Line #60 WesternAnimation/UglyAmericans


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2	[[caption-width-right:350: [[TagLine One nation, overrun.]]]]
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4	A Creator/ComedyCentral animated series that premiered March 17, 2010.
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6	Take UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity, [[JustForFun/XMeetsY add every horrifying beast, sci-fi freak]], [[FantasyKitchenSink and fantasy fairy you or anyone else can think of]], [[FusionDance shake thoroughly]], and you've got ''Ugly Americans''.
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8	The show is set in an AlternateUniverse version of UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity where all supernatural creatures exist and have integrated with humanity. Mark Lilly is a new employee at New York's Department of Integration (the "Token Bleeding Heart"), whose job is to help immigrants fit in with American society as well as help monsters fit in human society in general. Unfortunately for Mark, his co-worker Leonard is a drunk wizard, his literally demonic boss Twayne couldn't care less, and he is at odds with the head of the law enforcement division Frank, who would rather see them all deported. Rounding out the cast is Mark's other succubus boss Callie, who he is having a sorta relationship with, and Mark's lazy zombie roommate Randall.
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10	Sadly, the show ended after two seasons due to lukewarm ratings. The network tried to find outside financing for it, but that fell through. It was finally revived as an app for iPhone and iPad.
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12	Not to be confused with ''Literature/TheUglyAmerican'' or UglyAmericanStereotype.
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15	!! This animated series provides examples of:
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17	* ActorAllusion: Michael-Leon Wooley, the voice of Twayne, once provided the voice for Audry II, the man-eating plant from ''Little Shop Of Horrors'' on Broadway. In the episode ''Little Ship of Horrors'' there is a species of plant people resembling Audrey II running a flower shop. Wooley provided the voice of the shop owner.
18	* AerithAndBob: Great Brain's fiancée is named Dolores.
19	* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Inverted- Callie is a [[SuccubiAndIncubi succubus]] (a bad girl) who is dating Mark, a nice, normal boy.
20	* AllJustADream: An InUniverse example. In the episode "Ride Me to Hell", the ending of the show "Dishonorable Discharge" reveals that everything was just an angel's dream.[[spoiler:The whole episode itself truns out to be an angel's dream at the end.]]
21	* AlternateHistory: It seems there was a "zombie civil war" in the 60s instead of all that Vietnam business.
22	** [[Film/GangsOfNewYork Bill the Butcher]] was a vampire, who currently runs a pizza parlor.
23	** UsefulNotes/AbrahamLincoln came back as a zombie, afterwards he founded a couple charitable foundations and invented the sunroof. Also, he's dating Jessica Alba.
24	* TheAntiChrist: Callie is implied to be this, as her father is '''the''' (current) Devil and she is the catalyst for [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt the end of days]]. However, she seems somewhat ambivalent and unsure about the whole thing. PlayedWith as it's later revealed while her father ''is'' a powerful demon he is not in charge of hell as it's ruled by [[spoiler: Japanese businessmen.]]
25	* ArrangedMarriage: Callie and Twayne are set up in one by her father, even though she finds him an AbhorrentAdmirer. When she doesn't go through with it in season 2, he creates Lilith just for that purpose, even having her go through RapidAging to make it possible.
26	* ArtEvolution: The first few episodes' art and animation are just that tiniest bit more similar to ''WesternAnimation/{{Superjail}}'' than later episodes.
27	* BabyTalk: Callie did this when Mark had to take care of a demon baby.
28	%%* BackAlleyDoctor: Croatian Man in "Any Given Workday".
29	* BatmanGambit: In "Hell for the Holidays", [[spoiler:Mark creates a clone of himself, and relies on a quick betrayal by Twayne in their fight to the death to avoid its discovery.]]
30	** And in "Wail Street" Mark takes care of his organ-crushing soul problem, gets Callie's father to stop trying to steal his massive soul, gets a few thousand dollars richer and manages to keep his soul [[spoiler: by buying stock in a competing demonic company, devaluing his soul through a night of debauchery, selling his soul when it is so small that Callie's father just tosses it out, and digging through medical waste for a few hours until he found it again.]]
31	* BedSheetGhost: Walking a bed sheet dog.
32	* BerserkButton: "SHARK WEEK IS A NATIONAL TREASURE!"
33	** "Would you like mustard on your knish?" "I'm sorry, I do not like mustard." "[[http://www.comedycentral.com/videos/index.jhtml?videoId=269830&title=twaynes-date-with-mark Are you fuckin' kidding me? EVERYBODY LIKES MUSTARD! starts force-feeding Mark mustard SUCK THAT, YOU PILE OF FILTH!"]]
34	** And Mark now has an egg fixation - to the point that he gets a monthly magazine about them.
35	** Do not mention that you enjoyed the series finale of ''[[ShowWithinAShow Dishonorably Discharged]]'' within earshot of Grimes.
36	* BewareTheNiceOnes:
37	** Doug the Koala Man is proficient in knifing people. [[spoiler: He was once an international assassin.]]
38	** Apparently Croatian Man is a self-admitted sociopath.
39	** Do ''not'' startle Doug, even if it's for a surprise party.
40	* BigApplesauce: The series takes place in New York but inhabited by supernatural creatures.
41	* BigNo:
42	** The Brain uses one of these in "Kong of Queens" when social services gets shut down temporarily. Given what becomes of the group, it is entirely justified.
43	** Used again in the same episode when Randall gets cut in half by a passing bus, the sudden traumatic injury wasn't what brought it on, it was the fact that the bus was headed to [[PlaceWorseThanDeath Jersey City]].
44	** When Mark tells the guys that Callie sleeps around, Croatian Man's response is "IS NOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
45	* BigRedDevil: All demons have red skin. Callie, who's a half-demon notably has pink skin.
46	* BilingualBonus: Mark and Randall's apartment is next door to a restaurant named 魚男寿司 ("fish-man sushi").
47	* BirdPoopGag: In the pilot episode, a Manbird poops on the shoulder of a man outside the Department of Integrations.
48	* BizarreAlienBiology: In the series, wizards as depicted as looking like humans, but in the episode "Wet Hot Demonic Summer", it is revealed that they reproduce laying eggs and age very slowly. They also are apparently a OneGenderRace, since all of them are shown to be male.
49	* BleepDammit: Played straight and subverted in the same line in "Trolling for Terror", where it's explained that good reality TV has the three [=Fs=]: "fighting, f[bleep]," and the mysterious "fi[bleep]". Another non-humorous example in the same episode is Leonard referring to h[bleep]jobs.
50	** He said [[InterplayOfSexAndViolence fight-[bleep]]]
51	* BodyHorror:
52	** Randall on a regular basis, though being a zombie,it's not that big a deal.
53	** Mark being drugged and given 'reverse liposuction' against his will.
54	* {{Bookends}}: The Pilot begins and ends with Callie leaving Mark ChainedToABed and [[DestructoNookie his bedroom destroyed]] after sleeping with him.
