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Party Down
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Party Down is a Work Com broadcast on the Starz network between 2009 and 2010, created by Rob Thomas (Veronica Mars). It follows a group of struggling actors and writers working a low-paying and humiliating job with the Party Down catering company while chasing their Hollywood dreams.Each episode is structured around a different party they have been assigned to cater, with the lives of the affluent party hosts becoming entangled with the sad-sack lives of the caterers.Despite gaining rave reviews from critics and a devoted fanbase, Party Down wound up being a Short-Runner, lasting two seasons.In March 2021, Starz greenlit a revival limited series from the same creative team. It premiered on February 24, 2023. | |
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Control Freak: Uda Bengt. | |
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Adam Westing | |
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Adam Westing: Steve Guttenberg plays himself as an almost cartoonishly cheerful and generous host who takes a group of strangers under his wing for a night. Then he steals one of their dates. | |
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Calvinball: The team-building game in "Brandix Corporate Retreat" involves blindfolds, pirate hats, suspended hula hoops, stacked boxes, plastic cup pyramids, Jenga, tire runs, punching bags, football dummies, and a cat plush toy. Casey has no idea what the fuck is going on in there. | |
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Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Peace | |
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Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Peace: Happens twice during Constance's wedding, the second time for the wrong couple. | |
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Drowning His Sorrows: Happens to Ron in the final two episodes of Season One: the first happens when he learns a woman he had a crush on hooks up with someone else, and the second after Uda Bengt insults him, sending him into a spiral. Kyle in "Nick DiCintio's Orgy Night" after being on the receiving end of a "The Reason You Suck" Speech. | |
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Celebrity Resemblance | |
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Celebrity Resemblance: A minor Running Gag with Lydia is her propensity for mistaking random people for celebrities. In "Not On Your Wife Opening Night", Lydia compliments a legal secretary at the community theater for her role in Misery. In "Joel Munt's Big Deal Party", Lydia is too coked out to realize that she definitely did not just say hi to Keanu Reeves, Wesley Snipes, or Ed Harris. | |
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The Cynic | |
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The Cynic: Henry and, to a lesser extent, Casey. | |
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Waiting for a Break | |
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Waiting for a Break: All of the main characters are waiting for their big break, with the exception of Henry, who has given up. Casey is an aspiring comedic actress. Kyle is an aspiring actor/musician/model. Roman is an aspiring writer. Ron is aspiring to run a "Soup-R-Crackers" chain restaurant. Constance is a former B-movie actress who is still on the prowl for roles. Lydia is completely invested in getting her daughter's big break. | |
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Diagonal Billing: Done for Adam Scott and Ken Marino in the closing credits. | |
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Blonde Republican Sex Kitten | |
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Blonde Republican Sex Kitten: Roman asks a student if this trope has any truth to it in "California College Conservative Union Caucus". | |
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Chekhov's Gun | |
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Chekhov's Gun: Lampshaded, then Kyled, with regards to Baretta's Beretta. | |
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Only Sane Man | |
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Only Sane Man: Henry. | |
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Failure Is the Only Option | |
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Failure Is the Only Option: Whenever a character hopes they can get their big break this episode, you know it will end horribly for them. | |
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Dirty Old Man | |
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Howard, Constance's fiancee in the Season 2 finale, is a Dirty Old Man who Casey and Henry take an instant dislike to. However, he insists that he truly loves Constance and he proves it by signing his prenup with a false name, thereby successfully evading his daughter's wishes and leaving his fortune to Constance. | |
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Literary Allusion Title: One of the people at "Joel Munt's Big Deal Party" is working on a movie called Pride and Prejudice. It's a Buddy Cop Movie; one of the cops is a white racist and the other is a rapper. | |
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Stage Mom | |
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Stage Mom: Lydia. | |
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Break the Haughty | |
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Break the Haughty: Roman does this when he tricks Kyle into shaving his eyebrows. Joe Munt, Roman's former writing partner, does this to Roman over the course of an episode. | |
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Bland-Name Product | |
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Bland-Name Product: The Soup-R-Crackers soup/salad buffet Ron wants to open is likely a reference to Souplantation/Sweet Tomatoes. | |
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Embarrassing Ad Gig | |
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Embarrassing Ad Gig: Henry became famous for his role in a beer commercial that spawned the in-universe catchphrase "Are we having fun yet?!". He thinks the role killed his chances of having a real acting career, and he dreads being recognized in public. | |
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Hidden Depths | |
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Hidden Depths: As a midwestern mom, Lydia knows more about football than anyone else on the team, which comes in handy during the events of "Cole Landry's Draft Day Party." | |
