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'''Michael''': "''Allow me to answer that question with a meth lab.''" }}

 

* [[Awesome McCoolname]]: "Thelonius Bone", or T-Bone for short.

* [[Ax Crazy]]: Several characters but Swaim takes the cake!

''Swaim'': (Holding a ''very'' large butcher's knife) Ah! It was a knife...the ''whole'' time... }}

* [[Back From the Dead]]: {{spoiler|T-Bone}}. Then immediately subverted that its revealed its actually {{spoiler|B-Tone, his twin}}.

** When Dan finds himself in the bar in season 3, he asks the bartender to serve him the most noxious, poisonous, self-destructive drink she can think of. He gets apricot brandy and Clamato.

* [[Drugs Are Bad]]: [[Inverted Trope|Inverted]] hard. Swaim has a heroin addition and gets Dan to try it in "The Least Effective Drug Intervention Ever" ("A hit a day keeps the tremors at bay!"), and Swaim implies he's done crack in "Adpocalypse Now":

* [[Early-Bird Cameo]]: Cody Johnston appears in the background of some shots, but just seemed to be an [[Easter Egg]]. {{spoiler|In the final episode, we find out he's the Chief, who's been watching over Mike the entire time.}}

* [[Escalating War]]: In one episode, Swaim ''thinks'' that he and DOB are in one--and that Dan started it--but Dan's "pranks" are entirely in Swaim's imagination.

'''DOB:''' I really wish murder was the word we were arguing over in this sentence. }}

* [[Even the Guys Want Him]]: B-Tone.

'''DOB and Swaim:''' Well, yeah. }}

* [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]]: Michael is told to make a "Facebook" for Cracked and assumes he's literally supposed to make ''a book out of people's faces''. Terror ensues.

* [[Konami Code]]: "A man has to have a code, Daniel! And mine goes up, up, down, down, left, right, A...I'm sorry: up, up, down...F[[Sound Effect Bleep|***]] me, I think I recorded it..."

* [[Lampshade Hanging]]: Throughout the body-switching episode, constant reference is made to, well, body-switching.

** Also Lampshades Swaim's Hammerspace.

* [[Last-Minute Hookup]]: Played completely straight by {{spoiler|DOB and Swaim in the finale.}}

* [[Laughably Evil]]: Swaim. He drops empty liquor bottles on pedestrians from the roof of Cracked's offices, keeps his multiple schizophrenic "wives" imprisoned in his house and car for six years, has crippling addictions to heroin and jetski polish, wears skin suits, and '''is the Zodiac killer''', but he's a deranged, comedic savant and all of it is [[Black Comedy|played for laughs]].

* [[Leaning on the Fourth Wall]]: In "F.U.B.A.R.-King Up the Wrong Tree":

'''Swaim:''' A-O-what? }}

* [[Living Emotional Crutch]]: Dan becomes one of these for Mike:

* [[Luke, I Am Your Father]]: Subverted, because Sarge is not Swaim's father...son.

** {{spoiler|Played straight, because The Chief is.}}

* [[Meaningful Name]]: In [http://www.cracked.com/video_18281_most-poorly-planned-heist-ever.html Tactical Asset Liberation], there's a character called {{spoiler|Benedict Arnold who betrays Mike and Dan}}.

* [[Metaphorgotten]]: "I'll tell her the deal's off. ...''Then'' I'll tell her my ''pants'' are off! Then I'll tell her there's a new deal! And then I'll tell her 'Frankly, I'm about to Delano all over your Roosevelts.'"

'''Michael:''' I don't think it did. }}

* [[Mistaken for Pedophile]]: When Mandy calls Dan's choice of drink "juvenile yet mature", he quips "I love combining my man-parts with those of a child."

** Given a nod in the first episode of the second season. The Sarge is convinced that if he refuses to take the position The Chief will shrink down, climb into his brain and force him to do it. And when that's debunked, he thinks he'll go back in time.

* [[Psychopathic Manchild]]: Swaim, beyond all belief:

** Canonized when it is revealed that {{spoiler|the entire Cracked website was created to keep Swaim occupied and distracted.}}

* [[Rainbow Pimp Gear]]: Swaim's usual choice of attire, which Dan (correctly) surmises that he buys from thrift stores in the gay neighborhood.

** It turns out that Broked.com is staffed by clones of everyone at Cracked.

* [[Start My Own]]: The second to last episode of the first series has a case of this. After {{spoiler|Swaim gets fired for supposedly leaking Cracked secrets to their rival Broked}}, Dan asks him what he's going to do. Swaim intends to make his own version of Cracked, completely by himself. Considering that he's an idiotic, comedic savant who is literally homeless from this incident, Dan has his doubts.

'''Swaim:''' Why would you-?! Alright. Fuck. FUCK! }}

* [[Through the Eyes of Madness]]: "Michael Vision" in the 4th episode of season 3.

* [[Wham! Episode]]: Ohai finale! Where should we begin? Well the Chief turns out to be {{spoiler|Cody}}, who is also {{spoiler|[[Luke, I Am Your Father|Michael's father]].}} Because {{spoiler|the Chief is part of a ancient order of demigods}}, and {{spoiler|Michael is too "retarded as balls" to be his offspring}}, {{spoiler|the order would want Michael killed if they found out.}} After all, {{spoiler|"you can't have a retarded demigod running around."}} So the Chief {{spoiler|created Cracked as a way to keep Michael occupied and hide him from the other chiefs.}} In other news, Cracked's rival Broked is staffed by {{spoiler|clones of the Cracked staff (oh yeah, the Chief also created cloning)}}, the articles and videos on Cracked.com are {{spoiler|encoded with the ultimate truths about the nature of life, the universe and everything, which can be decoded (or, if you will, "cracked") by anyone who reads every single article and buys the right merchandise}} and T-Bone {{spoiler|(and B-Tone)}} are {{spoiler|robots reprogrammed by the other chiefs to kill Dan and Michael}}. So of course, {{spoiler|Dan and Michael fake their own deaths}}, and they all live happily ever after. Am I missing something? Oh, yeah, {{spoiler|Dan turns out to have [[Ho Yay|been in love with Michael all along.]]}} All this in 12 minutes and 40 seconds. Whew.

* [[What Now? Ending]]: The situation Cracked.com finds itself in at the end of the finale.

'''Chief''': "I don't know. Sell some hats?" }}

* [[Yandere]]: Swaim is alarmingly attached to DOB, and genuinely seems to consider him his best friend. However, this won't stop him from unthinkingly ruining anything positive in DOB's life if it will bring Swaim personal pleasure.

 

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