Funny Background Event: In Morning Patrol, one of the cars hits a civilian and continues driving.

Curb-Stomp Battle: Illustrated quite specifically in 'Aliens'.ĭave, talking to the strider: I shall call you Simba!.

Crossover: In The Tunnel Mike and Dave mention fellow Civil Protection members Barney and Eddie, heavily implied to be Barney Calhoun from Half-Life: Blue Shift and Half-Life 2 and Freeman's oft-mentioned Friend in the Black Market from Freeman's Mind.

It's made from materials which are common and free After the End, the effort you put in means they can't get too mad, and it should lower their expectations for next year.

Crappy Homemade Gift: Mike recommends giving people a Christmas Brick, which is a brick with the the recipient's name chiseled in, wrapped in old newspapers, maybe with some shoelaces as ribbons.

Cloud Cuckoolander: Dave strays into this territory at times.

The lack of shadow never actually gets explained. Mike doesn't care, ending up chasing him down the street so he can arrest the guy for jaywalking. They theorize on why that might be, going from 'he's a vampire!' to 'bad light.' When they try to trump up a charge to bring him in on, he suddenly has a shadow again.

Casts No Shadow: In episode 3 Mike and Dave encounter a man who happens not to have a shadow.

The Cameo: In Oil's Well one of the dead people on the conveyor belt is the Postal Dude.

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