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* LockAndLoadMontage: Parodied on "Ghost Studz" when Max and Leroy gear up, then realize they have more gear than necessary, leading to an ''un''lock-and-load montage.
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* ShowWithinAShow: "Ghost Studz" has the titular show, in which two frat-bro types go looking for paranormal activity. Max and Leroy go undercover as their crew to protect them when they risk running into real paranormal dangers at an abandoned insane asylum.
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* BlueOniRedOni: Blue: Leroy is calm, professional and sceptical to the existence of the supernatural. Red: Max is easily excitable, openly believed in the supernatural long before the Bureau recruited him and is more likely to get distracted whilst on the job.
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* BlueOniRedOni: Blue: Leroy is calm, professional and sceptical to the existence of the supernatural. paranormal. Red: Max is easily excitable, openly believed in the supernatural paranormal long before the Bureau recruited him and is more likely to get distracted whilst on the job.
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* BookCasePassage: Campbell [=McMaster’s=] secret lair, where he keeps the Cronos machine and drains people of their youth, is hidden
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behind the bookcase in his private room. Parodied in the same episode. When Max and Annie are looking for his secret lair, Annie initially assumes it’s activated by an out of place candle holder, only for it to break off in her hand. She admits it was probably just “a poor design choice.”
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* BookCasePassage: Campbell [=McMaster’s=] secret lair, where he keeps the Cronos machine and drains people of their youth, is hidden
hidden behind the bookcase in his private room. Parodied in the same episode. When Max and Annie are looking for his secret lair, Annie initially assumes it’s activated by an out of place candle holder, only for it to break off in her hand. She admits it was probably just “a poor design choice.”
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* AIIsACrapshoot: The titular AI from “Sam”, installed by Annie to help the Bureau run. It turns out to be an evil manipulative megalomaniac, who’s trying to steal the codes to the Bureau’s satellites on behalf of an unknown third party.
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* BlueOniRedOni: Blue: Leroy is calm, professional and sceptical to the existence of the supernatural. Red: Max is easily excitable, openly believed in the supernatural long before the Bureau recruited him and is more likely to get distracted whilst on the job.
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* BookCasePassage: Campbell [=McMaster’s=] secret lair, where he keeps the Cronos machine and drains people of their youth, is hidden behind the bookcase in his private room. Parodied in the same episode. When Max and Annie are looking for his secret lair, Annie initially assumes it’s activated by an out of place candle holder, only for it to break off in her hand. She admits it was probably just “a poor design choice.”
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* BitchInSheepsClothing: The titular Sam from “Sam”. On the surface the AI acts like the best friend you could want: helping run the Bureau, giving friendly advice, granting personal requests like providing Leroy with his own theme music and even making great cappuccinos. In truth it’s disloyal, sadistic and power hungry, wanting to steal the codes to the Bureau’s satellites.
* BlueOniRedOni: Blue: Leroy is calm, professional and sceptical to the existence of the supernatural. Red: Max is easily excitable, openly believed in the supernatural long before the Bureau recruited him and is more likely to get distracted whilst on the job.
* BookCasePassage: Campbell [=McMaster’s=] secret lair, where he keeps the Cronos machine and drains people of their youth, ishidden hidden
behind the bookcase in his private room. Parodied in the same episode. When Max and Annie are looking for his secret lair, Annie initially assumes it’s activated by an out of place candle holder, only for it to break off in her hand. She admits it was probably just “a poor design choice.”
* BlueOniRedOni: Blue: Leroy is calm, professional and sceptical to the existence of the supernatural. Red: Max is easily excitable, openly believed in the supernatural long before the Bureau recruited him and is more likely to get distracted whilst on the job.
* BookCasePassage: Campbell [=McMaster’s=] secret lair, where he keeps the Cronos machine and drains people of their youth, is
behind the bookcase in his private room. Parodied in the same episode. When Max and Annie are looking for his secret lair, Annie initially assumes it’s activated by an out of place candle holder, only for it to break off in her hand. She admits it was probably just “a poor design choice.”
