History Series / WhiteHousePlumbers

* TheShowOfTheBooks: Based on Egil "Bud" Krogh and Matthew Krogh's memoir ''Integrity: Good People, Bad Choices, and Life Lessons from the White House''.

* FourIsDeath: Howard and Gordon are forced to break into Watergate one more time to get the other bugs in [=O'Brien=]'s office working properly in what would be the Plumbers' fourth and final break-in attempt, culminating in the Cuban burglars having a check that Howard has to pay to the Lakewood Country Cub when they get caught by Watergate security, Frank Wills the security guard discovering the piece of tape on the locked stairwell door, among other things that would be the beginning of the end for Nixon's presidency.

* FourIsDeath: Howard and Gordon are forced to break into Watergate one more time to get the other bugs in [=McCord=]'s office working properly in what would be the Plumbers' fourth and final break-in attempt, culminating in the Cuban burglars having a check that Howard has to pay to the Lakewood Country Cub when they get caught by Watergate security, Frank Wills the security guard discovering the piece of tape on the locked stairwell door, among other things that would be the beginning of the end for Nixon's presidency.

* HopeSpot: During the Plumbers' 3rd break-in at Watergate, they finally manage to plant the bugs in [=McCord=]'s office, even celebrating with champagne and their usual jabs at John F. Kennedy. When Howard Hunt and Gordon Liddy go to see John Dean, however, they find out the only bug that DOES work is [=McCord=]'s secretary talking about her hairdo, since all the others were defects.

** In episode 3 Dot points out that all of Howard and Liddy's stunts are entirely pointless, that Nixon is going to win reelection with ease so there is no need for all of their comic skullduggery. Nixon won 49 states, but Hunt and Liddy's stupidity wound up driving him from office less than halfway through his second term.

** When they finally make it into the Watergate, everything works perfectly, and they plant the bugs and get out--except that only one of [=McCord=]'s several bugs works, and that one only gets a secretary talking about her hairdo. They decide to go back and replace [=McCord=]'s defective bugs, which leads to complete disaster.

''White House Plumbers'' is a five-episode 2023 Satirical Political {{Miniseries}} that aired on Creator/{{HBO}} in May and June of 2023.

It began airing on May 1, 2023 on Creator/{{HBO}}.

** As Hunt and Liddy are making their panicked retreat from the hotel after the rest of the crew has been arrested at the Watergate, Hunt says "Nothing leads back to us. We're fine." Cut to one of the cops asking one of the Cuban burglars about the letter, the one that Hunt gave him to mail, which is in an envelope from Hunt's country club.

''White House Plumbers'' is a 2023 Satirical Political {{Miniseries}} that aired on Creator/{{HBO}} in May and June of 2023.

* BasedOnATrueStory: Played for a gag in the opening title card.

** As Hunt and Liddy are making their panicked retreat from the hotel after the rest of the crew has been arrested at the Watergate, Hunt says "Nothing leads back to us. We're fine." Cut to one of the cops asking one of the Cuban burglars about the envelope, the one that Hunt gave him to mail, which is in an envelope from Hunt's country club.

The series also stars Creator/DomhnallGleeson (John Dean), Creator/LenaHeadey (Hunt's put-upon wife Dorothy), Creator/JudyGreer (Liddy's dimwitted, Stepford-esque wife Fran) Creator/KiernanShipka (Hunt's daughter Kevan), Creator/IkeBarinholtz (Jeb Magruder), Creator/YulVazquez ("Macho" Barker, one of the Cuban burglars), Creator/DavidKrumholtz, Creator/RichSommer (Bud Krogh), and Creator/KimCoates (Frank Sturges). Creator/KathleenTurner pops up in one episode as Dita Beard, a troublesome GOP operative.

* BinocularView: Many times in Episode 3, as the gang has the Watergate under surveillance from across the street.

* GilliganCut: Magruder says, re: the ITT bribe, that "This will blow over, trust me." Cut to a news report saying that Dita Beard has been subpoenaed to testify before the U.S. Senate.

* RunningGag: Gordon Liddy's weird Nazi fetish. Liddy would like to name their special ops group "Project ODESSA" after the operation that smuggled ex-Nazis [[ArgentinaIsNaziLand to South America]]. When he and Hunt are flying back east after breaking into an office, Liddy asks a stewardess for a beer--"anything German." When Howard and Dorothy pay a visit to the Liddy home, Gordon entertains them by playing Hitler speeches on the record player, much to Dorothy's horror.

** E. Howard Hunt, intelligence officer who was involved with the Bay of Pigs Invasion and helped plot the Watergate Break-in.
** G. Gordon Liddy, another co-conspirator in the break-in.
** John Dean, White House counsel.

* CallForward: Mark Felt (Creator/GaryBusey) says that the FBI, while unwilling to do anything illegal, is dedicated to ferreting out White House leaks. Felt will soon become the biggest White House leak of all when he starts leaking to the Washington Post as "Deep Throat".

** Hunt says that he's bringing in team members who will work for free. After Liddy calls them "real Americans", Hunt says "''Better''." Cut to three Cubans, vets of the Bay of Pigs, arriving at the hotel.

The series also stars Creator/DomhnallGleeson (John Dean), Creator/LenaHeadey (Hunt's put-upon wife Dorothy), Creator/JudyGreer (Liddy's dimwitted, Stepford-esque wife Fran) Creator/KiernanShipka (Hunt's daughter Kevan), Creator/IkeBarinholtz (Jeb Magruder), Creator/YulVazquez ("Macho" Barker, one of the Cuban burglars), Creator/DavidKrumholtz, Creator/RichSommer (Bud Krogh), and Creator/KimCoates (Frank Sturges).