she comes back, alive and well, and it's never mentioned again.

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* UnexplainedRecovery: Possibly one, at the end of S03E08, [[spoiler:"Jon" "Jon" goes to the dry cleaners where Eun Mi works, only to find where her mom explain explains to him that she [[spoiler:she died. He's very skeptical, as he thinks this is all a cruel joke that she set up. It The episode ends without a full explanation of whether she really did die or not, but it's heavily implied with the implication that she did is indeed dead… until she shows up in the next episode where she comes back, one alive and well, and it's well]]. It’s never mentioned again.
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** At one point, he decides he needs some "fresh material" for his act. Later in the episode, we see him with what appears to be a [[CompletelyMissingThePoint vodka dummy]].

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** At one point, he decides he needs some "fresh material" for his act. Later in the episode, we see him with what appears to be a [[CompletelyMissingThePoint vodka dummy]].dummy.
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** Whenever Paul Rudd gets mentioned [[spoiler: after his death]], the person doing so will list a few of the movies where he appeared. Despite this happening several times between characters not having any contacts, they somehow avoid repeating titles.
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* [[spoiler:CorruptCorporateExecutive: Mighty Joe Jon, The Black Blonde goes to some depraved and blatantly illegal lengths to improve the show's ratings. [[EvenEvilHasStandards Sergei]] ends up [[KickTheSonOfABitch killing him for it]] at the end of season 2.]]

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* [[spoiler:CorruptCorporateExecutive: Mighty CorruptCorporateExecutive: [[spoiler:Mighty Joe Jon, The Black Blonde goes to some depraved and blatantly illegal lengths to improve the show's ratings. [[EvenEvilHasStandards Sergei]] ends up [[KickTheSonOfABitch killing him for it]] at the end of season 2.]]



* [[spoiler: ManchurianAgent: Sergei turns Jon into one during the series finale. He kills his son, TB, and ultimately breaks free to kill Sergei himself.]]

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* [[spoiler: ManchurianAgent: Sergei [[spoiler:Sergei turns Jon into one during the series finale. He kills his son, TB, and ultimately breaks free to kill Sergei himself.]]



* PaperThinDisguise: The show parodies the hell out of this. For the first season, Jon's black mask and modulated voice are ridiculously conspicuous by themselves, in a "why do you even bother?" sort of way. Not only this, but as a celebrity with a reality show, witness relocation becomes ''meaningless'', which ''[[TitleDrop Delocated]]'' [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]]. His ex-wife and son soon ended up taking off their masks as they had become pointless, but Jon kept his and flaunted it everywhere as the face of his fame. Season two added the Jon decoy program which flooded New York with masked decoys so that Jon would be harder to snipe in public, which would be a more effective solution if only Jon [[OverlyLongGag didn't constantly hang out in the same places]]. This became a literally ''paper'' thin disguise when Jon decided to wear a paper bag over his head as a disguise during the stand-up comedy contest, but then took off the bag in front of Yvgeny. [[HarmlessVillain Not that Yvgeny was all that dangerous]] [[BadassDecay anymore]].

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* PaperThinDisguise: The show parodies the hell out of this. For the first season, Jon's black mask and modulated voice are ridiculously conspicuous by themselves, in a "why do you even bother?" sort of way. Not only this, but as a celebrity with a reality show, witness relocation becomes ''meaningless'', which ''[[TitleDrop Delocated]]'' [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]]. His ex-wife and son soon ended up taking off their masks as they had become pointless, but Jon kept his and flaunted it everywhere as the face of his fame. Season two added the Jon decoy program which flooded New York with masked decoys so that Jon would be harder to snipe in public, which would be a more effective solution if only Jon [[OverlyLongGag didn't constantly hang out in the same places]]. This became a literally ''paper'' thin disguise when Jon decided to wear a paper bag over his head as a disguise during the stand-up comedy contest, but then took off the bag in front of Yvgeny. [[HarmlessVillain Not that Yvgeny was all that dangerous]] [[BadassDecay dangerous anymore]].
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* BlackBestFriend: Charlie, an affable old black man with a similar sense of humor to Jon, becomes his best friend for a while in an episode of season 3. [[spoiler:He soon dies of old age, though.]]
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Pretty much everyone save Jon and Yvgeny is dead by the end of the finale. John goes into hiding because he's "tired of show business" despite the fact it was his stupidity that resulted in the death of his family. He sends the network a tape explaining this but they don't care and throw the tape into the trash. Pretty much rendering the whole series pointless in the long run.]]

