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9	->''"My name is Cleveland Brown, and I am proud to be...\
10	Right back in my hometown, with my new family!\
11	There’s old friends and new friends and even a bear\
12	Through good times and bad times, it’s true love we share!\
13	And so I found a place, where everyone will know...\
14	My happy mustached face, this is THE CLEVELAND SHOW!" giggle''
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16	''The Cleveland Show'' is a ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' SpinOff starring bit character Cleveland Brown. The show follows Cleveland's new life in his hometown in {{UsefulNotes/Virginia}} as he remarries his old flame Donna and settles down to raise his own child, Cleveland Jr., now a morbidly obese, shy boy, and his two stepchildren, teenager Roberta and five-year-old Rallo.
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18	It [[SharedUniverse takes place in the same universe]] as ''Family Guy'' and the characters cross paths on occasion, but like ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'', the series gradually steps out of the shadow of its predecessors to find its own brand of humor, developing the title character as far more sympathetic than the other leads and using a more subtle comic style throughout.
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20	The series was launched in September 2009 and was renewed for a second season before the first episode had even aired, supposedly due to positive reaction to a deliberately leaked pilot. However, it was cancelled after the fourth season finished airing in 2013, making it the first Creator/SethMacFarlane-penned show that went down with no hope for a revival.
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22	!!''The Cleveland Show'' contains examples of:
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27	* AbusiveParents: Pretty much the entire cast has abusive parents.
28	** Cleveland's father Freight Train was (and still is) emotionally and physically abusive.
29	** Donna's mother abandoned her at birth and left her to be raised by "Auntie Momma" (in reality her uncle Kevin in drag).
30	** Tim had a massive falling out with his father, both because Tim hated living in the woods and moved to human society and because he took Arianna from him in a display of dominance.
31	** Holt's father treats him like crap because of his height.
32	* AccidentalMisnaming: In "A Cleveland Brown Christmas," Robert refers to Rallo as "Rolo" and "Rocko," and Roberta as "Rwanda."
33	* {{Acrofatic}}: Cleveland Junior can move pretty fast for a boy his size when he wants to.
34	* AdultAdoptee: In the episode "Hustle 'N' Bros", Cleveland's father adopts Donna's ex-husband Robert.
35	* AfroAsskicker: [[spoiler: Donna]] as Hot Cocoa Bang Bang.
36	* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Cleveland's parents Cookie and "Freight Train". Even Donna shows this to some degree; in some episodes she seems to express some amount of [[WhatDoesSheSeeInHim dissatisfaction]] with the meek and passive Cleveland and pines for her neglectful ex-husband Robert.
37	* AllLoveIsUnrequited: Arguably the case with Tim the Bear. He's indicated at least a couple of times that he has a crush on Donna.
38	* AnimationBump: The Hip Hop Illuminati song in "Menace II Secret Society."
39	* AngryCollarGrab: In the pilot, Cleveland does this to Federline when telling him not to try anything strange with Roberta on their date.
40	* AscendedExtra: Dr. Fist, who went from being a minor character voiced by Seth [=MacFarlane=] (and later [[TheOtherDarrin Tom Kenny]], when Seth was busy with the movie ''Ted'') before getting a [[ADayInTheLimelight full episode dedicated to him]] late in the 4th season, during which he was voiced by Bryan Cranston. After which, he became a main member of Cleveland's drinking buddies, still voiced by Cranston.
41	* AsTheGoodBookSays: Invoked by Rallo, though it promptly backfires.
42	--> '''Rallo''': Doesn't the Bible teach us about forgiveness?
43	--> '''Lester''': And ''[[RevengeBeforeReason vengeance]]''.
44	--> '''Rallo''': And doesn't it say about loving thy neighbour?
45	--> '''Lester''': And [[KickTheDog killing sodomites.]]
46	* AuthorFilibuster: Subverted. Cleveland takes time out of the episode to complain about what's wrong with America today, but it turns out that it's just a set up for another gag, and that Cleveland was merely reciting lines from a play.
47	* [[AwesomeMcCoolName Awesome [=McCoolName=]]]: Cleveland's father.
48	-->'''Holt''': Cool nickname. Why do they call you Freight Train?
49	-->'''Freight Train''': 'cause I destroyed [[YourMom your mama]] on the train tracks.
50	* AxCrazy: Donnie.
51	* BankruptcyBarrel: Happens to Cleveland, Freight Train, and Rollo at the end of "The Way The Cookie Crumbles".
52	* BearsAreBadNews: Averted with Tim the Bear. Yes, he does growl and threaten to claw and maul people, but really, he's more human than bear (not on the same level as Brian acting more human than dog on ''Family Guy'', but pretty close). And the episode "Like a Boss" reveals that he moved into a house because he's afraid of living in the woods.
53	** He has attacked a handful of people, most notably Lester when the gang briefly got into a fight, and severely injured him.
54	* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Cleveland's once fat (now hot) high school classmate was still obsessed with him.
55	* BewareTheNiceOnes: Cleveland Junior is constantly proving that you should heed this.
56	* BigEater:
57	** Tim, being a bear. In one episode, he gorges himself at a huge buffet and still wants more.
58	--->'''Tim:''' "All you can eat" my furry ass!
59	** Also Cleveland Jr. and Kendra, Lester's morbidly obese wife.
60	* BigDamnMovie: Parodied with a cold-open trailer that seems to be a mix of every action movie from the 1980s to now ever made.
61	* BigThinShortTrio: The Tubbs-Brown siblings: Junior (big), Roberta (thin), and Rallo (short).
62	* BitchInSheepsClothing: Arianna.
63	* BitingTheHandHumor: In "Love Rollercoaster", Cleveland Jr. and Roberta ([[spoiler:[[ItMakesSenseInContext disguised as a fat girl]]]]) have trouble perfecting Junior's science-fair rocket:
64	-->'''Cleveland Jr.:''' Another failed launch. I'm starting to feel like whoever's in charge of Fox's live-action sitcoms.
65	** In "Frapp Attack", Rallo brags about how many views on Youtube his video making fun of Cleveland has gotten. Cleveland complains, "Why couldn't this have been on the Fox homepage? Then, no one would've seen it."
66	** In "American Prankster", when a judge demands Rallo be put in juvenile detention for 6 months, Donna says, "My baby is going away for six months! Oh, Rallo, when you come back you won't recognize any live-action shows on Fox."
67	** Done and subverted in "Mama Drama" when Cleveland calls himself "The Finder". It gets pointed out that that's already the name of a show on Fox, and Cleveland says The Finder can't find any decent ratings. He then immediately apologizes and begs not to be cancelled, promising he's a company man.
68	* BlackAndNerdy: Cleveland Junior, who is nerdy even by white people standards.
69	* BlackComedyRape: The final scene of "A Cleveland Brown Christmas".
70	* BlackGalOnWhiteGuyDrama: Roberta dates Federline, a white man [[PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy who acts black]]. Rallo (during a black supremacist phase) asks his sister why she's going out with a white guy, she answers with "Do I look like a white girl? Or an Asian girl, or a..."
71	* BlatantLies: "I fought off six Al Qaedas."
72	* BlendedFamilyDrama: The show is partially about learning to live in a blended family — specifically one formed by Cleveland, his old flame Donna, his biological son Cleveland Jr., and his stepchildren Roberta and Rallo, with whom he doesn't quite get along.
73	* BrattyHalfPint: Rallo
74	* BrattyTeenageDaughter: Roberta.
