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* [[Badass Normal]]: Harry, not so much in terms of physical strength, but his ability to get in people's heads and resolve tense, violent situations peacefully.
* [[Best Woman]]: Roz was this to Bull at his wedding.
* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]: Bull and Mac are both genuinely scary when they get upset.▼
* [[Beta Couple]]: Mac and Quon Le.
▲* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]: Bull and Mac are both genuinely scary when they get upset.
* [[The Big Guy]]: Bull in practice, but really the entire male cast qualifies, all of whom were over six feet.
** ''[[Night Court]]'' at one time held the Guinness World Record for tallest sitcom cast.
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** [[The Sixth Ranger]]: All of the female bailiffs.
* [[Flame War]]: Actually [[Lampshaded]] when Judge Stone had to deal with an argument between fans of the old series and The Next Generation - literally. The TNG fans teleported away, which impressed everyone, while a fan said, "Oh, but can they do this?" (Vulcan Salute).
* [[Fully-Absorbed Finale]]: The ''[[30 Rock|Thirty Rock]]'' episode "The One with the Cast of ''Night Court''".▼
* [[A Fool and His New Money Are Soon Parted]]: "Mac's Millions." Mac's grandfather dies and leaves all his money to Mac, who naturally quits his job at the courthouse. Then he loses most of his newfound wealth when he's sued over damages caused by a restaurant he bought in a previous episode.
▲* [[Fully-Absorbed Finale]]: The ''[[30
* [[Funny Foreigner]]: Two main recurring ones.
** Russian-immigrant Yakov Korolenko.
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* [[If You Kill Him You Will Be Just Like Him]]: Used in "Dan the Walking Time Bomb" to convince Dan's psychotic ex-classmate not to kill him.
* [[I Have Boobs - You Must Obey!]]: In ''Another Day In The Life'', Christine flashes a millionaire to distract him so Harry can win an arm wrestling contest and save an orphanage.
* [[I Owe You My Life]]: Dan saves Christine from choking and exacts a night of passion in a hotel as a way of repayment. A [[Moment Killer]] came (much to Christine's relief) in the form of a jumper on a ledge outside their window.▼
** Mac's old Vietnam war buddy who saved his life shows up in court and wants him to lose a file so that he won't go back to prison for breaking parole. He later releases Mac from the debt, not wanting to taint the most noble thing he ever did. ▼
* [[I Surrender, Suckers]]: Harry gets into a pranking duel with a new judge, with his judge's robe on the line, and is thoroughly beaten when the other judge rigs his bench to collapse at the end of the day. He forfeits his robe, and leaves in a sulk; then reveals to Christine that he had to lose, to lure the little twerp right into his trap. Cue a remote control, and a scream in the next room.▼
* [[Improbably High IQ]]: Bull Shannon, who outscored everybody else in the cast at 181. Then he realized he was holding the paper upside down.
* [[Incredibly Lame Pun]]: Frequent, often [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] with Christine's constant failure to get a laugh.
* [[Instrumental Theme Tune]]
▲* [[I Owe You My Life]]: Dan saves Christine from choking and exacts a night of passion in a hotel as a way of repayment. A [[Moment Killer]] came (much to Christine's relief) in the form of a jumper on a ledge outside their window.
▲** Mac's old Vietnam war buddy who saved his life shows up in court and wants him to lose a file so that he won't go back to prison for breaking parole. He later releases Mac from the debt, not wanting to taint the most noble thing he ever did.
▲* [[I Surrender, Suckers]]: Harry gets into a pranking duel with a new judge, with his judge's robe on the line, and is thoroughly beaten when the other judge rigs his bench to collapse at the end of the day. He forfeits his robe, and leaves in a sulk; then reveals to Christine that he had to lose, to lure the little twerp right into his trap. Cue a remote control, and a scream in the next room.
* [[It's a Wonderful Plot]]: The episode "Hey, Harry, F'Crying Out Loud--It's a Wonderful Life...Sorta", in which a guardian angel shows Harry what the world would have been like without him.
* [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]]: Dan was usually rude, condescending, arrogant, and self-centered, but he was capable of truly astounding levels of sincerity and sensitivity. He also risked his life, multiple times, to save both his friends and total strangers.
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** Bull - sick of how all of his friends and family were at each other's throats regarding plans for his wedding - improvised a more quiet, personal ceremony on the roof of the courthouse.
* [[New Year Has Come]]: "New Year's Leave"
* [[Noir Episode]]: "Hey, Harry, F'Crying Out Loud--It's a Wonderful Life...Sorta", where most of the episode is shot in the style of a 1940s [[Warner Brothers]] gangster flick.▼
* [[Noodle Incident]]: Buddy's life is a string of these.
** Bull has also had his share of these.
** Dan's sex life qualifies too.
▲* [[Noir Episode]]: "Hey, Harry, F'Crying Out Loud--It's a Wonderful Life...Sorta", where most of the episode is shot in the style of a 1940s [[Warner Brothers]] gangster flick.
* [[Obfuscating Stupidity]]: Harry's favorite M.O.; Dan has used it a time or two as well.
* [[Of Corpse He's Alive]]: In one episode an important Japanese man dies in the court and his body ends up lost and riding around on an electric wheelchair around the courthouse.
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* [[We Want Our Jerk Back]]: The cast's reaction to Season 8's Do-Gooder Dan.
* [[What a Piece of Junk!]]: Christine's Buick Roadmaster.
* [[The Wonka]]: Harry.
* [[You Look Familiar]]: Literally dozens of examples.
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