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Following the show's television run, a [[Direct to DVD|direct-to-DVD]] [[The Movie|movie]] was released in which the gang discovers their show has been canceled and attempt to get back on the air.

* [[Absentee Actor]]: In "Captain Hero's Marriage Pact," Toot and Clara (both [[Acting for Two|voiced]] by Tara Strong) are virtually absent from the entire episode until the last few minutes. This could be due to Strong dedicating the majority of her time voicing Unusually Flexible Girl in that episode. The writers quickly [[Lampshade Hanging]] this:

** Foxxy Love has had so many of her children taken away from her, she considers the woman from Child Services to be her arch nemesis.

*** Well, she has admitted to putting Foxxy's children in horrible foster homes.

* [[Art Evolution]]: Averted with [[The Movie]]. It's animated in [[Adobe Flash]] and it's very noticeable. Inverted with the series -- with each successive season, the quality of the animation gets poorer. The series is also a rare instance of this happening to the sound, as well as the graphics: Toot's voice was at first deliberately made to sound like the low quality, scratchy audio recordings of the 1920's cartoons she represents, but the effect was abandoned after the first episode.

* [[The Artifact]]: The fact that the series is supposed to be a reality show became less and less important and stopped being mentioned at all midway through season two.

** Until [[The Movie]], when the show's cancellation became the focus of the entire plot.

** Also everything in the movie.

* [[As Long As It Sounds Foreign]]: Ling-Ling speaks Japanese gibberish, [[Lampshade Hanging|and he knows it's gibberish.]]

* [[Bulletproof Human Shield]]: Captain Hero's "Hero Shield" move.

* [[Butt Monkey]]: Half the cast seems to take turns fulfilling this role; it's arguable who gets it the worst.

** With an entire keg, no less.

* [[Captain Ersatz]]: All the characters except Spanky are parodies of other well-known characters. Spanky parodies Flash cartoons and internet-based characters, but is not based on a specific character.

* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Wooldoor.

* [[Clumsy Copyright Censorship]]: When the show was forbidden from using "(I've Had) The Time of My Life" on the DVD release, a quick parody version was produced to fill the space and [[Lampshade Hanging]] that fact.

* [[Combining Mecha]]: Episode three of Season one, "Gay Bash", reveals that Asians can do this.

* [[Comically Missing the Point]]: Captain Hero is a master at this. To cite one of many examples, in one episode, an immigrant family from Greece moves in next door. When Captain Hero hears the word "Greeks", he assumes it's a fraternity and immediately rushes over to their house and tries to become a pledge... which he keeps at long after the reality of the situation has become abundantly clear. He is even ''explicitly told'' the truth at multiple points and refuses to believe it.

* [[Coming Out Story]]: With Xandir, both played straight (in ''Gay Bash'', when coming out to the house) and parodied (in ''A Very Special Drawn Together After School Special'', when coming out to his parents).

* [[Commercial Break Cliffhanger]]: Spoofed.

* [[Confession Cam]]: A common feature of the early episodes; somewhat phased out as the series goes along.

* [[Contest Winner Cameo]]

* [[Cross Dressing Voices]]: The male Ling-Ling is voiced by the female Abbey McBride. Also, whenever a young boy shows up, he's generally voiced by [[Tara Strong]].

* [[Darker and Edgier]]: The first half of Season Three, [[Seasonal Rot|much to the show's detriment]].

* [[A Date With Rosie Palms]]: Every character, even the ultra-prudish Clara, has had their masturbation referenced or shown on the series.

** Heck, the episode ''Clum Babies'' is all ''about'' masturbation!

* [[Embarrassing First Name]]: Captain Leslie Shero. "The "S" is silent, you hithead!"

* [[Embarrassing Middle Name|Embarrassing Middle/Last Name]]: Ling-Ling... Well, not so much 'embarrassing' as much as offensive, but [[Rule of Funny|still hilarious]]:

* [[Embarrassing Tattoo]]: Xandir: "'Living Positive' just seemed like such a cool motto back in 1986..."

** Also all of Unusually Flexible Girl's tattoos to Hero.

* [[Everyone Is Bi]]

* [[Everyone Meets Everyone]]: The first episode.

* [[Exactly What It Says On the Tin]]: "Live Action Cow", "Live Action Squirrel With Big Balls", the list goes on, I mean really. Oh, and live action squirrel with big balls, fights live action cow, and I'll give you a hint about live action squirrel with big balls, it involves big balls.

