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The Critic

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The Critic	comment	The Critic was a short-lived prime-time animated series that featured Jon Lovitz as the voice of Jay Sherman, the show's titular critic. It was created by Al Jean and Mike Reiss, who were also writers for The Simpsons.Jay Sherman is New York's #3 film critic, with a cable television film review show called Coming Attractions. He delivers scathing reviews of nearly every movie featured on the show, which does nothing to boost his ratings or popularity. It also doesn't help that he's overweight, balding, cynical and incredibly unlucky with the ladies. His ex-wife Ardeth (not pictured) keeps demanding more alimony from him, and while he does score a few dates, the women he chooses are either insane or trying to get a positive review. His boss Duke Phillips thinks he's gay and keeps mistaking his statements for come-ons, and his elderly chain-smoking make-up lady Doris loves to inflict verbal abuse on him.Jay is the adopted son of former New York governor Franklin Sherman and his wife Eleanor. Their butler Shackleford (not pictured) has a tendency to greet Jay as "Adopted Master Jay" whenever he sees him. Jay also does have a few friends: His best friend Jeremy Hawke (a combination of Paul Hogan and Mel Gibson); restaurant owner Vlada Veramirovich (well, he's nice to Jay's face, anyway); his teenage sister Margo; and his and Ardeth's son Marty, who attends United Nations High School (where one of his classmates is a Klingon, and another from Easter Island has a head made of stone).It was launched on ABC in 1994, where it was cancelled after a month, but brought back in the summer to air the rest of its 13 episodes. It was picked up by FOX the following year, where it ran for a 10-episode second season. UPN expressed an interest in picking up the series, but negotiations eventually broke down and a third season never materialized even though scripts had already been written for it. Ten short Flash cartoons (webisodes) appeared on the internet over 2000-01, and reruns of the series aired on Comedy Central for a time. In Latin America, this show was aired on Locomotion before turning into Animax.In the second season, after FOX picked up the show, the character of Jay was retooled. He was given a rounder face, bigger eyes, a warmer personality and a long-term girlfriend in personal assistant Alice Tompkins. Like Jay, Alice has a child from her own failed marriage, her young daughter Penny.The DVD box set was released in 2004, which includes all the TV episodes and has the webisodes as extras. During the late 2000s, the show has aired in syndication. In September 2006, IGN ranked the show 9th in their list of the Top 25 Prime Time Animated Series of All Time. In January 2009, they also ranked the show 26th in their other list of the Top 100 Best Animated TV Series. In December 2011, Complex ranked the show 6th in their own list of The 25 Most Underrated Animated TV Shows of All Time.The show was resurrected one last time as an Internet Flash series. The supporting characters from the TV series are gone (save for an appearance by Vlada), and Jay keeps hitting on his new and younger make-up girl Jennifer (not pictured). Most fans don't really count this as canon.Not to be confused with Mel Brooks' first film or R.B. Sheridan's play. Or The Nostalgia Critic.Now has its own Character page and a Recap page.
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The Critic / int_10343d98	comment	Beach Bury: Marlon Brando during Jay's trip to the Cannes Film Festival.
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The Critic / int_10cfa355	type	Floating Advice Reminder
The Critic / int_10cfa355	comment	Floating Advice Reminder: Played with in "Marty's First Date", in which the balloon containing Jay's head gets popped by a skier's poles — and goes flying around afterward. Later, in the same episode, Jay starts complaining about being in the bubble and then being ignored. He then notices a fried banana stand. "Oooh! Fried bananas!" He starts floating toward the cart and opening and closing his mouth while the intermission theme to Ms. Pac-Man plays. The Ms. Pac-Man song is omitted in the DVD release.
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The Critic / int_11cdc5d8	type	White Anglo-Saxon Protestant
The Critic / int_11cdc5d8	comment	White Anglo-Saxon Protestant: Jay's adoptive parents embody this trope, except for the incest. They do, however, try to arrange a date between Margo (their biological teen daughter) and a teenage boy who really bleeds Blue Blood for the debutante ball.
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The Critic / int_120d0e3f	type	Adam Westing
The Critic / int_120d0e3f	comment	Adam Westing: "Siskel & Ebert and Jay and Alice", in a big way. The man himself appeared in "Eyes on the Prize" for a brief cameo. Emphasis on "brief", due to Jay's particular film and television preferences.
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The Critic / int_1282bf4f	type	No Celebrities Were Harmed
The Critic / int_1282bf4f	comment	No Celebrities Were Harmed: The Trope Namer.
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The Critic / int_12e2a068	type	Alone Among the Couples
The Critic / int_12e2a068	comment	Alone Among the Couples: The episode "Miserable" focuses entirely on this during Jay's lonely first season.
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The Critic / int_146f4e0	type	Blind Without 'Em
The Critic / int_146f4e0	comment	Blind Without 'Em: Carmen from "Marty's First Date". After losing her glasses during the food fight, she sees Marty in front of her as a handsome guy holding a rose. Once he gives the glasses back, her vision comes into focus on a pudgy kid holding a fork with a meatball on it. She still agrees to go on a date with him, though.
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The Critic / int_14beeefd	type	Darker and Edgier
The Critic / int_14beeefd	comment	Darker and Edgier: Parodied in the first webisode. Jay ends the episode with, "Oh, Jay, you bitch! It's the internet. I can say "bitch"!
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The Critic / int_151b7067	type	Repeated Cue, Tardy Response
The Critic / int_151b7067	comment	Repeated Cue, Tardy Response: In "I Can't Believe It's a Clip Show", when Jay introduces one of the guest stars of The Coming Attractions Tenth Anniversary Special:
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The Critic / int_15b2cab3	type	Tempting Fate
The Critic / int_15b2cab3	comment	Tempting Fate: After Jay is rescued from Iraq, President George H. W. Bush poses for a publicity shot with him.
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The Critic / int_17c80531	type	Accidental Ventriloquism
The Critic / int_17c80531	comment	Accidental Ventriloquism: When Jay is tied to a bed, his voice carries through the air vents to another apartment where an old lady believes her cat is talking to her. When he begs her to call the police she says, "You sound just like the toaster!"
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The Critic / int_186c2c62	type	Diet Episode
The Critic / int_186c2c62	comment	Diet Episode: "From Chunk to Hunk". Marty becomes slim and toned. Jay loses two pounds, which is apparently his college weight.
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The Critic / int_19add21f	type	Why We Can't Have Nice Things
The Critic / int_19add21f	comment	Why We Can't Have Nice Things: Franklin delights in destroying priceless art with a monster truck.
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The Critic / int_1a09b4f9	type	The Glorious War of Sisterly Rivalry
The Critic / int_1a09b4f9	comment	The Glorious War of Sisterly Rivalry: Alice and her Southern Belle sister Miranda. To put into perspective how far it's gone, Miranda actually performed a striptease at Alice's wedding after Alice complained about her wearing a bridal gown. When Miranda finally admitted to being jealous of Alice's life, Alice briefly rejoices.
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The Critic / int_1b65dfad	type	The Cameo
The Critic / int_1b65dfad	comment	The Cameo: Billy Crystal as Gary Grossman in "L.A. Jay". Phil Hartman provided THREE of the voices in "Eyes on the Prize" (respectively, Adolph Hitmaker, Bernie and Professor Blowhard).
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The Critic / int_1bf4aeb3	type	The Merch
The Critic / int_1bf4aeb3	comment	The Merch: In "Miserable", Jay's #1 fan has a lot of these. invoked
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The Critic / int_1cf11f13	type	No Sympathy
The Critic / int_1cf11f13	comment	No Sympathy: Jay gets it hardcore in "Dial M For Mother", when chewing out his mother on national television erupts into a major scandal, despite the fact that she was condescending towards him the whole time before he eventually had enough and blew up at her. To top it off, she refused to accept his apology.
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The Critic / int_1d8733d3	type	Overly Narrow Superlative
The Critic / int_1d8733d3	comment	Overly Narrow Superlative: "New York's third most popular early-morning cable-TV film critic."
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The Critic / int_1dfbbf31	type	Heterosexual Life-Partners
The Critic / int_1dfbbf31	comment	Heterosexual Life-Partners: Jay and Jeremy.
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The Critic / int_1e7c47ab	type	Stealth Pun
The Critic / int_1e7c47ab	comment	Stealth Pun: The E.T. parody, D.T. stands for drunken terrestrial. D.T. also stands for delirium tremens, alcohol withdrawals severe alcoholics go through.
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The Critic / int_1f0f3d6f	type	Cute Kitten
The Critic / int_1f0f3d6f	comment	Cute Kitten: In "Frankie and Ellie Get Lost", during Coming Attractions, Duke tells Jay that the audience only tunes in for the funny clips, and then shows a black and white clip of two kittens playing Ping Pong with their paws. Jay is at first offended, but then he sees one of the kittens frisking with the ball.
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The Critic / int_20314beb	type	Cousin Oliver
The Critic / int_20314beb	comment	Cousin Oliver: One of Dukeâ€™s attempts to improve Coming Attractionsâ€™ ratings was the addition of a cute child with a speech impediment.
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The Critic / int_209fd02	type	Sit Comic
The Critic / int_209fd02	comment	Sit Comic: The show starred Jon Lovitz.
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The Critic / int_20d965e	type	Gentleman Thief
The Critic / int_20d965e	comment	Gentleman Thief: In one of the webisodes, a man holds up Jay for his wallet but is polite about it, even asking him if he wants a receipt.
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The Critic / int_225b673d	type	Invisible Celebrity Guest
The Critic / int_225b673d	comment	Invisible Celebrity Guest: In "I Can't Believe It's a Clip Show", The Coming Attractions 10th Anniversary Special is promoted to feature Arnold Schwarzenegger and Milton Berle as guest stars. While Berle does show up to save Jay from the terrorists, Schwarzenegger ends up cancelling on Jay after Jay shows the musical number in Rabbi, P.I. against Schwarzenegger's wishes.
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The Critic / int_2260cfe3	type	Like Father, Like Son
The Critic / int_2260cfe3	comment	Like Father, Like Son: Hinted at in the episode where Jay goes on a date with Doris and it's implied she may be his birth mother. Doris recounts to Jay about how she used to date a short, balding fat guy who would always take her to movies and then complain about them.
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The Critic / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
The Critic / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: In "Miserable", Jayâ€™s #1 Fan shows Jay a cardboard cutout of himself holding a book he wrote. She tells him she hooked it up to her Clapper, and demonstrates by clapping to it, which results in the cutout waving the book up and down and saying "Buy my BOOK!" multiple times. At the episodeâ€™s climax, when she madly lunges at and attempts to kill Jeremy, Jay claps his hands and triggers the cutout, hitting her on the head and knocking her unconscious.
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The Critic / int_230d64	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Money!
The Critic / int_230d64	comment	Screw the Rules, I Have Money!: Duke feels his wealth allows him to do anything he wants.
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The Critic / int_246989a4	type	Circling Vultures
The Critic / int_246989a4	comment	Circling Vultures: In "Every Doris Has Its Day", these show up after Doris claims she's very old. These also show up twice in "Sherman of Arabia".
