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Hardly Working (Web Video)
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Hardly Working is an online series of shorts taking place in the office from which the CollegeHumor website is run. The series is written by and stars the CH staff. The first shorts were ten-second-long, one-joke bits shot with a cam-corder for fun, but as their popularity grew they expanded into full sketches several minutes long and shot with multiple professional cameras.Most of the shorts take place in the context of supposed everyday life working at the website's office. The most prominent subseries within Hardly Working is Jake and Amir, a Boke and Tsukkomi Routine between the two titular characters.See it here. | |
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Does This Remind You of Anything? | |
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Does This Remind You of Anything?: In "Fired Up," Ricky attempting to fire an employee is played as if he's asking her out, complete with him being nervous, asking his friends and hers for a second opinion (to which they eagerly encourage him) and finally being gently turned down by his target. In "Bully," Streeter was bitten by a bully as a child and now unwillingly transforms into one every time he hears nu-metal. "Bang Bus" plays Dan and Pat breaking it to Jake that the Bang Bus is staged like two parents telling their child that Santa isn't real, complete with a Metaphorgotten moment at the end. In "Hiccups," the office is prejudiced against "hiccuppers," which leads to Pat being shunned, mistreated and finding his desk defaced with water glasses when he's caught hiccupping. "She's Such a Butterphone." "Should We Do a Bitcoin Sketch?" makes the staff's discussion about whether to write a sketch about Bitcoin sound like a typical discussion about Bitcoin itself. | |
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Tempting Fate | |
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Tempting Fate: Becomes an Overly Long Gag in the "Final Destination" series when Owen walks into the middle of the street unprompted and announces, "I've never felt so alive!," only for a car to drive past behind him. Everyone—including Owen, still standing in the street—starts to chat about how long it's taking the inevitable to occur. In "The Guy Who Always Talks About Hot Girls," Trapp gets fed up with the guy in question and finally explodes, "I would rather talk about literally anything else!" | |
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Right Behind Me | |
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Right Behind Me: Parodied in All Nighter He's Right Behind Me, with person after person getting revealed until the speaker realizes that he himself is actually the person whom he's been talking about. | |
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No, You Hang Up First | |
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No, You Hang Up First: Parodied in the opening of "Makeover Montage": | |
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Hypocritical Heartwarming | |
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Hypocritical Heartwarming: "Only I Can Insult My Mom." | |
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The Game Plays You | |
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"Clue" features a Jumanjiesque game of Cluedo in which Murph, the murderer, starts doing this to the other players whenever they make a wrong guess. | |
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Tonight, Someone Kisses | |
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Tonight, Someone Kisses: Parodied in "All-Nighter: Rap Intro" with Lin-Manuel Miranda announcing that Jake and Amir are "finally gonna kiss" (to which they gamely oblige). | |
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You Meddling Kids | |
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You Meddling Kids: "Phantom After Dark": | |
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Dead All Along | |
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Dead All Along: Streeter in "Camouflage." | |
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The Cameo | |
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The Cameo: Lin-Manuel Miranda, rapper and Broadway lyricist, shows up in "Rap Battle." Parodied in the episode "Jump the Shark," where Tony Hawk supposedly shows up. | |
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Wicked Cultured | |
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Wicked Cultured: Parodied with the Phantom of the Office; he has a catacomb full of priceless art, but it's equally commingled with cheap junk, and he discusses it in his typical Sophisticated as Hell style. | |
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Overly Narrow Superlative | |
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Overly Narrow Superlative: In "Perpetual Motion Machine" Owen initially calls the office toy he mistakes for a Perpetual Motion Machine the "greatest invention in history," before emending the statement (as it slows and then stops) to "greatest invention in this room" and finally "greatest invention on my desk" (which he reconsiders upon realizing there's a stapler there too). | |
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Lady Macbeth | |
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Lady Macbeth: "Lady Macbething", in which Murph and Owen tried to convince each other to kill Sam. | |
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Heterosexual Life-Partners | |
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Heterosexual Life-Partners: Amir thinks he and Jake are this. Jake is perpetually disgusted and horrified by him. | |
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Stealth Pun | |
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In "Fired Up," Amir says of Ricky, "He's so boss." | |
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Wrong Genre Savvy | |
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Wrong Genre Savvy: In the "Final Destination" series, everyone's fine with overloading Murph with the cinderblocks he's plotting to kill Sam with, assuming that his status as "the psychic main character in this series" will grant him Plot Armor. They must not realize it's a comedy sketch. | |
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Egg Sitting | |
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Egg Sitting: "The Egg," with the twist that the eggs run out and Dan is given a fully-grown man to take care of instead. When Dan finally drops him, he turns out to have been an egg the whole time. | |
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Parodied | |
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Parodied again in "The Egg" when a 30-second montage covering eight months is followed up by Sarah thanking an exhausted videographer for "editing six thousand hours of footage into that very short highlight reel." | |
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Depending on the Writer | |
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Depending on the Writer: The personalities of both Amir and Jake in Hardly Working differ somewhat from their characterization in their own series, ironically with Jake frequently being an obnoxious idiot and Amir often as the straight man. | |
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No-Holds-Barred Beatdown | |
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In "New Guy," the guy impersonating new programmer John Zanussi. Even after he's violently clobbered most of the staff, Sarah banks on the idea that he'll stop at hitting a girl and tries to flirt with him, getting a mop handle to the face for her troubles. | |
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Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow | |
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Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow: Jeff in Flash Forward. | |
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Small Name, Big Ego | |
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Small Name, Big Ego: Ricky is portrayed as this, having a full scale picture of himself in his office and scattered around the office in general. He also is his own favorite employee, as shown in "Ricky's Diary". | |
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Everyone Went to School Together | |
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Everyone Went to School Together: "High School Dance." | |
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Violently Protective Girlfriend | |
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Violently Protective Girlfriend: Amir's "Overgrown Guy Girlfriend". Also counts as The Load. | |
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Makeover Montage | |
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Makeover Montage: Parodied. Sarah does one for David and Pat - into an ordinary black gown, which she says is the only thing she has. At the guys' insistence, she goes through the makeover montage. The resulting product in the end is that she looks a lot like Elphaba in a sweater. It doesn't help that midway through they accidentally segue into a Training Montage. | |
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Tomboy and Girly Girl | |
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Tomboy and Girly Girl: Apparently, Emily and Anu, although Anu hasn't gotten much screen time thus far. | |
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Sophisticated as Hell | |
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Sophisticated as Hell: Much of the humor of the Phantom of the Office comes from hearing a character with the vocal register of a Wicked Cultured villain in the vein of the Phantom of the Opera or James Earl Jones' Darth Vader talk about mundane subjects or toss out Pretty Fly for a White Guy lines. In "Introspective Jake," Jake explains his romantic strategy: "Whenever I want somebody I just stand by a window and I look introspective as f—." In "3D Glasses" Pat realizes that the 3D glasses he took home from a movie make not just the visual effects in the film, but everyone around him, seem more "deep." "Business Kids" mixes professional language and concepts with childish terminology and priorities. Raph as a "rap snob," wearing a tweed jacket and gold spectacles and smoking a pipe while speaking in a pseudo-British intonation. | |
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Wacky Fratboy Hijinx | |
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Wacky Fratboy Hijinx: Spoofed in "Hangover" when Dan and Jake enthusiastically cheer what they take to be Streeter's hangover from the previous night's partying, even as it becomes clear that something is, in fact, very wrong with him and that he didn't drink at all ("Big Bear got crunked without knocking a single! One! Back!"), until it's revealed that he was bitten by a venomous spider and Dan and Jake cheer his death throes and then his funeral as if they're continued examples of this. | |
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Death as Comedy | |
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Death as Comedy: Die Hardly Working. | |
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Tomato in the Mirror | |
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Tomato in the Mirror: In "All-Nighter Hardly Working: He's Right Behind Me", Jeff gripes about Dan's disgusting behavior in the office, only to eventually realize that he's actually Dan. In "Is Grant Keith from Buzzfeed?" Trapp complains about all the Grants and Keiths in the office. | |
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Older Than They Look | |
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Older Than They Look: In "Age Hierarchy," Pat reveals that he's 37 years old, having lied about his age because he knew the others would freak out if they realized that his age was a prime number. | |
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Strange Minds Think Alike | |
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Strange Minds Think Alike: Almost a Running Gag among the staff, often accompanied by Finish Dialogue in Unison. | |
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Suicide as Comedy | |
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Suicide as Comedy: Frequent. | |
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Previously on… | |
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Previously on…: Parodied in "Last Week", which shows "previously ons" to numerous previous episodes that never happened. | |
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Training Montage | |
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It doesn't help that midway through they accidentally segue into a Training Montage. | |
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Pranking Montage | |
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Pranking Montage: "Soup'd" and "Office Goofarounds." | |
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Gift-Giving Gaffe | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_3324d1c8 | comment |
Gift-Giving Gaffe: "Gifts That Are Clearly For Yourself." | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_3324d1c8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_3324d1c8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_3324d1c8 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_33ba37ca | type |
Out with a Bang | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_33ba37ca | comment |
Out with a Bang: Brought up in "Final Destination" when Josh suggests that he and the other remnants of the Dwindling Party engineer themselves a Dying Moment of Awesome. | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_33ba37ca | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_33ba37ca | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_33ba37ca | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_340575a7 | type |
Girl on Girl Is Hot | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_340575a7 | comment |
Girl on Girl Is Hot: "My Two True Loves": | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_340575a7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_340575a7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_340575a7 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_34889673 | type |
Gender Flip | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_34889673 | comment |
Gender Flip: "Brotherhood of the Traveling Pants." | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_34889673 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_34889673 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_34889673 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_35a858b3 | type |
Cluster F-Bomb | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_35a858b3 | comment |
Cluster F-Bomb: In "Jeff Goes Christian Bale." In "3D Glasses," Pat's 3D glasses make all his coworkers appear "deeper." An apparent discussion between Jeff and Amir of the primitive quality of masculine behavior turns out to be just Jeff letting one of these loose while arm-wrestling Amir. | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_35a858b3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_35a858b3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_35a858b3 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_35ae6a23 | type |
Lethal Chef | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_35ae6a23 | comment |
Lethal Chef: Exaggerated with Dan and his Body Horror-inducing Eldritch Abomination family recipe "Beef Gurewitch." | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_35ae6a23 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_35ae6a23 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_35ae6a23 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_36754cc7 | type |
"Freaky Friday" Flip | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_36754cc7 | comment |
"Freaky Friday" Flip: Parodied in "Body Swap," in which David and Pat get electrocuted by the same computer charger, convincing David that they've switched bodies even though nothing has happened. | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_36754cc7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_36754cc7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_36754cc7 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_37c6c0f3 | type |
William Telling | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_37c6c0f3 | comment |
William Telling: Parodied in "Bullet Trick" when Pat and Dan run into so many technical difficulties (Pat's inability to balance the apple, Dan's gun getting jammed) that their audience completely loses interest (until, inevitably, Pat gets shot.) | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_37c6c0f3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_37c6c0f3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_37c6c0f3 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_3aec9e5e | type |
