Line #39 WesternAnimation/Fillmore


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4	->'''Bully:''' I've got some dice. Let's play a game, roll anything from 1 to 5 and I'll beat you up.\
5	'''Victim:''' What if I roll a 6?\
6	'''Bully:''' Then lucky you, you get to roll again.
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8	''Fillmore!'' is an American animated television series produced by Creator/DisneyTelevisionAnimation for [[Creator/OneSaturdayMorningAndABCKids ABC Kids]].[[note]]The final five episodes aired on Creator/ToonDisney.[[/note]] Created by Scott M. Gimple (''Series/TheWalkingDead''), the series was an {{affectionate parody}} of [[TheSeventies 1970s]] {{Cop Show}}s, following reformed juvenile delinquents Cornelius Fillmore and Ingrid Third as they work for the X Middle School Safety Patrol, cracking cases and solving mysteries around the institution's bizarrely large Minnesotan campus. It ran from September 2002 to January 2004 for a total of 26 episodes.
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10	In addition to the cartoon emulating the tone of police dramas in general, with episode plots being child-friendly versions of topics such as attempted murder, police brutality, political assassinations, the show also tended to parody various films and television series more directly, such as ''Literature/TheSilenceOfTheLambs'' or ''Film/DieHard''. The series' stanch dedication to its cop show parody premise would garner the show a large PeripheryDemographic... and few viewers within the actual target demographic, leading to the show's cancellation.
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13	!!''Fillmore!'' provides examples of the following tropes:
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15	* AbortedArc: Brad Parnassus is clearly set up as Fillmore and Ingrid's ArchEnemy in "Ingrid Third: Public Enemy #1", but he never shows up again.
16	* AbsurdlyPowerfulStudentCouncil:
17	** The Safety Patrol has the power to arrest and punish students, although they are inevitably called out on its failures and actions, and are almost always in danger of being dissolved by Principal Folsom.
18	** In "Links in a Chain of Honor" , the eighth grade student council President has the authority to buy truckloads of foam fingers for the school and is in charge of appointing the sixth grade student council officials rather than let them be chosen by election. The episode "A Forgetten Yesterday" also reveals that the student council can issue search warrants, while a student council president candidate in "Two Wheels, Full Throttle, No Breaks" indicates that he'd have the power to disband the safety patrol if he wins the election.
19	* AbsurdlySpaciousSewer: The setting of one of [[OncePerEpisode many]] chase scenes.
20	* AcademyOfAdventure: X Middle School can probably be considered the school every kid would want to attend. [[ElaborateUniversityHigh It's absolutely massive to the point of absurdity]], with a diverse student body and faculty ranging from normal to [[BunnyEarsLawyer insanely cool while also being a little insane in of themselves]]. Their after-school activities range from the typical (like the book club or the chess club) to the highly specific (like the model train club and the ''sandwich'' club), with all the facilities to accommodate them, including an Olympic size swimming pool. That's not even getting into the premise of the series where the school's Safety Patrol acts as the police force, and they have to regularly chase troublemakers around the school.
21	* AdultsAreUseless: Rarely will they give Fillmore the benefit of the doubt. [[{{Deconstruction}} Deconstructed]] with Leo during ''Masterstroke of Malevolence'', as he's a security guard who's nothing but helpful to Fillmore and Ingrid's investigation, [[spoiler:which is made suspect by how he's not doing anything on his own to find the vandal in spite of it being his job.]]
22	* AffablyEvil: Arthur Stanley of "Play On, Maestro, Play On." [[spoiler: He's FauxAffablyEvil instead when pretending to side with the Safety Patrol]].
23	* AffectionateParody: Of {{Cop Show}}s from the 1970s, particularly those produced by Quinn Martin.
24	* AlasPoorVillain:
25	** The InUniverse reaction to the fall of [[spoiler: Robert Chestnut]] in "Links in a Chain of Honor". [[spoiler: "Poor Romlo. Poor, poor Romlo..."]]
26	** In "Next Stop: Armageddon", the perpetrator of the train convention disaster is [[spoiler: a beloved train enthusiast]] whose only motivation for doing so was to [[spoiler:get his father's store enough business so that they wouldn't have to close down and move away]]. When the truth comes out, the perpetrator is kicked out of the train club and blacklisted from ever being involved again. However, Fillmore points out that despite all that, the perpetrator will remain in town with his family as they are still having business in their store.
27	* AllCheeringAllTheTime: In "Codename: Electric Haircut", one of the cheerleaders has the habit of spelling out her emotions. A former cheerleader in disguise later gives herself away by spelling something out during routine conversation.
28	* AmbiguouslyGay:
29	** Nelson Kelloch, Checkmatey's opponent in "Of Slain Kings on Checkered Fields", likes a ''boy band'' called the Dancey Lads, makes collages of them from magazines in his spare time, and claims he wouldn't give up playing chess against Checkmatey for anything "save maybe front-row tickets to Dancey Lads."
30	** In the same episode, Checkmatey has a crowd of screaming fangirls who find him cute... [[EvenTheGuysWantHim and one fanboy]].
31	** O'Farrell, who sometimes shows a penchant for rather girly things and acts effeminate. In "Red Robins Don't Fly," he also begs to be sent undercover as a member of the Red Robins. He bought the wig and everything, and wears the whole outfit during a staff meeting.
32	* AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent: "Masterstroke of Malevolence" is the only episode in which the culprit [[spoiler: is an adult who has no ties to the school]].
33	* AndThenWhat: Used against the culprit in "Play on Maestro, Play on".
34	* AppealToObscurity: "Who's [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Laskey Charles Laskey]]?" (Also a GeniusBonus.)
35	* ArsonMurderAndLifesaving: Frequently played straight and sometimes inverted.
36	-->'''Vallejo:''' Principal Folsom isn't sure whether to give you guys a commendation or to give you detention. On the one hand, you put Stainless away. But on the other hand, you destroyed an entire shipment of brushed steel stalls, you ruined a month's supply of macaroni, and you allowed the most notorious graffiti vandal in the history of the school to escape.
37	** The Bully Get Back Crew's crimes consist of: Destroying a girl's fashion line, attempting to destroy a computer system, cocooning a girl in toilet paper...and throwing paper balls at some jocks.
38	* TheAtoner: Fillmore used to be a delinquent. Now he's on the Safety Patrol.
39	* AudienceSurrogate: Being the new girl, Ingrid fills this role for most episodes. However, Fillmore becomes one when he visits his old partner Wayne in Tennessee in "South of Friendship, North of Honor".
40	* AuthorAppeal: Nearly every cake mentioned in the show has buttercream frosting.
41	* AuthorTract: The episode, "Test of the Tested" featured the students taking a standardized exam known as "The S.A.T.T.Y.9". One of the recurring dialogues of the episode is that standardized tests are not only ineffective, but are damaging and counterproductive for more creative children and for others who do not test well. Although the points about "bad test-takers" are actually pretty valid, the constant reiteration of the observation reaches AuthorTract levels when pretty much every child who takes the test either gripes about how pointless it is, or, the children who actually ''want'' to take the test are depicted as rather neurotic overachievers. This might be a result of kids generally disliking tests and being willing to agree with whatever gives the results less dominance over their future, and the neurotic overachievers just being what they are as part of their character.
