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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.

** When Pöysti let an association member into his house in hopes of having sex with her when he initially met her, she quickly ended up boring him to sleep by talking about her dog the entire night. To be fair, she was hesitant to come in at first since she had other people to visit and Kyösti explicitly stated "if you come in, you can talk about dogs the entire time!" She continued talking about dogs even when he was already fast asleep, not even bothering to wake him up when the pizza he had ordered had arrived or when it was morning already, causing him to be several hours late at work both due to all the above as well as setting his cellphone to silent when Neponen kept calling him.

* [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking]]: In one of Kontiovaara's infamous morning talk shows: "And for that reason, steer clear of drugs, booze and modern jazz."

{{quote|'''Repomies:''' Return your badge, your gun, your game controller, and your key to the police ballpit!}}

* [[Assumed Win]]:

** Surprisingly enough, Pöysti actually saves the day (after quickly running away right before Repomies finds out the truth) by exposing how the person responsible for nominating the people getting the medals wastes taxpayers' money for sitting at his desk and peeling pistachio nuts days on end, just so he can stuff entire mouthfuls into his mouth as often as he wants. When people ask why they should care even if he does so, Pöysti points out that it's an activity that no normal person can freely spend as much time on as he has and there's no compareable lesser replacements available. Cue the crowd cheering when they find 6 sacks of perfectly-peeled pistachio nuts and Repomies finally getting a medal "not for any actual valid reason, but just because it fits an occasion like this", as stated by Pöysti.

* [[As the Good Book Says...]]: As a running gag in an episode: Pöysti makes up passages such as "He who shall cast the first stone shall covet for his neighbour's donkey, which is an animal rights violation, so there", "He who casts a blaming finger might poke Jesus in the eye by accident! Job 24/7!" and "Remember what the Bible says: "Blessed are those who don't cast nasty looks like that at others all the time, for they shall inherit Repomies' delightful working chair, which is now reserved for me, by the way."

* [[Brick Joke]]: Kyösti has one of his theories begin with the opposing religious leaders in the episode being crushed by a [[Piano Drop|falling piano]] and being sent to Heaven when he tries to explain Repomies how religious views of the same religion can vary wildly from one person to another and thus at least some of them will ultimately be disappointed: Repomies is utterly confused why a piano would fall on both of them out of the blue, but leaves the matter be when Pöysti states that it's irrelevant. Skip to the very end of the episode, where the said people are standing next to each other outdoors, agreeing with the basic concepts of their religious views...where they're prompty crushed by an identical falling piano.

* [[Call Back]]: Season three, episode one: Pöysti has a hangover, and if you listen closely, you can at one point hear the same Phil Collins song that was used in the episode "Phil Collins Hangover" playing in the background.

{{quote|Pöysti: Is it just me or does the majority of police work consist of babysitting rampaging drunks?

Neponen: Yes...or wait, we did have that case about that international diamond thief!

Neponen: True... }}

* [[Cameo]]: The hosts from the Finnish extreme travel show Madventures appear in an episode in cartoon form, voiced by themselves.

** When Repomies has to act gay for the media, he turns into this. He even develops an instant knowledge of men's hairstyling.

* [[Casanova]]: Assistant town manager Jorma Hyvärinen takes great pride in his ability to hump practically every single woman in town and makes it a point to remind everyone he meets about it as often as he can... {{spoiler|save for Repomies' wife, whom Hyvärinen considers utterly hideous, the fact of which frustrates Repomies enough to send death threats to Hyvärinen and thus jumpstart the plot of the episode.}}

* [[Chessmaster]]: The way in which Pöysti uses and abuses the rules for dole money and equal opportunity employment to sabotage the first legal brothel in Finland is simply ''epic''.

* [[Collapsing Lair]]: Pöysti's not-that-evil-counterpart Anteroinen has a lair in his basement, which Pöysti finds by accident by [[Floorboard Failure|stomping the floor upstairs repeatedly out of frustration.]] It turns into a somewhat more literal example of this when Anteroinen sets his house on fire to destroy evidence and won't let Pöysti and Neponen out until he's done explaining his grand scheme.

* [[Crying Wolf]]: Referenced by Pöysti when Routalempi unsuccessfully tries to get the rest of the force to arrange a surprise birthday party for him, failing because nobody could tell his hinting apart from his normal musings:

{{quote|Pöysti: You kinda suffered the same fate as that shepherd boy in that one story, the one who was always shouting "Look, here's something exciting!" to everyone, causing people to gather around, but they eventually started ignoring him since they never actually saw anything exciting.

* [[If You Call Before Midnight Tonight]]: Parodied. The presenter in an unseen informercial instead says "If you act fast, you might trip and hurt yourself, so please act at normal speed."

