History Series / HeyDude

** Don't insult Danny's heritage. Also don’t mention to anyone else that he overflowed Mr. Ernst’s toilet and flooded his bathroom.

** Don't insult Danny's heritage.

* FishOutOfWater: Mr. Ernst, despite massive denial on his part. Brad is a milder case.

* GameShowAppearance: Newly emergent genius Jake does one.
* GenderBlenderName: Brad.
* HateSink: The Bar None's neighbors, the Vlecks.

* LockedInAFreezer: In two different episodes, if not more... darn that abandoned mine shaft.

* AgelessBirthdayEpisode: The "Guys vs. Girls" episode for Danny, and there was another episode that had an ageless birthday for Mr. Ernst.
* AlphaBitch: Brad's a borderline case.
** Her acquaintance Kimberly Carroll, from "The Good, The Bad, The Obnoxious," was a more clear-cut case.

* BerserkButton: Don't insult Danny's heritage.
** Don't call Jake by the nickname his mom gave him, Jake-a-roo.

''Hey, Dude!'' was a sitcom that aired on {{Creator/Nickelodeon}} from 1989 to 1991. It followed the misadventures of the teenage summer help at the Bar None Ranch in Arizona, as well as its owner, the rather clueless Benjamin Ernst. Mr. Ernst, after years of being a nebbish pencil-pusher, gets the urge to be a cowboy; so he buys the Bar None and becomes its manager. Since his only qualifications (if you can call them qualifications) are his enthusiasm for bolo ties and ten-gallon hats, he's quickly in over his head. Consequently, he has little time to supervise the young staff, who leap on the opportunity to romance each other and concoct schemes... in the most wholesome possible way, of course. The staff are:

* DrunkWithPower: In the tie-in novel ''Showdown at the Bar None'', the normally easygoing Ted is put in charge of the ranch while Mr. Ernst and Lucy are in a buying trip and is such an unreasonable micromanager that Mel and Danny quickly get fed up enough to dunk him in the lake.

** Not to mention Kyle, who joins even later in the series. Since Jake and Brad don't have the same will-they-or-won't-they chemistry that Ted and Brad do, Kyle was brought in to fill the void.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Worth mentioned for just how jaw-droppingly quickly the episode "Do the Right Thing" became dated. The premise involved an archaeologist unearthing a Native American burial ground that Danny wanted to protect. 14 days after the episode end Congress passed the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, making the ethical debate moot since the archaeologists actions were not a Federal crime.

* WriteWhoYouKnow: In-universe: Danny starts a comic called "The Dud Ranch," using thinly-veiled [[{{Expy}} expies]] of his friends, and plays up the worst of their personalities for humor. It's a hit with the readers, but Danny eventually realizes the friction in his personal relationships isn't worth it.

* SpoilerOpening: David Lascher is re-added to the opening titles (specifically Kyle's first episode, season 3's "Stick Around") long before his character Ted actually returns to the show. Most likely because the show didn't want to go to the trouble of creating two sets of credits, one when Geoffrey Coy joined the show and another for Lascher's officially return.

* AbsenteeActor: Joe Torres ("Danny") doesn't appear in the first season episode "Suspicion"

* RealLifeWritesThePlot: A minor example -- in the beauty contest episode, Melody states that her hometown is Allentown, Pennsylvania, which is Christine Taylor's RealLife hometown.

'''Brad:''' [[LampshadeHanging Because it's July. Because it's a 105 degrees in the shade. Because SantaClaus is at home with his air conditioning set on tundra. And because a snowball from the Bar None refrigerator does not a blizzard make.]]

* DefyingTheCensors: INCORECTLY REGARDED: ("Nickelodeon must have had loose guidelines in the early '90s because they somehow let Jake get away with saying that the Ernst family motto is "we like mAth" in the episode "Jake's Fight"." ) put on closed captioning it clearly states the motto is WE LIKE MATH. MAKES SENSE since Benjamin is/was an accountant.

* DefyingTheCensors: INCORECCTLY REGARDED: "Nickelodeon must have had loose guidelines in the early '90s because they somehow let Jake get away with saying that the Ernst family motto is "we like mAth" in the episode "Jake's Fight"." put on closed captioning it clearly states the motto is WE LIKE MATH. MAKES SENSE since Benjamin is/was an accountant.