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* ExcitedShowTitle: For the first season. Once the setting changes to the greeting card company, ''Bob!'' becomes just ''Bob''.
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* WholeEpisodeFlashback: Most of "Have Yourself a Married Little Chrismtas" is a flashback to the last Christmas when Whitey decided to propose to his girlfriend.
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Not to be confused with the 2012 sitcom ''¡{{Rob}}!''
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Not to be confused with the 2012 sitcom ''¡{{Rob}}!''''¡Rob!''
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** In the first episode, Kaye gives Bob food substitutes for breakfast, Bob complains about such substitutes. Then he complains that she made him orange juice, saying "you know I like Tang!"
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* ActuallyPrettyFunny: At the end of "Neighborhood Watch", [[spoiler: after an improv sketch meant to inform their new neighbors that they see the husband walking around naked through the window gets too direct, the husband appears to be crying and embarrassed.... but it turns out he's actually cracking up, telling them that he's heard that many times before.]]
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* In "Mad Dog on 34th Street", Noah, the cab driver who drives Bob and Harlan to find the Mad Dog float, is both this and DeadpanSnarker. He gives good advice while driving the cab, with Harlan asking him why he drives a cab when he seems so smart ("somebody's got to do it"), and in the end, [[spoiler:he ends up bringing the float back to them.]]
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** George Wendt gets to do one when he appears as himself in "Da Game". After everyone says that he's saying his ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' line "da bulls" wrong, he calls Lorne Michaels asking for a copy of one of those sketches - and when told that's not how he says it on the show, he clarifies that that's why he needs a copy.
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** "Da Game" has quite a few running gags. With George Wendt attending the party, Bob's co-workers keep referring to him as "the guy who plays Norm on Cheers". They talk about how they like when he appears on ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' and says "da bulls", but whenever George says the line, they tell him that's not how he says it on the show. Otto, the cat, hides from the guest, but whenever they open something (that he could not have realistically gotten into given the circumstances), he runs out and the others say that most of the guests weren't invited.
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** "A Christmas Story" has Trisha accepting a dare to steal something at a Christmas party, while Bob and Harlan have to come up with a new story when legal finds that the character in the next issue is exactly the same as the title character in a comic book from the 1950s.
** "Have Yourself a Married Little Christmas" has Bob convincing Whitey to marry his girlfriend, only to lose the ring after sitting it with donated presents to orphans just before they are wrapped and given to them at a party.
** "Have Yourself a Married Little Christmas" has Bob convincing Whitey to marry his girlfriend, only to lose the ring after sitting it with donated presents to orphans just before they are wrapped and given to them at a party.
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** A non-phone call example: In "A Christmas Story", after Trisha snuck out of a Christmas party after stealing a spoon, she explains to Bob what happened, but is crying so hard while talking that she's TheUnintelligible, but Bob can understand her as if it's no problem and repeats everything she says.
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** In the first Christmas episode, Bob and Harlan have to make changes to the next issue after the legal department finds that the villain is exactly similar to the title character from a 1950s comic book. While Bob was a fan of that comic book, he claims that he had completely forgotten about him but Harlan calls him a plagiarist (after all, he got pretty much every detail on the character right).
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* Noah (Steven Wright), the taxi driver in "Mad Dog on 34th Street", giving various sarcastic remarks to what Bob and Harlan say. When they arrive in the cab, they ask if he's seen the float, to which he asks "do you want me to follow it?" After giving good advice and Harlan asks [[AlmightyJanitor why he's a cab driver]], he dryly tells them somebody has to do it.
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* In "Mad Dog on 34th Street", Noah, the cab driver who drives Bob and Harlan to find the Mad Dog float, is both this and DeadpanSnarker. He gives good advice while driving the cab, with Harlan asking him why he drives a cab when he seems so smart ("somebody's got to do it"), and in the end, [[spoiler:he ends up bringing the float back to them.]]
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* Noah (Steven Wright), the taxi driver in "Mad Dog on 34th Street", giving various sarcastic remarks to what Bob and Harlan say. When they arrive in the cab, they ask if he's seen the float, to which he asks "do you want me to follow it?" After giving good advice and Harlan asks [[AlmightyJanitor why he's a cab driver]], he dryly tells them somebody has to do it.
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* DontExplainTheJoke: After the gang sees the Mad Dog float and Chad makes a "I bet you never thought Mad Dog would be this big" and nobody laughs, Albie explains "it implies "big" as in famous, but instead, he's referring to size". When the others still don't laugh, Albie says it must have gone over their heads, before again explaining this joke ("because the float will be over everybody's heads."
