History WebVideo / JakeAndAmir

* BaitAndSwitchComment: Jake going from OnlySaneMan to [[NotSoAboveItAll Least Sane Man]] in [[HalfwayPlotSwitch mid-episode]]:

* LowerDeckEpisode: In "Password," which depicts an exchange between Will and Paul the CEO, Jake and Amir get precisely one second of screentime. (The episode interacts with "4th of July Scroll," in which they briefly hear the argument going on offscreen and turn their heads to look; the same footage is reused in "Password.")

* RippedFromTheHeadlines: A number of episodes have Jake and Amir discussing then-current events, such as the 2008 stock market crash, the swine flu epidemic, and the BP oil spill. This trend lead to the characters being briefly pulled out of retirement for "Donald Trump" in 2016 and "Social Distance Scroll" in 2020 (the latter on the [=HeadGum=] channel).

* AllLoveIsUnrequited: Jake will never be Amir's best friend. If Jake likes a girl, she will probably end up hating him, [[spoiler: apart from once, and then she died.]] There's also Jake's long-standing crush on Sarah, and later, Emily's absurd advances towards Jake.

* OnlyFriend: Amir considers Jake this. It's pretty much voluntary since he's highly dismissive of his other coworkers, particularly Pat and Sam, and tends to regard them as obstacles to his relationship with Jake.

* AmbiguousSyntax: When Amir brings his dating coach to the office:
-->'''Dating Coach:''' For your two thousand dollars, I'm gonna get you to have sex with any girl you want in here.
-->'''Amir:''' ''(uncomfortable)'' I don't want to have sex with girls in ''here'', so...

--->'''Jake:''' ...Yeah, sure. [[ContinuityNod You told me you had sixty beers once, you said you never drop anything, you said you had some new girlfriend—]]

* AmbiguousSyntax: In "Dating Coach," when Amir brings his dating coach (played by Ben Schwartz) to the office:

-->'''Jake:''' Hey—you’re breaking the fourth wall! Sam's not gonna like this! Sam's not gonna like this!
''(Cut to Sam and Jake watching the video:)''

-->'''Jake:''' Hey—you’re breaking the fourth wall! Sam's not gonna like this!

** When Amir says he can't have cousins because both of his parents are only children, Jake brings up Amir's cousin Leron only to be told that he was adopted. ("By who?")

* HeterosexualLifePartners: Or Amir wishes they were at least. He repeatedly tries to enforce the idea that he and Jake are best friends, even when Jake makes it explicitly clear that he wants nothing to do with Amir. Nevertheless, Jake ultimately spends more time with Amir than just about anyone else, sometimes willingly, and has made at least two major career decisions based on wanting to continue working with him. In "Real Estate Agent" they even shop for an apartment together, although [[spoiler:by 2020's "Social Distance Scroll" [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall they haven't seen each other in five years]].]]

-->'''Jake:''' You're forcing an epiphany, okay, but you're not actually——

* PsychicNosebleed: Trying to figure out the logistics of OppositeDay has this affect on Amir.

* ReallyMovesAround: {{Exaggerated}} with the RunningGag of Amir's dad moving away in response to [[AllSolvingHammer any difficulty whatsoever]].

* ReallyMovesAround: {{Exaggerated}} with Amir's dad.

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere:
** Announcing that he's going to work from home for the day is roughly Jake's CheckPlease
** [[RunningGag Apparently]], moving away is Amir's father's [[TheAllSolvingHammer All-Solving Hammer]].
--->'''Amir:''' All right, lemme tell you a story. In sixth grade, I was bullied so hard that my dad almost moved. Instead, my teacher called a parental mediation session. So it was just me and my dad, the tormenter and the tormenter's foster mom? They all ganged up on me so hard that my dad moved.
--->'''Jake:''' Sorry, your dad ganged up on you so hard that ''he'' moved?

* SilentTreatment: Naturally the subject of "Silent Treatment," but frequently touched on elsewhere. Amir is very unclear on the concept, in terms of both employing it himself and understanding where it applies to him.

* PsychicStrangle: Amir strangles Doobs through a video recording in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRXlNlmSpco Finale Part 5 The Auditions]]

* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: Amir, often.
-->'''Amir:''' You think I just stood in the middle of a pharmacy and peed on a box and then they made me buy the box because they saw me pee on it?
-->'''Jake:''' ...I didn't think that till ''now.''

* TerriblePickupLines: "The Club" and "Girls." In the latter, Amir uses one that actually makes sense ("Are you Enterprise? 'Cause I'll pick you up!") before using several others based on commercial slogans that are less relevant ("Are you a Volkswagen? 'Cause drivers wanted!")

** Throughout "Pizza," Jake is [[EnragedByIdiocy frustrated by Amir's speculation]] that Peyton Manning did his Papa John's advertisements for free. Although Amir's argument is that he might really like pizza that much, Will points out that Peyton Manning owned 21 Papa John's locations at the time and therefore had a significant stake in the endorsement himself, meaning that [[DumbassHasAPoint Amir is probably right]].

* ARoundOfDrinksForTheHouse: In ''Fired'' when Jake takes Amir out drinking to try to soften the upcoming blow of getting him fired, Amir buys everyone a round in honor of "[[ObliviousGuiltSlinging working together forever]]."

** Naturally, [[StylisticSuck Amir]] isn't immune to this type of writing either.

** The "Interpreters" series kicks off one between Jake, Sarah and Pat after [[spoiler:the latter two have a one-night stand from which Sarah emerges indifferent and Pat smitten]]. Jake later finds a [[AllGirlsWantBadBoys more formidable rival]] in new guy Dave.