History WesternAnimation / Grojband

* ChickMagnet: Nick Mallory, and to a lesser extent, Corey as well.

** [[https://grojband.blogspot.com/ The show's official production blog]] contains biographical information for all the major characters in its posts on them, with much of the information never being highlighted in the series proper.

''Grojband'' is a [[CanadianSeries Canadian]] animated music/comedy series produced by Creator/FreshTV (of ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Sixteen}}'' fame) and created by Todd Kauffman (director of ''Total Drama'''s first two seasons and co-creator of Creator/{{YTV}}'s ''WesternAnimation/{{Sidekick}}'') and Mark Thornton for Creator/{{Teletoon}} and Creator/CartoonNetwork. The series debuted on June 10, 2013 in the United States on Cartoon Network and would later premiere in Canada on September 5, 2013 on Teletoon, coming to an end on May 25, 2015 after [[ShortRunners 26 episodes]].

* MotorMouth: Carrie, as she's the member of The Newmans with the most speaking parts. In fact, with the exception of Konnie (who only gets a single line in "Space Jammin'"), none of the other Newmans speak except in the first half of the series.

* TheLancer: Laney, who constantly plays OnlySaneWoman and CloudCuckoolandersMinder to the rest of Grojband while nonetheless looking out for them and making sure everything goes according to plan.

''Grojband'' is a Canadian animated musical/comedy series produced by Creator/FreshTV (of ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Sixteen}}'' fame) and created by Todd Kauffman (co-creator of ''WesternAnimation/{{Sidekick}}'') and Mark Thornton for Creator/{{Teletoon}} and Creator/CartoonNetwork. The series premiered on June 10, 2013 in the United States on Cartoon Network and would later debut on September 5, 2013 in Canada on Teletoon, coming to an end on May 25, 2015 after [[ShortRunners 26 episodes]].

13-year-old Corey Riffin starts a GarageBand with his friends, tomboy Laney Penn and twin brothers Kin and Kon Kujira. However, the newly founded [[MyspeldRokband Grojband]] has a problem: Corey's not good at coming up with lyrics. He just can't think of anything songworthy to write... that is until he finds the diary of his BigSisterBully Trina and realizes that her handwritten teenage angst is a goldmine of songwriting inspiration!

And so begins the series' formula. In nearly every episode, Corey and his band strike a new musical gig and must create the perfect song that will blow the socks off their audience and help them climb up the ladder to RockAndRoll stardom. However, Trina utterly loathes her little brother's garage band and will stop at nothing to crush their dreams of becoming the greatest rock band in history. But no matter what challenges Grojband encounters, nothing's going to stop Corey and his friends from doing what they always do best OncePerEpisode: A) rile up Trina's emotions enough for her to go into "Diary Mode" so she can write down her thoughts; and B) "secretly" take inspiration from Trina's brand-new diary entry to craft the lyrics for an awesome new tune that will truly rock and totally roll.

* KentBrockmanNews: Buzz Newsworthy and Chance Happenings, who visibly hate one another and frequently sling insults towards each other on public television.

* PunnyName: The two news reporters, Chance Happenings and Buzz Newsworthy.

'''Kon:''' Or a bike yacht!'''\\

* CreatorThumbprint: The skull on Corey's beanie appears in several other cartoons that series co-creator Todd Kauffman has worked on, including ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama (on Duncan's shirt), ''WesternAnimation/{{Sidekick}}'' (on Eric Needles' shirt), and ''WesternAnimation/{{Looped}}'' (on the shirt of Jesse the bully).

* DoItYourselfThemeSong: The show's theme song is sung entirely by Corey himself.

* InsaneTrollLogic: Most of Corey's {{Zany Scheme}}s and {{Spoof Aesop}}s use this; not even his bandmates undertsand the way he thinks. Lampshaded in one episode when Laney asks him how his brain even works after she accidentally gives Corey inspiration for yet another ridiculous plan.

* SnarkKnight: Laney Penn often makes sarcastic remarks about Grojband's ridiculous schemes, but is nonetheless loyal to her friends and passionate about making music with them.

* ZombieApocalypse: A G-rated example, as lightning striking the amp combined with Corey's terrible non-diary lyrics pretty much caused this.

* APirate400YearsTooLate: The episode "On the Air and Out to Sea" has these.

* AccidentalMurder: Statue Steve in "Myme Disease" once the town realized that he was a statue performer all along.

* AIIsACrapshoot: "Helmet" has the eponymous device, which Trina hacks into a rampaging robot obsessed with perfection.

** Laney is in love with Corey, but not only does [[ObliviousToLove he not notice]], it's often implied that he [[OneOfTheBoys sees Laney is a guy]]. However, as the series progresses, the whole "calling Laney a boy" thing is dropped and it becomes increasingly implied that Corey actually has a mutual crush on Laney

* TheAllSolvingHammer: Corey's answer to EVERYTHING is music. Laney addresses this in "Rockersize" when the band has to deal with three hulking grannies: she states that this time lyrics wouldn't be any help and [[OnlySaneMan what they needed was a tank]]. However, since this is a series themed around ThePowerOfRock, Corey's answer is almost always the correct one.

** Kin Kujira and his gender opposite Kim Kagami, as well as Kon Kujira and his gender opposite Konnie Kagami.

* AlphaBitch: Corey's older sister, Trina, who is as bossy, nasty, and superficial as they come.

* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Corey is this to Trina, as he constantly drives his older sister crazy so that he can acquire the lyrical inspiration he needs from her diary entries.

* AssholeVictim: Trina (on more than one occasion with hilarious results) including but not limited to: being trampolined into a trash can, thrown into a cage at the zoo, becoming Mina's personal ButtMonkey for an episode, and even having her face turned into a pig. Not to mention the fact that the whole show is about Grojband ruining her life for their music - which would be horrible if it wasn't for the fact that Trina is a humongous bitch who always deserves what she had coming.

* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: Subverted between Corey and Trina most of the time. One character even says they'll eventually remember that they love each other only to be proven wrong shortly after. That said, WordOfGod has it that the trope still holds true, and thus it does get played straight on occasion:

** In "Dreamreaver", Katrina obviously loves Corey, and as the personification of Trina's locked away good side, this would mean so does Trina. Corey, previously more concerned about his lyrics, shows genuine remorse for putting Trina in the situation she's in now after seeing this and is apologetic when he confesses the truth to her later.

** In "Who Are You" when the gang turn Hipster Corey into omnibenevolent Corey, he becomes overprotective and concerned with his band's safety so he bubble wraps them and posts them with damage insurance, but later he brings Nick Mallory to Trina actually saying he loved his sister and wanted her to be happy.
** The trope is played dead straight with Trina and Mina in "Math of Kon" and on other occasions.

* BadFuture: In "Ahead of Our Own Tone" where Cell-borgs run amuck and Cyborg Trina is the EvilOverlord, and the reason why Kin grew a beard is because he "went a little nuts!"

** In "Girl Fest" Laney delivers a Harsh TakeThat in the form of a song to Singer Candy Jams in an attempt to out her as a 'fake'. Unfortunately for Laney, this plan fails, and the people still give Candy their full support.

** Played completely straight in "Hear Us Rock!", Corey even acknowledges it. [[spoiler:At least until Mina turns against Trina and gives Grojband what they need to save the day.]]

