History Series / Workaholics

* SmartBall: The guys are depicted as being fairly unintelligent, but they can gain several IQ points when the situation calls for it. An example is in "Teenage Mutant Ninja Roommates", where they manage to get themselves out of being stuck in a sewer through teamwork, use of this trope, and ChekhovsGun.

** The later episodes heavily imply that Bill, the resident StrawLoser, is an Mens' Rights Activist, clearly with the intention of it being a TakeThat.

** The main three themselves can verge into this territory at times as well, though in their case it's generally portrayed as being a result of them being easily influenced idiots than genuinely malicious towards women. They're still clearly meant to be in the wrong regardless.

* CasanovaWannabe: All three of the guys are perfectly confident around women... it's just the extent of their interactions with them are cheap and often disgusting pickup lines that never work.

** Montez, one of the boys' co-workers. He has a Spanish surname, but acts stereotypically black, JiveTurkey accent and all. (It could be possible he's mixed race.)

* AbhorrentAdmirer: Adam, to Alice. While he's absolutely not ugly, she loathes his personality.

* PrettyInMink: Blake's bear jacket. '''''[[CrowningMomentOfFunny "BITCH BETTA HAVE MY HONEY!"]]'''''

* ContinuityNod: Jillian mentions her cat Brent Hoffman dying in the season two episode "Man Trip". In "Fat Cuz" she tells Adam's fellow cat-loving cousin that it is the anniversary of Brent Hoffman's death.

** Notably, it's a ''much'' more AffectionateParody than most depictions of the juggalo culture; while they're kind of trashy and bizarre, they end up being pretty decent to the main trio.

* ButtMonkey: Waymond-he's kind of the maligned sidekick to Montez, in the alternative trio of Montez, Waymond and Jetset.

* ComicTrio: They tend to alternate between two set ups. The first has the impulsive Adam as the clueless leader, the perpetually stoned ManChild Blake as the dumb follower and the comparatively intelligent Anders as the OnlySaneMan. The second has the KnowNothingKnowItAll Anders as the clueless leader, the idiotic Adam as the dumb follower and the EruditeStoner Blake as the OnlySaneMan.

* EruditeStoner: Blake is pretty much constantly high, but he also tends to be the most down to earth and kindhearted of the trio.

* FreudianTrio: While all three of the guys are pretty much ids compared to everyone else, within the group they hold this dynamic. Adam is the id by being even more unreliable and unpredictable than the other two, Blake is the ego for being slightly more responsible than Adam is as well as being the most naive and impressionable of the trio and Anders is the superego, being the closest to a mature adult out of the three.

** They encounter the high school kids again in "Fourth and Inches," and they somewhat get even, but even then it's pretty much a PyrrhicVictory.

* LikesOlderWomen: Adam's recurring crush on Alice, who is a good ten years older than him (due to DawsonCasting the two actors are about six years about and in the same age-bracket. In another episode he enters a relationship with a woman old enough to be his mother-he explicitly mentions that fact "Sharon is as old as my mom is."

* NoSocialSkills: The three guys act like they're in a raunchy high school movie in pretty much every social situation, up to and including funerals. Jillian is somehow even worse and is constantly pathetically trying to get people to hang out with her.
* OldMaid: Alice is in her early forties, gets divorced early on into the series and frequently worries about her love life. While only Adam is attracted to her, both Ders and Blake openly admit that they'd bang her.

* SixthRanger: Jillian and Karl are pretty much the only characters who could really be called the main three's friends. They both occasionally tag along on their adventures.

* TeensAreMonsters: Pretty much every teenager on the show is a massive asshole and bully. It's PlayedForLaughs since the main three are in their mid twenties and are still picked on by them.
* TheUnfettered: If Anders drinks enough he completely drops his faux-mature attitude and becomes a violent, immature version of himself the other boys call "The Ders"- as Blake puts it "he head-butted a female security guard, bumrushed the stage, and dedicated a song to his dad." "This is a guy who fucked a koifish in the mouth until it died in front of a P.F. Chang's."

* DawsonCasting: A variation on this, as the three guys are playing characters slightly but notably younger than their actual age. In "Old Man Ders", Ders turns 25 but his actor was 30, this is to emphasize that the guys are man-children while their actors are smart writer/producrer/actors.

