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The Classically Trained Extra is an actor, often on a Show Within a Show, who feels they're stuck in a lowbrow role that's somehow "below" them, agonizes over their talent being wasted, and aspires for greater things. Whether they're a has-been or an overly ambitious newcomer to acting, they tend to come off as an uptight blowhard, especially if they boast that they're a "classically-trained Shakespearean actor". Particularly reviled roles seem to be a character on a science fiction program, the straight man on a Sitcom (a part many actors admit to hating, since it can be seen as standing there being "normal," while your co-workers get all the good laughs,) or the host of a broadcast TV kids' show. Bonus points for the last one, or any role where the Classically Trained Extra's personality (they're usually The Comically Serious) is cast against type. If they have sufficient contempt for the role, they might Hate The Job Love The Limelight. If they express that contempt to the kids who love their character, it's Nice Character, Mean Actor. For extra measure, add in a Contractual Obligation Project, in which the actor would not only despise the role because they feel it is beneath their talents, but also they were forced to be involved in the project. Note, while the title is made to amplify the meaning of this trope, it happens whenever someone appears in a role that is really far, far below their ability and range. It may be a very important secondary role, but it is usually a pop culture type of production. This trope is often Truth in Television, as even great actors can't always be picky about roles, as a side effect of skill not very often translating into popularity. This may even lead into Magnum Opus Dissonance if the work they sign up for outshines the popularity of the classical works they've preferred working on. This trope, however, can be subverted by One for the Money; One for the Art, where the actor (at least verbally) sets aside their personal feelings towards the quality of the project and uses the experience, connections, and money for projects that they would really enjoy doing. There is often a strong overlap with Theatre is True Acting in the case of actors with a strong stage background thinking that schmaltzy on-camera acting is beneath them. Compare Questionable Casting, All-Star Cast. For actual classically trained actors, see Shakespearian Actors. Examples |
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Slim in A Bug's Life laments (dramatically, of course) that despite all his training, P. T. only ever casts him as a prop, a tree, a splinter. P. T. points out that it's funny, damnit. | |
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Literally in the case of Sebastian in Shakespeare & Hathaway - Private Investigators . He is a RADA trained actor, but his current acting career consists of bit parts in commercials and being an extra in Shakespeare productions. | |
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The sitcom Cybill (1990s) was about a actress, Cybill Sheridan (played by Cybill Shepherd) who, not young any longer, only got minor roles (including voicing a singing toilet for an ad, and that was probably not her worst). She remembered her "golden age" as a scream queen, but grew to dislike the quality of her own horror movies, having done it only to pay the bills. | |
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The Simpsons: While not trained as an actor, Sideshow Bob fits the trope perfectly, with his high culture elitism and past as a clown on Krusty's show. His replacement, Sideshow Mel, is even more over the top with his dramatic behavior, and was later upgraded to a full-blown Classically Trained Extra when he revealed to Lisa that he won the Entertainer of the Year award for playing "serious" roles, such as Biff from Death of a Salesman. Mel also makes it perfectly clear that he is in fact not satisfied with his current role. In fact, it's suggested that Krusty actively seeks these out because it encourages them to play The Comically Serious: as he put it, "the pie gag's only funny if the sap's got dignity." Bumblebee Man is actually an intelligent and dignified actor who approaches his absurd slapstick antics with professional gravitas, and moans about his situation to his wife. In the episode "I Love Lisa" Lisa's Large Ham thespian classmate Rex is outraged when the part of George Washington, in the school Presidents' Day pageant, goes to Ralph Wiggum instead of him. He ends up playing a bit part, with visible resentment, as Washington's verbally-abused servant. |
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In Slings & Arrows, Ellen is a veteran Shakespearean actress who sells out by taking a lead role on a ridiculous sci-fi show. | |
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In Inside Out, during the Creative Closing Credits we see the emotions of the real-life Jangles the Clown, who laments that he spent six years in drama school to end up working as a struggling party clown. | |
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In the Looney Tunes short "A Ham in a Role", a canine actor quits Warner Brothers to study William Shakespeare. This is part of Daffy Duck's shtick as well. | |
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Edwin Blackgaard in Adventures in Odyssey is a classically trained actor (albeit a somewhat hammy one at times) who is stuck in a small town and decides to bring a little culture to it by opening a dinner theatre. Unfortunately for him, simple small-town folk tend to appreciate popular crowd-pleasers like Willy Wonka and Life With Father far more than listening to his drawn-out soliloquies and one-man shows. In order to make ends meet, he will begrudgingly acquiesce and put on said crowd-pleasers. Doesn't stop him from doing Shakespeare in the Park every now and then, though. | |
