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Wunza Plot
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Also known as "One's a..." Plot. Many TV shows are based around a High Concept — a simple, intriguing premise that can be explained in one or two sentences — a "hook" which attracts the interest of everyone from producers to advertisers to viewers. One very common way to get a build a high concept is to take two characters who are very different from each other, quirky, or somehow odd, and then team them up to accomplish some objective. In 'the Biz' this is called a "Wunza plot". Put in its simplest form, a Wunza Plot is "One's a [X]; one's a [Y]. Together they [Objective Z]" note Hence, the name: "One's a" = "Wunza" Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })Oddly, even the most bizarre premises can end up rather mundane in execution, with the strange characters — despite initial weirdness — ending up in fairly stock show formats like workplace comedies/dramas, quirky sitcom family hijinks, or, yes, fighting crime as private detectives or freelance do-gooders. Animation obviously has great potential for silliness, especially if it's an Animated Adaptation of a live-action show. A silly premise isn't always fatal, and the mention of a series below is not necessarily a criticism. With the right casting and writing, some shows which sound totally ridiculous have been hugely successful and even critically acclaimed. See also In a World.... Compare and contrast with Odd Couple. A necessary ingredient of They Fight Crime!. Not to be confused with Kudzu Plot. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_2'); })Examples: |
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Spin-off series Girls Next Door: One's a victorious (and single) modern Fairy Tale heroine the other a retired (and engaged) opera singer they share an apartment and try to keep their stalkers away. | |
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Dark Angel doesn't fall under this trope so much as leap into it headfirst from the roof of the Space Needle: | |
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Psych: A devious young man with uncanny detective skills pretends to be psychic in order to solve mysteries. With his nerdy, put-upon Black Best Friend. | |
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The Sookie Stackhouse Mysteries: She's a luscious, highly desirable telepathic barmaid. He's a vampire suffering from anachronistic attitudes. | |
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Whose Line Is It Anyway? had a game revolving around this trope. The performers had to act/sing the opening sequence of a comedy whose title was supplied by the audience. Some of the fictional comedies: Napoleon and the Bartender Satan and the Schoolgirl Travel agent and Tom Jones Bea Arthur and Brad Pitt Tyson and Lincoln Hilary and Monica Bill Cosby and Hitl... the Insurance Salesman |
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Metal Wolf Chaos: He's the President of the United States, she's his secretary. They fight The Evil Army and the Vice President using a Humongous Mecha and Burning American Freedom. | |
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Sam & Max: Freelance Police: One's a dog. The other's a hyperkinetic lagomorph. They Fight Crime! | |
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Referenced in The Sandman: Matthew (a servant of Morpheus who happens to be a raven who used to be a man) describes his brief adventure with the Corinthian (a serial killer with fanged mouths in place of eyes) as being "like a bad TV show." Borders on a Lampshade Hanging, except that unlike most of these examples, the weird team-up was only a small part of a much larger story. | |
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In Scrubs after JD notes that hospital lawyer Ted and The Janitor should get their own sitcom, he has an imagine spot of them having having one called Legal Custodians, in which they adopt and raise a child together.note For more information see the Quotes page | |
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The Big Bang Theory: From Howard and Raj's crossover song about The Mighty Thor vs. Indiana Jones: | |
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Tiger & Bunny: A down-on-his-luck, goofy single father and an icy-cold pretty-boy upstart are paired together as a corporate-sponsored superhero duo. They Fight Crime!. | |
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Alan Partridge follows this trope faithfully with the majority of the ideas he pitches to a senior BBC executive for new shows. | |
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Heroes for Hire: A (black) Harlem street fighter who's bullet-proof and a (white) multi-millionaire who's been classically trained in Kung-Fu. Together, They Fight Crime! (for hire)! | |
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Agents of Cracked. One's a mentally-unfortunate, possibly magic, pansexual judge with Hammer Space, the other is... pretty much Charlie Brown. Together, They Write Jokes! | |
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In American Dad!, Steve and Roger attempt to come up with their own detective team, "Wheels and the Legman", but bicker over who gets to be in the wheelchair, try to outdo each other for interesting backstories, and eventually split up into rival agencies and hire their own partners, including Roger's "Wheels and the Angel" ("One's a wheelchair-bound detective, the other's an angel who has to solve 100 cases to get back into Heaven!"). | |