* CassandraTruth: After discovering the truth about Sam’s intentions and escaping its attempt to kill him, Max tries to warn Leroy and Annie that Sam is evil and is trying to steal the Bureau’s satellite codes. However, due to Sam fabricating numerous documents that suggest Max has a history of mental instability and has been harassing Leroy’s new friend, they don’t believe him.
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* ChekovsGun: At the start of “Whispers” it’s established that Leroy will go into a trance if he hears the song “Walking in Memphis”. This is due to his ex-girlfriend, whom he proposed to, always singing it when they went to karaoke. Max later uses it to snap him out of a succubus’s mind control.
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** At the start of “Whispers” it’s established that Leroy will go into a trance if he hears the song “Walking in Memphis”. This is due to his ex-girlfriend, whom he proposed to, always singing it when they went to karaoke. Max later uses it to snap him out of a succubus’s mindcontrol.control.
** Whilst having a lunch together at the beginning of “Sam”, it’s revealed Max likes pushing his potatoes and vegetables together into balls before eating them. It’s this detail that allows Leroy to realise the footage of Max selling the Bureau’s codes to the Russian’s over dinner is fake.
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Barry admits that his distrust of artificial intelligences comes from watching Film/TheMatrixReloaded. When Max asks about [[Film/TheMatrix the original Matrix]], Barry admits he’s never actually seen it and thus doesn’t understand the plot or why anything happens in the series.
* ComputerEqualsMonitor: Subverted. Trying to stop Sam, Max smashes the monitor it’s currently on with an ax. This does not affect Sam in the slightest (it instantly relocates to another monitor), and only helps convince Leroy and Annie that Max has lost his mind.
** At the start of “Whispers” it’s established that Leroy will go into a trance if he hears the song “Walking in Memphis”. This is due to his ex-girlfriend, whom he proposed to, always singing it when they went to karaoke. Max later uses it to snap him out of a succubus’s mind
** Whilst having a lunch together at the beginning of “Sam”, it’s revealed Max likes pushing his potatoes and vegetables together into balls before eating them. It’s this detail that allows Leroy to realise the footage of Max selling the Bureau’s codes to the Russian’s over dinner is fake.
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Barry admits that his distrust of artificial intelligences comes from watching Film/TheMatrixReloaded. When Max asks about [[Film/TheMatrix the original Matrix]], Barry admits he’s never actually seen it and thus doesn’t understand the plot or why anything happens in the series.
* ComputerEqualsMonitor: Subverted. Trying to stop Sam, Max smashes the monitor it’s currently on with an ax. This does not affect Sam in the slightest (it instantly relocates to another monitor), and only helps convince Leroy and Annie that Max has lost his mind.
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* FantasyKitchenSink: In the first four episodes alone, Max and Leroy face off against alien invaders (who are potentially from another universe), super strong zombies, a Sumerian demon who steals men’s hearts and an escaped crypid. Know what oddly doesn't show up in those episodes? [[NeverTrustATitle Ghosts]].
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* FantasyKitchenSink: In the first four episodes alone, Max and Leroy face off against alien invaders (who are potentially from another universe), super strong zombies, a Sumerian demon who steals men’s hearts and an escaped crypid. Know what oddly doesn't hasn't show up in those episodes? yet? [[NeverTrustATitle Ghosts]].Ghosts]].
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Whilst on the video chat to Captain Lafrey at the beginning of “Sam”, the video suddenly malfunctions for a second, right before Lafrey asks Annie to install Sam. It’s later revealed someone hijacked the feed so the Bureau would install the evil AI.
* FrameUp: Following Max refusing to obey Sam’s orders to give him the codes to the Bureau’s satellites and avoiding his attempts to kill him, Sam fabricates numerous documents that seem to prove Max has a history of mental instability, delusions and harassment so that the others won’t believe him. He then frames Max for stealing the codes and selling them to the Russians to get Max arrested and almost trick Annie into giving him the codes.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Whilst on the video chat to Captain Lafrey at the beginning of “Sam”, the video suddenly malfunctions for a second, right before Lafrey asks Annie to install Sam. It’s later revealed someone hijacked the feed so the Bureau would install the evil AI.