55	* BowlingForRatings: The plot of the episode "Attack of Mark's Clone".
56	* BoyfriendBlockingDad: In "Callie and Her Sister", Mark becomes extremely protective of his adopted daughter Lillith (despite only raising her for a few days). He has Randall hand over his penis before allowing them to go on a date, and is horrified to discover Lillith is going to be Twayne's bride in an ArrangedMarriage.
57	* BoyMeetsGhoul: Standard fare in the ''Ugly Americans'' universe.
58	* BrainFood: Randall repeatedly mentions eating Mark's brain, and even has an incredibly elaborate plan to do so. For now he is subsisting on artificial flesh made out of tofu (and rat ovaries.) On top of that, whenever he goes out to eat, he carries a "zombie ziploc", just in case he can't get any good brains.
59	* BreastExpansion: In the "Demon Baby", swell when she comes near the demon baby that Mark is caring for, as a result of MyBiologicalClockIsTicking. Then they start to lactate fire.
60	-->'''Mark''': Um, did your boobs just grow when you touched the baby?\
61	'''Callie''': No.\
62	'''Mark''': Are you sure? 'Cause I could have sworn. There, it happened again.\
63	'''Callie''': Stop [[MyEyesAreUpHere staring at my boobs!]]\
64	'''Mark''': [[ImAManICantHelpIt I can't]], so I'll go.
65	* BrickJoke: It's a bit hard to forget Twayne's "[[ExoticEquipment Mating Bone]]" from Season 1 ([[ShareTheMalePain especially what happened at the end of that episode]]). Well, as shown in "Wet Hot Demonic Summer", the male demons can ''weaponize'' the thing.
66	* BunnyEarsLawyer: Basically everyone except Mark. Callie seems relatively normal most of the time, but even outside of the occasional demonic outburst she still keeps odd traits about her. For example, her maternal impulses for the demon baby were less caused by a desire to have children than to raise future soldiers for Satan's army.
67	** Leonard seems to be a useless drunk but is apparently the only one who knows how to work [=PowerPoint=].
68	* TheBurlesqueOfVenus: After the succubus Callie finishes molting, she is [[https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1280/1*92rcutEJBhF9p0WWMoVjDA.jpeg posed similarly]] to [[Art/TheBirthOfVenusBotticelli this painting]], with her standing over her former "skin", her [[HandOrObjectUnderwear hand and [[GodivaHair hair]] covering her breasts and genitalia, her hair blowing in the wind, two people on her left, and Mark on her right rushing to [[PleasePutSomeClothesOn throw a cloth over her]].
69	* TheCameo: Mechagodzilla, [[Film/RobotMonster Ro-Man]], [[{{Film/Splice}} Dren]] and all sorts of fantastic creatures.
70	* CanonImmigrant: Twayne, Callie, Leonard and Randall come straight from the creator's previous series, the online 5-On. In design and name only though.
71	* CannotTellAJoke:
72	** Croatian Man, inspired by a troll who speaks in riddles, gives us this, ahem, gem: "What taste like terrible food? Is my wife's cooking!" Doug (Koala Man) thought it was funny, though.
73	** Twayne, as demonstrated in "Kong of Queens."
74	--->'''Twayne:''' What's the difference between a demonic council and a room full of chickens with their heads cut off? The chickens have far superior mid- to upper-level management skills! ''HI-YO!''
75	* CaptainErsatz: Film/KingKong, [[LooksLikeOrlok Max Schreck]], [[Film/RosemarysBaby Rosemary Woodhouse]], Criss Angel, [[Film/TheLordOfTheRings Gandalf]], and [[Literature/TheTwilightSaga Edward Cullen]], among others.
76	** "YOOOUUU SHALL NOT SUUUEEE!"
77	* CatGirl: Sabrina Maroney is a ComicBook/{{Catwoman}} {{Expy}}, who leads a gang of thieving CatFolk.
78	* CastingCouch: Randall has apparently tried this tactic.
79	* CatchPhrase: Mark's "Wait, ''what''?" and Randall's "Craaaaaap".
80	* CatFolk: Some cat people appear as the antagonists of the episode "The Dork Knight".
81	* ChainedToABed: The Pilot episode begins with Callie leaving Mark chained to his. Randall needs to come in to get him out. The end of the episode has [[Bookends the same happening]], just this time he's duct-taped to bed.
82	* ChildSupplantsParent: In "Callie and Her Sister", Lilith was adopted by Mark and Callie when she was six ([[RapidAging for 12 days, since she grew a year older every day]]). Come her wedding day with Twayne, Lilith reveals that she plans [[spoiler:to kill both Twayne and Callie so she can consummate her marriage to Mark immediately after... in front of an arena full of demons.]] Though whether this is because she's [[ForTheEvulz just that evil]] or if she's genuinely attracted to Mark is unclear.
83	* CloningSplitsAttributes: In "Kill, Mark... Kill", Mark Lily snaps his friend Leonard Powers's wand causing the wizard to explode. Before Mark can gather up Leonard's remains into an urn as instructed, the little blobs of flesh suddenly morph into dozens of miniature Leonards, each only possessed of a fraction of the original's sense of maturity and cynicism. As it turns out, the only way for OG Leonard to come back is for each of the minis to die, causing the others to inherent their portion of Leonard's soul until there is only one left.
84	* ColdOpening: Most episodes start with a sequence that seems like something out of a horror movie, only to subvert it seconds later. Often ending with Frank arresting the monster who then acts as Mark's [[MonsterOfTheWeek client of the week.]] Another notable one being the pilot, where Randall is introduced looking like a monster about to devour a bound and gagged Mark, before ripping off the gag and criticizing his taste in girlfriends.
85	* ColdTurkeysAreEverywhere: When [[OrganAutonomy Randall's penis runs away]], Randall sees a sausage salesman, a train [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything going in and out of a tunnel]], a wiener-dog and its long-necked owner, Vince Foster using a pink-handled product, and "Penis: The Movie".
86	-->'''Randall''': Man, having no penis sucks dick!
87	* ContinuityNod: Twayne surprisingly still has his "[[ExoticEquipment Mating Barb]], or what's left of it, from "Demon Baby" in "Sympathy for the Devil".
88	** The same Limo driver who had his arms ripped off turned up again in The Manbirds. And it looks like he might hold a grudge.
89	* CorruptTheCutie:
90	** Seems to be the rationale regarding Callie's SingleTargetSexuality with Mark.
91	--> '''Callie:''' Oh Mark... so innocent. It just makes me want to ''demonically'' '''corrupt your soul and drag it through the bowels of Hell!'''
92	** Though, if anything, Mark is the one influencing Callie to be a better person for his sake.
93	** Season two ended the hints that Mark and Callie's relationship was caused by a higher power to play out that Mark just might be more corrupt than Callie.
