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--> "Hello. Mail bomb. Assassination. Fertilizer. Same-sex marriages. Patagonia. Nader for president."
--> "Hello. Mail bomb. Assassination. Fertilizer. Same-sex marriages. Patagonia. Nader for president."
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* SerialEscalation: The terror threat level chart in Blackwatch Plaid. At first, it's just a five-level Green/Yellow/Red/Polka Dot/Plaid chart. Later in the episode, the threat level gets so high that it has to be raised even higher...to [[TitleDrop BLACKWATCH PLAID!]] Eventually, the threat level gets raised even higher...to "[[Music/{{Rush}} Rush's seminal album Moving Pictures"]]
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* SerialEscalation: The terror threat level chart in Blackwatch Plaid. At first, it's just a five-level Green/Yellow/Red/Polka Dot/Plaid chart. Later in the episode, the threat level gets so high that it has to be raised even higher...to [[TitleDrop BLACKWATCH PLAID!]] Eventually, the threat level gets raised even higher...to "[[Music/{{Rush}} [[Music/{{Rush}} the cover of Rush's seminal album Moving Pictures"]]Pictures.]]
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* TakeThat: Parts of Blackwatch Plaid are pretty much a satire of the US' draconian post-9/11 national security practices (especially the color-coded chart that the episode is named after.)
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** One episode has Reductor playing a MobyDick fighting game.
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* AscendedFanon: Arguably the main joke of the series. The majority of Birdman's cases are based around popular fan theories (Doctor Quest and Race Bannon are actually a gay couple, the Scoobie gang are stoners,Top Cat is really a pimp, etc.) and headscratchers (why can't you see Apache Chief or Grape Apes genitals, despite their respective sizes?, why is Secret Squirrel apparently naked under his trench coat?, etc.) related to old Hanna Barbera cartoons.
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* BerserkButton: Don't let Peter Potamus find out you got that thing he sent you without telling him. Later in the series, he even goes so far as to turn into the "Incredible Hippo".
** To be fair, mustard paks are frustrating.
** To be fair, mustard paks are frustrating.
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* BerserkButton: Don't let Peter Potamus find out you got that thing he sent you without telling him. Later in the series, he even goes so far as to turn into the [[Comic/TheIncredibleHulk "Incredible Hippo".
** To be fair,Hippo"]] due to his frustration over opening a little mustard paks are frustrating.pack.
** To be fair,
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* BiTheWay: Harvey has had relationships with both genders. As usual for the show, it's mostly played to make things bizzare. A frequent male lover of his is Boo-Boo.
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** Yeah, there's a lot of these. In fact, there's a special feature on the Season 3 DVD where it lists all the common gags and plays all occurences when selected.
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** [[spoiler:Somewhat averted by the Fridge Logic]].
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* FoeYay: Played with a lot with X's feelings towards Harvey. Also was the focal point of ''Peanut Puberty'', where fighting supervillains is used as a direct metaphor for sex.
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* FridgeBrilliance: It never comes to mind until after the series ended, but [[spoiler:the doctor in the episode with Harvey's "mole" was completely right in that he was going to eventually die, and quite painfully too.]]
* FridgeLogic: [[spoiler:Harvey dies, but didn't the Duplicator make a second, identical Harvey in the previous episode? Where's that guy]]?
** [[spoiler:Clone Phils using them as target practice?]].
** [[spoiler:Actually, this one's AllThereInTheManual - the clones were a core element of one of the cases in the video game.]]
* FridgeLogic: [[spoiler:Harvey dies, but didn't the Duplicator make a second, identical Harvey in the previous episode? Where's that guy]]?
** [[spoiler:Clone Phils using them as target practice?]].
** [[spoiler:Actually, this one's AllThereInTheManual - the clones were a core element of one of the cases in the video game.]]
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* HoYay: "Wow, that's a man kiss..."
** X and his [[HeterosexualLifePartner friend]], Zardo,
*** X's obsession with Harvey borders on this on occasion.
** In the episode "Juror In Court", Peter Potamus' copy of ''Kama Sutra for Dum-Dums'' shows Quick Draw McGraw and Baba Louie in the "cowgirl" position.
** X and his [[HeterosexualLifePartner friend]], Zardo,
*** X's obsession with Harvey borders on this on occasion.
** In the episode "Juror In Court", Peter Potamus' copy of ''Kama Sutra for Dum-Dums'' shows Quick Draw McGraw and Baba Louie in the "cowgirl" position.
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** X and his [[HeterosexualLifePartner friend]], Zardo,
*** X's obsession with Harvey borders on this on occasion.
** InInUniverse, in the episode "Juror In Court", Peter Potamus' copy of ''Kama Sutra for Dum-Dums'' shows Quick Draw McGraw [=McGraw=] and Baba Louie in the "cowgirl" position.
** X and his [[HeterosexualLifePartner friend]], Zardo,
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* PunchClockVillain: Many of the villains in this series live their lives as if their villainy is part of their daily jobs. Most of the time it actually is.
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** Also spoofed when TheJetsons (from the far off year of 2002) try to sue the present.
* {{Tsundere}}: Arguably, X.
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** Also spoofed when TheJetsons (from the far off year of 2002) try to sue the present.
* {{Tsundere}}: Arguably, X.present. George convinces the court room that a punch card reading "Jury-O-Matic" computer is more efficient and reliable than an actual jury.
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''Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law'' (2000-2007) was a comedic American animated television series created by Williams Street for Creator/CartoonNetwork's AdultSwim block. The show revolved around the day-to-day activities of a law firm staffed mainly by superheroes and other characters featured in [[TheSixties 1960s]]-era animated series produced by Hanna-Barbera, particularly ''Birdman and the Galaxy Trio''.
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''Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law'' (2000-2007) was a comedic American animated television series created by Williams Street for Creator/CartoonNetwork's AdultSwim Creator/AdultSwim block. The show revolved around the day-to-day activities of a law firm staffed mainly by superheroes and other characters featured in [[TheSixties 1960s]]-era animated series produced by Hanna-Barbera, particularly ''Birdman and the Galaxy Trio''.
