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Mr. Bill

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Mr. Bill	comment	The Mr. Bill series is proof that we enjoy the misfortune of others.Mr. Bill was a character who started off on Saturday Night Live in 1976 as a result of a prompt by SNL to send in home movies. Created by Walter Williams, 'The Mr. Bill Show' was a parody of bad animation and children's shows in general. Mr. Bill (voiced by Williams) was a little Play-Doh clown who would start the show wanting to entertain the kids until things would ultimately take a violent turn with the 'help' of Mr. Hands (originally Vance DeGeneres; yes, Ellen's brother), a set of talking hands who manipulated everything on screen, and Sluggo, the silent antagonist who Mr. Bill would always fear was "going to be mean to me'Every episode would end with Mr. Bill and his dog Spot horribly mutilated, crushed, maimed, or in some other way destroyed, only to come back next episode to do it all over again.Williams was hired to be a writer on SNL in 1978, and the shorts became a regular part of SNL's fourth and fifth seasons. After leaving SNL in 1980, Mr. Bill returned thrice in the next two seasons, including the sixth season finale's cold open, before moving to Los Angeles in a short film in October 1981. Mr. Bill would subsequently appear frequently on the 1980s USA Network variety series Night Flight, and in the ill-fated 1986 Showcase pilot-turned-TV movie Mr. Bill's Real Life Adventures.In the 1990s, Mr. Bill resurfaced on the short lived Fox Family Channel show Ohh Nooo! Mr. Bill Presents (where he presented a number of British comedy skits), in the 1993 short film Mr. Bill Goes To Washington (preceding Ernest Rides Again in theaters and on home video), and in a number of home video releases, like Mr. Bill Goes Hollywood, Mr. Bill Does Vegas, Ohh Nooo!!! It's Mr. Bill's 20th Anniversary, and Ho Ho Noooooo!!! It's Mr Bill's Christmas Special!, along with a few compilation re-releases of his SNL sketches. By the 1990s, Mr. Bill even started appearing occasionally via computer animation.Most recently he's made appearances on shows like Jeopardy! and Medium, and has done commercials for MasterCard, Ramada Inn, Subway, Burger King, Lexus, and Wonderful Pistachios, and appeared in anti-drug PSAs and even a 2004 campaign to save Walter Williams' home, the wetlands in Louisiana. Williams also created a Spiritual Successor in the form of "The Pizza Head Show", a mid-1990s series of Pizza Hut commercials, the title character of which was more or less Mr. Bill as a slice of pizza (with Steve the pizza cutter in the Sluggo role).Not to be confused with real men whose surname actually is Bill (yes, there are a few) Also not to be confused with Bill Murray, who was on SNL concurrently with Mr. Bill.
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Mr. Bill / int_135c6de7	type	Cannot Tell a Joke
Mr. Bill / int_135c6de7	comment	Cannot Tell a Joke: In Mr. Bill Does Vegas, Mr. Bill tries to do stand up comedy but is very terrible at it. He only gets laughs from the audience when something bad happens to him.
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Mr. Bill / int_143350c6	type	Officer O'Hara
Mr. Bill / int_143350c6	comment	Officer O'Hara: "Sgt. O'Hanahan" in "Mr. Bill Strikes Back", who's nothing more than Mr. Hands in a police station with an Irish accent (and impeccable police sketch drawing ability.)
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Mr. Bill / int_15177ded	type	The Runaway
Mr. Bill / int_15177ded	comment	The Runaway Mr. Bill tried to become this on SNL in season 4, donning sunglasses and a fake beard while attempting to hitchhike out of New York to try and escape Mr. Hands and Sluggo. Of course, Mr. Hands finds him and convinces him to come back in his car (which eventually goes over a cliff with Mr. Bill alone inside)
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Mr. Bill / int_1cf11f13	type	No Sympathy
Mr. Bill / int_1cf11f13	comment	No Sympathy: Unless Miss Sally or his mom in the short, Mr. Bill gets absolutely no sympathy. Almost averted in the season 6 finale cold open, where Chevy Chase meant well after finding Mr. Bill in a garbage can, but slapstick and pratfalls were inevitable (this was a Chevy Chase SNL cold open, after all.)
