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** TheHero-Jake
** TheLancer-Amir
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** TheBigGuy-Streeter
** TheChick-Sarah, and later, Emily
** TheSixthRanger-Dan/Jeff
** TheHero-Jake
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** TheBigGuy-Streeter
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* MermaidProblem: Spoofed when Dan introduces everyone to his fiance, except the problem is inverted because she's a ''maidmer'' with a fish head and a human lower body. The others point out that the InterspeciesRomance implications of this variation only makes it worse.
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** "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Req45CixtLY Board Game Murder Mystery]]", while not a Hardly Working sketch, is one example. If you watch, you'll catch all of the references to popular Milton Bradley board games: in order, Don't Wake Daddy, Operation, Guess Who, Trouble, Sorry!, and Mouse Trap.
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** "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Req45CixtLY Board Game Murder Mystery]]", while not a Hardly Working sketch, is one example. If you watch, you'll catch all of the references to popular Milton Bradley Creator/MiltonBradley board games: in order, Don't Wake Daddy, Operation, Guess Who, Trouble, Sorry!, and Mouse Trap.
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'''''Hardly Working''''' is an online series of shorts taking place in the office from which the Website/CollegeHumor website is run. The series is written by and stars the CH staff. The first shorts were ten-second-long, one-joke bits shot with a cam-corder for fun, but as their popularity grew they expanded into full sketches several minutes long and shot with multiple professional cameras.
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* BeyondTheImpossible: [[http://www.collegehumor.com/video/5571563/hardly-working-twitters-down Tweeting about Twitter being down]]. This causes a double take, a 'that's impossi-!' shout and an EarthShatteringKaboom. It's ambigious whether the exclaimation was Twitter being down or tweeting about it.
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* BeenThereShapedHistory: The Phantom is a recurring character in the videos. He's an all-around ComedicSociopath and implied immortal, which gives rise to a number of claims.
-->'''Phantom:''' You'd best watch yourself or I'll do to you what I did to Amelia Earhart.
-->'''Dan:''' Amelia Earhart?
-->'''Phantom:''' ''Flying is a man's game!''
* BeyondTheImpossible: [[http://www.collegehumor.com/video/5571563/hardly-working-twitters-down Tweeting about Twitter being down]]. This causes a double take, a 'that's impossi-!' shout and an EarthShatteringKaboom. It's ambigious whether the exclaimation was Twitter being down or tweeting about it.
-->'''Phantom:''' You'd best watch yourself or I'll do to you what I did to Amelia Earhart.
-->'''Dan:''' Amelia Earhart?
-->'''Phantom:''' ''Flying is a man's game!''
* BeyondTheImpossible: [[http://www.collegehumor.com/video/5571563/hardly-working-twitters-down Tweeting about Twitter being down]]. This causes a double take, a 'that's impossi-!' shout and an EarthShatteringKaboom. It's ambigious whether the exclaimation was Twitter being down or tweeting about it.
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* EqualOpportunityEvil: The sketch "Secret Society" involves a secret organization of "lady punchers." One of them is [[FemaleMisogynist a woman]], and uses this trope as an explanation.
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* RightBehindMe - Parodied in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyaFtO-JJz8 All Nighter He's Right Behind Me]].
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* RightBehindMe - RightBehindMe: Parodied in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyaFtO-JJz8 All Nighter He's Right Behind Me]].Me]], with person after person getting revealed until the speaker realizes that [[TomatoInTheMirror he himself is actually the person whom he's been talking about]].
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* TomatoInTheMirror: In "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyaFtO-JJz8 All-Nighter Hardly Working: He's Right Behind Me]]", Jeff gripes about Dan's disgusting behavior in the office, only to eventually realize that ''he's'' actually Dan.
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* [[DependingontheWriter Depending on the Writer]]: The personalities of both Amir and Jake in Hardly Working differ somewhat from their characterization in their [[JakeandAmir own series]], ironically with Jake frequently being an obnoxious idiot and Amir often as the straight man.
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* [[DependingontheWriter Depending on the Writer]]: The personalities of both Amir and Jake in Hardly Working differ somewhat from their characterization in their [[JakeandAmir [[WebVideo/JakeAndAmir own series]], ironically with Jake frequently being an obnoxious idiot and Amir often as the straight man.
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* LadEtte: Apparently Emily, especially in JakeAndAmir -- more foulmouthed than most of the guys, flirts with guys other than Murph (her boyfriend), and occasionally outright criminal.
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* LadEtte: Apparently Emily, especially in JakeAndAmir ''WebVideo/JakeAndAmir'' -- more foulmouthed than most of the guys, flirts with guys other than Murph (her boyfriend), and occasionally outright criminal.
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** "[[Film/TheDarkKnightRises Bane]] Mugs", where they imitate Tom Hardy's Bane voice by putting coffee mugs over their mouths to muffle their voice. And then they continue having a conversation and breaking into Bane impressions.
-->'''Emily:''' ''[puts mug to mouth]'' Now is not the time for fear, doctor. Now is the time ''[lowers mug, normal voice]'' to get some real work done.
-->'''Josh:''' I mean, once we, uh, organize the files, ''[puts mug to mouth]'' then you have my permission ''[lowers mug]'' to do Bane impressions.
-->'''Emily:''' ''[puts mug to mouth]'' Now is not the time for fear, doctor. Now is the time ''[lowers mug, normal voice]'' to get some real work done.
-->'''Josh:''' I mean, once we, uh, organize the files, ''[puts mug to mouth]'' then you have my permission ''[lowers mug]'' to do Bane impressions.
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** "[[Film/TheDarkKnightRises Bane]] Mugs", where they imitate Tom Hardy's Bane voice by putting coffee mugs over their mouths to muffle their voice. And then they continue having a conversation and breaking into Bane impressions.
voice.
-->'''Emily:''' ''[puts mug to mouth]'' Now is not the time for fear, doctor. Now is the time ''[lowers mug, normal voice]'' to get some real workdone.
