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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: [[spoiler: After Lloyd gets thrust onstage during the disastrous third attempt of act one, Lloyd has no idea how to salvage things to end the act and attempts to flee the stage, before the rest of the cast improvises and stops him.
* Invoked in the second try of act one. [[spoiler: Prior to the show, Lloyd keeps coming back to try and smooth things over, but gets so frustrated that he declares the show beyond the help of any director, tells them to just perform it, and sulks off to the audience to watch it.]]
* Invoked in the second try of act one. [[spoiler: Prior to the show, Lloyd keeps coming back to try and smooth things over, but gets so frustrated that he declares the show beyond the help of any director, tells them to just perform it, and sulks off to the audience to watch it.]]
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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: [[spoiler: After Lloyd gets thrust onstage during the disastrous third attempt of act one, Lloyd has no idea how to salvage things to end the act and attempts to flee the stage, before the rest of the cast improvises and stops him. \n* ]]
** Invoked in the second try of act one. [[spoiler: Prior to the show, Lloyd keeps coming back to try and smooth things over, but gets so frustrated that he declares the show beyond the help of any director, tells them to just perform it, and sulks off to the audience to watch it.]]
** Invoked in the second try of act one. [[spoiler: Prior to the show, Lloyd keeps coming back to try and smooth things over, but gets so frustrated that he declares the show beyond the help of any director, tells them to just perform it, and sulks off to the audience to watch it.]]
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* AnythingThatMoves: Lloyd is [[spoiler: sleeping with Poppy, the stage manager, AND Brooke.]] And in the opening scene, we see him check out the arse of an attractive stage hand as he comes down to the main stage to talk to Dotty. The play also includes this.
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* ReallyGetsAround: Lloyd is [[spoiler: sleeping with Poppy, the stage manager, AND Brooke.]] And in the opening scene, we see him check out the arse of an attractive stage hand as he comes down to the main stage to talk to Dotty. The play also includes this.
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* AdaptationDeviation: The stage show features the "play" being performed at three locations in the United Kingdom. In the film, the show is touring the U.S. with the final goal to open on Broadway. Also, all the characters in the play have English backgrounds, whereas in the film, Lloyd, Seldson, and Brooke remain the only English characters.
* AdaptationalExpansion: As stated in the description, the film adds framing narration from Creator/MichaelCaine's character of Lloyd between each "act." Also, [[spoiler: when we're introduced to Lloyd, he's panicking outside the Broadway theater expecting his career to be over because, as we find out from the film progression, every time the show has been put on, it's gotten ''worse'' due to the cast infighting. At the end of the film, Lloyd hears riotous laughter, and comes in to find the cast has settled their differences and put on a successful show. This is ''vastly'' different from the end of the stage show, which ends after the third disastrous performance of the first act and offers no resolution to the relationship problems we've seen throughout the course of the play.]]
* AdaptationalExpansion: As stated in the description, the film adds framing narration from Creator/MichaelCaine's character of Lloyd between each "act." Also, [[spoiler: when we're introduced to Lloyd, he's panicking outside the Broadway theater expecting his career to be over because, as we find out from the film progression, every time the show has been put on, it's gotten ''worse'' due to the cast infighting. At the end of the film, Lloyd hears riotous laughter, and comes in to find the cast has settled their differences and put on a successful show. This is ''vastly'' different from the end of the stage show, which ends after the third disastrous performance of the first act and offers no resolution to the relationship problems we've seen throughout the course of the play.]]
* AnythingThatMoves: Lloyd is [[spoiler: sleeping with Poppy, the stage manager, AND Brooke.]] And in the opening scene, we see him check out the arse of an attractive stage hand as he comes down to the main stage to talk to Dotty. The play also includes this.
* AxCrazy: During the second attempt at act one, Garry and Dotty become so incensed they bring a fire axe into play. Garry goes for Freddie with it, while Dotty attempts to use it on Garry himself.
