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* [[Acting Unnatural]]: A scientist observes the fibers in an evil sofa that brainwashes people into becoming couch potatoes. Said fibers turn out to be ''alive'', and one of them shouts "We're being watched! Act natural!", followed by the fibers indulging in [[Not-So-Innocent Whistle|Not So Innocent Whistling]].
* [[Action Girl]]: Princess What's-Her-Name
* [[Adaptation Decay]]: In transition from the video game to the TV series, two villainous characters were lost: Major Mucus and Doc Duodenum for being an athropomorphic booger and an anthropomorphic body organ, repsectively. (For some reason Snott got to stay, though.) Evil the Cat's status as one of the [[Demon Lords and Archdevils]] is reduced to him simply being the ruler of a firey planet who wants to destroy the universe. They also put clothes on Peter Puppy who is a naked anthropomorphic in the game.
* [[Adorkable]]: Peter Puppy. So. Very. Much.
* [[Affably Evil]]: Most of the villains despite their [[Card-Carrying Villain|card-carrying nature]] possess this to an extent (Evil the Cat especially likes to balance [[Villains Out Shopping|movie nights and romantic affairs]] alongside [[For the Evulz|the torturing of minions and attempted complete and utter destruction of the universe]]).
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* [[Badass Adorable]]: Peter Puppy
* [[Badass Santa]]: The epsiode "For Whom The Jungle Bell Tolls" reveals that Santa is actually the Norse God of Judgment. "May the Naughty tremble!"
** In the same episode, while under the Queen's Mind Control, Santa shows some espionage and gadgetry knowledge, attempting to destroy Jim with "The Kissing Ball of Death" which Jim averts, then steps on.
* [["BANG!" Flag Gun]]: In "Bring Me the Head of Earthworm Jim", after Jim gets the weak suit:
{{quote|'''Jim:''' Eat dirt, nefarious--
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* [[Berserk Button]]: Peter had lots of these.
** [[Inverted]] slightly as Peter himself expresses in the first episode he has no control over his [[Berserk Button]] induced alter ego and spends most of it trying to apologize vigorously for brutally attacking Jim earlier on.
** In the episode "Upholstered Peril" it is revealed Professor Monkey-for-a-Head really hates fruit carts. Why? {{spoiler|Because a fruit cart-A STINKING fruit cart-killed his pa!}}
* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]:
** [[Oh Crap|Never, ever piss Peter Puppy off]], doing so proves you're [[Too Dumb to Live]].
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* [[Disability Immunity]]: Jim cannot be defeated by really bad sounds or smells, as he has no ears or nose. Overlaps with [[Forgot I Could Fly]] as this rarely comes into effect until one of the characters explicitly mentions this. Note that this [[MST3K Mantra|doesn't ever stop Jim from being able to hear or smell normally]].
* [[Distaff Counterpart]]: Evil the Cat gets one . . . in Malice the Dog.
* [[Don't Fear the Reaper]]: Death, in his standard "Grim Reaper" garb, becomes an affable semi-regular character in the second season of the show, first appearing in "Opposites Attack" snapping his fingers when Jim survives jumping a chasm on his Wormcycle. Later on he becomes "The Tin Reaper" in the episode "Wizard of Ooze" taking departed souls to the mall of eternity, secretly coveting the free frozen yogurt the eternals enjoy. He later appears as himself in Jim's house in the same episode, assuring Jim "Don't worry it's just a social call." Finally, he appears among a variety of mythical characters in "For Whom the Jingle Bell Tolls" expressing jealousy over Santa Claus being everyone's favorite.
* [[Doomy Dooms of Doom]]: Jim loves these.
* [[Drop the Cow]]: literally, [[Once an Episode]], also the [[Trope Maker]]. Even [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] when he told [[Psy Crow]] that there would not be a [[Here We Go Again]] ending [[Breaking the Fourth Wall|in his show]]. [[Psy Crow]] asked what Jim would prefer as an alternative and he drops the cow.
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'''Jim:''' I ''mean'' use me as a whip!
'''Peter:'''[[I Thought It Meant|Oh! Right!]] }}
** Censors were taking a nap during the production of the episode "Peanut of the Apes." First, Jim attempts to increase his show's ratings by appearing, together with Peter, on a beach dressed in thong bikinis complete with Peter commenting "My suit is giving me a snuggie." Later in the same episode Jim barges in on Professor Monkey-For-A-Ahead shouting "Just what do you think you're doing?!" The professor quickly yanks a french maid outfit off of the monkey on his head and counters "Nothing! Nothing at all!"
** A one-time character's name "Ethel" is pronounced incorrectly due to a lisp, sounding like "asshole".
* [[Gone Horribly Right]]: Bob has this happen to him on numerous occasions, especially in the mid-intervals. Two of the more notable examples are when he finally manages to make his fishy minions intelligent enough to understand him by mutating them to have giant brains (they become intelligent enough to realise he is a dangerous megalomaniac who must be destroyed and blast him with psychic powers) and when he tries giving them an actual demonstration of what he means by destroying things (a bigger fish leaps out and starts beating him up).
** The episode "Exile of Lucy" has Queen Slug-For-A-Butt dethroned by her henchmen for having no compassion for others. She is exiled to earth where she makes friends with Jim's [[Nosy Neighbor]] and returns, having learned her lesson about friendship, only to kick her henchman off the throne herself.