Properly Paranoid | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_3aec9e5e | comment |
In "Soda Prank," Murph believes that his Sprite has been tampered with on the grounds that it tastes "like dick skin." He's right. | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_3aec9e5e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_3aec9e5e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_3aec9e5e | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_3af4d3a3 | type |
Hollywood New England | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_3af4d3a3 | comment |
Hollywood New England: "Federal Maashals" features the College Humor office being raided by two Federal Marshals with incomprehensible Boston accents. The go around the office shouting "GO SAAHX" (Boston Red Sox), humming Dropkick Murphys riffs, asking David and Sarah confusing questions and beating other people up. | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_3af4d3a3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_3af4d3a3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_3af4d3a3 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_3b4185fb | type |
Stalker without a Crush | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_3b4185fb | comment |
Stalker without a Crush: "My Mom Is Stalking Me" highlights how actions that would be unsettling coming from anyone else are normal and even expected mom behavior. | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_3b4185fb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_3b4185fb | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_3b4185fb | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_3b920db5 | type |
Smart People Speak the Queen's English | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_3b920db5 | comment |
In "Book Club," Flugson, a self-assured, vaguely British-sounding professorial type who has lead a successful book club at the office for a month and earned the admiration of everyone involved despite being illiterate to the point of inability to recognize letters of the alphabet. | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_3b920db5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_3b920db5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_3b920db5 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_3c0a4666 | type |
Noodle Incident | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_3c0a4666 | comment |
Noodle Incident: In "Wolfenstein," Owen ends up attracting a Neo-Nazi gang to the office with his "Wolfenstein merchandise" (his grandfather's SS uniform and such). Turns out this was the third time that Neo-Nazis were accidentally invited to the office. | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_3c0a4666 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_3c0a4666 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_3c0a4666 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_3d2c6d30 | type |
Skewed Priorities | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_3d2c6d30 | comment |
Especially in "Emergency Flirt": A tiger is trying to break down the door and Pat is flirting with a cute animal control operator. | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_3d2c6d30 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_3d2c6d30 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_3d2c6d30 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_3db4ce23 | type |
And Then I Said | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_3db4ce23 | comment |
And Then I Said: The lead-in to many episodes. | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_3db4ce23 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_3db4ce23 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_3db4ce23 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_3e99481a | type |
Deadly Distant Finale | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_3e99481a | comment |
Deadly Distant Finale: Pretty much any "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue, perhaps most memorably "CollegeHumor Goes Hollywood": | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_3e99481a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_3e99481a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_3e99481a | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_3f4613f8 | type |
Smart People Wear Glasses | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_3f4613f8 | comment |
Raph as a "rap snob," wearing a tweed jacket and gold spectacles and smoking a pipe while speaking in a pseudo-British intonation. | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_3f4613f8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_3f4613f8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_3f4613f8 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_4028c4e | type |
Off to See the Wizard | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_4028c4e | comment |
Off to See the Wizard: "Wizard of Oz" pulls off a parody of the Stock Parody itself, as Sarah's coworkers all spend her entire dream arguing about how they've been cast. | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_4028c4e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_4028c4e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_4028c4e | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_437820dc | type |
Villainous Crush | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_437820dc | comment |
Villainous Crush: The Phantom of the Office, on Sarah. | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_437820dc | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_437820dc | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_437820dc | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_43c4e0c5 | type |
The Man Is Keeping Us Down | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_43c4e0c5 | comment |
The Man Is Keeping Us Down: Parodied in "Insulting The Boss With A Punk Rock Video," where Sam finds Murph and Streeter's Job Song "My Boss Is A Dick" and the two of them claim that the increasingly specific lyrics about him are actually metaphorical references to the American government, 9/11 conspiracy theories, and the Holocaust. | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_43c4e0c5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_43c4e0c5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_43c4e0c5 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_44fc28e8 | type |
Honor Before Reason | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_44fc28e8 | comment |
Honor Before Reason: In "New Guy," a Terminator-esque newcomer to the programming staff starts an inexplicable No-Holds-Barred Beatdown on the entire office. A terrified Pat nonetheless insists on emerging from his hiding place to introduce himself, as "it's his first day and he's probably really nervous." | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_44fc28e8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_44fc28e8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_44fc28e8 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_45007296 | type |
Metaphorgotten | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_45007296 | comment |
Metaphorgotten: In "Love and Sleep," Dan is irritated when Amir keeps debunking his comparison of love to sleep in Literal-Minded fashion. | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_45007296 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_45007296 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_45007296 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_455341fe | type |
Cradling Your Kill | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_455341fe | comment |
Cradling Your Kill: In "Butt Dial," Murph's butt achieves this by "holding" Josh in the crook of Murph's knees. Yes, Murph's butt was Josh's killer. | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_455341fe | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_455341fe | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_455341fe | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_460aa61c | type |
Gift of the Magi Plot | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_460aa61c | comment |
Gift of the Magi Plot: Spoofed in "Kovert Krampus," which revolves around a reverse Secret Santa in which office members give Cool And Unusual Punishments instead of gifts: | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_460aa61c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_460aa61c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_460aa61c | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_46e53efd | type |
Screams Like a Little Girl | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_46e53efd | comment |
Screams Like a Little Girl: Dan in "Dodgeball." And "Stomp." | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_46e53efd | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_46e53efd | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_46e53efd | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_479d4e5a | type |
Would Hurt a Child | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_479d4e5a | comment |
Would Hurt a Child: Parodied in "Man Baby" with Streeter playing Sarah's toddler-aged nephew. Ricky gets fed up with him and hits him in the face, to which Sarah berates him for hurting a child as Streeter hurls Ricky across the room and then carries her out the door. | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_479d4e5a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_479d4e5a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_479d4e5a | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_47fea76b | type |
Butt-Monkey | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_47fea76b | comment |
Butt-Monkey: The whole cast takes pretty equal turns in being the Butt-Monkey. Mostly Pat, though. | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_47fea76b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_47fea76b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_47fea76b | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_48b9731f | type |
Paper-Thin Disguise | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_48b9731f | comment |
Paper-Thin Disguise: In "Puppet Sarah", we see that apparently every single person in the office is totally oblivious to the fact that "Sarah" is actually a puppet on strings being controlled by a puppet of Amir being controlled by the real Amir, who is talking to Sarah on a cell phone. | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_48b9731f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_48b9731f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_48b9731f | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_4966bf38 | type |
Perpetual Motion Machine | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_4966bf38 | comment |
Perpetual Motion Machine: The All-Nighter skit of the same name has Owen and Murph mistake a Newton's Cradle-type office toy for one of these. | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_4966bf38 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_4966bf38 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_4966bf38 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_49d5dd74 | type |
"Cavemen vs. Astronauts" Debate | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_49d5dd74 | comment |
"Cavemen vs. Astronauts" Debate: In "Mothra," Sarah, Pat and Dan are way less interested in saving themselves from a Moth Menace than they are in debating whether it technically qualifies as a monster. When a scientist shows up armed with an insecticide powerful enough to defeat it, they stop him to make him answer the question once and for all only for him to be Killed Mid-Sentence. | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_49d5dd74 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_49d5dd74 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_49d5dd74 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_4acee1ed | type |
Fish out of Temporal Water | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_4acee1ed | comment |
Fish out of Temporal Water: Gale Beggy, the company's middle-aged, tech-challenged director of technology, turns out to be this...specifically, a time-traveler from the year 2551. So if anything you'd expect her knowledge to be more advanced. The "Time Traveler" series has Roderick, a vaguely Victorian-looking character with a permanent case of Mundane Object Amazement. He turns out to be an idiot employee of the actual inventor of time travel—he doesn't act as he does because he's unused to the era but because it's his normal personality. | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_4acee1ed | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_4acee1ed | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_4acee1ed | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_4d395e81 | type |
Harem Seeker | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_4d395e81 | comment |
Harem Seeker: Pat is looking for his "Two True Loves." | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_4d395e81 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_4d395e81 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_4d395e81 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_4e9fe57d | type |
Trauma Button | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_4e9fe57d | comment |
Trauma Button: "Trilogies." | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_4e9fe57d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_4e9fe57d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_4e9fe57d | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_4f995f60 | type |
Train-Station Goodbye | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_4f995f60 | comment |
Train-Station Goodbye: Parodied in Wait!, where no one can tell who they are saying goodbye to. | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_4f995f60 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_4f995f60 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_4f995f60 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_500696c6 | type |
Seinfeldian Conversation | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_500696c6 | comment |
Seinfeldian Conversation: Often used as a lead-in to sketches. | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_500696c6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_500696c6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_500696c6 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_501411f1 | type |
Experimented in College | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_501411f1 | comment |
"Experimenting (Literally) In College." | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_501411f1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_501411f1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_501411f1 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_504a1991 | type |
Body Horror | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_504a1991 | comment |
Body Horror: Beef Gurewitch is both an example in itself and a rich source of it, as when consumed it eats you from the inside. | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_504a1991 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_504a1991 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_504a1991 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_50f17484 | type |
Fake-Out Opening | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_50f17484 | comment |
Fake-Out Opening: "Phantom of the Office Romance" opens like a Jake and Amir episode before the Phantom magically replaces Amir at his desk, startling Jake. | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_50f17484 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_50f17484 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_50f17484 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_51a12a6f | type |
Hong Kong Dub | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_51a12a6f | comment |
Hong Kong Dub: Parodied in "Five Fingers of Death." | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_51a12a6f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_51a12a6f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_51a12a6f | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_534bc834 | type |
Escalating War | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_534bc834 | comment |
Escalating War: "Desk Toys" and "Check Please." | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_534bc834 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_534bc834 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_534bc834 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_541c0283 | type |
Jumping the Shark | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_541c0283 | comment |
Jumping the Shark: Parodied by way of exaggeration in the episode "Jump The Shark": A new Spin-Off is introduced, Tony Hawk appears as a Guest Star, two characters get engaged, they move to a new building, Amir gets replaced, and Jeff gives birth to a baby Supreme Court justice. Finally, the whole cast gets replaced at the very end with a younger cast. invoked | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_541c0283 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_541c0283 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_541c0283 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_54bb2c63 | type |