* AbhorrentAdmirer: Adam, to Alice. While he's not ugly, she loathes his personality.

''Workaholics'' is a Creator/ComedyCentral WorkCom following the exploits of three college graduates and extremely immature men, Adam, Anders, and Blake. The three all work at a telemarketing company, but they spend most of their time getting drunk, doing drugs, and pulling pranks.

* BookEnds: "Teenage Mutant Ninja Roommates" starts and ends with the guys all arguing and yelling at each other at the same time, only to stop and share a few contented bites of food, at the beginning, it's pizza, then at the end, donuts.

* ADateWithRosiePalms: All three of the boys engage in this frequently, though Ders and Blake are nowhere near Adam's level. The man is shown or is said to have jerked off at least once an episode.

* AffectionateParody/ DeconstructiveParody: Of "Bro Comedy" in general. While the three leads each embody various aspects of the typical characters found in bro comedies, they are clearly shown to be [[ManChild Man Children]] simply emulating what television and movies have told them is cool. Because of this, the series manages to both present the protagonists as fairly innocent and sympathetic while also lampooning the portrayal of masculinity in media.

* AmbiguouslyBrown: Montez, one of the boys' co-workers. He has a Spanish surname, but acts stereotypically black, JiveTurkey accent and all. (It could be possible he's mixed race.)
-->'''Blake''': He's black?
-->'''Adam''': There's no way to tell.

-->'''Alice''': I'm gonna eat your balls for breakfast tomorrow, with my Grape Nuts. Then I'm gonna murder you. Then I'm gonna fire you.

* AwesomeMcCoolname: Ders' father is named [[Myth/NorseMythology Thor]]. Adam and Blake freak out when they hear.

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[[caption-width-right:323:(left to right) Adam, Anders, and Blake.]]
Creator/ComedyCentral WorkCom following the exploits of three college graduates and extremely immature men, Adam, Anders, and Blake. The three all work at a telemarketing company, but they spend most of their time getting drunk, doing drugs, and pulling pranks.

Wrapped up after 7 season in March of 2017.

* {{Flanderization}}: The main trio have gotten a ''lot'' dumber over time.

* LoserProtagonist: The three guys, Jillian, Alice, pretty much all of their coworkers and Karl are all pretty pathetic people all around-this is PlayedForLaughs as they have so much room to grow-not that they ever do.

* NoSenseOfPersonalSpace: The drug tester gets ''reeeeally'' close to Adam when he's peeing into a cup.

* UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist: Subverted. While The three main characters are basically the annoying frat boys that come to your party uninvited, get really drunk, and fuck up your couch, they manage to be so ineffectual and pathetic while still showing heart every now and then that they actually become sympathetic-"Heist School" is a prime example because the guys lose so badly to teenagers and audiences ''hated'' the ending. The guys are losers, but they're the audience's losers.

** A drug tester in ThePilot calls Blake "StrawberryShortcake".

* AffectionateParody/ DeconstructiveParody: Of "Bro Comedy" in general. While the three leads each embody various aspects of typical bro comedy, they are clearly shown to be [[ManChild Man Children]] simply emulating what television and movies have told them is cool. Because of this, the series manages to both present the protagonists as fairly innocent and sympathetic while also lampooning the portrayal of masculinity in media.

* AmbiguouslyBrown: Montez, the boys' co-worker. He has a Spanish surname, but acts stereotypically black. (JiveTurkey accent and all)

** A subplot in one episode involves Adam and Blake lusting after the same girl, with one thinking she's African-America, and the other thinking she's Asian. Near the end, she clears up the confusion by stating she's both; she has a black father and an Asian mother.

* BeleagueredAssistant: Jillian towards Alice, whose awful temper frequently makes her order her around and punish her for ridiculous things.

** In "Timechair", the guys exhange a number of video game shoutouts, comparing themselves to various MarioKart racers (Blake says he's Yoshi, Adam says he's Bowser, then Wario and Ders is happy to be Luigi), and then Blake says he's a Diddy Kong Racer. Ders says if there's changing games, he's Pierce Brosnan, 007.