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** Interestingly, when she starts speaking kansai-ben exclusively, the subtitles use a Cajun dialect to reflect this, but the dub just has her using rather dense slang.
* [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking]]: Madame Gokutsubushi threatens to expose various famous people's scandalous activities such as a company president's keeping a house for his mistress, an athlete's steroid usage, and a sumo wrestler who {{spoiler|uses baby toys on his wife in bed at night.}}
* [[Author Avatar]]: [[Shinichi Watanabe]], though silhouetted, appears as [[Excel Saga (
* [[Bare Your Midriff]]: Mako.
* [[Big Bad]]: {{spoiler|The Prime Minister, who planned on privatizing Nerima (making it a gigantic condo neighborhood).}}
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* [[Expository Theme Tune]]
* [[Eyes Always Shut]]: Three of the hosts in episode 9.
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'''Hosts''': Ever feel outside of an inside joke? }}
* [[Failure Is the Only Option]]: Despite defeating the bad guy at the end of each episode, they never get to keep the money.
** That goes double for Hideki trying to woo Mako.
* [[Fire-Breathing Diner]]: Pandaikon, after eating some kimchee.
* [[Gainaxing]]: Minor instance, when Mako was showing off her [[Hello, Nurse!|nurse's outfit]] to Hideki.
* [[Gonk]]: Most of the villains du jour. [[Subverted Trope|Subverted]] in one episode, where plastic surgery was used to put [[Bishounen]] faces on previously unhandsome Koreans.
* [[Greed]]: Mako wants to blow all her - and Hideki's - money on Pachinko parlors and top-shelf champagne.
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* [[Lampshade Hanging]]
* [[Large and In Charge]]: Hideki
* [[Leaning
* [[Let's Get Dangerous]]: Yukika, when she finally uses her skills for good instead of... well.
* [[Love At First Punch]]: Mako doesn't develop an interest in {{spoiler|Ichiro}} until he slaps her. (Hideki tries, too, but it just pisses her off when he does it.)
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* [[No Fourth Wall]]
* [[No Koreans in Japan]]: Averted quite heavily in the second episode, about a Korean-owned pachinko parlor.
* [["No Respect" Guy]]: Hideki
* [[Nosebleed]]: Hideki for Mako. [[Lampshade Hanging|Also lampshaded]].
* [[Once an Episode]]: The band needs a quick loan; the band hits up the Nine Dragons Rental Shop for a [[Plot Coupon]].
* [[Pandaing to
* [[Perpetual Poverty]]
* [[Plot Coupon]]: Rented from Nine Dragons.
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* [[Ramen Slurp]]: Hideki, Mako, Ichiro, and Yukika do this as part of a song, including singing the sound of slurping.
* [[Ridiculously Cute Critter]] / [[Non-Human Sidekick]] / [[Team Pet]]: Pandaikon
* [[Shout
** In one of the episodes, the villian is an [[Expy]] of [[Michael Jackson]], so you can bet there's plenty of shout-out-related fun to be had.
* [[Shown Their Work]]: Nerima ward in Tokyo is famous for its daikon (radish) growing.
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* [[Straight Man]]: Ichiro.
* [[Surreal Humor]]
* [[Sympathetic Inspector Antagonist]]: Officer Yukika Karakuri, aka [[Shout
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* [[Theme Music Power-Up]]: [[Once Per Episode|ALL. THE. TIME.]]
* [[Unusually Uninteresting Sight]]: Hideki gets annoyed at Ichiro for treating Pandaikon as this in the first episode, insisting that a normal person would at least go [[Big "What?"|"Waaa!"]] at seeing a panda in a daikon field.
* [[We Sell Everything|We Rent Everything]]: The Rental Guy has given the Brothers everything from vegetable costumes to a heat-seeking enema to a rocket.
* [[What Song Was This Again?]]: The dub version of the songs on occasion.
* [[Whip It Good]]: Yukika [[Dual Wield|Dual Wields]] two cat-o-nine-tails.
* [[Widget Series]]: Well what did you expect?! This shows is made by the guy who made ''[[Excel Saga (
* [[X Meets Y]]: ''[[The Blues Brothers]]'' meets [[Anime]].
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