The Alleged Boss | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_54bb2c63 | comment |
In "Fired Up," Ricky attempting to fire an employee is played as if he's asking her out, complete with him being nervous, asking his friends and hers for a second opinion (to which they eagerly encourage him) and finally being gently turned down by his target. | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_54bb2c63 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_54bb2c63 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_54bb2c63 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_5501256b | type |
Reports of My Death Were Greatly Exaggerated | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_5501256b | comment |
Reports of My Death Were Greatly Exaggerated: "Cracking." | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_5501256b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_5501256b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_5501256b | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_566a3389 | type |
The Aggressive Drug Dealer | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_566a3389 | comment |
The Aggressive Drug Dealer: Seen in Amir and Streeter. | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_566a3389 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_566a3389 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_566a3389 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_56d216c6 | type |
Obsessive Love Letter | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_56d216c6 | comment |
Obsessive Love Letter: Parodied in the sketch "My Bloody Valentine". Sarah receives a bunch of increasingly disturbing love notes from Pat which contain stuff like "Bee mine?.... THAT WASN'T A QUESTION." Then he kills everyone who flirted with her, and Sarah herself. | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_56d216c6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_56d216c6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_56d216c6 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_5b4573b1 | type |
Near-Death Experience | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_5b4573b1 | comment |
Near-Death Experience: In "Spoiler Alerts", Amir has one (complete with It Is Not Your Time) and gets yelled at by a spoiler-avoidant Streeter and Sarah for describing it: | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_5b4573b1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_5b4573b1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_5b4573b1 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_5c98d100 | type |
One of the Boys | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_5c98d100 | comment |
One of the Boys: Sarah. | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_5c98d100 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_5c98d100 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_5c98d100 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_5d753b19 | type |
The Smurfette Principle | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_5d753b19 | comment |
The Smurfette Principle: Sarah is portrayed most of the time as being the only girl in the office, with most of the guys there having a crush on her. Exemplified wonderfully in "Sarah's Revenge". Slightly averted with Emily and Anu. (And now apparently Elaine.) There are several other women visible in the background of many of the videos as well, most often in large shots of the office or in meetings. They are almost never addressed or acknowledged, though. Typically, they have little to no impact in the video (and don't have any lines), but some videos avert this to varying degrees, such as "Sarah's Revenge", "Fired Up", and Jake and Amir's "Dating Coach". Averted with the late 2010s cast, which features a number of women including Katie, Rekha, Lily, Carolyn and Jess. | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_5d753b19 | featureApplicability |
-1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_5d753b19 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_5d753b19 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_5e13dc69 | type |
Competition Freak | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_5e13dc69 | comment |
Competition Freak: "The Guy Who Needs To Win Everything." | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_5e13dc69 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_5e13dc69 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_5e13dc69 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_5eecd64c | type |
Oh, No... Not Again! | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_5eecd64c | comment |
Oh, No... Not Again!: Apparently, the staff have magically deaged themselves while changing the clock for Daylight Savings Time twice, accidentally invited Neo-Nazis into the office three times and accidentally moved offices at least twice. | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_5eecd64c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_5eecd64c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_5eecd64c | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_5efd4d9c | type |
Glasses Curiosity | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_5efd4d9c | comment |
Glasses Curiosity: Parodied via exaggeration in "Glasses," where Dan's coworkers push him into letting them try on not only his glasses, but his shoes, his clothes, his skin and his bones. | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_5efd4d9c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_5efd4d9c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_5efd4d9c | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_5f505b82 | type |
I Was Beaten by a Girl | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_5f505b82 | comment |
I Was Beaten by a Girl: Parodied in "Robot Girlfriend," in which Jeff unwittingly dates a robot who keeps inflicting severe pain on Jake. Pat and Dan completely overlook her obviously superhuman strength in favor of mocking Jake: | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_5f505b82 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_5f505b82 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_5f505b82 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_60f92ddd | type |
Oireland | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_60f92ddd | comment |
Oireland: When the "Punctuation Recession" leads to the office having to cut back on punctuation marks, the cutting of hyphens from the budget means that Streeter is downgraded from being Irish-American to simply Irish. Specifically, violent Fighting Irish. | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_60f92ddd | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_60f92ddd | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_60f92ddd | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_6378fed9 | type |
Stay with Me Until I Die | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_6378fed9 | comment |
Stay with Me Until I Die: Played for Laughs in "Bomb," when, since Jeff is Strapped to a Bomb, his friends are somewhat understandably reluctant to accept this proposal. | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_6378fed9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_6378fed9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_6378fed9 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_63b02752 | type |
Hair-Trigger Temper | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_63b02752 | comment |
Hair-Trigger Temper: Murph. | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_63b02752 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_63b02752 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_63b02752 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_648fe274 | type |
But for Me, It Was Tuesday | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_648fe274 | comment |
But for Me, It Was Tuesday: In "Standoff" when a gang member accuses David of having killed his kid sister in a drive-by: | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_648fe274 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_648fe274 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_648fe274 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_6774150c | type |
If I Can't Have You… | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_6774150c | comment |
If I Can't Have You…: Pat in "My Bloody Valentine" plays a possessive sociopath who kills Sarah after previously murdering everyone in the office who flirted with her on Valentine's Day. It backfires on him, as she wanted to ask him out before he stabbed her fatally. | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_6774150c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_6774150c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_6774150c | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_678a72a9 | type |
And a Diet Coke | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_678a72a9 | comment |
And a Diet Coke: At the end of "Brotherhood of the Traveling Pants," Streeter, hurt because his friends broke it to him that he's the only guy in the group too big to wear the pants, tearfully follows up his pizza order with a request for a 2-liter bottle of Diet Coke. | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_678a72a9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_678a72a9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_678a72a9 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_67f34057 | type |
The Pig-Pen | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_67f34057 | comment |
The Pigpen: "Sticky Kids." | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_67f34057 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_67f34057 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_67f34057 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_68068108 | type |
Evil Laugh | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_68068108 | comment |
Evil Laugh: Sarah has a few, most notably in "Sarah's Revenge." Murph in "Clue." | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_68068108 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_68068108 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_68068108 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_697b5232 | type |
Those Wacky Nazis | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_697b5232 | comment |
Those Wacky Nazis: In "Wolfenstein", Owen finds a trunk full of Nazi paraphernalia belonging to his grandfather, but mistakenly believes the old man is a Wolfenstein fan. It gets worse when he accidentally invites neo-Nazis, thinking they are an underground Wolfenstein fan club. This being the third time neo-Nazis were invited to the office, HR asks everyone to watch a movie about the Holocaust. At the suggestion of watching the first five minutes of X-Men, Owen (garbed in his grandfather's Schutzstaffel uniform) refuses as the treatment of mutants in the movie is awful. | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_697b5232 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_697b5232 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_697b5232 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_69cc2a27 | type |
Hilariously Abusive Childhood | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_69cc2a27 | comment |
Hilariously Abusive Childhood: In "Trilogies," Jeff and Pat's discussion of the Back to the Future films causes Dan to flash back to being menaced by his beer-toting, trilogy-hating father for attempting to watch the third movie. | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_69cc2a27 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_69cc2a27 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_69cc2a27 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_6a1a1f8a | type |
Glasses Pull | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_6a1a1f8a | comment |
Glasses Pull: Murph in "Final Destination." | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_6a1a1f8a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_6a1a1f8a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_6a1a1f8a | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_6a4f3cf7 | type |
Took a Level in Dumbass | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_6a4f3cf7 | comment |
Took a Level in Dumbass: Between "Time Traveler" and "Time Traveler 2" the time traveler goes from commenting on the genius of "interlocking metal teeth to fasten one's trousers" to being baffled by the concept of pants. This is somewhat explained by "Time Traveler 2"'s retcon that he didn't invent time travel at all and is simply the Cloudcuckoolander janitor of the real inventor. | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_6a4f3cf7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_6a4f3cf7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_6a4f3cf7 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_6b35bdff | type |
Serious Business | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_6b35bdff | comment |
Serious Business: "Desk Toys," "Box Fort," "Jinx," "Religiously," and "Bad News On A Basketball Phone," to name a few. | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_6b35bdff | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_6b35bdff | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_6b35bdff | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_6d7026fa | type |
Punny Name | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_6d7026fa | comment |
Punny Name: The crossword puzzle in "Evil Crossword" is written by a "Cal Edgehummer." | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_6d7026fa | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_6d7026fa | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_6d7026fa | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_6d892421 | type |
Teacher/Student Romance | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_6d892421 | comment |
Teacher/Student Romance: The Cool English Teacher keeps coming on to one of the staff members he's designated as his students. He's said to normally teach middle and high school and at the end of the third video Sarah notes that she found him on a sex offender registry. | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_6d892421 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_6d892421 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_6d892421 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_6e2163a3 | type |
Crossword Puzzle | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_6e2163a3 | comment |
Crossword Puzzle: In "Evil Crossword," Jake is solving one when he realizes that all the answers are threats directed at him. | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_6e2163a3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_6e2163a3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_6e2163a3 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_6eae387f | type |
Dress Code | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_6eae387f | comment |
Dress Code: Parodied in "Casual Friday", then exaggerated with Uptight Monday, Hesitant Tuesday, Coquettish Wednesday, Melodramatic Thursday, Casual Acquaintance Friday, Coming to Work Saturday, Bloody Sunday, and Mariachi Bagpipe Totalitarian Dictator Monday. | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_6eae387f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_6eae387f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_6eae387f | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_6edc54d5 | type |
Here We Go Again! | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_6edc54d5 | comment |
Here We Go Again!: Subverted in "3D Glasses." Pat declares "No Man Should Have This Power!" and dramatically throws the 3D glasses out the office window. When he leaves the room, they fly back through the window and land at Sarah's feet. She slowly picks them up, opens them to swelling, ominous music, and... | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_6edc54d5 | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_6edc54d5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_6edc54d5 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_707ee167 | type |
Secret Circle of Secrets | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_707ee167 | comment |
The Lady Punchers in "Secret Society" are an entire Secret Circle of Secrets devoted to this. After Pat hits Sarah by accident, they try to recruit him, to his horror. | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_707ee167 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_707ee167 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_707ee167 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_709fe8ac | type |
Culture Blind | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_709fe8ac | comment |
