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* [[Accidental Kiss]]: After watching a French movie, Hank starts greeting people by kissing them on the cheeks. When he tries to do it with Emma, he accidentally kisses her on the lips instead. He later decides to talk to her about it, which gives us the line "What kiss? You mean when you hit me in the face with your lips?"

* [[The Ace]]: Both Brent's Cousin Carl and Terry, the door guy.

** Julie Stewart played a detective who investigated cold cases in the Canadian drama ''[[Cold Squad (TV)|Cold Squad]].'' When she appeared in the episode "Grad '68" as a paint store clerk, Karen told her she was working on a cold case and Stewart replied, "Cold case? Who cares?"

* [[All Girls Want Bad Boys]]: Parodied in "Dark Circles" when Brent starts wearing a black uniform shirt. Wanda starts acting scared of him, but Lacey gets all dreamy and high school crush-like.

'''Brent''': Fears? Not really, I mean just the standard stuff. Pirates. Vampires. Sasquatch. Intimacy. Commitment.<br />

'''Lacey''': Wanda?<br />

* [[Breaking the Fourth Wall]]: Continually skirts this with things like the Boom Mike gag, Cameos, and such.

* [[Break in Threat]]: [[Played for Laughs]] in "Shirt Disturber." Davis is trying to sell alarm systems, so he breaks into Oscar and Emma's bedroom one morning with coffee. ("This could have been a burglar bringing you coffee!") They buy an alarm system just to make him leave them alone.

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* [[The Danza]]: Brent Butt plays... Brent Leroy.

* [[Daydream Surprise]]: Used frequently, most notably {{spoiler|in the fourth season finale, which plays out as if it's the final episode of the entire show, with characters moving away, character arcs being resolved, a [[Bittersweet Ending]] and the eponymous gas station being taken over by a megacorporation as Dog River goes from being a small town to a proper city...before it's revealed that all of this is just a prolonged daydream sequence on the part of Hank.}}

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Wanda; see also the page quote.

* [[Downer Ending]]: The fourth season finale had Brent selling Corner Gas, Davis being transferred to Woolverton and, saddest of all, Lacey moving back to Toronto. {{spoiler|Fortunately, it was [[All Just a Dream]].}}

* [[Down On the Farm]]: The Canadian equivalent is parodied relentlessly whenever an out-of-towner visits.

* [[Eagle Land]]: Parodied and inverted. A second season episode features an American tourist who is polite and understands and appreciates Canadian culture more than most Dog River residents do.

* [[Eccentric Townsfolk]]

'''Brent:''' [[Sarcasm Mode|Subtle]]. You wanna wring your hands while you do that? (wrings hands) }}

* [[Happy Place]]: Brent Leroy's happy place has two scantily clad women, pudding baths, chili cheese dogs and once, The Man from Glad.

{{quote| '''Emma:''' Look at what those stray cats do!... They run around in the dirty and poop everywhere!<br />

'''Oscar:''' Heh heh heh.<br />

'''Peggy''': We only take questions about pets.<br />

'''Hank''': I have this pet, who egged a cable van... }}

{{quote| '''Brent''': Two chili-cheese dogs.<br />

'''Tourist''': Oh, nothing for me thanks. <br />

** One of his [[Catch Phrase|Catch Phrases]] is "I'm a senior!" At one point Brent points out that, since he's 63, he isn't ''technically'' a senior yet, but Oscar completely ignores this.

* [[Seinfeldian Conversation]]: Almost any conversation initiated by Hank. Brent and Davis frequently join him on those with opposing arguments, such as who would win if [[Star Wars]] fought [[Star Trek (Franchise)|Star Trek]].

* [[Sense Freak]]: In a rare human example, Davis is revealed in one episode to have lost his sense of smell as a child. He gets it back during the episode and goes a little nuts with it.

** It becomes [[Fridge Brilliance]] when you notice in other episodes Davis is ''never'' the first to notice a truly awful smell, but rather always seems to add reactively "Yeah that does smell bad"... basically, he's covering up his missing sense!

** Being the only cops in a small town, neither Karen nor Davis ever really suffers any consequences for failures or breaches of procedure.

* [[Visible Boom Mic]]: [[Breaking the Fourth Wall|Happens]] when Brent and Wanda are [[Seinfeldian Conversation|discussing]] the comparative qualities between [[Leaning On the Fourth Wall|production values and substance]].

* [[Welcome Episode]]: Lacey moves to Dog River in the first episode.

* [[We Need a Distraction]]: In a flashback scene in "Grad '68", Emma needs to sneak out of the house and distracts Oscar with a Rubik's Cube.

* [[Worst News Judgment Ever]]: The Howler; this is [[Lampshade Hanging|noted]] by the characters, though.

* [[Wraparound Background]]: Subverted when Oscar and Emma are shown in the cab of their RV, and trees passing by in the background indicate they are moving. Cut to an outside shot that shows the RV is parked outside The Ruby and a convoy of flatbeds full of trees is driving by in the opposite direction.

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