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Only Sane Employee

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Only Sane Employee	comment	You're the Only Sane Man (or Woman) at The Company and your job description reads, "Babysit everyone else, stay sane and, if you have any spare time, try to get some of your actual work done." Or at least it might as well be. When you have this job, it doesn't matter what you're supposed to be doing - your real job is to manage insane people. For some reason, it's down to you to keep everything from going completely off the rails. And it's quite likely to drive you insane as well. Sub-Trope of The Reliable One and Only Sane Man. Related archetypes include the Nerd Nanny, Cloudcuckoolander's Minder, Beleaguered Assistant, and Hypercompetent Sidekick.
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Only Sane Employee / int_19328272	comment	Scorpion: Paige's job is to "translate" the geniuses of Scorpion to the rest of the world, but there is an unspoken assumption that she will also help them deal with the parts of the real world they find confusing/frustrating. Cabe also qualifies, but as he is not technically an employee, but rather the one providing the jobs, he might better be described as a 'sane employer'.
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Only Sane Employee / int_1a4438ee	comment	In the All Guardsmen Party, Jim and Hannah are the only members of the Machine Cult on board the Occurrence Border who aren't fanatical, completely out of their gourd, flat-out heretics, or some combination of the three. It's eventually made official when the Magos Juris (Mechanicus internal affairs) investigate the Occurence Border after a long story involving xenotech and threatened mutiny, and find that basically all the Mechanicus except for Jim and Hannah are idiots and remove them from the ship, placing the two in charge.
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Only Sane Employee / int_1be9854a	comment	Kureha in Sound of the Sky, especially since the first DVD extra episode established that she Never Gets Drunk.
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Only Sane Employee / int_1e5baa97	comment	Also the titular character of Yo soy Betty, la fea, who, while not exactly babysitting her boss, seems to have internalized that "Secretary of Presidency" actually means "make all things possible so the boss doesn't screw up his job", doing things from shielding the boss' fiancée from finding out about his sexual escapades (and distracting the exes so they don't reach the man), to actually creating a full finances plan with a healthy dose of fiscal trickery so the company doesn't go bankrupt under her boss' administration.
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Only Sane Employee / int_21ec74db	comment	Ted Crisp from Better Off Ted, head of R&D for Veridian Dynamics - when he's not helping Lem and Phil with their problems, he's keeping Veronica from doing something even more blackhearted than the last blackhearted thing she's done or "totally not flirting" with Linda.
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Only Sane Employee / int_22211d68	comment	Bones: It was FBI Agent Seely Booth's job to work with the No Social Skills "squints." Then Dr. Camille Saroyan was hired to oversee them all (including Dr. Temperance Brennan, despite what Brennan may think sometimes) so she can be this. Clark Edison, one of the interns, also falls into this category. He prefers a professional environment, often expressing annoyance when the topic of conversation switches from investigation to the episode's side plot. Which makes it all the funnier on the rare occasion that he joins in, and the others think that his reaction is 'too much'.
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Only Sane Employee / int_222c2051	comment	Chuck Bartowski from Chuck is the head of the Buy More's Nerd Herd tech-repair department, and while his fellow Nerd Herders tend to be the wackiest employees in the store, the other staff eagerly get swept up in their antics. Chuck is so much more competent and responsible than everyone else above and beneath him that he's effectively the Almighty Janitor, as he's the one who really keeps the Buy More running.
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Only Sane Employee / int_2275c659	comment	Cuddy in House. It's even lampshaded by Chase once when she goes off the rails: "Stopping the madness is her job!" "Somebody's gotta be Cuddy's Cuddy."
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Only Sane Employee / int_261c8d3f	comment	The Simpsons Waylon Smithers is pretty much the only person at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant who actually knows what he's doing. Several episodes show that Homer is just the worst of an extremely stupid and incompetent workforce. A few episodes have portrayed Smithers as quietly arranging for this to be the case to keep the owner (Burns) completely dependent on him. Frank Grimes from the episode "Homer's Enemy" is also this, though not for long, since he dies in the same episode that he's introduced. Although with the addition of Smithers, he's technically the second sane employee.
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Only Sane Employee / int_27e42502	comment	Dana from Echo Chamber has to deal with a Jerkass, a Cloudcuckoolander, and a Psycho Ex-Girlfriend (to name a few) on a regular basis. Watch Episode 3 to see just how sane she is compared to the rest of the population of Echo Chamber.
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Only Sane Employee / int_2fee008d	comment	Rossiu, from Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, after the timeskip, is the only one in the Dai-Gurren Junta (with the possible exceptions of Kittan who has enough of a grasp on legal matters to point out everything wrong with Simon's Kangaroo Court and Leeron who just wants to do Science!) with any ability to run things. At all. Seriously, they're shocked by his development of standardization and law courts. It might just be because he's the only one who grasps the concept of sitting down and thinking about things, rather than just running off to blow something up. Of course, when he takes it too far, their complaints began to make sense...
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Only Sane Employee / int_32c541e6	comment	Riza Hawkeye in Fullmetal Alchemist. She's constantly picking up the work left behind by her boss Mustang and telling him and the others off for not doing their work- all with a long-suffering, exasperated expression on her face.
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Only Sane Employee / int_33fdae4d	comment	Mad Men: Ken Cosgrove is one of the few people at Sterling-Cooper without some crippling character flaw or big secret. He's the only guy to complain about safety before the infamous lawnmower-meets-foot incident, and the first to call for an ambulance after. Pete has to use his wife's connections to sell a short story, and Paul's one-act play screams "Her Codename Was Mary Sue", but by season five Ken has quietly published over 20 stories under a pen name - and is embarrassed when his colleagues find out.