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''Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law'' (2000-2007) was a comedic American animated television series created by Williams Street for CartoonNetwork's Creator/CartoonNetwork's AdultSwim block. The show revolved around the day-to-day activities of a law firm staffed mainly by superheroes and other characters featured in [[TheSixties 1960s]]-era animated series produced by Hanna-Barbera, particularly ''Birdman and the Galaxy Trio''.
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* AnythingThatMoves: Gigi.
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* AnythingThatMoves: Gigi.
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* AscendedFanon: Arguably the main joke of the series. The majority of Birdman's cases are based around popular fan theories (Doctor Quest and Race Bannon are actually a gay couple, the Scoobie gang are stoners,Top Cat is really a pimp, etc.) and headscratchers (why can't you see Apache Chief or Grape Apes genitals, despite their respective sizes?, why is Secret Squirrel apparently naked under his trench coat?, etc.) related to old Hanna Barbera cartoons.
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* AscendedFanon: Arguably the main joke of the series. The majority of Birdman's cases are based around popular fan theories (Doctor Quest and Race Bannon are actually a gay couple, the Scoobie gang are stoners,Top Cat is really a pimp, etc.) and headscratchers (why can't you see Apache Chief or Grape Apes genitals, despite their respective sizes?, why is Secret Squirrel apparently naked under his trench coat?, etc.) related to old Hanna Barbera cartoons.
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* BiTheWay: Harvey has had relationships with both genders. As usual for the show, it's mostly played to make things bizzare. A frequent male lover of his is Boo-Boo.
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* BiTheWay: Harvey has had relationships with both genders. As usual for the show, it's mostly played to make things bizzare. A frequent male lover of his is Boo-Boo.
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** Mind Taker. Beeoooo-wwweeeeeeoooo~ Beeoooo-wwweeeeeeoooo~
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** Oh, and Peanut.
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* KnifeThrowingAct: In a moment of GettingCrapPastTheRadar, Peanut is trapped in a genie's lamp with a woman. He says they're going to go on a "magic carpet ride" and asks her to hand over a roll of nearby rope. Later on, when said genie releases his captives, Peanut appears with the woman tied to a giant target, having apparently been doing such an act the whole time.
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** Lest we forget Birdgirl, who is usually the most vocal and eager member of what she, and she alone, calls the "Birdteam". Also... her inner monologues about her secret identity are not so inner, and tend to actually end up being broadcasted to everyone. Over a loudspeaker.
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* [[MesACrowd Me's A Crowd]]: Done in one episode by the Deadly Duplicator.
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* SelfServingMemory: At the end of one episode, Harvey has a flashback of a scene at the beginning of the episode, except the scene looks incredibly different, with characters present that weren't there the first time and elements that don't even seem possible such as a scuba diver floating in the middle of the room.
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* SelfServingMemory: At the end of one episode, Harvey has a flashback of a scene at the beginning of the episode, except the scene looks incredibly different, with characters present that weren't there the first time and elements that don't even seem possible such as a scuba diver floating in the middle of the room.
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** Also spoofed when TheJetsons (from the far off year of 2002) try to sue the present.
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* BattleDiscretionShot: In "Very Personal Injury", Harvey Birdman shows various clips of Apache Chief thwarting evil, except the video footage only shows various spectators commenting on the heroic feats; Apache isn't on-camera. In one instance, the camera focuses on a dog licking himself instead of Apache Chief.
--> '''Birdman''': ...It's on here, right?
--> '''Birdman''': ...It's on here, right?
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** Done by Phil [[spoiler:about his death]], complete with lampshade. "Ha ha ha! Foreshadowing."
** Also done more subtly by the doctor in SPF, telling Harvey [[spoiler:that some day he will die. Maybe from the sun, maybe not tomorrow, but some day! Probably painfully, too.]] Doubles as a [[visual pun]], as you can see the doctor take out his golf clubs and go for a walk outside after telling Harvey to shade himself. (Get it? Fore-Shadowing? Come on, now.)
** Done by Phil [[spoiler:about his death]], complete with lampshade. "Ha ha ha! Foreshadowing."
** Also done more subtly by the doctor in SPF, telling Harvey [[spoiler:that some day he will die. Maybe from the sun, maybe not tomorrow, but some day! Probably painfully, too.]] Doubles as a [[visual pun]], as you can see the doctor take out his golf clubs and go for a walk outside after telling Harvey to shade himself. (Get it? Fore-Shadowing? Come on, now.)
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** Arguably used earlier when he argued that Fred Flintstone was not guilty of violating the RICO Act because he had IdentityAmnesia. This one, he was more successful. [[spoiler: Then it turns out Fred never ''was'' the mob boss, ''Barney'' was.]]
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** Phil has no intention of shooting a baby dinosaur and looks appalled when Cheney raises his gun at it.
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--> Steven Colbert himself can be seen in the elevator on the ride down, amongst Phil's luggage
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* ThePlan: Mentok. Especially with Shado in the episode ''Harvey's Civvy'', but really pretty much anything he does.
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*** ''"Accept no substitutes!"''
** ''"That's mind-taking, baby!"''
*** ''"Accept no substitutes!"''
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''Who is the man in the suit?''\\
''Who is the cat with the beak?''
''Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law'' (2000-2007) was a comedic American animated television series created by Williams Street for CartoonNetwork's AdultSwim block. The show revolved around the day-to-day activities of a law firm staffed mainly by superheroes and other characters featured in [[TheSixties 1960s]]-era animated series produced by Hanna-Barbera, particularly ''Birdman and the Galaxy Trio''.
