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* RevengePornBlackmail: In one episode, one of Dottie's ex-boyfriends asked that she talk to the producers of "[[ShowWithinAShow Sweetknuckle Junction]]" to get him a job. When Dottie refuses to help him in any way, he threatens to leak a HomePornMovie videotape of her to the press, so she talks up her ex to the producers. But when his acting is not up to par, she considers quitting the show because her show-business career will be ruined.ruined if he leaks the tape.
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* TheDitz: Tardy the Turtle. So much so that you can say Tardy the Turtle's non sequiturs in [[Franchise/TheSimpsons [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Ralph Wiggum]]'s voice and it wouldn't seem out of character.
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-->'''Greg The Bunny''': "I have a letter from my Uncle Rochester. 'Dear Everybody, I'm never coming back. Goodbye forever, Rochester.'"
-->'''Greg The Bunny''': "I have a letter from my Uncle Rochester. 'Dear Everybody, I'm never coming back. Goodbye forever, Rochester.'"
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''Greg the Bunny'' was a SitCom set in a world where humans and puppets coexist as sentient races and interact freely. Greg the Bunny is the starring puppet of ''Sweetknuckle Junction'', an AlternateCompanyEquivalent to ''Series/SesameStreet''; the show focuses on back-stage shenanigans. In this case, Greg and the others in the cast are much less innocent offstage than on, contrasting with both ''Series/TheMuppetShow'' and other puppet shows fully on the cynical end of the SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism. (The series was something like ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit''.)
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''Greg the Bunny'' was a SitCom set in a world where humans and puppets coexist as sentient races and interact freely. Greg the Bunny is the starring puppet of ''Sweetknuckle Junction'', an AlternateCompanyEquivalent to ''Series/SesameStreet''; the show focuses on back-stage various backstage shenanigans. In this case, Greg and the others in the cast are much less innocent offstage than on, contrasting with both ''Series/TheMuppetShow'' and other puppet shows fully on the cynical end of the SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism. (The series was something like ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit''.)
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Extra drama was created because Greg is a relative newcomer to the cast - he replaced another rabbit because he was much cuter.
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* ShowWithinAShow: ''Sweet Knuckle Junction''. We don't see much of it, but we're not missing much; it's just a saccharine kiddie show.
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* ShowWithinAShow: ''Sweet Knuckle ''Sweetknuckle Junction''. We don't see much of it, but we're not missing much; it's just a saccharine kiddie show.
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''Greg The the Bunny'' was a SitCom set in a world where humans and puppets coexist as sentient races and interact freely. Greg the Bunny is the starring puppet of a ''Sweetknuckle Junction'', an AlternateCompanyEquivalent to ''Series/SesameStreet''; the show focused focuses on back-stage shenanigans. In this case, Greg and the others in the cast are much less innocent offstage than on, contrasting with both ''Series/TheMuppetShow'' and other puppet shows fully on the cynical end of the SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism. (The series was something like ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit''.)
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This show was greatly respected by critics but didn't get enough of an audience. It did one season on Creator/{{FOX}} and two on the Independent Film Channel...
Greg and the crew returned in Creator/{{MTV}}'s ''Warren The Ape'', which aired for one season in 2010.
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This show was greatly respected by critics but didn't get enough of an audience. It did aired for one season (2002) on Creator/{{FOX}} and two (2005–06) on the Independent Film Channel...
Creator/{{IFC}}. Greg and the crew returned in Creator/{{MTV}}'s ''Warren The the Ape'', which aired for one season in 2010.2010.
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** In one episode, Allison refuses to let Jack star in a movie that would put his character in a bad light. Allison then gets stalked. [[spoiler:After she learns she is being stalked by somebody who is not Jack, Jack shows up and stops him, before revealing that the reason he knew she was in trouble was because he actually was stalking her. Though it is possible he only saved her in the hopes that she would approve of him being in that movie.]]
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** Subverted in another episode, in which Allison refuses to approve of Jack starring in a movie that would make his role on the show look bad, and she starts getting stalked by who she thinks is Jack. [[spoiler: It ends up being a songwriter who Gil fired [[ScapegoatCreator but put the blame]] on her... And she ends up being saved by Jack, who reveals that he actually WAS stalking her, which is how he knew to stop him.]]
