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* ArtisticLicenseBiology: In "Who's Getting up There?", Chief, a St. Bernard, age about 7 1/2- with life expectancy only 8-10 years- is oddly described as being in a "midlife crisis" by Honey.
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* BaffledByOwnBiology: Chico winds up being baffled when he inexplicably gives birth to a litter of kittens. It turns out he's biologically female, although he continues identifying as male.
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* AssShove: In "Who's A Mole?" Chief refuses to take a pill that will help his UTI. He refuses all the treats the pill is hidden in. Jill resorts to shoving it up his butt which turns out to be the cure.

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* AssShove: In "Who's A Mole?" Mole?", Chief refuses to take a pill that will help his UTI. He refuses all the treats the pill is hidden in. in out of the belief that holding out long enough, [[TooDumbToLive even if it's to the point of almost killing himself]], will cause the "ultimate treat" to surface. Jill eventually gets so fed up that she resorts to shoving it up his butt butt, which turns out Chief deems to be the cure.treat he has been looking for.
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* AssShove: In "Who's A Mole?" Chief refuses to take a pill that will help his UTI. He refuses all the treats the pill is hidden in. Jill resorts to shoving it up his butt which turns out to be the cure.
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* ComingOutStory: Parodied with Max's plot line in "Who's a Winner?", where he goes to a farm to do research for a movie role, and a former celebrity pig named Ennis makes him realize that, deep down inside, he's a "pig-pig"


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* InvisibleHoles: In "Who's a Mole?", during a TrainingMontage at Raccoon's trust building camp, the group falls into a pit of porcupines. They are next seen drinking at a stream, with water squirting out of their bodies.


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* TheMole: In "Who's the Mole?", someone has been giving away the secrets told during Honey's group sessions to a flock of birds who then "tweet" it to everyone. The group suspect Elsa and have her kicked out of the group, but then the real culprit turns out to be [[spoiler:Honey herself, who was talking in her sleep due to the urinary tract infection medicines she was taking.]]


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* MyGreatestFailure: In "Who's a Winner", Elsa used to be a great competitive sheep herder, until she tried to herd her sheep between two bales of hay and they got stuck in the narrow pathway and [[BaaBomb somehow exploded]]. She blamed her competitive nature for the incident, and warns Honey when she starts getting caught up in the competition as well. In the end, Elsa redeems herself by [[spoiler: herding lost sheep before they could run into a highway, and avoids another accident by ordering the sheep to go single file.]]

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* ActorAllusion: This isn't the [[WebVideo/WebTherapy first time]] Creator/LisaKudrow has played a therapist.

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* GRatedDrug: In "Who's a Party Pony", Honey and a pony get high on sugar cubes, which they crush into powder and snort like cocaine.

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* ChristmasEpisode: Season 2 starts with two, premiering back to back:

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* CentipedesDilemma: In "Who's a Party Pony?", Honey finds out that a pony she counseled got "the yips" due to her advice. This makes Honey question how good she is as a therapist and freezes up during a group session.
* ChristmasEpisode: Season 2 starts with two, premiering back to back:back-to-back:


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* ConeOfShame: Honey has to wear a cone in "Who's the Cat-Chelorette?" after having a ruptured fatty deposit removed, which makes her ears more sensitive. She is able to hear another dog with a cone from a long distance away and develops a relationship with him. [[spoiler:Turns out, however, that he's not a dog at all but a crocodile in the zoo who lures dogs to his habitat to eat; a pile of dog skeletons wearing cones can be seen in his habitat.]]


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* ObliviousToHisOwnDescription: In "Who's the Cat-Chelorette?" Max takes Shel to a Hollywood party that hosts turtle races. In the end, Shel complains that all the turtles only want to talk about sex, while Max complains that the pets at the VIP section only talk about themselves.
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* ISeeDeadPeople: In "Who's Afraid of No Ghosts", Honey goes to see a psychic beaver because she's been doing readings with members of her therapy group, but in doing so she finds out that she can really see the spirits of dead animals. Soon, the ghosts of various relatives of the group flock to Honey to relay their messages, which drives her insane.


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* PlayingCyrano: In "Who's the Birthday Girl", the Grey One helps Raccoon court a koala at the zoo by feeding him lines while hiding behind a bush. He then appears to have feelings for her, [[spoiler:but in reality, is only interested in eating her poop.]]

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* AnthropomorphicShift: In "Who's Afraid of Boomsday, Again?", Honey and Chief's dreams have them and the other animal characters walking on their hind legs and wearing clothes.



* ADayInTheLimelight: Elsa is given the chance to lead the group when Honey and Chief go to a kennel

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* ADayInTheLimelight: Elsa is given the chance to lead the group when Honey and Chief go to a kennelkennel.


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* DreamEpisode: "Who's Afraid of Boomsday, Again?" has Honey and Chief being given sedatives to calm them during the Fourth of July fireworks. The medications give them dreams based on ''Film/ThelmaAndLouise'' for Honey and ''Film/BillyJack Goes to Washington'' for Chief.
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** Kit Kat is purple, rebellious, and loves pranks, kind of like Amethyst from ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' (also voiced by Micheala Dietz). Her love of pranks and rebellious tomboyish attitude also reminds one of Dolly from ''WesternAnimation/OneHundredAndOneDalmatianStreet''.

