History WesternAnimation / RightNowKapow

* LimaSyndrome: One sketch has Ice Cream as a bank robber who tries to befriend two of the hostages.
* MinimalistCast: Due to the SketchComedy nature of the show, the main six (sometimes not all at once) usually fill any important roles called for the latest sketch.
* NailsOnAChalkboard: One sketch parodies the Jaws town meeting scene, exaggerating the trope so that ''everyone'' scratches a conveniently nearby chalkboard to say anything, eventually doing it just because it's fun to do. After getting nowhere the Mayor moves to the next subject of discussion before a recess, replacing all the chalkboards with whiteboards, which is unanimously denied before everyone begins a recess of scratching all the boards at once.
* NoPlotNoProblem

* RiddleOfTheSphinx: One sketch is centered around this. Each time the riddle is posed, the characters get the question right with the wrong work or due to a technicality.
* RuleOfGlamorous: Averted and deconstructed. One sketch involves a king who commissioned a palace made entirely of gold. The woman who managed to build it demands pay only for the king to respond that he has no money because he used it all to make the palace. She promptly takes a piece of it and leaves. It turns out that the king hasn't paid ANYONE in the village because of this commission and they take pieces too. In the end, he's left with nothing.
* [[ShortRunners Short-Runner]]
* SketchComedy
* SmellPhone: In one segment, a football coach suffers from terrible breath and the team asks him to [[YouNeedABreathMint eat a mint]], which only makes it worse and smell like "hot, winter-green garbage." Then the team makes him go all the way to the other side of the field while he gives instructions through the quarterback's wireless headset, only for his breath to wind up being transmitted ''right through the headset.'' The team desperately tries to get the quarterback's helmet off, only for them ''and'' the other team to get knocked out by the coach's breath.

* TimeMachine: In one sketch, Ice Cream spends so much time working on a time machine that Plant leaves him. Rather than going back in time to prevent himself from ever building it, he goes further back to prevent himself from marrying Plant by kicking his past self's engagement ring out of his hand.

* ToiletHumor: The Deborah Hammond Butt Snail.

* YouthfulFreckles: Candy has ones that are multicolored like candy buttons.

* EnfantTerrible: In one sketch, Plant plays a school bus driver while the others (Preschoolers) sing "The Wheels On the Bus." The bus suddenly breaks down and the children sing "and we don't have to go to school." Plant tries to call dispatch only for the children to repeat the line with visibly angry faces. She asks if they had something to do with the bus breaking down. They respond by approaching her and singing "The driver on the bus will ask no questions, ask no questions, ask no questions. The driver on the bus will ask no questions" by this time they've all surrounded her seat and they look just plain evil, which makes Plant finish the rest of the song with "and you don't have to go to school."
** Another example involves a baby whose mother disappears [[GooGooGodlike each time he closes his eyes.]] ([[NothingIsScarier much to her dismay.]])
* FollowTheBouncingBall: Attempted by kids with the "Flat Basketball Song", problem is that the bouncing ball is said flat basketball. Most of them end up passing out from being stuck on the first note.
* GainaxEnding: The ending of the prank school sketch; at the graduation ceremony, the headmistress (Candy) reveals that the school wasn't real and the building was a cardboard cutout, then everyone present spontaneously turns into a cardboard cutout themselves, followed by the gates to the school, [[SerialEscalation followed by the show itself]].
* GenderEqualEnsemble: A cast of six that's equal parts man (Dog, Ice Cream and Moon) and woman (Diamond, Plant and Candy).
* GingerbreadHouse: {{Deconstructed|Trope}} in one sketch which points out the sanitary and structural issues that would occur with the gingerbread house in ''Literature/HanselAndGretel''. In response the witch (Diamond) builds the duo (Dog and Plant) a normal house, but when they complain that it's ''not'' edible she makes them a house that's [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs a mix of both]].

