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[[caption-width:350: (left to right) Catherine, Matthew, Jimmy, Bill, Dave, Lisa, Joe, and Beth.]]

A WorkCom airing on Creator/{{NBC}} from 1995-99, set at a news-talk radio station and starring Dave Foley (as news director and OnlySaneMan Dave Nelson), Phil Hartman (playing SmallNameBigEgo anchorman Bill [=McNeil=]), Andy Dick (Matthew Brock, TheDitz), Vicki Lewis (SassySecretary Beth), Stephen Root (EccentricMillionaire station-owner Jimmy James), Joe Rogan (Joe Garelli, a ConspiracyTheorist electrician with a propensity for HomemadeInventions) and Maura Tierney (neurotic overachiever Lisa Miller). Khandi Alexander played SassyBlackWoman Catherine Duke for three seasons before leaving for a bigger role on ''{{ER}}'' (which Tierney also joined the cast of following this show's cancellation). Though critically acclaimed, ''[=NewsRadio=]'' never got the recognition or {{ratings}} it deserved, in part because NBC apparently scheduled it by rolling dice each week.

After Hartman's death, Jon Lovitz signed on as a SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute.

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!!This show provides examples of:
* AbortedArc: Nearly all forced on the writers by the network.
* ActorAllusion: The Halloween episode when Dave dressed up as a woman was no surprise to anyone who knew of the many convincing female characters Dave Foley played as a member of the all-male comedy troupe TheKidsInTheHall.
** In "The Trainer", the staff is shocked to find out that Dave is actually [[CanadaEh Canadian]]. Dave Foley is from Canada.
* AddictionDisplacement: Bill tries to take up chewing tobacco in order to quit smoking.
* AdoringThePests: The gang befriends a rat that is roaming the station. Dave doesn't know about this and sets traps for it, which the others set off to keep the rat safe.
* AffablyEvil: Jimmy James, while a generally goofy and friendly guy who treats his employees well, is a CorruptCorporateExecutive. Johnny Johnson also applies; even after learning that he is evil and Mr. James' rival, everyone but Dave is still fond of him. Lisa [[spoiler:even marries him.]]
* AlienAutopsy: Joe, Beth, and Matthew once act out a fake alien autopsy (with Matthew as the alien) in front of a 24-hour webcam for the radio station's website.
** Joe also claims to possess a tape of a genuine alien autopsy. In the Halloween episode, his costume is "alien autopsy surgeon".
* AlliterativeName: Jimmy James, Johnny Johnson.
* AlmightyJanitor: Joe is a world class engineer, which is played entirely for laughs. He makes all of his own equipment (even duct tape) and can read binary code.
-->'''Catherine:''' where did you find a camera small enough to fit in an action figure?
-->'''Joe:''' I made it.
-->'''Catherine:''' I mean, where'd you get the parts?
-->'''Joe:''' I made em!
* AprilFoolsPlot: "The Song Remains the Same" has Jimmy pulling April Fools' pranks on the staff...''in February''.
* AshFace: One time, Bill tries to escape down the stairwell when fire breaks out in the building, but the stairwell is full of smoke and he comes back covered in soot. Dave then makes a quip referencing ''TheJazzSinger'' ("I think talking pictures will destroy Hollywood").
* AsHimself: James Cann, Jerry {{Seinfeld}}
* AttractiveBentGender: Dave, in the Halloween episode, laments that he looks better as a woman than a man. Lisa gets mad because she thinks he looks better in her dress than she does.
* AuthorCatchPhrase: The producers found the word "gazizza" far funnier than the audience did.
* BachelorAuction
* BadBadActing: Mr. James, when he knows he's being filmed by documentary crew.
* BareYourMidriff: Beth is fond of this trope.
* BathroomStallOfOverheardInsults: In "Bitch Session", Dave ducks under his desk for a moment to fix his phone cord. The others, seeing his office seemingly empty, decide to stage an impromptu gathering in his office to talk about him and make fun of him.
* BatmanGambit: During the fifth season, Johnny Johnson manages to become CEO of Mr. James' company and doesn't intend to cede control back to him. Mr. James employs the BatmanGambit by convincing Johnny to let him take any ''one'' employee with him from the company. In the end, Mr. James announces his pick: Johnny, who he promptly fires.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor
* BenevolentBoss: Mr. James, of course. Dave, too, considering what he has to put up with everyday.
