"Resident Advisors" leans into modern college comedy tropes with a heavy emphasis on diverse identity-driven storylines, sometimes at the expense of deeper character development. While not completely overt, several characters feel cast for diversity boxes rather than fitting the traditional archetypes within the resident assistant world. Still, slapstick and standard sitcom plots often take the forefront.

The show pokes fun at campus traditions, authority figures, and occasionally masculinity, but it avoids aggressive subversion. Elements like campus culture, morality, and gender are handled with snark, albeit in a fairly typical modern sitcom fashion that lightly jabs at old-school values.

Alternative worldviews are generally reduced to stereotypes, the 'conservative' or 'traditional' characters are played for laughs or treated as obstacles. The show centers almost exclusively on a modern, progressive college perspective, with little genuine pluralism or sincere alternative takes.