42	** Notably Ingrid, who is the smartest girl in school, is shown to not really care about the test, whereas the other "good test takers" are all obnoxious stereotypes of TheSmartGuy who use words like "Machiavellian" and "reprobate" to describe the person who stole the tests and cry about them being lost to the point of ''needing a counsellor'' who says things like "they may have stolen your answer sheet, but they didn't steal the answers" while Ingrid cringes. On the other hand, the last may have just been the show turning yet another thing into SeriousBusiness for the kids. There's also the fact that Ingrid mentions that those who ''wanted'' to take the test should not have had that denied them.
43	* TheBadGuyWins: Discussed at the end of "Test of the Tested" where, while the Safety Patrol gets the tests back, the perp gets what they wanted too: [[spoiler: Elliot only stole the tests in the first place to get the attention of his crush, who protested against the test. When she finds out, she's flattered.]]
44	* BalloonBelly: Joyce in "Of Slain Kings on Checkered Fields" after she attempts to break Fillmore's sloppy joe eating record.
45	* BathroomBreakOut: In "Of Slain Kings on Checkered Fields", Checkmatey gets away from Ingrid by going to the bathroom, turning on the shower, and climbing out the window.
46	* BecomingTheMask: As an episode regarding the dangers of undercover work, it's not surprising that this trope is invoked, discussed, played straight and averted in "Red Robins Don't Fly".
47	* BigEater:
48	** Fillmore. He even holds the school record for most sloppy joes eaten in one sitting.
49	** Also Joyce from "Of Slain Kings on Checkered Fields".
50	* BigRedButton: The Trouble button that Turk pushes at Eliminatrix in "Field Trip of the Just".
51	* BittersweetEnding: "Immune to All But Justice" has Fillmore and Ingrid successfully bust the Canadian diplomat's son and his crew for making the counterfeit baseball cards, but it turns out that Fillmore's love interest (who seemed like a reluctant participant who was trying to help from the inside) stole a bunch of the cards to sell for herself and Fillmore figures it out while they're on a date and breaks it off.
52	* BuffetBuffoonery: Fillmore and his dad strategize about which foods to eat to get the most value for their money when planning on going to a buffet.
53	* BullyHunter: An episode had the Safety Patrol tracking down someone targeting bullies for humiliation, ending with a lesson about there being better ways to deal with bullies.
54	* ByTheBookCop: In "Ingrid Third: Public Enemy #1", Wayne Ligget, Fillmore's former partner, is said to be this in contrast with Fillmore's CowboyCop.
55	--> '''Fillmore:''' You're always by the book.\
56	'''Wayne:''' You ''threw out'' my book.
57	* TheCameo: [[WesternAnimation/{{Recess}} Spinelli]] and WesternAnimation/KimPossible make a brief cameo in one episode.
58	* CantGetAwayWithNuthin:
59	** Fillmore always gets chewed out for the collateral damage resulting from a chase, regardless of whether or not it was his fault.
60	** Similarly, the Safety Patrol as a whole is constantly getting chewed out by Principal Folsom.
61	** A boy who drew his name on toilet stalls is kept in '''solitary confinement'''. Crimes such as making false baseball cards will result in Fillmore ''hunting'' you down.
62	* CantYouReadTheSign: In "A Forgotten Yesterday", Fillmore is on a jetski in X's lake, and almost crashes into a buoy mounted with a sign that reads "Watch Out For Floating Signs".
63	* CaptainCrash: Fillmore. Any mode of transport he takes in a FlashedBadgeHijack is just about guaranteed to end up in a wreck.
64	* CatchPhrase:
65	** Fillmore's "Disco" and Third's "Crackers".
66	** When they find a perp, one of the two main characters, usually Fillmore, will often say, "It's over ____."
67	** When frustrated or upset, Fillmore says, "Dog" or "Snap".
68	** Occasionally, Ingrid will exclaim, "Ginchy" when she's onto something.
69	** Vallejo angrily yelling, "FILLMORE!"
70	* CentralTheme: Redemption and Second Chances. Fillmore is only where he is today because someone looked past his delinquency, saw his potential, and allowed him to straighten up and joining up with the Safety Patrol. He does the same thing for Ingrid when she transfers to X Middle School. Similar things happens with a major character during an episode where they reach that major crossroad, they will either take up their offer of a second chance learning a valuable lesson, or squander that chance where they become an example of what not to be.
71	* ChaseScene: OncePerEpisode, and always highly spectacular.
72	-->'''Fillmore:''' [[LampshadeHanging Why do they always run?]]
73	* ChekhovsGun: Being a crime show, there's usually at least one seemingly unimportant object per episode (like a bouquet of flowers that ends up connecting two characters).
74	* ChekhovsGunman: Kids present during a BatmanColdOpen are occasionally prominent during the main plot of an episode and, on a series-wide scale, several minor characters from earlier episodes later have guest starring roles later on, although whether the creators always meant to use them that way or not is unclear. For example,Alexandria Quarry is a RecurringExtra until the finale and episode 2, "Test of the Tested," has Augie Salmon (who is put in witness protection as the main plotline of episode 24, "This Savior, a Snitch") as a minor suspect and also features background cameos from Lorranie Almaden (a major suspect in episode 7, "Nappers Never Sleep" after also getting a notable but incidental cameo in episode 3) and Maryanne Green (a cheerleader who witnesses the opening crime in episode 15, "The Shreds Fell Like Snowflakes", and is the best friend of the girl who goes missing in episode 22, "Codename Electric Haircut") .
75	* ClassTrip:
76	** "Masterstroke of Malevolence", to the Modern Contemporary Natural History, Art, Science and Miniature Museum.
77	** Ironically ''not'' in "Field Trip of the Just" (Fillmore is given a pass out of school for an investigation instead.)
78	* ClockKing: The villain in "Play On, Maestro, Play On" orchestrates crimes that rely on absolute precision timing.
79	* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}:
80	** O'Farrell certainly has a unique perspective on life.
81	** Wayne's Safety Patrol office in Tennessee has one (see "South of Friendship, North of Honor".) His name is Jeter. Like O'Farrell, he's a redhead. Also like O'Farrell, he tends to hyper-focus on weird or minor details. When Fillmore questions him about the events surrounding the crime of the week, for instance, he starts with a description of his favorite sandwich.
82	* ColdCash: Or rather, a Cold Ledger in "A Forgotten Yesterday".
83	* CompetitionCouponMadness: In "The Currency of Doubt", Tina and Toby are the stars of the school at both dancing and smoit-collecting. Smoits are tokens found on dairy bars and packets of chips used to buy basically anything a kid could want once enough of them are saved up. Their smoit stash goes missing, and Fillmore and Ingrid go undercover in X's steamy underground casino scene.
84	* ConsultingAConvictedKiller: The episode "To Mar a Stall" is one big ShoutOut to ''Film/TheSilenceOfTheLambs''. In it, Fillmore consults with Randall the Vandal, who is kept in a permanent state of detention, in order to gain insight into the mind of the mystery vandal 'Stainless'.
85	* ConvenientlyPlacedSharpThing: In "Codename: Electric Haircut", Fillmore is able to cut through his bonds with a CD that fell on him when he was being tied up.
86	* ConveyorBeltODoom: In "The Shreds Fell Like Snowflakes", Fillmore gets thrown onto a conveyor belt at the science fair that threatens to dump him into an artificial volcano.
87	* CounterfeitCash: Counterfeit baseball cards in "Immune To All But Justice".
88	* CowboyCop: Or as close to it as a Disney cartoon can go. As noted elsewhere, Fillmore pretends the rule book doesn't exist.
