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The Other Two

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The Other Two	comment	The Other Two is a single-camera sitcom created by former Saturday Night Live head writers Chris Kelley & Sarah Schneider and produced by Lorne Michaels. It originally aired on Comedy Central before moving to HBO Max starting with season two.It follows struggling twenty/thirty-something siblings Cary (Drew Tarver), a struggling actor, and Brooke (Heléne York), a former dancer, after their 13-year-old brother Chase (Case Walker) becomes a viral teen idol known as ChaseDreams. Although supportive, they find themselves struggling to reconcile Chase's sudden fame amid their own problems: Cary grappling with how to succeed in the entertainment industry without compromising his homosexuality, and Brooke trying to figure out what her next move should be after quitting her latest dead-end job and breaking off a longterm relationship. Complicating matters further is the unexpected arrival of Chase in Manhattan with their mother Pat (Molly Shannon) and his new agent Streeter (Ken Marino) to manage his burgeoning career. Also appearing in the series are Josh Segarra as Lance, Brooke's ex-boyfriend, and Wanda Sykes as Shuli, an executive at Chase's record label.The show explores the anxieties and ambitions of aging millennials while spoofing the culture around internet celebrity, especially Youtubers and influencers. It also features plentiful celebrity cameos such as Patrick Wilson, Andy Cohen, and Michael Che as themselves. It lasted three seasons, with the final episode airing in 2023.
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The Other Two / int_120d0e3f	type	Adam Westing
The Other Two / int_120d0e3f	comment	Adam Westing: In his guest spot, Simu Liu makes fun of being the star of a Marvel Cinematic Universe martial arts film by playing himself as a jetsetting bro who is constantly referred to as "Marvel's Simu Liu", is bad at oral sex, and is paid to stay jacked.
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The Other Two / int_1282bf4f	type	No Celebrities Were Harmed
The Other Two / int_1282bf4f	comment	No Celebrities Were Harmed: The hip pastor of the exclusive Christsong Church, Jax Dag, bears a strong resemblance to the former pastor of the exclusive real-life Hillsong Church, Carl Lentz. Lentz baptized Justin Bieber into Hillsong, so here, Dag baptizes Chase into Christsong. The episode takes jabs at the scandals surrounding Hillsong.
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The Other Two / int_1ee42f1b	type	Instant Web Hit
The Other Two / int_1ee42f1b	comment	Instant Web Hit: Chase's first video creates his celebrity, and he later has other viral smashes.
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The Other Two / int_21e5b9c7	type	Failed a Spot Check
The Other Two / int_21e5b9c7	comment	Failed a Spot Check: When she's accused of breaking a non-disclosure agreement about sleeping with an actor, Brooke is convinced one of her friends blabbed. She wonders how it could happen, each time remembering being in a car talking about it with the driver. She moans "oh, it's so obvious..." And then is on the phone telling her friends "your apartment is bugged!" She adds how once again, she fucked the guy in front of another driver. When told she broke it again, she goes for the idea that one of them is bugged. Even when her friends walk out on her, Brooke still can't grasp that the drivers were tipping folks off as "I was alone every time I called!" It finally sinks in at a meeting.
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The Other Two / int_21f19cfa	type	Fake American
The Other Two / int_21f19cfa	comment	Fake American: In-Universe, Lucas turns out to have been Australian all along. He'd just been playing American characters so much that he forgot his real voice.
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The Other Two / int_22cf50f9	type	Chekhov's Gag
The Other Two / int_22cf50f9	comment	Chekhov's Gag: Two in "Chase Becomes Co-Owner of the Nets": Curtis tells Cary, who's studying for a role in a hospital movie, that his dream role is to be a sobbing woman who busts her way into her husband's hospital room. Later in the episode, Chase is in the hospital after a fainting spell and needs to get a ride home, so he calls Curtis, who finally gets to do the part. Early in the episode, Pat wants to post on Instagram about Cary's new role in Night Nurse, but she doesn't know how to use it. This comes back at the very end of the episode, when she makes the post with her assistant's help, not realizing that the movie's been cancelled, making everyone believe the movie's still on. "Brooke Hosts a Night of Undeniable Good" ends with Pat texting Streeter a long rant about how she actually hated her visit in Ohio and misses having sex with him, only to realize she was on Twitter, not texting, and deleting the tweets quickly. In the season finale, Pat gets into massive online controversy and loses a ton of support and advertisers because the tweets offended her small-town American audience.
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The Other Two / int_233ef047	type	Queer Character, Queer Actor
The Other Two / int_233ef047	comment	Queer Character, Queer Actor: Discussed In-Universe. Cary protests that Dean must be into men because he's playing George Michael in a biopic. Shuli points out that only straight people play gay roles, and that Dean is 'gay-baiting' by dating Cary to generate buzz for said biopic.
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The Other Two / int_237404cc	type	Ironic Echo
The Other Two / int_237404cc	comment	Ironic Echo: In "Cary Pays Off His Student Loans," Lucas, in character as a closeted Gay Cowboy, recites his lines to Cary, "I can't do this anymore. I'm so fucked up— I'm so fucked up since I met you. I just— I got no one, nothing. It's not right what we're doing together, it's not natural." Later, Cary says the same thing to Lucas, but it's referring to Lucas's ridiculous method acting and Cary's debilitating loneliness.
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The Other Two / int_25c7875f	type	Practically Different Generations
The Other Two / int_25c7875f	comment	Practically Different Generations: While Brooke is only two years older than Cary, Chase is well over a decade younger than both of them. As such, they generally act closer to a second set of parents toward him than they do siblings.
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The Other Two / int_2661be23	type	Am I Just a Toy to You?