94	* CreepyFamily: Callie's family (from her father's side) is made of demons.
95	* CurbStompBattle: Callie vs Randall. Too bad, really; it could've been so awesome...
96	* DarkIsNotEvil: Subverted in that many of the more supernatural creature characters do some pretty despicable or creepy things, yet in the same breath the show allows you to sympathize with them as they sometimes ''are'' actually trying to do the right thing.
97	* DeadpanSnarker: Usually Mark and Leonard, but most of the cast is pretty apathetic like that.
98	* DealWithTheDevil:
99	** How Callie's mom [[RetCon had her to begin with]].
100	--> '''Mack:''' You rub my back, [[MetaPhorgotten I'll impregnate yours!]]
101	** Deals with devils are prevalent enough that there's a "soul market" based on the stock exchange.
102	* DestructoNookie: Mark's sex with Callie usually usally has her injuring him or destroying the entire room. Apparently, it's [[SexGoddess worth it]].
103	* DidIJustSayThatOutLoud - Grimes does (and {{lampshade}}s) this twice in [[Franchise/StarWars Episode XX: Attack of Mark's Clone]]. Apparently he's fantasized about Callie a bit.
104	--> '''Grimes:''' ''Again'' with the talking!
105	* DisappearedDad: Both [[spoiler: Mark and Twayne suffered this. Mark's has been "stuck in traffic" since he was five, and Twayne's father left after seeing Twayne kill and ''eat'' his siblings in the crib.]] One of the few instances where this trope is actually ''justified'', really.
106	* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything
107	** Homosexuality: In "Blob Gets Job", Randall's dad is a gun nut with a hatred of zombies. Mark unwittingly "outs" Randall to his parents, but much fun is had by all when his dad realizes he can use him for target practice (and Randall doesn't mind as long as he doesn't get shot in the head).
108	--->'''Randall's Dad:''' I love having a [[Film/{{Heathers}} gay zombie son.]]\
109	'''Randall:''' Wait, [[MistakenForGay who's gay!?]]
110	** The Holocaust: "So, You Want to Be a Vampire?" draws parallels between Jews and vampires, who are more disliked for "controlling all the blood banks" than for sucking blood. The vamps are still recovering from a tragedy in the 40s when they were nearly wiped out by [[VanHelsingHateCrime Van Helsing]] (who wrote an autobiography entitled "Mein Vampf"). Vampires even have [[SpaceJews Jewish-style weddings]].
111	*** Also, a vampire street vendor shows up in several episodes selling knishes.
112	** White Flight: Callie's father's plan to increase the creature-to-human ratio in New York.
113	** Pregnancy: In "Wail Street", Randall panics about Mark's condition (who goes to the hospital due to mysterious abdominal pains and sudden weight gain) as if he's an expecting father.
114	** Jonestown/Scientology: The New Paltz Zombieology Center is run by Xavier Gates, who- with his aviator glasses, slicked black hair, and clergy-like outfit- bears a striking resemblance to another famous cult leader, [[http://www.laweekly.com/imager/peoples-temple-leader-jim-jones-aka-dad/b/original/2156596/ccb4/2665951.t.jpg Reverend Jim Jones]], who led the infamous Jonestown mass suicide. Plus, after Randall's stay at the center, they tell him to pay "like 500 bucks"- reminiscent of Scientology, an organization often accused of being financially motivated.
115	* DontExplainTheJoke: "Haha, ''nice one!'' He thought we were serious, but we were in jest! ''In jest!''"
116	* DownerEnding:
117	** First season mid-finale: [[spoiler: All of Mark's work has helped bring the apocalypse closer.]]
118	** First season finale: [[spoiler: Albert the Man Bird will be forever shunned by his species, lacking anyway to communicate with them, and his Fathers dying breath was used to disown him.]]
119	* DownOnTheFarm: For some reason, in "Treegasm", Wichita, Kansas is depicted as a farm.
120	* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Twain's Alpha Male personality in the first few episodes is a harsh juxtaposition with his later, more effeminate personality that grows stronger each episode.
121	** Even weirder Callie's father respected him and wanted him to be with Callie compare that to later episode "Callie and Her Sister" where it's stated if it weren't for the debt between their families, Twain wouldn't be allowed in 100 feet of Callie, and apparently that's a generous amount.
122	* EnfantTerrible:
123	** The eponymus demon baby in "The Demon Baby", who constantly eats innocent animals or attempts to harm people.
124	** Callie's newborn sister Lillith tries to kill her mother the minute they're left alone, forcing Callie and Mark to adopt her for a few days, thanks to RapidAging.
125	* TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt:
126	** The ultimate goal of all demons. Callie lists it as one of the only two pluses to marrying Twayne.
127	-->'''Mark:''' "The end of days" is a ''plus''?\
128	'''Callie:''' Well, not for you. Kind of a gray area for demons.
129	** The End of Days is a religious belief for demons. Apparently they've tried many times in the past, and it's always turned out horribly (The portal to hell actually led to a Sandals resort), and every year they host a pre-enactment.
130	* DrivenToSuicide: Played for laughs with Randall after his penis goes missing.
131	* EasySexChange: Callie in "Mark Loves Dick", [[spoiler: s/he even changes back at the end]].
132	** Not all at once, notably in the last scene we have mostly female Callie with her penis still poking under the covers.
133	* EvilCostumeSwitch: Inverted in "The Ring of Powers". Mark commands Callie to be nicer, and among the changes is from her normal tight, revealing office outfit to a more modest one-piece dress.
134	* EvilPlan: Callie's father has one, explained in "Kong of Queens," to increase the creature-to-human ratio in New York, thereby depleting the human population and bringing about the "End of Days."
135	** Twayne apparently doesn't know or care about this plan, since in "Pilot" he lays off almost the entire Social Services division and gives their budget to the Law Enforcement division.
136	* ExactWords: Before the second ordeal starts in "Soulsucker", Callie tells Mark that she'll make his dreams come true. The second ordeal is to live last night's dreams in reality.
137	--> '''Grimes''' ''while wearing a saddle, in his underwear, being ridden by Doug'': ''You'' should be ashamed of yourself for [[http://www.comedycentral.com/videos/index.jhtml?videoId=365168&title=marks-dream-comes-true dreaming this]]!
138	--> '''Mark:''' I've been under a lot of stress lately!
139	* ExoticEquipment: In a city populated by wildly disparate creatures, finding someone with whom your "parts match up" can go a long way toward making a relationship work (three-hole notwithstanding).
140	* {{Expy}}: In a show with fictional monsters running around, there are plenty.
141	** There are two different Franchise/HarryPotter send-ups--the first being a bratty prankster, the second being Leonard's son/apprentice.
142	** As well as the wizard of copyright infringement: [[Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheFellowshipOfTheRing "YOU, SHALL, NOT, sue!"]] Who apparently doubles as front-desk security at the Wizard's Guild: "YOU, SHALL, NOT, PASS! Until you sign in. It's policy."
