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* [[All Men Are Perverts]]: Comes up often when covering some stories.
* [[All Women Are Lustful]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NR0rZu6qDg&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL Looks like it].
* [[
** Also, the white shirt police officers are always the first to antagonize the Occupy Wall Street protesters.
** Lobbyists tend to get this treatment as well.
** Not always true - Cenk has some respect for conservatives who aren't in the pay of big business.
* [[Arc Words]]: "Wholly-owned subsidiary."
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** "Off the top rope."
** "Ladies and gentlemen, we got 'em."
* [[Asshole Victim]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZQyOkY-AKQ Mark Stroman].
* [[Awesome McCoolname]]: Prometheus Maximus Uygur (nicknamed Pro), Cenk's infant son.
* [[Bait and Switch Boss]]: Cenk used to view [[Rush Limbaugh]] as the leader of the Republican Party, until leaked documents about Roger Ailes showed up, where it details exactly how the Republicans followed Ailes' lead.
** With the various criticisms TYT gave Bush, you'd think he was the [[Big Bad]], but in the grand scheme of things, they feel that Bush was more of [[The Brute]] by comparison.
* [[Berserk Button]]: Ignorant Americans who believe Saddam Hussein was responsible for 9/11 incur an aggressive response by both [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hiRC5ZDTXk Cenk] and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRVGNEa0lxE Ben.]
* [[Big Bad]]: Not a person, but an entity - the Wall Street bankers, multinational corporations who bought Congress, the Supreme Court and the mainstream news media.
* [[Bigger Bad]] Finally, [[Rupert Murdoch]], another major [[Corrupt Corporate Executive|symptom]] of [[Mega Corp|mega-influential corporations]] and the owner of Wall Street.
** In regards to the media, that would be Roger Ailes, head of [[Fox News]] and the manager of the Republican Party.
* [[Big Good]]: Cenk himself.
* [[Biggus Dickus]]: Mitt Romney, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kao-EzPmW0k apparently.]
* [[Bilingual Bonus]]: Occasionally Cenk will throw out a little Turkish, especially W/Ha Siktir! Usually he translates.
* [[Black and White Morality]]: Cenk himself is ''astonished'' how much this trope can be [[Truth in Television]], particularly in regards to corporate corruption and the [[Obstructive Bureaucrat|subsi]][[Head-in-The-Sand Management|diaries]] [[Insane Troll Logic|there]][[Forever War|of]].
* [[Blind Idiot Translation]]: Look at the subtitles on the screen of one of TYT's videos sometime. The translation is ''extremely'' bad.
* [[Butt Monkey]]: Among others, [[Sarah Palin]], Michele Bachmann, [[Donald Trump]], Michael Steele, [[Glenn Beck]], Herman Cain, Rick Perry, Rudy Giuliani, Tim Pawlenty and Rick Santorum.
** Internally, Tom Hanc, one of the TYT producers, has become something of a butt monkey for the rest of the crew. This is due apparently to his habit for self-promotion, Ana's competitive nature, and the fact he gets little-to-no air time to defend himself.
** Hanc was supposed to participate in the arm wrestling competition. He broke his own wrist ''before they announced that a competition would be hosted''. Self-elimination [[Epic Fail]]. They even put him in the ''womens' bracket''.
{{quote|'''Ana''':"Maybe we could have a special Olympics for him."}}
* [[Catch Phrase]]: "I denounce and reject you" or "I denounce and reject myself."
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** "Release the Kraken!", "Schmoopy pa poopy", "Sad day for you" and--look, there's too many to name, just go to their [http://www.theyoungturks.com/pages/tyt_glossary.html glossary]
** [[Sarcasm Mode|"Am I not]] [[Gladiator (film)|merciful?"]]
* [[The Chamberlain]]: Subverted. This was Cenk's initial view of [[Barack Obama]], but as time went by, particularly with [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3EVoF-LUdU&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL videos like this], it's clear Cenk and Wes especially view Obama as less of an appeaser and more of a complicit conservative disguised as a Democrat.
* [[Cluster F-Bomb]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NMHABPkz90 Count 'em.]
* [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]]: Most high-profile corporate CEOs, like the Koch brothers.
* [[Dirty Coward]]: Their view of the Democrats as a whole.
* [[Dueling Shows]]: Cenk [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mO9G0NCygc0&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL actually confirmed] that TYT Networks' separate [[Spin-Off|Spin Offs]] are competing to get the most views, subscriptions and likes.
