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Jeff: '''Well that doesn't make any sense.'''
'''*beat*'''
Jeff: '''The tiger's eating me!''' }}
[http://www.collegehumor.com/hardlyworking College-Humor's ''Hardly Working''] is an online series of shorts taking place in the office from which the College-Humor website is run. The series is written by and stars the CH staff. The first shorts were ten-second-long, one-joke bits shot with a cam-corder for fun, but as their popularity grew they expanded into full sketches several minutes long and shot with multiple professional cameras.
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* [[Acting for Two]]: Or three or four. Several cast members play multiple characters, often with little more than a wig as a distinction. Streeter Seidel and Josh Ruben are the main examples
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Streeter: I made you this bassoon animal.
Pat: I made you this doubloon animal.
Dan: No more "words ending in -oon" animals!
(Streeter drops a spoon animal) }}
* [[Ambiguously Gay]]- Jake frequently enourages all the guys to kiss each other, or suck each other off. "See [http://www.collegehumor.com/video/5135384/hardly-working-office-fight Office Fight]"
* [[Answer Cut]] -In [http://www.collegehumor.com/video/3332576/hardly-working-youll-never-guess You'll Never Guess]:
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'''Sam:''' You’ll never guess what they're doing there
'''Dan:''' Oh, let me guess. They’re all ''topless'', reenacting the ''final, climatic'' scene to ''A Few Good Men.''
'''*Cut to conference room*'''
'''Pat:''' YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH! }}
* [[Bi the Way]] - Most of the male cast. It's played around with a lot.
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* [[Butt Monkey]]: The whole cast takes pretty equal turns in being the [[Butt Monkey]]. Mostly Pat, though.
* [[The Cameo]]: Lin-Manuel Miranda, rapper and Broadway lyricist, shows up in "Rap Battle."
** Parodied in the episode "[[Jump the Shark|Jump the]] [[Shaped Like Itself|Shark]]," where Tony Hawk supposedly shows up.
* [[Casual Danger Dialog]]: Taken [[Up to Eleven]] in "Emergency Flirt": A tiger is trying to break down the door and ''Pat is flirting with a cute animal control operator.''
* [[Censor Suds]]: [http://www.collegehumor.com/video/6542559/showering-with-girls Showering With Girls].
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]] - Amir is a disturbing example.
** Dan ventures into this territory as well.
* [[Cluster F-Bomb]]- In [[Rant-Inducing Slight|"Jeff Goes]] [[Never Live It Down|Christian Bale"]]
* [[Cool Teacher]]- Dan in "Cool Teacher". Though he's so cliche he just annoys everyone. Also, they're not actually his students.
* [[Dead All Along]] - {{spoiler|Streeter in Camouflage.}}
* [[Death
* [[Dead Baby Comedy]] - Not as consistent as oother shows, but when they do you will know. The "worst" offender is probably [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yLRyX7x9Ew parent game].
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* [[Divide
* [[Earthshattering Kaboom]]: As a result of Murph tweeting about how ''Twitter is down''.
* [[Ensemble Cast]]
* [[Evil Counterpart]]: [[Super Mario Bros.|Wa]]-Dan.
* [[Expectation Lowerer]]: Pat in [http://www.collegehumor.com/video/6538547/hardly-working-wishful-thinking Wishful Thinking].
* [[Fake Irish]]: When Streeter goes from being Irish-American to just Irish.
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* [[George Jetson Job Security]] - In most of the Hardly Workings with Ricky he's either firing somebody or gets close to. In "Fired Up" he almost fires a girl, who simply says no to him and it's over just like that.
* [[Good Angel, Bad Angel]]: In "Consciences."
* [[Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow]]: Jeff in [http://www.collegehumor.com/video/6209047/hardly-working-flash-forward Flash Forward].
* [[Happy Birthday to You]]: In celebrating Sarah's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzoA-xFU2j8 birthday], nobody remembers the birthday song.
* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]] - Amir thinks he and Jake are this. Jake is perpetually disgusted and horrified by him.
* [[Hoist
* [[If I Can't Have You]]: Pat in "My Bloody Valentine".
* [[The Internet]]: Shows up several times, as they work for a website. Once, they even found [[Holy Grail|the source of the Internet]].
* [[Jumping the Shark]]: [[Parodied]] in the episode "[[Captain Obvious|Jump The Shark]]," in which [[Up to Eleven|a new SpinOff is introduced, Tony Hawk appears as a]] [[Celebrity Star|Guest Star]], [[Will They or Won't They?|two characters get engaged]], [[Up to Eleven|they move to a new building, Amir gets]] [[The Other Darrin|replaced]], and [[Mind Screw|Jeff gives birth to]] [[Makes Just
* [[Mind Screw]]: ''Often''.
** From "Trading Lunches:"
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Dan: I don't know, [[Department of Redundancy Department|didn't you eat that yesterday?]]<br />
(Pat spits out a whole rice krispie treat)<br />
Dan: No Thanks. }}
* [[Motor Mouth]] - Amir in "Speed 3- Blabber Mouth".
* [[Negative Continuity]] - Characters are killed off or change careers all the time, but return immediately in the next video.
** Inverted by Jake and Amir. So far there has not been any continuity errors and it even has the odd [[Continuity Nod]] or two.
* [[Papa Bear]] - Pat's Step Dad in "Step Dad" sees himself as this, based almost entirely on the fact that he gets Pat extra large cheese pizzas.
* [["Previously On..."]] - Parodied in "Last Week".
* [[Right Behind Me]] - Parodied in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyaFtO-JJz8 All Nighter He's Right Behind Me].
* [[Screams Like a Little Girl]] - Dan in "Dodgeball." And "Stomp."
* [[Serious Business]]: "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIs5pA1-rMk Desk Toys]," "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeyac7alRU8&feature=relmfu Box Fort]," "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hAKYRpSEK0&feature=related Jinx]," "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ec1CpQMUI7Y&feature=relmfu Religiously]," and "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3LVn6cLeSk&feature=related Basketball Phone]," to name a few.
* [[Shout
* [[Small Name, Big Ego]]- Ricky is portrayed as this, having a full scale picture of himself in his office and scattered around the office in general. He also is his own favorite employee,as shown in "Ricky's Diary".
* [[Stalker
* [[Stay in
* [[The Aggressive Drug Dealer]] - Seen in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceOxyV6NgPQ&feature=related Amir and Streeter].
* [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill]] - Attempted in "Bug".
* [[The Smurfette Principle]] - Sarah is portrayed most of the time as being the only girl in the office, with most of the guys there having a crush on her. Exemplified wonderfully in "Sarah's Revenge".
* [[Took a Level
* [[Train Station Goodbye]]: [[Parodied]] in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVi3vflC54g&feature=relmfu Wait!], where no one can tell who they are saying goodbye to.
* [[Violently Protective Girlfriend]] - Amir's "Overgrown Guy Girlfriend". Also counts as [[The Load]].
* [[What Do You Mean It's Not Heinous?]]: Both played straight and subverted. In "Double Jointed," Streeter, Pat, and Sarah are able to rip off their scalps, tie up people with their tongues, and stick their hands through their stomachs. Amir enters, does a Vulcan salute and Pat and Sarah [[Vomit Indiscretion Shot|throw up]].
** It helps that the episode is stop-motion animated.
* [[X Meets Y]]: ''[[Stella]]'' meets ''[[The Office]]''.
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