143	** "Wail Street" features a [[Music/JustinBieber Dustin Lieber]].
144	* EyeScream: MAGGOT EYES!
145	** And, in "Attack of Mark's Clone", Randall is shown brushing his eye (with Mark's toothbrush) and doing the same ''to his eye socket'' because it helps with the plaque buildup.
146	* FanDisservice: Many of the girls Randall sleeps with. Is it any wonder his penis ran away?
147	-->'''Randall''': Karen, it's Randall. Did I happen to leave anything over there last night?\
148	'''Karen:''' Nope, just a big sweaty pile of me.
149	%%** Randall's Audition tape.
150	* FantasticVoyagePlot: "Journey to the Center of Twayne".
151	* FantasyCounterpartCulture:
152	** A RunningGag is pairing up a type of fantastic creature with an ethnicity or subculture commonly found in RealLife Manhatten:
153	** Demons are depicted as old money, power-broking, ethnically elitist [=WASPs=], although Twayne is drawn and voiced to resemble a ScaryBlackMan.
154	** Vampires are culturally similar to East Coast, Ashkenazi Jews.
155	** Yetis are Eurotrash.
156	* FantasyKitchenSink: Let's see here... zombies, demons, blobs, werewolves, robots, wizards, [[OurMonstersAreWeird faceginas, land whales...]]
157	* FantasticRacism
158	** Frank Grimes hates illegal immigrants, but he ''really'' hates non-human illegal immigrants... and vampires (aka "hemos")... and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Armenians]].
159	** Callie is shown to have experienced some for being half-human in "Soulsucker", but she's mostly too fed up about it to care anymore.
160	** Randall has to hide the fact that he's a zombie from his father, who hates them (given that he fought in the human-zombie war). And there are plenty of others who hate them.
161	* FantasticSlurs:
162	** An anti-zombie woman muttered "Dirty leg-dragger" to the zombie Randall. Randall insulted, replied "Hey that's [[NWordPrivileges OUR word!]]"
163	** Frank's hatred for vampires is partly justified by the fact that his wife left him for a vampire.
164	* ForTheLulz: The guy who originally brought man-birds to New York and subsequently influenced their entire culture to behave like complete assholes said that he did so because they were "fucking hilarious."
165	* FieryRedhead: Callie. Helped by her red hair literally looking like fire.
166	* FireAndBrimstoneHell: Possibly averted, as what we've seen of Hell seems to be another bustling city. However, underneath it is "Old Hell", which plays this trope straight. Apparently it's due to Yamaguchi enterprises buying Hell in the 2000s.
167	* FreudianThreat: When [[ClingyJealousGirl Callie sees Mark flirting with girls the night after the slept together]], she threatens to burn Mark's penis until they resemble a bag of marshmallows.
168	* FunTShirt: Two-headed worm creature Martin has one that says "2 Legit"
169	* FunWithAcronyms: Callie's '''P'''ainful '''M'''ortal '''S'''hedding in "Treegasm".
170	* TheGameNeverStopped: The demons' end of the world pre-enactment.
171	* {{Genderswap}}: Mark tries to get Randall back from a zombie cult by magically impersonating Randall's ex/stalking victim. Unfortunately, the magic goes "a little" wrong...
172	* GodivaHair: Callie temporarily gets this after her PMS in "Treegasm".
173	* GonnaNeedMoreX: Twayne, faced with having to have public sex with Lilith (Callie's sister), looks at her fully demonic form and utters "I think I'm gonna need a bigger Mating Bone" while said bone goes limp. Fluffers are promptly called in.
174	* GrossoutShow: Plenty of blood, guts, and other sources of NauseaFuel to go around.
175	* HeadTiltinglyKinky - Callie's declaration that she has "at least five holes that need filling" in "Treegasm"... even counting her three-hole, that only adds up to four!
176	** We know demon women give birth out the top of their skulls. So counting from the top, that's [[{{Squick}} one]], two, three-hole, four... and five.
177	** Also, the aforementioned DestructoNookie.
178	* HeroicBSOD: Mark has a minor one in "Kong of Queens" when he discovers that his very idealism could lead to [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt The End of Days]].
179	* HiddenDepths
180	** Frank Grimes occasionally displays traits that distinguish him from other [[NobleBigotWithABadge Noble Bigots With Badges]]. For example, in the pilot, we learn that he has a deep and abiding respect for Prius drivers.
181	** Despite being generally considered extremely naive, when pressed Mark has shown surprising manipulative skills.
182	** Randall can read Latin.
183	*** Well, it is a [[FridgeBrilliance dead language]].
184	* HoldYourHippogriffs:
185	** "Demon up, Twayne!"
186	** "Thank hell you're alive!"
187	* {{Homage}}: Plenty, including ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'', ''Literature/TheTwilightSaga'', ''Literature/HarryPotter'', and ''Film/{{Zombieland}}'' (watch out for that yellow Hummer).
188	* HumanResources: Very benign example. New York gets most of its electricity from the energy of the annual gay pride parade.
189	* HypnoTrinket: The ring of powers that Mark finds in Leonord's desk. Along with giving Mark CompellingVoice powers, it also causes Mark to begin to act like a stereotypical medieval ages knight, and fall in love with the [[TheGrotesque Grotesque]] form of Leonard's arranged wife.
190	* IHaveAFamily: Spoofed when Randall joins a zombie cult, and the initiation requires him to kill a human. The intended victim begs for mercy, claiming to have a wife and ''mistress''.
191	* IHaveThisFriend: When Mark announces the class will be watching a video on sexuality, Erik (the robot) says he has a friend who doesn't have reproductive organs, and asks if he has to watch it, too. Mark tells him he can tell his "friend" that the video is for everyone. Subverted, as Erik then turns to Doug (Koala man) and says, "Sorry, buddy."
192	* IllTakeTwoBeersToo: In "Trolling for Terror", Leonard pours himself and a troll he's coaching one shot each but angrily snatches and drinks the troll's.
193	* ILoveTheDead: Inversion in Randall's squicktacular fantasies of ''eating'' Mark, as well as the fact that he is, technically speaking, a corpse who [[ExtremeOmnisexual bangs anything that moves]].
194	** And judging from the bizarre masturbation implements he keeps taking to Mark's room when he's at work, many things that don't move as well.
195	* InitiationCeremony: The Man Club (whose members include basically every male cast member) gives Leonard a hell of a hazing. This is all kept secret from founding member Mark, who decreed there would be no hazing.
196	* ItWillNeverCatchOn: In the "Wail Street" episode, Grimes has a FlashBack to him getting kicked out of ''Music/EarthWindAndFire'' just before a career-making performance on ''Series/SoulTrain'' because they do not think his new style of singing called [[HipHop Rap]] would catch on.
