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== Non-Trope Trivia ==
* In the first episode of the anime, Mugi is making a big deal out of mixing her fries with those of the other two girls. In Japanese culture, sharing your food with the group is a sign that you accept the group as your own, so Mugi was both being formal and very sweet in one go.
* The train station seen most in the series, which is the one Mugi uses for commuting, is the Shugakuin Station on the Eizan Electric Railway in Kyoto.
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* The statue seen at the very end of episode 7 of the second season is based on [[wikipedia:File:ClarkBoysBeAmbitious.jpg|a statue of]] [[wikipedia:William S. Clark|William S. Clark]], the founder of Sapporo Agricultural College (now Hokkaido University), which implies that Sokabe-sempai is studying in Sapporo. Also, the full version of "Cagayake!GIRLS" contains the words "Girls, be ambitious", which is a reference to Clark's famous parting words to his students ("Boys, be ambitious!").
* Ton-chan is a pig-nosed turtle, a species that is actually hard to keep in captivity, since it's rather aggressive and prone to stress and illnesses. It takes dedication and specialized knowledge to care for one, so one wonders whether the girls would be up to the task. It might be especially unwise to keep it in a place with lots of noise, like ''where a band is playing''.
== Trivia Tropes ==
* [[The Abridged Series]] -- [[K-On! The Abridged Series|Here ya go!]]
* [[The Bechdel Test]]: ''Every single episode'' passes the test, and so does [[The Movie]]. Conversations range from music to snacks to hanging out with friends to wondering just what Mugi's house looks like, but only rarely mention boys in any sense. This is aided (at least in the series) by them being students at an all-girls school.
* [[Cash Cow Franchise]] - April, 2010. The pre-orders for the yet-to-be-released [[DVD|DVDs]] of K-On second season occupied ''ten'' of the Top 13 most bought movies in amazon.com Japan. And this is only after the ''first'' episode of season 2 has aired, folks. The momentum of success and die-hard fandom set by Season 1 in 2009 does not look like it will slow down ''any'' time soon, with '''twenty six''' episodes in this season altogether.
** There's [[The Movie|a movie]] coming out soon. [[And the Fandom Rejoiced|Guess what the general reaction from the fans was...]]
** It's getting worse and worse. K-On model plane, K-On video game...
* [[I Am Not Shazam]]—The name of the band is ''Hokago Teatime'', not ''K-On!''. "K-on" is a Roman-letter transliteration of the first syllables of the Japanese word 軽音楽 (''keiongaku''), "pop music", making "K-On!" roughly equivalent to "Pop!"
* [[Licensed Game]] -- ''K-On! Houkago Live!!'', for [[PSP]]. It's a [[Rhythm Game]], and it [[Averted]] [[The Problem with Licensed Games]] by being developed by the company that made ''[[Vocaloid|Project Diva]]''. [[That One Level|And yes, some songs are PD-level difficult.]]
* [[The Merch]]: From shirts to ties to guitar covers to [[Image Song|Image CDs]] to [[media:kon-music-shop_2648.jpg|replica guitars]] and [[Crack is Cheaper|hilariously overpriced rice]]. It safe to assume it won't be going away for a while.
* [[No Export for You]]: Hey, Puerto Rico, want this series on Blu-Ray? Tough luck, they're only available on DVD.
** Now subverted! Volumes 1 and 2 for Blu-Ray finally came out in October!{{when}}
** The United States won't see the second season released let alone dubbed, nor the movie, because [[Bandai Entertainment]] ceased distributing home videos due to illegal fansubs!
*** Not anymore! [[Sentai Filmworks]]
* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]:
** From the Japanese version...
*** [[Aki Toyosaki|Yui]] is [[Shugo Chara|Suu]] reincarnated!
*** [[Youko Hikasa|Mio]] is [[Umineko no Naku Koro
*** And Yui is in Umineko too; in fact, she's one of Satan's sisters, Asmodeus.
*** [[Asami Sanada|Sawa-chan]] is [[Sayonara, Zetsubou
** From the English dub...
*** Azusa is [[
*** [[Stephanie Sheh|Yui]] is [[Haruhi Suzumiya
*** [[Cristina Valenzuela|Mio]] is [[
*** [[Karen Strassman|Sawa-chan]] is [[Lucky Star
*** [[Laura Bailey|Nodoka]] is the current{{when}} [[Sonic the Hedgehog|Blaze the Cat]] and [[Street Fighter IV
*** [[Cassandra Lee|Ritsu]] is [[Toradora!|Taiga]].
* [[Reclusive Artist]]: No one actually knows who Kakifly, the creator of ''K-On!'', really ''is''. Outside of a [http://www.kakifly.com/ personal website] consisting of one page from 2011 saying he's abandoning the Net to focus on work, but he's produced nothing since doing an end card illustration for ''[[Yuyushiki]]'' in 2013.