* FrameUp: Following Max refusing to obey Sam’s orders to give him the codes to the Bureau’s satellites and avoiding his attempts to kill him, Sam fabricates numerous documents that seem to prove Max has a history of mental instability, delusions and harassment so that the others won’t believe him. He then frames Max for stealing the codes and selling them to the Russians to get Max arrested and almost trick Annie into giving him the codes.
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* NunTooHoly: The beginning of “Sam” has Max and Leroy chasing down a feral Nun who possesses [[InASingleBound inhuman agility and strength]]. Leroy is forced to shoot her when she tries to stab Max to death. Afterwards they speculate what she was, with [[AgentMulder Max]] believing she was either demonically possessed or a creature impersonating a nun, and [[AgentScully Leroy]] thinking she was a regular psycho whose enhanced abilities were due to drugs. Sam, however, concludes from the data she was some sort of mutant.
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* ProperlyParanoid: Barry spends the entire first half of “Sam” distrusting the titular AI to the point he reacts to being offered a cappuccino it made as if it were a personal attack. He likewise is so convinced of an upcoming robot rebellion that he secretly builds a lair in the Bureau that is completely outside the security system and has access to unmonitored stairs throughout the building. Sure enough, he proves to be right about Sam, and his lair greatly helps Max when Sam tries to kill him.
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* SequelHook: “Sam” ends with Lafrey tasking Annie with figuring out who hacked their system and tricked them into downloading Sam in the first place.
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* ActorAllusion: Played with in "The Machine", where guest star Harry [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer "Mayor Wilkins"]] Groener turns out ''not'' to be a ruthless immortal -- he's just golf buddies with the man who is.
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* ActorAllusion: Played with in "The Machine", where guest star Harry [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer "Mayor Wilkins"]] Groener turns out ''not'' to be a ruthless immortal -- he's just golf buddies with the man who is.
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** Leroy openly believes this sentiment, expressing it when having to go undercover as a member of said club, in “The Machine”. Max initially disagrees, having fond memories of spending time with his rich uncle, until Leroy points out the guy was clearly using Max as unpaid labour.
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* CovertGroupWithMundaneFront: To the general public, the Bureau base of operations in LA is simply the Mid Valley Coat Hanger Company. In “Lock Down”, this causes several problems for Captain Lafrey when the water deliver guy gets caught inside whilst they are under lock down and a dangerous cryptid is on the loose, and she has to main this illusion.
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* CovertGroupWithMundaneFront: To the general public, the Bureau base of operations in LA is simply the Mid Valley Coat Hanger Company. In “Lock Down”, this causes several problems for Captain Lafrey when the water deliver delivery guy gets caught inside whilst they are under lock down and a dangerous cryptid is on the loose, and she has to main maintain this illusion.
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* AristocratsAreEvil:
** Campbell [=McMasters=] is the very wealthy owner of an expensive country club who, as well as being an elitist misogynistic jerk, has also been keeping himself alive for 180 years by draining the youth out of people causing them to age to dust.
**Leroy openly believes this sentiment, expressing it when having to go undercover as a member of said club, in “The Machine”. Max initially disagrees, having fond memories of spending time with his rich uncle, until Leroy points out the guy was clearly using Max as unpaid labour.
** Campbell [=McMasters=] is the very wealthy owner of an expensive country club who, as well as being an elitist misogynistic jerk, has also been keeping himself alive for 180 years by draining the youth out of people causing them to age to dust.
**Leroy openly believes this sentiment, expressing it when having to go undercover as a member of said club, in “The Machine”. Max initially disagrees, having fond memories of spending time with his rich uncle, until Leroy points out the guy was clearly using Max as unpaid labour.
