History Series / Lodge49

* AmbiguousDisorder: There's definitely something off about Booie, the Pool Party poolboy, with his lack of eye contact and ignorance of social cues.

* ButtMonkey: The whole world seems to be working against Dud. [[UpToEleven Jocelyn gets it even worse]].

* TheAllegedCar: Dud lives out of an old car that is falling apart. [[spoiler:When it’s stolen by Bert, the pawn shop owner, it almost feels like he was doing Dud a favor without meaning to.]]

* CapitalismIsBad: Most of Dud and Ernie's problems can be traced to some greedy prick higher up on the food chain, whether it's the bank that took Dud's home and business to pay off his dead father's debts or the customers who stiff Ernie on commissions and force him to eat the expenses when they underestimate the costs of a piping job.

* TheChosenOne: [[spoiler:Towards the end of his life, Larry starts to believe that Dud might actually have been sent to redeem the Lodge.]]

* EnemyMine: [[spoiler:Bert ends up helping Dud get his family's pool shop back, because he'd rather have Dudley & Sons back than have to deal with Pool Party.]]

* PyrrhicVictory: [[spoiler:In the first-season finale, Liz clears her debts, but she's broke, her employment prospects are bleak, and after the stunt that she pulled with her bank, it's probably going to be hard for her to get another loan.]]

* ScrewThisImOutOfHere: [[spoiler:After realizing that Janet Price's whole image is a fraud, and realizing that Janet's tutelage will just turn her into a fraud, Liz literally jumps ship.]]

* TrailersAlwaysLie: The [[https://news.avclub.com/these-new-lodge-49-teasers-are-aimed-at-anyone-who-stil-1836909504 teasers]] for Season 2 play this up, presenting the show variously as a horror show, cheesy sitcom or ''A-Team''-style action show.

* WeWantOurJerkBack: [[spoiler:As much as they loathe Dud for his constant failures to pay off his debts, Bert and Herman hate the Pool Party family worse, and thus they help him sabotage the Pool Party and ultimately force the family to hand the deed to the store back to Dud.]]

** Unemployed slacker Dud and his hardworking sister Liz. Also qualifies as an example of PolarOppositeTwins. [[spoiler:Subverted later when it becomes clear that Liz is just as self-destructive as Dud, but she's better at hiding it.]]

* ReassignedToAntartica: Possibly what literally happened to Avery after the debacle with Captain. When Daphne explains she and Avery work for the same employers, Dud asks where Avery is, and Daphne offhandedly mentions he's in Antartica.

* RealityEnsues: [[spoiler:After literally jumping ship from the Mingle, Liz finds that she's no longer invited back, as her would-be co-workers had to call the harbor patrol to look for her. She also finds that she can't return to Shamroxx because they've already replaced her.]]

* NotSoDifferent: For all that she insists that she has her feet on the ground compared to Dud, Liz has no more ambition or direction in life than he does, with her only long-term goal being to pay off her debts.

* GainaxEnding: By virtue of being CanceledBeforeItsTime. [[spoiler:Liz enters the Lodge for the first time and is struck by the same deja vu Dud experienced in the first episode. Meanwhile Dud wanders to the trailer and starts ferociously digging a swimming pool in a rainstorm; his shovel is struck by lightning, and his unconscious body sinks into the mud... Only to come falling out of the Lodge's mysterious second-floor door. Cut to black.]]

** In season 2, it's revealed that [[spoiler:all of Wallace Smith's supposedly brilliant deeds were actually done by Jackie Loomis; she allowed Wallace to take the credit because she realized that nobody would listen to her because she was a woman.]]
* YourCheatingHeart:
** Ernie has been carrying on an affair with Connie behind the back of her husband Scott. [[spoiler:Well, he thinks it’s behind Scott’s back; the latter’s actually known about it the whole time.]]
** Wallace Smith, a legendary member of Lodge 49, had a lifelong affair with Jackie Loomis, Larry's mother... who was also having an affair with her boss at Orbis, Werner.

''Lodge 49'' is a series airing on Creator/{{AMC}} and starring Wyatt Russell and Brent Jennings.

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** This actually becomes a minor plot point in Season 2, when Liz befriends Lenore, an old girlfriend of her father, out of a desire for a maternal figure, despite her being [[Jerkass less than]] [[MoodSwinger an ideal option]].

* CampGay: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] with Blaise, whose flamboyance has more to do with his AgentMulder tendencies than his sexuality.

* CampGay: Blaise is rather flamboyant.

** Either alchemy is real and the Order Of The Lynx is descended from a real AncientConspiracy, or its all a load of crap and the Lodge is just a fancy social club. [[spoiler:The season one finale all but states that it’s for real.]]

* MonochromeCasting: Pleasantly averted. The show includes characters like Ernie (African-American) and Gil (Latino) in it's portrait of the decline of the American middle class. The Lynx are also shown to be more diverse than some of the real-world groups it's inspired by.

* SoulCrushingRetailJob: Liz works at Shamroxx, a Hooters knock off. Complete with work nightmares!

* WomenAreWiser: Unemployed slacker Dud and his hardworking sister Liz. Also qualifies as an example of PolarOppositeTwins.
* YourCheatingHeart: Ernie has been carrying on an affair with Connie behind the back of her husband Scott. [[spoiler:Well, he thinks it’s behind Scott’s back; the latter’s actually known about it the whole time.]]