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Only Sane Employee / int_375e8f14	comment	The Last Hero states that for any organization to survive, it needs at least one person who is this.
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Only Sane Employee / int_3be307d1	comment	Tenchi Muyo!: Kiyone in Tenchi Universe. Although in her case, it's less "only sane employee" than "only sane employee in the local galactic region." (And let's face it, babysitting Mihoshi is a full-time job.) And let's not forget that Sasami pretty much keeps the house in order and running properly within the OVA continuum. And every other continuum, to some small extent.
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Only Sane Employee / int_3cc97272	comment	Reine in Date A Live often plays this role with the Fraxinus crew, especially when Kotori isn't around to keep the vice-commander in check.
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Only Sane Employee / int_3cd90f30	comment	Michael Bluth from Arrested Development. Even worse, the insane people are his family, so he has to cope with them 24/7.
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Only Sane Employee / int_3d48c34e	comment	It's unlikely the listing for the "cemetery caretaker" job in Cemetery Man mentioned having to stop the living dead from escaping the graveyard. Hell, the town doesn't even pay for the bullets.
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Only Sane Employee / int_3f231b84	comment	The same applies in Jurassic World to Velociraptor trainers Owen Grady and Barry. While park manager Claire views the dinosaurs as assets and Hoskins wants to use the raptors and I. rex as field weapons, these two continually argue that they're living, breathing animals that have personalities and instincts, sometimes very dangerous and unpredictable ones. Yet again, a lot of death and destruction could have been prevented if the higher-ups had listened to Owen's and other trainers' warnings.
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Only Sane Employee / int_3f4a104b	comment	Dilbert: The comic strip is what happens after the last sane guy quits, replaced by the biggest Cloudcuckoolander of them all. And when those who once tried to keep everything under control (Dilbert, Wally, and Alice) flat out gave up and started exploiting the system for their own personal gain. Asok the intern would have this job; he has the right perspective and opinions to play this role, but he has no seniority and therefore nobody pays any attention to what he has to say. He shows every sign that his Only Sane Employee nature is an aspect of his inexperience, and he'll be broken of it long before he's been there long enough for anybody to listen. He has started taking lessons from Wally.
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Only Sane Employee / int_3fe0a130	comment	Ugly Betty: The titular Betty. She babysits her boss 24/7, but she often comes to rescue of everyone else in the main cast, including the ones who treat her badly, not to mention the times she saved the entire magazine. Also the titular character of Yo soy Betty, la fea, who, while not exactly babysitting her boss, seems to have internalized that "Secretary of Presidency" actually means "make all things possible so the boss doesn't screw up his job", doing things from shielding the boss' fiancée from finding out about his sexual escapades (and distracting the exes so they don't reach the man), to actually creating a full finances plan with a healthy dose of fiscal trickery so the company doesn't go bankrupt under her boss' administration.
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Only Sane Employee / int_43576f5	comment	Castiel in Supernatural often comes across as the only sane Angel in the heavenly choir.
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Only Sane Employee / int_455e3038	comment	Hank Hill in King of the Hill is the only reason that Strickland Propane is still in business, especially in the later seasons as his co-workers grew more quirky. Business owner Buck Strickland is a Karma Houdini simply because Hank pulls him out of trouble at every opportunity when Buck's vices catch up with him. It's deconstructed in that Buck is acutely aware that Hank's misplaced loyalty is the only reason why his company stays in business; whenever Buck becomes more hands-on, he screws everything up. Buck has come close to firing Hank a few times but never does because that would kill his "golden goose" and send him into bankruptcy.
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Only Sane Employee / int_468bebb0	comment	Discworld: Pretty much the duty of the kelda in any clan of Nac Mac Feegles. Also at Unseen University where this role is filled by Ponder Stibbons, the Archchancellor, or the Librarian, depending on what job needs doing. Rincewind is also an example, as after his running days are over, he seems to accrue any title no one else wants. (At one point, it's shown that Ponder has taken on so much extra work - which the senior wizards were happy to pass off to him — that he actually the controlling stake in running the University.) The Bursar tried hard to be one of these before he required dried frog pills, but the Archchancellor proved a bit too much for him to handle. Vetinari as well, not so much the only sane man, but the most sane one. An example turns up in Jingo, surrender was the most logical course for Ankh-Morpork from the very beginning, but only Vetinari is able to see it. The Last Hero states that for any organization to survive, it needs at least one person who is this. In Maskerade, Salzella appears to be this at first, but by the end of the book... While we're at it we may as well give mention to Sam Vimes. As far as city employees go, he's the sanest one around. Compared to Moist Von Lipwig, Collon, Nobby, all the wizards, even Carrot. Sam always gets the job done, no matter what else is going on. One of the early books attributed this to a medical condition called being knurd; he always operates on a mental state a few drinks below sober.
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Only Sane Employee / int_47f0eac3	comment	Charles Foster Ofdensen in Metalocalypse is what happens when a Liz Lemon takes a level in Badass. He and the band have both stated that it is understood, if not directly outlined in his job description, that part of his job is to talk them out of bad ideas they think of when they're drunk (not that they can't think of bad ideas when they're sober), meaning that this trope is almost his literal job description. Further evidenced in the opening episode of Season 3, in which the band almost goes bankrupt due to spending money too recklessly in his absence.
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Only Sane Employee / int_498b77e9	comment	Tip from Skin Horse to Unity and Sweetheart. And, when Tip isn't around, Sweetheart to Unity.