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Tomato in the Mirror | |
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Tomato in the Mirror: When Roman consumes a large quantity of marijuana, he starts ranting about his new idea "and when they get to the planet, they realize the alien civilization is themselves!" | |
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Jaded Washout | |
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Jaded Washout: Henry starts as this in Season 1. He's the only member of the team not actively trying to make it in Hollywood and is seriously cynical. However, this changes after he and Casey start hooking up, and especially when he gets his promotion at the end of the season. | |
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Cluster F-Bomb | |
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Cluster F-Bomb: Leonard Stiltskin's dialogue in "Taylor Stiltskin Sweet Sixteen Party" and "Precious Lights Pre-School Auction." Lampshaded by Roman at the end of "Sweet 16" when he assumes the customer feedback card to be nothing but insults, and gets it right word-for-word. | |
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Never Heard That One Before | |
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Never Heard That One Before: Are we having fun yet? | |
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Actor Allusion | |
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Actor Allusion: For some of the series, Casey talks about how she's trying to get a spot in a Judd Apatow movie. In reality, Lizzy Caplan has been in several Apatow productions and is part of his Production Posse. In one episode, George Takei makes an appearance and Bobbie pronounces his name like "Takai." Roman corrects her pronunciation, saying "People have been pronouncing it wrong for years!" Years earlier, Martin Starr mispronounced Takei's name exactly that way in an episode of Freaks and Geeks. | |
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The Slacker | |
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The Slacker: Henry in season 1, Ron in the early parts of season 2. | |
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Took a Level in Kindness | |
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Took a Level in Kindness: While he's hardly a nice person, Roman is much less acerbic and creepy in Season 3 than in the show's original run. He's still a pretentious nerd who can't stand Kyle, but he shows emotional maturity, doesn't act like a perv as much, and even manages a quasi-friendship with Lucy, as the two of them encourage each other not to give up on their dreams. By the end of the season he's possibly on the way to Jerk with a Heart of Gold status, as opposed to the straight Jerkass he was in the original series. | |
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Bittersweet Ending | |
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Bittersweet Ending: The finale of the show's original two-season run. Constance's new husband dies, but he voided the pre-nup, leaving her his fortune. Casey's big break gets cut from the Apatow movie, but she inspires Henry to get back into acting and attend an audition. Roman writes what very well may be his masterpiece on a roll of toilet paper, and Ron ends up with Danielle. Of course, by the time of Season 3 a lot of these things have changed or been undone... | |
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Sitcom Character Archetypes | |
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Sitcom Character Archetypes: The Wisecracker: Henry The Bully: Casey The Charmer: Kyle The Square: Ron The Dork: Roman The Goofball: Constance/Lydia | |
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Career Versus Man | |
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Career Versus Man: Casey has this dilemma in season 1, as evidenced in the episode "California College Conservative Union Caucus," when she has to choose between moving to Vermont with her husband or taking her chances as an actress in LA. This is also one of Henry's big conflicts, mainly explored in Season 2. He's clearly disheartened by his experiences, but also clearly loves acting. He struggles with choosing a safe and responsible life or risking it all for one last chance at his dream. | |
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Important Haircut | |
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Important Haircut: While Ron is a slacker, he wears his hair shaggy. When he's an insufferable jobsworth, he sports his signature flat-top. | |
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Bourgeois Bohemian | |
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Bourgeois Bohemian: Constance and her new friends in "Constance Carmell Wedding". | |
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Jerk with a Heart of Gold | |
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Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Howard, Constance's fiancee in the Season 2 finale, is a Dirty Old Man who Casey and Henry take an instant dislike to. However, he insists that he truly loves Constance and he proves it by signing his prenup with a false name, thereby successfully evading his daughter's wishes and leaving his fortune to Constance. After mostly just being a Jerkass, Roman finally starts to show shades of this at the end of Season 3, thanks to Character Development. Specifically, he learns to laugh off the destruction of his car, feels stirrings of love and gets over his resentment when he finds out that love isn't reciprocated, and encourages Lucy to keep trying, just as she encouraged him. | |
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Amazing Freaking Grace | |
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Amazing Freaking Grace: In "James Ellison Funeral" (where else?). | |
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Butt-Monkey | |
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Butt-Monkey: Kyle and Roman. | |
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Cool Versus Awesome | |
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Ron is making some progress on the former class president in "James Rolf High School Twentieth Reunion" when Kyle and Roman barge in arguing over Cool Versus Awesome. | |
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Broken Ace | |
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Broken Ace: We don't see much of it ourselves, but according to others, Henry was (and still is) a genuinely talented actor who has since been burned by Hollywood and has no interest in trying again. Casey eventually convinces him to start auditioning again, but by 2020 he's seemingly quit for good. | |