* BadassAdorable: Grojband themselves, but especially Laney.
* BattleOfTheBands: No surprise here that Grojband frequently engage in these, typically agains The Newmans.

** Averted with Laney, who gets covered in dirt and has messy hair after an explosion occurs.

* BeleagueredAssistant: Mina serves as one to Trina.

** Trina has way too many to count, which makes her go into Diary Mode.

** Corey hates elevator music so much, he got VERY angry after listening to it for a long time.
* BetterThanABareBulb: The show revels in this type of humour, with characters going out of their way to point out how bizarre, unlikely or convenient a situation is.
* BigBad: Trina Riffin, especially in the episode "Ahead of Our Own Tone".
* BigBadEnsemble: The Blue Star of Rocklympus teaming up with Trina, although since it happens only at the end of the episode, nothing comes out of it.

* TheBigDamnKiss: [[spoiler:With Corey and Laney, combined with AccidentalKiss, in "Curse of the Metrognome"]].
* BigEater: Kon is usually pretty hungry and often thinking about food.

* BigRedButton: In "Helmet", Kin built the eponymous robotic helmet with one and he warns Corey not to press it. After hearing an golden opportunity to sabotage the band presenting itself, Trina pushes said button, causing the helmet to go rogue. When Laney asks why he would even build the helmet with a button that turns it evil, Kin just rolls his eyes in annoyance.

** Also in "Rockersize", Barney makes a fourth wall joke parodying this.

* BlatantLies: In "No Strings Attached" when Mina sees Trina drinking a chocolate milk and asks if she can have one, just as Trina finishes it she says there are no more. Then she pulls out another one...
* BlindingBangs: In "Hair Today", Laney's hair metal wig covers her eyes.

** For Grojband and their allies, Allie (Blonde), Kate (Brunette), and Laney (Redhead).
** For the Newmans, the Kagami sisters (Konnie (Blonde) and Kim (Brunette)), and Lenny (Redhead).
* BottleEpisode: In the episode "Pox and Roll", Grojband, Trina, Mina, and the students of Elementary High all got chicken pox while in the garage and so the government quarantined them all inside of a giant bubble and had to spend eight days in there. The entire episode was all about Corey and Laney trying to entertain the guests and keep them happy there, with a side plot about Kin and Kon coming up with escape plans and trying to get out multiple times but failing every time.
* BrattyTeenageDaughter: Trina has this in spades. Her over-the-top teenage girl angst is a goldmine of lyrical inspiration for Grojband.

-->'''Captain Carney:''' They don't look good folks. Of course I've seen worse in the Navy. Sharks, Sailor Guts, Sharks puking up Sailor Guts. [[YouDoNotWantToKnow But you kids don't need that story]].
** Also "In Bee Bop A Loofah".
-->'''Kin:''' Think about what we could buy with all this money.\\
'''Kon:''' We could buy a bike!\\

'''Kon:''' Or a bike yacht!'''
*** It was even continued and expanded later in the episode.
-->'''Kin:''' We still have some money left over from selling those air fresheners.\\
'''Kon:''' We could still buy a bike yacht!\\
'''Kin:''' Or a plant!\\
'''Both:''' OR A BIKE YACHT PLANT!!!\\

* BrickJoke: Throughout the episode "Cloudy with a Chance of Malt Balls", Kin and/or Kon, whenever someone asks who (or what) caused something or whenever Corey has a plan, respond with, "Our future selves?" or "Does it involve our future selves?". Guess who fixes the lights for them at the end of the episode.

** Even the [[OncePerEpisode Wicked Cool Transition]] is changed to "Stolen Line Transition".
* BrokenPedestal: In "Girl Fest", Laney is devastated when she finds out supposed punk girl Candy Jams is just a typical girly girl using the punk image to sell cosmetics.
* BrokenTears: Trina in "Inn Err Face" when she comes to the realization she might have to deal with her brother forever.

* BurningWithAnger: Trina Riffin whenever she writes in her diary in anger mode (which is very often).

** Trina to the band while Mina is to Trina (and the show in general).
** Within Grojband, Kon is arguably the main butt monkey of the group because he tends to get hurt the most frequently of them all (especially when Kin's inventions are involved) and is even physically abused by Laney on many occasions.

* CallAndResponseSong: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxF4GWckElY "Quiet Noise"]] from "Myme Disease".
* CaptainColorbeard: Parodied. One of Captain Tighty-Whitey's pirate crew is the clean shaven Shavenbeard.
* CardboardPal: When the band splits up in "It's In the Card", Corey compensates by making a fake band out of junk he finds in the garage and pretending it's real.
* CatchPhrase: Corey ends each episode with "Thanks for coming out, everyone!" and closing a garage door. He'll also sometimes talk of "a crazy plan that just might work." He even adds "We have Liftoff!" on some of the episodes where Trina writes her diary in anger mode.
* CatsAreMean: Averted with Mina's cat, Dr. Purrs. Subverted with Wheelie from "The Snuffles with Snarffles" who only turns mean out of jealousy and becomes nicer in the end.
* CatUpATree: Trina throws Mina's cat, Dr. Purrs, up one in order to prove that Corey's "Justice Band" are not heroes.
* ChainedHeat: In "Kon-Fusion", after Grojband and the Newmans get fused together.

* CharacterDevelopment: In the 2nd half of season 1.
** Corey doesn't address Laney as a boy as much and treats her more like a lady, complete with a few hints that he is aware of her feelings for him.

* CheatersNeverProsper: Averted in "Helmet". Trina suffers no repercussions for rigging the contest.
* ChekhovsGun: Trina's habit of [[OpinionFlipFlop changing her opinion depending on what Nick Mallory thinks]] is used against her in "Hear Us Rock!", cue her literally falling apart.
* CherubicChoir: Whenever Corey (or in one episode Laney) grabs his Sister's diary that fell from the sky after Trina goes into Diary Mode, or it lands somewhere else that's within Corey's reach, this is accompanied by this.

* ChildhoodFriends: Trina and Mina have been friends since Kindergarten.

** In "Smash Up Terby" when Nick is buying a ticket to the carnival and Trina comes along with Mina and says "Make that three!" Nick misunderstands what she meant and [[IllTakeTwoBeersToo buys three tickets for himself, saving the other two for later]].
** In "Space Jammin'", The Orb Experience aliens learn that Corey gets the lyrics to his songs from Trina's diary and try to do the same, but read an entry verbatim instead of adapting it into lyrics like Corey does.
* CompanionCube: Mayor Mellow always carries a picture of his mother, and sometimes have conversations with her as if she were still alive (given that she's deceased).
* ConjoinedTwins: Kin and Kon were born as this. In fact, Kon still has Kin's nipples on his back.
* ContrivedCoincidence: Lampshaded by Laney in "Wish Upon a Jug" when they happen to find a second genie in the same pile of jugs.

* CrossdressingVoices: The bandmates for The Newmans are voiced by the same voice actors as the members of Grojband.
* CurseCutShort: During the song in "Beep Bop a Loofah", Corey was about to say "Ass" until Laney, Kin, and Kon, cut him off, singing another rhyming word that meant the same thing.