89	* CrazyPeoplePlayChess: Checkmatey, the X Middle School chess champion, can be considered a mild case of this.
90	* CrazyPrepared: The villain in "Play On, Maestro, Play On" has contingencies for just about everything. This includes a trap that springs when he picks up his coat if the Safety Patrol should happen to capture him in his hideout.
91	* CreatorsApathy: InUniverse example: In "The Unseen Reflection", [[spoiler: it's revealed that the author of the Vampirita novels is fed up with her series and is implied to only be continuing it either for the money, or because of her contract with her publishers. This apathy shows in that her latest entry in the series is completely horrible, and a fan's heartbreak after getting their hands an advance copy is what sets off the plot for the episode]].
92	* CreepyCrossdresser: Parnassus in "Ingrid Third: Public Enemy #1".
93	* CycleOfRevenge: Discussed in "Code Name: Electric Haircut" and "A Dark Score Evened" to talk down the culprits before they cross the point of no return.
94	* DaChief: Vallejo, with the voice and outfit to match.
95	* DeadpanSnarker:
96	** TQ from "The Unseen Reflection".
97	** Fillmore and (especially) Ingrid have their moments too.
98	* DeliberatelyCuteChild: Invoked by Ingrid in order to charm a shopkeeper who has just closed his shop for the day to open it for her so she can ask questions pertinent to the case.
99	-->'''Ingrid''': I'm going to put on my 'cute face'. It won't be pretty.
100	* DemonicDummy:
101	** A toned-down children's version of the split personality variant happens in "Foes Don't Forgive".
102	** O'Farrell once suggests this of a "clobber goblin" toy, but Ingrid shuts the idea down by pointing out that they can only walk two steps before falling over.
103	* DieHardOnAnX: "A Cold Day at X". Fillmore is trapped inside the school during a blizzard and has to stop a gang of students who break in planning to steal the answer key to an upcoming test.
104	* DiplomaticImpunity: With a Canadian diplomat's son and his counterfeit baseball card ring. Justified in that this isn't an actual universal rule, this was just something Principal Folsom decided on her own because she ''really'' didn't want a diplomatic incident after [[NoodleIncident the last one]].
105	* DisasterDominoes: The destruction of the train convention in "Next Stop: Armageddon". One model train goes off the track, shattering the model cliff face and derailing the second one on that display, which flings a carriage across the room to hit the Martian-themed track. This sets off the ''working rocket'' they had included for some reason, sending the circus display's Ferris wheel spinning into the hot dog cart, knocking it over and spilling water across the floor. People start slipping on the water and knocking over tables with ''more'' trains and dioramas on them, and everything ends up in pieces.
106	* DisproportionateRetribution:
107	** The culprit of "Field Trip of the Just" gets one of the harsher punishments in the series, despite being one of the more sympathetic culprits. On the other hand, the crime of the episode (poisoning a beloved lab pet to the point where people don't know if it will recover) was also one of the more serious crimes by this show's standards. Yet, earlier it's made clear that the harshness of the punishment is only because Principal Folsom takes the crime personally due to having a pet spider herself when she was a young girl.
108	** Principal Folsom also frequently threatens the Safety Patrol with this kind of thing (like shipping them to Kazakhstan) but naturally never follows through. She's ''offended'' when Fillmore alludes to a punishment she gave that wasn't as harsh as it could have been.
109	* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything:
110	** A cornerstone of the series, as the plot of each episode is meant to evoke real world crimes that have been adjusted to fit a middle school setting and a cast of the appropriate age range (i.e. scooter thefts for grand theft auto).
111	** The relationship between the dance partners in "The Currency of Doubt" is clearly designed to look like a troubled marriage; this is boosted by the media's horrified murmuring when the girl states they are "separating".
112	** The Red Robins are all but called a gang, only it's candy sales instead of drugs.
113	** In one episode, Vallejo tries to give up cocoa and starts chewing gum, which is what most people do when they're trying to quit smoking. It also parallels how many police officers go through caffeine addiction due to all the coffee they drink.
114	* DontExplainTheJoke: O'Farrell has this problem in "A Wurm in Our Midst".
115	* DoubleStandard: Invoked in "To Mar a Stall". While visiting Randal the Vandal in detention, Ingrid and Fillmore are asked to surrender any writing utensils. The guard gets pushy with Ingrid asking if she has any lipstick or eyeliner. Fillmore, deciding to mess with the guard a bit, tells him he doesn't have any eyeliner or lipstick either, thanks for asking. Of course, ItMakesSenseInContext on the guard's part, because even those would be enough for Randall to use.
116	** A more subtle, series-wide example. Ingrid's delinquent past is never brought up after she officially becomes a patroller, even when it could be relevant (such as in "Red Robins Don't Fly" where it could have been an additional reason Vallejo feared Ingrid would join the Robins just like Malika); Fillmore on the other hand, even putting aside that he committed more than a few delinquent acts while a student of X, has ''several'' episodes where either people or actions from his delinquent past are brought up and form major parts of the plot. This ''despite'' the implication that some of Ingrid's exploits (including the ones involving stink bombs) were just as, if not more, damaging than Fillmore's.
117	* EEqualsMCHammer: In episode 9, Fillmore and Ingrid visit a pre-algebra class, after the teacher pulls up a screen, there are several problems displayed on the board, none of which are pre-algebra problems, such as "x-y=16" which has infinite solutions and other complex, multi-variable solutions that would be ''way'' too complex for a middle school pre-algebra class.
118	* EasterEgg: Though never spoken in series, the first name of the X Middle School principal is shown on the door in the pilot episode: [[spoiler: Dawn S. Folsom.]]
119	* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: Ingrid.
120	* ElaborateUniversityHigh: X Middle School is ''massive'', and it has all the industrial capabilities of a small city. Some common landmarks include a corn maze, large compost piles, a full-size theatre, at least two floors, a basement, easy roof access, a lake with a dock, an RC track, an events hall, a greenhouse, a huge pool, a bocce ball stadium, a multi-room Safety Patrol HQ, a hallway accessible sauna, and an orchard. That's not even counting the classrooms.
121	--> [[{{Lampshading}} "Of course, this ''is'' one of the largest middle schools in the country!"]]
122	* EndangeredSouffle: In "A Forgotten Yesterday", Fillmore "accidentally" ruins a rude suspect's souffle by popping an inflated paper bag.
123	* EngineeredPublicConfession:
124	** In "South of Friendship, North of Honor", where Fillmore taunts the southern chief commissioner into a full confession, not realizing that Wayne Ligget was holding a microphone that broadcast his confession to the whole school.
125	** Fillmore also pulls this on a suspect, a sleeptalker in "A Forgotten Yesterday" by asking him while he's asleep (and sure enough, he does confess).
126	*** The same episode has Fillmore setting up a sting that catches the episode's perpetrator in the end too.
127	* {{Expy}}:
128	** Randal Julian ("Randal the Vandal") is an obvious kid Expy of [[Literature/TheSilenceOfTheLambs Hannibal Lecter]] ("Hannibal the Cannibal").
129	** Redheaded photographer who sometimes falls into ButtMonkey status? [[Franchise/{{Superman}} Where have we seen that before?]]
130	** Vampire related thriller series that took a hardline dip in quality whose author has started to crank them out shockingly fast and focus more on "[[DoubleEntendre romance]]"? Are we describing episode 21's novel series or ''Literature/AnitaBlake''?
131	** Checkmatey in "Of Slain Kings on Checkered Fields" is something of a seventh-grade expy of Music/{{Eminem}}, minus the profanity.
