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(left to right) Adam, Anders, and Blake.

"How are nosotros supposed to discover someone to requite us clean piss when anybody over the age of 12 smokes weed these days?"

— Adam in the pilot.

Workaholics is a One-act Primal Work Com following the exploits of 3 college graduates and extremely immature men, Adam, Anders, and Blake, played by Adam Devine, Anders Holm and Blake Anderson. The three all work at a telemarketing company, but they spend most of their time getting drunk, doing drugs, and pulling pranks. So every bit you tin can encounter the show was given the name is was as a sarcastic joke.

The show was based on the Web Bear witness 5thyear and is by and large described as a sort of Spiritual Successor to Office Space, but on drugs. It premiered on Comedy Central on Apr half dozen, 2011, to a mixed-to-positive critical response.

Not to be confused with a Workaholic, which this show'south main characters definitely aren't.

Wrapped upwards after seven seasons in March of 2017.

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Workaholics provides examples of the following tropes:

• Abhorrent Admirer: Adam, to Alice. While he isn't ugly, she loathes his personality.
• Air-conditioning CENT Upon The Wrong Syl LA Ble: In one episode, Karl pronounces chaos as 'cha-hose'.
• A Appointment with Rosie Palms:
  • All 3 of the boys engage in this oft, though Ders and Blake are nowhere nearly Adam's level. The human is shown or is said to have jerked off at to the lowest degree once an episode.
  • "Temp-tress" has the guys come to the decision that the simply manner to focus on work and non get distracted past the bonny new role temp is to masturbate prompting them to enquire Alice if they tin can "crank downward" at work, become yelled out and decide instead to wiggle off in Ders' car. It does not get well.
• Affectionate Parody: Of "Bro One-act" in general. While the three leads each embody diverse aspects of the typical characters establish in bro comedies, they are clearly shown to be Man Children merely emulating what television and movies have told them is cool. Considering of this, the series manages to both present the protagonists equally fairly innocent and sympathetic while as well lampooning the portrayal of masculinity in media.
• Ambiguously Bi: All 3 of the guys constantly endeavor to sleep with women and are explicitly stated to take had sex in the past, just constantly testify allure to other men, talk most blowing each other and get erections from seeing each other's erections. Naturally, the Homoerotic Subtext goes completely over their heads.
• Ambiguously Brown:
  • Montez, 1 of the boys' co-workers. He has a Spanish surname, but acts stereotypically black, Jive Turkey emphasis and all. The possibility of him being mixed race never seems to cross anyone's mind.

    Blake: He'due south black?

    Adam: There's no fashion to tell.

  • A subplot in ane episode involves Adam and Blake lusting after the same daughter, with one thinking she's African-American, and the other thinking she's Asian. About the end, she clears upward the confusion by stating she's both; she has a black father and an Asian female parent.
• Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking:

  Alice: I'thousand gonna swallow your assurance for breakfast tomorrow, with my Grape Nuts. Then I'm gonna murder y'all. So I'm gonna fire y'all.

  • Come across The Stoner.
• Atomic F-Bomb: In the episode "Stop! Pajama Time", when Adam finds out he's going to be fired, he lets out a bleeped f-give-and-take that stretches into the stop of that scene and the commercial pause. When the bear witness comes back from interruption, that'south when he finishes yelling.
• Author Avatar: The chief three are conspicuously exaggerated versions of their actors, all of whom actually are party loving slackers who oftentimes engage in recreational drug use.
• Awesome McCoolname: Ders' father is named Thor. Adam and Blake freak out when they hear.
• The Beard: In i episode, Adam meets a beautiful young woman who asks him to a wedding as her appointment. It all seems likewise good to be truthful and at the end Adam begins to believe she may be his true dearest, only when they get to the nuptials, it turns out the whole relationship was a sham. The daughter was a lesbian, and wanted to brand a point to her disapproving father by dating the schlubbiest, nearly obnoxious Manchild she could find, and so that the prospect of going out with another girl would seem much better by comparison.
• Berserk Button: Anders hates having his name mispronounced.

  Anders: It's Ahn-ders! I have an Ahn at the beginning of my proper name! I accept a hard-ahn!