-->'''Josh:'''done.\\
'''Josh:''' I mean, once we, uh, organize the files, ''[puts mug to mouth]'' then you have my permission ''[lowers mug]'' to do Bane impressions.\\
[+And then they continue having a conversation and breaking into Bane impressions.+]
-->'''Emily:''' ''[puts mug to mouth]'' Now is not the time for fear, doctor. Now is the time ''[lowers mug, normal voice]'' to get some real work
-->'''Josh:'''
'''Josh:''' I mean, once we, uh, organize the files, ''[puts mug to mouth]'' then you have my permission ''[lowers mug]'' to do Bane impressions.\\
[+And then they continue having a conversation and breaking into Bane impressions.+]
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* HypocriticalHumor: "[[Film/TheDarkKnightRises Bane]] Mugs", where they imitate Tom Hardy's Bane voice by putting coffee mugs over their mouths to muffle their voice:
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** "[[Film/TheDarkKnightRises Bane]] Mugs", where they imitate Tom Hardy's Bane voice by putting coffee mugs over their mouths to muffle theirvoice:voice. And then they continue having a conversation and breaking into Bane impressions.
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* IfICantHaveYou: Pat in "My Bloody Valentine".
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* IfICantHaveYou: Pat in "My "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujauxisY2s8 My Bloody Valentine".Valentine]]" plays a possessive sociopath who kills Sarah after previously murdering everyone in the office who flirted with her on Valentine's Day. It backfires on him, as she wanted to ask him out before he stabbed her fatally.
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* PreviouslyOn - Parodied in "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JLHY_rE3H8 Last Week]]".
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* PreviouslyOn - Parodied in "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JLHY_rE3H8 Last Week]]".Week]]", which shows "previously ons" to numerous previous episodes that never happened.
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* StayInTheKitchen- Sarah gets a whirlwind of misogynistic insults in "60's Day". Mainly because she was aiming for late 60's,while everyone else was going for the ''MadMen'' setting.
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* StayInTheKitchen- Sarah gets a whirlwind of misogynistic insults in "60's Day". Mainly because she was aiming for late 60's,while 60's, while everyone else was going for the ''MadMen'' ''Series/MadMen'' setting.
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** Slightly averted with Emily and Anu. (Ans now apparently Elaine.)
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** Slightly averted with Emily and Anu. (Ans (And now apparently Elaine.)
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** Slightly averted with Emily and Anu.
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** Slightly averted with Emily and Anu. (Ans now apparently Elaine.)
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->'''Sarah:''' A tiger broke into the office!
->'''Jeff:''' Well that doesn't make any sense.
->[[{{Beat}} *beat*]]
->'''Jeff:''' The tiger's eating me!
->'''Jeff:''' Well that doesn't make any sense.
->[[{{Beat}} *beat*]]
->'''Jeff:''' The tiger's eating me!
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->'''Sarah:''' A tiger broke into the office!
->'''Jeff:'''office!\\
'''Jeff:''' Well that doesn't make anysense.
->[[{{Beat}} *beat*]]
->'''Jeff:'''sense.\\
''({{beat}})''\\
'''Jeff:''' The tiger's eating me!
->'''Jeff:'''
'''Jeff:''' Well that doesn't make any
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'''Jeff:''' The tiger's eating me!
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* RefugeInAudacity: In "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTT9-YfgeTU Mangina]]", when the boys demonstrate the illusion of a vagina by tucking their genitals between their legs, Sarah one-ups them with a "reverse mangina", by making her labia look like a penis.
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*TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Apparently, Emily and Anu, although Anu hasn't gotten much screen time thus far.
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*LadEtte: Apparently Emily, especially in JakeAndAmir -- more foulmouthed than most of the guys, flirts with guys other than Murph (her boyfriend), and occasionally outright criminal.
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* EldritchAbomination: Beef Gurewitch. Murph shoots both himself and Emily in the head to escape it.
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* EldritchAbomination: Beef Gurewitch. Murph shoots both himself and Emily in the head to escape it. (It appears to be a cross between rotten deli meat and Zalgo.)
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*EldritchAbomination: Beef Gurewitch. Murph shoots both himself and Emily in the head to escape it.
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* BeyondTheImpossible: [[http://www.collegehumor.com/video/5571563/hardly-working-twitters-down Tweeting about Twitter being down]]. This causes a double take, a 'that's impossi-!' and an EarthShatteringKaboom. It's ambigious whether the exclaimation was Twitter being down or tweeting about it.
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* BeyondTheImpossible: [[http://www.collegehumor.com/video/5571563/hardly-working-twitters-down Tweeting about Twitter being down]]. This causes a double take, a 'that's impossi-!' shout and an EarthShatteringKaboom. It's ambigious whether the exclaimation was Twitter being down or tweeting about it.
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* XMeetsY: ''{{Stella}}'' meets ''TheOffice''.
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* XMeetsY: ''{{Stella}}'' ''Series/{{Stella|US}}'' meets ''TheOffice''.
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* ExpectationLowerer: Pat in [[http://www.collegehumor.com/video/6538547/hardly-working-wishful-thinking Wishful Thinking]].
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* ExpectationLowerer: InUniverse, Pat in [[http://www.collegehumor.com/video/6538547/hardly-working-wishful-thinking Wishful Thinking]].
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* ObviouslyEvil: Josh's [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEMNUboRK7U evil chair]]
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* DivideByZero - [[http://www.collegehumor.com/video/5571563/hardly-working-twitters-down "I'm tweeting about how pissed I am that twitter's down"]]
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* MemeticMutation: "Don't be like Pat Cassles."
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* MemeticMutation: "Don't be like Pat Cassles.Cassels."
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* MemeticMutation: "Don't be like Pat Cassles."
** Seriously. Don't be like Pat.
** Seriously. Don't be like Pat.
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* {{Polyamory}}: Parodied in "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_l_7TWf_oo My Two True Loves]]", in which Pat sings about his dream to have this sort of relationship.
-->'''Pat:''' It'll be just you and me!... and her!
