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[[DownerEnding It was cancelled after a 2 season run in late 2014]].

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[[DownerEnding [[TooGoodToLast It was cancelled after a 2 season run in late 2014]].2014.]]
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** Little Orphan Arnold does this to Mr. Drummond with a rocket launcher.
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*** After [[ItMakesSenseInContext O.J. Simpson is hit by a comet]], Black Dynamite delivers a mirrors another one of his lines from the movie.

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-->'''Black Dynamite:''' HA-HAH!! I THREW THAT ROCK BEFORE I LEFT THE MOON!!

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-->'''Black Dynamite:''' HA-HAH!! I THREW THAT ROCK BEFORE I LEFT THE MOON!!''MOON!!''


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** ''A Crisis For Christmas: or The Dark Side Of The Dark Side Of The Moon''
*** After [[ItMakesSenseInContext O.J. Simpson is hit by a comet]], Black Dynamite delivers a mirrors another one of his lines from the movie.
--> '''Black Dynamite:''' HA-HAH!! I THREW THAT ROCK BEFORE I LEFT THE ''MOON!!''
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It was cancelled after a 2 season run in late 2014.

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[[DownerEnding It was cancelled after a 2 season run in late 2014.2014]].

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* {{Kiai}}: Black Dynamite himself shouts "SOOEEEY!" whenever he's laying a beatdown.



** Black Dynamite himself shouts "SOOEEEY!" whenever he's laying a beatdown, for some reason.
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* ParallelPornTitles: The second episode has examples in the form of ''[[Film/BigTroubleInLittleChina Big Trouble in Little Vagina]]'', ''[[Film/OceansEleven Ocean's Eleven Inches]]'', and, for an example relevant to the story, ''[[Film/WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory Willy Wanker and the Chocolate Fucktory]]''. The episode's title: ''[[BoogieNights Bullhorn Nights]], [[EitherOrTitle or]] [[MurderSheWrote Murder, She Throats]]''.

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* ParallelPornTitles: The second episode has examples in the form of ''[[Film/BigTroubleInLittleChina Big Trouble in Little Vagina]]'', ''[[Film/OceansEleven Ocean's Eleven Inches]]'', and, for an example relevant to the story, ''[[Film/WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory Willy Wanker and the Chocolate Fucktory]]''. The episode's title: ''[[BoogieNights ''[[Film/BoogieNights Bullhorn Nights]], [[EitherOrTitle or]] [[MurderSheWrote [[Series/MurderSheWrote Murder, She Throats]]''.
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* {{Animesque}}: The animation style is particularly influenced by Adult Swim's other black Animesque show, ''{{WesternAnimation/The Boondocks}}''. The second season even has an intro animated by StudioTrigger.

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* {{Animesque}}: The animation style is particularly influenced by Adult Swim's other black Animesque show, ''{{WesternAnimation/The Boondocks}}''. The second season even has an intro animated by StudioTrigger.Creator/StudioTrigger.

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--> '''Black Dynamite:''' *Hanging up a "Happy Birthday" banner* "Now see, this can't say birthday. We can't have the orphans thinking about how they was once birthed, 'cuz that will remind them of their mama's vagina, which is connected to a mama." *Takes "Birth" off the banner* "Better. Although now that I think of it, each of those orphans was born on a day." *Takes "Day" off the banner* "Hmm... do y'all think happy is too close to pappy?"

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--> '''Black Dynamite:''' *Hanging (Hanging up a "Happy Birthday" banner* banner) "Now see, this can't say birthday. We can't have the orphans thinking about how they was once birthed, 'cuz that will remind them of their mama's vagina, which is connected to a mama." *Takes (Takes "Birth" off the banner* banner) "Better. Although now that I think of it, each of those orphans was born on a day." *Takes (Takes "Day" off the banner* banner) "Hmm... do y'all think happy is too close to pappy?"

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Cancelled after a 2 season run.

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* CelebrityParadox: SeanConnery!James Bond ends up getting into a fistfight with Roger Moore!James Bond when they meet each other in the same Casino.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: The show expands somewhat on almost every featured major character In particular, Honey Bee has acquired ActionGirl status.

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* CelebrityParadox: SeanConnery!James Bond Creator/SeanConnery!Film/JamesBond ends up getting into a fistfight with Roger Moore!James Creator/RogerMoore!James Bond when they meet each other in the same Casino.
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* CharacterizationMarchesOn: The show expands somewhat on almost every featured major character character. In particular, Honey Bee has acquired ActionGirl status.
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* ImmediateSelfContradiction: When Honey Bee is having trouble with the orphans, Black Dynamite suggests punching them in the throat. Honey Bee says that she could never hurt the orphans, but when a ball hits her she says "Little Orphan Arnold! I'm gonna punch you in the throat."
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* OffToSeeTheWizard: The hour long musical episode ''"The Wizard of Watts" or "Oz Ain't Got S&@# On The Wiz"'', where Black Dynamite finds himself in "A blacker version of ''Film/TheWiz''"
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* SequelEpisode: The last episode of season 1 "Seed of Kurtis" serves as a sequel to the {{pilot}} episode "Trouble on Puppet Street".
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* ImThinkingItOver: In "That's Influenza, Sucka!", Black Dynamite realizes that the only way to stop the train is to have everyone throw their jewelry into the furnace. When they all hesitate, he asks them if they'd rather die and one of them says "Damn it, would you let a pimp think?"
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** Black Dynamite. Especially whenever the Whorephans are put in danger.
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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Averted. This series uses actual celebrities and politicians who were prominent in the 1970s.