Culture Blind: Jake as a clueless Cult Defector in "Hoagies." | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_709fe8ac | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_709fe8ac | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_709fe8ac | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_710ae822 | type |
Butter Face | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_710ae822 | comment |
"She's Such a Butterphone." | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_710ae822 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_710ae822 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_710ae822 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_71d3801a | type |
Reality-Writing Book | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_71d3801a | comment |
Reality-Writing Book: In "The New Girl," Facebook serves this purpose, as Jake's coworkers interfere with his effort to chat up the new girl at the office by editing the profile he's left open on his computer (causing him to act like an 8-year-old when they change his year of birth, spout dialogue from The Notebook when they add it to his list of favorite movies, and so on) until they finally change his relationship status to say he's in a relationship with Streeter, cuing a sobbing Streeter to demand to know who he's talking to. | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_71d3801a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_71d3801a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_71d3801a | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_7204fa60 | type |
George Jetson Job Security | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_7204fa60 | comment |
George Jetson Job Security: In most of the Hardly Workings with Ricky he's either firing somebody or gets close to. In "Fired Up" he almost fires a girl, who simply says no to him and it's over just like that. | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_7204fa60 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_7204fa60 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_7204fa60 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_720e28a4 | type |
Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_720e28a4 | comment |
Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs: The Museum of Torture mentioned in the "Final Destination" series has "an exhibition on guns, knives, and gun-firing knife snakes that barf acid." | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_720e28a4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_720e28a4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_720e28a4 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_729c69f3 | type |
Politically Incorrect Villain | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_729c69f3 | comment |
Politically Incorrect Villain: The Phantom of the Office, Flugson from "Book Club," the Overgrown Guy Girlfriend and Gunter Granz. | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_729c69f3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_729c69f3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_729c69f3 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_735e71c2 | type |
Recursive Canon | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_735e71c2 | comment |
Recursive Canon: Varies all over the place from skit to skit. For example, some episodes have the cast writing Hardly Working episodes. Some episodes appear to have overlap with Jake and Amir, others don't. "Daylight Savings" implies that the Jake and Amir skits are fictional in-universe, but that the Phantom of the Office is real (leading to a blank reaction from Streeter when a visiting advertising executive compliments him on his performance as the character). | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_735e71c2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_735e71c2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_735e71c2 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_745a43fc | type |
Fun T-Shirt | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_745a43fc | comment |
"Phantom of the Brainstorm," which has the Phantom crashing a BustedTees think tank to pitch Fun T-Shirt ideas: | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_745a43fc | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_745a43fc | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_745a43fc | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_75f626a5 | type |
Nostalgia Filter | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_75f626a5 | comment |
Nostalgia Filter: Discussed in "The Guy Who's a Total Rap Snob," when it's quickly obvious to Ally that this is the only thing that actually elevates old-school rap above contemporary rap where Raph is concerned. His other preferences are similarly motivated (his favorite video game is Pong and he still uses a Chirp phone). | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_75f626a5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_75f626a5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_75f626a5 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_772fd1ce | type |
You Can't Handle The Parody | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_772fd1ce | comment |
You Can't Handle the Parody: At the end of "You'll Never Guess" some of the staff are re-enacting the iconic scene from A Few Good Men, so the line of course gets said. They're also not wearing shirts while doing it. | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_772fd1ce | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_772fd1ce | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_772fd1ce | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_79a60aec | type |
For Want of a Nail | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_79a60aec | comment |
For Want Of A Nail: Time Traveler | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_79a60aec | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_79a60aec | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_79a60aec | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_7a2d9301 | type |
Pop-Cultural Osmosis Failure | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_7a2d9301 | comment |
Pop-Cultural Osmosis Failure: Dan explains the Intangible Time Travel in "High School Dance" to Sarah by saying, "Haven't you ever seen A Muppet Christmas Carol?" The punchline of "Lady Macbething," when Murph kisses and then stabs Owen: | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_7a2d9301 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_7a2d9301 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_7a2d9301 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_7b0b0907 | type |
All Jews Are Cheapskates | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_7b0b0907 | comment |
All Jews Are Cheapskates: The "Overgrown Guy Girlfriend" accuses Amir of being cheap for this reason. | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_7b0b0907 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_7b0b0907 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_7b0b0907 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_7b50237d | type |
Distinction Without a Difference | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_7b50237d | comment |
Distinction Without a Difference: Used throughout "The Guy Who's a Total Rap Snob" to contend that the real difference between older and newer rap is the Nostalgia Filter. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_7b50237d | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_7c0bfb83 | type |
Obviously Evil | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_7c0bfb83 | comment |
Obviously Evil: Josh's evil chair | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_7c0bfb83 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_7c7589af | type |
Earth-Shattering Kaboom | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_7c7589af | comment |
Earth-Shattering Kaboom: As a result of Murph tweeting about how Twitter is down. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_7c7589af | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_7c862b8a | type |
Chronic Backstabbing Disorder | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_7c862b8a | comment |
The punchline of "Lady Macbething," when Murph kisses and then stabs Owen: | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_7c862b8a | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_7f152e56 | type |
Our Mermaids Are Different | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_7f152e56 | comment |
Our Mermaids Are Different: Played for laughs when Dan falls in love with a maidmer. That's right, human legs with a fish head on top. It only makes the usual Mermaid Problem even worse, with his coworkers being flat-out disgusted. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_7f152e56 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_7f1567cd | type |
The Internet | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_7f1567cd | comment |
The Internet: Shows up several times, as they work for a website. Once, they even found the source of the Internet. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_7f1567cd | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_7fbb2a3 | type |
Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_7fbb2a3 | comment |
Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: In "Speed 3 - Blabbermouth," Amir is rigged with two bombs that will go off if he stops Holding the Floor. Jake shuts him up so he can tell him how to solve the problem. | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_7fbb2a3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_7fbb2a3 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_80204ff5 | type |
Verbed Title | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_80204ff5 | comment |
Verbed Title: In a clear takeoff on Punk'd (and Amir and Streeter's then-current MTV show Pranked), Ricky has to forbid Amir from filming food-based prank shows at the office after he creates Soup'd, Oatmeal'd, Spaghetti Bolognes'd, Mongolian BBQ'd and Salad'd. | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_80204ff5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_80204ff5 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_8042e814 | type |
Actually Pretty Funny | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_8042e814 | comment |
Actually Pretty Funny: Ricky's response to the prank shows Amir keeps trying to film at the office in "Soup'd." | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_8042e814 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_8042e814 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_813afa05 | type |
Defiled Forever | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_813afa05 | comment |
Defiled Forever: The Phantom's reaction to finding out that Sarah isn't a virgin. | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_813afa05 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_813afa05 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_813afa05 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_82518cf7 | type |
Motor Mouth | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_82518cf7 | comment |
Motor Mouth: Amir in "Speed 3 - Blabbermouth". | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_82518cf7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_82518cf7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_82518cf7 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_83a903f6 | type |
Stepford Smiler | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_83a903f6 | comment |
Stepford Smiler: The Cool English Teacher was dumped by his wife, divorced by his son, and fired from his high school teaching job after embezzling the PTA in a failed effort to win his wife back. | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_83a903f6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_83a903f6 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_83b464fb | type |
Straight Man | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_83b464fb | comment |
Ironically given his usual role in Jake and Amir, in the context of the ensemble cast Jake is sometimes seen as this. A great example is in "Suspicious Announcements," when no one will listen to his concerns about the increasingly worrying intercom announcements because they all think he's trying to finish his bad joke. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_83b464fb | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_83f0971b | type |
Mexican Standoff | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_83f0971b | comment |
Mexican Standoff: Parodied in "Mexican Standoff" when Murph, Dan and Sam are excited to have achieved one of these but quickly ruin it when Dan shoots Murph by accident. They proceed to continuously replace people to keep the standoff going and even negotiate with another Mexican standoff going on a few feet away. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_83f0971b | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_8409a385 | type |
Exactly What It Says on the Tin | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_8409a385 | comment |
Exactly What It Says on the Tin: An easy way to tell the difference between the earlier and later eras of Hardly Working at a glance is that post-2014 sketches tend to have titles that summarize the entire premise, i.e. "Killer's Mask Is Inconvenient," "Gifts That Are Clearly For Yourself," and "My New Year's Resolution is to Get My Dick Out of this Toaster." | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_8409a385 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_8409a385 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_8430699a | type |
Alternate Universe | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_8430699a | comment |
Alternate Universe: In "Douchebag Office," the "South side" of the office is populated by "douchebag" versions of the cast, except for Jake, who is the douchebag Jake. | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_8430699a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_8430699a | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_849d24d9 | type |
Last Kiss | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_849d24d9 | comment |
"Butt Dial" ends with a dramatic Last Kiss between Murph's butt and a dying Josh. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_849d24d9 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_863b89da | type |
Emancipated Child | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_863b89da | comment |
Emancipated Child: "Cool English Teacher 3": | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_863b89da | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_8774fb47 | type |
Eldritch Abomination | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_8774fb47 | comment |
Eldritch Abomination: Beef Gurewitch. Murph shoots both himself and Emily in the head to escape it. (It appears to be a cross between rotten deli meat and Zalgo.) | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_8774fb47 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_8774fb47 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_87f0bc37 | type |
Expectation Lowerer | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_87f0bc37 | comment |
Expectation Lowerer: In-Universe, Pat in Wishful Thinking. | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_87f0bc37 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_87f0bc37 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_8839237d | type |
No Such Thing as H.R. | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_8839237d | comment |
No Such Thing as H.R.: Pushed to surrealist extremes. | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_8839237d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_8839237d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_8839237d | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_88ab3310 | type |
Proud to Be a Geek | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_88ab3310 | comment |
Proud to Be a Geek: Everyone. | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_88ab3310 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_88ab3310 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_88ab3310 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_8ace85ef | type |
Audience Surrogate | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_8ace85ef | comment |
Throughout "Wolfenstein" it becomes increasingly clear that Owen's grandfather is not only a former Nazi but a high-ranking member of Hitler's inner circle. Murph and Pat react with Audience Surrogate horror as Owen cheerfully displays the evidence, believing that all the war memorabilia he's found in his attic is Wolfenstein 3D merchandise. | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_8ace85ef | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_8ace85ef | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_8b606a51 | type |
There Is No Kill Like Overkill | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_8b606a51 | comment |