* BigDamnHeroes: Hilariously zig zagged. [[spoiler: As the second attempt of act one goes further and further off the rails, Lloyd, who's watching from the audience, storms backstage to right the ship. He's successful, but only to a point.]]
** Subverted in [[spoiler: act one's third attempt. He shows up backstage, gets stuffed into the burglar outfit and thrust onstage to try and salvage the completely-off-the-rails first act, but it's so beyond salvaging that he basically attempts a ScrewThisImOuttaHere instead.]]
** Subverted in [[spoiler: act one's third attempt. He shows up backstage, gets stuffed into the burglar outfit and thrust onstage to try and salvage the completely-off-the-rails first act, but it's so beyond salvaging that he basically attempts a ScrewThisImOuttaHere instead.]]
* CrypticBackgroundReference: In the stage show only, the mini program for "Nothing On" credits several props that are never seen, and are likely to be a part of the [[spoiler: never-seen]] second act.
* DidntThinkThisThrough: Ironically, the entire "cast" falls under this trope. ''Especially'' in the film. [[spoiler: They're all made up of fading stars or unknowns, they have a shot to put a show on ''Broadway,'' and they're so focused on torpedoing each other on stage that they're guaranteeing the show will be a huge flop when they get there. At least in the film, they get their issues straightened out in time to put on a hit.]]
** Invoked with Lloyd, especially in the stage version. [[spoiler: While his relationships with Poppy and Brooke are bad enough, in the mini program that accompanies the stage show program, the info states that Poppy's father is one of the sponsors of the show. He's literally two-timing the daughter of the guy financing the show. And then he gets her pregnant as well.]]
* DumbBlonde: Brooke is the walking embodiment. The girl just doesn't have much going on upstairs. For example, she has contact lenses that easily come out. She gets bumped during the first rehearsal of act one, indicates she's lost one, and sends everyone save for Lloyd into a panic searching the floor for it before she suddenly straightens up and announces that she found it...''In her eye.''
** Freddie has more going on upstairs than Brooke, but not by a whole lot. Even though they're less than a day from opening, he stops the show in the middle of rehearsal because he absolutely has to know why "the sheik looks like Phillip." He's also completely oblivious to the fact that [[spoiler: when Dotty and Garry are fighting before they perform the second attempt of act one, that Dotty is intentionally sidling up to him to make Garry jealous.]]
** Invoked with Lloyd, especially in the stage version. [[spoiler: While his relationships with Poppy and Brooke are bad enough, in the mini program that accompanies the stage show program, the info states that Poppy's father is one of the sponsors of the show. He's literally two-timing the daughter of the guy financing the show. And then he gets her pregnant as well.]]
* DumbBlonde: Brooke is the walking embodiment. The girl just doesn't have much going on upstairs. For example, she has contact lenses that easily come out. She gets bumped during the first rehearsal of act one, indicates she's lost one, and sends everyone save for Lloyd into a panic searching the floor for it before she suddenly straightens up and announces that she found it...''In her eye.''
** Freddie has more going on upstairs than Brooke, but not by a whole lot. Even though they're less than a day from opening, he stops the show in the middle of rehearsal because he absolutely has to know why "the sheik looks like Phillip." He's also completely oblivious to the fact that [[spoiler: when Dotty and Garry are fighting before they perform the second attempt of act one, that Dotty is intentionally sidling up to him to make Garry jealous.]]
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* ExhaustedEyebags: Dallas verbally abuses and horribly and appallingly works stage manager Timothy Allgood to the point of a complete and total collapse, endangering his health, all to whip the mess of a production of ''Nothing On'' into a coherent presentation. Poor Timothy ... he hasn't slept in nearly two days, yet is shouted at and belittled to the point of dehumanization when he is told to repair props that won't work and that he had better be ready to understudy several actors in an instant -- which is basically himself.
