...it's like TV Tropes, but LINKED DATA!

One-Line Anxiety

239 statements
45 feature instances
4 referencing feature instances

One-Line Anxiety	type	FeatureClass
One-Line Anxiety	label	One-Line Anxiety
One-Line Anxiety	page	OneLineAnxiety
One-Line Anxiety	comment	Sometimes the peaceful atmosphere of our favourite TV show will get disrupted when a film crew runs into town. It turns out they're shooting some scenes in the area. And what do you know? One of the characters gets to have a small part. Nine times out of ten, they'll get a line or two. Despite having just one line, they'll angst over it quite a bit — determined to get it right. This is almost always Played for Laughs — and half the time the line will end up cut (either due to time or the character's comical overacting). Sometimes will result in Small Name, Big Ego if the character acts like a celebrity afterwards. Another variation involves characters with small parts in school plays or community theatre productions. Occasionally overlaps with Classically-Trained Extra. It's also Truth in Television for a lot of actors with small parts. Sometimes happens to actors with larger parts if they only have one or two lines in the scene itself. A sister trope to Performance Anxiety.
One-Line Anxiety	fetched	2023-08-31T16:43:59Z
One-Line Anxiety	parsed	2023-08-31T16:43:59Z
One-Line Anxiety	processingComment	Dropped link to JustAKid: Not an Item - FEATURE
One-Line Anxiety	processingComment	Dropped link to LaserGuidedKarma: Not an Item - FEATURE
One-Line Anxiety	processingComment	Dropped link to Reconstruction: Not an Item - FEATURE
One-Line Anxiety	processingComment	Dropped link to SClub7: Not an Item - IGNORE
One-Line Anxiety	processingComment	Dropped link to SmallNameBigEgo: Not an Item - FEATURE
One-Line Anxiety	processingComment	Dropped link to TheMalaproper: Not an Item - FEATURE
One-Line Anxiety	processingComment	Dropped link to oldshame: Not an Item - FEATURE
One-Line Anxiety	isPartOf	DBTropes
One-Line Anxiety / int_151f3dd2	type	One-Line Anxiety
One-Line Anxiety / int_151f3dd2	comment	I Could Never Be Your Woman uses this as a revenge subplot. Rosie's assistant Jeannie gets a line on her sitcom but, due to nerves, the line is seen as too suggestive by the censors and ends up cut. Jeannie tries to get revenge on Rosie by sabotaging her budding relationship with Adam.
One-Line Anxiety / int_151f3dd2	featureApplicability	1.0
One-Line Anxiety / int_151f3dd2	featureConfidence	1.0
ICouldNeverBeYourWoman	hasFeature	One-Line Anxiety / int_151f3dd2
One-Line Anxiety / int_1dd1cb89	type	One-Line Anxiety
One-Line Anxiety / int_1dd1cb89	comment	One sequence shows Petrova getting annoyed by a director nitpicking her one line in A Midsummer Night's Dream. She's playing Mustard Seed and just has to say "and I".
One-Line Anxiety / int_1dd1cb89	featureApplicability	1.0
One-Line Anxiety / int_1dd1cb89	featureConfidence	1.0
A Midsummer Night's Dream (Theatre)	hasFeature	One-Line Anxiety / int_1dd1cb89
One-Line Anxiety / int_237c99fd	type	One-Line Anxiety
One-Line Anxiety / int_237c99fd	comment	For Some Like It Hot, Marilyn Monroe did eighty takes before she was happy with one scene. It was a brief shot of her saying "Where's that bourbon?"
One-Line Anxiety / int_237c99fd	featureApplicability	1.0
One-Line Anxiety / int_237c99fd	featureConfidence	1.0
Some Like It Hot	hasFeature	One-Line Anxiety / int_237c99fd
One-Line Anxiety / int_261c8d3f	type	One-Line Anxiety
One-Line Anxiety / int_261c8d3f	comment	The Simpsons: In "I Love Lisa", Milhouse is nervous about his part in the President's Day school play, where he plays Lincoln. Ms. Hoover is not remotely sympathetic to him. In "Bart Gets Famous" Bart gets one line in Krusty's sketch (he is filling in for Sideshow Mel at the last minute) which goes, "I am waiting for a bus." As he begins to say the line, he accidentally knocks over the set and nervously blurts out, "I didn't do it." It becomes a catchphrase of his and trying to remember it becomes a little intimidating after a while, but luckily, it eventually grows stale.
