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* Early Cuyler, an extremely violent and drunk redneck. His hat always changes between shows, usually saying something like "Booty Hunter", "Sonny Lied!", or "Guns Don't Kill People, I Do". He has gone to prison and is often scolded by the sheriff for making pinecone moonshine or holding up the convenience store. He was made CEO of the CorruptCorporateExecutive's company to act as a scapegoat.
* Rusty Cuyler, Early's son. He is more naïve and morally centered, but is also dumb and gullible. He is a WellDoneSonGuy.
* Granny Cuyler, the feeble and senile mother of Early and Lil (maybe their granny or great granny, it's unclear the exact relation). She often sees visions of squid-Jesus.
* Lil, who runs a meth operation/beauty salon. Not quite a common character.
* The Sheriff, who is a nice guy that usually just complains about crimes happening in the area. Dies fairly often (like most of the characters), but is replaced by another sheriff from a sheriff clone farm. Unlike the Cuylers, he's human(ish).
* Dan Halen, the CorruptCorporateExecutive and owner of Dan Halen Industries. His company appears to make sheetrock, but really dabbles in violent mutant corn, corrosive body spray, baby death traps, and foreign arms sales. Dan is a (usually) naked, pear-shaped blob of flesh with long red hair; good luck assigning a species to him. Revealed in an episode focused on him to have existed throughout the history of mankind in the exact same form, and to have been a part of many terrible events. Including the German Nazi Party.
The show is one of the more controversial series to air on Adult Swim; the pilot debuted on April Fools Day 2004, to horrible reviews (in the show's defense, the premiere was a rough cut - "rough cut" here meaning that some portions were not even fully animated). However, when the series was officially premiered in October 2005, the series slowly but surely found its niche.
* Rusty Cuyler, Early's son. He is more naïve and morally centered, but is also dumb and gullible. He is a WellDoneSonGuy.
* Granny Cuyler, the feeble and senile mother of Early and Lil (maybe their granny or great granny, it's unclear the exact relation). She often sees visions of squid-Jesus.
* Lil, who runs a meth operation/beauty salon. Not quite a common character.
* The Sheriff, who is a nice guy that usually just complains about crimes happening in the area. Dies fairly often (like most of the characters), but is replaced by another sheriff from a sheriff clone farm. Unlike the Cuylers, he's human(ish).
* Dan Halen, the CorruptCorporateExecutive and owner of Dan Halen Industries. His company appears to make sheetrock, but really dabbles in violent mutant corn, corrosive body spray, baby death traps, and foreign arms sales. Dan is a (usually) naked, pear-shaped blob of flesh with long red hair; good luck assigning a species to him. Revealed in an episode focused on him to have existed throughout the history of mankind in the exact same form, and to have been a part of many terrible events. Including the German Nazi Party.
The show is one of the more controversial series to air on Adult Swim; the pilot debuted on April Fools Day 2004, to horrible reviews (in the show's defense, the premiere was a rough cut - "rough cut" here meaning that some portions were not even fully animated). However, when the series was officially premiered in October 2005, the series slowly but surely found its niche.
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* Early Cuyler, '''Early Cuyler''', an extremely violent and drunk redneck. His hat always changes between shows, usually saying something like "Booty Hunter", "Sonny Lied!", or "Guns Don't Kill People, I Do". He has gone to prison and is often scolded by the sheriff for making pinecone moonshine or holding up the convenience store. He was made CEO of the CorruptCorporateExecutive's company to act as a scapegoat.
*Rusty Cuyler, '''Rusty Cuyler''', Early's son. He is more naïve and morally centered, but is also dumb and gullible. He is a WellDoneSonGuy.
*Granny Cuyler, '''Granny Cuyler''', the feeble and senile mother of Early and Lil (maybe their granny or great granny, it's unclear the exact relation). She often sees visions of squid-Jesus.
*Lil, '''Lil''', who runs a meth operation/beauty salon. Not quite a common character.