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* EarnYourHappyEnding: In the film only. [[spoiler: At the very end of the film, we see the last few seconds of the play's final act. At the curtain call we see strong hints that Garry has moved on from Dotty and is now with Brooke, Belinda is now with Freddie, and Dotty and Selsdon are together. Then when Lloyd gets dragged on stage to bow with the happy cast, they stand him next to Poppy and raise Lloyd and Poppy's left hands, revealing wedding rings while Lloyd and Poppy smile. Awww.]]
* ExhaustedEyebags:Dallas Dallas/Fellowes verbally abuses and horribly and appallingly works stage manager Timothy Allgood to the point of a complete and total collapse, endangering his health, all to whip the mess of a production of ''Nothing On'' into a coherent presentation. Poor Timothy ... he hasn't slept in nearly two days, yet is shouted at and belittled to the point of dehumanization when he is told to repair props that won't work and that he had better be ready to understudy several actors in an instant -- which is basically himself.
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* FlowersOfRomance: Lloyd attempts this with Brooke, but they keep getting intercepted. He ends up giving her a cactus.
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* FlowersOfRomance: Lloyd attempts this with Brooke, but they keep getting intercepted. He ends up giving her a cactus. She takes it about as well as you would expect.
** Played for ultimate laughs in the disastrous third attempt. [[spoiler: The show is going so badly at that point that when Lloyd shows up backstage they stuff him into the costume of the burglar and send him on stage at the burglar's cue line to try and salvage things. Then the line gets repeated, and Selson makes his entrance as he normally would. Then when they're trying to figure out where to go from here, the cue gets repeated a third time and ''Tim" comes on, leaving Lloyd, Selsdon, and Tim saying the burglar's lines in unison as Lloyd desperately tries to figure out what the Hell to do.]]
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* HilarityEnsues: The entire point of ''Noises Off'' is to depict what might result when everything that could go wrong does: A director who is in over his head, actors who are clearly incompetent or ill-suited to being cast in a major theatrical production and a stage manager who desperately needs sleep. In the real world, given that the play is clearly nowhere close to being ready to present to the audience, a competent director would postpone opening night. If any play actually did open with everything as ill-ready as it was, the play might not make it past opening night … maybe not even ''through'' opening night. Additionally, the director (Lloyd Dallas, whose abilities as a director leave much to be desired despite him fancying himself as the greatest) would likely be blacklisted and might also face legal trouble for his overworking of stage manager Timothy Allgood, particularly if he were to suffer health issues due to being denied the chance to sleep.
* HonorableMarriageProposal: Implied at the end of the film, with Lloyd and Poppy showing off matching wedding rings.
* HonorableMarriageProposal: Implied at the end of the film, with Lloyd and Poppy showing off matching wedding rings.
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* HilarityEnsues: The entire point of ''Noises Off'' is to depict what might result when everything that could go wrong does: A director who is in over his head, actors who are clearly incompetent or ill-suited to being cast in a major theatrical production and a stage manager who desperately needs sleep. In the real world, given that the play is clearly nowhere close to being ready to present to the audience, a competent director would postpone opening night. If any play actually did open with everything as ill-ready as it was, the play might not make it past opening night … maybe not even ''through'' opening night. Additionally, the director (Lloyd Dallas, Dallas/Fellowes, whose abilities as a director leave much to be desired despite him fancying himself as the greatest) would likely be blacklisted and might also face legal trouble for his overworking of stage manager Timothy Allgood, particularly if he were to suffer health issues due to being denied the chance to sleep.
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* HonorableMarriageProposal: Implied at the end of the film, [[spoiler: with Lloyd and Poppy showing off matching wedding rings.]]
* HonorableMarriageProposal: Implied at the end of the film, [[spoiler: with Lloyd and Poppy showing off matching wedding rings.]]
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** There's a prominent love triangle between Lloyd, Poppy, and Brooke.
** The second act sets one up between Garry, Dottie, and Freddie. By the third act, this has progressed to Dottie, Freddie, and Belinda.
