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* ActingForTwo: Creator/BrianRosenthal plays LoadsAndLoadsOfRoles as "Everyone Else" again, and each of the {{Special Guest}}s is also cast in at least two roles. (Jiavani Linayao and Joanna Sotomura play the most roles, each playing all the female characters in their episodes while Brian plays all the male ones; Robert Manion plays Gwen's husband Nicholas and her daughter Paris in his episode, and Creator/DarrenCriss qualifies for his extremely brief appearances as Scrags' [[ItMakesSenseInContext hallucination of a talking shrimp]] and one as the judge at the end, alongside his role as Tucker Bossman.)
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* ActingForTwo: Creator/BrianRosenthal plays LoadsAndLoadsOfRoles several roles as "Everyone Else" again, and each of the {{Special Guest}}s is also cast in at least two roles. (Jiavani Linayao and Joanna Sotomura play the most roles, each playing all the female characters in their episodes while Brian plays all the male ones; Robert Manion plays Gwen's husband Nicholas and her daughter Paris in his episode, and Creator/DarrenCriss qualifies for his extremely brief appearances as Scrags' [[ItMakesSenseInContext hallucination of a talking shrimp]] and one as the judge at the end, alongside his role as Tucker Bossman.)
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* ActingForTwo: Creator/BrianRosenthal plays LoadsAndLoadsOfRoles as "Everyone Else" again, and each of the {{Special Guest}}s is also cast in at least two roles. (Jiavani Linayao and Joanna Sotomura play the most roles, each playing all the female characters in their episodes while Brian plays all the male ones; Robert Manion plays Gwen's husband Nicholas and her daughter Paris in his episode, and Creator/DarrenCriss ''just barely'' qualifies for this trope by having a {{cameo}} as Scrags' [[ItMakesSenseInContext hallucination of a talking shrimp]] and one as the judge at the end, alongside his role as Tucker Bossman.)
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* ActingForTwo: Creator/BrianRosenthal plays LoadsAndLoadsOfRoles as "Everyone Else" again, and each of the {{Special Guest}}s is also cast in at least two roles. (Jiavani Linayao and Joanna Sotomura play the most roles, each playing all the female characters in their episodes while Brian plays all the male ones; Robert Manion plays Gwen's husband Nicholas and her daughter Paris in his episode, and Creator/DarrenCriss ''just barely'' qualifies for this trope by having a {{cameo}} his extremely brief appearances as Scrags' [[ItMakesSenseInContext hallucination of a talking shrimp]] and one as the judge at the end, alongside his role as Tucker Bossman.)
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* {{Corpsing}}: Robert Manion revealed he had to mute himself to avoid letting anyone hear him laugh in reaction to the "rage room" scene, leading to him being muted as Paris in the next scene. The whole rest of the cast, in turn, was struggling with this during his tearful breakdown as Nicholas at the Lonely Man storage facility.
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* AscendedFanboy / AscendedFangirl: Meg Lloyd is a fan of Creator/TeamStarkid since the ''Theatre/AVeryPotterMusical'' days who had several pieces of Starkid fanart on her [[https://www.instagram.com/thirdchildart/ Instagram]] before she was asked to do an official TitleSequence animatic by the Creator/TinCanBrothers.
** Also always worth mentioning that Robert Manion, before he became a fan favorite in the FriendlyFandoms of Creator/TeamStarkid and Creator/TinCanBrothers, started out as a teenager from Australia who won a fan contest to design artwork and write a song for ''Theatre/AVeryPotterSeniorYear''.
** Also always worth mentioning that Robert Manion, before he became a fan favorite in the FriendlyFandoms of Creator/TeamStarkid and Creator/TinCanBrothers, started out as a teenager from Australia who won a fan contest to design artwork and write a song for ''Theatre/AVeryPotterSeniorYear''.
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** Meg Lloyd is a fan of Creator/TeamStarkid since the ''Theatre/AVeryPotterMusical'' days who had several pieces of Starkid fanart on her [[https://www.instagram.com/thirdchildart/ Instagram]] before she was asked to do an official TitleSequence animatic by the Creator/TinCanBrothers.
** Also always worth mentioning that Robert Manion, before he became a fan favorite in the FriendlyFandoms of Creator/TeamStarkid and Creator/TinCanBrothers, started out as a teenager from Australia who won a fan contest to design artwork and write a song for ''Theatre/AVeryPotterSeniorYear''.
** Meg Lloyd is a fan of Creator/TeamStarkid since the ''Theatre/AVeryPotterMusical'' days who had several pieces of Starkid fanart on her [[https://www.instagram.com/thirdchildart/ Instagram]] before she was asked to do an official TitleSequence animatic by the Creator/TinCanBrothers.
