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* BackupTwin: "The Tell-Tale Dick" introduces [[spoiler:Gavin's "identical but suspiciously nicer" twin brother, Guyvin]] after the former died in season one. All the characters (except Lionel, who thinks it really is [[spoiler:Gavin]]) point out that this makes total sense. [[spoiler:Guyvin ends up dying before the end of the episode.]]
-->'''Connie''': Sometimes characters have twins and that's just good storytelling.



* DontTryThisAtHome: Parodied in "The Tell-Tale Dick" after Emmy takes a used condom despite Pete's insistence not to. Maury pops up in a doctor's outfit telling the "kids" at home never to reuse condoms... then shills his own brand of reusable condoms as an exception.



* OrWasItADream: In "The Tell-Tale Dick," Pete has what appears to be a GuiltInducedNightmare about Dante's severed dick coming back to haunt him, shoving itself down Pete's throat. Pete wakes up, thinking it was a dream... then coughs up a used triple-dick condom with one sleeve torn off, implying the dream ''was'' real, much to his horror.
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* ActorAllusion: In "On the Daughterfront," Van (played by Music/MileyCyrus) mentions she knew that Series/HannahMontana and Miley Stewart were the same person, much to young Sarah's surprise.
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* BaseballEpisode: "A League of Their Hormone" is about the Hormone Monsters and Shame Wizards playing each other in a company softball league. Connie is the star of the team, but her own child competes against her as the monsters' most formidable opponent.


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* GivenNameReveal: "A League of Their Hormone" reveals Montel's surname is La[==]Beverly, a combination of their parents' surnames.


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* PortmanteauCoupleName: [[invoked]] In-universe, this provides the basis of Montel's surname, [=LaBeverly=] (their parents are Connie La[==]Cienega and Maurice Beverly).
* PopCulturePunEpisodeTitle: "A League of Their Hormone," a BaseballEpisode about the Hormone Monsters' softball league, parodying the title of the historical baseball movie ''Film/ALeagueOfTheirOwn.''

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* AlienBlood: Dante's zombie dick oozes green whenever it's stabbed, and apparently smells like chicken ceviche.



* AnthropomorphicVice: The Addiction Angel represents all kinds of addiction, not just to drugs and alcohol, but also addiction to toxic relationships and unhealthy workout habits.

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* AnthropomorphicVice: The Addiction Angel represents all kinds of addiction, not just to drugs and alcohol, but also addiction to toxic relationships and unhealthy workout habits. '


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* BecomingtheMask: Gil has Joe dress as a crab to befriend and then betray the crabs infesting Emmy's apartment. However, since Gil has been saddling Joe with all the hard work while not even promising him the good part of the everything bagel they're working to earn, while the crabs actually hear Joe out and give him a bagel themselves, Joe finds more camaraderie with the crabs.


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* TheLostLenore: Season 2 introduces Paul, whose main arc involves processing the recent death of his beloved wife, Evelyn. Walter, as his Love Bug, constantly shows him happy memories of Evelyn, but eventually Paul realizes he needs to discover himself as an independent person, and make sure Walter loves Paul beyond romanticizing his marriage to Evelyn.


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* VengefulVendingMachine: As a Hate Worm, Rochelle regularly [[EnmityWithAnObject takes her frustration out]] on the "bitch-ass vending machine-ass bitch" when it doesn't give her a soda.

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* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: Connie, as is her tendency, calls Shawn a "pickle-pulling non-pussy-picker" when he just wants to "pick [Alice's] brain."



* BackupTwin: "The Tell-Tale Dick" introduces [[spoiler:Gavin's identical but "suspiciously nicer" twin brother, Guyvin]] after the former died in season one. All the characters (except Lionel, who thinks it really is [[spoiler:Gavin]]) point out that this makes total sense.

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* BackupTwin: "The Tell-Tale Dick" introduces [[spoiler:Gavin's identical "identical but "suspiciously suspiciously nicer" twin brother, Guyvin]] after the former died in season one. All the characters (except Lionel, who thinks it really is [[spoiler:Gavin]]) point out that this makes total sense. [[spoiler:Guyvin ends up dying before the end of the episode.]]


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* CondescendingCompassion: A couple approach Alice out of nowhere during dinner and call her an "inspiration." Alice thinks they're referring to her work as an activist, but it's clear they just think her existence is "inspiring" because she's wheelchair-bound, even assuming Shawn is her "helper" or "brother" instead of her date. Alice doesn't appreciate this.


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* FakeBoobs: It's a RunningGag that people call Hope's boobs fake, especially since they're literally disco balls.