One-Line Anxiety / int_261c8d3f	featureApplicability	1.0
One-Line Anxiety / int_261c8d3f	featureConfidence	1.0
The Simpsons	hasFeature	One-Line Anxiety / int_261c8d3f
One-Line Anxiety / int_2fe9c4b0	type	One-Line Anxiety
One-Line Anxiety / int_2fe9c4b0	comment	Even when Phoebe has no lines as an extra on Days of Our Lives, she keeps messing up a scene due to being too nervous to carry a tray across the room.
One-Line Anxiety / int_2fe9c4b0	featureApplicability	1.0
One-Line Anxiety / int_2fe9c4b0	featureConfidence	1.0
Days of Our Lives	hasFeature	One-Line Anxiety / int_2fe9c4b0
One-Line Anxiety / int_31c31084	type	One-Line Anxiety
One-Line Anxiety / int_31c31084	comment	The Weekenders: In the episode "Celebrity", the in-universe Teen Drama shoots in Bahia Bay and Tish is given a minor speaking part. She has to be dubbed over due to nerves, but that doesn't stop locals from fawning over her for it, and she starts acting like a diva. Played with in "To Be or Not to Be", where Tish gets a minor role in a local production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. She spends a huge amount of time rehearsing her one line (that's eventually cut to one word) and hanging with the cast, not because she thought the line was important, but because she wanted to make friends with the acting troupe after Tino, Carver, and Lor mocked her interest in theater. Eventually, Tish accepts the rest of the cast couldn't care less about a bit player a least a decade younger than any of them. After her friends apologize and show their support, Tish decides to be proud of her one line anyway. An episode with a talent show has Lor constantly bumbling singing "Home on the Range" — specifically because she keeps getting the lyric "where the deer and the antelope play" as "deer and cantaloupe" (which Tish kicks off at her for eventually).
One-Line Anxiety / int_31c31084	featureApplicability	1.0
One-Line Anxiety / int_31c31084	featureConfidence	1.0
The Weekenders	hasFeature	One-Line Anxiety / int_31c31084
One-Line Anxiety / int_32318e9a	type	One-Line Anxiety
One-Line Anxiety / int_32318e9a	comment	One episode of Roseanne, "Communicable Theatre", has Jackie getting to appear in a single scene of a community theatre production of Cyrano de Bergerac. Despite her literally having one line — "TUH-REEEEN OF BEEF!", she acts like she's the star of the show. Things get messy when the actress for Roxanne gets sick and understudy Jackie has to fill in, despite never reading the whole text or even watching the scenes that she wasn't in (as in, the entire rest of the play). Roseanne ends up saving the day by hiding backstage and feeding her the lines.
One-Line Anxiety / int_32318e9a	featureApplicability	1.0
One-Line Anxiety / int_32318e9a	featureConfidence	1.0
Roseanne	hasFeature	One-Line Anxiety / int_32318e9a
One-Line Anxiety / int_36142806	type	One-Line Anxiety
One-Line Anxiety / int_36142806	comment	Mary from 227 gets a part in a movie where she tells a cop "Officer, he went that way!" But the stress of delivering this one line causes her back to stiffen to the point where she can't stand straight up. She eventually manages to straighten up, but now she can't bend over. Unfortunately, she has to lean over the victim when the shot begins and she's forced back into being bent over. After she delivers the line, the stress disappears and her back issue is resolved.
One-Line Anxiety / int_36142806	featureApplicability	1.0
One-Line Anxiety / int_36142806	featureConfidence	1.0
227	hasFeature	One-Line Anxiety / int_36142806
One-Line Anxiety / int_37a6e77b	type	One-Line Anxiety
One-Line Anxiety / int_37a6e77b	comment	Camp Lazlo: In "7 Deadly Sandwiches", Scoutmaster Lumpus tries to impress Jane Doe by signing up to appear in Lazlo's play. However, he's gets cast as a rock with one line ("Did somebody order a pizza?"), which he ends up delivering in a furious rage. Not wanting to be upstaged, Lumpus resorts to loudly parroting everyone else's lines in order to get noticed.