** Laney's reaction to Blade Stabbington's pet rat Bite Face.
** In "Knight to Remember", she has this reaction to a big dog that licks her face.
** In "The Snuffles with Snarffles", Trina has this reaction to Wheelie while everyone else has this reaction to Snarffles. But the end, Wheelie ends up taking Snarffles' spot.
* CyberneticsEatYourSoul: As seen in "Ahead of Our Own Tone". It's the result of having one's brain implanted, although more of a brainwashing effect.
* {{Cyborg}}: Trina gets turned into one after having her brain implanted for a good chunk of "Ahead of Our Own Tone".

* DetonationMoon: Corey wishes there was no moon so that Trina would never share that "moonlight kiss" with Nick Mallory in "Wish Upon a Jug". However, the moon is restored at the end of the episode when Corey wishes to have all his wishes undone.

* DisneyCreaturesOfTheFarce: In "Smash Up Terby", some of these surround Corey when he delivers his mock lesson of the day.
* DisguisedInDrag: "Rockersize" involves Grojband dressing up as old ladies to convince some [[NiceJobBreakingItHero hulking, violent grannies who they accidentally created]] to calm back down.
* DistaffCounterpart: The Newmans are {{gender flip}}ped versions of Grojband. Kin even points it out in the episode "Creepaway Camp", calling them "our doppelganger gender opposites".

* DreadfulMusician: Corey, whenever he's trying to come up with lyrics.

* EasyAmnesia: Corey in the episode "Who Are You", as a result of misusing an invention that increases intelligence when one walks forwards to instead walk backwards until his mind's totally empty.

* EnemyMime: When the favorite town statue (who was actually a statue performer) is taken down in "Myme Disease", Grojband decides to take the prime performance spot left behind. A turf war erupts between Corey and a group of mimes when they take the last busking spot in the park.

** "Helmet". Kin giving the helmet a big red button that turns it evil. The rest of Grojband call him out on how stupid of an idea it was.
** "Space Jammin". Instead of using her diary entries as inspiration for lyrics, The Orb Experience aliens literally sing one of them word for word. This ends up revealing Trina's fears that Nick Mallory likes Mina more than her and causing her to go diary.
** "Queen Bee". After Trina insults the band Laney uses her rage to fuel her and perfectly destroys her target, Trina tries to one-up her and ends up hitting everything EXCEPT the target.
* EvenTheSubtitlerIsStumped: Subverted when the band works to get a piece of a delicious wedding cake and they go through an ordeal that almost breaks up the band. They resolve the issue and finally get the cake at the end, but when Corey starts to tell the moral of the story like he does at every episode, he starts stuffing his face with cake in the process. While it's still possible to make out what he's actually saying, subtitles show up on screen to translate, but quickly just turn all into "Omm nom nom nom omm nom nom."
* EveryEpisodeEnding: Every episode ends with Corey delivering his "[[SpoofAesop Final Thoughts]]" before then turning to the viewer and saying "Thanks for coming out, everyone!" before pulling down a garage door from out of nowhere to symbolize the end of the episode.

* EvilBrit: Blade Stabbington.

* EyeGlasses: All of the bespectacled characters: Kin, Mina, Kate, and Mayor Mellow. Made particularly evident in the ZombieApocalypse episode where Zombie!Kate glasses fall off her eyes are still in her glasses.

* {{Facepalm}}: In "Pox N' Roll", Laney does one, forgetting she's wearing electrified mitts.
* FailureIsTheOnlyOption: Played with. While the band successfully gets new lyrics every episode, any plans to assume an identity gets rejected.
* FakingTheDead: Grojband via a rumor in the episode "Hologroj". It works a little too well however.

* FatAndSkinny: Siblings Kon and Konnie - Fat, with Kin and Kim - Skinny.

* FieryRedhead: Laney Penn, bonus points for catching fire every so often.
* ForeignerForADay: In "For Hat And Country", Grojband form their own country - 'The People's Rockpublic of Grojland' - in order to be 'country' enough to buy a cowboy hat.

* FreeRangeChildren: The kids practically live in that one house. When it was quarantined for the chicken pox, no mention of any parents were made.
* FriendlyPirate: Played with in regards to Captain Tighty Whitey. In his two main appearances, he and his crew have been antagonistic pirates who plundered Peaceville, however they are still quite Affably Evil and both times are persuaded into {{Heel Face Turn}}s by Grojband.
* FriendToAllLivingThings: Nick Mallory, as his laidback personality and good looks endear him to animals as much as it does to the ladies.

* GadgeteerGenius: Kin creates all manner of crazy inventions for Grojband's escapades.
* GameFace: Trina displays this when writing in her diary in anger mode. She also makes the same face when she's just really upset, even as a kid.
* GarageBand: Grojband itself.
* GentleGiant: Kon, who is the biggest member of Grojband but also a fun-loving goofball.
* GettingSmiliesPaintedOnYourSoul: In "Grin Reaper", this is Torbo's MO.

** Laney gets a puppet with one and a Five o' Clock Shadow in "No Strings Attached".
** Janie Penn (Laney's ancestor) in the episode "War and Peaceville" had one. She was in a circus because of it.
* GoneToTheFuture: Corey, Laney and Kon in "Ahead of Our Own Tone".
* GoodWithNumbers: Trina loves math and numbers so much, she's willing to hide it as Trigonometrina, as she would never admit it in public.

** In the first part, [[spoiler:the apocalypse is coming, and Grojband makes the most of it with one last concert, by making Trina go into Diary Mode once again.]]
** In part 2, [[spoiler:It's revealed that The Orb Experience were the ones who were causing the apocalypse as part of their final revenge against Grojband. Grojband challenges them to a rematch with the fate of the world at stake. Trina sides with the orbs and manages to steal Grojband's instruments, but Mina [[MistreatmentEqualsBetrayal finally stands up]] to Trina, saving the band. With ThePowerOfRock, Grojband manages to destroy the meteor with one last song, saving the Earth. Corey is implied to finally recognize his feelings for Laney, and then all of Grojband close off the series with "Thanks for coming out everyone!".]]
* GrandTheftMe: The Orb Experience aliens in "Space Jammin" do this to the Newmans.
* HalloweenEpisode: "Dance of the Dead" (Despite being predated, which makes even more sense for the US because Cartoon Network premiered the cartoon too early).
* HandicappedBadass: Wheelie, due to losing his legs in a fire.

* HarmlessFreezing: Trina gets frozen by Nick Mallory in "Rock the House".
* {{Hellevator}}: In "Love in a Nethervator", an infernal elevator takes the band to the underworld to confront the Button Keeper, which is the source of all elevator music. [[spoiler:It turns out that the Button Keeper is actually a man named Otis (who can turn into a monster if his NiceHat is removed) who was a former elevator operator, he hated elevator music as much as Corey did so much, he moved to the underworld to trap it.]]

* HeyThatsMyLine: In "Zoohouse Rock", Kin manages to steal the catchphrases of the other three band members, ending with him bumping Corey out of the way to close with Corey's usual "Thanks for coming out everyone" and remarking that he is now "three for three".
* HeyYou: In "The Bandidate" Kate and Allie don't seem to know Trina's name and just call her "Corey's sister." Even after Trina becomes mayor they call her Mayor Corey's Sister.
* HilarityInZoos: In "Zoohouse Rock", Trina persuades Mayor Mellow that Grojband are actually musical bears and he cages them as the zoo's newest attraction. Their attempts to free themselves result in a riot where the townsfolk release all of the animals to run wild through Peaceville.

