Follow TV Tropes

Following

History PlayingWith / TheAristocrats

Go To

OR

Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None

Added DiffLines:

** The act is actually based on a aristocratic family.

Added: 224

Changed: 32

Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None


* '''Defied''': "Eww, no way we're doing that!"

to:

* '''Defied''': '''Defied''':
**
"Eww, no way we're doing that!"that!"
** The talent agent pulls out a gun and forces the family out.
** The talent agent has the police waiting in the next room to arrest Alice and Bob for whatever horrible crimes they committed.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
wick cleaning


* '''Straight''': AliceAndBob, and their two kids Carol and Dave, go to see a talent agent (Edward). Edward initially rejects them because he considers family acts too cute, but Alice says to give them a chance. They then do an act that involves [[IncestIsRelative screwing one another]], drinking pee, and all kinds of disgusting stuff. Edward asks what they call the act and Bob replies, "The Aristocrats".

to:

* '''Straight''': AliceAndBob, and their two kids Carol and Dave, go to see a talent agent (Edward). Edward initially rejects them because he considers family acts too cute, but Alice says to give them a chance. They then do an act that involves [[IncestIsRelative screwing one another]], another, drinking pee, and all kinds of disgusting stuff. Edward asks what they call the act and Bob replies, "The Aristocrats".
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None


* '''Exploited''':

to:

* '''Exploited''':'''Exploited''': Edward wants the family to get arrested, so he goads them into doing "The Aristocrats" so he can have an excuse to call the police on them.



* '''Discussed''':

to:

* '''Discussed''':'''Discussed''': "So, the idea is just to make it as nasty as possible before you finish by saying that the act is called "The Aristocrats"."
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None


* '''Played for Laughs''': Edward [[SkeweredPriorities ends up more concerned with a part of the act that isn't even offensive]], [[ComicallyMissingThePoint like being able to afford a high-profile celebrity like Frank to star in it (which they apparently can)]].

to:

* '''Played for Laughs''': Edward [[SkeweredPriorities ends up more concerned with [[SkewedPriorities a part of the act that isn't even offensive]], [[ComicallyMissingThePoint like being able to afford a high-profile celebrity like Frank to star in it (which they apparently can)]].
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None


* '''Played for Laughs''':

to:

* '''Played for Laughs''':Laughs''': Edward [[SkeweredPriorities ends up more concerned with a part of the act that isn't even offensive]], [[ComicallyMissingThePoint like being able to afford a high-profile celebrity like Frank to star in it (which they apparently can)]].

Added: 193

Changed: 460

Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None


* '''Inverted''': Alice and Bob's act involves saving lives and other noble acts, and they call it "The Common People".

to:

* '''Inverted''': '''Inverted''':
**
Alice and Bob's act involves saving lives and other noble acts, and they call it "The Common People".People".
** Alice's and Bob's act is pretty normal, but it's called "The Nasty Fucking Bastards."



* '''Enforced''':

to:

* '''Enforced''':'''Enforced''': There's a writers' strike on and the creators decided to base an episode around a stock joke.



* '''Deconstructed''':
* '''Reconstructed''':

to:

* '''Deconstructed''':
'''Deconstructed''': Edward calls the cops on Alice and Bob long before they get the chance to deliver the punchline.
* '''Reconstructed''':'''Reconstructed''': When the cops take statements from Alice and Bob, one of them asks what the act is called, allowing them to proudly pronounce "The Aristocrats!" as they are arrested.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None


* '''Exaggerated''': Family consists of mixed races and ethnicities people, and they act as people of these races and ethnicities would act in negative stereotypes. They ''[[WouldHurtAChild actually rape, cripple and eat limbs and eyeballs]]'' of Dave, who is only, and while doing the lewd things, they dress up in blackface and say all the slurs in the dictionary, and when they do the "eating poop" part, they use actual poop!

to:

* '''Exaggerated''': Family consists of mixed races and ethnicities people, and they act as people of these races and ethnicities would act in negative stereotypes. They ''[[WouldHurtAChild actually rape, cripple and eat limbs and eyeballs]]'' of Dave, who is only, only five, and while doing the lewd things, they dress up in blackface and say all the slurs in the dictionary, and when they do the "eating poop" part, they use actual poop!
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None


* '''Exaggerated''': Family consists of mixed races and ethnicities people, and they act as people of these races and ethnicities act in negative stereotypes. They ''[[WouldHurtAChild actually rape, cripple and eat limbs and eyeballs]]'' of Dave, who is only, and while doing the lewd things, they dress up in blackface and say all the slurs in the dictionary, and when they do the "eating poop" part, they use actual poop!