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The Middleman Superhero with android secretary hires art student with crazed activist roommate as Side Kick and heir apparent. | |
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The premise of Dirty Pair in which the impulsive tomboyish Kei is paired up with the more cerebral and mannered Yuri. Of course it's all right since They Fight Crime!... | |
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They're Pinky and the Brain. One is a genius. The other's insane. To prove their mousey worth, they'll overthrow the Earth. | |
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Zootopia: She's a bold rabbit police officer who wants to prove herself. He's a cunning fox Con Artist. Together, they solve a mystery of a missing otter and later thwart a conspiracy intent on inflaming historic tensions between predator and prey for political power. | |
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Being Human: A nerdy werewolf, a charismatic vampire and a sexy ghost are roomates. They try to have a normal life. | |
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Kim Possible. She is the popular cheerleader. He is the under achiever who has no friends. Together they fight crime, and she'd better be home before 10. | |
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The original concept of Roommates was: One's an irredeemable Fair Folk Trickster the other is an obsessive Mad Artist Gadgeteer Genius they are drowning their sorrows together. Later: They share the same apartment. Spin-off series Girls Next Door: One's a victorious (and single) modern Fairy Tale heroine the other a retired (and engaged) opera singer they share an apartment and try to keep their stalkers away. |
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Constantly parodied in Mystery Science Theater 3000 when reading the title credits for the movies they watch. e.g. Tom: "Body Care and Grooming! They're cops!" "He's a cop. He's a rabbi. They're cops! Except for the rabbi." |
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The Rush Hour trilogy. According to Roger Ebert, "Wunza legendary detective from Hong Kong, and wunza Los Angeles cop. And wunza Chinese guy, and wunza black guy. And wunza martial arts expert and wunza wisecracking showboat. Neither wunza original casting idea, but together, they make an entertaining team." | |
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Saint Young Men: Buddha and Jesus share an apartment in Japan. They do ordinary day-to-day stuff. | |
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Duplicity: On its movie poster - "She's ex-Cia. He's ex-MI-5, together they are stealing a fortune." She is Julia Roberts, he is Clive Owen. | |
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Life On Mars: He's a cop from The Noughties. He's a cop from The '70s. They fi-- ...oh. | |
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Scarecrow and Mrs. King': He's a spy; she's an everyday housewife. Together, they ...do spy-ish things. | |
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Angel and the Ape ('60s comic book with revivals in the '80s and '00s): She's a gorgeous super-sleuth who speaks thirteen languages and knows karate. He's a comic book artist who happens to be a talking gorilla. They Fight Crime!! | |
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The Gotrek and Felix novels, set in the Warhammer world, began life in very much this way. One's a massively-muscled, shaven-headed, axe-wielding Dwarf in search of a glorious death, the other's a ne'er-do-well poet, minor political agitator and the son of an Altdorf wool merchant. Together they fight... well, anything and everything they can really - glorious deaths are hard to find when you're as good at fighting as Gotrek Gurnisson. The only thing keeping them together, or so Felix says, is a drunken oath Felix swore many years ago to record Gotrek's doom in an epic poem (and Dwarfs take both oathing and drinking very, very seriously). In fact Felix often muses on the situation he's found himself in, and wonders whether he really could go back to a different life if Gotrek did eventually meet his doom, so long have they been adventuring together. | |
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Person of Interest: One's a programming genius. The other's a former CIA agent. They Fight Crime!... that the government doesn't care about. | |
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Blood Ties: She's a Canadian police detective who is slowly losing her sight. He's a vampire. They fight crime! | |
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The Johnny Wander short story "Ponycop" parodies this trope. | |
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The Mediochre Q Seth Series. One's a 400-year-old dracologist with superpowers. One's a 17-year-old Muggle girl. They go on adventures, usually accompanied by a Badass Normal gunman and a stoic Dhampir. | |
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The Sylvester and Tweety Mysteries. | |
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Friends featured the example of 'Mac & Cheese' (Joey's starring role)- one's a hard-boiled detective, one's a robot. They fight crime. | |
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Kamen Rider Double even uses this type of narration in the opening of The Movie: | |
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Before they became a couple in canon (and then broke up), Star Trek: The Next Generation novels sometimes partnered Troi and Worf in whodunnits. She's an empathic psychologist! He's a Proud Warrior Race Guy! They fight crime! | |
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