One-Line Anxiety / int_37a6e77b	featureApplicability	1.0
One-Line Anxiety / int_37a6e77b	featureConfidence	1.0
Camp Lazlo	hasFeature	One-Line Anxiety / int_37a6e77b
One-Line Anxiety / int_3d9bb04f	type	One-Line Anxiety
One-Line Anxiety / int_3d9bb04f	comment	In one episode of Toast of London, the titular Toast has a bit part as a butler whose only line is offering the lead actor a drink. Toast is unable to get the character's name right, and in fact says a different, increasingly bizarre variation of the name with every single flubbed take.
One-Line Anxiety / int_3d9bb04f	featureApplicability	1.0
One-Line Anxiety / int_3d9bb04f	featureConfidence	1.0
Toast of London	hasFeature	One-Line Anxiety / int_3d9bb04f
One-Line Anxiety / int_3e96b159	type	One-Line Anxiety
One-Line Anxiety / int_3e96b159	comment	Cats Don't Dance: Danny gets cast as part of the animal chorus in Darla Dimple's new movie Li'l Ark Angel, and he's dumbfounded that his one line is a "Meow". When his part comes, he repeatedly delivers his line like a ham and ends up interrupting Darla's song, ruining the scene and leading the furious Darla to have Max deal with him.
One-Line Anxiety / int_3e96b159	featureApplicability	1.0
One-Line Anxiety / int_3e96b159	featureConfidence	1.0
Cats Don't Dance	hasFeature	One-Line Anxiety / int_3e96b159
One-Line Anxiety / int_400469e	type	One-Line Anxiety
One-Line Anxiety / int_400469e	comment	In Calvin and Hobbes, Calvin's class puts on a play about the food groups. Calvin's role is to enter dressed as an onion and deliver an Expospeak line about the nutritional value of vegetables. Despite only having one line, Calvin, lazy as always, drags his feet memorizing it and plays it off as being a temperamental actor. On the night of the play, Calvin is supposed to go on stage, but he's stuck in the bathroom changing his costume due to a snagged pants zipper. Realizing he's going to miss his cue, Calvin passionately cries his line at the top of his lungs, loud enough for all to hear. After it's all over he recounts to Hobbes that yes, he missed his cue, yes, they had to stop the play, and yes, it took three people to free him from his costume, but he did not forget his line.
One-Line Anxiety / int_400469e	featureApplicability	1.0
One-Line Anxiety / int_400469e	featureConfidence	1.0
Calvin and Hobbes (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	One-Line Anxiety / int_400469e
One-Line Anxiety / int_4bd693d0	type	One-Line Anxiety
One-Line Anxiety / int_4bd693d0	comment	Carl is shooting a home horror movie in As Told by Ginger and at the end of the episode, he's seen nitpicking Lois over her hammy delivery of "What do you want? Get away from me!"
One-Line Anxiety / int_4bd693d0	featureApplicability	1.0
One-Line Anxiety / int_4bd693d0	featureConfidence	1.0
As Told by Ginger	hasFeature	One-Line Anxiety / int_4bd693d0
One-Line Anxiety / int_4ce4d500	type	One-Line Anxiety
One-Line Anxiety / int_4ce4d500	comment	The Brothers García has an episode where Lorena wins a contest to have a walk-in part on her favourite telenovella. The show's star decides to ad-lib a lengthy hammy monologue, preventing Lorena from saying her line. She's not pleased when Lorena finally interrupts her, and throws a tantrum.
One-Line Anxiety / int_4ce4d500	featureApplicability	1.0
One-Line Anxiety / int_4ce4d500	featureConfidence	1.0
The Brothers García	hasFeature	One-Line Anxiety / int_4ce4d500
One-Line Anxiety / int_52aaae6e	type	One-Line Anxiety
One-Line Anxiety / int_52aaae6e	comment	Hope & Faith's Season 1 finale features Faith making a return to her Soap Within a Show, and Charlie is given a line telling another character he's needed in the boardroom. After two takes of Charlie overacting, the actor says the line himself before Charlie gets a chance.
One-Line Anxiety / int_52aaae6e	featureApplicability	1.0
One-Line Anxiety / int_52aaae6e	featureConfidence	1.0
Hope & Faith	hasFeature	One-Line Anxiety / int_52aaae6e
One-Line Anxiety / int_57965cef	type	One-Line Anxiety
One-Line Anxiety / int_57965cef	comment	Captain Marvel: In his cameo, Stan Lee reads a script for Mallrats and tries different deliveries for his one line.