-->'''Pat:''' It'll be just you and me!... and her!
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* ScoobyStack: Parodied in the sketch "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcOz_75CDjI Snooping]]", where each consecutive person on top crushes the bottom guy more and more [[spoiler:until his head explodes]].
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* ScoobyStack: Parodied and deconstructed in the sketch "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcOz_75CDjI Snooping]]", where Snooping]]": in that each consecutive person added on top crushes of the stack increases the pressure on the bottom guy more and more [[spoiler:until his head explodes]].
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* SecretSanta: Spoofed in "Kovert Krampus," where instead of giving each other gifts, the staff gives each other things to punish them for whatever.
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* SecretSanta: Spoofed with BlackComedy in "Kovert Krampus," where instead of giving each other gifts, the staff gives each other things to punish them for whatever. their lies and transgressions (with a $20 spending limit).
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*** First, Owen receives fro1m Jeff his dead cat, killed and put on a neckchain that Owen is supposed to wear around his neck.
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*** First, Owen receives fro1m from Jeff his dead cat, killed and put on a neckchain that Owen is supposed to wear around his neck.
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-->'''Dan:''' Oh, let me guess. They’re all ''topless'', reenacting the ''final, climatic'' scene to ''A Few Good Men.''
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-->'''Dan:''' Oh, let me guess. They’re all ''topless'', reenacting the ''final, climatic'' scene to ''A Few Good Men.''Film/AFewGoodMen.''
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* MakeoverMontage: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDb6yOVKKxE Parodied]]. Sarah does one for David and Pat - into an ordinary black gown, which she says is the only thing she has. At the guys' insistence, she goes through the makeover montage. The resulting product in the end is that she looks a lot like [[{{Wicked}} Elphaba]] in a sweater.
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* MakeoverMontage: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDb6yOVKKxE Parodied]]. Sarah does one for David and Pat - into an ordinary black gown, which she says is the only thing she has. At the guys' insistence, she goes through the makeover montage. The resulting product in the end is that she looks a lot like [[{{Wicked}} [[Theatre/{{Wicked}} Elphaba]] in a sweater.
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* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill - Attempted in "Bug".
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* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill - Attempted in "Bug". "Bug", with them deciding to smash Sarah's computer, then her harddrive, and even her monitor in an attempt to kill the fly, which still lives. Then they decide to go get the photocopier. The scene shows Sam and Ricky having an important meeting in their conference room, and a FunnyBackgroundEvent happens: Ricky is totally oblivious (unable to see or hear that) that Sam is paying more attention to the fact that behind Ricky, the other staff members are dismantling the photocopier.
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Crosswicking.
* HollywoodNewEngland: "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKTeyYNo2hA Federal Maashals]]" features the College Humor office being raided by two Federal Marshals with incomprehensible Boston accents. The go around the office shouting "GO SAAHX" (Boston Red Sox), humming their theme song, asking David and Sarah confusing questions and beating other people up. HilarityEnsues.
* MakeoverMontage: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDb6yOVKKxE Parodied]]. Sarah does one for David and Pat - into an ordinary black gown, which she says is the only thing she has. At the guys' insistence, she goes through the makeover montage. The resulting product in the end is that she looks a lot like [[{{Wicked}} Elphaba]] in a sweater.
* RidiculouslyAverageGuy: In one [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtLh085JQjs video]], super-nerd Jeff uses a machine to change his personality to be super cool and suave. When he decides that the only thing cooler than being cool is being yourself and attempts to reverse the process, something goes wrong resulting in him becoming exactly average.
--> '''Average Geoff''': Does anyone wanna play some XBOX? I only have one controller though.
--> '''David''': What a totally... average thing to say.
--> '''Average Geoff''': Does anyone wanna play some XBOX? I only have one controller though.
--> '''David''': What a totally... average thing to say.
* ScoobyStack: Parodied in the sketch "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcOz_75CDjI Snooping]]", where each consecutive person on top crushes the bottom guy more and more [[spoiler:until his head explodes]].
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->'''Sarah:''' A tiger broke into the office!
->'''Jeff:''' Well that doesn't make any sense.
->[[{{Beat}} *beat*]]
->'''Jeff:''' The tiger's eating me!
'''''Hardly Working''''' is an online series of shorts taking place in the office from which the Website/CollegeHumor website is run. The series is written by and stars the CH staff. The first shorts were ten-second-long, one-joke bits shot with a cam-corder for fun, but as their popularity grew they expanded into full sketches several minutes long and shot with multiple professional cameras.
Most of the shorts take place in the context of ''supposed'' everyday life working at the website's office. The most prominent subseries within Hardly Working is ''WebVideo/JakeAndAmir'', a BokeAndTsukkomiRoutine between the two titular characters.
See it [[http://www.collegehumor.com/hardlyworking here]].
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!!This series provides examples of:
* ActingForTwo: Or three or four. Several cast members play multiple characters, often with little more than a wig as a distinction. Streeter Seidel and Josh Ruben are the main examples
* AddedAlliterativeAppeal:
--> Pat: I made you this balloon animal.
--> Streeter: I made you this bassoon animal.
--> Pat: I made you this doubloon animal.
--> Dan: No more "words ending in -oon" animals!
--> (Streeter drops a '''spoon''' animal)
* AmbiguouslyGay- Jake frequently enourages all the guys to kiss each other, or suck each other off. "See [[http://www.collegehumor.com/video/5135384/hardly-working-office-fight Office Fight]]"
* AnswerCut -In [[http://www.collegehumor.com/video/3332576/hardly-working-youll-never-guess You'll Never Guess]]:
-->'''Dan:''' I’m going to the conference room
-->'''Sam:''' You’ll never guess what they're doing there
-->'''Dan:''' Oh, let me guess. They’re all ''topless'', reenacting the ''final, climatic'' scene to ''A Few Good Men.''
--> '''*Cut to conference room*'''
-->'''Pat:''' YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!