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Be Yourself | |
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Be Yourself: What with the lampshaded resemblance to an afterschool special, this ends up as the moral of "Taylor Stiltskin Sweet Sixteen" as Taylor learns to take popularity less seriously and just have fun with the real, uncool friends she had before she became the Alpha Bitch. Subverted when her cool friends do show up and she reverts to her bitchiness immediately. | |
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Downer Ending | |
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Downer Ending: "James Rolf High School Twentieth Reunion" ends with Ron regressing, chugging a bottle of whiskey and later vomiting in front of Melinda and collapsing to the ground while she cries. It's played for laughs, but it's still genuinely sad, and kicks off a downward spiral for Ron that continues into the next episode. | |
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Wham Line | |
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Wham Line: The end of "Celebrate Ricky Sargulesh," when Roman has a critical realization: In "Kyle Bradway is Nitromancer," things seem to finally be going well for Ron, and it looks like Party Down will stay in business. And then: | |
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Sensitivity Training | |
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Sensitivity Training: Ron in "Willow Canyon Homeowners Annual Party." | |
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Age-Gap Romance | |
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Age-Gap Romance: Constance and her fiance Howard in "Constance Carmell Wedding". Howard's daughter shows up halfway into the party and turns out to be Constance's age. | |
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Affably Evil | |
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Affably Evil: After many twists and turns, Ricky Sargulesh turns out to be this. He's intimidating but actually quite friendly, buttering up the Party Down crew and getting along with everyone. Every suspicious thing about him seems to be all a misunderstanding until Roman realizes Ricky really does intend to murder his driver. | |
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Mistaken for Gay | |
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Another past instance of Kyle's comes up in "Not On Your Wife Opening Night". In the same episode Casey attempts this by taking advantage of being Mistaken for Gay. | |
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Just Friends | |
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Just Friends: Henry and Casey for much of the series, especially after they first sleep with each other. | |
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Drink-Based Characterization | |
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Drink-Based Characterization: A cultured author and the Jerkass screenwriter desperate to please him raise a stink over the lack of Calvados in "Joel Munt's Big Deal Party". | |
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Bigger Is Better in Bed | |
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Bigger Is Better in Bed: Possibly the one good thing to ever happen to Ron. | |
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Marijuana Is LSD | |
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Marijuana Is LSD: Roman accidentally eats three marijuana muffins and goes on some kind of cosmic journey of introspection in "Constance Carmell Wedding". To be fair, he eats an absurd amount of the stuff. | |
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Manly Tears | |
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Manly Tears: According to the Oral History of Party Down, Adam Scott (Henry) cried when the show was canceled. | |
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Gag Penis | |
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Gag Penis: Ron's is briefly visible as he hastily stuffs it back into his pants. | |
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Where da White Women At? | |
| Party Down / int_6849cc47 | comment |
"James Ellison Funeral" has a discussion about what a black person lusting after white people would be called, since "jungle fever" is only for whites who like blacks. | |
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Jerkass Has a Point | |
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Jerkass Has a Point: In "Kyle Bradway is Nitromancer," Lydia and Constance reminisce about Casey and Henry's relationship and get challenged by Roman. Although we know Roman was jealous of them, he points out that it's weird to be that invested in someone else's short-term fling: | |
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Serious Business | |
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Serious Business: Valhalla Catering, Party Down's rival catering company, is intense. Roman takes everything way too seriously. He accuses someone of making a mockery of the body shot in "Nick DiCintio's Orgy Night". "James Ellison Funeral" has a discussion about what a black person lusting after white people would be called, since "jungle fever" is only for whites who like blacks. | |
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Meaningful Name | |
| Party Down / int_6bda9a30 | comment |
Meaningful Name: "Ronald Donald" is only two letters away from Ronald McDonald, the grinning McDonald's mascot. It's fitting for a clownish character who works in food service, often sports a forced smile, and dreams of running a franchise restaurant. Constance is named for the fact that in her pursuit of her dreams and her optimism, she's completely constant. | |
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The Stoner | |
| Party Down / int_6db06839 | comment |
The Stoner: Ron makes frequent allusions to his past as a stoner. In the first part of Season 2 he reverts to his old ways until getting trapped in a coffin while smoking in "James Ellison Funeral." | |
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The Teaser | |
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The Teaser | |
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"Shut Up" Kiss | |
| Party Down / int_6eeba1f2 | comment |
"Shut Up" Kiss: Casey to Henry in "Steve Guttenberg's Birthday". | |
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One Dialogue, Two Conversations | |
| Party Down / int_71152dd | comment |
One Dialogue, Two Conversations: In "Joel Munt's Big Deal Party", Lydia shares light conversation with one of the attendees in the bathroom and remarks that she "came in here to powder my nose, but I can't find the stuff." The attendee lends Lydia her compact...which is full of cocaine. Later on she asks a different woman the same thing and actually receives makeup. | |
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Arc Words | |
| Party Down / int_7464705c | comment |
Arc Words: "It's like a fairy tale." First said by Constance at the decidedly un-fairy tale-like ending of "Taylor Stiltskin Sweet Sixteen," and used to reinforce how shallow supposedly happy things are. As explained by Evie in "Jack Botty's Delayed Post-Pandemic Surprise Party" when describing her unhappy marriage: | |
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Put on a Bus | |
| Party Down / int_754df088 | comment |
Put on a Bus: Constance after episode 8 of season 1 due to Jane Lynch's conflicting schedule with Glee. The Bus Came Back at the end of season 2, for her wedding. | |
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Slobs Versus Snobs | |
| Party Down / int_76db0ef5 | comment |
Slobs Versus Snobs: The undisciplined, quirky slobs of Party Down versus the regimented, vaguely terrifying snobs of Valhalla Catering. This is most evident in the picnic episode when the rivalry leads to a kickball game between the two companies. Despite Casey's efforts, Party Down ultimately loses when their "ringer" collapses on the field. | |
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Mistaken for Racist | |
| Party Down / int_796bffea | comment |
Mistaken for Racist: An offended black couple walk out in "Willow Canyon Homeowners Annual Party" when Ron loudly tells Henry not to ever serve two jiggers. Kyle sings a song with lyrics that have unintentional Nazi overtones to an audience predominantly composed of Jews. | |
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AThreesomeIsManly | |
| Party Down / int_7af99ca7 | comment |
A Threesome is Manly: Roman does not think so. | |
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Celebrity Paradox | |
| Party Down / int_7b8b3def | comment |
Celebrity Paradox: In the first season, Casey mentions not getting a part on Reno 911!. Two cast members from that show, Thomas Lennon and Kerri Kenney-Silver, would later show up as other characters in Party Down. | |
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Ruthless Foreign Gangsters | |
| Party Down / int_7cbba5d3 | comment |
Ruthless Foreign Gangsters: The staff caters an event for a gang of Eastern European gangsters of unspecified ethnicity, though the name "Zoltan" suggests that they're Hungarian. They're celebrating their leader getting away with murder, and the staff has reason to suspect that they're plotting another. | |
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech | |
| Party Down / int_7d89315b | comment |
"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Kyle gets a pretty deflating one from a struggling actress he's hitting on about how he's just as much of a failure as her in "Nick DiCintio's Orgy Night", leading him to Drown His Sorrows. | |
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Freak Out | |
| Party Down / int_7fbe9a30 | comment |
Freak Out: Ron's whole life seems to be one sustained breakdown, but his two most spectacular incidents were in "James Rolf High School Twentieth Reunion" where he drains a bottle of whiskey (after discovering that his classmates consider him a joke, a loser, etc.) and promptly projectile vomits it in the parking lot next to the former class president, a woman he was desperately trying to impress; and in "Stennheister-Pong Wedding Reception" where a verbal beatdown from Uda leads him to hide out in the catering van with vodka, without his pants, and sobbing about how he's an idiot. | |
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Small Role, Big Impact | |
| Party Down / int_805deb6e | comment |
Small Role, Big Impact: Uda Bengt only appears in two episodes but her relationship with Henry is an ongoing plot thread throughout most of Season 2. Escapade has also only appeared onscreen twice (so far) but is frequently mentioned by Lydia. | |
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Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking | |
| Party Down / int_808cbaeb | comment |
Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: In "James Ellison Funeral", Kyle complains about his movie going straight to video, a lover not calling him back, and his Xbox malfunctioning. | |
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Large Ham | |
| Party Down / int_823c6e3e | comment |
Large Ham: Most people belonging to the community theater in "Not On Your Wife Opening Night". | |
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Straight Gay | |
| Party Down / int_83b44e80 | comment |
Straight Gay: Cole and Jerome in "Cole Landry's Draft Day Party". | |
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Straight Man | |
| Party Down / int_83b464fb | comment |
Straight Man: Henry, usually. | |
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I Know Mortal Kombat | |
| Party Down / int_850258ca | comment |
I Know Mortal Kombat: Reading porn turns out to make Roman into an excellent orgy coordinator in "Nick DiCintio's Orgy Night". | |
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Humiliation Conga | |
| Party Down / int_890d4ef2 | comment |
Humiliation Conga: Ron in a few episodes. Especially his class reunion where high school crush Melinda doesn't recognize him; Melinda's high school crush sleeps with her at the reunion; Ron gets wind from that same guy that people think he's pathetic; his story of how he got his nickname Bluto gets sadder; and he vomits in front of Melinda just as she's starting to turn around to him. The night ends as he's begging Melinda to call 9-1-1 | |
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Adaptation Decay | |
| Party Down / int_896459e2 | comment |
Adaptation Decay: "Taylor Stiltskin Sweet Sixteen" involves a film adaptation of a graphic novel about Edgar Allan Poe as a vampire slayer. Roman and one of the girls at the party get miffed about the studio Bowdlerizing Poe's alcoholism and underage incestual relations. In "Joel Munt's Big Deal Party", a scif-fi author is enraged when he finds out the adaptation of his novel will be using CG for a monster that isn't even visible. This instance is later discussed when Roman and Joel Munt argue over how you're supposed to successfully adapt a psychic gas-creature to film. | |
