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''Eastbound & Down'' is an Creator/{{HBO}} comedy series that tells the story of washout major league baseball [[UsefulNotes/MajorLeagueBaseball Major League]] UsefulNotes/{{Baseball}} pitcher Kenny Powers. After years of {{jerkass}}ery towards the media and professional sports, Kenny finds himself back home in North Carolina, living with his brother's family with a sad look on his face and an even sadder pitch. He gets a job at his alma mater, Jefferson Davis Middle School, as a substitute gym teacher, working with oddball principal Terrence Cutler, obsessive music teacher Stevie Janowski, and art teacher (plus teenage-flame) April Buchanon. Kenny is willing to do whatever it takes to get back on top; whether it be the Majors or April. He aspires for both.
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* ManOnFire: Ashley Schaeffer in "Chapter 20".
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''Eastbound & Down'' is an Creator/{{HBO}} comedy series that tells the story of washout major league baseball pitcher Kenny Powers. After years of {{jerkass}}ery towards the media and professional sports, Kenny finds himself back home in North Carolina, living with his brother's family with a sad look on his face and an even sadder pitch. He gets a job at his alma mater, Jefferson Davis Middle School, as a substitute gym teacher, working with oddball principal Terrence Cutler, obsessive music teacher Stevie Janowski, and art teacher (plus teenage-flame) April Buchanon. Kenny is willing to do whatever it takes to get back on top; whether it be the Majors or April. He aspires for both.
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* SurprisinglyGoodEnglish: Mexican grandma of the family Kenny's staying with in Season 2.
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''Eastbound and & Down'' tells the story of washout major league baseball pitcher Kenny Powers. After years of [[JerkAss jerkassery]] {{jerkass}}ery towards the media and professional sports, Kenny finds himself back home in North Carolina, living with his brother's family with a sad look on his face and an even sadder pitch. He gets a job at his alma mater, Jefferson Davis Middle School, as a substitute gym teacher, working with oddball principal Terrence Cutler, obsessive music teacher Stevie Janowski, and art teacher (plus teenage-flame) April Buchanon. Kenny is willing to do whatever it takes to get back on top; whether it be the Majors or April. He aspires for both.
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* UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist: Kenny Powers seems determined to take this [[UpToEleven to the extreme]].
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* BlackAndGrayMorality: Ashley Schaeffer is pretty much the only way you're going to feel sorry for Kenny Powers.
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* JerkassWoobie: Kenny is a total asshole, but he's in such a wretched state that you also feel bad for him.
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* ActorAllusion: Likely unintentional, but Kenny tells Aaron to go back to his "[[Film/ReturnOfTheJedi Ewok village]]" in season 2. Deep Roy played one of the Ewoks at the beginning of his career.
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''Eastbound and Down'' tells the story of washout major league baseball pitcher Kenny Powers. After years of [[JerkAss jerkassery]] towards the media and professional sports, Kenny finds himself back home in North Carolina, living with his brother's family with a sad look on his face and an even sadder pitch. He gets a job at his alma mater, Jefferson Davis Middle School, as a substitute gym teacher, working with spastic oddball principal Terrence Cutler, obsessive music teacher Stevie Janowski, and art teacher (plus teenage-flame) April Buchanon. Kenny is willing to do whatever it takes to get back on top; whether it be the Majors or April. He aspires for both.
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The second season of the show sees Kenny making a trip to Mexico to try to play baseball there, while the third season features Kenny's return to America on a minor-league team in Myrtle Beach. Despite the apparent conclusion of the story arc at the end of season 3, [[TrilogyCreep HBO ordered a fourth season]] in which Kenny starts a career as a cable sports pundit, which ran in 2013. The series ended after four seasons and 29 episodes. Has nothing to do with the Jerry Reed song or ''Film/SmokeyAndTheBandit''.
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* ShoutOut: The scene in "Chapter 26" when show's title is taken from "East Bound and Down," the theme song to ''Film/SmokeyAndTheBandit''. The plots have nothing to do with each other other than a general southern setting and irreverent tone. The film refers to CB jargon for traveling eastbound and signing off. The show's title seems to refer to Kenny is about returning to upstage Guy Young--ambient noise drops away as a roaring dissonant sound fills Kenny's ears--sure did seem like a satirical takeoff his home on the scene in ''Film/TheGodfather'' where Michael kills Solozzo East Coast and the cop.being "down" in his life.
