History Series / LittleMosqueOnThePrairie

* CanadaEh: Of the small-town rural variety. Imagine ''Series/CornerGas'' [[RecycledWithAGimmick with Muslims]]. When attempting to erect a barrier in the mosque, the congregation obtains the barrier from a hockey rink.
* CallBack: In a season 5 episode a character objects to Mercy being called a "one horse town" because they have seven horses. A season later, almost the same conversation occurs but Sarah says they're not even a one horse town "since the glue factory opened".

* {{Calvinball}}: The Game of Thorne's.

* OverprotectiveDad: Baber towards his daughter, Layla.
* PaintballEpisode: Amaar's bachelor party.

* UnfortunateImplications: In-universe examples in the bachelor party episode, both PlayedForLaughs - Thorne arranges a paintball game for Amaar's bachelor party, because "if there's one thing I know about Muslims, they love guns!" and Amaar chooses the teams at random, only realising too late that his team is entirely Muslim and the other team is entirely white.

* AbsenteeActor: Due to Carlo Rota's [[Series/{{Castle}} other]] [[Series/TwentyFour commitments]], Yasir was written as caring for his sick mother in Lebanon for much of the fourth and fifth seasons.

* SleepCute: Amaar and Thorne - still very much in the FoeYay stage of their relationship - get lost at night in the woods. Amaar wakes up in the morning to find Thorne pretty much wrapped around him.

* CanadaEh: Of the small-town rural variety. Imagine ''Series/CornerGas'' [[RecycledINSPACE with Muslims]]. When attempting to erect a barrier in the mosque, the congregation obtains the barrier from a hockey rink.

* CanadaEh: Of the small-town rural variety. Imagine ''Series/CornerGas'' [[RecycledINSPACE with Muslims]].

* ParentalSexualitySquick: Rayyan is grossed out over how affection Yasir and Sarah continue to be.

* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Amaar's old friend from law school Ali has become an imam, and is irritatingly better at it in every way than Amaar

* LocalHangout: Fatima's.

* {{Adorkable}}: Yousef is tall, handsome, and muscular. However, he becomes adorkable due to his gentleness and good-natured willingness to please everyone.

* TheWarOnTerror: One episode revolves around a CSIS agent (played by Creator/SamanthaBee) on vacation in Mercy that Fatima believes has come to spy on them, despite her protestations to the contrary, as the only mosques that get surveillance are ones with over 40 members with passionate and charismatic leaders. [[spoiler: The episode ends with the mosque being under CSIS surveillance, thanks to Amaar's attempts to appear passionate and charismatic]]

* FullyClothedNudity: The plot of one episode revolves around JJ's jealousy when he finds out Amaar has (accidentally, for a few seconds) seen Rayyan's hair. The women at Rayyan's bachelorette party -- who have removed their hijabs as it's a female-only party -- scream and hide when a delivery man walks in.

* BlatantLies: In "The Barrier" when Tupper invites Rayyan on his show to discuss the barrier Baber wants to put up in the mosque, Fatima claims that it is forbidden for women to speak on the radio, a rule apparently established in chapter 115 of the Quran (the Quran only has 114 chapters, or Suras). Not to mention, of course, [[CaptainObvious that radio did not exist when the Quran was written]].

* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: Mercy is implied to be in a western province of Canada, but we are never told which one.

* TheWarOnTerror: One episode revolves around a CSIS agent (played by [[Series/TheDailyShow Samantha Bee]]) on vacation in Mercy that Fatima believes has come to spy on them, despite her protestations to the contrary, as the only mosques that get surveillance are ones with over 40 members with passionate and charismatic leaders. [[spoiler: The episode ends with the mosque being under CSIS surveillance, thanks to Amaar's attempts to appear passionate and charismatic]]

The comedy comes as much from the interactions among the various members of the Muslim community, Shi'a and Sunni, Arab and African, as from their interaction with the members of the Christian community of Mercy and between Amaar's big-city ideas and the locals' small-town values.

* AndZoidberg: "The mosque's constitution was written by our wise founding fathers. And Faisal."

* BlatantLies: In "The Barrier" when Tupper invites Rayyan on his show to discuss the barrier Baber wants to put up in the mosque, Fatima claims that it is forbidden for women to speak on the radio, a rule apparently established in chapter 115 of the Quran. (the Quran only has 114 chapters, or Suras). Not to mention, of course, [[CaptainObvious that radio did not exist when the Quran was written]].

* CanadaEh: Of the small-town rural variety. Imagine ''Series/CornerGas'' [[RecycledInSpace with Muslims]].

* CalvinBall: The Game of Thorne's.

* CloudCuckoolander: Nate, the local reporter for the newspaper, who's a little...odd.

-->"I don't care if dad thinks this is suicide. I'm on a mission from god. It's not like a dropped a bomb on him."

* RuleOfThree: "You're ''staying'' in Mercy!? [[BreadEggsMilkSquick You could go to Toronto or Vancouver....or Iraq!"]]

* ShoutOut: In "Archdeacon Cometh," the archdeacon in question mentions that he just came from [[Series/CornerGas Dog River...]]

* VanInBlack: When an agent of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service came to Mercy on holiday, the Muslim community got paranoid, and Baber noticed a delivery truck outside the Mosque. He claims it's a stakeout, and there are three agents there, one of them called "Sarge", and they're drinking coffee out of paper cups (it's actually a candy truck trying to deliver candy, but Rayyan won't pick up her phone). At the end of the episode, CSIS really does start surveillance on the mosque and [[StrangeMindsThinkAlike there really are three agents there, drinking coffee out of paper cups, and one of them is called "Sarge"]]

* WarOnTerror: One episode revolves around a CSIS agent (played by [[TheDailyShow Samantha Bee]]) on vacation in Mercy that Fatima believes has come to spy on them, despite her protestations to the contrary, as the only mosques that get surveillance are ones with over 40 members with passionate and charismatic leaders. [[spoiler: The episode ends with the mosque being under CSIS surveillance, thanks to Amaar's attempts to appear passionate and charismatic]]

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Fred Tupper's radio show is a non-too-subtle parody of ''TheOReillyFactor'' and various other political talk shows hosted by right-wing blowhards.

* MistakenForIndex: Averted: Fatima overhears a conversation between Rayyan and JJ -- "why not do it now, we're gonna do it after the wedding anyway..." "after the wedding, I want to do it right in front of my parents!" -- and correctly guesses that they're talking about when they should open their wedding presents.

* ConvertingForLove: Sarah converted to Islam in order to marry Yasir. However, she has apparently not taken her new religion all that seriously (possibly because Yasir isn't a very good Muslim either).

* VanInBlack: When an agent of the Canadian Secret Service came to Mercy on holiday, the Muslim community got paranoid, and Baber noticed a delivery truck outside the Mosque. He claims it's a stakeout, and there are three agents there, one of them called "Sarge", and they're drinking coffee out of paper cups (it's actually a candy truck trying to deliver candy, but Rayyan won't pick up her phone). At the end of the episode, the Secret Service really start surveillance on the Mosque [[StrangeMindsThinkAlike there really are three agents there, drinking coffee out of paper cups, and one of them is called "Sarge"]]

* ShoutOut: In "Archdeacon Cometh," the archdeacon in question mentions that he just came from [[CornerGas Dog River...]]

* CanadaEh: Of the small-town rural variety. Imagine ''CornerGas'' [[XMeetsY with Muslims]].