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* AntiChrist: In the climax of "The Grail", [[spoiler:Bella Digman and Quail's father are possessed by demons, becoming the "Auntie" and "Uncle" Christ and using their powers to start an apocalypse]].

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* AntiChrist: In the climax of "The Grail", [[spoiler:Bella Digman Torres and Quail's father are possessed by demons, becoming the "Auntie" and "Uncle" Christ and using their powers to start an apocalypse]].



** "The Grail" reveals that [[spoiler:the Holy Grail Quail obtained is actually the ''Unholy'' Grail, which causes Saltine to have horrid visions involving oceans of blood and pigmen when she looks at it too long, and later causes the bodies of Bella Digman and Quail's father to be possessed by demons]].

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** "The Grail" reveals that [[spoiler:the Holy Grail Quail obtained is actually the ''Unholy'' Grail, which causes Saltine to have horrid visions involving oceans of blood and pigmen when she looks at it too long, and later causes the bodies of Bella Digman Torres and Quail's father to be possessed by demons]].



* CameBackWrong: In "The Grail", [[spoiler:Quail revives his father with the Holy Grail, and Digman is about to do the same with his spouse when Saltine interrupts him to warn that it's actually an ArtifactOfDoom, the ''Unholy'' Grail. However, Swooper decides to do it anyways for Rip, which leads to Bella Digman and Quail's father becoming possessed by the "Auntie" Christ and the "Uncle" Christ]].

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* CameBackWrong: In "The Grail", [[spoiler:Quail revives his father with the Holy Grail, and Digman is about to do the same with his spouse when Saltine interrupts him to warn that it's actually an ArtifactOfDoom, the ''Unholy'' Grail. However, Swooper decides to do it anyways for Rip, which leads to Bella Digman Torres and Quail's father becoming possessed by the "Auntie" Christ and the "Uncle" Christ]].



* HistoryRepeats: The Pilot opens with Rip getting betrayed by his assistant Zane during an adventure, and having to choose between getting revenge or getting his wounded wife Bella to safety; he picks the former, which ends up becoming a case of MyGreatestFailure when Zane escapes ''and'' Bella dies. The Pilot's climax has Rip having to choose between getting revenge when Zane steals Hammurabi's Hat from him or saving his new assistant Saltine after Zane shoots her, with him openly acknowledging how MyGreatestSecondChance is in play.

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* HistoryRepeats: The Pilot opens with Rip getting betrayed by his assistant Zane during an adventure, and having to choose between getting revenge or getting his wounded wife Bella Torres to safety; he picks the former, which ends up becoming a case of MyGreatestFailure when Zane escapes ''and'' Bella dies. The Pilot's climax has Rip having to choose between getting revenge when Zane steals Hammurabi's Hat from him or saving his new assistant Saltine after Zane shoots her, with him openly acknowledging how MyGreatestSecondChance is in play.



* SeasonFinale: "The Grail" is the eighth and final episode of Season One, ending with a CliffHanger: [[spoiler:Quail gets invited to join TheOmniscientCouncilOfVagueness, Bella Digman and Quail's father turn into demonic figures, and Digman starts explaining his plans to deal with them in the "next season" (as spring ends and summer starts)]].

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* SeasonFinale: "The Grail" is the eighth and final episode of Season One, ending with a CliffHanger: [[spoiler:Quail gets invited to join TheOmniscientCouncilOfVagueness, Bella Digman Torres (Digman's wife, who didn't take his last name) and Quail's father turn into demonic figures, and Digman starts explaining his plans to deal with them in the "next season" (as spring ends and summer starts)]].
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* HugeGuyTinyGirl: In "Puff People", Zane ends up marrying a woman no taller than his knee in order to get a lead on where to find the Holy Grail, which was originally possessed by her people. In "The Grail", they're still married out of love, and he openly enjoys being a "wife guy".

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* HugeGuyTinyGirl: In "Puff People", Zane ends up marrying Gasolina of the titular Puff People, a woman no taller than his knee knee, in order to get a lead on where to find the Holy Grail, which Grail that was originally possessed by her people. In "The Grail", they're still married out of love, and he openly enjoys being a "wife guy".
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* SassySecretary: Rip has his own secretary, Agatha, who tends to speak in a deadpan tone and stresses to Digman that he should take even the jobs he finds demeaning in order to pay their bills.


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* TeamPet: Rip has his own pet loris, Fleety, that's addicted to methamphetamine and accompanies him on adventures, often providing help such as navigating tunnels to find history's first piece of confetti, which turns out to be the lost part of an ancient map, in "Et tu".

