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* LockedOutOfTheLoop: In "Who U Know," the girls think they've gotten a break being featured in Lil' Stinker's new video, thanks to self-professed publicist Wickie. They're happier when various celebrities start dropping out so they get more screen time. Then they discover why, as news is around that Lil' Stinker got high and drove his car to knock over gravestones at Arlington Cemetary.
-->'''Wickie''': I think part of being a publicist is having a phone.
-->'''Wickie''': I think part of being a publicist is having a phone.
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** Summer plays a video on Streamberry, the FictionalCounterpart to the streamer from ''Series/BlackMirror''.
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** Summer plays a video on Streamberry, the FictionalCounterpart to the streamer Netflix from ''Series/BlackMirror''.''Series/BlackMirror'', appears several times, [[spoiler:and is repeatedly bought out/merged multiple times in the span of minutes, parodying the unstable streaming economy]].
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The series premiered on Creator/{{Peacock}} in May 2021. A second season arrived in May 2022. A third season will premiere on Creator/{{Netflix}} in 2023.
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The series premiered on Creator/{{Peacock}} in May 2021. A second season arrived in May 2022. A third season will premiere premiered on Creator/{{Netflix}} in 2023.
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* CompanyCrossReferences: The show moved to Creator/{{Netflix}} in season 3. To emphasize this, several references to now-fellow Netflix shows are made:
** Dawn watches a fake season of ''Series/TheCrown2016''. [[spoiler:Wickie's song "Yesternights" plays in ''The Crown'''s season finale, and the possibility of her career receiving a RevivalByCommercialization is explicitly compared to Music/KateBush's "Running Up That Hill" skyrocketing in popularity after its usage in ''Series/StrangerThings''.]][[invoked]]
** Summer plays a video on Streamberry, the FictionalCounterpart to the streamer from ''Series/BlackMirror''.
** Dawn watches a fake season of ''Series/TheCrown2016''. [[spoiler:Wickie's song "Yesternights" plays in ''The Crown'''s season finale, and the possibility of her career receiving a RevivalByCommercialization is explicitly compared to Music/KateBush's "Running Up That Hill" skyrocketing in popularity after its usage in ''Series/StrangerThings''.]][[invoked]]
** Summer plays a video on Streamberry, the FictionalCounterpart to the streamer from ''Series/BlackMirror''.
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* RunningGag: The soda fountain in the Solano restaurant dispenses red wine, which gets used multiple times throughout the series.
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* RunningGag: RunningGag:
** The soda fountain in the Solano restaurant dispenses red wine, which gets used multiple times throughout theseries.series.
** Dawn and Scott watch a lot of prestige TV, but the snippets of dialogue and plotlines shown to the audience are always parodic, if not outright terrible. For example, when watching ''Series/{{Succe|ssion}}'' -- er, ''Business Throne'' in season 2: "If I could go back in time, I would have blasted on your mother's stomach. Fuck off, son." The fake season of ''Series/TheCrown2016'' in season 3 places disproportionate focus on Prince Andrew's stuffed animal obsession.
** The soda fountain in the Solano restaurant dispenses red wine, which gets used multiple times throughout the
** Dawn and Scott watch a lot of prestige TV, but the snippets of dialogue and plotlines shown to the audience are always parodic, if not outright terrible. For example, when watching ''Series/{{Succe|ssion}}'' -- er, ''Business Throne'' in season 2: "If I could go back in time, I would have blasted on your mother's stomach. Fuck off, son." The fake season of ''Series/TheCrown2016'' in season 3 places disproportionate focus on Prince Andrew's stuffed animal obsession.
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* PublicityStuntRelationship: Girl group member Summer was initially set up with boy band member Kev by their respective teams to advertise Noxzema. They ended up with a long-running but mutually unhappy marriage.
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* PublicityStuntRelationship: Girl group Happened to more than one member of the titular girl group:
** Summer was initially set up with boy band member Kev by their respective teams to advertise Noxzema. They ended up with a long-running but mutually unhappymarriage.marriage.
** Wickie was briefly in a relationship with fellow late 90's musician Torque. She clarifies that it was PR, because Torque was HighSchoolSweethearts with his then-wife and she was boring.
** Summer was initially set up with boy band member Kev by their respective teams to advertise Noxzema. They ended up with a long-running but mutually unhappy
** Wickie was briefly in a relationship with fellow late 90's musician Torque. She clarifies that it was PR, because Torque was HighSchoolSweethearts with his then-wife and she was boring.