*The Sheriff, '''The Sheriff''', who is a nice guy that usually just complains about crimes happening in the area. Dies fairly often (like most of the characters), but is replaced by another sheriff from a sheriff clone farm. Unlike the Cuylers, he's human(ish).
*Dan Halen, '''Dan Halen''', the CorruptCorporateExecutive and owner of Dan Halen Industries. His company appears to make sheetrock, but really dabbles in violent mutant corn, corrosive body spray, baby death traps, and foreign arms sales. Dan is a (usually) naked, pear-shaped blob of flesh with long red hair; good luck assigning a species to him. Revealed in an episode focused on him to have existed throughout the history of mankind in the exact same form, and to have been a part of many terrible events. Including the German Nazi Party.
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* {{Yandere}}: Early is this for [[BrotherSisterIncest Krystal]]. Seriously.
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* CaptainErsatz: [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Tebow Tom Treebow]], Helmsman trophy winner, and quarterback of the Crocodiles of the Peninsular State just below Georgia.
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* ForTheEvulz: Not so much Dan Halen's motives (he's more into greed), as it is his standard operating procedure, cramming as much unnecessary pain and suffering as he can into every business venture.
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The show is one of the more controversial series to air on Adult Swim; the pilot debuted on April Fools Day 2004, to horrible reviews (in the show's defense, the premiere was a rough cut and by rough cut I mean - "rough cut" here meaning that some portions were not even fully animated). However, when the series was officially premiered in October 2005, the series slowly but surely found it's its niche.
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The show is one of the more controversial series to air on Adult Swim; the pilot debuted on April Fools Day 2001, 2004, to horrible reviews (in the show's defense, the premiere was a rough cut and by rough cut I mean portions were not even fully animated). However, when the series was officially premiered in October 2005, the series slowly but surely found it's niche.
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-->My dreams are all dead and buried.\\
Sometimes I wish the Sun would just explode.\\
When {{God}} comes and calls me to his kingdom,\\
I'll take all ya sons-a'-bitches when I go.
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** The malformed Sheriff clone starts out by shooting in the head anyone not melted by Dan Halen's body spray cloud, but by the musical episode has become a HypercompetentSidekick who correctly identifies the raw uranium "yellow cake" and deduces al-quaeda's terrorist plan
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** When Dan releases a cloud of flesh melting body spray over Dougall County, he disregards the Sheriff's pleas to stop. He only relents when he realizes that he's giving it away for free and not making a penny out of it
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* SuperToughness: The Cuylers usually can't be completely destroyed by anything shy of a nuke, and sometimes not even that.
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** Somewhat subverted with Sheriff's many deaths, as one episode revealed a massive clone farm that Dan Halen breeds for election purposes. The Sheriff's deaths are even {{Lampshade}}d.
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-->'''Tom Treebow:''' Yes, he's right there... he's wearing an invisibility cloak. Just like the {{Predator}}.
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In the hills of Georgia live a family of hillbillies. They're also squids. These squidbillies drink, make meth, mud-bog, and destroy property. The characters are:
* Early Cuyler, an extremely violent and drunk redneck. His hat always changes between shows, usually saying something like "Booty Hunter", "Sonny Lied!", or "Guns Don't Kill People, I Do". He has gone to prison and is often scolded by the sheriff for making pinecone moonshine or holding up the convenience store. He was made CEO of the CorruptCorporateExecutive's company to act as a scapegoat.
* Rusty Cuyler, Early's son. He is more naïve and morally centered, but is also dumb and gullible. He is a WellDoneSonGuy.
* Granny Cuyler, the feeble and senile mother of Early and Lil (maybe their granny or great granny, it's unclear the exact relation). She often sees visions of squid-Jesus.
* Lil, who runs a meth operation/beauty salon. Not quite a common character.
* The Sheriff, who is a nice guy that usually just complains about crimes happening in the area. Dies fairly often (like most of the characters), but is replaced by another sheriff from a sheriff clone farm. Unlike the Cuylers, he's human(ish).