One-Line Anxiety / int_57965cef	featureApplicability	1.0
One-Line Anxiety / int_57965cef	featureConfidence	1.0
Captain Marvel (2019)	hasFeature	One-Line Anxiety / int_57965cef
One-Line Anxiety / int_58f28be1	type	One-Line Anxiety
One-Line Anxiety / int_58f28be1	comment	In a famous example from The Godfather, Lenny Montana, a professional wrestler and real-life member of the Mob, showed up on set one day as the bodyguard for one of the mafiosos who, per agreement with Francis Ford Coppola, got to occasionally watch shooting and make sure nothing too offensive was being put into the movie. Coppola hired Montana on the spot to play gangster Luca Brasi, who ends up "sleeping with the fishes." Luca only speaks a few lines in his first scene, where he meets Don Vito Corleone, but Montana was so nervous about being in the same room as Marlon Brando that he endlessly practiced his dialogue for fear of messing it up. Coppola decided to add this into the film — when you see Luca muttering to himself in preparation for meeting Vito, it's actually Montana rehearsing his speech. Similarly, Montana did screw up his lines, but his genuinely flustered reaction was so perfect that Coppola didn't bother with a retake.
One-Line Anxiety / int_58f28be1	featureApplicability	1.0
One-Line Anxiety / int_58f28be1	featureConfidence	1.0
The Godfather	hasFeature	One-Line Anxiety / int_58f28be1
One-Line Anxiety / int_599d9bdc	type	One-Line Anxiety
One-Line Anxiety / int_599d9bdc	comment	In There Was No Secret Evil Fighting Organization, Sago (who has never acted before) gets nervous about whether he'll remember his scripted dialogue, and hurries to make cue cards. It's only revealed a chapter later that this dialogue was three words.
One-Line Anxiety / int_599d9bdc	featureApplicability	1.0
One-Line Anxiety / int_599d9bdc	featureConfidence	1.0
There Was No Secret Evil Fighting Organization	hasFeature	One-Line Anxiety / int_599d9bdc
One-Line Anxiety / int_5cad8158	type	One-Line Anxiety
One-Line Anxiety / int_5cad8158	comment	Lizzie McGuire: The show has an episode where Frankie Muniz guest stars As Himself and it ends with Lizzie getting a small role in his film as a girl telling him he forgot his keys. She's mortified when she sees the finished film. In another episode where Gordo is trying to shoot a sci-fi film, Kate is the lead and they go through all the available film because she keeps getting her line wrong. Matt is cast in a small role in the school play and lets fame go to his head because of it. His one line is "ah, the doorbell, I'll get that". Laser-Guided Karma catches him and he loses his voice before the performance.
One-Line Anxiety / int_5cad8158	featureApplicability	1.0
One-Line Anxiety / int_5cad8158	featureConfidence	1.0
Lizzie McGuire	hasFeature	One-Line Anxiety / int_5cad8158
One-Line Anxiety / int_6162cbeb	type	One-Line Anxiety
One-Line Anxiety / int_6162cbeb	comment	When Joey is playing a Motaba victim in Outbreak II: The Virus Takes Manhattan, his increasingly over-the-top reactions to Jean-Claude Van Damme's line "Can't you see what is happening? This man is dying!" in successive takes result in Van Damme's line being changed to "Can't you see what is happening? This man is dead!"
One-Line Anxiety / int_6162cbeb	featureApplicability	1.0
One-Line Anxiety / int_6162cbeb	featureConfidence	1.0
Outbreak	hasFeature	One-Line Anxiety / int_6162cbeb
One-Line Anxiety / int_617c7f68	type	One-Line Anxiety
One-Line Anxiety / int_617c7f68	comment	In the episode "Celebrity", the in-universe Teen Drama shoots in Bahia Bay and Tish is given a minor speaking part. She has to be dubbed over due to nerves, but that doesn't stop locals from fawning over her for it, and she starts acting like a diva.
One-Line Anxiety / int_617c7f68	featureApplicability	1.0
One-Line Anxiety / int_617c7f68	featureConfidence	1.0
Teen Drama	hasFeature	One-Line Anxiety / int_617c7f68
One-Line Anxiety / int_6d02517d	type	One-Line Anxiety
One-Line Anxiety / int_6d02517d	comment	8 Simple Rules: An episode involving a school play has supporting character Lacey grumbling that Bridget got the lead in The Diary of Anne Frank over her. She's in the small role of Miep Gies and has just two lines (which she grumbles about). Bridget pushes her Berserk Button in rehearsal by giving her a sarcastic thumbs-up after she says one of the lines.