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* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: "The Grail", the SeasonFinale, ends with Rip stating he's going to tell his team his plan to deal with [[spoiler:The Auntie and Uncle Christ]] "next Season". Rip then clarifies that it's almost midnight on the last day of spring, counting down the seconds until summer begins before starting his speech and getting InterruptedByTheEnd.

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* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: LeaningOnTheFourthWall:
** "Shakespeare's Lost Sonnet" has the leader of the acting troupe tell "Wally Forth", who lands the role of [[PlayingATree Gravedigger #2]] in their production of ''Hamlet'', that even the small roles can have vital importance. A random extra with a headband in the back then whoops, and the leader says "Thank you, 'Man with Headband'."
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"The Grail", the SeasonFinale, ends with Rip stating he's going to tell his team his plan to deal with [[spoiler:The Auntie and Uncle Christ]] "next Season". Rip then clarifies that it's almost midnight on the last day of spring, counting down the seconds until summer begins before starting his speech and getting InterruptedByTheEnd.
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: In the climax of "The Grail", [[spoiler:Swooper arrives on the scene just as Rip has stopped himself from reviving his wife Bella's corpse with the Grail and, not knowing the full story, decides to revive Bella himself. This leads directly to Bella becoming possessed by [[AntiChrist the "Auntie" Christ]] and starting an apocalypse]].

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* CliffHanger:
** "Puff People" ends with [[spoiler:Saltine quitting her job as Rip's assistant after learning the truth about him preserving his wife's corpse]].
** "The Grail", the SeasonFinale, ends with [[spoiler:Rip's wife and Quail's father being possessed by demons and starting an apocalypse, with Rip planning to stop them]].



* SeasonFinale: "The Grail" is the eighth and final episode of Season One, ending with [[spoiler:Bella Digman and Quail's father turning into demonic figures, Quail getting invited to join TheOmniscientCouncilOfVagueness, and Digman stating his plans for "next season" (as spring ends and summer starts)]].

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* SeasonFinale: "The Grail" is the eighth and final episode of Season One, ending with [[spoiler:Bella Digman and Quail's father turning into demonic figures, Quail getting a CliffHanger: [[spoiler:Quail gets invited to join TheOmniscientCouncilOfVagueness, Bella Digman and Quail's father turn into demonic figures, and Digman stating starts explaining his plans for to deal with them in the "next season" (as spring ends and summer starts)]].

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* AntiChrist: In the climax of "The Grail", [[spoiler:Bella Digman and Quail's father are possessed by demons, becoming the "Auntie" and "Uncle" Christ and using their powers to start an apocalypse]].



** "The Grail" reveals that the Holy Grail itself is one, causing Saltine to have horrid visions involving oceans of blood and pigmen when she looks at it too long.
* BecomingTheMask: Rip has a bad habit of getting too in-character when going undercover, as shown in "Shakespeare's Lost Sonnet" when he infiltrates an acting troupe under the name Wally Forth and almost immediately forgets who Rip is. Then, as Wally, he's such a dedicated method actor that he breaks his wrist and collarbone before appearing in a medical drama. His friends try to return him to normal by exploiting this trope and hiring Wally to star in a film about Rip Digman, but in the end what really snaps him back to normal is [[spoiler:accessing his secret base and seeing his wife's preserved body]].

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** "The Grail" reveals that the [[spoiler:the Holy Grail itself Quail obtained is one, causing actually the ''Unholy'' Grail, which causes Saltine to have horrid visions involving oceans of blood and pigmen when she looks at it too long.
long, and later causes the bodies of Bella Digman and Quail's father to be possessed by demons]].
* BecomingTheMask: Rip has a bad habit of getting too in-character when going undercover, as shown in "Shakespeare's Lost Sonnet" when he infiltrates an acting troupe under the name Wally Forth and almost immediately forgets who Rip is. Then, as Wally, he's such a dedicated method actor that he breaks his wrist and collarbone before appearing in a medical drama. His friends try to return him to normal by exploiting this trope and hiring Wally to star in a film about Rip Digman, but in the end what really snaps him back to normal is [[spoiler:accessing his secret base and seeing his wife's wife Bella's preserved body]].



* CameBackWrong: In "The Grail", [[spoiler:Quail revives his father with the Holy Grail, and Digman is about to do the same with his spouse when Saltine interrupts him to warn that it's actually an ArtifactOfDoom, the ''Unholy'' Grail. However, Swooper decides to do it anyways for Rip, which leads to Bella Digman and Quail's father becoming possessed by the "Auntie" Christ and the "Uncle" Christ]].



