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* ClusterFBomb - Kevin in ''Kegel the Elf''. [[spoiler:After [[DespairEventHorizon failing to get to the championship yet again]], he goes completely berserk, kicking over a nativity scene and [[CrowningMomentofFunny telling his five year old daughter that Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, and God do not exist.]]]]

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* ClusterFBomb - Kevin in ''Kegel the Elf''. [[spoiler:After [[DespairEventHorizon failing to get to the championship yet again]], he goes completely berserk, kicking over a nativity scene and [[CrowningMomentofFunny [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments telling his five year old daughter that Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, and God do not exist.]]]]
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A 2009 Creator/{{FX}} sitcom about a [[VitriolicBestBuds group of friends]] who all play in a fantasy football league. It's cut from a similar cloth as the show it airs after, ''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia''--frequently [[CrossesTheLineTwice Crossing the Line Twice]] and [[RefugeInAudacity taking Refuge in Audacity]]--but a little better-adjusted (maybe you can think of it as ''[[Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia Always Sunny]]'' [[ThisIsYourPremiseOnDrugs on meds]]. In UsefulNotes/{{Chicago}}, [[{{Metaphorgotten}} With football]]).

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A 2009 Creator/{{FX}} sitcom about a [[VitriolicBestBuds group of friends]] who all play in a fantasy football league. It's cut from a similar cloth as the show it airs after, ''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia''--frequently [[CrossesTheLineTwice Crossing the Line Twice]] and [[RefugeInAudacity taking Refuge in Audacity]]--but a little better-adjusted (maybe you can think of it as ''[[Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia Always Sunny]]'' [[ThisIsYourPremiseOnDrugs on meds]]. In UsefulNotes/{{Chicago}}, [[{{Metaphorgotten}} With football]]).
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A 2009 Creator/{{FX}} sitcom about a [[VitriolicBestBuds group of friends]] who all play in a fantasy football league. It's cut from a similar cloth as the show it airs after, ''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia''--frequently [[CrossesTheLineTwice Crossing the Line Twice]] and [[RefugeInAudacity taking Refuge in Audacity]]--but a little better-adjusted (maybe you can think of it as ''[[Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia Always Sunny]]'' [[ThisIsYourPremiseOnDrugs on meds]]. [[TheWindyCity In Chicago]], [[{{Metaphorgotten}} With football]]).

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A 2009 Creator/{{FX}} sitcom about a [[VitriolicBestBuds group of friends]] who all play in a fantasy football league. It's cut from a similar cloth as the show it airs after, ''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia''--frequently [[CrossesTheLineTwice Crossing the Line Twice]] and [[RefugeInAudacity taking Refuge in Audacity]]--but a little better-adjusted (maybe you can think of it as ''[[Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia Always Sunny]]'' [[ThisIsYourPremiseOnDrugs on meds]]. [[TheWindyCity In Chicago]], UsefulNotes/{{Chicago}}, [[{{Metaphorgotten}} With football]]).
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A 2009 FX sitcom about a [[VitriolicBestBuds group of friends]] who all play in a fantasy football league. It's cut from a similar cloth as the show it airs after, ''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia''--frequently [[CrossesTheLineTwice Crossing the Line Twice]] and [[RefugeInAudacity taking Refuge in Audacity]]--but a little better-adjusted (maybe you can think of it as ''[[Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia Always Sunny]]'' [[ThisIsYourPremiseOnDrugs on meds]]. [[TheWindyCity In Chicago]], [[{{Metaphorgotten}} With football]]).

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A 2009 FX Creator/{{FX}} sitcom about a [[VitriolicBestBuds group of friends]] who all play in a fantasy football league. It's cut from a similar cloth as the show it airs after, ''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia''--frequently [[CrossesTheLineTwice Crossing the Line Twice]] and [[RefugeInAudacity taking Refuge in Audacity]]--but a little better-adjusted (maybe you can think of it as ''[[Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia Always Sunny]]'' [[ThisIsYourPremiseOnDrugs on meds]]. [[TheWindyCity In Chicago]], [[{{Metaphorgotten}} With football]]).
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** Episodes following Rafi and Dirty Randy became a once-a-season feature after that point, with their final adventure being so bizarre it's actually ''animated''.
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* SelfServingMemory: Numerous times to everyone from Taco's whacky mental issues to Ruxin under the impression he bullied everyone when ''he'' was the one bullied.

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* WhyDoYouKeepChangingJobs: Taco has a different "job" almost every episode.
** Most of them revolve around some comically bad business idea or invention.
*** One of those ideas, "Neckflix," or "Netflix for Ties" becomes {{Life Imitates Art}} when the same concept was advertised as "Tietry" on Series/{{Shark Tank}}.
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* ComicallyMissingthePoint: Taco, constantly, to the point where the rest of the gang don't even bother correcting him on his misconceptions but just roll with it.
** When the gang show off new versions of the Shiva trophy to Andre that openly mock him, Andre says "it's almost like you're making fun of me" and the group exchange stunned glances that Andre doesn't get that's the point of all this.
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* WithFriendsLikeThese - Even without the constant volleys of insults and pranks, every single member of the League will manipulate and betray any other member for even the slightest of advantages in their fantasy football tournament. Except for Taco, who is to stoned to know what manipulate means.

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* WithFriendsLikeThese - Even without the constant volleys of insults and pranks, every single member of the League will manipulate and betray any other member for even the slightest of advantages in their fantasy football tournament. Except for Taco, who is to too stoned to know what manipulate means.
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*** One of those ideas, "Neckflix," or "Netflix for Ties" becomes {{Life Imitates Art}} when the same concept was advertised as "Tietry" on {{Shark Tank}}.