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* BorrowedCatchphrase: Though it's not so much who's saying it that's borrowed as it is who it's being said to.
-->'''Mister Drummond:''' (just moments before being launched into the top of a stadium) Little orphan Arnold... ''you ain't shit.''



** The child protective service bitch tries to get Cream Corn to turn tricks so the whorephanage passes an inspection; Cream Corn replies thusly:
-->"First of all, hell. Second of all, no. Thirdly, ''hell no!''"



* DestinationDefenestration: Come second season, Black Dynamite has a tendency to kick people out of windows.



* GladiatorGames: The Hunger Pain Games, in which [[AristocratsAreEvil rich white people abduct black orphans and force them to fight each other to the death]] for food.



* MeatOVision: Little orphan Arnold starts seeing his brother as a slice of pound cake, his hunger slowly getting to him.



** An elderly bitch from child protective services will attempt to shut the whorephanage down for countless violations, and only after accepting favors from Cream Corn (which he's non-consensual towards) does she let the whorephanage slide (season 1's ''Honky Kong'' and season 2's ''Diff'rent Folks, Same Strokes'').



* PhraseCatcher: "Black Dynamite, you ain't '''shit!'''"
* PinPullingTeeth: BD does this after he gets swallowed whole by a giant anaconda. BD is no worse for wear after the explosion, save for the entrails draped across his body.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Racer Rex, who gets lampshaded for his racism after he fires smallpox-laced blankets at the Native American racers.



* PinPullingTeeth: BD does this after he gets swallowed whole by a giant anaconda. BD is no worse for wear after the explosion, save for the entrails draped across his body.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Racer Rex, who gets lampshaded for his racism after he fires smallpox-laced blankets at the Native American racers.


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* UnfortunateImplications: After the whorephanage's children are all adopted, Black Dynamite tries to fill the void by playing with children whose parents are still alive; said children are less then enthused when this stranger drives up to them in a Cadillac and offers them candy. [[invoked]]
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* ClothingCombat: Black Dynamite and Mr. Rogers face off using the ancient art of Cardigan Kung-Fu.
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** Don Cornelius falling asleep in the middle of his lines in ''American Band Standoff''.

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** In "American Band Standoff", James Brown talks to Don Cornelius in the form of gibberish that sounds like scat singing. At the end, as Cornelius thanks James for living up to an agreement they made earlier in the episode, he briefly uses the same gibberish James used in the first conversation.



** The same theme used in Leroy Van Nuys' reveal is later used while Mr. [=McFeely=] is telling Black Dynamite about his time with Mr. Rogers.

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** *** The same theme used in Leroy Van Nuys' reveal is later used while Mr. [=McFeely=] is telling Black Dynamite about his time with Mr. Rogers.Rogers.
** ''American Band Standoff or The Godfather of Soooul Train or Get On Your Goodfellas''
*** The music used in the dance-off at the end of the episode is the same theme used in the movie, during Black Dynamite's slugfest at the Hip Pocket.
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* BetterThanSex: Bullhorn says this about working in the porno industry. The FridgeLogic is certainly intentional.
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** To add two insults to Cream Corn's injury, the Whorephanage passed inspection but [[{{BiggerIsBetterInBed}} the facility was considered too small]] and [[{{Squick}} she still had her dentures on Cream Corn's]]...
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*** By the end of the episode, he's learned that the orphans are old enough not to be bothered by those vague reminders... so he goes the ''opposite'' extreme, and gets each orphan a present directly related to how they were orphaned. Like a toy car the exact same make and model that Little Orphan Willis' parents crashed in.

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*** ** By the end of the episode, he's learned that the orphans are old enough not to be bothered by those vague reminders... so he goes the ''opposite'' extreme, and gets each orphan a present directly related to how they were orphaned. Like a toy car the exact same make and model that Little Orphan Willis' parents crashed in.
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** In the same episode, Black Dynamite was trying to arrange a birthday party for the orphans, and did everything he could not to remind them of their lost parents. This started with avoiding any baby or mommy dolls, but then escalated to avoiding Stretch Armstrong (who would remind them of the hugs they never got) or Simon toys (which would teach them to remember things, like their dead parents).
--> '''Black Dynamite:''' *Hanging up a "Happy Birthday" banner* "Now see, this can't say birthday. We can't have the orphans thinking about how they was once birthed, 'cuz that will remind them of their mama's vagina, which is connected to a mama." *Takes "Birth" off the banner* "Better. Although now that I think of it, each of those orphans was born on a day." *Takes "Day" off the banner* "Hmm... do y'all think happy is too close to pappy?"
*** By the end of the episode, he's learned that the orphans are old enough not to be bothered by those vague reminders... so he goes the ''opposite'' extreme, and gets each orphan a present directly related to how they were orphaned. Like a toy car the exact same make and model that Little Orphan Willis' parents crashed in.
--> '''Black Dynamite:''' "And Little Orphan Stevie, we got you a pair of track shoes to remind you of how quick your daddy ran out of your life!"

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*** During Rev. Dynamites service, one of the pimps says the line "but Rev. Dynamite, we sell hoes to the community," echoing one of the more famous lines from the Movie

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*** During Rev. Dynamites service, one of the pimps says the line "but Rev. Dynamite, we sell hoes to the community," echoing one of the more famous lines from the Moviemovie.
** ''Sweet Bill's Badass Singalong Song or Bill Cosby Ain't Himself''
*** After Black Dynamite interrupts an act at a comedy club, the rest of the patrons are waiting for him to try his hand at stand-up, with which BD references one of his lines from the movie:
-->"So I said to the chinaman, 'I threw that shit before I walked in the room!'"

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