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* StylisticSuck: Most of the girls' old songs. They are generally good singers but the songs have basic production standards and lyrics that range from generic to problematic. Justified as Larry never saw them as anything but a cynical cash grab and so didn't care about anything else with flashbacks showing that some of the songs didn't even have proper spelling for lyrics.
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* StylisticSuck: StylisticSuck:
** Most of the girls' old songs. They are generally good singers but the songs have basic production standards and lyrics that range from generic to problematic. Justified as Larry never saw them as anything but a cynical cash grab and so didn't care about anything else with flashbacks showing that some of the songs didn't even have proper spelling forlyrics.lyrics.
** Wickie's solo album was also rushed, to the point of her singing placeholder lyrics during a live performance until she received said lyrics.
** Most of the girls' old songs. They are generally good singers but the songs have basic production standards and lyrics that range from generic to problematic. Justified as Larry never saw them as anything but a cynical cash grab and so didn't care about anything else with flashbacks showing that some of the songs didn't even have proper spelling for
** Wickie's solo album was also rushed, to the point of her singing placeholder lyrics during a live performance until she received said lyrics.
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* TheFriendsWhoNeverHang: Of the four protagonists Wickie and Summer rarely share the screen. Justified in season 3, where Summer says she deliberately avoids being alone with Wickie because the last time they were together Summer accidentally caused her to quit the group.
** Season 3's Gray Holland, a pretty-boy English pop star, is based on Music/HarryStyles. The music video of his song "Sensitive Boy" evokes Styles' "Late Night Talking".
* ThePlace: Every episode in season 3 is [[IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming titled after]] the city the heroines are currently in.
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* RooftopConcert: Parodied. The group try to stage one in season 2 to drum up publicity for their album drop. Wickie gets the idea from the "lunch lord" she's dating, though she protests that it's been done a million times before. It doesn't go well.
-->'''Reporter:''' In feel bad news, reunited girl group [=Girls5eva=] violated several FAA regulations attempting to be like the Beatles from the Beatles documentary. Now, I don't like to editorialize, so I'll just reserve my opinions about just how basic that is.
-->'''Reporter:''' In feel bad news, reunited girl group [=Girls5eva=] violated several FAA regulations attempting to be like the Beatles from the Beatles documentary. Now, I don't like to editorialize, so I'll just reserve my opinions about just how basic that is.
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* RooftopConcert: Parodied. The group try to stage one a roof concert in season 2 to drum up publicity for their album drop. Wickie gets the idea from the "lunch lord" she's dating, though she protests that it's been done a million times before. It doesn't go well.
-->'''Reporter:''' In feel bad news, reunited girl group [=Girls5eva=] violated several FAA regulations attempting to be likethe Beatles Music/{{the Beatles}} from the Beatles documentary. Now, I don't like to editorialize, so I'll just reserve my opinions about just how basic that is.
-->'''Reporter:''' In feel bad news, reunited girl group [=Girls5eva=] violated several FAA regulations attempting to be like
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* AdamWesting: In "Tour Mode," [[spoiler: [[Series/PropertyBrothers the Property Brothers]] parody their NiceGuy image when they finally show up. They both act like jerks, Drew gets into a brawl with Gloria, and Jonathan begs for her to kill him from the sidelines.]]
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* AdamWesting: AdamWesting:
** In "Tour Mode," [[spoiler: [[Series/PropertyBrothers the Property Brothers]] parody their NiceGuy image when they finally show up. They both act like jerks, Drew gets into a brawl with Gloria, and Jonathan begs for her to kill him from the sidelines.]]
** In "New York," Richard Kind does this, [[LampshadeHanging Lampshading]] his career as an actor in the "medium time" who's had small parts in everything. As he puts it, he's famous enough to keep working but not so famous that people bother him. [[spoiler: This actually inspires Dawn to write a song about this and all the other members of the group accept their status...until the very end of the episode, when Wickie gets the gang another big comeback. Maybe.]]
** In "Tour Mode," [[spoiler: [[Series/PropertyBrothers the Property Brothers]] parody their NiceGuy image when they finally show up. They both act like jerks, Drew gets into a brawl with Gloria, and Jonathan begs for her to kill him from the sidelines.]]
** In "New York," Richard Kind does this, [[LampshadeHanging Lampshading]] his career as an actor in the "medium time" who's had small parts in everything. As he puts it, he's famous enough to keep working but not so famous that people bother him. [[spoiler: This actually inspires Dawn to write a song about this and all the other members of the group accept their status...until the very end of the episode, when Wickie gets the gang another big comeback. Maybe.]]
