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* [[Does Not Like Spam|Does Not Like Cupcakes]]: Duff despises them despite (or maybe because of) trying to make the world's largest cupcake and failing. He stated that one of the reasons he hates them is because "people who make cupcakes think they can bake".

* [[Earn Your Happy Ending]]: Combined with the above, Duff forced himself to make 52 cupcakes for the New York Rangers hockey team so he could "earn" being involved with his favorite sport.

* [[~~Everythings~~ Better With Sparkles]]: Mostly the older cakes.

* [[Everything's Better With Sparkles]]: Mostly the older cakes.

* [[~~Everythings~~ Deader With Zombies]]: Quite a few times, especially around Halloween. They once made an exception to their "no portraits" rule when the client added "--and his brains are being eaten by zombies."

* [[Everything's Deader With Zombies]]: Quite a few times, especially around Halloween. They once made an exception to their "no portraits" rule when the client added "--and his brains are being eaten by zombies."

* [[Evolving Credits]]: Since Charm City Cakes' staff increased over the series' run, and a lot more of them appeared on camera, the later seasons' credits noticeably changed to reflect this.

* [[Fandom]]: The bakery once received a picture of two girls dressed as Duff and Mary Alice, complete with whisk tattoo and colored hair, respectively.

* [[Follow the Leader]] / [[Dueling Shows]] / [[Red Oni Blue Oni]]: With TLC's ''[[Cake Boss]]'' (Duff is the relaxed Blue Oni to high-strung Buddy's Red) and We's ''Amazing Wedding Cakes''.

* [[Follow the Leader]] / [[Dueling Shows]] / [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: With TLC's ''[[Cake Boss]]'' (Duff is the relaxed Blue Oni to high-strung Buddy's Red) and We's ''Amazing Wedding Cakes''.

** [[Spiritual Successor]]: The newer [[Food Network]] series ''Ice Brigade'' feels like ''Ace of Cakes'' <small>[[Recycled in Space|WITH ICE SCULPTURES]]</small>, while ''Have Cake Will Travel'' looks to follow a similar pack of quirky cake artists.

* [[Former Teen Rebel]]: Duff; he's still a rebel, just in a more focused and mostly law-abiding way.

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* [[Knuckle Tattoos]]: The "BAKE" "CAKE" ads. {{spoiler|It's a hand model; Duff's knuckles were too hairy.}}

* [[The Lancer]]: Geof. [[The Hero|Duff]] leads and oversees the production; Geof is a tad standoffish and does the really, really difficult stuff.

* [[London Town]]: The bakers went there to make a "[[Shakespeare]]-Kabob" for the Globe Theatre and a pork-tacular cake for a "snout-to-tail" restaurant. The chef treated Duff and Geoff to a [[I Ate What|pig face sandwich]] for breakfast, which Duff tore into while poor Geoff seemed like [[Foreign Queasine|he was only eating to be polite]].

* [[London Town]]: The bakers went there to make a "[[Shakespeare]]-Kabob" for the Globe Theatre and a pork-tacular cake for a "snout-to-tail" restaurant. The chef treated Duff and Geoff to a [[I Ate What?|pig face sandwich]] for breakfast, which Duff tore into while poor Geoff seemed like [[Foreign Queasine|he was only eating to be polite]].

* [[Milestone Celebration]]: A ''bunch'', including:

** The 100th episodes of ''[[King of the Hill]]'' and ''[[Lost]]''

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* [[Serial Escalation]]: Regularly.

** This whole show came into existence because Duff, a somewhat regular competitor of ''Food Network Challenges'', kept amazing audiences, judges and network execs alike with his incredible cakes. Came full circle when Duff and the Charm City Cakes staff themselves were judges of a ''Food Network Challenges'' episode, where the theme was, appropriately enough, "Extreme Cakes."

* [[Square Cube Law]]: Invoked in the giant cupcake episode. Duff originally just wanted to make a really big cupcake, but after crunching the numbers they found out there was no way the cake would ever support its own weight.

* [[Square-Cube Law]]: Invoked in the giant cupcake episode. Duff originally just wanted to make a really big cupcake, but after crunching the numbers they found out there was no way the cake would ever support its own weight.

* [[Shout Out]] / [[Take That]]: To their TLC counterparts: "You need to be the ''boss'' of the cake". "You (the puppet bakers) aren't working out, I'm bumping you to the minor leagues" -- [[Put On a Bus|Stuffed in a box]] with a "Jersey Or Bust" sign (if they really went there, they'd be returned covered in flour and dipped in icing).

* [[Shown Their Work]]: In addition to the process of actually making the cakes, for big or unusual commissions they'll do research. Examples:

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** In one episode, they made a [[Doctor Who (TV)|Dalek]] cake. They made sure to get the voice exactly right.

** The R2D2 cake, in addition to being life-size with a turning head, also had to look specifically like the ''[[Star Wars Clone Wars]]'' version of R2. This meant that not only did it have to look a little busted-up but also match the "painterly" style of the show, which went against the shop's no-visible-brushstrokes ideal. They were able to do everything aside from getting R2's head to turn - it was beyond Duff's engineering skills but fortunately a handyman at Skywalker Ranch was able to rig up a little something and save the day.

* [[Squick]]: Adam is a vegan and was a little grossed out when forced to handle hot dogs while helping Duff make [[~~Thirty~~ Rock (TV)|cheesy blasters]].

* [[Squick]]: Adam is a vegan and was a little grossed out when forced to handle hot dogs while helping Duff make [[30 Rock (TV)|cheesy blasters]].

* [[Time Travel]] / [[Close Enough Timeline]]: Parodied in the final ''[[Back to The Future (Film)|Back to The Future]]''-themed episode where {{spoiler|screwing around with the bakery's flux capacitor caused the bakers to become office workers, bugs, and random haz-mat suit (really painter's suits) wearers. ''Really'' screwing up the flux capacitor caused Geof and Duff to become workers at a cake box factory}}.

* [[True Companions]]: The staff.