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* SpoofAesop: Dustin explains to Kenny that he needs to realize he isn't amazing anymore and is back down to the level of normal people. Kenny DOES realize this... but won't accept it, as he's "better than everyone else," and plans to get back into major league baseball.
** [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in "[[IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming Chapter 5]]": after Kenny accepts the Aesop, Dustin tells him to get back into baseball, since it's better than working on home repair.
** Most of season 2 feels like a spoof of a RedemptionQuest.
** [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in "[[IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming Chapter 5]]": after Kenny accepts the Aesop, Dustin tells him to get back into baseball, since it's better than working on home repair.
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* SpoofAesop: Dustin explains to Kenny that he needs to realize he isn't amazing anymore and is back down to the level of normal people. Kenny DOES realize this... but won't accept it, as he's "better than everyone else," and plans to get back into major league baseball.
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* SmallNameBigEgo: Kenny takes this to new levels. He won one championship game and it convinced him he was the single greatest player in baseball history. He rants constantly on how amazing he is and takes it for total granted that everyone fawns over him. A key part of the first season is him truly believing any day the phone will ring for him as surely any team wants such a once-in-a-lifetime athlete. When he heads to Mexico, he expects to be taken as a living hero and the idea they have never heard of him is impossible to accept. He truly believes a key reason he had to [[spoiler: fake his death]] is because "the press would never leave me alone." That he's a one-hit wonder whose attitude makes it impossible for any team to take a chance on him never crosses his mind.
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* TrilogyCreep: Danny [=McBride=] and his co-creators repeatedly insisted that the series would end after three seasons. Cue HBO not advertising the season 3 finale as the series finale and subsequently revealing a season 4.
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* AmbiguouslyGay: Stevie, who's relationship and obsession with Kenny is PlayedForLaughs.
* CringeComedy: In spades.
* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: The episode name are simply listed as "Chapters". (ex: "Chapter 1", "Chapter 15")
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->''"I'm the man who has the ball; I'm the man who can throw it faster than ''fuck''. So that is why I am better than everyone in the world. Kiss my ass and suck. My. Dick. Everyone."''
-->--'''Kenny Powers'''
''Eastbound and Down'' tells the story of washout major league baseball pitcher Kenny Powers. After years of [[JerkAss jerkassery]] towards the media and professional sports, Kenny finds himself back home in North Carolina, living with his brother's family with a sad look on his face and an even sadder pitch. He gets a job at his alma mater, Jefferson Davis Middle School, as a substitute gym teacher, working with spastic principal Terrence Cutler, obsessive music teacher Stevie Janowski, and art teacher (plus teenage-flame) April Buchanon. Kenny is willing to do whatever it takes to get back on top; whether it be the Majors or April. He aspires for both.
The second season of the show sees Kenny making a trip to Mexico to try to play baseball there, while the third season features Kenny's return to America on a minor-league team in Myrtle Beach. Despite the apparent conclusion of the story arc at the end of season 3, [[TrilogyCreep HBO ordered a fourth season]], which ran in 2013. The series ended after four seasons and 29 episodes. Has nothing to do with the Jerry Reed song or ''Film/SmokeyAndTheBandit''.
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!!Tropebound and Down:
* AnalogyBackfire: "Whenever I look at a Mexican, I will think of you. Whenever you look at that jackass, you think of me."
* AsYouKnow: When Kenny meets his old teammate Guy Young in the fourth-season premiere ("Chapter 22"), Guy helpfully greets Kenny with "My old teammate!".
* AttendingYourOwnFuneral: The fourth season opens with a montage that includes Kenny doing this. He reveals himself at the funeral, and his brother punches him in the face.
* AutoErotica: Stevie has sex with a girl at a funeral in "Chapter 17" and seems to feel bad about it afterwards.
* AntiHero
* BatmanGambit: Kenny's plot to defeat Guy Young ("Chapter 27") requires Guy not only to fire Kenny, but to do it in a way that will offend the ''Sports Sesh'' audience.
