History WesternAnimation / TheWeekenders

->'''Carver:''' It's the crazy backwards universe again--\\
'''Tino:''' Where cats chase dogs and sitcoms are funny?

** One episode has the four about to go to Carver's house when they hear his little brother screaming. Only, it turns out it's actually his big sister Penny having a singing lesson.

* AmbiguouslyBi: Carver is obsessed with fashion (especially shoes), is utterly mortified when he thinks Lor ''might'' have a crush on him (though that seems to be a case of IDontWantToRuinOurFriendship. ) and it's been suggested that he tries on his sister's clothes. He also got caught buying a women's fur-lined bathing suit in one episode, and [[NotWhatItLooksLike nervously explained]] that it was for his sister.

* KnifeNut: Frances likes pointy things.

* {{Meganekko}}: Tish. She's a cute girl (cute enough to be put on TV) who wears glasses.

** Occasionally one of the characters will eat something from the Foods of the World exhibit at the museum before it's revealed that it was made from something gross or unusual. Also, when Carver ate that 40-year-old pickle which was in Lor's savings in ''"Lor's Will"'', which became a RunningGag for that episode.
** Not to mention Tino's mom's exotic dinners, which is another RunningGag for the series.

--->'''Bluke:''' I think we won the best prize...I mean with a pizza, you can split it five ways, but how are you going to split a pool table?
* DreadfulMusician: One episode has the four about to go to Carver's house when they hear his little brother screaming. Only, it turns out it's actually his big sister Penny having a singing lesson.

** Tish also shows signs of ambiguous aromantic/{{Asexuality}}, being the only one of the group never to develop a crush in the show, even having an episode devoted to her failed attempts to 'force' herself to fall in love, with the Aesop being that it isn't a bad thing not to have romantic feelings, even at the 'right age'.

An animated series from Disney, aired in 2000 as part of the ''Creator/OneSaturdayMorning'' block on Creator/{{ABC}}, created by Doug Langdale (previously of Creator/{{Universal}}'s ''WesternAnimation/EarthwormJim'' adaptation, Sony's ''WesternAnimation/ProjectGeeker'' and later Disney series ''WesternAnimation/DaveTheBarbarian''), and ran for four seasons. It followed the lives of four friends: DeadpanSnarker Tino Tonitini, {{The Smart G|uy}}irl Petratishkovna "Tish" Katsufrakis, {{Tomboy}} Lor [=MacQuarrie=], and not so cool CoolLoser Carver Descartes. Oddly enough, despite having four school-age children in the main roles, the show hardly (if ever) touches on aspects of school life, since stories nearly always begin on Friday afternoon and end on Sunday evening.

* AscendedMeme: InUniverse, "Tishing" becomes this.

* ArtEvolution: The third and fourth season have more advanced shading. The main characters are also given a few more outfits for their clothing rotation.

--> '''Tino:''' Now, kindly vacate the premises A.S.A.P.
-->'''Lor:''' A.S.A.P.? They put my cat to sleep![[note]] What Lor is referring to is the ASPCA: the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals [[/note]]

--> '''Tish:''' Simple, test Dixon's M.P.G.A.
-->'''Lor:''' The guys who pick the movie ratings? [[note]] What Lor is referring to is the MPAA: the Motion Picture Association of America [[/note]]

--> '''Thompson:''' Lor, I'm flattered that you wanted to impress me, but we've been through this over and over. Remember when you tried the girly thing, and then the brainy thing?\\

---> '''Tino:''' Okay that wouldn't be sad even if I had emotions.
---> '''Tish:''' Of course it is. I ruined a $20 blouse.

---> '''Lor:''' (''deadpan'') "After all these years I finally feel truly alive."
---> '''Tish:''' Umm... that was great Lor, but do you think you could try reading it with some, you know, emotion?
---> '''Lor:''' OH, SURE, RIGHT, YEAH, I GOT IT, OKAY! (''same deadpan tone'') "After all these years I finally feel truly alive."
---> '''Tish:''' Greeeeeaaaat. One more time.
---> (''Roughly four hours pass'')
---> '''Lor:''' (''monotonous'') "After all these years I finally feel truly alive."
---> '''Tish:''' Okay, we'll come back to this scene... maybe.

--> '''Carver''': Mrs. Duong asked me to help her find Chloe Montez. She's dressed as contact lens and she fell on the floor in the bathroom so no one can find her.

--> '''Tino:''' Um, is this dinner or a science experiment?
--> '''Tino's mom:''' Go on. It won't bite you.
--> '''Tino:''' [[DeadpanSnarker That works out nicely, since I don't plan to bite it either]].
* ConstantlyChangingName: A RunningGag is the pizza place constantly changing its name... and its theme. Characters actually don't have a difficult time finding the pizza place though, because it's a building.

--> '''Tino:''' Um, is this dinner or a science experiment?
--> '''Tino's mom:''' Go on. It won't bite you.
--> '''Tino:''' [[ConsolationBackfire That works out nicely, since I don't plan to bite it either]].

---> '''Tino:''' Mom, I don't know if you noticed, but I was sort of trying to force you and Dixon together earlier.
---> '''Ms. Tonitini:''' Huh? Really. Gosh, I didn't notice at all, because my head was encased in a block of wax.

--> '''Bluke:''' I think we won the best prize...I mean with a pizza, you can split it five ways, but how are you going to split a pool table?

-->'''Tino''': "How do you know something's up?"
-->'''Tino's Mom''': "Oh, it just seems like you always have some kind of problem by Saturday night."