197	-->'''Band Member''': Hey man, listen me and the guys have been talking, and uh, we want you out of the group.\
198	'''Grimes''': But I'm the lead singer! \
199	'''Band Member''': Uh, that's just it: We don't dig your style, this whole "Rapping" thing of yours is going nowhere.\
200	'''Grimes''': But I'm mixing talking and music It's gonna be huge, I'm telling you! \
201	'''Band Member''': People don't want to hear rhythmic-talking about street-life, they want to hear jams about boogie-wonderlands and the letting the groove get you to move! Sorry, Grimes.
202	* TheImmodestOrgasm: In "Treegasm", Callie let's out a hellish orgasmic screech when she has sex with Mark just before molting due to her demonic PMS.
203	* JerkAss: Jimmy. He was a complete jerk to Frank while training him, repeatedly insulting him and putting him through brutal training while expecting Frank to figure things out himself. When Frank appears to get killed, Jimmy refuses to believe it was his fault.
204	* JiveTurkey: Twayne is super psyched about his new Palm Pilot.
205	* {{Joisey}}: Randall's birthplace, which is full of "Townie" (ie Romero-style) Zombies.
206	* KissKissSlap[=/=]SlapSlapKiss: Depending on whichever Callie's in the mood for. One scene shows Callie arguing with Mark after she catches him flirting with the girl she had [[VoluntaryShapeshifting shape-shifted]] into at a bar. [[http://www.comedycentral.com/videos/index.jhtml?videoId=269829&title=callies-confusing-emotions She then proceeds to make out with him, bash his head against a table, and finally tell him to forget the whole thing]].
207	* LethallyStupid: Mark in the episode "Little Ship of Horrors" nearly kills Randal of neglect after Randall [[ItMakesSenseInContext turns into a plant]] by not giving him ''water or sunlight''. When Mark defends that Randall instead asked for human brains, Leonard points out that he asked for them because he is still part zombie.
208	-->Leonard'''(Angrily)''': Do you feed a baby candy all day because that's what it asks for?!
209	* LikeParentLikeSpouse: When Callie is temporarily enamored with Twayne in "Kong of Queens", Twayne rips off a chauffeur's arms in anger. Callie is visibly turned on and mentions that her dad ripped off limbs the same way. Callie makes her "daddy complex" explicit in "Soulsucker."
210	* LineOfSightName: When the demon claiming to be the father of the demon baby is asked the baby's name, he sees a nearby poster on how to help someone who is choking and responds "Choking Victim?" [[spoiler: In the end, it turns out he really was the father and he keeps the baby, but decides to keep the name Choking Victim]].
211	* TheLoinsSleepTonight: In "Treegasm", the male tree is suffering from performance anxiety due to the entire town coming to watch him and his mate having sex. Leonard performs a "viagra" spell to help him... but this causes a [[SpeedSex different problem]].
212	* LooksLikeOrlok: In "So, You Want to Be a Vampire?", Blake's father is obviously intended as an {{Expy}} of Orlok.
213	%%* LoveMartyr: Jaqueline to Mark.
214	* TheMagnificent: The head of Hell progressed from Satan to Boruta the Omnipotent to Obizoth the Adequate to Harold the Vaguely Intimidating.
215	* MakeUpOrBreakUp:Mark and Callie's relationship at first.
216	* ManIFeelLikeAWoman: Randall has to take a "loaner" in the form of some lady legs when he loses his lower body in "Kong of Queens" and uses them to [[HoYay toy with Mark all he possibly can]].
217	* ManipulativeEditing: [[ShowWithinAShow Reality show]] ''Night Terrors''.
218	* TheMasochismTango: And ''again'' another example of Mark and Callie's relationship, although it is rather one-sided, as Mark is relatively indifferent and Callie is a succubus who flips between [[{{Tsundere}} hot and cold]] in seconds.
219	* MassiveNumberedSiblings: Grimes and his ex-wife have fifteen daughters.
220	* MatingSeasonMayhem: In "Demon Baby", both Callie and Twayne get "in heat". Her due to getting into contact with the demon baby and [[MyBiologicalClockIsTicking getting maternal urges]] and him due to smelling her maternal urges. Callie begins sweating all the time, and causes her nipples to combust while Twayne grows a [[ExoticEquipment phallyc organ on his chest]] called "the mating bone".
221	* MeaningfulName: Mark Lilly (lily-white, innocent and idealistic), Callie Maggotbone (a sound-alike to a war criminal mass-murderer), and Leonard Powers (a wizard, so he has 'em). And Grimes.
222	* MinorFlawMajorBreakup Mark dumped his first girlfriend in the hospital due to the fact she was allergic to his favorite food. And she was in the hospital simply because she forced herself to eat said egg ''[[DomesticAbuser for him]]''.
223	* MonstersAnonymous: The Department of Integration serves this purpose.
224	* MonsterOfTheWeek: A standard plot is one of New York's non-human citizens joining Mark's group, only to cease being their problem by the end of the episode (through death, imprisonment, or occasionally even successful integration).
225	* MyHovercraftIsFullOfEels: Mark's first few attempts at speaking manbird.
226	* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Most of the demons. Callie ''Maggotbone''. Twayne the ''Boneraper''. Of the Connecticut Bonerapers. Such a proud family.
227	* NavelDeepNeckline: CatGirl Sabrina Maroney has such a deep cleavage that almost exposes her breasts.
228	* NegativeContinuity: Blown-off limbs reappearing five minutes later, Mark's Callie-inflicted wounds healing overnight, etc.
229	* NiceJobBreakingItHero: In "Hell for the Holidays", Mark discovers the [[spoiler:clone of himself]] that Callie is making, and reveals it to her father, who promptly destroys it. It is a shame that that [[spoiler:clone]] was meant to save him from a [[spoiler:fight to the death with Twayne.]]
230	** Thanks to Frank Grimes having absolutely no sense of how far is too far when it comes to pranks, [[spoiler: the next time the serial killing actor gets out of jail he will try murdering everyone at the [=DOI=] for real just like he did in the prank on Mark.]]
231	* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: The inevitable Judge Judy clone for the courtroom scenes.
232	** Also "Lady Hoo-Ha".
233	* NoodleIncident: In the finale Leonard's hologram form visits Mark to notify him of his new jobs: Fish Gutter, Knife-Wielding Spray Paint Addict, and an [[Film/ApocalypseNow overweight Vietnamese demigod]], with no explanation to how he got into those positions.
234	-->'''Leonard:''' Yea... I found out that I really need structure.
235	** In ''Treegasm'', Leonard explains that the gay pride parade keeps the power grid running.
236	** "It's '87 all over again!"
237	* NoPeriodsPeriod: Averted. Not just by Callie's "painful mortal shedding", but also one scene in Randall and Mark's kitchen has a calendar with her actual period marked out on it. It runs for two weeks...
238	* NotReallyABirthScene: A second-season episode presents Mark's oversized soul in this manner, complete with Randall acting like a PanickyExpectantFather.
