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[[caption-width-right:350:The original cast of ''Hardly Working''.[[note]]Ricky Van Veen (front center) has since begun working at the parent company, and Sarah Schneider (far left) left to join the writing staff of ''Series/SaturdayNightLive''[[/note]]]]

->'''Sarah:''' Guys! A tiger got loose in the office somehow!\\
'''Jeff:''' Well that doesn't make any se—AHHHHHHH! HE'S EATING ME!

''Hardly Working'' is an online series of shorts taking place in the office from which the [[Creator/{{Dropout}} [=CollegeHumor=]]] website is run. The series is written by and stars the CH staff. The first shorts were ten-second-long, one-joke bits shot with a cam-corder for fun, but as their popularity grew they expanded into full sketches several minutes long and shot with multiple professional cameras.

Most of the shorts take place in the context of ''supposed'' everyday life working at the website's office. The most prominent subseries within Hardly Working is ''WebVideo/JakeAndAmir'', a BokeAndTsukkomiRoutine between the two titular characters.

See it [[http://www.collegehumor.com/hardlyworking here]].

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!!This series provides examples of:

* AccentUponTheWrongSyllable: The Phantom of the Office always pronounces Sarah's name "Sa-RAH."
* ActuallyPrettyFunny: Ricky's response to the prank shows Amir keeps trying to film at the office in "Soup'd."
* AddedAlliterativeAppeal:
--> '''Pat:''' I made you this balloon animal.
--> '''Streeter:''' I made you this bassoon animal.
--> '''Pat:''' I made you this doubloon animal.
--> '''Dan:''' No more "words ending in -oon" animals!
--> (Streeter drops a '''spoon''' animal)
** "Dilly Dally":
--->'''Dan:''' If I didn’t know better, I’d say you were dilly-dallying.
--->'''Streeter:''' Well it's a good thing you do know better, because I haven't dilly-dallied a ''day in my god-damn'' '''DIFE!'''
* TheAggressiveDrugDealer: Seen in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceOxyV6NgPQ&feature=related Amir and Streeter]].
* TheAllegedBoss: When Ricky gets up the courage to fire an employee, [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything she turns him down like an unwanted date]].
-->'''Ricky:''' I am such a bozo.
-->'''Lindsay:''' Oh, no, don't say that, you're not—
-->'''Ricky:''' This whole thing was stupid...
-->'''Lindsay:''' No, it's—we're, we're fine. We can still be coworkers.
-->'''Ricky:''' Coworkership is very important to me.
* AllIssuesArePoliticalIssues: Taken to absurd levels in "[[http://www.collegehumor.com/video/6963028/the-social-consequences-of-everything The Social Consequences of Everything]]", where they shoot down ''every single idea'' about how to spend their day off because literally everything is politically incorrect in some way and thus unacceptable in modern society, until they eventually settle on doing literally nothing but sitting in a dark basement and waiting until they have to go back to work.
-->'''Adam:''' ''[draws a gun]'' [[DrivenToSuicide We could kill ourselves]]! Just end it all. Have freedom from all social judgment. The terrible awareness that came with the age of information. A return to before, when there were no Upworthy videos reminding you of how your every selfish act orphans a child a world away...\\
'''Emily:''' ''[shocked]'' Jesus Christ, Adam! '''''NO!''''' ''[{{beat}}]'' We'd be tacitly supporting the gun lobby.\\
'''Pat:''' And the energy costs of cremation are ''astronomical''.\\
'''Murph:''' Don't even get me ''started'' on traditional burials. I mean, the ''hubris!''
* AllJewsAreCheapskates: The "Overgrown Guy Girlfriend" accuses Amir of being cheap for this reason.
* AlternateUniverse: In "Douchebag Office," the "South side" of the office is populated by "douchebag" versions of the cast, [[spoiler:except for Jake, who ''is'' the douchebag Jake.]]
* AlwaysIdenticalTwins: Averted in "Is Grant Keith from Buzzfeed" where Keith's twin Grant Habersberger is explicitly fraternal even though they look alike. Grant's twin Keith O'Brien isn't specified one way or the other.
* AManIsAlwaysEager: In "Sarah's Revenge," Sarah effortlessly tricks most of the male cast into the broom closet by simply telling each of them to meet her there in five minutes with no pants. They don't question it at all.
* AmbiguouslyGay: Jake frequently encourages all the guys to kiss each other, or suck each other off. "See [[http://www.collegehumor.com/video/5135384/hardly-working-office-fight Office Fight]]"
* AndADietCoke: At the end of "Brotherhood of the Traveling Pants," Streeter, hurt because his friends broke it to him that he's the only guy in the group too big to wear the pants, [[IResembleThatRemark tearfully follows up his pizza order with a request for a 2-liter bottle of Diet Coke]].
* AndThenISaid: The lead-in to many episodes.
* AndThatLittleGirlWasMe: {{Parodied}} in "Ghost Stories" when Amir tells an incriminating story about himself but can't maintain the third person.
-->'''Amir:''' His car was moving too fast. He felt a jolt and heard a loud crunch that shook me to my very core!
* AnswerCut: In [[http://www.collegehumor.com/video/3332576/hardly-working-youll-never-guess You'll Never Guess]]:
-->'''Dan:''' I’m going to the conference room.
-->'''Sam:''' You’ll never guess what they're doing there.
-->'''Dan:''' Oh, let me guess. They’re all ''topless'', reenacting the ''final, climatic'' scene to ''Film/AFewGoodMen.''
--> '''*Cut to conference room*'''
-->'''Pat:''' [[StrangeMindsThinkAlike YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!]]
* ArgentinaIsNaziLand: In "Wolfenstein," Owen is asked if his grandfather is dead, as it becomes clear that he was a member of Hitler's inner circle. Owen cheerfully replies no; his peepaw is healthy as a bull and living in Rio de Janeiro.
* BaitAndSwitchSentiment: Done twice at the end of "Katie Won't Let This Bit Die."
* BarbaricBully: The premise of "Bully" is that Streeter unwillingly transforms into one of these every time he hears nu-metal.
* BeenThereShapedHistory: The Phantom is a recurring character in the videos. He's an all-around ComedicSociopath and implied immortal, which gives rise to a number of claims.
-->'''Phantom:''' So, uh...you wanna know what happened to Amelia Earhart?
-->'''Pat:''' What? ''(Phantom directs psychic energy into his head.)'' [[YouExclamation You!]]
-->'''Phantom:''' ''Flying is a man's game!''
* BeyondTheImpossible: Tweeting about Twitter being down causes a double take, a 'that's impossi—!' shout and an EarthShatteringKaboom. It's ambiguous whether the reaction was about [[SeriousBusiness Twitter being down]] or tweeting about it.
* BizarroWorld: "Bizarro Office."
* BloodSplatteredWarrior: Jake in [[http://www.collegehumor.com/video/6281326/overly-realistic-buck-hunter Over Realistic Buck Hunter]]
* TheBluebeard: The Phantom is blatant about the fact that he's burnt multiple wives to death and doesn't understand why Sarah has no interest in being the latest.
* BodyHorror: Beef Gurewitch is both an example in itself and a rich source of it, as when consumed [[spoiler:[[FoodEatsYou it eats you from the inside.]]]]
* BokeAndTsukkomiRoutine: Amir and Jake, respectively.
* BreadEggsBreadedEggs: The Museum of Torture mentioned in the "Final Destination" series has "an exhibition on guns, knives, and [[CoolAndUnusualPunishment gun-firing knife snakes that barf acid]]."
* BreadEggsMilkSquick: In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEMNUboRK7U Evil Chair]]:
-->'''Dan''': My lumbar was supported, I saw the exact moment of my death, my shoulders feel like jello!
* BrickJoke: In "Stewie Keychain". It's even [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] with a good bit of BreakingTheFourthWall.
* ButForMeItWasTuesday: In "Standoff" when a gang member accuses David of having killed his kid sister in a drive-by:
-->'''Sarah:''' Oh my god! When?!
-->'''David:''' I don't even remember!
-->'''Gangster:''' [[ExaggeratedTrope It was yesterday afternoon!]]
-->'''David:''' Okay, ''look,'' I know we said "no family," and I'm sorry! But I didn't start this war!
* ButterFace: {{Parodied}} with a dose of DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything in "She's Such a Butterphone," where a girl is highly attractive in every way except for having a [[TheAllegedComputer ridiculously outdated phone]].
* ButtMonkey: The whole cast takes pretty equal turns in being the ButtMonkey. Mostly Pat, though.
* TheCameo: Lin-Manuel Miranda, rapper and Broadway lyricist, shows up in "Rap Battle."
** Parodied in the episode "[[JumpTheShark Jump the]] [[ShapedLikeItself Shark]]," where Tony Hawk supposedly shows up.
* CampingACrapper: Apparently, Amir and Dan only play dodgeball when one of them is on the toilet.
* CasualDangerDialogue:
** Especially in "Emergency Flirt": A tiger is trying to break down the door and ''[[SkewedPriorities Pat is flirting with a cute animal control operator]].''
** "Mothra," complete with IgnoredEnemy.
* CavemenVsAstronautsDebate: In "Mothra," Sarah, Pat and Dan are way less interested in saving themselves from a MothMenace than they are in debating whether it technically qualifies as a monster. When a scientist shows up armed with an insecticide powerful enough to defeat it, [[SkewedPriorities they stop him to make him answer the question once and for all]] only for him to be KilledMidSentence.
* CensorSuds: [[http://www.collegehumor.com/video/6542559/showering-with-girls Showering With Girls]].
* TheCharmer: Jake.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Amir is a disturbing example.
** Dan ventures into this territory as well.
** Gale Beggy.
** Katie is the cast's main oddball from 2014 onward.
* ClassicallyTrainedExtra: At the beginning of "Script Meeting," Owen, who's written a sketch with Adam, says he doesn't care who Adam assigns the parts to for the table read. [[BrickJoke He lashes out at the end when asked to read the stage directions]].
