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Most of the shorts take place in the context of ''supposed'' everyday life working at the website. The most prominent subseries within [[Hardly Working]] is [[Jake and Amir]], a [[Boke and Tsukkomi Routine]] between the two titular characters.
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* [[Acting for Two]]: Or three or four. Several cast members play multiple characters, often with little more than a wig as a distinction. Streeter Seidel and Josh Ruben are the main examples
* [[Added Alliterative Appeal]]:
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* [[Cloudcuckoolander]] - Amir is a disturbing example.
** Dan ventures into this territory as well.
* [[Cluster F
* [[Cool Teacher]]- Dan in "Cool Teacher". Though he's so cliche he just annoys everyone. Also, they're not actually his students.
* [[Dead All Along]] - {{spoiler|Streeter in Camouflage.}}
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* [[Expectation Lowerer]]: Pat in [http://www.collegehumor.com/video/6538547/hardly-working-wishful-thinking Wishful Thinking].
* [[Fake Irish]]: When Streeter goes from being Irish-American to just Irish.
* [[Five
** [[The Hero]]-Jake
** [[The Lancer]]-Amir
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* [[For Want of a Nail]] - [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbTT5b-wDYs&feature=relmfu Time Traveler]
* [[George Jetson Job Security]] - In most of the Hardly Workings with Ricky he's either firing somebody or gets close to. In "Fired Up" he almost fires a girl, who simply says no to him and it's over just like that.
* [[Good Angel, Bad Angel]]: In "Consciences."
* [[Hair Today Gone Tomorrow]]: Jeff in [http://www.collegehumor.com/video/6209047/hardly-working-flash-forward Flash Forward].
* [[Happy Birthday to You]]: In celebrating Sarah's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzoA-xFU2j8 birthday], nobody remembers the birthday song.
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* [[If I Can't Have You]]: Pat in "My Bloody Valentine".
* [[The Internet]]: Shows up several times, as they work for a website. Once, they even found [[Holy Grail|the source of the Internet]].
* [[Jumping the Shark]]: [[Parodied]] in the episode "[[Captain Obvious|Jump The Shark]]," in which [[Up to Eleven|a new SpinOff is introduced, Tony Hawk appears as a]] [[Celebrity Star|Guest Star]], [[Will They or Won't They?|two characters get engaged]], [[Up to Eleven|they move to a new building, Amir gets]] [[The Other Darrin|replaced]], and [[Mind Screw|Jeff gives birth to]] [[Makes Just As Much Sense in Context|a baby Supreme Court justice]]. Also, the whole cast gets replaced at the very end with a [[Younger and Hipper|younger cast]].
* [[Mind Screw]]: ''Often''.
** From "Trading Lunches:"
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* [[Serious Business]]: "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIs5pA1-rMk Desk Toys]," "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeyac7alRU8&feature=relmfu Box Fort]," "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hAKYRpSEK0&feature=related Jinx]," "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ec1CpQMUI7Y&feature=relmfu Religiously]," and "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3LVn6cLeSk&feature=related Basketball Phone]," to name a few.
* [[Shout Out]] - Loads, usually to popular movies or songs.
* [[Small Name, Big Ego]]- Ricky is portrayed as this, having a full scale picture of himself in his office and scattered around the office in general. He also is his own favorite employee,as shown in "Ricky's Diary".
* [[Stalker With a Crush]]- Amir has a binder with in-depth descriptions of everything Jake has ever worn to work since he's started working there. Jake is understandably disturbed by this.
* [[Stay in The Kitchen]]- Sarah gets a whirlwind of misogynistic insults in "60's Day". Mainly because she was aiming for late 60's,while everyone else was going for late 50's/early 60's.
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* [[Train Station Goodbye]]: [[Parodied]] in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVi3vflC54g&feature=relmfu Wait!], where no one can tell who they are saying goodbye to.
* [[Violently Protective Girlfriend]] - Amir's "Overgrown Guy Girlfriend". Also counts as [[The Load]].
* [[What Do You Mean
** It helps that the episode is stop-motion animated.
* [[X Meets Y]]: ''[[Stella]]'' meets ''[[The Office]]''.
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