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I don't think Sibling Rivalry applies to the Dubeks...one sticking point is that Brooke and Cary tend to be aligned with each other, and they never mistreat Chase or treat him as a rival for his success. Moving other stuff to Characters.The Other Two
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* EmbarrassingTattoo: Invoked when Streeter [[TattooedCrook makes Chase look like an unlikeable "bad boy" by choosing a ton of terrible fake tattoos]], including the word "piss" across his chest and Franchise/WinnieThePooh characters (and the date of his dad's death!) with giant boobs.
* OscarBait:
** The play ''8 Gay Men With AIDS: A Poem in Many Hours'' is a multi-night, overly pretentious, badly-paced TragicAIDSStory that [[PoliticalOvercorrectness nobody wants to criticize or walk out on for fear of offending the LGBT and HIV+ communities]]. It is quickly nominated for at least one Tony, to Cary's shock.
** Cary, deciding he wantes a similar level of acclaim, demands an Oscar from his team. His agent quickly gets acclaimed director Creator/KellyReichardt and buzzy star Music/HarryStyles attached to a gay film that everyone is confident will keep Cary in the Oscar conversation. [[spoiler:He realizes, however, that [[HorribleHollywood the industry is turning him into a bad person]] and decides to take a break from acting rather than do the film]].
** The play ''8 Gay Men With AIDS: A Poem in Many Hours'' is a multi-night, overly pretentious, badly-paced TragicAIDSStory that [[PoliticalOvercorrectness nobody wants to criticize or walk out on for fear of offending the LGBT and HIV+ communities]]. It is quickly nominated for at least one Tony, to Cary's shock.
** Cary, deciding he wantes a similar level of acclaim, demands an Oscar from his team. His agent quickly gets acclaimed director Creator/KellyReichardt and buzzy star Music/HarryStyles attached to a gay film that everyone is confident will keep Cary in the Oscar conversation. [[spoiler:He realizes, however, that [[HorribleHollywood the industry is turning him into a bad person]] and decides to take a break from acting rather than do the film]].
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* PsychologicalProjection: Prior to season 3, Lance became a nurse, causing Brooke to become incredibly insecure that her job isn't as important as his. She spends several episodes trying to do something important because she's convinced Lance is judging her, but it's clear he supports her no matter what and she's just projecting her insecurity onto him, [[spoiler:something he calls out in "Cary & Brooke Go to an AIDS Play."]]
* PublicityStuntRelationship: TeenIdol Chase's record label will occasionally try to stunt-date him with famous women to help his branding.
** In season 1 he has a "relationship" with a well-known teenage influencer to help his social media which lasts all of a day.
** When he turns 18 in season 3 they try to marry him to Creator/KiernanShipka so he can be seen as a grown man, but he wants to pursue a relationship with a non-famous girl. Shipka, as an entrenched member of what Shuli calls "the Hollywood elite", doesn't seem to bat an eye at the prospect of being engaged to a stranger.
* PublicityStuntRelationship: TeenIdol Chase's record label will occasionally try to stunt-date him with famous women to help his branding.
** In season 1 he has a "relationship" with a well-known teenage influencer to help his social media which lasts all of a day.
** When he turns 18 in season 3 they try to marry him to Creator/KiernanShipka so he can be seen as a grown man, but he wants to pursue a relationship with a non-famous girl. Shipka, as an entrenched member of what Shuli calls "the Hollywood elite", doesn't seem to bat an eye at the prospect of being engaged to a stranger.
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* SiblingRivalry: Brooke and Cary love Chase, but his fame makes them feel inferior.
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* TroubledProduction: InUniverse, Cary acts on a fantasy show called ''Windweavers'' that's an absolute mess by the point of post-production. Everybody quits and the sole post-production person keeps bugging Cay to get ADR a week before release to compensate for a terrible unclear script, and even ''then'' she loses the hard drive and has to redo it.
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* TroubledProduction: InUniverse, Cary acts on a fantasy show called ''Windweavers'' that's an absolute mess by the point of post-production. Everybody quits and the sole post-production person keeps bugging Cay to get ADR a week before release to compensate for a terrible unclear script, and even ''then'' she loses the hard drive and has to redo it. To everyone's surprise, it becomes a massive hit.