* [[Relationship Voice Actor]]:
** In the dub:
*** Mio Akiyama ([[Cristina Vee]]) and Tsumugi Kotobuki (Shelby Lindley) once met in ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha
*** Yui Hirasawa ([[Stephanie Sheh]]) and Sawako Yamanaka ([[Karen Strassman]]) met in ''[[Fate/stay
*** Azusa Nakano(Cristine Marie Cabanos) and Ritsu Tainaka (Cassandra Lee) will become Kaname Madoka and Kyuubey in ''[[Puella Magi Madoka Magica]]''
**** [[Fridge Brilliance]]: The Band is made up of [[Lyrical Nanoha|Nanoha Takamachi, Shamal]] ([[Cristina Vee|Mio]] and Mugi (Shelby Lindley), [[Fate/kaleid
* [[Shout-Out]]
** Johannes Krauser II. from ''[[Detroit Metal City]]'' makes an appearance in one of Yui's delusions in Episode 1.
** "[[Jimi Hendrix]]?" "Jimmy Page?" "Jeff Beck?!"
*** ''(Are there really that many guitarists that start with "J"?!)''
*** When Azusa plays guitar the first time images of [[Led Zeppelin|Jimmy Page, Robert Plant]] and [[Nirvana|Kurt Cobain]] (all wearing Azusa's pigtails) can be seen.
*** When the music store clerk tells the history of Sawako's guitar, images of [[Eric Clapton]], [[ACDC|Angus Young]], [[Black Sabbath|Tony Iommi]] and [[The Who|Pete Townshend]] are shown, along with [[The Jimmy Hart Version|Jimmy Hart Versions]] of respective guitar riffs.
** The [[Music Video]] that plays during the school festival concert suggests an outlaw concert like [[The Beatles (band)|The Beatles]]' rooftop concert, with a little ''[[Thelma and Louise]]'' thrown in as well.
*** Speaking of the Fab Four, did anyone notice that Mio is a left-handed bass player? [[Paul McCartney|That sounds strangely familiar...]]
** Yui hugging Azusa to calm her down has a high resemblance to Kyou's [[Glomp]] on Kotomi in ''[[Clannad (visual novel)|Clannad]]'' (another show by the same studio), especially with the [[media:Kyou_-_get_to_know_Kotomi_better.jpg|the "good girl" part]]. It also occurs in the manga, which might be mere coincidence, but [[Kyoto Animation]] sure picked up on it.
** [http://fabien.li/tvtropes/K-ON!%20-%2014%2020.23.jpg Azusa and her tora-mimi]{{Dead link}} are reminiscent of Kisa from ''[[Fruits Basket]]''.
** A cheeky homage to the "I'm flying!!" scene (complete with [[Gratuitous English]]) from ''[[Titanic]]''. (S1 10 08:03)
** All of the recurring characters share their respective last names with members of [[P-Model]] or [[wikipedia:The Pillows|The Pillows]].
** In episode 4, Mio is looking through a box of old club members stuff, and finds a score book of [[Black Sabbath|Ozzy Osbourne]].
** In one episode, it shows a clip of Sawako playing guitar with her teeth - an obvious reference to Jimi Hendrix.
** [[The Who|"ZA WHO."]] More specifically, Keith Moon, one of the reasons Ritsu took up drumming. When Ritsu mentions him in the club, Azusa asks if he's the guy who blew up his house with fireworks.
** Yui is seen imitating Pete Townshend's windmill strumming move from time to time.
** Sawako-sensei's white Gibson Flying V may be a shout out to ''[[The Legend of Black Heaven]]'', where the same guitar is the signature instrument of another has-been ex-rocker, Oji "Gabriel" Tanaka.
** Kamakiri, the band with the left-handed guitarist who catches Mio's attention during the outdoor music fest, might be a shout-out to [https://web.archive.org/web/20130821080126/http://www.steelydan.com/lyrkama.html#track1 Donald Fagen].
** [[Rose of Versailles|"Oscar!"]] (with [[media:K-ON_Ep__14_-_Lady_Oscar_reference_2609.jpg|screenshot]])
** Less obvious, but in the third ending theme ("No, Thank You"), there's a shot where Mio puts her thumbs and index fingers together and in the gap between her hands, there's a shot of the sky. A similar hand-portal effect was used heavily in the video to "Shut Up and Let Me Go" by The Ting Tings.
** Also, some parts of the music in ''K-On!'' are [[The Jimmy Hart Version|not to dissimilar]] to those in certain [[Metallica]] songs. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEUILRi_jLk For example, the solo in Fuel and Yui's solo in Fuwa Fuwa Time, amongst others.]
*** The same person uploaded a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUHH0mGmTPs sequel] that includes songs from the second season.
** The little frog statue in front of the club room [[media:kon-kamichu_9716.jpg|looks an awful lot like a similar statue]] in ''[[Kamichu!]]''. (However, it's a coincidence. [https://i.pinimg.com/originals/5f/bc/f9/5fbcf9a4a16cbb2ad90743adb219df5e.jpg The bronze statues on the staircase] are actual architectural features of [http://www46.tok2.com/home/arc/shiga/shiga_12.htm Toyosato Elementary School] in Shiga Prefecture, which the high school in the anime was based on.)
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20101127151612/http://frostii.com/2010/09/20/k-on-24/ Evidently] Nodoka is a [[Star Trek|Vulcan]], not the biggest surprise with her unflappable demeanor.
* [[The Wiki Rule]]: [https://k-on.fandom.com/wiki/K-ON!_Wiki K-ON! Wiki]
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