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Line 23: * [[Bait and Switch Credits]]: The original opening has a narrator telling us that "sometimes [the insiders] agree... usually they don't," while showing them all arguing loudly. But in most episodes they usually ''do'' agree, except for Angel and Animal, and even then, their discussions are more in the form of sarcastic sniping than loud arguments. * [[Casanova Wannabe]]: Jay * [[Celebrity Paradox]]: See [[Hey, It's That Voice!]] ~~below~~on the [[Herman's Head/Trivia\|Trivia page]]. * [[Cerebus Syndrome]]: Any given episode would usually start with Herman doing something wrong, then [[Hilarity Ensues]] as he runs about trying to resolve the situation, with an [[Aesop]] over not having done it in the first place. Some of the third season episodes would have Herman fail to "fix" things (such as when he cheated on his [[Girl of the Week]]) presumably in order to reinforce the Aesop. * [[Christmas Episode]]: "A Charlie Brown Fitzer" * [[Completely Missing the Point]]: Herman's boss is a ''very'' serious man who tries to have fun but has no idea how. In one episode, he gets a ventriloquist's dummy and puts together a very convincing show... except that instead of telling jokes, he and the dummy exchange dry historical facts. He is shocked when he is told that's ''not'' how a ventriloquism act is supposed to go. * [[Consolation World Record]]: In one episode Herman is out to set a world record for continuous working at one sitting. He discovers that one of his colleagues is planning to sing at a night club, and leaving work to watch her would preclude him breaking the record. He watches her anyway. The next day, the record book authorities come in, and Herman wonders why. Turns out that he broke a record: eating the most sunflower seeds in one sitting! He'd been eating them the entire time. * [[Consolation World Record]]: in one episode * [[A Date with Rosie Palms]]: Herman's insiders watch a flashback of when he had sex with Heddy, but the tape breaks. Angel accuses the others of constantly replaying this moment, and demands to know what they've been up to while she's been asleep. Cue guilty look from the three men. * [[Different for Girls]]: in one episode. * [[Freudian Trio]]: Literally: Animal (Id), Angel (Ego), Genius (Superego). It's not surprising Wimp faded into the background in later episodes. * [["Friend or Idol?" Decision]] * [[Ghost in the Machine]] * [[Gold Digger]]: Heddy fully intends to be one, but starts falling for less-than-wealthy Herman by the third season. * [[Good Angel, Bad Angel]] * [[Greek Chorus]] * [[Half-Hour Comedy]] * [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]: Jane Sibbett, who played Heddy, is probably better known these days as Carol Willick, Ross's lesbian ex-wife on ''[[Friends]]''; and Jennifer Aniston made a brief appearance. ** And the boss is played by Jason Bernard, who played Elias' father Caleb in ''[[V (TV series)\|V]]''. * [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]: Yeardley Smith will always sound like [[The Simpsons (animation)\|Lisa Simpson]]. Parodied in one episode, where Louise (Smith's character) tells off an old friend ([[The Brady Bunch\|Maureen McCormick]]) of the boss without realizing who it is. When the boss confronts the staff about it, not knowing who spoke to Maureen but knowing that she sounded "like a cartoon character", Louise gets an [[Oh Crap]] moment—only for the boss to turn and start yelling at another woman, who protests in a [[Betty Boop]] voice. Averted by Hank Azaria, who doesn't sound like any of his ''Simpsons'' characters. * [[Looking for Love In All the Wrong Places]]: Jay * [[Orphaned Punchline]]: Louise's [[Mister Roberts\|"Captain, it is I -- Ensign Pulver -- and I've just thrown your stinking palm tree overboard!"]] * [[Professionals Do It on Desks]]: Herman and Heddy have sex on Mr Bracken's desk. * [[Shout-Out]]: Many for ''[[The Simpsons]]'' A [[Running Gag]] involved Louise being mistaken for Lisa Simpson every time she talked to someone on the phone. Eventually it got shouted out on ''The Simpsons'', as well, with Lisa covering up a sinister laugh by saying she was "thinking of something funny I saw on ''Herman's Head''." * [[Slap Slap Kiss]] * [[Sitcom]] * [[Will They or Won't They?]]: Herman and Heddy, despite Heddy's oft-stated intentions of [[Gold Digger\|trapping a rich man to drain dry]], start falling for each other by the third season, but resist their attraction with no small amount of angst on both sides over it.▼ * [[What Could Have Been]]: According to a writer on the show, had it not been canceled at the end of the third season, a second set of Insiders—for ''Heddy''—would have been introduced in the fourth season. ▲* [[Will They or Won't They?]]: Herman and Heddy, despite Heddy's oft-stated intentions of trapping a rich man to drain dry, start falling for each other by the third season, but resist their attraction with no small amount of angst on both sides over it. * [[Work Com]] Line 56 ⟶ 48: [[Category:Fantastic Comedy]] [[Category:{{PAGENAME}}]] [[Category:Live-Action TV of the 1990s]] [[Category:TV Series]] [[Category:Pages with working Wikipedia tabs]]