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'''Catherine:''' I mean, where'd you get the parts?<br />

'''Joe:''' I made em! }}

* [[Ash Face]]: One time, Bill tries to escape down the stairwell when fire breaks out in the building, but the stairwell is full of smoke and he comes back covered in soot. Dave then makes a quip referencing ''[[The Jazz Singer]]'' ("I think talking pictures will destroy Hollywood").

* [[Attractive Bent Gender]]: Dave, in the Halloween episode, laments that he looks better as a woman than a man. Lisa gets mad because she thinks he looks better in her dress than she does.

* [[Fauxtastic Voyage]]: "Balloon"

* [[Feng Schwing]]: Bill's apartment, but {{spoiler|later revealed to actually be his gigolo neighbor's place}}

* [[Flowers for Algernon Syndrome]]: "[[Literary Allusion Title|Flowers for Matthew]]"

* [[Foil]]: Dave and Bill are an excellent example.

* [[A God Am I]]: Played for laughs. Mr. James bets Bill in a poker game with another radio station. Bill pulls out his contract and says there is no way he has the right to do that. Mr. James then tells him to check the extraordinary circumstances section, saying that the contract does not cover instances of sudden illness, acts of God, etc. Again, Bill protests. Mr. James finally tells him to read his Act of God clause.

{{quote| Bill (Shocked): "Jimmy James shall be referred to here and in all future instances... as God."}}

* [[Gratuitous English]]: Mr. James' book {{spoiler|Macho Business Donkey Wrestler}}

* [[The Great Whodini]]: Dave was both the great Throwgalli and the Great Ventriloquodini.

* [[Heroic BSOD]]: Mr. James has one of these when he loses Bill in a poker game.

* [[He's Just Hiding]]: [[Invoked Trope|Invoked]] in-universe with Matthew's reaction to Bill's death. {{spoiler|Initially, at least. Later, Matthew admits that he knows Bill is truly dead, he's just using this trope so as not to alarm the others.}}

** In episode 57, Dave tries to fool Andrea's polygraph test to make her think he's got a criminal record, but the test reveals he's never even thought about shoplifting, and Andrea calls him the cutest thing. He snaps back, "I am '''not''' the cutest thing!" and the polygraph goes off. Jimmy enters as Dave storms out, then Jimmy says to Andrea, "Ain't he the cutest thing?"

* [[Kick Me Prank]]: Bill puts a "Spaz" sign on Matthew.

* [[Lampshaded Double Entendre]]: Oysters...

* [[Lampshade Hanging]]

* [[Personality Swap]]

* [[Plucky Office Girl]]: Matthew Brock, played by Andy Dick. A very, very, ''very'' rare male example.

* [[Put On a Bus]]: Catherine

** [[The Bus Came Back]]: Khandi Alexander returned for "Bill Moves On", the Phil Hartman tribute episode.

* [[Risky Business Dance]]: Jimmy James does it at Dave's parent's house, where he is hiding from the police.

* [[Running Gag]]: Whenever Joe's last name is mentioned, someone (usually Bill) looks perplexed and says "Your last name is Garrelli?"

** Jimmy's attraction to Dave's mother could also be considered a running gag.

*** Jimmy having a heated argument in Dave's office, wherein Dave asks if it's a tough business deal, to which Jimmy responds with something innocuous like 'No that was your mother, lovely lady,' or 'Nah, wrong number'.

* [[Series Fauxnale]]

* [[Shoo Out the New Guy]]: Andrea, the meddling, overly perky efficiency expert played by Lauren Graham. When the character met with an extremely tepid reception from fans, she was quietly and hastily dropped from the show.

* [[Show Within a Show]]: Multiple radio segments, including "The Real Deal with Bill McNeal" and "This Day in History"

* [[Shrug of God]]: The writers admit that even they aren't sure how Bill's last name is supposed to be spelled (McNeal vs McNeil). Reportedly, both versions found their way into scripts depending on who wrote that particular episode.

** So did Toby Huss, Dave "Gruber" Allen, and David Anthony Higgins. Not to mention Jon Lovitz- Max Louis was the ''third'' character he played on the show.

* [[Zany Scheme]]: [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] by Dave at one point: "Why is the solution to every problem around here some kind of covert plan?"

** Although this may be true, he supposedly said this to make Lisa really mad, which is also one of his sexual fantasies.

* [[Zeroes and Ones]]: Joe claims to know how to read binary code.