The main character is Harvey Birdman, a 1960s superhero who has traded in most of his superpowers for "power of attorney", and now works at the Law firm Sebben & Sebben, under [[PunnyName Phil Ken Sebben]] ("Falcon 7", his boss in the original show). In each episode, Birdman has to deal with all manner of hassles at work and in the courtroom while defending such clients as Fred Flintstone (accused of being a mob boss), Secret Squirrel (accused of public indecency), Boo-Boo Bear (accused of being a mad bomber) and other iconic HannaBarbera characters from TheDarkAgeOfAnimation - bringing new meaning to the phrase LawyerFriendlyCameo, indeed. His most common opponent is the neurotic supervillain-turned-prosecutor Myron Reducto. ''Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law'' was known for its fast-paced jokes and pop-culture references.
It also spawned a single game of the exact same name, similar to a tongue-in-cheek PhoenixWrightAceAttorney (understandable, as [[SelfPlagiarism it was made by]] {{Capcom}}), with Loads and Loads of in-jokes and references.
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* AchillesHeel: Mentok's mind-taking can be blocked both by aluminum foil and by metal skull plates.
* ActorAllusion: When the office workers mistake Phil's brother for Phil himself.
--> '''Everyone:''' ''"He's back! Phil's back! Phil's back!"''
--> '''Random Employee:''' ''"[[StephenColbert Stephen]]'s back!"''
** [[FreezeFrameBonus A well timed pause]] will reveal a bus with an ad for TheColbertReport [[spoiler:running over Phil]].
*** Before that, when Phil says he's leaving:
--> '''Phil Ken Sebben''': So, I got this tremendous opportunity! My own law firm! Might put my name in the title! Get a big S-shaped desk! Great for interviews! A spin-off, if you will!
--> ...
--> '''Harvey:''' So... you're leaving us?
--> '''Phil Ken Sebben''': I wouldn't say that. I'll just be extremely busy on the new show, err, firm.
* AnalProbing: Phil Ken Sebben mistakenly believes TheJetsons are Greys--not time travelers--and that they're out to give him an anal probe.
* AnythingThatMoves: Gigi.
* ArtEvolution: Potamus went from having ordinary humanoid hands to flat hippo limbs in season 3.
* AscendedExtra: Various characters from the original ''Birdman'' cartoon, especially Mentok, Reducto, Birdgirl and X the Eliminator.
** Within the show itself, Peter Potamus and to a lesser extent the bear.
* AscendedFanon: Arguably the main joke of the series. The majority of Birdman's cases are based around popular fan theories (Doctor Quest and Race Bannon are actually a gay couple, the Scoobie gang are stoners,Top Cat is really a pimp, etc.) and headscratchers (why can't you see Apache Chief or Grape Apes genitals, despite their respective sizes?, why is Secret Squirrel apparently naked under his trench coat?, etc.) related to old Hanna Barbera cartoons.
* AudioErotica: The female member of Shoyu Weenie when she took the stand.
-->'''Mentok:''' Forget mind-taking, I'm taking up lip-reading.
* BackFromTheDead [[spoiler:"Ha HA! Final episode stunt-casting!"]]
* BaitAndSwitchCredits
* BarackObama: He often appears as a background juror--before running for president, even!
* BeamOWar: "Get ready to feel the power... OF ATTORNEY!"
* BerserkButton: Don't let Peter Potamus find out you got that thing he sent you without telling him. Later in the series, he even goes so far as to turn into the "Incredible Hippo".
** To be fair, mustard paks are frustrating.
** Mentok isn't too fond of other people using mental powers in his court.
** Don't let Reducto see "the perfectly miniature" Inch High Private Eye.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Peter Potamus. He's perverted and lazy to operatic heights, but the few times we actually see him lawyering, he's amazing.
** Judy works very hard to become one on purpose.
* ButtMonkey: Harvey, in some episodes.
** Often taken UpToEleven
* TheCameo: A ''StreetFighter'' character is hidden in each chapter of the video game.
* CampStraight: Peanut, through all his effeminate mannerisms and pink sweater vests, is not only straight, but quite the player.
* CatchPhrase:
--> '''Peter Potamus''': Did you get that thing I sent you?
** Also,
--> '''Phil''': Ha ha! Double entendre!
** Not ''there'', '''there!'''
** "In my/your/his pants..."
** I'LL take the case!
** Back off!
** Mind Taker. * mind-taking sound effects*
** Crest on Birdman's helmet!
** Deedle-eedle-ee.
** * zips-up pants*
** That's Mind Taking, baby!
*** Yeah, there's a lot of these. In fact, there's a special feature on the Season 3 DVD where it lists all the common gags and plays all occurences when selected.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: A good portion of the characters, but especially ''Phil Ken Sebben''.
** Oh, and Peanut.
*** "Who's feeling Peanutty?"
---> '''Peanut:''' Who's getting made?
---> '''Birdman:''' What?
---> '''Peanut:''' So, what, you don't think they're going to open the books for me?
---> '''Birdman:''' Why does it always feel like we're having two different conversations?
---> '''Peanut:''' Let me tell you one thing, Petroni. When Peanut comes heavy, he comes '''HARD'''
---> '''Birdman:''' Ah, much better.
** And of course, Judy Ken Sebben, aka Birdgirl. It runs in the family.
* ComedicSociopathy: Phil Ken Sebben and Peanut.
--> '''Peanut''': "In America, it is customary to celebrate business deals by blowing things up."
* {{Crossover}}s: Arguably the entire premise of the show
* CourtroomAntic: Every one in the book.
* CrowdedCastShot: Former TropeNamer.
* CryingIndian: Apache Chief in "Back to the Present".
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Frequently, particularly any episode involving Apache Chief.
* DoggedNiceGuy: Harvey
* DidIJustSayThatOutLoud: Judy/Birdgirl and her megaphone.
* DoubleEntendre: Phil Ken Sebben just ''loves'' these, preceding each one with a hearty "Ha! HA!"
-->'''Phil:''' "Ha ha! Multiple entendre!"
-->'''Phil:''' "[[OrAreYouJustHappyToSeeMe Roll of quarters]]... Wait, that's not a roll of..."
** "Deedle-deedle-ee."
* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: ''Screw'' the EverybodyLaughsEnding, ''Harvey '''dies!''''']]