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Mr. Bill / int_1d435a4d	type	A Boy and His X
Mr. Bill / int_1d435a4d	comment	A Boy And His Dog: According to the family album, Spot was a stray puppy that showed up the very day Billy was born and was brought in from a rainstorm. Almost immediately he was squashed flat in a roller when Mr. Hands tried to 'dry him off', setting Spot up to be Mr. Bills lifelong companion and fellow punching bag. Misery truly does love company.
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Mr. Bill / int_21d70919	type	Crapsack World
Mr. Bill / int_21d70919	comment	Crapsack World: Mr. Bill lives in a world that only exists to make his life agony. He grew up in Sluggoville, where the town motto is literally "We hate the Bills" and is filled with Sluggos that constantly tortured him since he was an infant. Not at all helped by the family "friend" Mr. Hands. Life hasn't been kind to Mr. Bill as an adult either.
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Mr. Bill / int_222dc873	type	Black Comedy
Mr. Bill / int_222dc873	comment	Black Comedy: Possibly the king of this trope. All of the humor of this series derives from the misery and dismemberment of Mr. Bill and his friends at the hands of well... Mr. Hands and Sluggo. To the point where you either find it hilarious or you just feel sorry for him.
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Mr. Bill / int_2260cfe3	type	Like Father, Like Son
Mr. Bill / int_2260cfe3	comment	Like Father, Like Son: Show business and bodily harm runs in Mr. Bill's family. His grandfather was a silent actor who went by the stage name of "Vaudeville Bill", and was just as tormented by his co-stars as Mr. Bill is. Mr. Bill's father was a stuntman who got paid for his misery, and he too was on the receiving end of Sluggo's abuse. Mr. Bill's son seems to have inherited his father's bad luck from the few appearances he has made seem to indicate.
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Mr. Bill / int_25b4ad2f	type	Surprisingly Happy Ending
Mr. Bill / int_25b4ad2f	comment	Surprisingly Happy Ending: "Mr. Bill's Christmas Special" from SNL's sixth season in December 1980. While Mr. Bill, Miss Sally, and Spot remain homeless following the events of season 5 (spending the duration of the short huddled around a fire outside in snowy weather), they're still together for the holidays, and Mr. Hands and Sluggo are nowhere to be found! The flashbacks to Mr. Bill's childhood Christmases, on the other hand... Still as it stands this is probably the closet thing to a happy ending Mr. Bill ever got in the whole franchise.
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Mr. Bill / int_2683dd96	type	Voice for the Voiceless
Mr. Bill / int_2683dd96	comment	Voice for the Voiceless: Sluggo (and by extension every other incarnation of him) hated Mr. Bill, but Sluggo himself never seemed to speak, so Mr. Hands would tell Mr. Bill what Sluggo says, as well as carry out whatever harm Sluggo wanted to befall on Mr. Bill.
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Mr. Bill / int_269e82c1	type	Death of a Child
Mr. Bill / int_269e82c1	comment	Death of a Child: In a parody of 2001: A Space Odyssey, Mr. Bill travels to Jupiter (Getting blown up and melted along the way) and gets his own 'Baby Bill' floating in a glass orb, only for it to be disintegrated by a meteor.
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Mr. Bill / int_2764d432	type	Bitch in Sheep's Clothing
Mr. Bill / int_2764d432	comment	Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Mr. Hands acts like Mr. Bills friend and comes off as friendly, however he is clearly just as much of a cruel bully as Sluggo.
