Spike/Tropes

Tropes (Characters)

 * Cloudcuckoolander - FRANK WELSHGERALD!!!, He is a anime-loving otaku (later weeaboo) that only cares for his anime, other cloudcuckoolanders in the show are Jenny, Rich Mann, Sharky, and Martha.
 * Deadpan Snarker - Spike and Arnold Needles can qualify, they are cynical snarky guys who don't even like anything stupid, however Arnold is more Snarky than Spike, Joseph is the same for the first season.
 * Big Fun - Sharky, and later Joseph.
 * Big Eater - Spike eats Cookies on a daily basis, a later interview in 2003 said that Spike has Type 2 Diabetes from the cookies.
 * Sir Swears-A-Lot - Arnold Needles, Frank Welshgerald, Rich Mann, Hatch Quarterback, Martha, and Spike (in the later seasons).
 * Does Not Like Spam - Spike doesn't love coconut, none of the characters in the show do, and Arnold does not food with nuts in them.
 * Jerka*s - Arnold Needles, Principal Piehole, Martha, and Gary Gooseback, and Snoopy in "Snoopy Comes To Visit".
 * Jerk with a Heart of Gold - Principal Piehole can be a jerk to all of the students, but he cares so much for his students and wants them to be safe, and Rich Mann can be greedy, but is shown to help others.
 * Jerk with a Heart of Jerk - Arnold.
 * I'm Not Your Girlfriend - Joseph is not Martha's boyfriend, but Martha doesn't really care, yeah... it's basically like what Linus does to Sally, actually, according to the 2003 interview with Hughvan, Martha is based off Sally.
 * Expy - Martha is basically Sally Brown, in fact, some fanfics and art from DeviantArt has Martha pairing up with Sally, Arnold Needles is Adam West from Family Guy meets any jerka*s from South Park, and later years say that Principal Piehole is basically Mr. Krupp from Captain Underpants.
 * Never My Fault - Every character on the show, even the nice guys.
 * F-- - Happens to Joseph and Sharky in school.
 * Nice Guy - Spike, Joseph, and Sharky, surronded by a world full of Jerks, the three of them are very nice and will help a person at.
 * Take A Level In Kindness - Spike becomes this in the later seasons, Joseph in Season 16 can qualify.
 * Take A Level In Jerka*s - Arnold becomes this in Season 8, and then in Season 14, well, prepare to meet the World's Jerkish Mayor.
 * Took A Level In Dumba*s - Martha of course.
 * It's All About Me  - More like It's All About Arnold.
 * Large Ham - Everyone on the show.
 * Loony Fan - Arnold is a fan of Seinfeld.

Tropes (Were Still Relevant, Dammit)

 * Season 9 became this, adding boy bands and Nokia phones and any other early 2000's stuff, the moments lasted until the next season.
 * An early episode of Season 2 titled "Rappa Boyz" is about Spike and Joseph becoming rappers.
 * Season 19, adding a YouTube parody site called ThingTube, a Facebook parody site called LegBook, and a Twitter parody site called Bird.
 * A Season 16 episode titled "Parry Gripp's Got No IPhone"