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A 2012-13 musical drama on NBC from executive producer Steven Spielberg and the producers of Chicago and Hairspray (2007).When duo songwriters Julia Houston (Debra Messing) and Tom Levitt (Christian Borle), director Derek Wills (Jack Davenport), and producer Eileen Rand (Anjelica Huston) put on a Broadway musical based on the life of Marilyn Monroe, small town girl Karen Cartwright (Katharine McPhee) and veteran actress Ivy Lynn (Megan Hilty) audition for the star role. But things won't be easy when both women are favored for the role and must compete for it.The second season switches direction by having half of Bombshell's production team defect for off-Broadway, where they launch a competing musical titled Hit List.Both the show and the show within the show have soundtrack albums.Not to be confused with the Super Smash Bros. series, the unrelated Smash miniseries, Smash TV, or Smash Williams. | |
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Creator Cameo | |
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Creator Cameo: Series songwriters Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman cameo as themselves in the episode "Opening Night." | |
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Season Finale | |
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And later played straight when Ivy loses the role to Karen in the Season Finale, despite knowing the part better. When various characters confront Derek with the fact that Ivy is better prepared, he rebukes them by saying that while Karen is green, she just has something that Ivy lacks. | |
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Darker and Edgier | |
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Darker and Edgier: Starting with "The Coup", Derek tries to apply this to Marilyn: The Musical. After butting a few heads such darker elements make it in. It even gets a new name: Bombshell. Ultimately this backfires when the Downer Ending turns to be too depressing for a preview audience. In Season 2, "Hit List" is this compared to "Bombshell." | |
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Diegetic Musical | |
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Diegetic Musical: An odd case in that it features characters performing in In-Universe musicals, characters spontaneously bursting into "real-life" choreographed numbers, characters singing in neither context and "mind palace" choreographed numbers. | |
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All There in the Manual | |
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All There in the Manual: Of a kind. Though plenty about the plot of Hit List was given throughout the second season, the media website Vulture published a complete synopsis of the show (complete with song list) after the season finale aired. | |
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Title Drop | |
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Title Drop: The song "Smash!" | |
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The Cameo | |
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The Cameo: Lin-Manuel Miranda in one episode. Tom bumps into Harvey Fierstein on the street, as one does. Liza Minelli sings a birthday song to Ivy. If you're a person who knows their Broadway stars, there's plenty of these to keep you entertained, including (but not limited to): Norbert Leo Butz, Marc Kudisch, Analeigh Ashford, and Seth Rudetsky. | |
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Waiting for a Break | |
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Waiting for a Break: Both Amanda and Jesse before they meet each other, as expressed in "Rewrite This Story". | |
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Villain Song | |
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Villain Song: "I'm Not Sorry" is arguably one for both Amanda and the Diva. Though it was never performed in the series, JB also got one in the defictionalised concert version of the show called "The Guide To Success", which he sung to Jesse to convince him to keep writing songs for Amanda. | |
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Ode to Family | |
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Ode to Family: "Second Hand White Baby Grand," which is about Marilyn's only fond memory of her mother. | |
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Ascended Fanboy | |
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Ascended Fanboy: Julia and Ivy are both big fans of Marilyn Monroe so this is a dream project for them Michael is a big baseball fan so it is a big deal for him to play Joe DiMaggio | |
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Special Guest | |
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Special Guest: Nick Jonas as Lyle West in "The Cost of Art". Grace Gummer as Katie Rand in "The Coup" Uma Thurman. This example was particularly noticeable, as she only appeared in the last minute or so of the first episode she was credited for. Bernadette Peters as Leigh Conroy, Ivy's mother. Season Two is shaping up to have even more of these, including Liza Minelli, Rosie O'Donnell, Jennifer Hudson, Sean Hayes, and Nikki Blonsky. | |
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Oblivious to Love | |