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* BallsOfSteel: When conventional fighting proves to have no effect on Campbell [=McMasters=] in “The Machine”, Annie tries kicking him between the legs. It turns out Campbell’s invulnerability also extends to there.
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* BookCasePassage: Campbell [=McMaster’s=] secret lair, where he keeps the Cronos machine and drains people of their youth, is hidden behind the bookcase in his private room. Parodied in the same episode. When Max and Annie are looking for his secret lair, Annie initially assumes it’s activated by an out of place candle holder, only for it to break off in her hand. She admits it was probably just “a poor design choice.”
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* ImmortalityImmorality: Campbell [=McMasters=] from “The Machine” is 180 years old. He has been using the Cronos machine to keep himself alive by draining the life force out of numerous people.
* ImmortalityInducer: The Cronos machine from in “The Machine”. A combination of science and magic allows it to absorb people’s life-forces and transfer them into the machine’s owner. This grants them immortality, superhuman strength and a healing factor so fast they’re practically invulnerable.
* ImmortalityInducer: The Cronos machine from in “The Machine”. A combination of science and magic allows it to absorb people’s life-forces and transfer them into the machine’s owner. This grants them immortality, superhuman strength and a healing factor so fast they’re practically invulnerable.
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* {{Magitek}}: The Cronos machine from “The Machine”. It was built over a hundred years ago as an experimental medical treatment intended to enhance people’s life spans. However, it’s powered by a cursed South American tree that contains evil spirits that induce invincibility. This combination makes it an ImmortalityInducer that steals the blood and life force of people placed upon it and allows them to be absorbed by the machine’s owner, making them immortal.
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* NoSell: Breaking free of the Cronos machine, Leroy punches Campbell [=McMasters=] in the face, only to remember that the same process that made him immortal also makes him invulnerable. In the ensuring fight he casually shrugs off everything Max, Leroy and Annie throw at him.
* NoOntologicalInertia: DoubleSubverted. As the Cronos machine makes Campbell [=McMasters=] indestructible, Max yells at Leroy to destroy the machine, but it fails to stop him. Max then yells to destroy the cursed tree powering it, which succeeds in undoing Campbell’s immortality and turning him to dust.
* NoOntologicalInertia: DoubleSubverted. As the Cronos machine makes Campbell [=McMasters=] indestructible, Max yells at Leroy to destroy the machine, but it fails to stop him. Max then yells to destroy the cursed tree powering it, which succeeds in undoing Campbell’s immortality and turning him to dust.
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* RapidAging: Anyone who is subjected to the Cronos machine will rapidly age to dust, as it takes their youth with their blood. Campbell [=McMasters=] suffers the same fate when Leroy destroys the cursed tree that’s powering the machine.
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* TwoFirstNames: Annie Clark, Max Jennifer, and [[spoiler: Claire Jennifer]].
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* TwoFirstNames: Annie Clark, Max Jennifer, Jennifer and [[spoiler: Claire Jennifer]].
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* TwoFirstNames: Annie Clark, Max Jennifer, and [[spoiler: Claire Jennifer]]
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* {{Lockdown}}: The Bureau has a lockdown procedure, used in “Lockdown”, called Protocol B-14. It is to be activated when a dangerous creature gets loose within the Bureau to prevent it escaping. All exists are sealed, phone signals are jammed, and there is thirty minutes to deal with the threat, before the entire contents of the Bureau is incinerated to destroy the threat.
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* {{Lockdown}}: The Bureau has a lockdown procedure, used in “Lockdown”, called Protocol B-14. It is to be activated when a dangerous creature gets loose within the Bureau to prevent it escaping. All exists exits are sealed, phone signals are jammed, and there is thirty minutes to deal with the threat, before the entire contents of the Bureau is incinerated to destroy the threat.
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* ArbitrarySkepticism: Despite the things he's seen while working for the Bureau Underground, Leroy maintains a disbelief in the paranormal, preferring to take things in on a case-by-case basis.
