History Anime / OsomatsuSan

** The same thing happened in "''Osomatsu-san'' Returns!", only with the sextuplets becoming fat hedonists relying on their friends and family making merchandise to stay afloat. Shonosuke even regards it as them getting a "half-assed big break" and "living it up half-assedly".

** Episode 3 has parodies of ''Franchise/{{Saw}}'' and ''Franchise/{{Anpanman}}''.

** This is why Todomatsu is what he is. As much as he tries to get out of the NEET social hell he's stuck in, his brothers always manage to drag him back down somehow. He also shows he's [[NotSoDifferent not any different from them]] when he also joins in the desire to take Godmatsu down. Episode 22 has him giving a speech about it, begging his brothers to let him succeed just ''once'' so he can pave a way out of the darkness caste they're all stuck in.

Surprisingly, they've also expanded to the three dimensional realm as well. The series has two stage plays, each coupled with an [=F6=] performance.

** ''The Movie'' reveals that there was at least ''one'' girl in high school that liked the brothers as they were, [[spoiler:but her present day fate is ambigious and she's heavily implied to have died]].

* ADayInTheLimelight:
** The aptly named "Chibita and Oden" revolves around Chibita talking about the historical and emotional importance of oden.
** "Iyami and Chibita's Rental Girlfriend" was entirely centered around the duo as they teamed up once again to scam the Matsuno brothers.
** "The Life of Chibita's Flower" concerns Chibita's relationship with a flower fairy.
** "Totoko's Huge Panic" deals with Totoko's fears of being considered inadequate by others and becoming a ChristmasCake. She then develops a desire to get married, specifically to an ArabOilSheikh.
** "Matsuzo and Matsuyo" takes a look at the Matsuno parents, their relationship, and how they revive their love for one another.

* CasanovaWannabe: Karamatsu desperately wants girls to like him and think he's cool, so he plays up airs around them all the time.

* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: Each brother is associated with a color that will almost always appear in whatever outfit they're wearing and is visible in the highlights of their hair.

** Season 3 has background cameos of the internet personality Corpse Husband and a few other streamers in his circle.

** 2020 has the franchise do a brief crossover with the ''Anime/WaveSurfingYappe'' film series.

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The Season 3 finale, rather than being explcitly about the brothers wanting to become more independent and ultimately not being able to commit, is a metaphor for it using a flower viewing. All of the brothers decide they want to go to one, but everybody but Choromatsu gets distracted on the way (save Osomatsu, who intended on and gets a beer), and while Choromatsu doesn't get what he wanted (whiskey to share), he ultimately pulls through with preparations and leaves. However, he realizes he doesn't want to be there and goes back to familiar territory, the bathhouse; when he asks if they should "go back home", Osomatsu not so subtly responds that they can leave "whenever they feel like they're ready".

* RuderandCruder: In a show that's already pushed boundries in Japan for its vulgarity, the English Dub is a even more profane GagDub that proudly worships its assigned TV-MA/M rating (notable as the series is rated TV-14 on Crunchyroll and streaming) adding in far more sex jokes, swearing, and bits of questionable dialogue that weren't in the original (one episode has Ichimatsu asking a couple about vore, another moment has the line Give Us The Good Stuff Daddy)

* {{Fanservice}}: Parodied in the first half of the [=DVD=] exclusive episode, which consists of nothing but a montage of the brothers' [[SexierAlterEgo F6 forms]] doing sexy things in cool outfits while saying cliched lines. As the segment goes on, the outfits and scenarios, which start out fairly standard (Choromatsu as a HotScientist, Todomatsu as a sensitive artist, Karamatsu as a cool biker, and so on) become increasingly more surreal and harder to follow (such as Osomatsu as a tenko drummer, Karamatsu emerging from the bathroom, and Jyushimatsu battling a wild horse while wearing nothing in but a fundoshi), but the brothers continue to act as though what they're doing is cool and sexy.

** In Episode 7, the boys go to a Starbucks-esque cafe called "Sutaaba".

** "Star Coffee"/"Sutaabaa" for "Starbucks". The English dub outright calls it "Starbucks" though.

** "Star Coffee" for "Starbucks".

** Season 3 has background cameos of the streamer corpsehusband and a few other streamers in his circle.

** The legendary "Jyushimatsu Falls in Love" may also count.

** Osomatsu gets hit with this in his romantic life at least twice.
*** Season 2 Episode 7 sees him tagging along Todomatsu in a mixer set up by [[ChickMagnet Atsushi]]. After he got into an argument with the two girls, they end up conversing friendily. A few days later, he comes across the girls again, [[spoiler:only to have them shoot him down by declaring they only do it to avoid awkwardness]].
*** Season 3 Episode 18 takes this UpToEleven. All Osomatsu has done is to throw a KindnessBall to [[spoiler:[[CatIdol Nyaa Hashimoto]] and her child]], and for the rest of episode [[spoiler:Nyaa is madly in love with him]]. It actually takes Osomatsu himself almost as long to [[spoiler:take up responsibility and go to the agreed date in person]], only to find out that [[spoiler:Nyaa has come to her senses ''just'' before the date]].

* HopeSpot: Towards the end of "Osomatsu and Todomatsu", it seems like Osomatsu is actually getting along with the girls at the mixer despite all the highly inappropriate comments he made towards them earlier. The next day, he sees them and asks if they want to get together again...but they bluntly turn him down, saying that they only acted chummy with him as a way to ease all the tension and they aren't interested in him at all.

** Osomatsu seldom hides his tactless approach of hitting on girls, but when [[spoiler:Nyaa Hashimoto]] accepts his offer of a date in an equally tactless manner, he's freaked out as much as everyone else. He ends up [[spoiler:asking one of his brothers to go in place of him]], causing his brothers to immediately despise him and call him out of it.

** Season 2 fixes Totoko's quitting as an idol and Nyaa-chan's retirement, so now they're back to the old grind again.

* BaitAndSwitch:

** Episode 24 for Episode 25. Even with Totoko's DayInTheLimelight, it addresses that the characters were growing up and wanted to change in some way, ''finally'' gave Osomatsu some character development, and split up the brothers for a while. Then comes episode 25, which doesn't even attempt to resolve the situation and goes on with the comedy the show is known for.

** Osomatsu asks why Totty doesn't have a girlfriend during "Christmas Osomatsu-san", and then asks him why he's not dating either [[ThoseTwoGirls Aida or Sachiko]] since he was so determined to get with them. Todomatsu responds that they never contacted him after the events of "Todomatsu and the Five Demons".

* ThoseTwoGuys:
** If they have to show up, Dayon and Dekapan will usually be on screen together for whatever reason.
** [[http://i.imgur.com/UbFKQ7j.jpg Two brown haired girls]] named Aida and Sachiko (Sachiko has the ponytail in a green ribbon and Aida has the short hair) appear occasionally, just off by themselves in a scene or as acquaintances of Todomatsu. "Todomatsu and the Five Demons" reveals that they both work with him at a café.

** When the sextuplets question why Choromatsu would be manager for Totoko's idol career, they conclude that [[HoneyTrap he must have gotten something out of it]]. Choromatsu, ashamed, admits that they're right, and stutters when he says that "[[GettingCrapPastTheRadar s-s-se...]] she gave him a back pat".