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* [[All Just a Dream]]: "Batmantis" and "Curses".

** "Flipmode" became this some time after the gas leak.

* [[Art Shift]]: Space Ghost briefly changes character designs to look more like Dr. Katz in two episodes: "Brilliant Number One" (and Two) and "King Dead".

*** "Baffler Meal" became "Kentucky Nightmare". They initially decided not to make the episode because it focused too much on the Aqua Teens (Space Ghost only had about three lines). Once they made ''Aqua Teen Hunger Force'' into it's own show and it became a hit, they decided to finally make the "Baffler Meal" episode.

* [[Bad Santa]]: Bizarro-Santa in "Girl Hair."

* [[Blatant Lies]]: In "Woody Allen's Fall Project", James Kirkconnell's claim that the re-enactments are word-for-word. Now to be fair, he's mostly right, but there are still some discrepancies between the original episodes and the re-enactments. For instance, in "Girlie Show", Zorak says "He can't fire me; I'm the hardest working mantis in showbiz! Yow!" But in the re-enactment, Zorak ends with "Hi-yo!" And in "Freak Show", Bill Manspeaker says "And I'd say, "Stop hittin' me, who's talking to me? Stop it!", while in the re-enactment, he says "And I'd say, "Stop hittin' me, who's hittin' you? Stop it!" And Weird Al belts out a different note in the re-enactment than in "Banjo".

* [[Body Snatcher]]: The episode "Snatch", which involves the studio being invaded by alien pods that <s>keep you up all night with their coughing</s> kill and replace their victims.

* [[Brother Chuck]]: Anyone remember Tansit? Or Lokar? Or Christy (the band's drummer)?

** Andy Merrill used in-character DVD commentary to provide [[Word of God]] that Lokar simply died at some point and the other characters literally forgot Tansit existed at all.

* [[Christmas Episode]]: "A Space Ghost Christmas". Also ostensibly "Boo Boo Kitty", since Space Ghost wishes everyone a merry Christmas at the end.

* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Space Ghost himself. A shining example is the episode "Brilliant Number One", which also paints guest Peter Fonda as one.

** Pretty much everyone has at least a few traits of this.

** The show has a tendency to turn its ''guests'' into these; see the [[Redubbing]] entry. The results often make the people Space Ghost interviews seem a bit...off.

'''Erik''': That wasn't very smart, that wasn't really cool.<br />

'''Moltar''': Well that's what I meant. That was ''totally'' uncool! }}

** Comedian Dave Thomas (of [[SCTV]], Not to be confused for the late fast-food baron) pulls this as well. Moltar and Zorak give their full support.

* [[Hypocritical Humor]]: In ''Curling Flower Spaces'', [[Jerry Springer]] accuses ''SGC2C'' of being an "ambush show."

* [[Long List]]: In "Dimethylpyrimidinol Bisulfite", Space Ghost lists every single ingredient used in Sugarman's Potted Meat Food Product, which he endorses:

{{quote| '''Space Ghost''': That's right, 2% real meat to go along with superhero-sized portions of sodium nitrate, potassium bicarbonate, pyrodoxine hydrochloride, biotin, cobalt iodate, thiamine mononitrate, thenadiol bisulfite, sodium selenite, D-L-alpha-tocopperal acetate, glucaronalactone, lanacetol, pantothenic acid, and maltodextrin!}}

** One of the promos listed all the "real" talk shows that Space Ghost outlasted, and there were quite a few.

* [[Luke, I Am Your Father]]: Comedian [[Steven Wright]] discovers that Space Ghost is his real father.

* [[Noodle Incident]]: At the beginning of "Pal Joey", Space Ghost is being timed by Moltar to see how fast he can inviso onto the set. Space Ghost is repeatedly dissatisfied with his times, and even leaves guest Michael Moore waiting, because if he doesn't get his time down to 3.5 by 6 o'clock Sunday, he's a dead man. We never do find out the details of that comment.

* [[No Theme Tune]]: Starting in season five, the theme song was dropped in favor of a black screen shot with the word "Waiting" on it that would last for a few seconds at most (it was extended in the season finale "Waiting for Edward"). Anything resembling an intro was dropped starting in season six; the original intro was brought back for most of the eighth and final season.

* [[Once an Episode]]: Space Ghost blasting Zorak. Space Ghost inviso-ing to the desk to Zorak's music (with a few exceptions, like "Kentucky Nightmare" when he claimed they've never done that).

* [[One-Shot Character]]: Many:

** "Batmantis": Your Mother

** "$20.01": MOE 2000

** In "Jacksonville", various characters announcing they're pregnant, followed by dramatic sting music.

** In "Woody Allen's Fall Project", James Kirkconnell saying this phrase (or close to it): "And now, our word for word reenactment of a conversation that took place at a certain time, in a certain dimension, somewhere deep in space..."