• Beleaguered Assistant: Jillian for Alice, whose awful temper frequently makes her order her around and punish her for ridiculous things.
• Beware the Nice Ones: The meek and kind Jillian goes completely overboard if she's e'er given even an iota of authorization. When she was put in charge of snacks in the pause room she locked everything downwardly and distributed snacks individually (equally in, individual grapes, or strictly counted numbers of chips).
• Bitch in Sheep'south Article of clothing: Bill normally comes across as a spineless loser, which can make you feel lamentable for him at times, simply is adequately regularly shown to be a icky pervert with troubling views of women who deserves everything that he gets.
• Bookends: "Teenage Mutant Ninja Roommates" starts and ends with the guys all arguing and yelling at each other at the same time, only to stop and share a few contented bites of food, at the beginning, information technology's pizza, then at the end, donuts.
• Brick Joke: A few.
  • In "Directly Up Juggahos", the boys scheme to set up Jillian upward on a blind appointment with a human they found online, telling her he is a friend named Jake Heisenripbauer (a name they made upwardly on the spot). At the very end of the episode, Jillian calls him past the said name, leaving us to assume that she's been calling him that the unabridged time and that she still doesn't know his real proper name.
  • "Model Kombat" has Blake meeting a sports shop owner who lost nearly all his sight during the state of war when a piece of shrapnel striking him, but Blake mistakes his words for "pizza shrapnel." Later in the episode, Adam throws a pizza slice at Ders. Blake immediately yells at him, request if they have any idea how many people go blind due to pizza shrapnel.
  • In the cold open up of "In the Line of Getting Fired", Adam says that he'd be willing to requite head to a man for $900 (which he immediately recants). During the closing scene, Blake is being put into an ambulance after being shot and asks how much it volition cost him since he doesn't take insurance. The paramedic says $900. Blake and Ders then tell Adam to put his money where his oral cavity is.
• Bumbling Sidekick: Jillian to Alice. Blake and/or Adam tin piece of work as this to Ders depending on how competent he is in the episode and how incompetent they are.
• Bunny-Ears Lawyer: The boys are more of a subversion of this. All 3 of them are idiots and slackers who really do well at their jobs, simply this is more because their chore works in such a way that it perfectly conforms to each of their personalities, allowing them to practice well at it without actually putting forth any 18-carat endeavor.
• Butt-Monkey: Waymond-he's kind of the maligned sidekick to Montez, in the alternative trio of Montez, Waymond and Jetset. In the after seasons, Bill, a pathetic sadsack with admittedly nothing going for him, takes the role from him.
  • Actually, all three of the principal guys. They're shown to be woefully incompetent at nearly everything they try.
• Casanova Wannabe: All three of the guys are perfectly confident around women... it'southward just the extent of their interactions with them are cheap and often icky pickup lines that never work. Blake is the merely 1 of the 3 who seems to always openly panic over his inability to get girls.
• Catchphrase: "Tight butthole/loose butthole" definitely comes to mind.
  • Blake and calling people "dumb idiots."
  • Adam and his "Oh I similar that!"
  • There are a lot of these that are shorter lived like 'let's go weird', and 'take it sleazy'. It fits the characters (especially Adam) by showing how desperate he is to say something other people want to say, to be cool.
  • Montez likes to talk well-nigh booty.
• Glory Resemblance: Blake is often called out on looking like Paula Poundstone.
  • In some other episode, to mock Der's supposed hair loss, Adam calls him Michael Chiklis.
  • Adam is also compared to looking like Matt Damon, which happens to the histrion in real life every bit well.
• Character Development: If you lot pay attending, you'll observe that Ders gets considerably less uptight after the events of "The Promotion", where he realizes that existence a respectable white-collar worker isn't all it'southward cracked up to exist. He's however the most levelheaded of the trio after that episode, only he'due south much more than appreciative of his friendship with Adam and Blake later on.
• Chekhov'south Gun: In the episode "Real Time", while the guys are drinking on the roof in the beginning, Blake is playing with a laser arrow. He later uses information technology against the futurity chicks during the bicycle chase scene.
  • An example more similar Chekhov's Uniform actually: In "Checkpoint Gnarly" Bradley uses Blake's stripper-cop uniform to rescue the boys from the tow truck commuter.
• Cloudcuckoolander: Blake and Adam's drug dealer and friend, Karl.
  • Blake and Adam themselves, though more often than not Blake. Jillian too, perhaps even moreso.
• Comically Missing the Betoken: In "The Meat Jerking Beef Boys" a realtor asks the gang not to be out drinking on their roof while she'south giving an open up firm. Blake agrees promptly, saying "Weed only!"
• Comic Trio: They tend to alternate betwixt ii setups. The first has the impulsive Adam equally the clueless leader, the perpetually stoned Manchild Blake equally the dumb follower and the comparatively intelligent Anders as the But Sane Human. The second has the Know-Goose egg Know-It-All Anders equally the clueless leader, the idiotic Adam as the dumb follower and the Erudite Stoner Blake every bit the Simply Sane Man.
• Confusing Multiple Negatives: "Alice Quits" gives united states this example.