** Also always worth mentioning that Robert Manion, before he became a fan favorite in the FriendlyFandoms of Creator/TeamStarkid and Creator/TinCanBrothers, started out as a teenager from Australia who won a fan contest to design artwork and write a song for ''Theatre/AVeryPotterSeniorYear''.
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* {{Blooper}}: Unfortunately Zoom being a finicky piece of technology as always meant that ''Back in Biz'' was beset by its fair share of technical problems, lag, people talking without realizing they were muted, etc. Luckily, most of the technical glitches weren't on the livestream readings themselves but on the Q&As afterwards; the first Q&A had some truly bizarre glitching with windows displaying when they weren't supposed to, including making stage manager Tammy Babich briefly and unintentionally visible, and the second livestream had so much lag (possibly due to buggy code with the fake WebSite/{{Instagram}} react emoji function) that the Q&A started a half-hour late.
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* {{Blooper}}: Unfortunately Zoom being a finicky piece of technology as always meant that ''Back in Biz'' was beset by its fair share of technical problems, lag, people talking without realizing they were muted, etc. Luckily, most of the technical glitches weren't on the livestream readings themselves but on the Q&As afterwards; the first Q&A had some truly bizarre glitching with windows displaying when they weren't supposed to, including making stage manager Tammy Babich briefly and unintentionally visible, and the second livestream had so much lag (possibly due to buggy code with the fake WebSite/{{Instagram}} Instagram react emoji function) that the Q&A started a half-hour late.
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* ThrowItIn: Creator/DarrenCriss does a lot more minor rephrasing and {{Improv}} with his lines than the other actors, as has been his wont since the ''Theatre/AVeryPotterMusical'' days.
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* ThrowItIn: Creator/DarrenCriss does a lot more minor rephrasing and {{Improv}} with his lines than the other actors, as has been his wont since the ''Theatre/AVeryPotterMusical'' days.days.
* WordOfSaintPaul: The ''Back in Biz'' livestreams featured Q&A's with the actors afterwards where they were able to drop some headcanon about their characters to the fans:
** Ashley Clements revealed the HypocriticalHumor that Gwen dreads and hates her school's bake sales even though she never actually bakes anything for them and just gets store-bought pastries she passes off as homemade (by having the nanny pop them in the oven to warm them up just before bringing them over).
** She also revealed that Paris is Gwen's "favorite" child, in the sense that Paris has been the target of Gwen's insecurities since she was little and Gwen desperately wants her daughter to admire her and follow in her footsteps, whereas she mostly ignores Cam completely.
** When asked about the specifics of Keith's DramaClub Broadway obsession and what musical Keith would produce and star in if all his dreams came true, Gabe Greenspan eventually decided the most interesting answer would be something like ''Theatre/{{Chess}}''.
** When discussing how this is a show where ThereAreNoTherapists (or, at least, the Squad refuses to get real mental health treatment) the cast ended up going around deciding what their characters' mental health diagnoses would be:
*** Scrags is already stated in canon to have a (self-diagnosed) anxiety disorder, specifically [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_disorder panic disorder]], along with PTSD from Cluebert's death, which partly manifests in his compulsive eating disorder.
*** Keith has a serious inferiority complex, along with being an alcoholic, and a lot of his behvaior also clearly verges on borderline personality disorder.
*** Gwen is a textbook case of narcissistic personality disorder, along with hints of being bipolar.
*** Esther's extreme substance abuse problems stem ultimately from their self-medication for what may be severe OCD and/or ADHD. They also show some very strong signs of antisocial personality disorder (i.e. being a "high-functioning sociopath").
* WordOfSaintPaul: The ''Back in Biz'' livestreams featured Q&A's with the actors afterwards where they were able to drop some headcanon about their characters to the fans:
** Ashley Clements revealed the HypocriticalHumor that Gwen dreads and hates her school's bake sales even though she never actually bakes anything for them and just gets store-bought pastries she passes off as homemade (by having the nanny pop them in the oven to warm them up just before bringing them over).
** She also revealed that Paris is Gwen's "favorite" child, in the sense that Paris has been the target of Gwen's insecurities since she was little and Gwen desperately wants her daughter to admire her and follow in her footsteps, whereas she mostly ignores Cam completely.
** When asked about the specifics of Keith's DramaClub Broadway obsession and what musical Keith would produce and star in if all his dreams came true, Gabe Greenspan eventually decided the most interesting answer would be something like ''Theatre/{{Chess}}''.
