History Series / KeyAndPeele

* BalefulPolymorph: [[spoiler:Mr. Mahina]] was turned into a [[spoiler:mop creature]] by a witch. He's not happy about it.

** In the "Dating a Biracial Man" sketch, Key plays a biracial man whose (white) date expects him to be able to use his white persona[[note]]Which she defines as polite and friendly.[[/note]] and black persona[[note]]Which she defines as an AngryBlackMan.[[/note]] on cue depending on the situation. The sketch ends with him being very confused in terms of which persona he should use. He doesn't, however, [[IHaveBoobsYouMustObey ever question her right to demand this of him]].

** The "East/West Bowl" ventures into this territory.

* AwesomeMcCoolName: The entire point of the "East/West Bowl" skits.

* PositiveDiscrimination:
** "Apologies" has Key and Peele playing two black men in a bar. While there, a couple of white patrons are so inebriated that they approach the duo and start apologizing for the last 200 years and stuff like that. This is subverted at the end when the bartender [[spoiler:admits that black people makes him really uncomfortable. The men thanks the bartender for his honesty.]]
** "Sex with Black Men" [[ZigZaggingTrope zigzags]] [[OverlyLongGag this one with a vengeance]].
** Done with Asians in "Roommate Meeting".

--->'''Carvel''': [''sniff''] ... Awright. Let's go sell some crack. [''The others all get up and leave'']

-->'''Key''': [''chuckles, shaking his head, threateningly''] Ohhh, ho, I '''wish''' one a y'all motherf***s would just start laughin' cause y'all '''know''' you think this s***'s funny, Carvel over here, blubberin' and talkin' about Care Bears! But you know what?! [''pause, almost loses it''] But you... [''corpsing silently''] Those are '''manly tears'''! Okay? Those some '''manly-ass tears''' right now that you lookin' at! Go ahead, Carvel.
-->'''Carvel''': And then [''hic'], and then [''hic''], and then [''hic''], and then [''hic''], and then...[''breaks down into hiccups and sobs uncontrollably in a weird ululating way'']
-->'''Key''': {''squeaks with suppressed laughter''] [[BlatantLies I'm sorry, man, that was a weird-ass sneeze I just did right there, goddammit, can a brother get some ***in' Clarityn in here?]]

** Finally averted when Carlito plays with a gun and drops it on the floor, whereupon it goes off and shoots Eduardo in the head, whereupon an exasperated Key informs him that, yes, he ''is'', "by process of elimination", the most loco guy in the gang.

* ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything: This is Carlito's problem in "Loco Gangsters". Fellow gang member Eduardo gets admitted to the gang because he does things that are legitimately loco, like break a bottle against his own forehead. Carlito's idea of being loco is to imitate a duck, or drop his shorts to his ankles. When he does attempt to break a bottle against his own head, it doesn't break; it just really hurts his head.

* ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything: This is Carlito's problem in "Loco Gangsters". Fellow gang member Eduardo gets admitted to the gang because he does things that are legitimately loco, like break a bottle against his own forehead. Carlito's idea of being loco is to imitate a duck, or drop his shorts to his ankles.
-->'''Key''': No, Carlito, it's not that kind of loco, okay? That's more like "zany". Or "goofy".

* ThePiratesWhoDon'tDoAnything: This is Carlito's problem in "Loco Gangsters". Fellow gang member Eduardo gets admitted to the gang because he does things that are legitimately loco, like break a bottle against his own forehead. Carlito's idea of being loco is to imitate a duck, or drop his shorts to his ankles.

** In the "Soul Food" sketch, the duo has returned to the neighborhood in which they grew up and is ordering lunch at a soul food restaurant. They are drawn into a game of oneupsmanship to see who can make the "blackest" lunch order, culminating in their eating such "[[ForeignQueasine soul food]]" as possum spines, stork ankles, an old cellar door and [[ImAHumanitarian a human foot]]. Neither will admit to disliking the fare for fear of losing their street cred.

** "Movie Hecklers" has Key as a guy in a movie theater who continually talks to the screen, saying things like "C'mon, man, what you doin', man, that's stupid," and getting louder and more obnoxious, to the annoyance of the guy and his girlfriend two rows ahead, who think he's just some loudmouthed idiot. Then Key says "Do '''not''' go into a crane shot right now!" and is joined by Peele, who calls out "This movie's got a [''sic''] inconsistent visual language!" The guy decides that they're actually making some good points, although when he tries to join in their cinematically erudite heckling, they're not happy about it.

