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Sports Night
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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })The single camera dramedy about an ESPN-style sportscast (see SportsCenter) created and (mostly) written by Aaron Sorkin went off the air after just two seasons on ABC from 1998 to 2000, but it remains a cult favorite and an influential example of the form.The show's core cast consisted of Peter Krause (Six Feet Under, Parenthood) as Casey McCall, Josh Charles (Dead Poets Society and The Good Wife) as Dan Rydell, Felicity Huffman (Desperate Housewives) as Dana Whittaker, Sabrina Lloyd (Sliders) as Natalie Hurley, Joshua Malina (The West Wing) as Jeremy Goodwin and Robert Guillaume (Benson, Soap) as Isaac Jaffee, all of whom worked at a fictitious cable sports channel patterned after ESPN. (Characters on the show often referred to real-life athletes, teams, other television channels, Broadway musicals and various pop culture references in an attempt at verisimilitude.)Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_2'); })Most of the 22-minute episodes featured a similar pattern: Workplace banter that introduces the week's major problem or theme Slapstick gags or more banter that fulfilled the show's half-comedy billing A sudden twist into the serious realm at about the halfway mark One of the characters (usually Dana) flying off the handle for no good reason Primary plot problem resolution If subplot is present, a comedic or sentimental subplot resolution that points up a Double AesopDuring the first season, Sports Night employed a Laugh Track, with mixed results. Because Sorkin disliked the Laugh Track, it was gradually dialed down during the season, and disappears entirely for the second. At the beginning of season one, the Laugh Track points up the structure by cackling riotously for the first 12 minutes and then staying oddly silent throughout the latter acts.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_1'); })While the structure of the episodes were similar, Sports Night was written with wit and intelligence, and presented a number of non-cliché plot problems for the audience to think about. Even cliché plot problems — as when Jeremy dates a porn star in a Hooker with a Heart of Gold plot — were presented with true feeling for the characters and a deft touch that never felt cloying or aged. | |
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Adorkable | |
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Adorkable: Dana, especially when trying to tell a joke or dancing a dance of joy. | |
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Walk and Talk: Seeing as this is an Aaron Sorkin work this occurs at least Once per Episode. | |
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Cannot Tell a Joke: Dana. | |
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Right Behind Me: In "The Apology", Dan is supposed to be meeting with the CSC executives, but he's decided to make them wait. | |
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The Ghost | |
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The Ghost: Jeremy's sister, Louise; Casey's ex-wife; Isaac's wife; Dan's love interest's ex-husband, Steve Sisco | |
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Those Three Guys: Chris, Will, and Dave. | |
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Framing Device: Of a letter home (Day in the Life) ("Dear Louise…"). | |
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Ironic Echo: In the episode "Mary Pat Shelby", Casey criticizes Dana's handling of the interview with Christian Patrick by saying, "You handled a big thing badly." Near the end of the episode, when Dana realizes in trying to help Natalie, she screwed things up even more, so she goes to Isaac and tells him, "I did a big thing badly." Also in that episode, Dana asks Natalie if getting an interview with Christian Patrick is something she's inclined to joke about, and Natalie responds she doesn't think Dana is inclined to joke much about anything. At the very end of the episode, Dana apologizes to Natalie for everything that's happened, and if there's anything she can do. Natalie's response: "Tell me a joke." From the same episode, "how much do you love me right now?". First used by Isaac then Dana about getting the interview, later Natalie says it after telling the guy who sexually assaulted her what an asshole he is and that she's going to have him arrested. Dana actually does these a lot (plus or minus the irony), often picking up a phrase early in the episode from one character and repeating it to several others. | |
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Author Catchphrase: Titling the last episode of Season 1 "What Kind of Day Has It Been" — among others.note Sorkin later reused it for the subsequent first season finales of The West Wing and Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, the latter doubling as a series finale. It also came back as the title for the series finale of The Newsroom, only it was the third season. | |
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Millennium Bug | |
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Millennium Bug: "Kafelnikov" revolves around Jeremy believing that he has triggered this and shut off power to the whole floor. It turns out he incorrectly hit the "Panic" button.) | |
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Shipper on Deck: Natalie spends a lot of time cheerleading Dana and Casey's potential romance. | |
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Sorkin Relationship Moment | |
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Sorkin Relationship Moment | |
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Stock Footage | |
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Stock Footage: Used as the promos for the programs that are on after Sports Night. | |
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Smug Snake: J.J. the corporate executive comes off this way. | |
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Let's Get Dangerous! | |
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Let's Get Dangerous!: Natalie, in "Small Town". She spends a night filling in for Dana as the show's main producer and its a hell of a CMOA. | |