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* JerkassHasAPoint: In "Orlando," Taffy is obnoxious, self-centered, and married to a "Sweet'n'Low Daddy" purely for the money. However, she's not really a bad person and makes a good point about why people love nostalgia. She also rightly calls out Dawn for being hypocritical, since Dawn's entire role in getting the group back together is also based on nostalgia.
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* ExactWords: "Clarkesville" reveals that [[spoiler: Wickie has been exploiting this to hide the fact the she had a comfortable and loving upbringing without lying. For example, she previously claimed her father was "never in the picture" (because he always took the family photos), her siblings are "in and put of hospitals" (they're doctors) and that she had a "hardscrabble" life (because her family played Scrabble and it was hard).]]
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* ExactWords: "Clarkesville" "Clarksville" reveals that [[spoiler: Wickie has been exploiting this to hide the fact the she had a comfortable and loving upbringing without lying. For example, she previously claimed her father was "never in the picture" (because he always took the family photos), her siblings are "in and put of hospitals" (they're doctors) and that she had a "hardscrabble" life (because her family played Scrabble and it was hard).]]
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* ExactWords: "Clarkesville" reveals that [[spoiler: Wickie has been exploiting this to hide the fact the she had a comfortable and loving upbringing without lying. For example, she previously claimed her father was "never in the picture" (because he always took the family photos), her siblings are "in and put of hospitals" (they're doctors) and that she had a "hardscrabble" life (because her family played Scrabble and it was hard).]]
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* PublicityStunt: InUniverse, Kev and Summer's relationship started as a ploy to sell Noxzema.
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* PublicityStunt: InUniverse, PublicityStuntRelationship: Girl group member Summer was initially set up with boy band member Kev and Summer's relationship started as a ploy by their respective teams to sell advertise Noxzema. They ended up with a long-running but mutually unhappy marriage.
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* StylisticSuck: Most of the girls' old songs. They are generally good singers but the songs have basic production standards and lyrics that range from generic to problematic. Justified as Larry never saw them as anything but a cynical cash grab and so didn't care about anything else with flashbacks showing that some of the songs didn't even have proper spelling for lyrics.
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** Alf Musik is a clear parody of Swedish songwriter Max Martin.
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** Alf Musik is a clear parody of Swedish songwriter Max Martin.Music/MaxMartin.
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** TK in "Leave a Message If You Love Me" is obviously based on Sia, though this is mentioned in the episode.
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** TK in "Leave a Message If You Love Me" is obviously based on Sia, Music/{{Sia}}, though this is mentioned in the episode.
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* AndTheAdventureContinues: Season 2 ends with [[spoiler: the group heading out to tour on their own, with Percy as their driver.]]
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* AdamWesting: In "Tour Mode," [[spoiler: [[Series/PropertyBrothers the Property Brothers]] parody their NiceGuy image when they finally show up. They both act like jerks, Drew gets into a brawl with Gloria, and Jonathan begs for her to kill him from the sideline.]]
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* AdamWesting: In "Tour Mode," [[spoiler: [[Series/PropertyBrothers the Property Brothers]] parody their NiceGuy image when they finally show up. They both act like jerks, Drew gets into a brawl with Gloria, and Jonathan begs for her to kill him from the sideline.sidelines.]]
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* AdamWesting: In "Tour Mode," [[spoiler: [[Series/PropertyBrothers the Property Brothers]] do this when they finally show up.]]
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* AdamWesting: In "Tour Mode," [[spoiler: [[Series/PropertyBrothers the Property Brothers]] do this parody their NiceGuy image when they finally show up.up. They both act like jerks, Drew gets into a brawl with Gloria, and Jonathan begs for her to kill him from the sideline.]]
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* ADayInTheLimelight: "Leave A Message If You Love Me" finally returns to the question of whether Ashley is alive or not. [[spoiler: So far, it seems like she's not, but the group processes their loss by recording a tribute song.]]