The Other Two / int_2661be23	comment	Subverted. Cary hastily fools around with his roommate out of sheer horniness, but soon stops because he's uncomfortable being used for sexual experimentation. Also, Cary presumes the Instagays are promiscuous and fooling around with each other, when in fact they are religious virgins and one of them is straight. They just like hanging out in speedos and taking pictures of each other's bodies.
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The Other Two / int_27dc05b2	type	LGBT Fanbase
The Other Two / int_27dc05b2	comment	LGBT Fanbase: Invoked in "Chase Gets the Gays". The label has Chase sing a song about how he loves his gay brother Cary, and proceeds to evaluate how the LGBT community feels about it through events like a conservative talking head decrying it, etcetera. They finally land on "it's camp" and decide that Chase should pursue other 'safer' demographics like American suburbia now that he has an LGBT fanbase. In-universe "news" show The Gay Minute is always reporting on Laura Dern, because gay men love to root for cool middle-aged women.
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The Other Two / int_3322e9cd	type	Hollywood Old
The Other Two / int_3322e9cd	comment	Hollywood Old: Parodied, late-20s Cary is considered "perfect" for the role of an elderly teacher with dementia on a Riverdale spinoff.
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The Other Two / int_33d5c59d	type	Relationship Revolving Door
The Other Two / int_33d5c59d	comment	Brooke and Lance stay supportive friends after their breakup. They get back together, but their second breakup is on much worse terms, before getting back together again.
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The Other Two / int_34f9fe21	type	Bait-and-Switch Lesbians
The Other Two / int_34f9fe21	comment	Bait-and-Switch Lesbians: Male example. "Pat Gets an Offer to Host 'Tic-Tac-Toe'", Cary goes out with Dean Brennon, a straight actor who deliberately 'gay-baits' by going out with men on pap-infested dates, taking gay roles, and pointedly not clarifying his sexuality to boost his career.
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The Other Two / int_36a2827b	type	Tragic AIDS Story
The Other Two / int_36a2827b	comment	Tragic AIDS Story: Parodied harshly in "Cary & Brooke Go to an AIDS Play," when Lucas gets a role in a "prestigious" Broadway play... which, for gay men, means an AIDS Period Piece. 8 Gay Men with AIDS: A Poem In Many Hours exaggerates the tendency of these stories to take place before doctors knew what HIV was, jumping across many time periods and extremely confusing subplots that don't even seem related to AIDS. By the third day of the play, nobody is invested anymore, but the usher guilt-trips anybody who complains since the subject matter is so important.
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The Other Two / int_3c8215d5	type	FlashMob
The Other Two / int_3c8215d5	comment	Flash Mob: Cary has an acting job in season one in which he is part of a flash mob that entertains tourists.
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The Other Two / int_3d7fa9a8	type	Bait-and-Switch Time Skip
The Other Two / int_3d7fa9a8	comment	Bait-and-Switch Time Skip: In the series finale, Chase has a breakdown waiting for his agent Mackenzie to call after she promised to get a director for Cary's Oscar Bait movie. Cue a montage of Cary leaving frantic phone calls t Mackenzie while roughing it in Lucas's tent, growing a Beard of Sorrow and braving all sorts of weather conditions, including snow. Eventually he snaps and just tracks Mackenzie down to her house in the Hamptons. Shocked, she informs him it's only been thirty-six hours since they had their meeting, and it's the weekend. Apparently there wasn't even really any snow.
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The Other Two / int_3ed23024	type	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome
The Other Two / int_3ed23024	comment	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: The climax of Cary's subplot in "Brooke Gets Her Hands Dirty" has him leave his mark and do some drastic improvisation to make his scene more memorable, enlightening the rest of the crew. It's depicted as inspiring... then it cuts to the production coordinator and director, frustrated that they'll have to rework an entire extra day of shooting to accommodate Cary's changes to the staging, not to mention changing the union status of all the extras since Cary involved them more in his staging.
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The Other Two / int_3fbdb8aa	type	Quote Mine
The Other Two / int_3fbdb8aa	comment	Quote Mine: In her falsified statement from Chase and Pat firing her for their bad tweets, Brooke adds that there's a lot of other issues in the world, so the main headline of the night shouldn't be "Brooke Dubek is Bad." The news anchor and chyron simplify it down to "Brooke Dubek is Bad."
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The Other Two / int_466ccbb4	type	Gayngst
The Other Two / int_466ccbb4	comment	Gayngst: Played with regarding Cary. He isn't outwardly ashamed of his sexuality and everybody in his social circle knows he is gay, but he often surprises himself when he reveals some internalized homophobia to himself and others. Example: when an acquaintance says he didn't know he was gay after asking him out, Cary's response is "thank you", which instantly ruins the moment. Cary also feels enough shame about being gay that he never told his grandmother about it and doesn't intend to, while his late father struggled with the knowledge and never really got over it by the time he died. Parodied by Cary's acting coach when giving a class, advising him to look more "ashamed" when simulating gay sex. Parodied when Cary, while attempting to write a screenplay, attends a one-man play about a gay guy who grew up in the Midwest with a disapproving father. Two women lament that it's not enough to be compelling. Parodied with all of Lucas's roles, as his agent deliberately chases angsty gay roles for him because they're more "prestigious." This backfires for Cary since Lucas is an extreme method actor, so when he gets cast as a self-loathing closet case, he refuses to have sex with Cary.
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The Other Two / int_4852f325	type	I Just Want to Be Normal
The Other Two / int_4852f325	comment	I Just Want to Be Normal: Chase doesn't want all the trappings of fame — he just wants to sing, even if he's not that good, and have a normal teenage life. When his mom gets famous, she likewise wishes she could have a normal life with her family again instead of being exhausted and hounded by security all the time.
