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No Soap, Radio

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No Soap, Radio	comment	No Soap, Radio was a rapid-fire Sitcom Sketch Comedy Short-Runner that aired on ABC in April 1982. It was a brazen attempt to bring Absurdism and Surreal Humor to American audiences, and is often compared to Monty Python's Flying Circus and Fawlty Towers.Superficially, the show revolves around the Pelican Hotel, a once-glamorous lodge in Atlantic City, New Jersey that's now in its fading years. It is owned and managed by the youthfully optimistic Roger (Steve Guttenberg), who tries to please his visitors with the help of his assistant Karen (Hillary Bailey). Other characters include Morris (Jerry Maren) the bellboy; Al Tuttle (Stuart Pankin), a local tough who is trying to get Roger to sell the hotel; and longtime residents Mrs. Belmont (Fran Ryan), Mr. Plitzky (Bill Dana), and Marion (Edie McClurg).In reality, this was all a Framing Device to feature a nonstop barrage of sketches, gags, and skits. Transitions included hotel doors opening to improbable locales, cameras zooming into background props, or the show itself being interrupted for a "Special Report". The stories actually involving the Pelican Hotel could also veer into the nonsensical, especially when the elements from the skits crossed over.Between the random non-sequiter humor and a horrible timeslot,note It aired on Thursday nights opposite the highly popular Magnum, P.I. it's not a surprise that the show was canceled after five episodes.Not to be confused with the Work Com NewsRadio.
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No Soap, Radio / int_14789f16	comment	"Basketball Head" begins with a giant foot falling out of the sky.
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No Soap, Radio / int_1ba8eb64	type	Visual Pun
No Soap, Radio / int_1ba8eb64	comment	Visual Pun: A fire extinguisher cabinet has a fully-suited fireman inside.
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No Soap, Radio / int_1d2400e9	type	Green-Eyed Monster
No Soap, Radio / int_1d2400e9	comment	Green-Eyed Monster: In one episode, Roger becomes jealous when Karen starts showering extra attention on a handsome and wealthy guest.
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No Soap, Radio / int_1d3bc993	type	Mistaken for Special Guest
No Soap, Radio / int_1d3bc993	comment	Mistaken for Special Guest: In one episode, a homeless man is mistaken for a famous hotel critic in disguise. The staff ends up giving him extra-special treatment as a result.
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No Soap, Radio / int_1e1afc1b	type	Framing Device
No Soap, Radio / int_1e1afc1b	comment	Framing Device: The events at the Pelican Hotel are used to introduce and separate the various sketches... except when it's funnier to have them cross over.
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No Soap, Radio / int_204cf900	type	Model Scam
No Soap, Radio / int_204cf900	comment	Model Scam: The episode "Miss Pelican" has Roger fall victim to a fake beauty contest at the hotel.
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No Soap, Radio / int_21e5b9c7	type	Failed a Spot Check
No Soap, Radio / int_21e5b9c7	comment	Failed a Spot Check: In "Curse of the Chair", a man-eating chair is delivered by a uniformed deliveryman from the Cursed Chair Company. No one pays him any mind.
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No Soap, Radio / int_3056adad	type	Witness Protection
No Soap, Radio / int_3056adad	comment	Witness Protection: One episode has the Pelican being used as a hideout for Carmine Turner, a notorious gangster who is planning to testify against his colleagues.
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No Soap, Radio / int_3d2c6d30	type	Skewed Priorities
No Soap, Radio / int_3d2c6d30	comment	Skewed Priorities: When the man-eating chair attacks and the housewife cries for help, a neighbor angrily demands to know what type of chair is on the rampage.
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No Soap, Radio / int_40fb48af	type	Stealthy Teleportation
No Soap, Radio / int_40fb48af	comment	Stealthy Teleportation: Invoked in one sketch, where a man enters a steam room and inexplicably ends up in the middle of the Baltic Sea with a British police officer.