* DarkestHour: "Puff People" ends with [[spoiler:Saltine leaving Digman to work for Zane after learning the truth about Digman's wife]], leading directly to the events of the next episode, "The Grail".

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* DarkestHour: "Puff People" ends with [[spoiler:Saltine leaving Digman to work for Zane after learning the truth about Digman's wife]], Digman preserving Bella's corpse]], leading directly to the events of the next episode, SeasonFinale, "The Grail".



* EnemyMine: "Puff People" has Saltine working with Zane in order to track down Digman after he gets a hot lead on the Holy Grail's location and ditches her.



* HistoryRepeats: The Pilot opens with Rip getting betrayed by his assistant Zane during an adventure, and having to choose between getting revenge or getting his wounded wife to safety; he picks the former, which ends up becoming a case of MyGreatestFailure when Zane escapes ''and'' his wife dies. The Pilot's climax has Rip having to choose between getting revenge when Zane steals Hammurabi's Hat from him or saving his new assistant Saltine after Zane shoots her, with him openly acknowledging how MyGreatestSecondChance is in play.

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* HistoryRepeats: The Pilot opens with Rip getting betrayed by his assistant Zane during an adventure, and having to choose between getting revenge or getting his wounded wife Bella to safety; he picks the former, which ends up becoming a case of MyGreatestFailure when Zane escapes ''and'' his wife Bella dies. The Pilot's climax has Rip having to choose between getting revenge when Zane steals Hammurabi's Hat from him or saving his new assistant Saltine after Zane shoots her, with him openly acknowledging how MyGreatestSecondChance is in play.



* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: "The Grail", the SeasonFinale, ends with Rip stating he's going to tell his team his plan to deal with [[spoiler:The Auntie and Uncle Christ]] "next Season". Rip then clarifies that it's almost midnight on the last day of spring, counting down the seconds until summer begins before starting his speech and getting InterruptedByTheEnd.



* TheLostLenore: The Pilot opens with Rip Digman's wife getting bit by a poisonous plant during an adventure and dying when Rip tries to get revenge on his treacherous friend instead of taking her to safety. [[spoiler:The Pilot's final scene reveals that she's being kept in suspended animation until Rip can find the Holy Grail and cure her.]]
* TheManBehindTheMan: Near the end of the Pilot, [[spoiler:Quail Eegan enters a hidden room and presents the retrieved Hammurabi's Hat on an altar, asking an unseen figure if it's to his liking]].

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* TheLostLenore: The Pilot opens with Rip Digman's wife Bella getting bit by a poisonous plant during an adventure and dying when Rip tries to get revenge on his treacherous friend instead of taking her to safety. [[spoiler:The Pilot's final scene reveals that she's being kept in suspended animation until Rip can find the Holy Grail and cure her.]]
* TheManBehindTheMan: Near the end of the Pilot, [[spoiler:Quail Eegan enters a hidden room and presents the retrieved Hammurabi's Hat on an altar, asking an unseen figure if it's to his liking]]. "The Grail" reveals [[spoiler:it's [[MummiesAtTheDinnerTable the preserved corpse of his own father]] who died when Quail was still a teenager, and when Digman finds out while trying to obtain the Grail from him, Quail offers to revive Digman's wife alongside his father with the artifact]].



* MummiesAtTheDinnerTable:
** "The Pilot" ends with [[spoiler:Digman entering his secret sanctuary to talk with his wife, who he's preserved in ice until she can be revived with the Holy Grail]].
** "The Grail" reveals [[spoiler:that Quail has preserved his own father in an inner sanctum while also searching for the Grail, and is the hidden figure Quail was talking to in his own scene at the end of The Pilot]].



* TheOmniscientCouncilOfVagueness: At the end of "The Grail", [[spoiler:Quail is distraught that he's accidentally caused the apocalypse, until he's approached by another curator who invites him into "The Council"]].



** In "Shakespeare's Lost Sonnet", when "Wally Forth" is accepted into the actor group and a list of roles for their upcoming Hamlet performance is posted, the name listed above his is "Curt N. Call" (as in, curtain call).

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** In "Shakespeare's Lost Sonnet", when "Wally Forth" is accepted into the actor group and a list of roles for their upcoming Hamlet performance is posted, the name listed above his is "Curt N. Call" (as in, curtain (curtain call).



* SeasonFinale: "The Grail" is the eighth and final episode of Season One, ending with [[spoiler:Bella Digman and Quail's father turning into demonic figures, Quail getting invited to join TheOmniscientCouncilOfVagueness, and Digman stating his plans for "next season" (as spring ends and summer starts)]].



