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* [[Lower Class Lout]]: The entire premise of the show, although most of the main characters are portrayed fairly sympathetically.
* [[My Local]]: The Jockey, where most of the main characters hang out or work.
* [[NamesName's the Same]]: Liam Gallagher. Named after the Oasis frontman, who demanded who know why.
{{quote| '''Wilson''': ''Really? Liam Gallagher?.''}}
** There were also two very, very minor characters in the early series called Paddy and Mickey, before the Maguires became prominent.
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* [[Obstructive Bureaucrat]]:
* [[Paedo Hunt]]: Frank rouses one up after {{spoiler|Debbie}} steals someones' baby.
* [[Paper -Thin Disguise]]: In series two, Veronica gets a temporary bar from the Jockey and tries to sneak back in in disguise on two separate occasions. The first time, she wears a wig. The second, she dons a flat cap, moustache and big coat and masquerades as an old man. On both occasions she gets caught, but not as quickly as she would have done in real life. Frank also escapes some debt collectors by dressing ''very'' unconvincingly as a woman.
* [[Parents As People]]: Most all caregivers in the show, but Frank, Monica, and Sheila might as well be the poster children for this trope.
* [[Perpetual Poverty]]: The Gallaghers - in one episode Frank steals paint from a road crew putting down yellow lines.
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* [[The Irish Mob]]: The Maguires
* [[Tourettes Shitcock Syndrome]]: Marty, but later learns to say things like spongecake and buttermilk instead of swearing.
* [[WhosWho's Your Daddy?]]: Ian's parentage is come into question when Debbie looks at the blood types of the family, leading him on a hunt for his real father and possibly an escape from the Chatsworth Estate. Turns out {{spoiler|his dad is exactly like Frank, only he also owns the pub he constantly gets wasted at}}.
* [[Zany Scheme]]: All the time. Fake Deaths, car chases, terrible disguises, random robberies. You name it, somebody's tried to do it in order to avoid attention from the Authorities.
 
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* {{spoiler|[[Acting for Two]]: William H. Macy plays ''both'' Frank and Jerry Gallagher, identical twins}}.
* [[Anything That Moves]]: {{spoiler|Lloyd, the father of Steve/Jimmy}}.
* [[Armor -Piercing Slap]]: Happens to Lip from Karen in ''Can I Have A Mother''.
* [[Artistic Title]]: The opening (which chronicles a day in the Gallagher's bathroom) really does nail the tone of the show.
* [[Ax Crazy]]: ''Carl''.
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* [[But Not Too Gay]]: For a show ''this'' hedonistic, Ian has yet to be seen having sex with another man onscreen. But since Cameron Monaghan didn't turn 18 until the middle of shooting season two, [[Justified Trope|it makes sense.]]
* [[Calling the Old Man Out]]: Happens from time to time with Fiona yelling at her mom for trying {{spoiler|to take Liam away from them}}, but Frank does this to his own mom in ''Can I Have A Mother'', yelling at her that he was sick of the way she was treating him. She doesn't care.
* [[Cold -Blooded Torture]]: Implied by Steve, when talking about Estafania's father.
* [[Comically Missing the Point]]: When Frank quits drinking he becomes a great Dad to Debbie and Carl. Lip tries to warn them that he won't always be like this by relating their situation to a pet turtle the kids forgot about and accidentally killed. Carl takes it to mean that Frank is buying them a new turtle.
* [[Contrived Coincidence]]: A lot of the show's [[Dark Comedy]] is derived from highly unlikely events happening to the characters.
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** Then again, Ian beats the living crap out of his brother, proving he does show these fighting abilities but just chooses not to.
* [[Insurance Fraud]]: Frank is supposed to have a car torched for the insurance money but stops for a drink first and it is stolen instead. Since the car was not insured against theft, he owed some gangsters a lot of money... until {{spoiler|he faked his death}}.
* [[ItsIt's All About Me]]: Frank and his mother and also Karen is getting into this territory.
* [[Jerkass]]: Normally its Frank, but as of Season 2, Lip.
* [[Karma Houdini]]: '''''Frank'''''. Though its subverted to hell and back in Frank's case. One moment he's in deep shit, then the next he's off the hook somehow.
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** Season 2's ''Parenthood'' ends with {{spoiler|Frank going back to [[Missing Mom|Monica]] after his mother died}}.
** Season 2's "A Good Cause" featured {{spoiler|the savings that Fiona had been building up for her entire life being wasted by the unstable Monica.}} Then, in "Just Like the Pilgrims Intended," {{spoiler|Karen gives birth, but the child doesn't belong to Lip or the [[Red Herring]] that she visited earlier in the season, and Monica attempts suicide.}}
* [[WhosWho's Your Daddy?]]: Monica Gallagher did a lot of drugs while married to Frank and does not really remember what she did during those times. There is a fair chance that some of her kids might not be Frank's. Turns out {{spoiler|Lip and Liam were Frank's sons but Ian is actually the son of one of Frank's brothers}}.
** Now played with Karen's child, as it could be {{spoiler|Lip's}} or someone else's. Though in her own words, its [[Parental Substitute|Jody's]] because [[Bumbling Dad|real dads are overrated]].
** It turns out that {{spoiler|neither Lip nor Jody is the father of her baby, but rather an Asian guy Karen was having sex with on the side}}.
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