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2 | [[caption-width-right:350: ''Looooove, Love, '''LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE!''''']] |
3 | -> ''"And on a star-spangled night, my love\ |
4 | You can rest your head on my shoulder.\ |
5 | Out by the dawn's early light, my love\ |
6 | I will defend your right to try."'' |
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8 | ''Love, American Style'' was a [[GenreAnthology comedy anthology]] show that aired for five seasons (1969–74) on Creator/{{ABC|US}}, which presented various skits relating to romance, sex, or people's love lives. |
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10 | The general format opened with a short (30-second) skit where (usually) a guy would try something and end up becoming the butt of a joke, like [[UnsettlingGenderReveal trying to make out with a girl and then discovering it's a guy]], or the woman is willing but her husband is lying asleep in the same bed. (Oh, don't worry about it, he's so drunk he'll never notice.) There would then be a much longer skit, running anywhere from 10 minutes to the rest of the show. It would be followed by another 30-second short, then if time remained, another longer skit. This format was not always followed, however; a number of episodes were {{Poorly Disguised Pilot}}s that subsequently became regular series, such as ''Series/HappyDays'' and ''WesternAnimation/WaitTillYourFatherGetsHome''. |
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13 | !!Tropes, Television Style: |
14 | * AdamWesting: Thirty years before ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', Creator/AdamWest plays himself in "Love and the Great Catch". |
15 | * AmericanTitle |
16 | * AndTheAdventureContinues: Some commercial breaks start with the title heart reading "More Love To Come". |
17 | * AnimatedAdaptation: ''Luvcast USA'', produced by Creator/DePatieFrelengEnterprises for ''The ABC Saturday Superstar Movies''. |
18 | * AsHerself: Jacqueline Susann in "Love and the Hidden Meaning" |
19 | * AsHimself: Creator/AdamWest in "Love and the Great Catch". |
20 | * BackToFront: "Love and the Perfect Woman". |
21 | * ChristmasEpisode: "Love and the Christmas Punch" has hapless Creator/HenryGibson attempting to deliver flowers at a drunken Christmas party and winding up in his GoofyPrintUnderwear. |
22 | * {{Eagleland}}: In a few segments, mainly ones set in The South or California. Also in the title; after all, it's not ''Love, [[UsefulNotes/{{Canada}} Canadian]] Style''. |
23 | * EskimoLand: How a man (Creator/BillBixby) describes his trip to Alaska, worried about the Eskimo tradition of sharing everything...including wives... in "Love and the Eskimo." |
24 | * FormulaBreakingEpisode: Two installments were Hanna-Barbera animated pieces: ''Love and the Private Eye'' (Richard Dawson voiced Melvin Danger, a detective who fancies himself a ladies' man), and ''Love and the Old-Fashioned Father'' (which would beget the syndicated series ''WesternAnimation/WaitTillYourFatherGetsHome''). |
25 | * FramedFaceOpening: Several examples, such as [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrBe09SIENA this set of opening credits]]. |
26 | * GreasySpoon: Setting for "Love and the Blue Plate Special." |
27 | * IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: Every skit has a title like "Love and the ______" or "Love in the _____". In TheRemake, there were exceptions. |
28 | * JumpingOutOfACake: The extra job in "Love and the Extra Job." |
29 | * MurphysBed: "Love and the Vertical Romance", in which a woman tries to cure her husband of his AbsurdPhobia of beds. |
30 | * PieInTheFace: In the episode with Susan Howard. |
31 | * PoorlyDisguisedPilot: As called out in the main text. Not quite as obvious as most invocations of this trope; the anthology format meant that the show was already visiting differing and unrelated sets of characters from one episode to the next. |
32 | * PrettyInMink: "Love and the Fur Coat" was about a guy trying to get a fur coat for his girlfriend without his wife knowing about it. [[spoiler:His wife gets it instead after a mix up.]] |
33 | * PromotedToOpeningCredits: James Hampton (a featured player in the short skits) in one of the last episodes, "Love and the Image Makers". |
34 | * PsychicPowers: "Love and the See-Through Mind". |
35 | * QuittingToGetMarried: In one sketch, a woman who is a professional [[JumpingOutOfACake cake jump-outer]] has a boyfriend who doesn't want her doing that any more, so he proposes. She quits on the spot, mere moments before she's scheduled to jump. |
36 | * TheRemake: In 1985, ABC created a short-lived revival, ''The New Love American Style''. |
37 | * RichInDollarsPoorInSense: "Love and the Spendthrift". |
38 | * SceneryCensor: Used in the episode "Love and the Bashful Groom" with a wedding held in a nudist colony. |
39 | * TitleThemeTune: Performed by Music/TheCowsills in season 1, and the Ron Hicklin Singers (backing vocalists for Series/ThePartridgeFamily) from season 2 on. |
40 | ->''"Truer than the red, white and blue-hoo-hoo-HOO!"'' |
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43 | ->''"That's me and you..."'' |
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