* [[Green Lantern Ring]]: The Orb of Quite Remarkable Power
* [[The Guards Must Be Crazy]]: Jim, Peter and Snot sneak into a research facility to get Jim's suit back by...walking right through the front entrance, past a pair of security guards. ''And greeting them.''
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{{quote|'''Peter:''' You just made that up, didn't you?
'''Jim:''' Don't question it. }}
* [[Nosy Neighbor]]: In "The Egg-Beater" Mrs. Bleveredge, Jim's next-door neighbor demands Jim return the Egg-Beater he borrowed, only to become a [[Chew Toy]] as Jim takes her from planet to planet in search of it.
** She returns in the episode "Exile of Lucy" becoming friends with Queen Slug-For-A-Butt. (they share the same voice actress.) The very next episode "Hyper Psy-Crow" shows her sitting in a throne to the right of the Queen.
* [[No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup]]: Subverted. Professor Monkey-For-A-Head can replicate the super suit at will. It's just that he can't power the damn thing without another [[Forged by the Gods|Battery Of The Gods]] and when he went to them to try and get a new one, they turned him into a bread maker.
* [[Not Even Bothering with the Accent]]: [[Dan Castellaneta]]'s interpretation of Jim lacks the thick southern drawl of his games counterpart, replacing it with a cliched [[Large Ham|hammy]] superhero dialect.
* [[Odd Job Gods]]: When Jim goes to get a replacement for the Battery of the Gods, he meets the God of Puns, the Goddess of Disco, and the God of Nasal Discharge.
* [[Once Per Episode]]: Peter Puppy eats haggis, the one food that he doesn't like, and states verbatim that it is "[[Foreign Queasine|the heart, lungs and liver of a sheep boiled in its own stomach]]." The origin being that he loved haggis until finding out what it really is.
** Also, most episodes has Peter Puppy turning into a monster whenever he gets hurt or scared.
** Every episode ends with a cow falling from the sky for no reason. It usually lands on Jim.
* [[One-Shot Character]]: Grayson, immediately dubbed as "Turlawk's Resident Boy Genius and President of the Earthworm Jim Fan Club" only appears in the episode "Upholstered Peril," convieniently providing scientific explanations for the evil furniture, and subbing for Peter, who is turned into a zombified couch potato.
* [[Only Sane Man|Only Sane Woman]]: Princess What's-Her-Name.
* [[Our Presidents Are Different]]: The president in this series, [[Lampshade Hanging|as he points out in every episode he appears in]], is one of those generic presidents TV shows use to keep from being dated.
* [[Overly Long Name]]: The Queen's full name is Queen Bloated, Pulsating, Festering, Sweaty, Pus-Filled, Malformed, Slug-For-A-Butt, which is said in full at least once in every episode she's in.
* [[Paper-Thin Disguise]]: One of Psycrow and Professor Monkey-For-A-Head's plots to steal Jim's suit involves setting up a fake dry cleaners next to his house. Said dry cleaners is just Psycrow's spaceship with a sign on it, and the guy running the front desk is the Professor with a mustache and a cowboy outfit, complete with ludicrously large hat to hide the monkey. The Professor then talks like he normally does, except with added cowboy slang. Then a banana peel falls out of his hat, which he blames on head lice. [[What an Idiot!|Jim completely falls for this.]]
{{quote|"Hiss, Hiss! Hello, I am a steam pipe. The intruders went that way. Hiss, hiss! Steam!"}}
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** [[Goldfinger|"Do you expect me to talk?" "No, no, no, Mr. Jim! I expect you to fry!"]]
** From another episode:
{{quote|'''Jim:''' Peter, you keep a look out while Snot and I...''[[Journey to
'''Snot:''' *gibberish*
'''Jim:''' I dunno, Snot. Who's [[Jules Verne]]? }}
* [[Single Biome Planet]]: La Planeta de Agua! ''<small>Arriba!</small>''
* [[Sibling Yin-Yang]]: The Princess and The Queen.
** Moreso in the fact that by alien standards Queen Slug-For-A-Butt is considered the pretty one while her sister Princess What's-Her-Name is considered hideously deformed. An unrelated episode featured the Princess being okay with being hit by a ray gun that turned her fat as "this look is very popular on her planet."
* [[Spinoff Babies]]: One of the mid-interval shorts was a trailer for ''Young Earthworm Jim''.
* [[Talking Animal]]: Jim, Peter Puppy
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** Also, Monkey Professor-For-A-Head.
* [[Unreliable Narrator]]: Not only is the Narrator prone to being corrected by the characters, he's also at one point [[Dangerously Genre Savvy|bullied into reading a scene transition by Psy-Crow and Professor Monkey-For-A-Head]] which skips over the two actually having to do what the transition says they've done.
** The episode "Wizard of Ooze" takes this to extremes: The narrator continually takes a sarcastic, defeatest and cranky attitude towards his job through the episode, at one point even asking the audience to read a book and calling his agent in the middle of the show. Jim snaps him out of it by threatening him with a jar of vocal chord-eating parasites.
* [[Villains Out Shopping]]: Done frequently. Often a premise for mid-interval shorts in the first season with one of the [[Rogues Gallery]] [[A Day in the Limelight|in lead role]].
* [[What Do You Mean It's Not Heinous?]]: Apparently condiment theft is a truly atrocious crime in the Earthworm Jim universe.
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