History WesternAnimation / TheOblongs

** Milo's story involving panda bears getting into a Dairy Queen and Milo needing a lawyer.

* EvilInc: Globocide, Bob's employer.

* RacistGrandma: Miss Hubbard from "Milo Interrupted" is an old woman who demonstrates racism and xenophobia, as her book on parenting advice includes a prayer for the "mud races" to be destroyed by the "white male God" and shown to wear a chastity belt, replying to Pickles' snarking over whether anyone would want to have their way with her by stating that there are a lot of immigrants around.

* SuperficialSuggestionBox: One episode revealed that the company's suggestion box emptied right into the furnace. According to the boss, Bob had single-handily kept the plant warm for years.

* AmbiguouslyGay: Biff, until Milo just went ahead and pointed it out: "You're a latent homosexual!"
** More like Bi, as Biff does show an interest in women on multiple occasions.
** Ditto for bullies Jared and Blaine. Again, it's Milo who says what everyone's thinking: "Everyone says you have sex with each other!"

* ItIsDehumanizing: In "Flush, Flush, Sweet Helga", Debbie Bledsoe refers to Milo as "it" while complaining to the teacher that Milo won't stop talking.

** "Bucketheads" has a bit where Peggy complains about how disgusting it is for Jared and Blaine to be spitting at them, all while spitting into Mike's face because of her lack of a jaw.

* JokeOfTheButt: Mike's shtick is that he has the unfortunate deformity of having a big, saggy rear end.

* HypocriticalHumor: In "Milo Interrupted", Bob and Pickles state that their son Milo knows better than to be a slave to an addictive substance. Shortly afterwards, they and Lucky all start smoking and exhale with glee.

* NakedPeopleAreFunny: "Narcoleptic Scottie" shows Milo running around naked with Scottie and some other dogs after Bob catches them eating from the garbage.

* RacistGrandma: Miss Hubbard from "Milo Interrupted" is an old woman who demonstrates racism and xenophobia, at one point leading a prayer for the destruction of the "mud races" and shown to wear a chastity belt, replying to Pickles' snarking over whether anyone would want to have their way with her by stating that there are a lot of immigrants around.

** One-shot character Miss Hubbard is a racist old woman who at one point makes a prayer for the destruction of the "mud races" and remarks to Pickles' snarking on her needing to wear a chastity belt by replying that there are a lot of immigrants around, implying that she believes all immigrants have a predilection for rape.

** Pretty much every Hills resident is this by default due to looking down on the denizens of the Valley region for being lower class, though Pristine Klimer takes the cake by making racist statements peppered with pseudo-Spanish towards a maid who isn't even Hispanic.

* GaiasLament: The Valley.

%%** Peggy on the other other hand, has no bottom jaw and possibly her mouth is off screen which explains why she [[SpeechImpediment spits in her sentences]].

* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: Bob and Pickles. It's what keeps their marriage together, and [[ItMakesSenseInContext it helps Milo sleep]].

* BlackComedy: The show features lots of dark humor, some of it including a parachuter in "Heroine Addict" gloating that he cheated death immediately before he crashes into power lines and is reduced to ashes, James learning that his MailOrderBride suffocated to death in her packaging in "Please Be Genital" and how the inhabitants of the Valley generally have to put up with undergoing mutations and health problems because of the pollution caused by those living in the Hill region.

* BlackComedy: ''Tons.''

* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Pretty much every Hills resident, though Pristine Klimer takes the cake.

->''"Down in the Valley where a chemical spill''\\

''In their happy, glowing home''"

* AmbiguousSyntax: In "Disfigured Debbie", Milo shouts out to Debbie "You can't do it!" when she's about to [[DriveToSuicide jump off a bridge in the Valley]]. It turns out he was being quite literal - she ''can't'' do it, as "we've all tried", but the pollution in the water is so thick that it just cushions the fall.

* VisualPun: Pickles escalating "Oh god, oh god, oh GOD!" as she and Bob have immodest sex next to Milo's room is visualized in his dream as his mother selling tickets to a screening of ''Film/OhGod''.

* FiveManBand:
** Milo -- TheHero
** Peggy -- TheLancer
** Helga -- TheBigGuy
** Creepy Susie -- TheSmartGuy
** Mikey -- TheChick

-->--[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hd7dvfHxRtY Opening Theme]]

The series covers the family's day to day lives, e.g. Bob working at [[EvilInc Globocide]], Milo, Biff and Chip getting mocked by the popular people, and Pickles stumbling in and out of intoxication and the occasional lusting over of her husband. It's intended to be [[BlackComedy a dark satire]] of class division in America, and caricatures the "Keeping up with the Joneses" mentality prevalent in society.

** In "Heroine Addict", the Oblongs are given a selection of backgrounds to pose for a family photo, one of which is described as a family in trapped in the seven circles of Hell. They end up choosing that option and the family is shown dressed as ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', with Bob as Maggie, Milo as Bart, Pickles as Marge, Beth as Lisa, and Biff and Chip as Homer.

* YouAreTheNewTrend: The family's lack of funds in "Bucketheads" force Milo to go to school on a rainy day wearing a bucket on his head and a trash bag as a raincoat. The hill kids make fun of him, until the Fonzie [[CaptainErsatz stand in]] says he likes his bucket. Milo shows up at school the next day to find all of the hill kids wearing buckets and accusing ''him'' of copying ''them''. The rest of the plot focuses on his mother helping him stay one step ahead of them.