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The Critic / int_25b4ad2f	type	Surprisingly Happy Ending
The Critic / int_25b4ad2f	comment	Duke tries to retool Coming Attractions on more than one occasion, and in "Dr. Jay" he invents "PhillipsVision", which alters classic movies to give them all happier endings. Jay also faces this in "L.A. Jay", in which he is hired to write the screenplay for Ghostchasers 3 after getting his original script rejected.
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The Critic / int_2683e0ec	type	Island Help Message
The Critic / int_2683e0ec	comment	Island Help Message: In "Frankie and Ellie Get Lost", Franklin and Eleanor end up on a desert island. Franklin wrote in the sand "Need Rum".
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The Critic / int_2684981f	type	Domestic-Only Cartoon
The Critic / int_2684981f	comment	Domestic-Only Cartoon: The webisodes.
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The Critic / int_26b2747	type	Alliterative Title
The Critic / int_26b2747	comment	Alliterative Title: A headline made by Jimmy Breslin while being the headmaster at Duke's preschool: "Bunnies Bite Breslin, Breslin Bleeds Badly".
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The Critic / int_26b5058e	type	Lame Rhyme Dodge
The Critic / int_26b5058e	comment	Lame Rhyme Dodge: From "L.A. Jay":
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The Critic / int_26e2cc1	type	The Schlub Pub Seduction Deduction
The Critic / int_26e2cc1	comment	The Schlub Pub Seduction Deduction: Valerie Fox is a suspect of this.
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The Critic / int_2791ae1e	type	Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow
The Critic / int_2791ae1e	comment	Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow: Technically a subversion: Miranda reminds Jay of when he first started losing his hair. Flashback to Jay wearing a white judge's wig, and speaking with a horrendous English accent. Also, when Duke comes in and grabs the wig off his head, there's a Little Orphan Annie wig underneath, with Jay exclaiming "Leaping Lizards!"
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The Critic / int_294ed981	type	Bilingual Bonus
The Critic / int_294ed981	comment	Bilingual Bonus: Vlada's restaurant L'ane Riche is French for "The Wealthy Jackass".
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The Critic / int_2c9e262	type	Catapult Nightmare
The Critic / int_2c9e262	comment	Catapult Nightmare: In "A Pig Boy and His Dog", Jay has this over dreams that his rapidly growing dog might eat him.
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The Critic / int_2f2f5b3f	type	Hedge Maze
The Critic / int_2f2f5b3f	comment	Hedge Maze: There's one in "A Song for Margo"; Don King and the Pope get lost in it, but their hair and hat, respectively, stick above the hedges.
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The Critic / int_2f36d97	type	Older Than They Look
The Critic / int_2f36d97	comment	Older Than They Look: In "Frankie and Ellie Get Lost", a news anchor gives birthday wishes to Goldie Hawn, "who turns 100 today."
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The Critic / int_308a5ff0	type	Strange Minds Think Alike
The Critic / int_308a5ff0	comment	Strange Minds Think Alike: In one episode, a research scientist uses the previously mentioned "Quzybuk" word Duke invented. In "Eyes on the Prize", both Jay's agent and his old professor think he's Stubby Kaye.
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The Critic / int_3149c4b0	type	It Will Never Catch On
The Critic / int_3149c4b0	comment	It Will Never Catch On:
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The Critic / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
The Critic / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: When Satan calls Jay just to say that he's not the reason Cher won an Oscar.
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The Critic / int_31db73f8	type	Thick-Line Animation
The Critic / int_31db73f8	comment	Thick-Line Animation: Not so much the character designs, but many of the background objects are thick-lined.
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The Critic / int_326ae4e2	type	One-Liner Echo
The Critic / int_326ae4e2	comment	One-Liner Echo: During his stint as the English for Cab Drivers TV class, Jay becomes re-inspired and ends up delivering a one-liner that is echoed by his viewers (as well as a horror-struck Arnold Schwarzenegger): "If the movie stinks, just don't go!"
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The Critic / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
The Critic / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: One episode has Jay mocking an elderly man at a restaurant celebrating his 88th birthday stating how it's only a celebration that he hasn't died, which makes the man start to cry. After earnestly apologizing, admitting that he only said that due to his own fears of getting older, the man says he understands...and then chucks a dinner roll at the back of Jay's head.
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The Critic / int_3549f04d	type	Fell Asleep Driving
The Critic / int_3549f04d	comment	Fell Asleep Driving: Subverted in "Uneasy Rider". Jay takes the job as a trucker and in spite of several tempting roadside distractions (including a group of French bakers whose vehicle broke down) and his own sleepiness (even to the point of eyes blinking one at a time), he is determined to get to his destination in the designated time.
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The Critic / int_35a858b3	type	Cluster F-Bomb
The Critic / int_35a858b3	comment	Cluster F-Bomb: Cher does this to Jay during his interview with her on Coming Attractions, complete with Sound-Effect Bleep.
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The Critic / int_36135fb0	type	Official Couple
The Critic / int_36135fb0	comment	Official Couple: Jay and Alice. Franklin and Elenor. Duke and Miranda.
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The Critic / int_3684532f	type	Never Heard That One Before
The Critic / int_3684532f	comment	Never Heard That One Before: One scene features Duke meeting then-Pope John Paul II. He then asks, "Hey, John Paul. Where's George Ringo?" Pope John Paul merely sighs and says, "I am so sick of that joke!"
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The Critic / int_37141022	type	Can't You Read the Sign?
The Critic / int_37141022	comment	Can't You Read the Sign?: In the pilot, Jay tells the taxi driver his dilemma about dating Valerie Fox. The driver points to a sign that reads, "Driver Only Knows Three Words of English." Those three words: "Look at sign!"
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The Critic / int_372027ea	type	Stalker Shrine
The Critic / int_372027ea	comment	Stalker Shrine: The projectionist in "Miserable" has one for Jay.
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The Critic / int_37a6a66a	type	Instrumental Theme Tune
The Critic / int_37a6a66a	comment	Instrumental Theme Tune: Played for the opening and closing credits. The theme is by Hans Zimmer.
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The Critic / int_37cee864	type	Real Award, Fictional Character
The Critic / int_37cee864	comment	Real Award, Fictional Character: Jay is given a Pulitzer in one episode.
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The Critic / int_3823c722	type	Bill... Bill... Junk... Bill...
The Critic / int_3823c722	comment	Bill... Bill... Junk... Bill...: In "Sherman of Arabia", after Jay sent a rat with an SOS message on it to Duke: Bonus points for actually having a separate filing drawer just for rats from Jay, with several of them running around.
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The Critic / int_390af0b4	type	Misaimed Marketing
The Critic / int_390af0b4	comment	Misaimed Marketing: Spoofed in-universe; Siskel and Ebert tie-in merchandise includes such oddities as a Whack-A-Mole game.
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The Critic / int_392372f9	type	Actor Allusion
The Critic / int_392372f9	comment	Actor Allusion: Quite a few in regards to Jon Lovitz. There's this memorable exchange: In "Dukerella", after Jay sees "Rebel Without a Cosby": Later, in the ninth webisode, Jay attends a Broadway adaptation of The Graduate, where the lead actress has been replaced by Lovitz. There's also Jay's singing, alluding to Lovitz's operatic abilities. One episode had Margo quoting the Catchphrase of Nancy Cartwright's most famous role:
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The Critic / int_399a6b0e	type	"Risky Business" Dance
The Critic / int_399a6b0e	comment	"Risky Business" Dance: Seen in the movie parody A Few Good Monsters.
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The Critic / int_3a88a563	type	Vocal Dissonance
The Critic / int_3a88a563	comment	Vocal Dissonance: In the fourth webisode, Jar Jar Binks (talking in a deep, refined voice) complains to George Lucas that he's a trained actor and shouldn't be known for doing a silly high-pitched accent.
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The Critic / int_3c0a4666	type	Noodle Incident
The Critic / int_3c0a4666	comment	Noodle Incident: After ticking off a group of children by making Humphrey The Hippo sad, we learn that Jay once sucker-punched Mister Rogers! What led to this is never explained. In another episode, Jay comments that the last time he drank, he woke up in a petting zoo and one of the goats was missing. Also, there's this memorable, unexplained moment: Another episode had Franklin talk about the one time that he had amusement from when Jay fell off a cliff "trying to eat that bird". While Eleanor initially believed that he was confusing it with a Road Runner cartoon, Jay (quite embarrassingly) admitted that it really was him. Also, apparently Franklin once met the Fonz by simply reaching into the TV and pulling him out. A flashback of Jay in kindergarten involved their guest speaker being Timothy Leary. The next thing he recalled was that he was on a street corner singing "John Jacob Jingleheimerschmidt" ala Bob Dylan to a crowd of people. In "Dial "M" for Mother", we never learn the interesting story behind a picture of Jay at his prom with a nun. A horrific (and hilarious) subversion happened to Jay in "Dukarella". See Bears Are Bad News above for more details.
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The Critic / int_3c908b33	type	Fully Automatic Clip Show
The Critic / int_3c908b33	comment	Fully Automatic Clip Show: The final episode, aptly titled "I Can't Believe It's a Clip Show!"
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The Critic / int_3e007d5d	type	Title, Please!
The Critic / int_3e007d5d	comment	Title, Please!
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The Critic / int_3f8239e4	type	Throw a Barrel at It
The Critic / int_3f8239e4	comment	Throw a Barrel at It: In the second season episode Frankie and Ellie Get Lost, Franklin Sherman drives rather recklessly on his way to the airport. When Eleanor chastises him to slow down he exclaims: "Are you mad? Don't you see what danger we're in?" A quick cut to his P.O.V. shows an 8-Bit Donkey Kong throwing barrels at them — hitting the car horn makes the car jump.
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The Critic / int_41feb209	type	Non Sequitur, Thud
The Critic / int_41feb209	comment	Non Sequitur, Thud: In one episode, Jay gets hit in the head with a shot put. While at fat camp, a simple walk tires Jay out to the point of being delirious.
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The Critic / int_425445af	type	Parents Suck at Matchmaking
The Critic / int_425445af	comment	Parents Suck at Matchmaking: In one episode, Margo's parents attempt to set her up with a young man who's young, rich, and has literal blue blood. Margo asks him a simple math question, to which he struggles to come up with an answer. She concludes he was rendered an idiot by inbreeding and rejects him.
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The Critic / int_426398af	type	Final Season Casting
The Critic / int_426398af	comment	Final Season Casting: The webisodes, which eliminated all characters save for Jay and Vlada, due to most of the TV series's voice actors being unavailable. Jennifer was added as a love interest for Jay.
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The Critic / int_42839f8b	type	Sound-Effect Bleep
The Critic / int_42839f8b	comment	Sound-Effect Bleep: Utilized when Jay interviewed Cher, who incessantly swore at him.