-->'''Owen:''' ''(SweepingTheTable)'' ''Fuck'' you, you piece of shit! I went to fucking Juliard! ''I should be "Fat Tips Bomber Man"!''
* ClusterFBomb:
** In "Jeff Goes Creator/ChristianBale."
** In "3D Glasses," Pat's 3D glasses make all his coworkers appear "deeper." An apparent discussion between Jeff and Amir of the primitive quality of masculine behavior turns out to be just Jeff letting one of these loose while arm-wrestling Amir.
* CompetitionFreak: "The Guy Who Needs To Win Everything."
* CoolTeacher: {{Parodied}} with Dan's "Cool English Teacher" persona, who tries to be this, but is so cliche he just annoys everyone. Also, they're not actually his students.
-->'''Mr. G:''' So...''Hamlet.'' "To be or not to be," huh? Who cares, right? Uh, prom's coming up. You guys going?
-->'''Streeter:''' We're 24.
-->'''Mr. G:''' Okay. Well, [[DirtyOldMan that didn't stop me]].
* CradlingYourKill: In "Butt Dial," [[OrganAutonomy Murph's butt]] achieves this by "holding" Josh in the crook of Murph's knees. [[ItMakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext Yes, Murph's butt was Josh's killer]].
* CreatorCareerSelfDeprecation: "Nobody Younger Than Me Can Be Successful" has most of its era's cast bemoaning the fact that they haven't progressed past their jobs at [=CollegeHumor=] at their ages.
-->'''Rekha:''' ''[[BigOMG Oh my god!]]'' I've had one month more than Jess [Clemons] to figure things out, [[BitingTheHandHumor and I'm still stuck in this shithole]] with these ''shitbags?!''
* {{Crossover}}: "Is Grant Keith from Buzzfeed?" features an appearance by [[WebVideo/TheTryGuys Keith from Buzzfeed]].
* CrosswordPuzzle: In "Evil Crossword," Jake is solving one when he realizes that all the answers are threats directed at him.
* CultureBlind: Jake as a clueless CultDefector in "Hoagies."
* DangerousForbiddenTechnique: Parodied in "Five Fingers of Death," when Owen keeps attempting to demonstrate one of these on Pat, but it has no effect. [[spoiler:Until he realizes Pat's stance is wrong.]]
* DeadAllAlong: [[spoiler: Streeter in "Camouflage."]]
* DeadlyDistantFinale: Pretty much any WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue, perhaps most memorably "[[TheShowGoesHollywood CollegeHumor Goes Hollywood]]":
-->Sam died from smog.
-->Owen drowned in the Pacific Ocean.
-->Murph drowned in the La Brea Tar Pits.
-->Emily drowned in the sink at an In-N-Out Burger.
-->Pat was crushed by the second "L" of the Hollywood sign.
-->Dan was murdered by Creator/ChanningTatum.
* DeathAsComedy: Franchise/{{Die Hard}}ly Working.
* DefiledForever: The Phantom's reaction to finding out that Sarah isn't a virgin.
* DeliberateValuesDissonance: "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FonIBCV5d-w Hardly Working: The Golden Years]]" is full of this, full of casual racism, sexism, anti-catholicism and multiple calls to "stay out of [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII Europe's war]]".
* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment:
** "Dilly Dally": "Yo guys, check out this new online internet World Wide Web viral video."
** "Bullet Trick":
--->'''Pat:''' What boy hasn't dreamed of [[WilliamTelling having an apple shot off his head?]] Well, tonight, I live that dream. Let's just hope it doesn't become...a nightmare dream.
* [[DependingontheWriter Depending on the Writer]]: The personalities of both Amir and Jake in ''Hardly Working'' differ somewhat from their characterization in their [[WebVideo/JakeAndAmir own series]], ironically with Jake frequently being an obnoxious idiot and Amir often as the straight man.
* DescriptionCut: Done several times in "Box Fort."
-->'''Josh:''' [[RousingSpeech This battle will not be easy]]. Box people show no mercy!
-->''(Cut to Murph, Jake and Jeff inside the box fort dancing in [[TheHilarityOfHats funny hats]] and cutoff jeans.)''
-->'''Josh:''' Today we invade the box fort. [[GoYeHeroesGoAndDie Many of you will not return alive. Know that you have died proudly at the hands of a far superior enemy]].
-->''(Cut to Murph, Jake and Jeff in the fort again, now bumping and grinding.)''
%% * DiggingYourselfDeeper: Owen finds a trunk in his grandfather's attic and it is filled with what he thinks is VideoGame/Wolfenstein3D merchandise, but it's actually Nazi paraphernalia, much to Murph and Pat's horror. Apparently, the dimwit never even heard of World War II or even National Socialism since he always skipped history class to play video games. It gets worse when he digs up an old SS uniform and medals, a copy of Mein Kamph autographed by Adolf Hitler (a name he does not know), photos, ledgers, diagrams, lists, blueprints and other stuff that indicates his grandfather knew everything Hitler's inner circle knew. Oh, and his grandfather? Still alive and living in Rio de Jinero. And then, he drops a bombshell: he revealed this stuff to an "underground Wolfenstein fan club" and invited them to have a rally at the office. Incidentally, this was the ''third'' time somebody accidentally invited Neo-Nazis to the office, resulting in everyone having to watch a documentary about the Holocaust. Adam suggests that they watch the fist five minutes of the first X-Men movie, but Owen, [[HypocriticalHumor garbed in his grandfather's old SS uniform, says that the treatment of Mutants in that movie is very offensive and leaves the room in a huff. While everyone stares at him.]]
* DistinctionWithoutADifference: Used throughout "The Guy Who's a Total Rap Snob" to contend that the real difference between older and newer rap is the NostalgiaFilter.
-->'''Raph:''' Take [[Music/KanyeWest Yeezy]]. He's too obsessed with his fancy Adidas. Whatever happened to Music/RunDMC, with songs like—
-->'''Ally:''' "My Adidas"?
-->'''Raph:''' "My Adidas"! Yes! Timeless!
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything:
** In "Fired Up," Ricky attempting to fire an employee is played as if he's asking her out, complete with him being nervous, asking his friends and hers for a second opinion (to which they eagerly encourage him) and finally [[TheAllegedBoss being gently turned down by his target]].
--->'''Amir:''' Hey, listen, bro. Tonight, we're going out, we're gonna fire as many girls as we can find, and honestly, honestly, honestly, ''that'' girl? She's pretty good at her job.
--->'''Sarah:''' You can do much more incompetent.
** In "Bully," Streeter [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent was bitten by a bully as a child and now unwillingly transforms into one every time he hears nu-metal]].
** "Bang Bus" plays Dan and Pat breaking it to Jake that the Bang Bus is staged like two parents telling their child that Santa isn't real, complete with a {{Metaphorgotten}} moment at the end.
--->'''Dan:''' Do you think we should tell him?
--->'''Pat:''' He's still so young.
--->'''Dan:''' I know, but I just—I feel like all his friends know and I'd rather he hear it from us.
** In "Hiccups," the office is prejudiced against "hiccuppers," which leads to Pat being shunned, mistreated and finding his desk defaced with water glasses when he's caught hiccupping.
** "She's Such a [[ButterFace Butterphone]]."
--->'''Murph:''' Sometimes girls with shitty phones have better personalities because they're not saving all their best jokes for Twitter!
** "Should We Do a Bitcoin Sketch?" makes the staff's discussion about whether to write a sketch about Bitcoin sound like a typical discussion about Bitcoin itself.
--->'''Pat:''' I just think it's way too volatile. Uh, look at this chart that I made. ''(reveals chart)'' Two months ago, everyone was trading knee-slappers about Bitcoin. Cut to one month ago? Nothing.
--->'''Emily:''' Trapp could be right, though, I mean, look at how funny it is at its peak.
--->'''Pat:''' ''But'' after Mt. Gox happened, it got so unfunny, it actually made people sad.
--->'''Trapp:''' That's why we get cheap laughs now so the humor develops over time!
--->'''Pat:''' [[{{Metaphorgotten}} ...Wait, how do you think comedy works?]]
* DressCode: Parodied in "Casual Friday", then exaggerated with Uptight Monday, Hesitant Tuesday, Coquettish Wednesday, Melodramatic Thursday, Casual Acquaintance Friday, Coming to Work Saturday, Bloody Sunday, and Mariachi Bagpipe Totalitarian Dictator Monday.
* DrinkingOnDuty: Pat in "Drinking in Public."
* DudeNotFunny: When Zac and Trapp suggest prank ideas from various 80s comedies (mostly Film/RevengeOfTheNerds), Pat realizes that the majority of them are sex crimes.
-->'''Pat''': That's just straight-up rape.
-->'''Trapp''': Well, it was funny in ''Film/PoliceAcademy''...
-->'''Pat''': [[TakeThat Nothing was funny in]] ''Police Academy''!
* DwindlingParty: "Final Destination," [[WholePlotReference naturally]].
* EarthShatteringKaboom: As a result of Murph tweeting about how ''Twitter is down''.
* EggSitting: "The Egg," with the twist that the eggs run out and Dan is given a fully-grown man to take care of instead. [[spoiler:When Dan finally drops him, [[MindScrew he turns out to have been an egg the whole time]].]]
* EldritchAbomination: Beef Gurewitch. Murph shoots both himself and Emily in the head to escape it. (It appears to be a cross between rotten deli meat and Zalgo.)
* ElevatorEscape: {{Parodied}} in "Slasher" when Sarah manages to cleanly escape a killer in this fashion [[SkewedPriorities only to hold the door for Jake]].
* EmancipatedChild: "Cool English Teacher 3":
-->"Does anybody know anything about ''divorcing'' your ''parents?'' I'll tell you who knows a lot about it: my son! Well, not my s...Elliot. He's just...he's just Elliot now."
