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** The way the episode ends is an odd example of a TearJerker [[MoodWhiplash being]] PlayedForLaughs. The characters gather around Bill's desk to eulogize him one last time and then disperse... before secretly coming back one by one to pilfer his office supplies. This culminates in Jimmy James coming in with a crew of movers to take Bill's desk. One of the movers points out the desk is not particularly nice and asking if he wouldn't prefer a newer one, an offer Jimmy quickly declines, saying this is the desk he wants. As the movers carry the desk out (with Jimmy sitting on top of it), all that is left is Bill's empty chair in the darkened news room, [[WhamShot which the camera focuses on for a few silent seconds before fading to black]].

* RetroactiveRecognition: [[Series/TheDailyShow Jon Stewart]], Creator/PattonOswalt, Creator/BenStiller, Creator/DavidCross and [[Series/MrShow Bob]] [[Series/BreakingBad Odenkirk]] all made guest appearances of varying importance on the show before they were more widely known. For younger viewers, they're likely to see this show and think, "Hey, is that the host of ''FearFactor''?"

* TheyJustDidntCare: All of the {{Aborted Arc}}s. Started with a great deal of prominence – only to quickly drop off the radar. Understandable in that the writers were forced to start them in the first place by the network. They abandoned them once the pressure was off.

* ShippingBedDeath: Subverted

* TheyJustDidntCare: All of the {{Aborted Arc}}s. Started with a great deal of prominence - only to quickly drop off the radar. Understandable in that the writers were forced to start them in the first place by the network. They abandoned them once the pressure was off.

* RetroactiveRecognition: [[Series/TheDailyShow Jon Stewart]], Creator/PattonOswalt, Creator/BenStiller, Creator/DavidCross and [[Series/MrShow Bob]] [[Series/BreakingBad Odenkirk]] all made guest appearances of varying importance on the show before they were more widely known. For younger viewers,they're likely to see this show and think, "Hey, is that the host of ''FearFactor''?"

** The way the episode ends is an odd example of a TearJerker [[MoodWhiplash being]] PlayedForLaughs. The characters gather around Bill's desk to eulogize him one last time and then disperse... before secretly coming back one by one to pilfer his office supplies. This culminates in Jimmy James coming in with a crew of movers to take Bill's desk. One of the movers points out the desk is not particularly nice and asking if he wouldn't prefer a newer one, an offer Jimmy quickly declines, saying this is the desk he wants. As the movers carry the desk out (with Jimmy sitting on top of it), all that is left is Bill's empty chair in the darkened news room, [[WhamShot which the camera focuses on for a few silent seconds before fading to black]].

* SpiritualPredecessor: Can be seen as this to 30 Rock. Dave Nelson is the OnlySaneEmployee who has to manage a staff of nut jobs,and somehow channel this insanity into something resembling a professional broadcast over the air. Dave's boss and mentor is a somewhat ethically challenged high-powered capitalist businessman who likes to micromanage what should be a tiny part of his empire.

* SpiritualPredecessor: To [[Series/30 Rock]]. Dave Nelson is the OnlySaneEmployee who has to manage a staff of nut jobs,and somehow channel this insanity into something resembling a professional broadcast over the air. Dave's boss and mentor is a somewhat ethically challenged high-powered capitalist businessman who likes to micromanage what should be a tiny part of his empire.

* SpiritualPredecessor: To 30Rock. Dave Nelson is the OnlySaneEmployee who has to manage a staff of nut jobs, channel this insanity into something resembling a professional broadcast over the air. Dave's boss and mentor is a somewhat ethically challenged high-powered capitalist businessman who likes to micromanage what should be a tiny part of his empire.

* MagnificentBastard: She outwits Bill more than once in {{Escalating War}}s, and she also gets the "big bonus" in season one by [[GenreSavvy pretending not to know or care that the rest of the office has been covertly competing for it]].
* {{Moe}}: She gets upset when Lisa is voted "cutest reporter" in a magazine, because "once they start calling pretty people cute, [[InsistentTerminology it devalues the whole word]]. What's going to happen next? Cute exotic people, cute sexy people? It is [[SeriousBusiness very important]] that the word "cute" remain precise terminology to the people who truly have cuteness, like ''me''!"