** [[spoiler:Somewhat averted by the Fridge Logic]].
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: [[spoiler: Reducto is absent in the last few episodes. As far as anyone can tell, he died when he was hit by that clown car]].
** They compacted him. Inch High was at the funeral.
* TheEeyore: Droopy Dog.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Even The Deadly Duplicator can't stand $28 chimichangas!
* EverybodyLaughsEnding: Parodied. People will laugh at the end of an episode for absolutely no/very little reason... except at the one when Scrappy was taken away to be eaten by Avenger.
* EverythingsEvenWorseWithSharks: In Dabba Don, A scene showed Harvey waking up with Jabber Jaw's head on his bed.
* {{Expy}}: Mentoks father is an expy of both MarlonBrando and [[{{Superman}} Jor-el]].
* EyepatchOfPower: Maybe. It does not help that Phil's uncovered eye isn't particularly good either.
* {{Flanderization}}: Peter Potamus' first lines were "You get that thing I sent you?" As he turned into a major cast member, this phrase became a significant part of his characterization.
* FoeYay: Played with a lot with X's feelings towards Harvey. Also was the focal point of ''Peanut Puberty'', where fighting supervillains is used as a direct metaphor for sex.
* ForgotICouldFly: Harvey, while contemplating a way to break out of prison and ''watching birds''. He remembers in the finale.
** The trust fall was also high enough off the ground that Harvey's ability to fly should have made the window a non-issue.
* FreezeFrameBonus: In one episode, Phil loses his eyepatch in a game of gin, and a few jokes are made about [[TakeOurWordForIt the now-visible eye being disgusting (even though the viewer can't see it]]). Freeze frame in one quick shot of him walking towards the camera reveals [[spoiler:Inch-High PI, in an otherwise empty eye-socket]].
* FridgeBrilliance: It never comes to mind until after the series ended, but [[spoiler:the doctor in the episode with Harvey's "mole" was completely right in that he was going to eventually die, and quite painfully too.]]
* FridgeLogic: [[spoiler:Harvey dies, but didn't the Duplicator make a second, identical Harvey in the previous episode? Where's that guy]]?
** [[spoiler:Clone Phils using them as target practice?]].
* FunSize: Reducto's constant threats to shrink his enemies ("I'll make you fun-sized!") [[TropeNamer named this trope]].
* GagPenis: Inch High, Private Eye
-->'''Phil:''' Ha ha! ''(shakes head sadly)'' Not to scale...
** Apache Chief apparently qualifies as well.
* GenderBender: ''Phil'' of all people, though it was only a SpoofAesop about plastic surgery.
* GenderInvertedTrope: G.G., and all her husbands.
* GenkiGirl: Birdgirl, [[UpToEleven turned up to 11]].
* GeorgeJetsonJobSecurity: "And you're fired!"
** "Ha HA! Right to work state."
** Gone Effcnt. [[spoiler:Firing everyone [[GlengarryGlenRoss except the top three earners]]]].
* GRatedDrug: The tanning crème in "SPF". With Peanut playing the part of drug dealer:
--> '''Peanut''': First taste is always free, with P to the N-U-T.
* GrumpyBear: That angry cop that told Harvey to get down in "Booty Noir".
* GroinAttack: One of the few times Harvey uses his beam attack, it's straight into Reducto's crotch for shrinking him in the middle of an oral argument -- and doesn't skip a beat. Also, any episode involving Apache Chief.
--> '''Apache Chief''' [[spoiler:(when he wasn't the victim for once)]]: Doesn't feel so great, does it?
* HangingJudge: "Let's convict ourselves a bear!"
* HilaritySues
* HoYay: "Wow, that's a man kiss..."
** X and his [[HeterosexualLifePartner friend]], Zardo,
*** X's obsession with Harvey borders on this on occasion.
* IdentityAmnesia: Spoofed.
* IdiosyncraticWipes: Scene changes are marked by a quick shot of a gavel banging, or briefcase opening, etc on a brightly-colored background.
** Woo-Ka!
* InsanityDefense: Harvey tried to use this to get Devlin off (the first time). [[YouFailLawForever He forgot this was a lawsuit trial.]]
* InstrumentOfMurder: {{Quick-Draw McGraw}}'s 'El Kabong' guitar.
* InsufferableGenius: Spyro, Mentok. Lampshaded when Harvey tries to make small talk with Spyro, and quickly understands why none of Spyro's school buddies kept in touch.
* KavorkaMan: Potamus.
* KnifeThrowingAct: In a moment of GettingCrapPastTheRadar, Peanut is trapped in a genie's lamp with a woman. He says they're going to go on a "magic carpet ride" and asks her to hand over a roll of nearby rope. Later on, when said genie releases his captives, Peanut appears with the woman tied to a giant target, having apparently been doing such an act the whole time.
* LargeHam: Mentok the Mind Taker, when he's not being a DeadpanSnarker.
** Not to mention X! the Eliminatorrrrrrr! When he's not being a clingy Harvey-stalker.
** And Spyro, who is apparently an actual actor, is overly theatrical in and out of court, at one point staging a scene from ''Pagliacci'' while prosecuting a mob boss.
** Lest we forget Birdgirl, who is usually the most vocal and eager member of what she, and she alone, calls the "Birdteam". Also... her inner monologues about her secret identity are not so inner, and tend to actually end up being broadcasted to everyone. Over a loudspeaker.
** "I am '''SHADOOOOOOO''' The Brain Thief!"
** Also, [[TheRival Vulturo]], another bird-themed lawyer, who always initially comes across as a WickedCultured aristocrat, but eventually degenerates into [[TheUnintelligible mwoh hohn hon hnyaaaaaooonn]]...
* LetsGetDangerous: The SeriesFinale where Birdman actually gets to have heroic moments.
* LostInTransmission: The "Sebben & Sebben New Employee Orientation / Juicer Instruction" video
* MaleGaze: When Harvey is trying to get Birdgirl off his back, he drops her off at her house. She gets out of the car in a manner which Birdman can't help but notice.
-->'''Birdman:''' Now you stay out of my office until you're all grown u- ''(sees her skintight costume as she's exiting)'' uh, uh, gone to LAW SCHOOL!
* MatchCut: In the new employee training episode, a shot of a helicopter fading into a shot of Phil Ken Sebben with a similarly shaped pipe in his mouth.
* [[MesACrowd Me's A Crowd]]: Done in one episode by the Deadly Duplicator.
* MetaTwist: Prior to the final episode airing, it was announced that said episode would be a single half-hour episode instead of two fifteen-minute episodes. They advertised an ending in which the viewer wouldn't believe that it's the ending. [[spoiler:It was a regular fifteen-minute episode]].
* MauriceLaMarche: Various guest characters.
* MythologyGag: The episode "Turner Classic Birdman", which is in the style of a classic ''Birdman'' episode. Introduced by Turner Classic Movies' Robert Osbourne.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Apache Chief batting away an approaching meteor in "Very Personal Injury":
--> '''Apache Chief''': that fireball won't be hurting anyone now.
--> <cut to a scene of an alien celebration of "One Million Years of Civilization" being interrupted by an incoming meteor>
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Caricatures of George Bush, Dick Cheney, and Antonin Scalia appear as extras in a few blink-and-you'll-miss-it scenes and (then-future) President BarackObama is often a juror.
* NoIndoorVoice: Mentok and Phil Ken Sebben.
** '''Phil Ken Sebben:''' ''I'M SORRY I CAN'T HEAR YOU. I DON'T KNOW IF YOU NOTICED, BUT I'VE GOT JUST THE'' '''''ONE EYE!'''''
** '''Shado, the Brain Thief''' has no indoor ''monologue''. Everything he thinks is broadcast like a reverberating PA system cranked UpToEleven. This results in ''everyone'' covering their ears in an attempt to quiet the noise (even though it's being spoken directly to their heads), and at one point, a custodian even takes a broom and starts poking an actual PA system, thinking that's actually the case.
* OhCisco: Every episode ends like this.
* OnlySaneMan: Poor Harvey.
* ParentalIncest: Phil is overwhelmingly attracted to Birdgirl. He is apparently the only person in the world that doesn't know she's his daughter. Birdgirl, [[LawfulStupid always a slave to the Superhero Sidekick Code of Conduct]], is willing to marry him in order to maintain her secret identity. Thankfully, Phil finds someone else he's more attracted to before the marriage can go through: [[OppositeSexClone Aunt Phillis]].
* PowerHigh: Harvey, who gets his power from sunlight, discovers that suntan lotion can provide the same effect. He quickly becomes addicted to the rush, and starts spending all his money on lotion, until his friends are forced to stage an intervention.
** Peanut shooting off his beams in the bathroom.
* PowerPerversionPotential: How Zan knew Wonder Woman was taking a bath at one point.
* [[strike:PsychicPowers]] [[PsychicPowers Mind Taking]], baby! Booo-WEE-oooh!
** Also "Shadoooooo! The Brain Th..."
---> "Oh no you don't. No "brain thieving" in ''my'' courtroom, you understand?. This is ''mind taking'' country, partner. You got it? ''Good''."
* RefugeInAudacity: Seriously, how did they get away with some of those jokes?
* RunningGag: "Cookies/noses on dowels", "In your pants", "Snackerdoodle?", "Did you get that thing I sent ya?", Phil's poor vision, etc.
** ...I think.
** Huh. I wonder what that means?
** Did... did a lobster just fly past?
** Ha ha! Double entendre!
** I couldn't hear that, with the one eye!
* SayingSoundEffectsOutLoud: BEUOOOOWEEEEUOOOOOOOOOOP!
* SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale: Spoofed. The Jetsons claim to be from the "far off year of 2002" while standing next to a calender marked "2004".
* SelfServingMemory: At the end of one episode, Harvey has a flashback of a scene at the beginning of the episode, except the scene looks incredibly different, with characters present that weren't there the first time and elements that don't even seem possible such as a scuba diver floating in the middle of the room.
* ShoutOut: More than just the obvious ones covered by {{Crossover}}. For example, the [[spoiler: bus that runs over Phil Ken Sebben]] has an ad for ''TheColbertReport'' on the side.
* SleepsWithEveryoneButYou: Harvey is the only person G.G. isn't eager to make out with[=/=]screw.
* SomethingElseAlsoRises: Apache Chief
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Elliott Taggart, the Deadly Duplicator. That's ''two'' L's and ''two'' T's!
* TechnologyMarchesOn: Spoofed with X's death ray, which is a button-covered, desk-sized console that uses vacuum tubes and takes half a minute to charge up (once X can find an electric outlet) before firing (or a vacuum tube blows out) that he nonetheless treats as a portable weapon.
** Also spoofed when TheJetsons (from the far off year of 2002) try to sue the present.
* {{Tsundere}}: Arguably, X.
* TonightSomeoneDies: The last episode is titled "The Death of Harvey Birdman".
* TrustBuildingBlunder
* TheUnreveal: How Phil Ken Sebben lost his eye, in "Sebben & Sebben Employee Orientation".
* UnsoundEffect: Birdgirl has done this, Batman-style on at least one occasion.
* WrongGenreSavvy: Birdgirl.
* XanatosGambit: Mentok. Especially with Shado in the episode ''Harvey's Civvy'', but really pretty much anything he does.
** ''"That's mind-taking, baby!"''
*** ''"Accept no substitutes!"''
* YouALLLookFamiliar: [[spoiler:The same people are in the jury in every case; this leads to Judge Mentok overturning all of his previous rulings at the end of the second to last episode and letting all of the convicted run amok]].
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''Who is the man in the suit?''\\
''Who is the cat with the beak?''
''Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law'' (2000-2007) was a comedic American animated television series created by Williams Street for CartoonNetwork's AdultSwim block. The show revolved around the day-to-day activities of a law firm staffed mainly by superheroes and other characters featured in [[TheSixties 1960s]]-era animated series produced by Hanna-Barbera, particularly ''Birdman and the Galaxy Trio''.