* EmbarrassingMiddleName:
** In "Phantom Society," Patrick Eleanor Cassels. [[spoiler:He was born intersex and Eleanor was his original name.]]
** "Jinx" revolves around the cast trying to figure out Dan's middle name so they can lift a jinx on him. It's said to be so embarrassing that he made David [[SecretKeeper promise not to tell anyone]]. [[spoiler:[[TheUnreveal It's never revealed]], but]] Sarah's middle name is discovered in the process: [[spoiler:Farticus.]]
* EmotionalBruiser: Streeter.
* EnsembleCast
* EqualOpportunityEvil: The sketch "Secret Society" involves a secret organization of "lady punchers." One of them is [[FemaleMisogynist a woman]], and uses this trope as an explanation.
* EscalatingWar: "Desk Toys" and "Check Please."
* EveryoneWentToSchoolTogether: "High School Dance."
* EvilCounterpart: [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros WaDan]] does exactly the opposite of anything Dan says or does. After his girlfriend dumps him for [=WaDan=], Dan banishes [=WaDan=] from this dimension by declaring that [[ExactWords he is going to stay here, forever]], so [=WaDan=] will declare he'll leave...and does so.
* EvilIsHammy: The Phantom of the Office.
* EvilLaugh: Sarah has a few, most notably in "Sarah's Revenge." Murph in "Clue."
* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: An easy way to tell the difference between the earlier and later eras of ''Hardly Working'' at a glance is that post-2014 sketches tend to have titles that summarize the entire premise, i.e. "Killer's Mask Is Inconvenient," "Gifts That Are Clearly For Yourself," and "My New Year's Resolution is to Get My Dick Out of this Toaster."
* ExcrementStatement: [[CoolTeacher "SHIT ON YOUR BOOKS! PITCH A LOAF ON THE BARD!!!"]]
* ExpectationLowerer: InUniverse, Pat in [[http://www.collegehumor.com/video/6538547/hardly-working-wishful-thinking Wishful Thinking]].
* EyeScream: "Darts."
* FakeOutOpening: "Phantom of the Office Romance" opens like a ''Jake and Amir'' episode before the Phantom magically replaces Amir at his desk, startling Jake.
* FeigningIntelligence:
** The Cool English Teacher uses his "coolness" to cover for the fact that he barely seems to know anything about his subject.
--->''"Catcher in the Rye.'' Now what is it ''really'' about? Not a hypothetical, [[IHaveThisFriend I'm asking for a friend]]. [[ThatMakesMeFeelAngry The friend is me. I've never read it. I'm treading water]]. [[HoldingTheFloor If I finish this sentence, there will be dead silence and you'll see how woefully unprepared I am, so I'm just gonna list my favorite numbers]]. One! Two! Three! ''Five!'' Ask me about four, it's kind of a funny story!"
** In "Book Club," Flugson, a self-assured, [[SmartPeopleSpeakTheQueensEnglish vaguely British-sounding]] professorial type who has lead a successful book club at the office for a month [[SeeminglyProfoundFool and earned the admiration of everyone involved]] despite [[spoiler:[[NeverLearnedToRead being illiterate to the point of inability to recognize letters of the alphabet]].]]
* FelonyMisdemeanor: In "Muddy Jake," Jake is [[TraumaCongaLine fired from his job, dumped by both his girlfriends, has his college diploma revoked and is disinvited from family Christmas]] because someone photoshopped mud onto his face as a prank.
* FetishizedAbuser: "Obsessive Boyfriends Are SO Romantic!"
* FishOutOfTemporalWater:
** Gale Beggy, the company's [[TechnologicallyBlindElders middle-aged, tech-challenged]] director of technology, turns out to be this...[[spoiler:specifically, a time-traveler [[VoodooShark from the year 2551]]. [[DontExplainTheJoke So if anything you'd expect her knowledge to be more advanced]].]]
** The "Time Traveler" series has Roderick, a vaguely Victorian-looking character with a permanent case of MundaneObjectAmazement. [[spoiler:He turns out to be an [[BumblingSidekick idiot employee]] of the actual inventor of time travel—he doesn't act as he does because he's unused to the era but because [[CloudCuckoolander it's his normal personality]].]]
* FisticuffProvokingComment: Pat earns a punch in the face from Jake when he asserts that Jake's father was a "cold, red dilly-dallier."
-->'''Pat:''' [[SeriousBusiness I deserve that]].
* FoodSlap: In "Drunk in Public," Sarah deals three times with an intoxicated Patrick by splashing him in the face.
* ForWantOfANail: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbTT5b-wDYs&feature=relmfu Time Traveler]]
* FountainOfYouth: In "Daylight Savings" the cast age themselves back fifteen years while fighting over the wall clock in the office.
* FreakyFridayFlip: [[ParodiedTrope Parodied]] in "Body Swap," in which David and Pat get [[LightningCanDoAnything electrocuted by the same computer charger]], convincing David that they've switched bodies even though nothing has happened.
* TheFriendNobodyLikes:
** Ironically given his [[StraightMan usual role]] in ''Jake and Amir,'' in the context of the ensemble cast Jake is sometimes seen as this. A great example is in "Suspicious Announcements," when no one will listen to his concerns about the increasingly worrying intercom announcements [[NotNowKiddo because they all think he's trying to finish his bad joke]].
** What Amir is to the original cast, Katie Marovitch is from 2014 onward.
* GambitRoulette: In "Office Goofarounds" two different office pranks end with Streeter appearing out of nowhere, [[BaitAndSwitch picking up the victim and throwing him through a desk before the prank can proceed as expected]]. Sarah, who witnessed both incidents, thinks the group have designs on her, announces that she won't give them the satisfaction and throws herself through the nearest desk...onto a WhoopeeCushion they left for her, with everything that happened previously being revealed as a ruse to prank Sarah specifically.
* TheGamePlaysYou: "Clue."
* GenderFlip: "Brotherhood of the Traveling Pants."
* GeorgeJetsonJobSecurity: In most of the Hardly Workings with Ricky he's either firing somebody or gets close to. In "Fired Up" he almost fires a girl, who simply says no to him and it's over just like that.
* GetAholdOfYourselfMan: {{Parodied}} in "Mothra":
-->'''Dan:''' Pat! ''(slaps him)'' Calm down, you're hysterical!
-->'''Sarah:''' Dan! ''(slaps him)'' Calm down, ''you're'' hysterical!
-->'''Pat:''' Sarah! ''([[BaitAndSwitch slaps]] [[WouldntHitAGirl Dan]])'' Calm down, Dan's hysterical!
* GiftGivingGaffe: "Gifts That Are Clearly For Yourself."
* GiftOfTheMagiPlot: [[ParodiedTrope Spoofed]] in "Kovert Krampus," which revolves around a reverse SecretSanta in which office members give [[CoolAndUnusualPunishment Cool And Unusual Punishments]] instead of gifts:
-->'''Kevin:''' Murph, I want you to know how much I care about you, so I sold my favorite jacket to buy this mace to hit you in the balls with.
-->'''Murph:''' But...I sold my balls so that I could buy this pillowcase full of fish semen to dunk your favorite jacket in!
-->''(Applause and chorus of "Awww" as the two hug.)''
* GirlOnGirlIsHot: "My Two True Loves":
-->''True eternal romance lives for moments like this''
-->''So pure, sweet and innocent, [[ImmediateSelfContradiction now you two kiss]]''
* GlassesCuriosity: {{Parodied}} via [[ExaggeratedTrope exaggeration]] in "Glasses," where Dan's coworkers push him into letting them try on not only his glasses, but his shoes, his clothes, [[spoiler: his skin and his bones.]]
* GlassesPull: Murph in "Final Destination."
* GoodAngelBadAngel: In "Consciences."
* HairTodayGoneTomorrow: Jeff in [[http://www.collegehumor.com/video/6209047/hardly-working-flash-forward Flash Forward]].
* HairTriggerTemper: Murph.
* HalfwayPlotSwitch: "You'll Never Guess."
* HandsOnApproach: [[ParodiedTrope Parodied]] to hell and back in "Flirting" when Dan [[TheAllSolvingHammer uses this tactic at every opportunity]] to "help" Sarah play golf, shoot pool, strum a guitar, type, use a vending machine, ''walk,'' and finally [[spoiler:flirt with, go on a date with and have sex with [[ComicallyMissingThePoint another guy]].]]
* HappyBirthdayToYou: In celebrating Sarah's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzoA-xFU2j8 birthday]], nobody remembers the birthday song, which upsets her. Has a hilarious moment where she has a straight face while everyone else joins in the new improvised song.
* HaremSeeker: Pat is looking for his "[[OneTrueLove Two True Loves]]."
* HereWeGoAgain: [[spoiler:{{Subverted}}]] in "3D Glasses." Pat declares "NoManShouldHaveThisPower!" and dramatically throws the 3D glasses out the office window. When he leaves the room, they [[ClingyMacGuffin fly back through the window]] and land at ''[[ExactWords Sarah's]]'' feet. [[spoiler:She slowly picks them up, opens them to swelling, ominous music, and...]]
-->[[spoiler:'''Sarah:''' —Oh, gross. These were on the ''floor.'' ''(tosses them away)'' Ugh.]]
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Amir thinks he and Jake are this. Jake is perpetually disgusted and horrified by him.
* HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood: In "Trilogies," Jeff and Pat's discussion of the ''Franchise/BackToTheFuture'' films [[TraumaButton causes Dan]] to flash back to being menaced by his beer-toting, trilogy-hating father for attempting to watch the third movie.
* HistoricalRapSheet: Over the course of the show, the Phantom of the Office has taken responsibility for the Black Plague, the extinction of the dodo bird, and most shockingly, the death of Jesus Christ.
* HitlersTimeTravelExemptionAct: Parodied in "Killing Hitler." The first time they try it, the adult Hitler beats up the time traveller. The second time he does it again, but as an adolescent. The third time traveller attacks him with a rifle when he's a small child. However, Hitler steals it, and then forces the traveller to tell him how to make an atomic bomb. And then kid Hitler travels through the portal into the future.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: In "Pee Prank," Streeter tries to pull the "fingers in hot water while sleeping" prank on Jake, but when he tests the temperature of the water, pees himself.
* HoldingTheFloor: Amir at least twice: in "Speed 3 - Blabbermouth" when he's [[StrappedToABomb rigged with explosives set to go off]] when he stops [[InfoDump explaining the situation]], and in "Punctuation Recession" when his proposed solution to the problem is for everyone to talk unceasingly so that no dividers are needed, causing him to demonstrate in the background for most of the skit.
* HollywoodNewEngland: "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKTeyYNo2hA Federal Maashals]]" features the College Humor office being raided by two Federal Marshals with incomprehensible Boston accents. The go around the office shouting "GO SAAHX" (Boston Red Sox), humming Music/DropkickMurphys riffs, asking David and Sarah confusing questions and beating other people up.
* HongKongDub: Parodied in "Five Fingers of Death."
* HonorBeforeReason: In "New Guy," a ''[[Franchise/TheTerminator Terminator]]''-esque newcomer to the programming staff starts an inexplicable NoHoldsBarredBeatdown on the entire office. A terrified Pat nonetheless insists on emerging from his hiding place to introduce himself, as "it's his first day and he's probably really nervous."
* HowDoYouSay: Used by Amir (in the role of a FunnyForeigner hijacker) throughout "Airplane."
-->'''Amir:''' Don't be a, how you say, hero!
-->'''Dan:''' YOU KNOW HOW TO SAY IT!!!
* HuntingTheMostDangerousGame: DoubleSubverted in "Dan Does His Own Thing":
-->'''Dan:''' If I'm feeling really adventurous, I'll spend the night hunting the most dangerous game of all...'' (Others gasp.)'' A bargain! ''(Others sigh in relief.)''
-->'''Emily:''' Like at Kmart.
-->'''Dan:''' No, no, my high school bully, [[WhosOnFirst James Bargain]].
* HypocriticalHeartwarming: "Only I Can Insult My Mom."
* HypocriticalHumor:
** "[[Film/TheDarkKnightRises Bane]] Mugs", where they imitate Tom Hardy's Bane voice by putting coffee mugs over their mouths to muffle their voice.
--->'''Emily:''' ''[puts mug to mouth]'' Now is not the time for fear, doctor. Now is the time ''[lowers mug, normal voice]'' to get some real work done.\\
'''Josh:''' I mean, once we, uh, organize the files, ''[puts mug to mouth]'' then you have my permission ''[lowers mug]'' to do Bane impressions.\\
[+And then they continue having a conversation and breaking into Bane impressions.+]
** The "Punctuation Recession" is full of examples:
--->'''Jake:''' How the hell do you budget punctuation?
--->'''Sarah:''' Jake, stop asking stuff! You're gonna cost us all our question marks.
--->'''Ricky:''' That's the spirit, Sarah.
--->'''Sarah:''' Thanks!
--->'''Ricky:''' You just cost us an exclamation mark.
--->'''Pat:''' Well, Miss Perfect, who's "wasting" punctuation now?
--->'''Jeff:''' Well at least she didn't cost us two quotation marks, did she, Pat?
** Which is followed by Amir deciding that the way to not use punctuation is to [[HoldingTheFloor continue talking without ever ending sentences]]. Note that he uses commas to break phrases up.
** In "Wacky Hijinks from 80s Comedies Were Mostly Rape", Pat chews out Trapp and Zac for coming up with pranks to get back at Murph and Emily that qualify as sex crimes and thinking that it's a good idea to do them just because they happened in comedy films from the 1980's. After they agree to instead go with pranks from more recent films, he happily agrees that they will prank Emily and Murphy by having them be tricked into eating eclairs made with dog semen like in ''Film/VanWilder'', which is still kind of inappropriate to do to people.
* IfICantHaveYou: Pat in "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujauxisY2s8 My Bloody Valentine]]" plays a possessive sociopath who kills Sarah after previously murdering everyone in the office who flirted with her on Valentine's Day. It backfires on him, as she wanted to ask him out before he stabbed her fatally.
* ImprobablyPredictable: "That's The Thing."
* IncomingHam:
-->'''[[CoolTeacher Mr. G]]:''' Howdy-doody, skinny-ninnies and bony cronies! Mr. G is back and better than [[Music/BetterThanEzra Ezra]]! Think fast! ''(throws his motorcycle helmet)''
* InnocentInaccurate: Dan as a {{Manchild}} business professional in "Business Kids":
-->"Well, I'm getting ready to put my parents in a home, right? My daddy pulled me aside, he said that he and our neighbor, Miss Walsh, are more than friends. Mommy caught them yucky-wrestling and now Daddy's moving far, far away where he can't drink angry juice and make Mommy sad. On top of that, my daughter needs braces."
* IWasBeatenByAGirl: {{Parodied}} in "Robot Girlfriend," in which Jeff unwittingly dates a robot who keeps inflicting severe pain on Jake. Pat and Dan [[UnusuallyUninterestingSight completely overlook her obviously superhuman strength]] [[ComicallyMissingThePoint in favor of mocking Jake]]:
-->'''Dan:''' ''Oh!'' A ''girl'' just made you into a severely nerve-damaged quadroplegic!
-->'''Pat:''' Yeah she did! ''(they high-five)''
* IWillOnlySlowYouDown: Comically [[{{Inverted}} inverted]] in "Bomb" when Jeff, StrappedToABomb that's close to detonating, insists that his friends stop their futile effort to save his life and instead [[SubvertedTrope hang around and let the explosion kill them so he won't have to]] [[DyingAlone die alone]]. He even suggests bringing in his parents and killing them too.
* IWillWaitForYou: {{Parodied}} (along with a number of other dramatic film clichés) in "Wait!"
* TheInternet: Shows up several times, as they work for a website. Once, they even found [[HolyGrail the source of the Internet]].
* JobSong: "My Boss Is A Dick," Murph and Streeter's TheManIsKeepingUsDown [[IHateSong ode to Sam Reich]], seen in "Insulting The Boss With A Punk Rock Video."
* JumpingTheShark: {{Parodied}} by way of exaggeration in the episode "Jump The Shark": A new SpinOff is introduced, Tony Hawk appears as a [[CelebrityStar Guest Star]], [[WillTheyOrWontThey two characters get engaged]], they move to a new building, Amir gets [[TheOtherDarrin replaced]], and [[MindScrew Jeff gives birth to]] [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext a baby Supreme Court justice]]. Finally, the whole cast gets replaced at the very end with a [[YoungerAndHipper younger cast]]. [[invoked]]
* KubrickStare: Pat throughout "My Bloody Valentine."
* LadEtte: Apparently Emily, especially in ''WebVideo/JakeAndAmir'' -- more foulmouthed than most of the guys, flirts with guys other than Murph (her boyfriend), and occasionally outright criminal.
* LadyMacbeth: "[[PersonAsVerb Lady Macbething]]", in which Murph and Owen tried to convince each other to kill Sam.
* LastNameBasis: Mike Trapp is called "Trapp," presumably due to their being [[https://youtu.be/jedA1-bFvC8?t=51 too many Mikes]] in the world, even though he's the only Mike we see working there.
* LethalChef: {{Exaggerated}} with Dan and his BodyHorror-inducing EldritchAbomination family recipe "Beef Gurewitch."
* LiteralAssKissing:
** In "Suck It Out," Amir spills food on his jeans and he and his coworkers gang up to convince Pat to suck the stain out of the seat.
** "Butt Dial" ends with a dramatic LastKiss between [[ItMakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext Murph's butt and a dying Josh]].
* LiteralMetaphor:
** In "Fired Up," Amir says of Ricky, "He's so [[StealthPun boss]]."
** {{Inverted}} with "3D Glasses," where Pat's 3D glasses make everything he sees "deeper"—in the metaphorical sense, causing his coworkers to appear highly sophisticated and self-aware.
** "Phantom of the Brainstorm," which has the Phantom crashing a [=BustedTees=] think tank to pitch FunTShirt ideas:
--->'''Phantom:''' The cat's out of the bag!
--->'''Jake:''' That's a good jumping-off point. You could have, like, a—
--->'''Phantom:''' ''(holding empty knapsack)'' No, I mean the cat I brought in got out of the bag, it's gone. Has anyone seen, like, a really ripe calico around here?
** Throughout "Average Night Out," the characters use "[[Literature/{{Goldilocks}} baby bear]]" as a synonym for a desirably average (not too good, not too bad) experience. Dan defies this attitude as too safe, saying he'd rather accept life's lows in order to have the highs, so when Murph tries to dissuade him from entering one of the rooms by yelling "[[MamaBear Mama bear! Mama bear]]!" he walks in anyway. [[BearsAreBadNews Cue growling and agonized screaming]].
--->'''Murph:''' We've ''gotta'' start labeling that door better.
** "Dan Does His Own Thing":
--->'''Dan:''' I'll meet you guys there. Gotta go paint the toilet brown.
--->'''Emily:''' Oh, that's fine, if you have to use the bathroom we can wait a couple minutes.
--->'''Dan:''' Oh no, I'm going home to paint my actual toilet beaver brown. ''(brandishes bucket of paint)'' [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} I wanna make it so I can't find my own poops]].
** "[[ExperimentedInCollege Experimenting]] ([[MadScientist Literally]]) [[ExperimentedInCollege In College]]."
* LOL69: One of their videos had Jake witness two of his male coworkers [[InvertedTrope 96-ing]]. It's exactly what you think: [[IncrediblyLameFun they're laying with their backs against each other in opposite directions while writhing in pleasure]].
* MagicFeather: {{Discussed}} with a reference to the TropeNamer:
-->'''David:''' No, don't you see? He didn't ''need'' the magic feather! He could fly the entire time!
-->'''Dan:''' What'cha guys talkin' bout?
-->'''David:''' [[BaitAndSwitchComment My freshman year roommate]].
* MakeoverMontage: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDb6yOVKKxE Parodied]]. Sarah does one for David and Pat - into an ordinary black gown, which she says is the only thing she has. At the guys' insistence, she goes through the makeover montage. The resulting product in the end is that she looks a lot like [[Theatre/{{Wicked}} Elphaba]] in a sweater.
** It doesn't help that midway through they accidentally segue into a TrainingMontage.
--->'''David:''' Wait! Guys, this is the wrong type of montage, isn't it?
--->'''Sarah:''' What are you talking about? [[Film/{{Rocky}} I'm finally ready to fight Apollo Creed!]]...Yeah, that's wrong.
* {{Manchild}}: ''Everyone.'' Particularly emphasized in a few skits, such as "Business Kids" and "Home Alone."
* ManHug:
** Between Dan and Streeter after [[SeriousBusiness they "survive" a pretend hijacking]] in "Airplane."
** The "Human Wrecking Balls" indulge in one after trashing the entire office.
* TheManIsKeepingUsDown: {{Parodied}} in "Insulting The Boss With A Punk Rock Video," where Sam finds Murph and Streeter's JobSong "[[IHateSong My Boss Is A Dick]]" and the two of them [[ImplausibleDeniability claim that the increasingly specific lyrics about him are actually metaphorical references to the American government, 9/11 conspiracy theories, and the Holocaust]].
-->'''Sam:''' You said you were starting a pop-punk band to take down the establishment. You did not say that ''I'' was the establishment!
* {{Metaphorgotten}}: In "Love and Sleep," Dan is irritated when [[TheGadfly Amir]] keeps debunking his comparison of love to sleep in LiteralMinded fashion.
-->'''Dan:''' Ugh! All I'm trying to say is that there are certain emotions and experiences that you can apply to both sleep and love, drawing some poetic similarities between the two, okay? Like grogginess.
-->'''Amir:''' That's sleep.
-->'''Dan:''' Dreams.
-->'''Amir:''' That's sleep.
-->'''Dan:''' Romance.
-->'''Amir:''' Love.
-->'''Dan:''' Rapid eye movement.
-->'''Amir:''' Oh, that's definitely sleep.
* MermaidProblem: Spoofed when Dan introduces everyone to his fiance, except the problem is [[InvertedTrope inverted]] because she's a ''[[OurMermaidsAreDifferent maidmer]]'' with a fish head and a human lower body. The others point out that the InterspeciesRomance implications of this variation only makes it worse.
* MexicanStandoff: {{Parodied}} in "Mexican Standoff" when Murph, Dan and Sam are excited to have achieved one of these but quickly ruin it when [[IJustShotMarvinInTheFace Dan shoots Murph by accident]]. They proceed to continuously replace people to keep the standoff going and even negotiate with [[UnusuallyUninterestingSight another Mexican standoff going on a few feet away]].
* MindScrew: ''Often''. "Puppet Sarah" has one when you realize that Sarah's puppet has been controlled by a puppet of Amir that is being controlled by Human!!Amir, who has been communicating up until now with Human!!Sarah on a cell phone.
** From "Trading Lunches:"
---> '''Pat:''' I will give you that rice krispie treat I ate yesterday.
---> '''Dan:''' I don't know, [[DepartmentofRedundancyDepartment didn't you eat that yesterday?]]
---> ''(Pat spits out a whole Rice Krispie treat)''
---> '''Dan:''' No Thanks.
* MoeGreeneSpecial: "Darts."
* MotorMouth: Amir in "Speed 3 - Blabbermouth".
* MundaneObjectAmazement: Exaggerated in the "Time Traveler" series, in which the title character's FishOutOfTemporalWater awe extends not just to iPods and televisions but to glass bottles, pants (despite wearing them himself) and knives.
-->'''Roderick:''' Don't just stand there, man! Use those advanced fleshy 21st-century claws on the end of your arms!
-->'''Sarah:''' ...Hands?
* MultipleChoicePast: Beef Gurewitch has a different bizarre origin story every time it appears.
* MundaneObjectAmazement: In "Perpetual Motion Machine," Owen and Murph have apparently never seen a swinging desk toy.
* TheNapoleon: In "Insulting The Boss With a Punk Rock Video," Streeter and Murph characterize Sam this way in their IHateSong about him.
* NearDeathExperience: In "Spoiler Alerts", Amir has one (complete with ItIsNotYourTime) and gets yelled at by a [[BerserkButton spoiler-avoidant]] Streeter and Sarah for describing it:
-->'''Streeter:''' Thanks a lot, Amir!
-->'''Sarah:''' Yeah, some of us haven't ''died'' yet!
* NeckSnap:
** Amir does this to Sarah in "Airplane."
** In "Cracking," Dan accidentally does this to ''himself.'' [[spoiler:[[UnexplainedRecovery He's fine]].]]
** [[TheGamePlaysYou "Clue"]] features a {{TabletopGame/Jumanji}}esque game of ''{{TabletopGame/Cluedo}}'' in which Murph, the murderer, starts doing this to the other players whenever they make a wrong guess.
* NegativeContinuity: Characters are killed off or change careers all the time, but return immediately in the next video.
** Inverted by Jake and Amir. So far there has not been any continuity errors and it even has the odd ContinuityNod or two.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: In "Speed 3 - Blabbermouth," Amir is rigged with two bombs that will go off if he stops HoldingTheFloor. Jake [[LethallyStupid shuts him up so he can tell him how to solve the problem]].
* NoManShouldHaveThisPower: In "3D Glasses" and "Billy Crystal."
* NoodleIncident: In "Wolfenstein," Owen ends up attracting a Neo-Nazi gang to the office with his "Wolfenstein merchandise" (his grandfather's SS uniform and such). Turns out this was the ''third'' time that Neo-Nazis were accidentally invited to the office.
* NostalgiaFilter: {{Discussed}} in "The Guy Who's a Total Rap Snob," when it's quickly obvious to Ally that this is the only thing that actually elevates old-school rap above contemporary rap where Raph is concerned. His other preferences are similarly motivated (his favorite video game is Pong and he still uses a Chirp phone).
-->'''Raph:''' ''(eating baby food)'' ...That does ''not'' hold up.
* NoSuchThingAsHR: Pushed to surrealist extremes.
* NotHyperbole:
** "Religiously," in which Streeter's casual statement that he didn't watch ''Series/BoyMeetsWorld'' "religiously" puts him in contrast with several of his coworkers, who have a ReligionOfEvil around the show.
** In "Dan Does His Own Thing," Dan's friends question what he's up to when he's "doing his own thing" and find out that he's referring to highly specific, inexplicable activities that [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} nobody but him would ever engage in]], such as pretending to be a wooly mammoth at the Natural History Museum, stocking the shelves of abandoned supermarkets and breaking into other people's houses to brush their teeth.
** "You Have GOT to Try Heroin" pokes fun at the use of the word "addictive" to describe TV shows by having Trapp enthusiastically "recommend" hard drugs solely based on that quality.
* NotNowKiddo: "Suspicious Announcements."
* NoYouHangUpFirst: {{Parodied}} in the opening of "Makeover Montage":
-->'''Sarah:''' ''(on the phone, flirtatious)'' No, ''you'' hang up first. ''(beat)'' No, ''you'' ahh he hung up.
* ObsessiveLoveLetter: Parodied in the sketch "My Bloody Valentine". Sarah receives a bunch of increasingly disturbing love notes from Pat which contain stuff like "Bee mine?.... THAT WASN'T A QUESTION." Then he kills everyone who flirted with her, [[IfICantHaveYou and Sarah herself]].
* ObviouslyEvil: Josh's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEMNUboRK7U evil chair]]
* OffToSeeTheWizard: "Wizard of Oz" pulls off a parody of the StockParody itself, as [[ButYouWereThereAndYouAndYou Sarah's coworkers all spend her entire dream arguing about how they've been cast]].
* OhNoNotAgain: Apparently, the staff have [[FountainOfYouth magically deaged themselves while changing the clock for Daylight Savings Time]] twice, accidentally invited Neo-Nazis into the office three times and accidentally moved offices at least twice.
* {{Oireland}}: When the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdax8uWYmnQ "Punctuation Recession"]] leads to the office having to cut back on punctuation marks, the cutting of hyphens from the budget means that Streeter is downgraded from being Irish-American to simply Irish. Specifically, violent FightingIrish.
* OlderThanTheyLook: In "Age Hierarchy," Pat reveals that he's 37 years old, having lied about his age because he knew the others would freak out if they realized that [[BaitAndSwitch his age was a prime number]].
* OneOfTheBoys: Sarah.
* OneWomanWail: Used as a dramatic {{Leitmotif}} for Amir in "Overgrown Guy Girlfriend 4."
* OrganTheft: In "Bully II" Streeter somehow manages to steal Dan's liver, and he and Amir play KeepAway with it.
* TheOtherDarrin: {{Invoked}} in "Is Grant Keith from Buzzfeed?" where Grant and Keith from Buzzfeed trade off playing Grant, Keith, Keith's twin brother Grant, and Grant's twin brother Keith practically every camera cut.
* OurMermaidsAreDifferent: Played for laughs when Dan falls in love with a maidmer. That's right, human legs with a fish head on top. It only makes the usual MermaidProblem even worse, with his coworkers being flat-out disgusted.
* OutWithABang: Brought up in "Final Destination" when Josh suggests that he and the other remnants of the DwindlingParty engineer themselves a DyingMomentOfAwesome.
-->'''[[SpeakInUnison Emily, Dan and Owen]]:''' [[StrangeMindsThinkAlike Dibs on fucked to death by sexy pleasure robot! Shit! Fucked to death by regular robot!]]
* OverlyLongGag:
** Many of the All-Nighter sketches, "He's Right Behind Me," "Spooning," "Spitballing" and "Perpetual Motion Machine," to name a few.
** The [[YouCantHandleTheParody topless]] ''[[Film/AFewGoodMen A Few Good Men]]'' [[YouCantHandleTheParody reenactment]] in "You'll Never Guess."
** "Script Meeting."
* OverlyNarrowSuperlative: In "Perpetual Motion Machine" Owen initially calls the office toy he mistakes for a PerpetualMotionMachine the "greatest invention in history," before emending the statement (as it slows and then stops) to "greatest invention in this room" and finally "greatest invention on my desk" (which he reconsiders upon realizing there's a stapler there too).
* OverTheShoulderCarry: Streeter does it to Murph in "Office Goofarounds" before flinging him through a desk.
* PapaBear: Pat's Step Dad in "Step Dad" sees himself as this, based almost entirely on the fact that he gets Pat extra large cheese pizzas.
* PaperThinDisguise: In "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFg-fB_iuWo Puppet Sarah]]", we see that apparently every single person in the office is totally oblivious to the fact that "Sarah" is actually a puppet on strings being controlled by a puppet of Amir being controlled by the real Amir, who is talking to Sarah on a cell phone.
* ThePenIsMightier: In "Clue," the other players have to finish a [[TheGamePlaysYou supernatural game of Clue]] to prevent a murderous Murph from killing everyone. Amir is less than helpful because he didn't take a single note the entire game ("Who doesn't write anything down during a game of ''Clue?!")'', but it ends up working out in his favor when he stabs Murph with his pencil:
-->'''Murph:''' GAHHH! YOUR PENCIL'S SO SHARP!
-->'''Amir:''' [[ChekhovsGun AHHHHH I NEVER USED IT!!!]]
* PerkyGoth: "Goth [[Music/DaveMatthewsBand Dave Matthews]] Fan."
* PerpetualMotionMachine: The All-Nighter skit of the same name has Owen and Murph mistake a Newton's Cradle-type office toy for one of these.
* ThePigpen: "Sticky Kids."
* ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything: There's [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin hardly any working]] in these skits.
** The [[CoolTeacher Cool English Teacher]] deserves special mention.
--->'''Girl:''' When are you gonna teach us English?
--->'''Mr. G:''' Oh, looks like we've got ourselves a ''conformist!''
** The "freestyling interns" from Freestyle Love Supreme have truly insane BattleRapping skills, [[CoolButInefficient and that's about it]]. They're favorites with Ricky but get chewed out by Pat for spending four hours rapping about a broken printer instead of fixing it.
* PocketDial: "Butt Dial" parodies the concept by having Murph's butt call Emily and threaten her repeatedly.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: The Phantom of the Office, Flugson from "Book Club," the Overgrown Guy Girlfriend and [[ThoseWackyNazis Gunter Granz]].
* {{Polyamory}}: Parodied in "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_l_7TWf_oo My Two True Loves]]", in which Pat sings about his dream to have this sort of relationship.
-->'''Pat:''' It'll be just you and me!... and her!
* PopCulturalOsmosisFailure:
** Dan explains the IntangibleTimeTravel in "High School Dance" to Sarah by saying, "Haven't you ever seen ''[[YetAnotherChristmasCarol A Muppet Christmas Carol]]?"''
** The punchline of "Lady Macbething," when Murph [[spoiler:[[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder kisses and then stabs Owen]]]]:
--->'''Owen:''' [[spoiler:This doesn't happen in the play!]]
--->'''Murph:''' [[spoiler:I've never read ''[[TitleConfusion Mr. Macbeth]]!'']]
* PrankingMontage: "Soup'd" and "Office Goofarounds."
* PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy: Jake, aka "J. Witz."
* PreviouslyOn: Parodied in "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JLHY_rE3H8 Last Week]]", which shows "previously ons" to numerous previous episodes that never happened.
* ProudToBeAGeek: Everyone.
* PsychicNosebleed: A common side effect of the Phantom of the Office's dark powers.
* PunctuatedForEmphasis: Dan throughout "Hangover."
* PungeonMaster: The Cool English Teacher.
-->'''Amir:''' Did you have a stroke or something?
* PunnyName: The crossword puzzle in "Evil Crossword" is written by a "Cal Edgehummer."
* RaisedHandOfSurvival: TheStinger of "Box Fort."
* RealityBreakingParadox: [[https://youtu.be/SRytV2X6a_4 "Just tweeting about how pissed off I am that Twitter's down."]]
* RealityWritingBook: In "The New Girl," ''Facebook'' serves this purpose, as Jake's coworkers interfere with his effort to chat up the new girl at the office by editing the profile he's left open on his computer (causing him to [[GirlsHaveCooties act like an 8-year-old]] when they change his year of birth, spout dialogue from ''Film/TheNotebook'' when they add it to his list of favorite movies, and so on) until they finally [[spoiler:change his relationship status to say he's in a relationship with Streeter, cuing a sobbing Streeter to demand to know who he's talking to.]]
* RecursiveCanon: Varies all over the place from skit to skit. For example, some episodes have the cast writing ''Hardly Working'' episodes. Some episodes appear to have overlap with ''Jake and Amir,'' others don't. "Daylight Savings" implies that the ''Jake and Amir'' skits are fictional in-universe, but that the Phantom of the Office is real (leading to a blank reaction from Streeter when a visiting advertising executive compliments him on his performance as the character).
* RedShirt: Parodied in the All-Nighter sketch "Red Shirts" with the guest appearance of Series/TheWhitestKidsUKnow as Jake's chosen RedshirtArmy for a dangerous mission.
* RefugeInAudacity:
** In "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTT9-YfgeTU Mangina]]", when the boys demonstrate the illusion of a vagina by tucking their genitals between their legs, Sarah one-ups them with a "reverse mangina", by making her labia look like a penis.
** Throughout "Wolfenstein" it becomes increasingly clear that Owen's grandfather is not only a former Nazi but a high-ranking member of Hitler's inner circle. Murph and Pat react with AudienceSurrogate horror as Owen cheerfully displays the evidence, believing that all the war memorabilia he's found in his attic is ''Wolfenstein 3D'' merchandise.
--->'''Owen:''' Guys, I think my peepaw was the first person to ever beat ''Wolfenstein 3D!'' It says right here he had a ''"final solution"!''
* ReportsOfMyDeathWereGreatlyExaggerated: "Cracking."
* RidiculouslyAverageGuy: In one [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtLh085JQjs video]], super-nerd Jeff uses a machine to change his personality to be super cool and suave. When he decides that the only thing cooler than being cool is [[BeYourself being yourself]] and attempts to reverse the process, something goes wrong, resulting in him becoming exactly average.
-->'''Average Geoff:''' Does anyone wanna play some XBOX? I only have one controller though.
-->'''David:''' What a totally... average thing to say.
* RightBehindMe: Parodied in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyaFtO-JJz8 All Nighter He's Right Behind Me]], with person after person getting revealed until the speaker realizes that [[TomatoInTheMirror he himself is actually the person whom he's been talking about]].
* RousingSpeech: Given by Josh in "Box Fort."
* RunningGag:
** Wanton destruction of office equipment.
** All the guys in the office are obsessed with the film ''Film/{{Jumper}}''.
* ScoobyStack: Parodied and deconstructed in the sketch "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcOz_75CDjI Snooping]]": in that each consecutive person added on top of the stack increases the pressure on the bottom guy [[spoiler:until his head explodes]].
* ScreamerPrank: In "Maze," Amir and Pat prank Jake with the Scary Maze Game only for all three of them to be frightened in turn by Sarah, standing behind them made up like the CreepyChild from the game and screaming.
* ScreamsLikeALittleGirl: Dan in "[[http://www.collegehumor.com/video/3399239/all-nighter-hardly-working-dodgeball Dodgeball.]]" And "Stomp."
* SecretCircleOfSecrets: {{Parodied}} in "Religiously," "Phantom Society" and "Secret Society."
* SecretSanta: Spoofed with BlackComedy in "Kovert Krampus," where instead of giving each other gifts, the staff gives each other things to punish them for their lies and transgressions (with a $20 spending limit).
** Their gifts:
*** First, Owen receives from Jeff his dead cat, killed and put on a neckchain that Owen is supposed to wear around his neck.
*** Anu's gift for Caldwell is a bag of wasps, as she learned from his Facebook page that it was one of his mortal fears. He puts the bag over his head, and it's implied they sting him all over.
*** Pat's gift for Vinny is, aware of Vinny's bragging about crossword puzzles: locking his girlfriend in a tank slowly filling with water at an unknown location. He gives Vinny a photo of her in captivity and a list of instructions on how to find her.
*** Murph and Kevin exchange gifts: Kevin's is a rusty nail bat, and Murph's is a pillowcase full of fish semen.
** Then Emily, having enough of the graphic gifts, intervenes:
--->'''Emily:''' [[OnlySaneMan No. No. This is beyond fucked up!]] There's nothing heartwarming about inflicting fish semen on your friends! Or whatever Dan's doing!
--->''[Cuts to Pat, shirtless, strapped to a torture rack and writhing in pain as Dan blasts a vuvuzela into his ears]''
--->'''Dan:''' [[UsefulNotes/TheWorldCup REMEMBER WHEN THESE WERE A THING?!]]
* SeriousBusiness: "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIs5pA1-rMk Desk Toys]]," "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeyac7alRU8&feature=relmfu Box Fort]]," "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hAKYRpSEK0&feature=related Jinx]]," "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ec1CpQMUI7Y&feature=relmfu Religiously]]," and "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3LVn6cLeSk&feature=related Bad News On A Basketball Phone]]," to name a few.