** The second act sets one up between Garry, Dottie, and Freddie. By the third act, this has progressed to Dottie, Freddie, and Belinda.
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** There's a prominent love triangle between Lloyd, Poppy, and Brooke.
Brooke. [[spoiler: In the film, Lloyd marries pregnant Poppy. In the stage show, it ends after the the disastrous third attempt of act one that we see and we never find out if Lloyd picked Poppy, Brooke, or either of them.]]
** The second act sets one up between Garry, Dottie, andFreddie.Freddie, though at the time, Freddie isn't aware he's being roped in as such. By the third act, this has progressed to Dottie, Freddie, and Belinda.
** The second act sets one up between Garry, Dottie, and
** Selson is also sweet, and a good actor, he's just a raging alcoholic and has to be watched constantly.
** On the female side, Belinda is the TeamMom [[spoiler: until act one's third attempt]] and Poppy is shy and sweet as can be.
** On the female side, Belinda is the TeamMom [[spoiler: until act one's third attempt]] and Poppy is shy and sweet as can be.
** Lloyd makes an attempt as well.
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** In the film, at the end of the first Broadway performance, the cast drag Tim, Poppy, and Lloyd on-stage for bows.
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** Lloyd ''tries'' to do this in-universe, [[spoiler: taking a hiatus from directing "Richard III" ("Hamlet" in the film) to appease Brooke, who keeps calling him to tell him she has "nervous exhaustion" and wants to leave the show. Not only is he seemingly unsuccessful based on how things go, but it's also self-subverted, as the main reason he's doing it all is not to make her happy, but because his current production is going badly and he doesn't have time to replace Brooke.]]
** In the film, [[spoiler: at the end of the first successful Broadway performance, the cast drag Tim, Poppy, and Lloyd on-stage for bows.]]
** In the film, [[spoiler: at the end of the first successful Broadway performance, the cast drag Tim, Poppy, and Lloyd on-stage for bows.]]
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: [[spoiler: After Lloyd gets thrust onstage during the disastrous third attempt of act one, Lloyd has no idea how to salvage things to end the act and attempts to flee the stage, before the rest of the cast improvises and stops him.
* Invoked in the second try of act one. [[spoiler: Prior to the show, Lloyd keeps coming back to try and smooth things over, but gets so frustrated that he declares the show beyond the help of any director, tells them to just perform it, and sulks off to the audience to watch it.]]
* Invoked in the second try of act one. [[spoiler: Prior to the show, Lloyd keeps coming back to try and smooth things over, but gets so frustrated that he declares the show beyond the help of any director, tells them to just perform it, and sulks off to the audience to watch it.]]
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* SevenMinuteLull: Just as Poppy shouts at the end of Act II.
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* SevenMinuteLull: Just as Poppy shouts [[spoiler: that Lloyd has gotten her pregnant]] at the end of Act II.II. (Which is actually just the first act seen the second time.)
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* TheShowMustGoOn: The whole play is an illustration of this trope. The theatrical version, however, implies that the show is an utter failure in the end.
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* TheShowMustGoOn: The whole play is an illustration of this trope. The theatrical version, however, [[spoiler: implies that the show is an utter failure in the end.]]
* TeamMom: Belinda serves this role in act one and "act two," doing her best to motivate the unhappy cast and keep things going when the second attempt starts going off the rails. [[spoiler: By "act three," she's just as pissed as everyone else and starts doing sabotage of her own, in part because of Dotty's attempts to woo the clueless Freddie, who Belinda is fiercely protective of.]]
** Tim stands in for Freddie as the sheik so Freddie can costume change, (he drops behind a couch so Freddie can then stand up and replace him, [[spoiler: if the first act had ever gone successfully,]] as well as [[spoiler: being the understudy for, and going on for Selsdon as the "burglar" after the entrance cue line is repeated for a third time during the disastrous third attempt of act one.]]
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* YouExclamation: At the end of Act I, everyone thinks the Sheikh is Philip, yelling, "YOU!" before attacking him.