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* Gambler Groupies: Warren the Ape and Greg attract arm candy at the blackjack table after Warren learns Greg is a Rainmanesque card counter.
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* BrickJoke: Greg is at Dottie's house for a rehearsal that's really a date, and Greg brought a cute gift.
-->'''Dottie:''' Most guys bring me tequila!
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-->'''Dottie:''' LOTS of tequila!
-->'''Dottie:''' Most guys bring me tequila!
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-->'''Dottie:''' LOTS of tequila!
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* DirtyOldMan: Count Blah.Blah occasionally comes across as this, though he's really all talk and no action. Turns out he's a widower who still misses his wife and feels he'd be cheating on her if he actually ''did'' anything with anyone.
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* JerkAss: Warren, who may have a HiddenHeartOfGold ''somewhere'' in there, but you'd have to spend some time actually looking for it. Mostly he's just completely self-centered and doesn't care overly much about anyone else.
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* JerkAss: Warren, who does get the occasional PetTheDog moment, and who may have a HiddenHeartOfGold ''somewhere'' in there, there... but you'd have to spend some time actually looking for it. that heart of gold. Mostly he's just completely self-centered and doesn't care overly much about anyone else.more than a little spiteful.
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* ChirpingCrickets: Parodied in one episode. When Gil tries to tell jokes as Rochester's roast, he's met with unamused silence from everyone, and the sound of a chirping cricket. The camera then cuts to a puppet cricket, who looks at everyone else and says "Yo, back off! The guy's funny!"
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* NiceGuy: Greg, while not as sweet and innocent as his ''Sweetknuckle Junction'' on-screen persona, is still the nicest, least cynical person on the show, bordering on WideEyedIdealist at times.
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** Greg, while not as sweet and innocent as his ''Sweetknuckle Junction'' on-screen persona, is still the nicest, least cynical person on the show, bordering on WideEyedIdealist attimes.times.
** Dottie is also very sweet-natured. In the pilot episode she borders on ExtremeDoormat, but she gets better.
** Greg, while not as sweet and innocent as his ''Sweetknuckle Junction'' on-screen persona, is still the nicest, least cynical person on the show, bordering on WideEyedIdealist at
** Dottie is also very sweet-natured. In the pilot episode she borders on ExtremeDoormat, but she gets better.
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** Subverted in another episode, in which Allison refuses to approve of Jack starring in a movie that would make his role on the show look bad, and she starts getting stalked by who she thinks is Jack. [[spoiler: It ends up being a songwriter who Gil fired [[ScapegoatCreator but put the blame]] on her... And she ends up being saved by Jack, who reveals that he actually WAS stalking her, which is how he knew to stop him.]]
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* DispoportionateRetribution: When Warren thinks Allison has rejected his request to work Shakespeare into the show, he pees in her car.
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This show was greatly respected by critics, but didn't get enough of an audience. It did one season on Creator/{{FOX}} and two on the Independent Film Channel...
Greg and the crew returned in Creator/{{MTV}}'s''Warren The Ape'', which aired for one season in 2010.
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This show was greatly respected by critics, critics but didn't get enough of an audience. It did one season on Creator/{{FOX}} and two on the Independent Film Channel...
Greg and the crew returned inCreator/{{MTV}}'s''Warren Creator/{{MTV}}'s ''Warren The Ape'', which aired for one season in 2010.
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* OutOfOrder: There was a break in production between the sixth and seventh episodes produced, at which point changes were made (most notably changing Greg's eyes), and yet the show was broadcast out of order, so in one episode Greg will have button eyes, and in the next he'll have much different eyes.
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* AscendedExtra: Tardy Turtle was originally only supposed to appear in one scene, but got a big laugh (and made one of the cast members mess up by laughing on-camera for the first time)and was then featured in nearly every episode (in fact, his scene in the first episode was added later in production). For the first six episodes, Tardy was often only in one scene, but during the second half of production, he's used a lot more.
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->''"We're Just Like You!"''