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Bratty Teenage Daughter | |
| Party Down / int_8a1215e0 | comment |
Bratty Teenage Daughter: Lydia's daughter, Escapade. | |
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Ragtag Bunch of Misfits | |
| Party Down / int_8ad43dc9 | comment |
Ragtag Bunch of Misfits | |
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Did Not Get the Girl | |
| Party Down / int_8b442f50 | comment |
Did Not Get the Girl: The ending of "James Rolf High School Twentieth Reunion." The beginning of Season 3 reveals this happened to both Ron and Henry. Ron's girlfriend Danielle left him for someone else, and Casey has since gotten famous and left Los Angeles and Henry behind. At the end of the season, this happens to Henry again, when he chooses to end things with Evie and keep his job as an English teacher. However, the final scene of the season teases that Henry and Casey might still get back together some day. | |
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Dumb Blonde | |
| Party Down / int_8e4a0f15 | comment |
Dumb Blonde: Kyle. | |
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Sir Swears-a-Lot | |
| Party Down / int_8fd7af48 | comment |
Sir Swears-a-Lot: Leonard Stilstskin in spades. | |
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Self-Serving Memory | |
| Party Down / int_8fdd68fc | comment |
Self-Serving Memory: Constance clearly believes she was a much bigger actress in the 1990's than she actually was. When they cater his high school reunion, Ron is happy to be back at the school where he was the popular class clown. However, talking with his classmates makes him realize he was actually the loser everyone picked on. | |
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Vomit Indiscretion Shot | |
| Party Down / int_94e4b975 | comment |
Vomit Indiscretion Shot: Ron downs a bottle of whiskey a la Bluto Blutarsky in Animal House. It ends exactly how you expect it would. A company picnic champion learns that there are downsides to winning the hot dog-eating contest just before a softball game. | |
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Betty and Veronica | |
| Party Down / int_94e4c8ab | comment |
Betty and Veronica: Henry with Uda and Casey. Uda is the Betty and Casey is the Veronica, although this applies more to the nature of his relationships with them than the characters' actual personalities. | |
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Only Sane Employee | |
| Party Down / int_95cb7004 | comment |
Only Sane Employee: Casey. | |
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Cut Himself Shaving | |
| Party Down / int_97b4c1fd | comment |
Cut Himself Shaving: As revealed in "Celebrate Ricky Sargulesh", at some point in the past Ron was in a relationship with a co-worker and had a messy break-up. He apparently told Constance that the injuries were from stepping on a rake. And, well, they WERE from getting hit with a rake... | |
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Throw the Dog a Bone | |
| Party Down / int_98576799 | comment |
Throw the Dog a Bone: Just as Ron bemoans his fate to a seemingly callous and unfeeling God, fate intervenes. It's still not completely without humiliation and pain though. | |
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All Work vs. All Play | |
| Party Down / int_9874f2ab | comment |
All Work vs. All Play: Henry vs. Ron. In season one, Ron is all work, Henry is all play; in the beginning of season two, their roles flip. | |
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A Day in the Limelight | |
| Party Down / int_9c8701b5 | comment |
A Day in the Limelight: One episode has the crew catering a Russian(?) Mafia, where they are immediately recognized by all the work they have done (except Ron & Roman). They are treated like celebrities, and it gives Constance her "Big Break". Regarding specific characters: "James Rolf High School Twentieth Reunion" is focused on Ron's attempts to impress his former classmates, especially his crush. "Joel Munt's Big Deal Party" is mostly about Roman clashing with his former writing partner and meeting an idol of his. "Constance Carmell Wedding" is, predictably, centered around Constance as well as Henry and Casey's attempts to convince her not to marry a man they both think is untrustworthy. "Once Upon a Time Proms Away Prom-otional Event" gives us a closer look at Lydia and her relationship with Escapade. | |
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Foreshadowing | |
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Foreshadowing: In "Pepper McMasters Singles Seminar", Ron tells Constance and Henry a Scare 'Em Straight story about a friend mixing prescription drugs and liquor and nearly dying. The same happens to Bruce. | |
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It's Personal | |
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It's Personal: Lydia's notes for "Wesley Snipes"'s movie in "Joel Munt's Big Deal Party" involves adding several layers of this trope. | |
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Techno Babble | |
| Party Down / int_a20d4674 | comment |
Technobabble: Roman's scripts brim with it at the cost of actual plot or emotional resonance. | |
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Naked People Are Funny | |
| Party Down / int_a58e5ad7 | comment |
Naked People Are Funny: Hell, it's enough to make an otherwise horrifying tale of skull fractures hilarious in "Pepper McMasters Singles Seminar". Or at least stoned-out-of-their-minds Constance and old paramour Bruce think so. | |
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As Himself | |
| Party Down / int_a5e0c01 | comment |
As Himself: Rick Fox, Steve Guttenberg, George Takei, and Patrick Duffy. | |
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Stereotype Reaction Gag | |
| Party Down / int_a8c9088d | comment |
Stereotype Reaction Gag: Unintentionally implemented in an attempt to avert it by Ron in episode 1. Having just attended a racial sensitivity seminar, he spends the episode avoiding anything that can be construed as using stereotypes. | |
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Totally Radical | |
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Totally Radical: Lydia has apparently had some odd encounters due to misuse of "cougar" and "bear" in her online dating profile. | |
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Idiosyncratic Episode Naming | |
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Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: Each episode's title derives from whatever event the group is catering that episode. | |