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* ArbitrarySkepticism: Despite the things he's seen while working for the Bureau Underground, Leroy maintains a disbelief in the paranormal, preferring to take things in on a case-by-case basis. Lampshaded in “Lockdown”, following an entire episode of them hunting a genuine monster, when Max points out this means he has to believe in it, Leroy clarifies it only means he has to believe in that particular monster.
* AsteroidsMonster: The Cryptid the team face in “Lockdown”, due it’s incredibly advanced healing factor. Its blood can grow into a new much smaller monster (which closer resembles an eel, compared to the full grown creature being a biped amphibious reptile). Following the killing of the main beast, Lafrey destroys the smaller one by throwing it in a microwave.
* AsteroidsMonster: The Cryptid the team face in “Lockdown”, due it’s incredibly advanced healing factor. Its blood can grow into a new much smaller monster (which closer resembles an eel, compared to the full grown creature being a biped amphibious reptile). Following the killing of the main beast, Lafrey destroys the smaller one by throwing it in a microwave.
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* CellPhonesAreUseless: In “Lockdown” Max tries to phone Leroy and Annie, to warn them they can’t shoot the monster that is loose in the building. However, due to the lockdown protocol his signal is blocked.
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* {{Lockdown}}: The Bureau has a lockdown procedure, used in “Lockdown”, called Protocol B-14. It is to be activated when a dangerous creature gets loose within the Bureau to prevent it escaping. All exists are sealed, phone signals are jammed, and there is thirty minutes to deal with the threat, before the entire contents of the Bureau is incinerated to destroy the threat.
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* OurCryptidsAreMoreMysterious: “Lockdown” features the team dealing with an Irish aquatic Cryptid, transferred to them from Dublin to be autopsied, unaware the thing isn’t actually dead. It is strong enough to break through bulletproof glass, can climb up walls and on the celling, and possesses incredible healing abilities, to the point that they can’t shoot it as its spilled blood will grow into a new smaller monster. It goes on a rampage throughout the Bureau, killing numerous operatives by draining all the moisture from them, until Max figures out that as it’s aquatic it needs massive quantities of water to survive, and they kill it by converting a room into a massive microwave. It’s stated that either this creature or another of the same species caused a massacre back in 1974 in Ireland.
* OurZombiesAreDifferent: Max and Leroy deal with a zombie virus in “Bee-Mo”. Its origin is unknown, but was first found in a cat. It causes infected victims to become feral, start foaming at the mouth, and develop super strength. Barry manages to synthesise a cure.
* OurZombiesAreDifferent: Max and Leroy deal with a zombie virus in “Bee-Mo”. Its origin is unknown, but was first found in a cat. It causes infected victims to become feral, start foaming at the mouth, and develop super strength. Barry manages to synthesise a cure.
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* ShoutOut: "Lockdown" clearly takes its inspiration from ''Film/{{Alien}}'', even including a face-hugger sequence.
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* BrainsAndBrawn: Max is a former Stanford professor and a leading theoretical physicist, whilst Leroy has taken police training, making him a capable brawler and a crack shot.
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* BrainsAndBrawn: Max is a former Stanford professor and a leading theoretical physicist, whilst Leroy has taken police training, is a former cop, making him a capable brawler and a crack shot.
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* ArbitrarySkepticism: Despite the things he's seen while working for the Bureau Underground, Leroy maintains a disbelief in the paranormal, preferring to take things in on a case-by-case basis.
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* FantasyKitchenSink: In the first four episodes alone, Max and Leroy face off against alien invaders (who are potentially from another universe), super strong zombies, a Sumerian demon who steals men’s hearts and an escaped crypid.
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* FantasyKitchenSink: In the first four episodes alone, Max and Leroy face off against alien invaders (who are potentially from another universe), super strong zombies, a Sumerian demon who steals men’s hearts and an escaped crypid. Know what oddly doesn't show up in those episodes? [[NeverTrustATitle Ghosts]].