--> '''Dixon:''' This chicken sure is good!
--> '''Ms. Tonitini:''' That's not chicken, that's frog.
--> (''Tino and Dixon spit out the food'')
--> '''Ms. Tonitini:''' Hey, frog has less than a third the fat of chicken!
--> '''[[DeadpanSnarker Tino]]:''' [[SarcasmMode Oh yeah? So does asphalt]].
--> '''[[DeadpanSnarker Ms. Tonitini]]:''' [[SarcasmMode Oh, great. Thanks for giving away the dessert surprise]].

--> '''Ms. Tonitini:''' Now if you break I know where to get spare parts.

--> '''Tino:''' I think your cooking may have military applications.\\

--> '''Tino's mom:''' It's like I'm watching a cloning experiment gone horribly awry.

--> (''Tino is leaving with his friends on a trip'')
--> '''[[UnderstandingBoyfriend Dixon]]:''' You want to get in the car and follow them, don't you?
--> '''Tino's mom:''' I'll settle for tracking them via the homing device I implanted in Tino's skull when he was born.
--> '''Dixon:''' (''laughs'')
--> '''Tino's mom:''' ...
--> '''Dixon:''' [[LampshadeHanging Okay, why are you not laughing?]]

--> '''Tino:''' Okay, let's start all over. There's Jamie, Neil, Kirk and...how many Dannys?
--> '''Lor:''' Two. Or three?

---> '''Tish:''' How... accurate.

--> '''Tish:''' "I would recite an "Ode To My Rotten Friends" for you, but it has some words in it I can't say on TV."

* NoReallyItsOkay: ''"Tish's Hair"''

--> '''Mr. Katsufrakis''': One time, mishkin tubelhauser goes just little bit wrong. Is reason we had to leave Old Country.

--> '''Lor:''' Wow, what would we do without TV? We might have to learn these lessons for ourselves!

--->'''Lor''': "You knocked over a light and set the stage on fire."\\
--->'''Carver''': "Which stopped the show!"

-->'''Lor''': "Question 1, are you happy with your appearance?"
-->'''Owner''': "I haven't had plastic surgery!"
-->'''Lor''': "Question 2, do you enjoy travel?"
-->'''Owner''': "I do not travel! Who told you I visited former Soviet Unions?"
-->'''Lor''': "Question 3, what would you do if you had a million dollars?"
-->'''Owner''': "I have never been paid for espionage! You can prove nothing! Go away! We are closed!"

-->'''Tino''': "Well, guess I'll go organize my collection of things that are not my parents having a private conversation."

--> '''Ms. Tonitini:''' Hi, hon, Dixon and I are heading out to the movies and there's a seaweed casserole in the oven.
--> '''Tino:''' Oh rats, I wanted to ask her --
--> '''Ms. Tonitini:''' -- Oh, by the way, don't worry. The power will go to Lor's head and the guys will realize that it's better to think for yourself. ''{Tino starts picking his ear}'' Please get your finger out of your ear.
--> '''Tino:''' She is freaking me out.
--> '''Ms. Tonitini:''' Don't get freaked out. Kiss kiss.

--> '''Documentary Narrator:''' Tish's parents, a university professor and a roller derby star, emigrated to the US from a country which our research staff was unable to determine how to pronounce. Or even locate on a map.

* ThemeTuneCameo: In one episode, Tish's dad plays an instrumental version of the theme on his cello. In another, Carver can be heard singing "I'm living for the weekend" under his breath.

* ConstantlyChangingName: A RunningGag is the pizza place constantly changing its name... and its theme. Characters actually don't have a difficult time finding the pizza place though, because [[RealityEnsues it's a building]].

** "Later days!" Said by Tino at the end of every episode.

** ''Inverted'' in "Brain Dead". This trope usually entails the "nerd" overreacting to a low score, while his/her friends wonder what's so bad. In "Brain Dead", Tish tries to brush off her "B" grade, but her friends are hesitant to accept the fact that she didn't get an "A". This leads the group attempting to give Tish a new ''reputation'', since she could no longer be the "nerd".

* BitchInSheepsClothing: Pru, a spoilt, whiny AlphaBitch who hangs out with the group for one episode because her old friends [[FelonyMisdemeanor didn't buy her a present on Flag Day.]]

* INeedToGoIronMyDog:
** In "Lor's Will", Tish uses the excuse "I have to go paint... my... lawn," after thinking Lor 'betrayed' her.
** "Look... up in the sky! It's the Lor signal! The President needs me!", "And she'll need her trusty sidekick, Carver Lad!"

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar:
** In "Shoes of Destiny", this trope is taken literally, by having Tino use it as an acronym. When Carver starts describing himself as "C.A.R.P." (Cool And Radically Popular), Tino responds, "Good thing you don't want to be '''C'''ool, '''''R'''ich'' '''A'''nd '''P'''opular."
** In a few episodes, it's hinted that Carver is a closeted cross-dresser. In "Never Say Diorama", when he went shopping for fur-lined bathing suits with Lor, they bump each other and everything drops out of their bags, Lor finds a women's bathing suit in her shopping bag that she didn't remember buying and Carver nervously explained "It's for my sister!". Then in "Celebrity", when he tried to help the kids give Tish a girly makeover, Tino eventually had to ask him why his closet was full of girls' clothes (again, he nervously explained that it was "for a Halloween costume").
** In "My Punky Valentine":
-->'''Shoe Store Clerk:''' You know, back in my day, we used to shave our eyebrows.
-->'''Carver:''' No wonder [[VirginityTropes your species went extinct.]]
** A line in the episode "Cry" went past the radar only because it was very, very subtle:
-->'''Lor:''' A small bundle of twigs could beat up Captain Dreadnought. [[note]]"bundle of twigs" means faggot[[/note]]

[[caption-width-right:330:"Isn’t there some way to do this that preserves our essential laziness?"]]

* TheCelebrityLie: ''"Band"'', where Carver blurts out that Chum Bukkit would dedicate their upcoming show to the four of them.