* Dan Halen, the CorruptCorporateExecutive and owner of Dan Halen Industries. His company appears to make sheetrock, but really dabbles in violent mutant corn, corrosive body spray, baby death traps, and foreign arms sales. Dan is a (usually) naked, pear-shaped blob of flesh with long red hair; good luck assigning a species to him. Revealed in an episode focused on him to have existed throughout the history of mankind in the exact same form, and to have been a part of many terrible events. Including the German Nazi Party.
This AdultSwim show premiered in October 2005.
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'''This show provides examples of:'''
* AbusiveParents: Early has knifed and shot Rusty a few times, among other things.
* TheAlcoholic: Early Cuyler is rarely without his homemade pine cone "party liquor".
-->'''Early''': Damn don't time fly when you're drunk as hell!
* AwesomeMcCoolname: Dan Halen, Hershel Walker Cuyler Them Dogs Is Hell Don't They, [[OverlyLongName Russell Jesse James Kenny the gambler Rogers #3 the intimidator Dale Earnhardt America's Number 1 Cuyler]].
* ButtMonkey: Granny Cuyler and the Sheriff, but just about everyone else could qualify at times, too.
** IronButtMonkey: Granny Cuyler once had her skeleton ripped out of her after pulling Early's truck-boat-truck up a mountain ([[MST3KMantra don't ask why a squid would even]] ''[[RuleOfFunny have a skeleton in the first place]]'') and was (sort of) back to normal in '''the very next scene''' (see {{Snapback}} for more) It should be known that this is not the only instance of abuse Granny suffers in the series.
*** Similarly, the Sheriff is MadeOfPlasticine, but you'd be surprised how well he survives losing his organs, losing his head, getting savagely beat up, etc.
* CaughtUpInTheRapture: Squid-Jesus accidentally turns on the Rapture and everyone starts floating up to heaven. Dan Halen, not to be left behind, takes a rocket pack and flies up to heaven to cut in line. Heaven apparently has a limit to how many people can get in, because Dan was the last person allowed in, leaving the Sheriff to go back down. Meanwhile, the Reverend is still down on Earth, lamenting about not being chosen.
--> "Why did he reject me?! '''THEY EVEN TOOK THE MEXICANS FOR GOODNESS SAKE!!!''' They can't even pray in English!"
* CloudCuckooLander: Tom Treebow, full stop.
-->'''Rusty:''' So, Jesus is here with us right now?
-->'''Tom Treebow:''' Yes, he's right there... he's wearing an invisibility cloak. Just like the {{Predator}}.
-->'''Sheriff:''' (beat) What Tom is trying to say...
-->'''Tom Treebow:''' ''Watch out Jesus he's got a laser!''
* ComplexityAddiction: Dan Halen's plots are usually ''far'' more complex than the end goal justifies, such as using a massive clone army to rig the vote to revoke Dougal County's dry Sunday status, making the whole city blind so as to win a softball game, or building a copy of the Large Hadron Collider to open a black hole for the sole purpose of disposal of a dead hooker.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Dan Halen in spades, hearts, clubs, and diamonds. When his "Baby Hammock" product is described by parents as a baby death trap, [[http://video.adultswim.com/squidbillies/the-baby-hammock.html he sues the parents]] for infringing on his copyright for a product called the "Baby Death Trap."
* CrapsackWorld
* DeadBabyComedy: Most of Dan Halen's products. See above.
* DealWithTheDevil: Rusty does this to acquire ''mad face-melting shredding guitar skills''.
** And in order to get back at Rusty, [[spoiler: so does Early.]]
* DeepSouth
* DerangedAnimation
* DifferentInEveryEpisode: Early's hats.
* DisproportionateRetribution: During a class reunion, Sheriff [[BoomHeadshot blows Dan Halen's brains out]] for all the times he bullied him in high school.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Satan, in episode 25, is a cool and malicious being with a darkly-comedic streak; in episode 9 (his debut) he's a motormouthed, probably drug-addled schizoid who [[ClusterFBomb constantly swears, such words being]] [[SoundEffectBleep dubbed over with words like "sweet potatoes" and "favorite"]].
