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* DeadpanSnarker: Irish in the first season and Chris in the second season.
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* {{Not}}: During a TV interview where he invited a senator who blacklisted Bob a long time ago but has changed his mind about comic books since, the senator goes back to dismissing the influence of comic books and accuses comics of including pornography, which Bob says is not true "unless you were going to end that with [=NOT!=].
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* {{Expy}}: In one episode, Bob is considered for a job working on a comic book adaptation of a Barney expy called Willy Mammoth.
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* HypocriticalHumor: Bob asks Harlan to give Trisha a job and he accuses him of doing it out of nepotism, before revealing that he already gave the job to his girlfriend, Shayla.
** 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.
** 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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* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: When Bob is given a job interview in consideration of illustrating a comic book for a [[Series/BarneyAndFriends Barney]] expy, he is surprised when the actor comes in full costume and acts in character. Trisha comes home unhappy, sees the character, and just casually says hello to him.
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* CrossoverPunchline: The last episode has Bob visit the dentist, who ends up abandoning Bob (ItMakesSenseInContext), so Bob asks if there's another dentist in the building. [[spoiler:[[Series/TheBobNewhartShow Jerry Robinson]]]]shows up and says he'll check on him soon.
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* FakeGuestStar: Betty White is given "special guest star" credit despite appearing in six of the eight season two episodes.
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** Les Schmidt, Sylvia's ex-husband and former owner of the Schmidt Greeting Card Company.
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* BrickJoke: In "Kiss and Sell", when Kaye stays at home while Bob goes on a business trip, he has Whitey check on her and he inspects the security system, at one point when the lights are off Whitey asks what would happen if he was a burglar, to which Otto, the cat, attacks him. When Bob comes home early, Bob asks why the security system is off, and Otto attacks him.
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* YouDidntAsk: In one episode, Kaye tells Bob they'll be spending their second night apart from each other since they were married, Bob tells her it was the first, she mentions the first was when she was in the hospital giving birth to Trisha, Bob says that he slept in the hospital while she slept, Kaye asks why he didn't tell her and he tells her this.
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* NewhartPhoneCall: Given the star, it's to be expected.
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* ForTheEvulz: When the company that owns Ace Comics gets bought out, Mad Dog is immediately canceled and the staff gets fired. When Bob goes to the new owner to talk him into reconsidering, he learns that the new boss, who hates comic books, canceled the comic book not because of poor sales but because he figures once he buys a company he has to immediately fire somebody so the rest of the company will know who's boss.
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* ForTheEvulz: When the company that owns Ace Comics gets bought out, Mad Dog is immediately canceled and the staff gets fired. When Bob goes to the new owner to talk him into reconsidering, he learns that the new boss, who hates comic books, boss canceled the comic book not because of poor sales but because he figures once he buys a company he has to immediately fire somebody so the rest of the company will know who's boss.boss. Also because he hates comic books and decided on which one to cancel by throwing a dart at a list.
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* BlatantLies: Bob and Harlan have a disagreement over the name of the Doberman whose death inspired Mad Dog to become a hero so Bob calls Kaye to check his copy of the first episode and the two bet money on what the name is. From Bob's end of the conversation, it's clear that she can't find the issue, but when he hangs up, Bob unconvincingly tells Harlan that he was right.
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* ForTheEvulz: When the company that owns Ace Comics gets bought out, Mad Dog is immediately canceled and the staff gets fired. When Bob goes to the new owner to talk him into reconsidering, he learns that the new boss, who hates comic books, canceled the comic book not because of poor sales but because he figures once he buys a company he has to immediately fire somebody so the rest of the company will know who's boss.
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* TheBet: In "The Lost Episode", Bob and Harlan make a bet about the name of the dog who inspired Mad Dog to become a crime fighter, only for Bob's copy of the first issue to be lost and then destroyed (and the first issue only sold nine copies). Throughout the episode, Harlan keeps lowering the bet, from twenty to ten, and when [[spoiler:Bob wins the bet, he just gives him five dollars, though Bob is still happy with it.]]
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* EpisodeTitleCard: Each episode in the second season had it's title appear in the opening on a greeting card following the series title.
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** Following the divorce of Sylvia and former head of company Les, Bob gets offered a job as president of the greeting card company. Sylvia's son Pete shows up, assuming he'd get the president job, right after Bob had accepted the job.
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* OutOfFocus: In the first few episodes, Harlan is the most prominent character at the office behind Bob, but halfway through the first season, Harlan gets less screen time in each episode.
** Also halfway through the first season, the comic book format gets less focus, with many episodes having only one scene taking place at the office.
** Also halfway through the first season, the comic book format gets less focus, with many episodes having only one scene taking place at the office.
* ThoseTwoGuys: Chad and Alvie.
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** Even when Trisha hooks up with Mr. terHorst in one episode, she never sees him. When they have a date, Mr. terHorst is kept from showing up and has the restaurant staff bring in an intercom so the two can interact on the date.
** Even when Trisha hooks up with Mr. terHorst in one episode, she never sees him. When they have a date, Mr. terHorst is kept from showing up and has the restaurant staff bring in an intercom so the two can interact on the date.
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** Many real-life comic book creators show up in an awards show episode.