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Kyle's rather blatantly in love with Jimmy. Jimmy, who is not Oblivious to Love knows this, and publicly announces in a fit of anger that nothing would ever happen between them. | |
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Ghost Song | |
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Ghost Song: The finale, "Don't Forget Me." | |
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The Musical Musical | |
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The Musical Musical: The series is a musical about the conception and production of a Broadway musical. | |
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It Will Never Catch On | |
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It Will Never Catch On: In one of Zanuck's lyrics in "Don't Say Yes Until I Finish Talking" he comments "that television just won't last". | |
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Unequal Pairing | |
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Unequal Pairing: Tom and Sam, because Tom is part of the creative staff of Bombshell and Sam is an actor in Bombshell. Also, Tom and Kyle have a whirlwind romance during the second half of the season. Kyle is both young and a massive fan of Houston and Levitt, and Tom is down after getting lukewarm reviews for his direction and after fighting with Julia. Also Derek and pretty much everyone he's paired up with. He even gets called out on it early in Season 2: | |
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Bittersweet Ending | |
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Bittersweet Ending: Marilyn dies alone and sad, but the good in her life outweighed the bad and she will be remembered forever as a star. | |
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Instant Seduction | |
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Instant Seduction: When Derek and Ivy first begin their affair, it starts with them sharing a Held Gaze moment. Then it immediately Smash Cuts to them having sex. | |
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Pretty in Mink | |
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Pretty in Mink: Part of the Marilyn costumes include a white fur wrap. | |
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Love Dodecahedron | |
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Love Dodecahedron: Karen is with Dev who slept with Ivy, who is dating Derek who is also involved with Rebecca. In Season 2, they've added Jimmy, Kyle, and (eventually) Blake and Tom to the mix. | |
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Shirtless Scene | |
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Shirtless Scene: "Don't Say Yes Until I Finish Talking" takes place entirely in a steam room filled with towel-clad executives. | |
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Wardrobe Malfunction | |
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Wardrobe Malfunction: Ivy suffered a Wardrobe Malfunction during a play while playing the part of Marilyn Monroe and her entire outfit accidentally came down and pooled at her feet, with her co-star awkwardly attempting to cover her via Hand-or-Object Underwear. The audience thought it was part of the show as a Dress Hits Floor scene and it ended up being such a hit that they made it part of the play, though Ivy incorporates it as a Defiant Strip where Marilyn drops her Modesty Bedsheet in defiance in front of Kennedy, rather than him causing it. | |
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In-Universe | |
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The In-Universe Bombshell | |
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Third Line, Some Waiting | |
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Third Line, Some Waiting: Partway through the second season there end up being three musicals vying for the viewer's attention: Bombshell, Hit List, and Dangerous Liaisons. The last is given a bit less focus than the first two. | |
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Downer Ending | |
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Downer Ending: Amanda is dead, the Diva has suffered a complete nervous breakdown (and will probably at the very least be arrested for murder) and Jesse is left devastated by the death of his girlfriend. | |
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Actor IS the Title Character | |
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Actor IS the Title Character: The Bombshell poster proudly reads "IVY LYNN is MARILYN MONROE". | |
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Sexy Silhouette | |
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Sexy Silhouette: The "Touch Me" song begins with Marilyn Monroe (played by Karen) dancing nude behind a curtain where we only see her silhouette, before she grabs a Modesty Bedsheet and steps out from behind the curtain. | |
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Vocal Range Exceeded | |
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Vocal Range Exceeded: Rebecca when she first shows up. However she does convince Tom to lower the key, and also hires a vocal coach, so at least she's aware of her limits. | |
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Death Song | |
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Death Song: The Dark Reprise of "Second Hand White Baby Grand." | |