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* UndignifiedDeath: Lionel lies about [[spoiler:Gavin]]'s HeroicSacrifice during the storm to take the credit himself, claiming he actually died by urinating in fear and slipping off the building. Lionel panics that [[spoiler:Gavin's twin brother, Guyvin,]] is going to call Lionel's bluff, but after Lionel confesses the truth, [[spoiler:Guyvin ends up with Lionel's pashmina blocking his view, freaking him out as hes afraid of the dark, and dying in the exact same way, piss and all]].


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* WhamLine: Alice's dinner with Shawn seems to be going quite well, but once Shawn says "I'm not her helper, I'm her ''colleague,''" it completely ruins Alice's romantic perception of the event and everybody on Alice's team freaks out.
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* DontTryThisAtHome: Parodied in "The Tell-Tale Dick" after Emmy takes a used condom despite Pete's insistence not to. Maury pops up in a doctor's outfit telling the "kids" at home never to reuse condoms... then shills his own brand of reusable condoms as an exception.


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* InkSuitActor: Like its parent show, many of the characters are physically based off their voice actors. While this is clearer with the human actors, such as Creator/FlorencePugh as Sarah and Creator/EugeneLevy as Paul, even monsters can resemble their voice actors, as Schmitty has Creator/JonLovitz's forehead wrinkles.

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* BackupTwin: "The Tell-Tale Dick" introduces [[spoiler:Gavin's identical but "suspiciously nicer" twin brother, Guyvin]] after the former died in season one. All the characters (except Lionel) point out that this makes total sense.

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* BackupTwin: "The Tell-Tale Dick" introduces [[spoiler:Gavin's identical but "suspiciously nicer" twin brother, Guyvin]] after the former died in season one. All the characters (except Lionel) Lionel, who thinks it really is [[spoiler:Gavin]]) point out that this makes total sense.


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* OrWasItADream: In "The Tell-Tale Dick," Pete has what appears to be a GuiltInducedNightmare about Dante's severed dick coming back to haunt him, shoving itself down Pete's throat. Pete wakes up, thinking it was a dream... then coughs up a used triple-dick condom with one sleeve torn off, implying the dream ''was'' real, much to his horror.

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The series premiered on Creator/{{Netflix}} on March 18, 2022. The following month, the creators [[https://twitter.com/hrnetflix/status/1516250233805619200?s=21&t=_8RDwBa44b2PWDDyIJaZ8Q announced]] that the series had been renewed for a second season. Season two is due to air on June 9, 2023.

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The series premiered on Creator/{{Netflix}} on March 18, 2022. The following month, the creators [[https://twitter.com/hrnetflix/status/1516250233805619200?s=21&t=_8RDwBa44b2PWDDyIJaZ8Q announced]] that the series had been renewed for a second season. season, later confirmed to be the final season (with its parent show likewise confirmed to end after its final renewal for an eighth season). Season two is due to air premiered on June 9, 2023.


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* AlwaysIdenticalTwins: Gavin has an identical twin brother named Guyvin who [[spoiler:outlives him]] into Season 2. Connie lampshades that characters having identical twins makes total sense, bringing in [[ContinuityNod her twin Bonnie]], who's identical to her except for glasses and a short haircut.


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* BackupTwin: "The Tell-Tale Dick" introduces [[spoiler:Gavin's identical but "suspiciously nicer" twin brother, Guyvin]] after the former died in season one. All the characters (except Lionel) point out that this makes total sense.
-->'''Connie''': Sometimes characters have twins and that's just good storytelling.


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* FollowInMyFootsteps: In Season 2, Maury is excited for Montel to join him in the ranks of being a Hormone Monster. Unfortunately, Montel wants to be a [[spoiler:Shame Wizard]] instead, which [[FantasyForbiddingFather infuriates Maury]].

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* InterspeciesRomance: [[spoiler:Sonia falls in love with a human woman named Claudia, who's able to see her despite Sonia not being her client. Sonia plans to quit and move to Earth to live with Claudia, but she realizes that exposing Claudia to her world will only make her more dissatisfied with life.]]

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* InterspeciesRomance: InterspeciesRomance:
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[[spoiler:Sonia falls in love with a human woman named Claudia, who's able to see her despite Sonia not being her client. Sonia plans to quit and move to Earth to live with Claudia, but she realizes that exposing Claudia to her world will only make her more dissatisfied with life.]]
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** To a lesser extent the relationships between the different monsters:
*** Rita, a Shame Wizard, and Kitty, a Depression Kitty, have been having a sexual relationship for millennia.
*** Dante, an Addiction Angel, has romantic and sexual relationships with Emmy and Rochelle, who are both Love Bugs.
*** Walter, another Love Bug, has a sexual relationship with Simon Sex, a Hormone Monster, before finally becoming an OfficialCouple at the International Creature Convention.
*** Cat Stevens, a Depression Kitty, jokes about having Love Bug ancestry. There's also some ship tease between him and Emmy.
*** Pete, a Logic Rock, has a crush on Rochelle.
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The series premiered on Creator/{{Netflix}} on March 18, 2022. The following month, the creators [[https://twitter.com/hrnetflix/status/1516250233805619200?s=21&t=_8RDwBa44b2PWDDyIJaZ8Q announced]] that the series had been renewed for a second season.