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The Critic / int_42cfbfc6	type	2D Visuals, 3D Effects
The Critic / int_42cfbfc6	comment	2D Visuals, 3D Effects: Played for Laughs in the pilot during the "Beauty and King Dork" segment, to complete the Beauty and the Beast allusion with a CGI ballroom.
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The Critic / int_47fea76b	type	Butt-Monkey
The Critic / int_47fea76b	comment	Butt-Monkey: Jay and Marty. The writers also really enjoy taking potshots at Ross Perot.
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The Critic / int_4814d132	type	Big Fancy House
The Critic / int_4814d132	comment	Big Fancy House: The Sherman family's mansion. Ditto for Duke's mansion.
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The Critic / int_48429bb5	type	Curtain Clothing
The Critic / int_48429bb5	comment	Curtain Clothing: In "Dukerella", Miranda's costume ball dress was made out of curtains. She even had the venetian blinds as the back of the dress.
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The Critic / int_48b515e3	type	"Lion King" Lift
The Critic / int_48b515e3	comment	"Lion King" Lift: A preview of The Cockroach King is shown, in which New York City wildlife (sewer alligators, pigeons, alley cats, seagulls, rats, and so on) gather in front of a crate to be shown their new king, a cockroach voiced by Howard Stern.
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The Critic / int_48d94bb8	type	Creator Backlash
The Critic / int_48d94bb8	comment	Creator Backlash: In-Universe example: Jay to Ghostchasers III.
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The Critic / int_494a4104	type	Naked People Trapped Outside
The Critic / int_494a4104	comment	Naked People Trapped Outside: In "Lady Hawke", as Jeremy and Olivia have a discussion of her relationship with Jay, Jay is locked outside his window wearing nothing but a towel. As soon as he mentions his limited apparel, a strong wind blows the towel off, followed promptly by a rainstorm. After a couple minutes, he's seen whimpering like a puppy wanting to come back in.
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The Critic / int_49d59be9	type	Scenery Porn
The Critic / int_49d59be9	comment	Scenery Porn: While the character designs are up for question, the artwork of New York city and various locales were always a treat to the eyes.
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The Critic / int_4a87e664	type	Oh Wait, This Is My Grocery List
The Critic / int_4a87e664	comment	Oh Wait, This Is My Grocery List
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The Critic / int_4b4f6a2f	type	Mood-Swinger
The Critic / int_4b4f6a2f	comment	Mood-Swinger: Jay does this pretty often.
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The Critic / int_4c21a018	type	Virgin in a White Dress
The Critic / int_4c21a018	comment	Virgin in a White Dress: Jay's sister, Margo, was forced to attend a debutante ball, and the dressmaker asked if she wanted to wear white, or an off-white he called "Hussy White." Margo said she wanted plain white... Except for the gloves.
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The Critic / int_4f4372e9	type	Early-Installment Weirdness
The Critic / int_4f4372e9	comment	Early-Installment Weirdness: Jay's design changes slightly over the first few episodes to make him more relatable and easier to animate. Alice and Penny aren't introduced until the second season premiere, when the show had moved to Fox. However, since this proved to be the last season, there are actually more episodes without them than with.
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The Critic / int_500696c6	type	Seinfeldian Conversation
The Critic / int_500696c6	comment	Seinfeldian Conversation: At the end of the pilot episode, this literally happens during a scene from Seinfeld that Jay and Marty watch. Marty claims that is what "real people" sound like. (Do they?)
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The Critic / int_500f3079	type	Owls Ask "Who?"
The Critic / int_500f3079	comment	Owls Ask "Who?": "My wife, Eleanor."
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The Critic / int_50b05d30	type	Disproportionate Retribution
The Critic / int_50b05d30	comment	Disproportionate Retribution: In "Dial 'M' for Mother", Jay's life is ruined after he tells his adopted mother Eleanor to shut up live on Geraldo. This includes being picketed, vilified on television, and generally being shunned by the entire population of New York City. What really drives this home was that Jay only told Eleanor to shut up after she told embarrassing and inappropriate stories about him live on Geraldo.
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The Critic / int_51923571	type	Spinning Paper
The Critic / int_51923571	comment	Spinning Paper: Done a few times in the show. When Jay went missing during the New York marathon and was presumed dead. When Jay is nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.
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The Critic / int_5490360d	type	Foodfight!
The Critic / int_5490360d	comment	Food Fight: An "international food fight" occurs at Marty's school cafeteria in "Marty's First Date" (which leads to the aforementioned French students' reaction).
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The Critic / int_557dabce	type	Deserted Island
The Critic / int_557dabce	comment	Deserted Island: Where the second half of "Frankie and Ellie Get Lost" takes place.
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The Critic / int_561dab6b	type	Mistaken for Gay
The Critic / int_561dab6b	comment	Mistaken for Gay: A Running Gag is Duke's belief that Jay is gay. Jay always insists that he's not, but tends to send very mixed signals around Duke in a way that may or may not be deliberate.
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The Critic / int_565ce678	type	Game Show Appearance
The Critic / int_565ce678	comment	Game Show Appearance: Jay and his (soon to be ex-) wife Ardeth appear as contestants on The Newlywed Game. They win, if only because Jay knows exactly how repulsed she is of him.
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The Critic / int_57980ca0	type	Smoking Hot Sex
The Critic / int_57980ca0	comment	Smoking Hot Sex: In one episode, Humphrey the Hippo is used by a cigarette corporation to advertise smoking cigarettes to young children. When Jay complains, the corporation's CEO asks Jay what kids will do after they have sex if they can't smoke.
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The Critic / int_57e8aed6	type	Shameless Self-Promoter
The Critic / int_57e8aed6	comment	Shameless Self-Promoter: "VOTE FOR DUKE!" messages appearing during "Coming Attractions" in the episode "All the Duke's Men" where Duke ran for president. In "A Song for Margo", Jay remarks that all the networks are pretty crummy, except for FOX, "the last bastion of quality programming". Then he salutes the logo in the bottom right of the screen. (See also Biting-the-Hand Humor above.) "Buy my book! Buy My Book! BUY MY BOOK!" "ALL HAIL DUKE. DUKE IS LIFE. ALL HAIL—" (pigeon attracted to the statues voice gets chomped and eaten)
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The Critic / int_57fc7d73	type	He Panned It, Now He Sucks!
The Critic / int_57fc7d73	comment	He Panned It, Now He Sucks!: In-Universe. It's very easy to count on one hand the movies Jay actually likes (that aren't pretentious, arthouse flicks). Consequently, he's very much hated by movie producers, actors, and the general public who likes the movies he pans.
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The Critic / int_5a90dc9e	type	Stealth Cigarette Commercial
The Critic / int_5a90dc9e	comment	Stealth Cigarette Commercial: In the 1950's, Doris was in a commercial for Pleghm Fatale cigarettes.
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The Critic / int_5ceb9939	type	Alcohol Hic
The Critic / int_5ceb9939	comment	Alcohol Hic: From the animatronic hillbilly bears Duke keeps in his office.
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The Critic / int_5d777251	type	That's All, Folks!
The Critic / int_5d777251	comment	That's All, Folks! And makes another one when he leaves his apartment.
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The Critic / int_5f4097ba	type	Not Distracted by the Sexy
The Critic / int_5f4097ba	comment	Not Distracted by the Sexy: In "A Pig Boy and His Dog", a grocery delivery man tries, unsuccessfully, to woo Eleanor by "accidentally" ripping his shirt off and slathering oil on his chest. She gives him a cookie and shoves him out the door.
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The Critic / int_5fc68f05	type	There Was a Door
The Critic / int_5fc68f05	comment	There Was a Door: Duke is somehow able to make an Impact Silhouette by just walking through Jay's wall.
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The Critic / int_5fcedca	type	Big Eater
The Critic / int_5fcedca	comment	Big Eater: Jay and Marty Sherman. To put this in perspective - while training for a marathon, he tells Vlada that he's on a diet.
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The Critic / int_5fddf001	type	Germans Love David Hasselhoff
The Critic / int_5fddf001	comment	Germans Love David Hasselhoff: An in-universe example occurs in that Jay is generally loathed in America and Mexico (in Mexico, Jay's show is prefaced with a warning stating that Jay is an escaped mental patient, as his behavior scares Mexicans), but is very popular in France. This is because of his resemblance to Babar, King of the Elephants.
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The Critic / int_5ff56a1f	type	Long List
The Critic / int_5ff56a1f	comment	Long List: Deciding to wipe her slate clean, Olivia tells Jay a list of all the men she had been with. The list is so long that Jay ends up growing stubble on his face and shaving. Conversely, his takes all of one second. In the sixth webisode: Bill Clinton listing all the different kinds of shrimp he likes eating in Forrest Gump 2.
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The Critic / int_60426489	type	Citizenship Marriage
The Critic / int_60426489	comment	Citizenship Marriage: At least that's how the Mexican airport employee sees it when she agrees to marry Jay (so he can travel to Cuba to save Marty) in "Marty's First Date": For the record, that part of the episode is pretty inaccurate: in Real Life, Mexican airliners don't care if an American citizen travels to Cuba via Mexico, as long they can pay the ticket. At the time, one just couldn't fly directly from America. (Permission is still needed from the U.S., though.)
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The Critic / int_6134738	type	Find the Cure!
The Critic / int_6134738	comment	Find the Cure!: The plot of "Dr. Jay".
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The Critic / int_63389b0b	type	Kids Are Cruel
The Critic / int_63389b0b	comment	Kids Are Cruel: After Jay's mother writes a book about a pig whose appearance is inspired by Jay, a bus full of children shows up, the kids calling Jay a pig. When Jay tells them he's not the character in the book, one of them says "what book?"
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The Critic / int_646b9cc8	type	Organ Autonomy
The Critic / int_646b9cc8	comment	Organ Autonomy: Jay's stomach appears to not only have a mind of its own, Jay occasionally has conversations with it, and it also appears to be dominant over him.
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The Critic / int_647fab91	type	Title: The Adaptation
The Critic / int_647fab91	comment	Title: The Adaptation: Parodied with Hee Haw: The Next Generation.
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The Critic / int_65df51a8	type	That Poor Cat
The Critic / int_65df51a8	comment	That Poor Cat: "Sorry, Mittens."
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The Critic / int_680f950	type	Gilligan Cut
The Critic / int_680f950	comment	Gilligan Cut: One episode had Jay bragging to someone that his face is on the cover of tons of merchandise...which then cuts to an entire warehouse full of his shirts and other merchandise where two men are looking at the overhead and bemoaning that "they just can't sell this stuff". One of the men then instructs a third man on a forklift to take it to a landfill with all of the ALF merchandise.
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The Critic / int_68f1088	type	Burping Contest
The Critic / int_68f1088	comment	Burping Contest: Between Jay and Homer Simpson on Homer's show. And Eudora Welty.
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The Critic / int_69204ab8	type	Hired for Their Looks
The Critic / int_69204ab8	comment	Hired for Their Looks: In "Marathon Mensch":
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The Critic / int_6968c6b0	type	Not So Remote
The Critic / int_6968c6b0	comment	Not So Remote: In "Sherman of Arabia", Jay and some POWs are lost in the Iraqi desert and losing hope when they run across an International House of Couscous.
