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* ADateWithRosiePalms: [[spoiler:"The Concert" ends with one of these for Matt, Jake, Grace and Christian, who all decide they would rather stay in their respective homes and have an early night than go out]].



* FeelingTheirAge: The episode "The Concert" is all about this trope. Matt meets up with an old college buddy who it transpires is now a drug dealer with "connections" in the music industry. Matt struggles to keep up with him on a night of drinking before getting invited to see a band called Honeyscratch with him. The next day Matt finds his hangover almost unbearable and Honeyscratch's unlistenable "noise-rock" music only makes it worse. Despite this he pretends he loves it and is determined to make it to the concert, if only to prove to a smug Jake that he isn't too old for all of this. [[spoiler:Naturally he eventually gives in and decides to have an early night and ADateWithRosiePalms instead]].

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* FeelingTheirAge: The episode "The Concert" is all about this trope. Matt meets up with an old college buddy who it transpires is now a drug dealer with "connections" in the music industry. Matt struggles to keep up with him on a night of drinking before getting invited to see a band called Honeyscratch with him. The next day Matt finds his hangover almost unbearable and Honeyscratch's unlistenable "noise-rock" music only makes it worse. Despite this he pretends he loves it and is determined to make it to the concert, if only to prove to a smug Jake that he isn't too old for all of this. [[spoiler:Naturally he eventually gives in and decides to have an early night and ADateWithRosiePalms masturbate instead]].
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* BaldOfAuthority: Lance Reddick is on familiar territory as Christian [=DeVille=], a bald, black, stern authority figure.

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* BaldOfAuthority: Lance Reddick Creator/LanceReddick is on familiar territory as Christian [=DeVille=], a bald, black, stern authority figure.
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* BizarroUniverse: Stockheed Barton's executives from "The Powerpoint of Doom" are GenderBender versions of Kate and John, leading seemingly parallel lives at Hampton [=DeVille=]'s competitor.

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* BizarroUniverse: Stockheed Barton's executives from "The Powerpoint of Doom" Death" are GenderBender versions of Kate and John, leading seemingly parallel lives at Hampton [=DeVille=]'s competitor.
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* BaldBlackLeaderGuy: Lance Reddick is on familiar territory as Christian [=DeVille=], a bald, black, stern authority figure.

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* BaldBlackLeaderGuy: BaldOfAuthority: Lance Reddick is on familiar territory as Christian [=DeVille=], a bald, black, stern authority figure.
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* BilingualBonus: In "Vacation" Matt takes a holiday to an eerily generic European city. It's name, "Trabalho", is the Spanish word for "work"- which is exactly what his employers still expect him to do there.

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* BilingualBonus: In "Vacation" Matt takes a holiday to an eerily generic European city. It's Its name, "Trabalho", is the Spanish word for "work"- which is exactly what his employers still expect him to do there.
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* BilingualBonus: In "Vacation" Matt takes a holiday to an eerily generic European city. It's name, "Trabalho", is the Spanish word for "work"- which is exactly what his employers still expect him to do there.
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** Which is actually a CallBack to the ''first'' episode, when Christian asks Kate and John if they've "finished that hurricane machine yet".

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** Which is actually a CallBack to the ''first'' episode, when Christian asks Kate and John if they've "finished that hurricane machine yet".yet".

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** Christian [=DeVille=] has no morals and rules the company through fear.

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** Christian [=DeVille=] is a CardCarryingVillain who has no morals and rules the company through fear.
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Ingebretson and Weisman starred as Matt Engelbertson and Jake Levinson, two Junior Executives in Training, at an EvilInc MegaCorp known as Hampton [=DeVille=]. Also in the main cast were their {{Jerkass}} supervisors, Kate Glass (Creator/AnneDudek) and John Strickland (Creator/AdamLustick); jaded Human Resources rep Grace Ramaswamy (Creator/AparnaNancherla); and iron-fisted CEO Christian [=DeVille=] (Creator/LanceReddick).