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Only Sane Employee / int_4a7dd83e	comment	The titular agency of Lockwood & Co. comprises a scatterbrained, revenge-driven young man who may only be avoiding committing Van Helsing Hate Crimes on a technicality (depending on your perspective), a slob verging on Mad Scientist territory in his spare time, a borderline Clingy Jealous Girl who doesn't even know she's verging on Clingy Jealous Girl territory...and Holly Munro, who's found herself with the unenviable job of cleaning up after all of them. Although she's only just been introduced, it's a fair bet that she will end up being this trope.
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Only Sane Employee / int_4a94a5fc	comment	In Maskerade, Salzella appears to be this at first, but by the end of the book...
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Only Sane Employee / int_4c99197e	comment	The Muppet Show: Kermit the Frog, although he even subverts it: "Me not crazy? I hired the others." Scooter is one to a lesser extent when he isn't being pressed-gang into one of Miss Piggy's schemes, often remarking on how insane their coworkers are. Sam the Eagle likes to think he's the only sane one involved in the production of the show, but he is very mistaken.
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Only Sane Employee / int_51169425	comment	Rival Cycle's Flux in Yehuda Moon & the Kickstand Cyclery.
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Only Sane Employee / int_538833a4	comment	Everyone in Retail who's on the lowest rung of the corporate ladder seems to be pretty sane. Store manager or above, not so much. Subverted with Marla, however, since her promotion; she seems to be retaining her common sense, at least so far.
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Only Sane Employee / int_54b7865d	comment	In Agents of Cracked part of DOB's job involves being this and keeping control of Swaim.
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Only Sane Employee / int_5755b96a	comment	Roy Greenhilt from The Order of the Stick. And Redcloak as well, considering he has to stop keep the rest of Team Evil wasting time on games of Feed the Paladin to the Shark. No Useful Advice Goes Unpunished, does it, Right-Eye?
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Only Sane Employee / int_588a4c4a	comment	A Series of Unfortunate Events (2017): Jacquelyn Scieczka is far more competent and rational than her boss, Mr. Poe (which, admittedly, isn't really a high bar to clear). Unsurprisingly, as one of the show's few non-useless adults, she's working for V.F.D.
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Only Sane Employee / int_58d80a4a	comment	Vetinari as well, not so much the only sane man, but the most sane one. An example turns up in Jingo, surrender was the most logical course for Ankh-Morpork from the very beginning, but only Vetinari is able to see it.
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Only Sane Employee / int_5b3f67f1	comment	In Psychic Squad, Minamoto often plays this role for the good guys at BABEL, and Shiro plays this role for the antagonists at PANDRA.
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Only Sane Employee / int_6f1bcb62	comment	In Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance, the Crimean army is almost entirely made of nutcases, with trusty right-hand Titania and stern strategist Soren the seemingly only persons to do any work outside of fighting. Captain Ike has said explicitly stated he couldn't do anything without them. Then again, there was this one exchange about storming an enemy fortress in which Soren succumbed to the craziness and Ranulf was the Only Sane Man left. It went something like...
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Only Sane Employee / int_7460586f	comment	Lana Kane of Archer, especially in the later seasons. Everyone else is either too self-serving, too insane, or both to actually get into the business of saving the world. Archer especially is such a womanizer and an incompetent buffoon that Lana is the only reason Archer's feet are pulled from the proverbial fire more than once.
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Only Sane Employee / int_7c2738f0	comment	In Final Fantasy VII: Machinabridged, Shinra consists of morons, psychopaths, moronic psychopaths, and Reeve Tuesti.
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Only Sane Employee / int_7c4f1adb	comment	Our Miss Brooks: Miss Brooks is oftentimes the only reliable person at Madison High School. Surprisingly often she is called upon to get Principal Osgood Conklin out of trouble or alternatively to stand up to his dictatorial edicts, i.e. "Blue Goldfish", "Public Property on Parade", "School on Saturday", "Wakeup Plan". Other times, she's just around to save the day for a student, i.e. "Stuffed Gopher" and "Two Way Stretch Snodgrass".
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Only Sane Employee / int_7d8c61a2	comment	In Star Wars: The Old Republic, Light Sided Imperial players tend to come across as being this for the Empire. In-universe, Keeper claims that this is Imperial Intelligence's real job, to just let the Sith do their thing and the military go ahead and play soldier, while Intelligence cleans up the mess they leave behind and keep the Empire actually running in the meantime. Immediately after Intelligence is disbanded things go south for the Empire in a hurry. Darth Malgus rebels, splitting the Empire in two, the Emperor gets killed and the Empire loses several key battles throughout the galaxy, among them Corellia. It gets so bad that Darth Marr has to send the player on a suicide mission to Makeb to get Isotope-5 so the Empire gets a chance at survival. It's not only implied but extremely likely none of this would have been necessary if Imperial Intelligence had been there to keep things in check. The mere fact that Darth Marr even knows about Makeb is simply dumb luck as Darth Marr informs Imperial Agent players that he only knew that Isotope-5 had been found on Makeb due to files he found in Keeper's office before Intelligence was liquidated.