** James on one occasion, after realizing he got everyone really crappy christmas presents, gets everyone but Matthew brand new Mazda Miatas. Matthew, however, got the rights to FibberMcGeeAndMolly.
** Mr. James appears to actively seek his good boss reputation, by often times making Dave 'make' the unpopular decisions for the company.
* BestBeforeDecade: Bill buys stale sandwiches from an old sandwich vending machine, on purpose. He likes them because they remind him of his childhood.
* TheBigBoard: Only Matthew cares about it, however.
* BrainyBrunette: Lisa.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Several characters, but Jimmy James stands out.
** Joe Garelli and Bill [=McNeal=] also stand out, being highly skilled, but either half-crazed or highly obnoxious.
* BurgerFool: Lisa in "Lucky Burger"
* CanadaEh
* TheCassandra: Dave is a terrific news director. He's tough, has foresight, good instincts and a lot of common sense, and is a BS detector. Despite this, nobody at the office ever believes his warnings and his authority is roundly dismissed, as much of the staff see him as just a [[StopHavingFunGuy killjoy]].
* ChristmasEpisode
* CloudCuckoolander: Most of the cast. But especially Matthew.
* ConspiracyTheorist: Joe, full stop.
* ConverseWithTheUnconscious: Dave to Mr. James in "Sleeping"
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Jimmy James and Johnny Johnson.
* CrazyPrepared: Bill, in "Presence", always has his contract in an inside pocket of his suit, just in case.
-->'''Dave:''' Wait a minute. You carry around your contract with you?
-->'''Bill:''' At a time like this it doesn't seem so crazy, does it?
** While in his radio booth, Bill has a pre-recorded sound effect for any occasion.
** Also, [[http://youtu.be/C9SRViMujsw?t=11m4s in the episode "Security Door",]] Dave gets fed-up with everyone not following proper security door protocol. Calling a staff meeting, he has an easel and a huge pad of paper with drawings of what to do and not to do while he gives his speech, covering fires, thieving burglars, propping open the door, earthquakes (even explaining that they mainly happen in the 'ring of fire' in the Pacific rim) and... ''Matthew's'' questions. They fit EXACTLY what he is saying, and even predicts what the staff will ask him. To wit:
-->'''Dave:''' Any questions?
-->'''Matthew:''' Yeah, I have a very serious question.
-->'''Dave:''' Of course, Matthew. [Flips paper over, revealing a picture of a man riding a flying ''Unicorn''.] In the event that a ''wizard'' casts a spell on us...
* CrossReferencedTitles: Bored with coming up with titles for their episodes, the writers resorted at one point to naming all the episodes after Music/LedZeppelin albums. See also IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming.
** "Catherine Moves On" in Season Four and "Bill Moves On" in Season Five.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Jimmy James is deceptively spry. When an ex-employee denounces him on-air, James dives across Dave's desk to hit the kill-switch button (done off-screen).
-->'''Lisa:''' ''(stunned)'' I have never seen you move that fast before.
-->'''Jimmy:''' I save energy [[CrazyPrepared for times like this]].
* CurseCutShort: From "The Trainer".
-->'''Matthew:''' Hey, what part of Africa are you from?
-->'''Catherine:''' Shut up.
-->'''Matthew:''' No, seriously! Say something in African.
-->'''Catherine:''' Shut the f- (''show cuts to the next scene'')
** Also happens in "Kids" when the teacher that Jimmy's dating insists he set a good example for a student to whom she's trying to teach good manners.
-->'''Teacher:''' Take your elbows off the table.
-->'''Jimmy:''' Oh. What the hell.
-->'''Teacher:''' And don't say "hell".
-->'''Jimmy:''' Damn.
-->'''Teacher:''' And don't say "damn".
-->'''Jimmy:''' All right, but what the f- (''show cuts to the next scene'')
* DeadpanSnarker: Dave.
* TheDitz: Matthew
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: In "The Real Deal", Bill and Lisa try desperately to get Jerry Seinfeld to appear on their show so it won't get cancelled... which bears a suspicious resemblance to the real life situation that ''[=NewsRadio=]'' was in at the time.
* DreamSequence: "Daydream."
* DrunkWithPower: Parodied, Matthew's promotion.