The main character is Harvey Birdman, a 1960s superhero who has traded in most of his superpowers for "power of attorney", and now works at the Law firm Sebben & Sebben, under [[PunnyName Phil Ken Sebben]] ("Falcon 7", his boss in the original show). In each episode, Birdman has to deal with all manner of hassles at work and in the courtroom while defending such clients as Fred Flintstone (accused of being a mob boss), Secret Squirrel (accused of public indecency), Boo-Boo Bear (accused of being a mad bomber) and other iconic HannaBarbera characters from TheDarkAgeOfAnimation - bringing new meaning to the phrase LawyerFriendlyCameo, indeed. His most common opponent is the neurotic supervillain-turned-prosecutor Myron Reducto. ''Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law'' was known for its fast-paced jokes and pop-culture references.
It also spawned a single game of the exact same name, similar to a tongue-in-cheek PhoenixWrightAceAttorney (understandable, as [[SelfPlagiarism it was made by]] {{Capcom}}), with Loads and Loads of in-jokes and references.
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* AchillesHeel: Mentok's mind-taking can be blocked both by aluminum foil and by metal skull plates.
* ActorAllusion: When the office workers mistake Phil's brother for Phil himself.
--> '''Everyone:''' ''"He's back! Phil's back! Phil's back!"''
--> '''Random Employee:''' ''"[[StephenColbert Stephen]]'s back!"''
** [[FreezeFrameBonus A well timed pause]] will reveal a bus with an ad for TheColbertReport [[spoiler:running over Phil]].
*** Before that, when Phil says he's leaving:
--> '''Phil Ken Sebben''': So, I got this tremendous opportunity! My own law firm! Might put my name in the title! Get a big S-shaped desk! Great for interviews! A spin-off, if you will!
--> ...
--> '''Harvey:''' So... you're leaving us?
--> '''Phil Ken Sebben''': I wouldn't say that. I'll just be extremely busy on the new show, err, firm.
* AnalProbing: Phil Ken Sebben mistakenly believes TheJetsons are Greys--not time travelers--and that they're out to give him an anal probe.
* AnythingThatMoves: Gigi.
* ArtEvolution: Potamus went from having ordinary humanoid hands to flat hippo limbs in season 3.
* AscendedExtra: Various characters from the original ''Birdman'' cartoon, especially Mentok, Reducto, Birdgirl and X the Eliminator.
** Within the show itself, Peter Potamus and to a lesser extent the bear.
* AscendedFanon: Arguably the main joke of the series. The majority of Birdman's cases are based around popular fan theories (Doctor Quest and Race Bannon are actually a gay couple, the Scoobie gang are stoners,Top Cat is really a pimp, etc.) and headscratchers (why can't you see Apache Chief or Grape Apes genitals, despite their respective sizes?, why is Secret Squirrel apparently naked under his trench coat?, etc.) related to old Hanna Barbera cartoons.
* AudioErotica: The female member of Shoyu Weenie when she took the stand.
-->'''Mentok:''' Forget mind-taking, I'm taking up lip-reading.
* BackFromTheDead [[spoiler:"Ha HA! Final episode stunt-casting!"]]
* BaitAndSwitchCredits
* BarackObama: He often appears as a background juror--before running for president, even!
* BeamOWar: "Get ready to feel the power... OF ATTORNEY!"
* BerserkButton: Don't let Peter Potamus find out you got that thing he sent you without telling him. Later in the series, he even goes so far as to turn into the "Incredible Hippo".
** To be fair, mustard paks are frustrating.
** Mentok isn't too fond of other people using mental powers in his court.
** Don't let Reducto see "the perfectly miniature" Inch High Private Eye.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Peter Potamus. He's perverted and lazy to operatic heights, but the few times we actually see him lawyering, he's amazing.
** Judy works very hard to become one on purpose.
* ButtMonkey: Harvey, in some episodes.
** Often taken UpToEleven
* TheCameo: A ''StreetFighter'' character is hidden in each chapter of the video game.
* CampStraight: Peanut, through all his effeminate mannerisms and pink sweater vests, is not only straight, but quite the player.
* CatchPhrase:
--> '''Peter Potamus''': Did you get that thing I sent you?
** Also,
--> '''Phil''': Ha ha! Double entendre!
** Not ''there'', '''there!'''
** "In my/your/his pants..."
** I'LL take the case!
** Back off!
** Mind Taker. * mind-taking sound effects*
** Crest on Birdman's helmet!
** Deedle-eedle-ee.
** * zips-up pants*
** That's Mind Taking, baby!
*** Yeah, there's a lot of these. In fact, there's a special feature on the Season 3 DVD where it lists all the common gags and plays all occurences when selected.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: A good portion of the characters, but especially ''Phil Ken Sebben''.
** Oh, and Peanut.
*** "Who's feeling Peanutty?"
---> '''Peanut:''' Who's getting made?
---> '''Birdman:''' What?
---> '''Peanut:''' So, what, you don't think they're going to open the books for me?
---> '''Birdman:''' Why does it always feel like we're having two different conversations?
---> '''Peanut:''' Let me tell you one thing, Petroni. When Peanut comes heavy, he comes '''HARD'''
---> '''Birdman:''' Ah, much better.
** And of course, Judy Ken Sebben, aka Birdgirl. It runs in the family.
* ComedicSociopathy: Phil Ken Sebben and Peanut.
--> '''Peanut''': "In America, it is customary to celebrate business deals by blowing things up."
* {{Crossover}}s: Arguably the entire premise of the show
* CourtroomAntic: Every one in the book.
* CrowdedCastShot: Former TropeNamer.
* CryingIndian: Apache Chief in "Back to the Present".
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Frequently, particularly any episode involving Apache Chief.
* DoggedNiceGuy: Harvey
* DidIJustSayThatOutLoud: Judy/Birdgirl and her megaphone.
* DoubleEntendre: Phil Ken Sebben just ''loves'' these, preceding each one with a hearty "Ha! HA!"
