Western Animation / Paradise PD

Protect & Serve (on a budget).^note From left to right, Stanley Hopson, Gerald Fitzgerald, Kevin Crawford, Randall Crawford, Gina Jabowski, Bullet, Dusty Marlow. (Oh, and the cat Dusty is holding is Mr. Meowgi.)

Paradise PD is an adult animated sitcom released on Netflix on August 31, 2018. It was created by the team behind, and is largely a Creator-Driven Successor to, Brickleberry: Roger Black and Waco O'Guin.

The show follows 18-year-old rookie cadet, Kevin Crawford, joining a small-town police department called Paradise P.D. and its crew of bad cops. Not bad like no-nonsense or cool. Bad like shitty. The shortcomings of these cops range from corruption, incompetence, to dabbling in crime themselves.

Kevin's hot-headed father and chief of police, Randall was against his son becoming a cop, after a time, when a 5-year-old Kevin accidentally shot him in the testicles, causing a chain reaction of events, where Randall would lose testosterone, feel emasculated, and try to feel like a man again by being a hateful, misogynistic dick to his wife, Karen, who later divorced him and went on to become the mayor. As mayor, Karen gave Kevin a job at Paradise P.D. out of love for her son and spite for her ex, (mostly the latter) and thus begins the premise of Paradise P.D.

The rest of the cops at Paradise P.D., which make up the main cast, are morbidly obese man-child, Dusty Marlow, quick-to-violence queen of police brutality, Gina Jabowski, bisexual 175-year-old racist, Stanley Hopson, Wiccan piccolo-playing black guy, Gerald Fitzgerald, and drug-addicted drug dog, Bullet.

The overarching storyline of the first season focuses on the police force trying to crack a drug bust, where a fancy new drug called argyle meth is sweeping the streets of Paradise, all originating from an unknown crime boss, known only as "The Kingpin". However, Kevin seems to be the only one who actually cares about solving the case, as while his father blows it off as unimportant, he sees it as being deeper than it may seem.

The main/major cast is as follows:

• Dana Snyder as Stanley Hopson, Dusty Marlow, and Thester Carbomb IV.
• Cedric Yarbrough as Gerald Fitzgerald.
• David Herman as Kevin Crawford and Hobo Cop.
• Tom Kenny as Chief Randall Crawford and Dr. Funtlichter.
• Sarah Chalke as Gina Jabowski.
• Kyle Kinane as Bullet.
• Grey Griffin as Mayor Karen Crawford.
• Waco O'Guin as Robby.
• Roger Black as Delbert.
• John DiMaggio as Chief Dean Hancock.
• Lance Reddick as Agent Clappers.

From the moment it was first advertised, people expected Paradise P.D. to be a carbon copy of Black and O'Guin's first show, Brickleberry. However, when the show aired, they got… exactly that, but this time, the show was more serialized, telling an overarching story, which spanned the entire season. It also managed to be better received. Indeed, to many people's surprise, it did exceptionally well in ratings and quickly became Netflix's fifth smash-hit adult animated series, following BoJack Horseman, F is for Family, Big Mouth, and Disenchantment and got picked up for another season, which, although intended to air in 2019, due to production mishaps, went through a bit of a delay, before it finally aired in March of 2020, (mere days before the effects of the coronavirus really took its course worldwide). The second season did so well, that three days after its release, it warranted a third season, which aired on March 12th, 2021. On June 30th, 2022, the show was renewed for a fourth and final season, which aired on December 16th, 2022.

Netflix canceled the show after Season 4, but didn't tell Roger and Waco about this until after the finished production of the season, making the show end on a cliffhanger. According to a last-minute addition to the finale episode's credits as well as a Tweet from Waco O'Guin, they planned on doing a proper finale for the series, using their other show, Farzar, as a surrogate. On November 16th, 2023, it was announced that Farzar was also canceled, leaving both series without a conclusion.

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Paradise PD provides examples of:

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• Abusive Parents: Randall and Karen have verbally and psychologically abused Kevin all throughout his childhood, profanely insulting him, shunning him from family gatherings, and blaming his very existence for their divorce. Kevin also never got a middle name because the one Randall wanted to give him was apparently a racial slur.
  Randall: I thought of a middle name for our son; Kevin I Should Have Pulled Out Crawford.
  Karen: Or Kevin I Wish I'd Swallowed Crawford.
• Action Dress Rip: Before defeating ISIS, Gina rips her wedding dress.
• Actor Allusion: Agent Clappers, played by Lance Reddick, is an obvious expy of Reddick's other character, Cedric Daniels from The Wire, which they reference to in a "…But He Sounds Handsome" joke in "The Father, The Son, and The Holy Post-It Note".
  Clappers: What do you mean, you don't know about The Wire? It was the best show ever.
  Kevin: Eh, it's no Bones.
  Clappers: Well, nothing's Bones, Kevin. It's a goddamned masterpiece! At least give it until Season 2, Episode 12. That's when Lt. Daniels takes his shirt off. You'll be like 'how can a man be so skinny and so ripped at the same time?' If that don't take your dong dumplings to the disco, I don't know what will.
• Adam Westing: Agent Clappers, as mentioned above, is basically Lance Reddick doing this.
• Adults Are Useless: While the titular police force are already corrupt, irresponsible idiots, the other adults don't come off as much better, being equally stupid and amoral. Even Mayor Karen Crawford is a Corrupt Politician who is eager to legalize meth and narcotics as long as it increases her profile.
• Advertising by Association: The trailer clearly states that it's "...from the twisted minds that brought you Brickleberry".
• Aerith and Bob: Every mutant's name describes their mutation, (i.e. Arm Head, Mr. Pussbubble, Eyeball Head, etc.) except for their leader, who goes by the regular (albeit uncommon) person's name, Clovis.
• Aesop Amnesia: Randall and Karen learn at the end of several episodes to be better parents to Kevin. However, they almost always immediately forget this by the next episode, sometimes even seconds later in the same episode.
• Affably Evil: Agent Clappers being a member of The Legion of Dooooom and doing things like, selling drugs, arresting innocent cops, and killing an FBI agent who was fractions of a second from retirement, is unarguably evil. However, we learn in the Season 2 finale, that he's being forced to do this because if he doesn't, his boss will his family ... portrait.
• Agent Scully: Randall is this, whenever Kevin claims to have made a break in the argyle meth case, usually brushing off Kevin's suspicions as mere paranoia.
  Randall: What are you, a conspiracy nut? Next, you'll be telling me you're one of those round-Earthers!
• The Alcoholic: Randall is this on occasion, as getting drunk is the only way he can perform a homosexual act. ^note According to Randall, masturbation counts as a homosexual act, as it involves touching a man's dick, while a man touches his dick.
  • Alcoholic Parent: Both of Kevin's parents. Karen's alcoholism was epitomized in "Blind Drunk" when she broke the law just to score some moonshine from Robby and Delbert. She also got blackout drunk in "Flip the Vote", when she lost the 2020 election. And as for Randall, well, see "The Alcoholic" above.
• Always Gets Her Man: As one of the only cops to take her job seriously, Gina never lets any of her criminals slip away.
• Ambiguously Gay: Although he's never exhibited any sexual attraction for anyone in the entire series, Dusty did have a wet dream about Mayor McCheese in one episode. This could either be a joke on him being so much of a fatass that he actually sexualizes food, or it could be hinting at the fact that he's turned on by a male character.
• Amoral Attorney: Gina's law attorney, Handsy Grebovitz, law officer of Goose'em and Grope'em; A sexual harassment lawyer who defends sex offenders that he knows are guilty.
• Animated Shock Comedy: The show relies heavily on crude and sexual humor, with a smattering of excessive violence (though, on this show, the excessive violence is just as apparent as the crude, sexual humor — at least in season 2). This was to be expected since Roger Black and Waco O'Guin worked on Brickleberry.
• Anti-Humor: Prop-Cop. The only character who laughs at his jokes is Fitz and he's just pretending to avoid suspicion.
• Arc Number: 143 shows up in several episodes of the as a recurring easter egg. ^note The significance behind this number? It originates from a running joke from The Howard Stern Show, which Roger Black and Waco O'Guin used to be a part of before going on to make Paradise PD. In it, the character, Sal Governale noticed that his wife was sending emails to a man that ended with "143". He found out all too late that his wife was having an affair with this man and the "143" was code for "I Love You", with each digit in the number representing the amount of letters in each word of the sentence.
• Arc Villain: There's one every season.
  • Season 1 = Terry Two-Toes
  • Season 2 = Gerald Fitzgerald
  • Season 3 = Agent Clappers
  • Season 4 = Charles Lovely
• Artificial Human: Delbert is revealed to have been artificially created by Disney, like many of their other child stars, and had once starred in a half-assed tweencom called Wall-Eyed Wally before being kidnapped in 1998. He was originally designed to be their next big star, but the scientist dropped him when he picked him out of the vat, damaging him and giving him his defective eyes, so they just stuck him on Disney Channel.
• Artistic License – Law: In "Fallout", Gerald Fitzgerald was horrified to find out that his wife was pregnant, long before he was ready to have a child so Bullet suggested that he and his wife travel to a different state, where abortion is legal and get rid of the kid. The show is set in Illinois, where abortion already is legal, ever since Roe v. Wade was passed in 1973. As a police officer, Bullet, of all people should have known that.
• Artistic License – Politics: In the first episode, it was mentioned that Karen won the 2014 Paradise mayoral election, with her opposing candidate being a pig in a t-shirt but as Randall explained the pig still won the popular vote. What the writers apparently didn't know is that, unlike presidential elections, mayoral elections don't have an electoral house since there are no states in one city, which means they choose mayors solely by votes. So that pig was clearly robbed of a fairly-earned win. The writers must have eventually figured this out because in "Flip the Vote", which took place during the 2020 Paradise mayoral election, Frank educated The Legion of Dooooom in mayoral politics and told them that people do, in fact, win mayoral elections if they win the popular vote.
• As Himself: Brian Hanby is a regular guest star, playing a storage unit owner named Brian.
  • Erik Bleaman stars as himself in "Paradise Found".
  • Gary Dell'Abate as himself in "PARAD-ISIS".
• Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: Dusty gets distracted by a butterfly while working as a crossing guard and causes a massive four-lane collision.
• Auto Erotica: The entire plot to episode 4. Grey Griffin plays the voice of the car in her Azula voice, upping the hilarity.
• Authority in Name Only: Well if the phrase "No one wants to be a cop anymore" doesn't sell this idea, what will?
• Babies Make Everything Better: In Season 3, Karen and Randall decide to try having another baby, thinking it will help save their rocky marriage and their seasonal story arc for the first half of the season is about Karen trying to get pregnant, while the second half of the season is about Randall and Karen preparing for their upcoming baby now that the latter is pregnant.
• The Baby of the Bunch: Kevin is this in Season 1, due to his newness and being younger than everyone else by a longshot.
• Bad "Bad Acting": Thester does this when portraying his many characters and yet most of the time, people fall for it.
  • Also done with Agent Clappers in Season 3, where he played literally every single one of his characters (Loquacious, Clippers, Cloppers, and Pepe Cabana) by just acting like his normal self.
• Bad Cop/Incompetent Cop: More like Incompetent Cop, Super-Incompetent Cop. Any cop who isn't a criminal themselves is hopelessly ineffective. The only one who actually gets things done is Gina, and that's because she's barking mad.
• The Bad Guy Wins: This was ultimately the ending of Season 2, with The Chicago Kingpin succeeding in nuking the entire city of Paradise into a giant pizza.
• Bad Liar: Kevin was this in "Blind Drunk", when he told Gina he had a Canadian girlfriend named "Maple Moose Hockey Beaver Syrup" who you can't meet because she died.
• Bad Santa: The Season 1 finale reveals that Santa Claus is one of the higher-ups in the meth ring, though not the Kingpin himself.
• Badass Boast: Fitz made a lot of these, when he was The Kingpin.
• Bait-and-Switch Comment: Kevin asks Karen why women all hate him. Karen tells him that he needs to understand that all women are different - and so they probably all hate him for different reasons!
• Bait-and-Switch Credits: The opening credits show everyone on Paradise P.D. as violent and ready for action, though this is only true for Gina, Randall, Bullet, and Fitz.
• Been There, Shaped History: Hopson was aboard the Titanic and he pushed off a female passenger to get a lifeboat reserved for him.
• Berserk Button: Gina will snap like a firecracker and go off on anyone who commits even the most harmless of felonies.
• Beta Couple: Fitz and The Dolphin Queen.
• Big Damn Heroes: The cops of Paradise PD.
• Big Eater: Dusty eats impossibly large masses of food in small amounts of time, such as consuming enough food to feed an entire town for 40 years in just one day.
• Big Red Devil: Satan appears as one at the end of "Dungeons & Dragnet."
• Bitter Sweet Ending: In the Season 1 finale, Randall and Karen get back together and Dusty manages to kill Santa Claus, who was the one who created Argyle Meth. But then Dusty gets imprisoned under false charges of being the Kingpin (since no one believes his Santa Claus story) and gets locked in with Two Toes' mother, who wants to kill him, and Gina can't bring him back. Kevin believes to have closed the case, despite noticing some inconsistencies, but it is revealed that Fitz is the real kingpin (having faked being in a coma and killed off the other members of the task force) and he plans to kill Kevin next.
• Black Comedy: Very dark, can rely on a lot of jokes with pedophilia, incest, rape, and gore all within a single episode!
• Black Comedy Animal Cruelty: In one season four episode, Dusty runs over five cats and it's revealed he killed twenty-five of his cats because he thought they had nine lives. This is also all played for bleak humor.
• Blackmail: Dusty tells Fitz to help him cut work and go to the carnival or else he'll call up the mutant army that wants him dead and tell them where he is.
  Fitz: You're resorting to blackmail?
  Dusty: Yes. I'm resorting to a black male to help me.
• Bland-Name Product: Although the show usually features the actual brand, they still have a few of these.
  • Possum Pete's is Chuck E. Cheese
  • The Dark Web Headquarters is the Google Headquarters
  • Pizzarut is Pizza Hut
  • Frank and Son's Doughnuts is Dunkin' Donuts
• Blatant Lies: There are so many times a character tells an obvious lie, but the other characters don't recognize it as just that.
• Blond, Brunette, Raven: Kevin, Dusty, and Fitz.
• Blood from the Mouth:
  • Kevin vomits blood as a symptom of repressed guilt. Also, he bleeds from his eyes, nose, and ears.
  • After getting beaten up, some blood comes out of the Russian mobster's mouth (though it's a non-lethal example).
  • Ronald MethDonald vomits blood all over the children as a symptom of the meth he smokes.
• Bloodier and Gorier: This show is much more graphically violent and bloodier than Brickleberry ever would be.
• Body in a Breadbox: Fitz's old partner from Chicago was chopped up into little pieces, all of which were put in random cans of Chef Boyardee ravioli and shipped out to grocery stores all across the state of Illinois.
  Fitz: That's not beef ravioli! That's ''Keith'' ravioli!
• Body Horror: The inbred dolphin/human hybrids that live in the sewers.
  • Chief Randall's anal fistula which became sentient after being exposed to the radiation from the nuclear explosion in the season 2 finale, and ends up turning into a second head.
• Boomerang Bigot: Preacher Paul and his husband are homophobic Christians, who try to have their gay son, Lyle, reprogrammed.
  Lyle: Yay, girl, yaaaaay!
  Paul: Dammit! There that little queer goes, again!
  Paul's Husband: Oh, Paul! Why are you so mean to our son?
  Paul: Not so loud, sugar britches.
  • Handicop has an irrational hatred of Scotts, whom he confuses for Puerto Ricans until he's told otherwise. After he miraculously gains the ability to move and speak, he has a distinct Scottish accent.
• Brainy Brunette: Patty Mae is a pretty smart cookie with light brown hair.
• Break the Cutie: For some reason, this series seems to want to make Kevin suffer.
• Breather Episode: Several mid-season episodes will take a break from the current season's overarching plot to focus on some more self-contained stories, though these are often criticized as being "filler".
  Hopson: Are we really doing a Dukes of Hazzard parody?
  Dusty: It was bound to happen. Do you know how many episodes we have to fill up this season?
• Brick Joke: Literally in "Black & Blue", where Dusty mentioned his abusive mother and was later pelted on the head by a brick thrown by her.
• Bring My Brown Pants:
  • Discussed. According to Frank, Jesus once pooped himself in fear.
  • In the season 2 finale, The Kingpin poops himself before Fitz kills him for good.
• Brother–Sister Incest: Delbert and his sister in "Task Force".
• Buffet Buffoonery: In "Karla", Dusty mentions he's had some arguments with staff at Red Lobster over All-You-Can-Eat.
• Buried Alive: Hopson got buried alive at the end of "Task Force" when Dusty thought he had died.
• Butt-Monkey:
  • Randall is the show's main Chew Toy.