* EldritchAbomination: The Ultimate Party Platter chickens from "Wing Nut". They are essentially chickens genetically engineered to the point where their entire body consists of nothing but their wings, they naturally excrete hot sauce from their pores, their bowls burst with Bleu Cheese, and their limbs are made from celery sticks. And yes, they are '''breathing and alive'''.
** And, if Dan Halen is to be believed, they defecate their own "To Go" box.
* EnhanceButton
* EverythingsSquishierWithCephalopods
* GiganticGulp: Krystal is rarely without one, though as fat as she is it's hardly a shocker.
* GrossoutShow
* HalfHumanHybrid: Rusty. He's the son of Early and gigantic ladybeast Krystal.
* HeyItsThatVoice: His fans might recognize Early's voice as that of [[http://www.unknownhinson.com the self-proclaimed "King of Country-Western Troubadours"]]. Also, the voice of God is Larry Munson, the announcer for the Georgia Bulldogs. During the show in which Early is a talk show radio host, the voice doing the bumpers is the voice doing the bumpers of the local talk radio station in Atlanta, WSB. Early's dad in none other than the Dancin' Outlaw, Jesco White.
** Early's self-aware gps is [[WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce one of the mooninites.]]
* {{Juggalo}}: Parodied in "Clowny Freaks".
* KarmaHoudini: Early Cuyler is frequently locked up in jail for his violent behavior, only to be let go by the Sheriff. Really, the Sheriff always seems to do this to everyone he 'arrests'.
** And that's saying nothing about all of the terrible things [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Dan Halen]] has gotten away with.
* LemonyNarrator: "Fifteen years ago, the world was a much different place. The Berlin wall had just crumbled. I thought I could handle cocaine. I really did. I lost everything."
* LesYay[=/=]IncestIsRelative: Lil and Granny french-kissing in one episode.
* LotteryOfDoom: What the Tricky Two lottery ends up being. Naturally, after Early finds out what he 'wins' (he gets to be [[CoolAndUnusualPunishment pulled apart by two monster trucks]]), he gives his 'prize' to [[ButtMonkey Granny]]. [[spoiler: The trucks fail to tear Granny apart, they just stretch her to hell and back.]]
* MayContainEvil: Dan Halen's products.
* MegaCorp: Dan Halen Sheetrock International.
--> '''Narrator:''' "That large building over there is Dan Halen Sheetrock; they specialize in sheetrock, sheetrock mud, sheetrock screws, pharmaceuticals, petroleum, global mass media, third world covert military operations and, '''THE BABY HAMMOCK!'''"
* MusicalEpisode: "America: Why I Love Her".
* MyLittlePanzer
* NegativeContinuity: How many times have the world exploded in this series?
** Somewhat subverted with Sheriff's many deaths, as one episode revealed a massive clone farm that Dan Halen breeds for election purposes. The Sheriff's deaths are even {{Lampshade}}d.
---> '''Rusty:''' "Daddy, I think he's dead!"
---> '''Early:''' "Not the first time."
* OnlySaneMan: Rusty Cuyler, to an extent.
** Occasionally the Sheriff, when he's not being the CloudCuckooLander with an ExpansionPackPast.
* TheOtherDarrin: Charles Napier was the voice of the Sheriff in the first nine episodes, being replaced by Bobby Ellerbee afterwards.
* QuarterHourShort
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Dan Halen is really 20,000 years old and have been behind countless acts of evil, like helping Hitler, causing the Black Death, killing dozens in the French Revolution and ''nailing Jesus to the cross''.
** He also [[BeyondTheImpossible single handedly killed the dinosaurs.]]
* RefugeInAudacity
* RunningGag: Early has a different hat in every episode.
* SawedOffShotgun: Early's WeaponOfChoice.