-->'''Phil:''' "Ha ha! Multiple entendre!"
-->'''Phil:''' "[[OrAreYouJustHappyToSeeMe Roll of quarters]]... Wait, that's not a roll of..."
** "Deedle-deedle-ee."
* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: ''Screw'' the EverybodyLaughsEnding, ''Harvey '''dies!''''']]
** [[spoiler:Somewhat averted by the Fridge Logic]].
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: [[spoiler: Reducto is absent in the last few episodes. As far as anyone can tell, he died when he was hit by that clown car]].
** They compacted him. Inch High was at the funeral.
* TheEeyore: Droopy Dog.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Even The Deadly Duplicator can't stand $28 chimichangas!
* EverybodyLaughsEnding: Parodied. People will laugh at the end of an episode for absolutely no/very little reason... except at the one when Scrappy was taken away to be eaten by Avenger.
* EverythingsEvenWorseWithSharks: In Dabba Don, A scene showed Harvey waking up with Jabber Jaw's head on his bed.
* {{Expy}}: Mentoks father is an expy of both MarlonBrando and [[{{Superman}} Jor-el]].
* EyepatchOfPower: Maybe. It does not help that Phil's uncovered eye isn't particularly good either.
* {{Flanderization}}: Peter Potamus' first lines were "You get that thing I sent you?" As he turned into a major cast member, this phrase became a significant part of his characterization.
* FoeYay: Played with a lot with X's feelings towards Harvey. Also was the focal point of ''Peanut Puberty'', where fighting supervillains is used as a direct metaphor for sex.
* ForgotICouldFly: Harvey, while contemplating a way to break out of prison and ''watching birds''. He remembers in the finale.
** The trust fall was also high enough off the ground that Harvey's ability to fly should have made the window a non-issue.
* FreezeFrameBonus: In one episode, Phil loses his eyepatch in a game of gin, and a few jokes are made about [[TakeOurWordForIt the now-visible eye being disgusting (even though the viewer can't see it]]). Freeze frame in one quick shot of him walking towards the camera reveals [[spoiler:Inch-High PI, in an otherwise empty eye-socket]].
* FridgeBrilliance: It never comes to mind until after the series ended, but [[spoiler:the doctor in the episode with Harvey's "mole" was completely right in that he was going to eventually die, and quite painfully too.]]
* FridgeLogic: [[spoiler:Harvey dies, but didn't the Duplicator make a second, identical Harvey in the previous episode? Where's that guy]]?
** [[spoiler:Clone Phils using them as target practice?]].
* FunSize: Reducto's constant threats to shrink his enemies ("I'll make you fun-sized!") [[TropeNamer named this trope]].
* GagPenis: Inch High, Private Eye
-->'''Phil:''' Ha ha! ''(shakes head sadly)'' Not to scale...
** Apache Chief apparently qualifies as well.
* GenderBender: ''Phil'' of all people, though it was only a SpoofAesop about plastic surgery.
* GenderInvertedTrope: G.G., and all her husbands.
* GenkiGirl: Birdgirl, [[UpToEleven turned up to 11]].
* GeorgeJetsonJobSecurity: "And you're fired!"
** "Ha HA! Right to work state."
** Gone Effcnt. [[spoiler:Firing everyone [[GlengarryGlenRoss except the top three earners]]]].
* GRatedDrug: The tanning crème in "SPF". With Peanut playing the part of drug dealer:
--> '''Peanut''': First taste is always free, with P to the N-U-T.
* GrumpyBear: That angry cop that told Harvey to get down in "Booty Noir".
* GroinAttack: One of the few times Harvey uses his beam attack, it's straight into Reducto's crotch for shrinking him in the middle of an oral argument -- and doesn't skip a beat. Also, any episode involving Apache Chief.
--> '''Apache Chief''' [[spoiler:(when he wasn't the victim for once)]]: Doesn't feel so great, does it?
* HangingJudge: "Let's convict ourselves a bear!"
* HilaritySues
* HoYay: "Wow, that's a man kiss..."
** X and his [[HeterosexualLifePartner friend]], Zardo,
*** X's obsession with Harvey borders on this on occasion.
* IdentityAmnesia: Spoofed.
* IdiosyncraticWipes: Scene changes are marked by a quick shot of a gavel banging, or briefcase opening, etc on a brightly-colored background.
** Woo-Ka!
* InsanityDefense: Harvey tried to use this to get Devlin off (the first time). [[YouFailLawForever He forgot this was a lawsuit trial.]]
* InstrumentOfMurder: {{Quick-Draw McGraw}}'s 'El Kabong' guitar.
* InsufferableGenius: Spyro, Mentok. Lampshaded when Harvey tries to make small talk with Spyro, and quickly understands why none of Spyro's school buddies kept in touch.
* KavorkaMan: Potamus.
* KnifeThrowingAct: In a moment of GettingCrapPastTheRadar, Peanut is trapped in a genie's lamp with a woman. He says they're going to go on a "magic carpet ride" and asks her to hand over a roll of nearby rope. Later on, when said genie releases his captives, Peanut appears with the woman tied to a giant target, having apparently been doing such an act the whole time.
* LargeHam: Mentok the Mind Taker, when he's not being a DeadpanSnarker.
** Not to mention X! the Eliminatorrrrrrr! When he's not being a clingy Harvey-stalker.
** And Spyro, who is apparently an actual actor, is overly theatrical in and out of court, at one point staging a scene from ''Pagliacci'' while prosecuting a mob boss.
** Lest we forget Birdgirl, who is usually the most vocal and eager member of what she, and she alone, calls the "Birdteam". Also... her inner monologues about her secret identity are not so inner, and tend to actually end up being broadcasted to everyone. Over a loudspeaker.
** "I am '''SHADOOOOOOO''' The Brain Thief!"
** Also, [[TheRival Vulturo]], another bird-themed lawyer, who always initially comes across as a WickedCultured aristocrat, but eventually degenerates into [[TheUnintelligible mwoh hohn hon hnyaaaaaooonn]]...