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Mr. Bill / int_27a42ebc	type	Spiritual Successor
Mr. Bill / int_27a42ebc	comment	Spiritual Successor: The Pizza Head Show, a Pizza Hut commercial campaign airing from 1993-1997, which was also created by Walter Williams and harboured a very similar structure (albeit condensed to half minute ads.) Here, the cheerful inanimate star was Pizza Head (a talking slice of pizza), and his tormentors were a new Mr. Hands (though never referred to as such), and Steve, a pizza cutter in the Sluggo role. The common catchphrase from Pizza Head over Steve's entrance was "Hey, he's not a/no _____", reflecting Steve's alleged profession or persona, with Mr. Hands typically replying "Suuure he is.". 16 commercials aired in the campaign, with many ending with a miniature Pizza Hut being destroyed during/after Pizza Head's torment. Notably, the Pizza Hut association allowed Pizza Head to mingle with licensed properties Mr. Bill never could thanks to Pizza Hut promotions, like Star Wars and Jonny Quest.
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Mr. Bill / int_2ec6e90f	type	Yet Another Christmas Carol
Mr. Bill / int_2ec6e90f	comment	Yet Another Christmas Carol: In 1996's "Ho Ho Nooooooo!!! It's Mr. Bill's Christmas Special!", a short CG-animated cartoon parody of A Christmas Carol is included, starring "Ebenezer Bill", a kind businessman who donates to charity. However, the ghosts (all played by Mr. Hands) will have none of that.
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Mr. Bill / int_2ef005ab	type	Vocal Evolution
Mr. Bill / int_2ef005ab	comment	Vocal Evolution: By the 1990s, Mr. Bill's voice was slightly deeper, and he couldn't really do a full on "OOH NOOOO!" scream like was seen often on SNL and even Night Flight.
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Mr. Bill / int_30dff15f	type	Physical Fitness Punishment
Mr. Bill / int_30dff15f	comment	Physical Fitness Punishment: "Mr. Bill Shapes Up" gives us this when Mr. Hands and Sluggo LaLanne (get it?) put Mr. Bill through a strenuous workout regimen after he and Spot eat too many snacks. This did make Mr. Bill skinny, though the path to get there wasn't at all how he'd have liked it to have gone.
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Mr. Bill / int_38b05ae7	type	Poorly Disguised Pilot
Mr. Bill / int_38b05ae7	comment	Poorly Disguised Pilot: In 1986, an attempt was made to make a live action Mr. Bill series for Showtime. In this, Mr. Bill, Sally, and their son Billy were humans who were the size of their clay counterparts. Sluggo was the Nosy Neighbor who used to bully Mr. Bill when they were younger (and still does.) The series wasn't picked up, and the pilot was released as a TV movie named Mr. Bill's Real Life Adventures.
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Mr. Bill / int_397569de	type	Time Marches On
Mr. Bill / int_397569de	comment	Time Marches On: Mr. Hands aside, all of the core Mr. Bill characters are made of just the original four colors of Play-Doh (red, yellow, blue, and white.) Even after Play-Doh introduced every color of the rainbow into their product range, the characters' basic looks have never been updated. Averted with Miss Sally, who wears a green dress.
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Mr. Bill / int_3e74b72e	type	The Pollyanna
Mr. Bill / int_3e74b72e	comment	The Pollyanna: Mr. Bill's MasterCard commercial was a good example, as he always seemed to find a silver lining in all of Mr. Hands' torment. Overfilled hot coffee scalding him? He always wanted brown shoes. A treadmill going too fast hurls him into the air at a busy gym? He lands on an open exercise bike. Knocked out of his office window by an opened briefcase? The on-schedule city bus windshield is where he lands. The commercial ends before we find out if he was optimistic over being flung off the bus via its windshield wipers.
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Mr. Bill / int_40bb59d0	type	Blatant Lies
Mr. Bill / int_40bb59d0	comment	Blatant Lies: Mr. Hands insists that Sluggo will not hurt Mr. Bill, but Mr. Bill knows better.
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Mr. Bill / int_415b3315	type	Stylistic Suck
Mr. Bill / int_415b3315	comment	Stylistic Suck: EVERYTHING! Even the computer animated Mr. Bill segments were done cheaply, though whether that's for consistency with the original quality or for budgetary reasons is up for debate.