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* YouExclamation: At the end of Act I, everyone thinks the Sheikh is Philip, yelling, "YOU!" before attacking him.him.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler: Do Garry and Dotty patch things up? Does Lloyd marry pregnant Poppy? Does he stay with Brooke? Does the infighting ever stop long enough for the cast to mount a successful show? The play ends before we ever find out.]]
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler: Do Garry and Dotty patch things up? Does Lloyd marry pregnant Poppy? Does he stay with Brooke? Does the infighting ever stop long enough for the cast to mount a successful show? The play ends before we ever find out.]]
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* DetachableDoorknob: During the third run-through, Belinda accidentally pulls the handle off trying to close the linen cupboard door, and unsuccessfully attempts to replace it during her next scene. This means when Garry can't open said door to find Brooke inside, he has to pull her out through the bedroom door.
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A film version was released in 1992, directed by Creator/PeterBogdanovich and featuring an all-star cast headed by Creator/MichaelCaine as Lloyd the director, with Creator/CarolBurnett, Creator/ChristopherReeve, Creator/DenholmElliott, Creator/JohnRitter, Creator/MariluHenner, and Creator/NicolletteSheridan as the cast of ''Nothing On'' and Creator/JulieHagerty and [[Series/PerfectStrangers Mark Linn-Baker]] as the overworked backstage crew. Marty Kaplan's screenplay adds a FramingDevice about ''Nothing On'' going to Broadway, and is presented as a flashback as Lloyd describes what a nightmare the show has been; it also gives the plot an actual ending.
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A [[TheFilmOfThePlay film version version]] was released in 1992, directed by Creator/PeterBogdanovich and featuring an all-star cast headed by Creator/MichaelCaine as Lloyd the director, with Creator/CarolBurnett, Creator/ChristopherReeve, Creator/DenholmElliott, Creator/JohnRitter, Creator/MariluHenner, and Creator/NicolletteSheridan as the cast of ''Nothing On'' and Creator/JulieHagerty and [[Series/PerfectStrangers Mark Linn-Baker]] as the overworked backstage crew. Marty Kaplan's screenplay adds a FramingDevice about ''Nothing On'' going to Broadway, and is presented as a flashback as Lloyd describes what a nightmare the show has been; it also gives the plot an actual ending.
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* HowWeGotHere: The movie starts with Lloyd running away from ''Nothing On'''s Broadway debut, then flashes back to the problems that it had while touring.
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* MistakenForCheating: Whenever Garry comes backstage during Act Two, he sees Dottie apparently involved with Freddie or Lloyd.
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* RunningGag: Given that they do the same Act three different ways, most of the jokes tied to the "Nothing On" become running gags
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* RunningGag: Given that they do the same Act three different ways, most of the jokes tied to the "Nothing On" become running gagsgags.
* AccidentalPervert: Roger and Vicki think Philip is some sort of "sex pervert" after he chases Vicki around with his pants around his ankles.
* MistakenForCheating: Flavia sees Vicki in her underwear and Philip with his pants around his ankles, and comes to the reasonably-logical conclusion that these two things are related.
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* RunningGag: Sardines.
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* RunningGag: Sardines.Sardines - there are four separate plates of sardines in just Act One, as characters keep carrying them off and Mrs. Clackett keeps making new plates.
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Selsdon's name has an O in it, and don't use numerals instead of words for single-digit numbers, especially not at the beginning of a sentence; it looks lazy.
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Written by Michael Frayn (who among other things also wrote the screenplay for the Creator/JohnCleese movie ''Film/{{Clockwise}}''). A film version was released in 1992, directed by Creator/PeterBogdanovich and featuring an all-star cast headed by Creator/MichaelCaine as Lloyd the director, with Creator/CarolBurnett, Creator/ChristopherReeve, Creator/DenholmElliott, Creator/JohnRitter, Creator/MariluHenner, and Creator/NicolletteSheridan as the cast of ''Nothing On'' and Creator/JulieHagerty and [[Series/PerfectStrangers Mark Linn-Baker]] as the overworked backstage crew. Marty Kaplan's screenplay adds a FramingDevice about ''Nothing On'' going to Broadway, and is presented as a flashback as Lloyd describes what a nightmare the show has been; it also gives the plot an actual ending.