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Only Sane Employee / int_82439e64	comment	On The Office (US), the employees at Dunder-Mifflin can be grouped into "sane" and "insane", although this definition is fluid and many characters have drifted over time. Notably, many characters who started out very sane have since dove off the deep end (Jan, Ryan, and Toby, though he recovered). Some characters who are insane have flashes of sanity or at least competence (Michael, Angela, Andy, and even Dwight), and some characters are sane but helpless (Phyllis) or apathetic (Stanley, Darryl). Jim and Pam are usually portrayed as sane, though sometimes they let their flights of fancy get the better of them, and, as a recurring theme, whenever Jim finds himself in a leadership position, he is far less competent (since his worst fear is "becoming Michael"). By far the most rational, level-headed character in the office is Oscar, and in more recent seasons he has taken to pointing this out repeatedly. (He cites himself, Jim, Pam, and Toby as the "coalition of reason", and when Jim and Pam took their honeymoon, complained that the ratio of sane-to-insane employees was disrupted.) While Oscar is often shown as having more knowledge than anyone else, the job of looking after the insane characters falls squarely on Jim's shoulders. He had to defuse Michael's and Dwight's schemes for years. The clearest example is when he goes along as they prank another company branch because left to their own devices they would have used explosives. Oscar sometimes gives background comments, but he never misses work time to do damage control. In the final season Jim manages to trick Dwight into acting as his own Only Sane Employee. Dwight gets promoted to manager and Jim is the assistant to the manager. However, he convinced Dwight to also assume the role of the assistant to the assistant to the manager. This means that when Dwight has a crazy idea, he passes it to be implemented by Jim who passes it right back to Dwight who then realizes that it is crazy and abandons it. This works so well that by the end of the series, Dwight becomes a rather competent, reasonable, and sane manager. This plus some selective firings has the extra effect of reducing the level of crazy in the office by a massive amount. Played with to the point of inversion in the British version, where so far as can be determined most of the employees are reasonably sane (with one or two exceptions, such as Gareth); they just happen to be managed by a deluded, egocentric Attention Whore.
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Only Sane Employee / int_86c3beca	comment	In the world of Girl Genius, Moloch von Zinzer is literally this. Most of the people he works with and for are Sparks, with a tendency to slip into The Madness Place. von Zinzer is an Action Survivor Deadpan Snarker and usually the one who comes up with the most simple and effective solutions - like 'cut the power to the overloading machine about to kill us all'.
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Only Sane Employee / int_89726260	comment	Inverted Gaston Lagaffe: Gaston is the only dysfunctional employee, but he is crazy enough to turn everyone's job into this trope. Fantasio (and later Prunelle) spends most of his time trying to get Gaston to work. And then when Gaston tries to work, he just screws it all up.
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Only Sane Employee / int_89bf8ce	comment	30 Rock: The former Trope Namer is Liz Lemon. Her day-to-day life as head writer of the Show Within the Show involves keeping two divas from killing each other, dealing with a Meddling Executive and managing the childish band of writers. However, in her private life, she's just as eccentric and misguided as the rest of the cast. To a lesser extent, Pete is too, as he has to take care of Liz when she goes off the rails herself, as well as (apparently) dealing with the NBC pages. Although in later seasons, Pete seems to be going off the deep end himself, more so than usual.
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Only Sane Employee / int_8d7f29ec	comment	Glee:
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Only Sane Employee / int_8e68cca9	comment	The eponymous Digger ends up having to do this with, to be honest, nearly everyone she meets in this webcomic, although it's implied the Statue of Ganesh and Boneclaw Mother keep their respective flock/tribe in line.
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Only Sane Employee / int_8ee157c4	comment	The Heilwald Loophole: Nearly every single member of the Heilwald Klinikum staff is a Mad Doctor utilizing questionable methods of varying degree to "help" their patients. The only exception is Nurse Helene who, barring her increased walk speed, is the only member to not be both under some effect of Body Horror and hostile to the player. She is aware that the rest of the staff went mad and that she is the only person actually doing her job properly.
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Only Sane Employee / int_8fa77cb6	comment	Discussed in-universe in Doing It Right This Time, when Misato muses that while she's doing something about the fact that There Are No Therapists on staff to deal with how badly messed up her Pilots are, it might be a good idea to get one for everyone else so they can add a "Designated Sane Person" to the organisational chart.
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Only Sane Employee / int_8fc868f5	comment	Laura from The Brittas Empire. Most of the problems come from Mr. Brittas, but the other staff are plenty dysfunctional, too.
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Only Sane Employee / int_90552223	comment	In Stranger Than Fiction, Karen Eiffel is given a personal assistant to help her out with writer's block and make sure she finishes the book (key word: given). She does not want a personal assistant, and she does not want to be forced into finishing her book, she just wants to let it happen organically. Her publishers, on the other hand, want another book to sell.
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Only Sane Employee / int_959e6c9	comment	Dragon Quest IV: While Ragnar isn't super sane, he's clearly the only competent member of Burland's army. Thankfully, he's very competent.
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Only Sane Employee / int_9645b099	comment	Lorna Dilbrook from Newshounds, especially in the comic's first incarnation. Then again, as with Kermit above in Live-Action TV, she is the one responsible for hiring everyone else, in this case to fulfill her dream of a news show starring all housepets.
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Only Sane Employee / int_98c961e2	comment	Helluva Boss. Among the demons in I.M.P., Moxxie seems to be the one that's the most on-track when it comes to their actual work, trying his best to keep everybody else in line and get their jobs done right, as well as struggling with his employer's rather unprofessional habit of barging in on he and Millie's life outside of work (Millie herself tends to roll with Blitzø's antics). It's a little subverted in the first episode, in which Moxxie is the one who fumbles at carrying out a hit... but this is due to him being the only one who's especially concerned with the potential innocence of their targets. So on the whole, he is very much this. It's even implied that he has heart problems due to all the insanity constantly going on around him. Fitting for his role as Moxxie's Foil, Collin serves this role for C.H.E.R.U.B. While he may be just as much of a Punch-Clock Hero as Cletus and Keenie in doing the job of trying to knowingly get downright awful people into heaven, he does the job for the sake of trying to bring some good in the process by trying to inspire their charge to live better in what time he has and possibly use his wealth for good, and his complete lack of and visible discomfort at his co-workers' vices like Fantastic Racism and vulgar dismissiveness towards their charge cements him as this.