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The Critic / int_697b5232	type	Those Wacky Nazis
The Critic / int_697b5232	comment	The opening credits also shows Jay on Coming Attractions showing a movie clip/parody (such as parodies of Raiders of the Lost Ark with the Nazis being knocked down like bowling pins by the boulder that Indiana Jones is running from, The Sound of Music where Julie Andrews is bumped into the camera and falls down a hill, a Fred and Ginger film where said actors are eaten by a colorized T-Rex, etc), to which Jay responds "It stinks!"
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The Critic / int_6e37c196	type	Once Done, Never Forgotten
The Critic / int_6e37c196	comment	Once Done, Never Forgotten: It was Jay's 8th birthday. That clown was so scary, that he wet his pants. As a result, everybody laughed at him, and they keep calling him "Weewee," to the point that the Stablemaster still refers to him by that 28 years later. To be fair though, this might be in retaliation for Jay lying about his weight as a child, resulting in the untimely death of Patches the Pony.
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The Critic / int_6edc54d5	type	Here We Go Again!
The Critic / int_6edc54d5	comment	Here We Go Again!: In Forrest Gump 2, Forrest mentions shrimp to Bill Clinton, which causes the president to list all the different kinds of shrimp he likes. When he finally finishes, Forrest exclaims, "You sure like shrimp, Mr. President!" Clinton replies, "Shrimp? I like shrimp!" and starts the same list over again.
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The Critic / int_6eeba1f2	type	"Shut Up" Kiss
The Critic / int_6eeba1f2	comment	"Shut Up" Kiss: What "Jay's #1 fan" did to Jay while he introduced himself to her.
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The Critic / int_704fb854	type	Crying Indian
The Critic / int_704fb854	comment	Crying Indian: Duke wants "Savvy Indian Chewing Tobacco" to be a sponsor for Coming Attractions. He even has an Indian on the set holding a sign with said name on it. Refusing to take part in it, Jay rips up his contract and throws the pieces at the Indian's feet, making him shed a tear.
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The Critic / int_71019994	type	Unwanted Harem
The Critic / int_71019994	comment	Unwanted Harem: To his chagrin, Marty becomes a Chick Magnet at his school after he loses weight in "From Chunk to Hunk."
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The Critic / int_736d791f	type	Adaptational Badass
The Critic / int_736d791f	comment	Adaptational Badass: Milton Berle is a ninja, we find out in the second season.
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The Critic / int_738fa379	type	New Job Episode
The Critic / int_738fa379	comment	New Job Episode: In "Eyes on the Prize," Jay is fired from Coming Attractions due to low ratings and gets a job teaching English on the 6:00 AM TV program English For Cab Drivers. In "Uneasy Rider", Jay quits Coming Attractions and becomes a truck driver.
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The Critic / int_741e8e7	type	The Cast Showoff
The Critic / int_741e8e7	comment	The Cast Show Off: The random bits of Jay singing are just an excuse to hear Lovitz's (admittedly amazing) operatic singing voice. Parodied in-universe in the promo clip from Arthur 3: Revenge of the Liver, which is set in a doctor's office...that has a grand piano in it for the title character to notice and play. Dudley Moore was an excellent pianist as well as actor and many of his film and TV appearances, including Arthur, found ways to invoke this trope.
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The Critic / int_76c42cce	type	Pronouncing My Name for You
The Critic / int_76c42cce	comment	Pronouncing My Name for You: In "Uneasy Rider", Jay addresses a pizzeria employee as Mr. Pizzaface. The employee's name is actually announced "pizza-fah-chay".
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The Critic / int_7b8b3def	type	Celebrity Paradox
The Critic / int_7b8b3def	comment	Celebrity Paradox: Avoided with regard to Lovitz, who exists in this show's universe — but he came to prominence on Yesterday Night Live. Jay's a big fan, but when he suggests by phone to a movie studio that in the wake of the remake Rebel Without a [Bill] Cosby they should make Dr. Strangelovitz, he has to explain who Lovitz is: "He's a character actor! No, I don't 'think he died!'"
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The Critic / int_7ea2a915	type	Animation Bump
The Critic / int_7ea2a915	comment	Animation Bump: The "Beauty and King Dork" sequence in the pilot.
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The Critic / int_7fbb2a3	type	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
The Critic / int_7fbb2a3	comment	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Played for laughs in "Dr. Jay". Jay manages to find a cure for Duke's terminal illness, saving his life. The end of the episode then plays a montage of other people who were saved by Jay's cure; they include a Klansman, a Nazi, a baby seal clubber, a drunken tanker captain who causes an oil spill, a military dictator who declares, "Your streets will run red with blood thanks to Jay's oil," and three life prisoners.
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The Critic / int_80ae159c	type	Informed Deformity
The Critic / int_80ae159c	comment	Despite being deemed as incredibly ugly and obese in the show, Jay's attracted several other women who clearly are out of his league, including his #1 fan and Olivia.
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The Critic / int_813e694d	type	Continuity Cavalcade
The Critic / int_813e694d	comment	Continuity Cavalcade: In "I Can't Believe It's a Clip Show":
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The Critic / int_823c6e3e	type	Large Ham
The Critic / int_823c6e3e	comment	Large Ham: Jay on occasion, but also Jon Lovitz in-universe.
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The Critic / int_8338de89	type	"I Want" Song
The Critic / int_8338de89	comment	"I Want" Song: "Nothing's Gonna Stop Me Now" sung by Jay in "Siskel & Ebert & Jay & Alice." And a parody of "Don't Rain on My Parade" from Funny Girl.
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The Critic / int_8409a385	type	Exactly What It Says on the Tin
The Critic / int_8409a385	comment	Exactly What It Says on the Tin: Alice found out Cyrus was cheating on her by the title of his first album: "I'm Cheating On My Wife Alice Tompkins. You Heard Me, Alice Tompkins".
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The Critic / int_8486c7e5	type	Repeating Ad
The Critic / int_8486c7e5	comment	Repeating Ad: Jay's talking billboard in "Miserable".
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The Critic / int_85bbb76c	type	Suckiness Is Painful
The Critic / int_85bbb76c	comment	Suckiness Is Painful: Several times with films, but most notable is when Roger Ebert tries to find a replacement for Gene Siskel, and tests one candidate by showing him some of the films he'd have to review. A remake of Mrs. Doubtfire starring Arnold Schwarzenegger is sufficient to reduce the candidate to a skeleton (a la Toht's death in Raiders of the Lost Ark), and Sylvester Stallone in a Waiting for Godot rehash (Yo! Godot, I'm Waitin' Heeya!) makes the skull fall off.
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The Critic / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
The Critic / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: The webisodes, of course, had to drop the other main characters due to lack of time and the original voice actors. One curious ommission, however, was Jeremy — whose voice actor was working on the webisodes.
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The Critic / int_8797239c	type	Bait-and-Switch
The Critic / int_8797239c	comment	Bait-and-Switch: In "A Pig-Boy and His Dog", after Eleanor writes a book about Jay as a hapless pig that causes Jay to be publicly ridiculed, a busload of school children start shouting at him "Fat little pig!" as he walks down the street, he angrily declares that he's not his character from the book, only for one child to ask, "What character?"
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The Critic / int_887e47ef	type	Eye Catch
The Critic / int_887e47ef	comment	One of Jay's voiceovers during the show's Eye Catch:
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The Critic / int_88c6e936	type	Masquerade Ball
The Critic / int_88c6e936	comment	Masquerade Ball: Duke holds a costume ball in the episode "Dukerella."
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The Critic / int_89599970	type	Life-Saving Encouragement
The Critic / int_89599970	comment	Life-Saving Encouragement: In the first episode when Jay is declaring his love for his actress girlfriend, he snatches away a policeman's megaphone and yells out "I love you!" Unbeknownst to either of them, a would-be jumper (whom the cop was trying to negotiate with) overhears the comment, says "That's all I needed to hear!", smiles, climbs back into the window of his apartment, and shuts it close.
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The Critic / int_8aa54036	type	Flying Flightless Bird
The Critic / int_8aa54036	comment	Flying Flightless Bird: Played for Laughs when Franklin discovers his airline pilot is a penguin — who's been drinking.
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The Critic / int_8d0785d5	type	Didn't Think This Through
The Critic / int_8d0785d5	comment	Didn't Think This Through: In "I Can't Believe It's a Clip Show", a terrorist group has captured Jay and threatened to blow him up unless their demands are met. As the timer runs into its final minute, Jay points out that if he blows up, the lead terrorist would die too. The terrorist attempts to walk away, but Jay starts chasing after him.
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The Critic / int_8d217819	type	BigRottenApple
The Critic / int_8d217819	comment	Big Rotten Apple: It's not a flattering portrayal. note Oddly enough, the producers intended the show to be a "love letter" to New York City—where, ironically, the show got its lowest ratings from New York.
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The Critic / int_8d718b9e	type	Bears Are Bad News
The Critic / int_8d718b9e	comment	A horrific (and hilarious) subversion happened to Jay in "Dukarella". See Bears Are Bad News above for more details.
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The Critic / int_8f882b0e	type	Skyscraper Messages
The Critic / int_8f882b0e	comment	Skyscraper Messages: The show did a parody of the Sleepless in Seattle thing, with Siskel And Ebert. They Lampshaded it.
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The Critic / int_90687e40	type	Embarrassing Rescue
The Critic / int_90687e40	comment	Embarrassing Rescue: In "Marathon Mensch", Doris drags Jay down the Phillips Broadcasting tower. When this is turned into The Cowering Inferno, Doris is played by Jessica Tandy with Jay played by a sumo wrestler. When Jay is taken prisoner in "Sherman of Arabia", he gets rescued by a helicopter. It doesn't go as planned.
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The Critic / int_90793c26	type	DÃ©nouement Episode
The Critic / int_90793c26	comment	DÃ©nouement Episode: "Dukerella" serves as one, as the last broadcast episode before the Take That! episode "I Can't Believe It's a Clip Show!"
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The Critic / int_90b66e22	type	Femme Fatale
The Critic / int_90b66e22	comment	Femme Fatale: Valerie Fox is labelled this in the film industry.
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The Critic / int_9230c618	type	Hypocrisy Nod
The Critic / int_9230c618	comment	Hypocrisy Nod: In "Frankie and Ellie Get Lost", after a news report about Jay cleaning up New York:
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The Critic / int_94e4c8ab	type	Betty and Veronica
The Critic / int_94e4c8ab	comment	Betty and Veronica: Jay got into a brief Love Triangle with Alice (the Betty) and Jeremy's twin sister Olivia (the Veronica).
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The Critic / int_978937d6	type	Brand X
The Critic / int_978937d6	comment	Brand X: "Hair in a Can" and "Phlegm Fatale Cigarettes".