** When discussing how this is a show where ThereAreNoTherapists (or, at least, the Squad refuses to get real mental health treatment) the cast ended up going around deciding what their characters' mental health diagnoses would be:
*** Scrags is already stated in canon to have a (self-diagnosed) anxiety disorder, specifically [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_disorder panic disorder]], along with PTSD from Cluebert's death, which partly manifests in his compulsive eating disorder.
*** Keith has a serious inferiority complex, along with being an alcoholic, and a lot of his behvaior also clearly verges on borderline personality disorder.
*** Gwen is a textbook case of narcissistic personality disorder, along with hints of being bipolar.
*** Esther's extreme substance abuse problems stem ultimately from their self-medication for what may be severe OCD and/or ADHD. They also show some very strong signs of antisocial personality disorder (i.e. being a "high-functioning sociopath").
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* ActingForTwo: Creator/BrianRosenthal plays LoadsAndLoadsOfRoles as "Everyone Else" again, and each of the {{Special Guest}}s is also cast in at least two roles. (Jiavani Linayao and Joanna Sotomura play the most roles, each playing all the female characters in their episodes while Brian plays all the male ones; Robert Manion plays Gwen's husband Nicholas and her daughter Paris in his episode, and Creator/DarrenCriss ''just barely'' qualifies for this trope by having a {{cameo}} as Scrags' {{hallucination|s}} of a talking shrimp and one as the judge at the end, alongside his role as Tucker Bossman.)
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* ActingForTwo: Creator/BrianRosenthal plays LoadsAndLoadsOfRoles as "Everyone Else" again, and each of the {{Special Guest}}s is also cast in at least two roles. (Jiavani Linayao and Joanna Sotomura play the most roles, each playing all the female characters in their episodes while Brian plays all the male ones; Robert Manion plays Gwen's husband Nicholas and her daughter Paris in his episode, and Creator/DarrenCriss ''just barely'' qualifies for this trope by having a {{cameo}} as Scrags' {{hallucination|s}} [[ItMakesSenseInContext hallucination of a talking shrimp shrimp]] and one as the judge at the end, alongside his role as Tucker Bossman.)
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* DescendedCreator: As with Creator/NickLang for Creator/TeamStarkid's ''WebVideo/NightmareTime'', the role of TheNarrator (reading the stage directions) in this show is taken by writer/director Creator/CoreyLubowich himself.
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* NoBudget: ''Back in Biz'' tries to be more sophisticated than past Zoom reading shows like Creator/TeamStarkid's ''WebVideo/NightmareTime'' but, as Creator/CoreyLubowich admitted in the Q&A, is still fundamentally people talking at webcams from inside their house with the only "costumes" and "setting" coming from whatever [[WigDressAccent wacky props]] they had to hand. (In the Q&A they cracked a joke about budgeting to reimburse everyone for the various glasses they wore as their main way of establishing their characters.) Part of the reason this show had such a limited release is that an actual animated series is ''very'' expensive to produce and the Creator/TinCanBrothers needed a strong idea of how much support this concept had before making any plans to launch a Kickstarter.
* ProductionPosse: This show reunites the whole team from ''Theatre/TheSolveItSquadReturns'', with {{Special Guest}}s Robert Manion and Creator/DarrenCriss having worked with the members of the Creator/TinCanBrothers on Creator/TeamStarkid's productions, Joanna Sotomura being a colleague of Ashley Clements via Pemberley Digital's "[[WebVideo/TheLizzieBennetDiaries LBD-verse]]" and having appeared in the [=TCBs=]' last project ''WebVideo/WaywardGuideForTheUntrainedEye'', and Jiavani Linayao being the first true newcomer to the cast.
* ProductionPosse: This show reunites the whole team from ''Theatre/TheSolveItSquadReturns'', with {{Special Guest}}s Robert Manion and Creator/DarrenCriss having worked with the members of the Creator/TinCanBrothers on Creator/TeamStarkid's productions, Joanna Sotomura being a colleague of Ashley Clements via Pemberley Digital's "[[WebVideo/TheLizzieBennetDiaries LBD-verse]]" and having appeared in the [=TCBs=]' last project ''WebVideo/WaywardGuideForTheUntrainedEye'', and Jiavani Linayao being the first true newcomer to the cast.
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* ActingForTwo: Creator/BrianRosenthal plays LoadsAndLoadsOfRoles as "Everyone Else" again, and each of the {{Special Guest}}s is also cast in at least two roles. (Jiavani Linayao and Joanna Sotomura play the most roles, each playing all the female characters in their episodes while Brian plays all the male ones; Robert Manion plays Gwen's husband Nicholas and her daughter Paris in his episode, and Creator/DarrenCriss ''just barely'' qualifies for this trope by having a {{cameo}} as Scrags' {{hallucination}} {{hallucination|s}} of a talking shrimp and one as the judge at the end, alongside his role as Tucker Bossman.)