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Only Sane Employee / int_998cbda3	comment	Daredevil (2015): Foggy Nelson is the only member of the Nelson & Murdock trio who doesn't have big secrets or an active desire to get involved in dangerous situations like Matt Murdock or Karen Page do.
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Only Sane Employee / int_9a0cb5f4	comment	Bob Belcher from Bob's Burgers is the Only Sane Man to his family (and the rest of the cast) so by extension, he's this trope to the titular family business as well. Often the family will propose some wild adventure, with Bob snarking that they'll have to close the restaurant and lose what little business they get to go out and do it.
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Only Sane Employee / int_9abbe09f	comment	Daníel from Næturvaktin is the only regular character who can do a decent job. His boss is a dictatorial bully who offends every customer he meets, and his only co-worker is a ditz who's usually either slacking off or (incompetently) trying to make his fortune in showbiz.
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Only Sane Employee / int_9b602c3f	comment	Deltarune has Pizzapants playing this role for ICE-E'S P"E"ZZA, a fast food joint introduced as being closed due to forcing all the employees to stand outside in mascot suits. His co-workers consist of Blue Ears, who has No Sense of Personal Space and regularly spills slushies on co-workers while giggling, The Warrior, who terrorizes customers with war chants and pounds the pizzas into blobs with 'THE WIZARD'S FIST', and Purple Guy, who is very enthusiastic about ICE-E and may or may not actually work there. He maintains a level of sanity despite this.
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Only Sane Employee / int_9e5f03e3	comment	Ally and Georgia were more or less this in Ally McBeal - though Georgia was clearly the more level-headed as Ally is completely bonkers in her personal life. This may be why Georgia was often paired with Richard in cases, trying to drive sense into a guy who was in it to make money and destroy the law as a bonus. By contrast, Ally usually worked well with John because she was the only one who understood his neuroses.
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Only Sane Employee / int_a183d57f	comment	Futurama: Leela is generally regarded as the most competent of the Planet Express crew due to her physical competence and tendency to save her crewmates from near-death. "Zapp Gets Cancelled" establishes that she's won the "Only Good Employee of the Month" award every single month since the award's inception because of this, though she's too dissatisfied with her job to appreciate it for a while. Depending on the Writer, Leela can lapse into insanity herself, generally tied to a Hair-Trigger Temper, in which case Hermes is usually depicted as the most rational and organized crewmate instead (and he's the only one who can keep the place organized).
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Only Sane Employee / int_a309575c	comment	Jonathan Creek: Jonathan deserves a special mention, as his day job is mentioned by name in the Real Life section below. He's also usually The Straight Man to Maddy or Carla.
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Only Sane Employee / int_a3c14f85	comment	Don't Look Up: Dr. Ogelthrope of the Planetary Defense Coordination Office is the only sane employee for the entire U.S. government! He helps Mindy and Kate from the get-go while pretty much everyone else in the Orlean administration obstructs the efforts to save the world, is a Jerkass, or both.
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Only Sane Employee / int_a3c9392	comment	In "Bandits in Your Grocer's Freezer"; Pete is seemingly the only employee taking his job seriously; assistant manager of the market and taking care of customers and the bandits camping out. Mary Stevenson is the market butcher and the only one at the bandit-removal brainstorming session to suggest calling the police until they finally come.
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Only Sane Employee / int_a976069a	comment	Zoe from Cthulhu Slippers is both literally and figuratively the only sane employee at Cthulhu Corp...at least so far. Everyone else is either a psychopath, a cultist, or an Eldritch Abomination.
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Only Sane Employee / int_af872a82	comment	Mina Murray in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. She even states that she is "In charge of this menagerie." Well, when your team consists of an old opium-addicted hunter, a science-pirate, an insane, lecherous invisible guy, and a wussy doctor who can turn into a rampaging behemoth, 'menagerie' is the only word to describe it. She takes it to the point that she's the de facto leader of the group, as she's the only one normal and grounded in reality enough to actually keep them together and pointed in a relatively useful direction.
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Only Sane Employee / int_b2c6c7a4	comment	In hololive the woman known as Friend A ("Yuujin A", or A-chan) tends to end up depicted this way whenever she appears, as she is not an actual idol but rather support staff (and a close friend of the group's original idol Sora, hence the moniker), though one who has become popular enough in her own right to have her own avatar design. Her occasional appearances are generally in collaborations with several others as an emcee, as she does not have her own channel on YouTube. That's the "employee" part — the "only sane" part comes from the fact that the actual idols in hololive routinely get into silly shenanigans and engage in behavior that is counter to the traditional image of a pure, wholesome "seiso" Japanese idol, while she herself does not (though that doesn't mean she doesn't get affected by it sometimes). This is more pronounced in the Holo no Graffiti shorts where each members' tendencies during livestreams are put into skits and more deliberately invoked — skits where A-chan shows up usually have her act as a normal human trying to make sure the group's idols are doing well and keeping up with their work, which in the shorts is...rather rare.
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Only Sane Employee / int_b30ae4db	comment	Game of Thrones: This is the role of Hand of the King. It's even lampshaded in the first episode: In the books, there's an actual saying in Westeros "The King eats and the Hand takes the shit". The series renders this as the more accurate, though somewhat less poetic, "The King shits and the Hand wipes." Tyrion and later Tywin both take this role when serving as Hand of the King for King Joffrey. Dealing with insane kings isn't particularly new for Tywin, who had previously served as the Hand for Mad King Aerys. When Tywin served for Aerys, it was the most peaceful and prosperous period in recent history, which says something. Davos Seaworth is this for Stannis' faction, caught between his inflexibly righteous boss and his religiously fanatical co-advisor.