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* ChekovsGun: At the start of “Whispers” it’s established that Leroy will go into a trance if he hears the song “Walking in Memphis”. This is due to his ex-girlfriend, whom he proposed to, always singing it when they went to karaoke. Max later uses it to snap him out of a succubus’s mind control.
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* FallenOnHardTimesJob: Both Leroy and Max in the pilot. Leroy was formerly the best missing persons detective in the LAPD, who is forced to work as a mall cop. Max was a professor at Stanford and the leading theoretical physicist in the field of quantum mechanics and the multiverse theorem, forced to work as a sales clerk in a bookstore. They initially accept the job of investigating Agent Checker’s disappearance based on Lafrey’s offer of getting them their old jobs back
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* FallenOnHardTimesJob: Both Leroy and Max in the pilot. Leroy was formerly the best missing persons detective in the LAPD, who is forced to work as a mall cop. Max was a professor at Stanford and the leading theoretical physicist in the field of quantum mechanics and the multiverse theorem, forced to work as a sales clerk in a bookstore. They initially accept the job of investigating Agent Checker’s disappearance based on Lafrey’s offer of getting them their old jobs back back.
* FantasyKitchenSink: In the first four episodes alone, Max and Leroy face off against alien invaders (who are potentially from another universe), super strong zombies, a Sumerian demon who steals men’s hearts and an escaped crypid.
* GlamourFailure: The Sumerian succubus in “Whispers” has the power to take the appearance of different women. However every form still carries the Sumerian characters for “smoke” and “heart” tattooed on her body.
* FantasyKitchenSink: In the first four episodes alone, Max and Leroy face off against alien invaders (who are potentially from another universe), super strong zombies, a Sumerian demon who steals men’s hearts and an escaped crypid.
* GlamourFailure: The Sumerian succubus in “Whispers” has the power to take the appearance of different women. However every form still carries the Sumerian characters for “smoke” and “heart” tattooed on her body.
* HornyDevils: “Whispers” has Max and Leroy facing a Sumerian succubus with the power to shapeshift and mind control their victim. She seduces men, then steals their life forces (by literally removing their hearts from their bodies). She turns out to be the cop Max spent the episode trying to set Leroy up with and is seemingly killed when Max manages to kick her off the balcony of their room.
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* SaltAndPepper: Leroy is black while Max is white with Leroy being more aggressive in personality while Max is a stereotypical nerd.
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* SaltAndPepper: Leroy is black while Max is white with Leroy being more aggressive in personality while Max is a stereotypical nerd.nerd.
* ShapeshiftingSeducer: PlayedWith. The Succubus in “Whispers” has the power to her change form into different women, and seduces men so she can steal their hearts. However, the two abilities are never directly used together onscreen.
* SpottingTheThread: In “Whispers”, Max is seconds away from leaving, having accused Leroy’s date of being the succubus they were after, when she claims to have gotten her tattoos fifteen years earlier. Only for him to realise that the celebrity feed she claimed to have gotten them from wasn’t around fifteen years ago.
* TheVirus: “Bee-Mo” involves Max and Leroy dealing with a zombie virus that causes its victims to turn feral and develop super strength. Originally found in an infected cat, it infects Jermain (Leroy’s former police partner’s son) and then a whole party of preteens. Barry manages to synthesise a cure.
* ShapeshiftingSeducer: PlayedWith. The Succubus in “Whispers” has the power to her change form into different women, and seduces men so she can steal their hearts. However, the two abilities are never directly used together onscreen.
* SpottingTheThread: In “Whispers”, Max is seconds away from leaving, having accused Leroy’s date of being the succubus they were after, when she claims to have gotten her tattoos fifteen years earlier. Only for him to realise that the celebrity feed she claimed to have gotten them from wasn’t around fifteen years ago.
* TheVirus: “Bee-Mo” involves Max and Leroy dealing with a zombie virus that causes its victims to turn feral and develop super strength. Originally found in an infected cat, it infects Jermain (Leroy’s former police partner’s son) and then a whole party of preteens. Barry manages to synthesise a cure.