  • Kevin as well per his stupidity.
• Cain and Abel: Kevin is the Cain to AFKAK's Abel.
• Calling the Old Man Out: In season 3 finale, Kevin finally calls his father Randall out on his self-centeredness and for being a jerk to him.
• Camp Gay: Anton is a super stereotypical flamboyant homosexual.
• Cassandra Truth: Hobo-Cop is the only one who realizes that the Chief's sentient anal fistula has taken over his body in the season 3 finale, and keeps trying to warn everyone, only to be ignored.
• Catchphrase: Even though it's more of a single word, Gina's catchphrase is "Twatwaffle".
  Ethel: You won't beat me, Twatwaffle!
  Gina: How dare you use my catchphrase!?
  Ethel: Sorry, these guys can't write women.
• Celebrity Paradox: Paradise PD supposedly exists as a TV show in the universe of Paradise PD, suggested by how Dr. Kuzniak recognized Randall as "Netflix Woody" upon meeting him.
• Characterization Marches On: Robby and Delbert were just kind of those two guys for the first couple seasons of the show, sort of being put into several different situations, playing several different roles. However, by Season 3, the writers finally established them as the co-rulers of their own rinky-dink country called Twatemala, who have a heterosexual life partner running gag between them.
  • Waco and Roger have even suggested their characters are somewhat of author avatars and that they know their characters all too well, as they act pretty much the same way they would in their respective situations.
• Chaste Hero: Dusty. A sheltered, asexual numbskull who has literally no sexual attraction to anything, except maybe food.
• Chekhov's Skill: Subverted and played straight in the Season 3 finale, as a giant, mutated Dobby is smashing Paradise, and Randall steps forward, leading the viewer to believe he's going to use Dobby's secret language to calm him... but instead starts singing "Pump Up the Jam", which he'd mentioned earlier in the episode.
• Chickification: Parodied in "Tucker Carlson is a Huge Dick", when Karen took the badass action girl, Gina Jabowski, and toned her violence down to help turn her into a poised and dainty little dame, despite her job literally being about her busting criminals and beating the shit out of wrathful, badass scumbags, who always have potential to kill her if she doesn't exhibit the greatest extreme of dominance over them they've ever seen. Karen's reason for doing this? Public reception. She just wanted to give Paradise PD some good publicity by making sure their female cop would have a kind, friendly, and traditionally feminine appeal to the citizens of their city.
• Childhood Brain Damage: The reason for Gina's Ax-Crazy behavior, rage issues and her weird attraction to Dusty is because she has a bullet lodged in her brain from being used as a human shield by her own father as a child, and spending the next 11 years in a coma. She's finally cured at the end of Season 3 thanks to the combined efforts of Dr. Funtlichter and Kevin, only to be forced to re-injure herself in the finale to give her the aggression needed to save the town from ISIS. And not the ISIS you're thinking of.
• Christmas Episode: "Christmas in Paradise"
  • To a lesser degree, "PARAD-ISIS", which supposedly takes place shortly after Christmas, judging by the wreckage of The Clappers' house.
• Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Preacher Paul was a prominent recurring character all throughout Season 1 but only had one line of dialogue in Season 2. He made one non-speaking cameo in Season 3 and was completely absent in Season 4.
• Chubby Chaser: Gina is super-into morbidly obese Dusty, and encourages him to eat more so he'll maintain or better yet expand his girth. In episode 8, Joe Biden also stalks Dusty and wants to screw him.
• Circus Episode: "Task Force" has Kevin and his task force investigate undercover at the Happy Trail Circus for an alleged argyle meth trade going on there.
• Civilized Animal: Bullet talks and behaves very much like a person, but he's technically the force's drug-sniffing dog and sleeps in a dog house. He's also bitter because he was taken from his parents as a child and sold like property.
• Cliffhanger: Season 1 ends with Dusty in prison after falsely being convicted of being The Kingpin and Fitz in a coma except he's been faking it. He's the real Kingpin, the mastermind behind the Argyle Meth conspiracy, the killer of the anti-Kingpin taskforce, and intends to make Kevin his next victim.
  • Season 2 The Kingpin is revealed to be a split personality Fritz developed due to mental trauma when he was a cop in Chicago. His plan to destroy Paradise by turning it into a giant, radioactive pizza with stolen nukes succeeds, forcing everyone to hide in the sewers.
  • Season 3 ends with a giant mutated Dobby destroying the rebuilt Paradise in a rampage, killing Hobson and eating Fritz, Bullet and Kevin. Fed up with their incompetence, Karen fires Randall and dissolves the police force.
• Cluster F-Bomb: It's on Netflix and is rated TV-MA. This trope was to be expected.
• Cold-Blooded Torture: Dr. Johann tortures Bullet Casino Royale style by tying him to a bottomless chair and beating his testicles with a cheddar biscuit medieval flail so hard it could break bricks.
  Bullet: Eh, don't sweat it. It only hurts more than anything imaginable.
• Comical Translation: When Randall is trying to figure out Dobby's language. Apparently different inflections of "Dobby Dobby" mean different things. One particular instance led to Dobby stripping naked and windmilling his penis, which led to Randall writing down: Joe Biden.
• The Conspiracy: Every season has one, led by their arc villain.
  • Season 1 = The argyle meth corporaton
  • Season 2 = The Legion of Dooooom
  • Season 3 = The mutant army
  • Season 4 = Lovely Corp
• Continuity Nod: Being a more story-driven show than its predecessor, Paradise PD has plenty of callbacks to previous episodes.
• Cop Killer: Agent Clappers killed Agent Dunfore in the line of duty.
  • Then of course, there's attempted cop killers like Fitz and The Legion of Dooooom who have a vendetta to roast some pig.
• Couch Gag: This series loves to change up part of its intro in every episode. Most of them are only towards the end, though.
• Cowboy Cop: Gina violates several police rules. She shoots unarmed people, beats confessions out of suspects, and uses excessive force on minor felons. Not to mention her history of causing crimes herself such as armed robberies and sexual assault on co-workers.
• Crapsack World: The ironically-named town of Paradise is home to Police Brutality, sex crimes, drug trafficking, property damage, monster invasions, unethical testing, obesity epidemics, etc. The only person with a good moral compass is Kevin Crawford, a Lethally Stupid young adult who is also the residential Chew Toy.
• Crazy Cat Lady: Dusty is a male example, his apartment is full of cats and he's months behind on his rent because he spends all his money buying luxury stuff for them such as indoor jacuzzis, flying drones, plasma TVs, braces, etc.
• Crazy Workplace: Paradise Police Department is a workplace of absolute madness and disarray. The cops generally get into more hijinks around the office than they do actual work.
  • By Season 4, the police department was completely abolished and converted into a mancave, removing the "workplace" but keeping the "crazy".
• Crime Time Soap: The show is just as much about the personal lives of the cast as it is about the crimes they solve.
• Crippling Castration: Kevin accidentally shot Randall's balls off when he was five years old. As a result, Randall adopted an ultra-macho and aggressive persona to compensate for the side effects of the injury.
• Crossover: Episode 7 of Season 2 crosses over with the creator's previous show, Brickleberry, where it's revealed that Woody and Chief Randall are cousins.
• Crossover Relatives: Chief Randall Crawford is the cousin of Woody Johnson from Brickleberry, the other show by Roger Black and Waco O'Guin.
• Crying Indian: While he believes he is part Native American, Dusty does a parody of this when he sees a man throwing away half a cheeseburger.
  Dusty: I could've eaten the rest of that...
• Damn You, Muscle Memory!: Bullet accidentally opens a flame thrower on a gas station owner, who was just giving him the keys to the bathroom.
• Dead Person Conversation: Bullet has this with Buster, when he has a dream about going to Dog Heaven to see his deceased friend.
• Deadpan Snarker: Karen.
  Kevin: How come no girl wants to go out with me?
  Karen: Because you cried when Iron Man died?
  Kevin: I loved him 3000.
• Demoted to Extra: Thester got this in Season 3.
• Department of Redundancy Department: Judge Judge Judge Judge.
  Judge: Yes, that's right. My name is Jude Judge Judge Judge. My parents thought it'd be funny to make my first and middle name "Judge" when I already had the last name, "Judge". Yeah, my parents were crackheads. So, I became a court judge to have them put away but that only added another "Judge" to my name, so now my name is Judge Judge Judge Judge. Can we just get this started?
• Descent into Addiction: In "Karla", Randall gets unknowingly addicted to heroin (which Bullet hid) because Dusty mistook it for flour to make fried chicken that Randall ate. Even Bullet, who is a hopelessly huge junkie, thinks Randall has a problem.
• Detective Mole: Agent Clappers of the FBI. His slowness to solve the houndstooth meth case was on account of him being part of the houndstooth meth, case.
• Diabolus ex Machina: The Season 3 finale ended with Gina making a full recovery from her brain surgery and losing the bullet that was making her violent, Karen rebuilding the entire city of Paradise even better than before, Fitz defeating the mutant mafia by de-mutating them and returning them to normal, forgiving Bullet for being the true father of his child, and Agent Clappers reuniting with his family. Everything ended perfectly for everyone and it was all wrapped up with Kevin and Gina's beautiful wedding ... which was crashed by ISIS, who all planned to blow the entire case apart and the only way to defeat them was for Kevin to shoot Gina in the head again and turn her into a violent psychopath. ISIS also indirectly caused the awakening of giant Dobby, who smashed the entire city of Paradise into burning rubble, seconds after it was rebuild, and by extension, all of the cops to get fired from their jobs.
• Dirty Old Man: Hopson takes this up to eleven, who's clearly elderly and he frequently discusses his sexual encounters with celebrities from the 1940s-50s and frequently engages in depraved shit like creating gloryholes for sale and general public indecency.
• Distracted by the Sexy: Karen got this when first seeing Agent Clappers' massive titanium balls of steel in "Big Ball Energy".
  Karen: Rubble rubble.
• Don't Explain the Joke: Prop Cop did this in "Police Academy".
  Prop Cop: [takes out a piece of shit] Boy, shit just got real. Get it? It's real shit.
• Dope Slap: A Played for Laughs example in "Who Ate Wally's Waffles?" when Gina smacks the back of Kevin's head.
• Double-Meaning Title: A couple.
  • Ass on the Line - Randall had to study the ass of a murder victim on the borderline of Paradise and Diamond City. It was an ass on the line. If he didn't do this, he'd get fired. His ass was on the line.
  • Black & Blue - This episode involves Black Lives Matter and Blue Lives Matter getting into a huge fight and beating each other black and blue.
  • Tucker Carlson is a Huge Dick - Tucker Carlson acts like a big jerk and ends up literally being a giant anthropomorphic penis.
  • Flip the Vote - Fitz's plot is about him trying to flip the vote for the 2020 election, by integrating flipper people into society.
  • How the Cookie Crumbles - Randall goes out with a girl named Cookie, which ends with her actually just being Hancock in drag, pulling a prank on him. And isn't that just how the cookie crumbles?
  • Blind Drunk - Not only does Karen get wasted, but she also loses her vision from drinking moonshine.
• Downer Ending: A few episodes and even seasons end on an unhappy note.
• Do You Want to Copulate?:
  • The chaste moron, Dusty was this, when trying to fuck with Hopson's old girlfriend.
  • Kevin talks this way when dating Gina, since he has literally no past experience with sex.
• Driving Question: Who is the kingpin behind the operation of Argyle Meth?
• Drowning My Sorrows:
  • At least twice Bullet has drowned his sorrows, which fits given his drug addiction.
  • After The Kingpin defeats her in the 2020 election, Karen starts drinking loads of alcohol to deal with her sadness.
• Dysfunction Junction: Most of the cops at Paradise PD suffer from some kind of crippling dysfunction, whether its mental, psychological, or physical. The whole police station is basically just a mental hospital that allows its patients to have guns.
  • Gina has a bullet lodged in her brain, from when her criminal father used her as a human shield and then abandoned her as a kid. Her brain bullet messes with her brain and gives her unnaturally occuring violent tendencies and a disgusting fetish for fat people. Later on in the show, her nymphomania caused her to rub her vagina off and get it replaced with a prosthetic robot one.
  • Randall had his testicles shot off and permanently destroyed by his idiot son and now has to wear testosterone patches just to keep himself from losing his mustache and sprouting tits.
  • Gerald suffers from Multiple Personality Disorder and PTSD from a time when he, as a cop back at the Chicago PD, failed to save hostages from an exploding bomb factory. One of his multiple personalities is a replication of the very hostage-taker who blew up said hostages. At the end of Season 1, this evil personality took over and plotted to exact his revenge on the world by nuking the entire city of Paradise and killing himself, knowing that "himself" now includes the very essence of Fitz.
  • Bullet is addicted to every single drug in the book. He's also guilty about being indirectly responsible for the tragic drug-related death of his friend, Buster, as seen in "Welcome to Paradise" and was taken away from his family when he was just a puppy and given to the police station as a Christmas present as seen in "Christmas in Paradise".