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Jenna, one of the two porn actresses, from Hatchet. She went to NYU and is a serious actress. | |
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Freefall invokes the trope for comedy: a robot is programed with all the works of Shakespeare and has to play Jar Jar Binks from Star Wars for nearly twenty years. | |
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In the musical of Drood, in the Show Within a Show, Bazzard laments his inability to get a larger part (including having an entire song about it). He is even a suspect in the murder, with his motive being wanting to increase his part. | |
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Bob in The Real Blonde lands a lucrative role on a soap opera. Despite the fame and wealth, he hates the role and recites Shakespeare in his dressing room. Ironically, the actor playing Bob was a soap opera actor himself. | |
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The American features an old man who gets shot dead within seconds of appearing at the start of the movie. That old man happens to be a Swedish actor who is not only a classically trained stage actor (they all are) but also well respected. | |
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Dan Lauria, famous as the father on The Wonder Years, is a Shakespearean actor who was initially hesitant to audition for the show, or any television show for that matter. He even went as far as to correct one of the writers at his audition, when they commented on what a great role it would be. Then the writers decided to take advantage of this trope hiring Lauria for the character of Wayne and Kevin's father, characterizing him as a distant father, dissatisfied with his choices in life, more interested in his car than in his job, facing a mid life crisis quitting his job and founding his own furniture company. | |
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Claude Maginot in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City is a classically-trained actor who is incredibly peeved about how he is best known as the star of the sitcom Just the Five of Us, which he calls "commercial dross." In an interview on K-Chat, he tries to steer the subject toward his interpretive dance show, In the Future, There Will be Robots, and breaks down into a rant when Amy keeps trying to push the subject toward his show. | |
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Rob in Swingers mentions having performed Shakespearean roles but finds himself auditioning for Goofy at Disneyland. | |
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Parodied in The Young Ones where a postman who appears for a couple of minutes to deliver a parcel in one episode is apparently played by one of these; he roars his two-or-so lines with the same passion and intensity he would presumably give if he was playing the Dane. Even when he's gone, he can still be heard loudly delivering luvvie-style theatrical anecdotes backstage and generally annoying everyone present. | |
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In The Movies, the radio announcer for early part of the game (1920-1950) is William MacDuff, a snooty, Ambiguously Gay stage-actor-turned-newsreader who insists that moving pictures are just a passing phase. | |
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Sabrina: The Animated Series: in Harvey's magically created comic book world, Sabrina becomes Calamari Queen, a Cute Monster Girl with the power to shoot squids out of her hands. The first time this is demonstrated, the squid gets up in a huff and grumbles "ten years at the Actors' Studio and I'm still playing squids, sheesh." | |
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The Ren & Stimpy Show. Any episode portraying the duo as real cartoon actors has Stimpy revealed to be a serious actor doing a silly role while Ren is a glory hound. | |
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While not trained as an actor, Sideshow Bob fits the trope perfectly, with his high culture elitism and past as a clown on Krusty's show. His replacement, Sideshow Mel, is even more over the top with his dramatic behavior, and was later upgraded to a full-blown Classically Trained Extra when he revealed to Lisa that he won the Entertainer of the Year award for playing "serious" roles, such as Biff from Death of a Salesman. Mel also makes it perfectly clear that he is in fact not satisfied with his current role. In fact, it's suggested that Krusty actively seeks these out because it encourages them to play The Comically Serious: as he put it, "the pie gag's only funny if the sap's got dignity." | |
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In the musical adaptation of Struwwelpeter (or Shockheaded Peter), the "host" of the show gets increasingly frustrated as his acting talents are wasted on campy introductions of (gleefully grisly) children's songs. He actually tells the audience he's a classically trained actor and limps out as Richard III for a while before giving up in utter exasperation. | |
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Alexander Dane on Galaxy Quest. Although Alexander isn't exactly an extra — he's the #2 star of the show — he still seems miffed he's best known as Dr. Lazarus instead of his stage roles. It's understandable given how painfully one-dimensional his character comes off as. He learns of his importance to people when an (alien) fan of his dies, and he finally says his catchphrase (which, until then, he hated) and means it. He acts like this even after Gwen rightfully points out that he had a character people genuinely loved, while her only real purpose on the show was to provide fan service and be the captain's love interest. | |