There Is No Kill Like Overkill: Attempted in "Bug", with the staff deciding to smash Sarah's computer, then her harddrive, and even her monitor in an attempt to kill a fly, which still lives. Then they decide to go get the photocopier. The scene switches to Sam and Ricky having an important meeting in their conference room, with an oblivious Ricky telling Sam that the budget has been blown due to replacing all the broken technology, while Sam watches as the photocopier is thrown into a desk. | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_8b606a51 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_8b606a51 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_8b68d9a7 | type |
Stalker with a Crush | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_8b68d9a7 | comment |
Stalker with a Crush: Amir has a binder with in-depth descriptions of everything Jake has ever worn to work since he's started working there. Jake is understandably disturbed by this. In "Phantom Sarah-nade," the Phantom accidentally admits to breaking into Sarah's apartment to watch her sleep. | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_8b68d9a7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_8b68d9a7 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_8cbd311b | type |
Good Angel, Bad Angel | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_8cbd311b | comment |
Good Angel, Bad Angel: In "Consciences." | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_8cbd311b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_8cbd311b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_8cbd311b | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_8cf6aa | type |
Literal Metaphor | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_8cf6aa | comment |
Literal Metaphor: In "Fired Up," Amir says of Ricky, "He's so boss." Inverted with "3D Glasses," where Pat's 3D glasses make everything he sees "deeper"—in the metaphorical sense, causing his coworkers to appear highly sophisticated and self-aware. "Phantom of the Brainstorm," which has the Phantom crashing a BustedTees think tank to pitch Fun T-Shirt ideas: Throughout "Average Night Out," the characters use "baby bear" as a synonym for a desirably average (not too good, not too bad) experience. Dan defies this attitude as too safe, saying he'd rather accept life's lows in order to have the highs, so when Murph tries to dissuade him from entering one of the rooms by yelling "Mama bear! Mama bear!" he walks in anyway. Cue growling and agonized screaming. "Dan Does His Own Thing": "Experimenting (Literally) In College." | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_8cf6aa | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_8cf6aa | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_8d52f376 | type |
Battle Rapping | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_8d52f376 | comment |
The "freestyling interns" from Freestyle Love Supreme have truly insane Battle Rapping skills, and that's about it. They're favorites with Ricky but get chewed out by Pat for spending four hours rapping about a broken printer instead of fixing it. | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_8d52f376 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_8d52f376 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_8df6cb00 | type |
Censor Suds | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_8df6cb00 | comment |
Censor Suds: Showering With Girls. | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_8df6cb00 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_8df6cb00 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_8df6cb00 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_8e623473 | type |
Bait-and-Switch Sentiment | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_8e623473 | comment |
Bait-and-Switch Sentiment: Done twice at the end of "Katie Won't Let This Bit Die." | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_8e623473 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_8e623473 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_8e623473 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_8ea29181 | type |
Raised Hand of Survival | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_8ea29181 | comment |
Raised Hand of Survival: The Stinger of "Box Fort." | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_8ea29181 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_8ea29181 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_8ea29181 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_8f00b02a | type |
Always Identical Twins | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_8f00b02a | comment |
Always Identical Twins: Averted in "Is Grant Keith from Buzzfeed" where Keith's twin Grant Habersberger is explicitly fraternal even though they look alike. Grant's twin Keith O'Brien isn't specified one way or the other. | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_8f00b02a | featureApplicability |
-1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_8f00b02a | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_8f0dc93c | type |
Dangerous Forbidden Technique | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_8f0dc93c | comment |
Dangerous Forbidden Technique: Parodied in "Five Fingers of Death," when Owen keeps attempting to demonstrate one of these on Pat, but it has no effect. Until he realizes Pat's stance is wrong. | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_8f0dc93c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_8f0dc93c | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_9141fba3 | type |
Fountain of Youth | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_9141fba3 | comment |
Fountain of Youth: In "Daylight Savings" the cast age themselves back fifteen years while fighting over the wall clock in the office. | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_9141fba3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_9141fba3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_9141fba3 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_9183d1cb | type |
Pocket Dial | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_9183d1cb | comment |
Pocket Dial: "Butt Dial" parodies the concept by having Murph's butt call Emily and threaten her repeatedly. | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_9183d1cb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_9183d1cb | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_9183d1cb | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_9350a0b9 | type |
The Tape Knew You Would Say That | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_9350a0b9 | comment |
The Tape Knew You Would Say That: "Grant Forgets He Sucks." | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_9350a0b9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_9350a0b9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_9350a0b9 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_936581e6 | type |
TastesLikeFeet | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_936581e6 | comment |
Tastes Like Feet: In "Beef Gurewitch," the titular delicacy is described by Sam as smelling "like vagina and paint." In "Soda Prank," Murph believes that his Sprite has been tampered with on the grounds that it tastes "like dick skin." He's right. | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_936581e6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_936581e6 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_93a38c9b | type |
Magic Feather | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_93a38c9b | comment |
Magic Feather: Discussed with a reference to the Trope Namer: | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_93a38c9b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_93a38c9b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_93a38c9b | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_94a6783b | type |
Ignored Enemy | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_94a6783b | comment |
"Mothra," complete with Ignored Enemy. | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_94a6783b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_94a6783b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_94a6783b | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_9676f715 | type |
Feigning Intelligence | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_9676f715 | comment |
Feigning Intelligence: The Cool English Teacher uses his "coolness" to cover for the fact that he barely seems to know anything about his subject. In "Book Club," Flugson, a self-assured, vaguely British-sounding professorial type who has lead a successful book club at the office for a month and earned the admiration of everyone involved despite being illiterate to the point of inability to recognize letters of the alphabet. | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_9676f715 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_9676f715 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_9676f715 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_987be393 | type |
Gambit Roulette | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_987be393 | comment |
Gambit Roulette: In "Office Goofarounds" two different office pranks end with Streeter appearing out of nowhere, picking up the victim and throwing him through a desk before the prank can proceed as expected. Sarah, who witnessed both incidents, thinks the group have designs on her, announces that she won't give them the satisfaction and throws herself through the nearest desk...onto a Whoopee Cushion they left for her, with everything that happened previously being revealed as a ruse to prank Sarah specifically. | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_987be393 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_987be393 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_987be393 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_98a150f3 | type |
Excrement Statement | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_98a150f3 | comment |
Excrement Statement: "SHIT ON YOUR BOOKS! PITCH A LOAF ON THE BARD!!!" | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_98a150f3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_98a150f3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_98a150f3 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_9a1d239e | type |
Been There, Shaped History | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_9a1d239e | comment |
Been There, Shaped History: The Phantom is a recurring character in the videos. He's an all-around Comedic Sociopath and implied immortal, which gives rise to a number of claims. | |
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Holding the Floor | |
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Which is followed by Amir deciding that the way to not use punctuation is to continue talking without ever ending sentences. Note that he uses commas to break phrases up. | |
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Evil Counterpart | |
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Evil Counterpart: WaDan does exactly the opposite of anything Dan says or does. After his girlfriend dumps him for WaDan, Dan banishes WaDan from this dimension by declaring that he is going to stay here, forever, so WaDan will declare he'll leave...and does so. | |
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AcCENT upon the Wrong SylLABle | |
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Accent Upon The Wrong Syllable: The Phantom of the Office always pronounces Sarah's name "Sa-RAH." | |
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Took a Level in Badass | |
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Took a Level in Badass: Everyone in Die Hardly Working. | |
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Mermaid Problem | |
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Mermaid Problem: Spoofed when Dan introduces everyone to his fiance, except the problem is inverted because she's a maidmer with a fish head and a human lower body. The others point out that the Interspecies Romance implications of this variation only makes it worse. | |
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Stay in the Kitchen | |
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Stay in the Kitchen: Sarah gets a whirlwind of misogynistic insults in "60's Day". Mainly because she is aiming for the late 60s (Woodstock, Summer of Love), while the guys went for a more Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce theme. | |
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Continuity Nod | |
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Inverted by Jake and Amir. So far there has not been any continuity errors and it even has the odd Continuity Nod or two. | |
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Mundane Object Amazement | |
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Mundane Object Amazement: In "Perpetual Motion Machine," Owen and Murph have apparently never seen a swinging desk toy. | |
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Punctuated! For! Emphasis! | |
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Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: Dan throughout "Hangover." | |
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How Do You Say | |
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How Do You Say: Used by Amir (in the role of a Funny Foreigner hijacker) throughout "Airplane." | |
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Secret-Keeper | |
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"Jinx" revolves around the cast trying to figure out Dan's middle name so they can lift a jinx on him. It's said to be so embarrassing that he made David promise not to tell anyone. It's never revealed, but Sarah's middle name is discovered in the process: Farticus. | |
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Not Now, Kiddo | |
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Not Now, Kiddo: "Suspicious Announcements." | |
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Creator Career Self-Deprecation | |
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Creator Career Self-Deprecation: "Nobody Younger Than Me Can Be Successful" has most of its era's cast bemoaning the fact that they haven't progressed past their jobs at CollegeHumor at their ages. | |
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Overly Long Gag | |
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Becomes an Overly Long Gag in the "Final Destination" series when Owen walks into the middle of the street unprompted and announces, "I've never felt so alive!," only for a car to drive past behind him. Everyone—including Owen, still standing in the street—starts to chat about how long it's taking the inevitable to occur. | |
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Take This Job and Shove It | |
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Take This Job and Shove It: Played straight, then downplayed, then inverted in "Perpetual Motion Machine" as the same script repeats three times with variations: | |
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Eye Scream | |
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Eye Scream: "Darts." | |
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World of Weirdness | |
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World of Weirdness: The building itself. | |
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Drinking on Duty | |
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Drinking on Duty: Pat in "Drinking in Public." | |
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…And That Little Girl Was Me | |
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…And That Little Girl Was Me: Parodied in "Ghost Stories" when Amir tells an incriminating story about himself but can't maintain the third person. | |
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Multiple-Choice Past | |
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Multiple-Choice Past: Beef Gurewitch has a different bizarre origin story every time it appears. | |
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Fisticuff-Provoking Comment | |
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Fisticuff-Provoking Comment: Pat earns a punch in the face from Jake when he asserts that Jake's father was a "cold, red dilly-dallier." | |
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Would Rather Suffer | |
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Would Rather Suffer: Comically subverted at the end of "Dilly Dally": | |
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Polyamory | |
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Polyamory: Parodied in "My Two True Loves", in which Pat sings about his dream to have this sort of relationship. | |
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Stockholm Syndrome | |
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Stockholm Syndrome: The sketch "Stockholm Syndrome" parodies the effects wonderfully with Sarah being seduced by Pat saying he'll get a "handsome ransom" out of her. | |
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Not Hyperbole | |