* BeastlyBloodsports: Kenny Powers moves to Mexico and is in the cockfighting business until his cock "Big Red" dies.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Stevie loves Maria and wants to be with her forever. He eventually brings her back to America with him. Once they actually get there Maria brings a ton of relatives in and Stevie gets the feeling he made a big mistake.
** Happens to Stevie ''again'' in Season 3 where, thanks to the spark having gone out of his marriage with Maria, he desperately wants to have an affair. Then he cheats on Maria and immediately feels incredibly guilty.
* BlackAndGrayMorality: Ashley Schaeffer is pretty much the only way you're going to feel sorry for Kenny Powers.
* BlackComedy
* BloodyHilarious: Stevie '''shoots his fake chin off''' in "Chapter 28". It is bloody, and it is hilarious.
* BrandX: Major League Baseball did not license their trademarks, so Kenny plays for "Texas" against "Cleveland" in the season 3 finale. Likewise, the season 2 finale features Kenny signing a contract for "Texas Baseball". Averted with the minor league teams, which have original names.
* TheBusCameBack: Almost all the supporting players from Season 1 (except for Stevie, who remains a regular the whole time). Ashley Schaeffer, Reg Mackworthy, and Kenny's dad all make return appearances as well.
* BuxomIsBetter:
** Kenny stares at April's rack when he sees her again, and in the second season he compares Vida (less bosomy, but a great butt) to April and decides that he's a tit man.
** In Season 4 Kenny has an idea for a theme restaurant, "Taters 'N Tits", so names "because all the waitresses at TNT have huge tits."
* TheCameo:
** Music/MarilynManson, of all people, briefly pops up in "Chapter 27", without makeup, as a waiter who serves Kenny and April.
** In series finale "Chapter 29", Lindsay Lohan and Alexander Skaarsgard appear as Kenny's grown-up children in Kenny's elaborate ImagineSpot.
* CatchPhrase: "You're fucking ''out!''"
* ChristmasEpisode: "Chapter 28". This being the show that it is, this episode involves a pile of cocaine cut in the shape of a Christmas tree and a Santa suit spattered with blood.
* ClusterFBomb: It's on Creator/{{HBO}}.
* [[{{Coitus Uninterruptus}} Coitus Uninterruptus]]: While the act doesn't happen in reality, Ashley Shaeffer describes a dream in which his son walks in on him and his wife having sex and Ashley insists on continuing.
* ComedicSociopathy
* DeadSidekick: Shane in Season 3 after he [=ODs=] on cocaine while he and Kenny are partying.
* DeadlyDistantFinale
* DisappearedDad: Kenny's father, gone for decades before he reappeared in Season 2.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Reg Mackworthy is bit of an ass to Kenny since they were supposed rivals, so [[spoiler:Kenny pitches a ball so fast, [[EyeScream it knocks Mackworthy's eye out.]]]]
* DontExplainTheJoke: Kenny and his buddy Shane mimic intercourse with the classic finger-and-circle gesture, and then Shane announces, "Because our fingers are dicks! And these look like pussies!".
* DownerEnding / CliffHanger: The Season One finale.
* DrugsAreBad: Played surpisingly straight in "Chapter 16", when Shane has a heart attack and dies while he and Kenny are snorting coke together.
* DrunkDriver: Forms the relationship between Kenny and Stevie.
* EarnYourHappyEnding
* EveryCarIsAPinto: "Chapter 21"
* FanDisservice: For every shot of April's cleavage and Vida's posterior, there's bound to be an equal and opposite reaction, usually in the form of Kenny or (shudder) Stevie or Stevie and Maria.
** Kenny's skanky topless jetskiing girlfriend from Season 1, who announces "My pussy itches!" at a bar and then ''scratches it with a fork''.
** See MaleFrontalNudity below.
** Maria's grotesque fake breasts (presumably a prosthetic) in Season 4.
* FriendsWithBenefits: Kenny and Tracy are fuck buddies.
* GeniusDitz: Kenny isn't exactly the sharpest knife in the drawer, but he's an amazing baseball pitcher (at least when he's not in a slump).
* GroinAttack: Kenny's dad returns and embraces Kenny's mom in "Chapter 19", 27 years after he left to get cigarettes. She responds with a knee to his groin.
