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* [[A Fool and His New Money Are Soon Parted]]: Big Head, to a T. Due to both Erlich's manipulation and his own inability to take anything seriously, Big Head quickly burns through the multimilllion dollar buyout package Hooli gives him. It turns out Big Head only spent about half his money, and his dad took the rest. The DA has little sympathy, though, pointing out they would have wasted it all in short order anyway.
* [[Actually, That's My Assistant]]: When the group attempts to confront EndFrame for stealing middle-out compression, the receptionist assumes that Erlich is the CEO instead of Richard...and then thinks Richard's name is "Erlich Bachman" and that Erlich is "Richard Hendricks."
* [[Defictionalized]]:The Weissman Score, which describes a data compression algorithm's speed and compression ratio in a single number, [http://spectrum.ieee.org/view-from-the-valley/computing/software/a-madefortv-compression-metric-moves-to-the-real-world made it into scientific literature]. It helps that the computer scientists at Stanford consulted for the show.▼
* [[Ambiguous Disorder]]: Peter Gregory and his replacement Laurie Bream both have [[No Social Skills]] apparently due to some social disorder, possibly autism. They are both, however, highly successful tech investors. Richard also has shades of this, given his high-strung personality, insecurity, poor social skills and odd habits. Several characters actually think he has Asperger's, which he denies having.
* [[Apologizes a Lot]]: Jared. He's constantly apologizing and very self-deprecating.
* [[Applied Phlebotinum]]: Russ Hanneman's claim to inventing "radio on the internet." Sure, there are plenty of digital technologies that could be called radio on the internet (radio station streaming on the web, Pandora, etc.) but because of that the audience has no idea precisely what Russ made.
* [[Artistic License: Biology]]: : In Season 5, when Dinesh and Jared go on Ludicrous mode in the former's Tesla, their cheeks pouch out from the high speed. However, people's faces do this at high speed only as a result of wind resistance, while the guys are behind a windshield. It just [[Rule of Funny|looks funny]].
▲* [[Defictionalized]]: The Weissman Score, which describes a data compression algorithm's speed and compression ratio in a single number, [http://spectrum.ieee.org/view-from-the-valley/computing/software/a-madefortv-compression-metric-moves-to-the-real-world made it into scientific literature]. It helps that the computer scientists at Stanford consulted for the show.
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