History Series / MrShow

* {{Bowdlerization}} / SameLanguageDub: Used in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CpAE9c1lN8 this Goodfellas parody]]. Three mafiosos swear profoundly at the dinner table, but the swear words and obscene gestures are poorly dubbed over.

* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: In the Hanged Man sketch, after Bob's character finds out David's (who he tried to murder) might have actually stole his newspapers . . .

* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: After two guys get into a fight at a bar ("I'm in it for the long run, I'll marry your stupid ass!"), they get married and spend their marriage insulting and fighting with each other. After one of them finds out the other lied, they briefly separate, apologize and make up . . . then resume fighting [[spoiler: until one of them dies as an old man]].

--> '''Bob''': Awww . . . who wants ice cream?

* CampGay: Jack Black, of all people, plays one in the subway sketch, Tom Kenny plays one in Operation: Hell on Earth and another at the end of the Third Wheel sketch, David Cross plays one in Wee Time Toddler Wear, the same one in the Nostradamus sketch and another character in the "What To Think Network/Good News" sketch . . . this trope comes up quite a bit.

-->'''David''': I'm sorry, it makes total sense. You have soil, worms live in soil, worms would have an apartment guide if they . . .

* FunnyBackgroundEvent: Occasionally . . .

* HeterosexualLifePartners: Bob and David are this. Well, [[HoYay maybe not so much . . .]]

-->'''Father Jim''': When life gives me lemons, I make lemonade. When I ask someone for a glass of water and they give me a glass of sand, I turn it over, make a sand castle and then pretend I'm the king. If somebody throws a rock at my head, I pretend that the bruise is a faded tattoo, and that I was once a sailor and ran a sweatshop in Singapore . . . I'm not too proud of that time in my imaginary life.

* ImAHumanitarian: A few sketches. One in which the only survivor of a plane crash reveals that he ate all of the other survivors only hours after they landed.

* {{Keet}}: Also several . . .
** David (playing a version of himself) comes off this way at times. As well as a few of his characters.
** . . . like Grass Valley Greg.

* KitschyLocalCommercial: Don Pratt's . . . whatever his service is.

-->'''David''': Now I need a beer . . .

* PointyHairedBoss: The boss at the end of the Downsizing sketch. Odenkirk's character in the first half, to an extent as well. Most likely, David's character in the same sketch [[spoiler:for about a minute, after Odenkirk's character is fired . . . then he is as well]].

* TakeThat: All over the place . . .

* ThirdWheel: Jerry in the appropriate titled "Third Wheel Legend" sketch (and sings a song about it) to his two friends on their honeymoon. The husband likes having him around but the wife is annoyed. Bob [[BreakingTheFourthWall breaks the fourth wall]] at the end of the sketch to reveal the writer in the audience . . . the sketch was written for their friend Geri, who is the third wheel between him and ''his'' husband.

* [[HasTwoMommies Has Two Daddies]]: Superstar[[note]]The girl, not the OneHitWonder David sings[[/note]]

* ILoveTheDead: The reason [[spoiler: James Whitcroft]] thinks he saw a [[spoiler: monster party in the graveyard]].

* YourCheatingHeart: A married couple in "Goin' on a Holiday" are revealed to both be cheating on the other. ''With the same man''. [[spoiler: Turns out he's seeing the whole family as well, including the daughter, daughter's boyfriend and the ''grandparents.'' [[OverlyLongGag As well as a pair of twins.]]]]

* StraightGay: Probably happens more often than CampGay. Carl in the Biosphere sketch (although his homosexuality is informed secondhand), Terry Twillstein is this, [[UsefulNotes/{{Bisexual}} unless . . .]]

* HetIsEw: When two parents try to out their "gay" son and he insists he's not, the father is furious. They even try to bring in ''[[ManlyGay Rodrigo]]" to "gay him up."

* {{Adorkable}}: A few of David's characters, such as Grass Valley Greg, Fartin' Gary or as himself singing "Superstar Machine."

* MajorMinorInconvenience: See Mayostard and Mustardayonnaise under StrawmanProduct.

* StraightGay: Probably happens more often than CampGay. Carl in the Biosphere sketch (although his homosexuality is informed secondhand), Terry Twillstein is this, [[BiTheWay unless . . .]]

* ThirdWheel: Jerry in the appropriate titled "Third Wheel Legend" sketch ([[EarWorm and sings a song about it]]) to his two friends on their honeymoon. The husband likes having him around but the wife is annoyed. Bob [[BreakingTheFourthWall breaks the fourth wall]] at the end of the sketch to reveal the writer in the audience . . . the sketch was written for their friend Geri, who is the third wheel between him and ''his'' husband.

** [[Creator/SidAndMartyKrofftProductions Sid and Marty Krofft]] are parodied as Sam and Kriminy Craffft, who produced a controversial children's show in TheSeventies called ''The Altered State of Druggachusettes''.

** [[Creator/SidAndMartyKrofftProductions Sid and Marty Krofft]] are parodied as Sam and Kriminy Krafft, who produced a controversial children's show in TheSeventies called ''The Altered State of Druggachusettes''.

* TheresNoBInMovie: Possibly a [[SubvertedTrope subversion]] with The Return of the Curse of the Creature's Ghost.

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Bob Odenkirk's God is a very thinly veiled impression of New Hollywood movie producer / 70's libertine Robert Evans.

* NoEnding: A lot of sketches on their own are like this, as all the sketches (much like ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'') are linked together -- the end of some sketches is the beginning of the next sketch. As comedy sketches are often hard to end on a high note, this arguably helps the show. However, the writers have noted that they sometimes had to spend just as much effort figuring out how to link sketches in this was as they spent on writing the sketches themselves.

