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** "Have you seen my shins? They're like sticks."
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* ParentalBonus: A few, with shout-outs to ''TheKingsSpeech'' (a R-rated film with a famous ClusterFBomb scene) and "TheMostInterestingManInTheWorld" (an ad for ''beer'').

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* ParentalBonus: A few, with shout-outs to ''TheKingsSpeech'' (a R-rated film with a famous ClusterFBomb scene) and "TheMostInterestingManInTheWorld" "Advertising/TheMostInterestingManInTheWorld" (an ad for ''beer'').
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** Also, a literal incarnation of the trope (a captain who goes around pointing out obvious things) in one episode.
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** Apparently, ''StrawberryShortcake'' as well, in a parody segment called "Strawberry Shortcake Saves the World".

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** Apparently, ''StrawberryShortcake'' as well, in a parody segment called "Strawberry Shortcake Shortbread Saves the World".Earth".
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** Apparently, ''StrawberryShortcake'' as well, in a parody segment called "Strawberry Shortcake Saves the World".
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** He's made a couple other appearances since then.
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** Mr. Goodman will occasionally shout out the name of a food and then smash into something.
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** "I don't play by the rules. (food item)!" (crashes into something)
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** Glendovia, the [[WhereTheHellIsSpringfield imaginary country]] featured in a ''SonnyWithAChance'' episode, gets a fair mention in one sketch.

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** Glendovia, the [[WhereTheHellIsSpringfield [[{{Ruritania}} imaginary country]] featured in a ''SonnyWithAChance'' episode, gets a fair mention in one sketch.
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* {{Adorkable}}: Becky, the Girl Who was Raised By *'''''DUN DUN DUNNN'''''* Beavers!

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* {{Adorkable}}: Becky, the Girl Who was Raised By *'''''DUN *'''''[[{{Sting}} DUN DUNNN'''''* DUN DUNNN]]'''''* Beavers!
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*** "I knnnnnoooooorrrrrr!"

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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: In one Mr. Goodman sketch, he takes his class to an art museum. One of the paintings is a still life with fruit, which includes a melon with a slice removed, giving it a quite vaginal shape. Mr. Goodman keeps poking that very painting, in that very spot, ostensibly to point out it's a paint-by-numbers (it's not).

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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: In one Mr. Goodman sketch, he takes his class to an art museum. One of the paintings is a still life with fruit, which includes a melon with a slice removed, giving it a quite vaginal shape. Mr. Goodman keeps poking that very painting, in that very spot, ostensibly to point out it's a paint-by-numbers (it's not). not).
** Zombie Man- he eats people (off-screen). It's PlayedForLaughs.
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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: In one Mr. Goodman sketch, he takes his class to an art museum. One of the paintings is a still life with fruit, which includes a melon with a slice removed, giving it a quite vaginal shape. Mr. Goodman keeps poking that very painting, in that very spot, ostensibly to point out it's a paint-by-numbers (it's not).
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* AffectionateParody / StylisticSuck: Similar to its role in ''SonnyWithAChance'', it is a parody of ''AllThat''. ''TheAmandaShow'', ''[[MickeyMouseClub MMC]]'', etc. and its tone reflects that. [[PoesLaw Unfortunately, without knowing this]], [[{{Defictionalization}} or with the burden of it having to stay true to its parodic nature and hold together as its own entity sans SWAC]], [[BrokenBase it can come across as over the top or mediocre in its own right]].

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* AffectionateParody / StylisticSuck: Similar to its role in ''SonnyWithAChance'', it is a parody of ''AllThat''. ''AllThat'', ''YouCantDoThatOnTelevision'', ''TheAmandaShow'', ''[[MickeyMouseClub MMC]]'', etc. and its tone reflects that. [[PoesLaw Unfortunately, without knowing this]], [[{{Defictionalization}} or with the burden of it having to stay true to its parodic nature and hold together as its own entity sans SWAC]], [[BrokenBase it can come across as over the top or mediocre in its own right]].
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* AffectionateParody / StylisticSuck: Similar to its role in ''[[SonnyWithAChance]]'', it is a parody of ''[[AllThat]]''. ''[[TheAmandaShow]]'', ''[[MickeyMouseClub MMC]]'', etc. and its tone reflects that. [[PoesLaw Unfortunately, without knowing this]], [[{{Defictionalization}} or with the burden of it having to stay true to its parodic nature and hold together as its own entity sans SWAC]], [[BrokenBase it can come across as over the top or mediocre in its own right]].