'''Previews:''' [[https://youtu.be/TAyIrLRT-vA Announcement teaser]], [[https://youtu.be/UN9pJGS_DSg Recruitment teaser]], [[https://youtu.be/kkKIh3d1MyI Official clip]], [[https://youtu.be/m1Dhf4O4iEk Official trailer]]

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The series premiered on Creator/{{Netflix}} on March 18, 2022. The following month, the creators [[https://twitter.com/hrnetflix/status/1516250233805619200?s=21&t=_8RDwBa44b2PWDDyIJaZ8Q announced]] that the series had been renewed for a second season.

season. Season two is due to air on June 9, 2023.

'''Previews:''' [[https://youtu.be/TAyIrLRT-vA Announcement teaser]], [[https://youtu.be/UN9pJGS_DSg Recruitment teaser]], [[https://youtu.be/kkKIh3d1MyI Official clip]], [[https://youtu.be/m1Dhf4O4iEk Official trailer]]
trailer]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7KJdjG9HRc Season two announcement]]
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* OpeningShoutOut: In "It's Almost Over," Connie segues into the credits as part of her talk show: "Coming up next, Janelle Monae sings a song while we look at a list of actors I've done butt-stuff with!"

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* BizarreAlienReproduction:
** Addiction Angels have three penises.
** Hormone Monsters have "unisex wombs" and can impregnate each other regardless of biological sex. Safe sex entails reciting "No baby, no baby, no baby" to themselves as they climax.

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* BizarreAlienReproduction:
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BizarreAlienReproduction: Hormone Monsters have "unisex wombs" and can impregnate each other regardless of biological sex. Safe sex entails reciting "No baby, no baby, no baby" to themselves as they climax.


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* ExoticEquipment: Addiction Angels have three penises, making them even more sexually alluring.
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* BeatWithoutABut: After saving Maury from a flooded bathroom, Connie discusses her feelings on [[spoiler:Maury having her baby]]. As in, she's still against it.
-->'''Connie''': I thought I wanted total freedom to go be a hot adventure bitch.
-->'''Maury''': Oh?
-->'''Connie''': And I thought [[spoiler:a kid]] would get in the way of all that.
-->'''Maury''': ''But''?
-->'''Connie''': But the truth is... I was right!
-->'''Maury''': What? Then why did you say "but"?
-->'''Connie''': I didn't say "but," ''you'' said "but"!
-->'''Maury''': [[LampshadeHanging Fine, but that was still very confusing!]]
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* {{Flanderization}}: Invoked. Because the various Human Resources monsters tend to each embody only a single personality trait they only become more extreme in their manifestations of that trait. To the point where they struggle to act, or even ''think,'' in any way that does not align with the stereotypes associated with that trait.

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* {{Flanderization}}: Invoked. Because the various Human Resources monsters tend to each embody only a single personality trait they only become more extreme in their manifestations of that trait. To the point where they struggle to act, or even ''think,'' in any way that does not align with the stereotypes associated with that trait. They likewise try to push the humans whose cases they work on to become more narrowly focused on the monster's particular trait.
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* {{Flanderization}}: Invoked. Because the various Human Resources monsters tend to each embody only a single personality trait they only become more extreme in their manifestations of that trait. To the point where they struggle to act, or even ''think,'' in any way that does not align with the stereotypes associated with that trait.
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* ObsessiveSportsFan: One of the human characters - and Pete, Rochelle, and Dante's client - is Doug. Doug is the the self-described biggest Phoenix Suns fan in Hartford, Connecticut, to the point that he gets his van custom wrapped against Pete's advice, and through sheer luck, gets a gig as Charles Barkley's driver.
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* ILoveYouBecauseICantControlYou: Dante can hypnotize creatures to do whatever he want using his addictive angel dust. However, he ends up genuinely attracted to Rochelle because she doesn't let herself get hypnotized... [[spoiler:though she ends up reciprocating the attraction without the need for dust anyway]].
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** Feeling like you've accomplished nothing by a certain age because you lack a stable partner or children.

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* ShoutOut: [[Series/TheMandalorian Grogu]] appears in a crowd shot in "International Creature Convention."

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[[Series/TheMandalorian Grogu]] appears in a crowd shot in "International Creature Convention.""
** Gavin's speech in "The Addiction Angel" is the almost exact copy of Blake's famous "Always Be Closin'" speech from [[Theatre/GlengarryGlenRoss Glengarry Glen Ross]].

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* {{Foreshadowing}}: In the episode "It's Almost Over", Walter initially acts hostile towards Nathalie, only to warm up to her personality and approve of her sneaking Yara out of the house for a day of fun. This shows that the two are like-minded [[spoiler:and that Walter would become her Lovebug by the end of the episode.]]