* WellDoneSonGuy: "The Grail" opens with a scene of Quail Eegan's childhood, showing that he used to be an all-star in high school but was disheartened by his father being unimpressed and stating that he'll never own a museum.

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* WellDoneSonGuy: "The Grail" opens with a scene of Quail Eegan's childhood, showing that he used to be an all-star in high school but was disheartened by his father being unimpressed and stating that he'll never own a museum. [[spoiler:It's later revealed that Quail was so dedicated to earning his father's respect that, like Digman with Bella, he kept his father preserved after death in the hope of reviving him with the Holy Grail and showing him the museum he now owns.]]

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* ArtifactOfDoom: They exist and it's an unspoken rule of archeologists to never donate them to museums, as they'll always be targeted by people seeking to exploit them. "Et tu" is about the knife Brutus stabbed Julius Caesar with, cursed to make subordinates that wield it kill their bosses.

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* ArtifactOfDoom: They exist and it's an unspoken rule of archeologists to never donate them to museums, as they'll always be targeted by people seeking to exploit them. them.
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"Et tu" is about the knife Brutus stabbed Julius Caesar with, cursed to make subordinates that wield it kill their bosses.bosses.
** "The Grail" reveals that the Holy Grail itself is one, causing Saltine to have horrid visions involving oceans of blood and pigmen when she looks at it too long.


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* BreakOutTheMuseumPiece: When Digman raids Quail Eegan's museum in "The Grail", Zane and Trisket confront him and fight back using some of the ancient weaponry on display.


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* DarkestHour: "Puff People" ends with [[spoiler:Saltine leaving Digman to work for Zane after learning the truth about Digman's wife]], leading directly to the events of the next episode, "The Grail".


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* HugeGuyTinyGirl: In "Puff People", Zane ends up marrying a woman no taller than his knee in order to get a lead on where to find the Holy Grail, which was originally possessed by her people. In "The Grail", they're still married out of love, and he openly enjoys being a "wife guy".


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* InternalReveal: "Puff People" ends with Digman revealing to his coworkers that [[spoiler:he's keeping his wife frozen in ice while searching for The Holy Grail to cure her]], which the audience knew about since the end of the Pilot. [[spoiler:Saltine leaves in shock because of it, leading her to work for Zane in the next episode, "The Grail".]]


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* RaceAgainstTheClock: "The Grail" has Digman realize that [[spoiler:the ice keeping his wife preserved is finally starting to melt]], necessitating a raid on Quail Eegan's new museum to steal the Holy Grail from it before that can happen.


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* WellDoneSonGuy: "The Grail" opens with a scene of Quail Eegan's childhood, showing that he used to be an all-star in high school but was disheartened by his father being unimpressed and stating that he'll never own a museum.
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Samberg plays Rip Digman, an AdventurerArchaeologist in a world where archaeologists are treated as celebrities. Having been betrayed by his partner and lost the love of his life on a job years ago, he finds himself beginning a long climb back to the top with the aid of an eager new assistant. The series premiered on Creator/ComedyCentral March 22, 2023.

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Samberg plays Rip Digman, an AdventurerArchaeologist in a world where archaeologists are treated as celebrities. Having been betrayed by his partner and lost the love of his life on a job years ago, he finds himself beginning a long climb back to the top with the aid of an eager new assistant. The series premiered on Creator/ComedyCentral March 22, 2023.
2023. [[https://deadline.com/2023/05/andy-samberg-animated-series-digman-renewed-season-2-comedy-central-1235362197/ A second season has been ordered.]]

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* ExactWords: In "Shakespeare's Lost Sonnet", when Rip (as "Wally Forth") asks the actor that obtained the titular sonnet where it's being kept, the actor says he'll "take it to the grave". [[spoiler:It turns out to be under the stage of his theater, beneath a trapdoor used for Ophelia's grave during their productions of ''Hamlet''.]]

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* ExactWords: ExactWords:
** In "Fear of GAWD", TheFundamentalist Yeti group refuse to lend Rip their spare copy of the Ten Commandments until he's dealt with their enemy, a "child killer". Said enemy turns out to just be running a legal abortion clinic.
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In "Shakespeare's Lost Sonnet", when Rip (as "Wally Forth") asks the actor that obtained the titular sonnet where it's being kept, the actor says he'll "take it to the grave". [[spoiler:It turns out to be under the stage of his theater, beneath a trapdoor used for Ophelia's grave during their productions of ''Hamlet''.]]
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* ExactWords: In "Shakespeare's Lost Sonnet", when Rip (as "Wally Forth") asks the actor that obtained the titular sonnet where it's being kept, the actor says he'll "take it to the grave". [[spoiler:It turns out to be under the stage of his theater, beneath a trapdoor used for Ophelia's grave during their productions of ''Hamlet''.]]
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* ExcitedShowTitle: The proper title for the series is ''Digman!'' with the exclamation point.
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* CompellingVoice: The titular artifact of "Shakespeare's Lost Sonnet" is a poem so romantic that anyone reciting it will make anyone listening have an uncontrollable orgasm.

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* CompellingVoice: The titular artifact of "Shakespeare's Lost Sonnet" is a poem so romantic that anyone reciting it will make anyone listening have an uncontrollable orgasm.orgasm, including the reciter themself if they lack noise-cancelling headphones.

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* FixingTheGame: "Shakespeare's Lost Sonnet" starts with a burly boxer losing a match against a pipsqueak due to having heard the Sonnet the night before and having an energy-draining orgasm. Later, when Digman infiltrates an acting group to track down the Sonnet, they mention they obtained their huge theater headquarters after "a lucky bet", implied to be from the boxing match.



* PunnyName: Digman's antagonist in "Et tu" is Kale Caesar, a descendant of Julius Caesar that wants to obtain Brutus' Knife before Digman. He inverts NeverHeardThatOneBefore by loving when people make "Hail Caesar" jokes, and is also genuinely amused when Digman instead makes a Caesar salad joke. Digman also calls his group "Little Ceasars", but THOSE jokes he's very sick of.

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Digman's antagonist in "Et tu" is Kale Caesar, a descendant of Julius Caesar that wants to obtain Brutus' Knife before Digman. He inverts NeverHeardThatOneBefore by loving when people make "Hail Caesar" jokes, and is also genuinely amused when Digman instead makes a Caesar salad joke. Digman also calls his group "Little Ceasars", but THOSE jokes he's very sick of.of.
** In "Shakespeare's Lost Sonnet", when "Wally Forth" is accepted into the actor group and a list of roles for their upcoming Hamlet performance is posted, the name listed above his is "Curt N. Call" (as in, curtain call).

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* LeftTheBackgroundMusicOn: When Digman starts BecomingTheMask in "Shakespeare's Last Sonnet", a dramatic musical sting plays. Saltine then apologizes, as she forgot to mute her phone and it's her ringtone, and Swooper states she should change it because it gives him a great feeling of unease.



* PunnyName: Digman's antagonist in "Et tu" is Kale Caesar, a descendant of Julius Caesar that wants to obtain Brutus' Knife before Digman. He inverts NeverHeardThatOneBefore by loving when people make "Hail Caesar" jokes, and is also genuinely amused when Digman instead makes a Caesar salad joke. Digman also calls his group "Little Ceasars", and THOSE jokes he's very sick of.

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* PunnyName: Digman's antagonist in "Et tu" is Kale Caesar, a descendant of Julius Caesar that wants to obtain Brutus' Knife before Digman. He inverts NeverHeardThatOneBefore by loving when people make "Hail Caesar" jokes, and is also genuinely amused when Digman instead makes a Caesar salad joke. Digman also calls his group "Little Ceasars", and but THOSE jokes he's very sick of.



* {{Unishment}}: The actor that found "Shakespeare's Lost Sonnet" and used it to commit more crimes ends up getting punished by being sent to a penal colony...known as Australia. He remarks to a news reporter that they really should change that law and it's actually quite nice. It does, however, lead to him trying to become the ultimate actor by performing ''The Tempest'' during a literal tempest there and drowning from a tidal wave.

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* {{Unishment}}: The actor British understudy-turned-actor that found "Shakespeare's Lost Sonnet" in the titular episode and used it to commit more crimes ends up getting punished by being sent to a penal colony...known as Australia. He remarks to a news reporter that they really should change that law and it's actually quite nice. It does, however, lead to him trying to become the ultimate actor by performing ''The Tempest'' during a literal tempest there and drowning from a tidal wave.
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* BecomingTheMask: Rip has a bad habit of getting too in-character when going undercover, as shown in "Shakespeare's Lost Sonnet" when he infiltrates an acting troupe under the name Wally Forth and almost immediately forgets who Rip is. Then, as Wally, he's such a dedicated method actor that he breaks his wrist and collarbone before appearing in a medical drama. His friends try to return him to normal by exploiting this trope and hiring Wally to star in a film about Rip Digman.

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* BecomingTheMask: Rip has a bad habit of getting too in-character when going undercover, as shown in "Shakespeare's Lost Sonnet" when he infiltrates an acting troupe under the name Wally Forth and almost immediately forgets who Rip is. Then, as Wally, he's such a dedicated method actor that he breaks his wrist and collarbone before appearing in a medical drama. His friends try to return him to normal by exploiting this trope and hiring Wally to star in a film about Rip Digman.Digman, but in the end what really snaps him back to normal is [[spoiler:accessing his secret base and seeing his wife's preserved body]].

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* BecomingTheMask: Rip has a bad habit of getting too in-character when going undercover, as shown in "Shakespeare's Lost Sonnet" when he infiltrates an acting troupe under the name Wally Forth and almost immediately forgets who Rip is.

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* BecomingTheMask: Rip has a bad habit of getting too in-character when going undercover, as shown in "Shakespeare's Lost Sonnet" when he infiltrates an acting troupe under the name Wally Forth and almost immediately forgets who Rip is. Then, as Wally, he's such a dedicated method actor that he breaks his wrist and collarbone before appearing in a medical drama. His friends try to return him to normal by exploiting this trope and hiring Wally to star in a film about Rip Digman.



* NoodleIncident: While trying to dissuade Rip from going undercover in "Shakespeare's Lost Sonnet", Swooper states that he always gets too in-character and refers to "The Winnipeg Incident". Saltine has no idea what they're referring to, and neither man wants to elaborate further.

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* NoodleIncident: While trying to dissuade Rip from going undercover in "Shakespeare's Lost Sonnet", Swooper states that he always gets too in-character and refers to "The Winnipeg Incident". Saltine has no idea what they're referring to, and neither man wants to elaborate further. At the end of the episode, they finally tell her that it was literally exactly like the adventure they just went on, save for taking place in March instead of May.


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* {{Unishment}}: The actor that found "Shakespeare's Lost Sonnet" and used it to commit more crimes ends up getting punished by being sent to a penal colony...known as Australia. He remarks to a news reporter that they really should change that law and it's actually quite nice. It does, however, lead to him trying to become the ultimate actor by performing ''The Tempest'' during a literal tempest there and drowning from a tidal wave.

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* BecomingTheMask: Rip has a bad habit of getting too in-character when going undercover, as shown in "Shakespeare's Lost Sonnet" when he infiltrates an acting troupe under the name Wally Forth and almost immediately forgets who Rip is.



* CompellingVoice: The titular artifact of "Shakespeare's Lost Sonnet" is a lost poem so romantic that anyone reciting it will make anyone listening have an uncontrollable orgasm.

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* CompellingVoice: The titular artifact of "Shakespeare's Lost Sonnet" is a lost poem so romantic that anyone reciting it will make anyone listening have an uncontrollable orgasm.


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* NoodleIncident: While trying to dissuade Rip from going undercover in "Shakespeare's Lost Sonnet", Swooper states that he always gets too in-character and refers to "The Winnipeg Incident". Saltine has no idea what they're referring to, and neither man wants to elaborate further.
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* CompellingVoice: The titular artifact of "Shakespeare's Lost Sonnet" is a lost poem so romantic that anyone reciting it will make anyone listening have an uncontrollable orgasm.

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Samberg plays Rip Digman, an AdventurerArchaeologist in a world where archaeologists are treated as celebrities. The series premiered on Creator/ComedyCentral March 22, 2023.

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Samberg plays Rip Digman, an AdventurerArchaeologist in a world where archaeologists are treated as celebrities. Having been betrayed by his partner and lost the love of his life on a job years ago, he finds himself beginning a long climb back to the top with the aid of an eager new assistant. The series premiered on Creator/ComedyCentral March 22, 2023.

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* EnfantTerrible: The antagonists of "The Arky Gala" are a group of children that don't want their favorite arcade to be demolished in order to expand the neighboring museum. They hold an entire gala of archaeologists and patrons hostage, threatening to kill them if they don't make the arcade a historical landmark and preserve it. [[spoiler:It then turns out that they're actually Ponce de Leon and his followers, with the addictive waters of the Fountain of Youth hidden underneath the arcade.]]



* TheFundamentalist: The Yeti colony in "Fear of GAWD" has stayed true to the Ten Commandments copy they've guarded for millennia and adhere to some very outdated values, to the point that they've demonized a nearby Yeti abortion clinic.

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* FountainOfYouth: In the climax of "The Arky Gala", [[spoiler:it turns out to be hidden under the arcade that the "kids", actually Ponce de Leon and his conquistadors, wanted to preserve. It also turns out that the energy drink CEO sponsoring the museum expansion knew it all along, and was using it as an excuse to gain access to and privatize it]].
* TheFundamentalist: The Yeti colony in "Fear of GAWD" has stayed true to the Ten Commandments copy they've guarded for millennia and adhere to some very outdated values, to the point that they've demonized a nearby Yeti abortion clinic.clinic and want Digman to behead the "child-killer".
* TheGreatestStoryNeverTold: Due to everyone attending the titular event in "The Arky Gala" being forced to sign Non-Disclosure Agreements, Digman's adventure goes untold and the resulting destruction of the neighboring arcade is reported as a random sinkhole opening up beneath it.



* PiranhaProblem: As part of the hostage situation in "The Arky Gala", the kids holding the archaeologists hostage have filled the water feature with piranha, demonstrating their veracity by sticking a crossbow in the water and pulling it out with three chomping at it.



* PunnyName: Digman's antagonist in "Et tu" is Kale Caesar, a descendant of Julius Caesar that wants to obtain Brutus' Knife before Digman. He inverts NeverHeardThatOneBefore by loving when people make "Hail Caesar" jokes, and is also genuinely amused when Digman instead makes a Caesar salad joke. He even calls his group "Little Ceasars", and THOSE jokes he's very sick of.

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* PunnyName: Digman's antagonist in "Et tu" is Kale Caesar, a descendant of Julius Caesar that wants to obtain Brutus' Knife before Digman. He inverts NeverHeardThatOneBefore by loving when people make "Hail Caesar" jokes, and is also genuinely amused when Digman instead makes a Caesar salad joke. He even Digman also calls his group "Little Ceasars", and THOSE jokes he's very sick of.


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* StarCrossedLovers: "The Arky Gala" has Saltine befriend Trisket, the new assistant to Digman's rival Zane, with Trisket referring to their newfound bond as "Star-Crossed Homies". However, after they end up saving the archaeologists and the patrons from the child-aged kidnappers, Digman's too grateful to stay angry about it, and the episode ends with them playing an arcade game together at Digman's place.


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* WouldHurtAChild: In the climax of "The Arky Gala", [[spoiler:the CEO of Splunk Energy Drink shoots Hi-Score, AKA the child-appearing Ponce de Leon, with a crossbow bolt in order to access the Fountain of Youth in order to commercialize it. Then Digman de-ages the CEO of Splunk Energy Drinks into a baby and punches him to death to stop him, with him only snapping back to his old age post-mortem]].
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* PunnyName: Digman's antagonist in "Et tu" is Kale Caesar, a descendant of Julius Caesar that wants to obtain Brutus' Knife before Digman. He inverts NeverHeardThatOneBefore by loving when people make "Hail Caesar" jokes, and is also genuinely amused when Digman instead makes a Caesar salad joke. He even calls his group "Little Ceasars", which leads to Rip making pizza jokes.

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* PunnyName: Digman's antagonist in "Et tu" is Kale Caesar, a descendant of Julius Caesar that wants to obtain Brutus' Knife before Digman. He inverts NeverHeardThatOneBefore by loving when people make "Hail Caesar" jokes, and is also genuinely amused when Digman instead makes a Caesar salad joke. He even calls his group "Little Ceasars", which leads to Rip making pizza jokes.and THOSE jokes he's very sick of.
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* TheFundamentalist: The Yeti colony in "Fear of GAWD" has stayed true to the Ten Commandments copy they've guarded for millennia and adhere to some very outdated values, to the point that they've demonized a nearby Yeti abortion clinic.


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* {{Smurfing}}: The Yeti colony in "Fear of GAWD" have a habit of replacing random words with "snow", to the point that Saltine gets confused by the lack of linguistic consistency.
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* DeadlyEuphemism: After encountering the Yeti colony guarding the last remaining spare copy of the Ten Commandments, one of them claims that Scoop's sled dogs were "sent to a farm upstate" while chewing on a large bone. Subverted at the end of the episode when it turns out the farm was real and the dogs are safely returned.

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* DeadlyEuphemism: After In "Fear of GAWD", after encountering the Yeti colony guarding the last remaining spare copy of the Ten Commandments, one of them claims that Scoop's Swooper's sled dogs were "sent to a farm upstate" while chewing on a large bone. Subverted at the end of the episode when it turns out the farm was real and the dogs are safely returned.
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* DeadlyEuphamism: After encountering the Yeti colony guarding the last remaining spare copy of the Ten Commandments, one of them claims that Scoop's sled dogs were "sent to a farm upstate" while chewing on a large bone. Subverted at the end of the episode when it turns out the farm was real and the dogs are safely returned.

