History Series / BosomBuddies

* CanadaEh: "Buffy" and "Hildegarde" introduce themselves to the people of the hotel claiming to be from Saskatchewan. Their description of their upbringing is wildly inaccurate [[spoiler:because they're actually from Ohio]].[[note]]For example, they claim that they knew lumberjacks in the province; Saskatchewan is almost entirely flat prairie land.[[/note]]
** In the second episode, there was a female resident who denounced the duo as tramps; she claims that she could tell because she 'was' a tramp. Following Kip and Henry's acceptance, she denounces Canadian girls as tramps - guess how she could tell.

A SitCom starring Creator/TomHanks and Creator/PeterScolari that ran on Creator/{{ABC|US}} from 1980 to 1982.

* WalkOnTheWildSideEpisode: Inverted - after dropping a water balloon on a car belonging to ''Richard Nixon'' and getting visited by the Secret Service, Kip not only decides to cut out pranking but becomes decidedly humorless and anti-fun until his friends [[WeWantOurJerkBack get him to snap out of it]].

A SitCom starring Creator/TomHanks and Creator/PeterScolari that ran on Creator/{{ABC}} from 1980 to 1982.

* WalkOnTheWildSideEpisode: Inverted - after dropping a water balloon on a car belonging to ''Richard Nixon'' and getting visited by the Secret Service, Kip not only decides to cut out pranking but becomes decidedly humorless and anti-fun until his friends get him to snap out of it.

[[caption-width-right:280:Creator/TomHanks and Peter Scolari as "Buffy" and "Hildy".]]

Hanks and Scolari were the only male members of the regular cast, which included Wendie Jo Sperber as friend and SecretKeeper Amy, Donna Dixon as Kip's love interest Sonny, Creator/TelmaHopkins as hotel manager Isabelle, and Creator/HollandTaylor as Kip and Henry's overbearing boss Ruth.

* CanadaEh: "Buffy" and "Hildegarde" introduce themselves to the people of the hotel claiming to be from Saskatchewan. Their description of their upbringing is wildly inaccurate.

A SitCom starring Creator/TomHanks and Peter Scolari that ran on Creator/{{ABC}} from 1980 to 1982.

* DisguisedInDrag: Series premise.

Hanks and Scolari were the only male members of the regular cast, which included Wendie Jo Sperber as friend and SecretKeeper Amy, Donna Dixon as Kip's love interest Sonny, Telma Hopkins as hotel manager Isabelle, and Creator/HollandTaylor as Kip and Henry's overbearing boss Ruth.

Hanks and Scolari were the only male members of the regular cast, which included Wendie Jo Sperber as friend and SecretKeeper Amy, Donna Dixon as Kip's love interest Sonny, Telma Hopkins as hotel manager Isabelle, and Holland Taylor as Kip and Henry's overbearing boss Ruth.

* TheArtifact: The whole DisguisedInDrag premise became this by the second season. Only two stories had anything to do with this premise, and many episodes did without it completely.

* TheArtifact: The whole DisguisedInDrag premise became this by the second season. Many episodes did without it completely.

Hanks and Scolari were the only male members of the regular cast, which included Wendie Jo Sperber as friend and SecretKeeper Amy, Donna Dixon as Kip's love interest Sonny, Telma Hopkins as hotel manager Isabelle, and Holland Taylor as Ruth, Kip and Henry's overbearing boss.

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[[caption-width-right:330:Creator/TomHanks and Peter Scolari as "Buffy" and "Hildy."]]

* RealSongThemeTune: Creator/BillyJoel's "My Life", albeit a re-recorded version with a different vocalist.

The series premise has struggling NYC ad men [[BuddyPicture Kip and Henry]] trying to move into the Susan B. Anthony Hotel due to its dirt-cheap rent. But since it's a women-only hotel, they disguise themselves as "Buffy and Hildegarde," supposedly Kip and Henry's sisters.

As the show went on, this DisguisedInDrag premise moved increasingly into the background. In the second season, the entire recurring cast knows Kip and Henry's secret (though they continue to live in the hotel and pose as women for the other residents.) There was also a shift to focus more on the WorkCom aspects of Kip and Henry in the advertising business, and in general on Hanks and Scolari's chemistry as a (conventionally-dressed) comedic duo.

* WholesomeCrossdresser: Kip and Henry.

* TheCastShowoff:
** Isabelle the most often to demonstrate Telma Hopkins's singing voice.
** During the telethon episode, Hanks and Scolari demonstrated their juggling talents.

'''Kip:''' See? It's all perfectly normal!\\
-- OpeningNarration

A SitCom starring Creator/TomHanks and [[LesserStar Peter Scolari]] that ran on Creator/{{ABC}} from 1980 to 1982.

* TheCastShowOff: Isabelle the most often to demonstrate Telma Hopkins's singing voice.