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The Other Two / int_48c24da4	type	Significant Double Casting
The Other Two / int_48c24da4	comment	Significant Double Casting: In "Cary Pays Off His Student Loans," Lisa's kids Meg and Mark, a pair of perfectly nice suburban young adults who know nothing about the entertainment industry, are played by the same actors as Brooke and Cary. Despite her newfound disdain with suburbia, Pat sticks around with them because she misses actually spending time with Brooke and Cary.
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The Other Two / int_48e453d0	type	Episode on a Plane
The Other Two / int_48e453d0	comment	Episode on a Plane: Chase's album launch takes place on a plane full of fans and livestreaming, and the whole episode takes place on the trip.
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The Other Two / int_4e60913e	type	Incestuous Casting
The Other Two / int_4e60913e	comment	Incestuous Casting: Happens In-Universe. Brooke steps in to dance in her brother's video, only to be horrified that she has to grind in front of him in a skimpy outfit. She doesn't, and she also keeps reminding the other dancers that her brother is only 13-years-old.
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The Other Two / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
The Other Two / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: The mid-credits scene of the Season 2 finale reveals Cary's movie, his big break he's waited his life for, is about to start filming on...March 13th, 2020...
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The Other Two / int_4e7f703c	type	Wham Shot
The Other Two / int_4e7f703c	comment	Wham Shot: In the Season 1 Season Finale, there is a final shot of Pat's image on a Times Square jumbotron, announcing her new afternoon talk show.
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The Other Two / int_52196c03	type	Age-Gap Romance
The Other Two / int_52196c03	comment	Age-Gap Romance: In "Pat Connects with Her Fans," Pat gives money to a young gay man who supposedly just came out to his father. In reality, they're not a gay guy and his father, but a gay guy and his much-older daddy, so to speak. In season three, Pat starts dating Simu Liu, who is three years younger than Brooke.
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The Other Two / int_54163958	type	Shower of Love
The Other Two / int_54163958	comment	Shower of Love: At the end of "Brooke Drives an Armpit Across America," Brooke gets in the shower with Lance after quitting her job to celebrate her renewed connection to him.
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The Other Two / int_5539b84f	type	Corrupt Church
The Other Two / int_5539b84f	comment	Corrupt Church: The Christsong Churchnote an apparent parody of the real-life Hillsong Church is an exclusive church that provides a plethora of opportunities and riches for celebrities, but holds homophobic and sexist beliefs. It's later also revealed that the leader of the church's father was involved in a pedophilia scandal that the leader used church money to cover up.
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The Other Two / int_5b19cc1b	type	Air-Vent Passageway
The Other Two / int_5b19cc1b	comment	Air-Vent Passageway: In "Chase Goes to a High School Dance," Streeter sneaks Chase into the school through the ventilation system. Apparently all the stars are doing it. In "Brooke Hosts a Night of Undeniable Good," after Brooke locks the COVID safety officer in the broom closet, she escapes through the vents.
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The Other Two / int_5be685d4	type	Successful Sibling Syndrome
The Other Two / int_5be685d4	comment	Successful Sibling Syndrome: The show's premise is about Brooke and Cary, both struggling in their thirties, getting stuck in the shadow of their 13-year-old brother after he becomes a famous singer. In a twist on this trope, there is no animosity between the three at all, as Chase is shown to be a good kid that both Brooke and Cary treat with a level of affection that borders on being parental.
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The Other Two / int_5cfaad8a	type	Audience Murmurs
The Other Two / int_5cfaad8a	comment	Audience Murmurs: Parodied in the third season, where a fake Applebee's is constructed and actors hired to play servers and customers so that the famous Dubek family can have a normal family dinner. Pat, who isn't aware that it's all fake, starts a minor crisis because all the customers are saying "peas and carrots" to simulate chatter and orders this, even though Applebee's doesn't serve 'peas and carrots' as a dish.
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The Other Two / int_5f251b1b	type	Poor Man's Porn
The Other Two / int_5f251b1b	comment	Poor Man's Porn: Parodied. After Chase turns 18 the first picture of his armpit is treated with utmost seriousness because of how lightly erotic it is. Brooke discusses it, saying that she masturbated hard to the first picture of Justin Timberlake's armpit, and wonders if they're actually dealing with porn.
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The Other Two / int_5fcb9ad1	type	Time Skip
The Other Two / int_5fcb9ad1	comment	Time Skip: Season 2 ends right before the COVID-19 Pandemic, and Season 3 picks up in 2023, three years later, filling in the audience on what the characters have been up to since then.
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The Other Two / int_6220d661	type	Loony Fan
The Other Two / int_6220d661	comment	Loony Fan: In "Chase Goes to a High School Dance," Cary gets one in Elijah, a high schooler with a Precocious Crush on Cary who presses their head against Cary's chest, insists he never leave them, and gets very upset and stalks Cary when he goes off with the drama teacher Jeremy. They also add Cary's name to a list of other men who have presumably abandoned them as well.
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The Other Two / int_62907b90	type	Bottle Episode
The Other Two / int_62907b90	comment	Bottle Episode: The first season Episode on a Plane is a bottle episode, with all scenes taking place on the plane. The teen extras playing Chase's fans were identical twins, with one set of twins shooting the first two days of filming and the second set filming the second two days of filming.
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The Other Two / int_687a7cf6	comment	"Meet the Celebrity" Contest: In "Brooke and Cary Go to a Fashion Show," a woman wins a contest to spend the day with Pat. Unfortunately, Pat is so overwhelmed and exhausted that she doesn't spend much time talking to her. The woman also gets to participate in Pat's fashion show, wearing an uncomfortably revealing plastic outfit. In "Cary & Brooke Go to an AIDS Play," Brooke suggests pretending that Chase's potential civilian girlfriend Pam is just a contest winner, much to his disapproval.