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Mr. Bill / int_42008602	type	Story Arc
Mr. Bill / int_42008602	comment	Story Arc: Saturday Night Live season 5 had this for Mr. Bill, starting with "The All New Mr. Bill Show" and the introduction of his girlfriend Miss Sally, which slowly devolved into his house getting destroyed, his building a new house (that also gets destroyed), getting thrown onto the street, seeing a psychiatrist, trying to report Mr. Hands & Sluggo to the police, getting framed for armed robbery, thrown in Sing Sing Correctional Facility for 20 years, and ultimately gunned down after Mr. Hands broke him out of jail.
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Mr. Bill / int_44990492	type	Parody Commercial
Mr. Bill / int_44990492	comment	Parody Commercial: "Ho Ho Nooooooo!!! It's Mr. Bill's Christmas Special!" has two of them, with the same family playing Monotony (a boring & endless parody of Monopoly) and the Stubix Cube (a Rubix Cube with the same colour on each side.)
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Mr. Bill / int_47fea76b	type	Butt-Monkey
Mr. Bill / int_47fea76b	comment	Butt-Monkey: Mr. Bill in spades, though Spot generally exists just to be killed or maimed by Mr. Hands without repercussion before worse happens to Mr. Bill
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Mr. Bill / int_48b9731f	type	Paper-Thin Disguise
Mr. Bill / int_48b9731f	comment	Paper-Thin Disguise: Mr. Hands poorly disguises himself whenever he takes up a new profession, including such totally-not-obvious new names as "Dr. I.M. Hans" and "Sgt. O'Hanahan." Mr. Bill falls for it every time. It doesn't work on Sluggo, though. Mr. Bill always spots him right away, but he's powerless to stop his and Mr. Hands' abuse.
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Mr. Bill / int_4a4d6f7c	type	Comedic Sociopathy
Mr. Bill / int_4a4d6f7c	comment	Comedic Sociopathy: In spades. After all the purpose of the sketches/show are about all the comical horrific things that happen to Mr. Bill, Spot and to a lesser extent Ms. Sally and Mr. Bill's Mom.
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Mr. Bill / int_4f4372e9	type	Early-Installment Weirdness
Mr. Bill / int_4f4372e9	comment	Early-Installment Weirdness: The original home movies submitted to SNL gave Mr. Bill and Mr. Hands higher-pitched voices. The production quality (such as it was) was even worse, with Mr. Bill looking more off-model than he would as a regular feature.
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Mr. Bill / int_5158df81	type	The Casino
Mr. Bill / int_5158df81	comment	The Casino: Mr. Bill is brought to one in Mr. Bill Does Vegas, where he pulls three Sluggos on the slot machine, and sees his head become a roulette wheel ball, among other mishaps. He also gets to open for Wayne Newton at a casino in Vegas, leading to him headlining at the Aladdin to an empty house, during the building's implosion.
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Mr. Bill / int_535156bc	type	Christmas Special
Mr. Bill / int_535156bc	comment	Christmas Special: Two of them; 1980s' SNL short film "Mr. Bill's Christmas Special" and 1996's home video release "Ho Ho Nooooooo!!! It's Mr. Bill's Christmas Special!", with the former included as a bonus feature with the latter.
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Mr. Bill / int_57b80b45	type	Fantastic Racism
Mr. Bill / int_57b80b45	comment	Fantastic Racism: The Sluggos hate the Bills, for whatever reason. Not even Mr. Bill himself was safe as an infant. The slap of life sent him flying into a clothesline, got staples shot through him during a diaper change, was crushed under an iron, fed needles, and got his face brushed clean off.
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Mr. Bill / int_590eb583	type	Domestic Abuse
Mr. Bill / int_590eb583	comment	Domestic Abuse: Possibly the darkest joke in the entire series. In Mr. Bill Goes to Court, Mr. Hands calls Mr. Bills mom to the stand. When she speaks in his defense, District Attorney Sluggo 'cross-examines' her alone in the back room. All we hear is beating sounds and Mr. Bill screaming in horror. When Ms. Bill returns, both of her hands are missing, her arms are wrapped around her torso and she sports two black eyes, and now speaks against Mr. Bill right before she falls off the witness stand.
