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* [[Eccentric Townsfolk]]: The show runs on this trope.
* [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]]: Larry Darryl and Darryl's first business - "Anything For a Buck". They'll do anything for a buck. If it's something cool like digging up an old <s>witch</s> woman's body from the cellar, they might even pay ''you'' the buck.
* [[Extremely Overdue Library Book]]: Averted. Larry, Darryl, and Darryl all decided to make a time capsule and asked for donations. One week later, they had to did it up, because one of the Darryls placed a library book.
* [[Grand Finale]]: "The Last Newhart", one of the most memorable sitcom finales among fans and critics, where we learn that the entire scenario of a [[Only Sane Man|mild-mannered, humble and genial innkeeper and TV show host driven to the brink of a nervous breakdown]] by [[Cloudcuckoolander|crazy, loony caricatures of the town's residents]] was but a nightmare of Dr. Robert Hartley (of ''[[The Bob Newhart Show]]''). The plot of this final show magnifies what the show had been doing progressively over its eight years: A Japanese tycoon buys the (unnamed) town where the Stratford Inn (which protagonists Dick and Joanna Loudon owned) was located, and after a farewell party (with Dick pretty much saying "good riddance"), the main characters—handyman George Uttley, yuppies Michael and Stephanie Harris, and Larry and his brothers Darryl and Darryl—leave. In the five years that pass, Dick has now been dealing with crazier loons than what populated the inn years earlier, and his wife (as a geisha girl) has even gotten nuts; he's also unable to get over a golf course being built around the inn without his permission. Then, the old folks all come back and drive Dick to the brink of a nervous breakdown. The Darryls speak for the only time in the series' history ("QUIET!!!" to shut their annoying girlfriends up). Finally, things become chaotic as the new Japanese folks become friends with their old counterparts, and Dick can take it no longer; he says he's going to leave, and just as he walks out the door is knocked out by a wayward golf ball. The screen goes black... and when a light comes back on, the scene shifts to Dr. Hartley's bedroom from ''[[The Bob Newhart Show]]'', and his wife Emily (Suzanna Pleshette in a [[Cameo]] of her famous role) scolds him for eating too much Japanese food before bed (unlike Bob on ''The Bob Newhart Show'', Dick was psychologically unable to deal with the eccentric folks in his town)! Whew!
** They went to great pains to make sure that the studio audience didn't see the [[Rebuilt Set|bedroom set]] until they had started filming.
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