* HopeSpot: For the unnamed JerkassWoobie ball player at the beginning of "Chapter 21". He begins to apologize to a girl and says how bad he feels for acting like a jerk... and then he gets hit by a truck.
* IdiotBall: "Chapter 21". Kenny meant well, but...
--> '''April''': Why couldn't you have just stayed in the majors, and Toby and I could have come with you?
* ImportantHaircut: Kenny's corn-rows.
** Stevie cuts off all his hair in "Chapter 18" after breaking up with Maria.
* InherentlyFunnyWords: Swear words, "Clegg", and "Dustin".
* InformedAbility: [=McBride=] initially did a very poor job of imitating a baseball pitcher's motion. Later seasons had him work with an actual pitching coach as Kenny was shown pitching more often.
* ItRunsInTheFamily: Kenny's Dad is a [[ManipulativeBastard manipulative]] JerkAss, while his Mom abuses drugs and has a bad temper. Kenny inherits his parents nasty traits without getting his father's cleverness or his mother's common sense. Dustin seems to be the BlackSheep, but comments from Kenny indicate that he was a hellraiser like Kenny before he met his wife.
* ItsAllAboutMe: Kenny is the king of this trope.
* JarPotty: "Chapter 29" reveals that Guy Young has not reacted well to losing his job on ''Sports Sesh''.
* JerkAss: Eddie (Kenny's Dad).
* JerkAssWoobie: Kenny is a total asshole, but he's in such a wretched state that you also feel bad for him.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Kenny is a complete bastard most of the time but has moments that show he's not all bad and genuinely tries to help people (Albeit in his own messed up way).
* JizzedInMyPants: Well, it IS Katy Mixon.
* KavorkaMan: Kenny's half-brother Casper says that all of the Powers men have a special touch with the ladies. This would actually make sense, since Dustin is the only Powers man shown to not be a total sleaze while both Kenny and Eddie being able to schmooze up old flames who have no reason to ever want to speak to them again.
* KickTheDog: Kenny casually exploits and abuses Stevie and Stevie duly takes it all with the same devoted, sycophantic enthusiasm. But having Stevie to break up with Maria went beyond the standard Jerkassery.
** ThrowTheDogABone a few episodes later.
* KubrickStare: Kenny in "Chapter 18" when surveying his failed Independence Day party.
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Series finale "Chapter 29" has Stevie read Kenny's screenplay and saying "But the ending--it could have been so much stronger."
* TheLoinsSleepTonight: Stevie suffers from this in the fourth season.
* MaleFrontalNudity: From Shawnsee, Kenny's creepy fan, after Kenny and his friends are chased from the water park in "Chapter 24".
* ManOnFire: Ashley Schaeffer in "Chapter 20".
* {{Metaphorgotten}}: "If that's what it takes, then a cock and dream it will be sucked upon."
* MsFanservice: Kenny's girlfriend that likes topless jetskiing in Season 1--but see FanDisservice above.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: In season 3, [[spoiler:Stevie cheats on Maria. Immediately after he does it, he is so overwhelmed by guilt that he throws up. He spends the next few episodes an emotional wreck.]]
* NationalGeographicNudity: Kenny's ImagineSpot in "Chapter 29" includes a visit to an African tribe that features two topless women--and one bottomless man.
* NeverTrustATrailer: The summary for "Chapter 19" implied that the subject of the episode's TwistEnding (see below) would be a much bigger part of the episode.
* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: Inverted with Ashley Schaeffer, who sounds a lot more like a Cajun Will Ferrell than just plain ol' Will Ferrell in his second appearance.
* NothingIsTheSameAnymore: Every season has a radically different status quo to the extent where the show has no status quo:
** Season 1 had Kenny working as a substitute P.E. teacher in his North Carolina hometown.
** Season 2 had Kenny living in Mexico with the entire supporting cast save for Stevie absent.
** Season 3 had Kenny pitching for a Minor League team in Myrtle Beach and being a deadbeat dad.
** Season 4 had Kenny back in North Carolina, trying to make a home with April.
* NotSoDifferent: Papa Powers to Kenny after they meet while on similar missions to win Kenny's mom over.
* NoTitle: Episodes are titled only "Chapter 1", "Chapter 2", etc.
