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''[[Hey, Dude!]]'' was a sitcom that aired on [[Nickelodeon]] during the late 1980s and early 1990s. It followed the misadventures of the teenage summer help at the Bar None Ranch in Arizona, as well as its owner, an incompetent Mr. Benjamin Ernst. Mr. Ernst, after years of being a nebbishy pencil-pusher, gets the urge to be a cowboy; so, he buys the Bar None and becomes its manager. Since his only qualifications (if you can call them qualifications) are his enthusiasm for bolo ties and ten-gallon hats, he's quickly in over his head. Consequently, he has little time to supervise the young staff, who leap on the opportunity to romance each other and concoct schemes...in the most wholesome possible way, of course. The staff are:
 
* Brad, the horseback-riding instructor, who has rich parents and occasional snobbish tendencies, but also works hard and can take care of herself when need be.
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* Buddy, Mr. Ernst's son, who is not part of the staff, but usually is a part of the plot. He is basically a younger version of Mr. Ernst, except he knows he is a [[City Mouse]] and constantly whines that he wants to go back to New York.
 
Although it didn't have a [[Laugh Track]], ''Hey, Dude'' managed to use many well-known sitcom tropes in the short time that it was on. [https://web.archive.org/web/20111025235817/http://www.shoutfactorystore.com/prod.aspx?pfid=5257435#axzz1Koqrnekt Its first season was released on DVD on July 19th, 2011].
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* [[Hypno Trinket]]: Buddy orders one from a comic book, and tries it on Jake while he's eating a bowl of cereal. Jake pretends that it works, interpreting Buddy's command to pour the cereal "over your head" to mean "over ''your'' (Buddy's) head". Later on Buddy demands that he pour it "over ''my'' head" and again gets it dumped on him.
* [[I Got Bigger]]: Buddy's actor got progressively bigger between seasons (justified as he was a kid when he was cast and was a teenager when the show ended).
* [[Locked in Aa Freezer]]: Happened at least twice... darn that abandoned mine shaft.
* [[Long-Lost Uncle Aesop]]: Melody's visiting brother and his drinking problem.
* [[Lottery Ticket]]: Ted wins a substantial amount of money via a scratch-off ticket and starts using his newfound wealth to arrange drastic changes at the ranch, such as adding a water park. It all comes to nothing when the lottery people discover he's not a legal adult and is therefore ineligible for the payout.
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* [[One-Hit Wonder]]: The actors who played Brad, Danny, Lucy, Kyle, and Buddy never had any acting jobs outside of this series. They all debuted on the show and never acted again after it ended.
** Justified as Danny and Buddy's actors were Arizona natives who pretty much never left the area after filming.
* [[Put Onon a Bus]]: When it was discovered that Ted didn't pass all his classes the previous school year, he had to leave the ranch for summer school. He made one later guest appearance (in which he snuck back to the ranch cause he missed everyone) before returning for good a little while later.
* [[Real After All]]: "The Legend of Jed"
* [[Real Life Writes the Plot]]: A minor example -- in the beauty contest episode, Melody states her hometown as being Allentown, Pennsylvania, which is Christine Taylor's [[Real Life]] hometown.
* [[Reasonable Authority Figure]]: Mr. Ernst is usually patient and friendly with his staff.
* [[Slap Slap Kiss]]: Brad and Ted.
* [[TedSmall BaxterName, Big Ego]]: They even called him Ted as in Ted Baxter!▼
* [[Suspiciously Similar Substitute]]: A subversion. Jake joined the cast to fill the temporary vacancy left by Ted, but even after Ted returned, Jake stayed on the show.
** Not to mention Kyle, who joined even later in the series.
▲* [[Ted Baxter]]: They even called him Ted!
* [[Token Minority]]: Danny.
* [[Tomboy]]: Brad.
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