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Not Hyperbole: "Religiously," in which Streeter's casual statement that he didn't watch Boy Meets World "religiously" puts him in contrast with several of his coworkers, who have a Religion of Evil around the show. In "Dan Does His Own Thing," Dan's friends question what he's up to when he's "doing his own thing" and find out that he's referring to highly specific, inexplicable activities that nobody but him would ever engage in, such as pretending to be a wooly mammoth at the Natural History Museum, stocking the shelves of abandoned supermarkets and breaking into other people's houses to brush their teeth. "You Have GOT to Try Heroin" pokes fun at the use of the word "addictive" to describe TV shows by having Trapp enthusiastically "recommend" hard drugs solely based on that quality. | |
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The Friend Nobody Likes | |
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The Friend Nobody Likes: Ironically given his usual role in Jake and Amir, in the context of the ensemble cast Jake is sometimes seen as this. A great example is in "Suspicious Announcements," when no one will listen to his concerns about the increasingly worrying intercom announcements because they all think he's trying to finish his bad joke. What Amir is to the original cast, Katie Marovitch is from 2014 onward. | |
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Reality-Breaking Paradox | |
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Reality-Breaking Paradox: "Just tweeting about how pissed off I am that Twitter's down." | |
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Man Hug | |
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Man Hug: Between Dan and Streeter after they "survive" a pretend hijacking in "Airplane." The "Human Wrecking Balls" indulge in one after trashing the entire office. | |
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Embarrassing Middle Name | |
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Embarrassing Middle Name: In "Phantom Society," Patrick Eleanor Cassels. He was born intersex and Eleanor was his original name. "Jinx" revolves around the cast trying to figure out Dan's middle name so they can lift a jinx on him. It's said to be so embarrassing that he made David promise not to tell anyone. It's never revealed, but Sarah's middle name is discovered in the process: Farticus. | |
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Deliberate Values Dissonance | |
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Deliberate Values Dissonance: "Hardly Working: The Golden Years" is full of this, full of casual racism, sexism, anti-catholicism and multiple calls to "stay out of Europe's war". | |
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Secret Santa | |
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Secret Santa: Spoofed with Black Comedy in "Kovert Krampus," where instead of giving each other gifts, the staff gives each other things to punish them for their lies and transgressions (with a $20 spending limit). Their gifts: First, Owen receives from Jeff his dead cat, killed and put on a neckchain that Owen is supposed to wear around his neck. Anu's gift for Caldwell is a bag of wasps, as she learned from his Facebook page that it was one of his mortal fears. He puts the bag over his head, and it's implied they sting him all over. Pat's gift for Vinny is, aware of Vinny's bragging about crossword puzzles: locking his girlfriend in a tank slowly filling with water at an unknown location. He gives Vinny a photo of her in captivity and a list of instructions on how to find her. Murph and Kevin exchange gifts: Kevin's is a rusty nail bat, and Murph's is a pillowcase full of fish semen. Then Emily, having enough of the graphic gifts, intervenes: | |
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Rousing Speech | |
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Rousing Speech: Given by Josh in "Box Fort." | |
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Red Shirt | |
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Red Shirt: Parodied in the All-Nighter sketch "Red Shirts" with the guest appearance of The Whitest Kids U' Know as Jake's chosen Redshirt Army for a dangerous mission. | |
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Halfway Plot Switch | |
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Halfway Plot Switch: "You'll Never Guess." | |
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Historical Rap Sheet | |
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Historical Rap Sheet: Over the course of the show, the Phantom of the Office has taken responsibility for the Black Plague, the extinction of the dodo bird, and most shockingly, the death of Jesus Christ. | |
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Toilet Horror | |
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Toilet Horror: Played for Laughs in "Pee On Your Butt." | |
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All Issues Are Political Issues | |
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All Issues Are Political Issues: Taken to absurd levels in "The Social Consequences of Everything", where they shoot down every single idea about how to spend their day off because literally everything is politically incorrect in some way and thus unacceptable in modern society, until they eventually settle on doing literally nothing but sitting in a dark basement and waiting until they have to go back to work. | |
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Added Alliterative Appeal | |
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Added Alliterative Appeal: "Dilly Dally": | |
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Classically-Trained Extra | |
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Classically-Trained Extra: At the beginning of "Script Meeting," Owen, who's written a sketch with Adam, says he doesn't care who Adam assigns the parts to for the table read. He lashes out at the end when asked to read the stage directions. | |
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Hypocritical Humor | |
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Hypocritical Humor: "Bane Mugs", where they imitate Tom Hardy's Bane voice by putting coffee mugs over their mouths to muffle their voice. The "Punctuation Recession" is full of examples: Which is followed by Amir deciding that the way to not use punctuation is to continue talking without ever ending sentences. Note that he uses commas to break phrases up. In "Wacky Hijinks from 80s Comedies Were Mostly Rape", Pat chews out Trapp and Zac for coming up with pranks to get back at Murph and Emily that qualify as sex crimes and thinking that it's a good idea to do them just because they happened in comedy films from the 1980's. After they agree to instead go with pranks from more recent films, he happily agrees that they will prank Emily and Murphy by having them be tricked into eating eclairs made with dog semen like in Van Wilder, which is still kind of inappropriate to do to people. | |
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| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_b8dce780 | type |
Short-Distance Phone Call | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_b8dce780 | comment |
Short-Distance Phone Call: In "Ace Ventura." | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_b8dce780 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_b9f6cc0a | type |
The Bluebeard | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_b9f6cc0a | comment |
The Bluebeard: The Phantom is blatant about the fact that he's burnt multiple wives to death and doesn't understand why Sarah has no interest in being the latest. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_b9f6cc0a | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_ba7747ed | type |
Literal Ass-Kissing | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_ba7747ed | comment |
Literal Ass-Kissing: In "Suck It Out," Amir spills food on his jeans and he and his coworkers gang up to convince Pat to suck the stain out of the seat. "Butt Dial" ends with a dramatic Last Kiss between Murph's butt and a dying Josh. | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_ba7747ed | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_ba7747ed | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_ba7747ed | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_bc848be9 | type |
Intangible Time Travel | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_bc848be9 | comment |
Dan explains the Intangible Time Travel in "High School Dance" to Sarah by saying, "Haven't you ever seen A Muppet Christmas Carol?" | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_bc848be9 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_bd8aa92a | type |
Negative Continuity | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_bd8aa92a | comment |
Negative Continuity: Characters are killed off or change careers all the time, but return immediately in the next video. Inverted by Jake and Amir. So far there has not been any continuity errors and it even has the odd Continuity Nod or two. | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_bd8aa92a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_bd8aa92a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_bd8aa92a | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_bdd4c302 | type |
Perky Goth | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_bdd4c302 | comment |
Perky Goth: "Goth Dave Matthews Fan." | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_bdd4c302 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_bdd4c302 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_bdd4c302 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_be272a3 | type |
Time-Compression Montage | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_be272a3 | comment |
Time-Compression Montage: Parodied in "Basketball Phone": Parodied again in "The Egg" when a 30-second montage covering eight months is followed up by Sarah thanking an exhausted videographer for "editing six thousand hours of footage into that very short highlight reel." | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_be272a3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_be272a3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_be272a3 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_bef696dd | type |
Mind Screw | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_bef696dd | comment |
Mind Screw: Often. "Puppet Sarah" has one when you realize that Sarah's puppet has been controlled by a puppet of Amir that is being controlled by Human!!Amir, who has been communicating up until now with Human!!Sarah on a cell phone. From "Trading Lunches:" | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_bef696dd | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_bef696dd | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_bef696dd | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_c044f854 | type |
Speak in Unison | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_c044f854 | comment |
Speak in Unison: Many times. Becomes an Overly Long Gag in "Nerds and Jocks Both Think They're Underdogs." | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_c044f854 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_c044f854 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_c044f854 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_c13fe9b0 | type |
Spin the Bottle | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_c13fe9b0 | comment |
Spin the Bottle: In the 2010 All Nighter sketches, the staff decide to play this but are troubled by the fact that they are all guys. Then Sarah comes along and they basically rope her into playing with them. Of course, the game has to be rigged since Sarah is selected to spin first, and gets David. She kisses him. He spins and lands on her, and has to kiss her for five seconds. The joke continues as they keep landing on each other, with the instructions on what to do getting more and more surreal (the sixth time, Sarah denies having obvious feelings for someone else, and the seventh time, David gets drunk and says something that provokes Sarah into slapping him). When Sarah spins and lands on Sam, she tries to apologize to David for breaking the streak and the others have to restrain David as he lunges at Sam. | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_c13fe9b0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_c13fe9b0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_c13fe9b0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_c2fc1ae | type |
Neck Snap | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_c2fc1ae | comment |
Neck Snap: Amir does this to Sarah in "Airplane." In "Cracking," Dan accidentally does this to himself. He's fine. "Clue" features a Jumanjiesque game of Cluedo in which Murph, the murderer, starts doing this to the other players whenever they make a wrong guess. | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_c2fc1ae | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_c2fc1ae | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_c2fc1ae | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_c34f8d07 | type |
LOL, 69 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_c34f8d07 | comment |
LOL, 69: One of their videos had Jake witness two of his male coworkers 96-ing. It's exactly what you think: they're laying with their backs against each other in opposite directions while writhing in pleasure. | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_c34f8d07 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_c34f8d07 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_c34f8d07 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_c4b8e2ae | type |
One-Woman Wail | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_c4b8e2ae | comment |
One-Woman Wail: Used as a dramatic Leitmotif for Amir in "Overgrown Guy Girlfriend 4." | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_c4b8e2ae | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_c4b8e2ae | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_c4b8e2ae | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_c5237cf | type |
Ridiculously Average Guy | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_c5237cf | comment |
Ridiculously Average Guy: In one video, super-nerd Jeff uses a machine to change his personality to be super cool and suave. When he decides that the only thing cooler than being cool is being yourself and attempts to reverse the process, something goes wrong, resulting in him becoming exactly average. | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_c5237cf | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_c5237cf | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_c5237cf | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_c58daf16 | type |
The Pen Is Mightier | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_c58daf16 | comment |
The Pen Is Mightier: In "Clue," the other players have to finish a supernatural game of Clue to prevent a murderous Murph from killing everyone. Amir is less than helpful because he didn't take a single note the entire game ("Who doesn't write anything down during a game of Clue?!"), but it ends up working out in his favor when he stabs Murph with his pencil: | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_c58daf16 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_c58daf16 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_c58daf16 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_c59cfa2e | type |
Felony Misdemeanor | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_c59cfa2e | comment |
Felony Misdemeanor: In "Muddy Jake," Jake is fired from his job, dumped by both his girlfriends, has his college diploma revoked and is disinvited from family Christmas because someone photoshopped mud onto his face as a prank. | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_c59cfa2e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_c59cfa2e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_c59cfa2e | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_c75df49a | type |
Shout-Out | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_c75df49a | comment |
Shout-Out: Loads, usually to popular movies or songs. Some of the memorable ones included a Clue game that turned into something similar to Jumanji. | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_c75df49a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_c75df49a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_c75df49a | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_c83751cb | type |
Description Cut | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_c83751cb | comment |
Description Cut: Done several times in "Box Fort." | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_c83751cb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_c83751cb | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_c83751cb | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_c8d6d621 | type |