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The Other Two / int_69681e01	type	Big Brother Instinct
The Other Two / int_69681e01	comment	Big Brother Instinct: Both Brooke and Cary are very protective of Chase, especially when he's put into grown-up situations he's not mature enough to handle. Furthermore they are not thrilled to find out Chase is going to school online, being denied important childhood experiences. This comes to a boiling point when they find out he pretty much finished school and Brooke fights for him to have the night off so he can enjoy a school dance with kids his own age.
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The Other Two / int_69c52d1a	type	Mentor in Queerness
The Other Two / int_69c52d1a	comment	Mentor in Queerness: Parodied in "Pat Connects with Her Fans". After a father and son appear on Pat's show to talk about the latter coming out of the closet, Cary and Jess take it upon themselves to help the son come to terms with the his sexuality and show them how to "be" gay through doing stereotypical "gay" things. The "father" and "son", however, are actually a married couple with children (who are very secure and sexually liberated) pulling a scheme to fleece money out of Pat, who regularly brings on guests with similar claims — and they're not the only ones who've done it, either. The ruse culminates with the "father" kissing Cary at a club, which leaves him very confused.
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The Other Two / int_6b05b601	type	Jerkass Has a Point
The Other Two / int_6b05b601	comment	Jerkass Has a Point: Brooke implores Chase not to offer a free BetterHelp trial if fans buy his album because it'll make him look exploitative. While this is Hypocritical Humor because Brooke pushed a similar deal while trying to promote her telethon, Chase going ahead with the idea anyway indeed gets him accused of exploiting his mentally ill fans.
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The Other Two / int_6b2b3b59	type	The Reveal
The Other Two / int_6b2b3b59	comment	The Reveal: "Chase Drops His First Album" reveals how Cary, Brooke, and Chase's dad really died — he froze to death on their roof because Pat wouldn't let him drink in front of Chase.
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The Other Two / int_6ca72c26	comment	All Take and No Give: While Lance is very supportive in all of Brooke's endeavors, she doesn't put in as much effort to support his, at least not after he becomes a nurse and all she cares about is being as "good" as he is. Lance calls her out very harshly for this in "Cary & Brooke Go to an AIDS Play," pointing out that she treats him like shit because she trusts that he's always gonna be good to her. This culminates in them breaking up.
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The Other Two / int_6f214508	type	Foreign Culture Fetish
The Other Two / int_6f214508	comment	Foreign Culture Fetish: Parodied. White American actress Blake Lively opens a Thai fusion restaurant because she was so enamored with Thailand...after staying there for a layover. It serves spaghetti. The characters are repeatedly assured by staff that the restaurant isn't racist.
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The Other Two / int_73731600	type	Lecherous Licking
The Other Two / int_73731600	comment	Lecherous Licking: Cary creepily licks the side of Lukas Gage's face when trying to psych him into leaving the AIDS play or giving Lucas the role Cary wants for him.
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The Other Two / int_7426582d	type	Token Minority
The Other Two / int_7426582d	comment	Token Minority: Parodied with the fictional Disney film franchise Haunted Buddies, which was getting flak for not having any LGBT characters. The execs decide to introduce Globby, a sentient green blob with eyes, as the series' first gay character. Globby's homosexuality is established with a scene of him in bed with another blob.
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The Other Two / int_7d89315b	type	"The Reason You Suck" Speech
The Other Two / int_7d89315b	comment	"The Reason You Suck" Speech: In the series finale, when Cary tracks Mackenzie down to berate her for not getting his movie a director yet, she lashes out at length about how rude and entitled he's been and how he should appreciate how much she's done for him. It really seems to have an impact on Cary.
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The Other Two / int_7f8fd503	type	Lonely at the Top
The Other Two / int_7f8fd503	comment	Lonely at the Top: A big theme of the show is how industry success can screw over your personal life. This is highlighted in Season 3: Brooke and Cary become more famous and renowned than they'd ever dreamed they could be, but their huge egos and competitive attitudes push away their loved ones, leaving them feeling hollow and chasing higher and higher pursuits.
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The Other Two / int_80251be3	type	How We Got Here
The Other Two / int_80251be3	comment	How We Got Here: The season one finale opens with Brooke and Cary discussing Chase's VMA performance and how their lives are now ruined because of it, before flashing back to the events that led to the scene.
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The Other Two / int_8071d6ed	type	Alcoholic Parent
The Other Two / int_8071d6ed	comment	Alcoholic Parent: The Dubeks' late father had a serious alcohol problem, and when Pat insisted he stop drinking due to concerns over how it'd affect the kids, he stubbornly climbed onto the roof in the freezing cold and died up there. Pat is still too humiliated to talk about it.
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The Other Two / int_8513bc0f	type	Accidental Public Confession
The Other Two / int_8513bc0f	comment	Accidental Public Confession: In an emotional frenzy, Pat admits her husband didn't die of cancer and was an alcoholic who froze to death during Chase's album launch livestream and in front of a plane full of his young fans.
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The Other Two / int_87317385	type	The Jailbait Wait
The Other Two / int_87317385	comment	The Jailbait Wait: Season 3 begins with Chase saying he's finally eighteen, with a Running Gag of industry people turning into literal vampires whenever he says so. When Shuli clarifies that he's only almost eighteen, they revert back to treating him like a cute teen pop star. Even Streeter almost kisses him on the mouth before remembering Chase is 17 for five more hours, then kissing him on the head. The rest of the season has Shuli and Streeter take full advantage of Chase's newfound "adulthood" with saucy publicity stunts a la 18-year-old Justin Bieber.
