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* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Jack Gates, The Wolf of Wallstreet (no, [[Film/TheWolfOfWallStreet not that one]]).
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* TheCameo: Gable makes a big deal out of the real Jack Gates is played by Robert Wagner, especially after he gets shot.
-->"He can't be dead! He's Robert Wagner!"
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Jack Gates, The Wolf ofWallstreet Wall Street (no, [[Film/TheWolfOfWallStreet not that one]]).
-->"He can't be dead! He's Robert Wagner!"
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Jack Gates, The Wolf of
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* JerkassHasAPoint: Jack wants to maintain the artistic integrity of his show and be TheLastDJ of soap opera writing. The problem is, while he IS a talented writer, his bosses (the Sherwoods) are correct that he's fixated on the show's star, Laura Claybourne, to an unhealthy degree. He keeps trying to write her OscarBait plots where she's the hero while the Sherwoods note she's not a heroic character or even a particularly likable one. Laura is also shamelessly using Jack's crush to manipulate him into doing this. By the end, Jack has figured this out.
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* JerkassHasAPoint: Jack wants to maintain the artistic integrity of his show and be TheLastDJ of soap opera writing. The problem is, while he IS ''is'' a talented writer, his bosses (the Sherwoods) prodcuers are correct that he's fixated on the show's star, Laura Claybourne, to an unhealthy degree. He keeps trying to write her OscarBait plots where she's the hero while the Sherwoods producers note she's not a heroic character or even a particularly likable one. Laura is also shamelessly using Jack's crush to manipulate him into doing this. By the end, To his credit, Jack agrees with them by the end and has figured this out.Laura fired from the show.
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-->"Yeah, yeah. Shouldn't you be in a mini-series someplace?"
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-->"Yeah, yeah. Shouldn't
-->'''Jack Gates:''' I should kill you for that alone.
-->'''Jack Gable:''' Oh, go do a mini-series
-->'''Jack Gates:''' ''Nobody'' crosses Jack Gates.
-->'''Jack Gable:''' Yeah, yeah, nobody crosses Jack Gates. [[SarcasmMode Great line!]]
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* OutOfCharacterAlert: An in-universe example; Jack Gables is confused why sweet-natured Janet is suddenly acting like the sinister and manipulative Rachel out of nowhere. He then has a EurekaMoment and realizes his bosses are planning to do a character replacement in real life. When he wakes up, he agrees to firing Rachel's actress but insists that Janet remain sweet-natured as originally intended.
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* UnusualEuphemism: Apparently so many characters have been killed by brain tumors on Jack's soap opera that "giving them a brain tumor" has become slang for getting fired on the set. It serves as LaserGuidedKarma when Jack finally decides to have Laura let go from the series.
--> "Oh no! You're going to give me a brain tumor!"
--> "Oh no! You're going to give me a brain tumor!"
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* FourthWallShutInStory: John Candy plays a SoapOpera writer who get trapped in his own series, but he can use his typewriter to edit the events the way he wants.
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* AuthorPowers: A soap opera writer gets hit on the head and [[TrappedInTVLand wakes up as a character inside his own show]]. His typewriter comes with him, and he can use it to alter and plan out events in the show, even affecting other characters' behavior. However, a rival author has been hired to write show scripts as well, leading to a rare case of someone with AuthorPowers being in a RageAgainstTheAuthor situation.
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* AllJustADream: Jack gets hit on the chin, getting a concussion, and then find himself "transported" to Ashford Falls.
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* AllJustADream: Jack gets hit on the chin, getting a concussion, and then find finds himself "transported" to Ashford Falls.
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* CallBack: Jack Gable uses his frustration of waiting on the cable repair guy to sidetrack Carter Hedison.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Jack Gates, The Wolf of Wallstreet (no, not that one).
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Jack Gates, The Wolf of Wallstreet (no, not that one).
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* CallBack: Jack Gable uses his frustration of at waiting on the cable repair guy to sidetrack Carter Hedison.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Jack Gates, The Wolf of Wallstreet (no, [[Film/TheWolfOfWallStreet not thatone).one]]).