* HiveQueen: Cyborg!Trina in "Ahead of our Own Tone", due to melding her mind with everyone in Peaceville save Mina, Nick, and Grojband.
* {{Hunk}}: Part of the reason why Trina finds Nick Mallory so dreamy, she even gives describes him as "Hunky".
* IAmSpartacus: In "Ahead of Our Own Tone", all of the members of Grojband claim to be Nick Mallory in order to distract Cyborg!Trina.

* IdiosyncraticWipes: Many scenes wipe to the next with "X-Y TRANSITION!!!" singing in the process. It's usually themed towards the episode, but there are generic ones like "WICKED SCREEN TRANSITION!!!"
* IllTakeTwoBeersToo: In "Smash Up Terby" when Nick is buying a ticket to the carnival and Trina comes along with Mina and says "Make that three!" Nick misunderstands what she meant and buys three tickets for himself, saving the other two for later.

* InformedAttribute: According to Corey in "One-Plant Band", he and Trina are popular in their respective grades, but we hardly ever see their school lives and when we do they don't seem to be treated that differently by other students.

* InsaneTrollLogic: Most of Corey's {{Zany Scheme}}s and {{Spoof Aesop}}s use this. Lampshaded in one episode when Laney asks him on his brain even works after she accidentally gives Corey inspiraion for yet a ridiculous plan to refill the town reservoir.
* InstrumentOfMurder: In "Dreamreaver", Grojband confronts a dream version of themselves inside Trina's mind. Dream-Corey uses his guitar as [[MotorcycleJousting a lance on a dirt bike]], Dream-Kin's keytar fires energy blasts, and Dream-Kon's drums create earthquakes.

* JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind: "Dreamreaver" follows Grojband entering Trina's mind.
* KentBrockmanNews: Buzz Newsworthy and Chance Happening, who visibly hate each other and frequently sling insults towards each other on public television.

* LadyLooksLikeADude: Laney Penn. In "Pop Goes The Bubble", however, it's confirmed that the rest of the band know her gender. WordOfGod indicates that the band knew this from the beginning, but treat Laney as a guy to help her fit in. Laney's male counterpart Lenny has the [[DudeLooksLikeALady opposite problem]].
* TheLancer: Laney, who constantly plays OnlySaneWoman and the one who snarks at Corey's harebrained schemes.

"[[GoshDarnItToHeck Straight into heck!]]"
* LaughingMad: Trina in "Space Jammin" when The Orb Experience aliens (who were possessing The Newmans) sing a page of her diary telling about her fears that Nick Mallory likes Mina more than her. She tries to laugh it off (poorly), but she soon breaks down and it quickly cuts to her going into Diary Mode and looking pissed beyond belief.

** Sadness: Same as anger but with a Creepy Widower Choir replacing the screaming.

* LetsDuet: Not only did Corey and Laney perform one called "Please Come Back" for a wedding gig in the episode "All You Need is Cake", but also to win back Kin and Kon's friendship.

* LighterAndSofter: Compared to Creator/FreshTV's previous shows, ''Grojband'' features less of the PG elements seen in ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Sixteen}}'', and ''WesternAnimation/{{Stoked}}'', such as mild swearing, censored nudity, and light sexual references, due to being aimed at a younger audience.

* LyricalDissonance: In one episode, the band sings a song about running away from creepy puppets who want to kill you... in the style of a song you might find on a show for little kids, for an audience of little kids. The kids seem to love it, though!

* MisappliedPhlebotinum: In "Space Jammin'", The Orb Experience aliens steal Trina's diary after finding out they can use it for lyrics, but they just read the diary verbatim instead of writing actual lyrics, specifically "Entry 4897 - My Secret Fear and Junk".

* MissionImpossibleCableDrop: Grojband's groupies Kate and Allie do this when they break into Trina's room to steal her beloved Mr Mooseface toy for Corey. There are complications.

* MotorMouth: Carrie, as she's the only member of the Newmans by far to have the most speaking parts.
* MistreatmentInducedBetrayal: In "Hear Us Rock!", [[spoiler:Trina finally pushes Mina to her limit when she leaves her to die along with everyone else on Earth, resulting in Mina betraying Trina and helping Grojband save Earth.]]

** Corey testing out the helmet in "Helmet" by reading the contents of a juice box.

* MuseAbuse: The series is based around a group of young rock 'n roll musicians annoying an AlphaBitch BrattyTeenageDaughter and ruining her life so she'll get mad enough to vent in her diary and they can use her writings for lyrical inspiration, so this was pretty much a given.
* MyspeldRokband: The name Grojband is "garage band" pronounced as two syllables instead of three.

** Grojband changes what type of band they are every episode. Mostly done just so they can get performance gigs.
** In a more classic example, there is the character of Barney, who periodically provides plot-related help and runs nearly all the businesses that Grojband plays gigs at. His hat always changes to his Job of the Week.

** Corey, he wears his beanie everywhere, he even wears a blue version of one when he sleeps.
** Mayor Mellow also has one and it also doubles as a phone.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: In "Helmet", when Kin hits the rogue helmet with a hammer it flies into a high-tech Ferris wheel and assimilates with it.
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: After the above happens, the helmet, in its effort to make everything "perfect", uses its ray to fix Corey's cracked voice and the band promptly defeats it.

** The series is aware of itself, and the fourth wall is broken in pretty much every episode. Every episode even ends with Corey saying "Thanks for coming out everyone!" as he addresses the audience directly.

* NonHumanSidekick: Blade's rodent companion, Biteface.
* NotNowKiddo: Trina does this to Mina repeatedly throughout "Rock the House".

** Kon, according to WordOfGod.
** Also Trina, who really likes math. She is also, for some reason, a ''much'' nicer person when she's Trignometrina (her nerd alter-ego).
* ObliviousToLove: Corey is oblivious to the fact that Laney has a crush on him, although as the series progresses, hints are dropped that he isn't and may in fact also having feelings for Laney as well.
* OcularGushers: Laney in "One-Plant Band" after a {{brainwashed}} Corey angrily yells at her for being right all the time.
* OfCorpseHesAlive: In "Soulin' Down the Road" while Trina's soul is trapped in her car, Pinktastic, Mina engages in friendly activities with her unconscious body.
* OncePerEpisode: Trina is overcome with an emotion, causing her to into Diary Mode, and then Corey uses the new diary entry to craft the lyrics of the episode's song. After that, Corey delivers a SpoofAesop and then says "Thanks for coming out, everyone!" before slamming a garage door to signify the end of the episode.

* OneOfTheBoys: Laney to Grojband. The other male members of Grojband keep endearingly calling her "fella," "guy," "dude," and similar terms, though she seems to dislike it.

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: The gang gets concerned when Corey angrily arrives at the garage. Laney asks what happened, and...

* OrganAutonomy: Laney's own disgruntled heart has leaped out of her mouth during a gag in "Dance of the Dead".
* OrSoIHeard: In "Grin Reaper" after being given mind control bracelets:

* OurGeniesAreDifferent: The genies in "Wish Upon a Jug" are hillbillies who live in blowing bottles. They can't undo the wish of another genie, but there's no rule against wishing for more wishes.