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The Critic / int_98a19d7f	type	Money, Dear Boy
The Critic / int_98a19d7f	comment	Money, Dear Boy: In-Universe examples. This is why distinguished actor Sir Roger Twicenightly did the film Howard Stern's End. And in this universe, Orson Welles not only did commercials in his waning years (such as for Rosebud Frozen Peas and Blotto Bros. Wine), but Video Wills! Subverted in one case: he'll give testimonials for Mrs. Pell's Fish Sticks for free—and even from beyond the grave—out of sheer love for the product. Marlon Brando takes a big paycheck to play Barney the Dinosaur. The face-concealing costume looks as defeated as Brando feels. Previously, he played Mr. French in Family Affair: The Motion Picture.
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The Critic / int_9c055e85	type	Ghost in the Machine
The Critic / int_9c055e85	comment	Ghost in the Machine: Happens at least once, and serves the quote at the top of the page.
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The Critic / int_9d1cc720	type	Barbie Doll Anatomy
The Critic / int_9d1cc720	comment	Barbie Doll Anatomy: Lampshaded when Franklin offers Jay a Barbie doll to date.
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The Critic / int_9d6e002e	type	Whole Episode Flashback
The Critic / int_9d6e002e	comment	Whole Episode Flashback: The Season 2 episode "Sherman of Arabia".
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The Critic / int_9de7a5d0	type	Fix Fic
The Critic / int_9de7a5d0	comment	Fix Fic: In "Dr. Jay", Duke creates "PhillipsVision", which changes films to have happy endings (such as Rhett returning to Scarlett) and script changes (such as changing Charles Foster Kane's last word from "Rosebud" to "Schwing").
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The Critic / int_9ecbcb36	type	ComicallySerious
The Critic / int_9ecbcb36	comment	Comically Serious: Satoshi - The Eater of Souls, an ancient Japanese demon, is called forth into the mortal world!...as Marty's first sparring opponent in karate class at the local mall. After Marty quits, Satoshi wanders around the mall, trying out a guitar at the music shop and threatening to devour the souls of Cookiepuss at Carvel.
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The Critic / int_a188ac4b	type	Overly Long Gag
The Critic / int_a188ac4b	comment	Overly Long Gag: Franklin thinks an owl is Wilson: And the Director's Cut of JFK, with 2 hours of new footage: Interestingly, the inflection is actually different on each "Back... and to the left" statement, which makes it even funnier. "Plot? That's a funny word. Plot! Plot! Plot! PlotplotplotPLOTPLOTPLOT! PLOTPLOTPLOTPLOTPLOTPLOTPLOT!" (Jay gazes at a People Magazine cover proclaiming Gary the "smartest executive in Hollywood") Miranda, Alice's sister, in "Dukerella" when she worked at a place called "Mattress in a Hour":
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The Critic / int_a18d407b	type	Samus Is a Girl
The Critic / int_a18d407b	comment	Samus Is a Girl: In "A Little Deb Will Do You", it turns out that Humphrey the Hippo is played by the woman who's attracted to Jay.
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The Critic / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
The Critic / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: Done for laughs in "Miserable"; Jeremy Hawke chases after the projectionist who's going to kill Jay, and some intense orchestral music plays. Jeremy hails a cab to tail her; cue the pleasant theme song to Taxi for a few seconds as the cab crosses the Queensboro Bridge, then back to dramatic orchestral music when Jeremy leaves the cab.
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The Critic / int_a5e0c01	type	As Himself
The Critic / int_a5e0c01	comment	As Himself: "Siskel and Ebert and Jay And Alice" was noteworthy as one of the few examples of Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert appearing in a work of fiction, alongside other real critics like Rex Reed and Gene Shalit. Basketball legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar appears in "A Day at the Races and a Night at the Opera", lessening Jay's role to a ventriloquist's dummy. "Lady Hawke" had Queen Latifah for no adequately explained reason. Even the characters were confused as to why she was there! Ricki Lake also guest stars as herself, but that goes back to an earlier gag of Penny watching daytime trash TV. Don't forget the time when Lovitz shows up. Geraldo Rivera interviewed Jay and Eleanor. It ended with Franklin dancing in a diaper.
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The Critic / int_a6c677c4	type	Not Hyperbole
The Critic / int_a6c677c4	comment	Not Hyperbole: In "A Little Deb'll Do Ya", Jay brings his laundry over to his parents house but his underwear ends up on the ground. He asks Shackleford to get them for him, and Shackleford in disgust, replies "If I can find a long enough stick." Cut to Shackleford looking rather pleased with himself with actually finding a stick long enough to pick up Jay's underwear.
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The Critic / int_a6cda066	type	Rule of Three
The Critic / int_a6cda066	comment	Rule of Three: From "Eyes on the Prize." To prove to Jay that he's being repetitive, Duke shows Jay a three-way split-screen video of himself. In the third webisode:
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The Critic / int_a6e8221e	type	Status Quo Is God
The Critic / int_a6e8221e	comment	Status Quo Is God: Marty regains all the weight he lost in "From Chunk to Hunk," after he becomes uncomfortable with his newfound popularity. He promptly eats all of the ice cream in an ice cream parlor to restore his weight.
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The Critic / int_a7850fbf	type	Only Known by Their Nickname
The Critic / int_a7850fbf	comment	Only Known by Their Nickname: In "Uneasy Rider", Jay is referred to as "Lardbutt" by the other truckers (and later, after proving himself with a difficult delivery, "Hardbutt").
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The Critic / int_a8559a9f	type	RealLife
The Critic / int_a8559a9f	comment	For the record, that part of the episode is pretty inaccurate: in Real Life, Mexican airliners don't care if an American citizen travels to Cuba via Mexico, as long they can pay the ticket. At the time, one just couldn't fly directly from America. (Permission is still needed from the U.S., though.)
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The Critic / int_a89b070a	type	Career Resurrection
The Critic / int_a89b070a	comment	Career Resurrection: In-Universe example. During his thousandth show, Jay discusses this trope in regards to Sylvester Stallone.
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The Critic / int_a8b7f968	type	Love at First Punch
The Critic / int_a8b7f968	comment	Love at First Punch: Or in this case, pepper spray. Alice pepper sprays Jay in his face when they first meet on the street, but he was not harmed by the act. In fact, he rather liked it ("Mmm, jalapeÃ±o!").
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The Critic / int_a8c6a317	type	Super-Strength
The Critic / int_a8c6a317	comment	Super-Strength: Duke Phillips. Makes sense because he uses Jay Sherman as a weight for lifting.
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The Critic / int_a8e6393d	type	Nose Tapping
The Critic / int_a8e6393d	comment	Nose Tapping: When Vlada is speaking in a foreign language to his elderly waiter employee,note usually speaking in Russian to hide his real intentions from his English-speaking customers, especially Jay the waiter will tap his nose back at him in reply.
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The Critic / int_aa5d0c85	type	Four-Point Scale
The Critic / int_aa5d0c85	comment	Four-Point Scale: Referenced in "A Little Deb Will Do Ya".
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The Critic / int_aaece264	type	Rousing Speech
The Critic / int_aaece264	comment	Jay's Rousing Speech is a scathing attack on Hollywood and the like that cares more about money than quality, as well as the frequent Sequelitis, all that lead to low quality movies. He also takes a jab at the viewers, in and out universe, who should take their own responsibility of judging a movie, rather than relying soley on critics like him. In his words, if people stop going to bad movies, than studios will soon learn to stop making bad movies. In more simpler terms, "If a movie stinks, just don't go".
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The Critic / int_acecb17d	type	Chekhov's Skill
The Critic / int_acecb17d	comment	Chekhov's Skill: In "A Day at the Races and a Night at the Opera", while Jay and Marty try on clothes at a department store, Marty discovers he is able to move his stomach up and down. He opens the door from the changing room to show his father, only to be told by a little girl that what he was doing was "gross". Feeling bad, he stops. Later, during a school talent show he attends, he attempts to play "Yankee Doodle" on his electric guitar, only for a string to break off just as he starts playing. Unfazed, he tells the audience "This is the only other thing I know how to do": he moves his vest out of the way and moves his stomach up and down again. The audience and Principal Mangosuthu become impressed. Marty performs more creative belly-dancing routines, and the audience gives him a standing ovation.
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The Critic / int_ad42c163	type	Alphabet News Network
The Critic / int_ad42c163	comment	Alphabet News Network: "This... is PNN."
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The Critic / int_add9abb3	type	The Missus and the Ex
The Critic / int_add9abb3	comment	The Missus and the Ex: When Jay's girlfriend Alice and his ex-wife Ardeth meet for the first time, Ardeth tells Alice a spooky warning to "beware" and attempts to place a voodoo hex on her. Jay then has to remind Ardeth that the separation order specifically prohibits hexes and curses. This is only a one-time event, as Ardeth isn't seen in any future episodes.
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The Critic / int_aebae11c	type	Viewers Are Morons
The Critic / int_aebae11c	comment	Viewers Are Morons: This attitude gets a lot of spoofing in-show. Duke is especially a firm believer in this, causing him to clash with Jay.
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The Critic / int_aed187cc	type	Underwater Fart Gag
The Critic / int_aed187cc	comment	Underwater Fart Gag: Jay sits in the jacuzzi once and some women want to join him, but then they realize that the jacuzzi isn't on but it's bubbling anyway, so he must be farting.
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The Critic / int_afac9fcf	type	"Basic Instinct" Legs-Crossing Parody
The Critic / int_afac9fcf	comment	"Basic Instinct" Legs-Crossing Parody: In the pilot, Jay interviews an up and coming actress whose debut role is a Femme Fatale similar to Sharon Stone's Catherine Tramell. When the comparison to Stone is brought up, she re-enacts the scene, leading to Jay glancing between her legs before turning to a cameraman and asking "Can we get a shot of that?".
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The Critic / int_afaf31e4	type	Box Office Bomb
The Critic / int_afaf31e4	comment	Box Office Bomb: Invoked; in one of the webisodes, Spike Lee appears and tells the audience to check out Bamboozled on home video... much sooner than he thought.
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The Critic / int_b01abe4f	type	Catchphrase
The Critic / int_b01abe4f	comment	Catchphrase: Jay has a few.
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The Critic / int_b157ddd7	type	Webisode
The Critic / int_b157ddd7	comment	Webisode: Ten of these were made throughout 2000-2001, but YMMV on the quality of them.
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The Critic / int_b1a96b0e	type	Dork in a Sweater
The Critic / int_b1a96b0e	comment	Dork in a Sweater: Jay usually wears an argyle sweater vest.
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The Critic / int_b20fdfc8	type	Ur-Example
The Critic / int_b20fdfc8	comment	Ur-Example: The show had a referential, pop culture-heavy sense of humor that, while not completely unheard of in its time, was at the show's core in a way it wasn't for, say, The Simpsons. The idea of an animated show built on referential humor would later be popularized by Family Guy.
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The Critic / int_b219ac90	type	ReTool
The Critic / int_b219ac90	comment	Retool: In-Universe, Duke's pet project Hee Haw: The Next Generation was apparently just a modern version of the original ("We've got Junior Samples, Jr.!"); when we see it later on, it's morphed into Hee Haw meets Star Trek: The Next Generation — literally. Worf plays a mean hambone.
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The Critic / int_b3198876	type	Simpleton Voice
The Critic / int_b3198876	comment	Simpleton Voice: Discussed when Duke (who speaks with a southern accent) meets Alice (who is also southern). He notes about how as southerners, they have to work extra hard in New York because as soon as people hear them talk, they're immediately dismissed as illiterate, country bumpkins.
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The Critic / int_b47d95be	type	No OSHA Compliance
The Critic / int_b47d95be	comment	No OSHA Compliance: One episode has Jay on a new set in the form of a log cabin setting and with a bear in the background. Since the censors wouldn't allow a dead bear on display (or apparently, even a fake one), a live one was used, albeit "real doped up". Needless to say, Jay accidentally disturbs it twice, with it attacking him the second time live on air. Which the camera then cuts to a playful commercial bumper featuring Jay's face in the tire of an old-timey bicycle, with the card saying "Wheel Be Right Back".
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The Critic / int_b4eff8a8	type	Epic Fail
The Critic / int_b4eff8a8	comment	Epic Fail: Michael Dukakis ran for School President on the basis of an easy win. He is immediately booed by the class and loses to Marty.
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The Critic / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
The Critic / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: Innumerable ones. Virtually every movie and major actor or director who was popular at the time is mocked at least once — as well as a smattering of older ones. Also TV executives, Hollywood producers, singing purple dinosaurs, dictators of Iraq, stars of Home Improvement and much, much more! Note how many of the examples under Shout-Out qualify. Jay's Rousing Speech is a scathing attack on Hollywood and the like that cares more about money than quality, as well as the frequent Sequelitis, all that lead to low quality movies. He also takes a jab at the viewers, in and out universe, who should take their own responsibility of judging a movie, rather than relying soley on critics like him. In his words, if people stop going to bad movies, than studios will soon learn to stop making bad movies. In more simpler terms, "If a movie stinks, just don't go".
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The Critic / int_b6de94d1	type	Executive Meddling
The Critic / int_b6de94d1	comment	Executive Meddling: In-Universe examples. Jay often finds himself a victim of this, as Duke will tell him how to review movies or change the show to try to make him more likable. Duke tries to retool Coming Attractions on more than one occasion, and in "Dr. Jay" he invents "PhillipsVision", which alters classic movies to give them all happier endings. Jay also faces this in "L.A. Jay", in which he is hired to write the screenplay for Ghostchasers 3 after getting his original script rejected.
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The Critic / int_b707726f	type	Hypocritical Humor
The Critic / int_b707726f	comment	Hypocritical Humor: "Talk about overusing a catch phrase! Hotchi motchi! It stinks!" In "From Chunk to Hunk", Marty's gym class is preparing to take the Presidential Fitness Test, so Principal Mangosuthu shows a brief film of Bill Clinton in the Oval Office. As Clinton reminds the children about the importance of diet and exercise, an aide brings in lunch—which turns out to be a fast food order. Clinton finishes his speech while jamming french fries in his mouth.
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The Critic / int_b8dbbc07	type	Ink-Suit Actor
The Critic / int_b8dbbc07	comment	Ink-Suit Actor: Parodied twice in-show with Howard Stern as The Cockroach King and a remake of Pinocchio featuring Jeremy as Bogart the Roach, Arnold Schwarzenegger as Geppetto, Robin Williams as the Beige Fairy, and Bob Dylan as the title character. invoked According to Al Jean, Jon Lovitz didn't start out looking like Jay, but he eventually began to resemble him.
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The Critic / int_b8fb4944	type	Slow-Loading Internet Image
The Critic / int_b8fb4944	comment	Slow-Loading Internet Image: In the first webisode, Jay brags about "coming at you at the speed of light!" Pull back to show his legs still downloading.
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The Critic / int_b9934f78	type	Too Spicy for Yog-Sothoth
The Critic / int_b9934f78	comment	Too Spicyfor Yog Sothoth: Jay is sacrifced to a volcano god, which immediately spits him out and curses the island with 10 years of pestilence and plague.
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The Critic / int_b9f8c6f8	type	Sleeping Single
The Critic / int_b9f8c6f8	comment	Sleeping Single: In Franklin and Elenor's bedroom, it is shown that they sleep in separate beds.
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The Critic / int_ba236071	type	It Makes Sense in Context
The Critic / int_ba236071	comment	To put this in perspective - while training for a marathon, he tells Vlada that he's on a diet.
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The Critic / int_ba652cb	type	Video Wills
The Critic / int_ba652cb	comment	Video Wills: Franklin and Elenor prepared their own video will, which was presented to Jay and Margo after their possible death from a plane crash. Orson Welles also took part in it (and made sure to also include his "declaration of love" to Mrs. Pell's Fishsticks at the end). Even his ghost loves them. "Yes, oh, YES! They're even better when you're dead!"
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The Critic / int_bac26c8f	type	Serenade Your Lover
The Critic / int_bac26c8f	comment	Serenade Your Lover: See Romantic False Lead above.
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The Critic / int_bad22526	type	What If?
The Critic / int_bad22526	comment	What If?: ComicBookMovie.com made their own cast list for a live-action movie, if one was in the works.
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The Critic / int_bbbd7cd2	type	Publicity Stunt Relationship
The Critic / int_bbbd7cd2	comment	Publicity Stunt Relationship: In "All the Duke's Men", Duke Phillips announces in a press conference his marriage to June Lockhartnote Everybody's favorite TV mom in order to sway the female vote, as his adviser said they do not consider him a family man. This is lampshaded by a reporter at the conference.
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The Critic / int_bc21c08f	type	My Life Flashed Before My Eyes
The Critic / int_bc21c08f	comment	My Life Flashed Before My Eyes: When Jay is about to be shot, his life flashes before his eyes. We then flash back to a teenage Jay on the couch, in a suit, eating chips. Jay fondly remarks, "Ah, prom night."
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The Critic / int_bdbfd01c	type	Perfectly Cromulent Word
The Critic / int_bdbfd01c	comment	Perfectly Cromulent Word: Duke pays Noah Webster to put the words "Quyzbuk" (meaning "a big problem"), "Dukelicious", and "Duketastrophe" in the dictionary. Ignore the fact that Noah Webster has been dead since 1843. Notably, he did it just so he'd get a really high score in Scrabble. Also notable in that a seemingly random character uses the recently-invented "Quyzbuk" when talking to Jay later in that same episode. Describing Lorenzo's Oil.
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The Critic / int_be795a6c	type	Of Corset Hurts
The Critic / int_be795a6c	comment	Of Corset Hurts: Lampshaded by a maid pulling on corset strings, yelling, "Suck it in! Suck it in!" It's revealed to be Jay Sherman. The corset, however, is put on more like a straitjacket than a corset, with Jay's arms bound as well. He mutters, "I don't think this is right." The maid scoffs at this, puts a top hat on him, and boots him out of the room. And down a flight of stairs.
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The Critic / int_beb932ca	type	Big Applesauce
The Critic / int_beb932ca	comment	Big Applesauce: The series takes place in New York. Big Rotten Apple: It's not a flattering portrayal. note Oddly enough, the producers intended the show to be a "love letter" to New York City—where, ironically, the show got its lowest ratings from New York.
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The Critic / int_bf1255fa	type	Really Gets Around
The Critic / int_bf1255fa	comment	Really Gets Around: In "Dukerella", Randa says that her first day of working at Mattress in an Hour was exhausting; she had to deliver a mattress to Madonna's place... then another one... then another one... then ANOTHER one!
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The Critic / int_bf74d357	type	Ugly Guy, Hot Wife
The Critic / int_bf74d357	comment	Ugly Guy, Hot Girlfriend: Jay and Alice were an established couple during the second season. Jay being a short funny fat guy, with the beautiful southern belle Alice. Can be partially explained by her self esteem issues surrounding her sister, and her abusive unfaithful ex-husband. Jay being a sweetheart helps too. Explaining the girl from the Webisodes, however, is just way off. And even then, while Alice is considered "pretty" in canon, she's not stated to a bombshell like Olivia or her own sister Miranda. Despite being deemed as incredibly ugly and obese in the show, Jay's attracted several other women who clearly are out of his league, including his #1 fan and Olivia.
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The Critic / int_c2393191	type	Show Within a Show
The Critic / int_c2393191	comment	Show Within a Show: Coming Attractions, which featured the use of Ad Bumpers.
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The Critic / int_c25c7890	type	Fun with Acronyms
The Critic / int_c25c7890	comment	Fun with Acronyms: During a meeting with Hollywood agents:
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The Critic / int_c2c92862	type	Unwanted Spouse
The Critic / int_c2c92862	comment	Unwanted Spouse: Jay is a victim of this. His ex-wife Ardeth admitted to his face of regretting marrying him, during the wedding ceremony. In the episode "Marty's First Date", a flashback reveals how they met. She was a nurse and Jay was wrapped in bandages. She was so lovestruck by him that she was going to give up her job and marry him upon recovery. But when his bandages come off, she screamed like bloody murder! Also Alice's husband Cyrus. A country singer who titled his first album "I'm being unfaithful to my wife, Alice Tompkins. You heard me, Alice Tompkins."
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The Critic / int_c2cedc1c	type	Big "NO!"
The Critic / int_c2cedc1c	comment	Big "NO!": A flashback in the pilot shows a young Jay lying to a riding instructor about his weight in order to ride a horse. After Jay breaks the horse's back, the instructor lets out one of these. Jay does this twice in "Miserable" when his "#1 fan" cuts off all his hair and looks as if she was about to break both his feet with a sledgehammer.
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The Critic / int_c33ba0a8	type	Chuck Cunningham Syndrome
The Critic / int_c33ba0a8	comment	Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: The ENTIRE CAST (aside from Jay and briefly Vlada) vanish without a trace in the webisodes. This was probably a necessity of budget, as the webisodes were done on a shoestring and they couldn't afford to bring back the old voice cast. It is implied that Jay and Alice's relationship ended in a messy divorce, though, since he's single and hitting on his makeup lady.
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The Critic / int_c3bafbce	type	Satan
The Critic / int_c3bafbce	comment	Satan: Appears a few times. He takes credit for Marisa Tomei winning the Oscar, for one. He also is shown to be responsible for influencing the creation of really awful Hollywood screenplays, but admits that it's beyond even his power to give the cast of Wings another season. Also appears in an interview with Gene Siskel, disguised as a reviewer.
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The Critic / int_c3c1bca6	type	Spork
The Critic / int_c3c1bca6	comment	Spork: This cutlery is mentioned at least twice. A scene from the pilot. From the episode "Lady Hawke:" That might only provoke Jay.
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The Critic / int_c4b0faae	type	Can't Hold His Liquor
The Critic / int_c4b0faae	comment	Can't Hold His Liquor: Jay and Marty become affectionately drunk after splitting half a glass of wine.
