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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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* [[Butt Monkey]]: Ernie, of course, but Otto has it even worse. Ernie is the only one of the two having sex with Otto's wife, after all.
* [[Calvin Ball]]: Pokkaball, which seems to be the national sport of Peloria. A player can watch an entire match and read various pokkaball-related stories in the student newspaper, but the game remains [[Unnecessary Roughness|hilariously dangerous]] and utterly incomprehensible.
* [[Card
* [[Censor Steam]]: Used to hide the showering girls at Barmaid University, until Ernie busts out the magic. The girls then each go for their [[Modesty Towel|towels]], giving you two [[Censorship Tropes]] in one tidy sequence.
* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: The popular book in ''101'', though some might argue it is more of a [[Brick Joke]].
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* [[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.
* [[Everybody Has Lots of Sex]]
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* [[Magical Girlfriend]]: Eve in ''201'', who Ernie [[Weird Science|creates via the Sorcerer's Appliance]], with settings for [[Wish Fulfillment|whatever measurements and hair color the player chooses]]. Of course, the game's premise [[Status Quo Is God|doesn't really work]] if Ernie has a full-time girlfriend, so Eve promptly [[Put On a Bus|takes off for seamstress school]] while Ernie is asleep that night.
* [[The Many Deaths of You]]: A good selection, which is typical for the [[Adventure Game|genre.]] You can [[Time Crash|rend the fabric of space and time]], get [[Breath Weapon|blasted to cinders]] by an atomic dragon, get [[Out With a Bang|humped to death]] by love-crazed amazons... you name it.
* [[May
* [[Mentor Occupational Hazard]]: Poor Otto dies of a heart attack in ''201'' after witnessing his wife carousing with an elevephant, a prank [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|Ernie himself causes]]. {{spoiler|His resurrection is the game's final challenge, however.}}
* [[Mermaid Problem]]: Ernie temporarily becomes a merman in ''301'' and, unsurprisingly, meets a very beautiful and eager mermaid. Merfolk sex isn't explicity described, but it's apparently [[Up to Eleven|100 times better than human sex]].
* [[Mooning]]: Ernie's final hazing task in ''201'' is to moon [[The High Queen|Queen Libido]] during a parade. Of course, the player can moon anyone else at any time he likes, [[Hilarity Ensues|to humorous effect]].
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* [[Nerd Glasses]]: Ernie has a classic set. These can be magicked in 301 to appear more stylish, if the player so chooses.
* [[New Powers As the Plot Demands]]: The Sorcerer's Appliance, which gains new abilities whenever you slap on a new attachment. And wouldn't you know it - after every successful mission in 201, you find a new attachment that [[Contrived Coincidence|just happens to have the power you'll need]] for the next task.
* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: Ernie gets bitched out by his fraternity brothers for losing all of their luggage and valuables during their flying carpet trek to Fort Naughtytail, even though he had to push off the excess weight just to keep their [[Alleged Car|third-rate carpet]] from [[No Good Deed Goes Unpunished|crashing into the ocean]].
* [[Nobody Poops]]: There's a spell for that. And for the [[Potty Failure|reverse]], too.
* [[No Guy Wants an Amazon]]: [[Subverted Trope|Subverted]]; Ernie likes Amazons just fine and would've probably had a great time on their island if they'd have given him time to rest and recuperate between encounters.
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* [[This Loser Is You]]
* [[Wacky Fratboy Hijinx]]: Featured in all three games to varying degrees. Going to fraternity parties is essential in ''101'' to acquire a few items, and the entire plot of ''201'' is Ernie pledging Hu Delta Phart and being placed in [[Initiation Ceremony|increasingly dangerous hazing rituals]]. The core plot of ''301'' features Ernie and the rest of Hu Delta Phart squaring off against [[Jerk Jock|Getta Loda Yu]] in a series of Spring Break-themed contests. Drunken carnage ensues.
* [[Wake Up, Go to School, Save The World]]
* [[Wizarding School]]: Sorcerer University, of course. The games mention some rival schools, but SU appears to be the [[Ivy League|elite school]] for spellcasting.
* [[World of Snark]]
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