* CrazyAwesome: Harry.
-->(Having trapped a rival prankster judge in a giant balloon) "Cleaver, you may be younger. You may be faster. You may even be smarter. But you will NEVER, EVER, be crazier... [pulls out a giant pin] than me."
* EpilepticTrees: One popular theory among fans of NightCourt and {{Cheers}} is that Harry Stone is an alias for con-man Harry The Hat and the reason for the latter character disappearing from Boston for the better part of a decade was that he was busy running a long-con playing judge in New York City. The ''{{Cheers}}'' writers actually alluded to this when the Harry the Hat character appeared on that show after ''NightCourt'' began. Someone asked where he'd been, and he replied, "[[LampshadeHanging I got a night job]].".
** Of course there's also a theory running in the opposite direction that Harry the Hat is an alias for Judge Harry Stone who is attempting to pull the world's greatest prank by posing as a two-bit con man.
* NightmareFuel VanityPlate: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_vdLRtLxUU This]] played after the closing credits after the second season, and was only used for Night Court. This troper remembers this show more for the horrifying laughter in the closing logo than for the show itself.
* {{Squick}}: The episode with the cockroach infestation. At one point the characters discover they've wandered into a carpet of dead roaches.
--> '''Christine:''' Oh, please God, let that be a pebble in my shoe.
* TearJerker: Quite a few, the first episode after Selma Diamond's death has an especially poignant one.
** In another episode, Harry confronts another older judge on his erratic behavior, and learns that the man is on the verge of cracking after a career of seemingly-futile decisions. Judge Drayton finally breaks down after this speech:
---> '''Judge Drayton:''' There was once this girl who came through my courtroom, carrying a baby. Beautiful girl, seventeen or eighteen. Long, dark hair, dark complexion... and a big black eye where her husband had hit her. She asked me to make him stop. I said, fine, I'll send him to jail. I gave him two years...then she changed her testimony, she said she was lying! She didn't want her husband to go to jail! He was a good provider, he brought home money so the family could eat! All she wanted, was ''for him to stop hitting her!'' And...and I couldn't make him stop! In twenty-five years, I couldn't make ''anybody'' stop!