239	* OneGenderRace: Martin, and other two-headed worm creatures, are all direct descendants of Mitch, the first of his(their?) kind.
240	* OneWingedAngel: All demons seem to have a bigger, more horrific form. However, Callie has to remove her human soul to access it, while Lilith, Callie's ''also'' half-human sister, simply rips her skin off. It may be that demons have different forms for different contexts.
241	* OnlySaneEmployee: Following the layoffs in "Pilot", Mark is the only one left who actually cares about the social work department. Too bad he's a spineless wimp. This is somewhat deconstructed in the later episodes, where his well-meaning morality [[BlueAndOrangeMorality means very little with supernatural creatures]].
242	* OurDemonsAreDifferent: Red/pink skin with horns. Varying in degrees of evil, but are mostly just apathetic towards humans. They do practice barbaric traditions with their own kind, such as eating their young. They also have bizarre anatomy, such as lactating fire when in heat, giving birth through the top of their skull, being full of live snakes, and males that grow a giant barbed "mating bone" out of their sternum to correspond with the female "three-hole", a big suggestively-shaped glowing portal they can open on their abdomen.
243	* OurMonstersAreWeird: You have your regular monsters like vampires and werewolves, followed by minor variants like Cyclopses that shoot acid out ot their eyes, you have your more creative things like a sentient (Canadian) brain with one eye, and then you have ''land whales''.
244	* OurSoulsAreDifferent: They're small, somewhat watery glowing balls that can be physically handled, even by {{Muggle}}s. Human men and women are [[PinkGirlBlueBoy blue and pink, respectively]] while Callie the half-demon has a golden soul. There reside within the body between the navel and lower intestine in an organ called the pooch and can apparently grow with good deeds to the point of crushing other organs. Hell runs a stock market-esque "soul exchange".
245	* OurVampiresAreDifferent: The show's FantasyKitchenSink seems to lump several kinds of vampires together [[RuleOfFunny without much regard for consistency]]. Blake is a Twilight-style vampire who looks [[EvenTheGuysWantHim gorgeous]] (although he can transform into a large scary-looking bat), while Blake's father is a hideous [[LooksLikeOrlok Nosferatu-style]] vampire, and it's implied that sunlight is grievously harmful to some vampires, but Blake merely sparkles and Tristan's stepfather tans pretty well after applying a generous amount of sunblock.
246	* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: They retain their intelligence (but do gain a love of chasing cats), and the transformation can regenerate missing limbs. They also seem to remain permanently in wolf form instead of changing back and forth.
247	* OurZombiesAreDifferent:
248	** Apparently they retain full intelligence, but are still rotting and have cravings for flesh and brains. Mark's roommate Randall Skeffington is just one example.
249	** The more "traditional" type of groaning, leg-dragging, mindless zombie is seen ''en masse'' in "Blob Gets Job". Apparently, there were enough of them to fight in a [[ZombieApocalypse war against humans]] in the '60s, and they're still pretty common in some towns. Randall hates them for just [[StopBeingStereotypical reinforcing the negative stereotype of zombies.]]
250	* OutOfClothesExperience: When Leonard has Mark kill himself to perform his BackFromTheDead spell, Mark awakens in a black void sans any of his clothing. The afterlife employer who meets him there tells him people's clothes don't make the transition.
251	* PainfulTransformation:
252	** The werewolf guy in "An American Werewolf in America". Not only is the change itself painful, but adding to that is the ''regrowth of an entire arm!''
253	** The demon baby in "Demon Baby". Though it shows no sign of being in pain, Randall's description of it sounds very painful, as we humans could only imagine what a vagina eating itself feels like.
254	** Callie's "[[AllPeriodsArePMS painful mortal shedding]]".
255	* ParentalAbandonment:
256	** Played for laughs, and done with noble intentions, but ultimately subverted in "Demon Baby."
257	** And revisited by Mark, when it's revealed that his father has been "stuck in traffic" since he was five years old.
258	* ParentalSexualitySquick: In "Callie and her Sister", Callie walks in on her parents having SexWithTheEx and is horrified.
259	* PlaceWorseThanDeath: Randall gets hit by a bus in episode 7, tearing him in half, with his top half stuck to the bus. Because he's a zombie, this kind of traumatic injury isn't all that serious, and he seems only moderately annoyed... until he realizes the bus is heading to New Jersey, at which point he lets out a BigNo.
260	* PlanetOfCopyHats: In the first appearance of a man bird, he says "Suck my balls!" after crapping on a guy. When an entire episode dedicated to man birds rolls around, their ''entire language'' is limited to different inflections of that phrase and their culture revolves around being an asshole.
261	** Debatable. It could be that the man-bird was apologizing for crapping on the guy (when you gotta go, you gotta go) in his language, the only language any man-bird speaks. The guy, not being a man-bird interpreter, would have taken the phrase at face value and thought the man-bird really was telling him to suck his balls.
262	** Also a ChekhovsGun.
263	* PlatonicLifePartners: Mark and his roommate Randall.
264	* PickUpBabesWithBabes: Randall's first reaction upon learning Mark is taking care of a demon baby is to use it to pick up women. Notably, when Mark is taking care of the demon baby at the park, one of the girls there stares at him while blushing.
265	* PillowPistol: Mark starts keeping a gun near his bed when Randall starts to want to [[HorrorHunger eat his toes]].
266	* PitbullDatesPuppy: Mark is a pretty decent guy while Callie is [[BlackComedyRape seriously abusive]]. Kinda inevitable given that she's literally the spawn of {{Satan}}. She's working on not being like that though.
267	* PokeThePoodle: Callie deliberately incites this while in a competition for who can be the evilest in order the become the ruler of hell, a job she doesn't want. She makes it seem that her idea of evil is taking a soda can from the "recycled" bin to the regular trash bin.
268	* ProductPlacement: Pinkberry is touted as the healthy, low-fat dessert of every girl's dreams in "Lilly and the Beast". Of course, Mark ''also'' points out the [[https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Pinkberry#Controversy darker side of the product.]]
269	* PromotedToParent: Callie and Mark become Lillith's parents [[RapidAging for a few days]] after Lillith tries to kill her human mother.
270	%% * ProneToTears: The koala.
271	* PyroManiac: Jerry the ant-man.
272	* RapidAging:
273	** Callie's sister Lilith aged one year every day. Surprisingly it had more to do with the hormones her mom took than her demonic nature.
274	** When Leonard's fiancée thaws out in "The Ring of Powers", she instantly becomes a gray, pimply, drooling ancient mess. However, this may be due to Leonard's freezing spell being terrible.
275	** [[spoiler: When Mark has Leonard cast a spell to make Mark look like Randall's ex in an effort to convince him to not join a cult, Mark begins rapidly aging due to the spell being a curse.]] [[spoiler: The only way to save himself is to have sex with a man to completion. By the time he can find someone he's so old the only person who will do the deed is Grimes.]]