* EccentricMillionaire: Bllionaire, actually: Mr. James.
* EmbarrassingFirstName: Evelyn William [=McNeal=]
-->'''Bill:''' It's pronounced "Eeee-ve-lyn."
* EyeTake
* {{Flanderization}}: Jimmy got goofier, Matthew got dumber, Bill got crazier, Dave got bitterer, Lisa got more neurotic, and Joe's fondness for inventions became ''[[GilligansIsland Gilligan's Island]]''-esque in scope.
* FailureKnight: Matthew, with regard to Bill
* FauxtasticVoyage: "Balloon"
* FengSchwing: Bill's apartment, but [[spoiler:later revealed to actually be his gigolo neighbor's place]]
* FiveFiveFive: Subverted, when Mr. James realizes he's been given a fake 555 number.
* FlowersForAlgernonSyndrome: "[[LiteraryAllusionTitle Flowers for Matthew]]"
* {{Foil}}: Dave and Bill are an excellent example.
* FriendOrIdolDecision: Not quite a straight example, as Mr. James is already a billionaire, but when an excellent offer for the new station is made (it's at least ten times what Dave thought was a fair price), James is caught between how much he enjoys the station and its people, and his business principles.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: In one episode Joe (using a {{funny accent}}) managed to say shit by pronouncing it "chet."
* AGodAmI: Played for laughs. Mr. James bets Bill in a poker game with another radio station. Bill pulls out his contract and says there is no way he has the right to do that. Mr. James then tells him to check the extraordinary circumstances section, saying that the contract does not cover instances of sudden illness, acts of God, etc. Again, Bill protests. Mr. James finally tells him to read his Act of God clause.
-->Bill (Shocked): "Jimmy James shall be referred to here and in all future instances... as God."
* GratuitousEnglish: Mr. James' book [[spoiler:Macho Business Donkey Wrestler]]
* TheGreatWhodini: Dave was both the great Throwgalli and the Great Ventriloquodini.
* HeadsTailsEdge: Mr. James trying to pick the new news director.
* HeroicBSOD: Mr. James has one of these when he loses Bill in a poker game.
* HesJustHiding: [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] in-universe with Matthew's reaction to Bill's death. [[spoiler:Initially, at least. Later, Matthew admits that he knows Bill is truly dead, he's just using this trope so as not to alarm the others.]]
* HistoricalCharacterConfusion:
--> '''Bill:''' "Big Chief Custer? No, he scalped many palefaces that day."
* HistoricalInJoke: Mr. James' claim to be the informant Deep Throat, not to mention a three-episode arc in which James is accused of being notorious skyjacker D.B. Cooper, [[spoiler:who is ultimately revealed to be Adam West]].
* HomemadeInventions: Joe's forte. In fact it's implied that Joe doesn't use ANYTHING he didn't just make in his garage. This often times applies to the individual parts as well, although he has cobbled together several frankenstein inventions.
* HotMom: Although she's never seen onscreen, Jimmy James apparently has and believes Dave's mother is this.
* HumanPopsicle: "Space"
* HypnoFool: How Joe cures Mr. James of his fear of hippies.
* IKnowKungFaux: Joe Garelli is an expert in "Joe-jitsu".
* ImAManICantHelpIt: What all of Beth's boyfriends told her. Not just that they are a slave to their sex drive, but that they get sick if they don't.
* IndulgentFantasySegue
* InSpace: The episode "Space" is explictly introduced as "''[=NewsRadio=]'' IN SPACE!"
-->Bill: What if the show wasn't set in a news station... but a space station? And what if we didn't deliver the news but the... space news.
* ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne: In "Mistake", Dave in a magazine interview refers to Joe as "a so-called electrician who knows more about imaginary flying saucer technology than he does about a simple light switch". Joe is far less offended by the personal insult than by Dave referring to alien technology as "imaginary".
* IWantYouToMeetAnOldFriendOfMine: In "Stupid Holiday Charity Talent Show", Dave's knife-throwing nemesis Throwdini is played by Dave Foley's former ''KidsInTheHall'' colleague Kevin [=McDonald=]. And in "Goofy Ball", Bill's stalker is played by Phil Hartman's former ''SaturdayNightLive'' colleague Dennis Miller. Hartman was replaced by Jon Lovitz who was another former SNL acquaintace and who had interacted with Hartman playing guest spots on early shows of the series.