132	* EvenTheGuysWantHim: In "Of Slain Kings on Checkered Fields", when Checkmatey's groupies are tearing at his clothes, there's a male groupie there as well.
133	* TheFamilyThatSlaysTogether: The Red Robins, not technically a family, but it's what makes them a "team".
134	* FandomRivalry: InUniverse. There are fan clubs dedicated to two separate novel series in "The Unseen Reflection", "Vampirita" and "Citizen Fang", who both mock and dismiss the other's choice of literature.
135	* FantasyHelmetEnforcement:
136	** During the FlashedBadgeHijack of skateboards, bikes, ''etc.'', the duo take the safety gear, too.
137	** Works against them in "This Savior, a Snitch" since Augie needs a helmet and gets one from the leader of one side in a mock war (it's the only one that fits his head). Cue the other side trying to pummel them with custard (which Augie is ''allergic to'').
138	** In one episode, a perp hijacks an old-fashioned penny farthing bicycle and puts on what appears to be a wooden bike helmet.
139	* FastRoping: Done at the end of "Immune To All But Justice" by the Safety Patrol.
140	* FauxAffablyEvil: Arthur Stanley of "Play On, Maestro, Play On", [[spoiler:when pretending to side with the Safety Patrol]].
141	* FelonyMisdemeanor:
142	** A lot of the "crimes" in the show are pretty overblown, as one would expect from a parody of cop shows set in a school. Like virtual pet-napping. Or stealing tartar sauce packets from the cafeteria.
143	** Which makes some of the more serious crimes (the poisoning of a beloved lab pet, the BullyHunter's later methods, someone trying to ruin Vallejo's career as commissioner, stealing all the books in the library) all the more shocking.
144	** One of Fillmore's past crimes that really was shocking was crushing the school mini-golf team's spirits and taking all their clubs and trophies for not letting a delinquent like him try out. Naturally this one [[TheAtoner is later righted]].
145	* FightingBackIsWrong: In an episode about a serial BullyHunter, the bullies are indeed presented as being bad people. But the hunter targeting the bullies with pranks in a manner [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything similar to a G-rated version of a serial killer]] is presented as being just as bad, if not worse. It should perhaps be noted that this example actually calls out the potentially broken message of the trope. Filmore chides the {{Bully Hunter}}s for taking extremes against their tormentors, they retort that he's telling them to just sit back and take their abuse. Filmore points out there are other more lawful ways to deal with these problems, talk to guardians or seek assistance from the teachers.
146	* FiveTokenBand:
147	** You may have noticed the black protagonist, Latino chief, Asian (officially Japanese-American) forensics whiz and Italian-American ...whatever it is Anza does (one episode implies he's a bodyguard).
148	** Ingrid may or may not be at least 1/2 Japanese- or Chinese-American. "A Cold Day at X" has a brief bit of dialogue that indicates her dad may be of this ancestry. Her dark hair, pale skin, and almond-shaped eyes -- though they are green -- support this as well.
149	** O'Farrell is probably Irish-American or a combination of Scottish-Irish. He even wears a kilt in an episode or two.
150	* FlashedBadgeHijack: The Safety Patrol regularly commandeer citizen vehicles during chase scenes.
151	* FreezeFrameBonus: The show is filled with them, often in the form of a ParentalBonus:
152	** In 'To Mar A Stall', the very first episode, when Fillmore fills Ingrid in on who Randall Julian is, one of the news articles that is shown on the computer says "BOOKS BACK, CLEMENTIA CAUGHT", which is from the third episode, 'A Wurm In Our Midst', indicating that the episode takes place before 'To Mar A Stall'.
153	** In "Next Stop: Armageddon", some students who are [[CoveredInGunge splattered with frosting]] when Fillmore crashes Folsom's birthday party are wearing shirts that say [[{{Irony}} "Students Against Frosting"]].
154	** One chase scene has Fillmore crash into a piles of boxes from the "Cliché Box Company", and another has him run through a banner that says "Hurrah for Banner Club!".
155	** In "Red Robins Don't Fly", you can see a sign on the front of Ingrid Third's house that says [[WhosOnFirst "I Don't Know Who's On Third's Porch"]].
156	* GamerChick: Ingrid is shown to be one in "Play On Maestro, Play On". She also remote controls a robo fighter from home in another episode to help Fillmore.
157	* GeographicFlexibility: According to Website/TheOtherWiki, X Middle School is located in Minnesota, but the accents, ethnicities, and climates are diverse enough to the point where it could be located almost anywhere. On top of that, the characters are almost all named after streets in San Francisco, California.
158	* GirlScoutsAreEvil: In "Red Robins Don't Fly", the Red Robins - X Middle School's version of the Girl Scouts - are running a protection racket.
159	* GranolaGirl:
160	** Stella Valencia from "A Dark Score Evened", who is so passionate about vegetarianism that she seems to protest the cafeteria food 24 hours a day.
161	** One of the members of X Middle School's alternative art club, The Starving Renoirs, is one of these. She makes projects from clay made of oatmeal hummus and unshelled buckwheat, dresses in stereotypical clothes, and doesn't believe in indoor plumbing.
162	* GreenAroundTheGills: O'Farrell in "Next Stop, Armageddon". When he sees the sight of a model train wreck, a shade of green appears on each of his cheeks, as he gets the urge to throw up and heads for the restroom.
163	* GroupieBrigade:
164	** Checkmatey has one in "Of Slain Kings on Checkered Fields".
165	** Quite a few club leaders have one as well, like the head of the train club.
166	* HappyEndingOverride: For Wayne Liggett, who at the end of "Ingrid Third, Public Enemy No. 1" was shown to have a decent life in his new school in Tennessee with his partner Emily. By the time we next see him in "South of Friendship, North of Honor", he's knee-deep in the Patrol Sheriff's corruption and Emily has quit the force.
167	* HeWhoFightsMonsters: The Bully Get Back Crew. They start with harmless stunts like throwing paper balls and pouring liquid on people but they cross the line when they try to paper mache one of their victims and threaten to destroy a multi-thousand dollar computer network over a confiscated modem.
168	* HeroInsurance: Becomes a plot point in one episode when Vallejo threatens to suspend Fillmore if he destroys anything else on his latest case.
169	* HeroStoleMyBike: Occasionally scooters, rolling chairs, a golf cart, pogo sticks, and even a floor waxer.
170	* HighDiveEscape: Done literally in the opening sequence. Fillmore and Ingrid are cornered by a pair of thugs on top on a high diving board. They look at each other, and then turn and jump off the board into the pool.
171	* HighSpeedHijack: At the start of "Codename: Electric Haircut", Fillmore jumps from his skateboard on to the back of a stolen bank of lockers that are being towed by a golf cart before clambering over the lockers into the golf cart to fight the driver.
172	* HitThemInThePocketbook: "The Nineteenth Hole is a Shallow Grave" features a non-monetary example. The X Safety Patrol are ordered to end their investigation of a mini golf match fixing operation when they inadvertently traumatize Principal Folsom's nephew. However, Ingrid realizes that they can still stop the culprit by having Fillmore, who's been playing in the latest tournament undercover, continue playing and win so that the culprit will lose all of his bets and his massive comic book collection. The plan works and the perp not only loses his entire collection, but is also arrested when one of his victims finally musters the courage to testify.
173	* HonorBeforeReason: In "Foes Don't Forgive", a magician is accused of stealing a robot dog during a magic trick. He refuses to explain how the trick is performed, even though doing so will help them solve the case, to honor the Magician's Code.
