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Sherman's Showcase
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Sherman's Showcase is an adult comedy series airing on IFC that was created by Comedian Bashir Salahuddin with the help of musician Diallo Riddle.The heavily serialized anthology series follows the Show Within a Show Within a Show, a parody of Soul Train, Solid Gold, Midnight Special, Solid Bronze, and other American music/variety series. It's host, Sherman McDaniels, guides segments with a big personality, as he does his best to both exhibit top, usually African-American acts through the decades, starting on July 1st, 1972.I'll fill in links as I go along. I am doing the best I can here, while trying not to let the Funk Monster (edit lock) catch me. | |
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Fat Suit | |
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Fat Suit: The one that Salahuddin wears to portray Big Freddy Payne is painfully obvious. | |
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Adam Westing | |
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Adam Westing: Executive Producer John Sidney Legend, Quincy Jones, etc. I'm pretty sure no one gives nearly as much a damn as they pretend to about being EGOTs as they boastfully do. | |
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Hakuna Matata | |
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Hakuna Matata: Mary J. Blige only makes good music when 'Mary sad'. | |
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Artifact of Attraction | |
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Artifact of Attraction: The EGOT toaster. Though heavily referenced in the first four episodes, the entire EGOT thing seems to have been dropped entirely; not even mentioned in the next three episodes. | |
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Failed a Spot Check | |
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Failed a Spot Check: After the attempted charity event, Pepper Spraye is obviously about to attack Sherman, but even with shades on it's implied that she gets him... for the first time. | |
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Some of My Best Friends Are X | |
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Some of My Best Friends Are X: "We've had plenty of White music on the show: Jay Sean, Jason Derulo, we even had Flo Rida on the show twice. My point being, young Becca: Not all White Music is performed by White people" — Sherman, answering a fan letter. | |
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Pastiche | |
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Pastiche: Casual Prince fans will probably mistake Vic Mensa for the man. Hardcore Prince fans may wonder if Prince actually wrote Vicki, Is the Water Warm Enough? | |
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Only Sane Man | |
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Only Sane Man: Dutch Shepherd constantly corrects Sherman during tapings loudly over the studio intercom if he feels Sherman has gotten something wrong. | |
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Alliterative Title: Ray J even calls it out during the first season finale: "Sherman's Showcase? That don't even sound right. Don't nobody wanna hear all that alliteration." | |
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Bitch in Sheep's Clothing | |
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Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: John Legend tried so hard to Mind Screw with Common by writing a musical for him "so that he can earn a Tony Award, making him an EGOT", but in reality he didn't actually want Common to succeed. Or something. Whatever. It epically failed. | |
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Lampshade Hanging | |
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Lampshade Hanging: More scenes are built around this trope than not. | |
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Noodle Incident | |
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Noodle Incident: Scat Master Crothers. | |
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Acme Products | |
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Acme Products: Sherm-Tel makes all of the fake products regularly featured. | |
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Black Sitcom | |
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Black Sitcom: If you see a white person, it's for a cheap joke or to highlight a black character. | |
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Blatant Lies | |
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Blatant Lies: A "Classic Bumper" from April 8th, 1989 has Sade announcing "You're watching Sherman's Showcase on IFC". IFC launched on December 1st, 1994. | |
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Acrofatic | |
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Acrofatic: Salahuddin's Fast Freddy Payne impersonation shows that the big man clearly has agility and energy. | |
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Parody Commercial | |
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Parody Commercial: Once per Episode there's a real advertisement for a fake product, usually introduced by Frederick Douglass. During the actual commercial breaks they have advertisements of an album of the seriously produced for the program songs appearing sporadically throughout the season. After the penultimate episode of the first season they released a series EP for free on online streaming platforms. | |
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Crosses The Line Twice: Sherman's Dancers gave Sherman a lot of leeway in sticking around for a Country Music performance by Cody McCoy. As innocent as his diddy was about a (ra)Coon On The Moon was, ending with "Where'd they find a coon smart enough to fly a rocket?" was enough to piss everyone off and lead to race riots in thirteen of their affiliate cities. | |
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Paper-Thin Disguise | |
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Paper-Thin Disguise: Big Freddy Payne is so painfully obviously just an older, fatter Fast Freddy Payne, rather than the tribute artist that he claims to be, that after the first verse of his performance of Running, Sherman's Dancers can't help themselves from calling him out on it. | |
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Trash the Set | |
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Trash the Set: The Venice Pier Futbol Club Anthem sketch starts off as a normal stage performance. Technically, the only thing on *set* they destroy is a bowl of popcorn on a podium, but 20 seconds later, they've roamed off the set and begin trashing the entire studio. | |
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Do Not Call Me "Paul" | |
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Do Not Call Me "Paul": The expy of Geoffrey from The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air in the Day In, Day Out sketch put the brakes on Master Morris calling him a butler real quick. | |
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Sassy Black Woman | |
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Sassy Black Woman: Pepper Spraye takes her job seriously. Enough to constantly punish the host when he steps out of line too. | |
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Artistic License – History | |
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Artistic License – History: There was never any show called Jabberjaw or The Amazing Chan and the Chan Clan. Actually, that's one of the 20% of things openly stated on the show that's accurate. | |
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Spontaneous Choreography | |
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Spontaneous Choreography: The first segment of the first episode was a grandiose dance number. Sherman lampshaded it by stating that every episode would begin this way. Whether he did it or not isn't clear because of the infomercial format. | |
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Older Than Cable TV | |
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Older Than Cable TV: On since 1972. | |
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Freeze-Frame Bonus | |
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Freeze-Frame Bonus: A lot of good jokes go into Sherman's Dancers details, provided on-screen, but they usually only stay long enough to be barely read. | |
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Lack of Empathy | |
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Lack of Empathy: Sherman will not allow Diana Ross' obvious pain to get in the way of selling his fancy poison. | |
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Invisible Means Undodgeable | |
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Invisible Means Undodgeable: Latricia the Magician failed miserably at her first attempt at going invisible for the audience. Then, after she publicly assaulted her assistant, as Sherman's security guard was bearing down on her, she performed the trick flawlessly and then went ham on everybody to escape the punishment. | |
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Arc Words | |
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Arc Words: Everyone who's encountered Frederick Douglass has said after he departs "Man, ain't nobody gonna believe this!". The first season finale brings this to a head. | |
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Large Ham | |
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Large Ham: Sherman. For days. Regular scenery diet and No Indoor Voice. | |
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Series Mascot | |
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Series Mascot: The Funk Monster. If you find this card, your friend gets to slap you and take $11. | |
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Anachronic Order | |
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Anachronic Order: In keeping with the infomercial format, episodes are tied together by clips sharing a theme, zigzagging through the program's history. | |
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Flipping the Table | |
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Flipping the Table: The Venice Pier Futbol Club guys do this to a craft services table. | |
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Schoolyard Bully All Grown Up | |
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Schoolyard Bully All Grown Up: Billy Rolands is a famous talent worldwide. He also went to high school with McDaniels. A point that when Sherman invited him on the Showcase in 2001, he wasn't afraid to bring back in full force during his segment. Sherman's Dancers were completely into him openly mocking their boss. Ambiguous whether Rolands is just that persuasive or justified in that the show has demonstrated that Sherman has always been a complete jerkass to his staff. | |
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Villainous Breakdown | |
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Villainous Breakdown: John Legend upon seeing that Common won a Tony Award. | |
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Desk Sweep of Rage | |
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Desk Sweep of Rage: The Venice Pier Futbol Club guys run off the stage after the first twenty seconds of their performance and immediately encounter a table for Sherman's green room guests just offstage. After manually destroying the plants on it, they do this to the remaining glasses and a vase. | |
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Hot Men at Work | |
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Hot Men at Work: One of Mary J. Blige's apparent booking requirements is to have two of the sexiest of Sherman's male dancers toplessly fan her with a large feather and hand feed her fruit. | |
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Springtime for Hitler | |
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Springtime for Hitler: John Legend wrote Blockbuster: The Musical specifically to bust and fail for Common. While Legend's motivations are undefined, instead of being the failure that he wanted, Common got that Tony Award. | |
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Gospel Music | |
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Gospel Music: Drop It Low For Jesus. The lyrics make it seriously debatable whether it is just R&B or a genuine appreciation of Jesus. The verse does a good job of arguing a desire to love the Lord. Even though it's patently sexual. | |
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Homage | |
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Homage: Subverted. Day In, Day Out at first glance seems like one of The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air if it were written around Morris Day, but given that executive producer Quincy Jones helped construct the Pastiche sketch, it could just be an alternative continuity situation. | |
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As Himself | |
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As Himself: Morris Day, Common, Curt Menefee, Colleen Camp, Ray Parker Jr., Ray J. | |
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MacGuffin | |
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MacGuffin: John Legend accidentally got Common EGOT status. But he and Quincy Jones will be damned before they let him receive an EGOT toaster! | |
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No Woman's Land | |
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No Woman's Land: Inverted. Sherman's woman rapper rap battle (which they agreed to in advance and Sherman's Dancers knew what they were going to see) only resulted in everyone bashing him for being male. | |
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Alternate History | |
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Alternate History: Since this show never existed, Sherman never introduced any act to the world. | |
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No Historical Figures Were Harmed | |
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No Historical Figures Were Harmed: Frederick Douglass Once per Episode. | |
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Loophole Abuse: Stands to reason that Quincy Jones' EGOT status will always be an Informed Attribute to never be discussed. | |