* BeyondTheImpossible: [[http://www.collegehumor.com/video/5571563/hardly-working-twitters-down Tweeting about Twitter being down]]. This causes a double take, a 'that's impossi-!' and an EarthShatteringKaboom. It's ambigious whether the exclaimation was Twitter being down or tweeting about it.
* BiTheWay - Most of the male cast. It's played around with a lot.
* BloodSplatteredWarrior- Jake in [[http://www.collegehumor.com/video/6281326/overly-realistic-buck-hunter Over Realistic Buck Hunter]]
* BokeAndTsukkomiRoutine - Amir and Jake, respectively
* BrickJoke: In "Stewie Keychain". It's even [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] with a good bit of BreakingTheFourthWall.
* ButtMonkey: The whole cast takes pretty equal turns in being the ButtMonkey. Mostly Pat, though.
* TheCameo: Lin-Manuel Miranda, rapper and Broadway lyricist, shows up in "Rap Battle."
** Parodied in the episode "[[JumpTheShark Jump the]] [[ShapedLikeItself Shark]]," where Tony Hawk supposedly shows up.
* CasualDangerDialog: Taken UpToEleven in "Emergency Flirt": A tiger is trying to break down the door and ''Pat is flirting with a cute animal control operator.''
* CensorSuds: [[http://www.collegehumor.com/video/6542559/showering-with-girls Showering With Girls]].
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}} - Amir is a disturbing example.
** Dan ventures into this territory as well.
** Gale Beggy.
* ClusterFBomb- In [[RantInducingSlight "Jeff Goes]] [[NeverLiveItDown Christian Bale"]]
* CoolTeacher- Dan in "Cool Teacher". Though he's so cliche he just annoys everyone. Also, they're not actually his students.
* DeadAllAlong - [[spoiler: Streeter in Camouflage.]]
* DeathAsComedy: Franchise/{{Die Hard}}ly Working.
* [[DependingontheWriter Depending on the Writer]]: The personalities of both Amir and Jake in Hardly Working differ somewhat from their characterization in their [[JakeandAmir own series]], ironically with Jake frequently being an obnoxious idiot and Amir often as the straight man.
* DivideByZero - [[http://www.collegehumor.com/video/5571563/hardly-working-twitters-down "I'm tweeting about how pissed I am that twitter's down"]]
* DressCode: Parodied in "Casual Friday", then taken UpToEleven, with:
** Uptight Monday
** Hesitant Tuesday
** Melodramatic Thursday
** Casual Acquaintance Friday
** Coming to Work Saturday
** Bloody Sunday
** Mariachi, Bagpipe, Totalitarian Dictator Monday
* EarthShatteringKaboom: As a result of Murph tweeting about how ''Twitter is down''.
* EnsembleCast
* EvilCounterpart: [[SuperMarioBros Wa]]-Dan.
* ExpectationLowerer: Pat in [[http://www.collegehumor.com/video/6538547/hardly-working-wishful-thinking Wishful Thinking]].
* FakeIrish: When the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdax8uWYmnQ "Punctuation Recession"]] leads to the office having to cut back on punctuation marks, the cutting of hyphens from the budget means that Streeter is downgraded from being Irish-American to simply Irish. Specifically, violent FightingIrish.
* FiveManBand
** TheHero-Jake
** TheLancer-Amir
** TheSmartGuy-Pat
** TheBigGuy-Streeter
** TheChick-Sarah, and later, Emily
** TheSixthRanger-Dan/Jeff
* FoodSlap: In "Drunk in Public," Sarah deals three times with an intoxicated Patrick by splashing him in the face.
* ForWantOfANail - [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbTT5b-wDYs&feature=relmfu Time Traveler]]
* GeorgeJetsonJobSecurity - In most of the Hardly Workings with Ricky he's either firing somebody or gets close to. In "Fired Up" he almost fires a girl, who simply says no to him and it's over just like that.
* GoodAngelBadAngel: In "Consciences."
* HairTodayGoneTomorrow: Jeff in [[http://www.collegehumor.com/video/6209047/hardly-working-flash-forward Flash Forward]].
* HappyBirthdayToYou: In celebrating Sarah's [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzoA-xFU2j8 birthday]], nobody remembers the birthday song, which upsets her. Has a hilarious moment where she has a straight face while everyone else joins in the new improvised song.
* HeterosexualLifePartners - Amir thinks he and Jake are this. Jake is perpetually disgusted and horrified by him.
* HitlersTimeTravelExemptionAct: Parodied in ''[[http://www.collegehumor.com/video/6834347/hardly-working-killing-hitler Killing Hitler]]. The first time they try it, the adult Hitler beats up the time traveller. The second time he does it again, but as an adolescent. The third time traveller attacks him with a rifle when he's a small child. However, Hitler steals it, and then forces the traveller to tell him how to make an atomic bomb. And then kid Hitler travels through the portal into the future.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: In "Pee Prank," Streeter tries to pull the "fingers in hot water while sleeping" prank on Jake, but when he tests the temperature of the water, pees himself.
* HypocriticalHumor: "[[Film/TheDarkKnightRises Bane]] Mugs", where they imitate Tom Hardy's Bane voice by putting coffee mugs over their mouths to muffle their voice:
-->'''Emily:''' ''[puts mug to mouth]'' Now is not the time for fear, doctor. Now is the time ''[lowers mug, normal voice]'' to get some real work done.
-->'''Josh:''' I mean, once we, uh, organize the files, ''[puts mug to mouth]'' then you have my permission ''[lowers mug]'' to do Bane impressions.
:: And then they continue having a conversation and breaking into Bane impressions.
** The "Punctuation Recession" is full of examples:
-->'''Jake Hurwitz:''' How the hell do you budget punctuation?
-->'''Sarah Schneider:''' Jake, stop asking stuff! You're gonna cost us all our question marks.
-->'''Ricky:''' That's the spirit, Sarah.
-->'''Sarah Schneider:''' Thanks!
-->'''Ricky:''' You just cost us an exclamation mark.
-->'''Pat Cassels:''' Well, Miss Perfect, who's "wasting" punctuation now, huh?