174	* HostageSituation: A surprisingly disturbing one despite being adapted for the middle school setting occurs in "A Cold Day at X", where the leader of the students looking to steal a math test answer key ''threatens to freeze Fillmore's pet fish in the open air'' if he doesn't turn over the key.
175	* IfICantHaveYou: In "Nappers Never Sleep", the true culprit has this attitude, believing that [[spoiler: if she doesn't get her best friend back, then Everett doesn't get his virtual pet back]].
176	* IndyHatRoll: In "Masterstroke of Malevolence", Fillmore and Ingrid slide under the closing security door in the museum as they chase after Leo.
177	* INeverSaidItWasPoison: This is how Fillmore discovers that [[spoiler: Penny Madrid, a temporary love interest, was the one who stole the Cal Ripken baseball cards. How does Fillmore figure that out? After he's already caught the baseball-card-counterfeiting villain of that episode, he isn't satisfied, and he tells Penny that there are lots of baseball cards that are still missing. Penny tries to comfort Fillmore by telling him not to worry, the missing Cal Ripken cards will turn up sooner or later. But wait, how did Penny know they were Cal Ripken cards? Fillmore didn't even tell Penny what ''team'' the player belonged to, much less which ''specific player'' it was!]]
178	* InspectorJavert: Truant Officer Langley Turk in "Field Trip of the Just".
179	* InspirationNod: The theme naming, in which the characters' names are streets in San Francisco, acknowledges the show's debt to the archetypal police procedural series ''Series/TheStreetsOfSanFrancisco'', complete with the Quinn Martin-esque announcements ("Today's Episode: 'Immune To All But Justice'!") - and the Quinn Martin-esque episode titles (put the likes of "Next Stop, Armageddon" and "The Nineteenth Hole Is A Shallow Grave" in among the likes of "Image In A Cracked Mirror" and "Wind It Up And It Betrays You" and it would be hard for non-buffs to tell which are from the cartoon and which aren't.[[note]]The latter two are from ''Barnaby Jones'' and ''The FBI'', if you're wondering.[[/note]]) Incidentally, ''The Streets Of San Francisco'' really did do an episode called "School Of Fear".
180	* InTheHood: Hooded sweatshirts are probably the most common means of identity concealment for wrongdoers in the series.
181	* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: Parnassus in "Ingrid Third: Public Enemy No. 1" has his lackey take the blame for him when the evidence disappears and gets away with it, with his only punishment being that Fillmore gives him a stick of hot gum and he runs away in clear discomfort. While set up to become a recurring ArchEnemy, he apparently is busted later on though because then he disappears never to be mentioned again after that.
182	* KidDetective: A rare example of kid detectives acting like police investigators (thanks to the premise) rather than private investigators.
183	* TheKillerWasLeftHanded:
184	** In "The Shreds Fell Like Snowflakes", the hall monitors find that someone has been shredding other students' important papers. From the angle of the shreds, they determine which hand the shredder used to place the papers in. Turns out, [[spoiler: it was ''all'' of the victims, working together to frame a non-existent shredder]].
185	** Also used in "To Mar A Stall". Fillmore and Third figure out that the person who defaced the bathrooms had to be left-handed because of the way their letters overlapped. [[spoiler: The girl who did it was mad that they weren't using the brushed steel she'd argued for over 50 times.]]
186	* TheKlutz: Alexandria Quarry tends to be this, as shown when she accidentally lets a pencil slip from her grasp, striking another student off-screen, and when she breaks Ingrid's gargoyle statue.
187	* LargeHam:
188	** While the major villains in the show avert this, (in contrast to most Disney media) "Mon Ami", speaks in such a manner.
189	--> They said that I overact! [[HypocriticalHumor Imagine that! ME!]]
190	%%** Also Checkmatey in "Of Slain Kings on Checkered Fields".
191	%%** Principal Folsom has very hammy dialog.
192	%%** Vallejo has his moments as well.
193	** "The Shreds Fell Like Snowflakes" depends somewhat on this trope. The perp [[spoiler: paid off her drama club friends to act traumatized after they shredded their own pet projects. Her motive was to get back at Vallejo, who she blames for her gifted profiler brother being expelled from the force.]]
194	* LastNameBasis: Nearly all of the Patrollers; Ingrid is the only one consistently called by her first name. Made into a joke in one episode, where when Folsom announces Vallejo's reappointment to Jr. Commissioner of the Safety Patrol, the [[SoundEffectBleep microphone squeaks]] when she says his first name.
195	* LocationThemeNaming: Most of the characters' last names are streets in San Francisco. Given that many of the streets themselves are surnames in the first place, the character's names usually sound quite normal.
196	* LostInTheMaize: "Two Wheels, Full Throttle, No Brakes". Of course X Middle School has its own corn maze. Why wouldn't it?
197	* LoveMakesYouEvil: Despite the show being mostly NoHuggingNoKissing, the episodes "Test of the Tested", "Nappers Never Sleep", and "Field Trip of the Just" reveal crushes as the perps' underlying motives.
198	* LowClearance: In "Next Stop: Armageddon", the perp of the week pulls a TrainEscape by uncoupling the engine of a miniature train from the carriages, leaving Fillmore behind him. However, he stands up to gloat and takes himself out as the engine enters a tunnel.
199	* LuminescentBlush: In "A Forgotten Yesterday", a flush appears on an angry Peabody's cheeks after he's insulted by Vallejo.
200	* AMacGuffinFullOfMoney: The briefcase full of smites (tokens found on dairy bars and packets of chips and used to buy basically anything a kid could want once enough of them are saved up) serves this function "The Currency of Doubt".
201	* MiniGolfEpisode: The episode "The Nineteenth Hole is a Shallow Grave" is dedicated to Fillmore (who was an excellent mini-golf player in his delinquent days) going undercover when mini-golf players at the school appear to be throwing their matches. Like everything else in the series, mini-golf is treated as SeriousBusiness, with everyone taking it as seriously as professional golf.
202	* MirrorCharacter: Malika and Ingrid. [[spoiler: Malika was even once a Safety Patrol member sent to infiltrate the Red Robins.]] [[spoiler: However, Ingrid ultimately makes a different choice than Malika did. Ingrid is tempted as Malika was, but ultimately Ingrid completes her assignment.]]
203	* MistakenConfession: In multiple episodes, Fillmore and Ingrid chase a nervous suspect and exchange heated words with them about the crime that provoked the pursuit without realizing that the person is running for a different reason.
204	** In "Test of the Tested", the search for stolen test answers leads to two chases where different suspects (one of whom even rants about how unfair the test is) are carrying boxes they won’t turn over. One box has stolen tartar sauce from the cafeteria and the other has cheat sheets for the test.
205	** In "Cry the Beloved Mascot", the lobster mascot is missing and one suspect has a book about ways to feed kidnapped animals. They chase him down and demand to be taken to the stolen mascot. He complies, only for them to learn that he actually kidnapped a rival school’s goat mascot. When he realizes they had no clue about that, he is initially confused about what they were after him for. Then he puts the pieces together and screams out that their beloved mascot has been stolen, alerting the whole school when the heroes were trying to keep that a secret.
206	* MisunderstoodLonerWithAHeartOfGold:
207	%%** Ingrid when she first transferred into X.
208	** Fillmore himself had shades of this in his delinquent days, as many of his crimes we know of (the rocket at the custard spill and the golf team thefts for example) were motivated by people not willing to give him a chance. The first person who did give him a chance, his former partner, showed his true nature.