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* AdamWesting: In his guest spot, Creator/SimuLiu makes fun of being the star of a Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse [[Film/ShangChiAndTheLegendOfTheTenRings martial arts film]] by playing himself as a jetsetting bro who is constantly referred to as "Marvel's Simu Liu", is bad at oral sex, and is paid to stay jacked.
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** When Simu Liu puts together a fake Applebee's dinner for Pat and her family, he reminds the actors to have some "deadness behind the eyes" just like real Applebee's patrons.
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** When Simu Liu Creator/SimuLiu puts together a fake Applebee's dinner for Pat and her family, he reminds the actors to have some "deadness behind the eyes" just like real Applebee's patrons. patrons.
** Near the end of the show, Mackenzie tells Cary that the gay film they are putting together so [[OscarBait Cary can campaign for an Oscar]] has Music/HarryStyles interested as the love interest. "He says he wants another stab at playing gay. He really thinks he can get it right this time," she says, referencing Styles' mixed-reviewed performance in ''Film/MyPoliceman''.
** Near the end of the show, Mackenzie tells Cary that the gay film they are putting together so [[OscarBait Cary can campaign for an Oscar]] has Music/HarryStyles interested as the love interest. "He says he wants another stab at playing gay. He really thinks he can get it right this time," she says, referencing Styles' mixed-reviewed performance in ''Film/MyPoliceman''.
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* AudienceMurmurs: Parodied in the third season, where a fake Applebee's is constructed and actors hired to play servers and customers so that the famous Dubek family can have a normal family dinner. Pat, who isn't aware that it's all fake, starts a minor crisis because all the customers are saying "peas and carrots" to simulate chatter and orders this, even though Applebee's doesn't serve 'peas and carrots' as a dish.
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* PoliticalOvercorrectness: The titular play in "Cary & Brooke Go to an AIDS Play" is an extremely long and nonsensical play that jumps between time periods and takes forever to even mention AIDS. Nobody wants to criticize it or leave because it will make them look homophobic and dismissive of the important cause that is HIV. By the third night, the audience members are all openly asleep.
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* GayBestFriend: Parodied when Cary and Curtis both go up for the role of the heroine's supportive best friend for a pilot. The character was initially a woman, but the producers decide to turn it into a gay man at the last minute while changing very little else. Curtis muses that he booked the role of "Courtney No-last-name" because he's more effeminate than Cary.
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* MeetCute: After a personal low point, Cary runs into Lucas Lambert Moy, a sensitive guy who offers a sweet carnival date, and the two walk around the city and have fun. Cary even comments on how romantic their first meeting was. Turns out to have been invoked, since Lucas is MethodActing[[note]] for his role in a romantic dramedy.
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* PoorMansPorn: Parodied. After Chase turns 18 the first picture of his armpit is treated with utmost seriousness because of how lightly erotic it is. Brooke discusses it, saying that she masturbated hard to the first picture of Music/JustinTimberlake's armpit, and wonders if they're actually dealing with porn.
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* ForeignCultureFetish: Parodied. White American actress Creator/BlakeLively opens a Thai fusion restaurant because she was so enamored with Thailand...after staying there for a layover. It serves spaghetti. The characters are repeatedly assured by staff that the restaurant isn't racist.
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* HorribleHollywood: Though a comedy, one of the show's themes is how Hollywood is built for self-centered people (or good people with laser-focused PR teams) can rise to the top, and how silly things can get when celebrities who are not that smart or competent nonetheless have money and power available to them.
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* HorribleHollywood: Though a comedy, one of the show's themes is how Hollywood is built for self-centered people (or good decent people with laser-focused ruthless PR teams) can to easily rise to the top, and how silly things can get when celebrities who are not that smart or competent nonetheless have money and power available to them.
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* ShowWithinAShow: There are several fictional shows and films that help portray the Hollywood satire.
** Pat's hugely successful daytime talk show ''It's Pat!''.
** Cary gets a foot in the door by hosting a variety of online news segments, such as ''The Gay Minute'', ''Age/Net Worth/Feet'' for [=E!News=], and a variety of things for the fictional "[=BagelBites TV=]".
