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* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: The list of ''main'' characters stays at a fairly reasonable ten or so, but including all the minor named characters that pop up from time to time, this qualifies.
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* BiggusDickus: Doug has some -- very impressive equipment.
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* ActuallyPrettyFunny: Some (read: most) of the things Edward and his friends do take so much RefugeInAudacity they have permanent residency there, but it's actually still pretty funny.
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%%* BiTheWay: Edward, as well as [[spoiler: Kelly.]]
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** Also Doug with Ziba, who is a lesbian.
* InterruptedIntimacy: Nine out of ten times, this is the reason Doug and Edward don't get anywhere.
* InterruptedIntimacy: Nine out of ten times, this is the reason Doug and Edward don't get anywhere.
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* NoGuyWantsToBeChased: The combination of this and Hung's [[CampGay flamboyant personality]] initially turn Edward ''way'' off.
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* TheirFirstTime: Edward and Kelly, [[spoiler:after they've broken up and she's with Ziba.]]
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* TheirFirstTime: Edward and Kelly, [[spoiler: [[YourCheatingHeart after they've broken up and she's with Ziba.]]]]
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* TheirFirstTime: Edward and Kelly, [[spoiler: [[YourCheatingHeart after [[spoiler:after they've broken up and she's with Ziba.]]]]]]
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* YourCheatingHeart: [[spoiler: After they've broken up and Kelly has moved on to Ziba, she and Edward briefly engage in this when he's finally able to get it up.]]
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* AttemptedRape
* BiTheWay: Edward, as well as [[spoiler: Kelly.]]
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* CloudCuckooLander: Willow
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* EvilGenius: Natie
* FunWithAcronyms: CV Enterprises
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Misuse. A Five Man Band has five members, and five members only.
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* FiveManBand: Roles are subject to change, though. A ''lot''.
** TheHero: Edward
** TheLancer: Kelly (though this role usually shifts to whoever Edward is with at the time)
** TheBigGuy: Doug
** TheSmartGuy: Natie
** TheChick / TheHeart: Paula
** SixthRanger: Ziba. Also Hung and Willow, being introduced in the sequel.
** TheHero: Edward
** TheLancer: Kelly (though this role usually shifts to whoever Edward is with at the time)
** TheBigGuy: Doug
** TheSmartGuy: Natie
** TheChick / TheHeart: Paula
** SixthRanger: Ziba. Also Hung and Willow, being introduced in the sequel.
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* EveryoneCanSeeIt: Edward and Doug, [[IncompatibleOrientation ironically enough.]]
* InterruptedIntimacy: Nine out of ten times, this is the reason Doug and Edward don't get anywhere.
* SorryToInterrupt: Edward once accidentally walks in on [[spoiler: Kelly and Ziba.]]
* StatuesqueStunner: Ziba is around six feet tall and towers over everyone except Doug.
* StatuesqueStunner: Ziba is around six feet tall and towers over everyone except Doug.
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* StatuesqueStunner: Ziba is around six feet tall and towers over everyone except Doug.
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* ThreeWaySex: At different points in the novel, Edward gets into two different threesomes: one with Doug and Kelly ([[InterruptedIntimacy that gets interrupted by her mother]]), and one with Kelly and Ziba.
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* CloudCuckooLander: Willow
* DidNotGetTheGirl: Edward and Kelly break up, [[spoiler: he doesn't end up with Doug, and apart from a fling with Hung, he ends the sequel alone.]]
* DidNotGetTheGirl: Edward and Kelly break up, [[spoiler: he doesn't end up with Doug, and apart from a fling with Hung, he ends the sequel alone.]]
* JewishAndNerdy: Natie
* TheLoinsSleepTonight: Edward spends a good third of the book unable to have sex with his girlfriend because of this, [[spoiler: and ultimately it causes them to break up when she catches on.]]
* ProtagonistCenteredMorality: Edward does ''a lot'' of terrible things if you think about it, but [[SarcasmMode it's okay since he's the hero.]] He does tend to genuinely feel bad about most of his actions, though this doesn't stop him from doing them.