209	* MotorcycleDominoes: In "Play On, Maestro, Play On", a kite yanks over a pushbike, triggering a domino chain of bicycles as part of the RubeGoldbergDevice used in stealing the Ultrabox.
210	* MovingAngst: In the episode "Next Stop, Armageddon" this is the motive of the culprit, Oscar Guirerro, who sabotaged a model train exhibition held by X Middle School. Basically, his parents owned a store that catered to model train enthusiasts, but business isn't doing too well due to local tastes shifting towards remote controlled cars. As a result, the family intended to move to a different city where they expect the market to be more hospitable towards model trains. Oscar didn't want to leave, and so sought to cancel the move by sparking enough business for the model train shop, and did so by setting up a DisasterDominoes of the school's model train exhibition, with the ensuing destruction forcing the participants of the exhibition to buy replacement trains and tracks from the shop.
211	* MundaneMadeAwesome: The show runs on it. Special mention goes to Checkmatey, the hip-hop spouting, fangirl-attracting ''chess player''.
212	* MustacheVandalism: This is the 'crime' committed in "Masterstroke of Malevolence". Fillmore and Third must discover the identity of the vandal before the ink dries so the restorer can identify the brand of marker used and save the portrait. [[spoiler:The episode plays with the trope in an interesting way, as the 'vandal' turns out to be the portrait's original artist who considers the mustache to be a key missing feature of the picture.]]
213	* NerdyBully: One shows up in "A Dark Score Evened". After the BullyHunter team deal with some more traditional bullies, including a JerkJock and an AlphaBitch, they deal with Horace, an obnoxious kid in the [=IT=] department who spends most of the episode mocking everyone for not being as good with computers as he is. Horace protests to the squad that he can't possibly be a bully because he's just a computer geek, but the squad points out that he's just as adroit at hurting people and making them feel small as their first victims.
214	* NewKidStigma: When Ingrid Third transfers to X Middle School, everyone looks at her like she's something they've never seen before. Principal Folsom attempts to [[DefiedTrope Defy]] this trope by having the school razz her onstage on her first day (as in, throw balls at her to get their hate for her out of their system). This just makes her [=REALLY=] dislike being there. Parnassus actually used this trope to frame Ingrid for detonating a StinkBomb in the school in hopes of getting her expelled so she won't threaten his position as the smartest kid in school. This also comes up briefly in "[[Recap/FillmoreRedRobinsDontFly Red Robins Don't Fly]]", where a cheerleader tells Ingrid that she's still too new to be allowed to attend her party.
215	* NewOldFlame: Penny to Fillmore in "Immune To All But Justice". [[spoiler: She turns out to be a FilleFatale as well.]]
216	* NinjaLog: In "Play On, Maestro, Play On", Fillmore goes to tackle the Ultra-Box thief only to find the thief has somehow put his jacket, wig and tray on a dummy.
217	* NoHuggingNoKissing:
218	** Well, not completely. There's plenty of crushes and hugging among the secondary and one-off characters, but not between the main cast and there's no kissing other than Fillmore's old partner receiving a chaste congratulatory kiss on the cheek from a classmate after he gets promoted to School Patrol Sheriff.
219	** A lot of the villains are motivated by crushes, including in [[spoiler: "Test of the Tested" and the girl who poisoned a beloved lab spider because she thought her crush dislikes taking care of it (he actually loves it)]].
220	* NonGivingUpSchoolGuy: Truant Officer Langley Turk in "Field Trip of the Just". He plunges all the way into InspectorJavert territory, hunting Fillmore all the across the city and ignoring the fact that Fillmore has a note from the principal permitting him to be out of school; having decided on the basis of Fillmore's old record that it must be a forgery.
221	* NoodleIncident: A surprising amount for a series with only 26 episodes. For example, in "Foes Don't Forgive", Dewey's friend Kip Fontanello mentioned a "mustard incident" as a reason his mom deemed him too irresponsible to get a dog. Folsom tends to refer to these as reasons the Safety Patrol simply ''must'' solve cases -- and make her look good.
222	* NoPeriodsPeriod: Subtly averted: in a scene in "To Mar A Stall", you can clearly see a tampon container inside a girl's bathroom stall.
223	* NotMeThisTime: Sometimes occurs when a known troublemaker is actually not the Villain of the Week. Notable with Tony Clementina, who Fillmore wants to blame for a library book heist, when the perps are actually [[spoiler: the school book club.]]
224	* NotSoHarmless: While most of the culprits are completely harmless, [[spoiler: Francine Bishop]] nearly kills Fillmore. Twice. Though the first time [[spoiler: she]] probably doesn't plan it.
225	* ObfuscatingDisability: More than once, actually. Appears in both "Play On, Maestro, Play On" and "The Currency of Doubt".
226	* OccidentalOtaku: TQ Shrader is obviously caucasian, but is heavily invested in Japanese culture with the food he eats, the way he dresses, mannerisms and tea ceremonies. Worth noting that he has no visible interest in anime and manga, and is more akin to a "classical otaku" that is interested in Japanese traditions before its modernization.
227	* OfficerOHara: ''O'Farrell'' is a kilt-wearing ginger security member. Now, make an educated guess.
228	* OneHourWorkWeek:
229	** The kids at X don't seem to spend too much time in class. That or there's extremely long periods between classes and during lunch, and the kids all stay after school for various clubs and such.
230	** Fillmore and Ingrid visit the Smoit casino midday and there are plenty of kids there, implying either a generous lunch period or a whole lot of class cutting.
231	** On the other hand, almost every episode has someone late to a class or a club as an excuse.
232	* OneTrackMindedArtist: One pretentious character in "To Mar a Stall" remarks, when busted, "Yes! I draw toilets. Beautiful toilets. The perfect marriage of form and function, of style and substance, of water and porcelain."
233	* OutsideRide: In "Codename: Electric Haircut", Fillmore clings to the back of the stolen lockers as they are being driven away, before climbing over the top to perform a HighSpeedHijack.
234	* ThePasswordIsAlwaysSwordfish: According to "Two Wheels, Full Throttle, No Brakes", 9 out of 10 kids use their birthday as their bicycle lock combination. It turns into a ChekhovsGun since it later allows Fillmore to use Vallejo's bike in the chase scene.
235	* PerverseSexualLust: The teacher in "Masterstroke of Malevolence" is revealed very early on to be crushing on the subject of the painting "The Lobstermen At Port". One of the art museum personnel turns up ''really quickly'', bearing an extremely awkward expression, to get her to stop, presumably to spare everyone the need for BrainBleach.
236	* PetsHomageName: Fillmore has a goldfish named Thelonius (after jazz musician Music/TheloniousMonk). After Thelonious dies, he is replaced by a goldfish named Miles (after Music/MilesDavis).
237	* PhotographicMemory: Ingrid can't forget anything. While this is useful for investigations sometimes it backfires...
238	-->'''Ingrid''': ''I didn't need that in my photographic memory.''
239	* PlatonicLifePartners: Throughout the whole series there is never even a single hint that Fillmore and Ingrid want to be more than friends.
240	* PluckyComicRelief: O'Farrell, an upbeat and enthusiastic character who supplies many of the funniest moments in the show. Not all of them on purpose.
241	* PlotHole:
242	** In "Nappers Never Sleep", Fillmore tells Ingrid, when she mentions her sister, that he didn't know she had a sister, when she told him this at the very beginning of the episode and it's nowhere implied he was ignoring her or not paying attention.
