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* TheCameo: Many Detroit natives, or people associated with Detroit, appear prominently in various episodes: Wrestling/KevinNash (Big Hank), Creator/KeeganMichaelKey (Smilin' Jack), Larry Joe Campbell (Chuck), Creator/RichardKarn (AsHimself lampooning his iconic role al Al Borland on ''Series/HomeImprovement''), Rick Mahorn (As Himself), Jim Harbaugh (As Himself), Creator/TimMeadows (Walt Worsch), and Creator/CarlAnthonyPayneII (As Himself, lampooning his iconic role as Cole on ''Series/{{Martin}}'').

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* TheCameo: Many Detroit natives, or people associated with Detroit, appear prominently in various episodes: Wrestling/KevinNash (Big Hank), Creator/KeeganMichaelKey (Smilin' Jack), Larry Joe Campbell (Chuck), Creator/RichardKarn (AsHimself lampooning his iconic role al as Al Borland on ''Series/HomeImprovement''), Rick Mahorn (As Himself), Jim Harbaugh (As Himself), Creator/TimMeadows (Walt Worsch), and Creator/CarlAnthonyPayneII (As Himself, lampooning his iconic role as Cole on ''Series/{{Martin}}'').
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* {{Manchild}}: Sam and Tim are grown adults and business owners but have the maturity of boys in junior high, frequently blowing off important meetings with clients to goof off. Tim even has hot dogs for every meal!

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* {{Manchild}}: Sam and Tim are grown adults and business owners but have possess the maturity of teen boys in just out of junior high, frequently blowing off important meetings with clients to goof off. Tim even has hot dogs for every meal!
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** "Big Hank" Cramblin is deeply mentally unstable and confined to a mental institution, having one time brought a suitcase full of feces to a business meeting while wearing just the front half of his suit. He's also one of the sharpest minds in the ad industry.
** Trevor Cramblin, Tim's younger brother, who can barely function in society but also inherited his father's keen advertising sensibilities.

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** Tim's dad "Big Hank" Cramblin is deeply mentally unstable and confined to a mental institution, having one time brought a suitcase full of feces to a business meeting while wearing just the front half of his suit. He's also one of the sharpest minds in the ad industry.
** Trevor Cramblin, Tim's younger brother, who can barely function in society but also inherited his their father's keen advertising sensibilities.
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** "Big Hank" Cramblin is deeply mentally unstable and confined to a mental institution, having one time brought a suitcase full of feces to a business meeting while wearing just the front half of his suit. He's also one of the sharpest minds in the ad business.
** Trevor Cramblin, Tim's younger brother, who can barely function in society but also inherited his father's keen adman sensibilities.

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** "Big Hank" Cramblin is deeply mentally unstable and confined to a mental institution, having one time brought a suitcase full of feces to a business meeting while wearing just the front half of his suit. He's also one of the sharpest minds in the ad business.
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** Trevor Cramblin, Tim's younger brother, who can barely function in society but also inherited his father's keen adman advertising sensibilities.
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* TheAlcoholic: Both Sam and Tim drink a ''ridiculous'' amount, often ordering multiple drinks at once during events and lunch meetings.


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** "Big Hank" Cramblin is deeply mentally unstable and confined to a mental institution, having one time brought a suitcase full of feces to a business meeting while wearing just the front half of his suit. He's also one of the sharpest minds in the ad business.
** Trevor Cramblin, Tim's younger brother, who can barely function in society but also inherited his father's keen adman sensibilities.


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* {{Manchild}}: Sam and Tim are grown adults and business owners but have the maturity of boys in junior high, frequently blowing off important meetings with clients to goof off. Tim even has hot dogs for every meal!
** PsychopathicManchild: Tim's younger brother Trevor, on the other hand, takes this trait to the nth degree, refusing to get a job or move out of his mother and stepfather's house well into his 30s, and acting absolutely feral.
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* TheCameo: Many Detroit natives, or people associated with Detroit, appear prominently in various episodes: Wrestling/KevinNash (Big Hank), Creator/KeeganMichaelKey (Smilin’ Jack), Larry Joe Campbell (Chuck), Richard Karn (AsHimself lampooning his iconic role al Al Borland on ''Series/HomeImprovement''), Rick Mahorn (As Himself), Jim Harbaugh (As Himself), Creator/TimMeadows (Walt Worsch), and Creator/CarlAnthonyPayneII (As Himself, lampooning his iconic role as Cole on ''Series/{{Martin}}'').

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* TheCameo: Many Detroit natives, or people associated with Detroit, appear prominently in various episodes: Wrestling/KevinNash (Big Hank), Creator/KeeganMichaelKey (Smilin’ Jack), Larry Joe Campbell (Chuck), Richard Karn Creator/RichardKarn (AsHimself lampooning his iconic role al Al Borland on ''Series/HomeImprovement''), Rick Mahorn (As Himself), Jim Harbaugh (As Himself), Creator/TimMeadows (Walt Worsch), and Creator/CarlAnthonyPayneII (As Himself, lampooning his iconic role as Cole on ''Series/{{Martin}}'').
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* TheCameo: Many Detroit natives, or people associated with Detroit, appear prominently in various episodes: Wrestling/KevinNash (Big Hank), Creator/KeeganMichaelKey (Smilin’ Jack), Larry Joe Campbell (Chuck), Richard Karn (AsHimself lampooning his iconic role al Al Borland on HomeImprovement), Rick Mahorn (As Himself), Jim Harbaugh (As Himself), Tim Meadows (Walt Worsch),