  Ders: Coming in, Trav. We're hither to tell you lot you're near to get a video conversation call from the people at Earth Pets.

  Blake: Yeah, I guess they got some surveillance video of a certain executive shooting birds.

  Adam: Hmm, that'd be crazy. And I wouldn't say they didn't like it, cause they didn't not like it crusade they loved hating it and non liking it at all.

• Continuity Nod:
  • Jillian mentions her cat Brent Hoffman dying in the flavor two episode "Human being Trip". In "Fatty Cuz" she tells Adam'southward fellow cat-loving cousin that information technology is the anniversary of Brent Hoffman's death.
  • Another Jillian related one-in "Old man Ders," she mentions that she was adopted by a "horrible Korean family." In "Real Time," she answers the telephone past proverb 'yoboseyo', which is a Korean greeting.
  • In the Halloween Episode "A TelAmerican Horror Story", the guys briefly encounter the ghost of Kristy Howard-Clark (aka "Homegirl"), who died in the episode "Good Mourning".
• Crazy Cat Lady: Jillian is a weird example. She has several cats and is regularly shown to be pretty unstable merely her cats serve more than as a way of emphasizing her complete lack of social life rather than beingness tied to her craziness.
• Cringe Comedy: A lot of the humor in this show is derived from the three leads embarrassing themselves or messing up one mode or the other.
• Deadpan Snarker: The boys' boss, Alice. The boys themselves slip into this on occasion, mostly Ders.
• Delivery Guy: What the 3 chuckle-heads wind up as during "Orgazmo Birth".
• Depending on the Author: The boys' level of immaturity, Jillian'south intelligence, Alice's hostility, etc. frequently fluctuates between episodes.
• Dirty Former Homo:
  • Montez is a middle-aged man whose mind seems to be perpetually in the gutter. To his credit, he's very faithful to his wife, who is fifty-fifty more perverted than he is, and the 2 are more or less Happily Married.
  • Bill seems to exist effectually Montez's age and has an obsession with cuckolding; fifty-fifty having an entire A Day in the Limelight episode consisting of an extended dream sequence building up to him getting to cuck Montez. Compared to Montez, Bill is much more consistently shown to be a skeevy loser.
• The Ditz: Adam is unsaid to be mentally challenged a few times. While he's not quite as loopy equally Blake is, he's also clearly less intelligent.
• Don't Explain the Joke: When the boys pull a "Poop Dollar" prank on someone (they wrap a dollar effectually poop and and then exit information technology on the basis for someone to choice up or step on), one of them shouts "See we poop in the dollar!" every bit the victim runs away. When it happens again, they all yell "POOP DOLLAR" equally they drive abroad.
• Downer Ending: "Heist School". After the guys spend the whole episode trying to recover their beloved dragon statue from some local teenage punks, said punks decapitate the dragon with a chainsaw and later on take over the guys' house to throw a wild party.
• Dude Looks Similar a Lady: Blake was confused for Anders' wife by an older employee in "The Strike".
• Erudite Stoner: Blake is almost constantly high, simply he also tends to be the most down to earth and kindhearted of the trio.
• Extreme Doormat: Jillian has no spine and lets Alice and the principal three walk over her constantly.
• Fanservice: Blake's striptease at the beginning of "Checkpoint Gnarly." Really, in whatever given episode at that place'due south a pretty good chance Blake will end up at to the lowest degree partially naked.
  • There are plenty of scantily clad women in several episodes.
• Flanderization: The principal trio have gotten a lot dumber over fourth dimension. Might be justified due to the all the drugs they're known to do.
• Freudian Trio: While all three of the guys are ids compared to everyone else, within the grouping they hold this dynamic. Adam is the id by being even more than unreliable and unpredictable than the other two, Blake is the ego for beingness slightly more responsible than Adam is too as being the most naive and impressionable of the trio, and Anders is the superego, being the closest to a mature adult out of the three.
• Funny Background Result: Alice has a framed picture of Kate Gosselin on her desk-bound. ◊
• Gorn: The episode "Friendship Anniversary" gets surprisingly fierce as the guys kill the rats infesting their firm.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: A threesome example between the master guys, with all the Ho Yay that comes with it. Blake and Adam both slightly more and so with each other than with Ders.
• Inferiority Superiority Complex: Adam frequently brags most how cool he was back in high school, how many women he's slept with and how huge his dick is. It'due south obvious to everyone that he's telling very transparent lies to compensate for his insecurities. This is further proven by how easily he breaks downwardly at the slightest insult.
• Informed Attribute: Ders has "tits", Adam is "fat", and Blake has a penis "the size of a lego human being". All iii actors are relatively fit immature men, and it's highly doubtful the role player who portrays Blake is that small down in that location.