* CastFullOfWriters: Bob and David wrote almost the entire first season, but several of the actors who had played more minor roles joined starting with the second season . . . . which resulted in them getting cast in more significant parts/sketches.

* {{Corpsing}}: A few times. Bob and Jill look like they're trying not to smile after the Third Wheel Legend song. After David as a fashion designer says to his lover "Extra cheese if you please! I'm on my knees!" Nostradamus smiles (which was a case of ThrowItIn). Tom as UsefulNotes/AbrahamLincoln almost breaks after saying "[[ItMakesSenseInContext Hey, put your poo box away!]]"

** Crossing over with SoOkayItsAverage, most people's in-universe reactions to "Coupon: The Movie" range from: "It's a movie!" to "I watched the shit out of this!"

* HideYourPregnancy: Jill in most of the third season, but averted in Fuzz: The Musical and Philouza.

* WingDingEyes: Happens in one of the links (the one between "Intervention" and "Car Wash Change Thief Action Squad") in which several people sport dollar signs at certain opportunites.

* YouGotGuts: The guts of a man who's fired! (The "You're Fired!" sketch)

* DetonationMoon: The Blow Up The Moon sketch.

* YouGotGuts: The guts of a man who's fired!

In 2015, the show received a {{Revival}} on Creator/{{Netflix}} in the form of ''W/ Bob and David'', which reunited a large portion of the original cast.

* FairWeatherFriend: In the "You're Fired" sketch, the junior executive (David) who got fired by the boss (Bob) was at first being supported by his co-workers, but because the boss chose to promote everybody else but that guy as reward for aggressive behavior, they leave him behind just to enjoy the spoils themselves.

** One to Creator/DrDemento in the "Monster Party" sketch.

* ToiletHumor: "America, you shit on us? I shit on you!" Too bad he ''can't''. Also, the titular sketch of "Rudy Will Await Your Foundation."
** And fake poo.

* UnusualEuphemism: Happens quite a bit in the titular "It's Insane, This Guy's Taint" sketch.

* BitingTheHandHumor: The commercials that Bob and David made to advertise their new time slot of Mondays at midnight criticize the shittiness of the slot.
** In one commercial, David asserts that the show will try to infiltrate the homes of Americans while they aren't watching. "Mondays at midnight! A busy work night when everyone's asleep. Who watches television on Mondays at midnight? ''Exactly!''"
** In another, Bob and David try to decide when they'll get together to create ''Mr Show.'' David suggests Monday at midnight, and Bob likes it, because that way it will be "just for us!"
** In a different vein, a Season 1 episode ended with a fake network promo for "Creepy Peeping Videos," an exploitative hidden-camera show--of the type HBO commonly aired at the time--featuring John Ennis in drag as an abusive nanny.

* ComingOutStory: The beginning of "Peanut Butter, Eggs and Dice" in a parody of The Puppy Episode of ''Series/{{Ellen}}'', in which David comes out as bald, in an attempt for ratings.

* NoEnding: A lot of sketches on their own are like this, as all the sketches (much like ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'') are linked together -- the end of some sketches is the beginning of the next sketch. As comedy sketches are often hard to end on a high note, this arguably helps the show.

* NoodleIncident:
** Pretty much the whole point of the Weeklong Romance sketch in the finale. Some events are described in more detail but a few details of Odenkirk's life during the weeklong break-up are left to our imaginations.

** Change for a Dollar

** "The Audition"

* SpaceJews: Menocu in "Racist in the Year 3,000," though he insists that he's only half Jewish.

* SwearJar: In "Please Don't Kill Me." See [[spoiler: ChekhovsGun]].

** Inside The Actor towards ''Inside The Actors' Studio'' and James Lipton.

* BunnyEarsLawyer: Grass Valley Greg ''appears'' to be this [[spoiler: until it turns out he's bankrupt]].
** Philouza.

** Possibly also
-->'''Ronnie''': Terry . . . I thought you was in Hawaii.
-->'''Terry''': A lot of people think a lot of things about Hawaii.

* OverlyLongGag: The "Story of the Story of Everest" sketch involves a character repeatedly falling into some shelves and knocking over his mother's thimble collection, again and again and again. In the commentary, the cast recalls how agonizing it was to reset the stage each time.

* VerySpecialEpisode: Parodied, of course. See ComingOutStory. Said scene is followed by a trip to the "Ratings Man."

* WhatWereTheySellingAgain: The commercial for [=GloboChem=]'s [=TechCorp=] features a man in a log cabin [[SirSwearsALot swearing]], getting gradually angrier as it zooms out until it's a shot of the world. It's not exactly clear what product/service [=TechCorp=] is . . .

* YouHaveToHaveJews: The aforementioned Right Wing Militia Fanatic who claimed that his property was his own country. He ran cameras off his land whilst yelling that HBO stands for "Hebrew Box Office" and various complaints about the liberal Jew-run media (which Bob did himself in the opening sketch).
* YoungerThanTheyLook: Several of the cast members, most look about their age, if not slightly older (some are OlderThanTheyLook nowadays). None of the main cast was born before the 60s, and the show aired from 95-98.

* ComingOutStory: The beginning of "Peanut Butter, Eggs and Dice" in a parody of The Puppy Episode of {{Ellen}}, in which David comes out as bald, in an attempt for ratings.

* DVDCommentary: The show's {{DVD}}s all contain creator commentaries. Many of them feature the cast members performing impromptu bits in various characters.

** Daffy "Mal" Yinkleyankle, which WeirdAl actually praised in an e-mail to Odenkirk.