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Mr. Bill / int_62907b90	type	Bottle Episode
Mr. Bill / int_62907b90	comment	Bottle Episode: A rare in-universe example. In one season 5 SNL sketch, Mr. Bill attempts to host his show inside a dark closet, so that Mr. Hands won't find him and inflict more abuse. Mr. Hands was naturally bummed out, as he wanted to take Mr. Bill bowling, so he put his bowling ball back in the closet, inadvertently (for a change) dropping it right onto Mr. Bill.
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Mr. Bill / int_631c7c38	type	Silent Antagonist
Mr. Bill / int_631c7c38	comment	Silent Antagonist: Sluggo. Mr. Hands does all the talking for him.
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Mr. Bill / int_670db7d7	type	Formula-Breaking Episode
Mr. Bill / int_670db7d7	comment	Formula-Breaking Episode: The VHS release The Best of Saturday Night Live: The Mr. Bill Collection features one non-Mr. Bill sketch that Walter Williams directed, with no setup beyond it's inclusion on the box. The sketch in question is "A Public Service Announcement: Highway Education" from the 1980-81 season premiere, about a new federal program putting the classic works of literature on road signs so vehicle passengers can read while driving. In "Ho Ho Nooooooo!!! It's Mr. Bill's Christmas Special!", a surprisingly long time is given to showing a home video of Father Guido Sarducci attempting to find a real Christmas in Los Angeles. Aside from this being shown at Mr. Bill's house when Father Guido visits, this has nothing to do with the rest of the special.
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Mr. Bill / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
Mr. Bill / int_685a6461	comment	Circus of Fear: The early "Mr. Bill Goes To The Circus" home movie ended up like this for Mr. Bill, which certainly wasn't his intention. How many circuses do you know that end with the ringmaster shot out of a cannon (in pieces), while his arm floats around tied to a balloon?
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Mr. Bill / int_68a171b6	type	Sadist Show
Mr. Bill / int_68a171b6	comment	Sadist Show: The humor comes from Bill's misfortune.
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Mr. Bill / int_68debac5	type	Babysitter from Hell
Mr. Bill / int_68debac5	comment	Baby Sitter From Hell: According to Mr. Bill's family album, his first baby sitter was Auntie Sluggo, who crushed baby Bill under a hot iron, fed him baby food with needles in it (and feeding Spot poison), and brushing his mouth clean off while his mother watched in horror from outside the window
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Mr. Bill / int_68f6e811	type	Made of Plasticine
Mr. Bill / int_68f6e811	comment	Made of Plasticine: Mr Bill is literally made of Play Doh and is about as durable as you would expect.
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Mr. Bill / int_6d089995	type	The Shrink
Mr. Bill / int_6d089995	comment	The Shrink / Herr Doktor: "Dr. I.M. Hans" in "Mr. Bill Gets Help", who's nothing more than Mr. Hands in a psychiatrist's office with a Freud-ish accent.
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Mr. Bill / int_7abba202	type	The Faceless
Mr. Bill / int_7abba202	comment	The Faceless: Mr. Hands. The best you ever get is occasionally seeing Mr. Hands with sleeves
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Mr. Bill / int_7e6c0522	type	Off with His Head!
Mr. Bill / int_7e6c0522	comment	Off with His Head!: Mr. Bill sometimes has a tendency to literally lose his head due to his misfortunes.
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Mr. Bill / int_7ef70048	type	Big Bad Friend
Mr. Bill / int_7ef70048	comment	Big Bad Friend: Mr. Hands is a very not-at-all subtle example.
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Mr. Bill / int_848153ef	type	Viva Las Vegas!
Mr. Bill / int_848153ef	comment	Viva Las Vegas!: The entire plot of Mr. Bill Does Vegas, where his manager gets him an opening slot for Wayne Newton, leading Mr. Bill to try and get advice for his stand-up act from various celebrity guests. As usual, nothing goes according to plan.