-->'''Jeff Rubin:''' Well at least she didn't just cost us two quotation marks, didn't she, Pat?
** Which is followed by Amir deciding that the way to not use punctuation is to continue talking without ever ending sentences. Note that he uses commas to break phrases up.
* IfICantHaveYou: Pat in "My Bloody Valentine".
* TheInternet: Shows up several times, as they work for a website. Once, they even found [[HolyGrail the source of the Internet]].
* JumpingTheShark: {{Parodied}} and taken UpToEleven in the episode "[[CaptainObvious Jump The Shark]]": [[UpToEleven A new SpinOff is introduced, Tony Hawk appears as a]] [[CelebrityStar Guest Star]], [[WillTheyOrWontThey two characters get engaged]], [[UpToEleven they move to a new building, Amir gets]] [[TheOtherDarrin replaced]], and [[MindScrew Jeff gives birth to]] [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext a baby Supreme Court justice]]. Finally, the whole cast gets replaced at the very end with a [[YoungerAndHipper younger cast]]. [[invoked]]
* KillEmAll: In "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkcNEdTnsEM Hardly Working: The Cartoon]]", everybody in the office end up killing each other off in cartoonish fashions.
* MindScrew: ''Often''. "Puppet Sarah" has one when you realize that Sarah's puppet has been controlled by a puppet of Amir that is being controlled by Human!!Amir, who has been communicating up until now with Human!!Sarah on a cell phone.
** From "Trading Lunches:"
--> '''Pat Cassels:''' I will give you that rice krispie treat I ate yesterday.
--> '''Dan Gurewitch:''' I don't know, [[DepartmentofRedundancyDepartment didn't you eat that yesterday?]]
--> ''(Pat spits out a whole Rice Krispie treat)''
--> '''Dan Gurewitch:''' No Thanks.
* MotorMouth - Amir in "Speed 3- Blabber Mouth".
* NegativeContinuity - Characters are killed off or change careers all the time, but return immediately in the next video.
** Inverted by Jake and Amir. So far there has not been any continuity errors and it even has the odd ContinuityNod or two.
* PapaBear - Pat's Step Dad in "Step Dad" sees himself as this, based almost entirely on the fact that he gets Pat extra large cheese pizzas.
* PaperThinDisguise: In "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFg-fB_iuWo Puppet Sarah]]", we see that apparently every single person in the office is totally oblivious to the fact that "Sarah" is actually a puppet on strings being controlled by a puppet of Amir being controlled by the real Amir, who is talking to Sarah on a cell phone.
* PreviouslyOn - Parodied in "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JLHY_rE3H8 Last Week]]".
* RightBehindMe - Parodied in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyaFtO-JJz8 All Nighter He's Right Behind Me]].
* ScreamsLikeALittleGirl - Dan in "[[http://www.collegehumor.com/video/3399239/all-nighter-hardly-working-dodgeball Dodgeball.]]" And "Stomp."
* SecretSanta: Spoofed in "Kovert Krampus," where instead of giving each other gifts, the staff gives each other things to punish them for whatever.
** Their gifts:
*** First, Owen receives fro1m Jeff his dead cat, killed and put on a neckchain that Owen is supposed to wear around his neck.
*** Marina's gift for Adam is a bag of wasps, as she learned from his Facebook page that it was one of his mortal fears. He puts the bag over his head, and it's implied they sting him all over.
*** Pat's gift for Vinny is, aware of Vinny's bragging about crossword puzzles: locking his girlfriend in a tank slowly filling with water at an unknown location. He gives Vinny a photo of her in captivity and a list of instructions on how to find her.
*** Murph and Kevin exchange gifts: Kevin's is a rusty nail bat, and Murph's is a pillowcase full of fish semen.
** Then Emily, having enough of the graphic gifts, intervenes:
-->'''Emily Axford:''' No. No. This is beyond fucked up! There's nothing heartwarming about inflicting fish semen on your friends! Or whatever Dan's doing!
-->''[Cuts to Pat, shirtless, strapped to a torture rack and writhing in pain as Dan blasts a vuvuzela into his ears]''
-->'''Dan:''' Remember when these were a thing?
* SeriousBusiness: "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIs5pA1-rMk Desk Toys]]," "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeyac7alRU8&feature=relmfu Box Fort]]," "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hAKYRpSEK0&feature=related Jinx]]," "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ec1CpQMUI7Y&feature=relmfu Religiously]]," and "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3LVn6cLeSk&feature=related Bad News On A Basketball Phone]]," to name a few.
* ShoutOut - Loads, usually to popular movies or songs. Some of the memorable ones included a ''TabletopGame/{{Clue}}'' game that turned into something similar to {{Jumanji}}.
** "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Req45CixtLY Board Game Murder Mystery]]", while not a Hardly Working sketch, is one example. If you watch, you'll catch all of the references to popular Milton Bradley board games: in order, Don't Wake Daddy, Operation, Guess Who, Trouble, Sorry!, and Mouse Trap.
* SmallNameBigEgo- Ricky is portrayed as this, having a full scale picture of himself in his office and scattered around the office in general. He also is his own favorite employee,as shown in "Ricky's Diary".
* SpinTheBottle: In the 2010 All Nighter sketches, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xb199NIMkjw the staff decide to play this]] but are troubled by the fact that they are all guys. Then Sarah comes along and they basically rope her into playing with them (this actually makes sense since the entire goal of Spin The Bottle is that you kiss whoever the bottle lands on, and these guys are likely straight). Of course, the game has to be rigged since Sarah is selected to spin first, and gets David. She kisses him. He spins and lands on her, and has to kiss her for five seconds. The joke continues as they keep landing on each other, with the instructions on what to do getting more and more surreal (the sixth time, Sarah denies having obvious feelings for someone else, and the seventh time, David gets drunk and says something that provokes Sarah into slapping him). When Sarah spins and lands on Sam, she tries to apologize to David for breaking the streak and the others have to restrain David as he lunges at Sam.