* [[Egregious]]: Not the show itself; Cenk is one of the few mainstream newscasters who uses this word fairly often.
* [[Eldritch Abomination]]: Wall Street itself is considered as an amoral, money-making machine; everyone affiliated with it only cares about making profit.
* [[Enemy Civil War]]: Currently, between the Wall Street-backed Republicans and the demagogic Tea Party.
** Specific examples go into the 2011/2012 Republican primaries, where Mitt Romney gets challenged by Michele Bachmann, Rick Perry, Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum and Ron Paul at different points.
* [[Epic Fail]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3I6iRikL2w Texas outlawed marriage]. Cenk was amused.
* [[Mr. Fanservice]]: A good portion of the guys aren't bad-looking themselves.
* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1Ks1gQSijk Ben and Cenk explain] that the [[Dirty Coward|Democrats]] are starting to learn that Obama is not on their side, up to losing their trust in him, because Obama's agreeing to everything wit the Republicans, no matter how little he gets in return and regardless of the disastrous results thereof.
* [[Equal Opportunity Evil]]: Led a [[Crowning Moment of Funny]] for Cenk; in a [http://www.youtube.com/theyoungturks#p/search/4/dyW5ZqppDcc story] about a gang of thieves, Cenk pointed out how diverse the robbers were, calling them the All-American robbery team and said that it's "America coming together, to rob your ass."
* [[Five-Bad Band]]: There are several groups they've portrayed as this throughout their run:
** The Bush administration:
*** [[Bigger Bad]]: Paul Wolfowitz, the one who came up with the administrations' foreign policy on Iraq.
*** [[Big Bad Duumvirate]]: Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld.
*** [[The Dragon]]: [[George W. Bush]], who's viewed as [[Our Presidents Are Different|President Buffoon]] and a [[Puppet King]] by TYT.
*** [[The Brute]]: John Ashcroft
*** [[Evil Genius]]: Karl Rove, the architect of the Bush electoral campaigns, who utilized voter disenfranchisement and voter suppression in droves.
*** [[Dark Chick]]: Alberto Gonzales, and Condoleezza Rice as a different version of this combined with [[The Baroness]].
*** [[Sixth Ranger Traitor]]: Colin Powell, who doubled as an [[Anti-Villain]] to TYT.
** [[Fox News]]:
*** [[Big Bad]]: [[Rupert Murdoch]], whose influence is felt throughout America, Britain and Australia.
*** [[Dragon-in-Chief]]: Roger Ailes. Murdoch might be the [[Bigger Bad]], but Ailes has more power over Fox News day-to-day.
*** [[The Dragon]]: [[Bill O Reilly]]. The highest-ranking host seen as second in command at Fox only behind Ailes.
*** [[The Brute]]: Sean Hannity. Most explicit and persistent criticism of their liberal/progressive ideology.
*** [[The Evil Genius]]: Ann Coulter. Who they usually refuse to talk about because they think she uses calculated ploys for attention.
*** [[The Dark Chick]]: [[Glenn Beck]]. Also Michelle Malkin and Greta Van Susteren. Beck was seen by them as the most unstable, emotional, and eccentric odd one out by advertisers, but his contract with ''Fox'' ended sometime in the first quarter of 2011.
* [[Five-Man Band]]:
** [[The Hero]]: Cenk Uygur.
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** [[The Big Guy]]: Brian Unger.
** [[The Chick]]: Ana Kasparian.
** [[Guest Star Party Member]]: Several, with Richard Escow, Wesley Clark (Jr.) and Jimmy Dore as the most recurring.
* [[Five-Token Band]]: Let's see, a Turkish host, an Armenian-American female co-host, a black producer, a Mexican director, and a white guy. And occasionally Ben Mankiewicz shows up, who's Jewish. Recently they added Steve Oh, an Asian executive director who occasionally joins the debate.
* [[Foreshadowing]]?: Ever noticed how the TYT Interviews stopped updating their videos as regularly as they have to their main channel? Come about a week or so later, and Cenk formally announces {{spoiler|1=that he's recently left MSNBC. }}
* [[Girl-On-Girl Is Hot]]: Just ask Cenk.
* [[Godwin's Law]]/[[Hitler Ate Sugar]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jy3bEJ5Kt5M Cenk is not a fan.]
** [http://dailycaller.com/2012/04/18/current-tvs-cenk-uygur-to-bill-oreilly-youre-a-goddamn-nazi-video/ Unless they're the ones using it.]
* [[Hatedom]]: Oh, boy.
