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* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Oscar, the neighbor with the strange anecdotes and goofy but often good advice.
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** Motif is often pretty... disconnected to reality.
** Oscar, the neighbor with the strange anecdotes and goofy but often good advice.
** Motif is often pretty... disconnected to reality.
** Oscar, the neighbor with the strange anecdotes and goofy but often good advice.
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* HaveIMentionedImSexuallyActiveToday: A RareFemaleExample in Jane:
-->'''Jane:''' "Must be time to take my birth control... for sex!"
-->'''Jane:''' "Must be time to take my birth control... for sex!"
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* ImagineSpot: Motif has one when someone asks him how he thought birth control works. Turns out, he thought the pill functions like the gun in ''VideoGame/SpaceInvaders'' and shoots the incoming sperm.
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* NoOntologicalInertia: "In the Name of the Mother, and the Son and the Holy Andre" reveals that Andre's acne medication is what causes him to be... Andre. He stops taking it and becomes a productive member of society, getting a FanservicePack in the process.
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* NoOntologicalInertia: "In the Name of the Mother, and the Son and the Holy Andre" reveals that Andre's acne medication is what causes him to be... Andre. He stops taking it and becomes a productive member of society, getting a FanservicePack in the process. If TheStinger is to be believed, after a week's time he's turned into a completely ripped guy who looks nothing like Andre.
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* SideEffectsInclude: Jazzapram, a birth control pill, has side-effects that include "Unmanageable hair, haplessness, cartoonishness, and an inability to know when to leave a room." In other words, being Andre.
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* GirlOfTheWeek: No characters are shown to have a recurring paramour from episode to episode.
* GoneHorriblyRight: John thinks praying that his mom not finding out he doesn't attend church went horribly right... by having the priest giving the sermon die, thus being replaced by another priest who resembles the one John made up in the stories he told his mother.
* GoneHorriblyRight: John thinks praying that his mom not finding out he doesn't attend church went horribly right... by having the priest giving the sermon die, thus being replaced by another priest who resembles the one John made up in the stories he told his mother.
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* NoOntologicalInertia: "In the Name of the Mother, and the Son and the Holy Andre" reveals that Andre's acne medication is what causes him to be... Andre. He stops taking it and becomes a productive member of society, getting a FanservicePack in the process.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Motif. His real name is [[spoiler: Gerald]].
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Motif. His real name is [[spoiler: Gerald]].
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* StrawFeminist: Jane's GuyOfTheWeek in "In the Name of the Mother, and the Son and the Holy Andre." He's a lawyer fighting for women's reproductive rights... but only because he doesn't like to wear condoms.
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''Mulaney'' is a 2014 comedy airing on the Creator/{{Fox}} network. It centers around comedian John Mulaney (played by comedian [[TheDanza John Mulaney]]) getting the opportunity of the lifetime when he's chosen as a writer for legendary comic Lou Cannon (Martin Short). The cast is rounded out by John's best friend and fellow comedian Motif, female roommate Jane, TheFriendNobodyLikes Andre, and their neighbor Oscar.
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''Mulaney'' is a 2014 comedy airing on the Creator/{{Fox}} network. It centers around comedian John Mulaney (played by comedian [[TheDanza John Mulaney]]) getting the opportunity of the lifetime when he's chosen as a writer for legendary comic Lou Cannon (Martin Short). The cast is rounded out by John's best friend and fellow comedian Motif, female angry roommate Jane, TheFriendNobodyLikes Andre, and their neighbor Oscar.
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* FriendVersusLover: The primary plot of "Sweet Jane." Jane has a tendency to dislike John's girlfriends, which sets off the plot.
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* {{Calvinball}}: Celebrity You-Guessed-It makes no sense. John asking how the game works has become a running gag. Even Mary Jo, who runs the show, says it makes no sense.
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* {{Calvinball}}: Celebrity You-Guessed-It ''Celebrity You-Guessed-It'' makes no sense. John asking how the game works has become a running gag. Even Mary Jo, who runs the show, says it makes no sense.
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* GenreSavvy: John learned how to date from 90's sitcoms, and has styled his dating persona after Ross from ''Series/{{Friends}}''.
* PopculturalOsmosisFailure: Motif never watched ''Series/{{Friends}}'', so he didn't get a lot of John's references to it. As Mulaney says, it was largely "for us, by us" (meaning white people).
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* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: It's described as a semi-autobiographical look at John's life.
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* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: It's described as a semi-autobiographical look at John's life.life.
* WrongGenreSavvy: After binging on ''Series/{{Friends}}'', Motif sees everything though the lens of the show and winds up giving John some lousy advice.
* WrongGenreSavvy: After binging on ''Series/{{Friends}}'', Motif sees everything though the lens of the show and winds up giving John some lousy advice.
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* StudioAudience: As Creator/IceT mentions before every episode, the show was filmed before a live studio audience.
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* PlatonicLifePartners: John and Jane. They've known each other since at least college. for over eight years and never came close to dating.
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* FallbackMarriagePact: Jane reveals that John is her backup guy, in case she's ever old and desperate.
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* AscendedMeme: John's GirlOfTheWeek in "Sweet Jane" saying that she defended him when people said he was ripping off Seinfeld is a reference to RealLife detractors to the show saying the same.
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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Jane gives one to John in "Sweet Jane" insulting him as a lover when he implies she's jealous of him.
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* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Oscar, the neighbor with the strange anecdotes and goofy but often good advice.
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* {{Squick}}: InUniverse, childbirth is this for John. Kind of an issue when he's dating a woman who's essentially a midwife.
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* ButtMonkey: Things never go well for Andre.
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* {{Calvinball}}: Celebrity You-Guessed-It makes no sense. John asking how the game works has become a running gag. Even Mary Jo, who runs the show, says it makes no sense.
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* ItsAllAboutMe: To say Lou is self-centered would be a drastic understatement.
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* CrappyHolidays: Lou feels like people aren't scared of Halloween anymore, so he fires people on Halloween. [[spoiler: He hates Halloween because it's when his parents got divorced so he tries to make other people hate it as well]].
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* HalloweenEpisode: The aptly titled "Halloween."
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* MagicalQueer: John's neighbor Oscar dishes out welcome life advice to John, helping him make a career decision in the Pilot.
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* MagicalQueer: John's neighbor Oscar dishes out welcome life advice to John, helping him make a career decision in the Pilot.Pilot and relationship advice in the following episode.
* MythologyGag: Creator/IceT does the "this show was filmed before a live studio audience" reading, which is a call back to John Mulaney's famous joke involving Ice in ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit''.
* MythologyGag: Creator/IceT does the "this show was filmed before a live studio audience" reading, which is a call back to John Mulaney's famous joke involving Ice in ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit''.
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* IJustWantToHaveFriends: Andre. When Jane says she'll do anything to get her ex-BF's password, he chose "let me hang out in your apartment with you guys." The second episode sees him carry up heavy appliances and furniture on his own for them.
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The gang trying to get the air conditioning through a window is treated like a childbirth.
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* RecycledScript: The stand up segments use jokes from John Mulaney's ''New In Town'' act almost verbatim, and many of the jokes on the show are adaptations of jokes from the act, sometimes awkwardly added to conversation.
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* MagicalQueer: John's neighbor Oscar dishes out welcome life advice to John, helping him make a career decision in the Pilot.
* NobodyOverFiftyIsGay: Averted, Oscar is an older gay man.
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* PsychoExGirlfriend: Jane. Her ex-boyfriend has taken to calling her "crazy bitch" and... well, he doesn't seem to be terribly wrong.
* RecycledScript: The stand up segments use jokes from John Mulaney's ''New In Town'' act almost verbatim, and many of the jokes on the show are adaptations of jokes from the act, sometimes awkwardly added to conversation.
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* BreakingTheFourthWall: Much like ''Seinfeld'', there are sequences of Mulaney performing standup. Unlike ''Seinfeld'', which could have been InUniverse, these take place on the set.
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The trailer for the series can be seen [[http://www.hulu.com/watch/635052#i0,p6,d1 here]].
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''Mulaney'' is a 2014 comedy airing on the Creator/{{Fox}} network. It centers around comedian John Mulaney (played by comedian [[TheDanza John Mulaney]]) getting the opportunity of the lifetime when he's chosen as a writer for legendary comic Lou Cannon (Martin Short). The cast is rounded out by John's best friend and fellow comedian Motif, female roommate Jane, TheFriendNobodyLikes Andre, and their neighbor Oscar.
Produced by Lorne Michaels of ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' fame. Mulaney was formerly a writer for the show and Short was an actor, though all three never overlapped at once.
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!!This Series Provides Examples Of:
* BlackBestFriend: Motif, John's best friend. Hipper and luckier with the ladies than Mulaney.
* BrilliantButLazy: Apparently John in school, his grades were fine but he always got a low "effort" grade, which bothered his mother.
* CharacterTitle: Much like Series/{{Seinfeld}} before it
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: No one likes Andre.
--> '''John''': "Bad news guys, it's Andre!"
* InnocentCohabitation: Jane begins the series with two male roommates with no hints of romance between them.
* LargeHam: Lou Cannon is just as loud and bombastic as his name implies.
* PlatonicLifePartners: John and Jane. They've known each other since at least college.
* SitComic: As the name may indicate, it's a vehicle for John Mulaney, and incorporates some of his material from his earlier routines.
* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: It's described as a semi-autobiographical look at John's life.
Produced by Lorne Michaels of ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' fame. Mulaney was formerly a writer for the show and Short was an actor, though all three never overlapped at once.
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!!This Series Provides Examples Of:
* BlackBestFriend: Motif, John's best friend. Hipper and luckier with the ladies than Mulaney.
* BrilliantButLazy: Apparently John in school, his grades were fine but he always got a low "effort" grade, which bothered his mother.
* CharacterTitle: Much like Series/{{Seinfeld}} before it
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: No one likes Andre.
--> '''John''': "Bad news guys, it's Andre!"
* InnocentCohabitation: Jane begins the series with two male roommates with no hints of romance between them.
* LargeHam: Lou Cannon is just as loud and bombastic as his name implies.
* PlatonicLifePartners: John and Jane. They've known each other since at least college.
* SitComic: As the name may indicate, it's a vehicle for John Mulaney, and incorporates some of his material from his earlier routines.
* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: It's described as a semi-autobiographical look at John's life.