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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Pretty much everyone save Jon Jon, Susan, and Yvgeny is dead by the end of the finale. John goes into hiding because he's "tired of show business" despite the fact it was his stupidity that resulted in the death of his family. He sends the network a tape explaining this this, but they don't care and throw the tape into the trash. Pretty trash, pretty much rendering the whole series pointless in the long run.]]
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The RealLife show produced by PFFR, which also produced ''Series/TheHeartSheHoller'', ''Series/WonderShowzen'', and ''WesternAnimation/XavierRenegadeAngel.'' Unlike their previous shows, ''Delocated'' isn't based on BlackHumor; rather, it, like ''TheOffice'', uses [[DeadpanSnarker deadpan]] humor. It also has no CGI mixed in with the Live Action, which is odd for a show on the Creator/CartoonNetwork.

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The RealLife show produced by PFFR, which also produced ''Series/TheHeartSheHoller'', ''Series/WonderShowzen'', and ''WesternAnimation/XavierRenegadeAngel.'' Unlike their previous shows, ''Delocated'' isn't based on BlackHumor; rather, it, like ''TheOffice'', ''Series/{{The Office|US}}'', uses [[DeadpanSnarker deadpan]] humor. It also has no CGI mixed in with the Live Action, which is odd for a show on the Creator/CartoonNetwork.
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Pretty much everyone save Jon and Yvgeny is dead by the end of the finale. John goes into himself because he's "tired of show business" despite the fact it was his stupidity that resulted in the death of his family. He sends the network a tape explaining this but they don't care pretty much rendering the whole series pointless in the long run.]]

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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Pretty much everyone save Jon and Yvgeny is dead by the end of the finale. John goes into himself hiding because he's "tired of show business" despite the fact it was his stupidity that resulted in the death of his family. He sends the network a tape explaining this but they don't care pretty and throw the tape into the trash. Pretty much rendering the whole series pointless in the long run.]]



* JerkAss:Jon, who cares nothing for his family or girlfriends saftey and only for his popularity.

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* JerkAss:Jon, JerkAss: Jon, who cares nothing for his family or girlfriends saftey safety and only for his popularity.
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Its {{pilot}} premiered on AprilFoolsDay in 2008, which confused or pissed off some people who were expecting ''ComicStrip/TheBoondocks''. Its first season ran in 2009 with six episodes, a second in 2010 with 12 episodes, a third with ten episodes in 2012, and its series finale aired on March 7th 2013.

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Its {{pilot}} premiered on AprilFoolsDay in 2008, which confused or pissed off some people who were expecting ''ComicStrip/TheBoondocks''.''WesternAnimation/TheBoondocks''. Its first season ran in 2009 with six episodes, a second in 2010 with 12 episodes, a third with ten episodes in 2012, and its series finale aired on March 7th 2013.
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* BaldOfEvil: Sergei is a scary, head-shaving enforcer.
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--->'''Jon:''' "This isn't a Hollywood movie, this is life! I don't need a bunch of writers coming up with fake lines, I need someone to [[{{Ransom}} GIVE ME BACK MY SON!"]]]

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--->'''Jon:''' "This isn't a Hollywood movie, this is life! I don't need a bunch of writers coming up with fake lines, I need someone to [[{{Ransom}} [[Film/{{Ransom}} GIVE ME BACK MY SON!"]]]
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->''"What happens when you take a family from the Witness Protection Program, move them to UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity, and give them their own reality show?"''

''Delocated'' is a live action Creator/AdultSwim show about a man in the WitnessProtection Program who's starring in his own RealityShow. He's targeted by a [[AcceptableTargets Russian]] stand-up comedian/hit man. Jon wears a mask all the time and uses a voice harmonizer, and he expects his family to do the same. The entire show and premise are chock-full of absurd FridgeLogic, likely entirely intentional.