  • To be fair, Ders has rather prominent saggy pecs for his otherwise lean body and Adam is noticeably more than pudgy than the other ii, though he is as well fairly muscular.
• In-Serial Nickname: "Ders." Anders is hardly ever called by his full name. In that location are a lot of these, Montez calls himself Monteezy (though other characters frequently call him just "Tez"), Blake is called "Uncle Blazer", "Blazer", "Blaze", and "Blazerian". Adam gives himself a lot of nicknames, with fake nickname middle names similar "Killzone" "Topgun" and more than. For one episode, Ders is called Blonders because he's blond.
• Insistent Terminology: In one episode, the guys terminate calling it weed and call it grass. Then by the end of the episode, when Carl also calls it grass, they say they're calling it dro now.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Alice is indeed a verbally calumniating Mean Boss, and in the episode "Model Kombat" she outright tells Adam that she wouldn't care if he died. After that episode, she saves him from choking to death, and after fifty-fifty grudgingly lets him hug her for a second.
• Jive Turkey: Montez, who is centre-aged, Ambiguously Brown and works in telemarketing.
• Karma Houdini: The high schoolhouse kids in "Heist School," who crash the boys' home and political party, and decapitate their beloved dragon statue. (To be fair, they did steal it from a public park thanks to a misunderstanding on how taxes and public belongings works) In the commentary, the guys even state that this was by far the least popular catastrophe of an episode to date.
  • They encounter the loftier school kids again in "Fourth and Inches," and they somewhat go fifty-fifty, just even then it's a Pyrrhic Victory.
• Leeroy Jenkins: Adam pulls a Leeroy out of his shroom fueled haze in the first flavour episode "Role Campout", ruining Blake and Ders' ridiculously kittenish program and running directly at who he thinks are burglars, but turn out to just be the tech guys coming into the office to do routine maintenance. He even shouts "Leeroy Jenkins!"
• Likes Older Women: Adam's recurring crush on Alice, who is a practiced ten years older than him (due to Dawson Casting, the two actors are nearly vi years apart and in the same historic period subclass). In some other episode he enters a relationship with a woman erstwhile enough to be his mother and explicitly mentions that fact ("Sharon is as onetime every bit my mom is.").
• Loser Protagonist: The three guys, Jillian, Alice, all of their coworkers and Karl are all pretty pathetic people all around. This is Played for Laughs as they have and so much room to abound. Not that they ever practise.
• Manchild: All of them, but mostly Blake.
• Mean Dominate: Alice regularly insults her employees both passively and outright. She manages to avert being a Bad Boss, since she cares about doing a good job and never fires anyone without cause—she's only a very angry person.
• Mr. Fanservice: Blake is in the best shape of the three and gets naked considerably more the other 2 do. His "Usher muscles" and ability to stay in good shape without having to practise any exercise are both often commented on.
• No Sense of Personal Space: The drug tester gets actually close to Adam when he'due south peeing into a loving cup.
• No Social Skills: The 3 guys deed similar they're in a raunchy high schoolhouse movie in every social situation, upwards to and including funerals. Jillian is somehow even worse and is constantly pathetically trying to get people to hang out with her.
• Non-Indicative Name: The show is not about workaholics (though it does involve work and addictions).
• Not Then To a higher place Information technology All: The guys are generally dumber and crazier than everyone effectually them, although many of their coworkers (Montez, Jillian, Jet Prepare, Bill) are withal weird. Alice the ill-tempered dominate is pretty intelligent and reasonable, only she sometimes acts more than like the guys. In i episode she gets drunk (subsequently two years of sobriety, which even Adam realizes is a bad matter) after seeing one of her employees with a great house in a absurd neighborhood while she lives in a "widow'due south pad", and in the flavour 3 opener, she drops acid with the guys, to win over a hard-partying potential customer.
• Old Maid: Alice is in her early forties, gets divorced early on into the serial and oftentimes worries well-nigh her love life. Adam is attracted to her, and both Ders and Blake openly admit that they'd bang her.
• One-Word Title
• Only Sane Homo: Anders, to some extent. He seems to take his job a bit more seriously than Adam and Blake, and doesn't take drugs as much. But he notwithstanding does them.
  • Bizarrely, any time Anders tries to accomplish something, he ends up turning into an over-confident A-Hole, and Blake becomes the simply sane man... in that he's the one who supports merely skipping out on the plan to go home and smoke weed. This is used in "Erstwhile Human being Ders" as Ders is wasted and on drugs for his birthday (agape of getting older) and Blake is desperately trying to calm the state of affairs. Adam, is never this trope, still.
• Precision F-Strike: Though there'due south plenty of cursing on the show, there aren't as many uses of the word fuck, but they do pop up from time to time. "Alice Quits" gives us two examples.