243	** In "The Shreds Fell Like Snowflakes", Frank Bishop tells Fillmore that he thought about their earlier conversation, specifically what Fillmore said about innocent people getting hurt, and that's what made him decide to help despite not being fond of the Safety Patrol. Thing is, Fillmore never said anything to that effect during their conversation.
244	** In the climax of "The Shreds Fell Like Snowflakes", among the reasons the heroes start [[spoiler:correctly]] suspecting Frank's sister are that she was the only other person who knew they were staking out the science fair and interfered with their surveilance. However, she wasn't around when they talked about staking out the science fair and also was never seen at the science fair [[spoiler:except as the hooded figure Fillmore chases]].
245	** In "Foes Don't Forgive", a major plot point is about how former delinquent Linus Santiago learned how to be a magician while serving a long-term detention. But according to "Wurm in Our Midst", students can't do anything during detention besides their homework.
246	* PomPomGirl:
247	** Recurring cheerleaders Maryanne Greene and Cheri Shotwell are a bit ditzy but fairly nice and seem dedicated to cheering.
248	** Maryanne's friend Alexis from "Codename: Electric Haircut" is another cheerleader who everyone speaks highly of but who has mysteriously disappeared [[spoiler:after returning to her old role as a helpful computer geek, although she finds a balance between the two lifestyles at the end of the episode.]]
249	** Lorraine Almaden from "Nappers Never Sleep" was an example of the trope, but quit cheering due to having only taken it up to hang out with her former friend Biana, who turns out to be more of a CruelCheerleader.
250	* PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy: Checkmatey, X Middle School's rapping chess grandmaster in "Of Slain Kings on Checkered Fields" is cacuasian.
251	* TheProfiler: Frank Bishop, Vallejo's old partner in "The Shreds Fell Like Snowflakes". He is called back to duty to profile the mysterious Shredder who shredding various students' pet projects.
252	* RailEnthusiast: The model train club is full of rail enthusiasts, to the point of holding conventions and having a rivalry with the RC car club.
253	* RecurringExtra: The show has a large cast of background characters with certain ones showing up in multiple episodes. Most of them end up as suspects, victims etc, in specific episodes.
254	* RedLiveLobster: Subverted. The mascot of Filmore's school is a lobster, which, surprisingly, is shown as a brownish-green color. In one episode, the lobster mascot is kidnapped, and one of the suspects is caught with a lobster in a bag. A red lobster, which means it was cooked. Fortunately, it turns out not to be the mascot lobster.
255	* RubeGoldbergDevice: Part of the villain's signature in "Play On, Maestro! Play On!"
256	* RunningGag:
257	** Ingrid gives mention on multiple occasions to her "photographic memory".
258	** Folsom threatening to "turn the Safety Patrol into ____!" if they fail.
259	** Fillmore causing serious damage to school property while chasing after a culprit.
260	* ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules: George, the main antagonist of "A Cold Day At X", immediately recognizes Fillmore as this sort of person, and when one of his wealthy fellow would-be test stealers suggests buying him off, George instantly shoots this down as an incredibly stupid idea:
261	-->'''Carter''': I say! Can't we simply pay this Fillmore fellow to give us what we want?
262	-->'''George''': He spent... ''the whole night'' guarding that test. ''Does that sound like someone who can be bought!?''
263	* SeriousBusiness: This is really the main trope that fuels the humor for the show. Even though the cast is largely made up of kids in middle school, they treat their hobbies and [[SchoolClubsAreSeriousBusiness school club activities]] as seriously as any adult character on ''Series/LawAndOrder'' would treat their job.
264	* ScoutOut: The Red Robins in "Red Robbins Don't Fly", who are running a protection racket.
265	* SmallTownTyrant: Patrol Sheriff Thrift in "South of Friendship, North of Honor" is a parody of the stereotypical corrupt Southern sheriff.
266	* SoapboxSadie: X Middle School has a few.
267	** Enid Quintara is passionate about ending the S.A.T.T.Y-9 test, to the point of protesting in front of Folsom's office.
268	%%** Stella Valencia, a militant vegetarian from "A Dark Score Evened," is the same way.
269	%%** Sarah Beale from "Masterstroke of Malevolence" is another one, to the point she is a suspect in the defacing of the painting ''Lobstermen at Port''.
270	* ShaggyDogStory: For the culprit who poisoned the lab spider in "Field Trip of the Just" [[spoiler: since she thought it would make her crush happy since he always complained about taking care of it for the teacher while he actually loves it and just complained for the sake of keeping up his rep. When she finds out, [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone she's horrified]]]].
271	* SheetOfGlass: Parodied. The characters run through a giant cube of gelatin, which also allows them to parody SlowMotion shots.
272	* ShipperOnDeck: Wayne Ligget ships Fillmore/Ingrid. Without knowing Ingrid, only having read about her in Fillmore's letter.
273	%%* ShipTease: Between Fillmore and Penny in "Immune To All But Justice", until the end.
274	* ShoutOut: The show often includes homages to other stories that probably went over the heads of a lot of the younger audience members.
275	** For example, there's the [[Literature/TheSilenceOfTheLambs genius art student turned graffiti artist kept in "a permanent state of detention" without access to art supplies, known by the name "Randal the Vandal"]].
276	*** From the same episode: the plot revolves around toilets being graffitied, and types of art. One pretentious character remarks, when busted "Yes! I draw toilets. Beautiful toilets. The perfect marriage of form and function, of style and substance, of water and porcelain." There's a very famous (and originally very controversial) piece known as the Fountain, a urinal tagged with ''R Mutt.'' The original was destroyed, but remains immortalized in a photograph. One wonders how much the writers and animators were making a tribute to their art history classes...
277	** There's also a ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' reference in the early Season 1 episode "Test of the Tested" when Fillmore and Ingrid are chasing after Augie Samson and they run through a cheer practice. The cheer director remarks that the pyramid the cheerleaders make is "as solid as a Geodude using its Harden attack".
278	** In the model train episode, a subplot is focused on the death of Fillmore's goldfish. The goldfish is named "[[Music/TheloniousMonk Thelonious]]". Later, he gets a replacement, and calls it "[[Music/MilesDavis Miles]]".
279	** In one episode, Fillmore and Ingrid interrogate the son of a Canadian diplomat, who rubs Fillmore the wrong way. On his way out, Fillmore "accidentally" knocks over a bottle of maple syrup, spilling it over the floor, then said, "Oh, I'm sorry. [[Series/FamilyMatters Did I do that?]]" In another episode, Fillmore "accidentally" ruins another rude suspect's souffle by popping an inflated paper bag, then states the same line.
280	*** In the same episode, Ingrid runs a distraction by posing as an eco rights activist for pine trees. One of her lines is "[[Literature/TheLorax Who speaks for the trees!?]]"
281	** ''If loving Checkmatey is a crime, then [[{{Music/Alabama}} I plead guilty in the first degree]]!''
282	*** Principal Fulsom also says Checkmatey "-can make those bishops dance like [[Music/BritneySpears Britney with a boa]]."
283	** Ingrid says [[{{Series/Cheers}} she has an eggplant that looks like]] [[Music/LimpBizkit Fred Durst]].
284	* SkeletonKeyCard: In "Test of the Tested", Ingrid uses her library card to spring the lock on the equipment storeroom in the basement of the gym.
285	* SoulBrotha: Fillmore, quite often.