* NoGuyWantsToBeChased: The combination of this and Hung's [[CampGay flamboyant personality]] initially turn Edward ''way'' off.
* ProtagonistCenteredMorality: Edward does ''a lot'' of terrible things if you think about it, but [[SarcasmMode it's okay since he's the hero.]] He does tend to genuinely feel bad about most of his actions, though this doesn't stop him from doing them.
* NoGuyWantsToBeChased: The combination of this and Hung's [[CampGay flamboyant personality]] initially turn Edward ''way'' off.
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* TheirFirstTime: Edward and Kelly, [[spoiler: Edward [[YourCheatingHeart after they've broken up and Kelly]]she's with Ziba.]]]]
* TinyGuyHugeGirl: Not romantically, but Ziba and Natie become very close friends and co-conspirators.
* TinyGuyHugeGirl: Not romantically, but Ziba and Natie become very close friends and co-conspirators.
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* YourCheatingHeart: [[spoiler: After they've broken up and Kelly has moved on to Ziba, she and Edward briefly engage in this when he's finally able to get it up.]]
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It's 1983, Wallingford, New Jersey, a sleep bedroom community. Edward Zanni, an seventeen year old aspiring actor, is ready to go to the school of his dreams, Juilliard, after a summer of mischief and creative vandalism. However, after his father, Al, [[WickedStepmother remarries]] and refuses to pay for his tuition, Edward turns to his [[RagtagBunchOfMisfits lovable group of misfit musical theatre friends]] as they engage in blackmail, forgery, embezzlement and various illegal tactics to raise money for him to pay for college.
Ladies and gentlemen, this is ''How I Paid For College: A Novel of Sex, Theft, Friendship and Musical Theatre'' by Marc Acito.
Ladies and gentlemen, this is ''How I Paid For College: A Novel of Sex, Theft, Friendship and Musical Theatre'' by Marc Acito.
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It's 1983, Wallingford, New Jersey, a sleep bedroom community. Edward Zanni, an seventeen year old aspiring actor, is ready to go to the school of his dreams, Juilliard, after a summer of mischief and creative vandalism. However, after his father, Al, [[WickedStepmother remarries]] and refuses to pay for his tuition, Edward turns to his [[RagtagBunchOfMisfits lovable group of misfit musical theatre theater friends]] as they engage in blackmail, forgery, embezzlement and various illegal tactics to raise money for him to pay for college.
Ladies and gentlemen, this is ''How I Paid For College: A Novel of Sex, Theft, Friendship and MusicalTheatre'' Theater'' by Marc Acito.Acito. There is also a sequel, ''Attack of the Theater People.''
Ladies and gentlemen, this is ''How I Paid For College: A Novel of Sex, Theft, Friendship and Musical
*BiTheWay: Edward, as well as [[spoiler: Kelly.]]
* CampGay: Hung
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* IncompatibleOrientation: Edward really likes Doug, who unfortunately is straight. Despite this, they ''still'' have a lot of UnresolvedSexualTension.
** Also Doug with Ziba, who is a lesbian.
* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: The list of ''main'' characters stays at a fairly reasonable ten or so, but including all the minor named characters that pop up from time to time, this qualifies.
* RagtagBunchOfMisfits
** Also Doug with Ziba, who is a lesbian.
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* RagtagBunchOfMisfits
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* WickedStepmother: Dagmar
* WillTheyOrWontThey: Edward and Doug, [[IncompatibleOrientation despite the fact that the latter is straight]]. This carries on pretty much to the end of the sequel. [[spoiler: They don't get together.]]
* WillTheyOrWontThey: Edward and Doug, [[IncompatibleOrientation despite the fact that the latter is straight]]. This carries on pretty much to the end of the sequel. [[spoiler: They don't get together.]]
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[[caption-width-right:323:The title's pretty much ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin]]
->''"The story of how I paid for college begins like life itself -- in a pool of water. Not in the primordial ooze from which prehistoric fish first developed arms and crawled into the shore but in a heavily chlorinated pool of water in the backyard of Gloria D'Angelo's split-level ranch in Campton, New Jersey."''
