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Although the show is set in college, the characters are almost never shown in class; episodes mainly focus on other aspects of campus life, like dealing with roommates, fitting in with groups, attending mixers, getting student loans, and figuring out what to do in life. Oh, and girls and booze, naturally.

 

* [[All Love Is Unrequited]]: Kimmy to Mark, Nitz to Kimmy, Jessie to Nitz...

** Hell, in one episode Nitz to Jessie. That's right, they both manage to have unrequited love towards each other. Why she never bothered to reciprocate (or have mixed feelings) about this when he was openly crushing on her wasn't explained.

* [[Buffy-Speak]]: Mump: "I'm just to absorb all of your ill will like some kind of ill will absorbing...absorber?"

* [[Butt Monkey]]: Cal - In one episode, Rocko tries to start a college rivalry with State U by beating up Cal after he becomes their mascot... A manatee. However, this doesn't have the desired effect, as nobody really liked the mascot anyway so they just start cheering Cal getting his ass kicked. [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] at the end of the episode, when the characters remark on what they've learned...

* [[Celibate Hero]]: Nitz {{spoiler|until the last episode.}}

* [[Cliff Hanger]]: On the last day of first year, {{spoiler|Nitz and Kimmy have a drunken makeout session and afterwards, Jessie chews Nitz out for not realizing she's been in love with him the whole year}}, and then... the show ends. Forever.

** Finding out their real names is a blink-and-you'll-miss-it detail that you'd easily forget they even have a different name. Nitz is even written on his financial aid cheques and the birthday cake sent by his mom.

* [[Face Palm]]: Nitz has been waiting for Kimmy to show up at a party. When she calls, Cal answers and tells her she doesn't have to show up because there are plenty of other pretty ladies there. Cue [[Face Palm]], first by Nitz, then by everyone else at the party.

** Nitz ([[The Hero]])

** Jessie ([[The Lancer]] / [[Sixth Ranger]])

* [[Gibberish of Love]]: Whenever he talks to Kimmy, most of what Nitz tries to say will come out as "Bluh."

* [[Gilligan Cut]]: In ''New Friends''.

'''Rocko:''' "Man, we could sure use Nitz's help!" }}

* [[Gonk]]: Gimpy.

* [[Initiation Ceremony]]: Subverted with Rocko's fraternity. The college banned embarrassing hazing rituals, so they just have a get-together party. Rocko refuses to believe there is no hazing, believing it all to be a [[Secret Test of Character]], so he goes out and does several bizarre, humiliating acts in the name of his frat.

* [[Jerk Jock]]: Rocko has this persona, despite not being an athlete. He is quite burly, though.

* [[Kavorka Man]]: While Cal is attractive and good-natured, the sheer amount of women he attracts is obscene.

* [[Limited Wardrobe]]: Pretty much everyone. Nitz however favors the "closet full of the same outfit" version of the trope, as shown in the last episode when Cal gives out his clothes to girls after sleeping with them.

** Taken [[Up to Eleven]] with one girl in "Risk" who literally owns nothing but one bikini, and [[Running Gag|spends most of the episode covering her boobs with her hands, looking for her missing top]] (Cal has it).

* [[Naked People Are Funny]]: The probable reasoning behind the eXposed eXpo, when freshmen run around naked during the first snowfall.

* [[Not So Above It All]]: Nitz ''thinks'' he's the [[Only Sane Man]] in his circle of friends, but he has plenty of moments of craziness and stupidity himself.

* [[Oblivious to Love]]: Jessie was never really that subtle about her feelings for Nitz, not that he ever got the message.

* [[The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything]]: It's like no one at this college goes to class.

* [[Reality Subtext]] / [[Write Who You Know]]: All of the characters are based on the creator and his best friends and people he met in college. In fact Jessie is voiced by the actual woman she's based on.

* [[Right Behind Me]]: Nitz says right after calling Rocko a terrible friend.

* [[Serious Business]]: For Gimpy, ''[[Star Wars]]'', ''[[The X-Files]]'' and ''[[Quake]]''. For all of the gang, ''[[Risk]]''.

* [[She Cleans Up Nicely]]: When Gimpy introduces Cal to his RA we suddenly see her with no glasses, hair down, in a cut-off shirt and [[Who Wears Short Shorts?|daisy dukes]]. Later in the episode she takes geek chic [[Dominatrix|to a whole new level]].

** The show's theme song is the [[Good Charlotte]] song "''The Click''" - At one point in the series, they're playing a show at State U & when Nitz is told this, he questions where he knows them from.

** One of the girls in "Drunks" is wearing [[Space Channel 5|Ulala's costume]].

* [[Slice of Life]]

* [[Soapbox Sadie]]: Kimmy, especially in the episode "Financial Aid".

* [[Take That]]: Rocko has a homoerotic dream about Cal. When Nitz starts to say that it may not have been homoerotic, Rocko immediately asserts that Keanu Reeves was there.

* [[Talking to Himself]]: Almost all of the male characters are all voiced by the same guy.

* [[Those Two Guys]]: Brody and Krueger usually fit this role.

* [[Tomboy and Girly Girl]]: Jessie and Kimmy.

* [[Transparent Closet]]: Mark, a drama student whom Kimmy carries a torch for. It's obvious to everyone he's gay...except for Kimmy and Nitz.

** Though that was mostly because his way of approach was ''completely'' wrong.

* [[Verbal Tic]]: Cal's "Guy" and slurping. Kruger's bleeped-out swearing. Gimpy's "...the hell?" might count.

[[Category:Prime Time Cartoon]]

[[Category:Western Animation]]