* StalkerWithACrush- Amir has a binder with in-depth descriptions of everything Jake has ever worn to work since he's started working there. Jake is understandably disturbed by this.
* StayInTheKitchen- Sarah gets a whirlwind of misogynistic insults in "60's Day". Mainly because she was aiming for late 60's,while everyone else was going for the ''MadMen'' setting.
* StockholmSyndrome: The sketch [[CaptainObvious "Stockholm Syndrome"]] parodies the effects wonderfully with Sarah being seduced by Pat saying he'll get a "handsome ransom" out of her.
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSpvtAXbp0k One more announcement: today is Stick Towels Under Your Doors Day," where you show your company pride by placing towels in any space smoke could travel through, right after saying "this is a test of the building's alarm system in the event of a widespread fire in the basement. No fires today."]]
* TheAggressiveDrugDealer - Seen in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceOxyV6NgPQ&feature=related Amir and Streeter]].
* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill - Attempted in "Bug".
* TheSmurfettePrinciple - Sarah is portrayed most of the time as being the only girl in the office, with most of the guys there having a crush on her. Exemplified wonderfully in "Sarah's Revenge".
* TookALevelInBadass - Everyone in [[http://www.collegehumor.com/video/5922677/die-hardly-working-the-ch-action-movie Die Hardly Working]].
* TrainStationGoodbye: {{Parodied}} in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVi3vflC54g&feature=relmfu Wait!]], where no one can tell who they are saying goodbye to.
* ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend - Amir's "Overgrown Guy Girlfriend". Also counts as TheLoad.
* XMeetsY: ''{{Stella}}'' meets ''TheOffice''.
* YouCantHandleTheParody: At the end of "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kB7Byoe_Uo You'll Never Guess]]" some of the staff are re-enacting the iconic scene from ''Film/AFewGoodMen'', so the line of course gets said. They're also not wearing shirts while doing it.
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[[caption-width-right:350:The College Humor staff, who form the cast of ''Hardly Working''.[[note]]Ricky Van Veen (front centger) has since begun working at the parent company, and Sarah Schneider (far left) left to join the writing staff of ''Series/SaturdayNightLive''[[/note]]]]
->'''Sarah:''' A tiger broke into the office!
->'''Jeff:''' Well that doesn't make any sense.
->[[{{Beat}} *beat*]]
->'''Jeff:''' The tiger's eating me!
'''''Hardly Working''''' is an online series of shorts taking place in the office from which the Website/CollegeHumor website is run. The series is written by and stars the CH staff. The first shorts were ten-second-long, one-joke bits shot with a cam-corder for fun, but as their popularity grew they expanded into full sketches several minutes long and shot with multiple professional cameras.
Most of the shorts take place in the context of ''supposed'' everyday life working at the website's office. The most prominent subseries within Hardly Working is ''WebVideo/JakeAndAmir'', a BokeAndTsukkomiRoutine between the two titular characters.
See it [[http://www.collegehumor.com/hardlyworking here]].
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!!This series provides examples of:
* ActingForTwo: Or three or four. Several cast members play multiple characters, often with little more than a wig as a distinction. Streeter Seidel and Josh Ruben are the main examples
* AddedAlliterativeAppeal:
--> Pat: I made you this balloon animal.
--> Streeter: I made you this bassoon animal.
--> Pat: I made you this doubloon animal.
--> Dan: No more "words ending in -oon" animals!
--> (Streeter drops a '''spoon''' animal)
* AmbiguouslyGay- Jake frequently enourages all the guys to kiss each other, or suck each other off. "See [[http://www.collegehumor.com/video/5135384/hardly-working-office-fight Office Fight]]"
* AnswerCut -In [[http://www.collegehumor.com/video/3332576/hardly-working-youll-never-guess You'll Never Guess]]:
-->'''Dan:''' I’m going to the conference room
-->'''Sam:''' You’ll never guess what they're doing there
-->'''Dan:''' Oh, let me guess. They’re all ''topless'', reenacting the ''final, climatic'' scene to ''A Few Good Men.''
--> '''*Cut to conference room*'''
-->'''Pat:''' YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!
* BeyondTheImpossible: [[http://www.collegehumor.com/video/5571563/hardly-working-twitters-down Tweeting about Twitter being down]]. This causes a double take, a 'that's impossi-!' and an EarthShatteringKaboom. It's ambigious whether the exclaimation was Twitter being down or tweeting about it.
* BiTheWay - Most of the male cast. It's played around with a lot.
* BloodSplatteredWarrior- Jake in [[http://www.collegehumor.com/video/6281326/overly-realistic-buck-hunter Over Realistic Buck Hunter]]
* BokeAndTsukkomiRoutine - Amir and Jake, respectively
* BrickJoke: In "Stewie Keychain". It's even [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] with a good bit of BreakingTheFourthWall.
* ButtMonkey: The whole cast takes pretty equal turns in being the ButtMonkey. Mostly Pat, though.
* TheCameo: Lin-Manuel Miranda, rapper and Broadway lyricist, shows up in "Rap Battle."
** Parodied in the episode "[[JumpTheShark Jump the]] [[ShapedLikeItself Shark]]," where Tony Hawk supposedly shows up.
* CasualDangerDialog: Taken UpToEleven in "Emergency Flirt": A tiger is trying to break down the door and ''Pat is flirting with a cute animal control operator.''
* CensorSuds: [[http://www.collegehumor.com/video/6542559/showering-with-girls Showering With Girls]].
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}} - Amir is a disturbing example.
** Dan ventures into this territory as well.
** Gale Beggy.
* ClusterFBomb- In [[RantInducingSlight "Jeff Goes]] [[NeverLiveItDown Christian Bale"]]
* CoolTeacher- Dan in "Cool Teacher". Though he's so cliche he just annoys everyone. Also, they're not actually his students.
* DeadAllAlong - [[spoiler: Streeter in Camouflage.]]
* DeathAsComedy: Franchise/{{Die Hard}}ly Working.
