History Series / Outland2012

%%---> '''Rae:''' Has ''no one'' seen "Rememberance of the Daleks"?

->'''Dylan:''' ''"So you're all queer sci-fi geeks?"''
->'''Rae:''' ''"Generally I prefer the term 'enthusiast'. And 'science-fiction'. And 'homosexualist'."''

A comedy about a gay science fiction fan club. In the closet, no one can hear you squeal. Outland is a six-part australian television series that aired on the Creator/{{ABC}} in February-March of 2012. It follows the lives of five homosexualist science-fiction enthusiasts as they try to establish a new group following the breakup of the original larger fanclub, the Gay and Lesbian Fantasy League.

[[SimilarlyNamedWorks No relation]] to the 1981 film ''Film/{{Outland|1981}}''. Or to the successor comic to ''ComicStrip/BloomCounty''. Or to the 2011 {{Metroidvania}}-lite [[VideoGame/{{Outland|2011}} game]].

!! Includes following examples:

* AllGaysLoveTheater: The fifth episode centers around the group having drinks before a planned night at the theatre.
* BadLiar: Max has a tendancy to make up outrageous lies when he's having a panic attack.
--> "My mother she's...dead. No, that's too much. She's having a party. Yeah. A party. For dead people."

* CallBack: In the third episode Fab is trying to remember the name of a film, describing what sounds like the film Scanners. Max suggests he means Scanners several times as it gets more and more obvious that's what it means. Fab finally remembers the name of the film - Highlander. In the sixth episode Andy can't remember the name of the film about the taxi driver. Max suggests he's thinking of Taxi Driver. He is.

* CaptainErsatz: [[ShowWithinAShow Space Station Beta]] and its main character Lulara are clear homages to Star Trek and Uhura.

--> [[spoiler: '''Max:''' I told you things that only a stranger on the internet should know. Oh ''god''.]]

* EffeminateMisogynisticGuy: Toby. After the others explain the plot of ShowWithinAShow Space Station Beta, which involves an African female captain and her chain-smoking monkey first officer, noting that it sounds a bit ridiculous. Toby snorts derisively, saying "yeah! a female captain!". Being a comedy this is PlayedForLaughs.

* FakeHigh: Andy takes part in a drug trial in the sixth episode, complete with mood swings and erratic driving. Then the company calls - he was in the placebo group.]]

%%* JerkassWithAHeartOfGold: Fab could be considered this as he honestly seems to think he's protecting or assisting Max in most cases.

* RealMenCook: Andy loves making muffins. He's inventive with them too - creations of his include peeking duck and beef and horseradish.
* RealMenWearPink: Andy is a walking {{leatherman}} and BDSM stereotype but he really loves making muffins. Also all the boys [[spoiler: happily dress as Lulara complete with purple minidress]] in the final episode.

** The name of the group (and therefore the show) is taken from "Andy's second favourite Connery film", Outland.

* TrueCompanions: The group seems to be set to become this at the end of episode six. They've got a name for themselves ''Outland'' and they've found a place where they can belong.

%%* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Rae, again.

A comedy about a gay science fiction fan club. In the closet, no one can hear you squeal. Outland is a six-part australian television series that aired on the ABC in February-March of 2012. It follows the lives of five homosexualist science-fiction enthusiasts as they try to establish a new group following the breakup of the original larger fanclub, the Gay and Lesbian Fantasy League.

!!Following examples include

* {{All Gays Love Theater}}: The fifth episode centers around the group having drinks before a planned night at the theatre.
* {{Cast Full of Gay}}: All five main characters as well as almost all of the guest characters are queer.
* {{Token Lesbian}}: Rae (and ex-girlfriend Simone). Justified in-universe by having the larger group split offscreen during the first episode. Most of the women took Simone's side and formed their own group, leaving Rae by herself with the guys.
* {{Naked People Are Funny}}: Andy in the third episode.
* {{Only One Name}}: None of the characters (including guest characters Dylan, Simone, and Nathan) are given surnames.
** {{Only Known By Their Nickname}} Fab. His real name is never given.
* {{Noodle Incident}}: What happened at the Gay and Lesbian Fantasy League meeting where the group broke up? All we know is that it involved a nasty public breakup between Rae and Simone that culminated in the sprinklers going off after Andy accidentally set someone on fire.
* {{Not A Date}}: Toby tries to invoke this with Max. Max misunderstands him and thinks he's suggesting the whole group go out together.
* [[spoiler: {{Fake High}}: Andy takes part in a drug trial in the sixth episode, complete with mood swings and erratic driving. Then the company calls - he was in the placebo group.]]
* {{Give Geeks A Chance}}: It looks like the show might head down this road with Max and Dylan, as the first episode is centered around Max not wanting the gorgeous, cool Dylan to know he is a science fiction geek. Averted when Max breaks it off when he realises that he can't handle Dylan's lack of knowledge about something as mainstream as Doctor Who.
* {{Cannot Keep A Secret}}: Fab. Not only is he incapable of keeping a secret, he seeks them out with such relish that he will look at people's private electronic communication. This trait of Fab's is one of the main factors in [[spoiler: the groups breakdown at the end of the fifth episode.]]
* {{Dating Service Disaster}}: Max initially doesn't want a dating profile. Fab and Toby conspire to set one up for him. Despite being initially angry, Max ends up using it and meets a man. [[spoiler: It turns out to be Toby using online anonymity to get closer to Max, whom he has a crush on. Fab finds out and reveals it to Max. It does not end well.]]

* {{Interrupted Intimacy}}: Fab with [[spoiler: Toby's boyfriend Nathan in episode three.]]
* EmbarrassingCoverUp: Rae tries to invoke this in episode two by claiming that the package containing a nude portrait of her actually contains tampons. Max, since he isn't holding the {{Idiot Ball}}, doesn't buy it.

* {{Real Men Wear Pink}}: Andy is a walking {{leatherman}} and BDSM stereotype but he really loves making muffins. Also all the boys [[spoiler: happily dress as Lulara complete with purple minidress]] in the final episode.
* {{The Smurfette Principle}}: Rae, again.
* {{Transparent Closet}}: {{Camp Gay}} Toby isn't out to most people and honestly believes that no one would think he was gay.

* {{Twofer Token Minority}}: Rae. She's actually a ''fourfer'' - a wheelchair using gay black woman.
* {{Fat Best Friend}}: Fab is a Type A to Max.
* {{Insistent Terminology}}: {{Played For Laughs}}. Rae prefers the terms 'enthusiast' over geek, 'science-fiction' over sci fi, and 'homosexualist' over queer.
* {{My Friends and Zoidberg}}: Toby greets all the group members by name when they arrive at [[spoiler: what turns out not to be]] his apartment except for Fab who he calls 'others'.
* {{Odd Friendship}}: At first glance the entire group is this, all being very different in personality and life experience.
** Most obvious with Max and Fab. Fab is loud, obnoxious, camp and hypersexual while Max is cautious, suffers from panic attacks, blends in with the crowd and likes to get to know people before they get intimate.
* {{Childhood Friends}}: Max and Fab. When they were at school Max would often try and step in when bullies were beating up Fab, which usually resulted in Max getting beaten too.
* {{Camp Gay}}: Fab and Toby.
* {{Straight Gay}}: Max.
* {{Manly Gay}}: Andy.
* {{Lipstick Lesbian}}: Rae, although the boys cruelly tell her she looks like a drag queen when she's dressed formally for the theatre.
* {{Leatherman}}: Andy.
* {{Pride Parade}}: The sixth episode centres around one.
* {{All Gays Are Promiscuous}}: Played straight with Fab and Andy.
* {{Gag Penis}}: Andy's house is practically overflowing with dildos, some of which are ridiculously huge or novelty shaped. Toby uses one as an {{Improvised Weapon}}, throwing it at [[spoiler: Fab after he's caught in a state of undress with Toby's boyfriend Nathan. It hits Max instead after Fab uses him as a human shield.]]
** This combined with {{Bigger is Better in Bed}} during the first episode as Fab tries to both cheer Max up and improve his chances of sexing it up with Dylan by repeatedly mentioning Max's huge penis.
* {{Blackface}}/{{Brownface}}: Fab (the former) and Toby (the latter) in the sixth episode. Max and Toby are horrified by Fab and immediately make him take it off. Toby on the other hand lampshades the tropes.
--> '''Toby:''' (I used bronzer because) this ways it's a tribute to Lulara's African heritage without the inherent racism of blackface.
* {{Upper Class Twit}}: Toby certainly has shades of this. He claims that at home they buy a new TV every few weeks because they get dusty.
* {{The Everyman}}: Max.
* {{Effeminate Misogynist Guy}}: Toby. After the others explain the plot of {{Show Within A Show}} Space Station Beta, which involves an African female captain and her chain-smoking monkey first officer, noting that it sounds a bit ridiculous. Toby snorts derisively, saying "yeah! a female captain!". Being a comedy this is {{Played For Laughs}}.
* {{Real Men Cook}}: Andy loves making muffins. He's inventive with them too - creations of his include peking duck and beef and horseradish.
* {{Team Dad}}: Andy.
* {{Captain Ersatz}}/{{Show Within A Show}}: Space Station Beta and its main character Lulara are clear homages to Star Trek and Uhura.
* {{Bad Liar}}: Max has a tendancy to make up outrageous lies when he's having a panic attack.
--> "My mother she's...dead. No, that's too much. She's having a party. Yeah. A party. For dead people."
* {{Dismotivation}}: Max.
* {{Rich Bitch}}: Toby.
* {{Socially Awkward Hero}}: Max.
* {{Cowardly Lion}}: Max. He suffers from terrible, sometimes prolonged panick attacks and appears to have generalised anxiety disorder. He is only able to manage these on a case by case basis.
* {{Jerkass}}: Fab
** {{Jerkass With A Heart of Gold}} Could be considered this as he honestly seems to think he's protecting or assisting Max in most cases.
* {{True Companions}}: The group seems to be set to become this at the end of episode six. They've got a name for themselves ''Outland'' and they've found a place where they can belong.
* {{We Really Do Care}}: Everyone to everyone in the sixth episode.
* {{Running Gag}}: **'Andy set a lesbian on fire for this group.'
** Andy's muffins.
** Dylan remarking that Daleks can't go upstairs resulting in one of the group members getting annoyed.
---> '''Rae:''' Has ''no one'' seen Rememberance of the Daleks?
* {{Call Back}} In the third episode Fab is trying to remember the name of a film, describing what sounds like the film Scanners. Max suggests he means Scanners several times as it gets more and more obvious that's what it means. Fab finally remembers the name of the film - Highlander. In the sixth episode Andy can't remember the name of the film about the taxi driver. Max suggests he's thinking of Taxi Driver. He is.
* {{Shout Out}}: Oh so many.
** They include numerous references to Doctor Who including Jammy Dodgers and Andy's long exposition about how the tragic romance between Ricky and Jake is the scariest thing ever on Who.
** Rae's use of 'homosexualist' is a reference to those who claim that homosexual is not a noun and thus shouldn't be used to describe an individual gay person.
** The name of the group (and therefore the show) is taken from "Andy's second favourite Connery film", Outland.
* {{The Friend Nobody Likes}}: Toby sees Fab as this. Andy is the only member of the group who never has any onscreen conflict with him.
* {{Less Embarrassing Term}}: It's possible that this is why Rae prefers enthusiast to geek.
* {{Depraved Homosexual}}: Fab and Andy.
* {{The Corrupter}}: Fab could be viewed as this.
* {{Innocent Bigot}}: Fab honestly seems to be unaware of how offensive blackface is, in spite of being friends with a black woman.
* {{The Millstone}}: Fab is responsible for a large amount of conflict in the group while not adding much to anyone's happiness or wellbeing outside of Max.

{{All Gays Love Theater}}: The fifth episode centers around the group having drinks before a planned night at the theatre.

* {{All Gays Love Theater}}: The fifth episode centers around the group having drinks before a planned night at the theatre.

!!Examples includes

* EmbarassingCoverUp: Rae tries to invoke this in episode two by claiming that the package containing a nude portrait of her actually contains tampons. Max, since he isn't holding the {{Idiot Ball}}, doesn't buy it.

* {{Embarassing Cover Up}}: Rae tries to invoke this in episode two by claiming that the package containing a nude portrait of her actually contains tampons. Max, since he isn't holding the {{Idiot Ball}}, doesn't buy it.