** There used to be a particular [[Hatedom]] for Ben.
* [[Heel Face Turn]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJQHvoLEeRQ The Tea Party]
* [[Hoist by His Own Petard]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_w2tBoulgNs&feature=relmfu A notorious rich man spend 8 million dollars to fund dozens of smear ads against Democrats]. Guess why he went bankrupt.
* [[Humans Are Bastards]]: Often, but they justify it by claiming that [[Crosses the Line Twice|those they disagree with]] [[It Is Dehumanizing|aren't people]], just fanatics that will always represent, defend and protect their bosses. They may be 'people', but they're ''not'' "humane".
* [[Jerkass]]: Ben in this [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rX0OBLlOXLE video]
* [[Jesus Was Way Cool]]: The show makes fun of right-wing religious hypocrisy all the time. However, Cenk isn't above pointing out that Jesus himself [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGpW93nm24U was a Socialist]. To be fair, this was in response to a Republican claiming that Socialism was "unbiblical" during a speech.
* [[Karma Houdini]]: Many examples, from murderers (like the father and grandfather who buried their daughter/granddaughter just for ''talking'' to boys), to politicians and corporations.
* [[Large Ham]]: Cenk. Especially when he's parodying conservatives.
* [[Man Behind the Man]]: Several multinational corporations for nearly every single politician.
** Dick Cheney for [[George W. Bush]], who acted as the Vice President.
** Rahm Emanuel and Timothy Geithner for [[Barack Obama]], the former Chief of Staff and current Secretary of Treasury.
** Charles and David Koch for most freshman House Republicans, including Scott Walker, Rick Snyder and John Kasich.
** Played with for Rush Limbaugh; at the very least, he certainly knows how to intimidate Republican-aligned politicians enough to keep them in line.
** Roger Ailes for every Republican president since [[Richard Nixon]]. TYT does a good job in rationalizing why, too.
{{quote|'''Cenk''':"There's always somebody strong, within the White House, who influences the President more than other people do, and you can always tell by the decisions that are made. By the directions that they go. The way they play politics." }}
* [[Ms. Fanservice]]: [[All Men Are Perverts|Most]] [[Male Gaze|people]] tend to see Ana as this.
* [[Obstructive Bureaucrat]]: This is the ''mildest'' way of explaining how TYT views the Republican Party as a whole.
* [[Only in Florida]]: Often. To the point where Cenk is surprised if a strange occurrence didn't happen in Florida.
* [[Rape Is Okay When Its Female On Male]]: Zig zagged [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOg4mOHqwWY here.] Ana sticks up for the guy, Cenk makes fun of him for two and a half minutes, agrees that it's bad regardless of gender, expresses doubts regarding whether the man should have really sued, and ends saying he should get over it.
* [[The Rival]]: Mitt Romney garnered a lot of these during the 2011/2012 Republican primary - Rick Perry was his most vitriolic opponent, while [[Newt Gingrich]] took over as the neo-conservative challenger. At present, it's Rick Santorum.
* [[Screw the Money, I Have Rules]]: Cenk quit his job at MSNBC after they offered him a smaller position in the company at twice his pay despite the fact that he ''beat'' [[Fox News]] ratings in the young demographic.
* [[Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism]]: Pretty damn cynical, particularly involving American politics.
* [[Smug Snake]]: Cenk. When [[Take That|impersonating]] rich people (who aren't named [[Some of My Best Friends Are X|Warren Buffet]]) and Republicans.
* [[Spin-Off]]: They still have TYT as their main channel, but they've made several other channels to fill up the other topics of the day.
** [http://www.youtube.com/tytunderground TYT Underground] are behind-the-scenes videos of what the TYT members are doing just before they actually report the news. Currently run by Jesus Godoy; placed on hold until further notice.
** [http://www.youtube.com/user/TYTshows TYT Shows] is a mini-channel that has more detailed commentary and analysis on news, politics and entertainment. Noted for having spin-offs in and of itself.
*** TYT Now, hosted by Tina Dupuy and Tim Mihalsky. Discontinued in favor of twenTYTwelve.
*** Reality Bytes Back, celebrity news by Misty Kingma and Jacki Bray. Currently on hold in favor of twenTYTwelve.
*** The WMB Show, where Wesley Clark, Michael Shure and Ben Mankiewicz voice their own personal segments on news. On hiatus since Wes was [[Put on a Bus]].
