1 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tuna.jpg]] |
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3 | Greater Tuna is the first play in a series of four starring Jaston Williams and Joe Sears, who between them play at least twenty-four different characters. |
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5 | Greater Tuna shows us what goes on in the day-to-day life of the many characters, but focuses the most on the [[DysfunctionalFamily chaotic family]] of one Bertha Bumiller. Other recurring characters of note include Vera Carp, leader of the [[MoralGuardians Smut-Snatchers of the New Order]], Petey Fisk of the Greater Tuna Humane Society, Arles Struvie and Thurston Wheelis of Radio Station OKKK, and Didi Snavely of Didi's Used Weapons. |
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7 | The series includes: |
8 | ->'''''[[http://www.greatertunavisitorscenter.com/greater/ Greater Tuna]]''''' (premiered 1981)\ |
9 | '''''[[http://www.greatertunavisitorscenter.com/christmas/ A Tuna Christmas]]''''' (premiered 1989)\ |
10 | '''''[[http://www.greatertunavisitorscenter.com/redwhite/ Red, White and Tuna]]''''' (premiered 1998)\ |
11 | '''''[[http://www.greatertunavisitorscenter.com/vegas/ Tuna Does Vegas]]''''' (premiered 2008) |
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14 | !!Greater Tuna provides examples of: |
15 | * [[ActingForTwo Acting BY Two]]: Every role in every play is done by only two actors. |
16 | * BrattyTeenageDaughter: Charlene Beaumiller. |
17 | * {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Petey Fisk, R.R. Snaveley, and pretty much the rest of the town. |
18 | * {{Cloudcuckooland}}: Tuna itself. |
19 | * TheDogBitesBack: [[spoiler: When it's revealed that Stanley killed the Judge.]] |
20 | * {{Duck}}: [[ConversationalTroping Mentioned briefly]] by Petey Fisk in a speech about ducks. |
21 | * HeWhoMustNotBeSeen: A few characters, but as the whole thing is two guys with costumes, a table, a couple of chairs, and an old radio set, [[JustifiedTrope it's to be expected.]] |
22 | * SiblingRivalry: Stanley and Charlene. |
23 | * WholesomeCrossdresser: Meta example. Mr. Sears and Mr. Williams (or whoever else is on stage) spend more time portraying the women of Tuna as they do the men. And it's awesome. |
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25 | !!!A Tuna Christmas provides examples of: |
26 | * AgainstMyReligion: Played straight and [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] |
27 | * AlienAbduction: R.R. Snavely. He hesitates for a second or two, then wholeheartedly sprints to the waiting UFO to escape his horrible wife. |
28 | * BewareTheNiceOnes: [[spoiler: Aunt Pearl, Dixie Deberry, and Didi Snavely's mother are the Christmas Phantom.]] |
29 | * DeadpanSnarker: Bertha. |
30 | * InsaneTrollLogic: Dixie refuses to allow the Tuna Little Theater to pay their electric bill late because it will lead to a Communist invasion. |
31 | * LittlePeopleAreSurreal: Farley and Phoebe Buckhalter, the latter of which is played by a beehive hairdo on a stick manipulated by a stagehand. |
32 | * MondegreenGag: [[MoralGuardians Vera]] has the ChristmasCarol Silent Night banned because it mentions "round young virgins". Bertha corrects her, but Vera then decides to leave it banned because singing about virgins is "too catholic". |
33 | * OverTheTopChristmasDecorations: A subplot is a three-way battle for Tuna's best Christmas yard display between Vera, whose display includes a nativity scene with live sheep, Santa Claus, Music/BingCrosby, [[WesternAnimation/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas the Grinch]], and [[ArsonMurderandJaywalking Natalie]] [[Creator/NatalieWood Wood]], Didi Snaveley's pie pan Christmas tree lit by surplus military floodlights that causes retina damage if looked at for too long, and Helen and Ineda's 'All I Want for Christmas': two life-sized cowboy mannequins stuffed inside gift sacks. [[spoiler: Helen and Ineda win.]] |
34 | * RichBitch: Vera Carp: "Normally, I'd pay the theater's light bill, but Lord, times are so hard. W.H. and I could barely afford new cars this year." |
35 | * RunningGag: Didi singing Christmas songs, interrupted by drags on her ever-present cigarette. |
36 | -->'''Didi:''' "Frosty the Snowman was a jolly happy soul, with a (inhales)...(exhales) out of coal." |
37 | * ScarilyCompetentTracker: Leonard Childer's wife. "She could track a flea across a pane of glass." |
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39 | !!!Red White and Tuna provides examples of: |
40 | * [[GranolaGirl Granola Girls]]: [[LineofSightName Star Birdfeather and Amber Windchime.]] |
41 | * SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome: [[spoiler: Bertha's husband Hank, leaving her free to marry Arles.]] |
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