-->--'''Edward Zanni, our narrator''', first page
It's 1983, Wallingford, New Jersey, a sleep bedroom community. Edward Zanni, an seventeen year old aspiring actor, is ready to go to the school of his dreams, Juilliard, after a summer of mischief and creative vandalism. However, after his father, Al, [[WickedStepmother remarries]] and refuses to pay for his tuition, Edward turns to his [[RagtagBunchOfMisfits lovable group of misfit musical theatre friends]] as they engage in blackmail, forgery, embezzlement and various illegal tactics to raise money for him to pay for college.
Ladies and gentlemen, this is ''How I Paid For College: A Novel of Sex, Theft, Friendship and Musical Theatre'' by Marc Acito.
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!!This work provides examples of:
* ActuallyPrettyFunny: Some (read: most) of the things Edward and his friends do take so much RefugeInAudacity they have permanent residency there, but it's actually still pretty funny.
* AttemptedRape
* BiggusDickus: Doug has some -- very impressive equipment.
* EvilGenius: Natie
* FiveManBand: Roles are subject to change, though. A ''lot''.
** TheHero: Edward
** TheLancer: Kelly (though this role usually shifts to whoever Edward is with at the time)
** TheBigGuy: Doug
** TheSmartGuy: Natie
** TheChick / TheHeart: Paula
** SixthRanger: Ziba
* FunWithAcronyms: CV Enterprises
* RefugeInAudacity
* RunningGag: A couple, including the Universally Recognized Sign for X, dressing up as nuns and priests, and people TemptingFate
* TemptingFate: People have a tendency of going 'what could possibly go wrong?' right before they do something risky. How GenreBlind are they!?
* TheirFirstTime: [[spoiler: Edward and Kelly]]
* TrueCompanions: CV Enterprises.
* UnusualEuphemism: Unusual yet hilarious example: Edward refers to Doug's junk as 'love lollipop' once
* VillainProtagonist
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[[caption-width-right:323:The title's pretty much ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin]]
->''"The story of how I paid for college begins like life itself -- in a pool of water. Not in the primordial ooze from which prehistoric fish first developed arms and crawled into the shore but in a heavily chlorinated pool of water in the backyard of Gloria D'Angelo's split-level ranch in Campton, New Jersey."''
-->--'''Edward Zanni, our narrator''', first page
It's 1983, Wallingford, New Jersey, a sleep bedroom community. Edward Zanni, an seventeen year old aspiring actor, is ready to go to the school of his dreams, Juilliard, after a summer of mischief and creative vandalism. However, after his father, Al, [[WickedStepmother remarries]] and refuses to pay for his tuition, Edward turns to his [[RagtagBunchOfMisfits lovable group of misfit musical theatre friends]] as they engage in blackmail, forgery, embezzlement and various illegal tactics to raise money for him to pay for college.
Ladies and gentlemen, this is ''How I Paid For College: A Novel of Sex, Theft, Friendship and Musical Theatre'' by Marc Acito.
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!!This work provides examples of:
* ActuallyPrettyFunny: Some (read: most) of the things Edward and his friends do take so much RefugeInAudacity they have permanent residency there, but it's actually still pretty funny.
* AttemptedRape
* BiggusDickus: Doug has some -- very impressive equipment.
* EvilGenius: Natie
* FiveManBand: Roles are subject to change, though. A ''lot''.
** TheHero: Edward
** TheLancer: Kelly (though this role usually shifts to whoever Edward is with at the time)
** TheBigGuy: Doug
** TheSmartGuy: Natie
** TheChick / TheHeart: Paula
** SixthRanger: Ziba
* FunWithAcronyms: CV Enterprises
* RefugeInAudacity
* RunningGag: A couple, including the Universally Recognized Sign for X, dressing up as nuns and priests, and people TemptingFate
* TemptingFate: People have a tendency of going 'what could possibly go wrong?' right before they do something risky. How GenreBlind are they!?
* TheirFirstTime: [[spoiler: Edward and Kelly]]
* TrueCompanions: CV Enterprises.
* UnusualEuphemism: Unusual yet hilarious example: Edward refers to Doug's junk as 'love lollipop' once
* VillainProtagonist
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