* OnTheNext
* OnceASeason: A musical example; the producers love the Black Keys. They've used a song in each season: "Your Touch" in "Chapter 1", "I'm Not the One" in "Chapter 8" and "Lonely Boy" in "Chapter 14".
* PoliticallyIncorrectHero: Kenny is the living embodiment of this trope.
* PornStache: Dustin and Roy both sport 'em in Season 3.
* PreviouslyOn
* RedHerring: Kenny's experimenting with a knuckleball grip, as seen in "Chapter 19", is never mentioned again.
* ReportsOfMyDeathWereGreatlyExaggerated: Kenny in "Chapter 21".
* SexForSolace: Shane's sister at his funeral in "Chapter 17".
* ShoutOut: The scene in "Chapter 26" when Kenny is about to upstage Guy Young--ambient noise drops away as a roaring dissonant sound fills Kenny's ears--sure did seem like a satirical takeoff on the scene in ''Film/TheGodfather'' where Michael kills Solozzo and the cop.
* {{Sidekick}}: Stevie is this trope personified, actively identifying himself as such and taking pride in it. It's simultaneously hilarious, creepy and a little depressing.
* SlowClap: Stevie in "Chapter 12"
* SmashToBlack: Lampshaded mercilessly in the very last scene of the show.
-->'''Kenny:''' The End. Cut to black. The audience goes... fucking apeshit.
* SpoofAesop: Dustin explains to Kenny that he needs to realize he isn't amazing anymore and is back down to the level of normal people. Kenny DOES realize this... but won't accept it, as he's "better than everyone else," and plans to get back into major league baseball.
** [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in "[[IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming Chapter 5]]": after Kenny accepts the Aesop, Dustin tells him to get back into baseball, since it's better than working on home repair.
** Most of season 2 feels like a spoof of a RedemptionQuest.
* SurprisinglyGoodEnglish: Mexican grandma of the family Kenny's staying with in Season 2.
* SycophanticServant: Stevie. There appears to be no humiliation Stevie is not willing to suffer in Kenny's service. After Kenny criticizes Stevie's weak chin Stevie blows thousands of dollars on a chin implant.
* TrainingMontage: A parody of one in "Chapter 23", as Kenny trains for a sports talk show by doing things like learning how to smooth down his pants.
* TrashTheSet: Kenny, who is going through some issues, busts up the set of ''Sports Sesh'' in "Chapter 28".
* TrilogyCreep: Danny [=McBride=] and his co-creators repeatedly insisted that the series would end after three seasons. Cue HBO not advertising the season 3 finale as the series finale and subsequently revealing a season 4.
* TrustBuildingBlunder: Catching your falling coworker--with the usual result--in "Chapter 15".
* TwistEnding: "Chapter 6". If the show hadn't been renewed, it would've just ended with [[spoiler: Kenny and April leaving for Tampa]], but the extension led to [[spoiler: the call from Anderson and April getting ditched]] instead.
* UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist: Kenny Powers seems determined to take this [[UpToEleven to the extreme]].
* VomitIndiscretionShot
* WhatDoesSheSeeInHim: Seriously, April, WTF?
* YourCheatingHeart: Stevie in Season 3.
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->''"I'm the man who has the ball; I'm the man who can throw it faster than ''fuck''. So that is why I am better than everyone in the world. Kiss my ass and suck. My. Dick. Everyone."''
-->--'''Kenny Powers'''
''Eastbound and Down'' tells the story of washout major league baseball pitcher Kenny Powers. After years of [[JerkAss jerkassery]] towards the media and professional sports, Kenny finds himself back home in North Carolina, living with his brother's family with a sad look on his face and an even sadder pitch. He gets a job at his alma mater, Jefferson Davis Middle School, as a substitute gym teacher, working with spastic principal Terrence Cutler, obsessive music teacher Stevie Janowski, and art teacher (plus teenage-flame) April Buchanon. Kenny is willing to do whatever it takes to get back on top; whether it be the Majors or April. He aspires for both.
The second season of the show sees Kenny making a trip to Mexico to try to play baseball there, while the third season features Kenny's return to America on a minor-league team in Myrtle Beach. Despite the apparent conclusion of the story arc at the end of season 3, [[TrilogyCreep HBO ordered a fourth season]], which ran in 2013. The series ended after four seasons and 29 episodes. Has nothing to do with the Jerry Reed song or ''Film/SmokeyAndTheBandit''.
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!!Tropebound and Down:
* AnalogyBackfire: "Whenever I look at a Mexican, I will think of you. Whenever you look at that jackass, you think of me."
* AsYouKnow: When Kenny meets his old teammate Guy Young in the fourth-season premiere ("Chapter 22"), Guy helpfully greets Kenny with "My old teammate!".
* AttendingYourOwnFuneral: The fourth season opens with a montage that includes Kenny doing this. He reveals himself at the funeral, and his brother punches him in the face.
* AutoErotica: Stevie has sex with a girl at a funeral in "Chapter 17" and seems to feel bad about it afterwards.
* AntiHero
* BatmanGambit: Kenny's plot to defeat Guy Young ("Chapter 27") requires Guy not only to fire Kenny, but to do it in a way that will offend the ''Sports Sesh'' audience.
* BeastlyBloodsports: Kenny Powers moves to Mexico and is in the cockfighting business until his cock "Big Red" dies.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Stevie loves Maria and wants to be with her forever. He eventually brings her back to America with him. Once they actually get there Maria brings a ton of relatives in and Stevie gets the feeling he made a big mistake.
** Happens to Stevie ''again'' in Season 3 where, thanks to the spark having gone out of his marriage with Maria, he desperately wants to have an affair. Then he cheats on Maria and immediately feels incredibly guilty.
* BlackAndGrayMorality: Ashley Schaeffer is pretty much the only way you're going to feel sorry for Kenny Powers.
* BlackComedy
* BloodyHilarious: Stevie '''shoots his fake chin off''' in "Chapter 28". It is bloody, and it is hilarious.
* BrandX: Major League Baseball did not license their trademarks, so Kenny plays for "Texas" against "Cleveland" in the season 3 finale. Likewise, the season 2 finale features Kenny signing a contract for "Texas Baseball". Averted with the minor league teams, which have original names.
* TheBusCameBack: Almost all the supporting players from Season 1 (except for Stevie, who remains a regular the whole time). Ashley Schaeffer, Reg Mackworthy, and Kenny's dad all make return appearances as well.
* BuxomIsBetter:
** Kenny stares at April's rack when he sees her again, and in the second season he compares Vida (less bosomy, but a great butt) to April and decides that he's a tit man.
** In Season 4 Kenny has an idea for a theme restaurant, "Taters 'N Tits", so names "because all the waitresses at TNT have huge tits."
* TheCameo:
** Music/MarilynManson, of all people, briefly pops up in "Chapter 27", without makeup, as a waiter who serves Kenny and April.
** In series finale "Chapter 29", Lindsay Lohan and Alexander Skaarsgard appear as Kenny's grown-up children in Kenny's elaborate ImagineSpot.
* CatchPhrase: "You're fucking ''out!''"
* ChristmasEpisode: "Chapter 28". This being the show that it is, this episode involves a pile of cocaine cut in the shape of a Christmas tree and a Santa suit spattered with blood.
* ClusterFBomb: It's on Creator/{{HBO}}.
* [[{{Coitus Uninterruptus}} Coitus Uninterruptus]]: While the act doesn't happen in reality, Ashley Shaeffer describes a dream in which his son walks in on him and his wife having sex and Ashley insists on continuing.
* ComedicSociopathy
* DeadSidekick: Shane in Season 3 after he [=ODs=] on cocaine while he and Kenny are partying.
* DeadlyDistantFinale
* DisappearedDad: Kenny's father, gone for decades before he reappeared in Season 2.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Reg Mackworthy is bit of an ass to Kenny since they were supposed rivals, so [[spoiler:Kenny pitches a ball so fast, [[EyeScream it knocks Mackworthy's eye out.]]]]
* DontExplainTheJoke: Kenny and his buddy Shane mimic intercourse with the classic finger-and-circle gesture, and then Shane announces, "Because our fingers are dicks! And these look like pussies!".
* DownerEnding / CliffHanger: The Season One finale.
* DrugsAreBad: Played surpisingly straight in "Chapter 16", when Shane has a heart attack and dies while he and Kenny are snorting coke together.