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** Occasionally, one character will mention a number for something and Bob will correct them. In "The Lost Episode", Harlan says that the first issue of Mad Dog sold only six copies but Bob tells him it was nine copies, and in "Where, Oh Where, Has My Mad Dog Gone?", Trish says that she had worked for Mad Dog for seven months and Bob tells her it was five months.
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* ElevatorFailure: In one episode, the elevator at the greeting card company stops before it's fully on the floor, requiring patrons to have to climb out of it.
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* PlagiarismInFiction: In one episode, Pete, tired of being a salesman for the company, tells Bob he'd like to design greeting cards. Bob allows him to make some designs to show him. Trisha later joins Pete and the two make designs together, with Trisha having a desire to design cards but afraid of {{Nepotism}}. Trisha sneaks one of her designs with Pete's, and Bob dislikes his designs but likes the one Trisha did, so Pete passes it off as his own. After Chris finds out and confronts him about it, Pete decides to put his salesman skills to good use by claiming he was just pretending to want to be an artist because he knew Trisha wanted to design greeting cards but felt unsure that Bob would really like them, a lie that the two both see through.
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* DownerEnding: The first season finale has the company that owns Ace Comics getting bought out and Mad Dog is immediately canceled and almost everybody on staff loses their job (it's implied that Albie gets to keep his job as a gofer). Bob calls his former boss Les asking if he can go back to the greeting card company, and is just told that he'll think about it (but due to Les losing ownership of the company, Bob will go back in the next episode). Bob and Harlan decide to confront the new owner, who informs them that when he buys out companies he has to fire somebody to show the others who is boss, that he hates comic books, and chose which one to cancel after throwing a dart at names. He gives them a chance to keep their jobs if they can beat him at a game, but while the episode ends before the game does, it's clear that they won't win.
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* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: InUniverse example: In one episode, it's said that the first issue of Mad Dog only sold nine copies. Bob has one (his prized possession) but it gets caught on fire, and Bob later gets another copy from an obsessed fan in exchange for an autograph. It's also implied that the original run is rare, as in one episode, Chad manages to buy several copies at a yard sale and the staff is excited as if they don't have easy access to the comics (though Bob, as the creator, had copies of all twelve issues).
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Bob Newhart's fourth series and third {{sitcom}}, ''Bob'' was a 1992–93 Creator/{{CBS}} series which starred Newhart as Bob [=McKay=], a graphic artist who started out as a comic book artist and currently works at a greeting card company. When Ace Comics contacts him with an offer to revive his 1950s superhero comic ''Mad Dog'', he quits his greeting card job and accepts the job to help relaunch his comic. Unknown to him, however, is that his partner, Harlan Stone, envisions a darker, edgier Mad Dog for the 1990s.
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* ChekovsGun: In one cold open, Bob and Kaye deal with ants in the house. Later, an ant gets on Kaye while she's holding Bob's copy of the first issue, right when Bob needs her to settle a bet, and she ends up setting it on the stove and accidentally burns it.
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* ChekovsGun: ChekhovsGun: In one cold open, Bob and Kaye deal with ants in the house. Later, an ant gets on Kaye while she's holding Bob's copy of the first issue, right when Bob needs her to settle a bet, and she ends up setting it on the stove and accidentally burns it.
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* NakedPeopleAreFunny: In one episode, the [=McKays=] get new neighbors and when Bob looks out his window, he sees that the husband walks around the house naked without closing the window shade. They don't want to directly tell him, so they invite them over and Bob leaves some subtle hints which the husband seemingly does not get. Since Trisha, Albie, and Chad had been taking an improv class, they decide to put on a show for them based on the situation, but end up being too direct on what they're doing. [[spoiler:But the husband cracks up, says that many neighbors have told him the same thing before, and admits that he did understand Bob's hints but did not realize he wanted him to stop or cover the windows because Bob did not say so. And then when the group decides to do a different sketch, Albie, who had been out of the room, comes in naked, thinking they were still doing that bit.]]
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* GentleGiant: Whitey is the biggest character in the cast but also one of the nicest characters on the show. In one episode he says that he used to work in security but quit because there were too many killings.
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* AlmightyJanitor: After reading the draft of the first issue, Mr. terHorst likes it and the board of directors like it, but he decides to have a focus group read the issue after his shoe shine boy hates it.
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* WhyDoYouKeepChangingJobs: In the first few episodes, Trisha keeps changing jobs, before getting hired working on the Mad Dog comic book. After the comic gets canceled, she's back to working a different job per episode.
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* RunningGag: Chad often makes flirtatious comments towards Trisha, resulting in him getting locked in the filing closet.
