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* [[Berserk Button]]: Vern keeps on correcting people's pronunciation of his name, and everybody who isn't his friend ignores him and keeps pronouncing it the wrong way. (Because let's face it, if you knew a bully/Nazi/homophobe/rapist like him, wouldn't you enjoy irritating the living fuck out of him if you could get away with it?) [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-OAi7Tz718 Witness his reactions, particularly the one at the very end of the video.]

** Don't remind Cyril of his childhood, or threaten Ryan near him. Three men have done one of these. Two ended up dead and the other in a coma.

** That's right. Eight hours of ''OZ'' in one sitting. With a good supply of snacks, this makes for the best lazy-Saturday ''ever''.

* [[Bilingual Bonus]]: Quite a lot, and in Spanish (Alvarez, etc.), Russian (Stanislofsky), Chinese (Kenmin) and probably some more.

** Connelly claiming that if he's sent back to England "he'll hang" despite the death penalty no longer being in effect in the UK.

*** But a lot of IRA type guys just vanished or were maimed and tortured after being picked up by the security services, so his fear of terrible things happening to him certainly has a basis in reality.

* [[Driven to Suicide]]: Beecher's wife {{spoiler|Or was it?}}

** Although he made it look like {{spoiler|Beecher}} killed him, {{spoiler|Keller's}} dive at the end may have been as well.

* [[Fan Service]]: Mainly enjoyed by female viewers [[Shirtless Scene|for]] [[Male Frontal Nudity|obvious]] [[Shower Scene|reasons]] (which is somewhat refreshing) and homosexual viewers for the profusion of [[Ho Yay]].

* [[Fate Worse Than Death]]: Happens to {{spoiler|Miguel Alvarez}} at the end of Season 2.

* [[Flat What]]: Robson in response to Cutler telling him to bend over. It makes sense (and a lot more pain) in context.

* [[Freudian Excuse]]: The O'Reilys

* [[Full-Frontal Assault]]: Some instances during the shower scenes.

** And any point during the show really. The Hole in paticular is full of this.

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* [[Great Escape]]: Agamemnon Busmalis, three unsuccessful attempts to dig out from prison to freedom. Got out once, but got caught.

* [[Handsome Lech]]: McManus. Though this backfires on him when [[Psycho Ex-Girlfriend|Claire Howell]] arrives on the scene.

* [[Heel Face Revolving Door]]: Keller spends an awful lot of the series spinning around in here.

* [[Heroic Sociopath]]: Chris Keller and Ryan O'Reily.

* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]: [[Kiss|Peter Criss]], Method Man and LL Cool J all show up (briefly) as prisoners.

** Ryan O'Reilly is the Allstate Mayhem guy.

** Augustus (the narrator in the wheelchair) is the helicopter pilot in 28 Weeks Later, as well as the replacement operator for the Nebuchadnezzar in ''[[The Matrix]] Reloaded''.

** Ernie Hudson, the warden, you may remember him from [[Ghostbusters]].

* [[Ho Yay]]: Lots and lots of it.

* [[Idiot Ball]]:

* [[Percussive Prevention]]: In the ''long'' feud between Beecher and Schillinger, Schillinger gets his son to kidnap Beecher's children and kill one of them. In retaliation, Beecher arranges to have Schillinger's son killed, but feels remorseful afterwards. So remorseful, in fact, that when Schillinger is about to find out that Beecher was responsible Beecher decides to own up to it. Keller wants to confess to the crime instead so that Beecher won't become a target. Beecher tells him no. Keller knocks Beecher out so that Beecher can't stop him from taking credit for the murder and then runs off to do so.

* [[Posthumous Narration]]: Augustus {{spoiler|does his usual narrations in Season 6 despite being killed in the Season 5 finale. He's joined by other dead characters such as Jefferson Keane, Dino Ortolani, Antonio Nappa and even the Schillinger brothers (who never appeared together onscreen while alive).}}

* [[Prison Rape]]: Frequently.

* [[Prison Riot]]: "A Game of Checkers"

* [[Rape Is Ok When It Is Female On Male]]: Averted. Claire Howell going after the reluctant inmates is disturbing. Not quite as disturbing as the male on male rapes, though.

* [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7LEyv1Nyfg Wilson Loewn cuts down Vern Schillinger.]

** Hill gives a big one to Burr Redding: "Bullshit! The fact of the matter is, I wouldn't be in Oz, I wouldn't be in this chair, if you had only let me have the fucking paper route!"

* [[Reassigned to Antarctica]]: How Father Mukada ended up in Oz.

* [[Redemption Equals Death]]: Commonly done. Most notably {{spoiler|Jefferson Keane}} in Season 1, {{spoiler|Andy Schillinger}} in Season 3 and {{spoiler|Omar White}} in Season 6.

* [[Seinfeldian Conversation]]: Occurs several times when the prisoners are watching Miss Sally's Schoolyard.

* [[Sleazy Politician]]: Governor Devlin.

* [[Sorting Algorithm of Evil]]: The prisoners range from entirely benevolent characters (Ralph Galino, Hamid Khan, Father Meehan) and harmless characters with a few exceptions (Busmalis, Augustus Hill, Said) to [[Complete Monster|Complete Monsters]] like Schillinger, Adebisi and Hernandez. [[Your Mileage May Vary]] on where the rest of the cast lies.

** Keller's obsession with wanting to remain in Beecher's life, even though Beecher rejects him.

* [[Suspiciously Similar Substitute]]: Chris Keller for Scott Ross; both are [[Depraved Bisexual|depraved bisexuals]] with ties to Schillinger.

** And every shower scene.

* [[Welcome Episode]]: Tobias Beecher being admitted into Oz in the first episode.

* [[Where Da White Women At?]]: Despite his Afro-Centric political and religious views, Kareem Said is only attracted to white women, much to the horror of his fellow Muslim followers, and even his own (Christian) sister.

* [[Yandere]]: Chris Keller. He murders all of the guys that Beecher has sex with, acts aggressive with Beecher, {{spoiler|has him unknowingly kill Schillinger when he can't convince Beecher to do it willingly, and later kills the Aryans so that they don't pose a threat to him and Beecher.}} On two various occasions knocks Beecher out with a punch to the head when he refuses to comply with his wishes, and later handcuffs him to a chair, away from everyone, where he threatens him and then forcibly kisses him.