* ShoutOut: The title of episode 25, [[SesquipedalianLoquaciousness "Mephistopholes Traveled Below To A Southern State]] [[OverlyLongTitle Whose State Motto Is 'Wisdom, Justice, and Moderation'"]], is another way of saying the name of the Charlie Daniels Band song "The Devil Went Down To Georgia".
** Tom Treebow of the Crocodiles of the University of the Peninsular State, Just Below Georgia.
* {{Snapback}}: Episodes often end with everyone dying.
** Characters will be horrifically injured and then back to normal in the ''same scene''.
* SoundEffectBleep
* SpaceJews: "I'm against nitrogen. It was brought here on planes by space jews!"
* StylisticSuck: The crappy artwork is used to convey the Crapsack World along with how pathetic and stupid people tend to be.
* ThereAreNoTherapists: "I'm not a therapist. I'm... The Rapist. It's right there on the door. Look, everybody makes this mistake."
* TooDumbToLive: The Sheriff, often literally. Good thing he has several hundred replacement bodies.
* TrainingFromHell: This seems to be Early's only way to teach Rusty anything.
* VillainProtagonist: Early.
* WhiteSheep: Early's civilized cousin, Durwood. [[spoiler: also [[LongLostRelative Dr. Bug.]] ]]
* {{Yandere}}: Early is this for Krystal. Seriously.
--> "I love you... *draws knife* I'MMA KILL YOU, BITCH!!!"
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In the hills of Georgia live a family of hillbillies. They're also squids. These squidbillies drink, make meth, mud-bog, and destroy property. The characters are:
* Early Cuyler, an extremely violent and drunk redneck. His hat always changes between shows, usually saying something like "Booty Hunter", "Sonny Lied!", or "Guns Don't Kill People, I Do". He has gone to prison and is often scolded by the sheriff for making pinecone moonshine or holding up the convenience store. He was made CEO of the CorruptCorporateExecutive's company to act as a scapegoat.
* Rusty Cuyler, Early's son. He is more naïve and morally centered, but is also dumb and gullible. He is a WellDoneSonGuy.
* Granny Cuyler, the feeble and senile mother of Early and Lil (maybe their granny or great granny, it's unclear the exact relation). She often sees visions of squid-Jesus.
* Lil, who runs a meth operation/beauty salon. Not quite a common character.
* The Sheriff, who is a nice guy that usually just complains about crimes happening in the area. Dies fairly often (like most of the characters), but is replaced by another sheriff from a sheriff clone farm. Unlike the Cuylers, he's human(ish).
* Dan Halen, the CorruptCorporateExecutive and owner of Dan Halen Industries. His company appears to make sheetrock, but really dabbles in violent mutant corn, corrosive body spray, baby death traps, and foreign arms sales. Dan is a (usually) naked, pear-shaped blob of flesh with long red hair; good luck assigning a species to him. Revealed in an episode focused on him to have existed throughout the history of mankind in the exact same form, and to have been a part of many terrible events. Including the German Nazi Party.
This AdultSwim show premiered in October 2005.
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'''This show provides examples of:'''
* AbusiveParents: Early has knifed and shot Rusty a few times, among other things.
* TheAlcoholic: Early Cuyler is rarely without his homemade pine cone "party liquor".
-->'''Early''': Damn don't time fly when you're drunk as hell!
* AwesomeMcCoolname: Dan Halen, Hershel Walker Cuyler Them Dogs Is Hell Don't They, [[OverlyLongName Russell Jesse James Kenny the gambler Rogers #3 the intimidator Dale Earnhardt America's Number 1 Cuyler]].
* ButtMonkey: Granny Cuyler and the Sheriff, but just about everyone else could qualify at times, too.
** IronButtMonkey: Granny Cuyler once had her skeleton ripped out of her after pulling Early's truck-boat-truck up a mountain ([[MST3KMantra don't ask why a squid would even]] ''[[RuleOfFunny have a skeleton in the first place]]'') and was (sort of) back to normal in '''the very next scene''' (see {{Snapback}} for more) It should be known that this is not the only instance of abuse Granny suffers in the series.