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Only Sane Employee / int_b41cd8a7	comment	This is the premise of Chad Vader, although it's highly debatable who the sane one is.
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Only Sane Employee / int_b6b24d18	comment	Jen in The IT Crowd — in fact, the first episode has her appointed head of I.T. by the semi-sane CEO, Denholm Reynholm; despite her lack of computer knowledge, she realizes her people skills would help raise the status of the department. Some episodes play with this by having her go completely off-the-rails over something which, although apparently more 'normal' than the geeky lifestyle she is surrounded by, she goes really overboard in taking seriously, leading to Roy or even Moss having to hold the sanity ball.
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Only Sane Employee / int_ba666650	comment	If you take your shirt off in Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater and call SIGNT, Snake will ask if he can take off his pants. SIGNT reacts in disgust and wonders if he's the only sane man in the unit. For the record, the rest of the unit consists of a British officer obsessed with James Bond and his own Britishness, a doctor obsessed with B-movies and cloning, and a veteran soldier obsessed with eating everything that moves. On the antagonist side, we got The Boss, who is basically a paragon of sanity among the... eccentricities that is Cobra. Not to mention babysitting Volgin and Ocelot, among other things. And it wasn't always success for her (coughDavy Crockettcough).
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Only Sane Employee / int_bfa1d565	comment	Poor, poor Paul Lewiston and Carl Sack in Boston Legal. Shirley Schmidt is usually this in regards to Alan and Denny, and is the serious, sober face of Crane, Poole, and Schmidt, but seeing as how her first appearance onscreen was an innuendo-laden bit of banter with Alan Shore in the men's room, well...
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Only Sane Employee / int_c353ea41	comment	Jurassic Park: In Jurassic Park, Robert Muldoon isn't arrogant like Wu, idealistic like Hammond, or selfish like Nedry; he's all too aware of the dangers of Jurassic Park and the raptors in particular. He knows they could likely never be displayed as park animals and should all be destroyed. Hammond dismisses him as an alarmist, but a lot of deaths could have been avoided if his warnings had been heeded. The same applies in Jurassic World to Velociraptor trainers Owen Grady and Barry. While park manager Claire views the dinosaurs as assets and Hoskins wants to use the raptors and I. rex as field weapons, these two continually argue that they're living, breathing animals that have personalities and instincts, sometimes very dangerous and unpredictable ones. Yet again, a lot of death and destruction could have been prevented if the higher-ups had listened to Owen's and other trainers' warnings.
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Only Sane Employee / int_c7912cea	comment	Sane isn't really the best word to describe her, but Heloise on Jimmy Two-Shoes greatly overcompensates for her boss Lucius' incompetence at ensuring Misery Inc. makes people miserable. When she got fired in a Season 1 episode, Lucius quickly learns he cannot control any of her misery-making inventions, and everything falls apart.
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Only Sane Employee / int_cc510e3f	comment	Bar Rescue: Even in the bars where Taffer can barely stand the majority of the staff, there are usually one or two employees whom he regards as being worthwhile. In a few instances, these employees are also the resident Butt Monkeys simply because everyone else is so dysfunctional that they take it out on them. Case in point: Bryan (a.k.a. "Syck"), the bouncer at O'Face (who keeps trying to talk owners into listening to what Taffer has to tell them, and ends up getting fired after the episode airs), and Cerissa, the server (who gets unjustly fired after she's physically assaulted by her own manager and returns to her job only to see the manager, whom Taffer forced the owners to fire, return to the bar after he had walked out), in "Punch-Drunk and Trailer-Trashed." In the case of Pat's Cocktails, it was the two female bartenders who called Taffer in to help their bar, out of desperation over the combination of absentee owner and feckless manager, which was dragging the establishment down. Taffer had one of the bartenders deliberately serve nearly eighty free drinks over the course of a hour during recon to hammer home the point that the manager just didn't care what was going on.
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Only Sane Employee / int_ccf0819f	comment	WWE agent Adam Pearce is seen as this in 2020. Generally a no-nonsense straight-to-the-point guy in terms of command, Pearce was tasked by his boss Vince McMahon to dress up as "Postman Pearce" to get Depraved Kids' Show Host Bray Wyatt in the Firefly Fun House to sign a contract (with McMahon proudly stating himself a fan of Wyatt's puppet sidekick Huskus the Pig). Pearce's reaction after getting a cackling Wyatt to sign the contract ("I know that I just signed a COUPLE OF DEATH WARRANTS!")? Walking out of the FFH like nothing happened!
Only Sane Employee / int_ccf0819f	featureApplicability	1.0
Only Sane Employee / int_ccf0819f	featureConfidence	1.0
Vince McMahon (Wrestling)	hasFeature	Only Sane Employee / int_ccf0819f
Only Sane Employee / int_d0799db8	type	Only Sane Employee
Only Sane Employee / int_d0799db8	comment	In Jurassic Park, Robert Muldoon isn't arrogant like Wu, idealistic like Hammond, or selfish like Nedry; he's all too aware of the dangers of Jurassic Park and the raptors in particular. He knows they could likely never be displayed as park animals and should all be destroyed. Hammond dismisses him as an alarmist, but a lot of deaths could have been avoided if his warnings had been heeded.
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Only Sane Employee / int_d0799db8	featureConfidence	1.0
JurassicPark	hasFeature	Only Sane Employee / int_d0799db8
Only Sane Employee / int_d46cc708	type	Only Sane Employee
Only Sane Employee / int_d46cc708	comment	Edd (Double-D) from Ed, Edd n Eddy is the only one capable of making the Eds' schemes even come close to working. Ed is a complete moron and Eddy is a greedy self-serving jerk; Double-D has to pick up all of the slack as a result. Even then, Failure Is the Only Option when one of Ed or Eddy's many Fatal Flaws come into play.
