History WebVideo / HardlyWorking

** "Clue" features a [[TheGamePlaysYou Jumanjiesque game of Clue]] in which Murph, the murderer, starts doing this to the other players whenever they make a wrong guess.

* FightingWithChucks: Sarah achieves this in "Phone Fight" by swinging two desk phones around on their cords.

* KillEmAll: In "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkcNEdTnsEM Hardly Working: The Cartoon]]", everybody in the office end up killing each other off in cartoonish fashions.

** Taken UpToEleven in "Emergency Flirt": A tiger is trying to break down the door and ''[[SkewedPriorities Pat is flirting with a cute animal control operator]].''

* DressCode: Parodied in "Casual Friday", then taken UpToEleven with Uptight Monday, Hesitant Tuesday, Coquettish Wednesday, Melodramatic Thursday, Casual Acquaintance Friday, Coming to Work Saturday, Bloody Sunday, and Mariachi Bagpipe Totalitarian Dictator Monday.

* JumpingTheShark: {{Parodied}} and taken UpToEleven in the episode "Jump The Shark": [[UpToEleven A new SpinOff is introduced, Tony Hawk appears as a]] [[CelebrityStar Guest Star]], [[WillTheyOrWontThey two characters get engaged]], [[UpToEleven they move to a new building, Amir gets]] [[TheOtherDarrin replaced]], and [[MindScrew Jeff gives birth to]] [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext a baby Supreme Court justice]]. Finally, the whole cast gets replaced at the very end with a [[YoungerAndHipper younger cast]]. [[invoked]]

* BastardBoyfriend: "Obsessive Boyfriends Are SO Romantic!"

** In [[RantInducingSlight "Jeff Goes]] Creator/ChristianBale."

* RantInducingSlight:
** "Jeff Goes Christian Bale" is a nearly word-for-word remake of Creator/ChristianBale's infamous rant on the set of ''Film/TerminatorSalvation'', with the twist that what's being filmed is a typical ''Hardly Working'' sketch and [[SmallNameBigEgo Jeff, the star,]] is wearing a frog costume and a party hat the entire time.
** In "Spitballing" Murph memorably demonstrates "snowballing":
--->'''Murph:''' Okay, I'm just snowballing here, but like...''sometimes, it feels like we're having a normal brainstorm, and then things just keep getting bigger, and bigger, and crazier and out-of-control, and it's like,'' I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT WE'RE FUCKING TALKING ABOUT ANYMORE, 'CAUSE EVERYTHING'S SO ''FUCKING CRAZY,'' AND IT'S LIKE, ''I JUST WANNA TALK ABOUT CATMAN AND BATWOMAN, AND I THOUGHT "CATMAN-DO" WAS A PRETTY GOOD CATCHPHRASE, BUT NOOOOOOBODY CARES, 'CAUSE YOU'RE ALL A BUNCH OF'' '''FUCKING WILD ANIMALS! YOU'RE A BUNCH OF FUCKING FOOLS!!!!!!'''

* ThoseWackyNazis: In "Wolfenstein", Owen finds a trunk full of Nazi paraphernalia belonging to his grandfather, but mistakenly believes the old man is a [[Wolfenstein3D Wolfenstein]] fan. It gets worse when he accidentally invites neo-Nazis, thinking they are an underground Wolfenstein fan club. This being the third time neo-Nazis were invited to the office, HR asks everyone to watch a movie about the Holocaust. At the suggestion of watching the first five minutes of Film/XMen, Owen (garbed in his grandfather's Schutzstaffel uniform) [[HypocriticalHumor refuses as the treatment of mutants in the movie is awful]].

* AllIssuesArePoliticalIssues: Taken to absurd levels in "[[http://www.collegehumor.com/video/6963028/the-social-consequences-of-everything The Social Consequences of Everything]]", where they shoot down ''every single idea'' about how to spend their day off because [[PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad literally everything is politically incorrect in some way and thus unacceptable in modern society]], until they eventually settle on doing literally nothing but sitting in a dark basement and waiting until they have to go back to work.

* NotSoDifferent: "Nerds and Jocks Both Think They're Underdogs."

* ActuallyPrettyFunny: Ricky bans Amir from filming prank shows at the office but admits that "some of them are kind of funny."

** {{Parodied}} again in "The Egg" when a 30-second montage covering nine months is followed up by Sarah thanking an exhausted videographer for "editing six thousand hours of footage into that very short highlight reel."

--->'''Phantom:''' ''(holding empty knapsack)'' No, I mean the cat I brought in got out of the bag, it's gone. Has anyone seen, like, a really ripe calico?

* VerbedTitle: In a clear takeoff on ''Series/{{Punkd}}'' (and Amir and Streeter's then-current MTV show ''Pranked)'', Ricky has to forbid Amir from filming food-based prank shows at the office after he creates ''Soup'd,'' ''Oatmeal'd,'' ''Spaghetti Bolognese'd,'' ''Mongolian BBQ'd'' and ''Salad'd.''

* PrankMontage: "Soup'd" and "Office Goofarounds."

* VerbedTitle: In a clear takeoff on ''Series/Punkd'' (and Amir and Streeter's then-current MTV show ''Pranked)'', Ricky has to forbid Amir from filming food-based prank shows at the office after he creates ''Soup'd,'' ''Oatmeal'd,'' ''Spaghetti Bolognese'd,'' ''Mongolian BBQ'd'' and ''Salad'd.''

* ArgentinaIsNaziLand: In "Wolfenstein," Owen is asked if his grandfather is dead, as it becomes clear that he was a member of Hitler's inner circle. Owen cheerfully replies no; his peepaw is healthy as a bull and living in Rio.

* FreakyFridayFlip: [[ParodiedTrope Parodied]] in "Body Swap," in which David and Pat get [[LightningCanDoAnything electrocuted by the same computer charger]], convincing David that they've switched bodies [[RealityEnsues even though nothing has happened]].

** In "Hiccups," the office is prejudiced against "hiccuppers," which leads to Pat being shunned, mistreated and finding his desk covered with water glasses when he's caught hiccupping.

** In "Phantom Society," Patrick Eleanor Cassels. [[spoiler:He was born {{intersex}} and Eleanor was his original name.]]

** In "Phantom Society," Patrick Eleanor Cassels. [[spoiler:He [[{{Hermaphrodite}} was born intersex]] and Eleanor was his original name.]]

** "Bang Bus" plays Dan and Pat breaking it to Jake that the Bang Bus is staged like two parents telling their child that Santa isn't real, complete with a {{Metaphorgotten}} YesVirginia moment at the end.

--->'''Pat:''' ''(appearing)'' You guys would not ''believe'' the size of the shit I just took.
--->'''Trapp:''' ''({{Beat}}.)'' ...How big was it?