* {{Kawaisa}}: Dave is an in-universe example of [[{{Moe}} cuteness]], much to his frustration and chagrin. He's rarely taken seriously as an authority figure because of his [[NaiveNewcomer inexperience]], [[IncorruptiblePurePureness idealism]] and [[FunSize boyishness]] -- the others largely agree that he looks like a fourteen-year-old in a business suit. A child visiting the station once calls him "the little boy in the blue suit".
** In episode 57, Dave tries to fool Andrea's polygraph test to make her think he's got a criminal record, but the test reveals he's never even thought about shoplifting, and Andrea calls him the cutest thing. He snaps back, "I am '''not''' the cutest thing!" and the polygraph goes off. Jimmy enters as Dave storms out, then Jimmy says to Andrea, "Ain't he the cutest thing?"
* KickMePrank: Bill puts a "Spaz" sign on Matthew.
* KnifeThrowingAct: Dave Nelson was once a knifethrower named The Great Throwgalli.
* LampshadedDoubleEntendre: Oysters...
* LampshadeHanging
* LargeHam: Oh dear god, Bill.
* LostHimInACardGame: Bill in "Presence"
* TheMainCharactersDoEverything: WNYX is supposed to be a busy New York City radio station, but the eight main characters seem to do every job. The electrician sits in on story meetings and sometimes goes on the air. The show originally had GhostExtras in the background to suggest that there were other employees, but eventually gave up on that.
** [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] and HandWaved in "Kids", when Dave calls Joe, Matthew, and Bill into his office to make them confess which one of them has been leaving porn magazines in the break room.
-->'''Dave:''' Look, guys, I'm asking you as friends. Please just tell me who it is.
-->'''Joe:''' Dave, did you ever stop to consider it might be one of the 15 or 20 other guys who work at this station?
-->'''Bill:''' Joe's right. How come every time there's a problem, you assume that it's one of us? What about them? What if it was... that guy whose name I don't know? Or the guy who sits by him? Or-
-->'''Dave:''' Because ''somebody'' gave those people the impression they're not allowed ''in'' the break room.
-->'''Bill:''' Well, Dave, I consider that room to be a private sanctuary where I can escape from all those horrid little people whose names I don't know!
* MagicFeather: An interesting variation: When Matthew becomes smart enough to realize the drug he took was a placebo, the effect immediately wears off and he becomes a spaz again.
* AManIsNotAVirgin: When Matthew reveals in "The Real Deal" that he is a virgin, the rest of the staff refuses to believe him.
* MissingEpisode: The episode "Injury" was withheld from broadcast for nearly two years due to concerns about the script's excessive use of the word "penis". The word appears three times in the version that eventually made it to air, but was reportedly a lot more in the original version of the episode.
** Mildly ironic, the word penis was used in reference to censorship on the show.
** Interestingly enough, this led to the studio being uncertain whether to class the episode as a Season Two or Season Three show, so they decided to include it on both DVD sets as a service to the fans.
* MsFanservice: All three female regulars dabbled in this at times.
* MustHaveCaffeine: Dave
* MyNameIsNotDurwood: Max Louis is initially incapable of learning anyone's name; he repeatedly calls Dave "Doug" and everybody else by a summary phrase (such as "brown-haired journalism woman" for Lisa). The first time he does call Dave Dave, he soon thinks he's made a mistake and apologetically uncorrects himself back to Doug.
* NewJobEpisode: Matthew at the coffee shop
** Also, when Matthew is revealed to be a rather talented dentist
* NewYorkSubway: "Crisis" - Dave struggles to get Matthew an access pass to a subway tunnel during a transit emergency.
* NoNameGiven: Beth's last name is never revealed; in "Freaky Friday", she claims not to even have one.
* NoseTapping
* OnlyOneName: Beth. See NoNameGiven.
* OnlySaneEmployee: Dave Nelson often plays the StraightMan
* OralFixationFixation: Beth's perpetual gum chewing was a running gag throughout the show's run. Bill's fondness for cigarettes also came up quite a bit.
* ParodyEpisode: "Sinking Ship"
* PersonalitySwap
* PluckyOfficeGirl: Beth. Matthew Brock, played by Andy Dick, in a rare male example.
* PopularSayingBut: When life gives you lemons, make lemonade, and then throw it in the face of the person who gave you the lemons until they give you the oranges you originally asked for.
