History WesternAnimation / TheDatingGuy

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* TheAlcoholic - While all of the characters on the show are heavy drinkers, [[TeamPet Zorro]], VJ's raccoon, takes the cake.
* AllGirlsWantBadBoys - Ginger, one of Mark's girlfriends, becomes more interested when he gets involved in a gang war.

* AllMenArePerverts and AllWomenAreLustful - Including a dying boy, who exploits a scheme Sam hatches to touch her breasts.

** Also an instance of research failure, as raccoons are illegal to keep as pets in the city of Toronto.

* {{Expy}} - A GirlOfTheWeek, Charity, is a rather obvious one of [[TheDukesOfHazzard Daisy Duke]]

** Another girl, Lila, is one of [[AustinPowers Foxxy Cleopatra.]]

* CampGay - Steve Manflesh, a RecurringExtra.

* ChristmasCake - Denise.

* ADateWithRosiePalms - VJ, constantly.
* DeadpanSnarker - Ursula and Bryce. Sam also has her moments.
* DirtyCop - Mark dates one in "Really Bad Lieutenant."

* FourEyesZeroSoul - Bryce.
* FriendsWithBenefits - Sam and Anderson's relationship.

* HandsomeLech - Anderson and Woody

* HostageSituation - A few of these came up.
* HotScientist - Roberta, one of Woody's GirlOfTheWeek.

* {{Jerkass}} - Bryce

* LovableSexManiac - Pretty much all of the characters in the show.

* MrsRobinson - Denise

* {{Ninja}} - Shoji.

* RepetitiveName - Anderson Anderson.
* RobotGirl - Russell Peters has one, Nautica, on his submarine.

* ScarfOfAsskicking - Bonnie sports one.
* SensualSlavs - Monica.

* TallDarkandHandsome - Handsome Tony

* ThoseWackyNazis - Captain Steiner

* UpperClassTwit - The Buxtons

!!''TheDatingGuy'' provides examples of:

* BlondesAreEvil - Some of Mark's GirlOfTheWeek's are more evil than others, and, lo and behold, they are blonde. This includes Bonnie (a bank robber), Brie (who commits an insurance scam with her family), Connie (who humiliates Mark on national television) Diana (a gold digger) and Charity (who cheats the boys out of a car). Not all blondes are evil, like Cherry Sundae, or Astrid and Annika.
* BlondGuysAreEvil - Bryce.

* ShoutOut - In "Woodyplicity", there's several shoutouts to TheDukesOfHazzard

** Another episode has Woody lament the cancellation of GilmoreGirls.

* HeyItsThatVoice - Ursula is [[{{Grossology}} Abby Archer,]] Captain Steiner is the animated [[VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry Cranky Kong]] and Steve Manflesh is [[WesternAnimation/YinYangYo Carl the evil cockroach wizard]]
** Plus guest starring Creator/RussellPeters!
** [[DealOrNoDeal Howie Mandel]] is Mark's boss Brian Booyah.

* WhyDoYouKeepChangingJobs - Anderson changes jobs on a regular basis. Part of it has to do with him being a ConMan, but others seem to be legitimate businesses he changes in a few days.

** Plus guest starring RussellPeters!

Rather infamous for blatantly ripping off the popular webcomic ''WebComic/LeastICouldDo'', with broadcaster Teletoon having taken Ryan Sohmer's pitch for an LICD series and using the changes Sohmer refused to put to make their show.

An Canadian animated tv series created by Mark Bishop and Matt Hornburg, It tells the story of Mark Dexler, a guy looking for love in all the wrong places (and usually the strange places too)

The series started in 2009. Can be seen on Teletoon at Night and [[http://www.hulu.com/the-dating-guy Hulu]] here's the [[http://datingguy.com/ website]]. Warning: NSFW.

* ZanyScheme - It's an rare episode when Sam isn't either hatching or roped into one. Almost assured if Anderson shows up.

* TheInternetIsForPorn: VJ watches so internet porn that he eventually discovers that ''he watched all the porn on the internet.'' A sexy computer voice congratulates him on finishing the internet and his computer shuts down for good.

* EmbarassingFirstName - VJ's first name, Vajeena.

* RefugeInAudacity

* RefugeInVulgarity

** As does GirlOfTheWeek [[AlysonCourt Brie.]]

** Also an instance of DidNotDoTheResearch, as raccoons are illegal to keep as pets in the city of Toronto.

* Woody Jenkins: Mark's BlackBestFriend. He... ReallyGetsAround
* Sam Goldman: Snarky TokenGirl with Sociopathic tendencies

* AllGirlsWantBadBoys - Ginger, one of Mark's girlfriends, becomes more interested when he gets involved in a gang war.