* [[DependingontheWriter Depending on the Writer]]: The personalities of both Amir and Jake in Hardly Working differ somewhat from their characterization in their [[JakeandAmir own series]], ironically with Jake frequently being an obnoxious idiot and Amir often as the straight man.
* DivideByZero - [[http://www.collegehumor.com/video/5571563/hardly-working-twitters-down "I'm tweeting about how pissed I am that twitter's down"]]
* DressCode: Parodied in "Casual Friday", then taken UpToEleven, with:
** Uptight Monday
** Hesitant Tuesday
** Melodramatic Thursday
** Casual Acquaintance Friday
** Coming to Work Saturday
** Bloody Sunday
** Mariachi, Bagpipe, Totalitarian Dictator Monday
* EarthShatteringKaboom: As a result of Murph tweeting about how ''Twitter is down''.
* EnsembleCast
* EvilCounterpart: [[SuperMarioBros Wa]]-Dan.
* ExpectationLowerer: Pat in [[http://www.collegehumor.com/video/6538547/hardly-working-wishful-thinking Wishful Thinking]].
* FakeIrish: When the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdax8uWYmnQ "Punctuation Recession"]] leads to the office having to cut back on punctuation marks, the cutting of hyphens from the budget means that Streeter is downgraded from being Irish-American to simply Irish. Specifically, violent FightingIrish.
* FiveManBand
** TheHero-Jake
** TheLancer-Amir
** TheSmartGuy-Pat
** TheBigGuy-Streeter
** TheChick-Sarah, and later, Emily
** TheSixthRanger-Dan/Jeff
* FoodSlap: In "Drunk in Public," Sarah deals three times with an intoxicated Patrick by splashing him in the face.
* ForWantOfANail - [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbTT5b-wDYs&feature=relmfu Time Traveler]]
* GeorgeJetsonJobSecurity - In most of the Hardly Workings with Ricky he's either firing somebody or gets close to. In "Fired Up" he almost fires a girl, who simply says no to him and it's over just like that.
* GoodAngelBadAngel: In "Consciences."
* HairTodayGoneTomorrow: Jeff in [[http://www.collegehumor.com/video/6209047/hardly-working-flash-forward Flash Forward]].
* HappyBirthdayToYou: In celebrating Sarah's [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzoA-xFU2j8 birthday]], nobody remembers the birthday song, which upsets her. Has a hilarious moment where she has a straight face while everyone else joins in the new improvised song.
* HeterosexualLifePartners - Amir thinks he and Jake are this. Jake is perpetually disgusted and horrified by him.
* HitlersTimeTravelExemptionAct: Parodied in ''[[http://www.collegehumor.com/video/6834347/hardly-working-killing-hitler Killing Hitler]]. The first time they try it, the adult Hitler beats up the time traveller. The second time he does it again, but as an adolescent. The third time traveller attacks him with a rifle when he's a small child. However, Hitler steals it, and then forces the traveller to tell him how to make an atomic bomb. And then kid Hitler travels through the portal into the future.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: In "Pee Prank," Streeter tries to pull the "fingers in hot water while sleeping" prank on Jake, but when he tests the temperature of the water, pees himself.
* HypocriticalHumor: "[[Film/TheDarkKnightRises Bane]] Mugs", where they imitate Tom Hardy's Bane voice by putting coffee mugs over their mouths to muffle their voice:
-->'''Emily:''' ''[puts mug to mouth]'' Now is not the time for fear, doctor. Now is the time ''[lowers mug, normal voice]'' to get some real work done.
-->'''Josh:''' I mean, once we, uh, organize the files, ''[puts mug to mouth]'' then you have my permission ''[lowers mug]'' to do Bane impressions.
:: And then they continue having a conversation and breaking into Bane impressions.
** The "Punctuation Recession" is full of examples:
-->'''Jake Hurwitz:''' How the hell do you budget punctuation?
-->'''Sarah Schneider:''' Jake, stop asking stuff! You're gonna cost us all our question marks.
-->'''Ricky:''' That's the spirit, Sarah.
-->'''Sarah Schneider:''' Thanks!
-->'''Ricky:''' You just cost us an exclamation mark.
-->'''Pat Cassels:''' Well, Miss Perfect, who's "wasting" punctuation now, huh?
-->'''Jeff Rubin:''' Well at least she didn't just cost us two quotation marks, didn't she, Pat?
** Which is followed by Amir deciding that the way to not use punctuation is to continue talking without ever ending sentences. Note that he uses commas to break phrases up.
* IfICantHaveYou: Pat in "My Bloody Valentine".
* TheInternet: Shows up several times, as they work for a website. Once, they even found [[HolyGrail the source of the Internet]].
* JumpingTheShark: {{Parodied}} and taken UpToEleven in the episode "[[CaptainObvious Jump The Shark]]": [[UpToEleven A new SpinOff is introduced, Tony Hawk appears as a]] [[CelebrityStar Guest Star]], [[WillTheyOrWontThey two characters get engaged]], [[UpToEleven they move to a new building, Amir gets]] [[TheOtherDarrin replaced]], and [[MindScrew Jeff gives birth to]] [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext a baby Supreme Court justice]]. Finally, the whole cast gets replaced at the very end with a [[YoungerAndHipper younger cast]]. [[invoked]]
* KillEmAll: In "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkcNEdTnsEM Hardly Working: The Cartoon]]", everybody in the office end up killing each other off in cartoonish fashions.
* MindScrew: ''Often''. "Puppet Sarah" has one when you realize that Sarah's puppet has been controlled by a puppet of Amir that is being controlled by Human!!Amir, who has been communicating up until now with Human!!Sarah on a cell phone.
** From "Trading Lunches:"
--> '''Pat Cassels:''' I will give you that rice krispie treat I ate yesterday.
--> '''Dan Gurewitch:''' I don't know, [[DepartmentofRedundancyDepartment didn't you eat that yesterday?]]
--> ''(Pat spits out a whole Rice Krispie treat)''
--> '''Dan Gurewitch:''' No Thanks.
* MotorMouth - Amir in "Speed 3- Blabber Mouth".