* [[Say My Name]]: "Banjo! Banjo!! ''[[Skyward Scream|BAANJOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!]]''"

* [[Self-Deprecation]]: Among other things, the second season's DVD box cover features such critical blurbs as "Needs some work." and "Jarring and unpleasant."

* [[Soap Opera Disease]]: Space Ghost's unknown disease in "Terminal". Though being a ghost, he's already dead, so at the end after he "dies", he opens his eyes and says "Huh, this isn't so bad."

* [[Something Completely Different]]: The "Sharrock" episode, which is really a tribute to the music of Sonny Sharrock and Lance Carter. They even featured Thurston Moore, guitarist for the alternative rock [[Sonic Youth]], under the pretense that it's Fred Cracklin.

** "Joshua", which is a mock infomercial for how to "take advantage of the power of the Space Ghost". It also includes some fake behind-the-scenes footage.

* [[Sorry I Left the BGM On]]: In "Terminal", Space Ghost makes a long speech but is gradually drowned out by the background music. It's revealed that the music is coming from Zorak's boom box, who shouts "I LOVE THIS SONG!"

* [[Special Edition Title]]: For the episode which parodied the ''Late Show with [[David Letterman]]'', a new title was commissioned panning the galaxy in the manner the ''Late Show'' titles pan around New York. It was used on other episodes in order to amortize the cost of the titles on to the budgets for them. There was also a special opening for the [[Musical Episode]].

* [[Special Guest]]

* [[Spit Take]]: Done often, one time Space Ghost does it three times in a row (the third is bloody).

* [[Start My Own]]: Before the start of the episode "Switcheroo" (with Mark Hamill and Bill Mumy), Zorak and Moltar attended Sci-Fi Con '97 behind Space Ghost's back. Space Ghost attempts to open Space Ghost Con '97 in bitterness.

* [[Stock Footage]]: Occasionally, the 1966 ''Space Ghost and Dino Boy'' clips are shown. Even besides that, the vast majority of the animation in the show was recycled from the old series into the new setting (with some exceptions, such as when a character needed to do something the original animation couldn't provide). This practice was carried over to ''Sealab2021''.

* [[Stock Scream]]: When Santa transforms into his true self in "Girl Hair", the Howie Scream is heard.

* [[Straw Fan]]: Moltar was one of these when [[Erik Estrada]] and [[William Shatner]] appeared on the show.

* [[Strong Family Resemblance]]: Zorak [[Lampshade Hanging|remarks]] that Space Ghost's grandfather "sounds like Randy Savage" and "looks like [him] with a pasted-on beard."

* [[Suspiciously Similar Song]]: A few examples:

** The episode "Lawsuit" opens with a musical parody of the opening theme to [[My Favorite Martian]]. It's a stock music piece called "The Goofy Alien".

* [[Take That]]: Jeff Foxworthy is on the show after Foxworthy’s sitcom didn’t work out, but before [[Blue Collar Comedy]]. He has issues with how Space Ghost treats his underlings and points out that he once had a show, but didn’t treat anyone as badly as Space Ghost.

{{quote| '''Space Ghost''': But the difference between your show and my show is that mine is still on.}}

{{quote| '''Space Ghost''': Do NOT... (hits Zorak with a wrench) DISTURB... (hits him again) THE JUDGE!}}

* [[Those Two Guys]]: After 32 million years of service, Space Ghost plays this trope straight with Jan and Jace. No wonder why he gets sued.

{{quote| '''Space Ghost''': What is it, girl? There's trouble at the ranch? Hmm... trouble at the farm. You say Brak was bitten by a rattlesnake?}}

** Also done in "$20.01" when Teller, as per his on-stage persona, didn't speak:

* [[Two for One Show]]

* [[Unreadably Fast Text]]: Demonstrated at the end of "The Justice Hole", where we're informed to "stand by for super credits", at which point the end credits scroll by in less than a second.

* [[Vocal Evolution]]: At the beginning, Space Ghost and Zorak sound more like their original incarnations than they do over time; their voices deviate from the originals by the second season.

** It also shows us a new future of rock 'n' roll dominated by Colonial-era musicians, who perform a bizarre cover of "[[Led Zeppelin|Black Dog]]" with fast-food-related lyrics.

* [[Who Writes This Crap?]]: Subverted in "Pavement"; Space Ghost openly announces at the start that he wrote the episode. What follows is a ''very'' disorganized series of guest star interviews (for instance, Space Ghost trying to interview Goldie Hawn while indie rock darlings [[Pavement]] play loudly in the background, or defiantly eating chocolate ice cream throughout his interview with [[Red Green|Steve Smith]]) and plots that go nowhere (such as Zorak and Moltar in Space Ghost's prison).

** In "Flipmode", Zorak openly declares that the script sucks right at the start. Space Ghost forces him to participate, though.