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* [[Annoying Younger Sibling]]: Jimmy Barclay to Donna; Tamika Washington to Marvin; Bethany Shephard to Aubrey (the latter of whom has fantasized more than once putting her in a dungeon or something of the like).
* [[The Atoner]]: Richard Maxwell, Monica Stone (although slightly subverted, since neither wished to become Christians, and were not pressured afterwards).
* [[Bald of Evil]]: Bennett Charles in the Novacom arc.▼
* [[Back From the Dead]]: Dr. Blackgaard programmed his personality into a virus and planted it in the Imagination Station. It almost tried to possess Aubrey before Whit destroyed it.
▲* [[Bald of Evil]]: Bennett Charles in the Novacom arc.
* [[Banana In the Tailpipe]]: Invoked in "Accidental Dillema".
* [[Belligerent Sexual Tension]]: YMMV, but Eugene and Connie have their moments ({{spoiler|Eugene does get engaged to and eventually marry a completely different woman whom he loves very much, though}}). Parodied in the radio episode "I Slap Floor".
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* [[Character Outlives Actor]]: Whit's first actor, Hal Smith died in 1994 and was not replaced for over 2 years. Whit was temporarily sent on an archaeological expedition in the Middle East. When he came back, he was voiced by Paul Herlinger for 12 years until ''he'' died. Andre Stojka has since taken up the roll.
* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: In an episode about the underground railroad, a priest at the church that would one day become Whit's End mentions a mineral in the tunnels under the building. {{spoiler|This mineral turns out to be key in a compound to drastically increase the deadliness of the Ruku virus and was Blackgaard's main goal when he took over Whit's End.}}
* [[Chuck Cunningham Syndrome]]: Most of the child voice actors (and consequently their families, Dr. Morton being an exception) tend to get quietly dropped from the show around the time their voice changes.▼
* [[Christmas Episode]]: They usually introduce at least one new Christmas episode a year, and as Christmas approaches, play previous Christmas episodes. Given the show has been going on for about two decades, this leads to practically a month of Christmas episodes.
▲* [[Chuck Cunningham Syndrome]]: Most of the child voice actors (and consequently their families, Dr. Morton being an exception) tend to get quietly dropped from the show around the time their voice changes.
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Harlow Doyle (''Private Eye!'') and to a slightly lesser extent, Wooton Bassett.
* [[Co-Dragons]]: When Dr. Blackaard attempted to take over Odyssey, Professor Bovril, Jellyfish, and Philip Glossman assist him with brains, brawn, and public appearance, respectively.
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** Mitch was put into the Witness Protection Program during the Novacom fiasco.
** {{spoiler|Jason Whittaker, who faked his death so his enemies from his spy days won't go after him.}}
* [[Fire and Brimstone Hell]]/[[Fluffy Cloud Heaven]]: One episode had Whit attempting to explore the concept of the afterlife using the Imagination Station. Unfortunately the program succeeded a bit too well. Whit ended up in a Edenic garden and Eugene found himself in hell (the episode implied that this is largely because Eugene was an atheist at that point but had internalized more Christian theology than he realized).
** Eugene ended up having a week-long [[Heroic BSOD]] and Whit had a heart attack, triggered by his subconscious, who didn't want to leave Heaven. Of note, this is one of the scariest and most [[What Do You Mean It's for Kids?|mature]] story lines in the entire series.
* [[Five-Bad Band]]: During the Novacom saga:
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** [[The Brute]]: N/A (none of them really fit the mold)
** [[The Dark Chick]]: Monica Stone {{spoiler|before her [[Heel Face Turn]].}}
** Back in the good ol' days▼
*** Id: Connie▼
*** Superego: Eugene▼
*** Ego: Whit▼
** The imaginary characters that Trent dreams up in The Present Long Ago, all of which are spoofs of real life TV personalities▼
*** Id: Arnold Schwarzenbanger▼
*** Ego: Bill Crosby▼
*** Superego: Detective Colimbo▼
* [[Gadgeteer Genius]]: Whit. Supposedly, Matthew Parker is as well.
* [[Gambit Pileup]]: "A Name, Not a Number"
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** Earl Boen actually sounds a lot scarier as Regis Blackard than he ever did as a certain [[Monkey Island|undead pirate]].