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* TheCameo: Many Detroit natives, or people associated with Detroit, appear prominently in various episodes: Wrestling/KevinNash (Big Hank), Creator/KeeganMichaelKey (Smilin’ Jack), Larry Joe Campbell (Chuck), Richard Karn (AsHimself lampooning his iconic role al Al Borland on HomeImprovement), ''Series/HomeImprovement''), Rick Mahorn (As Himself), Jim Harbaugh (As Himself), Tim Meadows Creator/TimMeadows (Walt Worsch), and Creator/CarlAnthonyPayneII (As Himself, lampooning his iconic role as Cole on ''Series/{{Martin}}'').
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* TheCameo: Many Detroit natives, or people associated with Detroit, appear prominently in various episodes: Creator/KevinNash (Big Hank), Creator/KeeganMichaelKey (Smilin’ Jack), Larry Joe Campbell (Chuck), Richard Karn (AsHimself lampooning his iconic role al Al Borland on HomeImprovement), Rick Mahorn (As Himself), Jim Harbaugh (As Himself), Tim Meadows (Walt Worsch),

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* TheCameo: Many Detroit natives, or people associated with Detroit, appear prominently in various episodes: Creator/KevinNash Wrestling/KevinNash (Big Hank), Creator/KeeganMichaelKey (Smilin’ Jack), Larry Joe Campbell (Chuck), Richard Karn (AsHimself lampooning his iconic role al Al Borland on HomeImprovement), Rick Mahorn (As Himself), Jim Harbaugh (As Himself), Tim Meadows (Walt Worsch),
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* TheCameo: Many Detroit natives, or people associated with Detroit, appear prominently in various episodes: Kevin Nash (Big Hank), Keegan-Michael Key (Smilin’ Jack), Larry Joe Campbell (Chuck), Richard Karn (AsHimself lampooning his iconic role al Al Borland on HomeImprovement), Rick Mahorn (As Himself), Jim Harbaugh (As Himself), Tim Meadows (Walt Worsch),

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* TheCameo: Many Detroit natives, or people associated with Detroit, appear prominently in various episodes: Kevin Nash Creator/KevinNash (Big Hank), Keegan-Michael Key Creator/KeeganMichaelKey (Smilin’ Jack), Larry Joe Campbell (Chuck), Richard Karn (AsHimself lampooning his iconic role al Al Borland on HomeImprovement), Rick Mahorn (As Himself), Jim Harbaugh (As Himself), Tim Meadows (Walt Worsch),
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* BlandNameProduct: {{Lampshaded}} in one episode where a grocery store sells a vampire-themed cereal called Chocolate Duke, which Tim immediately identifies as a ripoff of Count Chocula.
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* AluminumChristmasTrees: Most of the ads and Detroit public figures are based on or lampooning actual Detroit commercials and personalities, if not played by the actual people themselves.
** The ad Ned writes and produces for Dale Dieberkorn's eyeglasses business "Hunky Specs D.O.G." is a parody of the long-running [[https://youtu.be/Yn40aa_SA6Y Sexy Specs D.O.C.]] ad campaign, which also featured the owner Richard Golden [[DancePartyEnding awkwardly dancing for no reason]].
** The Devereux Wigs spot is an only slightly more absurd version of Dittrich Furs' "woman on horse" commercial from 1981, which proved so iconic that Dittrich just kept [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlDYnx1n0oE reusing the filmed footage over and over again for decades]], re-recording the jingle every few years.
** Every single ad up for a D award in "Quick Rick Mahorn in Dearborn", all of them narrated by Kid Rock and prominently featuring the Monument to Joe Louis, is a shameless rip-off of the "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYsFUFgOEmM Born of Fire]]" Chrysler ad with Eminem. The one exception is Cramblin and Duvet's spot for Rick Mahorn's car dealership, which faithfully parodies the "[[https://youtu.be/aF3n_PA1-1w Mel Farr, Ford Superstar]]" commercials from the 1980's.
** Jefferson Porger is a fictionalized version of [[https://youtu.be/a1Ykac__wts Joe Porter Menswear]], a bespoke tailoring and clothing shop whose ads tend to feature staged tableaus of handsome men in natty suits.
** Mort Crim's commercial for furniture store Garner Weich, with his bizarre, out-of-nowhere ad-libbed rant against ISIS, is inspired by an actual real-life incident featuring newscaster Bill Bonds, a veteran pitchman for Gardner-White and one of the main inspirations for [[Film/AnchormanTheLegendOfRonBurgundy Ron Burgundy]] alongside Crim. Shortly after 9/11, Bonds used an ad to ''directly and angrily threaten the Taliban'', even telling Osama that "you just bought yourself a one-way ticket to Hell", which the show includes verbatim; the spot aired a couple of times, but was quickly pulled from rotation amid controversy.
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* TrueArtIsAngsty: Invoked and parodied. Tim and Sam hand off editing duties on the Eddie Champagne commercial in "Pilot" to Lea, reasoning that she's in film school and knows how to cut something together. The end result is a dour, depressing short film that uses on-set B-roll (where Eddie creeps on their makeup woman, expresses a deep self-loathing, and eats deli meat off the ground) to paint him as a broken wretch. It turns out, though, that [[spoiler:the argument Eddie and his wife had over it led to some angry experimental sex that helped Eddie realize his domination fetish and saved their marriage]].

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* TrueArtIsAngsty: Invoked and parodied. Tim and Sam hand off editing duties on the Eddie Champagne commercial in "Pilot" to Lea, reasoning that she's in film school and knows how to cut something together. The end result is a dour, depressing short film that uses on-set B-roll BRoll (where Eddie creeps on their makeup woman, expresses a deep self-loathing, and eats deli meat off the ground) to paint him as a broken wretch. It turns out, though, that [[spoiler:the argument Eddie and his wife had over it led to some angry experimental sex that helped Eddie realize his domination fetish and saved their marriage]].

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