  Travis: Don't cause a scene, Alice!

  Alice: Oh, Fuck off Travis! And eat a dick. I quit!

  • Afterwards in the episode, Jet Gear up quits likewise, combined with This Is for Emphasis, Bowwow!.

  Travis: Jessie, calm down.

  Jet Set: Bitch, my name is Jet Motha-fuckin Prepare! But yous can call me Patric Swayze, cause guess what? I'yard ghost.

• Pretty Fly for a White Guy: Ders attempts this most frequently, though all three of them divulge in information technology from fourth dimension to fourth dimension.
• Pretty in Mink: Blake'south bear jacket. "Bitch BETTA HAVE MY Honey!"
• Proud Warrior Race Guy: Ders is very proud of his Norwegian heritage, and considers himself to be the successor of a very noble and manly legacy.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: Surprisingly, Alice, who has retained her staff (even Anders, Adam, and Blake) despite numerous emails from Corporate telling her to trim the dead weight.
  • Local high schoolhouse principal Mr. Sen is besides a surprisingly arctic guy who, while ever exasperated with the main trio, is likewise quite friendly and almost even supportive towards them. Information technology helps that he'due south a functioning alcoholic and they provide a steady stream of alcohol to him.
• Re-Cutting: The boys watch an edited-for-TV version of Die Hard with Blake'southward drug dealer and note the amusing replacement of "fuck" with "cluck."
• Sarcastic Title: Yous can almost hear the title saying "Yep, reeaal workaholics, those guys."
• Ship Tease: Blake and Jillian are a very weird instance of this. Several episodes imply that they have crushes on each other, and the episode "Hungry Similar The Wolfdog" features some very not-traditional Will They or Won't They?, but just equally many episodes reveal that they actually make a terrible couple, with Jillian suddenly condign a gender-flipped Bastard Boyfriend to the Extreme Doormat Blake.
• Shout-Out:
  • A drug tester in The Airplane pilot calls Blake "Strawberry Shortcake".
  • The airplane pilot as well features several references to Die Difficult, complete with Blake crawling through the vents while paraphrasing a line from the moving-picture show.
  • Again from the pilot, the kid in the playground that the boys endeavour to go clean pee from calls Blake "Hermione".
  • In the episode 'Temp-tress', Blake gives an impassioned (and poorly delivered) version of the Kurt Russel Oral communication from Miracle, talking about Montez, including the line 'I am sick of tired of hearing near what a skillful salesman Montez is.'
  • The episode "Cease! Pajama Time" has a reference to Rudy when the team lays down their pajamas in guild to protest Jillian existence fired. Alice tells Holmvik he's supposed to be the mature one, and Holmvik responds "I believe that I am."
  • In "Real Time" when rollerblading while chugging beers (and already even so drunkard from the night before), Adam climbs his manner over a fence shouting "Kung-Fu!...Hustle!" The episode also references Speed, with Adam shouting "At that place's a bomb on the bus! If nosotros get below fifty miles an hour, or don't get directly to TelAmeriCorp, we're gonna explode!" Also, the actor who plays the charabanc driver too played the motorcoach driver in Speed.
  • "Model Kombat" contains an homage to Bloodsport with Adam blinding Blake with cigarette ashes earlier their fight. Blake calls upon communication from a blind man earlier in the episode and throws a dial at Adam anyway, only to hit Jillian in the face up and give her a bloody nose.
  • In "Timechair", the guys exhange a number of video game shoutouts, comparison themselves to diverse Mario Kart racers (Blake says he's Yoshi, Adam says he's Bowser, then Wario and Ders is happy to be Luigi), and then Blake says he'due south a Diddy Kong Racer. Ders says if at that place's changing games, he's Pierce Brosnan, 007.
  • Catherine Zeta Jones! She dips beneath lasers. Woooaaaooo.
  • In "Temp-tress", Adam pretends to be a customer to cause Montez to avert making more sales, the name he gives Terry Bollea and the faux voice he uses is also his wrestler phonation, completing with punctuating sentences with 'blood brother'. This is a subtle shout out, as Terry Bollea is Blob Hogan'southward real proper name.
  • "Fat Cuz" opens with the guys in the centre of a chat, seemingly about whether or non they would have sexual practice with Alyssa Milano's corpse-apparently, her name is never mentioned but instead several things she was in, "Toxicant Ivy 2", "Commando" and "Who's the Boss" are referenced and turned into typically (For Adam) impuissant euphemisms.
  • In "Good Mourning" after Homegirl'southward passing, Adam starts a "Her name is Roberta Paulson" chant. Of course, that wasn't her proper noun.
  • In that same episode, Adam talks about how neat Homegirl was saying "Dainty?! She was a Male monarch... a king of the hill...She was a legend...of the autumn...She was Malcolm ...when Malcolm was in the middle, she was an ultimate fighter til the end."
  • "The Promotion" has Adam and Blake pranking Ders past loosening his door then that he yanks it out.

  Adam: "Oh, what, are you gonna suspension on through to the other side? Jim Morrison? The Doors?"