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Hookers and Blow | |
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Hookers and Blow: Joel Munt in "Joel Munt's Big Deal Party" is obsessed with it. | |
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Writers Suck | |
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Writers Suck: Kyle brushes off Roman as a writer in "Celebrate Ricky Sargulesh". The community theater actors in "Not On Your Wife Opening Night" pointedly avert this attitude, kissing up to Roman and proclaiming that in theater, the writer is God. | |
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Deadpan Snarker | |
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Deadpan Snarker: In a show which is about marginalized people living downtrodden lives and regularly abasing themselves when serving food to people richer, more powerful and more successful than they are, this is pretty much a given. Casey and Henry do their fair share, but Roman is probably the best example. | |
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All for Nothing | |
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All for Nothing: At the end of the first season, Ron finally gets to run his Soup-R-Crackers...but by the start of Season 2, we find out he only had the job for a few months before the company folded. | |
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StupidBoss | |
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Stupid Boss: Ron. | |
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Catchphrase | |
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Catchphrase: Henry was in a beer commercial where he said, "Are we having fun yet?" Whenever people recognize him, they ask him to say it, which he hates doing. | |
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Right Through His Pants | |
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Right Through His Pants: Both averted and played straight. | |
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Raging Stiffie | |
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Raging Stiffie: Kyle spikes Roman's drink with a ground-up Viagra in "Pepper McMasters Singles Seminar" to get back at him for the incident detailed in "Dyeing for Your Art". However, there still has to be real arousal for the erection to start, making for a Brick Joke during The Tag. | |
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Squick | |
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Squick: In-universe—Henry visibly shudders when Ron discusses semen shooting up and hanging off of the edge of his bike helmet in "Cole Landry's Draft Day Party". | |
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The Tag | |
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The Tag | |
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Political Overcorrectness | |
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Political Overcorrectness: Played with in "California College Conservative Union Caucus". Some of the attendees are pointedly non-politically correct because they champion free speech—for example, one short guy encourages Casey to call him "shrimp". Meanwhile, Constance gets offended at one attendee's joke about a gay man when the punchline doesn't actually have anything to do with homosexuality in itself. Also, the guy who told the joke is, himself, gay. Then she gets mad about a black attendee not getting to vote on an issue at the party (the problem isn't his race, it's the fact that he's a non-citizen) and thinks the attendees have problems with women having free speech when they correct her. | |
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Dyeing for Your Art | |
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Dyeing for Your Art: Roman uses this trope in "Willow Canyon Homeowners Annual Party" to trick Kyle into shaving all his hair (although Kyle only gets to do his left eyebrow before the scheme is revealed to him) by giving Kyle a fake voicemail that a character he's auditioning for is being rewritten as a cancer patient undergoing chemotherapy. | |
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Class Reunion | |
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Class Reunion: Party Down caters Ron's reunion in "James Rolf High School Twentieth Reunion". | |
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Love Triangle | |
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Love Triangle: Henry, Casey, Uda. | |
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Tear Jerker | |
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Tear Jerker: In-universe, Henry's performance at "Steve Guttenberg's Birthday". | |
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Genius Bruiser | |
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Genius Bruiser: Roman is extremely irritated to meet a hulking college football player who is better-read than he is, as well as a pre-med student. | |
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Mistaken for Masturbating | |
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Mistaken for Masturbating: Happens in the very first episode, "Willow Canyon Homeowners Annual Party." A girl Kyle is making out with sees Ron attemptting to vigorously clean a stain out of his pants in the adjacent bathroom and assumes the worst. | |
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Berserk Button | |
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Berserk Button: Ron goes off when the group is in danger of getting poor client feedback cards or when his reputation is at stake. Examples of this include threatening to destroy the teen girl's life in "Willow Canyon Homeowners Annual Party" and desecrating the American Flag in "California College Conservative Union Caucus." Roman can't stand it when people mix up his precious science fiction with hated fantasy. He even ruins a sure thing with a porn star when she mentions that she likes dragons. | |
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The Neidermeyer | |
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The Neidermeyer: Ron. | |
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Europeans Are Kinky | |
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Europeans Are Kinky: Ron is approached by a European porno producer. | |
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Invisible Monsters | |