276	* ReadingTheStageDirectionsOutLoud: Twayne's speech as General of the pre-enactment army.
277	-->'''Twayne:''' My brother died as he lived: angry, bitter and full of hate. He's gone now, and we must carry on as he would have wanted. ''Release crow in parenthesis.''
278	* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Wizards age very slowly. Leonard is at least 500 years old but looks to be in his 60s, while his apprentice Lionel is 50 but looks 11.
279	* {{Retcon}}: Twayne's Mating Bone grew back just in time for his marriage to Lilith, after it [[CripplingCastration got cut it off]] in "Demon Baby".
280	* RetiredBadass [[spoiler: ''Doug'']]. No, seriously, he was formerly a highly skilled killer.
281	* RhymesOnADime: Quoggle the troll in "Trolling for Terror".
282	* RidiculouslyAliveUndead: Randall the zombie [[TheSleepless does not sleep]], so he just eats ice cream all night long.
283	* RidiculouslyCuteCritter:
284	** Doug (Koala Man). Possibly UglyCute depending on how you feel about koalas.
285	* RousseauWasRight: Many, but not all, of the monsters Mark helps generally find themselves in better humor afterwards.
286	** {{Averted\|Trope}} "The Manbirds", where, although Mark succeeds in raising up the baby Manbird in a more nurturing environment, it causes him to be utterly rejected by his father...[[IHaveNoSon on his deathbed]], no less.
287	* SarcasticClapping: Frank does this in response to one of Mark's idealistic statements, but then gets irritated when Leonard confuses it with a SlowClap.
288	-->'''Frank:''' ''[sees Leonard clapping slowly]]'' No. I'm ''mock clapping''.\
289	'''Leonard:''' As am I.\
290	'''Frank:''' No, you aren't! You're going for that slow, building applause thing, Like all those '80s movies.\
291	'''Leonard:''' There's virtually no difference in our claps!
292	* {{Satan}}: Historically was the original ruler of Hell. The current head of his clan (in this case, Mr. Maggotbone) is referred to as the Devil.
293	* SeeYouInHell: Callie leaves this written on Mark Lilly's bedroom wall after they start sleeping together. She wants to introduce him to her parents.
294	* SeriousBusiness:
295	** For Mark, eggs. Very serious.
296	** Birthdays, for the entire Department of Integration staff. If the birthday department's budget is cut below 67% the Integration Treaty falls to pieces.
297	* SexinessScore: One of Aldremach's [[ObnoxiousInLaws many insults]] to Mark is considering him a "Zero".
298	* SexIsViolence: Callie's DestructoNookie can sometimes be too much for the human Mark, as she can get ''extremely'' violent. Randall once claimed their sex sounds like Mark was being murdered.
299	-->'''Mark:''' ''[Callie is treating Mark's post-coital wounds while in bed]'' I don't mind it a little rough sometimes, but is it necessary to take actual chunks out of me?\
300	'''Callie:''' Just be grateful I didn't bring my pitchfork. You ''do not'' want to know where that has been.
301	* SexySilhouette: Mark and Callie's nude silhouettes behind a shower curtain in "Demon Baby".
302	* SexySurfacingShot: Callie coming out of the pool in a red bikini in "Wet Hot Demonic Summer", in a ShoutOut of the PoolScene in ''Film/FastTimesAtRidgemontHigh'', but when Callie takes off her top it reveals she had an [[BarelyThereSwimwear even smaller]] bikini top underneath.
303	* ShouldersUpNudity:
304	** When Marks finds himself [[OutOfClothesExperience naked in the afterlife]], the camera always stays above his waist.
305	** In "Demon Baby", when Mark and Callie are [[ShowerOfLove taking a shower together]], the camera cuts just above her breasts and his waist.
306	* ShoutOut
307	** The Zombiology building from Episode 8 is clearly the main building at [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pratt_Institute Pratt Institute]], due to a lot of the show's interns going there.
308	** Brian Peppers briefly shows up in episode 9 to kidnap one of the Leonard clones.
309	** Clark Dungaree is the third person to go by that alias, the first one [[LegacyCharacter having retired fifteen years ago,]] [[Film/ThePrincessBride and is now living like a king in Patagonia.]]
310	** Fans of ''WesternAnimation/TheFlightOfDragons'' will recognize one of the wizards in the Season 2 premiere - he even shares the same ElementalPowers!
311	** The climax of "Wet Hot Demonic Summer" features an [[WesternAnimation/{{Superjail}} enormous, gratuitously bloody fight scene where two of the fighters drop everything to make out]].
312	** "Callie and Her Sister" includes plenty of ''Film/TheOmen1976'' references, especially a remake of the scene where Damien runs his mother off a staircase landing with his Big Wheel, along with a woman shouting to Callie that "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPEsOg3xyGE It's all for you, Callie! It's all for you!]]"
313	** The protagonist of Grimes' favorite show, Dishonorably Discharged, resembles [[Series/{{Monk}} Adrian Monk]]. It apparently has a heavy MythArc, and had a controversial GainaxEnding [[Series/{{Lost}} written by Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse.]]
314	** Possibly to the 1976 parody film ''Murder By Death'' - several of the names are similar (Twain/Twayne, Miss Skeffington/Randall Skeffington, Marcel/Mark).
315	** The schoolgirl in the Tokyo slide during ''Treegasm'' is [[Manga/LuckyStar Tsukasa]].
316	** The funeral home shown in ''Kill Mark Kill'' is called Scrimm's. Angus Scrimm played the evil funeral director in the ''Film/{{Phantasm}}'' films.
317	*** The same episode features Mark using a sleeping bag that has [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Pinkie Pie]] on it.
318	** In ''Pilot'', Aldramach Maggotbone's wife is a [[TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}} Daemonette]]. Figures.
319	** The opening of "Mummy Dearest" has a Franchise/TombRaider that starts looking more like Lara Croft the more dangers she faces.
320	** In "Little Ship of Horrors", Dren from ''[[Film/{{Splice}} Splice]]'' is seen abroad the ship, and in the audience of Leonard's performance.
321	* ShownTheirWork: Admiral Maggotbone's first name is Aldramach, a play on Adramelech, a pagan god co-opted as a demon by Judeo-Christian mythology.
322	* SiblingRivalry: Callie's and her Lillith become bitter rivals, with Lillith doing her best to spite her sister just because. This includes trying to steal Mark away, even though he technically her [[VillainousIncest adopted father]].
323	* SickeninglySweet: Demons seem to consider Mark's completely pure good intentions nauseating.
324	* SingleTear:
325	** Doug (Koala Man) is prone to these.
326	** Callie let's out a single tear when she decides to marry Twayne to get the demon baby... and her tear sets her paperwork on fire.