  • During an function airsoft gun battle in "Alice Quits", Adam quotes Predator in a macho voice, "I ain't got fourth dimension to drain.", prompting a dislocated Ders to say "Are you haemorrhage?" Adam says in his normal voice "No, considering," earlier repeating the quote in his previous vocalization.
  • In "Directly Up Juggahos" Blake says "I'm not gonna stand in the way of dear. I'chiliad not Billy Zane"
  • According to "Teenage Mutant Ninja Roommates," Anders apparently went to Eric Draven Middle School, the mascot of which is a crow.
  • In "Old Man Ders" the guys are shown mid-discussion nigh Harry and the Hendersons, with Adam saying "its legit" and Ders maxim they weren't disagreeing with that.
  • Afterward Blake deep-fries all his part supplies in "Fish Fry", Montez exclaims "This is some Jim and Dwight bullshit!"
• Shown Their Piece of work: It'southward unknown if there are whatever actual Insane Clown Posse fans on the production staff, merely they get surprisingly in-depth into the Juggalo subculture for the episode "Direct Up Juggahos", right downwardly to having i of the Juggalettes dub Adam "Sugar Bear" (the name of Shaggy two Dope's character in Big Money Hustlas) in one scene. Sure, they spend nigh of the episode mocking Juggalos, but at least they got the details correct.
  • Notably, it'southward a much more Affectionate Parody than about depictions of Juggalo culture; while they're kind of trashy and baroque, they finish upwards being pretty decent to the main trio. Note that this is also pretty spot-on: Juggalos typically pride themselves on being friendly and welcoming to everyone, including outsiders to their subculture.
• Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: Ders for some reason hates Karl despite Adam and Blake liking him, though Karl is also dim to realize.
• Similar Squad: In "Trivia Pursuits", the trio face off against three Asian equivalents of themselves in a game of trivia.
• Sixth Ranger: Jillian and Karl are the only characters who could really be chosen the main iii'southward friends. They both occasionally tag along on their adventures.
• The Slacker: Blake, Adam, and Anders to a lesser extent. Practically every episode centers around them trying to avoid work. Anders puts in a superficial effort in order to get on peoples' practiced sides, but he'southward simply as bad.
• Smart Ball: Blake and Ders tend to merchandise off who is the Only Sane Man of the trio from scene to scene. Generally, Ders is the most rational of the iii while Blake is the most empathetic. At other times, though, no i is the Straight Man and all three of the guys are portrayed as beingness as useless, arrogant idiots.
• Social Climber: Anders is a weird case in that his lofty ambitions are almost completely countered by his own reluctance to practise whatever real work.
• Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Peace: When officiating Karl'southward wedding ceremony, Blake calls for objections before raising one himself.
• Spiritual Successor: Some reviewers depict it as this to Office Space.
• The Stoner: Though all three of the guys do drugs, Blake is the Most Triumphant Example of this trope.
  • In The Airplane pilot, a list of over a dozen drugs that are regularly in Blake'southward arrangement are read aloud; amongst them include marijuana, birth control, cocaine, meth, and both Dayquil and Nyquil ("Why would anyone take both?")
• Straw Loser: Bill is the only character who tin can consistently make the master iii (and anyone else, for that thing) await adept in comparing.