*** Similarly, the Sheriff is MadeOfPlasticine, but you'd be surprised how well he survives losing his organs, losing his head, getting savagely beat up, etc.
* CaughtUpInTheRapture: Squid-Jesus accidentally turns on the Rapture and everyone starts floating up to heaven. Dan Halen, not to be left behind, takes a rocket pack and flies up to heaven to cut in line. Heaven apparently has a limit to how many people can get in, because Dan was the last person allowed in, leaving the Sheriff to go back down. Meanwhile, the Reverend is still down on Earth, lamenting about not being chosen.
--> "Why did he reject me?! '''THEY EVEN TOOK THE MEXICANS FOR GOODNESS SAKE!!!''' They can't even pray in English!"
* CloudCuckooLander: Tom Treebow, full stop.
-->'''Rusty:''' So, Jesus is here with us right now?
-->'''Tom Treebow:''' Yes, he's right there... he's wearing an invisibility cloak. Just like the {{Predator}}.
-->'''Sheriff:''' (beat) What Tom is trying to say...
-->'''Tom Treebow:''' ''Watch out Jesus he's got a laser!''
* ComplexityAddiction: Dan Halen's plots are usually ''far'' more complex than the end goal justifies, such as using a massive clone army to rig the vote to revoke Dougal County's dry Sunday status, making the whole city blind so as to win a softball game, or building a copy of the Large Hadron Collider to open a black hole for the sole purpose of disposal of a dead hooker.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Dan Halen in spades, hearts, clubs, and diamonds. When his "Baby Hammock" product is described by parents as a baby death trap, [[http://video.adultswim.com/squidbillies/the-baby-hammock.html he sues the parents]] for infringing on his copyright for a product called the "Baby Death Trap."
* CrapsackWorld
* DeadBabyComedy: Most of Dan Halen's products. See above.
* DealWithTheDevil: Rusty does this to acquire ''mad face-melting shredding guitar skills''.
** And in order to get back at Rusty, [[spoiler: so does Early.]]
* DeepSouth
* DerangedAnimation
* DifferentInEveryEpisode: Early's hats.
* DisproportionateRetribution: During a class reunion, Sheriff [[BoomHeadshot blows Dan Halen's brains out]] for all the times he bullied him in high school.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Satan, in episode 25, is a cool and malicious being with a darkly-comedic streak; in episode 9 (his debut) he's a motormouthed, probably drug-addled schizoid who [[ClusterFBomb constantly swears, such words being]] [[SoundEffectBleep dubbed over with words like "sweet potatoes" and "favorite"]].
* EldritchAbomination: The Ultimate Party Platter chickens from "Wing Nut". They are essentially chickens genetically engineered to the point where their entire body consists of nothing but their wings, they naturally excrete hot sauce from their pores, their bowls burst with Bleu Cheese, and their limbs are made from celery sticks. And yes, they are '''breathing and alive'''.
** And, if Dan Halen is to be believed, they defecate their own "To Go" box.
* EnhanceButton
* EverythingsSquishierWithCephalopods
* GiganticGulp: Krystal is rarely without one, though as fat as she is it's hardly a shocker.
* GrossoutShow
* HalfHumanHybrid: Rusty. He's the son of Early and gigantic ladybeast Krystal.
* HeyItsThatVoice: His fans might recognize Early's voice as that of [[http://www.unknownhinson.com the self-proclaimed "King of Country-Western Troubadours"]]. Also, the voice of God is Larry Munson, the announcer for the Georgia Bulldogs. During the show in which Early is a talk show radio host, the voice doing the bumpers is the voice doing the bumpers of the local talk radio station in Atlanta, WSB. Early's dad in none other than the Dancin' Outlaw, Jesco White.
** Early's self-aware gps is [[WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce one of the mooninites.]]
* {{Juggalo}}: Parodied in "Clowny Freaks".