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Written by Michael Frayn (who among other things also wrote the screenplay for the Creator/JohnCleese movie ''Film/{{Clockwise}}''). ''Film/{{Clockwise}}''), who was inspired to write a "behind the scenes" farce after watching rehearsals and performances of his 1970 anthology play ''The Two of Us'', particularly the final play in which two performers (Creator/RichardBriers and Creator/LynnRedgrave in the original West End production) play multiple characters each and must make lightning quick costume changes; Frayn decided the view from behind the stage was funnier than the view from in front of it.
A film version was released in 1992, directed by Creator/PeterBogdanovich and featuring an all-star cast headed by Creator/MichaelCaine as Lloyd the director, with Creator/CarolBurnett, Creator/ChristopherReeve, Creator/DenholmElliott, Creator/JohnRitter, Creator/MariluHenner, and Creator/NicolletteSheridan as the cast of ''Nothing On'' and Creator/JulieHagerty and [[Series/PerfectStrangers Mark Linn-Baker]] as the overworked backstage crew. Marty Kaplan's screenplay adds a FramingDevice about ''Nothing On'' going to Broadway, and is presented as a flashback as Lloyd describes what a nightmare the show has been; it also gives the plot an actualending.
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A film version was released in 1992, directed by Creator/PeterBogdanovich and featuring an all-star cast headed by Creator/MichaelCaine as Lloyd the director, with Creator/CarolBurnett, Creator/ChristopherReeve, Creator/DenholmElliott, Creator/JohnRitter, Creator/MariluHenner, and Creator/NicolletteSheridan as the cast of ''Nothing On'' and Creator/JulieHagerty and [[Series/PerfectStrangers Mark Linn-Baker]] as the overworked backstage crew. Marty Kaplan's screenplay adds a FramingDevice about ''Nothing On'' going to Broadway, and is presented as a flashback as Lloyd describes what a nightmare the show has been; it also gives the plot an actual
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* AstonishinglyAppropriateInterruption: [[RuleOfThree 3 times]] during Act 2, with some reactions backstage lining up perfectly with the offstage reactions needed for the ShowWithinAShow:
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* AstonishinglyAppropriateInterruption: [[RuleOfThree 3 Three times]] during Act 2, with some reactions backstage lining up perfectly with the offstage reactions needed for the ShowWithinAShow:
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* FakeBrit: InUniverse in the 1992 film, all of the actors save Selsden (Elliott) and Brooke (Sheridan) are Americans putting on British accents.
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* FakeBrit: InUniverse in the 1992 film, all of the actors save Selsden Selsdon (Elliott) and Brooke (Sheridan) are Americans putting on British accents.
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* GladIThoughtOfIt: Selsden, several times after Lloyd gives him direction. Downplayed because Selsden is hard of hearing, and misheard what Lloyd said, but instead suggests exactly what Lloyd told him to do.
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* GladIThoughtOfIt: Selsden, Selsdon, several times after Lloyd gives him direction. Downplayed because Selsden Selsdon is hard of hearing, and misheard what Lloyd said, but instead suggests exactly what Lloyd told him to do.
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* NoodleImplements: We never see the second act of ''Nothing On'', but according to the production credits in the in-universe program, it apparently makes use of a stethoscope, a hospital trolley, a straitjacket, and at least 2 coffins. Belinda also mentions that the second act's plot relies on the rest of the characters mistaking the Sheikh for Phillip.
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* NoodleImplements: We never see the second act of ''Nothing On'', but according to the production credits in the in-universe program, it apparently makes use of a stethoscope, a hospital trolley, a straitjacket, and at least 2 two coffins. Belinda also mentions that the second act's plot relies on the rest of the characters mistaking the Sheikh for Phillip.