I Will Wait for You | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_c8d6d621 | comment |
I Will Wait for You: Parodied (along with a number of other dramatic film clichés) in "Wait!" | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_c8d6d621 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_c8d6d621 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_c8d6d621 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_caa28b82 | type |
Cloudcuckoolander | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_caa28b82 | comment |
In "Dan Does His Own Thing," Dan's friends question what he's up to when he's "doing his own thing" and find out that he's referring to highly specific, inexplicable activities that nobody but him would ever engage in, such as pretending to be a wooly mammoth at the Natural History Museum, stocking the shelves of abandoned supermarkets and breaking into other people's houses to brush their teeth. | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_caa28b82 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_caa28b82 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_caa28b82 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_cc6f4612 | type |
Beyond the Impossible | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_cc6f4612 | comment |
Beyond the Impossible: Tweeting about Twitter being down causes a double take, a 'that's impossi—!' shout and an Earth-Shattering Kaboom. It's ambiguous whether the reaction was about Twitter being down or tweeting about it. | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_cc6f4612 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_cc6f4612 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_cc6f4612 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_ccb97ff2 | type |
Subverted Rhyme Every Occasion | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_ccb97ff2 | comment |
Subverted Rhyme Every Occasion: In "Freestyling Interns," Ricky is on a trip and has his interns, members of the improv rap group Freestyle Love Supreme, deliver his employee evaluations. This leads to one, Utkarsh "UTK" Ambudkar, blatantly inserting himself into Ricky's attempt to flirt with Sarah: | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_ccb97ff2 | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_ccb97ff2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_ccb97ff2 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_cd427ce1 | type |
A Man Is Always Eager | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_cd427ce1 | comment |
A Man Is Always Eager: In "Sarah's Revenge," Sarah effortlessly tricks most of the male cast into the broom closet by simply telling each of them to meet her there in five minutes with no pants. They don't question it at all. | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_cd427ce1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_cd427ce1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_cd427ce1 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_cdc4a218 | type |
Hitler's Time Travel Exemption Act | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_cdc4a218 | comment |
Hitler's Time Travel Exemption Act: Parodied in "Killing Hitler." The first time they try it, the adult Hitler beats up the time traveller. The second time he does it again, but as an adolescent. The third time traveller attacks him with a rifle when he's a small child. However, Hitler steals it, and then forces the traveller to tell him how to make an atomic bomb. And then kid Hitler travels through the portal into the future. | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_cdc4a218 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_cdc4a218 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_cdd835ce | type |
Dude, Not Funny! | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_cdd835ce | comment |
Dude, Not Funny!: When Zac and Trapp suggest prank ideas from various 80s comedies (mostly Revenge of the Nerds), Pat realizes that the majority of them are sex crimes. | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_cdd835ce | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_cdd835ce | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_cdd835ce | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_ceabe589 | type |
Incoming Ham | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_ceabe589 | comment |
Incoming Ham: | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_ceabe589 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_ceabe589 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_ceabe589 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_cf231d54 | type |
Cool Teacher | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_cf231d54 | comment |
The Cool English Teacher deserves special mention. | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_cf231d54 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_cf231d54 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_cf231d54 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_d080f396 | type |
The Napoleon | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_d080f396 | comment |
The Napoleon: In "Insulting The Boss With a Punk Rock Video," Streeter and Murph characterize Sam this way in their "I Hate" Song about him. | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_d080f396 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_d080f396 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_d080f396 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_d2566b32 | type |
Hunting the Most Dangerous Game | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_d2566b32 | comment |
Hunting the Most Dangerous Game: Double Subverted in "Dan Does His Own Thing": | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_d2566b32 | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_d2566b32 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_d2566b32 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_d397657d | type |
Hoist by His Own Petard | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_d397657d | comment |
Hoist by His Own Petard: In "Pee Prank," Streeter tries to pull the "fingers in hot water while sleeping" prank on Jake, but when he tests the temperature of the water, pees himself. | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_d397657d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_d397657d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_d397657d | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_d45c0b86 | type |
Refuge in Audacity | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_d45c0b86 | comment |
Refuge in Audacity: In "Mangina", when the boys demonstrate the illusion of a vagina by tucking their genitals between their legs, Sarah one-ups them with a "reverse mangina", by making her labia look like a penis. Throughout "Wolfenstein" it becomes increasingly clear that Owen's grandfather is not only a former Nazi but a high-ranking member of Hitler's inner circle. Murph and Pat react with Audience Surrogate horror as Owen cheerfully displays the evidence, believing that all the war memorabilia he's found in his attic is Wolfenstein 3D merchandise. | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_d45c0b86 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_d45c0b86 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_d45c0b86 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_d46230c3 | type |
Over-the-Shoulder Carry | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_d46230c3 | comment |
Over-the-Shoulder Carry: Streeter does it to Murph in "Office Goofarounds" before flinging him through a desk. | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_d46230c3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_d46230c3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_d46230c3 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_d59baaa7 | type |
JumpTheShark | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_d59baaa7 | comment |
Parodied in the episode "Jump the Shark," where Tony Hawk supposedly shows up. | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_d59baaa7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_d59baaa7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_d59baaa7 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_d5bcb124 | type |
Technologically Blind Elders | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_d5bcb124 | comment |
Technologically Blind Elders: Gale Beggy. | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_d5bcb124 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_d5bcb124 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_d5bcb124 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_d7f6f486 | type |
The Other Darrin | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_d7f6f486 | comment |
The Other Darrin: Invoked in "Is Grant Keith from Buzzfeed?" where Grant and Keith from Buzzfeed trade off playing Grant, Keith, Keith's twin brother Grant, and Grant's twin brother Keith practically every camera cut. | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_d7f6f486 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_d7f6f486 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_d7f6f486 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_d99a228f | type |
Unusually Uninteresting Sight | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_d99a228f | comment |
Unusually Uninteresting Sight: Constant. | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_d99a228f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_d99a228f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_d99a228f | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_da836e3b | type |
Emotional Bruiser | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_da836e3b | comment |
Emotional Bruiser: Streeter. | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_da836e3b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_da836e3b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_da836e3b | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_daee232f | type |
Who's Your Daddy? | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_daee232f | comment |
Who's Your Daddy?: Played for Laughs in "The Egg." Sarah assigns all five of the potential dads to eight months of Egg Sitting with the intention of declaring the owner of the last remaining egg the father. When none of the eggs survive, she decides to just take a DNA test. | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_daee232f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_daee232f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_daee232f | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_dc2f86b9 | type |
Argentina Is Nazi-Land | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_dc2f86b9 | comment |
Argentina Is Nazi Land: In "Wolfenstein," Owen is asked if his grandfather is dead, as it becomes clear that he was a member of Hitler's inner circle. Owen cheerfully replies no; his peepaw is healthy as a bull and living in Rio de Janeiro. | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_dc2f86b9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_dc2f86b9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_dc2f86b9 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_dd22df26 | type |
Hands-On Approach | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_dd22df26 | comment |
Hands-On Approach: Parodied to hell and back in "Flirting" when Dan uses this tactic at every opportunity to "help" Sarah play golf, shoot pool, strum a guitar, type, use a vending machine, walk, and finally flirt with, go on a date with and have sex with another guy. | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_dd22df26 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_dd22df26 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_dd22df26 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_dd891949 | type |
Who Writes This Crap?! | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_dd891949 | comment |
Who Writes This Crap?!: A Cutaway Gag in "How far would you go to hide a zit?", after David gets socked in the jaw by Sarah for the third time: | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_dd891949 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_dd891949 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_dd891949 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_ddb220f5 | type |
GetAholdOfYourselfMan | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_ddb220f5 | comment |
Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!: Parodied in "Mothra": | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_ddb220f5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_ddb220f5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_ddb220f5 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_de143e97 | type |
Psychic Nosebleed | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_de143e97 | comment |
Psychic Nosebleed: A common side effect of the Phantom of the Office's dark powers. | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_de143e97 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_de143e97 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_de143e97 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_dea5fe1 | type |
Kubrick Stare | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_dea5fe1 | comment |
Kubrick Stare: Pat throughout "My Bloody Valentine." | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_dea5fe1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_dea5fe1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_dea5fe1 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_df41acb | type |
Casual Danger Dialogue | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_df41acb | comment |
Casual Danger Dialogue: Especially in "Emergency Flirt": A tiger is trying to break down the door and Pat is flirting with a cute animal control operator. "Mothra," complete with Ignored Enemy. | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_df41acb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_df41acb | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_df41acb | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_df4b69d6 | type |
Uncomfortable Elevator Moment | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_df4b69d6 | comment |
Uncomfortable Elevator Moment: At the end of "Slasher" between Jake and a masked killer who just stabbed Sarah. | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_df4b69d6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_df4b69d6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_df4b69d6 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_df7137e7 | type |
Barbaric Bully | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_df7137e7 | comment |
Barbaric Bully: The premise of "Bully" is that Streeter unwillingly transforms into one of these every time he hears nu-metal. | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_df7137e7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_df7137e7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_df7137e7 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_e099f0de | type |
I Will Only Slow You Down | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_e099f0de | comment |
I Will Only Slow You Down: Comically inverted in "Bomb" when Jeff, Strapped to a Bomb that's close to detonating, insists that his friends stop their futile effort to save his life and instead hang around and let the explosion kill them so he won't have to die alone. He even suggests bringing in his parents and killing them too. | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_e099f0de | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_e099f0de | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_e099f0de | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_e1a4ba8a | type |
Fetishized Abuser | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_e1a4ba8a | comment |
Fetishized Abuser: "Obsessive Boyfriends Are SO Romantic!" | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_e1a4ba8a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_e1a4ba8a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_e1a4ba8a | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_e1c1eb5b | type |
Screamer Prank | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_e1c1eb5b | comment |
Screamer Prank: In "Maze," Amir and Pat prank Jake with the Scary Maze Game only for all three of them to be frightened in turn by Sarah, standing behind them made up like the Creepy Child from the game and screaming. | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_e1c1eb5b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_e1c1eb5b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_e1c1eb5b | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_e28f88b8 | type |
Last-Name Basis | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_e28f88b8 | comment |
Last-Name Basis: Mike Trapp is called "Trapp," presumably due to their being too many Mikes in the world, even though he's the only Mike we see working there. | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_e28f88b8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_e28f88b8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_e28f88b8 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_e303d198 | type |