One-Line Anxiety / int_6d02517d	featureApplicability	1.0
One-Line Anxiety / int_6d02517d	featureConfidence	1.0
8 Simple Rules	hasFeature	One-Line Anxiety / int_6d02517d
One-Line Anxiety / int_6e2bb40c	type	One-Line Anxiety
One-Line Anxiety / int_6e2bb40c	comment	In an early episode of My Three Sons, an educational film is being shot in Robbie's chemistry class, and he is given one line he can't stop worrying over: "Please pass the Bunsen burner."
One-Line Anxiety / int_6e2bb40c	featureApplicability	1.0
One-Line Anxiety / int_6e2bb40c	featureConfidence	1.0
My Three Sons	hasFeature	One-Line Anxiety / int_6e2bb40c
One-Line Anxiety / int_71c01786	type	One-Line Anxiety
One-Line Anxiety / int_71c01786	comment	Doubly done in the Klugman/Randall The Odd Couple. Sportswriter Oscar is given a brief movie role as a sports reporter, whose only line is "Tell us about your career, Slugger." He flubs take after take, to the point where the director is ready to call in a real actor. If that weren't embarrassing enough, Felix jumps in to take over the part. But he overacts mightily with elaborate improvisations until he is fired too. But it's a subversion: He only did it to waste time, so that the director would be forced to use Oscar instead calling in the other actor. But it backfires: the director gives the role to the guy who'd been operating the clapboard, who nails the line in one take.
One-Line Anxiety / int_71c01786	featureApplicability	1.0
One-Line Anxiety / int_71c01786	featureConfidence	1.0
The Odd Couple (1970)	hasFeature	One-Line Anxiety / int_71c01786
One-Line Anxiety / int_77b80c32	type	One-Line Anxiety
One-Line Anxiety / int_77b80c32	comment	Sunshine Cleaning has a back story where the girls' mother was a featured extra in a movie of the week. She played a waitress who recommended the pecan pie, and it's a Running Gag of the girls scanning the TV any time a diner scene comes on in the hopes that it's hers.
One-Line Anxiety / int_77b80c32	featureApplicability	1.0
One-Line Anxiety / int_77b80c32	featureConfidence	1.0
Sunshine Cleaning	hasFeature	One-Line Anxiety / int_77b80c32
One-Line Anxiety / int_7884ec15	type	One-Line Anxiety
One-Line Anxiety / int_7884ec15	comment	One episode of Seinfeld sees Kramer wrangling an appearance in a new Woody Allen movie. He even gets a single line — "These pretzels are makin' me thirsty." Naturally, he completely botches it.
One-Line Anxiety / int_7884ec15	featureApplicability	1.0
One-Line Anxiety / int_7884ec15	featureConfidence	1.0
Seinfeld	hasFeature	One-Line Anxiety / int_7884ec15
One-Line Anxiety / int_8d814070	type	One-Line Anxiety
One-Line Anxiety / int_8d814070	comment	On an episode of MAS*H, a USO comedian enlists Klinger's help putting on a skit for the patients in Post-op. Klinger's one line is "It hurts when I do this."note the punchline being "Then don't do that!" Unfortunately, he's so overwhelmed by stage fright come performance time that all he can manage is "My arm hurts," completely blowing the joke.
One-Line Anxiety / int_8d814070	featureApplicability	1.0
One-Line Anxiety / int_8d814070	featureConfidence	1.0
MAS*H	hasFeature	One-Line Anxiety / int_8d814070
One-Line Anxiety / int_9a6bf4b3	type	One-Line Anxiety
One-Line Anxiety / int_9a6bf4b3	comment	Hail, Caesar! has singing cowboy star Hobie Doyle being cast in a romantic drama, causing a lot of hassle for the director when he tries to say the line "would that it were so simple?" although it's partly because he actually wears dentures. When we see the finished scene, the line is just changed to "it's complicated".
