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* [[Anything That Moves]]: Hillary Tickingclock, to increasingly absurd degrees. Taken to its logical conclusion in ''301'': Hillary simply lies in a hotel room all day while an endless line of men [[Take a Number|take tickets outside her hotel room door to wait their turn]].
* [[Back From the Dead]]: {{spoiler|Reviving Otto with the Sorcerer's Appliance is the only way to stop Joey's plan in 201.}}
* [[Bad Cop, Incompetent Cop]]: Sheriff Wormpoop in ''301'', who arrests Ernie about half a dozen times throughout the game (sometimes justifiably, sometimes not) but never seems to recognize him as a repeat offender. He also continues to lock Ernie into an [[Cardboard Prison|entirely inadequate cell]] with about ten different solutions for escape, [[What an Idiot!|without confiscating Ernie's spellbook or gear]].
** Though he does take precautions to ensure the same escape plan will never work twice. Dig a tunnel and he'll install a concrete floor. Turn the bars to rust and he'll replace them with non-metallic bars, and so on.
* [[Bag of Spilling]]: Ernie drops back to Level 2 at the beginning of ''201'' and Level 3 in ''301'' for no particular reason. He also loses almost all of his learned spells between games. Of course, having a spellbook with more than 40 spells in it would make both the developers and players go insane from the sheer volume of possible puzzle solutions they would have to consider.
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* [[Copy Protection]]: Various kinds were used throughout the series, including inputting information from included registration forms, and maps that were required for navigation in certain areas. The most inspired method was in ''201'', which included a set of sheet music you needed to [[Magic Music|play the moodhorn]] properly.
* [[Distressed Damsel]]: Lola is one toward the end of ''101''. Ernie bravely defeats a dragon and scales a castle to free her... [[Did Not Get the Girl|which has no effect on her poor opinion of him]].
* [[Double Standard Rape (Female On Male)]]: The women at the Island of the Amazons will assault Ernie whenever they get their hands on him, to the point where they draw swords if he refuses due to increasing exhaustion. This will end up [[Out With a Bang|killing Ernie]] if he can't escape the island in time. This, of course, is played for laughs. Considering the irreverent tone of the game, though, the trope isn't particularly offensive in this instance.
* [[Dude, Where's My Respect?]]: Ernie's reward each time he saves the University (or perhaps even the world) from certain doom? A trophy with his name misspelled on it.
* [[Eccentric Mentor]]: Otto, whose occasional moments of lucidity or physical dexterity prove to be crucial to Ernie's adventures. Because of the game's comedic nature, however, Otto tends to be more of a senile [[Butt Monkey]] than a mentor proper.
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* [[Running Gag]]: Plenty, including Hillary's [[Anything That Moves|sexual proclivities]] and Otto's [[Idiot Ball|ignorance thereof]], and Joey inevitably being buried in a [[Toilet Humour|mountain of poo]] during the finale.
* [[Sdrawkcab Name]]: [[Atlantis|Sitnalta]], the lost city in ''301''.
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* [[Solve the Soup Cans]]: Pops up here and there. The first game features an island where you have to restore 80 lost souls by figuring out their names by looking at the object into which they were transformed. (A hot dog is actually a man named Frank, and so on.) You get a crucial key for saving everyone, but there's no way of knowing that beforehand. 301 features a somewhat confounding 'color maze', but it can at least be skipped with a fair bit of gold.
* [[Spell Book]]: Ernie's most prized possession, as he can't cast a thing unless he has the book in his hands. Any new spells he finds automatically transfer right onto the pages--unless you forgot to bring it, in which case, [[Lost Forever|the spell flies off into space]], and [[Unwinnable By Mistake|you get to look for the 'load save' button]].
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