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* [[Achilles' Heel]]: Mentok's mind-taking can be blocked both by aluminum foil and by metal skull plates.
* [[Actor Allusion]]: When the office workers mistake Phil's brother for Phil himself.
{{quote|'''Everyone:''' ''"He's back! Phil's back! Phil's back!"''
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'''Phil Ken Sebben''': I wouldn't say that. I'll just be extremely busy on the new show, err, firm. }}
* [[Anal Probing]]: Phil Ken Sebben mistakenly believes [[The Jetsons]] are Greys--not time travelers--and that they're out to give him an anal probe.
* [[Anything That Moves]]: Gigi.
* [[Art Evolution]]: Potamus went from having ordinary humanoid hands to flat hippo limbs in season 3.
* [[Ascended Extra]]: Various characters from the original ''Birdman'' cartoon, especially Mentok, Reducto, Birdgirl and X the Eliminator.
** Within the show itself, Peter Potamus and to a lesser extent the bear.
* [[Ascended Fanon]]: Arguably the main joke of the series. The majority of Birdman's cases are based around popular fan theories (Doctor Quest and Race Bannon are actually a gay couple, the Scoobie gang are stoners,Top Cat is really a pimp, etc.) and headscratchers (why can't you see Apache Chief or Grape Apes genitals, despite their respective sizes?, why is Secret Squirrel apparently naked under his trench coat?, etc.) related to old Hanna Barbera cartoons.
* [[Audio Erotica]]: The female member of Shoyu Weenie when she took the stand.
{{quote|'''Mentok:''' Forget mind-taking, I'm taking up lip-reading.}}
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* [[The Cameo]]: A ''[[Street Fighter]]'' character is hidden in each chapter of the video game.
* [[Camp Straight]]: Peanut, through all his effeminate mannerisms and pink sweater vests, is not only straight, but quite the player.
* [[Catch Phrase]]:
{{quote|'''Peter Potamus''': Did you get that thing I sent you?}}
** Also,
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** I'LL take the case!
** Back off!
** Mind Taker. * mind-taking sound effects*
** Crest on Birdman's helmet!
** Deedle-eedle-ee.
** * zips-up pants*
** That's Mind Taking, baby!
*** Yeah, there's a lot of these. In fact, there's a special feature on the Season 3 DVD where it lists all the common gags and plays all occurences when selected.
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: A good portion of the characters, but especially ''Phil Ken Sebben''.
** Oh, and Peanut.
*** "Who's feeling Peanutty?"
{{quote|'''Peanut:''' Who's getting made?
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* [[The Eeyore]]: Droopy Dog.
* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: Even The Deadly Duplicator can't stand $28 chimichangas!
* [["Everybody Laughs" Ending]]: Parodied. People will laugh at the end of an episode for absolutely no/very little reason... except at the one when Scrappy was taken away to be eaten by Avenger.
* [[Everything's Even Worse with Sharks]]: In Dabba Don, A scene showed Harvey waking up with Jabber Jaw's head on his bed.
* [[Expy]]: Mentoks father is an expy of both [[Marlon Brando]] and [[Superman|Jor-el]].
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{{quote|'''Phil:''' Ha ha! ''(shakes head sadly)'' Not to scale...}}
** Apache Chief apparently qualifies as well.
* [[Gender Bender]]: ''Phil'' of all people, though it was only a [[Spoof Aesop]] about plastic surgery.
* [[Gender Inverted Trope]]: G.G., and all her husbands.
* [[Genki Girl]]: Birdgirl, [[Up to Eleven|turned up to 11]].
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* [[Hilarity Sues]]
* [[Ho Yay]]: "Wow, that's a man kiss..."
** X and his [[Heterosexual Life Partner|friend]], Zardo,
*** X's obsession with Harvey borders on this on occasion.
* [[Identity Amnesia]]: Spoofed.
* [[Idiosyncratic Wipes]]: Scene changes are marked by a quick shot of a gavel banging, or briefcase opening, etc on a brightly-colored background.
** Woo-Ka!
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* [[Insufferable Genius]]: Spyro, Mentok. Lampshaded when Harvey tries to make small talk with Spyro, and quickly understands why none of Spyro's school buddies kept in touch.
* [[Kavorka Man]]: Potamus.
* [[Knife-Throwing Act]]: In a moment of [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]], Peanut is trapped in a genie's lamp with a woman. He says they're going to go on a "magic carpet ride" and asks her to hand over a roll of nearby rope. Later on, when said genie releases his captives, Peanut appears with the woman tied to a giant target, having apparently been doing such an act the whole time.
* [[Large Ham]]: Mentok the Mind Taker, when he's not being a [[Deadpan Snarker]].
** Not to mention X! the Eliminatorrrrrrr! When he's not being a clingy Harvey-stalker.
** And Spyro, who is apparently an actual actor, is overly theatrical in and out of court, at one point staging a scene from ''Pagliacci'' while prosecuting a mob boss.
** Lest we forget Birdgirl, who is usually the most vocal and eager member of what she, and she alone, calls the "Birdteam". Also... her inner monologues about her secret identity are not so inner, and tend to actually end up being broadcasted to everyone. Over a loudspeaker.
** "I am '''SHADOOOOOOO''' The Brain Thief!"
** Also, [[The Rival|Vulturo]], another bird-themed lawyer, who always initially comes across as a [[Wicked Cultured]] aristocrat, but eventually degenerates into [[The Unintelligible|mwoh hohn hon hnyaaaaaooonn]]...
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** Peanut shooting off his beams in the bathroom.
* [[Power Perversion Potential]]: How Zan knew Wonder Woman was taking a bath at one point.
* <s>[[Psychic Powers]]</s> [[Psychic Powers|Mind Taking]], baby! Booo-WEE-oooh!
** Also "Shadoooooo! The Brain Th..."
{{quote|"Oh no you don't. No "brain thieving" in ''my'' courtroom, you understand?. This is ''mind taking'' country, partner. You got it? ''Good''."}}
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* [[Saying Sound Effects Out Loud]]: BEUOOOOWEEEEUOOOOOOOOOOP!
* [[Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale]]: Spoofed. The Jetsons claim to be from the "far off year of 2002" while standing next to a calender marked "2004".
* [[Self-Serving Memory]]: At the end of one episode, Harvey has a flashback of a scene at the beginning of the episode, except the scene looks incredibly different, with characters present that weren't there the first time and elements that don't even seem possible such as a scuba diver floating in the middle of the room.
* [[Shout-Out]]: More than just the obvious ones covered by [[Crossover]]. For example, the {{spoiler|bus that runs over Phil Ken Sebben}} has an ad for ''[[The Colbert Report]]'' on the side.
* [[Sleeps with Everyone but You]]: Harvey is the only person G.G. isn't eager to make out with/screw.
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* [[Spell My Name with an "S"]]: Elliott Taggart, the Deadly Duplicator. That's ''two'' L's and ''two'' T's!
* [[Technology Marches On]]: Spoofed with X's death ray, which is a button-covered, desk-sized console that uses vacuum tubes and takes half a minute to charge up (once X can find an electric outlet) before firing (or a vacuum tube blows out) that he nonetheless treats as a portable weapon.
** Also spoofed when [[The Jetsons]] (from the far off year of 2002) try to sue the present.
* [[Tsundere]]: Arguably, X.
* [[Tonight Someone Dies]]: The last episode is titled "The Death of Harvey Birdman".
* [[Trust-Building Blunder]]
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