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** Kit Kat is purple, rebellious, and loves pranks, kind of like Amethyst from ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' (also voiced by Micheala Dietz). Her love of pranks and rebellious tomboyish attitude These traits (minus the purple, also reminds remind one of Dolly from ''WesternAnimation/OneHundredAndOneDalmatianStreet''.
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** Kit Kat is purple, rebellious, and loves pranks, kind of like Amethyst from ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' (also voiced by Micheala Dietz)

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** Kit Kat is purple, rebellious, and loves pranks, kind of like Amethyst from ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' (also voiced by Micheala Dietz)Dietz). Her love of pranks and rebellious tomboyish attitude also reminds one of Dolly from ''WesternAnimation/OneHundredAndOneDalmatianStreet''.
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* FirehouseDalmatian: One appears in "Who Got Burned?" Honey beats him up trying to go into a house fire to save The Gray One.
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* AnimalsNotToScale: Diablo is ridiculously small for an Airedale Terrier, being small enough to fit in a purse (a plot point of "Who's Getting Up There") He's the same size as Elsa, a Corgi. Realistically he should be the same size as Honey.
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* ThemeNaming: All the cats at The Gray One's place are named "The _ One" (ex. The Scabby One, The Duet One). When [[spoiler: Tabitha moves in, she becomes "The Stuck-Up One"]].gets

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* ThemeNaming: All the cats at The Gray One's place are named "The _ One" (ex. The Scabby One, The Duet One). When [[spoiler: Tabitha moves in, she becomes "The Stuck-Up One"]].getsOne"]]
* ThemeTuneCameo: In "Who Got Burned?" Shel sings the show's theme song.
** At the end of "Who's Getting Up There"? a melancholy version of the "meow" portion of the theme song plays when an "in memoriam" tribute to all the Pretty Kitty cat show participants who died plays.
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* MushroomSamba: In "Who's Getting Up There?" Tabitha gets high on catnip and starts to hallucinate Felix The Cat-esque characters and sees all the humans as monsters, causing her to start a revolution at the Pretty Kitty cat show.


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** In "Who's Getting Up There?" to rescue Diablo, Honey throws a skunk that sprays his kidnapper's car.
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* NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer: A plot point will occasionally have the fourth wall broken to say something is real and not made up by the writers. Examples include ferrets on steroids being passed off as poodles by shady sellers and there being testicle implants for neutered dogs.

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* AmazingTechnicolorWildlife: Kit Kat is purple.

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* AmazingTechnicolorWildlife: Kit Kat is purple.purple, likely dyed that way by her owners.
* AnimalTalk: Normally, all animals can speak to each other, but humans can't understand them. However, in "Who's Trippin'?", hallucinogenic drugs have somehow made Jill able to understand animals. Honey sees this as a bonding opportunity, but gets upset when Jill takes to Chief instead. Everything goes back to normal once the effect of the drugs wears off.



* IAmNotWeasel: In "Who's the Boss?", Diablo is mistaken for a weasel after a haircut, even by other weasels. [[spoiler:This works to his advantage at the end, when he scares away a rattlesnake that got inside the dog park due to his resemblance to the snake's natural enemy.]]



* ObliviousAdoption: "Who's Trippin'?" reveals that Chief has assumed that Jill is his ''actual'' mother. When Jill, who becomes able to talk to animals, informs him that she found him abandoned at the back of a feminist stripper club, he demands to be taken there to find his real mother.



* RoadApples: There's a lot of jokes about animals pooping. The second episode has Honey pooping inseen e the house as a plot point.

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* RoadApples: There's a lot of jokes about animals pooping. The second episode has Honey pooping inseen e inside the house as a plot point.


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* {{Unishment}}: In "Who's The Boss", Tabitha gets tired of Kit Kat's attitude and leaves her inside the Gray One's home, hoping a night with crazy feral cats will set her straight. By next morning, they have made Kit Kat their leader.
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* VisualPun: In the episode "Who's The Boss" Diablo gets a new pair of fake testicles, which are censored by various objects and characters throughout the episode. One of them is a squirrel holding up 2 nuts.
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* AmazingTechnicolorWildife: Kit Kat is purple.

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* AmazingTechnicolorWildife: AmazingTechnicolorWildlife: Kit Kat is purple.

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** Kit Kat is purple, rebellious, and loves pranks, kind of like Amethyst from ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' (also voiced by Micheala Dietz)



* AmazingTechnicolorWildife: Kit Kat is purple.



* CatFight: Literally in "Who's The Boss?"



* PassThePopcorn: In "Who's The Boss?" Shel is seen eating popcorn during Tabitha and Kit Kat's fight.



* RoadApples: There's a lot of jokes about animals pooping. The second episode has Honey pooping in the house as a plot point.

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* RoadApples: There's a lot of jokes about animals pooping. The second episode has Honey pooping in inseen e the house as a plot point.



* SceneryCensor: In "Who's The Boss" Diablo gets a new pair of fake testicles. They are censored by various objects and other characters throughout the episode.



* ThemeNaming: All the cats at The Gray One's place are named "The _ One" (ex. The Scabby One, The Duet One). When [[spoiler: Tabitha moves in, she becomes "The Stuck-Up One"]].

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* ThemeNaming: All the cats at The Gray One's place are named "The _ One" (ex. The Scabby One, The Duet One). When [[spoiler: Tabitha moves in, she becomes "The Stuck-Up One"]].gets
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->''"I'm in the doghouse ‘cause I let the cat out and the stupid dog.\\
Like, every winter I like to chicken out or drop off like a fly.\\

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->''"I'm in the doghouse ‘cause I let the cat out and of the stupid dog.bag.\\
Like, every winter I like to winter, let the chicken out or and drop off like a fly.flag.\\
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-->-- The intro to the special HolidayEpisodes in season 2

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-->-- The intro to the special HolidayEpisodes Christmas episodes in season 2

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