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The Other Two / int_8797239c	type	Bait-and-Switch
The Other Two / int_8797239c	comment	Bait-and-Switch: In the finale, Brooke worrying about her reputation being ruined is interspersed with two writers at The Atlantic and BuzzFeed writing scathing articles talking about taking someone down. Once the red carpet interviews start, Brooke gets off scot-free, but it turns out the articles started scandals about Pat and Chase.
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The Other Two / int_8839b821	type	Celebrity Voice Actor
The Other Two / int_8839b821	comment	Celebrity Voice Actor: In-Universe, Disney is making a live-action remake of Bambi starring teen singer Chase as Thumper, Drake as Bambi, and Cardi B as Bambi's mother.
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The Other Two / int_8a07e085	type	Denser and Wackier
The Other Two / int_8a07e085	comment	Denser and Wackier: Season 3 incorporates more surreal and fantastical elements to symbolize issues with the industry, such as characters turning into vampires when they hear Chase is almost 18, Brooke literally being invisible after she quits her job, a procedural being Deliberately Monochrome a la Pleasantville, or Brooke going to space twice in one night. These become less frequent later in the season as Cary and Brooke start to really question their behavior, suggesting these may be their twisted perspective and not actual events.
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The Other Two / int_8a8ccae2	type	Telethon
The Other Two / int_8a8ccae2	comment	Telethon: "Brooke Hosts a Night of Undeniable Good" is about Brooke putting together the titular eight-hour telethon for mental health awareness to try and sell Chase as a mental health advocate and salvage his reputation. Unfortunately, issues keep arising during production, and Brooke makes some less-than-good decisions.
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The Other Two / int_9350a0b9	type	The Tape Knew You Would Say That
The Other Two / int_9350a0b9	comment	The Tape Knew You Would Say That: In "Cary Gets His Ass Handed To Him," all of Pam's questions about the New Beginnings retreat she's being shuttled off to are debunked word-for-word in the introductory video.
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The Other Two / int_94be6b61	type	Coordinated Clothes
The Other Two / int_94be6b61	comment	Coordinated Clothes: In the season 3 premiere, Brooke and Cary both show up to the premiere of Night Nurse in the same outfit (topless under a royal blue suit jacket with matching pants).
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The Other Two / int_9c8701b5	type	A Day in the Limelight
The Other Two / int_9c8701b5	comment	A Day in the Limelight: The Season 2 finale follows Pat and Chase instead of Brooke and Cary for a change, shining a light on how exhausting it is for them to be famous and still never have their needs met. The Idiosyncratic Episode Naming is even altered to match — while most episodes have Pat or Chase's name in the title despite actually focusing on Brooke and Cary, this episode is titled "Brooke and Cary Go to a Fashion Show," and Pat and Chase are now the titular "other two."
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The Other Two / int_a681bfc6	type	Amicable Exes
The Other Two / int_a681bfc6	comment	Amicable Exes: Brooke and Lance stay supportive friends after their breakup. They get back together, but their second breakup is on much worse terms, before getting back together again. Chase and Pam break up just a couple of weeks after dating, but it was mutual and they want to remain friends. Unfortunately, Chase's fans don't care and threaten Pam's life just because she's the ex-girlfriend, to the point Shuli tries to send her to a retreat in the woods.
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The Other Two / int_a76de48b	type	Troubled Production
The Other Two / int_a76de48b	comment	Troubled Production: In-Universe, Cary acts on a fantasy show called Windweavers that's an absolute mess by the point of post-production. Everybody quits and the sole post-production person keeps bugging Cay to get ADR a week before release to compensate for a terrible unclear script, and even then she loses the hard drive and has to redo it. To everyone's surprise, it becomes a massive hit.
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The Other Two / int_a82ff02f	type	Meet Cute
The Other Two / int_a82ff02f	comment	Meet Cute: After a personal low point, Cary runs into Lucas Lambert Moy, a sensitive guy who offers a sweet carnival date, and the two walk around the city and have fun. Cary even comments on how romantic their first meeting was. Turns out to have been invoked, since Lucas is Method Acting[[note]] for his role in a romantic dramedy.
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The Other Two / int_ac4ac8e5	type	Idiosyncratic Episode Naming
The Other Two / int_ac4ac8e5	comment	Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: Each episode title of the first season alludes to something Chase does in that episode, despite the actual plot usually being about Brooke and Cary. This extends to Pat in season two when she also becomes famous. The second season finale, "Brooke and Cary Go to a Fashion Show," inverts this format as it's A Day in the Limelight for Pat and Chase. The third season switches to using Brooke or Cary's name in each title and referring straight-up to their plot in the episode.
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The Other Two / int_acedb8f5	type	Oscar Bait
The Other Two / int_acedb8f5	comment	Near the end of the show, Mackenzie tells Cary that the gay film they are putting together so Cary can campaign for an Oscar has Harry Styles interested as the love interest. "He says he wants another stab at playing gay. He really thinks he can get it right this time," she says, referencing Styles' mixed-reviewed performance in My Policeman.
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The Other Two / int_b13b2b24	type	Jar Potty
The Other Two / int_b13b2b24	comment	Jar Potty: In "Brooke Hosts a Night of Undeniable Good," Cary drinks a ton of energy drinks during his long drive to his reunion Ohio, then pees in the cups and flings them behind him. We see the liquid hit another driver's windshield at one point, who pulls over to call Cary out on it... but he's also racing home to "win" his class reunion, so he actually has advice for Cary (wear a diaper instead). And then another driver throws piss onto Cary's window.
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The Other Two / int_b506c9ff	type	Hide Your Lesbians
The Other Two / int_b506c9ff	comment	Cary's plot mocks the media cycle whenever Disney or another big media corporation hypes up a new gay character whose sexuality turns out to be completely missable in the actual script.