The RealLife show produced by PFFR, which also produced ''Series/TheHeartSheHoller'', ''Series/WonderShowzen'', and ''WesternAnimation/XavierRenegadeAngel.'' Unlike their previous shows, ''Delocated'' isn't based on BlackHumor; rather, it, like ''TheOffice'', uses [[DeadpanSnarker deadpan]] humor. It also has no CGI mixed in with the Live Action, which is odd for a show on the Creator/CartoonNetwork.

Its {{pilot}} premiered on AprilFoolsDay in 2008, which confused or pissed off some people who were expecting ''ComicStrip/TheBoondocks''. Its first season ran in 2009 with six episodes, a second in 2010 with 12 episodes, a third with ten episodes in 2012, and its series finale aired on March 7th 2013.

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!!''Tropes:''

* AnyoneCanDie: Season 2, thanks to Yvgeny's brother. So far we have the crooked producer from season 1, an assistant, [[strike:Jon's parents]](Jon lied about them being killed) and 2 body doubles. And that's just episode one....
** [[spoiler: Jon's bodyguard and best friend, Mike]] is killed in episode 2.
** [[spoiler: Jon's parents]] are KilledOffForReal in episode 4.
** [[spoiler: Mighty Joe Jon, The Black Blonde]] bites the bullet(Literally) in the Season 2 Finale.
** [[spoiler: Qi-qang, leader of the Wang Cho Chinese mob, is killed by Sergei]] in the 3rd season finale.
** [[spoiler: Finally David, TB and Sergei in the series finale]]
* AttentionWhore: Jon, who's so desperate for attention that he puts himself in a reality show and risks getting his family killed by the mob just so he can be famous. Deconstructed, as his behavior starts to cause increasingly worse things to happen, cause nothing but harm to everyone around him, and [[spoiler: by the end of the show, his pathetic attempts to get attention fail and the show gets cancelled]].
* AxCrazy: Sergei, who wants to kill all of "Jon"'s loved ones and drive him insane because it's "more fun" than just killing him.
* BadassDecay: Deliberately invoked. Yvgeny is no longer nearly as dangerous in season 2 when [[KnightOfCerebus his brother Sergei]] takes the reigns as antagonist.
** He once again TakesALevelInBadass when his brother convinces him to use ThePowerOfActing to murder people under the guise of living out the character of train robber Igor Pachenko. When he turns out his [[SourceMusic soundtrack]] and starts saying his lines, ''[[NotSoHarmlessVillain someone is about to get strangled.]]''
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Pretty much everyone save Jon and Yvgeny is dead by the end of the finale. John goes into himself because he's "tired of show business" despite the fact it was his stupidity that resulted in the death of his family. He sends the network a tape explaining this but they don't care pretty much rendering the whole series pointless in the long run.]]
* BlackBestFriend: Charlie, an affable old black man with a similar sense of humor to Jon, becomes his best friend for a while in an episode of season 3. [[spoiler:He soon dies of old age, though.]]
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: [[spoiler: Jon in the series finale where it's revealed Sergei tortured and programed him to kill his son. Jon breaks out of it but by then it's too late.]]
* BreakTheHaughty: Jon throughout the second season.
* BubbleBoy: Jon makes himself invulnerable by walking around in a multimillion-dollar bulletproof bubble in the next-to-last episode of season 3.
* {{Cameo}}: Paul Rudd in the pilot.
* CerebusSyndrome: The ending of season 2, episode 2.
** Season 3 isn't much better.
* [[spoiler:CorruptCorporateExecutive: Mighty Joe Jon, The Black Blonde goes to some depraved and blatantly illegal lengths to improve the show's ratings. [[EvenEvilHasStandards Sergei]] ends up [[KickTheSonOfABitch killing him for it]] at the end of season 2.]]
* CrapsackWorld: Apparently, no one objects to giving an hit man a show, or arranging for more murders to get more ratings.
* DarkSkinnedBlonde: The aptly named "Mighty Joe Jon, The Black Blond" (though his hair color is technically white).
* DoggedNiceGuy: Jay the Doorman. Poor Jay.