* DrunkDriver: Forms the relationship between Kenny and Stevie.
* EarnYourHappyEnding
* EveryCarIsAPinto: "Chapter 21"
* FanDisservice: For every shot of April's cleavage and Vida's posterior, there's bound to be an equal and opposite reaction, usually in the form of Kenny or (shudder) Stevie or Stevie and Maria.
** Kenny's skanky topless jetskiing girlfriend from Season 1, who announces "My pussy itches!" at a bar and then ''scratches it with a fork''.
** See MaleFrontalNudity below.
** Maria's grotesque fake breasts (presumably a prosthetic) in Season 4.
* FriendsWithBenefits: Kenny and Tracy are fuck buddies.
* GeniusDitz: Kenny isn't exactly the sharpest knife in the drawer, but he's an amazing baseball pitcher (at least when he's not in a slump).
* GroinAttack: Kenny's dad returns and embraces Kenny's mom in "Chapter 19", 27 years after he left to get cigarettes. She responds with a knee to his groin.
* HopeSpot: For the unnamed JerkassWoobie ball player at the beginning of "Chapter 21". He begins to apologize to a girl and says how bad he feels for acting like a jerk... and then he gets hit by a truck.
* IdiotBall: "Chapter 21". Kenny meant well, but...
--> '''April''': Why couldn't you have just stayed in the majors, and Toby and I could have come with you?
* ImportantHaircut: Kenny's corn-rows.
** Stevie cuts off all his hair in "Chapter 18" after breaking up with Maria.
* InherentlyFunnyWords: Swear words, "Clegg", and "Dustin".
* InformedAbility: [=McBride=] initially did a very poor job of imitating a baseball pitcher's motion. Later seasons had him work with an actual pitching coach as Kenny was shown pitching more often.
* ItRunsInTheFamily: Kenny's Dad is a [[ManipulativeBastard manipulative]] JerkAss, while his Mom abuses drugs and has a bad temper. Kenny inherits his parents nasty traits without getting his father's cleverness or his mother's common sense. Dustin seems to be the BlackSheep, but comments from Kenny indicate that he was a hellraiser like Kenny before he met his wife.
* ItsAllAboutMe: Kenny is the king of this trope.
* JarPotty: "Chapter 29" reveals that Guy Young has not reacted well to losing his job on ''Sports Sesh''.
* JerkAss: Eddie (Kenny's Dad).
* JerkAssWoobie: Kenny is a total asshole, but he's in such a wretched state that you also feel bad for him.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Kenny is a complete bastard most of the time but has moments that show he's not all bad and genuinely tries to help people (Albeit in his own messed up way).
* JizzedInMyPants: Well, it IS Katy Mixon.
* KavorkaMan: Kenny's half-brother Casper says that all of the Powers men have a special touch with the ladies. This would actually make sense, since Dustin is the only Powers man shown to not be a total sleaze while both Kenny and Eddie being able to schmooze up old flames who have no reason to ever want to speak to them again.
* KickTheDog: Kenny casually exploits and abuses Stevie and Stevie duly takes it all with the same devoted, sycophantic enthusiasm. But having Stevie to break up with Maria went beyond the standard Jerkassery.
** ThrowTheDogABone a few episodes later.
* KubrickStare: Kenny in "Chapter 18" when surveying his failed Independence Day party.
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Series finale "Chapter 29" has Stevie read Kenny's screenplay and saying "But the ending--it could have been so much stronger."
* TheLoinsSleepTonight: Stevie suffers from this in the fourth season.
* MaleFrontalNudity: From Shawnsee, Kenny's creepy fan, after Kenny and his friends are chased from the water park in "Chapter 24".
* ManOnFire: Ashley Schaeffer in "Chapter 20".
* {{Metaphorgotten}}: "If that's what it takes, then a cock and dream it will be sucked upon."
* MsFanservice: Kenny's girlfriend that likes topless jetskiing in Season 1--but see FanDisservice above.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: In season 3, [[spoiler:Stevie cheats on Maria. Immediately after he does it, he is so overwhelmed by guilt that he throws up. He spends the next few episodes an emotional wreck.]]