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* RunningGag: Chad often makes flirtatious comments towards Trisha, resulting in him getting locked in the filing closet. cabinet. This is often followed by another character opening the door, [[UnusuallyUninterestingSight seeing him in there without surprise]], [[ApatheticCitizens asking what he's in for this time]], and after his answer, shutting the door instead of letting him out.
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* CrossingTheBurntBridge: Downplayed. In the first episode, Bob is annoyed by his bosses demands and when he gets a phone call about a Mad Dog revival, he calls his boss at the greeting card company and promptly quits. When creative differences make it look like he won't allow Ace Comics to revive Mad Dog, he calls back his boss and claims his quitting and choice words were the result of medication - something Kaye also does, as the salary offered to Bob was enough that she could quit her job. After Mad Dog gets canceled, Bob calls his former boss asking if he can go back, and is told he'll think about it. But when he does go back to the greeting card company (the result of that boss losing control of the company), there's no bad blood between him and his co-workers and he even gets hired as president of the company.
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* GeorgeJetsonJobSecurity: In one episode, Albie gets fired after forgetting to get the last page of the first issue printed. [[spoiler: He gets his job back after the public thinks the first issues ending is a cliffhanger and more stores order the second issue.]]
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* SeriousBusiness: When Trisha, Kathy, Chad, and Albie play Mystery Date, Kathy and Albie both take the game really seriously (which Trisha can't believe), leading to them becoming a couple. Kathy nearly breaks up with him when he breaks the rules slightly.
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* SecondPlaceIsForLosers: Spoofed in one episode where Bob meets an obsessive fan and plays a game of Mad Dog Trivia Pursuit that the fan made. The fan is just one piece away from winning, in part because he had gotten every answer right (keeping Bob from getting turns), and knew many small Mad Dog details off-hand that Bob couldn't remember. When, instead of reading the question on the card, he asks a question that he and Harlan had been in disagreement over, and the fan actually doesn't know the answer and is upset over it, despite the fact that he's almost got all the pieces to win. He goes on an "almost" speech ("almost a surgeon... Almost a clown...").
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* EmbarrassingNickname: With a mix of InnocentlyInsensitive. When Bob returns to the greeting card company, he greets four of his former co-workers by the nicknames he'd known them as, only for three of them to no longer go by those nicknames as they are trying to improve themselves (which the nicknames reflected).
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* RunningGag: Chad often makes flirtatious comments towards Trisha, resulting in him getting locked in the filing closet.
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* TenMinutesInHeaven: Sylvia tries to set up Pete and Trisha, thinking Pete needs a girlfriend, and ends up locking them out on the outdoor balcony.
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* TenMinutesInHeaven: TenMinutesInTheCloset: Sylvia tries to set up Pete and Trisha, thinking Pete needs a girlfriend, and ends up locking them out on the outdoor balcony.
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** In the awards show episode, Trisha complains about her date, who works for a rival comic book and has been winning many awards, for being self-centered, but then as he makes his acceptance speech humbly thanks Trisha and asks her to take a stand, which she does, before calling ''him'' a hypocrit.
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** In the awards show episode, Trisha complains about her date, who works for a rival comic book and has been winning many awards, for being self-centered, but then as he makes his acceptance speech humbly thanks Trisha and asks her to take a stand, which she does, before calling ''him'' a hypocrit.hypocrite.
* LockedInAFreezer: Sylvia decides that her son Pete needs a woman and invites Pete and the [=McKayes=] over in an attempt to set up Pete and Trisha. She ends up locking them outside on the ledge so they can get close, but the door ends up getting stuck right as a storm is starting to happen.
* LockedInAFreezer: Sylvia decides that her son Pete needs a woman and invites Pete and the [=McKayes=] over in an attempt to set up Pete and Trisha. She ends up locking them outside on the ledge so they can get close, but the door ends up getting stuck right as a storm is starting to happen.
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* TenMinutesInHeaven: Sylvia tries to set up Pete and Trisha, thinking Pete needs a girlfriend, and ends up locking them out on the outdoor balcony.
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* TheGhost: Trisha's boyfriend Matt.
** Les Schmidt, Sylvia's ex-husband and former owner of the Schmidt Greeting Card Company.
** Les Schmidt, Sylvia's ex-husband and former owner of the Schmidt Greeting Card Company.
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* TheGhost: Trisha's boyfriend Matt.
**Les Schmidt, Sylvia's ex-husband and former owner of the Schmidt Greeting Card Company.
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* GoodCopBadCop: In one episode, while on the line with Mr. terHorst, Harlan decides that he and Bob should play "good cop bad cop", but Harlan makes Bob be the bad cop, even though Bob wants to be the good cop.