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Ingebretson and Weisman starred respectively as Matt Engelbertson and Jake Levinson, two Junior Executives in Training, Training at an EvilInc MegaCorp known as Hampton [=DeVille=]. Also in the main cast were their {{Jerkass}} supervisors, Kate Glass (Creator/AnneDudek) and John Strickland (Creator/AdamLustick); jaded Human Resources rep Grace Ramaswamy (Creator/AparnaNancherla); and iron-fisted CEO Christian [=DeVille=] (Creator/LanceReddick).
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[[caption-width-right:350:Left to Right: Jake, Grace, Matt.]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:Left [[caption-width-right:350:From left to Right: right: Jake, Grace, Matt.]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:Left to Right: Jake, Grace, Matt.]]

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[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/corporatepresshero.jpg]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:Left to Right: Jake, Grace, Matt.]]
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** [[spoiler:Not to mention The Hurricane Machine, which is mentioned in the very first episode, and isn't brought up again until the very last]]

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** [[spoiler:Not to mention The the Hurricane Machine, which is mentioned in the very first episode, and isn't brought up again until the very last]]last.]]
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* FictionalHoliday: The season 1 finale "Remember Day" takes place on the eponymous holiday... September 11th. Hampton [=DeVille=] has manipulated the media to turn the tragedy into a Christmas-esque holiday that they can profit from.

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* FictionalHoliday: The season 1 finale "Remember Day" takes place on the eponymous holiday... September 11th.11. Hampton [=DeVille=] has manipulated the media to turn the tragedy into a Christmas-esque holiday that they can profit from.
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* FictionalHoliday: The season 1 finale "Remember Day" takes place on the titular holiday... September 11th. Hampton [=DeVille=] has manipulated the media to turn the tragedy into a Christmas-esque holiday that they can profit from.

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* FictionalHoliday: The season 1 finale "Remember Day" takes place on the titular eponymous holiday... September 11th. Hampton [=DeVille=] has manipulated the media to turn the tragedy into a Christmas-esque holiday that they can profit from.

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* ChristmasEpisode: The season 1 finale "Remember Day" takes place on the titular holiday... September 11th. Hampton [=DeVille=] has manipulated the media to turn the tragedy into a Christmas-esque holiday that they can profit from.


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* FictionalHoliday: The season 1 finale "Remember Day" takes place on the titular holiday... September 11th. Hampton [=DeVille=] has manipulated the media to turn the tragedy into a Christmas-esque holiday that they can profit from.
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Ingebretson and Weisman starred as Matt Engelbertson and Jake Levinson, two Junior Executives in Training, at an EvilInc MegaCorp known as Hampton [=DeVille=]. Also in the main cast were their {{Jerkass}} supervisors, Kate Glass (Creator/AnneDudek) and John Strickland (Adam Lustick); jaded Human Resources rep Grace Ramaswamy (Aparna Nancherla); and iron-fisted CEO Christian [=DeVille=] (Creator/LanceReddick).

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Ingebretson and Weisman starred as Matt Engelbertson and Jake Levinson, two Junior Executives in Training, at an EvilInc MegaCorp known as Hampton [=DeVille=]. Also in the main cast were their {{Jerkass}} supervisors, Kate Glass (Creator/AnneDudek) and John Strickland (Adam Lustick); (Creator/AdamLustick); jaded Human Resources rep Grace Ramaswamy (Aparna Nancherla); (Creator/AparnaNancherla); and iron-fisted CEO Christian [=DeVille=] (Creator/LanceReddick).
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* FreezeFrameBonus: Plenty of these, mainly on computer screens showing the employees' email inboxes and calendars, laying bare their sociopathic plans for the week. Also on TV screens streaming content from Hampton [=DeVille=]'s streaming service, Hampton [=DeView=], where if you hit pause you can see listings for their morally dubious programming.
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* BerserkButton: For Jake this is any remark dismissing his close relationship with his cat Pebbles, no matter how flippant:

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* BerserkButton: For Jake this is any unkind remark dismissing his close relationship with about his cat Pebbles, no matter how flippant:



** Jake manages to triggrr this ''himself'' in "The Black Dog". He spends most of the episode paying too much attention to his inner critic and meekly taking all of its cruel and demotivating comments on board. Until it crosses a line with "Even your cat doesn't love you"...

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** Jake manages to triggrr trigger this ''himself'' in "The Black Dog". He spends most of the episode paying too much attention to his inner critic and meekly taking all of its cruel and demotivating comments on board. Until it crosses a line with "Even your cat doesn't love you"...

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