* KarmaHoudini: Early Cuyler is frequently locked up in jail for his violent behavior, only to be let go by the Sheriff. Really, the Sheriff always seems to do this to everyone he 'arrests'.
** And that's saying nothing about all of the terrible things [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Dan Halen]] has gotten away with.
* LemonyNarrator: "Fifteen years ago, the world was a much different place. The Berlin wall had just crumbled. I thought I could handle cocaine. I really did. I lost everything."
* LesYay[=/=]IncestIsRelative: Lil and Granny french-kissing in one episode.
* LotteryOfDoom: What the Tricky Two lottery ends up being. Naturally, after Early finds out what he 'wins' (he gets to be [[CoolAndUnusualPunishment pulled apart by two monster trucks]]), he gives his 'prize' to [[ButtMonkey Granny]]. [[spoiler: The trucks fail to tear Granny apart, they just stretch her to hell and back.]]
* MayContainEvil: Dan Halen's products.
* MegaCorp: Dan Halen Sheetrock International.
--> '''Narrator:''' "That large building over there is Dan Halen Sheetrock; they specialize in sheetrock, sheetrock mud, sheetrock screws, pharmaceuticals, petroleum, global mass media, third world covert military operations and, '''THE BABY HAMMOCK!'''"
* MusicalEpisode: "America: Why I Love Her".
* MyLittlePanzer
* NegativeContinuity: How many times have the world exploded in this series?
** Somewhat subverted with Sheriff's many deaths, as one episode revealed a massive clone farm that Dan Halen breeds for election purposes. The Sheriff's deaths are even {{Lampshade}}d.
---> '''Rusty:''' "Daddy, I think he's dead!"
---> '''Early:''' "Not the first time."
* OnlySaneMan: Rusty Cuyler, to an extent.
** Occasionally the Sheriff, when he's not being the CloudCuckooLander with an ExpansionPackPast.
* TheOtherDarrin: Charles Napier was the voice of the Sheriff in the first nine episodes, being replaced by Bobby Ellerbee afterwards.
* QuarterHourShort
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Dan Halen is really 20,000 years old and have been behind countless acts of evil, like helping Hitler, causing the Black Death, killing dozens in the French Revolution and ''nailing Jesus to the cross''.
** He also [[BeyondTheImpossible single handedly killed the dinosaurs.]]
* RefugeInAudacity
* RunningGag: Early has a different hat in every episode.
* SawedOffShotgun: Early's WeaponOfChoice.
* ShoutOut: The title of episode 25, [[SesquipedalianLoquaciousness "Mephistopholes Traveled Below To A Southern State]] [[OverlyLongTitle Whose State Motto Is 'Wisdom, Justice, and Moderation'"]], is another way of saying the name of the Charlie Daniels Band song "The Devil Went Down To Georgia".
** Tom Treebow of the Crocodiles of the University of the Peninsular State, Just Below Georgia.
* {{Snapback}}: Episodes often end with everyone dying.
** Characters will be horrifically injured and then back to normal in the ''same scene''.
* SoundEffectBleep
* SpaceJews: "I'm against nitrogen. It was brought here on planes by space jews!"
* StylisticSuck: The crappy artwork is used to convey the Crapsack World along with how pathetic and stupid people tend to be.
* ThereAreNoTherapists: "I'm not a therapist. I'm... The Rapist. It's right there on the door. Look, everybody makes this mistake."
* TooDumbToLive: The Sheriff, often literally. Good thing he has several hundred replacement bodies.
* TrainingFromHell: This seems to be Early's only way to teach Rusty anything.
* VillainProtagonist: Early.
* WhiteSheep: Early's civilized cousin, Durwood. [[spoiler: also [[LongLostRelative Dr. Bug.]] ]]
* {{Yandere}}: Early is this for Krystal. Seriously.
--> "I love you... *draws knife* I'MMA KILL YOU, BITCH!!!"
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