History Series / Brockmire

* LittlestCancerPatient: Jim invites one to the booth during "The Getaway Game" to try and make himself more likable. But instead of a cute and inspiring bald one, he gets one so hooked up to machines and off-putting that's he's not even shown fully on camera. Which also sends him into a rant on mortality and gets him suspended for a game.

* WhatYouAreInTheDark: An interesting variation in Season 4. [[spoiler: when Brockmire admits to his daughter that he has no memory of her mother because he was blackout drunk back then, and that he can only imagine what horrific lies he must have told to trick a woman as intelligent and savvy as Beth's mother into sleeping with him. It turns out, he was actually nothing but respectful, and they bonded over baseball.]]

** Season 4 skips ahead 10 years to 2030 and covers a period of about 5 years.

* BigPrickBigProblems: Matt Hardesty would regularly boast about the size of his penis, and would occasionally show it off. Later when [[spoiler:he's dying of cancer]], he confides in Jim that he's never fully been inside a woman. Many like to try, but he just can't fit it in there.

* AdamWesting: Real life announcers Joe Buck and Tim Kurkjian appear as themselves in "Old Timers Day". Dan Patrick, Kenny Mayne and Rich Eisen also appear in small cameos.

An Creator/{{IFC}} comedy starring Creator/HankAzaria, adapted from a series of Funny Or Die videos.

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: [[spoiler:Beth gives one to Jim in season 4, after finding out her mother died and he's been lying to her during her entire life- and he would have kept lying had she not found out.
-->'''Beth''': Your supposition is that you were a bad person, and then a good person, but I contend you've always been the same shitty person...you are the same terrible person that you've always been!]]

*** Jim's father was a complete monster as a parent. Jim sums it up best with his monologue in "Retirement Ceremony".

* AbusiveParents: Jim's father was a complete monster as a parent. Jim sums it up best with his monologue in "Retirement Ceremony".
-->'''Jim''': So he stormed back into the house and nuked up some fish-sticks till they were just hotter than the sun, and then he screamed into our faces when we wanted to wait for them to cool down. I don't remember anything after that except waking up in the emergency room where Gina and I had 3rd degree burns.

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: [[spoiler: Beth gives one to Jim in season 4, after finding out her mother died and he's been lying to her during her entire life- and he would have kept lying had she not found out.

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: [[Beth gives one to Jim in season 4, after finding out her mother died and he's been lying to her during her entire life- and he would have kept lying had she not found out.

* StatusQuoIsGod: A big subversion. After the first season is about Jim, Jules and Charles in Morristown, season 2 has Jim and Charles move to New Orleans with Jules appearing only a few times. Season 3 looks to be [[spoiler: a now sober Jim announcing in Oakland.]]

** Season 4 skips ahead 10 years tp 2030 and covers a period of about 5 years.