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In the 1983 remake of To Be or Not to Be, about a Polish theatre company during the war, one of the characters complains about how Mel Brooks' actor-manager "Frederick Bronski" hogs the limelight as Hamlet doing the titular monologue whilst he is relegated to the part of second off-stage Nazi, despite being a classically trained actor. | |
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Malibu's Most Wanted had two well-educated, well-trained black actors who were always typecast as thugs. Ironically, they were both somewhat effeminate. | |
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In Rubber, one of the extras wears a baseball cap with the words "CLASSICALLY TRAINED" on it. It's part of the movie's Breaking the Fourth Wall shtick. | |
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In Moana, Alan Tudyk voices a non-anthropomorphic chicken, and his lines consist solely of clucking and other chicken noises. In behind-the-scenes footage from his time in the recording booth, he jokes in between doing chicken noises about the fact that he went to Juilliard. | |
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Used with a series of increasingly unfortunate twists in the first Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney game with Jack Hammer, an actor on the children's sentai show Steel Samurai. He was blackmailed out of a successful star career and into playing bad parts for very little pay, after accidentally killing a costar. | |
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The Law & Order franchise, being rather unique in American television for being filmed on location in New York City, utilizes the talent pool of Broadway more extensively than most other shows; alongside some well-known Broadway titans as regulars such as Raul Esparza on SVU and Jerry Orbach on the Mothership, well-known theater stars frequently show up at one-shot victims or suspects, and like Murder, She Wrote, these roles can frequently be to help theater actors either obtain or renew their SAG membership to work in film and television. SVU Showrunner Warren Leight stated outright his use of this trope during the COVID-19 Pandemic, stating he planned to hire as many Broadway actors as he could for the show to help sustain them while the theaters were closed during quarantines. | |
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Murder, She Wrote was well-known for having various well-known stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood randomly appear in various one-off roles (considering the show only had one lead character and its format required multiple guest stars to be both murder victims and suspects, this meant the show had a lot of these one-shot roles to fill). These were often done at the behest of star Angela Lansbury, who would learn of her friends and compatriots being at risk of losing their Screen Actors Guild membership due to lack of work and would arrange roles for them to stay in good standing and retain their union benefits. | |
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Mr. Pricklepants in Toy Story 3 takes his "role" as a toy incredibly seriously, even though it involves nothing more than not moving when humans are around, something every other toy can do with ease. The post-credits scenes feature him staging Romeo and Juliet purely for the other toys' benefit. | |
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Or in this case of Steptoe and Son, leading characters. The loss of Harry H. Corbett (referred to as "the English Marlon Brando" at the time he was cast as Harold) to this Typecasting has been described as one of the greatest losses to British theatre. "A Star is Born", the episode in which Harold tries his hand at stage acting (unsuccessfully, of course), could be seen as lampshading this. | |
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J.B. has a variation of this in the Framing Device. Mr. Zuss and Nickles, two veteran actors, are involved with some sort of circus production and complain about being reduced to selling popcorn and balloons outside it. | |
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Frank Kelly, who played Father Jack Hackett in Father Ted, was a trained stage actor, whose lines were limited to saying 'Drink' and 'Girls' whereas the two leads were stand-up comedians. Frank Kelly would often mutter "feckin' amateurs" during takes. One trailer purported to show the cast rehearsing their catchphrases, while Dermot Morgan addressed the viewers. At the end, Frank Kelly interrupted him in a plummy "classically-trained actor" voice. | |
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In Garth Marenghis Darkplace, one of the in-universe actors, Todd Rivers, is a classically trained actor who ended up in the titular show, a terribly written and Author Tract-filled horror/sci-fi show. He clearly (and justifiably) views the show as beneath him and as a result all his lines are either cheap and over the top or dubbed over in post. The DVD commentary reveals that he never bothered to watch the show after making it, seeing it only as a paycheck, and when he sees it for the first time years later he's highly unimpressed. | |
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Once, while hosting Saturday Night Live, Sir Ian McKellen gave an opening about how Dame Maggie Smith had once gotten Laurence Olivier to see a performance of theirs when they were in a minor stage group together, which ended up with both of them being drafted into his Shakespearean troupe, where they met "a talented young actor by the name of Anthony Hopkins." He then went on to talk about the irony that, after playing the classics, Hopkins was now famous for "eating people's faces off", Smith was now "that Harry Potter lady", and "they've made me into an action figure twice!" | |