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The Critic / int_c4d09d24	type	Couch Gag
The Critic / int_c4d09d24	comment	Couch Gag: The beginning of the opening credits where Jay wakes up to a phone call from someone with bad or weird news. In the FOX episodes, they also added in Jay waking up to an announcement on his clock radio. The opening credits also shows Jay on Coming Attractions showing a movie clip/parody (such as parodies of Raiders of the Lost Ark with the Nazis being knocked down like bowling pins by the boulder that Indiana Jones is running from, The Sound of Music where Julie Andrews is bumped into the camera and falls down a hill, a Fred and Ginger film where said actors are eaten by a colorized T-Rex, etc), to which Jay responds "It stinks!" The post-credits scene where an usher walks up to Jay and says, "Excuse me sir, the show's over." Jay's replies have been: (1) "Is the snack bar still open?" (2) "I'm stuck in the chair!" (3) "But I have nowhere to go." (4) "Get away, zitface!" (only used when the usher sounds like Jeremy (aka the Squeaky-Voiced Teen) from The Simpsons, such as in the pilot.) There's also an end credits sequence in the FOX episodes that shows Jay and Alice kissing during the credits. When the usher (a different one this time) tells the couple "Excuse me, the show's over," Alice retorts "Get away, pipsqueak!" and Jay tells the audience "That's why I love her!"
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The Critic / int_c52ac939	type	Helium Speech
The Critic / int_c52ac939	comment	Helium Speech: Principal Mangosuthu speaks in a helium voice in "From Chunk to Hunk" due to a helium leak in the school.
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The Critic / int_c64a7400	type	Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkeys
The Critic / int_c64a7400	comment	Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkeys: When a food fight occurs in Marty's school cafeteria, the French students immediately put their hands up and surrender, even though they did not participate.
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The Critic / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
The Critic / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Has its own page.
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The Critic / int_ca87e3ec	type	No Name Given
The Critic / int_ca87e3ec	comment	No Name Given: The woman that holds Jay hostage in "Miserable" is not given a name; she's unofficially referred to as "Jay's No. 1 Fan".
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The Critic / int_caa28b82	type	Cloudcuckoolander
The Critic / int_caa28b82	comment	Cloudcuckoolander: Franklin is too rich to be "crazy", so let's just call him 'eccentric'.
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The Critic / int_cb3fd288	type	Ad Bumpers
The Critic / int_cb3fd288	comment	Ad Bumpers: The original broadcast featured a shot of Jay in both the ABC ("Stay tuned after the commercials, you beer-swilling couch monkeys") and FOX ("You're watching FOX, where we can say the word 'boobies'!" ), ("You're watching Fox. Shame on you!") & ("The Critic will be right back, you TV addicted couch monkeys") runs.
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The Critic / int_cc3c365f	type	Goofy Print Underwear
The Critic / int_cc3c365f	comment	Goofy Print Underwear: Jay has pairs of underwear that include titles of (mostly) bad movies printed on the backside (they're studio promotional items he's been sent over the years). The best of these is Backdraft, but there's also Rear Window and For the Boys. Jay has a pair that says "Shaft (coming soon)". His socks also fall under this trope, as he shows Marty's class socks that read Tootsie and My Left Foot.
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The Critic / int_cc4b45f6	type	Word of God
The Critic / int_cc4b45f6	comment	invoked According to Al Jean, Jon Lovitz didn't start out looking like Jay, but he eventually began to resemble him.
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The Critic / int_cd8c578c	type	My Eyes Are Up Here
The Critic / int_cd8c578c	comment	My Eyes Are Up Here: Played literally straight (and a subversion of sorts) in the first episode.
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The Critic / int_cdac8795	type	Gene Hunting
The Critic / int_cdac8795	comment	Gene Hunting: Jay and Doris discover that Doris may be Jay's biological mother, only to find out that she isn't from a DNA test.
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The Critic / int_ce6555f0	type	Lighter and Softer
The Critic / int_ce6555f0	comment	Lighter and Softer: The second season was made over into this overall.
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The Critic / int_cef6a167	type	Second Place Is for Losers
The Critic / int_cef6a167	comment	Second Place Is for Losers: Duke's philosophy.
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The Critic / int_cff53786	type	Cover Version
The Critic / int_cff53786	comment	Cover Version: In Star Trek: Generation X, Captain Kirk sings "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head" in pure Shatner fashion.
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The Critic / int_d0883f7e	type	Broken Heel
The Critic / int_d0883f7e	comment	Broken Heel: This affects Jeremy upon meeting Margo in "Miserable".
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The Critic / int_d148b019	type	Mundane Made Awesome
The Critic / int_d148b019	comment	Mundane Made Awesome: The Drier Channel (which consists of only a single tennis shoe bouncing around in a tumbling front-loading drier machine with a clear window), one of the shows that routinely beats Coming Attractions in the ratings. Duke even admits (before he and Jay are mesmerized by the channel's actions) that people not only watch the channel, but they actively send it money to keep it on the air.
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The Critic / int_d1affec1	type	That Came Out Wrong
The Critic / int_d1affec1	comment	That Came Out Wrong: While Jay didn't realize it, his statement of "Hey, you don't understand! We Americans aren't like you Australians. It's not just about sex! We want to make love to our mothers!" had Jeremy understandably put off.
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The Critic / int_d2566b32	type	Hunting the Most Dangerous Game
The Critic / int_d2566b32	comment	Hunting the Most Dangerous Game: In one of the opening gags, Jay's boss Duke calls him, inviting Jay to his ranch upon the news that Duke has received a license to hunt man for sport. Jay is advised to bring his jogging shoes. Another episode has Franklin (dressed as the Energizer Bunny) being hunted by two men. When he desperately tries to tell them that he's not a real rabbit, one of them replies "we know" and continues to give him chase.
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The Critic / int_d295a79e	type	Just Here for Godzilla
The Critic / int_d295a79e	comment	Just Here for Godzilla: invoked From "Frankie and Ellie Get Lost":
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The Critic / int_d30dfd1c	type	Ridiculous Exchange Rates
The Critic / int_d30dfd1c	comment	Ridiculous Exchange Rates: In "Dr. Jay", Duke comments the French franc is "fancy-colored toilet paper".
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The Critic / int_d397657d	type	Hoist by His Own Petard
The Critic / int_d397657d	comment	Hoist by His Own Petard: Howard Payne arms his own book bomb in Speed Reading.
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The Critic / int_d7fc9fd0	type	Vitriolic Best Buds
The Critic / int_d7fc9fd0	comment	Vitriolic Best Buds: She becomes this with Jay in "Every Doris Has Her Day".
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The Critic / int_d939ad92	type	Audience Participation Failure
The Critic / int_d939ad92	comment	Audience Participation Failure: In "A Song for Margo":
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The Critic / int_d9486682	type	Adoption Diss
The Critic / int_d9486682	comment	Adoption Diss: The Shermans' family butler Shackleford isn't shy at making fun of Jay being adopted, referring to him as "Adopted Master Jay".
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The Critic / int_db212ca9	type	Did I Just Say That Out Loud?
The Critic / int_db212ca9	comment	Did I Just Say That Out Loud?: Olivia doesn't mind. She asks if he'd like her to cook naked for him. Jay's stomach approves (because, well, cooking). In the pilot, at the end of the Beauty and the Beast parody:
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The Critic / int_dbd68b08	type	Half-Witted Hillbilly
The Critic / int_dbd68b08	comment	Half-Witted Hillbilly: Discussed. Duke brings this up in one episode when he first meets Jay's new assistant Alice. Both of them speak with a southern accent, and he notes how Southerners have to work extra hard in New York because as soon as people hear them talk, they're immediately dismissed as illiterate, country bumpkins. In actuality, both of them subvert this trope since neither one is remotely dim, although Duke is very eccentric at times.
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The Critic / int_dc020791	type	It's Been Done
The Critic / int_dc020791	comment	It's Been Done: In "Uneasy Rider", the truckers complain that they were misled into thinking Ultimate Force would be an exciting action movie when it was instead a science documentary with Stephen Hawking, and wondered why there weren't a group of people who could warn moviegoers about bad movies. They went even farther: Said people could rank movies on a system, with good movies getting raised to the heavens, and bad movies being lowered sheepishly towards the earth.
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The Critic / int_dc115332	type	Scrubbing Off the Trauma
The Critic / int_dc115332	comment	Scrubbing Off the Trauma: Used humorously in the episode "Every Doris Has Her Day" by one of Jay's dates. It's implied that the mere act of being on a date with Jay was enough to cause this reaction.
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The Critic / int_dc42133c	type	File Photo Gag
The Critic / int_dc42133c	comment	File Photo Gag: Jay Sherman is no stranger to this trope. One of his most embarrassing "file photos" is of him in just his undergarments with his foot stuck in a toilet and his eyes having the "red eye" effect.
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The Critic / int_dd26fd14	type	Man of a Thousand Voices
The Critic / int_dd26fd14	comment	Man of a Thousand Voices: Maurice LaMarche does nearly all of the male background characters in the show (with the exception of a few done by Nick Jameson). In fact, one episode had him surpass The Simpsons as having the largest number of characters voiced by one person.
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The Critic / int_e034faef	type	Limited Animation
The Critic / int_e034faef	comment	Limited Animation: The webisodes, but to be fair, they were created in the early days of Adobe Flash and were on a much smaller budget than the TV series.
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The Critic / int_e085feeb	type	Broken Record
The Critic / int_e085feeb	comment	Broken Record: "Buy my BOOK! Buy my BOOK! Buy my BOOK!"
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The Critic / int_e1ec1b15	type	Make a Wish
The Critic / int_e1ec1b15	comment	Make a Wish: In the episode "Uneasy Rider", Marty points to a shooting star and asks Jay to make a wish. The scene then cuts to said star hitting and destroying a billboard advertising Ace Ventura with Jay exclaiming "Thank you, God" while driving past the scene.
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The Critic / int_e2d457	type	The Ditz
The Critic / int_e2d457	comment	The Ditz: The show portrays Dan Quayle as this.
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The Critic / int_e2e4edb2	type	Yiddish as a Second Language
The Critic / int_e2e4edb2	comment	Yiddish as a Second Language: Alice once said to Jay "Honey, we have a saying back in Tennessee: 'Be a mensch, not a schmendrick.'"
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The Critic / int_e32ce9e0	type	Award Snub
The Critic / int_e32ce9e0	comment	Award Snub: Discussed In-Universe in one of the webisodes. The quote is even used on the main page.
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The Critic / int_e43c66bd	type	Art Evolution
The Critic / int_e43c66bd	comment	Art Evolution: Most of the characters were given some slight updates to their character designs. Jay's changes are described above, while Margo went from realistically proportioned to completely stylized.
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The Critic / int_e4b4a89e	type	Athletically Challenged
The Critic / int_e4b4a89e	comment	Athletically Challenged: Jay's son, Marty, has put on an embarrassing performance at his school's field day. He fails in the group effort to squeeze a giant ball into a goal net, instead having the ball roll him over. He only manages to throw a ball only inches away from him in the long throw (being greatly outclassed by the Bulgarian girl he was competing with). And in the long jump, he somehow manages to go back a few feet. His lack of skills could be attributed to being fat and out-of-shape. Another episode has Marty participating in the President's Fitness Test and he couldn't even manage to do one sit-up.
