Bait-and-Switch: The murder mystery DVD from the 2017 No Laughing challenge.

Tanaka, Endo and Yamasaki team up to contrive farfetched reasons and methods to split the items between just the three of them and exclude Hamada.

Apple of Discord: Though it never escalates too far, the 24-hour tag sequence has the group of 4 (Hamada, Yamasaki, Endo and Tanaka) being given single items (such as a single cup ramen, single piece of pork bun, or a single sausage).

Notable invoking done during the 24 Hour Tag and the Teacher Batsu.

Animal Motifs: Hamada is often associated with Gorillas.

Fujiwara (the longstanding handler for the annual No Laughing events)has already prepared a gift 'from the future' to appease the temperamental shogun.

All Men Are Perverts: One No Laughing challenge has all the guys hurled back in time to the Tokugawa regime, where they are granted an audience with the reigning shogun Tokugawa Kogemitsu.

The production crew decides to let the group continue on after a botched line on the second attempt for fear the group would get too inebriated. The group is to perform the lines from the play flawlessly any mistake means that the play is stopped and the group must drink another round. In an effort to prove that as 'Professional Comedians' they can perform thru any situation, the group (with a roped in Director) attempt to perform Momotarō while drunk.

Alcohol-Induced Idiocy: Drunk Momotaro Theater skit.

Unfortunately it only leads to the toilet. The guys are clearly out of shape for that sort of thing so the vent is even wider than Hollywood standards.

Air-Vent Passageway: Famously in the prison-themed No Laughing challenge.

Affectionate Parody: Their Gorenjai skits live and die by this trope.Adrenaline Makeover: Matsumoto, who over the years has grown out a beard and switched from shaving to dyeing his hair into blonde spikes, and even built up some legit muscle mass.

Admiring the Abomination: Every now and then the guys, Matsumoto in particular, stop to marvel at some of the overly elaborate apparatus involved in their challenges despite what the thing was intended for.Suga also makes appearances in these episodes to comfort the women after Heipo screws up the dates. One series for example focuses on Heipo going out on dates with different women (one is Ayako Nishikawa) and seeking advice from the regular cast. This also occurs in some of the regular episodes.A Day in the Limelight: The special episodes often feature people that are not members of Gaki no Tsukai per se, such as stage director Heipo, producer Nakamura and producer Kenji Suga.

(Mizuki is an anime/tokusatsu singer best known for singing the opening theme of Mazinger Z.) Adam Westing: Ichiro Mizuki's appearances in the Batsu games tend to revolve around him gleefully indulging in this.

Gaki no tsukai batsu