75	* BreadEggsBreadedEggs: In "How Do You Solve A Problem Like Roberta?", a Cutaway Gag has Jackie Earle Haley try to pick up chicks by saying he's been in the movies Little Children, Watchmen, and the remake of A Nightmare On Elm Street. He then adds, "I played the child molester, the serial killer, and the serial killing child molester."
76	* BreakTheHaughty: In "Pins, Spins, & Fins!", Donna takes Rallo bowling, and at the behest of one of the employees, she lets Rallo bowl with gutter rails up, so he never throws a gutterball. Rallo throws several strikes thanks to the rails keeping his throws from going into the gutter, and it quickly goes to his head. He brags about how good he is and harshly insults Donna's bowling ability... until she gets sick of it and takes the rails down in the middle of one of his rolls. The gutterball he throws brings him back down to Earth and then some.
77	* BrickJoke: In the beginning of the episode "Ladies Night", Arianna offhandedly comments about how she likes confetti so much that she actually keeps some in her house to take with her to parades and such. At the end of the episode, after Cleveland Jr. [[spoiler:wins the election for student body president]], Arianna shows up to collect confetti from the auditorium floor.
78	* BrokenAesop: The moral of the episode, "The Hurricane," was suggested to be the importance of keeping an open mind and respecting the view points of others. The problem is that the one who learned the lesson (Cleveland Junior) was the one being persecuted by the rest of his family for not believing in God like the rest of them. In fact the only time he does actually mock their beliefs is towards the episode's end and only after being threatened with damnation if he didn't change his views and even being blamed for Cleveland being stuck under a collapsed tree as punishment by God for Junior's atheism. And of course since Creator/SethMacfarlane has a tendency to use his shows as a soapbox for his own views, the rest of the Family is depicted as being morons for having faith. Especially towards the end when Junior uses a system of pulleys to free Cleveland and the rest of them instead credit it to God answering their prayers.
79	** "Grave Danger" has Rallo dealing with three bullies harassing him and his friends at the kindergarten. While it is setup for the bullies to learn their lesson by stop bullying others, the children there call them names about their social standing, forcing Rallo to call his friends out on their behavior to the bullies, who then receive gifts from the others to earn sympathy. The bullying issue is entirely dropped out as they leave happily with their new stuff and Rallo's kiddie bike [[spoiler:before Rallo [[DisproportionateRetribution calls the police to arrest them since he can't forget they were annoying]].]]
80	* BusCrash: [[spoiler:Loretta]], who had not had any speaking lines since ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'''s fourth season (with the exception of one episode), is killed in a cutaway.
81	* TheCameo: In "Hot Cocoa Bang Bang" [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Jeff "Comic Book Guy" Albertson]] makes a speaking cameo, voiced by Creator/HankAzaria.
82	-->'''Comic Book Guy:''' Worst. Cameo. Ever.
83	* CelebrityCasualty: Creator/JuliaRoberts briefly shows up at the end of "Cleveland Live" just to be crushed under a falling stage light.
84	* CharacterCatchphrase:
85	** When Donna is surprised by a turn of events, she often shouts "Sweet [X] and [something that rhymes with X]!"
86	** If Roberta is within earshot of someone mentioning pancakes, she'll pop into the scene and exclaim "Did somebody say pancakes?!"
87	** Cleveland tends to try justifying things he does by telling Donna "Ain't nothin' but somethin' to do."
88	* CharacterizationMarchesOn:
89	** Tim the Bear was devoutly religious in the early episodes, and he was a smoker but kept it a secret from his wife. The smoking part was dropped after the pilot episode.
90	** Donna started out being nicer and HappilyMarried to Cleveland. She eventually TookALevelInJerkAss as the show progressed, and she and Cleveland constantly bicker.
91	* ChekhovsSkill: Combined with a BrickJoke. At the beginning of one episode, Cleveland Jr. slowly rolls into the scene, explaining that he's practicing what he would do if he were on fire. This looks like usual Cleveland Jr. weirdness until a house he is in catches fire at the end.
92	* ChildhoodFriendRomance: Cleveland and Donna. They were best friends when they were in school, but eventually, Cleveland began to develop feelings for her- feelings that went unreciprocated, as Donna fell in love with Robert Tubbs instead. Once Cleveland returned to Stoolbend, he reunited with Donna (who had divorced Robert), and their friendship was rekindled and blossomed into a romance.
93	* ChristmasEpisode:
94	** "A Cleveland Brown Christmas" (Season 1): While playing Santa at the Waterman Cable Christmas party, Cleveland shatters Rallo's faith in his dad. To save the holiday for him, Cleveland tries to find Robert and repair the father/son relationship.
95	** "Murray Christmas" (Season 2): Rallo befriends Murray, an elderly man in a retirement community. Meanwhile, Donna trains Cleveland to face Freight Train in the Brown version of Boxing Day, only for Freight Train to wind up hospitalized.
96	** "Die Semi-Hard" (Season 3): Cleveland tells the family the story of ''Film/DieHard''.
97	** "'Tis the Cleveland to Be Sorry" (Season 4): Rather than volunteer at a shelter, Cleveland pretends to be homeless to get some quality food, is exposed on the news, and has to salvage his image. Meanwhile, Roberta tries to help Kendra fulfill her dream of being a MallSanta.
98	* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Cleveland's best friend Terry had his screen time significantly drop only AFTER he was finally given a trait that sets him apart from the other friends (he's a bisexual). He eventually disappeared altogether only to be replaced by Dr. Fist (who was now voiced by [[Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle Bryan]] [[Series/BreakingBad Cranston]] rather than Creator/SethMacFarlane -- and, on one occasion, Creator/TomKenny).
99	* CloudCuckoolander: Cleveland Jr.
100	* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Lester Krinklesac doesn't realize the historical significance of the Confederate Flag, instead thinking it to be a tribute to ''Series/TheDukesOfHazzard''.
101	* ConstructiveBodyDisposal: One episode has a CutawayGag that shows what WesternAnimation/BobTheBuilder is like before his morning coffee; he kills a guy that makes him angry with a hammer and hides his body by covering it with concrete and building a house over it.
102	* ContinuityNod: [[WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy Meg]] makes a cameo and continues to be the ButtMonkey during the opening credits for the first ChristmasEpisode.
103	* ControlFreak: Principal Farquhare
104	* CoolAndUnusualPunishment:
105	** Rallo gets an elaborate one for his pranks.
106	** Cleveland and Lester's lawsuit was settled this way.
107	* CringeComedy: Despite the humor being a little lighter than what you find on ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' and ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'', this show is ''still'' more messed up and cringe-worthy than Seth [=McFarlane's=] other shows.
108	* {{Crossover}}:
109	** The first third of the pilot is a crossover with originating show ''Family Guy'' (in fact, it's ''exactly like a regular Family Guy episode''), where it's explained why Cleveland's leaving Quahog (his divorce with Loretta was finalized and she got the house, and he was tired of always being the ButtMonkey in Peter's jokes/schemes/insanity).
110	** Peter makes a guest appearance in season 3's "[=BFFs=]".
111	* CrossReferencedTitles: "To Live and Die in VA" recalls the episode "To Live and Die in Dixie" from the third season of ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy''.
112	* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Cleveland Jr., the badass part showing more and more often as of late.
113	* CrowdSong: "Small Ass Town (Big Ass Hearts)" from the episode, "The Blue, The Gray, and The Brown".
114	* CutShort: The final episode of Season 4 set up a plot thread about [[spoiler:Dee Dee and Robert getting married and raising a Chinese baby named Hong Kong Phooey]] but the show got canceled so the story never came to be.
115	* CutawayGag: Just like ''Family Guy'', the show uses this, though not in excess.