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• Early-Bird Cameo: Houndstooth meth makes a brief appearance in the first episode of Season 1 before it goes on to become a major plot point in Season 2.
  • Randall and Karen's baby, who would not be born until Season 4, appeared as a fetus child in the Season 3 episode "Fetal Attraction" and even had a central role.
  • An inter-series example occurred when the logo for Lovely Corp appeared on a box in the Farzar episode, "Memory Wars", which premiered months before Season 4 of Paradise PD, where Lovely Corp was officially introduced to the story.
• Easily Forgiven: Zig-Zagged. Dusty was quick to forgive Bullet for killing all his cats in "Big Ball Energy", but this was mostly just because it was the holidays. We would find out later that Dusty was actually still extremely pissed off at him in "Trigger Warnings", when he made a not-so-passive-aggressive rant about it.
• Easter Egg: Starting with Season 2, the show has become a lot more fond of slipping things like these in.
• The Easy Way or the Hard Way: This was joked about in "King of the Norf", when Thester was being interrogated and broke down, crying over the mere mention of the dreaded easy way.
  Clappers: We could either do this the easy way, or-
  Thester: NOT THE EASY WAY!!!!!!! OH, DEAR GOD! ANYTHING BUT THAT!!!!
• Economy Cast: Averted, at least in terms of police. Not only are we given 7 different cops at the Paradise Police Department, including a revolving door of other cops that drop in and out of the team, but we also get the cops of other police departments such as Diamond City Police and Chicago P.D. as well as plenty of background character cops, working for completely different police stations, many of which are still in Paradise.
  • However, this trope is still played straight with medical doctors, as Dr. Funtlichter seems to be the only established doctor in all of Paradise, who practices every single field of medicine entirely on his own.
• Election Day Episode: The primary focus of "Flip the Vote" was about Karen running for mayoral re-election and Fitz stepping in to combat her. The rest of the episode was wall-to-wall crazy political shenanigans pertaining to the madness that was the 2020 Paradise mayoral election.
• Elder Abuse: Hopson gets abused a lot all because Randall tries to get rid of him for being too old to be a cop but won't retire Hopson because he refuses to pay his pension. Also Randall could most definitely get in legal trouble if he outright fired Hopson just for being old.
  • In "Ass on the Line", Hancock glues Hopson to the police station's ceiling.
  • In "Black & Blue", Randall sends him to a retirement home where it turns out it's a Soylent Green-esque human cryogenic farm being used by Red Lobster where they slowly turn elderly people into delicious seafood meals by injecting sea creature DNA into them! After Hopson escaped from there by some miracle but still mildly mutated with lobster and scallop parts, Randall still insisted Hopson go back to that home! Hopson uses his new gigantic lobster arm to change Randall's mind.
  • In "Police Academy", Hopson gets hit by a truck and dies, but he gets refused access to Heaven by Jesus Christ because he failed to defecate in a water slide before dying, so Jesus pushed him back to earth - where his body has been sealed in a coffin by fat oaf Dusty who refuses to dig back up Hopson complaining he's hungry and wants Arby's, so then Hopson dies of oxygen deprivation and went back to Heaven and from there you get the idea of the vicious circle Hopson is trapped in.
  • In "Task Force", Randall chains him to a log in a forest and Hopson gets deprived of food and water only escaping by stripping off his clothes (even leaving his glasses behind) and getting back to the police station stark naked.
• Embarrassing Animal Suit: Bullet's "Bunny Dog" costume that he wore and dances around in, while drunk. Unfortunately, this went viral on the internet and Dusty will never let him live it down.
• Embarrassing Middle Name: Kevin's middle name is changed to Pubesalad in "Operation: D.D.".
• Embarrassing Nickname: Kevin has been given so many of these, that it's basically a running gag.
  • In "Karla", he got the name "Car Fucker", after he had sex with his police car. This name stuck with him for a few episodes, at least with Robby and Delbert.
  • In "Dungeons & Dragnet", Kevin accidentally gives one of these to himself, when he makes his "D&D" character "Merkin the Mage". Little did he know, "Merkin" is actually a real word, which means a vaginal wig that women wear to emulate pubic hair.
  • In "Operation: D.D.", Robby and Delbert start calling him "Pubesalad", as is his new middle name.
  • In Season 4, Kevin got the new nickname, "AFKAK" ("Asshole Formerly Known as Kevin"), after Randall and Karen had a new baby, who they named "Kevin".
• Emotionless Boy: Agent Clappers.
  • And to a greater extent, Mark Zuckerberg.
  Mark Zuckerberg: ... Higher hair ...
• Enfant Terrible: Gina's baby sister, who stabbed Kevin in the throat with her passy that couples as a knife.
• Erotic Asphyxiation: Gary from "Ass on the Line" had an addiction to this. He got sexual pleasure from endangering his life by putting plastic bags over his head. This came as a concern to those around him, however, as people were worried for his well-being.
  Sponsor: Hey, Gary. Suicide or jerking off?
  Gary: [muffled] I'm jerking off.
  Sponsor: You know, I can never tell if he's coming or going.
• Escalating War: Randall and Elon Musk got into one of these in "Diddy's Home", which all started when Randall arrested Elon Musk for driving a weird-looking car, pissing Elon off enough to make him dedicate all his money toward getting revenge on Randall. Throughout the episode, Randall and Elon would get each other back in various elaborate ways and ultimately, things ended with them getting into a crazy epic death battle in the streets of Paradise.
• Et Tu, Brute?: Upon learning his son Kevin betrayed him in "The Father, The Son, and The Post-It Note", Randall is clearly hurt.
• "Eureka!" Moment: Characters will usually have these, when solving their police cases.
• Even Evil Has Standards: In "Paradise Found", Thester hired the most hard-core and cold-blooded of villains to work for The Legion of Dooooom. One of these villains was Harvey Weinstein, who Fitz believed was too slimy and disgusting even for them.
• Everybody Has Standards: A similar joke occurred in "Diddy's Home", when Karen hired a bunch of A-List Hollywood actors to play the roles of everyone at Paradise PD. She made the mistake of casting Bill Cosby to play Gerald Fitzgerald, which even Randall believed was too low-brown and disgusting, even for them.
  Randall: Even we have to draw the line, somewhere!
• Evil Counterpart: Gerald Fitzgerald and The Chicago Kingpin.
• Evil Matriarch: Karen became this in Season 2, when she turned into a corrupt politician that resorted to lies, racism, polluting, and law-breaking just to win her re-election. Karen became so much of a wicked villain, that not even her son could support her anymore and voted against her.
• Evil Sounds Deep: While under his Kingpin persona, Fitz talks with a much deeper voice inflection.
• Exact Words: Hobson told Dusty to beat up the biggest inmate in the (womens) prison he's incarcerated in to make the other prisoners respect him. Problem is, Dusty is the biggest prisoner, so he ends up beating himself up with a cafeteria tray.
  • Another Hobson example, he sets up Fitz with a partner for a threesome with him and his dolphin wife in season 3 to help spice up their sex life. He assures Fitz that she's nothing like what Hobson is usually into, in other words, she's young, athletic and not a dude. He's right, she's all of those things, but she also happens to be an octopus, not a human female which he didn't specify. It's then subverted when the woman Hobson was describing actually does turn up and the octopus was just a random animal that had escaped from an aquarium.
• Expository Hairstyle Change: In the Season 3 premiere, everybody's hair was all shaggy, unkempt, and overgrown, on account of them all spending three months in the sewers during a nuclear fallout.
• Expressive Ears: Bullet's ears will sometimes go up or down whenever he feels certain emotions. (i.e. When he's shocked, angered, or overjoyed, his ears will stand up tall and when he's sad, scared, or tired, his ears will flop down to the sides).
• Expy: Every main character except for Hopson and even some recurring characters are very obvious expys of characters from Roger and Waco's previous show, Brickleberry, using the most minimal changes possible. Some of the characters even have the same voice actor and many basically look exactly like the last character just with a different outfit and hair color. This kind of became a running gag to lampshade in later episodes of the show.
  Fitz: Don't you laugh at me, you Brickleberry looking bitch.
  Kevin: Fitz, ... That's a totally different show. Anyway, Denzel. I'm not sure if Terry-Two Toes really was the real, kingpin.
  • Kevin Crawford = Steve Williams
  • Randall Crawford = Woody Johnson
  • Bullet = Malloy
  • Gina Jabowski = Ethel Anderson
  • Dusty Marlow = Connie Cunaman
  • Gerald Fitzgerald = Denzel Jackson
  • Robby = Bobby (Cuz nothing says "effort" like changing one single letter of his name)
  • Delbert = BoDean
  • Dr. Funtlichter = Dr. Kuzniak
  • Hobo Cop = Hobo Larry
  • Preacher Paul = Reverend Rosty
• Extreme Omnisexual: Stanley Hopson is a raging sex maniac, who will literally fuck even the weirdest things on the planet, no matter how weird and disgusting it is.
  Hopson: This is a Hopson orgy now, people! Get me a tub of mineral oil, a rawhide lasso, two dozen hairless Japanese men, and let's get this party started!
  • To a lesser extent, there's also Kevin, who's had sex with cars, socks, and watermelons.
• Extreme Omnivore: Dusty became this in later seasons, due to flanderization.
• The Face: Despite his faults, Kevin is the most well-spoken member of the team and is the guy you want doing interviews for witnesses and suspects, alike.
• Face–Heel Turn: Gerald Fitzgerald does this at the end of Season 1 and Agent Clappers does this near the end of Season 2, working in cahoots with the former.
• Face Palm: Randall does one in the pilot episode as he sulks over the fact all of his cops are very poorly trained to fight crime (or in Gina's case, overly violent and brutal).
• Fantastic Racism: In "Sack to the Future", Martians were considered an ethnic group.
  Martian: Take me to your leader! Ha, I'm just kidding. Remember when people used to think we talked like that? Back when everyone was fucking racist.
• Faking the Dead:
  • A similar trope was used at the end of Season 1. Fitz faked a coma to mask the fact that he was the kingpin.
  • Mrs. Marlow also fakes her own death in "King of the Norf" so that her impromptu pallbearers can drag her fat ass to Goopy Goobers for free.
• Family Disunion: Every family in this show is a big, screwed-up family, so gatherings like this always turn out this way, exemplified best in "Meet the Jabowskis".
• Family Extermination: Discussed. A criminal states he committed familicide just so Gina, a violent policewoman, would "wreck [his] turdcutter". The fact this show has loads of Black Comedy should tell you if this was played seriously or not.
• Fan Disservice: So much of it. There's mutilated genitals, naked old people and the only porn anyone can access is the kind that their mothers have been in.
• Fat Bastard: Dusty becomes this in later seasons, when he starts acting like an obnoxious, disrespectful, greedy, abusive asshole toward everyone for no reason.
• A Father to His Men: In "Who Ate Wally's Waffles?", Randall was ironically this to all of his cops except for Kevin, his actual son.
  Randall: All of my real cops, get in here for a group hug. NOT YOU, KEVIN!
• Fetishes Are Weird: Pretty much every character in this show has some kind of weird fetish for something crazy.
  • For Kevin, it's cars.
  • For Gina, it's fat people.
  • For Fitz, it's sea creatures.
  • For Karen, it's testicles.
  • For Hopson, it's anything that moves.
  • For Randall, it's honeydew, breakfast cereal mascots, Mexican pizza, dogs dressed as fish, gingers calling him stupid, hide and seek, The Incredible Hulk, and many, many more.
• Faux Affably Evil: Charles Lovely.
• Fiction 500: When Hopson inherited all of Agatha's money in "The World According to LARP", he spent the money on a bunch of stuff that's literally impossible in real life, even with all the money in the world, such as building the portal gun from the Portal franchise.
• Fictional Holiday: Kevin Sucks Day, a national holiday dedicated to hating Kevin Crawford for how he falsely arrested Dusty and then admitted to doing so, ruining the town for everyone. It managed to catch on pretty quick, becoming the biggest day of the year on the same year it was first implemented.
• Finger Gun: In the season 3 finale, Randall briefly makes his hands resemble guns.
• Flexibility Equals Sex Ability: Hopson is a great nymphomaniac host of lemon party orgys, on account of his soft bones.
• Flanderization: Dusty gets flanderized as a one-dimensional fat joke over the course of the series to the point where every time he's on screen, the writers go for utilizing every single cheap and predictable fat joke they can make with him.
• Flipping the Bird: To show contempt for him, Randall flips off Agent Clappers in "The Father, The Son And The Post-it Note".
• Foil: Kevin and Gina make a typical good cop, bad cop foil to each other on the job, with Kevin being a submissive beta male and Gina being a domineering badass bitch with brass balls.
• Foot-Dragging Divorcee: Although Randall comes across as someone who's glad he and Karen got divorced, it's clear that he still loves her by how he cries over losing her, gets jealous of her boyfriends, and desperately tries to win her back.
• Forensic Drama: Only it's more of a dramedy.
• Foreshadowing: There's been a lot.
  • In the first episode, there were two subtle ways of foreshadowing the plot of Season 2. (1.) One of the drug-makers tried to make argyle meth but messed up and made houndstooth, which would go on to be the main drug of the following season. (2.) Randall referred to his plan to sabotage Karen's date with Dr. Dinkle as "Operation: Dinkle Dump" and in Season 2, [[folder:The Kingpin's]] evil plan was called "Operation: D.D.".
  • Throughout Season 2, pizza would make several appearances in the episode, which all led up to the finale, where it was revealed that The Kingpin's evil plan "Operation: Deep Dish" was to turn all of Paradise into a giant pizza.
  • A very grim example comes from the episode "Sack to the Future", where Kevin went to an alternate timeline, where he had younger siblings, all of whom formed a band together, which was most popular for the song, "Give Yourself a Shot", an upbeat, motivational song about giving yourself a shot. At the end of the episode, Kevin ends up shooting himself.
• Forgot About His Powers: The cops oftentimes forget the fact that as police officers, they have enough legal power to solve all their problems instantly and arrest any of their adversaries. In "Operation: D.D.", Karen lampshaded this, when she pointed out how the cops were all running from a deranged criminal and reminded them that they could easily just shoot him and arrest him.
  • Karen tends to do this from time to time, as well. In "Blind Drink", Karen had to hide from the police to obtain some alcohol, while was illegal in her town. At no point was it ever acknowledged that as the mayor of said town, Karen could have easily just abolished prohibition and gotten beer for free.
• Forgot to Feed the Monster: Bullet was supposed to feed Dusty's cats while he was in prison between seasons. Let's just say his apartment is currently mostly occupied by cat skeletons (and one massive cat who survived by eating the others).
• Former Child Star: Delbert used to be a Disney Channel actor on a show called "Wall-Eyed Wally".
• Formerly Fit: Dusty Marlow used to be an extremely fit, musclebound NAVY soldier, as revealed in "PARAD-ISIS".
• Fourth Wall: Although jokes like this were few and far between in Season 1, as soon as Season 2 started, the show started implementing the joke a bit more occasionally and obviously. By Season 3, the fourth wall was practically non-existent as every single episode was wall-to-wall Animaniacs-style humor.
  • The Season 3 episode, "Top Cops" made a literal metaphor out of this concept, where the fourth wall of the police department had a hole broken in it, which gave the cops the incentive to make meta jokes.
  Randall: We have got to get that fourth wall fixed.
• Freeze-Frame Bonus: A few Season 2-Onwards, episodes do a few of these.
