History Series / LadyDynamite

The eight episodes of the second season debuted November 10, 2017, and it was announced in January of 2018 that the show would not be further renewed.

* ConvenientMiscarriage: To generate some sympathy after accidentally dressing an African child militia in Maria tour shirts, Bruce takes over her Website/ {{Twitter}} account with a made-up story of her losing her baby while horse riding. [[{{Hashtag}} #redsaddle]]

** British News appears as a facsimile of [[UsefulNotes/TheBBC BBC News]].

* ConvenientMiscarriage: To generate some sympathy after accidentally dressing an African child militia in Maria tour shirts, Bruce takes over her UsefulNotes/ {{Twitter}} account with a made-up story of her losing her baby while horse riding. [[{{Hashtag}} #redsaddle]]

** British News appears as a facsimile of [[UsefulNotes/TheNBC BBC News]].

* ExpansionPackPast: It's revealed at Blossom's wake that she was married to Maria's other pug Bert, while buying a house with her corgi boyfriend, she held dual Canadian-German citizenship, had two DUI's and Robert Downey Jr. was her AA sponsor.

** When Maria travels to Checklist's immersion school/sweatshop-worker training ground in Mexico, she unwittingly becomes a mouthpiece for the evil corporation by voicing their mascot "Trabajito The Frog".

''Lady Dynamite'' is an American television comedy series created by Pam Brady and Mitch Hurwitz, on Creator/{{Netflix}}. The series stars Creator/MariaBamford, and is loosely based on her life. Stand-up comedian/actress Maria Bamford (portrayed by herself) moves back to Los Angeles after spending six months away in recovery for bipolar disorder and attempts to build up her life from scratch with the help of her agent Bruce Ben-Bacharach (Creator/FredMelamed). Throughout the entire first season, flashbacks are employed to gain an insight on Maria's backstory and her relationships with her family and friends.

** British News appears as a facsimile of BBC News.

* CombiningMecha: When the three Karen Grisham's meet, they merge to form "Super Grisham" a guinea pig, representing Maria's mania, that they control from a console in its brain, which in turn controls Maria. (It makes sense in context).
* ConvenientMiscarriage: To generate some sympathy after accidentally dressing an African child militia in Maria tour shirts, Bruce takes over her Twitter account with a made-up story of her losing her baby while horse riding. [[{{Hashtag}} #redsaddle]]

''Lady Dynamite'' is an American television comedy series created by Pam Brady and Mitch Hurwitz, on Creator/{{Netflix}}. The series stars Maria Bamford, and is loosely based on her life. Stand-up comedian/actress Maria Bamford (portrayed by herself) moves back to Los Angeles after spending six months away in recovery for bipolar disorder and attempts to build up her life from scratch with the help of her agent Bruce Ben-Bacharach (Creator/FredMelamed). Throughout the entire first season, flashbacks are employed to gain an insight on Maria's backstory and her relationships with her family and friends.

* BadassBaritone: The unflappable Scott has Ólafur Darri Ólafsson deep, deep voice that sounds like James Earl Jones had a baby with a bear and that baby got laryngitis.

* AluminumChristmasTrees: It seems pretty unlikely that Checklist would base their advertising around Maria's bizarre comedy persona, but Maria's actual commercials for Target were no less weird.

** Missi Pyle

** Wendie Mallick

** [=Mark McGrath=]

''Lady Dynamite'' is an American television comedy series created by Pam Brady and Mitch Hurwitz, on Creator/{{Netflix}}. The series stars Maria Bamford, and is loosely based on her life. Stand-up comedian/actress Maria Bamford (portrayed by herself) moves back to Los Angeles after spending six months away in recovery for bipolar disorder and attempts to build up her life from scratch with the help of her agent Bruce Ben-Bacharach (Fred Melamed). Throughout the entire first season, flashbacks are employed to gain an insight on Maria's backstory and her relationships with her family and friends.

* OnceMoreWithClarity: The Checklist Checkdown, from Maria's perspective shows Mark [=McGrath=] unmasked as the evil Sugar Ray Sugar Beast who battles "Ultra Maria" in a Power Rangers-style smackdown. After Maria checks into a mental institution, orderlies watch the event on YouTube, which just shows Maria shrieking onstage, attacking Mark, who accidentally knocks the catatonic Checklist CEO offstage.

** James Corden

** Jason Mantzoukas

** Jon Cryer

* ConvenientMiscarriage: To generate some sympathy after accidentally dressing an African child militia in Maria tour shirts, Bruce takes over her Twitter account with a made-up story of her losing her baby while horse riding. #redsaddle

** Scott's Vision Board has items from the entire season's story-lines.

* OnceMoreWithClarity: The Checklist Checkdown, from Maria's perspective shows Mark McGrath unmasked as the evil Sugar Ray Sugar Beast who battles "Ultra Maria" in a Power Rangers-style smackdown. After Maria checks into a mental institution, orderlies watch the event on YouTube, which just shows Maria shrieking onstage, attacking Mark, who accidentally knocks the catatonic Checklist CEO offstage.

"I don't know what I'm doing, more than half of the time..."

* AluminumChristmasTrees: It seems pretty unlikely that Checklist would base their advertising around Maria's bizarre comedy persona, but Maria's actual commercials for Target are no less weird.

** Instead of [[Series/JimmyKimmelLive Jimmy Kimmel]], Bruce books Maria onto the Ginny Kimmle show, which is broadcast on Periscope from a garage with a studio audience of a dozen high-schoolers.

* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: The show takes place in three time periods, so to keep it from being confusing, each time shift has a title card and a different colour treatment. The Present looks normal, the Past is totally oversaturated and cartoony, and Duluth is washed out and blue to reflect the sadness of that period.

* {{Bookends}}: The first episode has Maria apologizing to {{Mark McGrath}}, and it's only revealed in the season 1 finale what she'd done wrong.

** {{Mark McGrath}}

-->'''SharkBruce!:''' I got a mouth full of seamen/I think I need to have a little nosh/When I got me a mouth full of seamen/Then I shout by gum,by golly, by gosh!

** Instead of Jimmy Kimmel, Bruce books Maria onto the Ginny Kimmle show, which is broadcast on Periscope from a garage with a studio audience of a dozen highschoolers.

* {{Bookends}}: The first episode has Maria apologising to {{Mark McGrath}}, and it's only revealed in the season 1 finale what she'd done wrong.

* ConvenientMiscarriage: To generate some sympathy after accidentally dressing an African child militia in Maria tour shirts, Bruce takes over her Twitter account with a made-up story of her losing her baby while horseriding #redsaddle

* ExpansionPackPast: It's revealed at Blossom's wake that she was married to Maria's other pug Bert, while buying a house with her corgi boyfriend, she held dual Canadian-German citizenship, had two DUI's and Robert Downey Jr was her AA sponsor.

** Scott's Vision Board has items from the entire season's storylines.

** Bruce's horribly misguided musical claymation dramatisation of the USS Indianapolis disaster, which manages to be both racist and slightly homoerotic