* PutOnABus: Catherine
** TheBusCameBack: Khandi Alexander returned for "Bill Moves On", the Phil Hartman tribute episode.
* TheRashomon: "Catherine Moves On"
* RealitySubtext: Phil Hartman's death
* RealLifeWritesThePlot: After Hartman was murdered, his character Bill was made to suffer a fatal heart attack.
* RecursiveTranslation: Mr. James' biography sold so well in Japan, he had it translated ''back'' into English ''from'' the Japanese. As a result "Jimmy James, Capitalist Lion Tamer" became "Jimmy James, Macho Business Donkey Wrestler":
-->'''Jimmy:''' I had a small house of brokerage on Wall Street... many days no business come to my hut... but Jimmy has fear? A thousand times no! I never doubted myself for a minute for I knew that my monkey strong bowels were girded with strength like the loins of a dragon ribboned with fat and the opulence of buffalo... ''(turns page)'' dung....
--->''(later)''
-->...Glorious sunset of my heart was fading. Soon the super karate monkey death car would park in my space. But Jimmy has fancy plans... and pants to match. The monkey clown horrible karate round and yummy like cute small baby chick would beat the donkey.
* RepetitiveName: James James: the man so nice, they named him twice.
* ARiddleWrappedInAMysteryInsideAnEnigma: Jimmy James once referred to himself, saying "I am a cipher--a cipher, wrapped in an enigma, and smothered in secret sauce."
* RiskyBusinessDance: Jimmy James does it at Dave's parent's house, where he is hiding from the police.
* RunningGag: Whenever Joe's last name is mentioned, someone (usually Bill) looks perplexed and says "Your last name is Garrelli?"
** Joe's close personal relationship with the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Kaczynski Unabomber]] (Before Ted Kacynski was caught in real life).
** Jimmy's attraction to Dave's mother could also be considered a running gag.
*** Jimmy having a heated argument in Dave's office, wherein Dave asks if it's a tough business deal, to which Jimmy responds with something innocuous like 'No that was your mother, lovely lady,' or 'Nah, wrong number'.
** As Beth's absurdly low salary.
** And Joe's fondness for conspiracy theories.
** The phrase "Super Karate Monkey Death Car" comes up a few times in different contexts.
** Matthew getting hurt.
* SassySecretary: Beth
* SecretRelationship: Dave and Lisa
* SecretTestOfCharacter Jimmy is a fan of these. At one point, Lisa asks Jimmy if something is "one of your dumbass lessons".
* SeriesFauxnale
* ShooOutTheNewGuy: Andrea, the meddling, overly perky efficiency expert played by Lauren Graham. When the character met with an extremely tepid reception from fans, she was quietly and hastily dropped from the show.
* ShoutOut: SoylentGreen in "Space". [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_and_Sheepdog Wolf and Sheepdog]] in "Twins".
* ShowWithinAShow: Multiple radio segments, including "The Real Deal with Bill [=McNeal=]" and "This Day in History"
* SitcomArchNemesis: Jimmy has off-screen rivalries with Bill Gates and Rupert Murdoch, among others, and an onscreen rivalry with Johnny Johnson.
* SlapSlapKiss: Dave wryly mentions in one episode that rage is an aphrodisiac for Lisa.
* SmallNameBigEgo: Bill
* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: "Sinking Ship", "Space".
* SoundEffectBleep: In "Complaint Box", the eponymous complaint box outside Dave's office makes a buzzing noise whenever a complaint is filed, leading to the following exchange when he investigates a complaint that Lisa is getting preferential treatment because she is sleeping with him:
-->'''Lisa:''' Name one thing I get from you the rest of the staff doesn't.\\
'''Dave:''' Well, for starters, there's my- ''[buzz]''\\
'''Lisa:''' Besides that.
* StrangeMindsThinkAlike: ''Bitchcakes''
* SuckECheeses: Dave and Bill take Matthew to one in "The Secret of Management".
* SurroundedByIdiots: Dave being the sane man has this reaction a lot. Nicely summed up in "Lucky Burger":
-->"I want you to look around. Here we have Lisa, who today very nearly gave up a career in journalism for a life in the fast food industry. Over here we have Beth, who dresses like a barmaid from ''Film/BladeRunner''. Mr. James, a millionaire who has spent the entire day eating food he knows for a fact to be spoiled. Joe, who has earned upwards of eleven dollars working as an amateur surveillance expert - albeit half of that is Monopoly money." ''(Matthew peeks out from behind his desk)'' "And of course, Matthew, who appears to have taken the surveillance into his own hands."