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Epic Fail | |
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Epic Fail: John Legend. He wrote Blockbuster: The Musical as a pretend premise to try to help earn Common a Tony Award. He didn't really want Common to win the award. But Common did. | |
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Funny Robot: The Funk-A-Tron 2000 cares about finding good wines for some reason. | |
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Acceptable Breaks from Reality | |
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Acceptable Breaks from Reality: Quincy Jones is depicted as the wise, master EGOT, even though he's never actually earned an Oscar in his career; rather, holding a Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award instead. | |
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Hypocritical Humor | |
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Hypocritical Humor: Having said the F word on multiple occasions up to 2009, seems like this for Sherman to chastise Latricia the Magician. | |
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Metaphorically True | |
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Metaphorically True: Quincy Jones is an EGOT because he got a completely subjective free award from the Academy of Arts and Sciences, even though he completely lacks the O part. You'll understand the logic when you're famous. | |
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You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me! | |
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You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me!: Pepper Spraye does not appreciate Sherman not understanding why Diva Cups is a very bad idea. Because she tells him as much, then openly prepares to douse him in mace. | |
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It's All About Me | |
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It's All About Me: During a viewer mail segment from a 2010 episode, Sherman read a letter from a fan asking for more White Music. Sherman immediately crumples the letter in his hand and rants "Okay, this is Sherman's Showcase, not Becca's Showcase. You want a show for your music that you wanna listen to? Start your own goddamn show, Becca! That's right; no one gives a shit what you got to say, Becca. Eat a dick!" | |
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Show Within a Show | |
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Show Within a Show: Within a show. The highest level is that the entire program is an infomercial. This level is played straight. The second level is the presented program, Sherman's Showcase. On-stage performances within the featured program are heavily lampshaded or outright driven by the collective reactions of Sherman's Dancers, thus making the main program a show for them, making three levels of show. | |
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Couch Gag | |
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Couch Gag: The opening animation and music is usually different each episode, though the Funk Monster is always there. | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: Superman. | |
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Supporting Protagonist | |
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Supporting Protagonist: Bashir Salahuddin may be whom you're told is the star of the show as he portrays its host, but it doesn't take long to notice that in every episode, in nearly every skit Diallo Riddle is there without the presence of Salahuddin, and Riddle is the singer or an instrumentalist in nearly every musical performance. His screen time amounts to about 85%, making it really his show. Given that on their appearance together on Late Night with Seth Meyers, Riddle sits in the chair close to Meyers and Salahuddin occupied the couch far away, they know who's show it actually is. | |
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The Singularity | |
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The Singularity: During a segment promoting the show's history, Nigel Lythgoe notices and prods a slip of the tongue by Funk-A-Tron 2000 which has him revealing that it may have already happened; the robots just haven't told us yet. | |
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Musicalis Interruptus | |
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Musicalis Interruptus: Diana Ross' Hope You Brought (Your Dancing Shoes, Loverboy) is interrupted by Sherman for a message about trash liquor. It burns her mouth and causes her to keel over in pain. | |
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Can't Take Criticism | |
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Can't Take Criticism: Sherman always chastises and flat out buries employees who speak out against him. Usually, if he sneaks up on them while they critique him they are savvy enough to backpedal. | |
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Expy | |
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Expy: Subverted. On the one hand, Prince is dead and therefore couldn't have possibly played himself. On the other hand, the entire episode about Charade, quite patently obviously meant to portray Prince is narrated by Morris Day. Being that Morris Day was essentially a real life expy employee of Prince himself, its ambiguous whether Prince could have been persuaded to do the episode himself. | |
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Old Master | |
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Old Master: Quincy Jones. He's presented alongside John Legend, judging things. | |
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Aside Glance | |
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Aside Glance: Frederick Douglass just cannot help himself from doing it during every single product pitch. | |
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Dark Reprise | |
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Dark Reprise: Executive Meddling turns Have a Good Time into Louder Than Lies. Mary J. Blige was singing a very positive song, but Sherman's Dancers were showing complete disdain for the break in her usual style, so Sherman intervened by sending her a breakup text disguised as from her boyfriend. The result was a much more warmly received performance. After she found out about the deception, she not only didn't care; she appreciated the motivation. | |
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Interactive Narrator | |
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Interactive Narrator: Sometimes Shepherd, sometimes a close friend or admirer of the featured artist will guide the audience through an episode's clips from a set through voiceover and directly addressing the camera. | |
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The Abridged Series | |
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The Abridged Series: The show is framed as an infomercial, collecting the best bits of a series that has been on for at least forty-one years. It's never actually stated whether it's still on. Clips are from as late as September 21st 2019. A clip from an episode that aired on September 11th, 2019. Because reasons. | |
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