** The entire series is one long funny aneurysm moment. There are multiple references to violent deaths and crazy girlfriends. Including but not limited to; "You're just like Linda, EXCEPT CRAZY!", "Does it involve a gun with a built-in mouth piece?", "She tried to set fire to my hair while I slept. As if that wasn't bad enough, two weeks later she breaks up with me.", an episode ends with him realizing that a stalker has cut the brake line of his car ("CHECK YOUR BRAKES"), said stalker at one point saying "You're a dead man Bill [=McNeal=]", a psychic tells him he WILL live a ridiculously long time. Jokes about the death of other characters are far and few between. [The example mentioned above about Dave, two references to Jimmy jumping out the window, in the dreams episode, and in the episode where he is in a fight with Beth.]

* RetroactiveRecognition: [[Series/TheDailyShow Jon Stewart]], Creator/PattonOswalt, Creator/BenStiller, Creator/DavidCross and [[Series/MrShow Bob]] [[Series/BreakingBad Odenkirk]] all made guest appearances of varying importance on the show before they were more widely known.

* [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments Crowning Moment of Awesome]]: James Caan becomes mesmerized by Matthew "spazzness".
** Mr. James doing a public reading of his RecursiveTranslation autobiography. (See entry below for quotes.)

* [=Tearjerker=]: "Bill Moves On." For the cast as well as the audience. To expand on: they had to keep re-shooting scenes because the cast members kept breaking down in tears they were so distraught at Phil's death.

* CrowningMomentOfFunny: James Caan becomes mesmorized by Matthew "spazzness".
** Mr. James doing a public reading of his RecursiveTranslation autobiography. (See entry below for quotes.)

* RetroactiveRecognition: [[Series/TheDailyShow Jon Stewart]], PattonOswalt, Creator/BenStiller, Creator/DavidCross and [[Series/MrShow Bob]] [[BreakingBad Odenkirk]] all made guest appearances of varying importance on the show before they were more widely known.

* TearJerker: "Bill Moves On." For the cast as well as the audience. To expand on: they had to keep re-shooting scenes because the cast members kept breaking down in tears they were so distraught at Phil's death.

** The entire series is one long funny aneurysm moment. There are multiple references to violent deaths and crazy girlfriends. Including but not limited to; "You're just like Linda, EXCEPT CRAZY!", "Does it involve a gun with a built-in mouth piece?", "She tried to set fire to my hair while I slept. As if that wasn't bad enough, two weeks later she breaks up with me.", an episode ends with him realizing that a stalker has cut the brake line of his car, a psychic tells him he WILL live a ridiculously long time. Jokes about the death of other characters are far and few between. [The example mentioned above about Dave, two references to Jimmy jumping out the window, in the dreams episode, and in the episode where he is in a fight with Beth.]

* {{Flanderization}}: Jimmy got goofier, Matthew got dumber, Bill got crazier, Dave got bitterer, Lisa got more neurotic, and Joe's fondness for inventions became ''[[GilligansIsland Gilligan's Island]]''-esque in scope.

* RetroactiveRecognition: [[Series/TheDailyShow Jon Stewart]], PattonOswalt, Creator/BenStiller, Creator/DavidCross and [[MrShow Bob]] [[BreakingBad Odenkirk]] all made guest appearances of varying importance on the show before they were more widely known.

* RetroactiveRecognition: [[Series/TheDailyShow Jon Stewart]], PattonOswalt, BenStiller, Creator/DavidCross and [[MrShow Bob]] [[BreakingBad Odenkirk]] all made guest appearances of varying importance on the show before they were more widely known.

** Somewhat subverted in the [[ADayAtTheBizarro extremely weird episodes]] "Space" and "Sinking Ship" where [[spoiler: everyone dies except for Bill and Matthew]].

* RetroactiveRecognition: [[TheDailyShow Jon Stewart]], PattonOswalt, BenStiller, DavidCross and [[MrShow Bob]] [[BreakingBad Odenkirk]] all made guest appearances of varying importance on the show before they were more widely known.