* LetsGetDangerous: The SeriesFinale where Birdman actually gets to have heroic moments.
* LostInTransmission: The "Sebben & Sebben New Employee Orientation / Juicer Instruction" video
* MaleGaze: When Harvey is trying to get Birdgirl off his back, he drops her off at her house. She gets out of the car in a manner which Birdman can't help but notice.
-->'''Birdman:''' Now you stay out of my office until you're all grown u- ''(sees her skintight costume as she's exiting)'' uh, uh, gone to LAW SCHOOL!
* MatchCut: In the new employee training episode, a shot of a helicopter fading into a shot of Phil Ken Sebben with a similarly shaped pipe in his mouth.
* [[MesACrowd Me's A Crowd]]: Done in one episode by the Deadly Duplicator.
* MetaTwist: Prior to the final episode airing, it was announced that said episode would be a single half-hour episode instead of two fifteen-minute episodes. They advertised an ending in which the viewer wouldn't believe that it's the ending. [[spoiler:It was a regular fifteen-minute episode]].
* MauriceLaMarche: Various guest characters.
* MythologyGag: The episode "Turner Classic Birdman", which is in the style of a classic ''Birdman'' episode. Introduced by Turner Classic Movies' Robert Osbourne.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Apache Chief batting away an approaching meteor in "Very Personal Injury":
--> '''Apache Chief''': that fireball won't be hurting anyone now.
--> <cut to a scene of an alien celebration of "One Million Years of Civilization" being interrupted by an incoming meteor>
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Caricatures of George Bush, Dick Cheney, and Antonin Scalia appear as extras in a few blink-and-you'll-miss-it scenes and (then-future) President BarackObama is often a juror.
* NoIndoorVoice: Mentok and Phil Ken Sebben.
** '''Phil Ken Sebben:''' ''I'M SORRY I CAN'T HEAR YOU. I DON'T KNOW IF YOU NOTICED, BUT I'VE GOT JUST THE'' '''''ONE EYE!'''''
** '''Shado, the Brain Thief''' has no indoor ''monologue''. Everything he thinks is broadcast like a reverberating PA system cranked UpToEleven. This results in ''everyone'' covering their ears in an attempt to quiet the noise (even though it's being spoken directly to their heads), and at one point, a custodian even takes a broom and starts poking an actual PA system, thinking that's actually the case.
* OhCisco: Every episode ends like this.
* OnlySaneMan: Poor Harvey.
* ParentalIncest: Phil is overwhelmingly attracted to Birdgirl. He is apparently the only person in the world that doesn't know she's his daughter. Birdgirl, [[LawfulStupid always a slave to the Superhero Sidekick Code of Conduct]], is willing to marry him in order to maintain her secret identity. Thankfully, Phil finds someone else he's more attracted to before the marriage can go through: [[OppositeSexClone Aunt Phillis]].
* PowerHigh: Harvey, who gets his power from sunlight, discovers that suntan lotion can provide the same effect. He quickly becomes addicted to the rush, and starts spending all his money on lotion, until his friends are forced to stage an intervention.
** Peanut shooting off his beams in the bathroom.
* PowerPerversionPotential: How Zan knew Wonder Woman was taking a bath at one point.
* [[strike:PsychicPowers]] [[PsychicPowers Mind Taking]], baby! Booo-WEE-oooh!
** Also "Shadoooooo! The Brain Th..."
---> "Oh no you don't. No "brain thieving" in ''my'' courtroom, you understand?. This is ''mind taking'' country, partner. You got it? ''Good''."
* RefugeInAudacity: Seriously, how did they get away with some of those jokes?
* RunningGag: "Cookies/noses on dowels", "In your pants", "Snackerdoodle?", "Did you get that thing I sent ya?", Phil's poor vision, etc.
** ...I think.
** Huh. I wonder what that means?
** Did... did a lobster just fly past?
** Ha ha! Double entendre!
** I couldn't hear that, with the one eye!
* SayingSoundEffectsOutLoud: BEUOOOOWEEEEUOOOOOOOOOOP!
* SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale: Spoofed. The Jetsons claim to be from the "far off year of 2002" while standing next to a calender marked "2004".
* SelfServingMemory: At the end of one episode, Harvey has a flashback of a scene at the beginning of the episode, except the scene looks incredibly different, with characters present that weren't there the first time and elements that don't even seem possible such as a scuba diver floating in the middle of the room.
* ShoutOut: More than just the obvious ones covered by {{Crossover}}. For example, the [[spoiler: bus that runs over Phil Ken Sebben]] has an ad for ''TheColbertReport'' on the side.
* SleepsWithEveryoneButYou: Harvey is the only person G.G. isn't eager to make out with[=/=]screw.
* SomethingElseAlsoRises: Apache Chief
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Elliott Taggart, the Deadly Duplicator. That's ''two'' L's and ''two'' T's!
* TechnologyMarchesOn: Spoofed with X's death ray, which is a button-covered, desk-sized console that uses vacuum tubes and takes half a minute to charge up (once X can find an electric outlet) before firing (or a vacuum tube blows out) that he nonetheless treats as a portable weapon.
** Also spoofed when TheJetsons (from the far off year of 2002) try to sue the present.
* {{Tsundere}}: Arguably, X.
* TonightSomeoneDies: The last episode is titled "The Death of Harvey Birdman".
* TrustBuildingBlunder
* TheUnreveal: How Phil Ken Sebben lost his eye, in "Sebben & Sebben Employee Orientation".
* UnsoundEffect: Birdgirl has done this, Batman-style on at least one occasion.
* WrongGenreSavvy: Birdgirl.
* XanatosGambit: Mentok. Especially with Shado in the episode ''Harvey's Civvy'', but really pretty much anything he does.
** ''"That's mind-taking, baby!"''
*** ''"Accept no substitutes!"''
* YouALLLookFamiliar: [[spoiler:The same people are in the jury in every case; this leads to Judge Mentok overturning all of his previous rulings at the end of the second to last episode and letting all of the convicted run amok]].
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