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* [[All Psychology Is Freudian]]: Initially subverted then later played somewhat straight: Pöysti visits several psychiatrists over the course of an episode, starting off with one belonging to an unmentioned school of psychology who only states the obvious and repeats what he says, following with a fake Jungian one that doesn't care about any of his issues and instead just wants to tell Pöysti about his own childhood, before finally getting to talk to a Freudian one who manages to help him to any degree.

* [[Animal Wrongs Group]]: The Association For Orphaned Dogs Of St.Petersburg is a minor version of this.

* [[Berserk Button]]: Don't call Laakkonen (episode ''Key Player'') gay or get between Raine Makkula and his music.

** Also, don't blame media about anything in the front of Kontiovaara. He'll... well, not exactly go berserk, but he will get seriously indignant. (Considering that his usual behavior [[Tastes Like Diabetes]] and that blaming the media is about the only way to make him show any anger at all, it counts as this trope.)

'''Kontiovaara:''' Can't use this stuff. Can't use this stuff at all. }}

* [[Bilingual Bonus]]: The episode "Kaksvitonen" (Twenty-Fiver, a [[Parody Episode]] of [[24|Twenty Four]]) features two long scenes done entirely in English. Likewise, recent episode "Obama" also had quite a lot of English dialogue when the titular president showed up.

* [[Drugs Are Bad]]: The main theme for one of the new episodes that culminates in each character unsuccessfully lecturing a classroom about them (Pöysti failing because he promotes alcohol as a better option for escapism, Repomies because he gets pissed off at the students throwing wads of paper at him, causing him to start swearing and throwing a whiteboard eraser back at one of them, Helga because she instantly calls a female student a slut after she asks her the generic [[Miss Conception|"can you get pregnant from kissing" question]] and [[Idiot Ball|Neponen is never even considered for the task]] because "he supports Pöysti and is suspicious"). However, Routalempi accidentally manages to save the day by constantly getting distracted by modern school equipment while attempting to lecture the class, causing the entire class to think he's an ex-junkie (especially since the symptoms he lists for prolonged drug use are the very things he's doing at that moment, ie. short attention span and confusing speech patterns) and [[Scare'Em Straight|sign up for anti-drugs groups in fear of becoming like him.]]

* [[Dub Name Change]]: The English dub localised all the names except for Helga. Pöysti himself was changed to Jefferson Anderson, the same as the name of the show itself in the English dub. Neponen became Smith, and Repomies was changed to Brickman.

{{quote|''Pöysti:'' Well then. Jeppe Salonius. You robbed a bank in the early 2000s, and got caught. The loot, totalling 1 million euros, still hasn't been found. You hid it, didn't you?

''Jeppe:'' Maybe.

Raine: Don't take my music away from me, goddamnit! *punches Andy and Helga, is taken down by 2 other policemen* }}

* [[Moving the Goalposts]]: Done by Repomies to Pöysti when he's about to go on a vacation and Repomies' relatives end up being somehow involved with the newly legalized bordel and he tells Pöysti he can't go on his vacation until each one of them is dealt with in turn. To be fair, he's not doing it entirely to abuse his power, but whenever Pöysti deals with one of them, another one of Repomies' relatives pops up to be forced into working there, signs up to work there voluntarily or just goes to visit as a customer.

** Lampshaded by Pöysti when Johnson's superior tells him to waterboard someone not to interrogate them because of a crime they've committed, but because he just wants to know if they'd happen to know anything in general people might want to know like how to lead a happy life:

{{quote|Pöysti: Is it just me, or have we moved to a more cynical direction from [[Super Mario Bros.|Super Mario]]?}}

* [[Unusual Euphemism]]: With some [[A Worldwide Punomenon]] in episode ''25''.

{{quote|'''Repomies:''' (showing a slide) Here's the City of Helsinki.

'''Repomies:''' What? Goddamnit! Holiday slides! But, under these special, terrorism-related circumstances, it will have to do. It's my naked wife, but you'll imagine that it's the City of Helsinki. But don't look at her Front Töölö! }}

** Front Töölö is a district of Helsinki. Back Töölö also exists. Töölö doesn't mean anything obscene (it doesn't mean anything much), but the word sounds like it could.

* [[Weirdness Censor]]: For whatever reason, a plastic surgery clinic has an entire dead, decapitated whale right outside its entrance, the nearest body of water is over a mile away and whales are rarely if ever seen anywhere near Helsinki. Nobody notices it or comments on it in any way.

* [[You Can Panic Now]]: An episode concerning bootlegged booze with poison in it eventually culminated in forbidding all alcohol from entire Finland. The interviewee's response for Kontiovaara's question of whether they could panic now - "Take a fuckin' guess", sounds funnier in Finnish - doubles as a [[Crowning Moment of Funny]].

 

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