One-Line Anxiety / int_9a6bf4b3	featureApplicability	1.0
One-Line Anxiety / int_9a6bf4b3	featureConfidence	1.0
Hail, Caesar!	hasFeature	One-Line Anxiety / int_9a6bf4b3
One-Line Anxiety / int_9f1766e4	type	One-Line Anxiety
One-Line Anxiety / int_9f1766e4	comment	On The Brady Bunch Jan and Peter were cast as palace guards in "Romeo and Juliet" and had one line each.
One-Line Anxiety / int_9f1766e4	featureApplicability	1.0
One-Line Anxiety / int_9f1766e4	featureConfidence	1.0
The Brady Bunch	hasFeature	One-Line Anxiety / int_9f1766e4
One-Line Anxiety / int_ada547f3	type	One-Line Anxiety
One-Line Anxiety / int_ada547f3	comment	While filming The Room (2003), Tommy Wiseau took ages to do a scene where Johnny walks down two steps. Greg Sestero in The Disaster Artist puts him in comparison to Carolyn Minnot who nailed a scene in a matter of minutes after fainting from heat stroke.
One-Line Anxiety / int_ada547f3	featureApplicability	1.0
One-Line Anxiety / int_ada547f3	featureConfidence	1.0
The Room (2003)	hasFeature	One-Line Anxiety / int_ada547f3
One-Line Anxiety / int_b2ac2311	type	One-Line Anxiety
One-Line Anxiety / int_b2ac2311	comment	Peanuts: In an arc, Sally is nervous about her one line in the Christmas pageant: "I say 'Hark!' and then Harold Angel starts to sing." The others don't think she has the line quite right. Finally, stricken with Performance Anxiety, she blurts out, "Hockey Stick!" The kicker: the next day, a kid named Harold Angel shows up to complain. Her big brother Charlie Brown suffers it too. On Violet's birthday, gift in hand as he walks toward her house, he practices his line over and over. "This is for you, Violet. Happy birthday." When the moment comes, he blurts out, "This is for you, Violet. Merry Christmas." Last panel, he's banging his head on a tree.
One-Line Anxiety / int_b2ac2311	featureApplicability	1.0
One-Line Anxiety / int_b2ac2311	featureConfidence	1.0
Peanuts (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	One-Line Anxiety / int_b2ac2311
One-Line Anxiety / int_b3454ebd	type	One-Line Anxiety
One-Line Anxiety / int_b3454ebd	comment	Starsky & Hutch: In the episode "Murder on Stage 17", Starsky and Hutch are undercover as stuntmen in a studio shooting a Western. Director Harry Markham (Jeff Goldblum) decides to give Hutch a bit part. Even though it's a simple line ("Here comes McCoy now..."), Hutch is quite nervous and his stifled delivery forces multiple takes. At the end, once the movie is finished, Hutch discovers his line was dubbed over, to his dismay.
One-Line Anxiety / int_b3454ebd	featureApplicability	1.0
One-Line Anxiety / int_b3454ebd	featureConfidence	1.0
Starsky & Hutch	hasFeature	One-Line Anxiety / int_b3454ebd
One-Line Anxiety / int_bd49e2cf	type	One-Line Anxiety
One-Line Anxiety / int_bd49e2cf	comment	Shakespeare in Love has the financier being given the small role of the Apothecary in Romeo and Juliet. He spends ages memorising his brief bit of dialogue. At the debut performance, the financier's nerves get the better of him and he becomes a Motor Mouth in an attempt to get all of his lines out before he forgets them—but it actually ends up working well, as it forces Shakespeare (playing Romeo) to respond in kind and generates real tension in the scene.
One-Line Anxiety / int_bd49e2cf	featureApplicability	1.0
One-Line Anxiety / int_bd49e2cf	featureConfidence	1.0
Shakespeare in Love	hasFeature	One-Line Anxiety / int_bd49e2cf
One-Line Anxiety / int_c747499e	type	One-Line Anxiety
One-Line Anxiety / int_c747499e	comment	In My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Magical Movie Night, the protagonists get to be extras in the Daring Do movie. Rainbow Dash keeps messing up her one part of throwing the rope to Daring Do because she's too busy Squeeing over how fun the scene is.
One-Line Anxiety / int_c747499e	featureApplicability	1.0
One-Line Anxiety / int_c747499e	featureConfidence	1.0
My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Magical Movie Night	hasFeature	One-Line Anxiety / int_c747499e
One-Line Anxiety / int_ca5d97f1	type	One-Line Anxiety
One-Line Anxiety / int_ca5d97f1	comment	Lampshaded in a few episodes of Monty Python's Flying Circus by having Terry Gilliam or Carol Cleveland saying some variation of "This is my only line."