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* DeadlyEuphamism: DeadlyEuphemism: After encountering the Yeti colony guarding the last remaining spare copy of the Ten Commandments, one of them claims that Scoop's sled dogs were "sent to a farm upstate" while chewing on a large bone. Subverted at the end of the episode when it turns out the farm was real and the dogs are safely returned.

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* AIIsACrapshoot: In "Fear of GAWD", billionaire and Zane's current boss Quail Eegan tries to take advantage of the accidental destruction of the 10 Commandments and humanity's abandonment of basic ethics by creating his own digital false idol called "GAWD". Despite starting as a digital assistant meant to monitor spending habits, it quickly gains sentience, sees Quail as its father, and goes out of control.

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* AIIsACrapshoot: In "Fear of GAWD", billionaire and Zane's current boss Quail Eegan tries to take advantage of the accidental destruction of the 10 Commandments and humanity's abandonment of basic ethics by creating his own digital false idol called "GAWD". Despite starting as a digital assistant meant to monitor spending habits, it quickly gains sentience, sees Quail as its father, tries to rebel like a teenager, and goes out then reignites [[TitleDrop the fear of control.GAWD]] in people by threatening to reveal their online search histories if things don't go back to normal. Quail, not wanting to deal with a surrogate teenager, ends up shutting it down in the end.


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* DeadlyEuphamism: After encountering the Yeti colony guarding the last remaining spare copy of the Ten Commandments, one of them claims that Scoop's sled dogs were "sent to a farm upstate" while chewing on a large bone. Subverted at the end of the episode when it turns out the farm was real and the dogs are safely returned.


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* FeelingTheirAge: "Fear of GAWD" is focused on the consequences of Rip getting older but embarrassed to ask for assistance when he's supposed to be a heroic archaeologist, leading him to accidentally drop and break the Ten Commandments after claiming he doesn't need help carrying them.

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* AIIsACrapshoot: In "Fear of GAWD", billionaire and Zane's current boss Quail Eegan tries to take advantage of the accidental destruction of the 10 Commandments and humanity's abandonment of basic ethics by creating his own digital false idol called "GAWD". Despite starting as a digital assistant meant to monitor spending habits, it quickly gains sentience, sees Quail as its father, and goes out of control.



* TheManBehindTheMan: Near the end of the Pilot, [[spoiler:Quail Eegan, the curator that Zane delivered Hammurabi's Hat to, enters a hidden room and presents it on an altar, asking an unseen figure if it's to his liking]].

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* TheManBehindTheMan: Near the end of the Pilot, [[spoiler:Quail Eegan, the curator that Zane delivered Hammurabi's Hat to, Eegan enters a hidden room and presents it the retrieved Hammurabi's Hat on an altar, asking an unseen figure if it's to his liking]].
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* TheManBehindTheMan: Near the end of the Pilot, [[spoiler:the curator that Zane delivered Hammurabi's Hat to enters a hidden room and presents it on an altar, asking an unseen figure if it's to his liking]].

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* TheManBehindTheMan: Near the end of the Pilot, [[spoiler:the [[spoiler:Quail Eegan, the curator that Zane delivered Hammurabi's Hat to to, enters a hidden room and presents it on an altar, asking an unseen figure if it's to his liking]].



* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: In the final scene of "Et tu", [[spoiler:Rip throws Brutus' knife into the ocean instead of proceeding with Saltine's multi-step plan to regain fame. It ends up getting caught in the net of a fisherman, who gets taken over by its curse and stabs his captain, leading to the fisherman going to jail and the police giving the knife to the curator reporting to TheManBehindTheMan]].

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* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: In the final scene of "Et tu", [[spoiler:Rip throws Brutus' knife into the ocean instead of proceeding with Saltine's multi-step plan to regain fame. It ends up getting caught in the net of a fisherman, who gets taken over by its curse and stabs his captain, leading to the fisherman going to jail and the police giving the knife to the curator reporting to TheManBehindTheMan]].Quail Eegan]].
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* PunnyName: Digman's antagonist in "Et tu" is Kale Caesar, a descendant of Julius Caesar that wants to obtain Brutus' Knife before Digman. He inverts NeverHeardThatOneBefore by loving when people make "Hail Caesar" jokes, and is also genuinely amused when Digman instead makes a Caesar salad joke.

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* PunnyName: Digman's antagonist in "Et tu" is Kale Caesar, a descendant of Julius Caesar that wants to obtain Brutus' Knife before Digman. He inverts NeverHeardThatOneBefore by loving when people make "Hail Caesar" jokes, and is also genuinely amused when Digman instead makes a Caesar salad joke. He even calls his group "Little Ceasars", which leads to Rip making pizza jokes.

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