History Series / TheDanaCarveyShow

* ProductPlacement: Every Episode had a new title sponsor, getting more esoteric as the ratings fell to the point a local restaurant was apart of the name of the show.
* ProductPlacementName: The first five episodes all had Pepsi subsidiaries within the show's title. (e.g., Taco Bell for Episode 1, MugRootBeer for Episode 2, Mountain Dew Episode 3, Diet Mug Root Beer Episode 4, Pepsi Stuff Episode 5) Plus a local chinese restaurant for Episode 6.

''The Dana Carvey Show'' ran for eight episodes, seven of which originally aired on ABC in 1996. The short-lived sketch comedy helped launch the careers of Creator/SteveCarell and Creator/StephenColbert, while also introducing television audiences to The Ambiguously Gay Duo, which would later achieve fame on ''Series/SaturdayNightLive''.

* ParodyAssistance: [[Creator/PennAndTeller Penn Jillette]] does voice-over for a fake Creator/ComedyCentral promo, "Under 5".

* TropeCoTropeOfTheWeek: The first five episodes all had Pepsi subsidiaries within the show's title. (i.e. Taco Bell for Episode 1, MugRootBeer for Episode 2, Mountain Dew Episode 3, Diet Mug Root Beer Episode 4, Pepsi Stuff Episode 5) Plus a local chinese restaurant for Episode 6.

* FishOutOfTemporalWater: DavidBrinkley on a roller coaster

* ParodyAssistance: [[Penn Jillette Creator/PennAndTeller]] does voice-over for a fake Creator/ComedyCentral promo, "Under 5".

* RefugeInAudacity: The very first episode opens with a skit of then-president UsefulNotes/BillClinton (played by Carvey) breastfeeding barnyard animals, and it just gets crazier from there.

->''"From the ABC Broadcast Center in UsefulNotes/NewYork, it's the TV Tropes Creator/DanaCarvey Show!"''

->''"From the ABC Broadcast Center in NewYork, it's the TV Tropes Creator/DanaCarvey Show!"''

The Dana Carvey Show ran for eight episodes, seven of which originally aired on ABC in 1996. The short-lived sketch comedy helped launch the careers of Creator/SteveCarell and Creator/StephenColbert, while also introducing television audiences to The Ambiguously Gay Duo, which would later achieve fame on ''Series/SaturdayNightLive''.

->''"From the ABC Broadcast Center in NewYork, it's the TV Tropes DanaCarvey Show!"''

* ThisJustIn: One sketch has Carvey as Creator/TomBrokaw rehearse for a news promo in case UsefulNotes/GeraldFord dies.

* DeletedScene: Several sketches and a whole episode.

* TropeCoTropeOfTheWeek: The first five episodes all had Pepsi subsidiaries within the show's title. (i.e. TacoBell for Episode 1, MugRootBeer for Episode 2, Mountain Dew Episode 3, Diet Mug Root Beer Episode 4, PepsiStuff Episode 5) Plus a local chinese restaurant for Episode 6.

* {{Crossover}}: "We now rejoin the one man show MarkTwainTonight, as performed by STOMP, already in progress."

* SpecialGuest: PhilHartman in Episode 3, JanHooks in Episode 4.
* ThisJustIn: One sketch has Carvey as TomBrokaw rehearse for a news promo in case GeraldFord dies.
--> Carvey: "Gerald Ford is dead today and I'm gay."
* TropeCoTropeOfTheWeek: The first five episodes all had Pepsi subsidiaries within the show's title. (i.e. TacoBell for Episode 1, MugRootBeer for Episode 2, MountainDew Episode 3, Diet Mug Root Beer Episode 4, PepsiStuff Episode 5) Plus a local chinese restaurant for Episode 6.

* BodyHorror: The cold opening for the VERY FIRST EPISODE features Carvey as President BillClinton breastfeeding a kitten and some dogs, setting the show for cancellation six episodes later.

* Crossover: "We now rejoin the one man show MarkTwainTonight, as performed by STOMP, already in progress."

* DeterioratesIntoGibberish: This happens in a sketch of a ''Series/TonightShow'' interview between Creator/JayLeno and Creator/QuentinTarantino.

* DeterioratesIntoGibberish: This happens in a sketch of a TonightShow interview between JayLeno and QuentinTarantino.

The Dana Carvey Show ran for eight episodes, seven of which originally aired on ABC in 1996. The short-lived sketch comedy helped launch the careers of SteveCarell and StephenColbert, while also introducing television audiences to The Ambiguously Gay Duo, which would later achieve fame on ''Series/SaturdayNightLive''.

The Dana Carvey Show ran for eight episodes, seven of which originally aired on ABC in 1996. The short-lived sketch comedy helped launch the careers of SteveCarell and StephenColbert, while also introducing television audiences to The Ambiguously Gay Duo, which would later achieve fame on SaturdayNightLive.