History Series / HangTime

* HairTriggerTemper + AngryBlackMan: It's not until season two that Coach Fuller's temper becomes a character trait. His BerserkButton{{(s)}}: the kids doing something boneheaded and anyone scuffing or damaging the gym floor (Cedric Ceballos found that out the hard way in "Harvest Moon" and was forced to clean the marks his shoes made).

* AwesomeMcCoolName: Come on, you'd probably like to have Rico Bosco as your name.

** GirlyBruiser: Mary Beth is very much feminine, but a mugger would be wise to stay away from her as she can kick serious butt, as shown in a scene in "Assault and Pepper Spray" illustrates. In it, she, Kristy and Julie attend a self-defense class after Kristy gets mugged; when Kristy fails to disarm the class' defense dummy, sumo suit-clad Silk, during a lesson on what to do when one gets attacked by a mugger, Mary Beth steps in and proceeds to wallop him ("get her off me, I'm too pretty to die!"). She also has some, as class instructor Officer Keller notes, "twisted but interesting" ideas for defending yourself in case a mugger attacks you.
-->'''Officer Keller:''' "What's the best way to deal with a mugger?"
-->'''Mary Beth:''' "[[GroinAttack Kick him in the cocoa puffs!]]"
-->'''Officer Keller:''' "Well, that's one way."
-->'''Mary Beth:''' "Or-- or use-- use one of those shocker things! No, no, no, no, no, ''rip'' out his eyeballs and fill his sockets up with pepper spray! Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, a swift blow to the head with a convenient mallet!"
-->''Officer Keller''': "Interesting...Twisted but interesting..."

* {{Acrofatic}}: An AnthonyAnderson specialty, Anderson (who plays Teddy Brodis in seasons two and three) was much heavier in the late 1990s than he is today. Still, playing an athlete (especially, a basketball player) requires some agility, and he shows quite a bit of it; in season two's "Just One of the Guys," he manages to do a split that doesn't seem to hurt at all while [[ItMakesSenseInContext cheerleading with Danny and Vince]]. In season three's "No Smoking," Teddy does backrolls to try and get some cigarettes he hid during a meditation session with Danny, Michael and Vince to get him to quit smoking.

* AbsenteeActor: Reggie Theus, who plays Coach Bill Fuller, does not appear in the season three episodes "Fighting Words", "Blood Drive" and "Teen Mom".
** WrittenInAbsence: However, his absence in "Fighting Words" is [[ExplainedAbsence explained]] in that Fuller was sick with the mumps.

* TheCheerleader: Played with in regards to Mary Beth, as she exhibits some of the cheerleader stereotypes, including being spoiled, but is not dumb and not necessarily mean-spirited. Subverted with Amy and Kristy. Amy may be on peppiness overdrive, but she is not necessarily dumb, just pretty naive and not even close to mean ("The Sure Thing" even states that she doesn't like to hurt other people's feelings). Kristy is depicted as nice, smart and almost Kelly Kapowski-level squeaky clean, however very minor traits of the Mary Beth of that period do rub off on her later in the series.

* HollywoodNerd: Kristy is a plain-clothes version of this, essentially falling into a Type 2.

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: In six seasons, a total of twenty different main characters appeared in the show's opening credits (though not all at the same time obviously). Only Megan Parlen (Mary Beth) and Daniella Deutscher (Julie) appear in the opening titles for all six seasons.

* [[YouKnowImBlackRight You Know I'm a Girl, Right?]]: The focus of the season two episode "Just One of the Guys". As much as Julie tried to prove she can be just as good a player as the guys can when she first joined the Tornados, Julie becomes self-conscious when Mary Beth and Amy break to her that she needs to act more feminine. Her attempts to impress Josh by acting more like a [[GirlinessUpgrade girly girl]] (as part of an UnnecessaryMakeover, complete with a BareYourMidriff top and a DangerouslyShortSkirt) fail. She then decides to quit the team, out of concern that Josh won't notice her until a talk with Olympic track-and-field legend Florence Griffith-Joyner (arranged by Coach Fuller) sets her straight that she can be an athlete and still be a woman.

-->''''Fuller''': Here, I'll settle your dispute. ''Whatever team I don't KILL, WINS!''

* TheWackyGuy: Teddy in seasons two and three qualifies, as does Rico in season four.

* RealityEnsues: Happens a few times.
** "Fake I.D.-Ology" has the gang using fake ID's to get into a club which ends with them in a fight. Even though he knows it'll cost them a big game, Fuller benches the entire team as punishment. It's also related pretty much every one of them has been grounded and privilges taken away by their parents.
** Eugene and Silk try to look the other way on a guy at the club they're managing selling pot because of his business. The cops are onto the guy and stage an arrest at the club. During which, Christy and Mary Beth try to investigate him for the school paper and the cops not buying the "we're just buying pot for a story excuse." And Eugene and Silk are fired for this mess.
** More than once, a team member find themselves benched for breaking team rules.
** Hammer confesses feeling pressure at college as it turns out being a great player in high school doesn't always translate to college stardom as well.

* MustacheVandalism: Kristy's disdain to Julie grows during the episode "Sharing the Spotlight", especially when she finds out that Julie gets a large picture that is scheduled to be on display inside the gym, culminating in her vandalizing said picture with a marker out of sheer spite, mustache included, which is shown at the end of said episode.

* TemptingFate: In the season three episode "No Smoking," Kristy initially does not believe that her running under a ladder in the gym (thrice) will give her bad luck. Then this happens:

* MoodWhiplash: Particularly noticeable in the more serious episodes in which a comic scene is injected between the serious scenes.
* MustacheVandalism: Kristy's disdain to Julie grows during the episode "Sharing the Spotlight", especially when she finds out that Julie gets a large picture that is scheduled to be on display inside the gym, culminating in her vandalizing said picture with a marker out of sheer spite, mustache included, which is shown at the end of said episode.

