History Series / Workaholics

* MrFanservice: Blake is in the best shape of the three and gets naked considerably more than the other two do. His "Usher muscles" and ability to stay in good shape without having to do any exercise are both frequently commented on.

* NoSocialSkills: The three guys act like they're in a raunchy high school movie in 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.

* TheSlacker: Blake, Adam, and Anders to a lesser extent. Practically every episode centers around them trying to avoid work. Anders puts in a superficial effort in order to get on peoples' good sides, but he's just as bad.

* TheStoner: Though all three of the guys do drugs, Blake is the Most Triumphant Example of this trope.
** In ThePilot, a list of over a dozen drugs that are regularly in Blake's system are read aloud; among them include marijuana, birth control, cocaine, meth, and both Dayquil ''and'' Nyquil ("Why would anyone take both?")
* StrawLoser: Bill is the only character who can consistently make the main three (and anyone else, for that matter) look good in comparison.
* StrawMisogynist:
** The later episodes heavily imply that Bill, the resident StrawLoser, is a Men's 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 rather than genuinely malicious towards women. They're still clearly meant to be in the wrong regardless.

* WrittenInAbsence: Jillian was stated to be busy with the National Guard to explain why she missed a few episodes in Season 5.

* MetaFiction: The final episode is pretty meta when you know Adam and Blake actually lived in the house the show was filmed in during season 1. And when you know Mail Order Comedy started with a web-series on Youtube, which was basically 'Workaholics' before the show was a thing.

* MetaFiction: In the final episode is pretty meta when you know Adam and Blake actually lived in the house the show was filmed in for the first season. And when you know Mail Order Comedy started as a web-series on Youtube, which was basically 'Workaholics' before the show was a thing.

* Meta: In the final episode is pretty meta when you know Adam and Blake actually lived in the house the show was filmed in for the first season. And when you know Mail Order Comedy started as a web-series on Youtube, which was basically 'Workaholics' before the show was a thing.

** And a subplot in one episode involves Adam and Blake lusting after the same girl, with one thinking she's African-American, 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.
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking:
-->'''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.
** See TheStoner.
* AtomicFBomb: In the episode "Stop! Pajama Time", when Adam finds out he's going to be fired, he lets out a bleeped f-word that stretches into the end of that scene and the commercial break. When the show comes back from break, that's when he finishes yelling.

* BerserkButton: Anders hates having his name mispronounced.
-->'''Anders''': It's Ahn-ders! I have an Ahn at the beginning of my name! I have a hard-ahn!
* BeleagueredAssistant: Jillian for Alice, whose awful temper frequently makes her order her around and punish her for ridiculous things.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: The meek and kind Jillian goes completely overboard if she's ever given even an iota of authority. When she was put in charge of snacks in the break room she locked everything down and distributed snacks individually (as in, individual grapes, or strictly counted numbers of chips).
* BitchInSheepsClothing: [[TheChewToy Bill]] normally comes across as a spineless loser, which can make you feel sorry for him at times, but is fairly regularly shown to be a disgusting pervert with [[StrawMisogynist troubling views of women]] who deserves everything that he gets.

** Montez, one of the boys' co-workers. He has a Spanish surname, but acts stereotypically black, JiveTurkey accent and all. The possibility of him being mixed race never seems to cross anyone's mind.
--->'''Blake:''' He's black?
--->'''Adam:''' There's no way to tell.
** A subplot in one episode involves Adam and Blake lusting after the same girl, with one thinking she's African-American, 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.

* 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.
** "Temp-tress" has the guys come to the conclusion that the only way to focus on work and not get distracted by the attractive new office temp is to masturbate prompting them to ask Alice if they can "crank down" at work, get yelled out and decide instead to jerk off in Ders' car. It does not go well.

* AmbiguouslyBi: All three of the guys constantly try to sleep with women and are explicitly stated to have had sex in the past, but ''constantly'' show attraction to other men, talk about blowing each other and get erections from seeing each other's erections. Naturally, the HomoeroticSubtext goes completely over their heads.

* OnlySaneMan: Anders, to some extent. He seems to take his job a bit more seriously than Adam and Blake, and doesn't take drugs as much. But he still does them.
** Bizarrely, any time Anders tries to accomplish something, he ends up turning into an over-confident A-Hole, and ''Blake'' becomes the only sane man... in that he's the one who supports just skipping out on the plan to go home and smoke weed. This is used in "Old Man Ders" as Ders is wasted and on drugs for his birthday (afraid of getting older) and Blake is desperately trying to calm the situation. Adam, is ''never'' this trope, however.

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

* TeamDad: Anders is two years older than the other two, the most responsible of the three and frequently mentions how, tough on them as he may be, he only wants what's best for Blake and Adam.

* SitcomArchNemesis: Ders for some reason hates Karl despite Adam and Blake liking him, though Karl is too dim to realize.

* SocialClimber: Anders is a weird case in that his lofty ambitions are almost completely countered by his own reluctance to do any real work.
* SpeakNowOrForeverHoldYourPeace: When officiating Karl's wedding, Blake calls for objections before raising one himself.

* AcCENTUponTheWrongSylLABle: In one episode, Karl pronounces chaos as 'cha-hose'.

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

* TwentyMinutesIntoThePast: PlayedForLaughs in "Flashback in the Day", a [[OriginsEpisode flashback episode]] that shows how the guys met in college. The show began in [[TheNewTens 2011]], so the episode is littered with ridiculously specific references to pop culture from the mid-2000s, like ''Film/NapoleonDynamite'' and ''Film/TheIllusionist''.

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[[caption-width-right:323:(left to right) Adam, Anders, and Blake.]]

* KarmaHoudini: The high school kids in "Heist School," who crash the boys' home and party, and decapitate their beloved dragon statue. In the commentary, the guys even state that this was by far the least popular ending of an episode to date.

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

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

** "Temp-tress" has the guys come to the conclusion that the only way to focus on work and not get distracted by the attractive new office temp is to masturbate prompting them to ask Alice if they can "crank down" at work, [[RealityEnsues get yelled out]] and decide instead to jerk off in Ders' car. It does not go well.

** "Model Kombat" contains an homage to Bloodsport with Adam blinding Blake with cigarette ashes before their fight. Blake calls upon advice from a blind man earlier in the episode and throws a punch at Adam anyway, only to [[RealityEnsues hit Jillian in the face and give her a bloody nose.]]

* NoSocialSkills: The three guys act like they're in a raunchy high school movie in 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.

* IAintGotTimeToBleed: See ShoutOut, below. Adam quotes this line word for word during an airsoft battle.

* {{Adorkable}}: Blake and Jillian are both considerably more dorky than the rest of the cast, which also tends to make them more consistently sympathetic.

* SitcomArchNemisis: Ders for some reason hates Karl despite Adam and Blake liking him, though Karl is too dim to realize.

** In "Real Time" when rollerblading while chugging beers (and already still drunk from the night before), Adam climbs his way over a fence shouting "Kung-Fu!...Hustle!" The episode also references Speed, with Adam shouting "There's a bomb on the bus! If we go below fifty miles an hour, or don't go directly to TelAmeriCorp, we're gonna explode!" Also, the actor who plays the bus driver also played the bus driver in Speed.

* 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.

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