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Visit by Divorced Dad: "What Kind of Day Has It Been" | |
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I Take Offense to That Last One!: | |
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Spit Take | |
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Spit Take: Happens quite spectacularly when Dan gets writer's block and Natalie decides to cure it with shock therapy. | |
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Revenge of the Nerd | |
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Revenge of the Nerd: Bobbi Bernstein | |
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Talk About That Thing | |
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Talk About That Thing | |
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Premature Encapsulation | |
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Premature Encapsulation: The episode entitled "Kafelnikov" is the episode before the one where Dan can't pronounce Yevgeny Kafelnikov's name. | |
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Ivy League for Everyone | |
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Ivy League for Everyone Well, only Dan (Dartmouth) and Rebecca (UPenn Wharton) actually attended a school in the Ivy League as far as we know. But they're all highly educated. Casey graduated Phi Beta Kappa, Natalie attended Northwestern and Jeremy attended Amherst. | |
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Techno Babble: Jeremy, trying to come up with an explanation for why his Y2K fix caused the entire floor to lose power: Crossing into bad research territory, in the days before widespread internet access would make a gaffe like this noticeable (and possibly to get around actually having to deal with a real address), Dan ends a broadcast by saying: Which is easily an in-character goof (although you'd think someone would have ribbed him about it): Danny clearly means "CSC at sports night dot com", and just got "slash" and "at" mixed up. Or more likely sportsnight@csc.com, since CSC is the network and Sports Night is a show. It's also possibly not an email address; Dan could easily have meant csc.com/sportsnight (which would then have a contact page) and just gotten the order tangled up. Or it was the Internet equivalent of a 555 phone number: something that sounded vaguely like an email address, but wouldn't cause some innocent third party to be bombarded with fan mail. | |
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Everybody Is Single: | |
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Arc Words: Only for two or three episodes at the end of the run, but "Where are we going?" probably qualifies. | |
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Hooker with a Heart of Gold | |
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Hooker with a Heart of Gold: "Celebrities" and "The Local Weather" | |
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Real Life Writes the Plot | |
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Real Life Writes the Plot: Robert Guillaume suffered a stroke in Real Life, making acting difficult. Subsequently, an entire story arc was written involving Isaac Jaffee suffering a stroke, allowing Guillaume to stay off-camera for a while. Subsequent episodes upon Guillaume's return dealt with Jaffee's struggles to keep doing his job. | |
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Armor-Piercing Question | |
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Armor-Piercing Question: A relatively trivial example. The coach at Casey's alma mater calls a disastrous play, and Casey spends the next week making fun of him on air for it … until Gordon asks him "What play would you have called?" and he realizes he has no idea. | |
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Bait-and-Switch Tyrant | |
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Bait-and-Switch Tyrant: Sam Donovan. | |
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Soccer-Hating Americans | |
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Soccer-Hating Americans: Subverted: Dan has to talk about association football, but has absolutely no knowledge of the sport. When he challenges Natalie to name one team, Natalie and some extras list half a dozen on the Eastern Coast alone, revealing Dan as the only one in the office who doesn't follow the sport. | |
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Crossing into bad research territory, in the days before widespread internet access would make a gaffe like this noticeable (and possibly to get around actually having to deal with a real address), Dan ends a broadcast by saying: Which is easily an in-character goof (although you'd think someone would have ribbed him about it): Danny clearly means "CSC at sports night dot com", and just got "slash" and "at" mixed up. Or more likely sportsnight@csc.com, since CSC is the network and Sports Night is a show. It's also possibly not an email address; Dan could easily have meant csc.com/sportsnight (which would then have a contact page) and just gotten the order tangled up. Or it was the Internet equivalent of a 555 phone number: something that sounded vaguely like an email address, but wouldn't cause some innocent third party to be bombarded with fan mail. | |
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Welcome Episode | |
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Welcome Episode: "Pilot", with Jeremy as the new guy. | |
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Doesn't Like Guns | |
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Doesn't Like Guns: In "Dana Get Your Gun", we learn that Dana fervently hates guns; in fact she's a member of the Anti-Handgun Coalition. So her opinion of Sam drops a couple of pegs when he admires the musket she's inherited. Turns out he's a member of the same coalition, and there's a big difference in his mind between someone in the 20th century who buys a handgun just to be macho and redneck, and someone who made a musket in The Amerian Revolution to fight off the British. | |
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Deadpan Snarker | |
