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* ConfessionCam: Invoked during the reality-show episode: Mr. Potato Head set one up and allowed the other cast members to go in any time they wanted to discuss their feelings. Which he then used ManipulativeEditing on to make it look like one of the characters was badmouthing all the others as an attempt at generating conflict to liven up the show.
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* NeverLiveItDown: [[invoked]] Feeling both guilty and desperate for something to show his audience after his original plan for a reality show spectacularly blows up in his face, Mr. Potato Head films himself doing a dance that embarasses him called the "Fluffy Pookie-Poo" and submits that to his network executives for the show. To his dismay, both the executives and the [=TV=]-watching public love it, and it becomes extremely popular. He swears he'll escape the embarrassment if he has to move to South America to do it...only to find that it's also popular in South America.
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* ClipShow: The final two episodes of the show are unabashed clip shows; Mr. Potato Head has frequent flashbacks to earlier episodes when he hears that the show has been cancelled to justify most of them. However, at one point, the narrator just says they're going to show the audience some clips [[LampshadeHanging just because]]. It's as if they were deliberately aiming for SoBadItsGood!
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* FamilyFriendlyFirearms: Technically averted, as we never see ''any'' kind of gun on-screen, realistic or otherwise. That said, the show lampshades and dances around the fact that you can't have real guns on a kid's show. For example, in a western episode, sherrif!Mr. Potato Head and outlaw!Johnny have some closeups of them that size them up head-to-toe, and you can tell that ''their holsters are empty''. And yet, when Mr. Potato Head is showing this western episode to the [[ScrewedByTheNetwork TV bosses]], seconds after these size-up camera shots, you can ''hear'' gunshots as part of the climactic shootout while seeing the bosses' reactions of horror as they tell him he can't have guns on the show.
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* FamilyFriendlyFirearms: Technically averted, as we never see ''any'' kind of gun on-screen, realistic or otherwise. That said, the The show lampshades and dances around the fact that you can't have real guns on a kid's show. For example, in a western episode, sherrif!Mr. Potato Head and outlaw!Johnny have some closeups of them that size them up head-to-toe, and you can tell that ''their holsters are empty''. And yet, when Mr. Potato Head is showing this western episode to the [[ScrewedByTheNetwork TV bosses]], seconds after these size-up camera shots, you can ''hear'' gunshots as part of the climactic shootout while seeing the bosses' reactions of horror as they tell him he can't have guns on the show.
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* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Several of the show's jokes use this. For instance, after Mr. Potato Head showed his "[[BrownNote masterpiece script]]" to Queenie, she screamed at the top of her lungs and fell over. As she was on the floor moaning, "the horror...the horror..." Mr. Potato Head asked her, "So...you don't like it?"
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* BulletholeDoor: In the superhero episode, Mr. Potato Head's "[[ShowWithinAShow Spudman]]" character uses EyeBeams to create a door to enter the BigBad's lair.
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* RunningGag: Most jokes that involve referencing previous events in the episode don't happen often enough to qualify as Brick Jokes, but there's one that recurs often enough: Mr. Potato Head saying, "Please don't say X. It makes me uncomfortable." Words like "bosom" and "evacuate" fill in the X.
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* RunningGag: Most jokes that involve referencing previous events in the episode don't happen often enough to qualify as Running Gags and are instead [[BrickJoke Brick Jokes, Jokes]], but there's one that recurs often enough: Mr. Potato Head saying, "Please don't say X. It makes me uncomfortable." Words like "bosom" and "evacuate" fill in the X.
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* BrickJoke: Perhaps the writers were aiming for a RunningGag some of the time, but they had several jokes that referenced previous events, such as real weapons being used as props in a spy episode. First, [[ButtMonkey poor Baloney]] was exploded by an [[ItMakesSenseInContext exploding handkerchief]], then electrocuted by an electrifying pen.
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* TheVillainSucksSong: Queenie begins singing one about [[TyrantTakesTheHelm Bully-boy McPherson]] in his episode, and as he realizes that it's not meant to be flattering, his smile fades, and he cuts here off.
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* TheVillainSucksSong: Queenie begins singing one about [[TyrantTakesTheHelm Bully-boy McPherson]] in his episode, and as he realizes that it's not meant to be flattering, his smile fades, and he cuts here her off.
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* TheVillainSucksSong: Queenie begins singing one about [[TyrantTakesTheHelm Bully-boy McPherson]] in his episode, and as he realizes that it's not meant to be flattering, his smile fades, and he cuts here off.
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* ZanyScheme: In one episode, Mr. Potato Head thinks that his rival is trying to hire away his star singer, so he sets out to give her the variety-show episode she wants, and everything else she wants, too...without letting her know why. She ends up thinking he's fallen in love with her. HilarityEnsues.
** Most of the characters' plans are relatively simple, but insanity always follows, regardless.
** Most of the characters' plans are relatively simple, but insanity always follows, regardless.
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* LogicBomb: At one point, a robotic version of Mr. Potato Head decided that the real Mr. Potato Head was a bad influence on the rest of the cast who was making them miserable, and tried to keep them separated. Betty the Kitchen Fairy told the robot that keeping them away from their friend also made them miserable, and this paradox caused the robot to explode.
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* FunnyBackgroundEvent: Often, when Mr. Potato Head met with the TV executives, they were eating french fries.
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* FunnyBackgroundEvent: Often, when Mr. Potato Head met with the TV executives, executives Aaron and Nora, they were eating french fries.