* NegativeContinuity - Characters are killed off or change careers all the time, but return immediately in the next video.
** Inverted by Jake and Amir. So far there has not been any continuity errors and it even has the odd ContinuityNod or two.
* PapaBear - Pat's Step Dad in "Step Dad" sees himself as this, based almost entirely on the fact that he gets Pat extra large cheese pizzas.
* PaperThinDisguise: In "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFg-fB_iuWo Puppet Sarah]]", we see that apparently every single person in the office is totally oblivious to the fact that "Sarah" is actually a puppet on strings being controlled by a puppet of Amir being controlled by the real Amir, who is talking to Sarah on a cell phone.
* PreviouslyOn - Parodied in "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JLHY_rE3H8 Last Week]]".
* RightBehindMe - Parodied in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyaFtO-JJz8 All Nighter He's Right Behind Me]].
* ScreamsLikeALittleGirl - Dan in "[[http://www.collegehumor.com/video/3399239/all-nighter-hardly-working-dodgeball Dodgeball.]]" And "Stomp."
* SecretSanta: Spoofed in "Kovert Krampus," where instead of giving each other gifts, the staff gives each other things to punish them for whatever.
** Their gifts:
*** First, Owen receives fro1m Jeff his dead cat, killed and put on a neckchain that Owen is supposed to wear around his neck.
*** Marina's gift for Adam is a bag of wasps, as she learned from his Facebook page that it was one of his mortal fears. He puts the bag over his head, and it's implied they sting him all over.
*** Pat's gift for Vinny is, aware of Vinny's bragging about crossword puzzles: locking his girlfriend in a tank slowly filling with water at an unknown location. He gives Vinny a photo of her in captivity and a list of instructions on how to find her.
*** Murph and Kevin exchange gifts: Kevin's is a rusty nail bat, and Murph's is a pillowcase full of fish semen.
** Then Emily, having enough of the graphic gifts, intervenes:
-->'''Emily Axford:''' No. No. This is beyond fucked up! There's nothing heartwarming about inflicting fish semen on your friends! Or whatever Dan's doing!
-->''[Cuts to Pat, shirtless, strapped to a torture rack and writhing in pain as Dan blasts a vuvuzela into his ears]''
-->'''Dan:''' Remember when these were a thing?
* SeriousBusiness: "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIs5pA1-rMk Desk Toys]]," "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeyac7alRU8&feature=relmfu Box Fort]]," "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hAKYRpSEK0&feature=related Jinx]]," "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ec1CpQMUI7Y&feature=relmfu Religiously]]," and "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3LVn6cLeSk&feature=related Bad News On A Basketball Phone]]," to name a few.
* ShoutOut - Loads, usually to popular movies or songs. Some of the memorable ones included a ''TabletopGame/{{Clue}}'' game that turned into something similar to {{Jumanji}}.
** "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Req45CixtLY Board Game Murder Mystery]]", while not a Hardly Working sketch, is one example. If you watch, you'll catch all of the references to popular Milton Bradley board games: in order, Don't Wake Daddy, Operation, Guess Who, Trouble, Sorry!, and Mouse Trap.
* SmallNameBigEgo- Ricky is portrayed as this, having a full scale picture of himself in his office and scattered around the office in general. He also is his own favorite employee,as shown in "Ricky's Diary".
* SpinTheBottle: In the 2010 All Nighter sketches, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xb199NIMkjw the staff decide to play this]] but are troubled by the fact that they are all guys. Then Sarah comes along and they basically rope her into playing with them (this actually makes sense since the entire goal of Spin The Bottle is that you kiss whoever the bottle lands on, and these guys are likely straight). Of course, the game has to be rigged since Sarah is selected to spin first, and gets David. She kisses him. He spins and lands on her, and has to kiss her for five seconds. The joke continues as they keep landing on each other, with the instructions on what to do getting more and more surreal (the sixth time, Sarah denies having obvious feelings for someone else, and the seventh time, David gets drunk and says something that provokes Sarah into slapping him). When Sarah spins and lands on Sam, she tries to apologize to David for breaking the streak and the others have to restrain David as he lunges at Sam.
* StalkerWithACrush- Amir has a binder with in-depth descriptions of everything Jake has ever worn to work since he's started working there. Jake is understandably disturbed by this.
* StayInTheKitchen- Sarah gets a whirlwind of misogynistic insults in "60's Day". Mainly because she was aiming for late 60's,while everyone else was going for the ''MadMen'' setting.
* StockholmSyndrome: The sketch [[CaptainObvious "Stockholm Syndrome"]] parodies the effects wonderfully with Sarah being seduced by Pat saying he'll get a "handsome ransom" out of her.
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSpvtAXbp0k One more announcement: today is Stick Towels Under Your Doors Day," where you show your company pride by placing towels in any space smoke could travel through, right after saying "this is a test of the building's alarm system in the event of a widespread fire in the basement. No fires today."]]
* TheAggressiveDrugDealer - Seen in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceOxyV6NgPQ&feature=related Amir and Streeter]].
* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill - Attempted in "Bug".
* TheSmurfettePrinciple - Sarah is portrayed most of the time as being the only girl in the office, with most of the guys there having a crush on her. Exemplified wonderfully in "Sarah's Revenge".
* TookALevelInBadass - Everyone in [[http://www.collegehumor.com/video/5922677/die-hardly-working-the-ch-action-movie Die Hardly Working]].
* TrainStationGoodbye: {{Parodied}} in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVi3vflC54g&feature=relmfu Wait!]], where no one can tell who they are saying goodbye to.
* ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend - Amir's "Overgrown Guy Girlfriend". Also counts as TheLoad.
* XMeetsY: ''{{Stella}}'' meets ''TheOffice''.
* YouCantHandleTheParody: At the end of "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kB7Byoe_Uo You'll Never Guess]]" some of the staff are re-enacting the iconic scene from ''Film/AFewGoodMen'', so the line of course gets said. They're also not wearing shirts while doing it.
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