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No Soap, Radio / int_48346d2e	type	Public Service Announcement
No Soap, Radio / int_48346d2e	comment	Public Service Announcement: A regular target of parody, such as the announcements for the "Inverted Speech Foundation" and the "Distrosis Foundation".
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No Soap, Radio / int_48d87e94	type	Planet of Steves
No Soap, Radio / int_48d87e94	comment	Planet of Steves: One skit has a 1950s horror movie spoof called The Day Everyone's Name Became Al, which was a scheme from invading aliens attempting to cause chaos on Earth.
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No Soap, Radio / int_5009999d	type	Painting the Medium
No Soap, Radio / int_5009999d	comment	Painting the Medium: After Elmer Fudd confesses on national television that "cartoons aren't weal", he starts crying out of fear that "they" are going to retaliate. Sure enough, a hand reaches from the top of the frame, then grabs and crumples the page that Elmer is drawn on...
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No Soap, Radio / int_5c1dce4c	type	Viewers Like You
No Soap, Radio / int_5c1dce4c	comment	Viewers Like You: Spoofed in the opening of the first episode, which credits the show to Trans National Petroleum, The Updyke Foundation, and Rico's Boom-Boom Room.
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No Soap, Radio / int_5f014f7a	type	Sub Story
No Soap, Radio / int_5f014f7a	comment	Sub Story: This sketch has a little old lady reading the newspaper in the park... while she's being targeted by a Japanese submarine.
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No Soap, Radio / int_62cae28a	type	Losing Your Head
No Soap, Radio / int_62cae28a	comment	Losing Your Head: Seen in the "Job Interview" sketch, where the president of a hat company is a disembodied head waddling around a desk.
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No Soap, Radio / int_6d740dff	type	Enforced Trope
No Soap, Radio / int_6d740dff	comment	Enforced when the series was shown in Britain, which removed the commercial breaks and made everything even faster as a result.
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No Soap, Radio / int_708cabf8	type	Sleeping Dummy
No Soap, Radio / int_708cabf8	comment	Sleeping Dummy: In "Basketball Head", Junior builds one of these so he can sneak out of the house. When it is found by his parents, they are horrified and immediately call the paramedics to save it.
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No Soap, Radio / int_70d8269d	type	Excuse Plot
No Soap, Radio / int_70d8269d	comment	Excuse Plot: The happenings at the Pelican Hotel are clearly a Framing Device to go from one gag to another.
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No Soap, Radio / int_7c8981df	type	Portal Door
No Soap, Radio / int_7c8981df	comment	Portal Door: The Pelican Hotel is full of these, which open to whatever locale is relevant for the next sketch.
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No Soap, Radio / int_7d218606	type	Rapid-Fire Comedy
No Soap, Radio / int_7d218606	comment	Rapid-Fire Comedy: The jokes may be weird, but they sure do come fast. Enforced when the series was shown in Britain, which removed the commercial breaks and made everything even faster as a result.
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No Soap, Radio / int_808cbaeb	type	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking
No Soap, Radio / int_808cbaeb	comment	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: The House of Lies sells perjuries, alibis, innuendos, tall tales, short tales, fibs, fabrications, contradictions, vicious rumors, and ladies' luggage.
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No Soap, Radio / int_87d7e9fa	type	Surreal Humor
No Soap, Radio / int_87d7e9fa	comment	Surreal Humor: If the comedy isn't coming from a skit, then it's coming from being inexplicable and bizarre.
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No Soap, Radio / int_8cf6aa	type	Literal Metaphor
No Soap, Radio / int_8cf6aa	comment	Literal Metaphor: "House of Lies" features a store that sells falsehoods.
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No Soap, Radio / int_8fcb5843	type	The Hunter Becomes the Hunted
No Soap, Radio / int_8fcb5843	comment	The Hunter Becomes the Hunted: Invoked in the "Deer Hunter" sketch, where the deer... well, you can guess.