Whole-Plot Reference | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_e303d198 | comment |
Whole-Plot Reference: The 5-part "Final Destination" series. | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_e303d198 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_e303d198 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_e303d198 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_e313b4e7 | type |
Manchild | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_e313b4e7 | comment |
Manchild: Everyone. Particularly emphasized in a few skits, such as "Business Kids" and "Home Alone." | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_e313b4e7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_e313b4e7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_e313b4e7 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_e34400ab | type |
Ambiguously Gay | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_e34400ab | comment |
Ambiguously Gay: Jake frequently encourages all the guys to kiss each other, or suck each other off. "See Office Fight" | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_e34400ab | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_e34400ab | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_e34400ab | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_e48f5a7f | type |
Shallow News Site Satire | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_e48f5a7f | comment |
Shallow News Site Satire: "The Epic Bacon Boys: Internet Popularity Consultants" skewers the culture of clickbait-driven sites (with some Self-Deprecation at the end). | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_e48f5a7f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_e48f5a7f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_e48f5a7f | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_e4bb68b8 | type |
The Charmer | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_e4bb68b8 | comment |
The Charmer: Jake. | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_e4bb68b8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_e4bb68b8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_e4bb68b8 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_e598d4ac | type |
Innocent Inaccurate | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_e598d4ac | comment |
Innocent Inaccurate: Dan as a Manchild business professional in "Business Kids": | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_e598d4ac | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_e598d4ac | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_e598d4ac | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_e5d8460d | type |
Unexplained Recovery | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_e5d8460d | comment |
In "Cracking," Dan accidentally does this to himself. He's fine. | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_e5d8460d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_e5d8460d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_e5d8460d | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_e624f0e8 | type |
Suspiciously Specific Denial | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_e624f0e8 | comment |
Suspiciously Specific Denial: "One more announcement: today is Stick Towels Under Your Doors Day," where you show your company pride by placing towels in any space smoke could travel through, right after saying "this is a test of the building's alarm system in the event of a widespread fire in the basement. No fires today." | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_e624f0e8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_e624f0e8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_e624f0e8 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_e79b033c | type |
Scooby Stack | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_e79b033c | comment |
Scooby Stack: Parodied and deconstructed in the sketch "Snooping": in that each consecutive person added on top of the stack increases the pressure on the bottom guy until his head explodes. | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_e79b033c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_e79b033c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_e79b033c | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_e8147834 | type |
Elevator Escape | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_e8147834 | comment |
Elevator Escape: Parodied in "Slasher" when Sarah manages to cleanly escape a killer in this fashion only to hold the door for Jake. | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_e8147834 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_e8147834 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_e8147834 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_e81f5639 | type |
Moe Greene Special | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_e81f5639 | comment |
Moe Greene Special: "Darts." | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_e81f5639 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_e81f5639 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_e81f5639 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_e888fbd8 | type |
No Man Should Have This Power | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_e888fbd8 | comment |
No Man Should Have This Power: In "3D Glasses" and "Billy Crystal." | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_e888fbd8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_e888fbd8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_e888fbd8 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_e9454d0f | type |
Blood-Splattered Warrior | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_e9454d0f | comment |
Blood-Splattered Warrior: Jake in Over Realistic Buck Hunter | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_e9454d0f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_e9454d0f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_e9454d0f | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_e993da98 | type |
Equal-Opportunity Evil | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_e993da98 | comment |
Equal-Opportunity Evil: The sketch "Secret Society" involves a secret organization of "lady punchers." One of them is a woman, and uses this trope as an explanation. | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_e993da98 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_e993da98 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_e993da98 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_eb6912 | type |
Pretty Fly for a White Guy | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_eb6912 | comment |
Pretty Fly for a White Guy: Jake, aka "J. Witz." | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_eb6912 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_eb6912 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_eb6912 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_eb7c34cf | type |
Crossover | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_eb7c34cf | comment |
Crossover: "Is Grant Keith from Buzzfeed?" features an appearance by Keith from Buzzfeed. | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_eb7c34cf | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_eb7c34cf | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_eb7c34cf | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_ec212e4d | type |
Ensemble Cast | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_ec212e4d | comment |
Ensemble Cast | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_ec212e4d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_ec212e4d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_ec212e4d | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_ed68bcc9 | type |
Dwindling Party | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_ed68bcc9 | comment |
Dwindling Party: "Final Destination," naturally. | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_ed68bcc9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_ed68bcc9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_ed68bcc9 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_edf841f6 | type |
Worthless Treasure Twist | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_edf841f6 | comment |
Worthless Treasure Twist: Spoofed in "The Treasure Is Our Friendship," in which Sarah, Pat and Dan make this discovery at the end of a treasure hunt and proceed to fight over the friendship in Gold Fever fashion until an interloper steals it. | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_edf841f6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_edf841f6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_edf841f6 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_ee7ed46e | type |
The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_ee7ed46e | comment |
The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: There's hardly any working in these skits. The Cool English Teacher deserves special mention. The "freestyling interns" from Freestyle Love Supreme have truly insane Battle Rapping skills, and that's about it. They're favorites with Ricky but get chewed out by Pat for spending four hours rapping about a broken printer instead of fixing it. | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_ee7ed46e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_ee7ed46e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_ee7ed46e | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_ee919707 | type |
Improbably Predictable | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_ee919707 | comment |
Improbably Predictable: "That's The Thing." | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_ee919707 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_ee919707 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_ee919707 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_eee69e44 | type |
Boke and Tsukkomi Routine | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_eee69e44 | comment |
Boke and Tsukkomi Routine: Amir and Jake, respectively. | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_eee69e44 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_eee69e44 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_eee69e44 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_eef90616 | type |
Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_eef90616 | comment |
Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick: In Evil Chair: | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_eef90616 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_eef90616 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_eef90616 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_f23c26ab | type |
Food Slap | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_f23c26ab | comment |
Food Slap: In "Drunk in Public," Sarah deals three times with an intoxicated Patrick by splashing him in the face. | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_f23c26ab | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_f23c26ab | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_f23c26ab | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_f42f96fa | type |
Would Hit a Girl | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_f42f96fa | comment |
Would Hit a Girl: In "New Guy," the guy impersonating new programmer John Zanussi. Even after he's violently clobbered most of the staff, Sarah banks on the idea that he'll stop at hitting a girl and tries to flirt with him, getting a mop handle to the face for her troubles. In "Age Hierarchy," Amir casually lays out Sarah in one punch. The Lady Punchers in "Secret Society" are an entire Secret Circle of Secrets devoted to this. After Pat hits Sarah by accident, they try to recruit him, to his horror. | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_f42f96fa | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_f42f96fa | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_f42f96fa | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_f46fb603 | type |
Pungeon Master | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_f46fb603 | comment |
Pungeon Master: The Cool English Teacher. | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_f46fb603 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_f46fb603 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_f46fb603 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_f5c3983a | type |
Camping a Crapper | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_f5c3983a | comment |
Camping a Crapper: Apparently, Amir and Dan only play dodgeball when one of them is on the toilet. | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_f5c3983a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_f5c3983a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_f5c3983a | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_f6370d13 | type |
Organ Theft | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_f6370d13 | comment |
Organ Theft: In "Bully II" Streeter somehow manages to steal Dan's liver, and he and Amir play Keep Away with it. | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_f6370d13 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_f6370d13 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_f6370d13 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_f8b3fa5d | type |
Our Werewolves Are Different | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_f8b3fa5d | comment |
In "Bully," Streeter was bitten by a bully as a child and now unwillingly transforms into one every time he hears nu-metal. | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_f8b3fa5d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_f8b3fa5d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_f8b3fa5d | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_f9f2c33 | type |
Running Gag | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_f9f2c33 | comment |
Running Gag: Wanton destruction of office equipment. All the guys in the office are obsessed with the film Jumper. | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_f9f2c33 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_f9f2c33 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_f9f2c33 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_fbb310ed | type |
Job Song | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_fbb310ed | comment |
Job Song: "My Boss Is A Dick," Murph and Streeter's The Man Is Keeping Us Down ode to Sam Reich, seen in "Insulting The Boss With A Punk Rock Video." | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_fbb310ed | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_fbb310ed | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_fbb310ed | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_fc151e9d | type |
Department of Redundancy Department | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_fc151e9d | comment |
Department of Redundancy Department: "Dilly Dally": "Yo guys, check out this new online internet World Wide Web viral video." "Bullet Trick": | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_fc151e9d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_fc151e9d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_fc151e9d | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_fd16495f | type |
Answer Cut | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_fd16495f | comment |
Answer Cut: In You'll Never Guess: | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_fd16495f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_fd16495f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_fd16495f | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_fdf22cfd | type |
Evil Is Hammy | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_fdf22cfd | comment |
Evil Is Hammy: The Phantom of the Office. | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_fdf22cfd | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_fdf22cfd | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_fdf22cfd | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_fe0330fb | type |
Brick Joke | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_fe0330fb | comment |
Brick Joke: In "Stewie Keychain". It's even lampshaded with a good bit of Breaking the Fourth Wall. | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_fe0330fb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_fe0330fb | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_fe0330fb | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_name | type |
ItemName | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_name | comment |
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| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_name | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_name | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
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Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_name | |
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