''Greg The Bunny'' was a SitCom set in a world where humans and puppets coexist as sentient races and interact freely. Greg the Bunny is the starring puppet of a AlternateCompanyEquivalent to ''Series/SesameStreet''; the show focused on back-stage shenanigans. In this case, Greg and the others in the cast are much less innocent offstage than on, contrasting with both ''Series/TheMuppetShow'' and other puppet shows fully on the cynical end of the SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism. (The series was something like ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit''.)
Extra drama was created because Greg is a relative newcomer to the cast - he replaced another rabbit because he was much cuter.
Despite the relative cynicism, this show did have heartwarming moments and good spoofs thereof.
This show was greatly respected by critics, but didn't get enough of an audience. It did one season on Creator/{{FOX}} and two on the Independent Film Channel...
Greg and the crew return in the new Creator/{{MTV}} show ''WarrenTheApe''.
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!!Tropes:
* AffectionateParody: Made up almost the entirety of the [=IFC=] series.
* TheAlcoholic: Warren is not shy about his drinking, and Rochester hits the bottle hard when he reappears. [[spoiler: In the latter case, it turned his wake into [[TheFunInFuneral a landlocked version of a Viking funeral]].]]
* AlternateCompanyEquivalent
* BonusEpisode: Two of the 13 episodes did not air before the show was cancelled, but appear on the DVD release.
* BuriedAlive: Greg gets nightmares about Rochester burning him alive in his on-set rabbit hole after replacing him.
* CaptainErsatz: Several, the most obvious being Count Blah, a parody of the Count from ''Series/SesameStreet'' (whom Blah accuses of stealing his act and his chance to be a regular on ''Sesame Street'').
** In the first episode Alison [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] Greg's parallel role on ''Sweetknuckle Junction'' to Elmo's on ''Sesame Street'', hoping to garner similar appeal when hiring him.
* ChekhovsGun: [[ItMakesSenseInContext Sammy Davis Jr.'s eyeballs]] in "The Jewel Heist."
* ChekhovsGunman: In one episode, Gil tells a songwriter that Allison had him fire him (in actuality, Gil hated the song). [[spoiler: This leads to that songwriter stalking Allison, who had thought Jack was stalking her over not allowing him to appear in a movie that would damage the shows reputation.]]
* ClassicallyTrainedExtra: InUniverse, Warren the Ape, who isn't particularly fond of being [[{{Pun}} second banana]] on a children's show.
* DirtyOldMan: Count Blah.
* TheDitz: Tardy the Turtle. So much so that you can say Tardy the Turtle's non sequiturs in [[Franchise/TheSimpsons Ralph Wiggum]]'s voice and it wouldn't seem out of character.
-->'''Tardy:''' Crayons taste like purple.
* DumbBlonde: Dottie is viewed as this, to her great frustration, but the trope is subverted -- while she's not the brainy girl she sometimes tries to present herself as, she ''is'' a lot smarter than she's given credit for.
* EngineeredPublicConfession
* ExecutiveMeddling: Both InUniverse and out. The network insisted on toning down the show's edgier aspects, making it much more "sitcommy" than the creators wanted.
* FakeNationality: In-universe, Count Blah accuses [[Series/SesameStreet Count von Count]] of posing as a Romanian.
-->'''Count Blah:''' He's not even Romanian, he's freaking Italian, and he knows it, blah!
* {{Fanservice}}: Dottie in her new outfit in "SK 2.0".
* FantasticRacism: Greg the Bunny mentions in the first episode that puppets ("Fabricated-Americans") have trouble finding work and dating outside of their species because of their appearance. In fact, a lot of episodes (particularly "Sock Like Me" and "Greg Gets Puppish" on the FOX series) hammer this point home.
* FantasticSlur: "Sock" has the same racially offensive weight as, say, the n-word for black people. Greg at one point explicitly compares his usage of it to Creator/RichardPryor's usage of the n-word.
* FreudianExcuse: [[spoiler: Junction Jack's mild anti-puppet prejudice comes from his mother running out on his father and abandoning him for another man... who was a puppet]]. Notably, the character in question acts like it's an explanation but not a justification.
* FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire: Count Blah, though his vampirism is brought up about as often as Count von Count's.