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Let's Duet | |
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Let's Duet: "Tech" opens with a montage of the main characters packing up and traveling to Boston for their out of town previews. During the montage, we see Tom and Sam at Tom's apartment around his piano, playing around and singing 'Another Opnin', Another Show' which eventually becomes the music for the montage. | |
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Incompatible Orientation | |
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In Season 2, Jimmy and Kyle, despite some unrequited longing at first on Kyle's part. | |
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Central Theme | |
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Central Theme: What would you sacrifice to make your dream come true? | |
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Parental Love Song | |
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Parental Love Song: "Hang the Moon," in which Marilyn imagines her mother saying all the loving things she never said in real life. | |
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Fictional Counterpart | |
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Fictional Counterpart: Ellis posts a video of Ivy singing Tom and Julia's demo of "Never Give All The Heart" to "YouLenz." | |
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Title: The Adaptation | |
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Title: The Adaptation: Marilyn: The Musical. They change it after the workshop to Bombshell. | |
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Gilligan Cut | |
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Gilligan Cut: | |
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All Musicals Are Adaptations | |
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All Musicals Are Adaptations | |
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Modesty Bedsheet | |
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Both Karen and Ivy have post-coital scenes where they have a Modesty Bedsheet only going up to their waist, but still preserving their modesty by having their backs to the camera. | |
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Jewish Complaining | |
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Jewish Complaining: | |
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Driven to Suicide | |
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Driven to Suicide: Ivy in the season 1 finale. Maybe. | |
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Location Song | |
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Location Song: "On Lexington & 52nd Street," named for the intersection where Marilyn's infamous subway-grate scene for The Seven Year Itch was shot. | |
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Opposites Attract | |
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Opposites Attract: Tom and Sam. It's a Sensitive Guy and Manly Man type thing. | |
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Brooding Boy, Gentle Girl | |
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Brooding Boy, Gentle Girl: Karen's the gentle girl to Jimmy's brooding boy. She's sensitive and open with her feelings, while he wallows in his past mistakes and history of addiction. | |
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Real Life Writes the Plot | |
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Real Life Writes the Plot: In-Universe: Written by Jimmy and Kyle, it follows a young struggling songwriter and recovering drug addict coming from a hard life, falling in love, and accompanied by his best friend and roommate. Sound familiar? | |
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One-Scene Wonder | |
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One-Scene Wonder: In-Universe, Ivy in Liaisons. She has small part in a show that's rapidly coming off the rails, but (on Derek's advice) she goes gloriously OTT in her big solo and instantly becomes the best and most memorable thing about the show for everyone who sees it. It even earns her a Tony nod, despite the show itself ending after just a few runs when the bipolar lead actor stops taking his meds and nearly dies on-stage. | |
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Dawson Casting | |
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Dawson Casting: In-Universe, when Rebecca Duvall comes on board - it's noted that she's several years older than Marilyn Monroe was when she committed suicide (as is Uma Thurman, who plays Rebecca). | |
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| Smash / int_7febc23b | type |
Establishing Character Moment | |
| Smash / int_7febc23b | comment |
Tom and Julia. Observe the automatic, synchronized leg-crossing in their first scene in the pilot. | |
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1.0 | |
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Smash / int_7febc23b | |
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How We Got Here | |
| Smash / int_80251be3 | comment |
How We Got Here: The show starts with the Diva shooting someone at a concert - the rest of the show is a flashback showing the sequence of events that led to it. | |
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1.0 | |
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Smash / int_80251be3 | |