* SeinfeldianConversation: Often used as a lead-in to sketches.
* ShallowNewsSiteSatire: "The Epic Bacon Boys: Internet Popularity Consultants" skewers the culture of clickbait-driven sites (with some SelfDeprecation at the end).
* ShortDistancePhoneCall: In "Ace Ventura."
* ShoutOut: Loads, usually to popular movies or songs. Some of the memorable ones included a ''TabletopGame/{{Clue}}'' game that turned into something similar to ''Film/{{Jumanji}}''.
* SmallNameBigEgo: Ricky is portrayed as this, having a full scale picture of himself in his office and scattered around the office in general. He also [[spoiler:is his own favorite employee]], as shown in "Ricky's Diary".
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Sarah is portrayed most of the time as being the only girl in the office, with most of the guys there having a crush on her. Exemplified wonderfully in "Sarah's Revenge".
** Slightly averted with Emily and Anu. (And now apparently Elaine.)
** There are several other women visible in the background of many of the videos as well, most often in large shots of the office or in meetings. They are almost never addressed or acknowledged, though. Typically, they have little to no impact in the video (and don't have any lines), but some videos avert this to varying degrees, such as "Sarah's Revenge", "Fired Up", and Jake and Amir's "Dating Coach".
** {{Averted}} with the late 2010s cast, which features a number of women including Katie, Rekha, Lily, Carolyn and Jess.
* SophisticatedAsHell:
** Much of the humor of the Phantom of the Office comes from hearing a character with the vocal register of a WickedCultured villain in the vein of the Phantom of the Opera or James Earl Jones' Darth Vader talk about mundane subjects or toss out PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy lines.
--->'''Phantom:''' Anyway, it's [[AccentUponTheWrongSyllable SaRAH]]. She refuses my affections. ... I try and I try, but she won't give way. It's like, can't a brother dip his D in that before he burns her to death?
** In "Introspective Jake," Jake explains his romantic strategy: "Whenever I want somebody I just stand by a window and I look introspective as f—."
** In "3D Glasses" Pat realizes that the 3D glasses he took home from a movie make not just the visual effects in the film, but everyone around him, seem more "deep."
--->'''Streeter:''' [[SmartPeopleSpeakTheQueensEnglish Come here, my friend, look! Look what wonders mankind has wrought! We have triumphed over nature! These citadels of cement, a city scaped, a sky scraped!]]
--->'''Pat:''' Whoa. Streeter, that's... ''(GlassesPull)'' that's really deep!
--->'''Streeter:''' Bro, we are up fucking ''high,'' dude! We are ''really'' high right now! [[ICanSeeMyHouseFromHere I can see my fucking house!]] We are like fifty, sixty feet up, ''minimum!'' ''(Pat puts glasses back on.)'' Nero himself would shed a tear at a wonder such as this! ''(Pat takes off glasses.)'' I am gonna ''puke,'' bro, I'm getting dizzy!
** "Business Kids" mixes professional language and concepts with childish terminology and priorities.
--->'''Pat:''' I am nervous about this presentation tomorrow.
--->'''Dan:''' What are you, chicken?
--->'''Pat:''' No, if I don't deliver on this thing, do you have any idea how many millions of dollars this company will lose? ''(holds up fingers)'' This many!
** Raph as a "rap snob," wearing a tweed jacket and [[SmartPeopleWearGlasses gold spectacles]] and [[DistinguishedGentlemansPipe smoking a pipe]] while speaking in a [[SmartPeopleSpeakTheQueensEnglish pseudo-British intonation]].
--->'''Raph:''' Today's rap is ''empty'' and ''meaningless,'' but when you really ''break down'' this lyric: "[[Music/TheSugarhillGang A hip]], [[LyricalShoehorn hop, a hippie]]"—and you compare it to "walk it like I talk it," [[DistinctionWithoutADifference it's like night and day!]]
* SpeakInUnison: Many times. Becomes an OverlyLongGag in "Nerds and Jocks Both Think They're Underdogs."
* SpinTheBottle: In the 2010 All Nighter sketches, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xb199NIMkjw the staff decide to play this]] but are troubled by the fact that they are all guys. Then Sarah comes along and they basically rope her into playing with them. Of course, the game has to be rigged since Sarah is selected to spin first, and gets David. She kisses him. He spins and lands on her, and has to kiss her for five seconds. The joke continues as they keep landing on each other, with the instructions on what to do getting more and more surreal (the sixth time, Sarah denies having obvious feelings for someone else, and the seventh time, David gets drunk and says something that provokes Sarah into slapping him). When Sarah spins and lands on Sam, she tries to apologize to David for breaking the streak and the others have to restrain David as he lunges at Sam.
* StalkerWithACrush:
** Amir has a binder with in-depth descriptions of everything Jake has ever worn to work since he's started working there. Jake is understandably disturbed by this.
** In "Phantom Sarah-nade," the Phantom accidentally admits to breaking into Sarah's apartment to watch her sleep.
* StalkerWithoutACrush: "[[FauxHorrific My Mom Is Stalking Me]]" highlights how actions that would be unsettling coming from anyone else are normal and even expected mom behavior.
-->'''Rekha:''' You've been ''talking to her?!''
-->'''Raph:''' I went home for Christmas!
-->'''Rekha:''' Are you ''kidding,'' Raph?! That'll fuel her obsession!
-->'''Raph:''' Well, how was I supposed to know? I felt bad for her! [[CreepySouvenir She was sitting at home alone staring at a box full of my old teeth!]]
* StayInTheKitchen: Sarah gets a whirlwind of misogynistic insults in "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxFe9bwHz04 60's Day]]". Mainly because she is aiming for the late 60s (Woodstock, Summer of Love), while the guys went for a more [[Series/MadMen Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce]] theme.
* StayWithMeUntilIDie: PlayedForLaughs in "Bomb," when, since Jeff is StrappedToABomb, his friends are somewhat understandably reluctant to accept this proposal.
* StepfordSmiler: The Cool English Teacher was dumped by his wife, [[EmancipatedChild divorced by his son]], and fired from his high school teaching job after embezzling the PTA in a failed effort to win his wife back.
-->"Sometimes, I buy chicken breasts...just to feel...other flesh...against mine."
* StockholmSyndrome: The sketch "Stockholm Syndrome" parodies the effects wonderfully with Sarah being seduced by Pat saying he'll get a "handsome ransom" out of her.
* StrangeMindsThinkAlike: Almost a RunningGag among the staff, often accompanied by FinishDialogueInUnison.
* SubvertedRhymeEveryOccasion: In "Freestyling Interns," Ricky is on a trip and has his interns, members of the improv rap group Freestyle Love Supreme, deliver his employee evaluations. This leads to one, Utkarsh "UTK" Ambudkar, blatantly inserting himself into Ricky's attempt to flirt with Sarah:
-->''That's right girl, you got me feelin' hot and sticky''
-->''Why don't you ditch these fools and come and chill with'' '''UTK'''?
* SuicideAsComedy: Frequent.
-->'''Pat:''' [[UnusuallyUninterestingSight Really wish people would stop shooting themselves!]]
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSpvtAXbp0k One more announcement: today is Stick Towels Under Your Doors Day," where you show your company pride by placing towels in any space smoke could travel through, right after saying "this is a test of the building's alarm system in the event of a widespread fire in the basement. No fires today."]]
* TakeThisJobAndShoveIt: Played straight, then {{downplayed}}, then {{inverted}} in "Perpetual Motion Machine" as the same script repeats three times with variations:
-->'''Owen:''' You’re a shitty little dollop of a man. You can take this job and cram it up your dick, 'cause Murph and I got two tickets to the top, baby! Wow!!!
-->...
-->'''Owen:''' You're a reasonable, medium-sized dollop of a man, so take this job and cram it on Monster.com, 'cause Murph and I got two tickets to a lateral career move, sir! Whoo!
-->...
-->'''Owen:''' [[ProfessionalButtKisser You're a big, handsome dollop of a boss]], so take this job and ''please'' [[CrossingTheBurntBridge give it back to me]], 'cause I'll do anything, baby, I'll fucking suck your dick, man, seriously, I'll do fucking anything, I'm so sorry! ''(InelegantBlubbering.)''
* TheTapeKnewYouWouldSayThat: "Grant Forgets He Sucks."
* TastesLikeFeet:
** In "Beef Gurewitch," the titular delicacy is described by Sam as smelling "like vagina and paint."
** In "Soda Prank," Murph believes that his Sprite has been tampered with on the grounds that it tastes "like dick skin." [[spoiler:[[ProperlyParanoid He's right]].]]
* TeacherStudentRomance: The Cool English Teacher keeps coming on to one of the staff members he's designated as his students. He's said to normally teach middle and high school and at the end of the third video Sarah notes that she found him on a sex offender registry.
* TechnologicallyBlindElders: Gale Beggy.
* TemptingFate:
** Becomes an OverlyLongGag in the "Final Destination" series when Owen [[LookBothWays walks into the middle of the street unprompted]] and announces, "[[TooHappyToLive I've never felt so alive!]]," only for a car to drive past behind him. Everyone—[[TooDumbToLive including Owen, still standing in the street]]—[[DiscussedTrope starts to chat about how long it's taking the inevitable to occur]].
--->'''Dan:''' [[GenreSavvy Yeah, it's starting to feel like the second we stop talking about it, then it'll happen, y'know?]]
** In "The Guy Who Always Talks About Hot Girls," Trapp gets fed up with the guy in question and finally explodes, "I would rather talk about literally ''anything'' else!"
--->'''Pat:''' ''(appearing)'' [[TooMuchInformation You guys would not believe the size of the shit I just took]].
--->'''Trapp:''' ''({{Beat}}.)'' ...How big ''was'' it?
* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: Attempted in "Bug", with the staff deciding to [[SkewedPriorities smash Sarah's computer, then her harddrive, and even her monitor]] in an attempt to kill a fly, which still lives. Then they decide to go get the photocopier. The scene switches to Sam and Ricky having an important meeting in their conference room, with an oblivious Ricky telling Sam that the budget has been blown due to replacing all the broken technology, while Sam watches as [[FunnyBackgroundEvent the photocopier is thrown into a desk]].
* ThoseWackyNazis: In "Wolfenstein", Owen finds a trunk full of Nazi paraphernalia belonging to his grandfather, but mistakenly believes the old man is a [[VideoGame/Wolfenstein3D Wolfenstein]] fan. It gets worse when he accidentally invites neo-Nazis, thinking they are an underground Wolfenstein fan club. This being the third time neo-Nazis were invited to the office, HR asks everyone to watch a movie about the Holocaust. At the suggestion of watching the first five minutes of Film/XMen1, Owen (garbed in his grandfather's Schutzstaffel uniform) [[HypocriticalHumor refuses as the treatment of mutants in the movie is awful]].
-->'''Pat:''' They're so huge!\\
'''Owen:''' Yeah, they're ''covered'' in Wolfenstein tattoos.
* TimeCompressionMontage:
** {{Parodied}} in "Basketball Phone":
--->'''Jeff:''' DK, we need to talk. We've been standing here during all the phone calls you've been getting.\\
'''Dan Klein:''' Wait—all that stuff with me on the phone didn't happen over the course of the day?\\
'''Jenny:''' No, no, that was real time.\\
'''Dan Gurewitch:''' Yeah, it was super weird.
** {{Parodied}} again in "The Egg" when a 30-second montage covering eight months is followed up by Sarah thanking an exhausted videographer for "editing six thousand hours of footage into that very short highlight reel."
* ToiletHorror: PlayedForLaughs in "[[ToiletHumour Pee On Your Butt]]."
* TomatoInTheMirror:
** In "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyaFtO-JJz8 All-Nighter Hardly Working: He's Right Behind Me]]", Jeff gripes about Dan's disgusting behavior in the office, only to eventually realize that ''he's'' actually Dan.
** In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxJJ2LBI604 "Is Grant Keith from Buzzfeed?"]] Trapp complains about all the Grants and Keiths in the office.
--->'''Trapp:''' Every time I look up there's another one of you identical gangly motherfuckers slumping around the office. I got a Keith O'Brien, a Grant O'Brien, a Keith Habersberger, a Grant Habersberger...Whoever the fuck this guy is, I've never seen him before in my life!
--->'''Grant:''' Trapp, that's a mirror.
--->''Cut to Trapp, who is now identical to Grant.''
--->'''Trapp:''' [[LittleNo No.]] [[BigNo Noooooooo!]]
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Apparently, Emily and Anu, although Anu hasn't gotten much screen time thus far.
* TonightSomeoneKisses: Parodied in "All-Nighter: Rap Intro" with Lin-Manuel Miranda announcing that Jake and Amir are "finally gonna kiss" (to which they gamely oblige).
* TookALevelInBadass: Everyone in [[http://www.collegehumor.com/video/5922677/die-hardly-working-the-ch-action-movie Die Hardly Working]].
* TookALevelInDumbass: Between "Time Traveler" and "Time Traveler 2" the time traveler goes from commenting on the genius of "[[MundaneObjectAmazement interlocking metal teeth to fasten one's trousers]]" to being baffled by the concept of pants. This is somewhat explained by "Time Traveler 2"'s retcon that [[spoiler:he didn't invent time travel at all and is simply the {{Cloudcuckoolander}} janitor of the real inventor.]]
* TrainStationGoodbye: {{Parodied}} in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVi3vflC54g&feature=relmfu Wait!]], where no one can tell who they are saying goodbye to.
* TraumaButton: "Trilogies."
* UncomfortableElevatorMoment: At the end of "Slasher" between Jake and a masked killer who just stabbed Sarah.
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Constant.
* VerbedTitle: In a clear takeoff on ''Series/{{Punkd}}'' (and Amir and Streeter's then-current MTV show ''Pranked)'', Ricky has to forbid Amir from filming food-based prank shows at the office after he creates ''Soup'd,'' ''Oatmeal'd,'' ''Spaghetti Bolognes'd,'' ''Mongolian BBQ'd'' and ''Salad'd.''
* VillainousCrush: The Phantom of the Office, on Sarah.
* ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend: Amir's "Overgrown Guy Girlfriend". Also counts as TheLoad.
* WackyFratboyHijinx: Spoofed in "Hangover" when Dan and Jake enthusiastically cheer what they take to be Streeter's hangover from the previous night's partying, even as it becomes clear that something is, in fact, very wrong with him and that he didn't drink at all ("[[ComicallyMissingThePoint Big Bear got crunked without knocking a]] [[PunctuatedForEmphasis single! One! Back!]]"), until [[spoiler:it's revealed that he was bitten by a venomous spider and Dan and Jake cheer his death throes and then his funeral as if they're continued examples of this.]]
* WhatAreYou: Sam asks the Phantom this in "Too Phantom Too Furious."
* WholePlotReference: The 5-part "Franchise/FinalDestination" series.
* WhoWritesThisCrap: A CutawayGag in "How far would you go to hide a zit?", after David gets socked in the jaw by Sarah [[RuleOfThree for the third time]]:
-->'''David:''' [[NoFourthWall Who wrote this?!]]
-->''(Cut to Sarah typing at her computer while letting out an EvilLaugh.)''
* WhosYourDaddy: PlayedForLaughs in "The Egg." Sarah assigns all five of the potential dads to eight months of EggSitting with the intention of declaring the owner of the last remaining egg the father. When ''none'' of the eggs survive, [[StatingTheSimpleSolution she decides to just take a DNA test]].
* WickedCultured: {{Parodied}} with the Phantom of the Office; he has a catacomb full of priceless art, but it's equally commingled with cheap junk, and he discusses it in his typical SophisticatedAsHell style.
-->'''Phantom:''' God, is that not beautiful?
-->'''Sarah:''' Yeah, the technique is just—
-->'''Phantom:''' It's perfect, isn't it?
-->'''Sarah:''' Love it.
-->'''Phantom:''' I can't find a single thing wrong with it.
-->'''Sarah:''' Me either.
-->'''Phantom:''' I mean, if I were to make a perfect ass, that's what it would look like. I can't find one flaw, I’ve stared at this for hours.
-->'''Sarah:''' Hours, really?
-->'''Phantom:''' I would walk through a mile of her sh—t just to see where it came from, you know what I mean?
* WilliamTelling: {{Parodied}} in "Bullet Trick" when Pat and Dan run into so many technical difficulties (Pat's inability to balance the apple, Dan's gun getting jammed) that their audience completely loses interest ([[spoiler:until, inevitably, Pat gets shot]].)
* WorldOfWeirdness: The building itself.
-->'''Pat:''' ''(after watching Murph [[FadingAway fade out of existence]] due to [[TheGamePlaysYou losing a game of Clue]])'' I hate this f—ing office.
* WorthlessTreasureTwist: [[ParodiedTrope Spoofed]] in "The Treasure Is Our Friendship," in which Sarah, Pat and Dan make this discovery at the end of a treasure hunt and proceed to fight over the friendship in GoldFever fashion until an interloper steals it.
-->'''Dan:''' You guys, he's getting away with our friendship! If we work together, we can stop him!
-->'''Pat:''' Eh, I'd rather not.
-->'''Sarah:''' Yeah, me neither.
-->'''Dan:''' Yeah, f— you guys.
* WouldHitAGirl:
** In "New Guy," [[spoiler:the guy impersonating]] new programmer John Zanussi. Even after he's [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown violently clobbered most of the staff]], Sarah [[TooDumbToLive banks on the idea that he'll stop at hitting a girl and tries to flirt with him]], getting a mop handle to the face for her troubles.
** In "Age Hierarchy," Amir casually lays out Sarah in one punch.
** The Lady Punchers in "Secret Society" are an entire SecretCircleOfSecrets devoted to this. After Pat hits Sarah by accident, they try to recruit him, to his horror.
* WouldHurtAChild: Parodied in "Man Baby" with Streeter playing Sarah's toddler-aged nephew. Ricky gets fed up with him and hits him in the face, to which Sarah berates him for hurting a child as Streeter hurls Ricky across the room and then carries her out the door.
* WouldRatherSuffer: Comically subverted at the end of "Dilly Dally":
-->'''Ricky:''' [[SeriousBusiness Jake, it's either in my office or out that window]].
-->'''Jake:''' ''(climbs onto the sill and begins to open the window)'' This is the easiest decision of my ''entire life!'' ''([[BaitAndSwitch gets off the sill and closes the window]])'' ...[[CaptainObvious I didn't wanna jump because then I would die. I wouldn't survive that for sure.]]
* WrongGenreSavvy: In the "Final Destination" series, everyone's fine with [[HoistByHisOwnPetard overloading Murph with the cinderblocks he's plotting to kill Sam with]], assuming that his status as "the psychic main character in this series" will grant him PlotArmor. [[BloodyHilarious They must not realize it's a comedy sketch]].
* {{Yandere}}: In the surprisingly chilling video "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujauxisY2s8 My Bloody Valentine]]," Pat sends Sarah increasingly threatening notes demanding that she be his, murders every other guy in the office who showed an interest in her, then [[IfICantHaveYou stabs her in the stomach]].
* YouCantHandleTheParody: At the end of "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kB7Byoe_Uo You'll Never Guess]]" some of the staff are re-enacting the iconic scene from ''Film/AFewGoodMen'', so the line of course gets said. They're also not wearing shirts while doing it.
* YouMeddlingKids: "Phantom After Dark":
-->'''Phantom:''' And I would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for you pesky kids and your meddling homosexual!
-->'''David:''' [[MistakenForGay I'm not gay, guys]].
-->'''Phantom:''' Bullshit!
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