* FurryConfusion
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Greg and Jimmy are roommates who do pretty much everything together.
* HumanFocusedAdaptation: The FOX series, thanks to ExecutiveMeddling.
* HypocriticalHumor: When a mediator asks Jimmy to name a stereotype about puppets, he says "You all like tartar sauce," which all of the puppets object to... before every single one admits that they do. As a BrickJoke, the fake PSA for puppet-human acceptance at the end of that episode gives a website that mentions this as well.
* JerkAss: Warren
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: It's buried in there, but the actor for Junction Jack has his nice points - in fact, he can act like a mentor for Greg at points.
* LoudOfWar: When Jimmy refuses to use his connections to help Greg get a job on the set of ''Sweetknuckle Junction'', Greg says, "Jimmy Jimmy Jimmy" incessantly until Jimmy relents.
* ManChild: Dottie's public persona; Her actual personality bounces between this and an average girl frustrated by TypeCasting due to uneven characterization.
* {{Mooning}}: Count Blah moons his boss in a clip shown as part of the opening credits.
* NiceCharacterMeanActor: Both Junction Jack and Warren have traits of this, being friendly and jovial on-screen but being far less so off-screen.
* NiceGuy: Greg, while not as sweet and innocent as his ''Sweetknuckle Junction'' on-screen persona, is still the nicest, least cynical person on the show, bordering on WideEyedIdealist at times.
* NoodleIncident: Several with Greg and Jimmy. Frequent references and flashbacks only giving snippets of what might have happened to their lives before and even during the show.
-->''Jimmy:'' You're the king of phases, Greg. Remember that time you tried Bhuddism?
-->''Greg:'' I achieved enlightenment, didn't I?
-->''Jimmy:'' Yeah. And then you traded it. For a clarinet.
** On the episode featuring GuestStar Corey Feldman, upon discovering himself chased by cops in Warren's car, he panics and states "I cannot be caught with puppet porn ''again''!"
* OhCrap: The look on Warren's face when he bends over and hears the distinct sound of tearing.
* OperationJealousy: Jimmy attempts this by flirting with Susan (while female, similar in build and voice to Sweetums from the Muppets) to hopefully get Alison's attention. It doesn't work quite like he expected.
* PaintBallEpisode: "The Jewel Heist"
* PasteEater: Tardy the Turtle has eaten everything from crayons, to drumsticks (the musical kind), to paintballs.
-->'''Tardy''': "The green ones make me horny!"
** Said quote is a ShoutOut to an [[UrbanLegends Urban Legend]] about green [=M&Ms=].
* ReallyGetsAround: Dottie certainly has this reputation, though it's probably exaggerated.
* RealMenWearPink: [[spoiler: on the episode, "Surprise!" Junction Jack comes to his own surprise party dressed as a woman after a fellow member of his gun club recommends cross-dressing to him as a way to be a better gunman]].
* TheRoast: [[spoiler:Rochester]] gets roasted, [[TheFunInFuneral in all senses of the word]], at his funeral. The planned roast that actually fits the trope includes a blooper reel "starring" him.
* ShoutOut: By the truckload, but most notable is the ''Film/ReservoirDogs'' bit in "The Singing Mailman".
* ShowWithinAShow: ''Sweet Knuckle Junction''. We don't see much of it, but we're not missing much; it's just a saccharine kiddie show.
* SmallNameBigEgo: Warren [=DeMontague=], due in no small part to being a frustrated classical actor.
* SmellySkunk: In the episode "Father & Son Reunion", Blah gets sprayed by a puppet skunk.
* SpeechImpediment: Greg speaks with a slight lisp that makes his "esses" sound more like "eshesh," and that accents his youthful character.
* VerbalTic:
** Count Blah typically ends his sentences, with "blah".
** Not quite verbal, but Tardy usually makes a squeaking sound at the end of his sentences.
* WellDoneSonGuy: Jimmy shows shades of this in his more vulnerable moments.
* YoungerAndHipper: Alison wants to make ''Sweetknuckle Junction'' this, and part of her reason for hiring Greg is to "appeal to a younger audience." Gil points out that the show's already targeted at four-year-olds.
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->''"We're Just Like You!"''
