History Series / CheapSeats

* "Do You Care?", used in [[OnceAnEpisode every single episode]], in which the brothers provide obscure facts about the show's subject or participants -- in extreme facial close-up, preceded by a dizzyingly fast [[{{Zoom}} zoom-in]].

* HighHopesZeroTalent: From Ep. S2 E9 (1980 MLB All-Star Game): Hideki Ichimo, a Japanese man who moved to America in hopes of becoming a baseball announcer. Except he didn't speak a word of English (Outside of Music/HueyLewisAndTheNews lyrics) and refused to learn. And when his calls were translated to English, they made no sense anyway.

The BackStory goes that a long time ago (on February 4, 2004) a man named Ron Parker (Michael Showalter), "an anchor with attitude", was filming the first episode of ''Cheap Seats with Ron Parker''. The show was slated to go big. However, moments into filming, he was buried under a stack of tapes and his loyal but poorly treated assistants, the Sklar brothers, had to fill in for him (like [[UsefulNotes/{{Baseball}} Gehrig for Pipp]] or [[UsefulNotes/AmericanFootball Brady for Bledsoe]]) as they were the next people in line before Ryan Leaf. Thus the show became ''Cheap Seats Without Ron Parker''.

* "Do You Care?", used in [[OnceAnEpisode every single episode]], in which the brothers provide obscure facts about the show's subject or participants--in extreme facial close-up, preceded by a dizzyingly fast [[{{Zoom}} zoom-in]].

Guest segments were also common, either with recurring characters like The Answer Dog or The Score Settler, or with characters tangent to the action (as portrayed by comedians). Other segments took more of a documentary approach, but were still ficitious and played for laughs, like the history of a labor strike in the world of professional miniature golf.

!!Tropes:

* SpiritualSuccessor: This show owes much to ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000''. Made explicit when Mike Nelson and The Bots did an extended cameo in the Season 2 premiere.[[note]]Technically the second episode, but the first proper one. The actual S2 premiere was a ClipShow parody of ESPN's ''Sportscentury'' series.[[/note]]
** If that weren't enough, [=MST3K=] creator Joel Hodgson was a fan of rising comedian Michael Floorwax, who appears in two episodes of ''Cheap Seats''; references to his "All over the world!" bit can be heard in several early episodes of [=MST3K=].

* CallBack: Frequently made back to other episodes, and occasionally to their stand-up routine.

%% TwinBanter: Employed frequenty by Randy and Jason.

* "Do You Care?", used in [[OnceAnEpisode every single episode]], in which the brothers provide obscure facts about the show's subject or participants--in extreme facial close-up.

** Going to commercial, one camera would often zoom in on an old Dutch door that had a sign that read; "Attention ESPN Staff:" at the top, and, "Do not lend tapes to this person" at the bottom, with enough space for a picture in-between. Most of the time, this picture would be of a celebrity, or a politician such as George W. Bush. The final shot of the series finale was this sign, now containing a picture of the Sklars themselves.
* SpiritualSuccessor: This show owes much to ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000''. Made explicit when Mike and The Bots did an extended cameo in the Season 2 premiere.[[note]]Technically the second episode, but the first proper one. The actual S2 premiere was a ClipShow parody of ESPN's ''Sportscentury'' series.[[/note]]