327	** In "Hell for the Holidays", Mark sheds one of these over the death of the clone he raised. It turned what could have been perceived as a very callous act by Mark (even with his survival on the line) into a reminder of how much he really does care. Though that might be more of "I'm proud that he managed to learn to say 'Wait, what?'" rather than mourning his demise.
328	* SleepingWithTheBoss: Mark's LoveInterest is his boss Callie, who's constantly pulling him aside for SexAtWork.
329	* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Of the six main characters, Callie is the only female.
330	* SocialServicesDoesNotExist: Inverted. Not only does it exist, it's being played sympathetically for once.
331	* SoulJar: PlayedWith. [[spoiler: Breaking Leonards's wand kills him temporarily, but the road to revival is a long and complicated one, [[ItMakesSenseInContext involving 500 tiny baby leonards]]]].
332	* SpannerInTheWorks: What Mark pulls off in ''Wail Street'' [[spoiler: after being extorted into selling his soul, the largest one in the Western Hemisphere. After agreeing to the deal, he sinned his ass off in order to screw over Callie's dad and retain his Soul]].
333	* SpeedSex: The mating of the trees in "Treegasm" ends up over very quickly when the male ends up having "premature esapulation".
334	* StealthPun: Man Birds cock fight with their genitalia.
335	* SwallowedWhole: In the first episode Bart completely swallows and then spits out Mark so he could "know how it feels to be chewed up and spit out by the system"
336	* TakeThat: "So, You Want to Be a Vampire?" was pretty much a mild jab at ''Literature/TheTwilightSaga'' the entire time.
337	* TearsOfBlood: Twayne leaks them whenever he gets... competitive.
338	* TertiarySexualCharacteristics: Apparently the only noticeable difference between male and female dragons is eye shadow.
339	* ThemeNaming: Twayne and his siblings all have normal human names that begin with 'W', then with a 'T' added to it.
340	* ThereCanBeOnlyOne: How Leonard resurrects after Mark accidentally kills him. Not originally how it was supposed to work, but it still gets the desired result. Well, aside from the Vicodin addiction.
341	* ThereWasADoor: Randall's introduction involves breaking down Mark's down, making him look like a feral zombie, only for Mark to point out annoyed that the door was unlocked.
342	* TheyWalkAmongUs: The show is all about this trope, taking place in a version of New York City that is inhabited by monsters and supernatural creatures.
343	* ThisIsGoingToSuck: Randall quotes the trope when he finds out Mark accidentally outed him as a zombie to his parents.
344	-->'''Randall:''' (sees his father in the living room loading a shotgun, dressed in army fatigues) Yeah, that's dad shootin' gun. ''This is going to SUCK!''
345	* ToiletHumor: From zombies eating brains and demons eating zombies, to bird-headed people shitting on your shoulder and telling you that you can suck their balls.
346	* TokenHuman: Croatian Man, the sole human in Mark's therapy group.
347	* TooKinkyToTorture: Sorta. When Callie has Mark's clone take over his life, one scene opens up with her tied to a rack and him holding a bullwhip, and she literally states "The other Mark ''never'' offered to torture me!" Then it just gets [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] in that she's too mentally distracted to enjoy it, giving out the most monotone, forced moans ever heard even as he's [[ClothingDamage stripping her with the whip]].
348	* ToplessnessFromTheBack: In "Demon Baby", when Callie walks out of the shower, she only has a ModestyTowel wrapped around her waist, but since she has her back to the camera, only her naked back and {{Sideboob}} are exposed. At the end of the episode, when she sneaks into Mark's room and strips down, we also on see her from the back.
349	* TrademarkFavoriteFood:
350	** Mark's love of eggs is actually mentioned very rarely, but it's pretty extreme. He even subscribes to a magazine that's just about eggs. It was also revealed that Mark coldly dumped a girl who was more or less ''perfect'' because she was deathly allergic to eggs. [[JerkAss And he did it while she was in the hospital after she tried the eggs for him!]]
351	** Randal's craving for human flesh could be seen as a form of this, many of his jokes revolve around eating and/or dismembering people. Apart from his sexual escapades, the deisre to eat people is his most noted characteristic.
352	* {{Tsundere}}: Callie, who flips back and forth, as she's [[HalfHumanHybrid half-human]]. Unfortunately, she's also half-demon.
353	-->'''Callie:''' You're lucky I don't turn your dick into a bag of marshmallows '''right now!'''\
354	'''Fishman:''' I would like to see that, actually.
355	* TheVirus: "Mad Larry Disease" converts the infected into Larry King, and is caused by a King taking a combination of Plavix, Adderall, and Viagra.
356	* UrbanFantasy: If one were to take ''TabletopGame/TheWorldOfDarkness'' and make it the setting for a [[SitCom sit-com]], this is pretty much what you'd get.
357	* VanHelsingHateCrime:
358	** Van Helsing is referred to as a "psycho" by a vampire, and Grimes is a fan (even has the lunchbox).
359	** Apparently, Van Helsing wrote a book entitled "Mein Vampf", an obvious reference to Adolf Hitler's "Mein Kampf".
360	* VetinariJobSecurity: As useless and extraneous as Twayne may appear to be at the [=DOI=], his absence from his post causes Mark to bring the whole of New York to the brink of nuclear annihilation on top of a full-scale interspecies civil war. Twayne fixes the whole mess in five minutes with a birthday cake.
361	* VirtuousCharacterCopy: A WholePlotReference of ''Literature/TheTwilightSaga'' has Grimes' daughter and her boyfriend Blake, who are essentially positive takes on Bella Swan and Edward Cullen respectively. Blake lacks all of Edward's controlling and abusive tendencies, and is a NiceGuy who would be the perfect husband and son-in-law; meanwhile, Grime's daughter is a drama queen and a bit of a pretentious know-it-all, but she's significantly more sympathetic and likable than Bella.
362	* WhatDoesSheSeeInHim: Platonic version. In one episode a guy reveals he's been stalking Mark for years because Randal picked him to be his roommate instead of him and he doesn't understand why. Turns out Randal wasn't that impressed with either applicants but chose Mark because he heard he worked at the D.O.I and thought he meant "Dudgeon of Intercourse". He was just trying to get free admittance.
363	* WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway: In "Wet Hot Demonic Summer", we see that many wizards have normal jobs and powers relating to them. For example, the Wizard of Air is an air-traffic controller but also gets to fly around on broomsticks. Leonard is the Wizard of Social Services, and his power is... being a lazy alcoholic bureaucrat. His apprentice Lionel is not keen on this.
364	* WorkCom: Technically it is, but it's a really weird one.
365	* WorthlessForeignDegree:
366	** Grimes's Hispanic maid went to medical school.
367	** As did the Croatian man, though he actually is terrible at surgery.
368	*** On the plus side, he'll perform ''any'' surgery for 16 dollars.
369	* YouShallNotPass: The Wizard's Guild main building. Until you sign in.
370	* ZombieApocalypse: More of a quagmire, really. In this universe, it stands in for the Vietnam War.

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