*** Launched and hosted by Michael Shure is a mini-segment called [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--fzRhsroUQ twenTYTwelve], which focuses on covering the primaries, caucuses, debates and conventions for the upcoming election.
** [http://www.youtube.com/user/TYTInterviews TYT Interviews] is [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]]. Generally inactive since Cenk left MSNBC.
** [http://www.youtube.com/tytsports TYT Sports] is [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]], frequently hosted by [[Ascended Extra|Rick Strom]].
** [http://www.youtube.com/tytuniversity TYT University] has user-submitted videos about college, hosted by Ana Kasparian.
** [http://www.youtube.com/thetopvlog The Top Vlog] are official behind-the-scenes footage of TYT, run by Jesus Godoy.
** [http://www.youtube.com/user/townsquare The Point] features user-submitted videos focusing on a specific topic, which the panel discusses and elaborates upon. Its host switches around a lot, but one in particular would be John Fugelsang.
** [http://www.youtube.com/user/townsquare TYT Nation], where users submit videos on their two-cents about any particular topic. It's their way of [[Promoted Fanboy|promoting their fans]], [[Ascended Fanboy|as they did with John Iadarola]].
** ''[http://www.youtube.com/user/whattheflickshow What the Flick?!]'' features reviews of films, hosted by Ben Manckiewicz.
* [[Strawman News Media]]: Cenk invokes with [[Fox News]], as well as the majority of the other major news outlets.
* [[Take That]]: And a double-whammy, at that.
{{quote|'''Ben''':"I'm rooting for a ''German''; that's how much I hate the Heat."}}
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* [[The Bus Came Back]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wn_EYtkZyA Jill Pike]
* [[The Merch]]: Mind your business looking up videos on Youtube. Some video by The Young Turks ''will'' be likely to show up sooner or later even if you don't look them up. They have tens of thousands of videos covering almost everything.
* [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]]: Check back with Cenk's [[Berserk Button]].
{{quote|Cenk:"USA Today you SUCK BALLS!" }}
* [[Tournament Arc]]: TYT Sports is hosting arm-wrestling matches with the crew, minus Richard Eskow, Wesley Clark, Jimmy Dore, Brian Unger, Tina Dupuy and Jackie Bray.
** First round:
*** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54S4g9rbFlI&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL Cenk Uygur vs Lucas Lilieholm].
*** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF-JPqv8Lx8&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL Jayar Jackson vs Tim Collins].
*** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmZKTgmus-Y&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL Jesus Godoy vs Steve Oh].
*** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NK5SqRLXjbE&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL Ana Kasparian vs Irina Nichita].
*** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0l_788GHVY&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL Rick Strom vs Mark Register].
*** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0J7VCB_BKs&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL Dave Koller vs John Iadarola].
*** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1etMIbKfiUE&list=UUPahzXZvF8f5bRJ5TNvZS8w&index=1&feature=plcp Michael Shure vs Ben Mankiewicz].
*** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbNnbcMGP8U&list=UUPahzXZvF8f5bRJ5TNvZS8w&index=1&feature=plcp Misty Kingma vs Christy Lemire].
** Note that these are spoilers, but here comes round two:
*** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqHkCKjNnlI&feature=channel Mark Register vs John Iadarola].
*** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYynAXvX-jE&list=UUPahzXZvF8f5bRJ5TNvZS8w&index=1&feature=plcp Jayar Jackson vs Steve Oh].
*** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwbPlAjGtgQ&feature=channel Cenk Uygur vs Andrew Napier] (Michael dropped out due to injuries).
*** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hvTcIyidXE&feature=channel John Iadarola vs Cenk Uygur]. They were reinstated in the competition by popular demand.
*** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lp4A9aFC1Mw&feature=channel Andrew Napier vs Mark Register]. A nice batch of [[Evil Versus Evil]].
*** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nl_gW0i1NUU&list=UUPahzXZvF8f5bRJ5TNvZS8w&index=1&feature=plcp Cenk Uygur vs Jayar Jackson].
*** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Elco5JYeNpw&list=UUPahzXZvF8f5bRJ5TNvZS8w&index=2&feature=plcp Misty Kingma vs Ana Kasparian].
*** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qI-CARnntR4&list=UUPahzXZvF8f5bRJ5TNvZS8w&index=1&feature=plcp Jayar Jackson vs Andrew Napier]. This is the championship.
* [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?]]: Mocked in the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2TDgRvegwY video] about the new logo for the Democratic Party.
* [[Worst News Judgement Ever]]: Cenk will claim that this is often intentional. The press wants to distract the masses from the real issues.
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