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* [[Big Applesauce]]: Honestly, do they have to set aside a minimum of 15 minutes talking about what will happen to New York in ''every'' episode? They do get better about not relying on this trope in the second season, though.

* [[The Big Easy]]: Discussed.

* [[Bond One Liner]]: Often said when something is gone; very much related to [[Just for Pun]] below

* [[Bond One-Liner]]: Often said when something is gone; very much related to [[Just for Pun]] below

* [[Brand X]]: The episode on food refrains from referring to "this cream-filled snack cake" as a Twinkie, even though it's obvious what it is.

* [[But What About the Astronauts]]: Well, [[Subverted Trope|what about them?]], they vanished, too. On the other hand, the things we've sent into space are worth noting. Quite a bit of focus is given to how long mankind's space-borne achievements will last, including the International Space Station (not very long), to artifacts left on the Moon (about 10,000 years) to the Voyager probes (a ''very'' long time).

* [[But What About the Astronauts?]]: Well, [[Subverted Trope|what about them?]], they vanished, too. On the other hand, the things we've sent into space are worth noting. Quite a bit of focus is given to how long mankind's space-borne achievements will last, including the International Space Station (not very long), to artifacts left on the Moon (about 10,000 years) to the Voyager probes (a ''very'' long time).

* [[Conspicuous CG]]

* [[Creator Provincialism]]: They might throw in something about Big Ben, the Eiffel Tower or the Pyramids at Giza once or twice, but other than that it's all about post-human America.

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* [[Hey Its That Sound]]: Quake teleporter sound.

* [[Inferred Holocaust]]: Not just the humans, but the animals that are bound to die in our absence.

* [[Just for Pun]] - A number of comments about future results have some rather wry connotations, often also invoking the [[Bond One Liner]]. Two of them include one about a major work by [[Leonardo Da Vinci]] which has needed restoration over many years including dehumidifiers. Now that people are no longer around to save it from degradation, "How long before nature finishes off ''The Last Supper''?" The second one mentions that the Taipei 101 building, the 2nd tallest building in the world, which "is often said to look like a stack of [Chinese food] take out boxes. How long before nature ''takes out'' Taipei 101?"

* [[Just for Pun]] - A number of comments about future results have some rather wry connotations, often also invoking the [[Bond One-Liner]]. Two of them include one about a major work by [[Leonardo Da Vinci]] which has needed restoration over many years including dehumidifiers. Now that people are no longer around to save it from degradation, "How long before nature finishes off ''The Last Supper''?" The second one mentions that the Taipei 101 building, the 2nd tallest building in the world, which "is often said to look like a stack of [Chinese food] take out boxes. How long before nature ''takes out'' Taipei 101?"

* [[Look On My Works Ye Mighty and Despair]]: Though the series doesn't really involve any condemnation of man's hubris, what happens to the remnants of human civilization falls under many of the trappings of this trope. Despite the fact that a vast majority of humanity's constructions are ''not designed to last all that long''--because their builders know that they're going to get replaced by more advanced technology/constructions, or torn down because it's too impractical and expensive to maintain. Even famous historical monuments undergo preservation actions on a regular basis, not because they are meant to display greatness, but because they are meant to ''evoke remembrance of the actions and sacrifices of those before us''. In other words, they're meant to be [[Due to The Dead]] and [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]] to a specific society, not to some extremely distant (temporal or otherwise) civilization. Though never done explicitly, the show evokes this trope through implication, despite the real tragedy being perceived as a lack of people to maintain and appreciate the monuments, not the loss of the monuments themselves.

* [[Misplaced Wildlife]]: The possibility of zoo animals such as lions, elephants and chimpanzees escaping and forming populations in the United States is explored.