** "Order Number Nine" has Candy working at a restaurant where she gets an order for a chicken sandwich. Plant is the only customer there and Candy believes her ticket number is 9, but every time she tries to call for Plant the latter doesn't respond, so Plant sits there ''until the next day'' until Candy realizes the ticket is [[SixIsNine actually a 6]]. Of course by then the sandwich has long gone cold, and when Plant tries to get Candy's attention the latter doesn't notice her over the sound of her [=MP3=] player.
** At the beginning of "Ponce de Leon" Moon starts off as a man with a baby hand after putting his hand in the Fountain of Youth. At the end, he's now a baby with a man hand because his other hand was the only part of him that he didn't get wet.
* ImDyingPleaseTakeMyMacGuffin: Used in a deconstruction of the cliche plot in which a kid is given ultimate power and uses it [[KidHero to fight evil]]. When Diamond's ship crashes on the child's (Moon's) doorstep and talks about the orb of power that her enemy is after, the kid insists on getting an adult and says that it certainly isn't something a kid should have. She keeps stopping him and telling him that he's the only person she can trust and that [[AdultsAreUseless adults are untrustworthy.]] In response, Moon starts naming the trustworthy adults he knows. Diamond gives him the orb anyhow and it turns into a high tech mecha-suit. He accidentally vaporizes Diamond with it, lending credence to his point that it isn't something a kid should have. When the villain arrives, he gives him the orb (which had become the center of the suit) only to be interrupted by a dog who catches it and gains its power. The villain decides to fight the dog instead.
* InstrumentalThemeTune: A moderate tempo theme for the opening sequence with a shortened version that plays when the show comes back from commercial break, and a slower theme for the end credits that's sometimes replaced with different songs that can have lyrics.
* {{Irony}}: One sketch involves Dog saying he hates the blues and complaining about it. Ice Cream plays a blues musician who adds music to Dog's words, thus turning him into a famous blues musician. A double dose lies in the fact that one of Dog's complaints against blues music is that it's an entire genre based on complaining.
** Dracula going to the blood bank to ''give'' blood.
* JackassGenie: In one sketch, Diamond plays an unpopular girl who finds a lamp in a trash can. She wishes for a jacket like the one a popular girl wears. The genie uses his magic to steal one and HilarityEnsues from there. Turns into VillainHasAPoint when [[DistinctionWithoutADifference Diamond wishes to know all the answers to a test rather than cheat]].
* JustEatGilligan: With an actual island to boot! One sketch involves the group getting shipwrecked with Moon constantly causing problems for those who managed to survive with him. He keeps throwing things they need into the water, talking about an ex-girlfriend and trying to guilt trip the others into giving him their scant amount of supplies. He will only do anything useful if bribed (and even then, he does it by causing a much bigger problem.) Finally, Plant just [[ShutUpHannibal socks him in the face]]. He tries to guilt trip the others into staying stranded on the island with him when the coast guard (his ex) arrives, but at last they refuse.
%%* KidsAreCruel:

* ButtMonkey: Any sketch involving Dog is bound to have him get the short end of the stick, have him fail at what he's trying to accomplish or get injured. {{Exaggerated|Trope}} in "Radical Mutants" where not only is he in constant pain from his skin being extremely sticky, but [[spoiler: the ending of said episode has him actually be a pile of trash that came to life and became inanimate again from the hospital treating his mutated condition.]]

* CountingSheep: Ice Cream in one skit is a farmer going through a routine to make himself as alert as possible such as drinking large amounts of coffee so he can do his job of taking stock of his sheep herd. He barely makes it to ten before falling asleep.
* CringeComedy: Ice Cream as a criminal quickly delves into this after he is caught by cops Dog and Candy, with him acting like a spoiled toddler to the point they agree to let him ride in the front seat of the squad car, let him go, take him out for milkshakes, and let him keep what he wanted to steal just to get out of the situation.

* DiggingYourselfDeeper: A running sketch in one episode is about an R&B couple singing a romance song with Moon getting in trouble with Plant for consecutively misremembering how they met. Then his attempts to remedy that by reciting what he's learned about her publicly reveals she's an international art thief under a false name. When they eventually reconcile because Moon proposes to her, they are repeatedly booed by the audience because they keep getting the location wrong, up to wrongly guessing they're in the Northern Hemisphere.
* DirtyCoward: Ice Cream runs a Dojo in the eponymous sketch that teaches such self-defense techniques as pleading for your assailant not to hurt you, showing off [[IHaveAFamily pictures of your wife and children]] to discourage a choke hold, [[GrievousHarmWithABody throwing the nearest bystander including your wife and children]] at an assailant, and ultimately InelegantBlubbering to avoid confrontation.
* DarkReprise: "The Truth In a Dare" gets one. It's only heard while the credits are rolling.
* DeadPetSketch: In one sketch, Dog lets a goldfish die while in his care and says that he needs to [[ReplacementGoldfish find a replacement that looks exactly the same]]. As it turns out he was referring to himself, and leaves a duplicate of himself to take his life.

* KidsAreCruel: See ChildrenAreInnocent and EnfantTerrible.