  • In "Paradise PD Meets Brickleberry", during the fight between Dusty and Denzel, for a brief second, you can see Dusty falling back and landing on Malloy, crushing him underneath his fat folds, which explains how he ended up getting trapped there at the end of the episode.
  • In "Top Cops", a white kid throws a basketball at Bullet, while the latter is trying to auction off a knockoff Pokémon card to him. While Bullet is getting hit, we can briefly see Sonichu on the card.
• Freudian Excuse: Randall loves guns so much because using one is the only way he can get an erection after his balls were blown off. The same with every other member of the NRA, right down to the lack of testicles.
• Freudian Slip: A running gag in Season 3 was for Kevin to go stupidly lovestruck in front of Gina and make accidental love declarations, which he had to immediately cover up, by admitting a whole bunch more about his love for her.
• The Friend Nobody Likes: There's a rotating algorithm of this role for Kevin, Dusty, and Hopson.
• The "Fun" in "Funeral": In "Trigger Warnings", a carrot got cancer and died and Bullet danced around in a bunny costume at his funeral.
• Functional Addict: Bullet still somehow manages to keep his job as a police officer, despite constantly doing illegal drugs like meth, coke, and heroin, even to the knowledge of his boss.
  Bullet: How am I supposed to sniff out drugs if I don't know what they smell like?
• Funny Background Event: In "Christmas in Paradise", Kevin charges his phone at the hospital and accidentally unplugs Fitz's life support in the process. In the background, we can see Dr. Funtlichter and a nurse rushing to Fitz's aid and desperately trying to resuscitate him, completely unbeknownst to Kevin.
• Furry Reminder: In "The Butt Cut", we get a reminder that Bullet is a dog, when he freaks out over a vacuum cleaner.
  Bullet: Just because I'm a dog doesn't mean I'm different than any of you guys. There's not a single thing-FUCK YOU, FUCK YOU VACUUM CLEANER! FUCK YOU!-Not a single thing different.
• Gag Penis: Kevin's penis is the most jacked-up, mutilated, twisted dick that has ever been seen on the face of the Earth.
• The Gambling Addict: Bullet was this in "What Happens in Twatemala" and later, Dusty became this too.
• George Jetson Job Security:
  • Every cop of the police department is either corrupt, stupid, incompetent, or downright criminal. Realistically, cops like this would be fired on the spot and thrown so deep in jail, they'd never see the light of day again. However, thanks to the chief of police's wife being the mayor, they all manage to keep their jobs.
  • The Season 3 finale is when their luck ran out. After they destroyed the entire city for a second time, Karen had them all fired immediately and the police department was completely dismantled for the rest of Season 4.
• The Ghost: Mrs. Marlow was this in earlier seasons, being repeatedly mentioned by Dusty in dialogue and even having her voice be heard offscreen without her actually appearing. She finally made her first on-screen debut in the episode "Diddy's Home".
• Girlboss Feminist: Karen Crawford was this in "Tucker Carlson is a Huge Dick", trying to paint herself as an oppressed woman, despite literally being the mayor of the city and the most powerful person in town. She was also very anti-feminist toward Gina, demanding that she change her personality and drop her violent tendencies in order to act more "ladylike".
  Gina: You hired a man to teach me how to be a better woman?
  Karen Well, I could have saved $15 by hiring a female mentor instead but I wanted someone actually good.
• Girls with Moustaches: Lady Gertrude is a bearded lady, who comes complete with a mustache as well.
• Girls vs. Boys Plot: "Tucker Carlson is a Huge Dick" was about the police force splitting off into two sects; the men's force and the women's force (the latter was led by Karen and included a few random female characters to even things out). The two teams had their battle of the sexes with each other and both cop forces turned out to be equally terrible.
• Give Geeks a Chance: Gina gave Kevin a chance in Season 3.
• Glad I Thought of It: Dusty invented this trope.
  Cory: How good are you at taking credit for ideas that aren't yours?
  Dusty: Uh, I invented that.
  • Randall stole credit for Kevin's idea to install weight limits at restaurants to get rid of the fat cult in "Showdown at the O-bese Corral".
• God and Satan Are Both Jerks: Jesus Christ is kind of an asshole, as seen in "Police Academy", when he repeatedly kept resurrecting Hopson from the dead only to keep killing him again. Even worse was in "Trigger Warnings", when he withheld his powers to stop future school shootings and let hundreds of children die all because he was mad that his Tweet didn't get enough likes.
• Golden Mean Fallacy: This show makes fun of everybody in politics, whether they're left-leaning or right-leaning. Donald Trump, Joe Biden, Tucker Carlson, Nancy Pelosi, Mitch McConnell, Bill Clinton, Lindsey Graham, Rachel Maddow, Barack Obama, and Hillary Clinton are all repeatedly insulted relentlessly, throughout the series. Even though Roger and Waco have made clear, their politics in real life, it's clear their show takes no sacred cows.
• Good Cop/Bad Cop: Kevin usually plays the role of good cop, while Gina serves as the perfect bad cop. This was first exemplified in the first episode, "Welcome to Paradise", where Kevin easily got the answers he was looking for out of Robby and Delbert by playing good cop, only for Gina to burst in and beat them both to a bloody pulp, anyway.
• Gorn: Expect to see all sorts of horrific injuries. Kevin getting his face torn off, reattached and secreting pus being a stand-out examples. Kevin's task force are all killed off in a horrific manner.
• Going Cold Turkey: Once Dusty shuts down his chicken truck, Randall has to go through heroin withdrawal at the rehab clinic (which has been changed to Fried Chicken Rehab to cater to Dusty's former clients). Cut to Randall lying on a filthy mattress, screaming, vomiting and shitting himself as he detoxes.
  • Gina has to stop going out with Rosie after one too many dates causes medical issues. It's hard to stop when a ban on robes forces every fat person in town to go naked.
• Groin Attack: Episode 1 has a young Kevin accidentally shoot his dad, Chief Randall, in the balls. Twice. This traumatic injury ruined Randall’s sex life, caused his wife to leave him ^note or at least that's his version - she claims that it had more to do with him being a stubborn, sexist pig, and required him to take testosterone patches to keep his masculinity in check.
• Half-Human Hybrid: The flipper people are products of inbred hillbillies having sex with a dolphin, turning them all into humanoids with dolphin flippers for arms.
• Halloween Episode: "Police Academy" is a very mild example of this. It clearly takes place around late October and Halloween decorations are seen around the police station in a few scenes, but other than that, there's no other reference to the holiday, whatsoever.
• Happily Married: Fitz and the Dolphin Queen are a rare example of this, being the only married couple in the show who's not in a toxic or abusive relationship, despite their occasional spats.
• Happy Dance: When Part 4 was announced, we also were given a video of several characters dancing happily to the news.
• Harmful to Minors: A running gag in the show sees a little boy named Petey, unfortunately being exposed to people's genitalia.
• Heel Realization: Not long after Kevin calls them out for being terrible parents while watching Kevin and Gerald's thoughts thanks to the mind device, Karen and Randall accidentally switch over to Kevin's mind, where they see a memory of themselves blaming Kevin for their divorce. Talking about how much they wish he was never born and only arguing with each other about who should take him ''because neither of them wanted to do it. They realize Kevin was right. They were bad parents.
• Hereditary Curse: Subverted. In "The Butt Cut", it was revealed that all of Randall's ancestors died at age 50, specifically on July 13th. However, we find out later, this was just a complete coincidence, when a 50-year-old Randall survives the entire day of July 13th.
• "The Hero Sucks" Song: A comical when the townspeople have a song dedicated to bashing Kevin.
• Heroic Dog:
  • On rare occasions, Bullet actually does something beneficial for the team.
  • This was inverted in "The Father, The Son, and The Holy Post-It Note", when Hopson pretended to be a dog and saved a blacked-out Bullet from a burning building.
• Heroic Sacrifice: In "Operation: D.D.", Dobby flew a helicopter into an oncoming nuclear missile and seemingly killed himself to save his hometown below from getting blown up.
• Heteronormative Crusader: Preacher Paul is very much opposed to homosexuality and wants all LGBT people out of Paradise. In "Ass on the Line", he led an angry mob of fellow Christians with torches and pitchforks against Dusty's reported "homo inside Paradise", which turned out later to actually have been a report of a "homicide in Paradise" that Dusty stupidly misheard and miscommunicated.
• Hidden Depths: In "Boat!", we suddenly learn that Dusty leads a completely separate life outside of Paradise PD, where he hangs out with a biker gang and has sex with various hookers. This is, of course, never explained again.
  Bullet: Care to uh, ... elaborate, Dusty?
  Dusty: I'm sorry, I don't speak Armenian.
• Hidden Villain: The Kingpin, behind the operation of distribution of Argyle Meth in the city. Fitz turns out to be him, or rather a split personality of his that has taken over his mind.
• Hidden Wire: Clappers ordered Kevin to wear one of these in "The Father, The Son, and The Holy Post-It Note" to have him get a recording of Randall confessing to breaking into the FBI.
  Kevin: I wanna prove dad's innocence but ... I don't know about the wire.
  Clappers: What do you mean, you don't know about The Wire!? It was the best show ever. My favorite character was that Lt. Daniels.
• Horrible Hollywood: Episodes with the corrupt corporate executive, Cory Romando, make fun of how corrupt and stupid certain Hollywood businesses, such as Disney, NBC, and Warner Brothers are known for being.
• Hostage Situation: In "PARAD-ISIS", ISIS broke into a wedding chapel and held everyone there hostage with the intent of blowing them all up.
• Human Resources: Red Lobster is revealed to be made of old people, being kept sedated in vats in nursing homes, while seafood is grown from their tissue, explaining how they can afford to sell expensive food like lobster and crab so cheaply.
• Human Trafficking: Dusty's fried chicken is so good you'll sell your kids to slavery!
• Hypocrite:
  • In "Dungeons & Dragnet", Preacher Paul leading a mob against D&D thinking it turns players gay (like his son) is shocked to see the Devil (and by extension, everything else in Christianity) is real. Also, he's gay; his spouse even calls him out.
  • This exact same kind of joke happened in "The Butt Cut", where Hopson told Kevin that doesn't approve of the homosexual lifestyle, despite himself literally being a bisexual who was currently riding the back of a hot male stripper at the time.
• Hypocritical Humor: In "Ass on the Line", Bullet objects to Kevin dressing as a dog, comparing it to blackface. Fitz immediately points out that Bullet had dressed in blackface the past Halloween, but Bullet is 1/32nd Pitbull, a "black" dog, so it's okay.
• I Ate WHAT?!: In "Police Academy", Hopson admitted to dipping his dick in the coffee machine every morning, just as Fitz happened to be drinking a cup. He spits it out in disgust and then washes his mouth out in the water dispenser, just as Hopson adds that he also dunked his nuts in the water dispenser every morning.
• I Banged Your Mom: Hancock to Randall. Heck, he married Randall's mom! And thanks to Kevin, a pornographic video of Hancock and Randall's mom got out to the public in episode 7.
• I Thought Everyone Could Do That: Gina didn't talk about her lack of memories before adulthood or the hole in the back of her head because she thought that was normal for everyone.
• I Was Quite a Looker:
  • Although Agatha is just an ugly old broad now, a flashback in "Blimp City" shows that in her teen years, she used to be a smoking hot redheaded babe just like Karen.
  • Before letting himself go and becoming fat and balding, Randall was once a hunk of a man.
• I Will Punish Your Friend for Your Failure: Red Lobster gets angry that Dusty's Chicken Truck managed to destroy their business within a matter of days (because Dusty's chicken has heroin in it) and wanting to win back their customers, Red Lobster orders Dusty to give them the recipe for the chicken. When Dusty refuses, they whack Bullet in the testicles with a cheddar biscuit. Then again, the cheddar biscuit might not have worked if they tried it on Dusty himself because his body fat could deflect it.
• Immediate Self-Contradiction: The show loves telling jokes like these.
  Randall: Hey, we are not racist! [locks his car to make sure Denzel doesn't rob it]
• Immortality Seeker: Charles Lovely.
• The Immodest Orgasm: While she's climaxing in "Showdown at the O-bese Corral", Gina is anything but quiet...
• Immune to Bullets: Dusty is so fat that no bullets of any caliber can get through his layers of fat, instead getting stuck in his fifth fat layer until he sneezes, causing them to go flying every which where.
• Incompatible Orientation: Karen's mom has a crush on Hopson, not realizing that he's gay. Although they get married in "Blimp City" when he learns that she's rich. In the next episode, he filed a divorce when he spend all the money and to participate in an orgy.
• Incompetence, Inc.: The Paradise Police Department is so underfunded that a hobo is used for disarming bombs instead of a robot. The workers are also too preoccupied with their own interests to actually conduct any work, having committed just as many felonies as their targets. The chief's solution for stopping a monster invasion (and other things) is singing "Pump Up the Jam" by Technotronic. They eventually get fired for their incompetence and create a new brand named "Party Dudes". Even then, they are so bad that their only target audience is child molesters.
• Insane Troll Logic: Bullet justifies his cocaine addiction as him familiarizing himself with the illegal substance his job requires him to sniff out.
• Instantly Proven Wrong: As a show that loves "and then the opposite happens" jokes, Paradise PD has more than its fair share of jokes like these.
  Kevin: Don't worry about Dusty being in prison. He's gunna be fine.
  [The news comes on TV]
  Anderson: Dusty will not be fine in prison.
• Insult Backfire: Randall has tried to prank Hancock numerous times in the show, only for his pranks to really end up making himself look even more stupid. The best instance of this happened in "Top Cops", when Hancock carved his face into a mountain and Randall took it over and replaced Hancock's head with his own. Little did Randall know, there was more to the carving than just Hancock's head and the entire depiction showed Hancock fucking Randall's mom up the ass, so now Randall plastered a colossal statue of him buttfucking his own mom to the entire city of Paradise.
• Insult to Rocks: This show does lots of jokes like these.
  Bullet: Ew, this beer is terrible. What kind of beer is it?
  Hopson: Oh, that's not beer. That's my piss.
  Bullet: [spits it out] Aw, sick! Well, at least it wasn't Coors.
• Interspecies Romance: Bullet has had sex with various human girls, throughout the series ... and regretfully, one cat.
  • Fitz is also married to a dolphin, who Bullet ended up fucking once too.
• Ironic Name: While the town is named Paradise, it's afflicted by a budget crisis and has a high volume of drug crime activity.
  • Malicious supervillain, Charles Lovely and his corrupt organization, Lovely Corp are far from lovely.
• Ironic Juxtaposition: Earlier seasons used Dusty's role as the pollyanna to make jokes about how he's so ridiculously delightful and cheery and maintains a childlike sense of bliss, even when living in the shitty, crime-ridden town of Paradise, where, as a cop, he's constantly being exposed to every murder, rape, and drug case going on in the area.
  Dusty: It's time to turn this crackhouse into a crack home!
• Irony: In "Big Ball Energy", Kevin was told by the precogs that by the end of the day, he would publicly masturbate in front of the monkeys at the zoo. Although he could have avoided this by simply not going to the zoo, Kevin wanted to ensure this wouldn't happen and made an anonymous call to the zoo, claiming there was a bomb there and they needed to shut down for the whole day. The zookeeper refused and hung up. Seconds later, Randall comes out and tells Kevin that there was a bomb threat and he needs to go down to the zoo to investigate.