** A subplot involves Cary's feature film debut ''Night Nurse'', co-starring Creator/PatriciaArquette (later replaced with Creator/EdieFalco) and Creator/BeanieFeldstein.
** Pat's hugely successful daytime talk show ''It's Pat!''.
** Cary gets a foot in the door by hosting a variety of online news segments, such as ''The Gay Minute'', ''Age/Net Worth/Feet'' for [=E!News=], and a variety of things for the fictional "[=BagelBites TV=]".
** A subplot involves Cary's feature film debut ''Night Nurse'', co-starring Creator/PatriciaArquette (later replaced with Creator/EdieFalco) and Creator/BeanieFeldstein.
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** Parodied when Cary, while attempting to write a screenplay, attends a one-man play about a gay guy who grew up in the Midwest with a disapproving father. Two women lament that it's not enough to be compelling.
--->'''Woman 1:''' Like, I kept waiting for him to get gay-bashed or something.\\
'''Cary:''' Yeah, definitely wasn't enough. But maybe if one of his parents died...\\
'''Woman 2:''' Ugh, so overdone. I can't with dead parents anymore.
--->'''Woman 1:''' Like, I kept waiting for him to get gay-bashed or something.\\
'''Cary:''' Yeah, definitely wasn't enough. But maybe if one of his parents died...\\
'''Woman 2:''' Ugh, so overdone. I can't with dead parents anymore.
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* LGBTFanbase: Invoked in "Chase Gets the Gays". The label has Chase sing a song about how he loves his gay brother Cary, and proceeds to evaluate how the LGBT community feels about it through events like a conservative talking head decrying it, etcetera. They finally land on "it's {{camp}}" and decide that Chase should pursue other 'safer' demographics like American suburbia now that he has an LGBT fanbase.
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* LGBTFanbase: LGBTFanbase:
** Invoked in "Chase Gets the Gays". The label has Chase sing a song about how he loves his gay brother Cary, and proceeds to evaluate how the LGBT community feels about it through events like a conservative talking head decrying it, etcetera. They finally land on "it's {{camp}}" and decide that Chase should pursue other 'safer' demographics like American suburbia now that he has an LGBT fanbase.
** In-universe "news" show ''The Gay Minute'' is always reporting on Creator/LauraDern, because gay men love to root for cool middle-aged women.
** Invoked in "Chase Gets the Gays". The label has Chase sing a song about how he loves his gay brother Cary, and proceeds to evaluate how the LGBT community feels about it through events like a conservative talking head decrying it, etcetera. They finally land on "it's {{camp}}" and decide that Chase should pursue other 'safer' demographics like American suburbia now that he has an LGBT fanbase.
** In-universe "news" show ''The Gay Minute'' is always reporting on Creator/LauraDern, because gay men love to root for cool middle-aged women.
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** Creator/DebraMessing will occasionally send stuff to the main characters, which is always met with "Your fan, Creator/DebraMessing" "Oh, Debra" between Brooke and Cary.
** Brooke will often mention her dream of meeting Music/AlessiaCara at inappropriate moments. She finally does near the end of season 2.
** Creator/DebraMessing will occasionally send stuff to the main characters, which is always met with "Your fan, Creator/DebraMessing" "Oh, Debra" between Brooke and Cary.
** Brooke will often mention her dream of meeting Music/AlessiaCara at inappropriate moments. She finally does near the end of season 2.
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* CoordinatedClothes: In the season 3 premiere, Brooke and Cary both show up to the premiere of ''Night Nurse'' in the same outfit (topless under a royal blue suit jacket with matching pants).
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* BaitAndSwitchLesbians: Male example. "Pat Gets an Offer to Host 'Tic-Tac-Toe'", Cary goes out with Dean Brennon, a straight actor who deliberately 'gay-baits' by going out with men on pap-infested dates, taking gay roles, and pointedly not clarifying his sexuality to boost his career.
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* QueerCharacterQueerActor: Discussed InUniverse. Cary protests that Dean must be into men because he's playing Music/GeorgeMichael in a biopic. Shuli points out that only straight people play gay roles, and that Dean is 'gay-baiting' by dating Cary to generate buzz for said biopic.