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Only Sane Employee / int_d46cc708	featureConfidence	1.0
Ed, Edd n Eddy	hasFeature	Only Sane Employee / int_d46cc708
Only Sane Employee / int_dbce0953	type	Only Sane Employee
Only Sane Employee / int_dbce0953	comment	Pikmin series: Captain Olimar is this to Hocotate Freight. Of the other two known people who work there, Olimar's coworker Louie is a gluttonous Cloudcuckoolander who has a bad habit throughout the series of wandering off to do his own thing and endangering others, while the President is a Large Ham that accidentally gets involved with Obviously Evil Loan Sharks. Olimar by contrast is more down-to-earth and competant than either of them, and is even called the company's "only employee of any merit" in the intro to Pikmin 2.
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Only Sane Employee / int_dbce0953	featureConfidence	1.0
Pikmin (Video Game)	hasFeature	Only Sane Employee / int_dbce0953
Only Sane Employee / int_e552789	type	Only Sane Employee
Only Sane Employee / int_e552789	comment	Dennis in Auf Wiedersehen, Pet. Usually.
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Only Sane Employee / int_e552789	featureConfidence	1.0
Auf Wiedersehen, Pet	hasFeature	Only Sane Employee / int_e552789
Only Sane Employee / int_e67a7d6c	type	Only Sane Employee
Only Sane Employee / int_e67a7d6c	comment	Negima! Magister Negi Magi: Chisame's job description: Hack computers, make snarky comments about everything around her, and keep Negi from doing something pointlessly reckless.
Only Sane Employee / int_e67a7d6c	featureApplicability	1.0
Only Sane Employee / int_e67a7d6c	featureConfidence	1.0
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Only Sane Employee / int_eb66065e	type	Only Sane Employee
Only Sane Employee / int_eb66065e	comment	In A Confederacy of Dunces, Mr. Gonzalez is the office manager of Levy Pants, who works with the manipulative Ignatius J Reilly, the senile Miss Trixie, and whose boss Mr. Levy, has no real interest in keeping the business alive, except for trying to keep Mr. Gonzalez employed.
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Only Sane Employee / int_eb66065e	featureConfidence	1.0
A Confederacy of Dunces	hasFeature	Only Sane Employee / int_eb66065e
Only Sane Employee / int_ee829854	type	Only Sane Employee
Only Sane Employee / int_ee829854	comment	Trudy in House of Anubis does the actual day-to-day running of the house with no help from Victor, whose only concern is keeping his secrets secret.
Only Sane Employee / int_ee829854	featureApplicability	1.0
Only Sane Employee / int_ee829854	featureConfidence	1.0
House of Anubis	hasFeature	Only Sane Employee / int_ee829854
Only Sane Employee / int_f0841a69	type	Only Sane Employee
Only Sane Employee / int_f0841a69	comment	In Primeval, Captain Becker is flat-out told that this is his job description. Babysit the scientists, don't get sucked up in their insane theories, don't let them get themselves killed, and, if he has time, review the security of the base.
Only Sane Employee / int_f0841a69	featureApplicability	1.0
Only Sane Employee / int_f0841a69	featureConfidence	1.0
Primeval	hasFeature	Only Sane Employee / int_f0841a69
Only Sane Employee / int_f5ad528a	type	Only Sane Employee
Only Sane Employee / int_f5ad528a	comment	Only a few of the captains under Yamamoto in Please Stop Eating The Hell Butterflies are this, as the rest range from 'disturbed but do their jobs well' to 'disturbed, and they only stay on the payroll because we don't have better options/they'd go on a rampage if we didn't keep a close eye on them'. These are the Captains Ukitake and Konamura, as well as Yamamoto's Vice Captain Sasakibe.
Only Sane Employee / int_f5ad528a	featureApplicability	1.0
Only Sane Employee / int_f5ad528a	featureConfidence	1.0
Please Stop Eating The Hell Butterflies (Fanfic)	hasFeature	Only Sane Employee / int_f5ad528a
Only Sane Employee / int_f8705c18	type	Only Sane Employee
Only Sane Employee / int_f8705c18	comment	In Hellsing, unlike the rest of Millennium, the Doktor has more orthodox goals, like continuing his research. He sometimes gets exasperated with his more eccentric colleagues and their antics. Considering his research will in the end benefit mankind, he is 'somewhat better than the rest of them. The fact that he's the Only Sane Employee while still being a Nazi scientist in a perpetually blood-stained lab coat says more about the rest of Millennium than it does about the Doktor. However, given he gets pretty pissed when Walter starts badmouthing them as a group, he holds some level of camaraderie among his more unstable colleagues along with being the right-hand man of the Major.
Only Sane Employee / int_f8705c18	featureApplicability	1.0
Only Sane Employee / int_f8705c18	featureConfidence	1.0
Hellsing (Manga)	hasFeature	Only Sane Employee / int_f8705c18
Only Sane Employee / int_fe88479b	type	Only Sane Employee
Only Sane Employee / int_fe88479b	comment	Elliot from The Snail Factory.