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• Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique: Gina does this to all of her suspects.
  Gina: Are you the mole?
  Suspect: No!
  [Gina slaps him in the face]
  Gina: Are you the mole!?
  Suspect: NO! NOOOO!
• Jerkass: Dusty becomes this in later seasons. By Season 4, people lampshade this, and Dusty claims that this new behavior is character development.
  Dusty: I used to be a sweetheart, but then I was sent to prison after being framed for murdering Santa Claus, and now, I don't give a fuuuck.
• Jewish Mother: Inverted. In "Dungeons & Dragnet", a Jewish mother was so uninvolved from her kid's life, that she let him go to a Christian camp, without batting an eye.
• Joke of the Butt: Plenty of butt jokes in the show. Most prominently, Randall's plot in "Good Jeans", where he got some padded pants that showed off his big ass and he paraded himself around town in them.
  Randall: Look at that ass!
• Journey to the Sky: In "Blimp City", Fitz buys a blimp so that he and Randall can fly up above the clouds and avoid all their responsibilities on Earth. There, they discover an entire secret airborne city, where the ground is made entirely out of a collection of blimps, aptly called Blimp City. All the inhabitants of Blimp City happen to also be men avoiding their own respective Earthbound chores.
• Jurisdiction Friction: In Season 2, The FBI takes over the houndstooth meth case from Paradise PD, after the latter spent an entire year, botching the case entirely. Although the police force was then forbidden by the FBI to look any deeper into the case, Randall still continued to do his secret research anyway and finds out that Agent Clappers of the FBI was actually playing a crucial role in the case and that this was the real reason he took the case away from him.
• Just Eat Gilligan: Dusty Marlow is by far, the most incompetent, destructive, and counterproductive police officer on the force. The conflicts of certain episodes are caused directly by him and there have been several instances where Dusty has intentionally thrown a wrench onto the police department's plans for literally no reason other than to be an annoying asshole.
• Just Following Orders: Gina follows even the most ridiculous of orders from Randall without asking questions. This became a problem in "Ass on the Line", when Randall had her go on a wild goose chase around town, searching for information on a guy's asshole.
  Gina: There are two things I never ignore; the chief, and the ghost of the creepy little Asian girl in my head that whispers commands.
• Karma Houdini: Most of the main characters are corrupt police officers and politicians who rarely get into any real trouble for their illegal and unethical behavior.
• Karmic Butt-Monkey: Dusty's butt-monkey moments become a lot more cathartic as the series goes on, due to him devolving into an asshole in later seasons.
• Kamehame Hadouken: Bullet does one of these in the opening credits. It's possible he's just hallucinating that he can do that as he does this right outside the drug examination room.
• Kid Hero: Baby Kevin is this in "The Brozone Lair", Taking the Bullet for his own father.
• Kids Are Cruel: Demonstrated nicely with Baby Kevin and how he treats his older brother.
  Baby Kevin: He's a doody-head!
• Kill the Poor: Karen seems to have a bit of a deep-rooted prejudice toward the homeless. In "PARAD-ISIS", she built a homeless shelter, which was just a fake-out building, where the door led to a river that all of the homeless people would fall into and get washed away by.
• Killed Off for Real: Throughout the series, this has happened to several of the recurring characters, although most of the time, it's just C-list fodder. Non-Disney Deaths of recurring characters include:
  • Prop Cop, Handi-Cop, and Ronny & Donny, who were all killed off in "Task Force", after Fitz rigged their circus stunts, leading to them all accidentally committing suicide before an entire audience.
  • In "Paradise Found", Mrs. Two-Toes is crushed to death under Dusty breaking the bunkbed she's sitting on. This death is very quickly brushed off by the writers and instantly forgotten about.
  • Mr. Meowgi dies in "Big Ball Energy", after eating Miss Whisker's disease-ridden brain, which gives some him kind of weird STD that makes him explode.
  • An odd interseries example happens in the crossover episode, "Paradise P.D. Meets Brickleberry", where the latter show's recurring character, Bobby Possumcods overdoses on huffing gasoline and dies offscreen, only appearing as a corpse throughout the episode.
  • Judge Judge is among the ancillary characters to be killed off in "The Brozone Lair", getting shot dead by a deer, flying an airplane.
  • In "King of the Norf", we got a double-whammy, where both Anton and Mrs. Marlow were murdered. Mrs. Marlow had a heart attack from being started by her own surprise birthday party and Anton had his head torn off by Karen. The latter of which is probably the biggest instance of this, since he was a recurring character ever since Season 1 and at no point later on, did the show ever fake us out with it.
  • Elon Musk is abruptly shot dead in a Curb-Stomp Battle in "The Eternal Reckoning".
    Randall: They're killing off all our ancillary characters! Noooooo! Run, Judge Judge, run!!!
• The Klan: A member of the Ku Klux Klan appeared in the episode "Christmas in Paradise". Dusty stuck a Christmas tree sock over his pointed hat to decorate him for the holidays.
• Knight Templar: Gina is this, believing herself to be a morally righteous hero on account of being a cop, but also punishing a lot of minor felons way worse than they need to be.
  Gina: I'm the only one keeping this town from being overrun with violence. That's why I'm out there every day, snapping spines and gouging out eyeballs!
  [Kevin is shown with bandages over his eyes]
  Kevin: I promise I'll use my turn signals next time, Gina.
• Kubrick Stare: Gerald Fitzgerald did this a few times in Season 2, while serving as the villain.
• Kung-Fu Jesus: Subverted in "The Father, The Son, and The Holy Post-It Note", where Jesus Christ proved to be completely useless in battle against an evil priest and his army of nuns, getting his ass beaten completely senseless.
  Jesus: Did you see me in there? Kicking butt, taking names? I was all "Pew pew pew!"
  Frank: Was "Pew pew pew!" the sound of you shitting your pants? CUZ THAT'S ALL YOU FUCKING DID!!!
• La Résistance: The Anti-Lovely Corp Resistance, aptly called "The Resistance", introduced halfway through Season 4.
• Lampshade Hanging: Quite a bit in episode 9 in regards to this show basically being a invokedCreator-Driven Successor to Brickleberry. Kevin even slips up and refers to Fitz as Denzel.
• Large Ham: Dusty becomes a literal version of this in later seasons, as the writers kept using him more and more and giving him tons more central episodes, spotlight monologues, and scenery-chewing moments.
• Last-Name Basis: Gerald Fitzgerald and Stanley Hopson mostly go by their respective last names.
• Last of His Kind: Baby Kevin is the last surviving sperm cell from Randall's testicles, who swears vengeance on AFKAK for causing the mass genocide of all his sperm bretheren.
• Laugh Track: An in-universe example occurred in "Who Are Wally's Waffles?", where Dusty watched a Disney sitcom with one of these. However, it was stated that the sitcom in question was filmed before a live studio audience but because the show was so unfunny, nobody laughed and the showrunners had to artificially add in canned laughter in editing.
• Leathermen: Randall and Karen wear leather gimps and turn Kevin's room into a sex dungeon for all of their kinky sexploits in "Parent Trap".
• Lethal Chef: The prisoners on "Cell's Kitchen" make a bunch of disgusting food out of shit and piss. Dusty makes the mistake of eating a cupcake made by a prisoner, which turns out to be full of razor-blades.
• Lethally Stupid: Most of the characters are this, but this is especially prevalent with Kevin Crawford, who generally walks head-first right into whatever obvious trap the villains have set up for him and suffers the dire consequences.
  • Dusty can also be this in episodes such as "Karla", where he was supposed to be motioning on traffic as a crossing guard but then got distracted by a butterfly so he started swinging his arms around to catch it, leading to all of the cars being misled and getting into a massive four-way collision, killing everyone in the area.
  Dusty: Well, at least the butterfly is okay ... Ew, wait. This ain't a butterfly. It's a nasty old moth! [claps the moth to death]
• Limited Wardrobe: The cops all wear either their cop uniforms or their casual clothing at home. In Season 4, their cop uniforms were replaced with their party dude outfits, which were just fun colorful clothes, hoodies, visor glasses, and other 80's fashion accessories.
• Literal Ass-Kissing: Subverted in "Meet the Jabowskis", where Hopson made Randall his bitch and wanted him to kiss, not his ass, but his dick.
  Hopson: Out of my way, dick-kisser!
• Literal Metaphor: In "Trigger Warnings", we got a literal representation of the phrase "Guns don't kill people. People kill people.", where a bunch of anthropomorphic guns started killing people, completely at their own volition.
• Little Guy, Big Buddy: Bullet and Fitz.
• Little Known Facts: One of Randall's more subtle character traits is that he's a bit of a conspiracy theorist. He occasionally spreads these, mostly in regard to politics. This is because he regurgitates the crap lies that Tucker Carlson tells on FOX News. This is exemplified "Parent Trap", where he tells people about how Gypsies are plotting to take over the world and in "Tucker Carlson is a Huge Dick", where he warns people that giving women equal pay will lead to a Terminator-esque apocalypse.
  • In "Who Ate Wally's Waffles?", he also tells Kevin that in The Bible, Adam disobeyed God and ate an apple from The Garden of Eden, which led to all men getting the curse of having to take extremely painful, uncomfortable shits once a month. Even Kevin was smart enough to correct him on this.
• Liz Lemon Job: Kevin often plays the role of the only employee man at work, although he's really only sane by compatison.
• Local Hangout: In Season 4, the police department is converted into "The Brozone Lair", which serves as a fun mancave to all of the cops-turn-party dudes to just chill out in.
• Logic Bomb: Dusty, Fitz and Gina in "Black and Blue" create a fake news story so contradictory that its breaking news. As in it makes it impossible for the anchors to say anything, makes the robot anchors fry their circuits and literally breaks the news.
  Hannity: "It would appear that a black trump supporter has mounted a muslim transsexual NRA supporter while she's performing an abortion on a pro life, pro gay nazi?"
• Lost Food Grievance: In episode 9, Dusty has this and cries when he sees some guy throw away a half-eaten cheeseburger.
• Love Makes You Stupid: Although he wasn't exactly a supreme genius in the first place, Kevin does a lot of dumbass things in the name of love. When it comes to him working to win the heart of Gina Jabowski, Kevin's idiocy is cranked up to eleven and he will make an ass of himself and go through Hell just because of her. A good example of this comes from "The Shartist", when he pantsed her at a funeral to prove she was a clone.
• Lyrical Dissonance: This show seems to have a shockingly high amount of songs that are happy, upbeat tunes about rape. Just to name a few, there's "Everyone You Know is a Molestor", "Bad Guys Don't Have to be Bad at Being Guys", and all of the songs by The Kiddie Fiddlers, such as "Yummy Little Bee Hole", "Where's My Handy Little Boy?", "There's a Man Inside of You".
  • There's also Dusty's song "Time to Turn This Crackhouse Into a Crack Home", which is a lovely, wonderful little song that contains references rotten human bones, Ukranian sex slaves, and blowing crack dealers in the lyrics.
• Made of Explodium: Mrs. Marlow was this in "King of the Norf", when she went flying through the air and landed on the ground in a forest somewhere, which somehow managed to cause a massive nuclear explosion, despite this just being a human body crashing into a plane of dirt.
• Mailman vs. Dog: In "Trigger Warnings", Mailman Grady got into a gunfight with an armed dog.
• Malaproper: Robby tends to make these.
  • In "Who Ate Wally's Waffles?", Robby pronounced "Sarcophagus" and "Suck Off a Goose."
  • In "Fallout", Robby heard a guy mention "Radiation" and thought he said "Ray the Asian".
  • In "Boat!", Robby misheard "Standardized Test" as "Sand or Rice Test" and believed the test was being presented with a bowl of sand and a bowl of rice and having to determine which was which.
  • Later on in the same episode, Robby also thought "Christopher Columbus" was really named "Christopher Cum Bus" and was a school bus full of semen.
• Mama Bear: Karen was this to Kevin in "Karla", protecting him from his abusive girlfriend, who tried to kill him.
  Karen: Get away from him, you bitch!
• Man Bites Man: In "The Eternal Reckoning", Dusty's cousin, Randy bit the former's finger off.
• Manipulative Bastard: Agent Clappers was this to Fitz in Season 3, going through great lengths to make Fitz's life a living Hell, or as he so eloquently put it, "drive him bing bong bananas". Clappers would resize everything in his house, make his wife divorce and leave him, kidnap his child, and even trick him into peeing into Pee Wee Herman's mouth, all to get his sweet revenge and destroy Fitz's life.
• Manufacturing Victims: Fitz's psychologist, Dr. Larry seemed to be the kind of doctor who wanted to profit off of Fitz's insecurities instead of actually solving them. In "Black & Blue", Dr. Larry suggested that Fitz use a piccolo to help him battle his PTSD. As Gina pointed out, this could have very well just been a placebo, since Dr. Larry also owns the music store Fitz bought this from.
• The Magic Poker Equation: A variation applied to Dungeons & Dragons, which is presented not as a game of tactics and probability, but as a contest in how often you can roll a 20. Semi-justified in that the players are said to be using a special technique for rolling to get the die to stop on the right number - but in the actual game, that'd be less a mark of a great player and more a mark of a great dirty cheater.
• Mars and Venus Gender Contrast: In "Tucker Carlson is a Huge Dick", the police department was split into two forces; the men's force and the women's force. Both sides acted completely disgusting in their own ways and saw the other gender as a complete threat to their way of life. Randall basically saw women as a race of humanoid alien warlords, bent on taking over the world and killing all men in an all-out matriarchal apocalypse, while Karen saw all men as a bunch of subhuman trolls, who crawled out of the ground and plagued their once-perfect society with their grossness, stupidity, and corruption.
• Meaningful Name: The name "Richard Clappers" is a joke on "Richard" being a derivative of "Dick" and "Clappers" being what he calls his massive balls, making his name literally translate to "Penis Testicles".
  • Karen was named before the "Karen" meme started up but she fits the bill for the archetype. This was eventually lampshaded in "The Brozone Lair".
  Karen: Why does it say "Karen" on my coffee cup!?
  Anton: Uhhh, because that's your name?
  Karen: Bullshit! You think I'm a Karen! That is the worst slur you can call somebody!
• Medium Blending: In "The Shartist", the show utilized CGI animation, when Randall and Hopson went into cyberspace.
• MegaCorp: Lovely Corp, a massive worldwide company that produces all kinds of products for the people of the world.