* NationalGeographicNudity: Kenny's ImagineSpot in "Chapter 29" includes a visit to an African tribe that features two topless women--and one bottomless man.
* NeverTrustATrailer: The summary for "Chapter 19" implied that the subject of the episode's TwistEnding (see below) would be a much bigger part of the episode.
* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: Inverted with Ashley Schaeffer, who sounds a lot more like a Cajun Will Ferrell than just plain ol' Will Ferrell in his second appearance.
* NothingIsTheSameAnymore: Every season has a radically different status quo to the extent where the show has no status quo:
** Season 1 had Kenny working as a substitute P.E. teacher in his North Carolina hometown.
** Season 2 had Kenny living in Mexico with the entire supporting cast save for Stevie absent.
** Season 3 had Kenny pitching for a Minor League team in Myrtle Beach and being a deadbeat dad.
** Season 4 had Kenny back in North Carolina, trying to make a home with April.
* NotSoDifferent: Papa Powers to Kenny after they meet while on similar missions to win Kenny's mom over.
* NoTitle: Episodes are titled only "Chapter 1", "Chapter 2", etc.
* OnTheNext
* OnceASeason: A musical example; the producers love the Black Keys. They've used a song in each season: "Your Touch" in "Chapter 1", "I'm Not the One" in "Chapter 8" and "Lonely Boy" in "Chapter 14".
* PoliticallyIncorrectHero: Kenny is the living embodiment of this trope.
* PornStache: Dustin and Roy both sport 'em in Season 3.
* PreviouslyOn
* RedHerring: Kenny's experimenting with a knuckleball grip, as seen in "Chapter 19", is never mentioned again.
* ReportsOfMyDeathWereGreatlyExaggerated: Kenny in "Chapter 21".
* SexForSolace: Shane's sister at his funeral in "Chapter 17".
* ShoutOut: The scene in "Chapter 26" when Kenny is about to upstage Guy Young--ambient noise drops away as a roaring dissonant sound fills Kenny's ears--sure did seem like a satirical takeoff on the scene in ''Film/TheGodfather'' where Michael kills Solozzo and the cop.
* {{Sidekick}}: Stevie is this trope personified, actively identifying himself as such and taking pride in it. It's simultaneously hilarious, creepy and a little depressing.
* SlowClap: Stevie in "Chapter 12"
* SmashToBlack: Lampshaded mercilessly in the very last scene of the show.
-->'''Kenny:''' The End. Cut to black. The audience goes... fucking apeshit.
* SpoofAesop: Dustin explains to Kenny that he needs to realize he isn't amazing anymore and is back down to the level of normal people. Kenny DOES realize this... but won't accept it, as he's "better than everyone else," and plans to get back into major league baseball.
** [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in "[[IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming Chapter 5]]": after Kenny accepts the Aesop, Dustin tells him to get back into baseball, since it's better than working on home repair.
** Most of season 2 feels like a spoof of a RedemptionQuest.
* SurprisinglyGoodEnglish: Mexican grandma of the family Kenny's staying with in Season 2.
* SycophanticServant: Stevie. There appears to be no humiliation Stevie is not willing to suffer in Kenny's service. After Kenny criticizes Stevie's weak chin Stevie blows thousands of dollars on a chin implant.
* TrainingMontage: A parody of one in "Chapter 23", as Kenny trains for a sports talk show by doing things like learning how to smooth down his pants.
* TrashTheSet: Kenny, who is going through some issues, busts up the set of ''Sports Sesh'' in "Chapter 28".
* TrilogyCreep: Danny [=McBride=] and his co-creators repeatedly insisted that the series would end after three seasons. Cue HBO not advertising the season 3 finale as the series finale and subsequently revealing a season 4.
* TrustBuildingBlunder: Catching your falling coworker--with the usual result--in "Chapter 15".
* TwistEnding: "Chapter 6". If the show hadn't been renewed, it would've just ended with [[spoiler: Kenny and April leaving for Tampa]], but the extension led to [[spoiler: the call from Anderson and April getting ditched]] instead.
* UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist: Kenny Powers seems determined to take this [[UpToEleven to the extreme]].
* VomitIndiscretionShot
* WhatDoesSheSeeInHim: Seriously, April, WTF?
* YourCheatingHeart: Stevie in Season 3.
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