History Series / HoleyMoley

-->-- '''Rob Riggle'''

All of the contestants seek the coveted $25,000 grand prize, along with a snazzy plaid jacket and golden putter. With two [[LargeHamAnnouncer large ham announcers]], Joe Tessitore and Creator/RobRiggle providing cheesy commentary and a lot of self-deprecating humor about contestants and the game, it values fun and camaraderie above all else.

!!This series contains examples of:

* WTHCastingAgency: Invoked in ''3D in 2D''. One episode was a "family night" where all the one-on-one match-ups in the first round were related to each other, such as being siblings or engaged... except one pair, who were total strangers who happened to have the same last name. Joe and Rob were visibly confused on realizing this, and commented that someone in Casting was about to be fired.

* SpiritualSuccessor: To ''Series/{{Wipeout}}''. ''Holey Moley'' is actually filmed in the same location ''Wipeout'' was, the Sable Ranch in Santa Clarita, California (''Wipeout did make a comeback, though on TBS'').

** Rob considers himself [[TheFaceOfTheBand the star]] of ''Holey Moley'', when that honor technically belongs to the chief producer of the show, Stephen Curry. When ''Fore-Ever!'' tries to drop Riggle from the brand, he fears that the show is in serious peril and calls upon the Muppets for help.

* LongTitle: ''The Sequel'' concluded with extra retrospective episodes called ''Holey Moley II: The Sequel: The Special: [[ColonCancer Unhinged: Part]] One/[[GratuitousFrench Deux]]''. The hosts mock and complain about the name throughout both specials, and a few times they sarcastically rattled off ''even longer'' names.

* SuddenDeath: Comes into play if two or three golfers tie each other's stroke counts, resulting in each golfer attempting a six-foot putt to the hole as a tiebreaker. Some holes like the Distractor, Tee'd Off, and the Tomb of Nefer-Tee-Tee are in a Sudden Death format to begin with.

* MythologyGag: Joe and Rob wear the same yellow jackets as that ABC's 1970s sports commentators did in shows like ''Series/WideWorldOfSports''. ''3D in 2D'' makes another reference with a ski-jump-themed hole called Agony of Defeat, referring to the famous line from ''Wide World''[='s=] opening and accompanying clip of a ski jump wipeout.

* {{Corpsing}}: The commentators crack up at the silliness of the show fairly frequently. Joe tends to break into laughter more often, if only because Rob is the more likely of the two to ad-lib a one-liner that would set it off.

-->'''Rob:''' ''[after a ball gets caught in a tunnel]'' Did it get stuck in Uranus? Can somebody reach up in Uranus and get it? ''[Joe starts {{Corpsing}} and tries to compose himself]'' Well, I just don't want Uranus to get clogged. Especially this early!

* MuppetCameo: The big selling point of ''Fore-Ever!'' is that the Muppets are on the show. They don't appear on the course or during competition, however; their appearances are relegated to meta-heavy skits in which Rob Riggle attempts to recruit the Muppets to help him save ''Holey Moley'' from cancellation.

* EmbarrassingNickname: A contestant in ''Fore-Ever'' went by the nickname of "Slick Rick", which was also used as his subtitle on the tournament bracket. However, in both round 1 ''and'' round 2 he slipped and fell, causing the commentators to start calling him ''Slip'' Rick instead, and even his bracket subtitle changed to Slip Rick to add further insult. He slipped ''again'' during round 3, thus invoking comments of "classic Slip Rick".

* Pinball as a "game of chance" Holy moly has a modern example of this on one of the holes. (name is copied directly from the 'Forgotten Trope' page, but has no page of its own)

* DisproportionateRetribution: A contestant on King Parthur's Court wedged himself between the horse and the wall to avoid falling in the water. A judge then came on to inform the contestant that he did fall off the horse and would incur the one-stroke penalty. Throughout this, Joe and Rob invoked the trope by encouraging the contestant to punch or kill the judge.