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* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: A third network executive appears in the finale, who says Mr. Potato Head's show has outlived its usefulness to "ThePlan", and tells the regular T.V. Bosses Aaron and Nora to cancel it.
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* XRaySparks: This happens to Baloney in the spy episode, when he tries taking notes using a spy-gadget electrifying pen...that ''isn't'' just a prop!
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* UnmanlySecret: Mr. Potato Head's secret is that he likes to hide in the cupboard and do a silly dance called the "Fluffy Pookie-Poo".
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* QuickDraw: It's implied that the original version of the cowboy episode ended with one of these, as there are camera angles sizing up both sheriff!Mr. Potato Head and outlaw!Johnny right before their showdown. (The closeups revealing that their holsters are empty did not stop this.)
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* VillainSong: Queenie Sweet Potato plays an EvilOverlord in the superhero episode, and her first moment on-screen in the in-universe episode is a song about world domination.
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* {{Wangst}}: [[invoked]] In-universe, Baloney viewed Mr. Potato Head's progressively worsening depression over the show being cancelled as annoying and overreacting, and tried several over-the-top things to get him out of that funk.
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* CatchPhrase: Multiple characters have catchphrases:
** Mr. Potato Head himself has "Tubular, baby!"
** Baloney has "Not in any way good!"
** Potato Bug has "Sweet cheese and crackers!"
** Nora the T.V. Boss has "I have ''no'' idea what that means, but I ''love'' it!"
** Mr. Potato Head himself has "Tubular, baby!"
** Baloney has "Not in any way good!"
** Potato Bug has "Sweet cheese and crackers!"
** Nora the T.V. Boss has "I have ''no'' idea what that means, but I ''love'' it!"
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* MadLibsCatchPhrase: One of Mr. Potato Head's catchphrases is "Who's ___? That's right, it's me/you!" The blank can be filled in with all sorts of things, like "clueless", "gonna be rich", or "a genius".
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* HellHotel: After getting depressed, thinking his friends no longer needed him, Mr. Potato Head stays at a run-down hotel in a dangerous neighborhood to mope.
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* MeatOVision: When Queenie goes on a diet, she starts seeing other cast members this way (who, let us remember, are almost all AnthropomorphicFood to begin with): she sees Mr. Potato Head as a baked potato, and she sees Baloney as a sandwich.
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* {{Tuckerization}}: Dr. Fruitcake calls a press conference, and says hello to the reporters present: Tom Brokaw, Nancy O'Dell, and Diane Sawyer, all of whom were news anchors at the time the show was being aired. However, he only uses the characters ''first'' names.
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* IdiotBall: Mr. Potato Head would sometimes be quite wise, like making it a point to break the news that the show has been cancelled to his cast in small groups so there wouldn't be a mass panic. Other times, even ''in the same episode'', he'd make unbelievably idiotic decisions, like setting up the opening night of the show months before anything was ready!
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* RobotMe: Mr. Potato Head was under a lot of stress and needed a vacation, so Dr. Fruitcake made a robotic version of Mr. Potato Head to stand in for him while he was away...who was friendly and didn't have any of [[IdiotBall Mr.]] [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Potato]] [[JerkassBall Head's]] flaws. He was so liked by the rest of the cast, that when the real Mr. Potato Head found out about the robot, he didn't want to come back to the show and became depressed.
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* KaleidoscopeHair: In the reality TV episode, Queenie starts trying on various wigs, experimenting with different looks. One of them is neon orange!
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* FlowersForAlgernonSyndrome: Potato Bug's stupidity got Mr. Potato Head's plant killed, so she asked Dr. Fruitcake to make her smart with a brain-enhancing device. It works ''too'' well: she felt like she was SurroundedByIdiots, she enhanced every appliance in ways only she could understand, she made the whole cast obsolete by programming the computer to create episodes of the show for them, and in general made herself and everyone around her miserable to the point where she [[DrivenToSuicide thought about throwing herself under a bus.]] She instead had the brain-enhancement reversed and went back to being a CloudCuckooLander.
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* CannotTellFictionFromReality: In the superhero episode, Mr. Potato Head, acting as the [[ShowWithinAShow in-universe fictional superhero]] "Spudman", tried to use his character's powers to fight a world-destroying demon. Bizarrely, he was able to fire EyeBeams, even backstage, though he lost a BeamOWar with the demon.
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* DidNotThinkThisThrough: Queenie was going to try to force Mr. Potato Head to let her sing on the show by stealing his detachable ears and holding them hostage. She didn't make her demands until ''after'' she detached the ears, and couldn't hear her, though...
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* DidNotThinkThisThrough: Queenie was going to try to force Mr. Potato Head to let her sing on the show by stealing his detachable ears and holding them hostage. She didn't make her demands until ''after'' she detached the ears, and couldn't hear her, though...
---> '''Queenie''': Man, I shoulda thought this plan through better!
---> '''Queenie''': Man, I shoulda thought this plan through better!
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* DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale: Sweet Potato often slaps Mr. Potato Head around, and no one calls her on it. Then again, there are times when Mr. Potato Head is kind of asking for it.
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* DreadfulMusician: Johnny Rottenapple even calls his own songs "My latest musical stain/puddle/onslaught"!
* DreadfulMusician: Johnny Rottenapple even calls his own songs "My latest musical stain/puddle/onslaught"!