286	* StealthPun
287	** In the episode "Test of the Tested", a panicked student barges into a crime scene and starts a round of incoherent complaining before Fillmore silences him with a splash of water. Fillmore then reveals this student's name to be "Willie" in an offhand comment. Coupled with the fact that this kid ran in from the swimming pool, and was still in full swim attire (plus a cow inflatable), you could say he was a "wet willie".
288	* StolenByStayingStill: When Fillmore visits his former partner Wayne's school and all of the pralines the school was planning to sell get stolen mysteriously from a secured brick vault, Fillmore and Wayne eventually figure out that the pralines have actually been hidden inside the vault itself, their boxes painted the color of brick (with food coloring to prevent anyone from smelling paint) and stacked up against the wall.
289	* StrangersOnATrainPlotMurder: "A Dark Score Evened", only without the murder.
290	* StrawFan: "The Unseen Reflection" has three different straw fangirls.
291	* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: The episode "South of Friendship, North or Honor" has a southern {{Expy}} of O'Farrell named Jeeter at the school of Fillmore's former partner, Wayne. He's [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} goofy]], [[ButtMonkey he doesn't get a lot of respect by his fellow Safety Patrollers]], [[spoiler:[[TokenGoodTeammate and ends up helping Fillmore and Wayne find evidence that his Safety Patrol commissioner is dirty]]]].
292	* SuspiciousSkiMask
293	** A masked assailant ambushes Ingrid and Fillmore while wearing the mouthless version of this mask as well as a dark purple visor in "The Currency of Doubt." The masked person performs an impressive backflip over pile up of spilled baskets. Seeing Tina perform a similar move and finding out Larry, their prime suspect, has an alibi leads Fillmore to have a EurekaMoment as he realizes that the masked assailant was not a guy, but a [[SamusIsAGirl girl]] and this girl was likely Natasha who's acrobatic enough to perform such an impressive backflip.
294	** A fleeing suspect in "A Dark Score Evened" wears a full face version along with eye obscuring glasses. Fillmore later deduces that this suspect was part of a vigilante team and that the suspect in particular was Grover since he mentioned having a fear of non-dairy whipped topping. Something the suspect flinched at after running into Wilbur who was carrying a can of it while Fillmore and Ingrid pursued him.
295	* SympatheticCriminal: Some of the culprits have motives that are understandable and even outright sympathetic. [[DownplayedTrope That said, the characters only look at them as sympathetic, not justified.]]
296	* TamperingWithFoodAndDrink: In "The Currency of Doubt", Toby ends up the prime suspect in the stealing of the Smoit stash that he and partner Tina built together after claiming to have been home sick that day, as he has no one to confirm his alibi. After Fillmore's curiosity is peaked when they don't find the stash and Toby informs him that his gambling debts, the reason he's a suspect in the first place, are still unpaid, he and Ingrid go through Tony's locker. They discover he was set up by having his hard-boiled eggs, something he is fairly well known for eating, replaced by cheese eggs, which, since Toby is lactose intolerant ([[ChekhovsGun a fact established early in the episode]]), naturally sent him home with stomach trouble.
297	* ThirdPersonPerson: Derrick Minna in "Two Wheels, Full Throttle, No Brakes". He's constantly referring to himself as 'Derrick Minna', especially in his press conferences, and only ever uses the word "I" by immediately following it up with "Derrick Minna".
298	* {{Troperiffic}}: Concerning {{Cop Show}}s, at least, to the point that one can predict the entire episode from the basic premise.
299	* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Vallejo loves his hot cocoa, and can also usually be seen with some canned pasta on his desk in most episodes.
300	* TrainEscape: The villain in "Next Stop: Armageddon" attempts the 'uncouple the train carriages' version to get away from Fillmore. On a miniature train.
301	* TraintopBattle: In "Next Stop: Armageddon", Fillmore chases the perp of the week across the roof of a miniature train.
302	* TrickedIntoSigning: Fillmore tricks Commissioner Vallejo into signing a requisition form for an expensive new set of walkie-talkies by almost knocking a lamp down on him and then confusing him with slang. ItMakesSenseInContext.
303	* TurnInYourBadge:
304	** In "A Forgotten Yesterday", Fillmore is suspended from the Safety Patrol when a cache of bootleg hall passes is found in his desk.
305	** Wayne ends up manipulated into this by [[DirtyCop his corrupt commissioner]] who places personal photos on Wayne's desk, claims it's a violation of protocol and demands Wayne's badge. This is revoked when Fillmore and Wayne bust him.
306	* UnconventionalVehicleChase: In one episode, Fillmore does a FlashedBadgeHijack to commandeer a floor buffer to pursue a suspect.
307	* VehicularSabotage: While working a case to recover a binder full of term papers, Fillmore has the brake lines in his bicycle replaced with ketchup and mustard dispensers.
308	* VillainWithGoodPublicity:
309	** Aside from making the evidence disappear, Parnassus in "Ingrid Third: Public Enemy No. 1" is able to avoid punishment not only by having his dim-witted associate take the blame, but because Parnassus' accomplishments and services to the school are so good, Folsom refuses to believe he did anything wrong.
310	** [[spoiler: Derrick Minna]], A.K.A. Stingray.
311	* VomitingCop: O'Farrell in "Next Stop, Armageddon". When he sees the sight of a model train wreck, he gets the urge to throw up and heads for the restroom.
312	* WayPastTheExpirationDate: The end of one episode has all the Safety Patrollers hanging out at Ingrid's house. O'Farrel is eating raw cookie dough out of a carton that the others remark is decades old. Ingrid goes on to recite the ingredients from memory and reassures him that the dough [[IndestructibleEdible contains enough preservatives to "outlast the Sphinx"]].
313	* WellIntentionedExtremist: Some of the criminals from time to time.
314	* WholePlotReference: "A Cold Day at X", "Two Wheels, Full Throttle, No Brakes", "Immune to All But Justice" and "To Mar A Stall" are essentially kid-friendly versions of ''Film/DieHard'', ''Film/GoneInSixtySeconds2000'', ''Film/LethalWeapon2'' and ''Literature/TheSilenceOfTheLambs'' respectively.
315	* WhosLaughingNow: [[spoiler:Grover Brady]], [[spoiler:Becca Baccadero]], [[spoiler:Wilbur]] and [[spoiler:Stella Valenzia]] made a pact while in detention and formed a "bully payback squad" to turn the tables on the people who have bullied them time and time again.
316	* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: In "A Wurm in Our Midst," Tony Clementina has a phobia of heights so intense he refused to read ''Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator,'' and threw up during a showing of ''The Red Balloon.''
317	* WondrousLadiesRoom:
318	** "To Mar a Stall".
319	** Additionally in "A Dark Score Evened":
320	-->'''O'Farrell:''' "It's clean. The girl's bathroom is clean! Why is the boy's room such a pit?! It smells like lavender in here. I love lavender!" {{Beat}} "I'll be outside."
321	* WunzaPlot: Like many police procedural tropes which are used in the series, Ingrid and Fillmore's partnership works on the principle that one's a [[spoiler:smarter than average social outcast with a photographic memory]] and the other's a [[spoiler:reformed juvenile delinquent]].
322	* YellowSashOfPower: Downplayed with the Safety Patrol's orange sash. While the Safety Patrol is essentially treated like the school's police force and the sash is the equivalent of a policeman's shield, it has very tight limits on authority and an abundance of accountability.

Context WesternAnimation / Fillmore