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The Other Two / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
The Other Two / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: "Pat Gets an Offer to Host 'Tic Tac Toe'" takes a dig at Disney Live-Action Remakes, describing an in-universe live-action ''Bambi as, "It's gonna be exactly the same as the original, only cost more and look worse." They add that "they don't let actors do voice-acting anymore, it's all singers or athletes." The titular play in "Cary & Brooke Go to an AIDS Play" makes fun of "prestigious" Tragic AIDS Stories," particularly the six-hour, two-part Angels in America and the similar two-part The Inheritance. 8 Gay Men with AIDS is frustratingly slow and long, spanning multiple days and time periods, but nobody is able to criticize it because it's "important" subject matter. By the third day, everyone in the audience is either sleeping or using their computers. "Brooke, and We Are Not Joking, Goes to Space" has two plots full of jabs: Brooke's plot mocks tech billionaires by depicting them as hammy manchildren who get crazy and competitive the second they hit a billion dollars, with both of Brooke's billionaire dates getting lip filler and dragging her along to space. Specific allusions are made to Mark Zuckerberg (doing things in the metaverse instead of real life) and Jeff Bezos (wearing a cowboy hat and flying to space). Cary's plot mocks the media cycle whenever Disney or another big media corporation hypes up a new gay character whose sexuality turns out to be completely missable in the actual script. When Simu Liu puts together a fake Applebee's dinner for Pat and her family, he reminds the actors to have some "deadness behind the eyes" just like real Applebee's patrons. Near the end of the show, Mackenzie tells Cary that the gay film they are putting together so Cary can campaign for an Oscar has Harry Styles interested as the love interest. "He says he wants another stab at playing gay. He really thinks he can get it right this time," she says, referencing Styles' mixed-reviewed performance in My Policeman.
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The Other Two / int_b6db5695	type	Political Overcorrectness
The Other Two / int_b6db5695	comment	Political Overcorrectness: The titular play in "Cary & Brooke Go to an AIDS Play" is an extremely long and nonsensical play that jumps between time periods and takes forever to even mention AIDS. Nobody wants to criticize it or leave because it will make them look homophobic and dismissive of the important cause that is HIV. By the third night, the audience members are all openly asleep.
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The Other Two / int_b707726f	type	Hypocritical Humor
The Other Two / int_b707726f	comment	Hypocritical Humor: In "Chase Gets Baptized" Cary (a gay man) and his sister Brooke join a celebrity church for the perks and learn after the fact that it has a history of misogyny and homophobia. Realizing that this makes them look like huge hypocrites, they then scamper to find women (Brooke) and gay men (Cary) who will validate their desire to join. After spending all night chiding people for saying "insane" or "cuckoo bananas," the mental health advocate for the Night of Undeniable Good calls a bad driver a "fucking psycho" on her way out.
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The Other Two / int_b76f2a49	type	Class Reunion
The Other Two / int_b76f2a49	comment	Class Reunion: The B-plot of "Brooke Hosts a Night of Undeniable Good" has Cary attend his high school reunion in Ohio to try and show off how successful he is.
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The Other Two / int_bb18a227	type	It's All About Me
The Other Two / int_bb18a227	comment	It's All About Me: Brooke and Cary make Chase's success all about them, and often they are not wrong. It does change their lives dramatically.
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The Other Two / int_bd0230fb	type	Ambiguously Bi
The Other Two / int_bd0230fb	comment	Ambiguously Bi: Cary's roommate Matt is supposedly straight, but has casual sex with Cary. The fact it isn't clear if Matt is actually into guys or just playing around is why Cary stops fooling around with him. Brooke's ex-boyfriend Lance is still into women, but doesn't hesitate to agree with Brooke that Shawn Mendes is sexually attractive.
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The Other Two / int_be30e493	type	Undignified Death
The Other Two / int_be30e493	comment	Undignified Death: The Dubeks' dad. He stubbornly refused to quit drinking and froze on the top of their roof. His penis also apparently froze to the roof since he was on his stomach, and he peed himself too.
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The Other Two / int_be81113b	type	Lost in Character
The Other Two / int_be81113b	comment	Lost in Character: In Season 3, Cary falls for Lucas Lambert Moy, a shy, idealistically romantic guy who holds deep conversations with Cary about the meaning of life. Turns out he's a well-known method actor playing the lead in a Love, Victor copycat series. Cary continues dating him, but struggles to make real progress in their relationship, particularly in the sex department, since his character is a virgin. Every other role he gets after that also prevents Cary from having sex with him, as he plays a closeted gay guy in a Hallmark Christmas movie, then convinces himself he's in the 1980's with AIDS, then acts like a gay serial killer. Cary desperately tries to get him a role where he actually has sex, only to realize it's not worth it if he can never connect with the real Lucas. When he finally doesn't have a role lined up anymore, he ends up wandering naked with no idea who he really is.
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The Other Two / int_beb932ca	type	Big Applesauce
The Other Two / int_beb932ca	comment	Big Applesauce: The show is shot in NYC, and Pat and Chase are excited to move there. Brooke and Cary have struggled to survive and don't see it as quite so glamourous, but they still enjoy being there.
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The Other Two / int_c1d5b78	type	Reading the Stage Directions Out Loud
The Other Two / int_c1d5b78	comment	Reading the Stage Directions Out Loud: During the "Night of Undeniable Good" telethon, the Parkland school shooting survivor is simply introduced as "Insert Name of Whatever Parkland Teen We Get."
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The Other Two / int_c2393191	type	Show Within a Show
The Other Two / int_c2393191	comment	Show Within a Show: There are several fictional shows and films that help portray the Hollywood satire. Pat's hugely successful daytime talk show It's Pat!. Cary gets a foot in the door by hosting a variety of online news segments, such as The Gay Minute, Age/Net Worth/Feet for E!News, and a variety of things for the fictional "BagelBites TV". A subplot involves Cary's feature film debut Night Nurse, co-starring Patricia Arquette (later replaced with Edie Falco) and Beanie Feldstein.