* EnsembleDarkHorse: In the fictional world it's set in, recognizes Susan & Yvgeny as this.[[invoked]]
* EvilerThanThou: Sergei is a straight up cold blooded murderer who got right to work forcing Jon into a breakdown, and then kept trying to shatter him. Compare that to Yvgeny who did try killing Jon, he just sucked at it.
* TheFaceless: Everyone in the pilot, but later just Jon. Soon transcended in that Jon's ''ski mask itself'' has become the face of his fame. [[spoiler: He eventually removes it in the series finale.]]
* TheFool: Mishka generally has little understanding of what's going on around him. [[spoiler: However, he ultimately comes out better than most show's principal characters in the season 3 finale.]]
* HypocriticalHumor: In the episode "David's Girlfriend", David runs away with a girl from the Mirminsky family. Mighty Joe Jon, The Black Blonde comes up with the idea to hire Hollywood writers to think of places that they might have gone. Jon eventually angrily dismisses the writers.
--->'''Jon:''' "This isn't a Hollywood movie, this is life! I don't need a bunch of writers coming up with fake lines, I need someone to [[{{Ransom}} GIVE ME BACK MY SON!"]]]
* {{Irony}}: Throughout the whole series, Jon's in the witness protection program yet goes on reality show pretty much negating the whole purpose of it. [[spoiler: In the finale, by the time his show's cancelled and his family and friends dead. He decides to go into hiding to escape show business not that his network really cares.]]
* JerkAss:Jon, who cares nothing for his family or girlfriends saftey and only for his popularity.
** Jon shows [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold he's not completely heartless on occasion.]] Mighty Joe Jon, The Black Blond is a worse jerkass in any case, as shown in the season 2 finale. He also does honestly love his son.
* KickTheSonOfABitch:[[spoiler:While it was supposed to scare Jon who was already at a low point, it was EXTREMELY satisfying to see Mighty Joe Jon, The Black Blonde get shot in the Season 2 finale, especially after he manipulated Kim's ex-husband into trying to win her back and actually made a reality show out of Jon being in a coma. And that's not counting all the other crap he's done this season.]]
* KilledOffForReal: See AnyoneCanDie above.
* KnightOfCerebus: Sergei in his season 2 introduction makes the show's tone much darker. Though more like a darker shade of BlackComedy as the show didn't actually cease being one.
** Lampshaded when he first meets with Mighty Joe Jon
-->'''Sergei:''' "Is no longer quirky comedy. Is quirky drama."
* LameComeback: Jon, a lot.
-->'''Ross:''' "You might wanna think about changing that mask before the big tournament next weekend. It'd be a shame if my driver accidentally slipped out of my hands and hit you in the head."
-->'''"Jon":''' "({{Beat}}) Yeah it'd be a shame if my driver slipped out of my penis and hit YOU in the hands."
* LongList: By multiple people after Paul Rudd's death, of all the movies he has been in.
** [[spoiler: Sergei lists all of Jon's loved ones that he has killed near the end of the series]].
* TheMafiya: The Mirminsky Family
** Comedian [[AsHimself Todd Barry]], though pretty much just hangs out at their social club.
*** Implied that he [[BecomingTheMask joins them for real]] after he gains a taste for killing people under Sergei's tutoring.
* [[spoiler: ManchurianAgent: Sergei turns Jon into one during the series finale. He kills his son, TB, and ultimately breaks free to kill Sergei himself.]]
* MoodWhiplash: Again, Season 2 Episode 2, which swing wildly between tragic and funny in the last five minutes.
** Season 3 pretty much turns to UpToEleven.
* MushroomSamba
-->'''Jon''': The suicide pills turned out to be Ecstasy.
* NoRespectGuy: Jon. Then again he is a {{Jerkass}}.
* OnlySaneMan: Kim has the patience of a saint. [[spoiler:Her patience runs out when at the end of season 2 when Jon emphatically tells her that he'll never marry.]]
* PapaWolf: One of the few positive traits John has, he truly does love his son. So much so [[spoiler: that he threatens Sergi when Sergi vows to go after him next.]]