* [[Exiled to The Couch]]: After Captain Hero stands up Xandir at the mall, Xandir that night orders Hero to sleep on the couch -- despite the fact that the two sleep in separate beds.

* [[Forgotten Fallen Friend]]: Captain Hero enters the AIDS walk after witnessing his friend Popeye dying of AIDS by using contaminated needles. He manages to "win" the competition (actually killing all the other participants) and after having taken the prize he sees Popeye's face in the sky. He doesn't even recognize him!

{{quote| [[Funny Moments|'''Captain Hero:''' ''Who the hell is that asshole?'']]}}

* [[Friend to All Living Things]]: Spoofed with Clara.

* [[Fully Automatic Clip Show]]: The two Xandir "girlfriend" montages in the first episode.

** {{spoiler|Also in the movie, the Jew Producer.}}

* [[Heroic Sociopath]]: Captain Hero, Ling-Ling in early episodes.

* [[Hollywood Homely]]: Parodied. Foxxy and Clara both have perfect bodies; Toot is only slightly pudgy, yet is treated as if she's as big as a whale. Unfortunately, the show tends to undermine this by actually drawing her fat and gross for a cheap joke now and again.

* [[Hollywood Pudgy]]: Toot again.

{{quote| '''Foxxy:''' Is there anyone out there who ''didn't'' think that this would go gay?"}}

* [[Hypocritical Humor]]

** Then there was the scene in season one where Spanky, Hero, and Wooldoor all took turns playing spin the bottle with each other, culminating in a three-person mouth orgy.

{{quote| The bottle points to Wooldoor: "WHEE!!"<br />

* [[I Just Shot Marvin in The Face]]: {{spoiler|In the final episode, The Jew Producer runs offstage in despair to commit suicide. He somehow manages to accidentally shoot dead at least three stage hands, after each time screaming "No! I shot another stage hand! Why do things like this keep happening to me! I can't take it anymore!" and then trying again, each time getting even more disparaged. He finally succeeds.}}

* [[I Love the Dead]]: Captain Hero ''really'' has a thing for dead bodies. Season Three is packed to the brim with jokes about how much he loves them, and in [[The Movie]], he carries a girl's corpse around for the entire movie, calling her his girlfriend, "Molly".

* [[Indian Burial Ground]]: "Ghostesses in the Slot Machine"

* [[Informed Judaism]]: The Jew Producer. Other than the name, there's no indication of his Jewishness.

* [[Jerkass]]: Some more so than others, but all of them display [[Jerkass]] tendencies at times.

* [[Keet]]: Wooldoor.

* [[Killer Rabbit]]: Ling-Ling.

* [[Knight Templar]]: Clara.

* [[Lampshade Wearing]]: Spanky at the beginning of "Charlotte's Web of Lies." Well, with a traffic cone, anyway.

* [[Lantern Jaw of Justice]]: Parodied.

* [[Least Rhymable Word]]: There's a first season episode that has Foxxy give the cast a "sex ed" talk as if she were a [[Misplaced Kindergarten Teacher]] and the rest of the cast (obligingly) act like kindergartners. She rhymes "pee pee" with "teepee", but when she gets to vagina, she calls it a "gigi", which in her words "rhymes with puppy...but not very well."

* [[Legal Jailbait]]: Parodied with Strawberry Sweetcake.

* [[No Periods Period]]: Averted like ''hell''.

* [[Nothing Can Stop Us Now]]: Spanky's use of "Nothing can ''possibly'' go wrong!" is always followed by something going wrong.

* [[Obituary Montage]]: Spoofed in the series finale.

* [[Older Than They Look]]: Implied with Foxxy, who looks to be in her early-to-mid twenties but has a teenage ''grandson''.

* [[Only Sane Man]]: Foxxy was this at the beginning of the series, though by the end, it was Spanky more often than not.

* [[Playing to The Fetishes]]: Multiple blatantly fetishized references to Foxxy's feet, a few on-screen other instances and a couple merely dialogue.

* [[Plot Induced Stupidity]]: Captain Hero to an incredible extent.

* [[Pop Up Trivia]]: The clip shows do this, though the "trivia" notes are fake.

* [[Positive Discrimination]]: Though she has her moments of [[Flanderization]] like the rest of them, Foxxy is often portrayed as the only person in the house with any sense.