* AssumedWin: In an awards show episode, Brent, the creator of a rival comic book, keeps winning awards while Mad Dog keeps losing. When it's time for the best comic book artist awards, he already goes on stage as the nominees are announced, sure that he'll win, [[spoiler:but Bob wins instead.]]
* AssumedWin: In an awards show episode, Brent, the creator of a rival comic book, keeps winning awards while Mad Dog keeps losing. When it's time for the best comic book artist awards, he already goes on stage as the nominees are announced, sure that he'll win, [[spoiler:but Bob wins instead.]]
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* HairTodayGoneTomorrow: In "The Man Who Killed Mad Dog", Bob plays film footage of a hearing he had defending his comic book, showing that Bob once had more hair and a goatee.
* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: One episode reveals that Mad Dog ended its original run after a hearing where Bob tried to defend comic books when one political figure accused comic books of corrupting youth, which resulted in Bob's career being killed. Bob encounters him again and learns that he no longer views comic books as corrupt, as he learned that comic books had become a positive influence on many over time. With Bob set to be interviewed on the news, he invites him to appear with him and recant his previous remarks. But when it's time to start the interview, [[spoiler: he goes back to talking about what a bad influence comic books are, though it turns out to be a JerkassFacade as he felt him and Bob arguing about it on live television is more entertaining than agreeing with each other on television.]]
* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: One episode reveals that Mad Dog ended its original run after a hearing where Bob tried to defend comic books when one political figure accused comic books of corrupting youth, which resulted in Bob's career being killed. Bob encounters him again and learns that he no longer views comic books as corrupt, as he learned that comic books had become a positive influence on many over time. With Bob set to be interviewed on the news, he invites him to appear with him and recant his previous remarks. But when it's time to start the interview, [[spoiler: he goes back to talking about what a bad influence comic books are, though it turns out to be a JerkassFacade as he felt him and Bob arguing about it on live television is more entertaining than agreeing with each other on television.]]
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* FanService: When Bob and Kaye go to a dinner party for Harlan and his girlfriend Shayla, Shayla greets them in her bra and underwear.
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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 an old 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: 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 an old 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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In the second season, Ace Comics went out of business and Bob returned to the greeting card company, with very little of the supporting cast returning.
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* TroubledProduction: InUniverse example. Bob and Harlan initially have creative differences which results in Bob almost refusing to let Mad Dog be revived, then they spend the first day on the job having writers block, then they go through many story ideas before one gets approved, the one being approved being based on personal elements of Trisha's life which she doesn't want to be the basis for the story, and then the first issue gets published with the last page missing.
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* NinetiesAntiHero: Bob's new boss Harlan Stone wants him to help reinvent Mad Dog as one of these, complete with a graphic concept drawing of him violently tearing his sidekick Buddy apart. Bob is not impressed, telling Harlan to go to hell when he sees it.
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->''"Well, Creator/{{Johnny|Carson}}, I'd already done ''Series/TheBobNewhartShow'' and ''Series/{{Newhart}}'', so we had a choice of either calling the new show ''Bob'' or ''The Show''. I think we made the right call."''
-->--'''Creator/BobNewhart''' on ''Series/TheTonightShowStarringJohnnyCarson''
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.
Not to be confused with the 2012 sitcom ''¡{{Rob}}!''
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!!''Bob!'' Tropes!:
* AsHimself: "Hey! It's the guy from ''Series/{{Cheers}}''!" (A running joke that none of Bob's co-workers knows "Norm's" real name.)
* ExcitedShowTitle: For the first season. Once the setting changes to the greeting card company, ''Bob!'' becomes just ''Bob''.
* OnlySaneMan: As with his previous two shows, Newhart surrounded himself with oddballs.
* {{Retool}}: The most disastrous second-season retool since ''Series/AfterMASH''. Despite high praise from critics for the show's first season, ExecutiveMeddling reared its ugly head; the comic book premise was eliminated, 90% of the cast was replaced, the title lost its exclamation mark, and Bob was sent back to his old job at the greeting card company. Not even new co-star Creator/BettyWhite could save this one.
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->''"Well, Creator/{{Johnny|Carson}}, I'd already done ''Series/TheBobNewhartShow'' and ''Series/{{Newhart}}'', so we had a choice of either calling the new show ''Bob'' or ''The Show''. I think we made the right call."''
-->--'''Creator/BobNewhart''' on ''Series/TheTonightShowStarringJohnnyCarson''
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.
Not to be confused with the 2012 sitcom ''¡{{Rob}}!''
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* AsHimself: "Hey! It's the guy from ''Series/{{Cheers}}''!" (A running joke that none of Bob's co-workers knows "Norm's" real name.)
* ExcitedShowTitle: For the first season. Once the setting changes to the greeting card company, ''Bob!'' becomes just ''Bob''.
* OnlySaneMan: As with his previous two shows, Newhart surrounded himself with oddballs.
* {{Retool}}: The most disastrous second-season retool since ''Series/AfterMASH''. Despite high praise from critics for the show's first season, ExecutiveMeddling reared its ugly head; the comic book premise was eliminated, 90% of the cast was replaced, the title lost its exclamation mark, and Bob was sent back to his old job at the greeting card company. Not even new co-star Creator/BettyWhite could save this one.
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