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Jack Gates, The Wolf of Wallstreet (no, [[Film/TheWolfOfWallStreet not that
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* RealityWarper: Jack's typewriter allows him to make anything he writes into reality. He actually abuses it less than he might have since he never makes use of it to control the minds of the people around him.
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* RealityWarper: Jack's typewriter allows him to make anything he writes into reality. He actually abuses it less than he might have since he never makes use of it to control the minds of the people around him.him (he's tempted, but stops himself).
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* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: At one point, Jack writes himself jumping through a window (which magically appears) to save Janet.
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* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: At one point, Jack writes himself jumping through a window (which magically appears) to save Janet. Though she exclaims "Where did that window come from?" once he rescues her it appears not to be a fact worth mentioning again.
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* CharacterDerailment: InUniverse, Jack calls on how Janet suddenly TookALevelInJerkass because she is to become a SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute for a character who's actor is about to be fired.
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* DuelingMovies: With {{Film/SoapDish}}.
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* DuelingMovies: With {{Film/SoapDish}}.''{{Film/SoapDish}}''.
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* JerkassHasAPoint: Jack wants to maintain the artistic integrity of his show and be TheLastDJ of soap opera writing. The problem is, while he IS a talented writer, his bosses (The Sherwoods) are correct that he's fixated on the show's star, Laura Claybourne, to an unhealthy degree. He keeps trying to write her OscarBait plots where she's the hero while the Sherwoods note she's not a heroic character or even a particularly likable one. Laura is also shamelessly using Jack's crush to manipulate him into doing this. By the end, Jack has figured this out.
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* JerkassHasAPoint: Jack wants to maintain the artistic integrity of his show and be TheLastDJ of soap opera writing. The problem is, while he IS a talented writer, his bosses (The (the Sherwoods) are correct that he's fixated on the show's star, Laura Claybourne, to an unhealthy degree. He keeps trying to write her OscarBait plots where she's the hero while the Sherwoods note she's not a heroic character or even a particularly likable one. Laura is also shamelessly using Jack's crush to manipulate him into doing this. By the end, Jack has figured this out.
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-->''"Nobody does this to Jack Gates!"''
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-->''"Yeah,
-->"Yeah, yeah. Shouldn't you be in a mini-series
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-->Elderly Man: ''"The elderly man exits."''
-->Jack Gable ''"Now I've got them speaking stage dialogue!"''
-->Jack Gable ''"Now I've got them speaking stage dialogue!"''
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-->Jack Gable ''"Now
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* DuelingMovies: With {{Film/SoapDish}}.
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''Delirious'' is a 1991 comedy film about Jack Gable (Creator/JohnCandy), a SoapOpera writer who gets trapped in his own TV show.
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''Delirious'' is a 1991 comedy film about Jack Gable (Creator/JohnCandy), a SoapOpera writer who gets trapped in his own TV show.
show. While this would be problematic enough, he discovers his typewriter gives him RealityWarper powers within. He is also mistaken for a character named Jack Gates, a CorruptCorporateExecutive, who he was going to introduce into the show. Becoming intoxicated with the power and blinded by his crush for the actress behind the show's AlphaBitch, he soon finds himself writing himself into the show's absurdist SoBadItsGood plot.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Jack Gates, The Wolf of Wallstreet (no, not that one).
* JerkassHasAPoint: Jack wants to maintain the artistic integrity of his show and be TheLastDJ of soap opera writing. The problem is, while he IS a talented writer, his bosses (The Sherwoods) are correct that he's fixated on the show's star, Laura Claybourne, to an unhealthy degree. He keeps trying to write her OscarBait plots where she's the hero while the Sherwoods note she's not a heroic character or even a particularly likable one. Laura is also shamelessly using Jack's crush to manipulate him into doing this. By the end, Jack has figured this out.
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* NotSoHarmlessVillainNotSoHarmlessVillain: Jack Gates is entirely capable of murder because, well, Jack wrote him that way.
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* OneWordTitleOneWordTitle: Delirious.