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No Soap, Radio / int_9600368d	type	Behind the Black
No Soap, Radio / int_9600368d	comment	Behind the Black: Used in one skit; a homeless man wanders into a closed building and finds a grand piano in a darkened room. He proceeds to play Mozart flawlessly, then turns to his right and sees a theater packed with enthusiastically applauding patrons.
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No Soap, Radio / int_96d1b224	type	Little People Are Surreal
No Soap, Radio / int_96d1b224	comment	Little People Are Surreal: Morris the bellboy (played by Jerry Maren) is a little person, which simply emphasizes the absurdism of the show.
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No Soap, Radio / int_a60e3252	type	Rule of Funny
No Soap, Radio / int_a60e3252	comment	Rule of Funny: The ONLY reason anything happens in this show.
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No Soap, Radio / int_b4154208	type	Sitcom
No Soap, Radio / int_b4154208	comment	Sitcom: There's ostensibly a conventional sitcom about a New Jersey hotel buried beneath the pile of random routines.
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No Soap, Radio / int_bb0a2242	type	No-Tell Motel
No Soap, Radio / int_bb0a2242	comment	No-Tell Motel: Discussed when Roger is trying to convince a telephone caller that the Pelican is a suitable venue for a Shriners' Convention:
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No Soap, Radio / int_c33ba0a8	type	Chuck Cunningham Syndrome
No Soap, Radio / int_c33ba0a8	comment	Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Roger's assistant Sharon (Brianne Leary) appears only in the first episode. She is replaced with Karen (Hillary Bailey) in later episodes without any explanation.
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No Soap, Radio / int_c58e6eb4	type	No Inner Fourth Wall
No Soap, Radio / int_c58e6eb4	comment	No Inner Fourth Wall: The characters and events from the various sketches will interact with the people at the Pelican Hotel whenever it's funny. A box of cereal that appeared in a television commercial saves the Pelican Hotel from being sold. A man-eating chair from an in-universe movie ends up in a police standoff in the hotel.
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No Soap, Radio / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
No Soap, Radio / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Several bits are clear nods to Monty Python's Flying Circus. "Basketball Head" begins with a giant foot falling out of the sky. Remember "The Argument Clinic"? Here's "House of Lies".
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No Soap, Radio / int_ccbaffb6	type	We Interrupt This Program
No Soap, Radio / int_ccbaffb6	comment	We Interrupt This Program: Some skits are introduced with a news bulletin interrupting the hotel's story. One was an announcement that Mr. Potato Head was kidnapped, with the President asking families to show their support by putting a french fry in their windows.
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No Soap, Radio / int_d66b73ca	type	Sketch Comedy
No Soap, Radio / int_d66b73ca	comment	Sketch Comedy: When the show is not focusing on the hotel, then it's this.
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No Soap, Radio / int_e0c470a1	type	The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You
No Soap, Radio / int_e0c470a1	comment	The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You: In-universe example — one episode opens with a commercial for "Raisin Flakes" cereal, where a hand reaches out of the box, grabs the eater, and drags him into the box. Cut to Roger watching the commercial while reaching into a box of "Raisin Flakes", whereupon he pulls out the slipper of the just-captured victim...
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No Soap, Radio / int_e9e35e8f	type	Exact Words
No Soap, Radio / int_e9e35e8f	comment	Exact Words: Demonstrated in the public service announcement for the Distrosis Foundation.
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No Soap, Radio / int_f4fcc961	type	TV Telephone Etiquette
No Soap, Radio / int_f4fcc961	comment	TV Telephone Etiquette: The regulars at the Pelican have no qualms about injecting themselves into Roger's phone calls.
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No Soap, Radio / int_fcd9b657	type	Gallows Humor
No Soap, Radio / int_fcd9b657	comment	Gallows Humor: Seen in the "Distrosis Foundation" sketch, where the doctor informs Alan that he'll die within two weeks as part of a cheerful charity pitch.
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