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[[Cake Boss]] is a cooking/reality show airing on TLC. It follows events at Carlo's Bakery in Hoboken, [[New Jersey]].
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* [[Catch Phrase]]: Buddy's "Hoboken (or "Jersey") style BABY!"
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Ralph, one of the cake decorators hired by Buddy in Season 3, is a bit...quirky.
* [[Crossover]]: With ''[[Say Yes to
* [[Don't Try This At Home]]: Invoked by Buddy when he did a test run on the fire-breathing tiki cake.
* [[Genre Savvy]]: Anthony's pretty good at knowing when he's going to get pranked, like the time they tried to throw the cake in his face. Turns into [[Death
* [[Gratuitous Italian]]: Debatable -- in the opening credits, Buddy refers to the crew at Carlo's as ''"mia famiglia"''. But he's first-generation Italian-American, his father emigrated from Sicily.
* [[I Ate What?]]: When Buddy made a cake for an animal shelter's fundraiser, he also made a special animal-diet-safe cake for the dogs. One of the bakery's delivery drivers was pranked by giving him a sample of the "dog cake" (which included actual dog food).
* [[Idiot Ball]]: The usual cause of bakery disasters. Suppose you could have measured the delivery truck to make sure that cake would fit inside ''before'' making it?
* [[In Memoriam]]: Long-time baker Salvatore Picinich died of cancer in early 2011. The episode that aired the next day was dedicated to Sal. A later episode included Buddy speaking at Sal's memorial Mass.
** [[Dead Guy, Junior]]: Carlos Salvatore Valastro.
* [[No Indoor Voice]]: None of the Valastros have an indoor voice.
* [[Pixellation]]: Used for the anatomically-accurate modeling chocolate figures on a bachelorette party cake. (Until Mama saw them and made the sculptors add shorts.)
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** Or the Transformers cake for the car company. They had to work overnight in the special effects warehouse, because they didn't own freezers big enough to hold the cake. They made a seven-foot-long, eight-foot-tall cake overnight. With moving wings, light up bits, and a spinning blaster. The [[Holy Shit Quotient]] was broken.
* [[Title Drop]]: Happened during a Parental Lecture from Buddy's mother:
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* [[Up to Eleven]]: Some customers seem to be trying to raise the bar on what Buddy can do. (The tiki-cake guy was a regular customer, and admitted that he was doing this.)
* [[Vacation Episode]]: Three of them, covering a Valastro trip to Italy.
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