* RealityWarper: Jack's typewriter allows him to make anything he writes into reality. He actually abuses it less than he might have since he never makes use of it to control the minds of the people around him.
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* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: At one point, Jack writes himself jumping through a window (which magically appears) to save Janet.
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* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: At one point, Jack writes himself jumping through a window (which magically appears) to save Janet.Janet.
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Delirious is a 1991 Creator/JohnCandy film about Jack Gable, a SoapOpera writer who gets trapped in his own TV show.
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* ReadingTheStageDirectionsOutLoud: One of the extras does this, after Gable writes in a blackout.
-->Elderly Man: ''"The elderly man exits."''
-->Jack Gable ''"Now I've got them speaking stage dialogue!"''
-->Elderly Man: ''"The elderly man exits."''
-->Jack Gable ''"Now I've got them speaking stage dialogue!"''
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* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: At one point, Jack writes himself jumping through a window (which magically appears) to save Janet. She never brings this up.
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* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: At one point, Jack writes himself jumping through a window (which magically appears) to save Janet. She never brings this up.
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* BrickJoke: The fate of the actress behind Rachel Hedison. [[spoiler: She ends up hosting a local game show... in Cleveland.]]
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* PlaceWorseThanDeath: Cleveland. Jack Gates gets sent there by Gable; when he returns, Gates says that alone is reason enough to kill Gable.
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Trope titles are not spoilers. And since him waking up there is in the trailers, it\'s not a spoiler at a.
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* [[spoiler:AllJustADream]]AllJustADream: Jack gets hit on the chin, getting a concussion, and then find himself "transported" to Ashford Falls.
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* CharacterDerailment: InUniverse, Jack calls on how Janet suddenly TookALevelInJerkass because she is to become a SuspiciouslySimilarSubstite for a character who's actor is about to be fired.
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* CharacterDerailment: InUniverse, Jack calls on how Janet suddenly TookALevelInJerkass because she is to become a SuspiciouslySimilarSubstite SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute for a character who's actor is about to be fired.
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* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: At one point, Jack writes himself jumping through a window (which magically appears) to save Janet. She never beings this up.
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* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: At one point, Jack writes himself jumping through a window (which magically appears) to save Janet. She never beings brings this up.
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* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: At one point, Jack writes himself jumping through a window to save Janet. She never beings this up.
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* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: At one point, Jack writes himself jumping through a window (which magically appears) to save Janet. She never beings this up.
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* CharacterDerailment: InUniverse, Jack calls on how Janet suddenly TookALevelInJerkass.
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* CharacterDerailment: InUniverse, Jack calls on how Janet suddenly TookALevelInJerkass.TookALevelInJerkass because she is to become a SuspiciouslySimilarSubstite for a character who's actor is about to be fired.
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* StuntCasting: Raymond Burr as the head of the Hedison family. Also in-universe as the Sherwood hired Robert Wagner to play Jack Gates during sweeps week.
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* StuntCasting: Raymond Burr as the head of the Hedison family. Also in-universe as the Sherwood hired Robert Wagner to play Jack Gates during sweeps week.week.
*UnusuallyUninterestingSight: At one point, Jack writes himself jumping through a window to save Janet. She never beings this up.
*UnusuallyUninterestingSight: At one point, Jack writes himself jumping through a window to save Janet. She never beings this up.
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*NotSoHarmlessVillain
-->''"Nobody does this to Jack Gates!"''
-->''"Yeah, yeah. Shouldn't you be in a mini-series someplace?"''
-->''"Nobody does this to Jack Gates!"''
-->''"Yeah, yeah. Shouldn't you be in a mini-series someplace?"''
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*[[spoiler:AllJustADream]]
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*TheBusCameBack: Jack Gates comes back from Cleveland and [[spoiler:shoots Gable]].
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Delirious is a 1991 John Candy film about Jack Gable, a SoapOpera writer who gets trapped in his own TV show.
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Delirious is a 1991 John Candy Creator/JohnCandy film about Jack Gable, a SoapOpera writer who gets trapped in his own TV show.