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The Other Two / int_c289826f	type	Double Standard Rape: Female on Male
The Other Two / int_c289826f	comment	Double Standard Rape: Female on Male: Discussed in "Chase Gets a Girlfriend." Brooke jokingly recounts kissing Lance while he was asleep, and is surprised to learn it's sexual assault because she's a woman and a self-proclaimed feminist. She feels ashamed and apologizes to him, but he doesn't see anything wrong with it.
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The Other Two / int_c2c15b23	type	Bait-and-Switch Comment
The Other Two / int_c2c15b23	comment	Bait-and-Switch Comment: In "Brooke Gets Her Hands Dirty," Streeter calls Brooke upset that Chase has a "coke problem"... that is, he refuses to do coke.
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The Other Two / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
The Other Two / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: The ending of “Chase Turns Fourteen” has Cary doing the end of Call Me by Your Name, with Brooke acknowledging it and name dropping it. Chase and Pam's first meeting in "Cary & Brooke Go to an AIDS Play" is a send-up of Romeo + Juliet, but instead of the two looking at each other through the glass of an aquarium it's a popcorn machine.
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The Other Two / int_c83751cb	type	Description Cut
The Other Two / int_c83751cb	comment	Description Cut: In "Brooke Hosts a Night of Undeniable Good," Pat goes to Ohio during Cary's high school reunion, but Cary declines. Later, Pat bemoans to an old friend that Cary couldn't come, only to cut to Cary racing against the clock to make it to Ohio because he now wants to flex his success.
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The Other Two / int_d028ca10	type	Deliberately Monochrome
The Other Two / int_d028ca10	comment	Deliberately Monochrome: In "Brooke Gets Her Hands Dirty," Cary crossing onto the set of procedural Emily Overruled is depicted as him crossing into a black-and-white setting to emphasize the monotonous culture of the set. As he convinces the rest of the crew to make actual acting choices instead of just staying on their mark and saying the lines the same way each time, more color spreads to the set. The lead actress panics about returning to normal on set after realizing there's more to entertainment than her role, so Cary actually paints her in black-and-white makeup as a metaphor for letting her get back to her role while Cary takes more risks. When Cary leaves his mark and adds more acting to his scene, spreading color across the jury extras.
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The Other Two / int_d2aa7d09	type	Littlest Cancer Patient
The Other Two / int_d2aa7d09	comment	Littlest Cancer Patient: Subverted in "Chase Gets the Gays." Chase gets fan mail from a little girl named Rachel Kline who's in the hospital and feeling sad, but when Brooke can't find any patient by that name at the hospital, she assumes it's a pervert pretending to be a little girl. Brooke storms over to Rachel's house and walks in on a funeral. Brooke assumes the worst happened to Rachel... until she sees that the deceased is an old lady. Turns out, Rachel did really write the letter, but she's perfectly healthy — she was in the hospital visiting her grandmother and that made her sad.
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The Other Two / int_d2fe0360	type	Earpiece Conversation
The Other Two / int_d2fe0360	comment	Earpiece Conversation: During the opening scene of "Chase Becomes Co-Owner of the Nets," Pat does a "73 Questions" video with Vogue, and Brooke tells her all the answers to repeat to help her career.
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The Other Two / int_d31da2e3	type	If It's You, It's Okay
The Other Two / int_d31da2e3	comment	If It's You, It's Okay: Cary's roommate Matt identifies as straight, but frequently makes sexual advances on him when in the confines of their apartment, which Cary reluctantly accepts because of his attraction to him.
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The Other Two / int_d4e9de59	comment	Dreadful Musician: Played with. For the most part, Chase is a decent singer in his videos. But in the season finale, when he sings live, it turns out he's actually pretty bad and only covered by studio tricks and distractions like dancing and costumes.
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The Other Two / int_d55108a1	comment	Horrible Hollywood: Though a comedy, one of the show's themes is how Hollywood is built for self-centered people (or decent people with ruthless PR teams) to easily rise to the top, and how silly things can get when celebrities who are not that smart or competent nonetheless have money and power available to them.
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The Other Two / int_d63fc7ae	comment	Embarrassing Last Name: Brooke and Shuli are already disgusted when Chase falls for a normal girl named Pam, but it gets worse when she says her last name is Snot.
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The Other Two / int_d8afec40	comment	…But He Sounds Handsome: In the finale, after Taking the Heat for Pat and Chase's controversial tweets, Brooke tweets out statements from them both to fire her, making sure to mention how unbelievable it is that someone with her "snatched-ass bod" would do such a thing.
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The Other Two / int_db2f3581	comment	All Girls Want Bad Boys: When Chase and his new girlfriend Pam break up, his team makes him up to be a rude, disgusting bad boy so his fans will take Pam's side instead of trying to kill her. Unfortunately, Chase's fans love his new vibe, including some who didn't even like him before.
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The Other Two / int_dc579c91	comment	Contrived Coincidence: When Cary speeds home to his class reunion to show off his new success, not even taking bathroom breaks, he's surprised to see multiple other gay drivers doing the same.
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The Other Two / int_dcf669c2	comment	Offended by an Inferior's Success: When Cary lands his first sizable film role, he gets quite an ego from it, while Curtis is still doing cheap pop culture video shows. However, Cary struggles to land another good role after this, so when it seems Curtis' new Paramount+ TV show is going to do well, Cary avoids the premiere party. Only when the negative reviews roll in does Cary attend... and Curtis brutally calls out the way Cary refuses to celebrate Curtis's success unless he's "below" Cary on the Hollywood food chain.
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The Other Two / int_e10cdc1c	comment	Gay Best Friend: Parodied when Cary and Curtis both go up for the role of the heroine's supportive best friend for a pilot. The character was initially a woman, but the producers decide to turn it into a gay man at the last minute while changing very little else. Curtis muses that he booked the role of "Courtney No-last-name" because he's more effeminate than Cary.
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The Other Two / int_e313b4e7	comment	Brooke's plot mocks tech billionaires by depicting them as hammy manchildren who get crazy and competitive the second they hit a billion dollars, with both of Brooke's billionaire dates getting lip filler and dragging her along to space. Specific allusions are made to Mark Zuckerberg (doing things in the metaverse instead of real life) and Jeff Bezos (wearing a cowboy hat and flying to space).
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The Other Two / int_e540d1e6	comment	Invoked in "Chase Gets the Gays". The label has Chase sing a song about how he loves his gay brother Cary, and proceeds to evaluate how the LGBT community feels about it through events like a conservative talking head decrying it, etcetera. They finally land on "it's camp" and decide that Chase should pursue other 'safer' demographics like American suburbia now that he has an LGBT fanbase.
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The Other Two / int_e90f5682	comment	But Not Too Gay: Invoked in-universe when Cary books a commercial. He's given the note to act with "less color" by the casting director (ergo, less "gay"), despite the fact that Cary himself is not actually very flamboyant to begin with.
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The Other Two / int_e923c801	comment	Did Not Die That Way: Chase believes his father died of cancer. He later finds out that his dad was an alcoholic who froze to death on the roof of the family home.
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The Other Two / int_e9c11a31	comment	Caretaking is Feminine: Brooke expresses reservations with her on-off boyfriend Lance's career change to nursing, fearing that it makes him look gay.
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The Other Two / int_e9db9908	comment	Younger Than They Look: Brittlyn from the second episode is an eleven-year-old who looks like a grown woman due to her expert makeup. Brooke thinks she's propositioning her with sleepovers and offers to play with toys before Cary tells her Brittlyn is a preteen.
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The Other Two / int_ecd78a30	comment	Double Standard: Rape, Male on Male: When Brooke hears the mental health therapist at her "Night of Undeniable Good" is sexually harassing the crew, she asks if he was grabbing girls' butts or guys' butts, and implies that it might not be as bad if it's just the latter. The rest of the crew doesn't seem to agree.
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The Other Two / int_ee7a60e9	comment	One-Steve Limit: Averted in "Cary & Brooke Go to an AIDS Play," in which Cary pretends to be Lucas's manager and calls insisting that Lucas get a role as a porn star, since his Method Acting would benefit their sex life. Unfortunately, Lucas's manager also manages Lukas Gage, so he gets the role.
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The Other Two / int_f1ac9897	comment	Female Misogynist: In "Chase Gets Baptized," Brooke actively tries to seek out women who will give her permission to enjoy the perks of an anti-women church. She rules out two women with feminist T-shirts and approaches a woman from Texas, assuming she won't be a feminist. However, the woman is from the liberal city of Austin and very interested in social causes.
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The Other Two / int_f2557d99	comment	Catfishing: A genitalia variant. Brooke suggests that Cary use a photo of Lance's penis as his profile picture on Grindr to get more attention from guys. At the end of the episode, Cary's hookup calls him out on using a different dick for his profile picture... because it looks so much bigger in person!
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The Other Two / int_f51e530a	comment	Romantic Rain: Discussed in the finale, when Curtis jokes to Cary that he doesn't want to make up with him and start "kissing in the rain." This actually happens later in the episode between the newly reconciled Brooke and Lance, and the former even lampshades how much she loves that it's raining.
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The Other Two / int_f8e52439	comment	Birthday Episode: "Cary Gets His Ass Handed to Him" has Pat try to have a nice, normal dinner at Applebee's for her birthday. Since she's too famous to have that, her boyfriend Simu Liu puts an Applebee's together on a soundstage and tries to convince her it's real.
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The Other Two / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: Debra Messing will occasionally send stuff to the main characters, which is always met with "Your fan, Debra Messing" "Oh, Debra" between Brooke and Cary. Brooke will often mention her dream of meeting Alessia Cara at inappropriate moments. She finally does near the end of season 2.
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The Other Two / int_fb7bc4a8	comment	Never Trust a Title: The episode titles usually focus on what Chase or Pat are doing, while the actual plot is about what Brooke and Cary are up to. For example, "Chase Becomes Co-Owner of the Nets" only mentions Chase being the part-time owner of the Nets during the Cold Open, and the rest of the episode has nothing to do with Chase nor the Nets, instead focusing on Brooke attending a women's rights panel and Cary shadowing a nurse to prep for a new movie role. This gimmick is dropped in the third season, where the titles refer to Cary and Brooke's careers and are Exactly What It Says on the Tin.
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The Other Two / int_fbd285b7	comment	Comically Missing the Point: At the end of "Cary & Brooke Go to an AIDS Play," when Brooke sobs over breaking up with Lance, Streeter still thinks she's upset about him breaking up with Pat.
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The Other Two / int_fed441ad	comment	All Gays are Promiscuous: Subverted. Cary hastily fools around with his roommate out of sheer horniness, but soon stops because he's uncomfortable being used for sexual experimentation. Also, Cary presumes the Instagays are promiscuous and fooling around with each other, when in fact they are religious virgins and one of them is straight. They just like hanging out in speedos and taking pictures of each other's bodies. In "Pat Connects with Her Fans," Jess and Cary encounter a kinky gay couple (plus a third from Grindr) believing them to be a newly-out gay guy and his father (and the guy's brother). The kinkier gays are weirded out that Jess and Cary are so chaste.
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