* OurZombiesAreDifferent: Apparently the best way to deal with zombies brought to life and reverting the victims who were bitten by zombies back to normal is with a magical amp, lightning, and good lyrics.

* PaletteSwap: Corey's beanie that he wears to bed, is a blue recoloring of the one he wears everywhere.
* PeripheryDemographic: An InUniverse case: "No Strings Attached" reveals Corey to be a fan of The Bubble Bunch Band, a really kiddy animatronic show targeted towards small children.
* PersonalitySwap: Trina and Mina switch personalities in "A Knight to Remember" as a result of Bonkerton's Comet flying by, where for a medieval event, Mina becomes a snobby princess and Trina becomes her lowly servant. Mina also inherits Trina's OncePerEpisode meltdown (albeit with ScaryShinyGlasses thrown in).
* PinkGirlBlueBoy: Trina and Corey, who are a brother-sister pair.

* APirate400YearsTooLate: Captain Tighty-Whitey and his crew.

** Corey is allergic to cats, however in the episode "Super Zeroes", he had no problems holding Mina's cat, Dr. Purrs.
** Trina is shown to be allergic to bread crust in the episode "Kon-Fusion", and bubbles in the episode "Pop Goes the Bubble".
* PolarOppositeTwins: Kin and Kon, and their gender opposites Kim and Konnie. Kin and Kim are diminutive geniuses with questionable sanity, while Kon and Konnie are big and dopey but also fun-loving and kindhearted.

* ThePowerOfRock: This show lives and breathes on this trope, which is perhaps exemplified in the series finale where [[spoiler:Grojband saves the world by destroying a meteor using nothing but their own music.]]

* ThePsychoRangers: In "Dreamreaver", Trina's hatred/fear of Grojband after being forced to watch their music video for multiple hours on end manifests itself into their DeliberatelyMonochrome clones, Mrojband.
* PunnyName: The two news reporters, Chance Happening and Buzz Newsworthy.
* QuarantineWithExtremePrejudice: When Corey gets the chicken pox in "Pox N' Roll", Trina alerts the Mayor who seals the place in an outbreak dome - with Trina still inside. The Mayor posts tanks outside the bubble to make sure no one tries to escape.

** Trina is a mild case. Whenever she writes lyrics-worthy entries in her journal, her emotions manifest around her, and strange phenomena take place depending on the emotion in question.
** In "A Knight To Remember", Bonkerton Comet messes with reality when it appears every four years.
** Grojband's music is capable of raising the dead, breaking people from their brainwashing, increasing the muscle build of some senior folk, breaking a cybernetic network, banishing an evil knight summoned from imagination, ... and basically every unnormal thing that occurs in the series.

** According to the intro video in the website, it's shown that the "Wicked Cool Transition" can teleport characters

* RageBreakingPoint: Trina writes in her diary in anger mode whenever she reaches this.
* TheReasonYouSuck: After being treated as nothing but a slave or a ButtMonkey by her 'best friend' all season when Trina [[spoiler:Leaves her and the rest of the world to die from a meteor strike just so she can be left alone with Nick Mallory forever]] Trina tears her a new one. Telling her off for leaving her best friend and the only one who can stand her to [[spoiler:die in a meteor strike]] just so she can be with a boy who isn't interested in her.

** In "Group Hug" [[spoiler:Mina gets red eyes when she threatens Kate and Allie]].

* RevengeBeforeReason: In "Super Zeroes", Trina is willing to let herself fall to her death just to discredit the band.

* RomanticTwoGirlFriendship: In "Math of Kon", Mina has one with Trina's alter ego.
* RuleOfCool: Pretty much everything about this show runs on this.
** RuleOfFunny: And everything else runs on this.

*** Kon being convinced that he needed to buy tickets to get into Grojband's concert in "A-Capella-Lips Now".

* SandNecktie: Laney does this to Kin and Kon after they interrupt her 'date' on the beach with Corey in "All You Need is Cake".
* SayingSoundEffectsOutLoud: In "Monster of Rock", we have someone crying out "Grrglflt!" when they get sucked down in the toilet by the sewer monster.
* SealedGoodInACan: Trina's good side, Katrina.

* SecurityBlanket: Mr. Mooseface to Trina during her childhood.

** Also Mrojband (Mirage Band), who appear in Trina's nightmare in "Dreamreaver".
* SkyPirate: Captain Tighty Whitey and his pirate crew have a CoolShip that they sail around in the sky.

* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Laney Penn, the sole girl for Grojband.
* SnarkKnight: Laney Penn often makes sarcastic remarks about Grojband's ridiculous schemes.
* SoreLoser: Trina did not take her defeat in the episode "Queen Bee" very well.
* SpoofAesop: Corey delivers one at the end of [[OncePerEpisode every episode]]. Subverted in that while some of the aesops actually are worth taking into consideration (albeit lightly), it's also played straight in other episodes. "Dance of the Dead" ended with an aesop about how people shouldn't treat zombies the way they're often portrayed in the media.

* StrictlyFormula: Most episodes follow a certain pattern -- Grojband learns of a new music gig opportunity that Corey announces the band will be playing at, only for a problem to come up (usually Trina's doing). To resolve the problem, Corey and the gang make Trina enter Diary Mode, and then steal the diary to use it as inspiration for the lyrics in the episode's song. Afterwards Corey delivers a SpoofAesop and then says "Thanks for coming out everyone!" before closing a garage door to symbolize the end of the episode.

* SuperOCD: Corey suffers from this, he's known for booking a gig at every chance he gets and not letting even one slip by.

* SwappedRoles: In "Knight to Remember", thanks to Bonkerton Comet, Mina becomes an AlphaBitch and Trina becomes her ButtMonkey.

** "Who Are You" is one delivered to Hipsters in a big way.
** An In-Universe example: Laney is devastated to find out Singer Candy Jams is using the punk image to sell cosmetics. She later delivers a harsh song to her calling her out.
* TalkingAnimal: Sentient beavers appear in one episode as dam construction workers. Also an intelligent donkey appears as a background character on multiple occasions.
* TeensAreMonsters: Trina Riffin is a prime example of this, as well as being the series BigBad.
* TeensAreShort:
** Laney Penn, although her tall ambition makes up for it.
** Kin is also pretty small for a 13-year-old.
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Grojband and the Newmans after being fused together in "Kon-Fusion".

* ThrowingTheFight: Grojband's initial plan was to have Laney to do in the episode "Queen Bee", however the plan falls apart because of [[SpringtimeForHitler Trina's competitive nature causing her to lose]], and the fact that Trina crossed the line by dissing the band when she asked Laney "[[TemptingFate What part of 'Your band stinks!' didn't I say?]]". For the later, [[BerserkButton Laney was not happy about this]].
* ThoseTwoGirls: Corey's fangirls, Kate and Allie.
* TomboyWithAGirlyStreak: Laney Penn, while most characters think she's a boy [[OneOfTheBoys (and she often acts the part)]], she has shown a hidden girly side on occasions.
* TorchesAndPitchforks: In "Myme Disease", when the citizens of Peaceville discover that their favourite statue performer is actually a statue, they riot and are shown carrying torches and pitchforks.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood:

* TrueCompanions: Grojband themselves. As highlighted in episodes like "All You Need is Cake" and "It's in the Card", Corey, Laney, and the Kujira twins value their collective friendship and the unity of their band more than anything else.