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*** One of those ideas, "Neckflix," or "Netflix for Ties" becomes {{Life Imitates Art}} when the same concept was advertised as "Tietry" on {{Shark Series/{{Shark Tank}}.
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* InformedJudaism: Ruxin mentions being Jewish in the first episode, describing himself as looking like a Nazi cartoon of a Jew. However he is not practicing, and in fact is married to a Catholic and Baby Geoffrey was baptized (he told his mother it was a really progressive synagogue). In one episode he celebrates Sukkot in order to get his son into a prestigious Jewish preschool. In another episode, Ruxin and his wife get in an argument over what religion to raise Baby Geoffrey in. Averted with Ruxin's sister, who is mentioned to be Orthodox. This trope is even more true with Ted, who is only known to be Jewish because a rabbi was at his [[spoiler: funeral]].
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* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: Taco was in an Algerian soap opera.
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* UglyGuyHotWife - Ruxin purposely {{invokes}} this trope, and plays it up especially hard at his high school reunion. And in Vegas. Or anywhere really. He really loves rubbing it in.

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* UglyGuyHotWife - Ruxin purposely {{invokes}} this trope, and plays it up especially hard at his high school reunion. And in Vegas.UsefulNotes/LasVegas. Or anywhere really. He really loves rubbing it in.
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** In the 5th season episode "Flowers for Taco", he gives up pot for the first time since he was eight, becomes arguably the smartest member of the group, and even suddenly regains the ability to speak French (which he apparently learned in high school). This is resolved by the group forcing him to get high again.
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** Instead of being engraved, his name is written on a piece of tape with sharpie and pasted on the trophy.
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* FlowersForAlgernonSyndrome - Ruxin in "Judge MacArthur".

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* FlowersForAlgernonSyndrome - Ruxin in "Judge MacArthur".[=MacArthur=]".
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* FriendsRentControl - Mostly averted, as Ruxin and Andre at least are both relatively wealthy. Though Kevin's income as an assistant district attorney is probably modest, Jenny is a real estate agent, justifying their house between them. This only leaves Pete and Taco; Taco's home is a disaster area and Pete has a decent apartment, appropriate for a single man in Chicago.
** There have been frequent references to Taco being "pretty much homeless".
** Though Taco's situation improves in the fourth season with him getting a sizable windfall courtesy of the Dallas Cowboys. Though by the end of the season [[StatusQuoIsGod he spend all of it because he misinterprets the meaning of the phrase "zeroing the budget for the year."]]
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* ActorAllusion - In the pilot, Taco attempts to draft a player from the [[UsefulNotes/CanadianFootballLeague Calgary Stampeders]]. Music/JonLajoie, who plays Taco, is the only Canadian actor in the league.
** The use of "frittata" in place of "retarded" comes from a joke in Nick Kroll's standup.
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A 2009 FX sitcom about a [[VitriolicBestBuds group of friends]] who all play in a fantasy football league. It's cut from a similar cloth as the show it airs after, ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia--frequently [[CrossesTheLineTwice Crossing the Line Twice]] and [[RefugeInAudacity taking Refuge in Audacity]]--but a little better-adjusted (maybe you can think of it as ''[[ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia Always Sunny]]'' [[ThisIsYourPremiseOnDrugs on meds]]. [[TheWindyCity In Chicago]], [[{{Metaphorgotten}} With football]]).

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A 2009 FX sitcom about a [[VitriolicBestBuds group of friends]] who all play in a fantasy football league. It's cut from a similar cloth as the show it airs after, ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia--frequently ''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia''--frequently [[CrossesTheLineTwice Crossing the Line Twice]] and [[RefugeInAudacity taking Refuge in Audacity]]--but a little better-adjusted (maybe you can think of it as ''[[ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia ''[[Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia Always Sunny]]'' [[ThisIsYourPremiseOnDrugs on meds]]. [[TheWindyCity In Chicago]], [[{{Metaphorgotten}} With football]]).
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* TookALevelInJerkass - Kevin and Taco in later seasons
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* ActorAllusion - In the pilot, Taco attempts to draft a player from the Calgary Stampeders. Music/JonLajoie, who plays Taco, is the only Canadian actor in the league.

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* ActorAllusion - In the pilot, Taco attempts to draft a player from the [[UsefulNotes/CanadianFootballLeague Calgary Stampeders.Stampeders]]. Music/JonLajoie, who plays Taco, is the only Canadian actor in the league.
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** Ruxin yelling "Forever unclean!"
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* ActorAllusion - In the pilot, Taco attempts to draft a player from the Calgary Stampeders. JonLajoie, who plays Taco, is the only Canadian actor in the league.

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* ActorAllusion - In the pilot, Taco attempts to draft a player from the Calgary Stampeders. JonLajoie, Music/JonLajoie, who plays Taco, is the only Canadian actor in the league.
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*** And his sister, Rebecca Ruxin.


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** SHIVAKAMINI SOMAKANDARKRAM!


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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold - While they all do some pretty awful things, all of the main characters are basically good people (except for Ruxin).

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** In addition, Ruxin rarely works as a defense attorney (claiming to do an average of 3 criminal cases a year), usually working as a corporate attorney. He's still amoral, and works for the most amoral of clients (serving as part of BP's legal team during the 2010 oil spill).



** Played with by Dirty Randy. He does seem to fit the trope, but now can only get turned on by thinking about drag racing with Korean teenagers.



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** One episode has Pete tell his friends that they're the worst people he knows.

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** One episode has Pete tell his friends that they're the worst people he knows. They take this in stride
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** Kevin and Taco's mother, Martha MacArthur.

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** Kevin and Taco's mother, Martha MacArthur.[=MacArthur.=]

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