History Series / ScreamQueens2015

* RealityEnsues: Grace [[ShouldntWeBeInSchoolRightNow has been spending almost all her time and effort in trying to catch the killer]] that her GPA has dropped to a 1.4. That is, if you take Gigi's word for it.

* BallCannon: In "Drain the Swamp", one of the Green Meanies attempts to murder the Chanels with a pitching machine. [[RealityEnsues This is not effective, and only succeeds in injuring one of the Chanels.]]

* RealityEnsues: The Chanels discover that even though they were exonerated as the killers, the exposure of their absolutely horrible behavior has turned them into social pariahs. Also, they're still disowned from their families and forced to live in a crappy apartment.
** What happens when you discover that someone may be a serial killer, and you go and confront them on your own without backup? If you're lucky, you just get kidnapped; if not, you DIE. The first one happened to Zayday, and the latter unfortunately happened to Chamberlain.

* FinalGirl: Grace is already being set up as this, based on the trailers, sharing many traits with other final girls. In particular, she's a NiceGirl, she's enemies with the AlphaBitch, she has a prior connection to the sorority which she is trying to learn more about, and she's the GirlNextDoor.

The show was canceled after two seasons, although its anthology format left no real lingering story.

*** When the Red Devil tries to kill the Dean in a recreation of the [[PsychoShowerMurderParody famous shower scene]] from ''Film/{{Psycho}}'', she easily counters him.
--->'''Munsch''': "I've watched that movie 50 times!". And no wonder, her mother is Creator/JanetLeigh...

--->'''Grace:''' "You're quoting ''Nietzsche''? You're already a ''murderer'', [[spoiler:Pete]]. You don't have to be a '''douche''' as well!"

* WhamLine: Mainly for Chanel, who reacts in an appropriate manner.
-->'''Munsch''': This year, Kappa will be required to accept anyone who wants to become a pledge.\\

--> '''Hester''': [[HistoryRepeats I am pregnant]]!

--> [[spoiler:'''Pete''']]: I don't want your first time to be with a murderer.

** In "Haunted House", Grace dresses as Creator/KateHudson. Her father is played by Kate's real-life brother. In the same episode, she meets a woman whose younger self was played Grace Phipps, who played her best friend on ''Series/TheNineLivesOfChloeKing''.

* {{Orgasmatron}}: Sheila Baumgartner, one of the patients of the week, suffered from having spontaneous and uncontrollable orgasms after

* AbusiveParents: While Chanel #5's parents can mostly be filed under [[ParentalNeglect neglectful]] as they keep avoiding her, they veer right into and beyond abuse in the season finale, when they voluntarily go along with [[spoiler:Hester's]] plan to frame her as the other bathtub baby and Red Devil killer just because they find her annoying.

** The Dean turns out to be a superior hand to hand fighter. She's able to singlehandedly kick the crap out of two Red Devils and an Antonin Scalia impersonator and send them running.

** Billie Lourd, who plays Chanel #3, is Creator/CarrieFisher's daughter. The earmuffs her character often wears are a homage to her mother's iconic [[Franchise/StarWars Princess Leia hairdo]]. Not to mention in the Season 1 finale, she wears her hair in the buns.

** Jamie Lee Curtis also creates an almost shot for shot homage to her mother Janet Leigh and her famous scene from ''Film/{{Psycho}}'' in "Mommie Dearest."

** "Pilot": Ms. Bean, the long suffering KKT housekeeper, Chanel #2, who didn't really do anything, and 'Deaf Taylor Swift', whose only big crime was liking Taylor Swift.

* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Denise. She varies wildly between utter incompetence, and surprisingly good detective work. She was able to deduce both that there was more than one killer, and that Chanel #2 was dead. However, her case against Zayday was (mostly) insane.

** The police investigate a decapitation with lawnmower in the KKT backyard but somehow manage to completely miss the dead body of Chanel #2 in plain sight inside the house and the blood-soaked bathtub in the basement.

-->(after Chanel #1 bribing her KKT sisters to cover her involvement in Ms.Bean's death)
-->'''Grace:''' You're an awful person.\\
'''Chanel #1:''' Maybe, but I'm rich and I'm pretty, so it doesn't really matter.