''Greg The Bunny'' was a SitCom set in a world where humans and puppets coexist as sentient races and interact freely. Greg the Bunny is the starring puppet of a AlternateCompanyEquivalent to ''Series/SesameStreet''; the show focused on back-stage shenanigans. In this case, Greg and the others in the cast are much less innocent offstage than on, contrasting with both ''Series/TheMuppetShow'' and other puppet shows fully on the cynical end of the SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism. (The series was something like ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit''.)
Extra drama was created because Greg is a relative newcomer to the cast - he replaced another rabbit because he was much cuter.
Despite the relative cynicism, this show did have heartwarming moments and good spoofs thereof.
This show was greatly respected by critics, but didn't get enough of an audience. It did one season on Creator/{{FOX}} and two on the Independent Film Channel...
Greg and the crew return in the new Creator/{{MTV}} show ''WarrenTheApe''.
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* AffectionateParody: Made up almost the entirety of the [=IFC=] series.
* TheAlcoholic: Warren is not shy about his drinking, and Rochester hits the bottle hard when he reappears. [[spoiler: In the latter case, it turned his wake into [[TheFunInFuneral a landlocked version of a Viking funeral]].]]
* AlternateCompanyEquivalent
* BonusEpisode: Two of the 13 episodes did not air before the show was cancelled, but appear on the DVD release.
* BuriedAlive: Greg gets nightmares about Rochester burning him alive in his on-set rabbit hole after replacing him.
* CaptainErsatz: Several, the most obvious being Count Blah, a parody of the Count from ''Series/SesameStreet'' (whom Blah accuses of stealing his act and his chance to be a regular on ''Sesame Street'').
** In the first episode Alison [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] Greg's parallel role on ''Sweetknuckle Junction'' to Elmo's on ''Sesame Street'', hoping to garner similar appeal when hiring him.
* ChekhovsGun: [[ItMakesSenseInContext Sammy Davis Jr.'s eyeballs]] in "The Jewel Heist."
* ChekhovsGunman: In one episode, Gil tells a songwriter that Allison had him fire him (in actuality, Gil hated the song). [[spoiler: This leads to that songwriter stalking Allison, who had thought Jack was stalking her over not allowing him to appear in a movie that would damage the shows reputation.]]
* ClassicallyTrainedExtra: InUniverse, Warren the Ape, who isn't particularly fond of being [[{{Pun}} second banana]] on a children's show.
* DirtyOldMan: Count Blah.
* TheDitz: Tardy the Turtle. So much so that you can say Tardy the Turtle's non sequiturs in [[Franchise/TheSimpsons Ralph Wiggum]]'s voice and it wouldn't seem out of character.
-->'''Tardy:''' Crayons taste like purple.
* DumbBlonde: Dottie is viewed as this, to her great frustration, but the trope is subverted -- while she's not the brainy girl she sometimes tries to present herself as, she ''is'' a lot smarter than she's given credit for.
* EngineeredPublicConfession
* ExecutiveMeddling: Both InUniverse and out. The network insisted on toning down the show's edgier aspects, making it much more "sitcommy" than the creators wanted.
* FakeNationality: In-universe, Count Blah accuses [[Series/SesameStreet Count von Count]] of posing as a Romanian.
-->'''Count Blah:''' He's not even Romanian, he's freaking Italian, and he knows it, blah!
* {{Fanservice}}: Dottie in her new outfit in "SK 2.0".
* FantasticRacism: Greg the Bunny mentions in the first episode that puppets ("Fabricated-Americans") have trouble finding work and dating outside of their species because of their appearance. In fact, a lot of episodes (particularly "Sock Like Me" and "Greg Gets Puppish" on the FOX series) hammer this point home.
* FantasticSlur: "Sock" has the same racially offensive weight as, say, the n-word for black people. Greg at one point explicitly compares his usage of it to Creator/RichardPryor's usage of the n-word.
* FreudianExcuse: [[spoiler: Junction Jack's mild anti-puppet prejudice comes from his mother running out on his father and abandoning him for another man... who was a puppet]]. Notably, the character in question acts like it's an explanation but not a justification.
* FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire: Count Blah, though his vampirism is brought up about as often as Count von Count's.