* UltimateAuthorityMayor: Mayor Mellow, who has no problems with actions like buying a diamond-encrusted unicorn cage for the zoo, or ordering a house sealed inside a dome because a teenager has chicken pox.

* UncannyFamilyResemblance: Nick Mallory has a little brother named Mick who is basically a smaller version of him.

** Trina with anyone of the villains in the show, including the Pirates (where she even manages to [[DemotedToDragon overthrow their Captain]] and order them around), the Blue Star of Rocklympus, [[spoiler:and G'ORB in the finale.]]

* TheVoiceless: Every band member of the The Newmans in the first half of season one, save for Carrie and Konnie (with the latter only having a single line in "Space Jammin'").

* WeirdnessCensor: In "Dance of the Dead", Trina is oblivious to the fact that Nick has turned into a zombie, even when he's trying to bite Mina's head.

* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: WordOfGod even says Peaceville is right next to [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Springfield]]. Presumably they were joking, but the point is evident.
* WhiteHairBlackHeart: Scare-master Blade Stabbington.
* WishingForMoreWishes: In "Wish Upon a Jug", Trina finds a genie who grants her three wishes. She then wishes for a million wishes. When Corey says that she can't do that, the genie says that she can and he always wondered why more people didn't do that. When Corey later finds his own genie, he immediately wishes for the same thing.
* WrittenSoundEffect: Lots of onomatopoeia, as well as other visual sound effects.
* XRaySparks: When Trina gets struck by lightning in "Super Zeroes".
* YankTheDogsChain: Happens to Mina at the end of "Knight to Remember" once the comet has passed, as Trina's and Mina's personalities revert back to their original selves, then Trina chases Mina down.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Corey has blue hair, Mina has teal hair and Trina has pink hair.
* YourMimeMakesItReal: Used by the mimes Grojband get in a fight with in "Myme Disease".
* ZanyScheme: Corey always has "a crazy plan that just might work" whenever the band needs to get lyrics for their latest gig.
* ZombieApocalypse: A G-rated example, as lightning striking the amp combined with Corey's terrible lyrics pretty much caused this.

*** The pilot is the ONLY instance where Trina doesn't immediately go diary after getting upset, as well as having Mina openly crush on Nick Mallory in front of Trina.
*** The early episodes have more grossout jokes and ToiletHumor (mainly from Kon) than the later ones.
*** Laney's status as the ButtMonkey and NoRespectGuy of the band (because NobodyLovesTheBassist) is much more pronounced in early episodes, as is the RunningGag of people misgendering her (which was almost entirely abandoned in the second half of the show) and Corey's obliviousness to her crush on him (which eventually develops more into WillTheyOrWontThey ShipTease).
*** Corey's catchphrase "I have a crazy plan that just might work" and habit of creating overly long names for his {{Zany Scheme}}s are used very prominently in early episodes, but both completely vanish from the show later on.
*** There was a RunningGag of Grojband trying to do a unity chant but completely failing it in a few early episodes that never appears again afterwards.
*** Trina's character is much less evil in the first few episodes of the series compared to the later installments, instead simply being a typically bossy and dramatic teenage girl rather than the psychopathic HateSink she quickly developed into.
*** Episode plots early on were usually about Corey and his friends trying to get diary lyrics from Trina for their gig of the week (like "Smash Up Terby", "Queen Bee", and "Creepaway Camp"). As the series developed, these types of plotlines were dropped in favor of a broader range of conflicts, with the lyrics issue typically only being addressed in the final act.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness:
** The pilot is the ONLY instance where Trina doesn't immediately go diary after getting upset, as well as having Mina openly crush on Nick Mallory (in front of Trina anyway).
** Also, this might be a coincidence, but the pilot seems to have more gross-out humour then other episodes.

* InformedAttribute: According to Corey in "One Plant Band", he and Trina are popular in their respective grades, but we hardly ever see their school lives and when we do they don't seem to be treated that differently by other students.

