History Series / MythicQuest

** ''Playpen'', Poppy's solo project, is a game with simplistic graphics and massive addiction potential which allows the players to create their own minigames, just like ''VideoGame/{{Roblox}}''. While the game is a huge success in RealLife, [[ItWillNeverCatchOn Poppy's investors are having none of it.]]

* RealLifeWritesThePlot: [[UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic COVID]]...
** The shot-at-home BottleEpisode "Quarantine"
** Rachel's hair goes gray in "Quarantine" because Creator/AshlyBurch could not get it dyed during quarantine. The character's hair remains gray even after the return to the Mythic Quest office.
** C.W. is only shown through screens in season two due to concerns of the octogenarian actor Creator/FMurrayAbraham contracting COVID onset.

** C.W. is only shown through screen's in season two due to concerns of the octogenarian actor Creator/FMurrayAbraham contracted COVID onset.

** Darla and Poppy play a game on ''Playpen'' that has their avatars picking chocolate off a treadmill. When Darla notes it's like the classic scene from ''Series/ILoveLucy'', Poppy says "I'm not up on queer culture."

** In his [[spoiler: farewell note, C.W. says he's going to end his life on his own germs by driving his car into the Grand Canyon, "something that has never been done before." Everyone instantly notes that's the ending to ''Film/ThelmaAndLouise''.]]

* RootingFOrTheEmpire: In-universe and literally with Brad.

* ItsAllAboutMe: Ian for sure, called out on it constantly by everyone. Notably when [[spoiler: his own son notes Ian has spent their entire conversation talking about himself in their difficult relationship]].
* ItsBeenDone: C.W. excitedly comes up with a backstory for the Masked Man, only for Ian to realize that it's just the plot of the original ''Franchise/StarWars'' trilogy.

* PopCulturalOsmosisFailure: The second episode reveals that C.W. has never seen or heard of ''Franchise/StarWars''.

* MagnumOpusDissonance: Season 3 has Poppy obsessed with ''Hera,'' which she thinks is the next big gaming epic. She has some coders test it only to be thrown when they say that while the game is technically perfect, it's just not fun to play. Meanwhile, ''Playpen,'' a little puzzle mess that Poppy openly calls "a piece of shit" from unused data, ends up becoming addictive to anyone who plays it.

* ActorAllusion: [[Creator/DannyPudi Brad]] discusses his dream to own [[PooledFunds his own money bin]] just like [[WesternAnimation/{{Ducktales}} Scrooge McDuck]]. His actor previously played Huey Duck in the [[WesternAnimation/Ducktales2017 2017 reboot]] of ''Ducktales''.

** The most simple gambit for Brad occurs during the quarantine episode. David wants to make a $100,000 donation to charity, but Brad refuses on the grounds that he doesn't do charity, as he gets nothing out of it. David offers to play him in ''VideoGame/StreetFighter'' as a bet; if David wins, Brad has to make the donation, but if Brad wins, David has to shave one of his eyebrows. After David loses, he begs to go again, so Brad ups the stakes to $300,000, and if David loses, he also has to shave his moustache. Brad wins, resulting in David shaving; Brad then reveals afterwards that he made the donation anyway, and in fact, was ''always'' going to make it - he just wanted David's dignity for it, and knew that David wouldn't be able to refuse the bet.

* FromTheMouthsOfBabes: "Sarian" shows that as 10-year-olds, Ian and Poppy had surprisingly foul mouths for their ages. Their parents don't seem overly concerned about this: Ian's principal scolds him for his language but Ian's mom doesn't seem to mind, and while Poppy's dad scolds her for saying, "Shit!" he is more approving [[DoWrongRight when she says "shit" in Tagalog.]]

* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Everyone hates Brad but they tolerate him because his money-grubbing ideas work and he controls the company's finances.

* TookALevelInJerkAss: In Season Three, Dana goes from being a level-headed, generally sweet GamerChick to spending most of her time arrogantly ignoring or insulting the people who hired her. Twice, since she goes from working at MQ to working at [=GrimPop=].

** For Jo, it's anyone she deems to be challenging or disrespecting Ian.

* BitchInSheepsClothing: Brad's brother, Zach. He seems a genial, loveable guy who doesn't notice his brother's contempt and everyone loves him. When they're alone, it comes out he's an egotistical, manipulative, ruthless bully who cowers Brad into ''begging'' not to ruin his life.
** Zach also lied to everyone that it was Brad's birthday with a big cake... which is mocking Brad's ''eating disorder''.