** Connie is voiced by [[The Mr. Men Show|Katie]] [[Darkwing Duck (animation)|Leigh]]
** One of the voices of Marvin Washington: [[That's So Raven|Cory]] [[Cory in The House|Baxter]].
** Ed Washington is Big Mike from ''[[Chuck]]''.
** [[Janet Waldo]] voiced Lawrence Hodges' schoolteacher mother and later Jack Allen's wife Joanne.
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* [[Hidden Agenda Villain]]: Dr. Blackgaard
* [[Hobbes Was Right]]: Discussed and believed by most of the main characters and was actually the point of an episode where Connie and Eugene debate this (Connie taking Hobbes's stance, Eugene taking [[Rousseau Was Right|Rousseau's]]); a stranger then comes in, robs them, and even mentions that he personally agrees with Connie.
* [[Hollywood Atheist]]: Leonard Meltsner, who was {{spoiler|held prisoner for years, had his wife die, and his son kidnapped by his hated rival}} therefore he has a rather legitimate grudge against God. Although he is presented as nothing but an honorable man.
* [[Homage]]: The members of the Barclay family are named [[It's a Wonderful Life|George, Mary, Jimmy, Donna and Stewart Reed]].
** One episode was a quite blatant homage to ''Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade'', with the Cross of Cortes replacing the Grail.
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* [[Ivy League for Everyone]]: OK, not a direct example obviously, but what are the chances that Whit would have two high school valedictorians (Eugene and Connie) working for him simultaneously? ({{spoiler|And sacking them simultaneously.}})
** Also somewhat averted as both characters winds up attending the perfectly serviceable (if somewhat second rate) community college in Odyssey.
*** It's never quite explained why a genius like Eugene is doing in Odyssey and working part time in a ice cream parlor when he could have had his pick of the universities.
* [[Lampshade Hanging]]: Several times
** Bernard Walton once told a new kid, "Whether you meant to or not, you played out a Bible teaching in what you did today." Simon thought it was weird, but Bernard assured him, "Happens all the time around here."
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* [[Missing Episode]]: A few early shows starring a bumbling police officer (named Officer Harley) were pulled and re-recorded when parents complained that he gave children the wrong impression of authority figures. Officer Harley's only appearance now is at the end of the episode where the Barclays get robbed and the [[Flash Back]] about how Whit acquired Whit's End.
* [[The Mole]]: Mr. Glossman, Monica
* [[Mr. Imagination]]: Lawrence Hodges (specializing in fantasy and scifi), Jared DeWhite (more into conspiracy theories), and Jared's brother Trent (whose fantasies are closer to reality than either Lawrence's or Jared's)
* [[My Friends and Zoidberg]]: "Eugene Meltsner here, inviting you to join today's assemblage of characters, (and myself)..."
* [[Narrator]]: Chris, who was visible to the characters on certain occasions (again, usually in earlier episodes).
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* [[Not Allowed to Grow Up]]: Played straight for much of the show, where Connie Kendall is the perpetual teenager. Averted with everyone else, leading to Connie still being a teenager even though kids from 20 years ago have grown up. Eventually, Connie graduates from high school, and so in later episodes she just ages very slowly.
** Also seems to have occured in Rodney Rathbone, since he's been a middle school bully for about fifteen years and has shown no signs of age.
* [[Nothing Exciting Ever Happens Here]]: Frequent complaint by younger characters. [[Justified Trope|Somewhat justified]] in that not much in the way of intrigue has occurred since the Novacom saga.
** Except for the "Green Ring Conspiracy"!
* [[Official Couple]]: Eugene and Katrina ({{spoiler|got married}}), Connie and Mitch ({{spoiler|didn't get married}}).▼
* [[Old Shame]]: Katie Leigh (voice actress for Connie) played a major character from the ''Dungeons & Dragons'' [[Dungeons and Dragons (animation)|animated series]], a fact which got a bit awkward after AIO did an episode condemning role-playing games (although her role in the episode was minimal).
** Although she doesn't seem to be that ashamed, per se. When the series came out on DVD in 2006, she was the only member of the cast to reprise her role as Sheila for (appropriately enough) the radio play of "[[The Resolution Will Not Be Televised|Requiem]]". In earlier interviews she said she'd be quite happy to do the role again.