* ShoutOut:
** The band's symbol is the same as [[WesternAnimation/TotalDrama Duncan's]] skull shirt logo. It's also the same symbol as the one on [[WesternAnimation/{{Sidekick}} Eric's]] shirt too. It's likely not a coincidence that Todd Kauffman has worked on all three shows.
** Bleater/Bleating is an obvious parody of Website/{{Twitter}}[=/=]Tweeting.
** A rising star uses someone's diary to come up with lyrics, [[Series/AustinAndAlly where have we seen it before]]?
** Where else have we seen [[ComicBook/ScottPilgrim a pair of musical Japanese twins with alliterative names starting with K and a fiery, snarky redhead with a bobcut?]]
** According to the creators, Corey's "[[OncePerEpisode Final]] [[SpoofAesop Thoughts]]" are inspired by ''Film/FerrisBuellersDayOff''.
** Many episode names: "[[Literature/CloudyWithAChanceOfMeatballs Cloudy with a Chance of Malt Balls]]", "Film/DanceOfTheDead", "[[Music/{{NSync}} No Strings Attached]]", "[[Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan Math of Kon]]", "[[Film/SpaceJam Space Jammin]]", "[[Music/TheBeatles All You Need is Cake]]", "Music/{{Helmet}}", "[[Music/ElvisPresley Zoohouse Rock]]", "[[Music/{{Aerosmith}} Love in a Nethervator]]", "[[Music/{{Gorillaz}} Rock the House]]", "Literature/{{War and Peace}}ville", "[[Music/TheWho Who Are You]]", "[[Film/ApocalypseNow A-Capella Lips Now]]", and "[[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries The Snuffles with Snarffles]]".
** Corey and Trina Riffin are named after Corey and Trina Crewe, a Canadian musical duo.
** Laney Penn's name is an anagram of "Penny Lane", a song by Music/TheBeatles.
** Kin and Kon Kujira's names are a reference to Film/KingKong ("Kin Kon") and Franchise/{{Godzilla}} ("Kujira", as in his Japanese name, "Gojira").
** Grojband's SitcomArchnemesis, The Newmans, are named after Jerry Series/{{Seinfeld}}'s own Sitcom Archnemesis.
** Nick Mallory is named after two characters from the 1982 sitcom ''Series/FamilyTies'', Nick Moore and Mallory Keaton.
** Groupies Kate and Allie are named after the title characters of the 1984 sitcom ''Series/KateAndAllie''. Their last names are the same as those of ''Kate and Allie'' directors Bill Persky and Linda Day.
** In "Cloudy with a Chance of Malt Ballls", Corey imitates [[Franchise/MastersOfTheUniverse He-Man]]'s famous "ByThePowerOfGrayskull" sequence and catchphrase to bring Grojband in for the episode's song performance.
** In "Dance of the Dead", Grojband shouts [[Franchise/ScoobyDoo "Zoinks!"]] when they first see the zombies approaching them.
** The Bubble Bunch Band from "No Strings Attached" are an homage to ''Series/YoGabbaGabba'', with Bobby Blue and Randy Red being based on Muno and Plex respectively.
** In "Math of Kon", the band wears Music/{{Devo}} hats with division symbols on top during the episode's song.
*** Also this equation from the same episode: [[Franchise/StarWars R2=D2.]]
*** As if the episode's title wasn't a blatant enough reference, there's also the BigWordShout Trina says before going into Diary Mode.
*** The opening of the math competition has three math nerds trapped in the [[Film/{{Superman}} Phantom Zone]].
** In the episode "Monster of Rock", the title itself comes from [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsters_of_Rock Monsters of Rock]], a British hard rock and heavy metal music festival head annually from 1980 to 1996.
*** When using Kon as bait to capture the sewer monster El Chewpoocaca (itself a reference to El {{Chupacabra}}), Corey says to him, [[Franchise/StarWars "May the Flush be with you."]]
** The MonsterOfTheWeek in "One-Plant Band" parodies [[Theatre/LittleShopOfHorrors Audrey II]].
** "Creepaway Camp" is an entire episode shout-out to Music/AliceCooper, with the episode's song even being named "Welcome to My Nightmare".
** "Dreamreaver" gets its title from a pun on the song "Dreamweaver" by [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Wright Gary Wright]].
*** In Trina's dream world, there are a large number of Nick Mallories resembling the winged monkeys from ''Literature/TheWizardOfOz''.
** The Justice Band in "Super Zeroes" may be a reference to real life band "The Justice Crew".
*** In the same episode, Corey can be seen wearing a purple [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Pikachu]] suit in one brief scene.
** The hammer Corey wields in "A Knight to Remember" looks and functions like [[Film/{{Thor}} Thor's]], minus the lightning.
** Cyborg!Trina and her drones in "Ahead of Our Own Tone" are a direct homage of [[Franchise/StarTrek the Borg]].
*** The episode has two references to the German electronic music group Das Techno Feuer, with the band D-Keizer Zaps mentioned by Kin being direct parodies of them and one verse from the episode's song being "Transmit you back to das techno fires".
** "Inn Err Face" is basically a parody of ''Film/FantasticVoyage''.
** WordOfGod confirms that Kin and Kon's usage of a yellow minisub to explore Trina's body was a reference to Music/TheBeatles' famous song "Yellow Submarine". To drive the point further, it's even been confirmed that that the kid who made the sub was named Ringo.
** Kon biting the head off a (baseball) bat to try and scare the Groupies in "Girl Fest" references a famous incident where Music/OzzyOsbourne bit off the head of a dead bat (the animal) at one of his concerts.
** Kin and Kon perform a parody of ''WesternAnimation/SchoolhouseRock'' in "The Bandidate", complete with a cameo from an anthropomorphized bill in homage to the famous [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%27m_Just_a_Bill "I'm Just a Bill"]] segment.
** "Soulin' Down The Road" is a shout-out to ''Literature/{{Christine}}''; the episode was even originally going to be titled "Christrina".
*** In the same episode, Mina does friendly activities with an unconscious Trina à la ''Film/WeekendAtBernies''.
*** The Motivations, a 50s African-American soul music quartet mentioned by Kin and Kon, are parodies of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Coasters The Coasters]].
** In "For Hat and Country", Corey references UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan's famous line when he says "Mayor Mellow, tear down this wall!"
** The "Solo Shredder" video game featured in "Dueling Buttons" is a parody of the ''VideoGame/GuitarHero'' franchise.
*** Savage Fred is an obvious parody of Creator/FredSavage.
*** The episode's title references Arthur "Guitar Boogie" Smith's 1954 Bluegrass composition "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dueling_Banjos Duelling Banjos]]".

* ThankingTheViewer: Every episode ends with Corey saying "Thanks for coming out, everyone!" to the audience. In the finale, the rest of Grojband join him in saying it.

* ZanyScheme: Corey always has "a crazy plan that might just work" whenever the band needs to get lyrics for their latest gig.

* ActuallyPrettyFunny: Corey's response to the demonic guitar attacking the Newmans.

* TheBadGuyWins[=/=]KarmaHoudini: There are a few times Trina gets what she wants with no comeuppance.
** The Mid-Season Finale "Six Strings of Evil" frees Corey from the evil guitar but [[spoiler:the town ends up flooding, and the Guitar, now Music Box, plans on continuing its rampage at the end with the aid of Trina.]]

* BigBadEnsemble: The Demon Guitar teaming up with Trina, although since it happens only at the end of the episode, nothing comes out of it.
* BigDamPlot: "Six Strings of Evil" sees the Demon Guitar attempt to burst Peaceville Dam to flood the town.

** Trina with anyone of the villains in the show, including the Pirates (where she even manages to [[DemotedToDragon overthrow their Captain]] and order them around), the Demonic Guitar, [[spoiler:and G'ORB in the finale.]]

** Despite successfully flooding Peaceville and teaming up with Trina at the end of "Six Strings of Evil", the Demonic Guitar vanishes with no explanation in the following episode and is never brought up again.

** For Grojband and their allies, Kate (Blonde), Allie (Brunette), and Laney (Redhead).

* DidntThinkThisThrough: There are moments in which a solution, only worsens the given situation.

* EyeGlasses: All of the bespectacled characters: Kin, Mina, Allie, and Mayor Mellow. Made particularly evident in the ZombieApocalypse episode where Zombie!Allie glasses fall off her eyes are still in her glasses.

* LetsDuet: Not only did Corey and Laney perform one for a wedding gig in the episode "All You Need is Cake", but also they did it so they can win back Kin and Kon's friendship, given that the song in that episode was called "Please Come Back".

** RecurringExtra: While there are background characters they tend to always be the same people and sometimes they have lines.

* MissionImpossibleCableDrop: Grojband's groupies Kate and Allie do this when they break into Trina's room to steal her beloved Mr Moosehead toy for Corey. There are complications.

* TheAllSolvingHammer: Corey's answer to EVERYTHING is music. Laney addresses this in "Rockersize" when the band has to deal with three hulking grannies: she states that this time lyrics wouldn't be any help and [[OnlySaneMan what they needed was a tank]].

* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: In "Space Jammin" Kon mentions that he told The Orb Experience who Trina was, where she was, and gave them his recipe for boysenberry pie.

** In "Space Jammin'", The Orb Experience aliens notice Corey getting the lyrics to his songs from Trina's diary and try to do the same, but read an entry verbatim instead of adapting it into lyrics like Corey does.

** "Space Jammin". Instead of using her diary entries as inspiration for lyrics, The Orb Experience aliens literally sing one of them word for word. This ends up revealing Trina's feelings for Nick Mallory and causing her to go diary.

* LaughingMad: Trina in "Space Jammin" when The Orb Experience aliens (who were possessing The Newmans) sing a page of her diary telling about her crush on Nick Mallory. She tries to laugh it off (poorly), but she soon breaks down and it quickly cuts to her going into Diary Mode and looking pissed beyond belief.

* MisappliedPhlebotinum: In "Space Jammin'", the aliens steal Trina's diary after finding out they can use it for lyrics, but they just read the diary verbatim instead of writing actual lyrics, specifically "Entry 4897 - My Secret Fear and Junk".

* TheVoiceless: Every band member of the The Newmans in the first half of season one, save for Carrie and Konnie (with the latter only speaking in "Space Jammin'").

* AllMythsAreTrue: Whenever Kin and Kon tell a legend from Rock Lore, they will invariably be true. "Love in a Nethervator"'s myth is only partially true.

* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: In "Space Jammin" Kon mentions that he told the orb aliens who Trina was, where she was, and gave them his recipe for boysenberry pie.

* BigRedButton: In "Helmet", Kin built the eponymous robotic helmet with one and he warns Corey not to press it. After hearing an golden opportunity to sabotage the band presenting itself, Trina pushes said button causing the helmet to go Rogue. When Laney asks why he would build it with a button that turns it evil, Kin just rolls his eyes at the "stupid question".

** In "Space Jammin'", the orb aliens notice Corey getting the lyrics to his songs from Trina's diary and try to do the same, but read an entry verbatim instead of adapting it into lyrics like Corey does.

** "Helmet". Kin giving the helmet a big red button that gives the helmet control. Even he admits it was a dumb idea.
** "Space Jammin" Instead of using her diary entries as inspiration for lyrics, the orbs literally sing one of them word for word. This ends up revealing Trina's feelings for Nick Mallory and causing her to go diary.
** "Queen Bee" After Trina insults the band Laney uses her rage to fuel her and perfectly destroys her target, Trina tries to one-up her and ends up hitting everything EXCEPT the target.

* GrandTheftMe: The orb aliens in "Space Jammin" do this to the Newmans.

-->[[spoiler:'''Kin:''' Hazy Rock Lore.]]

* LaughingMad: Trina in "Space Jammin" when the orb aliens (who were possessing The Newmans) sing a page of her diary telling about her crush on Nick Mallory, however cut to her going into Diary Mode looking pissed beyond belief.

* NiceJobFixingItVillain: After the above happens the helmet, in its effort to make everything "perfect", uses its ray to fix Corey's cracked voice and the band promptly defeats it.

* StarfishAliens: The orbs, who resemble floating, glowing balls of energy with lines on their bodies that zigzag whenever they speak.

** In the finale, Trina, Mina, and Nick are last seen in the orb aliens' spaceship. They are presumably still there by the end of the episode.

** Despite successfully flooding Peaceville and teaming up with Trina at the end of the episode, the Demonic Guitar vanishes with no explanation in the following episode and is never brought up again.

** Played completely straight in "Hear Us Rock Part 2", Corey even acknowledges it. [[spoiler:At least until Mina turns against Trina and gives Grojband what they need to save the day.]]

* ChekhovsGun: Trina's habit of [[OpinionFlipFlop changing her opinion depending on what Nick Mallory thinks]] is used against her in "Here Us, Rock!", cue her literally falling apart.

** "Here Us, Rock!" also ends the first half of the episode on such when it turns out the world really is going to come to an end.

* GrandFinale: The two-parter "Here Us, Rock!" is this for the entire series:

* MistreatmentInducedBetrayal: In "Here Us Rock - Part 2", [[spoiler:Trina finally pushes Mina to her limit when she leaves her to die along with everyone else on Earth, resulting in Mina betraying Trina and helping Grojband save Earth.]]

** In a more classic example, there is the character of Barney, who periodically provides plot-related help in an episode. His hat always changes to his Job of the Week.

** Trina is a mild case. Whenever she writes lyrics-worthy entries in her journal, her emotions manifest around her, and strange phenomenons take place depending on the emotion in question.

** In "Dance of the Dead", Grojband shouts [[Franchise/ScoobyDoo "Zoinks"]] when they first see the zombies approaching them.

** In Trina's dream world, there are a large number of Nick Mallories resembling the winged monkeys from ''Literature/TheWizardOfOz''.

*** The episode has two references to the German electronic music group Das Techno Feur, with the band D-Keizer Zaps mentioned by Kin being direct parodies of them and one verse from the episode's song being "Transmit you back to das techno fires".

** WordOfGod confirms that Kin and Kon's usage of a yellow minisub to explore Trina's body was a reference to Music/TheBeatles' famous song "Yellow Submarine". To drive the point further, it's also been confirmed that that the kid who made the sub was named Ringo.

* StylishProtectionGear: In "Hear Us, Rock! (Part 2)", Trina somehow gets a pink spacesuit when everyone else's is white.

* TwoPartEpisode: "Dreamreaver" and "Here Us Rock!", due to both being full half-hour episodes instead of the show's traditional TwoShorts format.

** Many episode names: "[[Literature/CloudyWithAChanceOfMeatballs Cloudy with a Chance of Malt Balls]]", "[[Film/SpaceJam Space Jammin]]", "[[WesternAnimation/SchoolhouseRock Zoohouse Rock]]", "[[Music/{{NSync}} No Strings Attached]]", "[[Music/TheBeatles All You Need is Cake]]", "Music/{{Helmet}}", "[[Music/{{Aerosmith}} Love in a Nethervator]]", "Literature/{{War and Peace}}ville","[[Music/TheWho Who Are You]]", "[[Film/ApocalypseNow A-Capella Lips Now]]", "[[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries The Snuffles with Snarffles]]", and "[[Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan Math of Kon]]".

** Nick Mallory is named after two characters from the 1982 sitcom ''Series/FamilyTies'', Nick Moore and Mallory Keaton.

** The sewer monster El Chewpoocaca is a reference to [[Franchise/StarWars Chewbacca]], and it's accompanied by Corey saying to Kon, [[SignatureLine "May the Flush be with you."]]

** The MonsterOfTheWeek in "One-Plant Band" parodies [[Theatre/LittleShopOfHorrors Audrey II]].

** The hammer Corey wields in "A Knight to Remember" looks and functions like [[Film/{{Thor}} Thor's]]...minus the lightning.

** The entire episode "War and Peaceville" is a reference to the Berlin Wall, including Corey's line, "Mayor Mellow, tear down this wall!"

*** In the same episode, Mina doing friendly activities with an unconscious Trina à la ''Film/WeekendAtBernies''.
** The video game in "Dueling Buttons" is a parody of the ''VideoGame/GuitarHero'' franchise.
*** Also from the same episode: if you switch positions of Savage Fred's first and last name, you get [[Film/TheWizard the name of the actor who portrayed the role of Corey Woods]].

* AlliterativeName:
** Mina's full name was [[AllThereInTheManual Bernadette Beff]] until Trina demanded she legally change her first name so that their names would rhyme.
** Kin Kujira and his gender opposite Kim Kagami, as well as Kon Kujira and his gender opposite Konnie Kagami.
** Mayor Mellow, although that's because we never get to know his first name.

* AllThereInTheManual: Co-creator Todd Kauffman has a Tumblr blog where he answers questions about the show. Some of the questions he answers involve the names of background characters.
* AlmostKiss: A RunningGag that involves Trina and Nick Mallory.

* BetterThanABareBulb: The show revels in this type of humour, frequently lampshading its StrictlyFormula structure and the characters' quirks.

* DistaffCounterpart: The Newmans are {{gender flip}}ped versions of Grojband.

* EvilCounterpart: Combined with DistaffCounterpart, The Newmans, who are really just the gender-bended versions of Grojband. Kin even points it out in the episode "Creepaway Camp".

*** Mina doing friendly activities with an unconscious Trina à la ''Film/WeekendAtBernies''.

*** Also if you switch positions of Savage Fred's first and last name, you get [[Film/TheWizard the name of the actor who portrayed the role of Corey Woods]].

** Also MrojBand (Mirage Band), who appear in Trina's nightmare in "Dreamreaver".