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** Also always worth mentioning that Robert Manion, before he became a fan favorite in the FriendlyFandoms of Creator/TeamStarkid and Creator/TinCanBrothers, started out as a teenager from Australia who won a fan contest to design artwork and write a song for ''Theatre/AVeryPotterSeniorYear''.
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** Also always worth mentioning that Robert Manion, before he became a fan favorite in the FriendlyFandoms of Creator/TeamStarkid and Creator/TinCanBrothers, started out as a teenager from Australia who won a fan contest to design artwork and write a song for ''Theatre/AVeryPotterSeniorYear''.''Theatre/AVeryPotterSeniorYear''.
* {{Blooper}}: Unfortunately Zoom being a finicky piece of technology as always meant that ''Back in Biz'' was beset by its fair share of technical problems, lag, people talking without realizing they were muted, etc. Luckily, most of the technical glitches weren't on the livestream readings themselves but on the Q&As afterwards; the first Q&A had some truly bizarre glitching with windows displaying when they weren't supposed to, including making stage manager Tammy Babich briefly and unintentionally visible, and the second livestream had so much lag (possibly due to buggy code with the fake WebSite/{{Instagram}} react emoji function) that the Q&A started a half-hour late.
** Thanks to this Zoom automatically muting and hiding people who weren't involved in a scene, actual {{Corpsing}} wasn't much of an issue (with people praising Creator/CoreyLubowich, TheNarrator who's onscreen at all times, for being a "rock"), but Robert Manion revealed that he muted himself and accidentally stayed muted at the beginning of a scene of "Takes a Chill Pill" specifically so no one would hear him uncontrollably cracking up at the "Hall of the Mountain King" "rage room" scene before he came back on as Paris.
** There's a bit of unintentional comedy where Creator/DarrenCriss falling completely out of frame after Keith defeats him in "Cashes Out" causes his "smart" Zoom background feature to flicker the background image off entirely and reveal what his bedroom looks like.
* ThrowItIn: Creator/DarrenCriss does a lot more minor rephrasing and {{Improv}} with his lines than the other actors, as has been his wont since the ''Theatre/AVeryPotterMusical'' days.
* {{Blooper}}: Unfortunately Zoom being a finicky piece of technology as always meant that ''Back in Biz'' was beset by its fair share of technical problems, lag, people talking without realizing they were muted, etc. Luckily, most of the technical glitches weren't on the livestream readings themselves but on the Q&As afterwards; the first Q&A had some truly bizarre glitching with windows displaying when they weren't supposed to, including making stage manager Tammy Babich briefly and unintentionally visible, and the second livestream had so much lag (possibly due to buggy code with the fake WebSite/{{Instagram}} react emoji function) that the Q&A started a half-hour late.
** Thanks to this Zoom automatically muting and hiding people who weren't involved in a scene, actual {{Corpsing}} wasn't much of an issue (with people praising Creator/CoreyLubowich, TheNarrator who's onscreen at all times, for being a "rock"), but Robert Manion revealed that he muted himself and accidentally stayed muted at the beginning of a scene of "Takes a Chill Pill" specifically so no one would hear him uncontrollably cracking up at the "Hall of the Mountain King" "rage room" scene before he came back on as Paris.
** There's a bit of unintentional comedy where Creator/DarrenCriss falling completely out of frame after Keith defeats him in "Cashes Out" causes his "smart" Zoom background feature to flicker the background image off entirely and reveal what his bedroom looks like.
* ThrowItIn: Creator/DarrenCriss does a lot more minor rephrasing and {{Improv}} with his lines than the other actors, as has been his wont since the ''Theatre/AVeryPotterMusical'' days.
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* AscendedFanboy / AscendedFangirl: Meg Lloyd is a fan of Creator/TeamStarkid since the ''Theatre/AVeryPotterMusical'' days who had several pieces of Starkid fanart on her [[https://www.instagram.com/thirdchildart/ Instagram]] before she was asked to do an official TitleSequence animatic by the Creator/TinCanBrothers.
** Also always worth mentioning that Robert Manion, before he became a fan favorite in the FriendlyFandoms of Creator/TeamStarkid and Creator/TinCanBrothers, started out as a teenager from Australia who won a fan contest to design artwork and write a song for ''Theatre/AVeryPotterSeniorYear''.
** Also always worth mentioning that Robert Manion, before he became a fan favorite in the FriendlyFandoms of Creator/TeamStarkid and Creator/TinCanBrothers, started out as a teenager from Australia who won a fan contest to design artwork and write a song for ''Theatre/AVeryPotterSeniorYear''.