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* PrecisionFStrike: Lloyd reacts badly to the constantly changing start times.
-->'''Lloyd:''' What the '''''FUCK''''' is going on?!
** Another one (possibly the first one in the play?) is when one of the actors in the ShowWithinAShow talks to the director:
--> '''Garry''': I've worked with a lot of directors, Lloyd. Some of them were geniuses, some of them were bastards, but I've never met one who was so totally and absolutely... I don't know.
--> '''Lloyd''': Thank you, Garry, I'm very touched, now get off the fucking stage.
-->'''Lloyd:''' What the '''''FUCK''''' is going on?!
** Another one (possibly the first one in the play?) is when one of the actors in the ShowWithinAShow talks to the director:
--> '''Garry''': I've worked with a lot of directors, Lloyd. Some of them were geniuses, some of them were bastards, but I've never met one who was so totally and absolutely... I don't know.
--> '''Lloyd''': Thank you, Garry, I'm very touched, now get off the fucking stage.
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* PrecisionFStrike: Lloyd reacts badly PrecisionFStrike:
** In Act 1, Garry attempts a compliment toward Lloyd, who just wants to get on with theconstantly changing start times.
-->'''Lloyd:''' What the '''''FUCK''''' is going on?!
** Another one (possibly the first one in the play?) is when one of the actors in the ShowWithinAShow talks to the director:
--> '''Garry''':late night rehearsal:
--->'''Garry''': I've worked with a lot of directors, Lloyd. Some of them were geniuses, some of them were bastards, but I've never met one who was so totally and absolutely... I don'tknow.
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'''Lloyd''': Thank you, Garry, I'm very touched, now get off the fuckingstage.stage.
** In Act 2, Lloyd reacts badly to the constantly changing start times.
--->'''Lloyd:''' What the '''''FUCK''''' is going on?!
** In Act 1, Garry attempts a compliment toward Lloyd, who just wants to get on with the
-->'''Lloyd:''' What the '''''FUCK''''' is going on?!
** Another one (possibly the first one in the play?) is when one of the actors in the ShowWithinAShow talks to the director:
--> '''Garry''':
--->'''Garry''': I've worked with a lot of directors, Lloyd. Some of them were geniuses, some of them were bastards, but I've never met one who was so totally and absolutely... I don't
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'''Lloyd''': Thank you, Garry, I'm very touched, now get off the fucking
** In Act 2, Lloyd reacts badly to the constantly changing start times.
--->'''Lloyd:''' What the '''''FUCK''''' is going on?!
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* RightBehindMe: Poppy is discussing Selsden's distinctive...aroma...without realizing he's right behind her. Fortunately, his being hard of hearing and a {{Cloudcuckoolander}} combine to make him not realize he's being insulted.
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* RightBehindMe: Poppy is discussing Selsden's Selsdon's distinctive...aroma...without realizing he's right behind her. Fortunately, his being hard of hearing and a {{Cloudcuckoolander}} combine to make him not realize he's being insulted.
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'''Selsden:''' ''(putting his arm round her)'' I’ll tell you something, Poppy. Once you’ve got it in your nostrils you never forget it. Sixty years now and the smell of the theatre still haunts me.
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** How Dottie and Roger got together (in "On The Zebras", where she played a lollipop lady and he played an ice-cream man who charmed all the lollipop ladies)
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** How Dottie and Roger got together (in "On The Zebras", where she played a lollipop lady and he played an ice-cream man who charmed all the lollipop ladies)ladies).
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: At the start of the play, when Roger surprises Mrs. Clackett, she explains her scream of fright with "I thought you was a burglar!" And what should show up before the first act is even halfway over, but...
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* AdaptationNameChange: In the film version, Lloyd and Freddie have their surnames switched from the play (Lloyd Fellowes, Frederick Dallas).