** In-universe in Season Two where Chanel no. 1 doesn't know what any of Brock's pop culture are (like ''Series/{{MASH}})''.

* {{Brownface}}: Ariana Grande is much darker skinned in this than real life to portray Chanel #2. Presumably #2 likes tanning.

* DeadStarWalking: In the pilot, Ariana Grande. Nick Jonas is a ''subversion'', getting the same "special guest star" credit as Ariana Grande and ''apparently'' dying by the end of the two hour premiere, only for the final scene to show him alive and in cahoots with the killer.

* DownerEnding: Hester, the surviving Red Devil Killer gets away with everything and frames the Chanels for her crime. In the wake of their arrest and sentencing to being sent to a mental institution for life (with it strongly implied Hester eventually drops by to finish the job and kill at least, Channel Oberlin), Kappa undergoes a rapid transformation... to the exact same corrupt institution it was. The new Kappa Kappa Tau is inclusive to everyone... except conservatives and firmly has the support of the ultra-corrupt and equally guilty Dean Munsch, who has finally become the powerful overlord she wished she was in her monologue at the start of the season. She has used the murders to launch a career as a Third Wave Feminist writer, penning a best seller which is all about how men are evil and how women are "better than men". More to the point, when she confronts [[spoiler:Hester]] over her villainy, she immediately agrees to continue covering up [[spoiler:Hester's]] crimes because she refuses to do the right thing and fall on her own sword, in order to bring [[spoiler:Hester]] to justice and free the Chanels. Even Grace and Zayday are utterly compromised; they knows Dean Munsch murdered her husband and framed her husband's new girlfriend for the crime (and used Grace to do so) but have decided to let Feather rot in an insane asylum (and not the nice part of the asylum the Chanels are locked up in) for no other reason than because they just don't care. [[FullCircleRevolution In short, the corruption still reigns supreme and the only difference is that it's left leaning corruption as opposed to Channel Oberlin's right leaning corruption]].

* EndOfAnAge: The end of the season. The conservative, right wing, traditional (meaning that you had to pledge and not everyone could join) lily white Kappa Kappa Tau which bucked the system and flaunted it's disrespect for authority is dead. It has been replaced with a social justice warrior version of Kappa with an open door policy for anyone to join (so long as you do not hold any conservative views), a stated upfront prejudice against anyone not politically liberal, a black President, and the college's Dean is firmly in their back pockets to cover their crimes, including mass murder. Also, the school's sole fraternity has all but completely slaughtered, with Chad Radwell the only member of the Dickie Dollar Scholars left alive by the time the season ends.

* FemaleGaze: The camera ogles Boone during his shirtless workout scene, panning slowly over his bare torso.
* Fiction500: The Chanels are implied to come from ''very'' wealthy families, especially by Chanel Oberlin, who ''burns'' all her old clothes everytime she gets the new ones, hires Scotland Yard detectives all the way from England to find infomation on Zayday and Grace's possibilities of being the Red Devil, buys all of the Chanels new smartphones, and also in one episode, she is about to buy the Chanels matching pink jeeps on Black Friday, before being attacked by Red Devil.

* FullCircleRevolution: At the end of the season, the Kappas have basically changed from a group of snotty right wing sorority girls to a bunch of homicidal (and homicidal maniac enabling) left wingers, meaning nothing was changed save for the political affiliation of the leadership caste. It get's worse: Zayday, Hester, and Grace also have Dean Munsch on their side, whereas with the Chanels, they were clearly at odds with the administration and Munsch, allowing them "cool rebel" status. And given that [[spoiler:Hester]] is a mass murderer, who has MAD level blackmail material on Munsch? God help the students of Wallace University, since Munsch will probably continue to cover up [[spoiler:Hester's crimes]], if she ever kills again since [[spoiler:Hester]] can destroy Munsch in a heartbeat.

* GoneHorriblyWrong: Numerous times, such as the attempt by Chad and his friends to kill the Red Devil that just leads to several murdered instead.