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The Critic / int_e5421161	type	Expy
The Critic / int_e5421161	comment	Expy: Humphrey the Hippo. Barney does exist in Jay's universe, however — played by Marlon Brando. Duke Phillips is like Ted Turner. Franklin and Eleanor Sherman are named after Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, but they don't actually behave like them - though Eleanor's personality is definitely a nod to Katharine Hepburn. Jeremy Hawke is a mix of Paul Hogan, Russell Crowe and (pre-meltdown) Mel Gibson. His twin sister Olivia Newton Hawke is, of course, Olivia Newton-John.
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The Critic / int_e54227fc	type	Gasp!
The Critic / int_e54227fc	comment	Gasp!: Jay does this in the pilo. After giving actress Valerie Fox (who was also his girlfriend at the time) a negative performance review on Coming Attractions, he returns home hoping that she will still be there. It turns out she is — only for her to slap him multiple times, telling him "You're short, you're fat, and, even for a film critic, you're ugly" before leaving him. Jay lets out a long shocked gasp after this.
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The Critic / int_e6b5d22f	type	Catchphrase
The Critic / int_e6b5d22f	comment	One episode had Margo quoting the Catchphrase of Nancy Cartwright's most famous role:
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The Critic / int_e7cb46d3	type	Satellite Character
The Critic / int_e7cb46d3	comment	Satellite Character: Duke's aide.
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The Critic / int_e7dfebe8	type	I Have Boobs, You Must Obey!
The Critic / int_e7dfebe8	comment	I Have Boobs, You Must Obey!
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The Critic / int_e7fd5cdc	type	Brain Bleach
The Critic / int_e7fd5cdc	comment	Brain Bleach: In the second season, Doris starts revealing an attraction for Duke, and this often resulted in Duke having this kind of reaction. Later, Doris sends him a graphic nude photo of herself, which the audience sees (with Duke's fingers as the censor strip). Duke has a heart attack and cries for his pills. One webisode sees Jay at a Broadway production of The Graduate, featuring a much publicized nude scene with Kathleen Turner as Mrs. Robinson. Unfortunately, she was unavailable, and Jon Lovitz was her understudy, much to the audience's disgust. Jay is pleased.
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The Critic / int_e8e3807	type	Aside Glance
The Critic / int_e8e3807	comment	Aside Glance: In the second webisode, a clip from Mission: Impossible II is shown, where Ethan Hunt escapes various villains and gunfire, and then does his trademark toothy smile to the camera. Jay does one after cleaning the Public Library and accidentally knocking off the L, causing a crowd of people to rush in excited, only to quickly let out a depressed groan.
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The Critic / int_e9f517e1	type	Artistic License â€“ Geography
The Critic / int_e9f517e1	comment	Artistic License â€“ Geography: In case you want to know, in "Marty's First Date", the name of the Mexico City Airport in Real Life is Benito Juarez, not Linda Ronstadt. Very likely to be chalked up to the Rule of Funny.
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The Critic / int_ea5c413d	comment	In "A Song for Margo", Jay remarks that all the networks are pretty crummy, except for FOX, "the last bastion of quality programming". Then he salutes the logo in the bottom right of the screen. (See also Biting-the-Hand Humor above.)
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The Critic / int_eb7c34cf	comment	Crossover: With The Simpsons, on that series' season six episode "A Star Is Burns", the only episode not to have Matt Groening's name in the opening or closing credits (as Groening — and a lot of Simpsons fans — felt the crossover was an excuse to have the episode be little more than a 22-minute advertisement for a dueling show). This is lampshaded — just before Jay walks into the Simpsons' living room, Bart is watching The Jetsons Meet the Flintstones, and says he "smells another cheap cartoon cross-over". He then says that all kids should watch Jay's show, before shuddering and saying, "I feel so dirty!" Lampshaded again in this exchange towards the end: Jay also had a short cameo in season eight's "Hurricane Neddy" where he is a patient at a mental hospital, as his psychological state seems to have deteriorated to a point where he responds to everything with his Catchphrase, and he is also in season fifteen's "The Ziff Who Came to Dinner" as one of four characters at Moe's who have been voiced by Lovitz.
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The Critic / int_ec1d6a6f	comment	Baldness Mockery: Jay Sherman's baldness, in addition to his weight, is usually a source of derision from other characters. One episode even has his makeup lady, Doris, inconspicuously painting her name and phone number on the back of his head.
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The Critic / int_eca7a21d	comment	Song Parody: Two in a row in "Sherman, Woman & Child": First, Duke's mechanical bears sing parody lyrics to "Camptown Races", then in the next scene:
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The Critic / int_ed51d0	comment	That Russian Squat Dance: In "A Pig Boy And His Dog", Franklin does a cossack dance with James Stockdale, Ross Perot's running mate in the 1992 Presidential election.
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The Critic / int_eddf723f	type	Reviews Are the Gospel
The Critic / int_eddf723f	comment	Reviews Are the Gospel: Invoked in episode 4, "Miserable". A woman kidnaps Jay, so he can review movies for her. And she can tell which ones are good and which ones are bad because she likes every movie she sees and can't tell otherwise.
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The Critic / int_ef2b9e28	comment	Alternate Species Counterpart: The season 1 opening shows Jay and Marty visiting a zoo and seeing a pair of giant pandas that just happen to look exactly like the two of them. Both give a confused but polite wave in greeting, to which the Jay-ish panda responds with a wink.
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The Critic / int_ef37e995	comment	invokedPeriphery Hatedom: While the real Barney exists in-universe, Humphrey the Hippo serves as this universe's usual analogue to him. Jay's hatred of Humphrey figures into the B-plot of "A Little Deb Will Do Ya".
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The Critic / int_efef300	comment	It is implied that Jay and Alice's relationship ended in a messy divorce, though, since he's single and hitting on his makeup lady.
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The Critic / int_eff65ef6	comment	Chained to a Bed: In "Miserable", a female projectionist (a.k.a. Jay's no. 1 fan) drugs his glass of wine and ties him to her bed with strips of movie film.
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The Critic / int_f0a33354	comment	In "Uneasy Rider", Jay quits Coming Attractions and becomes a truck driver.
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The Critic / int_f15c2859	comment	No Indoor Voice: "Stop making yourself the CENTERRRR OF ATTENTIOOOON!!!"
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The Critic / int_f19e8a55	comment	Bad "Bad Acting": Valerie Fox in her film Kiss of Death. Ardeth also has a small part in Jay's terrible student film, which she doesn't get right:
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The Critic / int_f27ec906	comment	Identical Stranger: Jay had one in "Miserable".
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The Critic / int_f3aa6298	comment	Sealed with a Kiss: Jay and Alice at the end of the episode "Lady Hawke".
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The Critic / int_f5a90567	comment	Incredibly Conspicuous Drag: In "A Song for Margo", Jay remembers the time he had dinner with Cher. Turns out it was just a guy in drag, who didn't bother to shave or alter his voice.
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The Critic / int_f6b2319d	comment	Always a Live Transmission: Coming Attractions broadcasts live, allowing all kinds of antics (like the whole set catching on fire or Jay being attacked by a bear) to be seen all over the country.
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The Critic / int_f6b2bfb7	type	Gold Digger
The Critic / int_f6b2bfb7	comment	Gold Digger: Again, Alice's sister Miranda. She ends up marrying Duke.
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The Critic / int_f9cc3ee0	type	Group Hug
The Critic / int_f9cc3ee0	comment	Duke does admit that he knows Jay isn't gay, and just does it to tweak him. Unfortunately, when he and Jay have a Group Hug, Jay's content Squee disturbs him.
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The Critic / int_f9f2c33	type	Running Gag
The Critic / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: Duke always assuming Jay is gay. Duke does admit that he knows Jay isn't gay, and just does it to tweak him. Unfortunately, when he and Jay have a Group Hug, Jay's content Squee disturbs him. Jay's stomach having a mind of its own. Dumb college students who watch Coming Attractions, only to mock Jay. Jay sounding like an elderly British woman named "Ethel" and pretending to be his secretary, even having conversations with "her". This gag only appears in the first season. The Paparazzo who always appears to take a picture just at the most embarrassing time. Dudley Moore as Arthur Bach making a terrible joke while intoxicated. A minor one features a character shouting "[Plural noun] can't / don't [verb]!" in a panic. Such as Jay's "Eggs don't ripen! EGGS DON'T RIPEN!" and Franklin's "Penguins can't fly! PENGUINS CAN'T FLY!"
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The Critic / int_fa6c9370	comment	Three Stooges Shout-Out: One happens in the flashback in "Frankie And Ellie Get Lost", at Franklin and Eleanor's wedding.
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The Critic / int_faa71569	type	Romantic False Lead
The Critic / int_faa71569	comment	Romantic False Lead: Alice's adulterous ex-husband Cyrus who travels to New York to win her back. He sings to her in order to do so, which is Alice's weakness. ("Alice, you make any home a palace. Even Brooklyn would be Dallas, if I could be with you.") It almost works until Jay arrives playing an accordion and singing an obnoxious yet funny song of his own, snapping her out of it. Then Jay sings this song:Jay finally breaks the spell with this exchangeAfter making Cyrus leave, Alice finishes it
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The Critic / int_fb17af62	comment	Rhymes on a Dime: Shackleford's wordplay in "A Song for Margo". Heâ€™s even slightly redesigned to look like he stepped out of a Dr. Seuss book.
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The Critic / int_fb56b948	comment	My Sister Is Off-Limits: Inverted with Jeremy Hawke's sister Olivia. When Jeremy finds out his friend is dating her, he's worried that Olivia will leave Jay heartbroken because of her history of breaking up with her previous boyfriends.
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The Critic / int_fbd285b7	comment	Comically Missing the Point: In "Miserable":
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The Critic / int_fcadd0e3	comment	Impact Silhouette: In "Eye on the Prize", Jay returns from winning the Pulitzer to find Duke in his apartment.
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The Critic / int_fd5b9124	type	There Is a God!
The Critic / int_fd5b9124	comment	There Is a God!: When Jay Sherman became a trucker and took his son on a trip, Marty pointed out a shooting star, insisting his father make a wish. Jay thinks a moment, and said shooting star annihilates a billboard advertising Ace Ventura. Quote the critic, "Thank you, God!" Also another episode where a man was told to remove the title for a play because it was cancelled, the man says these exact words.
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The Critic / int_fd5f23a7	comment	Skyward Scream: William Shatner. Jay as a boy lies that he's less than 80 lbs. when about to ride a pony.
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The Critic / int_ff7f34c5	comment	Pet the Dog: Despite the fact that Ardeth was sleeping with the divorce court judge, he still forbade her from bothering any of Jay's girlfriends with spooky warnings or hexes. Not that it stops her. Also, even if Ardeth is genuinely disgusted by her time married to Jay, she admits that the two of them have done a good job raising their son.
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