* BlackRepublican: A running sketch deals with Black Republicans. They are portrayed as having zero individuality and looking and dressing similar.

* KilledMidSentence: In the "Pirate Chantey" sketch, one pirate gets shot in the head as soon as he starts singing about objectifying women.

* OverlyNervousFlopSweat: The "Clear History" sketch. It's taken UpToEleven, of course.

* StupidEvil: UpToEleven in the "Pawn Shop" episode. For starters, the guy claims to be Christmas shopping in April.

** In the "Soul Food" sketch, the duo has returned to the neighborhood in which they grew up and is ordering lunch at a soul food restaurant. They are drawn into a game of oneupsmanship to see who can make the "blackest" lunch order, culminating in their eating such "[[ForeignQueasine soul food]]" as possum spines, stork ankles, [[UpToEleven an old cellar door]] and [[ImAHumanitarian a human foot]]. Neither will admit to disliking the fare for fear of losing their street cred.

** Said out loud in the climactic battle at the end of "Magical Negroes", when the two titular characters have a magic battle which ends up destroying them both.

* AngryBlackMan:

** A prerequisite for this kind of show, of course. Ty Burrell gets special points for his Nazi act.
** '''Luther''', who was hired by President Obama as critics felt that Obama was too stoic and aloof.

** Key in general.

** The substitute teacher Mr. Garvey, also played by Key, who gets angry because he thinks the students are messing with him.

* AlternateTimeline: The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5Zdp1RfoyI "Family Matters"]] sketch. Due to Creator/JaleelWhite being a psychotic, murderous psychic, ''Series/FamilyMatters'' wound up lasting for another six seasons. It's worth pointing out that the sketch takes place in 1997, one year before ''Family Matters'' got ''cancelled'' in real life.

* BlessedWithSuck: The world is being attacked by a ZombieApocalypse in "White Zombies", [[spoiler:but the zombies are racist. The duo are miffed at first, but then get invited to a party where everyone is happy that they're not being attacked.]]

-->'''Valets:''' "LIAM NEESONS IN ''NON-STOP'' IS..."\\
'''Liam Neeson:''' '''"MYY SHIIIIIIIIT"''' (valets explode)

--> '''Peele:''' "Is this the place?"
--> '''Key:''' "This is the place."
--> '''Together:''' (Beat) "I said biiitch."

* ChildrenAreInnocent: In the "White Zombies" sketch, the only zombie who actually tries to attack the duo is a little girl, but her parents pull her away.

* HenpeckedHusband: In "I Said Bitch", two husbands brag about the times they called their wives bitches whenever they're being unreasonable...after making sure that their wives are nowhere within earshot. They both get so paranoid that they take the conversation into outer space.
* HighSchoolAU: [[http://www.vimeo.com/channels/keypeele/54162829 Vincent Clortho Public School for Wizards]]. It is essentially a poorer, inner city version of Hogwarts.

* MotorMouth: The "East/West Bowl Rap" shows that [[TokenWhite Dan Smith]] is actually the fastest rapper out of both teams. While most of the other players' verses are simply saying their own names, Smith has fast and verbose BoastfulRap.

--> '''Peele:''' "It hit so hard my shit became a pink mist!"

* MustBeInvited: The twist ending to a sketch with two Jamaican ladies. Peele's character just dropped by the other but is too polite to come in, despite Key's character saying it's okay, leading her to formally invite her friend in. Turns out the friend was a vampire, who wasn't being polite but just needed to hear those exact words to come in and suck out her victim's blood.

** Luther. This is justified since he's Obama's angry translator.

* NoTrueScotsman: The CampGay confronting a "office homophobe" who turns out to be StraightGay contains elements of this.

* OhCrap: [[CampGay Latrell]] when he sees the coworker he had been bullying and calling a homophobe [[StraightGay kiss his boyfriend]] and realizes:

** In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xyhVO-SWfM "White Zombies"]], they're racist.

* StepfordSnarker: Peele plays one in "That One Friend Who Makes Everything Awkward" and gets majorly dismantled by Key's character, right down to his true pitiful, sorry self - turns out he passive-aggressively snarks at everyone who expresses an unpopular opinion without ever being more direct because [[TakeThat he's embarrassed that he doesn't have any strong opinions, himself, and just follows the herd]].

** Peele's character in contrast to Key's CampGay character in "Office Homophobe." The realization of this for the latter has this last line: