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A comedy series hosted on streaming service Dropout. Each episode, a comedian is dressed in elaborate costumes, makeup, and prosthetics to make them look nothing like themselves. Once they're shown the final look, they have to quickly figure out a character and give a completely improvised interview with host Vic Michaelis.The show is a Spiritual Successor to "Hello My Name Is...", an early CollegeHumor show where Josh Ruben would be dressed in a variety of strange outfits and be asked to give an interview.A list of guests featured on the show (in order of appearance): |
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Control Freak |
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Control Freak: Avery Goodman is all about control: his goal is to rid the world of "uncertainty" (ie. free will) and uses several inventions to override the minds of the people he wishes to have under him, all demonstrated onto Vic. He even claims his personal idea of ultimate power is control. |
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Non-Specifically Foreign |
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Non-Specifically Foreign: Princess Emily is from "right in the heart of the smack of the dab" of Europe. Vic's attempts to figure out what that means in more specific terms go nowhere. |
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Only Sane Man |
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Only Sane Man: Vic often comes off as this, since their role as the host is to calmly continue the interview, no matter what the guests say or do. |
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Bad Boss |
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Bad Boss: Aside comments from Vic about the crew indicate that they treat their coworkers like crap. |
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Higher-Tech Species |
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Higher-Tech Species: Subverted. Denzel keeps talking about concepts that would go over the head of humans due to being too advanced, only for Vic to let him know that what he's talking about is very much understood here on Earth. |
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Disproportionate Retribution |
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Disproportionate Retribution: One of Tommy Shriggly's comrades-in-arms took the last Coke at the canteen, so he killed every single member in his platoon, one by one, in the dead of night, eventually leading to Tommy being dishonorably discharged. Hearing that Vic was refused a job by MSNBC, Zonton de la Doll threatens the entire network with death by guillotine. |
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Even Evil Has Loved Ones |
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Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Nana may be an abusive and selfish monster, but she does genuinely cry when she learns that her ex-husband, Vic's grandfather, has passed away. |
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Beehive Hairdo |
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Beehive Hairdo: Marionette Conqui has an elaborate updo with two birds nesting in it. This is never addressed in the interview. |
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Knight of Cerebus |
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Knight of Cerebus: Nana. Vic's usual calm, collected routine is quickly reduced to begging Nana to just cooperate long enough to do the interview, and much of the comedy goes out the window as Nana berates them for perceived slights. Vic has recovered by the beginning of the next episode. |
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Punny Name |
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Punny Name: Dr. Avery Goodman ("A very good man"). Doubles as an Ironic Name, as Goodman is a supervillain. |
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Artistic License – Law |
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Artistic License – Law: Princess Emily's former bandmates probably wouldn't be imprisoned for life for animal smuggling. Granted, we have no idea what country they're actually from, so maybe smuggling laws are just very intense there. |
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Alas, Poor Yorick |
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Alas, Poor Yorick: After the skull of Sara is brought to them, Marionette and Zonton tearfully eulogize to her skull. |
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What the Hell Is That Accent? |
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What the Hell Is That Accent?: Princess Emily's accent is very vaguely European. |
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No-Respect Guy |
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No-Respect Guy: Kepl is constantly disrespected by everyone, including Dr. Milk, his own puppet, and Vic themself. |
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Faux Affably Evil |
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Faux Affably Evil: Professor Avery Goodman appears first as an approachable and kindly professor, but it's soon revealed to be a facade hiding a Totalitarian Utilitarian Mad Scientist. |
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Not So Above It All |
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Not So Above It All: The revelation that Tommy Shriggly took $100,000 in investments and turned it into $16,000 is enough to make Vic break into laughter, and the show briefly cuts to a "Please Stand By" screen while they recover. Similarly, Pig #2 declaring that the Big Bad Wolf stepped on their mother causes both Vic and Ally to break into laughter. Twice! |
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Abusive Parents |
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Abusive Parents: Stepgrandmother, in this case, but Nana physically and verbally abuses Vic throughout the interview, and very much confirms that she treated them the same way, if not worse, when they were a child as well. |
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The revelation that Tommy Shriggly took $100,000 in investments and turned it into $16,000 is enough to make Vic break into laughter, and the show briefly cuts to a "Please Stand By" screen while they recover. |
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Incoming Ham |
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Incoming Ham: Tommy Shriggly interrupts the show's normal format to introduce himself via pump-up music and dancing. |
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Imported Alien Phlebotinum |
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Imported Alien Phlebotinum: Subverted. Denzel supposedly has access to things like advanced invisibility cloaking, but the picture Vic shows reveals he's just got a blanket thrown over himself Bedsheet Ghost style. |
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The Unpronounceable |
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The Unpronounceable: The show's closed captions translate the alien's birth name as "(vocalizes and ululates)". Everyone, up to and including the format of the show, just calls him Denzel. |
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! |
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!: Tommy Shriggly was about to go to prison after being discharged for Friendly Fire, but since his uncle was in the military, he got out scot-free. |
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Unusually Uninteresting Sight |
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Unusually Uninteresting Sight: Vic frequently deals with aliens, pop stars and living dolls, and they rarely ever bat an eye. Their only reaction to Denzel's completely unpronounceable birth name is asking if that's spelled how it sounds. |
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Eat That |
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Eat That: Vic occasionally gets roped into consuming odd things that shouldn't be ingested by their guests. Princess Emily convinces them to take a handful of unlabeled pills, including ecstasy. Tommy Shriggly offers them dry scoops of protein powder, which they clearly regret accepting. They still go back for seconds. |
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Totalitarian Utilitarian |
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Totalitarian Utilitarian: Avery Goodman's goal is to make his vision of a perfect future where unnecessities such as arts, keeping in touch with your grandparents, or sentiment in general are deleted, whether the people want to or not. |
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Boss Subtitles |
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Boss Subtitles: Each guest (or pair of guests) gets one. Princess Emily, for example, is billed as "European Popstar". |
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Literal-Minded: Marionette Conqui and Zonton de la Doll don't have much of a concept of metaphors, so they panic when Vic mentions a media storm that set the media on fire. |
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Mushroom Samba |
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Mushroom Samba: Princess Emily's interview ends with the handful of unlabeled pills she offered to Vic kicking in all at once. |
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