* HiddenDepths: Despite Chad and Boone saying the Dicky Dollar Society wouldn't be accepting of gays they are later shown to be both devastated and hungry for revenge when they discover that Boone was murdered, even after finding out he was gay. While they were at first surprised they quickly got over it and joined Chad in taking steroids, binge drinking, and hitting the streets with baseball bats looking for the Red Devil to avenge their fallen DDS brother. For a group of {{Jerk Jock}}s they show a surprising amount of care and devotion to each other.

-->'''Chanel #1''': If anyone's a psychopath, it's probably Neckbrace!
-->'''Hester''': [[{{Foreshadowing}} Thank you]].

* ReverseWhodunit: Played with. For most of the season the audience knows far more about the identity of the killers than the characters. At the end of episode 2 we find out Boone is one of them. A few episodes later we find out [[spoiler:Gigi]] is as well. However, we find out the motives of the killers at the same time the characters do, and in episode 9 and 10 [[spoiler:Boone'syet unrevealed sister]] kills both him and Gigi, meaning the audience will go into the finale as a pure WhoDunIt.

* ScreamsLikeALittleGirl: The Dickie Dollar Scholars put the girls of KKT to shame with their shrieks when they find Boone dead body in their frathouse.
* SeparatedByACommonLanguage: A British-accented Dickie Dollar Scholar says he's going to get "pissed" at a party, only for Chad to say the the rest of them were going to get drunk and wonder about his "anger issues".

** One to ''Halloween'' happens in Episode 4, When Chad and Hester find the dead bodies all set up throughtout the haunted house. Complete with Ms. Bean posed on the bed, Chanel #2 behind a door, and Mandy Greenwell suspended from above, like the three corpses in the original film.

*** When the Red Devil tries to kill the Dean in a recreation of the famous shower scene from ''Film/{{Psycho}}'', she easily counters him.

* EvilerThanThou: Chanel is truly afraid when Dr. Hoffel makes it clear that she will literally kill the girls if they get in her way.

* FanService:
** The Chanels come across Brock showering with a slow-motion shot of them (and Zayday) ogling him. Chanel responds by stripping to her bra and panties.
** The second and third episodes feature gratuitously homoerotic scenes where Chad corners Brock in the shower. They're both naked.

* LikeGoesWithLike: Zayday's second love interest is another black man.

-->'''Zayday''': It looks like a bloody mess.
-->'''Brock''': Exactly!

* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: Dr. Lovin is such a BadBoss that when she's a victim of AccidentalMurder, her crew's primary concern is finding a replacement show host.

** Wallace University is presumably named after scream queen actress Dee Wallace.

* ShoutOut: The entirety of visiting Hester to consult her on the new killings is clearly based on ''Film/SilenceOfTheLambs''. Likewise and in a case of GettingCrapPastTheRadar, one of the inmates flings cake into Chanel's hair. This is in reference of Multiple Miggs and him [[ADateWithRosiePalms "biting" himself]] and flinging his "blood" into Clarice's hair.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar:
** It's pretty shocking that this show that airs at 8PM EST has got away with the word 'blumpkin' ''in the pilot''.
** Not to mention "Eiffel Towering" in episode 3, a term that was controversial when ''Scandal'', an adult-oriented drama that airs later, threw it out.
** Three words (from the same episode): Cocaine or Dildo. Who ''knows'' how that would have played out on an extended cable show?
** Wes ends his film classes by telling his students "[[CountryMatters See you next Tuesday.]]"
** Chanel #2 states that she's been angry because Hitler was motorboating her while in Hell.
** Chanel asks Dean Munsch if she likes to "munch box" because of her name. She also insults someone by calling them "Kitty Puncher."
** It's revealed that Chanel #5 was [[TwinThreesomeFantasy "spit-roasted" by twin brothers Roger and Dodger]].

** Sam dropped a few StrawFeminist lines in her introduction - finding [[HetIsEw heterosexual sex disgusting]] and protesting against the hiring of a security guard because "I feel uncomfortable with a man protecting me". These traits are dropped after the pilot and she's portrayed as a more aloof loner.