• Straw Misogynist:
  • The later episodes heavily imply that Beak, the resident Straw Loser, is a Men's Rights Activist, clearly with the intention of it being a Take That!.
  • The chief three themselves can verge into this territory at times too, though in their case it's more often than not portrayed as existence a outcome of them being easily influenced idiots rather than genuinely malicious towards women. They're still conspicuously meant to be in the wrong regardless.
• Team Dad: Anders is two years older than the other two, the about responsible of the three and frequently mentions how, tough on them as he may be, he only wants what's best for Blake and Adam.
• Teens Are Monsters: Merely about every teenager on the show is a massive asshole and great. It's Played for Laughs since the primary iii are in their mid-twenties and are all the same picked on by them.
• 20 Minutes into the By: Played for Laughs in "Flashback in the Day", a flashback episode that shows how the guys met in college. The show began in 2011, and then the episode is littered with ridiculously specific references to pop culture from the mid-2000s, like Napoleon Dynamite and The Illusionist.
• The Unfettered: If Anders drinks plenty he completely drops his faux-mature attitude and becomes a violent, immature version of himself the other boys telephone call "The Ders" - as Blake puts it "he head-butted a female security guard, bumrushed the stage, and dedicated a song to his dad." "This is a guy who fucked a koifish in the mouth until it died in forepart of a P.F. Chang'southward."
• Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist:
  • Subverted. While the 3 main characters are basically the annoying frat boys that come to your party uninvited, get really drunk, and fuck up your burrow, they manage to be so ineffectual and pathetic while withal showing eye every at present and so that they really go sympathetic. "Heist School" is a prime example because the guys lose then badly to teenagers and audiences hated the ending. The guys are losers, but they're the audience'southward losers.
  • A straighter example would be Nib. While his suffering occasionally makes you lot feel bad for him, the show makes it articulate that he's kind of a complete scumbag who deserves everything that happens to him.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: The three guys all love each other, only they too go really mad at each other very often. Sometimes they go dorsum and forth quickly like in "Timechair" when Ders and Blake get set up to joust. Blake lists off a by grievance of Ders stealing a chick from him, merely Ders can't hear him. Blake apace shrugs it off, maxim its in the by, and the two joust with an air of just having fun (unsafe and reckless fun, of grade).
• The Voiceless: Waymond. Enforced-on an episode where Waymond was due to testify in court confronting the guys, they took activity to button the courtroom's affairs back a twenty-four hours, helping to ensure Waymond doesn't speak.

  Adam: Waymond, yous're existence uncharacteristically tranquillity.

• Whole Episode Flashback: The episode "Flashback in the Day" takes identify in 2007 and shows how the trio met in higher.
  • This is done again with "TAC in the Solar day" which shows the guys beginning solar day working at the role.
• Written-In Absenteeism: Jillian was stated to be busy with the National Guard to explicate why she missed a few episodes in Flavour 5.

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