* PaperThinDisguise: The show parodies the hell out of this. For the first season, Jon's black mask and modulated voice are ridiculously conspicuous by themselves, in a "why do you even bother?" sort of way. Not only this, but as a celebrity with a reality show, witness relocation becomes ''meaningless'', which ''[[TitleDrop Delocated]]'' [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]]. His ex-wife and son soon ended up taking off their masks as they had become pointless, but Jon kept his and flaunted it everywhere as the face of his fame. Season two added the Jon decoy program which flooded New York with masked decoys so that Jon would be harder to snipe in public, which would be a more effective solution if only Jon [[OverlyLongGag didn't constantly hang out in the same places]]. This became a literally ''paper'' thin disguise when Jon decided to wear a paper bag over his head as a disguise during the stand-up comedy contest, but then took off the bag in front of Yvgeny. [[HarmlessVillain Not that Yvgeny was all that dangerous]] [[BadassDecay anymore]].
* TheParody: Reality shows.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Jon gets possibly the most epic one in Season 3 episode 5 ending with "I hope the Mirminsky does all of us a favor and finally kills you!"
* TheReveal: Yvgeny in the pilot.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Jon ''loves'' sandwiches, so much that it gets him in trouble.
** And got Jon in several RealLife Subway commercials.
* RunningGag: An in-universe example, Yvgeny's standup act consists entirely of jokes about vodka (but his audience never seems to care). This is {{Lampshaded}} by both Sergei and Jon.
** At one point, he decides he needs some "fresh material" for his act. Later in the episode, we see him with what appears to be a [[CompletelyMissingThePoint vodka dummy]].
--->'''Mighty Joe Jon, The Black Blonde:''' "I don't know, Yvgeny, I mean...just keep doing vodka jokes, I guess. It never [[OverusedRunningGag gets old]]."
* SexGod: The Glaze, Jon's exotic self-help guru from Season 3.
* {{Sleepwalking}}: Sleep''cooking'', to be precise. Jon becomes a master TV chef while non-awake in the episode "Midnight Munchingtons."
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: It's Yvgeny, not Yevgeny.
* SpinOff: Both Susan and Yvgeny get (a fictional) one.
* TotallyRadical: Jon sometimes talks in a manner used by nobody else, even in [[http://video.adultswim.com/delocated/stay-out-of-dad-city.html serious situations]].
* UnexplainedRecovery: Possibly one, at the end of S03E08, [[spoiler:"Jon" goes to the dry cleaners where Eun Mi works, only to find her mom explain to him that she died. He's very skeptical, as he thinks this is all a cruel joke that she set up. It ends without a full explanation of whether she really did die or not, but it's heavily implied that she did until the next episode where she comes back, alive and well, and it's never mentioned again.
* TheUnreveal: Jon's face in the season one finale was blurred when he took off his mask.
* TheVamp: Susan. She actually seemed more sympathetic at first because Jon was such a [[{{Jerkass}} jackass]]. But as the series progressed, she proved she could be at least as petty and glib as Jon.
* WordSaladTitle: Jon's [[spoiler:(unknown to him, but fake)]] prank show entitled "Jon He Does It".
** Lampshaded by [[spoiler:Mighty Joe John, the Black Blonde after Jon finds out it was fake. "You really think I'd greenlight a show called 'Jon He Does It'?"]]
* WhamEpisode: [[spoiler: The season three finale, during an interview for a talk show. Sergei stages an escape and manages to take John to an isolated area intending to kill him nice and slow. The police manage to find the warehouse but by the time they bust in, Sergei and Yvgeny have escaped with John.]]
* WellDoneSonGuy: Yvgeny, who just can't seem to make his dad[=/=]TheMafiya happy.
** Hilariously averted when Sergei confesses to Papa that he thought about killing him once. Papa then congratulates Sergei, saying that he would have been disappointed if he '''hadn't''' thought about killing him.
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