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* {{Fanservice}}: Vicki's costume; see LingerieScene.
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We've got this already as Lingerie Scene and Ms Fanservice, and all this one does is point to Lingerie Scene.
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* {{Fanservice}}: Brooke's costume, or lack thereof; see LingerieScene.
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Moving to trivia.
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* {{Corpsing}}: John Ritter is visibly trying not to laugh in the third act when he's shouting "Sardines! Sardines!"
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* WhiteDwarfStarlet: Dottie is funding the entire play as a comeback vehicle.
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* OnlySaneMan: Belinda and Freddie. By act three, only Freddie.
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* OnlySaneMan: Belinda and Freddie. By act three, only Freddie.Freddie (marginally with him and his extreme fear of blood).
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* MethodActing: Fred is an extreme method actor, which drives Lloyd nuts.
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* MethodActing: InUniverse, Fred is an extreme method actor, which drives Lloyd nuts.
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* FakeBrit: InUniverse in the 1992 film, all of the actors save Selsden (Elliott) as Americans putting on British accents.
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* FakeBrit: InUniverse in the 1992 film, all of the actors save Selsden (Elliott) as and Brooke (Sheridan) are Americans putting on British accents.
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* MethodActing: Fred is an extreme method actor, which drives Lloyd nuts.
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Written by Michael Frayn (who among other things also wrote the screenplay for the Creator/JohnCleese movie ''Film/{{Clockwise}}''). A film version was released in 1992, directed by Creator/PeterBogdanovich and featuring an all-star cast headed by Creator/MichaelCaine as Lloyd the director, with Creator/CarolBurnett, Creator/ChristopherReeve, Creator/DenholmElliott, Creator/JohnRitter, Creator/MariluHenner, and Creator/NicolletteSheridan as the cast of ''Nothing On'' and Creator/JulieHagerty and [[Series/PerfectStrangers Mark Linn-Baker]] as the overworked backstage crew. Marty Kaplan's screenplay adds a FramingDevice about ''Nothing On'' going to Broadway, and is presented as a flashback as Lloyd describes what a nightmare the show has been; it also gives the plot an actual happy ending.
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Written by Michael Frayn (who among other things also wrote the screenplay for the Creator/JohnCleese movie ''Film/{{Clockwise}}''). A film version was released in 1992, directed by Creator/PeterBogdanovich and featuring an all-star cast headed by Creator/MichaelCaine as Lloyd the director, with Creator/CarolBurnett, Creator/ChristopherReeve, Creator/DenholmElliott, Creator/JohnRitter, Creator/MariluHenner, and Creator/NicolletteSheridan as the cast of ''Nothing On'' and Creator/JulieHagerty and [[Series/PerfectStrangers Mark Linn-Baker]] as the overworked backstage crew. Marty Kaplan's screenplay adds a FramingDevice about ''Nothing On'' going to Broadway, and is presented as a flashback as Lloyd describes what a nightmare the show has been; it also gives the plot an actual happy ending.
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--> '''Poppy:''' [[TheNoseKnowns No, I mean, if you stand anywhere near Selsdon you can’t help noticing this very distinctive...]] ''(She stops, sniffing.)'' \\
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--> '''Poppy:''' [[TheNoseKnowns [[TheNoseKnows No, I mean, if you stand anywhere near Selsdon you can’t help noticing this very distinctive...]] ''(She stops, sniffing.)'' \\
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--> '''Poppy:''' No, I mean, if you stand anywhere near Selsdon you can’t help noticing this very distinctive... ''(She stops, sniffing.)'' \\
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--> '''Poppy:''' [[TheNoseKnowns No, I mean, if you stand anywhere near Selsdon you can’t help noticing this very distinctive... distinctive...]] ''(She stops, sniffing.)'' \\
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* EveryoneIsJesusInPurgatory: The programs will always wax philosophical about sardines.
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* EveryoneIsJesusInPurgatory: The programs will always wax philosophical about sardines. [[invoked]]