One-Line Anxiety / int_ca5d97f1	featureApplicability	1.0
One-Line Anxiety / int_ca5d97f1	featureConfidence	1.0
Monty Python's Flying Circus	hasFeature	One-Line Anxiety / int_ca5d97f1
One-Line Anxiety / int_d26874b6	type	One-Line Anxiety
One-Line Anxiety / int_d26874b6	comment	Exaggerated in Diary of a Wimpy Kid. Rodney James is supposed to play a bush that does absolutely nothing in a school play. He still gets stage fright and has to be taken home.
One-Line Anxiety / int_d26874b6	featureApplicability	1.0
One-Line Anxiety / int_d26874b6	featureConfidence	1.0
Diary of a Wimpy Kid	hasFeature	One-Line Anxiety / int_d26874b6
One-Line Anxiety / int_d84a5d86	type	One-Line Anxiety
One-Line Anxiety / int_d84a5d86	comment	In Nina Needs to Go!, the episode "Play" has Nina cast as a talking rock in a play. She apparently has only one line but is nervous and doesn't know what she's meant to say. At the end of the episode, she just says her catchphrase instead, so we never find out her line.
One-Line Anxiety / int_d84a5d86	featureApplicability	1.0
One-Line Anxiety / int_d84a5d86	featureConfidence	1.0
Nina Needs to Go!	hasFeature	One-Line Anxiety / int_d84a5d86
One-Line Anxiety / int_e25322af	type	One-Line Anxiety
One-Line Anxiety / int_e25322af	comment	Homestar Runner: In "A Decemberween Pageant", Strong Sad spends the whole short freaking out that he's forgotten his lines, fearing that he'll ruin the whole play if he messes up. He locks himself in the bathroom to throw up, and the rest of the cast have to improvise new material while they wait for Strong Sad to come back out. Turns out his entire role is to walk on stage in the final scene and say "What?"
One-Line Anxiety / int_e25322af	featureApplicability	1.0
One-Line Anxiety / int_e25322af	featureConfidence	1.0
Homestar Runner (Web Animation)	hasFeature	One-Line Anxiety / int_e25322af
One-Line Anxiety / int_ea9ae80e	type	One-Line Anxiety
One-Line Anxiety / int_ea9ae80e	comment	Marilyn experienced something similar in All About Eve. Gary Merrill recalls a dinner party hosted by Bette Davis the night before the two actresses had to shoot a scene together. Marilyn excused herself and went home early because she had to work the next day, despite only having a handful of lines. Bette had the majority of dialogue and had no trouble, whereas Marilyn required ten takes because she kept forgetting the lines.
One-Line Anxiety / int_ea9ae80e	featureApplicability	1.0
One-Line Anxiety / int_ea9ae80e	featureConfidence	1.0
All About Eve	hasFeature	One-Line Anxiety / int_ea9ae80e
One-Line Anxiety / int_eed7f86d	type	One-Line Anxiety
One-Line Anxiety / int_eed7f86d	comment	The 2007 BBC version of Ballet Shoes: One sequence shows Petrova getting annoyed by a director nitpicking her one line in A Midsummer Night's Dream. She's playing Mustard Seed and just has to say "and I". Pauline has a role in a film later and has to go through multiple takes because she won't deliver the line "I will" the way the director wants. One could call this a Reconstruction, as the director stresses that every line is important and this conveys her character's I Will Wait for You (resulting in a Tear Jerker in the film, and Pauline getting offered a contract in Los Angeles).
One-Line Anxiety / int_eed7f86d	featureApplicability	1.0
One-Line Anxiety / int_eed7f86d	featureConfidence	1.0
Ballet Shoes	hasFeature	One-Line Anxiety / int_eed7f86d
One-Line Anxiety / int_f0a86c12	type	One-Line Anxiety
One-Line Anxiety / int_f0a86c12	comment	How I Met Your Mother: A variation in "The Stinsons". Barney has Lily pretend to be his wife to scare away one night stands he doesn't want to break up with. On her first try at this, Lily is supposed to walk into the kitchen after Barney asks his date to "pass the arts and leisure" section of the newspaper. He has to say it three times before Lily comes in.
