History WebVideo / HardlyWorking

* PerkyGoth: "Goth Music/DaveMatthewsBand Fan."

-->'''Raph:''' Well, how was I supposed to know? I felt bad for her! She was sitting at home alone staring at a box full of my old teeth!

* TonightSomeoneKisses: Parodied in "All-Nighter: Rap Intro" with Lin-Manuel Miranda announcing that Jake and Amir are "finally gonna kiss."

** The "freestyling interns" from Freestyle Love Supreme have truly insane BattleRapping skills, [[CoolButInefficient and that's it]]. They're favorites with Ricky but get chewed out by Pat for spending four hours rapping about a broken printer instead of fixing it.

* FisticuffProvokingComment: Pat earns a punch in the face from Jake when he asserts that Jake's father was a "cold, red [[SeriousBusiness dilly-dallier]]."
-->'''Pat:''' I deserve that.

* HereWeGoAgain: {{Subverted}} in "3D Glasses." Pat declares "NoManShouldHaveThisPower!" and dramatically throws the 3D glasses out the office window. When he leaves the room, they [[ClingyMacGuffin fly back through the window]] and land at ''[[ExactWords Sarah's]]'' feet. She slowly picks them up, opens them to swelling, ominous music, and...
-->'''Sarah:''' —Oh, gross. These were on the ''floor.'' ''(tosses them away)'' Ugh.

-->'''Pat:''' You guys shut up, man! This is serious, okay? Streeter's not drunk, he's in trouble!
-->'''Jake:''' Oh no, man, the ''world's'' in trouble, 'cause here comes—
-->'''Dan:''' —Seidell!
-->'''Pat:''' I think he was bitten by that bug! Call...call for help!
-->'''Dan:''' Ohhhh! Broseph is seein' the white! Light!

-->'''Jake:''' ''(climbs onto the sill and begins to open the window)'' This is the easiest decision of my entire life! ''([[BaitAndSwitch gets off the sill and closes the window]])'' ...[[CaptainObvious I didn't wanna jump because then I would die. I wouldn't survive that for sure.]]

** Gale Beggy, the company's [[TechnologicallyBlindElders middle-aged, tech-challenged]] director of technology, turns out to be a time-traveler...[[spoiler:[[VoodooShark from the year 2551]]. [[DontExplainTheJoke So if anything you'd expect her knowledge to be more advanced]].]]

* StepfordSmiler: The Cool English Teacher was dumped by his wife, [[EmancipatedChild divorced by his son]], and fired from his teaching job after embezzling the PTA in a failed effort to win his wife back.

* StalkerWithoutACrush: "My Mom Is Stalking Me" highlights how actions that would be unsettling coming from anyone else are normal and even expected mom behavior.

** In "Introspective Jake," Jake explains his romantic strategy: "Whenever I want somebody I just stand by a window and I look introspective as f—ck."

* TakeThisJobAndShoveIt: Played straight, then {{downplayed}}, then {{inverted}} in "Perpetual Motion Machine" as the same script repeats three times with variations:
-->'''Owen:''' You’re a shitty little dollop of a man. You can take this job and cram it up your dick, 'cause Murph and I got two tickets to the top, baby! Wow!!!
-->...
-->'''Owen:''' You're a reasonable, medium-sized dollop of a man, so take this job and cram it on Monster.com, 'cause Murph and I got two tickets to a lateral career move, sir! Whoo!
-->...
-->'''Owen:''' [[ProfessionalButtKisser You're a big, handsome dollop of a boss]], so take this job and ''please'' [[CrossingTheBurntBridge give it back to me]], 'cause I'll do anything, baby, I'll fucking suck your dick, man, seriously, I'll do fucking anything, I'm so sorry! ''(InelegantBlubbering.)''

** Gale Beggy, the company's middle-aged, tech-challenged director of technology, [[spoiler:[[VoodooShark is from the year 2551]]. [[DontExplainTheJoke So if anything you'd expect her knowledge to be more advanced]].]]

* CreatorCareerSelfDeprecation: "Nobody Younger Than Me Can Be Successful" has most of its era's cast bemoaning the fact that they haven't progressed past their then-current jobs at [=CollegeHumor=] at their ages.

* CreatorCareerSelfDeprecation: "Nobody Younger Than Me Can Be Successful" has most of the cast bemoaning the fact that they haven't progressed past their then-current jobs at [=CollegeHumor=] at their ages.

-->'''Rekha:''' ''[[BigOMG Oh my god!]]'' I've had one month more than Jess [Clemons] to figure things out, and I'm still stuck in this shithole with these ''shitbags?!''

* CreatorCareerSelfDeprecation: "Nobody Younger Than Me Can Be Successful" has most of the cast bemoaning the fact that they haven't progressed past their current jobs at [=CollegeHumor=] at their ages.

* TakeThat: "The Epic Bacon Boys: Internet Popularity Consultants" skewers the culture of clickbait-driven sites such as [=BuzzFeed=] (with some SelfDeprecation at the end).

* OrganTheft: In "Bully II" Streeter somehow manages to steal Dan's liver, and he and Amir play catch with it.

* WackyFratboyHijinx: Spoofed in "Hangover" when Dan and Jake enthusiastically cheer what they take to be Streeter's hangover from the previous night's partying, even as it becomes clear that something is, in fact, very wrong with him and that he didn't drink at all ("Big Bear got crunked without knocking a [[PunctuatedForEmphasis single! One! Back!]]"), until [[spoiler:it's revealed that he was bitten by a venomous spider and Dan and Jake [[ComicallyMissingThePoint cheer his death throes and then his funeral as if they're continued examples of this]].]]

* WackyFratboyHijinx: Spoofed in "Hangover" when Dan and Jake enthusiastically cheer what they take to be Streeter's hangover from the previous night's partying, even as it becomes clear that something is, in fact, very wrong with him and that he didn't drink at all ("Big Man got crunked without knocking a [[PunctuatedForEmphasis single! One! Back!]]"), until [[spoiler:it's revealed that he was bitten by a venomous spider and Dan and Jake [[ComicallyMissingThePoint cheer his death throes and then his funeral as if they're continued examples of this]].]]