116	* DawsonCasting: Done and mocked in the episode "Little Man On Campus", when Cleveland has the 32 year old Holt pretend to be a transfer high school student named Colt because Cleveland needed a new pitcher for the baseball team. The other teens comment on this.
117	-->'''Teen Girl #1:'''Wow, Colt, you're such a good baseball player.
118	-->'''Teen Girl #2:'''And you're so mature with your five 'o clock shadow, and your crow's feet, and your graying nose hairs..."
119	-->'''Teen Girl #3:'''Yeah, you look just like the teenagers on TV!
120	* DeadpanSnarker: Cleveland's mother Cookie, to anyone who isn't her son or grandchildren. Especially Donna.
121	* DeepSouth: The show takes place in the fictional town of Stoolbend, Virginia, and one of Cleveland's neighbors ''seems'' to be an out-and-out racist.
122	* DemotedToExtra: Roberta was demoted to this a little into the first season, having very little screen time and even less dialog. She is also currently the only member of Cleveland's new family that hasn't met the Griffins. However this was mainly due to her voice actress being put on maternity leave.
123	** Donna meets the Griffins when she and Cleveland have extended cameos in a ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' episode in 2011.
124	** It would have been commendable of the show to reveal that Cleveland's womanizing best friend Terry is bisexual and in a relationship with a man voiced by Music/JustinTimberlake (the same one who was in *Music/{{NSYNC}} and is one of ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'''s most memorable and frequent hosts)... if it weren't for the fact that Terry was demoted immediately afterwards. To add insult to injury, Terry was eventually replaced by Dr. Fist (who wasn't all that memorable or great) in later episodes.
125	* DeusExMachina: Whenever any characters find themselves heading toward an InevitableWaterfall, the scene will cut off (a la a hastily-edited movie) and then cut back to them thanking the magical talking walrus Mr. Flippers for somehow saving them.
126	* DevotedToYou: Cleveland to Donna. Once even [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] by Donna. Even Cleveland's comic dream was for her.
127	* DiegeticSoundtrackUsage: In "Til Deaf", Cleveland asks to be played out, and Donna uses a oboe to play the opening theme.
128	* DisproportionateRetribution: Donny in "Nightmare On Grace Street". Because Cleveland mocked his bee costume and his puns, he tries to ''kill'' Cleveland and his family!
129	* DistractedByTheSexy: Lester, Holt and Tim by Roberta in a skimpy bikini in the season two episode "Fat And Wet".
130	* DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale: Averted and played straight simultaneously. One episode involves Cleveland trying to find a girlfriend for Holt. He succeeds, but it's not long before he and his friends discover that she's been physically abusive to him. When they go to confront her about this, she responds by beating the crap out of each of them (even Tim the bear). None of them fight back because they WouldntHitAGirl. Predictably, this is to set up a DesignatedGirlFight with Donna near the end of the episode.
131	** Donna has hit Cleveland on more than one occasion, and it's ''always'' PlayedForLaughs.
132	* DoubleEntendre:
133	** Cleveland unintentionally does one when he tries to get someone to play with Cleveland Jr. He ends up getting busted for soliciting sex from a minor.
134	** For a nonsexual example, in "My Gang" Cleveland gets the task of changing some troublemakers from Stoolbend High to good kids. He wants to do this by making them sell a product, and pitches that they sell cookies - though the way he describes the business strategy sounds suspiciously like selling drugs [[spoiler: which the kids notice and do. HilarityEnsues]].
135	* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: "Essence of Cleveland", the formerly fat Patty drugs Cleveland then steals a sample of his "essence," planning to impregnate herself with it. While Cleveland is understandably squicked by this, Donna blames Cleveland for it because she told him not to see the woman. The whole situation is, as always, played for laughs.
136	* DrillSergeantNasty: Holt's father. Shows constant contempt for his son who was not the required height to join the army. He ends forcing the ''entire cast'' to do push ups.
137	* DumbJock: Oliver. He talks and ''sounds'' like an idiot, although his [[DeafComposer deafness compensates for that]].
138	* EnhanceButton: Done on Junior's laptop with a Website/YouTube video no less.
139	* EvenEvilHasStandards: Kenny West's ego is to big even for [[spoiler: The Hip-Hop Illuminati.]]
140	* TheEveryMan: This was pretty much Cleveland's role on ''Family Guy'' as well, considering how disturbing Peter, Quagmire and even Joe acted at times.
141	* {{Expy}}: A bit here and there, but actually averted to some degree.
142	** While (for example) Rallo fills much the same role as Stewie (toddler-aged child prone to un-childlike behavior), but Rallo isn't a matricidal DepravedBisexual bent on world domination.
143	** Roberta is a stand-in for Hayley on ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad''; though, unlike Hayley, Roberta doesn't care about politics (though she did stand up for animal rights and sexual harassment in the workplace on two separate occasions), is still in high school, and isn't Hollywood Homely. However, she followed Hayley's footsteps in terms of getting less screentime as the series went on.
144	** Brian has some similarities to Tim, both tending to be the voices of reason in their respective shows, both being talking animals (a dog and a bear respectively), and both voiced by [=MacFarlane=]. However Tim the Bear has proven he's ''not'' like Brian at all in personality. Tim is actually aware that he's a bear and acts like a bear on occasion (compare to the later episodes of ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' where Brian's {{FurryReminder}}s of being a dog are very few and far between), he's a devout Christian (but not to the point where he would be TheFundamentalist), the voice Creator/SethMacFarlane did for Tim is very distinct from Brian, Tim doesn't live with Cleveland, and Tim actually has clothes on (even if it's just a shirt with no pants).
145	** Cleveland Jr., who was originally a thin, smart, hyperactive kid in ''Family Guy'', has become a physical duplicate of Chris. Their intelligence levels and personalities are pretty different though. He also bears similarities to ''American Dad!'s'' Barry Robinson, being a heavyset teenager who's outwardly wholesome and innocent but sometimes exhibits darker, disturbing personality traits.
146	** Side character Kenny West is ''[[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial not]]'' the same person as Kanye West (who actually provides the voice). He just sounds like him, looks like him, lives the same lifestyle, is exactly as famous for doing exactly the same thing, and once accidentally called himself Kanye.
147	** Holt Richter, who is very similar to Quagmire, in that he's a sex hound and is the only member in Cleveland's circle of friends who is not married (until Terry and Dr. Fist come along).
148	** Federline, to a certain extent, is pretty much a stand-in for American Dad!'s Jeff Fischer. They even wear similar hats.
149	* FakePregnancy: In the episode "A Vas Deferens Between Men And Women", Donna and Cleveland decide to have a baby. However, Cleveland eventually discovers he had a vasectomy while drunk a while back, but can't break the news to Donna. Donna eventually finds out and pretends to be pregnant to mess with him. She won't admit to lying until he admits to lying about the vasectomy; Cleveland finds out and won't give in until Donna admits she's not pregnant, and the two basically spend nine months carrying on a battle of wills.
150	* FanDisservice: Donna without her make-up, padding, wig or false teeth. And no, it's not just a one-time gag. It's canon.
151	* FanService:
152	** If you had a liking for Terry, then you'll love the episode "Brotherly Love".
153	** Roberta's no slouch in this department either, and sometimes she even does it intentionally. Two good example are the episodes "Fat And Wet" & "To Live And Die In VA" which have Roberta in a bikini in the former and dressed as [[Film/ReturnOfTheJedi Slave Leia]] in the latter.
154	* FieryRedhead: Arianna.
155	* FirstEpisodeTwist: If you've watched any episode other than the {{pilot}}, you already know that Cleveland marries Donna and adopts Roberta and Rallo, ditching his plans to move to California. Of course, when you do watch the pilot, you'll have this spoiled ''by the episode itself'' in [[SpoilerOpening the first few minutes]] when they play the ExpositoryThemeTune: "Right back in my hometown / ''with my new family'' (gestures at Donna and the kids)"!
156	* FlirtyStepsiblings: Cleveland Jr. has a crush on "Tyra", who is actually Roberta in a fat-suit.
157	* FlushingToiletScreamingShower: Rallo does this to Cleveland in "American Prankster".
158	* ForgotICouldFly: Averted. Tim remembers he's a bear and nonchalantly threatens to tear Donna to bits if she doesn't stop faking having broken legs and using it to exploit Cleveland around the house.
159	* FurryConfusion: Tim (An anthropomorphic bear) had apparently been donating money to "Fight bear AIDS", for it to go to a cutaway gag of a badly mauled scientist coming out of his lab and another asking if he got the condom on a (Probably) normal bear.
160	* FurryReminder: In "Beer Walk" after Donna threatens the guys not to reveal she's faking her double leg break, Tim goes back over and tells her he just remembered. He's a bear. She has no ability to act on her threats because he could easily kill her and won't even go to jail over it, because again. He's an animal. Not a person. So he threatens her right back to tell her husband the truth before growling at her.
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164	* {{Gasshole}}: Auntie Momma, who [[CharacterCatchphrase is outrageous]]. Cleveland also temporarily becomes this after Donna puts him on a high-fiber diet.
165	* GassyGastronomy: "[[Recap/TheClevelandShowS1E17GoneWithTheWind Gone with the Wind]]" sees Cleveland with flatulence issues that are so bad that when he tries to turn on a fan to clean up a fart cloud he produced from a house, it turns into a mini-tornado which wreaks havoc. His doctor eventually confirms that this is normal for a high-fibre diet, which he had been forced on at the beginning of the episode by Donna.
166	* GayRomanticPhase: In one episode, Cleveland calls "lesbianism at women's college" a phase, which is presented as a sketch of a graduation at which all the girls (in the front row, at least) turn to each other and say "We Need To Talk.".
167	* GeniusDitz: In one episode Cleveland Jr. is able to create a suit of power armor complete with a shoulder-mounted gatling gun out of nothing but pots and pans.
168	* GirlOnGirlIsHot: Cleveland's last wish before leaving is to watch Lois and Bonnie make out.
169	* GoldenSnitch: In Coolympics, the last round determined everything. Subverted because Cleveland (who was losing) lost it too, and lost the whole game.
170	* GoodAngelBadAngel: Cleveland's angel/devil are played by Hall and Oates.
171	* HalfDressedCartoonAnimal: Tim the Bear wears no pants which was lampshaded in the episode "Once Upon a Tyne in NYC"
172	--->'''Cleveland''': Cartoon bears NEVER wear pants!
173	** Also used in two jokes where Tim is sitting a strip club. He mentions that being in one is [[{{Beat}} (pause)]] awkward since he wears no pants when Cleveland asks him why he's sitting all alone. Of course, this ties into the follow up joke where Tim gets up to give Cleveland a hug.
174	* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Hinted at being so for Kendra before whatever happened to make her gain the weight. Other characters refuse to let her reveal much information of this, however.
175	* HalloweenEpisode:
176	** "It's the Great Pancake, Cleveland Brown" (Season 2): Cleveland Jr.'s attempt to enjoy Halloween like he always has ends with him being horribly humiliated and contemplating changing his approach to life.
177	** "Nightmare on Grace Street" (Season 3): Cleveland and Rallo keep trying to prove which one of them is braver, leading to Donna to send them to a creepy house to teach them a lesson.
178	** "Escape from Goochland" (Season 4): On Halloween night, Cleveland and friends try to enjoy a game, but Federline accidentally gets them in hot water with their Goochland rivals. Meanwhile, Donna won't let Roberta wear a hooker costume, so Roberta retaliates by dressing as her and committing pranks all over town (with Cleveland Jr. dressed as Cleveland in tow).
179	* HappyHolidaysDress: Kendra wears a [[PimpedOutCape Happy Holidays Cape]] in the first Christmas episode.
180	* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: The escort who helped cash Junior and Rallo's Vegas winnings. She could have easily stolen the money, but she didn't.
181	* HypocriticalHumor: The show is ''riddled'' with this style of comedy.
182	* IdiotSavant: Junior.
183	* InstantWebHit: Rallo and Jr. make a Website/YouTube video of Cleveland having his frappaccino thrown in his face. "Frappe Attack" ended up getting over 500,000 hits in 20 minutes.
184	* IntergenerationalFriendship: Rallo and Murray.
185	* IrrationalHatred: Cleveland and Choni, though it's not because of racism.
186	* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Rallo, after an episode of trying to supplant Cleveland out of the matrimonial bed.
187	* IWasQuiteALooker: Kendra
188	* InkSuitActor: Creator/DavidLynch as Gus, the bartender.
189	* {{Jerkass}}: Cleveland's father. He tried to stab his son and frequently verbally abuses his wife.
190	** Donna has also started playing the role of this trope midway through the first season, from beating Cleveland up to shooting him in the foot.
191	* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Rallo.
192	** Despite his more abrasive and egotistical habits than before, Cleveland is still rather well intentioned and benevolent.
193	* JockDadNerdSon: Cleveland and Cleveland Jr. respectively. Highlighted in the episode, "Field of Streams", where Cleveland (who was p a star athlete in high-school) wants his son, Cleveland Jr., to join the baseball team and carry his legacy but the latter is more invested in joining the Math Club.
194	* KidAnova: Rallo.
195	* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:Loretta and Lydia Waterman]]
196	* LampshadeHanging: Quite common. For example, in the episode where Roberta disguises herself as Tyra in a fat suit to learn a lesson about getting by on other qualities than your looks, Cleveland, upon discovering this, remarks "What the hell kind of comedy high school do you go to anyway?"
197	** Of course, then [[Film/TeenWolf a Teen Wolf]] walks right past the two of them.
198	* LawyerFriendlyCameo: The Man Running the booth in "Ain't Nothin' but Mutton Bustin'" Has lawyer friendly duplicates of characters for doll prizes. [[ComicBook/SpiderMan "SPIDER BUDDY!"]] [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons "BRAT SIMPSON!"]] and [[WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy "Family Dude's "STEVIE!"]] Not to mention Gengar (Franchise/{{Pokemon}}) Dolls in the other booth.[[http://img255.imageshack.us/img255/8109/clevelandshow.png Click to see a picture]].
199	** They didn't even need to evoke this trope in Family Guy's case (same franchise), and arguably, The Simpsons as well, since that show does air on Fox and a Family Guy episode has shown Homer's famous "D'oh!" without consequence.
200	*** Also, one episode included Creator/HankAzaria voicing one of his ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' characters, Comic Book Guy, [[FridgeBrilliance who you would expect to see at San Diego Comic Con]].
201	* LighterAndSofter: Compared to ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' and ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'', this show isn't as brutal or offensive, but it does have all the humor and character hallmarks of a Creator/SethMacFarlane show.
202	* LimitedWardrobe: Lampshaded in "Skip Day", when Cleveland makes out a will, he plans on giving Roberta his collection of 365 yellow shirts.
203	* LiveEpisode: Obviously not ''really live'', but a parody of one where everything goes spectacularly wrong.
204	** And with TWO Rallos in the final BreakingTheFourthWall scene, implying that the AnimatedActors were MakingUseOfTheTwin.
205	* LowSpeedChase: In an episode set in New York, Cleveland orders a taxi driver to [[FollowThatCar chase after another taxi driver]]. However, being New York, there's so much traffic that Cleveland could have caught up to the driver by walking.
206	* MayDecemberRomance: Both Robert and Dee Dee, and Roberta and Walt in the season 4 finale.
207	* MediumAwareness: Right from the pilot, when Stewie complained that Cleveland was getting a spinoff.
208	-->"What the hell? ''He's'' getting his own show?!"
209	** In "Once Upon a Tyne in NYC", Cleveland refers to Tim as a 'cartoon bear'.
210	** In the ChristmasEpisode: "Of course I worked it out! It's my damn show!"
211	** In the ThanksgivingEpisode:
212	--->Donna: "Cleveland, we're not Jewish."
213	--->Cleveland: ''(looks at camera)'' "No, [[SelfDeprecation but my writers are]]."
214	** The third season premiere has a couple examples. When Cleveland visits the Griffin house, Stewie asks if his show had been cancelled. In the end, after stopping the rednecks, Peter pointed out that they would've showed the rape on his show and then did a song about it. Cleveland adds that in that case he would've "just been the black guy."
215	** In one episode Cleveland goes into the basement and finds the writers and animators working on that very show. In a nod to the WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck cartoon "Duck Amuck", one animator briefly gives Cleveland a tail. Amusingly, an animated Mike Henry can be seen in the background recording the very lines Cleveland's [[RecursiveReality currently speaking]].
216	** In one episode Lester asks Cleveland if he ever felt the world would be better off without him. Cut to a parody of the opening credits with Quagmire singing in Cleveland's place "My name is Glenn Quag-mire/And I say gig-it-tee..."
217	--->'''Cleveland:''' (very seriously) "No...the world needs me."
218	* MissingMom: Donna's mother, Dee Dee Tubbs. [[spoiler: she was a singer in a 60s girl group who gave birth to Donna at 19. Wanting to maintain her singing career, she gave Donna to her brother Kevin, aka Auntie Momma.]]
219	* MistakenForDying: In "The Brown Knight", Rollo thinks Roberta is dying by bleeding to death because he doesn't understand what a woman's period is.
220	* MistakenForToilet: The episode "American Prankster" has Rallo pulling pranks on people all over Stoolbend, one of them being disguising rooms like electrical rooms and stairwells as bathrooms. Cleveland ends up falling for it twice.
221	* MonsterInTheMoat: In "Escape From Goochland", the fight between Cleveland and Chet Butler leads to the bridge over Stoolbend's riverway, that in addition to being severely polluted, as Goochland's propaganda says, also houses a [[TentacledTerror giant tentacled fish-like monster]] that eats Chet when he tries to kill Cleveland Jr. [[LampshadeHanging Cleveland offhandedly mentions that nobody knows what said monster even is.]]
222	* MouthingTheProfanity: In "[=BFFs=]", Peter Griffin clearly mouths the word "fuck" while in the car being confronted by Cleveland.
223	* MsFanservice: Unlike ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' and ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'', pretty much every female character between the ages of 15 and 50 is drawn with a shapely, plump ass, and if a male character is drooling over a female, they're likely to mention this as the reason.
224	* MyLifeFlashedBeforeMyEyes: Happens to Cleveland in "Das Shrimp Boot", as he imagines himself rapidly aging from embryo to death [[FullyAutomaticClipShow all while clips of past episodes play in the background]].
225	* MysteriousPast: Kendra, apparently. She has started a few flashbacks about her past life, which looks quite glamorous (at one point she was married to a nobleman), but before she can elaborate someone always tells her to shut up.
226	* MythologyGag: Aside from just references, crossovers, and cameos from the show's [[WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy root series]], there are a lot of subtle continuations of the original show's lore and running gags in The Cleveland Show.
227	** Several episodes continue Cleveland's Bathtub Gag as though the jokes were still happening on the original series.
228	** Junior Has a [[WesternAnimation/FamilyGuyPresentsLaughItUpFuzzball Cleveland R2-D2]] toy in his room.
229	** In "The Cleveland Junior Cherry Bomb", Cleveland uses the term "Cleveland Steamer" to describe himself and then tells Federline to take a shit on him. This continues a running gag from ''Family Guy'', which invented the term "Cleveland Steamer" to describe this sexual act.
230	** In "Harder, Better, Faster, Browner", Rallo takes his girlfriend to a Cheesy Charlie's. Their Quahog location was supposed to host Stewie's first birthday party, but Peter canceled.
231	* NegativeContinuity: Often {{Lampshaded}} for comedy.
232	** Rallo ended up getting killed off screen in a couple episodes. In one episode he ends up bleeding out from his own injuries while all of Stoolbend was getting into a rumble with a nearby town, and shows up as a ghost at the end. He says that things will be back to normal in the next episode. He's also told not to run with scissors, but as soon as he does, he ends up cutting his head off, walks back into the shot with him holding his head, and casually asks for assistance.
233	** In "Brown History Month" it was implied Lester and Kendra are related, but in "To Live and Die in VA" the very next season, it was revealed Kendra was a guidance counselor in Lester's school and she made him drop out so they could be together.
234	* NerdsAreVirgins:
235	** When Jr. swore to remain a virgin until marriage, Cleveland tried to scare him straight by taking him to a sci-fi convention. It backfired when Cleveland bough a ton of [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Worf]] merchandise. According to a DVDCommentary, that episode was actually shown at a comic-con, and when Cleveland talked about where virginity would lead, and it cut to the convention hall, the audience was laughing so hard, they couldn't hear the rest of the scene.
236	** Principal Farthquar was described to be a "virgin principal."
237	* NerdsSpeakKlingon: In "Love Rollercoaster", when a trio of nerds mock Junior's model rocket entry in the ScienceFair, he asks them what their entry is. The lead nerd tells him that they "translated ''Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail'' into Klingon, and were going to do a StopMotion ShotforShotRemake using vintage, new-in-box, eight-inch, Mego Creator/DCComics "action figures", combining a lot nerd stereotypes into one.
238	-->'''Trio''': (''High five each other'') Nerds!
239	* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Federline Jones, Roberta's boyfriend, is quite similar to Kevin Federline. [=LeVar=] "Freight Train" Brown is clearly based on NFL Hall of famer Jim Brown. There is also [[spoiler:Uncle Kevin]]/Auntie Momma, who is quite obviously an expy for Tyler Perry's alternate persona Madea.
240	* NoCommunitiesWereHarmed: Stoolbend is based heavily on Richmond, Virginia, where Mike Henry (the voice actor for Cleveland and co-creator of the show) grew up. During the opening theme, especially, many of the scenes are literally cartoon versions of parts of Richmond.
241	** This parallels the way ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'''s Quahog, Rhode Island, is based on Providence, where Seth [=MacFarlane=] went to college.
242	** ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' also takes place in Virginia, but in the eastern part of the state which is much more affluent and "northern" due to its proximity to UsefulNotes/WashingtonDC. So we get two related shows portraying the same state in very different ways.
243	* NoodleIncident: "How Do You Solve a Problem Like Roberta?" ends with Cleveland asking how Cleveland, Jr. (who is naked) got a Caesarian section scar. We never find out why, not even in later episodes.
244	** In "Birth of a Salesman," one of Cleveland's stories to Mr. Waterman was about why Terry was called "The Wet Banana." We never find out why, but it might have to do with his days on the high school swim club.
245	* NoPeriodsPeriod: Averted with Roberta which Rallo finds this out the hard way. It then leads to a MistakenForDying plot until Donna explains to Rallo that women are ''supposed'' to do that.
246	* NotReallyABirthScene: Junior accidentally drinks a glass of water containing Rallo's pet goldfish, swallowing it whole. The two expect him to eventually "pass" it without incident and spend the next few days acting like he's pregnant. When he actually goes to the bathroom, predictably the fish is metaphorically stillborn.
247	* NWordPrivileges:
248	** When rescuing Lester from an angry mob of black people in Harlem, who were using him as a pinata because he referred to one of them as "that word you [Cleveland] call Rallo all the time", Cleveland says that white guys with at least one black friend get one free use of the N-word (which was a bluff, but it did save Lester's neck).
249	** When Rallo fell down the stairs, he accuses Cleveland of calling him "the N-word," with Cleveland saying, "What? I'm allowed to say it. [[ActorAllusion Right?]]"
250	** In "Pins, Spins, & Fins!", Cleveland calls Lester a "crumb bum." Lester angrily retorts "Only ''my'' people can use that word!"
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252
253	[[folder:O-Z]]
254	* ObfuscatingDisability: In "Beer Walk", after Donna broke her leg, Cleveland had to do all of her chores. However, since Donna finally has her husband do some work, she fakes her injury after she's healed. It took a BatmanGambit to snap her out of it.
255	* ObfuscatingStupidity: One of the show's recurring gags is Cleveland trying to figure out if Junior is doing this.
256	* ObnoxiousInLaws: Cookie to Donna.
257	* AnOddPlaceToSleep: Gus sleeps in a crypt. Given that he's voiced by Creator/DavidLynch, this could be a play on how dark and weird David Lynch is said to be.
258	* OlderThanTheyLook: Kendra. During one of her flashbacks she talks about being a twenty-something in 1962. When Cleveland questions how old she is, she smugly says "Fat don't crack!"
259	* OldShame: In universe example; "[[BlaxploitationParody Hot Cocoa Bang-Bang]]" (a 1970s blaxploitation film that Donna starred in) is apparently this to Donna.
260	* OneDialogueTwoConversations: Cleveland attempts to pay a young boy to play with Cleveland Jr. in the car. He gets arrested for attempting to solicit sex from a minor.
261	-->'''Cleveland:''' Hey, sport. I got a proposition for you. My name's Cleveland. How'd you like to play with Cleveland Jr?\
262	'''Boy:''' What?\
263	'''Cleveland:''' Oh, you'll love him. He's a little chubby but he's always up for a good time. A lot of other kids have jerked him around, but I can tell you're the kind of guy who would treat him right. Don't get me wrong... he's a handful, but a nice handful. Look, I'll be honest with you. I'm tired of playing with him. You wanna see him? Come over by the car and I'll let you have a look. I'll give you 30 bucks right now if you'll play with him in the car.
264	* OrwellianRetcon: Between this [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHXZ-UMLY60 promo]] and the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEjnqsk83dE actual show]], the last line of the theme song went from "My happy black guy face" to "My happy mustached face", likely because of unintentionally invoking the term {{Blackface}}.
265	* OutOfCharacter: When Terry is [[spoiler: revealed to be gay. [[NoBisexuals He's not sure himself, but Paul claims he is]]]]. Terry is the polar opposite of his former self -- caring, not a sexual deviant... You can see his relations with those women as him showing off, but the sudden change is jarring as hell.
266	* OutOfFocus: Roberta, who seems to be following in the footsteps of [[WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy Meg]] and [[WesternAnimation/AmericanDad Hayley]] in terms of screen time. Lampshaded on the "Cleveland Show Live" episode in which a drunken Roberta crashes the performance several times after her debate team B-story was cut.
267	** Still in full force by the end of season 2. You could make the argument that Meg or Hayley have more screentime in half a season than Roberta has had throughout the entire series so far.
268	** Lampshaded again at the end of "Ain't Nothin' But Mutton Bustin". After the plot, which revolved mainly around Rallo and Junior going missing, is resolved, and Cleveland remarks how glad he is that all of his kids are home, Roberta walks in for her first appearance all episode.
269	---> '''Cleveland''': Oh yeah, I have ''three'' kids...
270	* PaintingTheMedium: The first act of the pilot takes place in Quahog, where everything is fullscreen. The rest of the Cleveland show takes place in Stoolbend, where everything is widescreen.
271	** In ''Our Gang'', Cleveland is told by [[spoiler: the leader of the Stoolbloods that if he doesn't get the cocaine, he'll kill Cleveland Jr.]] in ten minutes. Guess how much running time is left.
272	*** A commercial break later, everyone took two off-screen minutes to go to the bathroom.
273	* ParentsAsPeople: A rare case for a Seth Mcfarlene show, Cleveland and Donna for the large part remain flawed but sympathetic parents till the show's end. They do try to raise their kids well, and even accept their step kids as their own, just their childish eccentricities and blunt arrogance in directing their lives make things very dysfunctional. When they realise their mistakes they do almost always repent and make things up to their kids. Naturally the odd bit of ComedicSociopathy seeps through however.
274	* ParodyEpisode: The episode "Die Semi-Hard" is a parody of the first ''Film/DieHard'' movie with Cleveland in the John [=McClane=] role and the regular and supporting cast of the show filling out the rest.
275	* PassingJudgment: Arianna the Bear does this to Donna all the time, criticizing everything about how she runs her life. In [[Recap/TheClevelandShowS1E6LadiesNight "Ladies' Night"]], it's mentioned that before marrying Cleveland, she didn't even allow Donna into her house, because she doesn't like single mothers.
276	* PestEpisode: Donna finds a rat in the house and leaves with the kids to stay with her mother. Cleveland develops an attachment to the rat but it has rabies.
277	* PillowPregnancy: In "A Vas Deferens Between Men And Women", Donna tries to pretend to be pregnant all the way to pretending she had her water break, and going to the hospital, where Dr. Fist "delivers" the sofa cushion she has hidden up her dress.
278	* PingPongNaivete: Similar to Stewie, Rallo frequently switches back and forth between kindergarten-level intelligence and adult intelligence depending on the joke.
279	* PinkIsErotic: In "Y Tu Junior Tambien" Cleveland Junior dates and later marries Cecilia, they move into an apartment that's illuminated by a pink neon sign (that shines through one of the windows). On their first night, Cleveland Junior is anxious about sharing a bed with a woman for the first time but he immediately gets over it when he sees Cecilia in a pink alluring nightie as his voice drops by the ten-fold. However, they don't have sex because she figures out Cleveland Junior is only 14 and they both accept that they're too young for marriage.
280	* PlayingCyrano: In "Once Upon A Tyne In New York", Coach [=McFall=] was trying to impress Tyne Daly, and Cleveland gives lines which are typed by Donna onto a teleprompter for the Coach.
281	* PreAsskickingOneLiner: In the season three opener [[spoiler: before Peter and the Evil Monkey rescue Cleveland and friends from the rednecks]]: "Leggo my negro."
282	* PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy: Gabriel Friedman, [=AKA=] Federline Jones.
283	* PrettyInMink: A few furs, including Donna having worn one for a {{Blaxploitation}} film she did years before, and then we Rallo sees her getup, complains that he got in trouble for wearing a mink coat and underwear for a school photo.
284	* PrisonersLastMeal: Referenced in "[[Recap/TheClevelandShowS1E19BrownHistoryMonth Brown History Month]]". When Kendra's "peepaw" was on death row, his last meal was 77 mozzarella sticks. Consequently, he died from a massive coronary before they could get him to the electric chair. Rallo mentions that, if he were on death row, he would choose popcorn shrimp as his last meal, before it dawns on him that popcorn shrimp is becoming so hard to find that he'd kill somebody to get it, meaning he'd have to end up on death row in order to get that meal, anyway.
285	* ProdigalFamily: {{Invoked}} in [[Recap/TheClevelandShowS3E21MamaDrama "Mama Drama"]]. Cleveland forces a reunion between Donna and her mother, who abandoned Donna with her gay uncle to tour as a singer. Donna breaks down in tears as any mention of her mom is traumatic to her, seeing that she didn't get the chance to meet her mother or ask her why she left her.
286	* PromIsForStraightKids: The lesbian girl Junior was accidentally dating.
287	* {{Pun}}: Cleveland suggests that he and Donna work through an argument through ''roll''-playing. With dinner rolls.
288	-->'''Cleveland''': I'm Cleveland Roll!... I'm Donna Roll!... and I'm [[Series/GoodTimes Esther Roll! Oh [=JJ=], you'd better not join a gaaang!]]
289	* PunctuatedForEmphasis: From "Our Gang"
290	-->'''Cleveland:''' Why! Is! This! Hap! Pen! Ing! To! MEEEEE!!!!
291	* QuietlyPerformingSisterShow: While it doesn't draw in the ratings of its siblings ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' or ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' (and was written off as a watered-down ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' by a lot of critics), it did very well for itself, despite many people considering this one of Creator/SethMacFarlane's lesser works.
292	* RealMenWearPink: Cleveland wore an all pink outfit during his stint as host of a daytime women's talk show.
293	* RecordNeedleScratch: In "Field Of Streams", this happens when Cleveland Jr. says he's not interested in baseball, and Terry apologizes for doing that to the record out of shock.
294	** Done in "All You Can Eat" twice, when "C.J." (Cleveland, Junior) admits to the school he's not a lesbian, he's male and the girl he went to the prom with is his step-sister.
295	* RecycledINSPACE: The promo for the show features Cleveland saying his show is "Family Guy with an afro".
296	* ReferenceOverdosed: Justified as it wouldn't be a Creator/SethMacFarlane cartoon without it.
297	* ReligiousStereotype: Surprisingly averted in a [=MacFarlane=] work. Tim is a devout Christian, but there have been no jokes or burns against Christianity nor is Tim the Bear portrayed as a Bible thumper.
298	** Also, Cleveland Junior is an atheist, but, unlike Brian, he's not pushy about it. In fact, he's more like Hayley Smith from ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' (read: doesn't believe in God, but pays lip service to the church because the rest of his family believes in God).
299	** Played somewhat straighter with Tim's wife, Arianna, who makes a comment that Rallo cursing Santa and Christmas at a pageant is what happens "when you put a Jew in charge of a Christmas pageant."
300	*** Arianna criticizes Donna for being a single mother (something that she despises), even though her husband walked out on HER. Ironically and hypocritically, she cheated on Tim on "Cleveland Show Lived" and Donna criticizes ''her''.
301	* RunningGag: Usually whenever Quagmire makes a brief appearance, he's always complaining about how he never got a spin off.
302	--> '''Quagmire''': Wow. They really made it through the whole season. Hey Peter, can I have my own series, now?\
303	'''Peter''': Quagmire, you're a ''rapist.''
304	** Throughout the series, (though mainly seasons 1-2) Cleveland calling out Junior for doing or saying something immature by reminding he is 14.
305	* SassyBlackWoman: Roberta, though thankfully without the stereotypical "Mmmm-hmmm!" MOST of the time anyway. She has dropped one or two in the course of the show.
306	** Donna may not SAY "Mmm-hmm!" but she reads a magazine with that title!
307	* SatelliteLoveInterest: Donna has received some criticism for being nothing more than a stereotypical sassy black woman. Possibly lampshaded in "Your Show of Shows". At the end of the episode Donna asks for her own show, when asked what she can do, she pulls out a recorder and plays a very basic tune.
308	* SelfDeprecation: For the intro of "Cleveland Live", the announcer goes on for a bit on how in 2004 some pothead loser bought a ''Family Guy'' DVD, then says very quickly and quietly "''American Dad'' is also a show", referencing how Fox tended to push it to the sidelines before it moved to TBS.
309	* SelfProclaimedLoveInterest: Roberta for [[Literature/TheTwilightSaga Edwin and Caleb]]. [[spoiler: Who turn out to be gay.]]
310	* SerialEscalation: The show was renewed for a second season before the first episode ''even aired'', as mentioned above. Also mentioned above, the show was renewed for a third season... ''less than three weeks after the first season ended.''
311	* SexySantaDress: In a Christmas episode, Roberta gets hired in a mega store as a skimply-dressed elf. When her sexist boss rejected Kendra for the role of Santa Claus, Roberta and her co-workers complain about continuing to have to wear their costumes and quit...tossing Mr. Grundle their shorts.
312	* SexyWhateverOutfit:
313	** In an HalloweenEpisode, Cleveland tries to convince Junior he's too old to dress up for Halloween, but [[DoubleStandard claims that it's okay for Roberta to go out]] in a ridiculously skimpy red outfit, since Halloween is just an excuse for girls to dress like sluts. When Junior asks her what she's even supposed to be, she says "I dunno, a ghost?" and spends her next few appearances moaning spookily.
314	** In another episode Roberta brings home a costume that's ''too'' slutty, and Donna is going to return it...until Cleveland says that ''she'd'' look good in it, and the two decide to meet in a hotel and use it to roleplay a hooker and her customer. Unfortunately, it's TOO good and Donna ends up being arrested.
315	* SheCleansUpNicely: Donna everyday, given how she looks without her makeover.
316	* SillyPrayer: Most of the prayers Reverend Jenkins says are these. An example from "American Prankster":
317	-->'''Reverend Jenkins:''' But no sinner is more doomed than the wicked child! Who is an affront to the mighty Harlemites who trotted the globe to smack the generals! As Saint Louis said to the Ferrignos: "Don't make me angry!"
318	-->'''Attendants:''' "[[YouWontLikeMeWhenImAngry You wouldn't like me when I'm angry]]."
319	-->'''Reverend Jenkins:''' Amen!
320	* SirSwearsALot: Larry Box, Stoolbend's Casually Profane Mayor.
321	* SixthRanger: Towards the end of the series, Dr. Fist becomes Cleveland's fifth friend.
322	* SlasherMovie: Rallo and his friends watch one in "Beer Walk!", and it inspires Rallo to start scaring people while dressed as [[Franchise/FridayThe13th Jason]], [[Film/ChildsPlay Chucky]], [[Film/TheTexasChainsawMassacre Leatherface]] and [[Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet Freddy]].
323	%%* SoulBrotha: Rallo's purpose in life.
324	* SpicyLatina: Junior's wife's Cecilia's aunt, played by RealLife SpicyLatina, Rosie Perez.
325	* SpoofAesop: Cleveland uses Holt to cheat his way to a baseball championship, but upon seeing that he's teaching Cleveland Jr. that it's okay to cheat, he calls it off and the team loses. Cleveland congratulates himself for doing the right thing, but Donna [[LampshadeHanging points out]] that he still cheated in several games, prevented more deserving teams from a chance at the championship and only backed off at the very last moment.
326	* SpinoffSendoff: The pilot episode starts in [[WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy Quahog]] as Cleveland tells his friends about his troubles and he decides to move away.
327	* StaggeredZoom: At the start of the opening credits.