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In "Joel Munt's Big Deal Party", a scif-fi author is enraged when he finds out the adaptation of his novel will be using CG for a monster that isn't even visible. This instance is later discussed when Roman and Joel Munt argue over how you're supposed to successfully adapt a psychic gas-creature to film. | |
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Farce | |
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Farce: The eponymous play in "Not On Your Wife Opening Night". The plot of the actual episode also quickly devolves into a farce, which is lampshaded by Henry. | |
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True Companions | |
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True Companions: Despite all the bickering, the team actually does have some modicum of this, as demonstrated by everyone getting entangled in Roman's revenge plot in "Joel Munt's Big Deal Party". | |
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And Starring | |
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And Starring: Lizzy Caplan as Casey. | |
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Yank the Dog's Chain | |
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Yank the Dog's Chain: Happens to all the characters at least once. Some standout examples: Henry in "Taylor Stiltskin Sweet Sixteen" nearly gets a major supporting role in a big-budget movie. In season two, Casey finally gets her Judd Apatow role only to find out her scene was cut in "Constance Carmell Wedding". The Season 3 premiere has Ron looking like it's going great, getting control of Party Down, everything going his way...and then it's revealed this is March of 2020 and the COVID-19 pandemic is about to destroy the catering business. | |
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Cringe Comedy | |
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Cringe Comedy: All over the place, but especially in "James Ellison Funeral." | |
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Informed Judaism | |
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Informed Judaism: Casey Klein's religion is never brought up in season one. In season two, she makes two references to being Jewish, though it never factors into her actions at all. Actress Lizzy Caplan is Jewish in real life. | |
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DomesticAbuser | |
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Domestic Abuser: Casey's husband. Fortunately, she divorces him after a few episodes in season 1. | |
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Self-Deprecation | |
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Self-Deprecation: "James Ellison Funeral": | |
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No Sense of Personal Space | |
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No Sense of Personal Space: Constance. | |
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Casting Couch | |
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Casting Couch: In "Taylor Stiltskin Sweet Sixteen", it appears that Mr. and Mrs. Stiltskin have a standing agreement that any boy-toy the missus beds gets a part in her husband's movies. Mrs. Stiltskin tries to get Kyle in bed but he has to awkwardly shy away from kissing because his teeth hurt after being bleached. Kyle uses this to get a role between the first and second seasons. Another past instance of Kyle's comes up in "Not On Your Wife Opening Night". In the same episode Casey attempts this by taking advantage of being Mistaken for Gay. | |
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Lighter and Softer | |
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Lighter and Softer: Season 3. While the show's original two-season run ended on a hopeful note, it still had a running theme of cynicism about Hollywood. Any success our main characters got was short-lived, and the only options were either to a) degrade yourself to please people in power b) fight viciously for bit parts that can easily be taken away from you, or c) completely give up on your dreams. However, Season 3 introduces An Aesop that you can find happiness in simply persevering, even if you never have the success you originally wanted. In particular, Henry chooses to keep his job as a high school English teacher because it makes him happier than being a star would, Kyle still has a role in a major movie (even though it's not the leading role he thought it was), Ron and Constance have found a way to keep Party Down going despite continued problems, Lydia realizes she can focus on her own life instead of Escapade's, and Roman and Lucy decide to keep pursuing their dreams even when they lose their masterpieces. And while there's still plenty of farce, gross out comedy, and awkward moments, there's far less Cringe Comedy, not to mention way fewer homophobic and pervy comments from Roman. | |
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Wax On, Wax Off | |
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Wax On, Wax Off: Subverted for humor when Kyle assumes a random Black guy is a master of the Blues. The Black guy turns Kyle into his errand boy just for kicks. | |
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Mrs. Robinson | |
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In "Not On Your Wife Opening Night", Casey wonders aloud whether "cougar" means something else in the gay community. Later on, a gay actor attracted to Roman is referred to as a cougar. | |
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CloudCuckooLander | |
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Bobbie St. Brown, who fills in for Constance in the final two episodes of the first season, is even more of a Cloud Cuckoolander than she is. She's also Constance's roommate and turns out to have been the one who hit her with her car (as Constance referenced in an earlier episode). | |
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Hypocrite | |
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Hypocrite: In "Pepper McMasters Singles Seminar", Constance finds old people repulsive despite hardly being a spring chicken herself. In "Celebrate Rick Sargulesh", Roman actually has the nerve to call out Henry for sleeping with Casey when Roman had dibs and for sleeping with a co-worker in the same conversation. Ron calls Henry out on this repeatedly in season two whenever Henry tries to get Ron to act professional on the job. | |
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Inelegant Blubbering | |
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Inelegant Blubbering: James Ellison's secret lover in "James Ellison Funeral". | |
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Affectionate Nickname | |