* GrowingTheBeard: Season 3 is the season the introduced the cast combination that most people associate with the show and the combination that would stay (mostly) the same until the series ended.

* HereWeGoAgain: The B-plot of "Fuller's Rival" in a nutshell. Julie and Kristy start out for the attention of a guy who works at the hotel where the team stays. Towards the end of the episode, after the guy in question, when asked to pick between Julie and Kristy, decides to DumpThemAll since he's already married, both Julie and Kristy take the news well because each of them has found a new crush by then... except they have a crush on the same guy again.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar:
** In "Earl Makes the Grade," Earl is in the gym with an attractive classmate[[note]]who is pretending to be interested in him, just so he gets too distracted to pass a test that could keep him on the team[[/note]], when she ends up kissing him. Earl then asks her, "did I just get to first base?"
** In the fourth season episode "Assault and Pepper Spray", Mary Beth suggests that the best way to deal with an attacker is to "[[GroinAttack kick him in the Cocoa Puffs]]". Later, Julie gets flustered when she accidentally implies that she and Michael were going to be in the showers together, and finally Nick deep throats a corn dog at one point. Though that last one probably wasn't meant to be dirty, it no doubt caused a few chuckles for the wrong reasons.
** In the fifth season episode "Tolerance", the writers used Mary Beth's speech about tolerance to acknowledge the existence of homosexuality, something ''Series/SavedByTheBell'' and ''Series/CaliforniaDreams'' never had the guts to do.

Much like spinoff ''Series/SavedByTheBellTheNewClass'' (which aired at the same time), the show was infamous for its constant cast changes. Only two characters from the first season remained on ''Hang Time'' by the sixth and final season – {{Tomboy}} star player Julie Connor (Daniella Deutscher) and RichGirl head cheerleader-turned-team manager Mary Beth Pepperton (Megan Parlen), with season three introductions, ace player Michael Manning (Adam Frost) and redhead cheerleader Kristy Ford (Amber Baretto) being the longest-running of the characters added in later seasons to stay on to the final episode – those shuffling in between have been lost to time, and (with the exception of Nick Hammer (played by Mark Famiglietti in season four), who was given a proper send-off in the season five premiere "Hello and Goodbye") have been written out with just a brief explanation in each season's first episode.

* {{Adorkable}}: Danny in season one, Vince in seasons two and three, Eugene in seasons five and six.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The first season feels like a subtly different show, compared to the last five. That season, The Sport Shack was an occasionally seen hangout and the teen characters were also seen hanging out together in an outdoor cafeteria at the school in certain scenes, both of which were dropped in the retool. There wasn't the dynamic of the coach, Julie and one of the male players being more sane than the others as everyone was pretty down-to-earth... except maybe Mary Beth, who had character traits that put her somewhere between the LovableAlphaBitch and just the AlphaBitch. Coach Fuller didn't have a Hair-TriggerTemper. Danny was more of an {{Adorkable}} type than the snarker. The humor was also fully down-to-earth and more staid, compared to the wacky and very special episode plots that later seasons incorporated, making it mesh differently from the rest of the TNBC lineup.

* SixStudentClique: Technically, Seven Student Clique; Julie and Mary Beth are joined by four other players, plus after Mary Beth is promoted to team manager in season two, the head cheerleader (first Amy and then for the rest of the series beginning with season three, Kristy) and while Mary Beth was head cheerleader in the first season, original team manager Sam.

Much like ''Saved by the Bell'''s ''The New Class'' spinoff (which aired at the same time), the show was infamous for its constant cast changes. Only two characters from the first season remained on ''Hang Time'' by the sixth and final season – {{Tomboy}} star player Julie Connor (Daniella Deutscher) and RichGirl head cheerleader-turned-team manager Mary Beth Pepperton (Megan Parlen), with season three introductions, ace player Michael Manning (Adam Frost) and redhead cheerleader Kristy Ford (Amber Baretto) being the longest-running of the characters added in later seasons to stay on to the final episode – those shuffling in between have been lost to time, and (with the exception of Nick Hammer (played by Mark Famiglietti in season four), who was given a proper send-off in the season five premiere "Hello and Goodbye") have been written out with just a brief explanation in each season's first episode.

** In "A Whole New Ballgame", Mary Beth (with Kristy's help) tries to find herself a new boyfriend following her break-up with [[PutOnABus Vince]], but no one makes the cut. Her reasons for rejecting Kristy's top 3 choices are: The first guy has a chipped tooth, the second guy smells like ham (Kristy admits that she's bothered about that part as well), and the last guy... has a lame name. Kristy proceeds to call Mary Beth "picky" at this point.

* BurgerFool: Technically, Corn Dog on a Pole is a cart, not a restaurant... but it is complete with an ugly multi-colored uniform as Mary Beth notes (and later has to wear) in "Assault and Pepper Spray":

* WackyGuy: Teddy in seasons two and three qualifies, as does Rico in season four.

* ArsonMurderandJaywalking:

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Coach Fuller, and to some extent, Coach Katowinski.

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: A twofer from Josh to Mary Beth in "When Loss is Gain" (see Rich in Dollars, Poor in Sense below for further context):
-->'''Josh:''' "I think you're the one who's lazy and ungrateful."
-->'''Mary Beth:''' "What?"
-->'''Josh:''' "You heard me. Lazy because you couldn't give up shopping for a few days, and ungrateful because you take all your daddy's money for granted."
*** Later...
-->'''Josh:''' "Look, I'm really sorry you got mugged, and I'm glad you're not hurt... but your attitude stinks! Y-- you're nothing more than a selfish, naive little princess. I don't even know why we're friends."