{{quote| I have a new name for you, Two Hands!<br />

''[punches him in the stomach and rips out his intestines]''<br />

* [[Pretty in Mink]]: Captain Hero buys a fur-trimmed coat after winning a bet with Spanky that he could get Clara's cousin Bleh to sleep with him. Later in the episode, Bleh is shown wearing an identical coat, having made a similar bet with one of her friends.

* [[Princess Classic]]: After her rebellious phase, Clara turns into a parody of this.

* [[Reading the Stage Directions Out Loud]]: Foxxy does this while running a suicide hotline in "Little Orphan Hero".

{{quote| '''Foxxy Love:''' Thank you for calling the suicide hotline. My name is "line". How can I help you? Remember to sound like you care.}}

* [[Refuge in Audacity]]: There doesn't seem to be a limit to the show's audaciousness, which unfortunately leads to...

* [[Refuge in Vulgarity]]

* [[The Resolution Will Not Be Televised]]: The show's final episode was a network-mandated on-the-cheap clip show that both the fans and the show people were dissatisfied with. The series' proper resolution came in the form of a direct-to-DVD movie.

* [[Retroactive Wish]]: In the first episode.

* [[Requisite Royal Regalia|Royal Crown]]: Although her outfit is relatively [[Modest Royalty|modest]] by princess standards, Clara is almost never without her tiara.

* [[Rogues Gallery]]: Hero's consists of Scroto; the Koala Bear Rapist; the Gigantic Midget; the Mad Libber (and his henchman, Quadriple-Jack); the Mad Felcher; and the most confused supervillain of all: Senor Eskimo Goldberg (''"What the hell '''am''' I?!"'').

* [[Rule of Funny]]: The show ''lives'' by this trope.

* [[Screwed By the Network]]: Comedy Central's screening schedule was erratic, to say the least. The show would often be off the schedule for ''months''; many viewers assumed it was cancelled long before it actually was.

** Lampshaded by the plot of the direct-to-DVD sequel, obviously.

* [[Short Run in Peru]]: The second half of Season Three, delayed by Comedy Central for almost a year, was broadcast in Latin America two weeks before the US.

* [[Shout Out]]: Many, even to ''[[Sesame Street (TV)|Sesame Street]]'', with the gang randomly impersonating the Yip Yips.

* [[Technical Virgin]]: Clara never has straight-up coitus over the entire course of the series, but she does get her rocks off in some odd ways, like car accidents.

* [[That Poor Cat]]: A cat scream is heard any time an object falls or is thrown offscreen.

* [[They Killed Kenny]]: The entire cast, but Toot and Ling-Ling especially.

{{quote| '''Wooldoor:''' We can't all keep dying and then coming back the next episode! It's totally ''illogical''!<br />

* [[Transparent Closet]]: Xandir in episodes 1 and 2, after which he becomes [[Camp Gay]].

* [[Twofer Token Minority]]: Foxxy.

** [[Lampshaded]] in "The Lemon-AIDS Walk", where the separate plots are Hero training for an AIDS walk and Wooldoor getting caught stealing from the mall. Wooldoor is leaving the mall security office when Hero, having joined the Mall Walkers, shoves him aside, shouting, "Out of the way, subplot. Main story coming through!"

** Also lampshaded in "A Tale of Two Cows", when Toot, who is away in her own plot that week, materializes out of nowhere to comment on the ridiculousness of the main plot.

* [[Vocal Evolution]]: Clara's voice has gotten deeper and less chirpy over the course of the series, while the opposite has happened to Foxxy and Toot. Spanky's voice has gotten gruffer, to the point of becoming distinguishable from Adam Carolla's natural speaking voice.

* [[Wacky Sound Effect]]: Wooldoor first and foremost, but the others get their fair share.

* [[When Elders Attack]]: Happens to Toot in "Alzheimer's That Ends Well" and Foxxy in the movie.

* [[White Dwarf Starlet]]: Toot.

** Wait, you're trying to tell me he's not blond?

* [[X-Ray Vision]]: Captain Hero. It's no particular surprise [[Power Perversion Potential|what he uses it for]].

* [[You Already Changed the Past]]: Captain Hero manages to contact himself in the past, instructing his younger self to do humiliating/horrible things, one of which gives him his name. His older self explains it by saying that he's getting revenge because [[Temporal Paradox|someone did the same thing to him when he was younger]].