* Embarassing Cover-up: Rae tries to invoke this in episode two by claiming that the package containing a nude portrait of her actually contains tampons. Max, since he isn't holding the {{Idiot Ball}}, doesn't buy it.

[[SimilarlyNamedWorks No relation]] to the 1981 film ''Film/{{Outland}}''. Or to the successor comic to ''ComicStrip/BloomCounty''. Or to the 2011 {{Metroidvania}}-lite [[VideoGame/{{Outland}} game]].

[[SimilarlyNamedWorks No relation]] to the 1981 film ''Film/{{Outland}}''. Or to the successor comic to ''NewspaperComics/BloomCounty''. Or to the 2011 {{Metroidvania}}-lite [[VideoGame/{{Outland}} game]].

[[SimilarlyNamedWorks No relation]] to the 1981 film ''Film/{{Outland}}''. Or to the successor comic to ''NewspaperComics/BloomCounty''. Or to the 2011 {{Metroidvania}}-lite [[VideoGame/{{Outland}} game]]. Also has no relation to the 2012 Australian [[Series/{{Outland}} TV series]].

* {{The Millstone}}: Fab is responsible for a large amount of conflict in the group while not adding much to anyone's happiness or wellbeing outside of Max.

** The name of the group (and therefore the show) is taken from "Andy's second favourite Connery film", Outland.

** {{Only Known By Their Nickname}} Fab. He's real name is never given.

* {{Effeminate Misogynist Guy}: Toby. After the others explain the plot of {{Show Within A Show}} Space Station Beta, which involves an African female captain and her chain-smoking monkey first officer, noting that it sounds a bit ridiculous. Toby snorts derisively, saying "yeah! a female captain!". Being a comedy this is {{Played For Laughs}}.

* {{My Friends and Zoidberg}}: Toby greets all the group memebers by name when they arrive at [[spoiler: what turns out not to be]] his apartment except for Fab who he calls 'others'.

* {{Captain Ersatz}}/{{Show Within A Show}}: Space Station Beta and it's main character Lulara are clear homages to Star Trek and Uhura.

** Rae's use of 'homosexualist' is a reference to those who claim that homosexual is not a noun and thus shouldn't be used to describe an individual gay person.

* Real Mean Wear Pink: Andy is a walking {{leatherman}} and BDSM stereotype but he really loves making muffins. Also all the boys [[spoiler: happily dress as Lulara complete with purple minidress]] in the final episode.

* {{The Smurfette Prinicple}}: Rae, again.

* {{My Friends...and Zoidberg}}: Toby greets all the group memebers by name when they arrive at [[spoiler: what turns out not to be]] his apartment except for Fab who he calls 'others'.

*

->Dylan: ''"So you're all queer sci-fi geeks?"''
->Rae:''"Generally I prefer the term 'enthusiast'. And 'science-fiction'. And 'homosexualist'."''

* {{Give Geeks A Chance}}: It looks like the show might head down this road with Max and Dylan, as the first episode is centered around Max not wanting the gorgeous, cool Dylan to know he is a science fiction geek. Averted when Max breaks it off when he realises that he can't handle Dylan's lack of knowledge about something as mainstream as Doctor Who.

->Cylan: ''"So you're all queer sci-fi geeks?"''

* {{Token Lesbian}}: Rae (and ex-girlfriend Simone). Justified in-universe by having the larger group split offscreen during the first episode. Most of the women took Simone's side and formed their own group, leaving Rae by herself with the guys.

->''So you're all queer sci-fi geeks?"
->''"Generally I prefer the term 'enthusiast'. And 'science-fiction'. And 'homosexualist'."''
-> - Rae to Toby's new boyfriend in the first episode

A comedy about a gay science fiction fan club. In the closet, no one can hear you squeal. Outland is a six-part australian television series that aired on the ABC in February-March of 2012. It follows the lives of five homosexualist science-fiction enthusiasts as they try to establish a new group following the breakup of the original larger fanclub, the Gay and Lesbian Fantasy League.

->''"So you're all queer sci-fi geeks?"

-> - Rae to Toby's new boyfriend in the first episode

->;'"So you're all queer sci-fi geeks?"
''"Generally I prefer the term 'enthusiast'. And 'science-fiction'. And 'homosexualist'."''