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** At the beginning of "Bad Mummies", Rita's presentation takes place at a room titled the "Oedipus Complex". Her son Lionel is revealed to have one for her.
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In the episode "It's Almost Over", Walter initially acts hostile towards Nathalie, only to warm up to her personality and approve of her sneaking Yara out of the house for a day of fun. This shows that the two are like-minded [[spoiler:and that Walter would become her Lovebug by the end of the episode.]]
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* LaserGuidedKarma: Dante spent the first season acting like a self-centered jerk who prided himself on his three dicks. He casually manipulated Pete into almost giving Doug a heart attack, remorselessly dumped Emmy after using her, and then played a hand in Emmy and Rochelle's friendship blowing up when he started dating the latter and encouraged her to [[NeverMyFault feign innocence]]. In the season finale, Dante's [[spoiler:favorite penis gets pinned by a statue during the storm, and Pete has to amputate him to stop the blood loss. Needless to say, Dante's pride got knocked down a peg by the end of the episode.]]

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* LaserGuidedKarma: Dante spent the first season acting like a self-centered jerk who prided himself on his three dicks. He casually manipulated Pete into almost giving Doug a heart attack, remorselessly dumped Emmy after using her, and then played a hand in Emmy and Rochelle's friendship blowing up when he started dating the latter and encouraged her to [[NeverMyFault feign innocence]]. In the season finale, Dante's [[spoiler:favorite penis gets pinned by a statue during the storm, and Pete has to amputate him it to stop the blood loss. Needless to say, Dante's pride got knocked down a peg by the end of the episode.]]
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* LaserGuidedKarma: Dante spent the first season acting like a self-centered jerk who prided himself on his three dicks. He casually manipulated Pete into almost giving Doug a heart attack, remorselessly dumped Emmy after using her, and then played a hand in Emmy and Rochelle's friendship blowing up when he started dating the latter and encouraged her to [[NeverMyFault feign innocence]]. In the season finale, Dante's [[spoiler:favorite penis gets pinned by a statue during the storm, and Pete has to amputate him to stop the blood loss. Needless to say, Dante's pride got knocked down a peg by the end of the episode.]]


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** Rochelle encourages her clients to make bad decisions in the name of love. While it works in some cases, most of the time it backfires on her and the humans. This extends to her personal life where she [[spoiler: begins dating Dante behind Emmy's back. When she tries to justify it by saying she's in love, she makes matters and Emmy feel even worse and nearly destroys their friendship.]]
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* Foreshadowing: In the episode "It's Almost Over", Walter initially acts hostile towards Nathalie, only to warm up to her personality and approve of her sneaking Yara out of the house for a day of fun. This shows that the two are like-minded [[spoiler:and that Walter would become her Lovebug by the end of the episode.]]

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* Foreshadowing: {{Foreshadowing}}: In the episode "It's Almost Over", Walter initially acts hostile towards Nathalie, only to warm up to her personality and approve of her sneaking Yara out of the house for a day of fun. This shows that the two are like-minded [[spoiler:and that Walter would become her Lovebug by the end of the episode.]]
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* Foreshadowing: In the episode "It's Almost Over", Walter initially acts hostile towards Nathalie, only to warm up to her personality and approve of her sneaking Yara out of the house for a day of fun. This shows that the two are like-minded [[spoiler:and that Walter would become her Lovebug by the end of the episode.]]
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* BizarreAlienBiology:

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** "It's Almost Over" displays Yara topless.

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** "It's Almost Over" displays the elderly Yara topless.
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* EveryoneIsBi: Hormone Monsters in particular will have sex with each other regardless of gender, and most other characters show no qualms about getting down with monsters of any gender.

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* EveryoneIsBi: Hormone Monsters in particular will have sex with each other regardless of gender, and most other characters show no qualms about getting down with monsters creatures of any gender.



* GroinAttack: [[spoiler:Dante gets one of his penises wedged between a statue and a tree. Pete has to cut it off. Neither are happy about that.]]

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* GroinAttack: [[spoiler:Dante gets one of his penises wedged between a statue and a tree. Pete has to cut it off. Neither are happy about that.that... or so Pete claims.]]
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The series premiered on Creator/{{Netflix}} on March 18, 2022. One month later, a second season was [[https://twitter.com/hrnetflix/status/1516250233805619200?s=21&t=_8RDwBa44b2PWDDyIJaZ8Q announced]].

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The series premiered on Creator/{{Netflix}} on March 18, 2022. One month later, a second season was The following month, the creators [[https://twitter.com/hrnetflix/status/1516250233805619200?s=21&t=_8RDwBa44b2PWDDyIJaZ8Q announced]].
announced]] that the series had been renewed for a second season.

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