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* TheAce: Captain Lafrey can simultaneously run every single Bureau operation on Halloween (typically their busiest day of the year) and each operation's escalating crises without breaking a sweat. She'll even take the time to deal with in-office issues without looking away from her wall of monitors.
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* AgentScully: Leroy is skeptical of the paranormal and uses detective work to solve cases.
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* SaltAndPepper: Leroy is black while Max is white with Leroy being more aggressive in personality while Max is a stereotypical nerd.
* TheScully: Leroy is skeptical of the paranormal and uses detective work to solve cases.nerd.
* TheScully: Leroy is skeptical of the paranormal and uses detective work to solve cases.
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* TheMasquerade: The Underground Bureau keeps the existence of the paranormal secret from the general public by covering up the events such as passing off the zombie plague outbreak affecting several teens in “Bee-mo” as a bacterial infection caused by expired dip at a party.
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* TheMasquerade: The Bureau Underground Bureau keeps the existence of the paranormal secret from the general public by covering up the events such as passing off the zombie plague outbreak affecting several teens in “Bee-mo” as a bacterial infection caused by expired dip at a party.
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* AlienAbduction: Max believes that his wife was abducted by aliens, and destroyed his career trying to get people to listen to him. [[spoiler:It turns out he was right, and she (among numerous other people) is being detained by the Bureau, having been driven insane by the experience.]]
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* BrainsAndBrawn: Max is a former Stanford professor and a leading theoretical physicist, whilst Leroy has taken police training, making him a capable brawler and a crack shot.
* DaChief: Captain Ava Lafrey runs the Bureau Underground and acts as everyone’s superior.
* DaChief: Captain Ava Lafrey runs the Bureau Underground and acts as everyone’s superior.
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* DrivingQuestion: What did Agent Kurt Checker discover in his investigations into the Alien Activity? What are the aliens planning? And why did Checker choose Leroy and Max to take over his investigations if he disappeared?
* FallenOnHardTimesJob: Both Leroy and Max in the pilot. Leroy was formerly the best missing persons detective in the LAPD, who is forced to work as a mall cop. Max was a professor at Stanford and the leading theoretical physicist in the field of quantum mechanics and the multiverse theorem, forced to work as a sales clerk in a bookstore. They initially accept the job of investigating Agent Checker’s disappearance based on Lafrey’s offer of getting them their old jobs back
* GovernmentAgencyOfFiction: The Bureau Underground, founded during the Truman administration to keep America (and the world) safe from threats of a paranormal nature.
* TheMasquerade: The Underground Bureau keeps the existence of the paranormal secret from the general public by covering up the events such as passing off the zombie plague outbreak affecting several teens in “Bee-mo” as a bacterial infection caused by expired dip at a party.
* FallenOnHardTimesJob: Both Leroy and Max in the pilot. Leroy was formerly the best missing persons detective in the LAPD, who is forced to work as a mall cop. Max was a professor at Stanford and the leading theoretical physicist in the field of quantum mechanics and the multiverse theorem, forced to work as a sales clerk in a bookstore. They initially accept the job of investigating Agent Checker’s disappearance based on Lafrey’s offer of getting them their old jobs back
* GovernmentAgencyOfFiction: The Bureau Underground, founded during the Truman administration to keep America (and the world) safe from threats of a paranormal nature.
* TheMasquerade: The Underground Bureau keeps the existence of the paranormal secret from the general public by covering up the events such as passing off the zombie plague outbreak affecting several teens in “Bee-mo” as a bacterial infection caused by expired dip at a party.
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* ParanormalInvestigation: A {{Sitcom}} take on the idea, the Bureau Underground was created to keep mankind safe from the paranormal, and Leroy and Max investigate everything from alien’s and crypid’s to zombies and other monsters.
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* DiagonalBilling: Craig Robinson is credited on the lower left corner of the screen while Adam Scott is credited on the upper right corner.