* FurryConfusion
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Greg and Jimmy are roommates who do pretty much everything together.
* HumanFocusedAdaptation: The FOX series, thanks to ExecutiveMeddling.
* HypocriticalHumor: When a mediator asks Jimmy to name a stereotype about puppets, he says "You all like tartar sauce," which all of the puppets object to... before every single one admits that they do. As a BrickJoke, the fake PSA for puppet-human acceptance at the end of that episode gives a website that mentions this as well.
* JerkAss: Warren
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: It's buried in there, but the actor for Junction Jack has his nice points - in fact, he can act like a mentor for Greg at points.
* LoudOfWar: When Jimmy refuses to use his connections to help Greg get a job on the set of ''Sweetknuckle Junction'', Greg says, "Jimmy Jimmy Jimmy" incessantly until Jimmy relents.
* ManChild: Dottie's public persona; Her actual personality bounces between this and an average girl frustrated by TypeCasting due to uneven characterization.
* {{Mooning}}: Count Blah moons his boss in a clip shown as part of the opening credits.
* NiceCharacterMeanActor: Both Junction Jack and Warren have traits of this, being friendly and jovial on-screen but being far less so off-screen.
* NiceGuy: Greg, while not as sweet and innocent as his ''Sweetknuckle Junction'' on-screen persona, is still the nicest, least cynical person on the show, bordering on WideEyedIdealist at times.
* NoodleIncident: Several with Greg and Jimmy. Frequent references and flashbacks only giving snippets of what might have happened to their lives before and even during the show.
-->''Jimmy:'' You're the king of phases, Greg. Remember that time you tried Bhuddism?
-->''Greg:'' I achieved enlightenment, didn't I?
-->''Jimmy:'' Yeah. And then you traded it. For a clarinet.
** On the episode featuring GuestStar Corey Feldman, upon discovering himself chased by cops in Warren's car, he panics and states "I cannot be caught with puppet porn ''again''!"
* OhCrap: The look on Warren's face when he bends over and hears the distinct sound of tearing.
* OperationJealousy: Jimmy attempts this by flirting with Susan (while female, similar in build and voice to Sweetums from the Muppets) to hopefully get Alison's attention. It doesn't work quite like he expected.
* PaintBallEpisode: "The Jewel Heist"
* PasteEater: Tardy the Turtle has eaten everything from crayons, to drumsticks (the musical kind), to paintballs.
-->'''Tardy''': "The green ones make me horny!"
** Said quote is a ShoutOut to an [[UrbanLegends Urban Legend]] about green [=M&Ms=].
* ReallyGetsAround: Dottie certainly has this reputation, though it's probably exaggerated.
* RealMenWearPink: [[spoiler: on the episode, "Surprise!" Junction Jack comes to his own surprise party dressed as a woman after a fellow member of his gun club recommends cross-dressing to him as a way to be a better gunman]].
* TheRoast: [[spoiler:Rochester]] gets roasted, [[TheFunInFuneral in all senses of the word]], at his funeral. The planned roast that actually fits the trope includes a blooper reel "starring" him.
* ShoutOut: By the truckload, but most notable is the ''Film/ReservoirDogs'' bit in "The Singing Mailman".
* ShowWithinAShow: ''Sweet Knuckle Junction''. We don't see much of it, but we're not missing much; it's just a saccharine kiddie show.
* SmallNameBigEgo: Warren [=DeMontague=], due in no small part to being a frustrated classical actor.
* SmellySkunk: In the episode "Father & Son Reunion", Blah gets sprayed by a puppet skunk.
* SpeechImpediment: Greg speaks with a slight lisp that makes his "esses" sound more like "eshesh," and that accents his youthful character.
* VerbalTic:
** Count Blah typically ends his sentences, with "blah".
** Not quite verbal, but Tardy usually makes a squeaking sound at the end of his sentences.
* WellDoneSonGuy: Jimmy shows shades of this in his more vulnerable moments.
* YoungerAndHipper: Alison wants to make ''Sweetknuckle Junction'' this, and part of her reason for hiring Greg is to "appeal to a younger audience." Gil points out that the show's already targeted at four-year-olds.
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