Only Sane Employee / int_fe88479b	featureApplicability	1.0
Only Sane Employee / int_fe88479b	featureConfidence	1.0
The Snail Factory (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Only Sane Employee / int_fe88479b

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Sound of the Sky / int_95cb7004	type	Only Sane Employee
Damage Control (Comic Book) / int_95cb7004	type	Only Sane Employee
Johnny the Homicidal Maniac (Comic Book) / int_95cb7004	type	Only Sane Employee
A Guide To Not Making Your Tribute Suck / Fan Fic	seeAlso	Only Sane Employee
MinesOfDragonMountain	seeAlso	Only Sane Employee
Mobile Fighter Evangelion / Fan Fic / int_95cb7004	type	Only Sane Employee
Beanis Cinematic Universe (Fanfic) / int_95cb7004	type	Only Sane Employee
Helluva Dad (Fanfic) / int_95cb7004	type	Only Sane Employee
Mines of Dragon Mountain (Fanfic) / int_95cb7004	type	Only Sane Employee
Nymeria's War (Fanfic) / int_95cb7004	type	Only Sane Employee
Yet again, with a little extra help (Fanfic) / int_95cb7004	type	Only Sane Employee
Carry On Matron / int_95cb7004	type	Only Sane Employee
Cemetery Man / int_95cb7004	type	Only Sane Employee
Empire Records / int_95cb7004	type	Only Sane Employee
Firebird 2015 AD / int_95cb7004	type	Only Sane Employee
Office Space / int_95cb7004	type	Only Sane Employee
Stranger Than Fiction / int_95cb7004	type	Only Sane Employee
The China Syndrome / int_95cb7004	type	Only Sane Employee
The Pentagon Wars / int_95cb7004	type	Only Sane Employee
Waiting... / int_95cb7004	type	Only Sane Employee
A Confederacy of Dunces / int_95cb7004	type	Only Sane Employee
Rumo & His Miraculous Adventures / int_95cb7004	type	Only Sane Employee
The Last Dragonslayer / int_95cb7004	type	Only Sane Employee
The Saga of Tanya the Evil / int_95cb7004	type	Only Sane Employee
Warhammer: Time of Legends / int_95cb7004	type	Only Sane Employee
ActionChatroom	seeAlso	Only Sane Employee
LadyNorbert	seeAlso	Only Sane Employee
StrangeLittleBand	seeAlso	Only Sane Employee
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Bad Lip Reading (Music) / int_95cb7004	type	Only Sane Employee
DoofQuest (Roleplay) / int_95cb7004	type	Only Sane Employee
El Cafe du Watchog (Roleplay) / int_95cb7004	type	Only Sane Employee
Hogwarts Hocus (Roleplay) / int_95cb7004	type	Only Sane Employee
AlreadyBeenChewedNews	seeAlso	Only Sane Employee
American Chopper / int_95cb7004	type	Only Sane Employee
American Pickers / int_95cb7004	type	Only Sane Employee
Auf Wiedersehen, Pet / int_95cb7004	type	Only Sane Employee
Bar Rescue / int_95cb7004	type	Only Sane Employee
Big Time Rush / int_95cb7004	type	Only Sane Employee
Brooklyn Nine-Nine / int_95cb7004	type	Only Sane Employee
Chuck / int_95cb7004	type	Only Sane Employee
Great News / int_95cb7004	type	Only Sane Employee
Harry's Law / int_95cb7004	type	Only Sane Employee
Hotel Hell / int_95cb7004	type	Only Sane Employee
House / int_95cb7004	type	Only Sane Employee
Jonathan Creek / int_95cb7004	type	Only Sane Employee
Les Guignols de l'Info / int_95cb7004	type	Only Sane Employee
Osmosis / int_95cb7004	type	Only Sane Employee
Party Down / int_95cb7004	type	Only Sane Employee
Primeval / int_95cb7004	type	Only Sane Employee
Scorpion / int_95cb7004	type	Only Sane Employee
The Brittas Empire / int_95cb7004	type	Only Sane Employee
The Muppet Show / int_95cb7004	type	Only Sane Employee
The Young and the Restless / int_95cb7004	type	Only Sane Employee
30 Rock / int_95cb7004	type	Only Sane Employee
Ugly Betty / int_95cb7004	type	Only Sane Employee
WKRP in Cincinnati / int_95cb7004	type	Only Sane Employee
Yo soy Betty, la fea / int_95cb7004	type	Only Sane Employee
Zoey 101 / int_95cb7004	type	Only Sane Employee
Action Chatroom (Video Game) / int_95cb7004	type	Only Sane Employee
Five Nights at Fuckboy's (Video Game) / int_95cb7004	type	Only Sane Employee
Hypnospace Outlaw (Video Game) / int_95cb7004	type	Only Sane Employee
Miss Management (Video Game) / int_95cb7004	type	Only Sane Employee
Five Nights at Fuckboy's / Videogame	seeAlso	Only Sane Employee
Echo Chamber (Web Video) / int_95cb7004	type	Only Sane Employee
Learning Town (Web Video) / int_95cb7004	type	Only Sane Employee
Mobile Suit Gundam Abridged (Web Video) / int_95cb7004	type	Only Sane Employee
Random Encounters (Web Video) / int_95cb7004	type	Only Sane Employee
RedLetterMedia (Web Video) / int_95cb7004	type	Only Sane Employee
The Guild (Web Video) / int_95cb7004	type	Only Sane Employee
The Pop Arena (Web Video) / int_95cb7004	type	Only Sane Employee
Olympus Overdrive (Webcomic) / int_95cb7004	type	Only Sane Employee
Otaku Dad (Webcomic) / int_95cb7004	type	Only Sane Employee
The Onion (Website) / int_95cb7004	type	Only Sane Employee
FETCH! with Ruff Ruffman / int_95cb7004	type	Only Sane Employee
Superjail! / int_95cb7004	type	Only Sane Employee
The Legend of Zelda (1989) / int_95cb7004	type	Only Sane Employee
Ugly Americans / int_95cb7004	type	Only Sane Employee
VeggieTales / int_95cb7004	type	Only Sane Employee
Better Off Ted / int_95cb7004	type	Only Sane Employee

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