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* OddCouple: Leroy and Max are almost polar opposites of one another and personify multiple DuoTropes.
** BigGuyLittleGuy: Leroy is easily twice the size of Max.
** TheScully and AgentMulder: Leroy is skeptical of the paranormal and uses detective work to solve cases while Max eagerly believes in aliens and the multiverse and dives into speculation to do his work.
** SaltAndPepper: Leroy is black while Max is white with Leroy being more aggressive in personality while Max is a stereotypical nerd.
** BigGuyLittleGuy: Leroy is easily twice the size of Max.
** TheScully and AgentMulder: Leroy is skeptical of the paranormal and uses detective work to solve cases while Max eagerly believes in aliens and the multiverse and dives into speculation to do his work.
** SaltAndPepper: Leroy is black while Max is white with Leroy being more aggressive in personality while Max is a stereotypical nerd.
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* OddCouple: Leroy and Max are almost polar opposites of one another and personify multiple DuoTropes.
** BigGuyLittleGuy: Leroy is easily twice the size of Max.
** TheScully andAgentMulder: Leroy is skeptical of the paranormal and uses detective work to solve cases while Max eagerly believes in aliens and the multiverse and dives into speculation to do his work.
** * BigGuyLittleGuy: Leroy is easily twice the size of Max.
* OddCouple: Leroy and Max are almost polar opposites of one another and personify multiple DuoTropes as seen throughout this page.
* SaltAndPepper: Leroy is black while Max is white with Leroy being more aggressive in personality while Max is a stereotypicalnerd.nerd.
* TheScully: Leroy is skeptical of the paranormal and uses detective work to solve cases.
** BigGuyLittleGuy: Leroy is easily twice the size of Max.
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* OddCouple: Leroy and Max are almost polar opposites of one another and personify multiple DuoTropes as seen throughout this page.
* SaltAndPepper: Leroy is black while Max is white with Leroy being more aggressive in personality while Max is a stereotypical
* TheScully: Leroy is skeptical of the paranormal and uses detective work to solve cases.
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* OddCouple: Leroy and Max are almost polar opposites of one another
** BigGuyLittleGuy: Leroy is easily twice the size of Max.
** TheScully and AgentMulder: Leroy is skeptical of the paranormal and uses detective work to solve cases while Max eagerly believes in aliens and the multiverse and dives into speculation to do his work.
** SaltAndPepper: Leroy is black while Max is white with Leroy being more aggressive in personality while Max is a stereotypical nerd.
* OddCouple: Leroy and Max are almost polar opposites of one another
** BigGuyLittleGuy: Leroy is easily twice the size of Max.
** TheScully and AgentMulder: Leroy is skeptical of the paranormal and uses detective work to solve cases while Max eagerly believes in aliens and the multiverse and dives into speculation to do his work.
** SaltAndPepper: Leroy is black while Max is white with Leroy being more aggressive in personality while Max is a stereotypical nerd.
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''Ghosted'' is a Creator/{{Fox}} supernatural comedy series starring Creator/AdamScott and Creator/CraigRobinson. Its pilot episode was made available for preview on Twitter one week ahead of its broadcast debut.
Leroy Wright, a disgraced cop, and Max Jennifer, a disgraced university professor, find themselves drugged, kidnapped, and forcibly recruited by the Bureau Underground: a top secret government organization tasked with investigating the paranormal. Not being given much of a choice, they join the organization and begin investigating a series of mysterious events that are somehow linked to the disappearance of another Bureau agent.
!!This series provides examples of:
Leroy Wright, a disgraced cop, and Max Jennifer, a disgraced university professor, find themselves drugged, kidnapped, and forcibly recruited by the Bureau Underground: a top secret government organization tasked with investigating the paranormal. Not being given much of a choice, they join the organization and begin investigating a series of mysterious events that are somehow linked to the disappearance of another Bureau agent.
!!This series provides examples of:
