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7[[caption-width-right:350:Left to right: VJ Mendhi, Mark Dexler, Woody Jenkins, and Sam Goldman]]
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9->''"Young and Useless, Restless and Wild,"''
10->''"We're wasting away, but we do it in style,"''
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12''The Dating Guy'' is a Canadian animated TV series from Creator/EntertainmentOne and [=MarbleMedia=] created by Creator/MarkBishop and Creator/MattHornburg. It tells the story of Mark Dexler (voiced by Creator/FabFilippo), a guy looking for love in all the wrong places (and usually the strangest places, too).
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14'''Mark's friends are:'''
15* VJ Mendhi: BollywoodNerd and eternal virgin. Voiced by Creator/AnandRajaram.
16* Woody Jenkins: Mark's best friend. He... ReallyGetsAround. Voiced by Creator/SeanFrancis.
17* Sam Goldman: Snarky TokenGirl with Sociopathic tendencies. Voiced by Creator/LaurenAsh.
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19The series started in 2009 and ended in 2011 with 26 episodes. It can be seen on Creator/TeletoonAtNight and [[http://www.hulu.com/the-dating-guy Hulu]]. Here's the [[http://datingguy.com/ website]]. Warning: NSFW.
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21!!''The Dating Guy'' provides examples of:
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23* TheAlcoholic: While all of the characters on the show are heavy drinkers, [[TeamPet Zorro]], VJ's raccoon, takes the cake.
24* AllGirlsWantBadBoys:
25** Ginger, one of Mark's girlfriends, becomes more interested when he gets involved in a gang war.
26** {{Inverted|Trope}} with VJ's girlfriend Lily, who became interested in her date when she saw his sensitive side.
27* AllMenArePerverts and AllWomenAreLustful: Including a dying boy, who exploits a scheme Sam hatches to touch her breasts.
28* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: For VJ, this is his cousin, Sanjamar, who is rich, attractive, and gets many women.
29* TheAntiChrist: Sam thinks her date's son is him. As it turns out, he just didn't take his Ritalin.
30%%* ArrangedMarriage and CitizenshipMarriage: Both shown in the episode "Deranged Marriage"
31* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: To convince a doctor he is insane, Anderson mentions a slew of crazy jobs he has. And that he also worked for one week in Gap Kids.
32* {{Atlantis}}: Russell Peters recruits the group in an attempt to find it.
33* BadBoss: Denise routinely comes on to both Mark and Bryce (the latter of which she actually had sex with), Bryce, while not Mark's actual boss, is an authority figure and actively enjoys humiliating him and VJ, taking a picture of VJ with a golf-putting device on his genitals just to drive up his Facebook traffic.
34* BaldOfEvil: {{Discussed|Trope}} by Sam and Woody when her date, Carl, is bald. According to Woody, all bald men are evil.
35* BankRobbery: Bonnie does one. The plot of "Bonnie and Mark" deals with the escapade after the robbery.
36* TheBartender: Both Woody and Celia, although Woody goes on his own adventures. The life of one is discussed by Mark and Woody in "Brother from Another Tanning Booth."
37* BatmanGambit: Connie, a weathergirl fired from her position due to a blunder by Mark, engineers one on him. [[spoiler:It works.]]
38* BettyAndVeronica: Mark dates Shari, who is intellectual and witty, and her puppet Mallory, who is foul-mouthed, makes sexual jokes, and is downright rude to Sam and Anderson. Mark considers Mallory real, not being interested in Shari at all unless Malory is a part of it.
39* BigEater: Vince's superior officer is always seen eating.
40* BillyNeedsAnOrgan:
41** HospitalHottie GirlOfTheWeek Marie-Claire, one of Mark's dates, promises him [[SexGoddess the best sex of his life]] in exchange for a kidney to save her brother.
42** It is strongly implied that during their jailbreak from a prison in the Philippines, Mark, Woody, and V.J. [[ComedicSociopathy murder (or at the very least cut open) another escaping prisoner]] to [[OrganTheft steal one of his kidneys]].
43* BoyMeetsGhoul:
44** The HalloweenEpisode "There's Something About Amelia" has Mark dating a Werewolf.
45** In another episode, both Woody and Denise have a booty call with ghosts.
46%%* CampGay: Steve Manflesh, a RecurringExtra.
47* CasualDangerDialogue: Bonnie engages in this when with Mark while she's bleeding from a gunshot wound to the chest.
48* CensorBox: In a {{flashback}} of Mark flashing his friends, he has a censor box ob his penis has he does a "windmill". A [[TeenyWeenie small one]].
49* ChurchMilitant: Mark's former girlfriend Gina, who is a [[IncrediblyLamePun nun-ja]].
50* ComicSutra: In "Boner Donor", SexGoddess GirlOfTheWeek Marie-Claire promises Mark a "Mongolian meat mover." He has no idea what it is, but he's looking forward to finding out.
51* ConMan:
52** Anderson is one by profession, although Sam also likes to engage in cons herself.
53** [[spoiler:An Irish "leprechaun" and his hot daughter, Fiona, are ones.]]
54* ConjoinedTwins: An opposite sex pair, actually, Derek and Donna, who become interested in Sam and VJ when they are glued together. [[spoiler: As it turns out, they were unknowingly joined together by their father, who had a sick sense of humor and died from a heart attack before he could tell them.]]
55%%* DeadpanSnarker: Ursula and Bryce. Sam also has her moments.
56%%* DirtyCop: Mark dates one in "Really Bad Lieutenant."
57* DumbBlonde: A GirlOfTheWeek, Cherry Sundae, is a porn star who's saving herself for the right guy (outside of work, of course).
58* EmbarrassingFirstName: VJ's first name, Vajeena.
59* EmbarrassingStatue: In "Statute of Limitations", Mark's GirlOfTheWeek is an artist who makes a clay statue of his naked body as he slept and displays it in her art gallery. But the worst part is that the statue exposes he has a TeenyWeenie, and he's mocked relentlessly for it, despite his protests that "it was a cold night". He and his friends later sneak inside the museum to try to modify the statue and give it a GagPenis instead, but they just end up breaking it.
60* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: Falafel Guy. Parodied in one episode where a name was actually given, but no one called him that.
61%%* EvilLuddite: The anti-technology Amish terrorists.
62* {{Expy}}:
63** A GirlOfTheWeek, Charity, is a rather obvious one of [[Series/TheDukesOfHazzard Daisy Duke]].
64** Another GirlOfTheWeek, Lila, is one of [[Film/AustinPowers Foxxy Cleopatra]].
65** GirlOfTheWeek Freida is one of artist Creator/FridaKahlo.
66* ExtremeOmnisexual: While, for the most part, the group dates and does normal people, sometimes things can get... bizarre. At one point, Mark comments being turned on by a pack of wolves.
67* EyepatchOfPower: A GirlOfTheWeek, Monica, who is a German spy, sports one.
68* FieryRedhead: Sam is one, as are a few [[GirlOfTheWeek Girls of the Week]], like Fiona.
69* FishOutOfWater: Rina, VJ's fiancee from an arranged marriage, who is "an illiterate from a pissant village", who draws water from an airplane bathroom. She eventually adapts after hooking up with VJ's cousin, leaving him at the altar.
70%%* FourEyesZeroSoul: Bryce.
71%%* FriendsWithBenefits: Sam and Anderson's relationship.
72* {{Gasshole}}: Sam was briefly this in "Ass Pocalypse Now". When she and VJ were coming back from Brazil because Sam went to get butt implants, she wondered why she wouldn't stop farting after her surgery; until she realizes that her butt is now huge because the doctor transferred all of VJ's stomach fat into hers, and now she had VJ's butt, which also seems to imply that VJ is gassy.
73* GirlOfTheWeek: At least one new one a week, sometimes a guy instead for Sam. [[WeirdnessMagnet Each one is exceedingly quirky]]. Only [[UpperClassTwit Brie]] shows up more than once, although others can be seen in cameos.
74* GoodAngelBadAngel: When Mark thinks Lila is crazy, little versions of Woody and VJ appear on his shoulder. Woody tells Mark to sleep with her, and VJ says he'd sleep with her if she was a glue-huffing troll.
75* GoingCommando: Connie, a weathergirl and one of Mark's dates, has to do this when Mark (unbeknownst to her), steals her panties. A strong gust of wind causes her to flash her audience. After this happens, though, she doesn't put any more panties on, continuing to flash her audience.
76* GoldDigger: Diana, who is only interested in Mark if he has a yacht.
77* HandyFeet: Sam's GuyOfTheWeek in "Statute of Limitations" is a guy who [[AnArmAndALeg lost both of his arms]], but still manages to live a normal life by doing everything with his feet, including complicated things like eating or driving. He also looks down on people with arms, causing Sam to tie up her arms to live in his shows for most of the episode. It goes... poorly.
78%%* HandsomeLech: Anderson and Woody
79* HookerWithAHeartofGold: Marie-Claire. She offers Mark "[[SexGoddess the greatest sex of his life]]" in exchange for a kidney transplant to save her little brother Gene. Gene is legitimately dying and Marie-Claire does live up to her end of the bargain.
80* HospitalHottie: "Boner Donor" sees both Mark and Sam dating incredibly attractive medical professionals, Mark a nurse and Sam a doctor.
81%%* HostageSituation: A few of these came up.
82* HuntingTheMostDangerousGame: One of Mark's GirlOfTheWeek's father does this in the episode "Beaver Fever", if he can survive, Mark gets to do the nasty with his daughter, if not he'll cut off his pinky finger.
83* InnocentInnuendo: There are two white-trash, slutty girls who, when Woody asks if he's seen them before, tells him he saw their video: Two Girls, One Cup (a pornographic film). However, their version is actually the two girls dropping sugar cubes into a single cup of tea and the both of the them drinking it. The trope becomes subverted when, in the second scene, they do a gang-bang with a pack of jealous wolves.
84* InternalAffairs: Vince is one of these cops. The person he investigates, Valerie is horribly corrupt and it's treated like a good thing, so not played like the normal InternalAffairs member.
85* TheInternetIsForPorn: VJ watches so much internet porn that he eventually discovers that ''he watched all the porn on the internet.'' A sexy computer voice congratulates him on finishing the internet and his computer shuts down for good.
86%%* {{Jerkass}}: Bryce
87* KarmicDeath: Roberta shrinks Anderson, Woody, and Jeff to small size in order to use them as sex toys. While she does so, the shrink ray wears off, causing Jeff to expand while inside Roberta, killing her.
88* LaserGuidedKarma: Charity, a GirlOfTheWeek uses her feminine wiles to cheat Mark, VJ, and Vikram out of a car, then backs out of her promises and drives away in the car...promptly getting into a car accident.
89* LovableSexManiac: Pretty much all of the characters in the show are obssesed with sex and talk about it often, regardless of the fact they're having any.
90* MaleFrontalNudity: Happens to Mark when he gets an edible suit wet on camera. Lampshaded by his boss.
91* NoIndoorVoice: Not all the time, but Vince is constantly on edge and speaks in a loud term when he talks about the day-to-day hell of police life.
92* MermaidProblem: VJ had sex with a mermaid, but he didn't wonder how it happened until after the fact.
93%%* MrsRobinson: Denise
94* NewJobAsThePlotDemands: Anderson changes jobs on a regular basis. Part of it has to do with him being a ConMan, but others seem to be legitimate businesses he changes in a few days.
95* NightmareFetishist: Sam, who becomes increasingly turned on when Vince mentions some of the disgusting things he'd seen as a police officer.
96%%* {{Ninja}}: Shoji.
97* NotWhatItLooksLike: Denise walks in on Bryce and VJ seemingly having sex on the former's desk. Bryce is actually getting a putting device off of VJ's penis that is stuck.
98* OlderThanTheyLook:
99** Ursula does look like a teenager.
100** As does GirlOfTheWeek [[Creator/AlysonCourt Brie]].
101%%* OldMaid: Denise.
102* OnlySaneMan: Possibly Celia, Woody's bartending partner. Her weirdest feature is that she thinks coffee is evil. It's a bit weirder that she's a Mormon working in a bar.
103* OnlySixFaces: Sam poses as [[BritishRockStar Danica Morris]]. No one notices.
104* PapaWolf: The unnamed merman is one for his underage daughter whom VJ beds.
105* PrisonRape: When the gang gets put in jail in the Philippines in "Boner Doner", Mark gets paranoid they're going to be raped. During the communal shower, he drops the soap, which gets a dramatic slow-mo shot as he yells a BigNo.
106* ProductPlacement: Once an episode, Doctor Love is either mentioned or on a billboard.
107* PsychicPowers: Archangel. Magically made drinks appear, tricked a robber with illusions, and read Sam's mind to figure out her childhood dream was to have Slinkies for arms. Works incredibly, except when he gets Illusionial dysfunction.
108%%* RepetitiveName: Anderson Anderson.
109%%* RobotGirl: Russell Peters has one, Nautica, on his submarine.
110* RunningGag:
111** At one point, a shoe salesman is shot with a tranquilizer dart three times in quick succession.
112** This show loves having running gags, but one of the biggest ones is one of the background guys always gets hurt in a brutal fashion.
113* SafeWord: "Gooseketeer" is the one Sam and Vince use when out looking for a serial killer.
114%%* ScarfOfAsskicking: Bonnie sports one.
115%%* SensualSlavs: Monica.
116* SexGoddess: Marie-Claire GirlOfTheWeek of "Boner Doner" is stupendously good in bed, and promises Mark the best sex of his life... in exchange for him [[BillyNeedsAnOrgan donating his kidney to her dying little brother]]. Amusingly, she convinces him of her prowess by swalling a bunch of condoms and spitting out a balloon animal othat she made out of the condoms just with her tongue.
117* SexyStewardess: Astrid and Anika, introduced as "Smoking Hot Swedish Flight Attendants."
118* ShrinkRay: Scientist Roberta uses one on Woody, Anderson, and Jeff, the Falafel guy.
119* ShoutOut:
120** In "Woodyplicity", there are several shoutouts to ''Series/TheDukesOfHazzard''
121%%** One episode is a huge one of Series/TwentyFour.
122** Another episode has Woody lament the cancellation of ''Series/GilmoreGirls''.
123* StageMagician: Sam's date Archangel, master illusionist.
124* Stripperiffic: Monica, whose outfit consists of a coat with only one button fastened.
125%%* TallDarkandHandsome: Handsome Tony
126* TeamPet: Zorro, VJ's pet raccoon. Which is a bit unrealistic, as raccoons are illegal to keep as pets in the city of Toronto. Mind, it would simply be the first of many very odd charges they would get slapped with if they were taken to jail.
127* TeenyWeenie: Mark isn't impressive down there, something Sam constantly makes fun of him of.
128%%* ThoseWackyNazis: Captain Steiner.
129* TruthSerum: Lila attempts to use one on Mark, but accidentally stabs herself with it.
130%%* UpperClassTwit: The Buxtons.
131* WhereDaWhiteWomenAt: Woody constantly, in the episode "Brother From Another Tanning Booth" Mark and Woody change "colour" when they each get their skin lightened/darkened, black Mark proves this.
132* WithFriendsLikeThese: If the GirlOfTheWeek is not causing a problem for Mark, then it's usually his friends.
133* WhyIsntItAttacking: PlayedForLaughs when Sam attempts to get a suspected SerialKiller to murder her, as he only murders extremely good-looking women.
134* ZanyScheme: It's a rare episode when Sam isn't either hatching or roped into one. Almost assured if Anderson shows up.

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