to:

* '''Exaggerated''': Family consists of mixed races and ethnicities people, and they act as people of these races and ethnicities would act in negative stereotypes. They ''[[WouldHurtAChild actually rape, cripple and eat limbs and eyeballs]]'' of Dave, who is only, and while doing the lewd things, they dress up in blackface and say all the slurs in the dictionary, and when they do the "eating poop" part, they use actual poop!
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None


* '''Exaggerated''': They ''[[WouldHurtAChild actually kill]]'' Dave, who is [[DeathOfAChild only six]], and while doing the lewd things, they dress up in blackface and say all the slurs in the dictionary, and when they do the "drinking pee" part, they use actual pee!

to:

* '''Exaggerated''': Family consists of mixed races and ethnicities people, and they act as people of these races and ethnicities act in negative stereotypes. They ''[[WouldHurtAChild actually kill]]'' rape, cripple and eat limbs and eyeballs]]'' of Dave, who is [[DeathOfAChild only six]], only, and while doing the lewd things, they dress up in blackface and say all the slurs in the dictionary, and when they do the "drinking pee" "eating poop" part, they use actual pee!poop!
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None


* '''Parodied''': Alice and Bob pretend to mate like cats, while Carol and Dave scratch each other and they pretend to bring dead animals inside and [[HairballHumor cough up hairballs]]. When Edward asks what they call the act, he replies "The Aristo''[[Disney/TheAristocats cats]]''".

to:

* '''Parodied''': Alice and Bob pretend to mate like cats, while Carol and Dave scratch each other and they pretend to bring dead animals inside and [[HairballHumor cough up hairballs]]. When Edward asks what they call the act, he replies "The Aristo''[[Disney/TheAristocats Aristo''[[WesternAnimation/TheAristocats cats]]''".
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None

Added DiffLines:

'''Basic Trope''': A stock joke about a family who goes to a talent agent and does a very lewd and/or scandalous act, which they call 'The Aristocrats'.
* '''Straight''': AliceAndBob, and their two kids Carol and Dave, go to see a talent agent (Edward). Edward initially rejects them because he considers family acts too cute, but Alice says to give them a chance. They then do an act that involves [[IncestIsRelative screwing one another]], drinking pee, and all kinds of disgusting stuff. Edward asks what they call the act and Bob replies, "The Aristocrats".
* '''Exaggerated''': They ''[[WouldHurtAChild actually kill]]'' Dave, who is [[DeathOfAChild only six]], and while doing the lewd things, they dress up in blackface and say all the slurs in the dictionary, and when they do the "drinking pee" part, they use actual pee!
* '''Downplayed''': This family's version of 'The Aristocrats' involves Alice and Bob having pretty normal sex but still explicitly, Carol hitting Dave in a pretty standard argument, and Dave [[PottyFailure wetting his pants]].
* '''Justified''':
** Alice and/or Bob have a grudge against the local aristocracy and wanted to prove a point.
** The family heard the joke and wanted to act it out to gross out Edward.
* '''Inverted''': Alice and Bob's act involves saving lives and other noble acts, and they call it "The Common People".
* '''Subverted''': They do the nasty act, but when Edward asks what they call the act, Bob says, "The Most Shocking Act in the World".
* '''Double Subverted''': "Just kidding. Its real name is The Aristocrats."
* '''Parodied''': Alice and Bob pretend to mate like cats, while Carol and Dave scratch each other and they pretend to bring dead animals inside and [[HairballHumor cough up hairballs]]. When Edward asks what they call the act, he replies "The Aristo''[[Disney/TheAristocats cats]]''".
* '''Zigzagged''': The act consists of both tame and inappropriate things and Bob's not sure what to call it.
* '''Averted''': Alice, Bob, and their kids don't go to a talent agent, or if they do, they just do a normal act.
* '''Enforced''':
* '''Lampshaded''': "I know a lot of people think AristocratsAreEvil, but that's going too far!".
* '''Invoked''': "Hey, let's do the 'Aristocrats' joke!".
* '''Exploited''':
* '''Defied''': "Eww, no way we're doing that!"
* '''Discussed''':
* '''Conversed''': "Here it comes, the 'Aristocrats' joke again..."
* '''Implied''': We don't see the act, but we see Bob declaring, "The Aristocrats!" and Edward looking shocked.
* '''Deconstructed''':
* '''Reconstructed''':
* '''Played for Laughs''':
* '''Played for Drama''': Little Dave has trouble sleeping after remembering what his family did.
----
Back to TheAristocrats.

Top