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Mr. Bill / int_8967e17f	type	Back from the Dead
Mr. Bill / int_8967e17f	comment	Back from the Dead: All Mr. Bill segments end with Mr. Bill utterly destroyed-however he always returns in the following sketch completely back to normal, at least till the end of the sketch.
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Mr. Bill / int_8b5db38b	comment	They Killed Kenny Again: Mr. Bill always comes back after being destroyed, including being eaten by a dolphin, being run through a woodchipper, and being disintegrated in a toxic river.
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Mr. Bill / int_8e3b5b4d	comment	Minimalist Cast: Bill, Mr. Hands, Sluggo, Spot, and (later) Sally, their son Billy, and Mr. Bill's mom are the only characters in the series. Averted for the 2004 Louisiana wetlands protection PSAs, which introduced The Estuarians, a new group of Play-Doh animals indigenous to the area that Mr. Hands talked for.
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Mr. Bill / int_90fbce80	comment	Everyone Hates Fruit Cakes: Father Guido Sarducci brings a fruitcake as a gift to Mr. Bill in "Ho Ho Nooooooo!!! It's Mr. Bill's Christmas Special!", which accidentally (for a change) is dropped on Mr. Bill's foot. Later, when Mr. Bill suggests serving that very fruitcake to eat, that is conveniently Father Guido's cue to leave.
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Mr. Bill / int_96fbeaf	type	There Are No Therapists
Mr. Bill / int_96fbeaf	comment	There Are No Therapists: Averted in the sketch Mr. Bill Gets Help. Unfortunately for Mr. Bill, the therapist he goes to is just Mr. Hands imitating one.
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Mr. Bill / int_970cc8cd	type	Big
Mr. Bill / int_970cc8cd	comment	Big OH WHY WHY?!: What Mr. Bill will sometimes say after getting hurt.
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Mr. Bill / int_97db5826	comment	In-Character Commentaries: In the Mr. Bill Classics DVD, he and Mr. Hands do commentary over all the original SNL shorts. Mr. Bill becomes increasingly annoyed and frustrated at having been the series punching bag and Sluggo somehow kept winning awards and nominations for his performances. Mr. Hands keeps insisting that every time Spot got hurt it was a stunt double but Mr. Bill remains unconvinced.
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Mr. Bill / int_9c8701b5	type	A Day in the Limelight
Mr. Bill / int_9c8701b5	comment	A Day in the Limelight: In one episode Mr. Bill is running late (Mr. Hands is still in the process of molding him out of several jars of playdough in a rare fourth wall break)so Spot gets his own episode doing tricks for the audience. It ends with Spot being rolled flat, set on fire, and crushed by a newspaper. By the time Mr. Bill finally arrives for the show Spot is a scorched heap of clay.
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Mr. Bill / int_a6e8221e	type	Status Quo Is God
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Mr. Bill / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
Mr. Bill / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: Sluggo and Mr. Hands, they pretty much make life hell for Mr. Bill and friends and never get any comeuppance for it.
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Mr. Bill / int_aefcb86f	type	There Are No Adults
Mr. Bill / int_aefcb86f	comment	There Are No Adults: Mr. Hands aside, there's not even any human beings to be seen in most shorts. Exceptions include the guests in "Mr. Bill Goes To A Party" (including host Vance DeGeneres not as Mr. Hands), guest spots by SNL cast members (like Don "Father Guido Sarducci" Novello in multiple home videos), and the Ramada Inn commercials, where Mr. Bill did interact with hotel clerks. Massively averted in Mr. Bill Does Vegas, which is loaded with celebrity cameos as Mr. Bill attempts to get advice for his stage show.
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Mr. Bill / int_b01abe4f	type	Catchphrase
Mr. Bill / int_b01abe4f	comment	Catchphrase: "Ho ho kiddies!", "He's gonna be mean to me!", "OHH NOOO!!!" "Why? Why?", and in shorts where he's more self-aware of Mr. Hands and Sluggo's abuse, "Leave me alone!"