• Mexicans Love Speedy Gonzales: An in-universe example occurred in "Parent Trap", where Dusty boycotted the Thanksgiving parade for supposedly representing the genocide of Native Americans. When he heard a group of Native Americans on the reservation state that they actually liked the parade, he brushed this off as the white man brainwashing them into being complacent with white nationalism.
• Mid Life Crisis Car: Subverted. At age 50, Randall takes things a step further when he buys a fancy new speedboat and he spends $1,000,000 on digging moats throughout the streets of Paradise so that he can drive his boat around town like a car.
• Mind Rape: As a man with mental issues such as PTSD and multiple personality disorder, Gerald Fitzgerald is very susceptible to this and many of his enemies have used this against him.
• Mind Screw: Bullet and Denzel have a mushroom samba in "Paradise P.D. Meets Brickleberry", which gives us some of the weirdest animations to be sown in either series.
• Mistaken for Gay: In "The Butt Cut", Kevin prepares to make an important announcement, which Randall assumes is gunna be him coming out, so he throws a huge coming out party for him, complete with rainbow decorations, pink balloons, and male strippers.
  Kevin: What? I'm not gay!
  Hopson: Good. Because as a family-valued Republican, I don't condone that lifestyle.
• Mistaken for Racist: Double subverted. In "Black & Blue", Randall seemingly makes a racist comment against Fitz, when he mentions someone named "Officer Blackie", only for it to be revealed that he's talking about a fallen police officer named "Blackie Chan". He then exhibits racism after all, albeit against Asians instead of black people, when he says, in regards to Blackie, "Me miss you rong time".
• Mister Seahorse: In "Tucker Carlson is a Huge Dick", Kev-Man proves to be so masculine, that he has the ability to impregnate a bunch of women (and one man) just by winking at them. The man, especially, is the most weirded out by the fact that he just got pregnant.
• The Mole: The ending of episode one reveals that the head of the Argyle Meth operation is among the Paradise PD officers. The season finale reveals that it's Fitz.
• Money Dumb: Usually, when a character inherits a bunch of money, they blow it all on frivolous bullshit. The only exceptions to this rule as Karen and Fitz, (but only when he was under the kingpin persona).
  • In "Boat!", Randall inherited $10,000,000 from Chalrs Lovely and blew it all on building rivers through the streets of Paradise for him to drive his fancy new speedboat through. Needless to say, Karen was pissed at him for wasting all this money.
  • In "The World According to LARP", Hopson married Agatha and got to spend all her wealth on a bunch of pointless crap like a mansion made out of dicks, a portal gun from the Portal franchise, and the entire Olympics Portuguese Men's Water Polo Team. Karen tried to get at least a small sum of his money to help rebuild her destroyed city but Hopson refused to give her a single cent. However, he was completely fine with giving away $10,000 to Dusty so he could buy a bunch of stupid James Bond cosplay and spy equipment.
  • In "The Shartist", Fitz and Bullet made bank off of selling Dusty's scat art and spend all their money on going to fancy country clubs, buying fur coats, and hiring Serena and Venus Williams to teach Junior how to play tennis, despite the latter not even being able to play tennis, on account of him having dolphin flippers for hands.
  • In "The Father, The Son, and The Holy Post-It Note", Miss Geraldine obtained $100,000,000 and immediately donated it all to The Catholic Church. The priest there planned on using his money to install a stained glass window, depicting himself exposing his puckered anus to everybody.
• Mood Whiplash: In "King of the Norf", AFKAK betrayed his own team just to stop a wedding and shortly after this plan failed, we very quickly cut to him standing on the edge of a bridge, preparing to kill himself. This scene is played up to be very sad and dramatic, despite there having been absolutely no emotional buildup to justify a scene like this happening.
• Mushroom Samba: In "Paradise P.D. Meets Brickeberry", Bullet and Denzel take edible gummi bears and go on a wild and crazy drug trip.
• My Card: Agent Clappers introduces himself this way, upon his debut.
• My God, What Have I Done?:
  • Randall and Karen both realized what monsters they were in "Operation: D.D.", when they saw what their parenting looked like through Kevin's eyes and finally realized how abusive, harmful, and emotionally damaging they had been to their son his whole life. This led them to apologize to Kevin for how shitty they were as parents and promise to do better in the future ... which, of course, they didn't.
  • Gina had one of these moments in "PARAD-ISIS", when she went into one of her violent rages and started beating the shit out of everyone and everything around her. On an impulse, she violently strangled Kevin until his face went blood-red. Upon seeing how she was hurting the one she loved, she suddenly realized how much of a monster she was and dropped him to the ground so she could take off, crying.
  • Kevin did this in "King of the Norf", when he saw how he betrayed his own team for selfish purposes. He snitched on The Resistance during their attempted break-in of the Lovely Corp facility, so that the guards would leave Charles and Gina's wedding, giving him the go-ahead to stop it. Not only did this prove completely fruitless as Kevin's invasion failed to break them up, but he also broke the trust of Agent Clappers, got Norf killed, and doomed the entire city of Paradise to continue suffering under the unholy reign of Charles Lovely and his evil company. Kevin was so ashamed of himself for how he acted, he thought it'd be best to just kill himself.
• My Sister Is Off-Limits: In "Task Force", Delbert invokes this because he wants to be the one to screw his own sister!
• N-Word Privileges: For some bizarre reason, one of Hopson's lifelong dreams had been to call Mike Tyson "the N-word", and makes Dusty do it for him at a book signing. Dusty thought the N-word in question was "nincompoop", but Tyson didn't like being called that either.
• Nepotism: Kevin joined the police force not because he qualified and it was always his life's dream, but because his mom is the mayor.
• Nervous Wreck: Kevin Crawford is this, whenever he's in love or sexually aroused. He tends to break into a nervous sweat, stutter like he's freezing cold, and shutter like a rickety old shack.
• Never My Fault: Karen dodges any personal responsibility for the stupid things she does as mayor.
• New Baby Episode: They usually do these for season premieres.
  • In "Fallout", Dolphin Queen gives birth to Junior Fitzgerald.
  • In "The Brozone Lair", Karen gives birth to Baby Kevin.
• New Season, New Name: In Season 4, the Paradise Police Department was abolished and rebranded as a mancave, where the former cops called themselves the "Paradise Party Dudes". As such, the show was retitled as well. It didn't make too much of a difference though, since both titles can be abbreviated to "Paradise PD".
• Nice Guy: Kevin Crawford is one of the only characters in the series, who is genuinely nice all around.
  • The only other nice characters in the show are Hobo Cop and Dr. Funtlichter.
• Nice Jewish Boy: Eric (AKA "Seakul Swordhand") is Jewish and he's a pretty kind-hearted kid, who has never been seen doing anything wrong.
• No Celebrities Were Harmed:
  • Dolphin Lundgren combines this with Visual Pun.
  • One episode features a Stephen Hawking-esque cop at the academy who claims to hate Puerto Ricans, but it turns out he was confusing them with Scottish people. When he briefly gets his ability to talk and move back just before he's killed, he turns out to be Scottish himself.
  • Another episode gives us the leader of the Dark Web, "Dark Zuckerberg". This is later subverted in Season 4, when the real Mark Zuckerberg shows up as himself.
• No Ending: Due to the show's cancellation, Season 4 ends like this. Charles Lovely kidnaps Baby Kevin and flies off with him, presumably to kill him. The party dudes are left behind, weighing their options to try and get him back ... Roll credits!
  • Robby and Delbert show up during the credits to comment on this, saying that unless they can wrap things up in Farzar, the show is just gunna end like this.
  Robby: Goodbye, everyone! I guess we're all dead now! Bye!
  Delbert: Damn, that's dark, Robby.
• No Fourth Wall: "Paradise PD Meets Brickleberry" has a ton of Take That Us moments aimed at the latter's expense.
  • Season 3 ups the ante by not only literally breaking the fourth wall and Lampshading it regularly, but having Randall actually fire Hopson from the show over his nickname being Splooge McDuck, though he eventually gets hired back.
• No Indoor Voice: Randall Crawford is loud-mouthed, brash, and quick to anger. As such, there's seldom a quiet moment from him.
• No Name Given: Hobo Cop's real name is never mentioned in the show, although in the first episode, it is suggested that he's Warren Buffet.
• Non-Human Sidekick: Bullet is this to his buddy, Fitz, whom he generally gets paired up with.
• Noodle Incident: There have been a few of these, such as Randall and Karen's horrible 10th wedding anniversary, which was only mentioned in "Black & Blue".
  Karen: Randall, you handled this worse than you handled our 10th wedding anniversary!
  Randall: Jesus, you drive your wife all the way down to Tijuana for a live donkey sex show and suddenly, you're the worst husband in the world!
  Karen: Well, I didn't know I was gunna be in it.
• Not Hyperbole: The Disney Vault isn't just a fanciful term for Disney intellectual property, it's an actual vault at Disneyland where they keep various creations imprisoned.
• Not Even Bothering with an Excuse: Parodied in "King of the Norf", when Randall and Fitz deliver one of these to Dusty in the structure of a stereotypical sitcom excuse.
  Randall: We'd love to help but unfortunately, we're um, uh, ... uh, ... b-busy!
  Fitz: Yeah, [chuckles] That's it. We-We-We're busy uh, making up a ...
  Randall: An excuse! Yeah, we're-we're making up an excuse so that we, dehhh ...
  Fitz: Uh, don't have to help you ...
  Randall: Move your ...
  Fitz: Fat dead mom!
  Randall: Uh, fat dead mom! Right.
• "Not Making This Up" Disclaimer: A running gag on the show is for a character to make an absurd statement about something outrageous that happened in politics and for an annotation to appear on screen saying "Google That Shit", letting the audience know this is real and they can go see for themselves.
  Kevin: Did Tucker Carlson really say that Gypsies were going to bring about the end of the world by shitting in the woods and decapitating chickens?
  Randall: Of course he did! Anyone out there can Google "Tucker Carlson Gypsy Apocalypse" right now and see that we're not fucking around.
• Not So Above It All: Karen plays the voice of reason in most episodes but she still has her fair share of falls from grace.
• "Not So Different" Remark: Randall and Elon Musk have one of these moments at the end of "Diddy's Home", realizing they're both mentally unstable and deal with their insecurities by being assholes to everyone around them.
• The Only One Allowed to Defeat You: In episode 7, Hopson orders Dusty to spank a little boy that he despises. Dusty reluctantly does so, and suddenly the boy's father arrives to angrily intervene, claiming "Nobody disciplines my son but me!" then proceeds to give Dusty a spanking himself (both physically and sexually).
• Obfuscating Disability: In "Black & Blue", Dusty admits to having faked Down's Syndrome once so that he could have an excuse for eating pigeons in public, without being called out on it.
  Dusty: Don't judge me!
• Obnoxious In-Laws: Karen's mother, Agatha Culpepper, hates Randall. The feeling is mutual.
• Oddball Doppelgänger: There have been a few jokes like this.
  • In "Paradise Found", Dusty was in prison with a woman named Glenda who looked exactly like him but with dreadlocks and a little more muscle.
  • In "Top Cops", The King of Sweden came to town and he looked completely identical to Kevin, just wearing a king's clothing and a bunch of fancy jewelry. Gina had Robby and Delbert arrested for attempting to rob this person.
  • In "A Star is Porn", a bait-and-switch joke involved Randall needing a plan to sneak into a hotel to meet some celebrities who were staying there. At first, it appeared as though he went in disguise as a hooker to get in, only for it to be revealed that this hooker was a different person when the real Randall walked in right next to her.
  Randall: Boy, that is one ugly-looking hooker.
  • In "The Eternal Reckoning", Dusty had a family reunion with his cousins and they all looked exactly like him, just wearing different outfits.
• Off with His Head!: Gina beheads the Possum Pizza mascot with just a headbutt (mascot's costume head included!)
• Old Shame: In-universe, Robbie discovers that the Disney Vault is an actual, physical vault at Disneyland, where Disney keeps all their old racist characters locked away, such as the the blackface centaur Sunflower, Great Big Little Panther, and Nazi Donald Duck. Uncle Remus is in there too, but it's unclear if it's the character or the actor who played him.
• One-Hit KO: The Dungeons & Dragons attack "Life Drain" one-shots the target.
• One-Steve Limit: When Randall and Karen had their second child, they named him "Kevin", despite this already being the name of their firstborn son. To avoid any confusion, they agreed to rename their oldest son to "AFKAK" or ("Asshole Formerly Known as Kevin").
• Online Alias: Gina's online username is "Damp4Dusty69".
• Only Sane Man: Kevin is this sometimes, but only by comparison.
• Oppressive Immigration Enforcement: In "Flip the Vote", Karen became a not-so-subtle stand-in for Donald Trump, using her power as mayor to have all "swimmigrants" banned from Paradise, simply because of her own racism against flipper people.
  • An even more on-the-nose example occurred in "Fetal Attraction", when Kevin accidentally had his Eskimo kids deported back to Canada after giving them the wrong kind of "ICE".
• Our Time Travel Is Different: Apparently, in this show, there is no such thing as the grandfather paradox, as seen in "Sack to the Future", when Kevin literally kills past versions of himself on several occasions, which leaves absolutely no effect on his current self.
• Over The Top Christmas Decorations: Dusty went all-out with decorating, not just the police station, but the entire town with flashy and elaborate Christmas decorations in "Christmas in Paradise". It was so tawdry, that Randall described it as "Oriental Trading Trash".
• Overly Long Gag: In "King of the Norf", Dusty busrt into The Brozone Lair and started running around and rolling on the floor, screaming and crying for quite some time.
• Overly Stereotypical Disguise: There have been several gags, where characters have gone undercover in very racist disguises.
  • Kevin pretended to be an Italian guy in the first episode to infiltrate the argyle meth corporation.
  Kevin: Mama mia! I've-a got to get on my flight-a black to Italy! Arrivederci!
  • Thester went in disguise as a Nigerian prince to trick Miss Geraldine into giving him all of her money.
  • Fitz was put in witness protection and given a new identity as a white guy named "Beans Stinkwater". He went in whiteface and its just as racist as you'd expect.
  • Agent Clappers went in disguise as an Asian guy named with a Fu Manchu mustache to go undercover at Paradise PD.
  • Also, at the end of Season 3, Agent Clappers brought forth a new racist and homophobic disguise, as a Mexican male stripper named "Pepe Cabana".
• Overused Running Gag: At first, fourth-wall jokes were pretty rare in Paradise PD. In Season 2, Roger and Waco decided they really liked these kinds of jokes and started using them even more. This was all fine and good until Seasons 3 and 4 came along and they pretty much plastered every single episode with fourth wall-to-fourth wall fourth-wall jokes.

