History Series / OnBecomingAGodInCentralFlorida

* DoesNotLikeShoes: Roger Penland goes around dressed in a suit and tie... and no shoes.

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes / VillainousBreakdown: Obie gets utterly devistated when he finds out that [[spoiler: Roger]] is dead that he faints on the stage of FAM's fundraiser live on TV.

* PsychopathicManchild: [[EvilOldFolks Obie]] is shown to be quite impatient, petty and has a HairTriggerTemper, shown at first when he angrily wipes his refrigirator of fruit simply because he doesn't like fruit.

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* DoesNotLikeShoes: Roger Penland goes around dressed in a suit and tie and barefoot.

* IJustShotMarvinInTheFace: [[spoiler:How Roger Pendland bites it, thanks to Cody's carelessness.]]

* IJustShotMarvinInTheFace: [[spoiler:How Roger Pendleton bites it, thanks to Cody's carelessness.]]

* FanRivalry: InUniverse. FAM is actually divided between Obie and co-founder Buck Bridges, and the two competing factions hate each other's guts for perceived deviations from the FAM method. It's so intense that Cody and a follower of Bridges, Pat Stanley, get into a physical brawl.

* AttentionWhore: Cody seems to be motivated by attention

* BaitAndSwitch: [[spoiler:We are led to believe that Travis is about to drown when he falls asleep at the wheel again and crashes his car into a river. He emerges from the car unscatched... only to be eaten moments later by an alligator.]]

* EvilIsPetty: Buzz turns Krystal in to the cops for gator poaching after she outs him as a sexual extortionist in front of his teenaged daughter.

* {{Cult}}: FAM exhibits elements of cultish thinking, especially in how they revere Obie, pressure people into finding new recruits or following the company's rules, and how they label skeptics as "stinker-thinkers."

Florida, 1992. Krystal Stubbs (Creator/KirstenDunst) is an ex-local beauty queen turned water park employee with a newborn son. Her husband Travis (Creator/AlexanderSkarsgard) is a low-level distributor in a [[GetRichQuickScheme multi-level-marketing company]] called Founders American Merchandising (FAM), and remains devoted to the teachings of its founder, Obie Garbeau II (Creator/TedLevine), despite repeatedly taking financial losses thanks to the company. When the family falls on hard times and FAM refuses to bail them out despite their loyal service, Krystal hatches a plan to scam the scammers.

%%* EvilSoundsDeep: Obie Garbeau, the head of a shady multi-level marketing company, thanks to being played by Creator/TedLevine.

%%* StepfordSmiler: Cody, a mid-level FAM distributor zealously devoted to the Garbeau System.
%%* TheNineties: Specifically, 1992.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Obie Garbeau II and Founders American Merchandising show clear similarities with Glenn W. Turner and his MLM company, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koscot_Interplanetary Koscot Interplanetary]], which were active in Florida in the 1970s and '80s.

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* EvilSoundsDeep: Obie Garbeau, the head of a shady multi-level marketing company, thanks to being played by Creator/TedLevine.

* StepfordSmiler: Cody, a mid-level FAM distributor zealously devoted to the Garbeau System.
* TheNineties: Specifically, 1992.

Florida, 1992. Krystal Stubbs (Creator/KirstenDunst) is an ex-local beauty queen turned water park employee with a newborn son. Her husband Travis (Creator/AlexanderSkarsgard) is a low-level distributor in a [[GetRichQuickScheme multi-level-marketing. company]] called Founders American Merchandising (FAM), and remains devoted to the teachings of its founder, Obie Garbeau II (Creator/TedLevine), despite repeatedly taking financial losses thanks to the company. When the family falls on hard times and FAM refuses to bail them out despite their loyal service, Krystal hatches a plan to scam the scammers.

* StepfordSmiler: Cody, a mid-level FAM distributor zealously devoted to the Garbeau Method.

Florida, 1992. Krystal Stubbs (Creator/KirstenDunst) is an ex-local beauty queen turned water park employee with a newborn son. Her husband Travis (Creato/AlexanderSkarsgard) is a low-level distributor in a [[GetRichQuickScheme multi-level-marketing. company]] called Founders American Merchandising (FAM), and remains devoted to the teachings of its founder, Obie Garbeau II (Creator/TedLevine), despite repeatedly taking financial losses thanks to the company. When the family falls on hard times and FAM refuses to bail them out despite their loyal service, Krystal hatches a plan to scam the scammers.

* GetRickQuickScheme: FAM, as multi-level marketing companies tend to be. Travis devotes his life to FAM because he thinks following Obie Garbeau's teachings will make him and Krystal rich, even though he has nothing to financially show for it despite slaving for the company for two years.

Florida, 1992. Krystal Stubbs (Creator/KirstenDunst) is an ex-local beauty queen turned water park employee with a newborn son. Her husband Travis (Creato/AlexanderSkargard) is a low-level distributor in a [[GetRichQuickScheme multi-level-marketing. company]] called Founders American Merchandising (FAM), and remains devoted to the teachings of its founder, Obie Garbeau II (Creator/TedLevine), despite repeatedly taking financial losses thanks to the company. When the family falls on hard times and FAM refuses to bail them out despite their loyal service, Krystal hatches a plan to scam the scammers.