* HetIsEw: [[ButchLesbian Sam]] is introduced saying that heterosexual sex is gross.

** The episode "Pumpkin Patchew" has several:

*** Chanel explicitly wants Hell-oween to include a recreation of the hedge maze from ''Film/TheShining''. And sure enough, the Red Devil chases Libby and the twins through it. Libby even mentions using the backtrack trick to throw off the Red Devil, but it doesn't work out for Rodger.
*** The scene where Rodger quickly looks left and right before going left, only to be followed by the Red Devil with large shears held upright. That's a ShoutOut to the famous scene where the Gemini killer murdered a nurse in ''Film/TheExorcistIII''.

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* EvilVsEvil: Even before the Red Devil starts killing people this is in full effect. The KKT sisters are racist, classist, homophobic bitches of the first order, but the dean who wants to shut them down is a bitter, resentful borderline rapist who hates the students.

* OneOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: Grace is presented as beautiful ''and white'' unlike the other pledges and probably someone who would get into Kappa under normal circumstances.

Season two features a {{time skip}} of three years after season one, and moves the focus from Kappa Kappa Tau to a hospital bought out by Dean Munsch, staffed by Chanels One, Three, and Five, and Zayday.

Season two features {{time skip}} of three years after season one, and moves the focus from Kappa Kappa Tau to a hospital bought out by Dean Munsch, staffed by Chanels One, Three, and Five, and Zayday.

''Scream Queens'' is a 2015 Creator/{{Fox}} [[SlidingScaleOfComedyAndHorror horror-comedy]] series by Creator/RyanMurphy. It features an {{ensemble cast}} including the likes of Creator/JamieLeeCurtis, Creator/EmmaRoberts, Creator/LeaMichele, Creator/SkylerSamuels, Music/KekePalmer, and Creator/AbigailBreslin, with [[Series/FullHouse John Stamos]] and Creator/TaylorLautner joining up in its second season. Music/NickJonas, Music/ArianaGrande, Creator/ColtonHaynes, and more familiar pop culture faces appear in minor roles. The show centres on a group of characters who find themselves thrown into the settings and tropes of classic {{horror films}}, with characters carrying from season to season [[AnyoneCanDie assuming they manage to survive that long]].

''Scream Queens'' is a 2015 Creator/{{Fox}} [[SlidingScaleOfComedyAndHorror horror-comedy]] series by Creator/RyanMurphy. It features an {{ensemble cast}} including the likes of Creator/JamieLeeCurtis, Creator/EmmaRoberts, Creator/LeaMichele, Creator/SkylerSamuels, Music/KekePalmer, and Creator/AbigailBreslin, with [[Series/FullHouse John Stamos]] and Creator/TaylorLautner joining up in its second season. Music/NickJonas, Music/ArianaGrande, Creator/ColtonHaynes, and more familiar pop culture faces appear in minor roles.

While not ''quite'' a {{genre anthology}} series like its sister show, ''Scream Queens'' centers on a group of characters who find themselves thrown into the settings and tropes of classic {{horror films}}, with characters carrying from season to season ... [[AnyoneCanDie assuming they manage to survive that long]].

* {{Expy}}: The Chanels are one for the three Heathers from Film/{{Heathers}}.

* SmallReferencePools: As [[http://www.avclub.com/article/ryan-murphy-making-horror-series-s-funny-purpose-210715 this article states]], Murphy considers horror-comedy to be a "new genre" [[Franchise/EvilDead despite]] [[Film/ShaunOfTheDead the]] [[Film/{{Gremlins}} many]] [[Film/{{Slither}} examples]] [[Film/TheCabinInTheWoods to]] [[Film/{{Scream}} the]] [[Film/TrickRTreat contrary]].

** Many characters are revealed to have ties to the incident in 1995: Dean Munsch and Miss Bean were there, and helped cover it all up; [[spoiler:Gigi]] was the sister of a sorority sister involved with the incident, Grace's mom, Bethany was the girl whose negligence lead to the death of the girl in the bathtub; [[spoiler:Wes Gardner]] fathered Grace through Bethany, but was a student at the university, and is also the father of the bathtub twins.