| Smash / int_8338de89 | type |
"I Want" Song | |
| Smash / int_8338de89 | comment |
"I Want" Song: "Rewrite This Story" is all about Jesse and Amanda's desire to...rewrite their destinies. | |
| Smash / int_8338de89 | featureApplicability |
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Smash / int_8338de89 | |
| Smash / int_8411ab92 | type |
Red Oni, Blue Oni | |
| Smash / int_8411ab92 | comment |
Red Oni, Blue Oni: Ivy and Karen. Ivy is prone to emotional peaks while Karen is far calmer. | |
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1.0 | |
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Smash / int_8411ab92 | |
| Smash / int_868409c | type |
Broken Pedestal | |
| Smash / int_868409c | comment |
Broken Pedestal: Leo is a big friend and fan of Michael Swift until he finds out that he's having an affair with his mom Julia. Katie feels this way about her father Jerry, no longer expecting him to be a decent person. | |
| Smash / int_868409c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Smash | hasFeature |
Smash / int_868409c | |
| Smash / int_8c49c29e | type |
Zig-Zagging Trope | |
| Smash / int_8c49c29e | comment |
At the end of the zig-zag, this is finally averted at the end of the second season: While playing Marilyn does take its toll on Ivy, she has lots of success, and wins the Tony Award for Best Actress. | |
| Smash / int_8c49c29e | featureApplicability |
-1.0 | |
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Smash / int_8c49c29e | |
| Smash / int_931fc523 | type |
Back for the Finale | |
| Smash / int_931fc523 | comment |
Back for the Finale: Lyle, Leigh, and Jerry all return after extended absences to attend Bombshell in the season one finale. In the series finale, Michael pops up in the final where-they're-all-headed montage. | |
| Smash / int_931fc523 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Smash / int_931fc523 | |
| Smash / int_99b51746 | type |
Time Title | |
| Smash / int_99b51746 | comment |
Time Title: The musical number "A Thousand and One Nights." | |
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1.0 | |
| Smash / int_99b51746 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Smash | hasFeature |
Smash / int_99b51746 | |
| Smash / int_9cede50e | type |
Toplessness from the Back | |
| Smash / int_9cede50e | comment |
Toplessness from the Back: Both Karen and Ivy have post-coital scenes where they have a Modesty Bedsheet only going up to their waist, but still preserving their modesty by having their backs to the camera. When Julia strips off her shirt when she first sleeps with Michael, we see her from the back, with shots from the front using a Shoulders-Up Nudity angle. When Ivy repeats her Wardrobe Malfunction stunt on stage by dropping Marilyn's modesty bedsheet, we only see her naked back, while the In-Universe audience sees her front. | |
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1.0 | |
| Smash / int_9cede50e | featureConfidence |
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| Smash | hasFeature |
Smash / int_9cede50e | |
| Smash / int_9f2ca67b | type |
Gaydar | |
| Smash / int_9f2ca67b | comment |
Gaydar: Averted. Ivy is incredulous that Tom apparently doesn't have a gaydar and couldn't tell that her sports-loving friend Sam is gay. | |
| Smash / int_9f2ca67b | featureApplicability |
-1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Smash | hasFeature |
Smash / int_9f2ca67b | |
| Smash / int_a3385649 | type |
In-Joke | |
| Smash / int_a3385649 | comment |
In-Joke: When Eileen, Derek, Tom, and Julia are discussing which direction to take the show in after the workshop, Eileen mentions that 'Joe Machota from CAA' was there, who represents such stars as "Scarlett Johansson, Michelle Williams, Sutton Foster..." At the third name, Tom says "Stop!" Actor Christian Borle and Sutton Foster were married from 2006 to 2010. | |
| Smash / int_a3385649 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Smash / int_a3385649 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Smash | hasFeature |
Smash / int_a3385649 | |
| Smash / int_a3912d0e | type |
Sexy Discretion Shot | |
| Smash / int_a3912d0e | comment |
Sexy Discretion Shot: In the pilot, we see Karen and Dev kissing in bed while the scene fades to black. The next time we see them they're cuddling in bed post-sex. When Julia and Michael first start their affair, they both strip their shirts off and he picks her up bridal-style and brings her to the nearby couch where they start to make out and the scene cuts way. | |
| Smash / int_a3912d0e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Smash / int_a3912d0e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Smash | hasFeature |
Smash / int_a3912d0e | |
| Smash / int_a3eae597 | type |
Award-Bait Song | |
| Smash / int_a3eae597 | comment |
Award-Bait Song: "Don't Forget Me", the finale song. | |
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1.0 | |
| Smash / int_a3eae597 | featureConfidence |
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| Smash | hasFeature |
Smash / int_a3eae597 | |
| Smash / int_a4c37cbe | type |
Mood Whiplash | |
| Smash / int_a4c37cbe | comment |
Mood Whiplash: In "The Producers," the episode ends with Kyle getting hit by a bus and dying. Cue the upbeat end credits music. Averted in the next episode, after Tom tells Derek and Karen that Kyle died, the opening title lacks it's usually upbeat track. | |
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| Smash | hasFeature |
Smash / int_a4c37cbe | |
| Smash / int_a9aafffe | type |
Yo-Yo Plot Point | |
| Smash / int_a9aafffe | comment |
Yo Yo Plot Point: Who will play Marilyn. First Ivy, then Karen, then Ivy again, then Karen, then Rebecca, finally Karen. And then back to Ivy. | |
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1.0 | |
| Smash / int_a9aafffe | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Smash | hasFeature |
Smash / int_a9aafffe | |
| Smash / int_ab1064b3 | type |
Modesty Towel | |
| Smash / int_ab1064b3 | comment |
Modesty Towel: The pilot's Singing in the Shower scene with Karen shows her stepping out and wrapping herself in a towel, while still singing. Bombshell's "Don't Say Yes Until I Finish Talking" number takes place entirely in a steam room filled with towel-clad executives. | |
| Smash / int_ab1064b3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Smash / int_ab1064b3 | |
| Smash / int_ac448642 | type |
Let's Wait Awhile | |
| Smash / int_ac448642 | comment |
Lets Wait Awhile: Sam says this to Tom after the composer tries to make a move on Sam on their first date. Tom is leery, but tentatively agrees to go along with it. | |
| Smash / int_ac448642 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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| Smash | hasFeature |
Smash / int_ac448642 | |
| Smash / int_af3ea0e3 | type |
Face–Heel Turn | |
| Smash / int_af3ea0e3 | comment |
Face–Heel Turn: Throughout Season 2, Scott is presented as a genuinely good person and Benevolent Boss, offering his theatre to stage Hit List and, despite having an early (and not entirely unwarranted) argument with Julia, he gets on well with pretty much everyone he interacts with - even to the point of acting as a mediator between Derek and Jimmy several times. That all goes out the window after Kyle's death when he is suddenly apparently fine with exploiting the tragedy hours after it happened purely for the sake of ticket sales. | |
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| Smash | hasFeature |
Smash / int_af3ea0e3 | |
| Smash / int_b032e4ed | type |
Ms. Fanservice | |
| Smash / int_b032e4ed | comment |
Ms. Fanservice: Both Megan Hilty and Katharine "McPheever" McPhee supply plenty of this even when not playing Marilyn Monroe (where it kind of comes with the territory). | |
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1.0 | |
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| Smash | hasFeature |
Smash / int_b032e4ed | |
| Smash / int_b13a123 | type |
Fade to Black | |
| Smash / int_b13a123 | comment |
In the pilot, we see Karen and Dev kissing in bed while the scene fades to black. The next time we see them they're cuddling in bed post-sex. | |
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1.0 | |
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Smash / int_b13a123 | |
| Smash / int_b179eb00 | type |
Tragic Bromance | |
| Smash / int_b179eb00 | comment |
Tragic Bromance: Jimmy and Kyle. The latter's death prompts the former to clean up his act and take Hit List seriously in his memory. | |
| Smash / int_b179eb00 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Smash / int_b179eb00 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Smash | hasFeature |
Smash / int_b179eb00 | |
| Smash / int_b219ac90 | type |
ReTool | |
| Smash / int_b219ac90 | comment |
Retool: Season 2 introduced a second musical and got rid of some of the less popular minor characters from the first season. | |
| Smash / int_b219ac90 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Smash / int_b219ac90 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Smash | hasFeature |
Smash / int_b219ac90 | |
| Smash / int_b406648 | type |
Singing in the Shower | |
| Smash / int_b406648 | comment |
Singing in the Shower: Karen's singing in the shower in the pilot, she even continues doing when she's done. | |
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1.0 | |
| Smash / int_b406648 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Smash | hasFeature |
Smash / int_b406648 | |
| Smash / int_b53077b3 | type |
Take That! | |
| Smash / int_b53077b3 | comment |
Take That!: Dig Deep. Tom and Julia add the song after Rebecca Duvall suggests a scene with Marilyn in the Actors' Studio. She's also been complaining that there are too many songs as opposed to scenes. Guess what the song's about? A whole awesome-sounding number, that lampoons Lee Strasberg, method acting, Stanislavski and the entire naturalistic school of acting. Funny that Rebecca didn't pick up on that. In Season 2, the reviews of the Boston preview say that the songs and cast were good, but the show was undermined by Julia's writing ... a slap at Theresa Rebeck, on whom Julia is based but was no longer involved with the show at that point. | |
| Smash / int_b53077b3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Smash / int_b53077b3 | featureConfidence |
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| Smash | hasFeature |
Smash / int_b53077b3 | |
| Smash / int_ba5bbda5 | type |
Mirror Character | |
| Smash / int_ba5bbda5 | comment |
Mirror Character: Jimmy and Derek have this lampshaded about the two of them several times in Season 2: both are highly temperamental artists who believe that their way is the right way and are incredibly poor at taking any kind of criticism (personal or professional). Several characters even hypothesize that the similarities between them are why they fight so much, and the few Pet the Dog moments that occur between them are usually accompanied by one of them (mostly Derek) admitting they fit this trope. | |
| Smash / int_ba5bbda5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Smash / int_ba5bbda5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Smash | hasFeature |
Smash / int_ba5bbda5 | |
| Smash / int_bac26c8f | type |
Serenade Your Lover | |
| Smash / int_bac26c8f | comment |
Serenade Your Lover: In episode 14, The Phenomenon, during Tom's flashback, he sings Billy Joel's 'Vienna' to Kyle to distract him from working on new ideas for Hit List. | |
| Smash / int_bac26c8f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Smash / int_bac26c8f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Smash | hasFeature |
Smash / int_bac26c8f | |
| Smash / int_bb18a227 | type |
It's All About Me | |
| Smash / int_bb18a227 | comment |
It's All About Me: With so many egos, it's no surprise this happens a lot, such as Ivy acting like any problem with the show is a personal attack on her. Most notable is how Ellis honestly seems to think that if not for his comment on Marilyn Monroe back in the pilot, the musical would not exist and insists on being made a producer, oblivious to his utter lack of experience. | |
| Smash / int_bb18a227 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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| Smash | hasFeature |
Smash / int_bb18a227 | |
| Smash / int_bda2a088 | type |
Did They or Didn't They? | |
| Smash / int_bda2a088 | comment |
Did They or Didn't They?: Ellis and Rebecca Duvall's (male) assistant. | |
| Smash / int_bda2a088 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Smash / int_bda2a088 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Smash | hasFeature |
Smash / int_bda2a088 | |
| Smash / int_be192f18 | type |
Yes-Man | |
| Smash / int_be192f18 | comment |
Yes-Man: JB (Sam's character) is constantly surrounded with these. | |
| Smash / int_be192f18 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Smash / int_be192f18 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Smash | hasFeature |
Smash / int_be192f18 | |
| Smash / int_be6b0200 | type |
Sexophone | |
| Smash / int_be6b0200 | comment |
Sexophone: In "History is Made at Night" | |
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1.0 | |
| Smash / int_be6b0200 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Smash | hasFeature |
Smash / int_be6b0200 | |
| Smash / int_bf9163d9 | type |
Blonde, Brunette, Redhead | |
| Smash / int_bf9163d9 | comment |
Blonde, Brunette, Redhead: Ivy (Blonde), Karen and Eileen (Brunette), Julia (redhead). | |
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1.0 | |
| Smash / int_bf9163d9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Smash | hasFeature |
Smash / int_bf9163d9 | |
| Smash / int_c2393191 | type |
Show Within a Show | |
| Smash / int_c2393191 | comment |
Show Within a Show: Marilyn: The Musical, later renamed Bombshell, as well as Hitlist in Season 2. | |
| Smash / int_c2393191 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Smash / int_c2393191 | featureConfidence |
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| Smash | hasFeature |
Smash / int_c2393191 | |
| Smash / int_c33ba0a8 | type |
Chuck Cunningham Syndrome | |
| Smash / int_c33ba0a8 | comment |
Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Veronica Moore, a broadway star, is introduced in the second season and inexplicably disappears after the fourth episode. | |
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1.0 | |
| Smash / int_c33ba0a8 | featureConfidence |
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| Smash | hasFeature |
Smash / int_c33ba0a8 | |
| Smash / int_c63e7d67 | type |
Invoked | |
| Smash / int_c63e7d67 | comment |
Invoked In-Universe. One of the plays Tom and John go to see. | |
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1.0 | |
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| Smash | hasFeature |
Smash / int_c63e7d67 | |
| Smash / int_c75df49a | type |
Shout-Out | |
| Smash / int_c75df49a | comment |
Shout-Out: The song "Original", which is directed at Lady Gaga. Ana, who originally played the Diva before Daisy took the role, even resembles Gaga a bit. | |
| Smash / int_c75df49a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Smash / int_c75df49a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Smash | hasFeature |
Smash / int_c75df49a | |
| Smash / int_ca3a6dbd | type |
Informed Ability | |
| Smash / int_ca3a6dbd | comment |
Informed Ability: Many viewers wondered how Karen could possibly be considered an equal contender with Ivy for the role of Marilyn Monroe. While Karen isn't untalented it's clear from very early on that Ivy is better suited for Broadway than Karen's pop-music performance style. The frequent statements, especially from Derek, that Karen has "a quality" did little to convince the viewing audience. | |
| Smash / int_ca3a6dbd | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Smash / int_ca3a6dbd | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Smash | hasFeature |
Smash / int_ca3a6dbd | |
| Smash / int_cc427069 | type |
Hard Work Hardly Works | |
| Smash / int_cc427069 | comment |
Hard Work Hardly Works: Averted. Ivy is more experienced and skilled than Karen, and gets the part because of it. Though the Casting Couch might have played into it as well... And later played straight when Ivy loses the role to Karen in the Season Finale, despite knowing the part better. When various characters confront Derek with the fact that Ivy is better prepared, he rebukes them by saying that while Karen is green, she just has something that Ivy lacks. And again in Season 2, when Karen is being directed by Tom and just doesn't seem to get what he wants no matter how hard she works. At the end of the zig-zag, this is finally averted at the end of the second season: While playing Marilyn does take its toll on Ivy, she has lots of success, and wins the Tony Award for Best Actress. | |
| Smash / int_cc427069 | featureApplicability |
-1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Smash | hasFeature |
Smash / int_cc427069 | |
| Smash / int_ce165390 | type |
Casting Couch | |
| Smash / int_ce165390 | comment |
Casting Couch: In the song Smash Also referenced directly in I Never Met a Wolf Who Didn't Love to Howl. | |
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1.0 | |
| Smash / int_ce165390 | featureConfidence |
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| Smash | hasFeature |
Smash / int_ce165390 | |
| Smash / int_ce6555f0 | type |
Lighter and Softer | |
| Smash / int_ce6555f0 | comment |
Lighter and Softer: The direction Eileen's ex-husband demands Bombshell must take when he temporarily gains control of it. He believes that the Darker and Edgier version Julia wrote the script for with a dramaturg's help would be a huge critical success, but not a money-maker. Eileen, somewhat surprisingly, backs her ex's decision. Julia and Derek both get angry (Derek always wanted a Darker and Edgier version) to the point that Derek quits as director. | |
| Smash / int_ce6555f0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Smash / int_ce6555f0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Smash | hasFeature |
Smash / int_ce6555f0 | |
| Smash / int_d01cffbc | type |
Badass Longcoat | |
| Smash / int_d01cffbc | comment |
Badass Longcoat: Derek likes to stalk around wearing one on occasion. | |
| Smash / int_d01cffbc | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Smash / int_d01cffbc | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Smash | hasFeature |
Smash / int_d01cffbc | |
| Smash / int_d07900bc | type |
"Not Wearing Pants" Dream | |
| Smash / int_d07900bc | comment |
"Not Wearing Pants" Dream: In "The Dress Rehearsal", Tom is so nervous about the opening of Bombshell that it manifests as a nightmare where he's naked on the stage in front of a crowd. The audience only sees him with Shoulders-Up Nudity and from the back with his butt covered by convenient shadows. | |
| Smash / int_d07900bc | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Smash / int_d07900bc | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Smash | hasFeature |
Smash / int_d07900bc | |
| Smash / int_d0f0a80d | type |
One-Word Title | |
| Smash / int_d0f0a80d | comment |
One-Word Title: The show title itself: Smash. The In-Universe Bombshell | |
| Smash / int_d0f0a80d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Smash / int_d0f0a80d | featureConfidence |
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| Smash | hasFeature |
Smash / int_d0f0a80d | |
| Smash / int_d32cd9f5 | type |
Cast Full of Gay | |
| Smash / int_d32cd9f5 | comment |
Cast Full of Gay: Most of the main male characters are gay or implied to be gay (which makes sense since it centers around the Broadway community). | |
| Smash / int_d32cd9f5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Smash / int_d32cd9f5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Smash | hasFeature |
Smash / int_d32cd9f5 | |
| Smash / int_d39e327f | type |
What the Hell, Hero? | |
| Smash / int_d39e327f | comment |
What the Hell, Hero?: Katie has a moment of this with both parents in episode 8 - Her father Jerry's comes via confronting him of the underhanded ways he hid money from Eileen when she needs it most and she has another later in the episode with her mother Eileen after realizing the showcase she experienced was done in without Julia and Tom's prior knowledge and sees their angered/hurt expressions, begging her mother not to stoop to her father's level. Unlike with Jerry, it works almost immediately with Eileen. | |
| Smash / int_d39e327f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Smash | hasFeature |
Smash / int_d39e327f | |
| Smash / int_db88b941 | type |
Malevolent Masked Men | |
| Smash / int_db88b941 | comment |
Malevolent Masked Men: In the "Touch Me" song, Marilyn is surrounded by Paparazzi who look like sinister-looking men dressed in black and wearing creepy masks. | |
| Smash / int_db88b941 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Smash / int_db88b941 | featureConfidence |
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| Smash | hasFeature |
Smash / int_db88b941 | |
| Smash / int_e4d4633a | type |
Shoulders-Up Nudity | |
| Smash / int_e4d4633a | comment |
When Julia strips off her shirt when she first sleeps with Michael, we see her from the back, with shots from the front using a Shoulders-Up Nudity angle. | |
| Smash / int_e4d4633a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Smash / int_e4d4633a | featureConfidence |