* [[In a World]]: Parodied: after his long-planned attempt to seduce a woman failing miserably drives Pöysti to drink, he ends up watching a new movie on a day off, but thanks to the endless stream of trailers before it, he ends up with the generic trailer voice narrating his life inside his head, much like Phil Collins-hangover described below: when it runs out of things to narrate when Pöysti sits on a couch without doing anything to make it shut up, it starts to rattle off a list of buttons on his TV remote instead.

{{quote|The teenage Internet troll's father: You have the wrong man. I don't even know how to start Windows...

Pöysti: No wonder. That's why it's called Windows. Hehe.

** 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]]?}}

* [[My Life Flashed Before My Eyes]]: Pöysti claimed to have experienced this when he was ran over by a speeder: he thought it was a "bad movie, I'd give 2 stars at most, and it had hardly any DVD extras"

** Shown in more detail when Routalempi is {{spoiler|about to be shot by Puurtinen}}: conviniently enough, the last segment of his flashback reminds him that Puurtinen has clapper lights in every room of his house, which helps him escape.

* [[Putting on My Thinking Cap]]: Reversed. It's called the Stupidity Association Method, and it's instead used to come up with the stupidest possible [[Epileptic Trees]] theories in situations where common sense and thinking logically fails. It more or less involves putting on a plastic bag on one's head and getting punched in the stomach/hit in the head, presumably to cause minor asphyxiation and make oneself much stupider temporarily.

* [[Pyromaniac]]: The main theme of one of the new episodes. After talking to a pyromaniac who's busy watching his kitchen burn, a pyrophiliac whose bed is on fire and who wishes to share the details of his upcoming [[Incredibly Lame Pun|hot night of lovemaking]] the next day and another pyromaniac who manages to keep setting everyone close to him on fire the moment they turn their eyes away from him despite being handcuffed and [[Blatant Lies|vehemently denies all of it before relenting right away]], Kyösti catches main culprit (who was doing it mainly since his annoying neighbours kept hounding him endlessly about his smoking even though he tried his best to please them about it and they even considered his act of going to the nearby woods to smoke as him "purposefully fucking with them", which resulted in them beating him up) halfway through the episode but the fires just keep on spreading. Considering Repomies met a female pyromaniac investigator he instantly falls for in the beginning of the episode, it's not hard to guess the reason. {{spoiler|In case you really can't guess, he's the one who kept setting things on fire from that point onwards while also making a clumsy attempt at trying to make them form a pattern of the investigator's face if viewed from a map.}}

* [[Recurring Extra]]: A pair of cops, [[Fat and Skinny|one short and fat and another tall and skinny]]. They're mostly present when the situation calls for more cops than the main cast, either because of a siege situation or just to keep the criminal apprehended while the rest of the cast talks to them. They're not named and never have any dialogue and the most emotion they convey is an occasional frustrated glance.

* [[Red Scare]]: The [[Murder Simulators|Murder Simulator]] game Pöysti plays tells him to kill President Obama "because he's a socialist". It proceeds to say, in an awkward voice, that it's [[Suspiciously Specific Denial|absolutely not because Obama's African-American]]. Nope. It's because of socialism. Pöysti doesn't feel like playing the game any further from that point onward either, stating he feels his expectations for Obama's season, despite being unrealistic, are still high.

* [[Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism]]: It's ''probably'' possible to go further towards the cynical end than this, but that doesn't happen often. Summary: Nobody's life goes anywhere, though they're usually in denial about it, almost anything anyone does is a meaningless waste of time, and Finland is full of self-pitying, violent alcoholics.

* [[So Bad It's Good]]: In-universe; Kyösti [[Discussed Trope|goes on at length about this trope]] during one of his many failed dates: it mostly involves his interest towards "shitty B-movies" such as [[Plan 9 from Outer Space]] and trying to make [[Foreign Queasine|microwave bacon-chocolate-tofuweiner-marmelade-risotto his friend got him from Japan]] for himself and his current girlfriend for dinner just because the concept of it is [[So Bad It's Good]].

* [[Stalker Shrine]]: More or less the entire house of the stalker described below is filled with pictures of whoever he's currently obsessed with. He also forbids anyone else to touch any of the said pictures, claiming they're alive and has a nasty habit of creating things like a replica of Princess Diana's deathmask, a bust of Bill Cosby and a boquet of artificial flowers...out of his own boogers, ear wax and backhair and dandruff, respectively.

* [[Stalker with a Crush]]: One episode has the Pasila policemen going after one of these named Sami Raunio, who is so delusional that he takes ''specific articles of clothing'' as signs that he and his target were meant for each other. (This is actually something like [[Truth in Television]], but probably [[Flanderization|Flanderized]] here.) Their method of dealing with him involves {{spoiler|letting the stalker move in with his targets and telling the targets to act as unglamorous as possible. This only proves necessary for the first target though, as Juhani dispels his illusions with a simple greeting and Kyösti himself makes him lose interest by being his own uncaring self and thus not caring about the stalker being in his home beyond the initial surprise at his presense, causing the stalker to stop stalking him because there's no challenge in it.}}