328	%%* StraightGay: Terry.
329	* StrongAnts: Ants carry Junior away in "Menace II Secret Society".
330	* StylisticSuck: the "Live" episode.
331	* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: In "Another Bad Thanksgiving", when the family takes a last-minute flight to Las Vegas on Thanksgiving, Cleveland is forced to bring a live turkey (whom he hides under his jacket) with them as well.
332	-->'''Cleveland:''' ''[at the airport ticket counter]'' That would be tickets for two adults, five children, and zero turkeys.
333	* TalkingAnimal: Cleveland's neighbor, Tim the Bear.
334	* TangledFamilyTree: Brought up by Rallo (whose class assignment is making a family tree) in "Wheel! Of! Family!" His maternal grandmother is dating his biological father, who was legally adopted by his stepfather's father. They also adopted a Chinese toddler.
335	* ThanksgivingEpisode:
336	** "A Brown Thanksgiving": The focus of a first-season episode. Most of the "special guest stars" mentioned at the beginning do not in fact appear, but "Auntie Momma" more than makes up for that.
337	** "Another Bad Thanksgiving": A second season episode has Donna's sister and her two kids with the same name visit. She dumps them to run off to Las Vegas with Holt.
338	** "A General Thanksgiving Episode": This OutOfOrder Season 3 produced episode mainly focuses on Holt's bad relationship with his dad, but it kick-starts with Holt being all alone on Thanksgiving and Rallo taking pity on him.
339	** "Turkey Pot Die": This Season 4 episode sees Cleveland and Cleveland Jr. try to save a bunch of turkeys. Meanwhile, Donna and Rallo build a parade float, but she gets wrapped up in outdoing Arianna.
340	* ThatCameOutWrong: Cleveland and Donna both say the wrongs things to retired paraplegic veteran Maurice (whom Donna thought didn't exist but sent love letters to) about his condition. "You gonna want to sit down for this-sa-sa-saaa-sa-sa-saaa", "Until you get back up to your feet-ta-ta-ta."
341	* ThatDidntHappen: Donna points out Cleveland is making things up when we see a Cutaway Gag of talking milk in "The Hurricane" episode.
342	* TookALevelInJerkass: Cleveland himself, since he got his own show.
343	* TooMuchInformation: Cleveland's parents have no problems with describing their sex lives in Cleveland's company..... graphically much to his disgust.
344	* TorchesAndPitchforks: In "Escape From Goochland", the people from Goochland carry these when they invade Stoolbend because Federline stole their wooden statue.
345	* TownContestEpisode: In [[Recap/TheClevelandShowS1E17GoneWithTheWind "Gone with the Wind"]], a big karaoke contest happens at The Broken Stool in this episode, featuring tons of people from around stool bend, including Cleveland, Donna, Tim, Arianna, Lester, Kendra, Coach [=McFall=], and Gus.
346	* {{Troll}}: [=Truepopperking33=], from "All You Can Eat", edited Cleveland's Wikipedia entries within moments after he made his edits.
347	* UglyGuyHotWife: Cleveland Jr. and Cecilia
348	** Donna isn't as attractive as her standard appearance suggests (she's reliant on a fairly extensive beauty regime) but is still portrayed as a good deal more attractive than Cleveland.
349	* UnexplainedRecovery: Ernie's pet possum, Princess.
350	** Also done with Kenny West, who was used sunglasses to cover his free-roaming eye in his first appearance, but miraculously cured in his next.
351	* UnsettlingGenderReveal: [[spoiler:Cleveland's father being told that [[DudeLooksLikeALady Auntie Momma is a man]]. He didn't take it [[VomitIndiscretionShot so well]]]].
352	* VanityLicensePlate: Several characters have been seen with one.
353	** Robert's license plate, during a high-school flashback, reads "IFKDNA" ("I Fuck Donna").
354	** Lester has an "IFKNDRA" ("I Fuck Kendra") license plate.
355	** Oliver Wilkerson, a deaf schoolmate of Cleveland Jr. and Roberta, pulls up in a car with "IKNTHR" ("I can't hear") on the license plate in the episode "It's the Great Pancake, Junior Brown".
356	** In "Nightmare On Grace Street", at the very end, Gus has "BOO!" on his license plate.
357	** In "March Dadness" Rallo has his name on the license plate of his Mustang.
358	* VomitIndiscretionShot: Hoo boy, the writers ''really'' seem to dig this one.
359	** Possibly even lampshaded in one episode, with a TV promo for a new FOX sitcom called ''"The Barf Family"''.
360	* [[WalkingShirtlessScene Walking Tubetop Scene]]: Roberta
361	* WalkIntoCameraObstruction:
362	** "Buried Pleasure": Kendra body-slams Jane. She falls onto the screen and it cuts to black.
363	* WellDoneSonGuy: Cleveland has shades of this, but equal emphasis is placed on Cleveland having to let go of the old-fashioned "manly" rules he most likely grew up with. Also with Cleveland with his at-best strained relationship with his father [=LeVar=] "Freight Train" Brown.
364	* WhamEpisode: Subverted. It's revealed in an episode that Fat Cleveland Junior is actually a spy who killed the original hyperactive Slim Cleveland Junior, as part of a gambit to assassinate Tim, who's the head of a terrorist sleeper-cell. Though its doubtful that this is canon since its never brought up again and Tim is never killed, so this is just a BizarroEpisode.
365	* WhamLine: From the hurricane ep, [[spoiler:"I don't believe in Jesus"]] from [[spoiler:Cleveland Jr]].
366	* TheWhitestBlackGuy: Cleveland is declared "The Whitest Black Man in America" and discovers that he was largely raised by a white woman and undergoes a crisis of racial identity. At one point he tries and fails to act as a parody of black masculinity and HilarityEnsues since he mostly just tacks on various racial stereotypes; at another he decides to lean in to his new, whiter identity and bursts through the door with two big bags of stuff from Trader Joe's dressed in country club clothes and loafers. He eventually decides to simply be at peace with being himself and not define himself by race.
367	* WholesomeCrossDresser: All over the place. The most notable example being Auntie Mamma, but there's also Freight Train in "Who Done It?" as his alter-ego Jocelyn Elderwood. In addition to that, Freight Train also cross dressed along with Cleveland, Holt, Lester, and Tim as part of a scheme to get back the money Cookie lost to a con-man. It doesn't work, which Cleveland is convinced is due to the fact that they didn't get the [[EasySexChange operation]].
368	* WouldntHitAGirl: Cleveland. But Donna would smack the white out of a bitch.
369	* WoundedGazelleGambit: Rallo pulls one in "From Bed to Worse", breaking his leg on purpose to keep his mother and Cleveland apart. Leads to a MyGodWhatHaveIDone moment when he realizes his behavior's hurting his mother, too.
370	* WrongGenreSavvy: In "Nightmare on Grace Street", an unnamed female character jumps off a cliff because she thinks real life works like a Film/{{Twilight}} movie, and a hunky vampire or werewolf will save her. She crashes onto a rock and presumably dies.
371	* YouMustBeThisTallToRide: Rallo is excited to go to an amusement park because he's finally tall enough to ride on the roller coaster. But when he gets there they measure him not counting his [[FunnyAfro Giant Afro]] and he's still too short.
372	* YoungerThanTheyLook: Despite being full grown and acting like a middle aged human, Tim is actually only 4 years old.
373	** However, it can be assumed that he is older in "bear" years, as he is a bear himself.
374	%%* YourFavorite: For Cleveland, Slop Poppers (a Hot Pockets BlandNameProduct).
375	[[/folder]]

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