* AllMenArePerverts and AllWomenAreLustful - Including a dying boy, who exploits a scheme Sam hatches to touch her breasts.

* ArrangedMarriage and CitizenshipMarriage - Both shown in the episode "Deranged Marriage"
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking - To convince a doctor he is insane, Anderson mentions a slew of crazy jobs he has. And that he also worked for one week in Gap Kids.

* BaldOfEvil - Discussed by Sam and Woody when her date, Carl, is bald. According to Woody, all bald men are evil.
* BankRobbery - Bonnie does one. The plot of "Bonnie and Mark" deals with the escapade after the robbery.
* TheBartender - Both Woody and Celia, although Woody goes on his own adventures. The life of one is discussed by Mark and Woody in "Brother from Another Tanning Booth."

* BigEater - Vince's superior officer is always seen eating.
* BiTheWay - Woody is shown actively chasing girls, but he makes a comment about having a number of sugar daddies.

** Vince comments that his male superior officer has a sweet ass.

* BlondesAreEvil - Some of Mark's GirlOfTheWeek's are more evil than others, and, lo and behold, they are blonde. This includes Bonnie (a bank robber), Brie (who commits an insurance scam with her family), Connie (who humiliates Mark on national television) Diana (a gold digger) and Charity (who cheats the boys out of a car). Not all blondes are evil, like Cherry Sundae, or Astrid and Annika.
* BlondGuysAreEvil - Bryce.

** In another episode, both Woody and Denise have a booty call with ghosts.

* CasualDangerDialogue - Bonnie engages in this when with Mark while she's bleeding from a gunshot wound to the chest.

** [[spoiler: An Irish "leprachaun" and his hot daughter, Fiona, are ones.]]

* DeadpanSnarker - Ursula and Bryce. Sam also has her moments.

* FishOutOfWater - Rina, VJ's finance from an arranged marriage, who is "an illiterate from a pissant village", who draws water from an airplane bathroom. She eventually adapts after hooking up with VJ's cousin, leaving him at the altar.

* GirlOfTheWeek - At least one new one a week, sometimes a guy instead for Sam. [[WeirdnessMagnet Each one is exceedingly quirky.]] Only [[UpperClassTwit Brie]] shows up more than once, although others can be seen in cameos.

* HostageSituation - A few of these came up.
* HotScientist - Roberta, one of Woody's GirlOfTheWeek.

* HeyItsThatVoice - Ursula is [[{{Grossology}} Abby Archer,]] Captain Steiner is the animated [[VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry Cranky Kong]] and Steve Manflesh is [[WesternAnimation/YinYangYo Carl the evil cockroach wizard]]

* InnocentInnuendo - There are two white-trash, slutty girls who, when Woody asks if he's seen them before, tells him he saw their video: Two Girls, One Cup (a pornographic film). However, their version is actually the two girls dropping sugar cubes into a single cup of tea and the both of the them drinking it. The trope becomes subverted when, in the second scene, they do a gang-bang with a pack of jealous wolves.
* InternalAffairs - Vince is one of these cops. The person he investigates, Valerie is horribly corrupt and it's treated like a good thing, so not played like the normal InternalAffairs member.

* LaserGuidedKarma - Charity, a GirlOfTheWeek uses her feminine wiles to cheat Mark, VJ, and Vikram out of a car, then backs out of her promises and drives away in the car...promptly getting into a car accident.

* MermaidProblem - VJ had sex with a mermaid, but he didn't wonder how it happened until after the fact.

* NightmareFetishist - Sam, who becomes increasingly turned on when Vince mentions some of the disgusting things he'd seen as a police officer.
* {{Ninja}} - Shoji.

** It's a bit weirder that she's a Mormon working in a bar.

* PapaWolf - The unnamed merman is one for his underage daughter whom VJ beds.

* ScarfOfAsskicking - Bonnie sports one.
* SensualSlavs - Monica.

** One episode is a huge one of TwentyFour.
* StageMagician - Sam's date Archangel, master illusionist.

* TruthSerum - Lila attempts to use one on Mark, but accidentally stabs herself with it.

** It is strongly implied that during their jailbreak from a prison in the Philippines, Mark Woody and V.J. murder (or at the very least cut open) another escaping prisoner to [[ComedicSociopathy steal one of his kidneys]].