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Affectionate Nickname: Constance calls Patrick Duffy "Duffels" in "Constance Carmell Wedding". | |
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Global Ignorance | |
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Global Ignorance: Constance thinks that Toronto is part of the United States in "California College Conservative Union Caucus". | |
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The Ditz | |
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The Ditz: Constance in Season 1 and Lydia in Season 2. Although both Jane Lynch and Megan Mullaly were playing a ditzy female character, both brought their own brands of ditziness. | |
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The Chew Toy | |
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The Chew Toy: Ron is a pedantic, sycophantic, socially inept loser who thinks he may well be the next Donald Trump. He's also put through more mental and physical trauma than any other character on the show. | |
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Space Whale Aesop | |
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Space Whale Aesop: In "First Annual PI 2 A Symposium", Henry teaches kids that acting is the ticket to paying your bills, but not necessarily in the conventional way. He teaches his students to cry really hard if someone's trying to stiff you on the rent. | |
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Jerkass | |
| Party Down / int_eb8ec7c8 | comment |
After mostly just being a Jerkass, Roman finally starts to show shades of this at the end of Season 3, thanks to Character Development. Specifically, he learns to laugh off the destruction of his car, feels stirrings of love and gets over his resentment when he finds out that love isn't reciprocated, and encourages Lucy to keep trying, just as she encouraged him. | |
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Moment Killer | |
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Moment Killer: Ron is making some progress on the former class president in "James Rolf High School Twentieth Reunion" when Kyle and Roman barge in arguing over Cool Versus Awesome. Later he has an absolute perfect moment to make a move... unfortunately moments earlier he had just chugged an entire bottle of hard liquor, and, well, you can guess what happens next... | |
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Fee Fi Faux Pas | |
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Fee Fi Faux Pas: A repeated trope. In "Taylor Stiltskin Sweet Sixteen", poor Ron is too high to keep himself from saying "nigger" while hanging out with some rappers. Subverted—at the end of the episode, it seems to have actually made them all friends. In "James Ellison Funeral", Lydia asks awkwardly, loudly, and bluntly about how James Ellison died. In "Constance Carmell Wedding", the circumstances surrounding Danielle's parents' divorce means that Danielle and Ron can finally be together, but that doesn't change the fact that Ron just cheerfully told Danielle that her parents are getting divorced. | |
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Technician Versus Performer | |
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Technician Versus Performer: Kyle and Roman are constantly arguing about this; in this case Roman, as a writer, is the technician and Kyle is the performer. | |
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Conspicuous Consumption | |
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Conspicuous Consumption: In "Steve Guttenberg's Birthday" Lydia reveals that if she had millions of dollars, the first things she'd do would be to throw a huge party, buy some shoes for herself, and buy a few hundred horses for her daughter. | |
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Brainless Beauty | |
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Brainless Beauty: Kyle. | |
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Too Much Information | |
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Too Much Information: In their first conversation together, Lydia tells Casey that her ex-husband is sexist, racist (yet had an affair with a black woman), anti-Semite, and homophobic. | |
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Dumbass Has a Point | |
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Dumbass Has a Point: Ron in "Precious Lights Pre-School Auction." The way he expresses it makes no sense, but he is right that Henry is giving people crap for the same things he did when Ron was team leader. | |
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Suspiciously Similar Substitute | |
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Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Happens twice with Constance: Bobbie St. Brown, who fills in for Constance in the final two episodes of the first season, is even more of a Cloud Cuckoolander than she is. She's also Constance's roommate and turns out to have been the one who hit her with her car (as Constance referenced in an earlier episode). Lydia replaces Constance in season two. They're both weird ditzes. Lydia eventually gets more fleshed out and she moves away from being too similar to Constance, but the fact that she replaced her is lampshaded in "Constance Carmell Wedding". | |
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Mushroom Samba | |
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Mushroom Samba: Over the course of the series, there is at least one instance for every character in which they're tripping on some substance, either inadvertently or on purpose. The ultimate example is "KSGY-95 Prizewinner's Luau," where everyone in the main cast aside from Ron spends the entire episode tripping on shrooms. | |
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Stripper/Cop Confusion | |
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Stripper/Cop Confusion: In "Pepper McMasters Singles Seminar" with both a cop and a nurse. | |
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Department of Redundancy Department | |
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Department of Redundancy Department: In "Celebrate Ricky Sargulesh": | |
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Brick Joke | |
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Brick Joke: In "Not On Your Wife Opening Night", Casey wonders aloud whether "cougar" means something else in the gay community. Later on, a gay actor attracted to Roman is referred to as a cougar. | |
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