P-Z

• Packed Hero: In "Karla", Fitz recalls how at his old job at the Chicago P.D., there was a traumatic incident, where he and his partner, Keith, fought a criminal in a Chef Boyardee factory and Keith fell into a ravioli machine and got chopped up into little bits and packaged into several little cans, that were distributed nationwide to various grocery stores and supposedly eaten by countless consumers.
  Fitz: That's not beef ravioli. That's Keith ravioli!
• Pals with Jesus: Pat Robertson is good friends with Jesus Christ and also has a secret crush on him.
• Papa Wolf: Frank Flipperfist is this to Jerry, being a very loving and caring father to him and stopping at nothing to keep him safe. Their relationship was exemplified best in "Top Cops", when Frank went all the way to Switzerland to make an atomically-unstable donut at the hadron collider so that he could get back at Dusty for ruining his father-son business with Jerry.
  • Fitz is this to Junor in Seasons 3 and 4, going through thick and thin to protect his son. Same goes for Bullet, as he is the actual father of the kid.
• Paper Destruction of Anger: In "Tucker Carlson is a Huge Dick", Gina read some news that she didn't like and opened fire on the newspaper, shooting a giant hole right through it.
• Paper-Thin Disguise: This joke has been used several times in the show.
  • In "Welcome to Paradise", Kevin put on a hat and drew on a fake mustache and pretended to be an Italian guy, which helped him go completely undetected by Terry Two-Toes.
  • In "Christmas in Paradise", Gina wore a cat costume and pretended to be one of Dusty's pet cats so that she could get away with breaking into his house and licking his balls.
  • In "Tucker Carlson is a Huge Dick", Fitz and Thester went in disguise as Madea and Mrs. Doubtfire, respectively, only to be spotted immediately.
  Gal-Qaeda Leader: Why are you men dressed as men dressed as women?
  • In "The Father, The Son, and The Holy Post-It Note", Thester went in blackface and wore a traditional African cloak and pretended to be a Nigerian prince from a 419 scam.
  • In "Top Cops", we were introduced to Fitz's most famous paper-thin disguise of them all, whiteface minstrel show prop comic, Beans Stinkwater. Throughout the episode, Fitz had to keep piling up more fae disguises on top of his other disguises, until he was buried in layers.
  • In "How the Cookie Crumbles", Fitz didn't even need to wear a disguise when hiding from the mutants. He just lied to Clovis and told him that he was actually Steve Harvey and Clovis believed it, since they're both black.
  • In "The World According to LARP", Agent Clappers wore the paper-thin disguise, Loquacious Pussyjuice to try and seduce The Dolphin Queen into ditching Fitz. This failed, however.
  • Agent Clappers completely half-assed some disguises of his in "Fetal Attraction". First, he slapped on a mustache and called himself "Officer Clippers" only for Randall to see right through the disguise and send him off. Seconds later, he came in with a slightly different mustache and called himself "Officer Cloppers", which Randall believed.
  [Clappers enters, wearing a handlebar mustache]
  Clappers: Hi, I'm Officer Clippers from Bullshitsberg, North Dakota. I'm here to apply for a job.
  Randall: Get the fuck out of here! Everyone knows there's no such place as Bullshitsberg, North Dakota!
  [Clappers leaves and comes back seconds later, now with a handlebar mustache]
  Clappers: Hi, I'm Officer Cloppers from Bullshitsberg, South Dakota. I'm here to apply for a job.
  Randall: You're hired! Welcome aboard!
• Parallel Porn Titles: Karen has a bunch of ball-porn that are all parodies on movies; Scrotal Recall, Sack to the Future, and 12 Years a Slave to Some Guy's Nutsack.
  • In "A Star is Porn", there were some posters on the wall that had pornographic parodies of the previous episode, "Who Ate Wally's Waffles?" titled "Who Are Wally's Blue Waffle?" as well as a parody on the Farzar episode "War and Peace" called "War and Piece of Ass".
• Parental Abandonment: Gina eventually discovers this is what happened to her: her criminal family used her as a human shield while fleeing from Randall by boat decades ago, leading to her amnesia.
• Parental Sexuality Squick: Chief Randall tries to bond with Kevin over some porn, but unfortunately, due to the local church blocking the Internet, the only porn he could get his hands on was a homemade tape of himself and Kevin's mother.
• Parody Episode: A number of side plots in certain episodes are parodies of movies.
  • The episode "Police Academy", was, of course, a parody on Police Academy.
  • Dobby's sideplot in "A Star is Porn", was a parody on Stand by Me.
  • The episode, "The Butt Cut", was a parody on Indiana Jones.
  • "Sack to the Future" was an obvious rip on Back to the Future.
• Pedophile Priest: A priest in "The Brozone Lair" mentions he molests children, which is played for Black Comedy.
• Perfectly Cromulent Word: While affected by Bullet's brownies, Dusty says several made-up words (e.g. "gornblumion").
• Physical God: God appeared as a physical being in "Police Academy" and was a towering deity who was so big, that only his feet were visible on screen.
• Planet of Steves: Played with in "The Eternal Reckoning". Dusty had an entire family of cousins that looked exactly like him just with various different outfits. They all had different names but Dusty couldn't be bothered to remember them all so he just called them all "Dusty", just with an adjective to describe their character traits before them, (i.e. "Somalian Dusty", "Porno Dusty", "North Jersey Dusty", "Inbred Dusty", etc.)
  Randall: Wait a minute, all of your cousins are also named Dusty?
  Dusty: No. I just never bothered to learn their names.
  Randy: My name is Randy!
  Dusty: SHUT THE FUCK UP, COCKEYED DUSTY!!! ^note Ironically, Dusty's cousin's name is "Randy", which breaks the One-Steve Limit, as we already have a "Randall" in the main cast, as seen in the very dialogue blurb above.
• Poe's Law: A few of the plots in certain episodes ended up happening in real life, just a couple of years or so later. Waco usually Tweets about this, whenever a news story comes out.
• Pokémon Speak: "Dobby, Dobby!"
• Police Are Useless: Paradise PD is so financially underfunded that they're running low on ammunition. It's later established that Gina is pretty much the only competent cop on the force and is the sole reason Paradise hasn't fallen apart. When she briefly quits the force in one episode, the rednecks end up taking over the police station due to the sheer incompetence of the other cops (particularly Dusty, who sings inspiration songs to criminals about quitting drugs instead of actually busting them).
• Precision Crash: Just narrowly averted in "The Father, The Son, and The Holy Post-It Note", when a meteor comes crashing down to Earth and would have decapitated Agent Dunfore if not for him bending over ever so slightly to pick up the episode's titular post-it note, miraculously saving his life.
• Pro Wrestling Episode: Bullet's sideplot in "Ass on the Line" started with him entering a dogfighting ring and treating it like an actual wrestling match.
• Pyrrhic Victory: Chief Hancock's pranks against Randall always seem to involve hurting himself far worse than he hurts Randall - for example, he married Randall's mother just to spite him, meaning that he can taunt Randall about it every time they meet at the price of being stuck in a loveless marriage with a much older woman. Neither of the two ever seem to realise that, though, but consider Hancock to have "won" each time.
  • In season 3, Hancock is about to win the award for Best Police Force, which this year includes the award of being immortalized on the side of Mount Paradise as a giant statue. Randall becomes desperate to win the award to avoid having to look at Hancock's smug face for the rest of his life, and barely manages to rally a win (though he ends up in prison due to committing the last crime needed for arrest point himself), only to find out that because Hancock was so ahead on points and they'd already started making his statue, Randall had only told them to change the face, not the body, which he didn't know about. As a result, there's now a giant statue of Randall having anal sex with his own mother on the mountain
• Raging Stiffie: Kevin gets one of these when watching his mother breastfeed in "The Brozone Lair".
• Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: Parodied with Kevins task force, which consists of a failed prop comic, siamese twins and a Stephen Hawking-expy.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: Karen used to be this in Seasons 1 & 2, before eventually losing her mind and going completely corrupt in "Flip the Vote".
• Reduced to Ratburgers: Kevin after his parents kick him out of the house on Thanksgiving. Also, the sewer mutants, since they're forced to subsist on whatever scraps the surface world throws away. Except the Panda Express, that's actually a real restaurant, they'll franchise anywhere.
  • Following the season 2 finale, the entire town (aside from Dusty) hid in the sewers for three months and lived off rats. At one point, the rats ran out, and they resorted to eating Hobo-Cop's beard ticks.
• Remember the New Guy?: In "PARAD-ISIS", Paradise PD had a dinosaur member named Offisaurus, who everyone remembered always being there, ... except Bullet.
  Bullet: Has he ... Has he always been here?
• Replacement Goldfish: In "Paradise P.D. Meets Brickleberry", Randall accidentally lets it slip that Bullet is actually the sixth police dog with the same name. When Bullet gets shocked at this, Randall says he hopes number 7 will be less of a drama queen.
• Retirony: Agent Clappers retiring old FBI partner in "Big Ball Energy" who keeps going on about all the things he and his handicapped wife (who he is the sole caretaker of) will do once he retires. Immediately lampshaded by one of the PD characters saying "Yeah, he's fucked". Even Dusty can tell it's going to end in tears for him.
• Restaurant-Owning Episode: Dusty and Bullet open up a fried chicken truck in "Karla".
• Revenge Is a Dish Best Served: In one episode, Hancock tries to prank Randall by cutting off his own ass and cooking it into a steak for him to eat. This prank fails miserably, however, as Hancock stupidly tells him the joke before he even has a chance to eat it.
  Hancock: How's your steak, Randall?
  Randall: Huh? I haven't even tried it yet.
  Hancock: Gotchya! That's not a steak! That's my ass! Ha ha ha ha ha!
• Robosexual: At one point, Kevin gets assigned a high-tech sentient car, and promptly starts a sexual relationship with it.
• Ruder and Cruder: With the show being on Netflix as opposed to television like Brickleberry was, it can (and does) get away with a lot more raunchy content. The show also doesn't censor "fuck" or other profanities like Brickleberry did on basic cable.
• Running Gag: This show has several;
  • Fitz Bitz - Fitz breaks the fourth wall to give the audience a valuable lesson, "The More You Know" PSA style.
  • Poop on a Loop - Characters getting out of awkward or uncomfortable situations by saying they need to go to the bathroom and then playing an audio loop of pooping noises on an app called "Poop on a Loop", while they escape out the bathroom window.
  • Getting Hopsoned - Hopson tells a crude bait-and-switch sex joke and then announces "You just got Hopsoned!". He usually plays a slide whistle afterwards.
• Sanity Slippage: Many characters who start off as nice or mentally sound people, go through this due to the cruel and sick twists of fate that the writers love putting into the show.
  • Fitz went through this in "Black & Blue", where he kept being manipulated by the lies in the media and the gaslighting from the people around him into thinking he was two different people. The only thing keeping him sane was his piccolo, which, after having it confiscated, caused him to mentally fracture into two personalities and get into fights with himself.
  • Karen was initially one of the voices of reason to everyone else in the show but she let her own greed and selfishness corrupt her mind and turn her into a typical corrupt politician.
  • Dusty was initially one of the sweetest and kindest characters on the show. However, after being treated like a Butt-Monkey by all his teammates, getting sexually harassed by Gina every day, and ultimately getting falsely arrested for a crime he didn't commit and sentenced to 6 months in prison, he finally snapped and turned into an obnoxious, selfish, quick-to-violence asshole in later seasons.
• Satan: Satan has appeared a number of times in the show, generally being portrayed as a nerdy, effeminate loser, who's obsessed with crap like Dungeons & Dragons and The Twilight Saga.
• Scam Religion: In "Dungeons & Dragnet", we see how Preacher Paul uses fearmongering to get people to donate money to him so that he can get rid of the so-called demon spirits in Dungeons & Dragons games. Preacher Paul uses a large sum of this money to buy shit for himself like hot tubs, limos, and flatscreen TVs.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: In the season 2 finale, The Kingpin tries to run away from Fitz when he starts to get the better of him, although he originally didn't intend to do so. Unfortunately for him, he didn't let him escape easily and he killed him off.
• Secret Identity: Tommy Two Toes originally had a double identity as Karen's dentist boyfriend, planning to both make money off meth, and from people losing their teeth to it. And of course, there's the identity of the Kingpin.
• Self-Plagiarism: If you pay close enough attention, you'll notice that quite a few jokes and gags are recycled from Brickleberry with no subversion or self-awareness.
  • Randall telling Prop Cop "Wow, a new record. Two seconds and I already hate you." upon meeting him is a word-for-word copy of Malloy's insult to another bear in "Squabbits".
  • Panda Express is compared to horse shit, which is the exact same species of feces it was compared to in a Brickleberry gag from "Trip to Mars".
  • In "Flip the Vote", Dusty used a demonic VT headset to possess a horse tell a little girl that her mother sucks cocks in Hell. This same comment was said by Donnie to Ethel in "Aparkalypse".
  • In the crossover with Brickleberry, Dusty lived under an irrational fear his mother gave him, suggesting "Jesus will kill grandma." if he has premarital sex. Connie's mom gave her this same threat in "Miss National Park", saying that Jesus will kill her grandma if she loses the cutie pageant.
• To Serve Man: Bullet finds out that Red Lobster's stock is made from old people. Not the old people themselves, but rather the seafood is grown on their bodies like parasites.
• Shared Universe: Season 2 reveals that this show and Brickleberry take place in the same world. Randall and Woody are even revealed to be cousins!
  • Farzar also takes place in the same universe, albeit a millennium later.
• Shout-Out:
  • The first episode reveals that All Dogs Go to Heaven, at least according to a dream/vision that Bullet has.
  • The season 2 premiere has several to various anime shows, most notably Dragon Ball Z.
• Sibling Rivalry: The rivalry between AFKAK and Kevin.
• Slouch of Villainy: The Kingpin (a ruthless kingpin) at least once has briefly slouched in a chair.
• Split Personality: In "Black and Blue" Fitz develops this as a result of the media treating him like he was two separate people: one racist cop and one black thug. He not only starts Talking to Themself, but at one point each of the personalities even tries to take the other one hostage.
  • Season 2 reveals that Fritz's evil persona is another split personality calling itself The Kingpin, which performed a full-on Split-Personality Takeover.
• Spoof Aesop: "Everyone You Know is a Molester", including the guy singing this song.
• Strange Minds Think Alike: In "Meet the Jabowskis", Gina initially believes the word written on the back of her picture - "Bumfuque" (Boom-foo-kay) - to be an African warlord, who's helpful enough to point out it's actually "Bumfuque" (Bum-fuck), a town near Paradise. When she finally goes to the nearby town instead, an African woman barges in on her family reunion declaring her vengeance against the town - Gina quickly sets her straight.
• Straw Feminist: The terrorist group Gal-Queada, which plans to release a penis-destroying virus via Hooters hot wings sauce. It's revealed that they're not feminists at all, they're Fox News anchors led by right-wing commentator Tucker Carlson who wants to wipe out every other penis in the world so his own inverted penis will be the biggest.
• Strawman Political: This show loves bashing on politicians on both sides of the spectrum;
  • Joe Biden - Joe Biden is portrayed as a mentally deranged dirty old man, who's so sick and gross, some would argue he gives Hopson a run for his money. He stalks people like Dusty Marlow on the dark web and jerks off to the weirdest of things, from animal porn to toilet spy cams to giant mutant children ejaculating out people. His unflattering portrayal in the show was very present before he was even elected president and only grew in prominence after 2021.
  Joe Biden: Awwww, fuck yeeeeeaaaaah.
  • Tucker Carlson - When he's first introduced, Tucker Carlson is initially portrayed as an obnoxious, blubbering jackass on FOX News, who spreads absurd lies and easily disprovable misinformation that the average Republican believes without question. A running gag on the show is for the show to portray him saying or doing something completely insane and have a "Google That Shit" disclaimer show up, encouraging the audience to see that he actually did this in real life. Tucker Carlson was mocked so relentlessly, in fact, that in his spotlight episode, "Tucker Carlson is a Huge Dick", it was revealed that Tucker Carlson was literally a giant penis who took on the form of a human being.
  Tucker Carlson: I'm Tucker Carlson and I don't like you either.
  • Mitch McConnell - Mitch McConnell is portrayed as being half-turtle in his appearances. He's also shown, in one episode, to be a creep, who broke into a girl's house and slept with her at night.
  • Nancy Pelosi - For whatever reason, this show has made a running gag out of her cupping her farts and smelling it.
  • Donald Trump - Trump has been mocked to hell and back throughout the entire show's run, with him even being roasted in seasons that aired well after his presidency ended. Most notably, in "Sack to the Future", Kevin went to an alternate future, where everyone lived in a utopian society. In this future, Donald Trump was never president because, as Dusty so descriptively elaborated, he fell into the hippo exhibit at the zoo and got four-way buttfucked to death by all of them and then shat on, while his wife and kids watched and cheered in enjoyment. This event was seen as so glorious, that it was even made into a national holiday.
  • Lindsey Graham - Lindsey Graham is portrayed as an armored closet gay, who secretly has gay sex with various other anti-gay Republican politicians.
  • Bill Clinton - Although Paradise PD is way late to the party on this one, they dedicated an entire episode to portraying him as an adulterous, alcoholic chucklehead, who spends his days smoking, boozing, and sleeping with random women in blimp city, unbeknownst to his wife, who is also given a very unflattering portrayal in the show, as an oblivious dimwit, who blindly believes every crap lie her no-good, cheating husband tells her. They even had another episode, where Bill Clinton confessed to doing weird sex stuff on Jeffrey Epstein's blimp.
  Bill Clinton: And that's why they call me "slick willy". Pew pew!
  • Jenny McCarthy - Jenny McCarthy briefly showed up in "Blind Drunk", going for a nice little walk outside one day, and using a kid leash to drag her dead children behind her.
  • Sean Hannity - Sean Hannity is literally just a robot, who's built to spout AI-generated lies on FOX News and find a way to twist every single event in American society to fit his political agenda.
• Suicide as Comedy: Dr. Lickon Deeznuts kills himself on-screen, which is yet another example of the show's humor.
• Suicide Pact: After accidentally causing his friends' deaths in the first episode, Bullet tries to make their deaths look like a suicide pact via dragging their corpses to their dog houses and giving each dog a suicide note (which are implied to have each said the same thing). Randall even calls this a suicide pact word by word.
• Suspiciously Specific Denial: When Dusty gets suspicious of how many times Gina has treated him to the pizza buffet.
  Gina: Yeah like I'd put your health at risk just because it turns me on sexually.
• Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Parodied in season 2 when the cast visits Brickleberry and make fun of how similar most of the characters are.
• Status Quo Is God: Downplayed in the season 3 premiere. Paradise was destroyed in a nuclear/giant pizza explosion in the season 2 finale, leaving the town in ruins and covered in an enormous pizza... which is promptly eaten by Dusty in less than a day after he emerges from the fallout shelter. However, the town itself has to be rebuilt, which is part of the plot for the first few episodes, and Fritz is still married to the dolphin he married as The Kingpin.
• Strawman News Media: Both liberal and conservative media turn up in "Black and Blue", mercilessly portraying Fox News, MSNBC, and CNN and their pundits as being ignorant, biased and making rash assumptions by taking verbal statements out of context.
• Take That!: The show has lots of jabs at stuff ranging from the HBO series Ballers to Samsung.
  • The Season 2 premiere contains a few digs at Brooklyn Nine-Nine.
  • The entirety of "Who Ate Wally's Waffles" has jabs at Disney in general.
  • The Brickleberry crossover makes fun of the comic book continuation of the show and the show itself for essentially being Family Guy in the woods.
  • When Randall was forced to choose which one civilian out of several to save from a burning apartment on fire (they only have resources to save one), one mother holds up her baby signaling she wants the baby to be saved. Randall rejects the baby, rebuking "I'm not Kevin Spacey!"
  • Episode 2 of season 3 takes a shot of the disaster that was the Fyre Festival.
• Tampering with Food and Drink: In episode 9, Gina disgustedly learns that the reason why Dusty's DNA tests claim he is 1/64th Native American is because he routinely consumes sandwiches covered in mucus and semen provided by the Native American cooks he keeps aggravating by complaining they didn't add enough... stuff... to his sandwich.
• A Taste of Their Own Medicine: Gina gets sexually harassed by a Stephen Hawking-like cop the same way she sexually harasses Dusty. And yes, just like Dusty, Gina gets pissed and keeps demanding her "lover" to stop.
• Teeny Weenie:
  • Kevin has one, much to his embarassment.
  • The otherwise handsome and well-built Chief Hancock has one.
  • Right-wing icon and Fox News pundit Tucker Carlson, much to his great shame and anger to the point that he's been funding a terrorist group of straw feminists to destroy every other penis on Earth.
• Time Travel Episode: "Sack to the Future" was about Kevin going back in time to set right what once went wrong.
• Too Kinky to Torture: The comic book store owner turns out to really enjoy having Gina beat him.
• The Stoner: Bullet, it's one of his main character traits. Dusty in two episodes when he tried weed. Well, tried it in one, and tricked into eating it in the second.
• The Unfair Sex: Gina's attitude probably wouldn't get as many laughs if she was a man.
• Uncanny Family Resemblance:
  • All of Dusty's family members look and sound exactly like him, just with different voices.
  • Additionally, Bullet's son, Junior looks exactly like he did, when he was a puppy, albeit with dolphin flippers.
• Uncertain Doom: Ted and Judge Judge are seemingly killed off in "The Brozone Lair", when getting shot dead by deer but both of them reappear in future episodes. In Judge Judge's case, his only appearance after this was in a VR simulation, so it can be inferred that he might have been killed.
• Ungrateful Townsfolk: The town of Paradise often behave this way towards Kevin, to the point of even making a holiday based on his failure of a human being (which his mom arranged, no less).
• Violence Really Is the Answer: Gina is repeatedly shown beating suspects within an inch of their lives for even minor offenses, has outright murdered several people for little reason, and, especially in season 1, anally violated suspects with her nightstick after arresting them. However, whenever she isn't availible, Paradise inevitably falls into complete anarchy, as the citizens don't respond to anything other than the threat of overwhelming violence to keep them in line. It doesn't help that the other officers are nearly incapable of doing their jobs and most of them can't even defend themselves.
• We Need a Distraction: Played for Laughs in "Big Ball Energy" when Kevin touches himself in front of some monkeys to distract them from harming a baby.
• Wham Line: A couple Played With examples in the season 1 finale. One reveals that Fitz is seemingly The Kingpin and he was working with Santa. The other reveals that he orchestrated several cops' deaths. However, in the season 2 finale, it's revealed he was experiencing a Split-Personality Takeover at the time.
  Fitz: Yeah, it's me. It worked better than I could've imagined. They think that fat cop is The Kingpin and he took out Kringle for me! Don't get me wrong; St. Nick was good at handling distribution so I could keep my cover. But I was sick of sharing my profits with that bowl full of jelly. And now Paradise is all mine! Me! The Kingpin!
  Fitz: (to a dying Prop Cop) I set you motherfuckers up.
• Wham Shot:
  • A member of the Paradise PD executing Two Toes and being revealed to be the Kingpin.
  • The newly formed island Delbert and Robby turned into an independent country turns out to be the head of a giant, mutated Dobby.
• Wimp Fight: A Played for Laughs example; when Kevin and Steve (who are both weak) "battle" in the Brickleberry crossover, they pathetically attempt to smack each other.
• Working with the Ex: Randall and Karen are exes who got divorced, however, she is now his boss, being the mayor of the town.
• World of Jerkass: With the exception of Kevin, everyone in Paradise seems to be incredibly selfish or mentally unstable; most of them are also outright cruel and sadistic. Randall himself puts profit over principle for the Paradise PD since he only pursues cases that come with pay.
• Yandere:
  • Gina to Dusty.
  • Joe Biden to Dusty.
  • Handicop (the Stephen Hawking parody) to Gina.
  • Karla, Kevin's new car, goes Axe-Crazy upon noticing that Kevin smells like the inside of his old car.
• You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me!: "You gotta be fucking kidding me."
• You Monster!: In one season 3 episode, Crawford says "You monster." to Karen.
• You're Insane!: In the season 2 finale, Fitz asks The Kingpin (a major villain) "Are you fucking insane?"

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