History Series / Avenue5

* AlmightyJanitor: Several of the passengers become part of the inner circle trying to run Avenue 5, such as Karen. This ends up being deconstructed in several ways, such as need-to-know info like an oxygen leak or potential culling getting out and nearly causing outright riots, not to mention that even their knowledge isn't as fine tuned as the actual officials, like Spike's mistake on what the constant beeping is over. [[spoiler: This deconstruction reaches horrible heights when Karen is put in charge of jettisoning luggage out the airlocks because of her coordinating abilities of the other passengers. Because she's an ordinary private citizen, she doesn't have the same mindset as experts of Billie, nor even the secondhand lessons like Ryan got as the voice piece. In this case, it's her lack of knowledge about how physics are meant to work that proves to be a problem; rather than have all the luggage jettisoned out the rear to push the ship forward, she has it jettisoned out the ''side'' because the airlocks are larger, which pushes them off course and dooms them to an eight year voyage in space.]]

* OnlySaneEmployee: Billie, Iris and Rev all share this spot in the cast.

** This also surprisingly and refreshingly applies to Captain Ryan. Even though he's not at all qualified to be captain of the Avenue 5, he's rescued by the fact that he ''knows full well'' he's not qualified, and wisely relies on the advice of Billie and other experts. And all things considered, he's excellent at the job he was actually hired to do: be the figurehead, and even begins to lean into his nominal role as Captain, including going on a spacewalk and starting to train to actually dock the ship.

* WhatTheHellHero: In the Season 2 premiere, everyone is disgusted with Frank {{gaslighting}} Karen into staying locked up in their cabin so he can do whatever he wants without her.

* BrutalHonesty: Billie refuses to let Matt off the hook when he inadvertently gets several passengers killed.
-->'''Matt:''' Is this my fault?\\

* ElectionDayEpisode: In "Let's Play with Matches", the passengers hold a vote to elect a dictator to replace Captain Ryan after losing confidence in him. However, after most of the other candidates prove to be just as incompetent, a drunk Issac convinces everyone to reinstate Ryan (over Ryan's own protests).

** Captain Ryan is not Santa Clause but he is Santa's [[WesternAnimation/ArthurChristmas son and brother]].

** Assuming the ship could make the trip from earth to Saturn in two weeks, even at the planets' closes points, at their speed, a jettisoning of the mass of 500 passengers towards the back of the ship would not have significantly increased speed to change a trajectory from 3.5 years to 6 months.

* TheAlcatraz: In "Is it a Good Dot?", the ship pulls up to what is assumed to be a military outpost, only to find it populated by eccentric but seemingly normal people. Then Yaz discovers it's actually a prison for criminals so disturbed the government couldn't house them on Earth. They succeed in getting a pedophile imprisoned there to fix the eel tank, but unfortunately pick up a cannibal they forgot to offload.

Avenue 5 is a serialised show despite being a comedy, so beware of spoilers below.

* SurroundedByIdiots:
** This applies to Billie, Iris and Ryan. Billie is the only person remotely qualified in the main cast and frequently has to deal with the idiocy of both the passengers and her peers, Iris is a BeleagueredAssistant stuck dealing with her ManChild boss and is equally aware of the lack of competence of those around her, whilst Ryan is often exasperated by peoples' inability to understand that he's not the well-versed interstellar captain they think he is, which ends up leading to further complications, not to mention that as the figurehead, he's the one who has to deal the most with idiotic and unbearable passengers.

* ArmorPiercingSlap: Rav gives Judd two of these in the first season finale when he refuses to take responsibility for the terrible PR she's been facing back on Earth.

** Seven passengers end up convinced they are on a prank show, so they eject themselves out into space. They die horrifically, [[SpaceIsCold freezing to death instantly]]. Freezing would be the least of your problems in space, because losing heat in space is quite difficult. A human would survive for upwards of a minute before eventually asphyxiating.

* DidntThinkThisThrough: Rav hops on the supply shuttle to drag Judd back to Earth and get some distance from the bad press on Earth. However, it's only once they're on the way that she realizes that there's only one passenger seat on the shuttle, meaning that she'll be stuck on Avenue 5.