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| Smash | hasFeature |
Smash / int_e4d4633a | |
| Smash / int_e680af6f | type |
Grief Song | |
| Smash / int_e680af6f | comment |
Grief Song: DiMaggio's Dark Reprise of "Mr. and Mrs. Smith." | |
| Smash / int_e680af6f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Smash / int_e680af6f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Smash | hasFeature |
Smash / int_e680af6f | |
| Smash / int_eca97994 | type |
FaceHeelRevolvingDoor | |
| Smash / int_eca97994 | comment |
Face–Heel Revolving Door: Derek is pretty much the king of this. In Season 2, Jimmy joins him. They both end up on the "face" side by the end. | |
| Smash / int_eca97994 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Smash / int_eca97994 | featureConfidence |
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| Smash | hasFeature |
Smash / int_eca97994 | |
| Smash / int_ed05cfee | type |
Naïve Newcomer | |
| Smash / int_ed05cfee | comment |
Naïve Newcomer: Both Karen and Ivy have elements of this. Karen is introduced as a small-town girl from Iowa trying to make it big in New York but is realistic about how show business operates. In contrast Ivy is a ten year Broadway veteran but still has a lot of naivety about things like the Casting Couch. The other characters lampshade the fact that this makes them a great fit to play the part of Marilyn Monroe. | |
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Dream Ballet | |
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Dream Ballet: The "A Thousand and One Nights" song is actually Karen having a daydream while Dev and Rebecca have an argument while they're in an Indian restaurant. And because Karen is staring at a Bollywood movie while she daydreams, the dream ends up being a Bollywood dance number. | |
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Sanity Slippage Song | |
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Sanity Slippage Song: "Haddonfield, 15 Years Later" (in the defictionalised concert version of the show), which is sung by the Diva after she returns home to find no one remembers or recognises her. | |
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Technician Versus Performer | |
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Technician Versus Performer: Ivy vs. Karen, respectively. Ivy is a Broadway veteran who has all the technical skills for a stage production, and knows how to navigate the culture to get the role. Karen is a newcomer to the theatre scene who's learning the ropes but has a "quality" that wins over the crew. After a lot of back and forth between them it's Ivy who ends up taking home a Tony award for Bombshell. | |
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Food Slap | |
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Food Slap: Eileen throwing her Manhattan in Jerry's face becomes a Running Gag, to the point she does it in the second season title sequence. | |
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Evil Diva | |
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Evil Diva: The Diva, who kills Amanda in a Flash Forward at the beginning. | |
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Hollywood Pudgy | |
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Hollywood Pudgy: Invoked with Karen, but handwaved with Ivy (the actress playing Ivy is of a healthy weight for any reasonable person, yet no one discusses how she's bigger than the rest of the chorus girls). | |
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Platonic Life-Partners | |
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Platonic Life-Partners: Tom and Julia. Observe the automatic, synchronized leg-crossing in their first scene in the pilot. In Season 2, Jimmy and Kyle, despite some unrequited longing at first on Kyle's part. | |
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Running Gag | |
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Running Gag: For a time, when Eileen's soon-to-be ex-husband Jerry approaches her in a restaurant she throws her drink in his face. Lampshaded when they have dinner together and he orders her a Manhattan ahead of the conversation so she has something to throw. | |
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Gay Conservative | |
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Gay Conservative: Tom's boyfriend John Goodwin is a conservative lawyer. Tom finds this out when he has a fundraiser for a conservative state representative. | |
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Character Celebrity Endorsement | |
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Character Celebrity Endorsement: A In-Universe example where Ivy films a commercial for Ford. Who not coincidentally is a sponsor for the Smash series. | |
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All Gays are Promiscuous | |
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All Gays are Promiscuous: Subverted. In the pilot, it seems like they might go that route with Tom, but he turns out to be more of a serial monogamist. | |
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Failed Audition Plot | |
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Failed Audition Plot: Zig-zagged when at first it seems like Karen will get the part, then she doesn't, but she continues to work as a chorus girl. | |
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