History WesternAnimation / Squidbillies

* ShoutOut: The title of episode 25, [[SesquipedalianLoquaciousness "Mephistopholes Traveled Below To A Southern State 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".

* {{Juggalo}}: Parodied in "Clowny Freaks" where Rusty becomes a fan of a rap group that pushes him to dress up as a 'clowny freak'.

* 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".

* BlackComedy: Most of Dan Halen's products. See above.

* DeadBabyHumor: In the pilot, where Dan Halen's baby hammock ends up in the death of numerous babies. He also sells a "Baby Death Trap" being a hazardous electrified stuffed animal.
** Another episode features Dan Halen threatening the town to upgrade to the next level cable system or he'll drop a baby from the top of his building. In his defense, the baby was Chinese.
** In the episode Lerm, it's also revealed that Early likes to commit vehicular homicide as a hobby. One of them he hits was holding a baby which flies off the side of the vehicle. It likely did not survive.

** In general, the later seasons have become much more fluid, expressive, and dynamic in comparison to the stiffer [[WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce Aqua Teen-like]] style they had back then. By the final season, the show has pretty much abandoned their original limited style of animation. "Ol' Hootie", the ExtraLongEpisode of the final season, deserves a special mention as the whole special has a much larger scope and contains spectacle scenes that the show has never done before.
* ArtEvolution: As the show continues, the more grotesque human character designs have been slowly phased out and replaced with more normal looking people populating Dougal County.

** The second half of "Squash B'Gosh"
** In general, the later seasons have become much more fluid, expressive, and dynamic in comparison to the more stiff [[WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce Aqua Teen-like]] style they had back then. By the final season, the show has pretty much abandoned their original limited style of animation. "Ol' Hootie", the ExtraLongEpisode of the final season, deserves a special mention as the whole special has a much larger scope and contains spectacle scenes that the show has never done before.

* CouchGag: Around Season 3 or 4, nearly every episode opens with a remix of the shows 6 theme songs.

%%* DerangedAnimation
* DifferentInEveryEpisode: Early's hats.

** The malformed Sheriff clone Denny starts out by shooting in the head anyone not melted by Dan Halen's body spray cloud and whittling down his own arm into a toothpick, but by the musical episode has become a somewhat HypercompetentSidekick who correctly identifies the raw uranium "yellow cake" and deduces Al-Quaeda's terrorist plan

* FanDisservice: Seeing Krystal in a bikini is a great method to traumatizing your enemies.
* FauxDocumentary: The Documentary over the Appalachian Mud Squid, which predictably doesn't go well for the host, and even worse for the cameraman who is killed in the process.

** The SeriesFinale, "This Show Was Called Squidbillies", is a big HumiliationConga for him. Rusty steals Early's precious truck and runs away with Tammi and Randy to Elberton, cutting off ties with Early and holding no promises to ever return. Granny's ghost returns and enacts sweet revenge on Early by wailing on him with a frying pan. The final shot we see of Early is him alone in his shack, bitterly drinking alcohol as he sees on a social media how happy Rusty is with his new life without him.

* VanityPlate: The end of an episode will always end with the Cartoon Network Skull logo briefly morphing into Rusty.

[[caption-width-right:333: Do NOT touch the Trim!]]

* OutOfFocus: Lil' spends most of seasons 2&3 face down in her own vomit. It's revealed she's secretly running a pot growing operation in the basement through a hole in the floor.

* ClusterFBomb: In "Zen and the Art of Truck-Boat-Truck Maintenance", Granny keeps saying, "Get the fuck away from me!" to Early, who thinks that's her yoga mantra.

* DeepSouth: The main setting of the show

* NeverTrustATrailer: The trailers for 'Gun of a Son' portray the episode revolving around Early shooting Rusty but in the actual episode Early quickly blames it on his grandson and is hardly mentioned until the end of the episode, the rest of the episode revolves around Early finding a new weapon to use since he broke his [[WeaponOfChoice sawed-off shotgun]].

* SawedOffShotgun: Early's WeaponOfChoice.

* ArtisticLicense: Aside from them being squids on land, in one episode Early and Granny drown in the lake. They're squids so they should be able to breathe underwater or at the least swim.

* 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]].

* SeldomSeenSpecies: If Granny's fantasy in "Holodeck Redneck" is to be believed? Her mother was a tardigrade, also known as the Immortal Water Bear.

* GrossoutShow: Taken UpToEleven in "Young, Dumb, and Full of Gums"

* VillainProtagonist: Taken UpToEleven with Early Cuyler, a hateful, violent, alcoholic, drug-using, gun-toting, racist, sexist, homophobic, child and elder abusing, stalking, lazy, incestuous, thieving, moonshining, anti-intellectual, nationalistic, xenophobic, cop-killing sexual deviant, convicted felon, and occasional domestic terrorist. His antics are hilarious, though viewers are clearly not supposed to sympathize with his beliefs or actions.

* NoEnding: Most episodes just abruptly end mid scene with plots left unresolved and usually one (sometimes [[KillEmAll more]]) of the Cuylers or Sheriff dying.

* ParentalFavoritism: After Li'l accidentally births a large breed of baby squids, one of them appears to imitate Early, thus resulting in Early favoring him much over Rusty, or the other babies whom he tried to drown. The fact that the child left Early to be continuously run over by a nearly mile long train and stealing his hat, didn't deter Early from dubbing him as "The Good One".

** Early became Karma's favorite punching bag past the first three or so seasons. Regularly suffering from bloody maiming and humilation on a costant basis but often comes up the next scene unscathed or at most hospitalized.

* CharacterOutlivesActor: After the death of his voice actor, the Reverend moves on to a better place... First Presbyterian in Blue Ridge.

** He also single handedly killed the dinosaurs and may have invented fire.

** Season One has a noticeable amount of continuity going on inbetween episodes. Seasons two and onwards lean heavily on NegativityContinuity with episodes ending in points where the main cast cannot ever recover from certain situations.