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Beakman's World: Originally Lester, the guy in the rat-suit, was simply a trained actor with a bad agent, though this got played down for his more disgusting qualities later on. | |
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Mentioned in the episode commentary of an Invader Zim episode. The commentators joked about the awkwardness of asking classically trained and notable Star Trek actor John de Lancie to play a bit character named "Agent Darkbootie". | |
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SpongeBob SquarePants: "Sir Urchin and Snail Fail" revolves around the titular One-Joke Fake Show, which only has Snail Fail angering Sir Urchin by hitting him with random objects as they each say their catchphrases. Snail Fail gets bored of how Strictly Formula the show is and launches into a monologue about the nature of the universe, which Sir Urchin is surprised by. They split up, with Snail Fail attempting an unsuccessful career as a Shakespearean actor. In the end, they reboot the show: it has Snail Fail and Sir Urchin in fancy outfits as Snail Fail gives a dramatic monologue, but then he promptly hits Sir Urchin with the prop he's holding, showing that the comedy is basically still the same. | |
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Invoked in the "Gallimaufrey" episode of QI. Phill Jupitus mimics the "kind of out of work actor they would have on Call My Bluff when defining the word "grog blossom"." | |
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In the Cabin Pressure episode "Cremona", Hester Macauley is understandably bitter over the fact that her stage work and more serious film roles are overshadowed by her role as the Lady of the Lake in Quest For Camelot. | |
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Sam And Max: Situation — Comedy features Philo Pennyworth, the stuck-up actor who plays the neurotic landlord, Mr. Featherly, on Midtown Cowboys. Also, he's a talking chicken. However, far from thinking that his role in a critically-panned sitcom is beneath him, he believes true professionalism lies in taking any role you're given and playing it to the best of your ability. Of course, the professionalism flies out the window once the show becomes a massive hit in Germany and he starts making some serious bank. | |
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South Park: In "Terrance and Phillip: Behind the Blow", Phillip quits his role on the show (doing nothing but spout inane fart jokes with Terrance) to do Shakespearean acting in Canada. In a real life example, Jerry Seinfeld expressed interest in doing a voice for the show and was offered the role of "Turkey #4" in "Helen Keller: The Musical". Seinfeld's agent didn't quite understand the joke and turned it down. This is a common gag on South Park: Henry Winkler performed the growlings of a monster, Jay Leno voiced the meows of Cartman's cat, and George Clooney said "bark bark" as Stan's gay dog. Part of the reason is that the show is produced SO fast (one episode can be scripted, animated and aired within a week) that they can't anticipate exactly what character the actor would be playing. This is only possible because all voices in the show are handled by the same five people, and their list of genuine guest actors is quite small. |
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John Heard was a successful theater actor, and he was vocally unhappy about working on Home Alone, considering the role beneath him and believing the film would flop. Upon seeing the finished product, he profusely apologized to Chris Columbus, going so far as to do it break character before his first take to apologize on camera during shooting for the sequel. | |
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In A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, the opening number, "Comedy Tonight," notes that the actress playing Gymnasia "plays Medea later this week." (Forum, of course, is set in Ancient Rome and based on a classical play, but, as the number points out, not of the stuffy or serious kind.) | |
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Reboot (2022): As Reed's proud of saying, he went to the Yale School of Drama, but his most famous role is on a family sitcom and he hasn't been able to rise past bit parts after his time on the show. He signs up for the revival because he thinks the script is complex and challenging. | |
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LazyTown: Stefán Karl was an acclaimed theater actor who performed in stage musicals along with Chekhov and Shakespeare plays. He endeared himself to many fans by stating that he took Robbie Rotten as seriously as his Shakespearean roles, which certainly shows in his performance. | |
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In one episode of John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme, Carrie Quinlan gets annoyed that her role in the Storyteller skit is two lines in an owl voice. "I played Ophelia!" Eventually, the Storyteller says he shot the owl. | |
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A recurring character in the British animated sketch show Monkey Dust is a man who can only speak in a calm, clear voice, and so mostly does voiceovers despite being a classically trained actor. | |
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A Frasier episode revolved around Frasier discovering his favorite Shakespearean actor as a boy was now playing Tobor the android in Space Patrol. It transpires he was actually a really bad Shakespearean actor, but Frasier was too young to know. Sir Derek Jacobi, who played the part, really is a classically trained actor and former RSC member. Jacobi won an acting Emmy Award for that role. As often seems to be the case, Sir Derek was clearly having the time of his life. | |
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