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** The [[Lost in Translation]] pun here is that a Popsicle is called "ispind" (ice cream stick) in Danish. Turning that around, it becomes "pindis" (stick ice cream) which sounds very similar to "penis".
* [[Bad News in A Good Way]]: Buckingham tends to do this when he fires his employees.
* [[Bad News, Irrelevant News]]: Also done by Buckingham at times.
* [[Beach Bury]]: The former Jump Start employee Wulff has a [[Flash Back]] where his little brother buries his body in the sand and covers his body with a bucket. Wulff's little brother just doesn't care to dig Wulff up again, and as his parents are deaf, they can neither see ''nor'' hear Wulff.
* [[Bedmate Reveal]]: When Casper wakes up with Liva's mother at his side. Nothing sexual happened though.
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* [[Caught With Your Pants Down]]: Happens to Casper in the episode appropriately titled "Masturbation".
* [[Celeb Crush]]: A few minor cases of this, since Casper ''is'' a Danish celebrity after all.
* [[The
* [[Closet Shuffle]]: Uses this trope in one of the earlier episodes. A boy from the hospital where Casper's girlfriend Anne works, visits him without the hospital knowing it, so when Anne supposedly knocks on Casper's door, Casper has to hide the boy in his closet. The person knocking on the door appears to be a child-hating old man. Then the ''real'' Anne knocks on the door, and Casper doesn't want to let her know that he hangs out with a child-hater, so he also hides the man in the closet. [[Hilarity Ensues]].
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Wulff from season 1 has to be one of the greatest examples of the trope and probably ''the'' best example of Danish tv for so many reasons that they can't be bothered to be listed here. Every other character except for Lisa, Casper's girlfriends and some [[One Shot Character|one-shot characters]] also has their moments.
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* [[Crossover Punchline]]: The series is quite fond of those. The episodes usually end with Casper and Kenny hanging out in Casper's apartment, discussing the recent events in a very funny way.
* [[Cut Himself Shaving]]: Subverted in the episode where Casper meets Liva's parents.
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* [[Death As Comedy]]: The episode "''Bedste det er bare mig''" ("Granny, it's me") is essentially about this.
* [[Did They or Didn't They?]]: When Casper sleeps in the same bed as his mother-in-law.
* [[Digging Yourself Deeper]]: When Lisa says to Buckingham that there isn't any more mineral water (in the reservoir), Buckingham abruptly asks: "In your vagina?" When he realises his misunderstanding, he stutters: "Oh well, sorry... It was only to show care... Ehm... Why do you look at me accusingly?"
* [[Don't Explain the Joke]]: Quite a common trope in the series when Casper tries to be funny. A good example is when Liva is moving in at Casper's, and Kenny asks how they are doing. Casper sarcastically replies: "Like Ike and Tina Turner". Kenny, apparently not getting the sarcasm or knowing about Ike and Tina Turner, merrily says "that's good to hear". Casper is quite annoyed of having to explain the joke.
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* [[Embarrassing Slide]]: In the second-last episode, Casper gets to take some erotic photos of Liva, promising her that he never did that with anybody before. However he actually did take the same photos of his ex-girlfriend Anne, and these photos were on the same camera. Then the whole episode is about Casper trying to prevent Liva from having the photos developed. He doesn't succeed, and Liva is ''not'' happy of seeing naked Anne.
* [[The European Carry All]]: Kenny when he mentions the female period. It should be noted that Danish people generally are very straightforward about calling it "menstruation".
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* [[Failed Attempt At Drama]]: A quirk of several characters, though Kenny probably would be the token boy with Robert and Buckingham as minor examples.
* [[Fairytale Wedding Dress]]: Kim wears one at her wedding with Casper. It becomes a [[Crowning Moment of Funny]] because Casper wasn't expecting them to dress up so he is just wearing a t-shirt and a pair of jeans.
* [["Faux
* [[Flashback Cut]]: Used many a time. A noteworthy example would be when Kim flashes back to the 16-year-old boy she met at a discoteque.
