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Dream On
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An HBO original comedy made in the first half of The '90s by the creators-to-be of Friends, David Crane and Marta Kaufman. The series was essentially a sex farce, detailing the life of Martin Tupper (Brian Benben), a neurotic New Yorker trying to get laid in the wake of his divorce, his expectations of life addled by a childhood spent watching old TV.The series used a variation on the Imagine Spot as its primary gimmick. Clips from old movies and TV shows were used for Martin's Imagine Spots. Also, being on HBO, it got a lot racier than network television might imagine. | |
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Always Someone Better | |
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Always Someone Better: Martin's ex-wife Judith's new husband Richard was annoyingly perfect in every way. | |
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The Ghost | |
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The Ghost: Annoyingly perfect Richard. | |
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Lingerie Scene | |
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Lingerie Scene: Courtney Cox stunning in hers in 'Come Knock On Our Door'. | |
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Stylistic Suck | |
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Stylistic Suck: Martin's play/musical, though because the the aforementioned Moorecock thought Martin's play was a dull examination of his divorce. | |
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Kavorka Man | |
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Kavorka Man: Despite being kind of dumpy-looking, Martin hooked up with an astonishing amount of hot naked women. | |
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Cold Turkeys Are Everywhere | |
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Cold Turkeys Are Everywhere: A nice little sendup — Martin has to give up coffee. Suddenly every one of the little film clips in his head is about... | |
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A Threesome Is Hot | |
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A Threesome Is Hot: Martin and Eddie have one with Alisha (Courtney Cox) and are very awkward with one another afterwards. | |
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All Guys Want Cheerleaders | |
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All Guys Want Cheerleaders: In one episode, Martin is suffering from impotence. Trying to cure it, he goes to bed with a busty, blonde cheerleader, naked except for her short skirt and pom-poms. She does the "We got spirit, yes we do!" chant while straddling him. The fact that this doesn't make him "rise to the occasion" seems proof that his condition is really bad. | |
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Straight Gay | |
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Straight Gay: Both Martin's father Mickey and Mickey's lover Roger. | |
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Kissing Cousins | |
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Kissing Cousins: In the episode "Theory of Relativity", Martin and his cousin Sarah (played by Helen Slater, remembered for playing Supergirl in the eponymous film) find themselves attracted to each other but unable to act upon it for most of the episode. When they finally find themselves alone and unable to be interrupted, their mutual passion fizzles out when they notice how much their feet resemble each other's. | |
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Bowdlerization | |
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Bowdlerization: The series was badly cut when aired on FOX and in syndication | |
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Imagine Spot | |
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Imagine Spot: The series' core gimmick. | |
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Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places | |
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Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places: Martin Tupper went through woman after woman in a effort to replace his true love, his ex-wife, Judith. | |
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The Missus and the Ex | |
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The Missus and the Ex: This happens in the episode "Three Coins in the Dryer". Martin imagines all kinds of craziness about them viciously fighting each other. It turns out that they are rather awkward and uncomfortable with each other, but perfectly nice. Martin's ex-wife only reacts with a friendly detached amusement that they have so obviously been having sex. | |
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Big Applesauce | |
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Big Applesauce: Very much a New York show. | |
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The Pornomancer: Martin. He's not exactly ugly but he's not exactly a looker, either, and yet he gets supermodel-gorgeous women into bed with amazing ease. This is occasionally lampshaded, such as by Judith asking him "Have you slept with every woman in New York?" and in the episode where he almost dies, his "this is your life" tape is essentially one long series of porn clips, which gets the Angel secretary hot and bothered. | |
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Prima Donna Director | |
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Prima Donna Director: Sir Roland Moorecock (David Bowie) in "The Second Greatest Story Ever Told" — he's nasty to everyone but is kowtowed to nonetheless. Martin ultimately tries to call him out on his nastiness only to discover that he's more than aware of how much he's resented; he just doesn't care. | |
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Who Would Want to Watch Us? | |
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Who Would Want to Watch Us?: In "The Second-Greatest Story Ever Told", Richard's life is becoming a Biopic. Martin falls in love with the woman playing Judith...and then she meets the man playing Richard... | |
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The Talk | |
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The Talk: Spoofed. Martin steels himself to tell Jeremy The Facts Of Life and is hugely relieved when Jeremy says, "Dad, I know all this. We learned it at school." Martin smiles and relaxes, calmly asking if Jeremy has any questions... "Yeah, what's cunnilingus?" Cut to man falling from a building with a horrified scream. Followed immediately by a series of equally direct questions, with similar clips as "responses". Played straight(er) later by Martin talking to Jeremy about a completely different and wrapping up by saying it was "as awkward as bad sex". | |
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Magic Plastic Surgery | |
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Magic Plastic Surgery: Eddie Charles is replaced by a different actor partway through the first season. This is explained away by having him get surgery to change his eyelids. So he gets a whole new face and several extra inches of height! However, everybody says that he doesn't look any different. Martin quips "A little younger, maybe." Devilishly clever, these eyelid surgeons! | |
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All Guys Want Cheerleaders / int_8cb9b23b | |
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Cold Turkeys Are Everywhere / int_8cb9b23b | |
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