''Secret Girlfriend'' is an American television series, which premiered on Wednesday, October 7, 2009 on Creator/ComedyCentral. It features the viewer as the "star" of a dating satire, with all the actors addressing the camera as if it were the lead. Think "The Family" from ''Literature/Fahrenheit451'', but somehow more depressingly horrible.

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!!This show uses the following tropes:

* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Invoked by Chad, the current boyfriend of Jessica, the titular character. His {{Jerkass}} behavior turns out to be just pretending to be a jerk, but he thinks he needs to because of this trope. Apparently, it's working, or at least not hurting--he's been Jessica's boyfriend for two years, and may have lasted longer if not for the protagonist's arrival, relegating him to RomanticFalseLead status.
* HeroicMime: "You" never talk on-screen.
* NeverTrustATrailer: The trailers implied that the show would primarily be about two pervy slacker guys trying to get women to perform activities of a sexual or suggestive nature, completely ignoring the fact that the ''viewer'' is experiencing the ''actual'' protagonist's experiences (kind of like ''Film/BeingJohnMalkovich'') and is about the nameless protagonist's attempts to deal with a psycho near-ex-girlfriend who won't stay broken up, a cute girl he likes but wants to protect from the first woman, and the zany antics of his two best friends (the aforementioned slackers).
* MaleGaze: The camera is at all times the POV of the main (male) character, a HeroicMime who is "played" by the (presumably male) viewer, in a form of second-person television. Since pretty much the whole show runs on {{Fanservice}}, this is pretty ubiquitous.
* SelfInsertFic: This is the basic gimmick. The main protagonist is you. He's never referred to by name and never says anything out loud, but all of his friends adore "you." All of the jokes (which you're basically supposed to insert) are hilarious. All of the girls want you and you end up with most of them. You would probably feel awesome if not for your two friends being total idiots and your ex-girlfriend being a {{Yandere}}.
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