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** When Dawn starts tripping on percocets, she sings a song where the lyrics are an acrostic for "percocet," similarly to the urban legend about how "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds" was about LSD.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: As a satire of the music industry, it's no surprise that several characters are meant as spoofs of popular figures:
** Alf Musik is a clear parody of Swedish songwriter Max Martin.
** In "Tour Mode," Co-Z Boi is a parody of Music/PostMalone.
** TK in "Leave a Message If You Love Me" is obviously based on Sia, though this is mentioned in the episode.
** Alf Musik is a clear parody of Swedish songwriter Max Martin.
** In "Tour Mode," Co-Z Boi is a parody of Music/PostMalone.
** TK in "Leave a Message If You Love Me" is obviously based on Sia, though this is mentioned in the episode.
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* RedHerring: In "Leave a Message If You Love Me," Dawn becomes convinced that Ashley is alive and performing as the mysterious TK. [[spoiler: It turns out that's not true, and TK is a completely different person who complains that everyone uses her to fuel conspiracies that their missing loved ones are alive.]]
* RooftopConcert: Parodied. The group try to stage one in season 2 to drum up publicity for their album drop. Wickie gets the idea from the "lunch lord" she's dating, though she protests that it's been done a million times before. It doesn't go well.
* RooftopConcert: Parodied. The group try to stage one in season 2 to drum up publicity for their album drop. Wickie gets the idea from the "lunch lord" she's dating, though she protests that it's been done a million times before. It doesn't go well.
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* SitcomArchnemesis: Larry eventually becomes this to the group. Girls5Eva's goal is to succeed without him, and when he shows up, it's usually to present an obstacle for them to overcome. [[spoiler: In the second season, he starts managing a boy band called Collab on the same label.]]
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* AdamWesting: In "Tour Mode," [[spoiler: [[Series/PropertyBrothers the Property Brothers]] do this when they finally show up.]]
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-->'''Reporter:''' In feel bad news, reunited girl group Girls5eva violated several FAA regulations attempting to be like the Beatles from the Beatles documentary. Now, I don't like to editorialize, so I'll just reserve my opinions about just how basic that is.
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-->'''Reporter:''' In feel bad news, reunited girl group Girls5eva [=Girls5eva=] violated several FAA regulations attempting to be like the Beatles from the Beatles documentary. Now, I don't like to editorialize, so I'll just reserve my opinions about just how basic that is.
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-->'''Reporter:''' In feel bad news, reunited girl group Girls5eva violated several FAA regulations attempting to be like the Beatles from the Beatles documentary. Now, I don't like to editorialize, so I'll just reserve my opinions about just how basic that is.
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* SpitTake: {{Invoked}} by Wickie and {{lampshaded}} by Dawn:
-->'''Wickie:''' Dawn, please spit take on my behalf.\\
'''Dawn:''' ''(does a spit take)'' How did I do that? I'm not drinking anything.
-->'''Wickie:''' Dawn, please spit take on my behalf.\\
'''Dawn:''' ''(does a spit take)'' How did I do that? I'm not drinking anything.
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*SubvertedRhymeEveryOccasion: the full length version of "Famous 5eva" includes the lines:
-->Playing with our brand new flip phones
-->Texting with our '''friends'''
--> See the new ink on our hip bones
--> That's where our story '''begins'''
-->Playing with our brand new flip phones
-->Texting with our '''friends'''
--> See the new ink on our hip bones
--> That's where our story '''begins'''
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* FunWithHomonyms: Dawn writes a song that uses multiple meanings of the word "set". What results is an exhausting monstrosity that bores the life out of everyone who listens.
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* FunWithHomonyms: FunWithHomophones: Specifically Fun with ''Homonyms''[[note]]Homophones are two words that sound the same but mean different things; homonyms are a subset of those that are spelled the same as well[[/note]]. Dawn writes a song that uses multiple meanings of the word "set". What results is an exhausting monstrosity that bores the life out of everyone who listens.
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* ArtifactTitle: InUniverse. The group was named [=Girls5eva=] for their five-member lineup, which obviously becomes a NonIndicativeName when they return as a foursome.
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* RebootSnark: When Dawn and the others discuss getting their original 1990s OneHitWonder GirlGroup back together for a 2020s CareerResurrection[[invoked]], their ex-manager Larry scoffs at the idea, saying they only got a little bit of airtime "because [people] have a boner for nostalgia."
-->'''Larry:''' They reunited ''Series/SavedByTheBell'', ''Series/KenanAndKel'', everyone from Iran-Contra.
-->'''Larry:''' They reunited ''Series/SavedByTheBell'', ''Series/KenanAndKel'', everyone from Iran-Contra.
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* ShowWithinAShow: Dawn and Scott regularly watch ''Business Throne'', [[Series/{{Succession}} a drama about a dysfunctional rich corporation family]]. Details include a blustering Scottish patriarch (like Logan) and a son who "always goes rogue" (like Kendall).