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Max Louis for Bill [=McNeal=].
** To be fair, Jon Lovitz agreed to join the cast because he had been very close with Phil Hartman dating back into the early 80s and he wanted to pay tribute to his friend in what could be considered a real life CrowningMomentofHeartwarming.
* TalentDouble: In "Mistake", that clearly isn't Dave Foley tap dancing (note that we don't see Dave's face).
* TeamDad: Jimmy
* TeamMom: Dave, oddly enough.
* ThatsWhatSheSaid: in "Led Zeppelin" when the rest don't know Dave and Lisa have broken up
-->'''Dave''': I know it's a crummy story but someone has to do a piece on the Williamsburg Bridge renovation.
-->'''Lisa''': Give it to me, Dave. I'll take it.
-->'''Joe''': That's not the first time Dave's heard Lisa say that.
-->'''Dave''': Give it a rest.
-->'''Bill''': I'll bet that's not the first time Lisa's heard Dave say that.
-->'''Lisa''': Look you really don't want to get into this.
-->'''Catherine''': I bet Dave's never heard that one before.
-->'''Dave''': Seriously, this is a very sensitive area.
-->'''Beth''': That's what she said.
-->'''Lisa''': Okay, I'm telling them.
-->'''Bill''': And I'll bet that's not... Actually that doesn't really work, does it?
* TotallyRadical (parodied, ''Gazizza, my dilznoofus!'')
** "Seriously, everyone is totally bitchcakes today..."
* TrueCompanions: Sometimes less than obvious, sometimes almost brutally reinforced. Mr. James goes into a HeroicBSOD after he loses Bill in a poker game.
** Most notable in the episode where Mr. James gets an offer for the station. It's painfully obvious that James does not want to lose the station, or his friends, but it is against his principles to let his emotions guide his business. The end of the episode features the characters sitting around for hours trying to come up with excuses or alternative offers.
* {{Tsundere}}: On Khandi Alexander's last episode it is revealed that her character Catherine is this towards Joe.
* UltimateJobSecurity: One wonders just how Matthew manages to keep his job. He loses it at one point (and reveals he's actually a dentist), but gets it back a few episodes later.
** While most characters are usually seen doing their job at some point in the episode, even if only slightly, it's incredibly easy to forget what Matthew's job is. Bet you don't know, eh?
*** In one episode Matthew is asked what his job is and he doesn't even know. Ironically he was asking for the afternoon off because of how hard work is.
** One episode, which centres around a stuck subway car, he does actually go to the tunnel to report on what's happening.
* ViewersAreMorons (Super Karate Monkey Death Car)
* VideoWills
* WackyMarriageProposal: Parodied in "Our 50th Episode", played straight in "Wino"
* WarriorPoet: Between his seventeen-page love letter to Lisa, and his knife throwing skills, Dave is the closest the show will ever get to one of these.
* WelcomeEpisode: The pilot (Dave). Lovitz gets one too when he joins the cast.
* WhatIf: "Space" and "Sinking Ship"
* WillTheyOrWontThey: Subverted; see WriterRevolt below.
* WondrousLadiesRoom: Jimmy turns the men's room into a luxe club after the guys find out how nice the ladies room is. [[spoiler:Matthew ruins it by going to the bathroom.]]
* YouLookFamiliar: David Cross, Brian Posehn, Bob Odenkirk all appeared as different characters in different seasons.
** So did Toby Huss, Dave "Gruber" Allen, and David Anthony Higgins. Not to mention Jon Lovitz- Max Louis was the ''third'' character he played on the show.
* YourFavorite: Dave's favorite show is ''GreenAcres''.
* ZanyScheme: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by Dave at one point: "Why is the solution to every problem around here some kind of covert plan?"
* ZeroGSpot: Dave's sexual fantasy is making love on the Space Shuttle...with a space prostitute.
** Although this may be true, he supposedly said this to make Lisa really mad, which is also one of his sexual fantasies.
* ZeroesAndOnes: Joe claims to know how to read binary code.
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