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Deadpan Snarker: It's Sorkin, so everyone. But especially Dan. | |
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Take That! | |
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Take That!: In the series finale, the new owner of CSC says "Anybody who can't make money off of Sports Night should get out of the money-making business." Take that, ABC! | |
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DoubleStandard | |
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Double Standard: Dana and Casey really like each other in the first season, but neither is ready to try and make it work. So Dana starts dating Gordon, which drives Casey crazy but everyone tells him to suck it up and deal and let her be happy. Later, Casey has a casual relationship (i.e. just sex) with Sally and most of the characters treat it as a massive betrayal of the now engaged-to-Gordon Dana (who doesn't like this woman, mainly because she always flirts with Casey). There's a bit more to it than this. Sally is constantly undermining Dana and her show and is actively after her job. | |
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Executive Meddling: Portrayed at several points (often as Reality Subtext). invoked | |
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Jerkass with a Heart of Gold: Sam Donovan turns out to be one. | |
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Set Behind the Scenes of Sports Night. | |
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Second Place Is for Losers | |
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Second Place Is for Losers: Sports Night is always concerned about being the third-place show. "It's not like we're those chumps in fourth place. Bunch of losers!" | |
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Writers Cannot Do Math | |
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Writers Cannot Do Math: Jeremy guesses Natalie's six-character email password, and Dana, shocked, remarks that there are five thousand possible passwords of that length; Jeremy corrects her and says that there are "fourteen thousand, two hundred and some change." While we don't know what characters are valid for passwords in their email system, even a case insensitive password of just letters and numbers would have 366, or almost 2.2 million possibilities. | |
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Reasonable Authority Figure | |
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Reasonable Authority Figure: Isaac has got his employees' back. | |
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Indy Ploy | |
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Indy Ploy: "Napoleon's Battle Plan". | |
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Artistic License – Sports | |
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Artistic License – Sports: Cricket enthusiast Aaron Sorkin included a line that in a Test (International) match, one of the bowlers had achieved the remarkable feat of taking all 10 wickets in a single innings (a feat only achieved twice in history — Jim Laker in 1956 and Anil Kumble in 1999), and compared it to a baseball pitcher throwing "three straight perfect games." Whether that comparison is valid, the professional sports commentators can't understand how the bowler could have conceded any runs while doing this (which would be, in cricketing terms, a virtually miraculous occurrence). Even with absolutely no knowledge of the rules of cricket, you'd presume they'd realise that the standards of scoring in the two games were rather different. | |
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He Who Must Not Be Seen | |
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He Who Must Not Be Seen: Luther Sachs, owner of Continental Corp and, by extension, Continental Sports Channel (CSC) | |
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Suspiciously Specific Denial: When Jeremy expresses concern for Casey (because of Casey's bizarre insistence that there is a fly in the studio that nobody else can see, among other things), Casey assures him that everything is fine. Casey then says, "I'm not obsessed with Dana," when Jeremy never even mentioned Dana. | |
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Geeky Turn-On | |
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Geeky Turn-On: Natalie tells Jeremy that when he talks "computer talk," they're having phone sex. | |
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Bromance | |
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Bromance: In the commentary for the series finale, Aaron Sorkin says, after a particularly emotional moment between Casey and Dan: "There's a lot of love affairs on this show, not just Felicity Huffman and Peter Krause, but these two." | |
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Forgotten Anniversary | |
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Forgotten Anniversary: In "Thespis", Casey forgets his and Dan's first broadcast. | |
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Running Gag: Danny saying that some sport or another is "The Sport of Kings", only to be reminded that the sport of kings is really horse racing. Jeremy also has a running gag of commenting on the fact that he is, at this moment, talking to himself in an empty room. | |
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Romantic False Lead | |
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Romantic False Lead: Jenny and Pixley. Gordon, as well. | |
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Will They or Won't They? | |
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Will They or Won't They?: Dana and Casey. Resolved in the second season when they have a great kiss and almost start dating in the first few episodes, but don't because Dana has a "plan" and Casey actually moves on by mid-season. | |
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Brick Joke | |
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Brick Joke: Dana's frozen turkey in "Thespis", which she's thawing out in the lighting grid. It crashes onto the news desk halfway through the episode. | |
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