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Mr. Bill / int_b8e3f20a	type	Demoted to Extra
Mr. Bill / int_b8e3f20a	comment	Demoted to Extra: Miss Sally after joining the cast and becoming primary member of the sketches during season 5 of SNL, barely appears afterwards in future Mr. Bill material. She has a brief appearance in the 20th anniversary special and but does get a supporting appearance in the Christmas special. However in Ohh Nooo! Mr Bill Presents show, she makes no appearances at all. Sluggo in the "Ohh Nooo! Mr Bill Presents show" makes appearances here and there, but it somewhat reduced compared to the previous Mr. Bill material/sketches.
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Mr. Bill / int_bb30961	type	Born Unlucky
Mr. Bill / int_bb30961	comment	Born Unlucky: Even as a newborn baby there was a sure sign that Mr. Bill's life would be miserable when his birth resulted in his father's death. This is a world where death is no consequence to clay people, yet baby Billy somehow managed to make death stick after the stork dropped him on a picnic table and its edge flew up and decapitated his father
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Mr. Bill / int_c2cedc1c	type	Big "NO!"
Mr. Bill / int_c2cedc1c	comment	Big OH NOOO!: by Mr Bill when he gets hurt.
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Mr. Bill / int_c5249b29	type	Nice Guy
Mr. Bill / int_c5249b29	comment	Nice Guy: Mr. Bill himself is very kind hearted and friendly to everyone. Unfortunately that doesn't protect him from all the horrible things that happen to him from Mr. Hands and Sluggo or the world in general.
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Mr. Bill / int_cda501da	type	Killed Off for Real
Mr. Bill / int_cda501da	comment	Killed Off for Real: Possibly but in the sketch "2013 - A Bill Odyssey", the sketch ends with Mr. Bill and Spot taken out by a comet and then they show a tombstone for Mr. Bill. However Mr. Bill is a famous example of the Back from the Dead trope and has made appearances since, it likely isn't supposed to be a canonical end for him-granted 2013 was (at the time) supposed to take place in the future so it might be the case.
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Mr. Bill / int_cfdb9e17	type	Cerebus Syndrome
Mr. Bill / int_cfdb9e17	comment	Cerebus Syndrome: Refer to the Story Arc entry.
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Mr. Bill / int_d028e0da	type	An Arm and a Leg
Mr. Bill / int_d028e0da	comment	An Arm and a Leg: Played literally a few times. In one of the Ramada Inn commercials, that's what Mr. Bill had to pay to stay at the fancy hotel that Mr. Hands convinced him to stay at over Ramada.
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Mr. Bill / int_e034faef	type	Limited Animation
Mr. Bill / int_e034faef	comment	Limited Animation: If you've never seen Mr. Bill outside of still images, you may expect this to be a Claymation series, but it's just Play-Doh people and a dog, with a pair of hands manipulating the action. Acknowledged on air at times when Mr. Bill tries to remind Mr. Hands that he can't do a specific human action very well/at all, usually in vain, and immediately before something horrible happens to him. At times, it's shown that Mr. Bill clearly is capable of movement on his own (computer animated segments aside), just never on camera, a'la Thomas & Friends. It depends on when it best suits the convenience of the script. One good example: Mr. Bill's Burger King commercial, where he is shown holding a tiny Whopper, with the screen then immediately wiping into him smiling with no burger, commenting that it was delicious (shortly before Mr. Hands drops a full-sized Whopper box on top of him.)
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Mr. Bill / int_e4f5affb	type	The Chew Toy
Mr. Bill / int_e4f5affb	comment	The Chew Toy: Mr. Bill, Spot, and by extension, Ms. Sally
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Mr. Bill / int_e71db2e	type	Depraved Kids' Show Host
Mr. Bill / int_e71db2e	comment	Depraved Kids' Show Host: Mr. Hands. Excited Kids' Show Host: Mr. Bill tries to be one, but Mr. Hands and Sluggo never give him the chance.
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Mr. Bill / int_edc5ac07	comment	Excited Kids' Show Host: Mr. Bill tries to be one, but Mr. Hands and Sluggo never give him the chance.
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