* [[Gasshole]]: Robert, especially in the episode where he eats "onion bread". Also Casper's date Birla from episode 3.
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* [[Lame Excuse]]: Behold Casper who has spent his entire life on mastering this to perfection.
* [[Laugh Track]]: ''Langt fra Las Vegas'' is actually close to the only Danish television series who uses this.
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* [[Lesbian Jock]]: In an episode, Kenny gets an interview with Mia Hundvin - a (former, it would seem) lesbian handball player who also exists in real life. [[Hilarity Ensues]] when Kenny, being the homophobe he is, denies that a good-looking sports woman can be a lesbian. In Denmark, handball is the most popular woman's sport, but it is also considered to be, albeit jokingly, one of the more lesbian ones due to the big amounts of physical contact that often happen during a game and the fact that several handball players have been lesbian.
* [[Lipstick Lesbian]]: Mia Hundvin, at least in the portrayal of her in the series, but to varying degrees in [[Real Life]]. In real life, she isn't a declared lesbian anymore though, having married a man and had a child.
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* [[Refuge in Vulgarity]]: In some episodes.
* [[Running Gag]]: Lots and lots of them. Kenny's homophobia would probably be the best example outside of Robert's and Buckingham's quirks.
* [[Saw Star Wars Twenty Seven Times]]: Casper just loves ''[[Ferris
* [[Sexy Secretary]]: Lisa is this with shades of [[Sassy Secretary]].
* [[Signed Up for The Dental]]: Robert joins the Home Guard in order to eat field rations. When some of the girls of his team are forced to change clothes in the open, he decides to stay in order to look at breasts. However, he leaves after being ordered to do nothing but digging in the forest all day. [[Refuge in Audacity|Then he joins a Neo-Nazi organization in order to relax and eat cake all day]]...
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* [[Super Zeroes]]: The super hero "Sonny Boy" in one of the earlier episodes. As your everyday life superhero, he actually does pretty well, but it is later revealed that he is actually [[Cloudcuckoolander]] Wulff who is allergic to perming liquid, so every time he is about to have his hair permed, he gets high, wears a hair net and acts heroic without knowing it.
* [[Surreal Humor]]: Some of the guests Casper are interviewing in season 1. The best example is probably Stig Lise Rittenhouse (for a start it's a guy, but his middle name is a girl's name for no reason) who is a sobbing nerd who just lost all of his 50 pets in one night. They all died of each their natural cause, and he couldn't save any of them because each of them had a separate vet. There's also Zindy Krads who won a running marathon by being the passenger of a rickshaw.
* [[The Swear Jar]]: Lisa makes one for every time someone says "neger" (a Danish term for a black person. It's still a word where Danes can't really agree whether it's derogatory or not, though it's not carrying the same undertones as [[N
* [[Tabloid Melodrama]]: Casper's "penis rumor".
* [[Team Mom]]: Lisa.
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* [[Verbal Backpedaling]]: Casper.
* [[We Should Get Another Tape]]: Spoofed in the episode where Robert tries to start his own quiz show. He wants the reward to be two video tapes, and people have to pay 25 kr. (about 5 dollars) in order to call him and participate in the quiz. Kim asks "why would anyone want to pay 25 kr. to win two video tapes", to which Robert indignantly replies "but I only recorded on them once!"
* [[What Did I Do Last Night?]]: When Liva has sex with Casper when he sleeps, Casper wakes up next morning, wondering why he is naked (it should be noted that Casper went to sleep in order to deliberately avoid sex, as he had an STD at that time).
* [[Witness Protection]]: In an episode, Robert is tired of being treated like the imbecile he is, so he decides to have a witness protection so he can get a new identity as a wildly popular DJ named John. The police offers tell him that he cannot change identity unless he witnesses some crime, so Robert spends the rest of the episode trying to find criminality at Jump Start. Of course, [[Hilarity Ensues|that turns out quite funny]].
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