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* BlindDriving: Jack does this at one point and survives, thanks to the typewriter.
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* RichBitch: Rachel Hedison, and her actress to a lesser extent.
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* RichBitch: Rachel Hedison, and her actress to a lesser extent.extent.
* StuntCasting: Raymond Burr as the head of the Hedison family. Also in-universe as the Sherwood hired Robert Wagner to play Jack Gates during sweeps week.
* StuntCasting: Raymond Burr as the head of the Hedison family. Also in-universe as the Sherwood hired Robert Wagner to play Jack Gates during sweeps week.
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* CharacterDerailment: InUniverse, Jack calls on how Janet suddenly TakesALevelInJerkass.
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* CharacterDerailment: InUniverse, Jack calls on how Janet suddenly TakesALevelInJerkass.TookALevelInJerkass.
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* Deconstruction: Of standard soap opera plots, characters and the business behind them.
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* Deconstruction: CharacterDerailment: InUniverse, Jack calls on how Janet suddenly TakesALevelInJerkass.
* DeconstructiveParody: Of standard soap opera plots, characters and the business behindthem.them.
* HerCodeNameWasMarySue: What Jack does when he discovers what the typewriter can do.
* LiteralGenie: Jack gets drunk, makes some typos, and the events reflect those.
* RichBitch: Rachel Hedison, and her actress to a lesser extent.
* DeconstructiveParody: Of standard soap opera plots, characters and the business behind
* HerCodeNameWasMarySue: What Jack does when he discovers what the typewriter can do.
* LiteralGenie: Jack gets drunk, makes some typos, and the events reflect those.
* RichBitch: Rachel Hedison, and her actress to a lesser extent.
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* Deconstruction: Of standard soap opera plots, characters and the business behind them.
* HollywoodHomely: Mariel Hemingway's characters of Janet and Louise, with it being focused on how she isn't glamorous enough to be Homecoming Queen.
* MarySue: Jack Gable turns himself into this after learning to enjoy being trapped in his own soap opera.
* HollywoodHomely: Mariel Hemingway's characters of Janet and Louise, with it being focused on how she isn't glamorous enough to be Homecoming Queen.
* MarySue: Jack Gable turns himself into this after learning to enjoy being trapped in his own soap opera.
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* Deconstruction: Of standard soap opera plots, characters and the business behind them.
* HollywoodHomely: Mariel Hemingway's characters of Janet and Louise, with it being focused on how she isn't glamorous enough to be Homecoming Queen.
* MarySue: Jack Gable turns himself into this after learning to enjoy being trapped in his own soap opera.them.
* HollywoodHomely: Mariel Hemingway's characters of Janet and Louise, with it being focused on how she isn't glamorous enough to be Homecoming Queen.
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* AffectionateParody: Of afternoon soap operas and the odd plot turns they have.
* CallBack: Jack Gable uses his frustration of waiting on the cable repair guy to sidetrack Carter Hedison.
* Deconstruction: Of standard soap opera plots, characters and the business behind them.
* HollywoodHomely: Mariel Hemingway's characters of Janet and Louise, with it being focused on how she isn't glamorous enough to be Homecoming Queen.
* CallBack: Jack Gable uses his frustration of waiting on the cable repair guy to sidetrack Carter Hedison.
* Deconstruction: Of standard soap opera plots, characters and the business behind them.
* HollywoodHomely: Mariel Hemingway's characters of Janet and Louise, with it being focused on how she isn't glamorous enough to be Homecoming Queen.
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Delirious is a 1991 John Candy film about Jack Gable, a SoapOpera writer who gets trapped in his own TV show.
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Delirious is a 1991 John Candy film about Jack Gable, a SoapOpera writer who gets trapped in his own TV show.show.
!!Delirious provides examples of:
* MarySue: Jack Gable turns himself into this after learning to enjoy being trapped in his own soap opera.
!!Delirious provides examples of:
* MarySue: Jack Gable turns himself into this after learning to enjoy being trapped in his own soap opera.
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