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{{quote|''"I'd like to take this opportunity to thank our sponsor. The Important Things series page brought to you by All The Tropes, the entertaining alternative to doing something productive with your spare time. Special thanks to [[Real Life|your life]], for being empty enough to allow itself [[TV Tropes Will Ruin Your Life|to be ruined by our sponsor]]"''.|'''not Demetri Martin''', [[Unperson]]}}
{{quote|''"I'd like to take this opportunity to thank our sponsor. The Important Things series page brought to you by All The Tropes, the entertaining alternative to doing something productive with your spare time. Special thanks to [[Real Life|your life]], for being empty enough to allow itself [[Tropes Will Ruin Your Life|to be ruined by our sponsor]]"''.|'''not Demetri Martin''', [[Unperson]]}}


This is... the series page for ''[[Important Things With Demetri Martin]]''.
This is... the series page for ''[[Important Things With Demetri Martin]]''.
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* [[Acme Products]]: ''Important Things'' things, things coming soon from the ''Important Things'' store.
* [[Acme Products]]: ''Important Things'' things, things coming soon from the ''Important Things'' store.
* [[And Now for Something Completely Different]]
* [[And Now for Something Completely Different]]
* [[Arson Murder and Jaywalking]]: The cards from season two seem to reflect this. For example, the first card on "abilities" had the following three options:
* [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking]]: The cards from season two seem to reflect this. For example, the first card on "abilities" had the following three options:
** {{spoiler|Diss Audience Member}}
** {{spoiler|Diss Audience Member}}
** {{spoiler|Dismember Audience}}
** {{spoiler|Dismember Audience}}
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* [[Bathroom Stall of Overheard Insults]]: Done with ''five'' stalls.
* [[Bathroom Stall of Overheard Insults]]: Done with ''five'' stalls.
* [[Batman Gambit]]: [[Parodied Trope|Parodied]], and [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]]. King: Did your plan, this dastardly plan, completely rely upon me, as king, for the first time in my entire life, not wanting you to taste this food?
* [[Batman Gambit]]: [[Parodied Trope|Parodied]], and [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]]. King: Did your plan, this dastardly plan, completely rely upon me, as king, for the first time in my entire life, not wanting you to taste this food?
* [[Bread Eggs Milk Squick]]: Several of the cards from Season One.
* [[Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick]]: Several of the cards from Season One.
* [[Bungling Inventor]]: [[Renaissance Man]] Da Mici.
* [[Bungling Inventor]]: [[Renaissance Man]] Da Mici.
* [[Butt Monkey]]: A lot of Demetri's characters.
* [[Butt Monkey]]: A lot of Demetri's characters.
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* [[Pluto Is Expendable]]: Averted. Demetri Martin actually cares about Pluto and feels that it's wrong that it's not considered a planet anymore.
* [[Pluto Is Expendable]]: Averted. Demetri Martin actually cares about Pluto and feels that it's wrong that it's not considered a planet anymore.
* [[Straight Man and Wise Guy]]: Subverted in the sketch about the all-[[Straight Man]] comedy duo.
* [[Straight Man and Wise Guy]]: Subverted in the sketch about the all-[[Straight Man]] comedy duo.
* [[Shout Out]]: One sketch is about Demetri pondering who to sit with at a party and concluding that ''every'' choice ends with being tortured by having his head placed inside a mesh cage, then having a rat placed in said cage. The smarter viewers recognized this as a shout-out to ''[[Nineteen Eighty Four|1984]]'' by George Orwell, where the protagonist is tortured exactly the same way.
* [[Shout Out]]: One sketch is about Demetri pondering who to sit with at a party and concluding that ''every'' choice ends with being tortured by having his head placed inside a mesh cage, then having a rat placed in said cage. The smarter viewers recognized this as a shout-out to ''[[Nineteen Eighty-Four|1984]]'' by George Orwell, where the protagonist is tortured exactly the same way.
** This bit is followed by a related sketch, in a [[Perfectly Cromulent Word|commentarial]] style, in which he explains that they could not get the rat out of the cage right away, as rats {{spoiler|cannot walk backwards}}, so they must let the rat walk all the way around the cage, which results in {{spoiler|Demetri [[Face Full of Alien Wingwong|having his face filled with rat nards.]]}}
** This bit is followed by a related sketch, in a [[Perfectly Cromulent Word|commentarial]] style, in which he explains that they could not get the rat out of the cage right away, as rats {{spoiler|cannot walk backwards}}, so they must let the rat walk all the way around the cage, which results in {{spoiler|Demetri [[Face Full of Alien Wingwong|having his face filled with rat nards.]]}}
* [[Teleporter Accident]]: Parodied. Said parody's deconstruction was [[Played for Laughs]].
* [[Teleporter Accident]]: Parodied. Said parody's deconstruction was [[Played for Laughs]].
* [[Time Travel]]: A common theme from the sketches.
* [[Time Travel]]: A common theme from the sketches.
* [[Tomato Surprise]]: A sketch in the "Money" episode features two scientists trying to pretend that one of them is a robot they've built so that their funding doesn't get cut. {{spoiler|Then it turns out the other one [[Ridiculously Human Robot|actually is a robot]].}}
* [[Tomato Surprise]]: A sketch in the "Money" episode features two scientists trying to pretend that one of them is a robot they've built so that their funding doesn't get cut. {{spoiler|Then it turns out the other one [[Ridiculously Human Robot|actually is a robot]].}}
* [[Wondrous Ladies Room]]: One sketch features a ladies room where the women have a control center set up to do ''extensive'' background checks on their dates, complete with calls to the mother and checking what their dates' kinks are.
* [[Wondrous Ladies' Room]]: One sketch features a ladies room where the women have a control center set up to do ''extensive'' background checks on their dates, complete with calls to the mother and checking what their dates' kinks are.


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