One-Line Anxiety / int_f0a86c12	featureApplicability	1.0
One-Line Anxiety / int_f0a86c12	featureConfidence	1.0
How I Met Your Mother	hasFeature	One-Line Anxiety / int_f0a86c12
One-Line Anxiety / int_f655ed11	type	One-Line Anxiety
One-Line Anxiety / int_f655ed11	comment	The Frasier episode "Ham Radio" features the titular character directing a classic episode of a radio theatre mystery program. It's a comedy of errors, not the least of which is Bulldog insisting that his latest girlfriend get to participate. Frasier relents and gives her a single line as the first victim—only to discover too late that she's dyslexic: "Look out! He's got a nug!"
One-Line Anxiety / int_f655ed11	featureApplicability	1.0
One-Line Anxiety / int_f655ed11	featureConfidence	1.0
Frasier	hasFeature	One-Line Anxiety / int_f655ed11
One-Line Anxiety / int_f6c05e8e	type	One-Line Anxiety
One-Line Anxiety / int_f6c05e8e	comment	Friends: Joey stars in a porn film as a man who tells the couple having sex that they're going to ruin the photocopier. Despite just having one line, it's something of an Old Shame for him to be in porn at all. He also gets fired from his job as Al Pacino's "butt-double" in a shower scene for overacting in a simple shot. When he's reading for a bit part as a cab driver, he doesn't get it because he's trying to put too much into a brief scene. Plus he keeps misreading "50 bucks" as "so bucks". note Which is really the fault of the scriptwriter because numbers are supposed to be written as words. ("Fifty" in this case.) Even when Phoebe has no lines as an extra on Days of Our Lives, she keeps messing up a scene due to being too nervous to carry a tray across the room. When Joey is playing a Motaba victim in Outbreak II: The Virus Takes Manhattan, his increasingly over-the-top reactions to Jean-Claude Van Damme's line "Can't you see what is happening? This man is dying!" in successive takes result in Van Damme's line being changed to "Can't you see what is happening? This man is dead!"
One-Line Anxiety / int_f6c05e8e	featureApplicability	1.0
One-Line Anxiety / int_f6c05e8e	featureConfidence	1.0
Friends	hasFeature	One-Line Anxiety / int_f6c05e8e
One-Line Anxiety / int_f87c42c	type	One-Line Anxiety
One-Line Anxiety / int_f87c42c	comment	In the Saved by the Bell: The New Class episode "Highs and Lows", Liz obsessively frets about getting her one line in the stage production right, to the point that she rambles on to Ryan for hours about how best to do it (including the idea of trying out with various accents), until Ryan shows that he has had enough by snapping at her with: "It's only one line. Eight words. Just do it!" While Liz is initially affronted at Ryan's expression, she nevertheless takes it to heart by dropping any attempt to "polish" her line, and her performance ends up better as a result.
One-Line Anxiety / int_f87c42c	featureApplicability	1.0
One-Line Anxiety / int_f87c42c	featureConfidence	1.0
Saved by the Bell: The New Class	hasFeature	One-Line Anxiety / int_f87c42c
One-Line Anxiety / int_ff7b68ba	type	One-Line Anxiety
One-Line Anxiety / int_ff7b68ba	comment	In a late episode of Night Court a crew shoots a TV pilot in the courthouse. To get Judge Harry Stone to agree to their using his courtroom, they give him a bit part as a bailiff. Unfortunately he can’t manage to say the line “All rise” in a remotely natural way.
One-Line Anxiety / int_ff7b68ba	featureApplicability	1.0
One-Line Anxiety / int_ff7b68ba	featureConfidence	1.0
Night Court	hasFeature	One-Line Anxiety / int_ff7b68ba

The following is a list of statements referring to the current page from other pages.

My Three Sons / int_6a52d957	type	One-Line Anxiety
Saved by the Bell: The New Class / int_6a52d957	type	One-Line Anxiety
Starsky & Hutch / int_6a52d957	type	One-Line Anxiety
It's Christmastime Again, Charlie Brown / int_6a52d957	type	One-Line Anxiety

Copyright of DBTropes.org wrapper 2009-2013 DFKI Knowledge Management. Imprint. - Thanks to Bakken&Baeck for hosting. Contact.
Copyright of data TVTropes.org contributors under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.