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The well of inspiration [[Seasonal Rot|ran dry]] in the final season ([[Raging Stiffie|Viagra overdoses]] and breast implant jokes abound), but the series managed to wrap up with a [[Author's Saving Throw|truly heart-rending finale]].

** Also with the classic ''[[Dick Van Dyke Show]]'', when Carl Reiner guest stars as his DVDS character Alan Brady.

* [[The Danza]]: Paul Reiser as Paul Buchman

* [[Doppelganger]]: In one episode, Lisa accidently comes home with a well trained twin of Murray.

{{quote| '''Jamie''': Lisa, this is not Murray! It looks like Murray, but it isn't Murray. Murray has a white spot and vacant eyes. This dog KNOWS THINGS!}}

* [[Embarrassing First Name]]: Uncle Phil's real name is Deuteronomy. Naturally, he waits to mention this until after guilt-tripping Paul into naming the baby after him.

* [[Famous Last Words]]: Paul's uncle dying on-camera. "Hoooooooooooooo...Mooooooooooooooooooos!"

** In the finale, a rebelling Mabel tells her parents she's changing her name to Sonya - Some Other Name You Ass-(Paul and Jamie cover the last last bit with their gasps).

* [[Godwin's Law]]: Paul uses this in "The Glue People" as a reason to vote for a different Mayor than Jaimie.

* [[Head-Tiltingly Kinky]]: Jamie and Paul's old sex tape.

* [[Kavorka Man]]: Ira. Lampshaded when he accidentally catches himself in a mirror while having intercourse, scarring him so deeply that he loses interest in sex (for about a week).

* [[Local Hangout]]: Riff's restaurant

* [[Make Up or Break Up]]: The series finale shows Paul and Jamie separating for a while. They reconcile at the screening of Mabel's [[True Art Is Incomprehensible|Dada-esque]] indie film.

* [[The Other Darrin]]: Their next door neighbor Maggie (Judy Geeson) was married to a man named Hal (Paxton Whitehead). Early on, they switched the actor playing Hal (to Jim Piddock) in an implicit "Other Darrin" situation. Much later, they switched ''back,'' and retconned that they were two ''different'' Hals (Paxton-Hal was her first ''and third'' husband), thus un-Othering the Darrin.

** Further, Jamie's parents were played by three different sets of actors, culminating in Carol Burnett and Carroll O'Connor.

* [[The Perry Mason Method]]: Uncle Phil is brought up on charges for illegally collecting old newspapers from the neighbors in his building, then amassing a fortune's worth of coupons. Phil calls the prosecutor to the stand, then proceeds to absolutely ''decimate'' his case by guilt-tripping the attorney about his parents, clipping coupons to pay for his law courses.

{{quote| '''Phil:''' Judge, lemmie hear those magic words!<br />

'''Judge:''' Case dismissed! }}

* [[Precision F-Strike]]

* [[Runaway Bride]]: Paul and Jamie discover (in Season 7 and post-illegitimate baby) that their wedding wasn't legally valid. Naturally, Jamie starts fretting that their marriage's success rests on them [[Insane Troll Logic|not being...uh, married.]]

* [[Running Gag]]: The kitchen floor bump.

** ''Mad About You'' had quite a few [[Thanksgiving Episode|Thanksgiving Episodes]]. The first season showed Paul and Jamie (and Lisa and [[Brother Chuck|Selby]]) heading to Jamie's family home for Thanksgiving (with Fran and Mark on the same train to ''their'' family's home), and then on the way home after their respective Thanksgiving experiences. A later T-Day episode dealt with how Paul and Jamie tried (with hilarious failure) to control the dissemination of their pregnancy to their relatives.

* [[Theme Tune Cameo]]

** Murray acts this out during the final credits of a Valentine's Day show as he gets Mark and Fran to rescue Paul and Jamie who have spent the entire episode [[Bottle Episode|trapped in the locked bathroom]].

* [[Truth-Telling Session]]