*** If anything, the Castles and Cauldrons episode itself is an [[Old Shame]] for much of the cast.
▲* [[Official Couple]]: Eugene and Katrina ({{spoiler|got married}}), Connie and Mitch ({{spoiler|didn't get married}}).
* [[The Other Darrin]]: Whit's voice actor was replaced after his original one died.
** When Katrina's [[Put on a Bus|bus came in]], her actor had changed as well. She's even quieter now.
* [[Pet the Dog]]: Dalton Kearn, kidnapper, trafficker of archeological artifacts, instigator of a minor genocide, but is a very good and caring father, {{spoiler|which is rather ruined by the fact that his "son" is actually Leonard Meltsner's, whom he kidnapped out of malice}}.
* [[Phrase Catcher]]: When Eugene lapses into his [[Big Words|overly complex]] way of explaining something, he is frequently met with cries of, "In ''English'', Eugene!"
▲* [[Power Trio]]:
▲** Back in the good ol' days
▲*** Id: Connie
▲*** Superego: Eugene
▲*** Ego: Whit
▲** The imaginary characters that Trent dreams up in The Present Long Ago, all of which are spoofs of real life TV personalities
▲*** Id: Arnold Schwarzenbanger
▲*** Ego: Bill Crosby
▲*** Superego: Detective Colimbo
* [[Put on a Bus]]: Eugene, after his voice actor left the show, supposedly due to "creative differences." The actor and character have since returned.
** Jared DeWhite, which actually turned out to be a {{spoiler|plot device in the Novacom Saga.}}
* [[Readings Are Off the Scale]]: Whenever something went wrong with the Imagination Station, which always happened when someone was in it.
* [[Recycled in Space]]: "Passages part I & II" and the novel spinoffs. Children from Odyssey are transportered to a parallel Earth, where biblical history from our world is repeating itself against a different setting (kind of like a straighter version of ''Narnia'').
* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: Connie's red, Eugene's blue.
* [[Renaissance Man]]: Whit: soldier, NSA consultant, businessman, resident theologian, archeologist, encyclopedia publisher, computer, neurology, and engineering (and whatever other subjects are required to build a working Imagination Station) genius, and the maker of the best sundaes in the county.
* [[Repetitive Name]]: "I'm Digger. Digger Digwillow." "Digger Digger Digwillow?"
* [[Retired Badass]]: Whit
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** Jack Allen for Whit, lampshaded in his introductory episode, where Connie, who was the most affected by Whit leaving, accuses Jack point-blank of trying to replace Whit.
* [[Take Over the World]]
* [[Talking to Himself]]:
** Walker Edminston as Tom Riley and Bart Rathbone
** Earl Boen as Edwin Blackgaard and Dr. Regis Blackgaard (although they only ever interracted with each other in one episode)
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* [[Villain Episode]]: Rodney Rathbone once starred in and narrated his own episode.
* [[Virtual Ghost]]: Dr. Blackgaard as a rogue Imagination station program.
* [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]: Monica did several jobs for Novacom, including infiltrating the Missions Board to steal a disk from Jason and threatening to kill his friend, because she bought the story that their technology was going to be used to help the handicapped, like her brother.▼
* [[We Will Meet Again]]: Dr. Blackgaard and his [[The Mole|mole]], city councilman Mr. Glossman.
▲* [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]: Monica did several jobs for Novacom, including infiltrating the Missions Board to steal a disk from Jason and threatening to kill his friend, because she bought the story that their technology was going to be used to help the handicapped, like her brother.
* [[Where the Hell Is Springfield?|Where the Heck is Odyssey]]: It's probably somewhere in the eastern Midwest area, the clues do not get any more specific.
* [[You Are Not Ready]]: Whit to Connie and Eugene in the first episode with the secret computer (Mabel) room, with full Adam and Eve and the [[Forbidden Fruit]]-analogy.
** This was in the episode "A Bite of Applesauce" in the album "Daring Deeds, Sinister Schemes".
* [[Your Mind Makes It Real]]: the Imagination Station, the Room Of Consequences, and the Transmuter. They all run according the rule that govern the ''[[Star Trek]]'' holodeck: it is perfectly safe until it isn't.
** The Inspiration Station as well.
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