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* AffectionateParody / StylisticSuck: Similar to its role in ''[[SonnyWithAChance]]'', ''SonnyWithAChance'', it is a parody of ''[[AllThat]]''. ''[[TheAmandaShow]]'', ''AllThat''. ''TheAmandaShow'', ''[[MickeyMouseClub MMC]]'', etc. and its tone reflects that. [[PoesLaw Unfortunately, without knowing this]], [[{{Defictionalization}} or with the burden of it having to stay true to its parodic nature and hold together as its own entity sans SWAC]], [[BrokenBase it can come across as over the top or mediocre in its own right]].
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* AffectionateParody / StylisticSuck: Similar to its role in ''[[SonnyWithAChance]]'', it is a parody of ''[[AllThat]]''. ''[[TheAmandaShow]]'', ''[[MickeyMouseClub MMC]]'', etc. and its tone reflects that. [[PoesLaw Unfortunately, without knowing this]], [[Defictionalization or with the burden of it having to stay true to its parodic nature and hold together as its own entity sans SWAC]], [[BrokenBase it can come across as over the top or mediocre in its own right]].

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* AffectionateParody / StylisticSuck: Similar to its role in ''[[SonnyWithAChance]]'', it is a parody of ''[[AllThat]]''. ''[[TheAmandaShow]]'', ''[[MickeyMouseClub MMC]]'', etc. and its tone reflects that. [[PoesLaw Unfortunately, without knowing this]], [[Defictionalization [[{{Defictionalization}} or with the burden of it having to stay true to its parodic nature and hold together as its own entity sans SWAC]], [[BrokenBase it can come across as over the top or mediocre in its own right]].
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* AffectionateParody / StylisticSuck: Similar to its role in ''[[SonnyWithAChance]]'', it is a parody of ''[[AllThat]]''. ''[[TheAmandaShow]]'', ''[[MickeyMouseClub MMC]]'', etc. and its tone reflects that. [[PoesLaw Unfortunately, without knowing this]], [[Defictionalization or with the burden of it having to stay true to its nature and hold together as its own entity sans SWAC]], [[BrokenBase it can come across as over the top or mediocre in its own right]].

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* AffectionateParody / StylisticSuck: Similar to its role in ''[[SonnyWithAChance]]'', it is a parody of ''[[AllThat]]''. ''[[TheAmandaShow]]'', ''[[MickeyMouseClub MMC]]'', etc. and its tone reflects that. [[PoesLaw Unfortunately, without knowing this]], [[Defictionalization or with the burden of it having to stay true to its parodic nature and hold together as its own entity sans SWAC]], [[BrokenBase it can come across as over the top or mediocre in its own right]].
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* AffectionateParody / StylisticSuck: Similar to its role in ''[[SonnyWithAChance]]'', it is a parody of ''[[AllThat]]''. ''[[TheAmandaShow]]'', ''[[MickeyMouseClub MMC]]'', etc. and its tone reflects that. [[PoesLaw Unfortunately, without knowing this]], [[Defictionalization or with the burden of it having to stay true to its nature and hold together as its own entity sans SWAC]], [[BrokenBase it can come across as over the top or mediocre in its own right]].
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* SpiritualSuccessor: To Nickelodeon's ''AllThat'' and ''TheAmandaShow''.

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* SpiritualSuccessor: To Nickelodeon's ''AllThat'' and ''TheAmandaShow''.''AllThat''.
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* SpiritualSuccessor: To Nickelodeon's ''AllThat''.

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* SpiritualSuccessor: To Nickelodeon's ''AllThat''.''AllThat'' and ''TheAmandaShow''.
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* AgeInnapropriateDress: ''Your Daughters Closet'', the only store that sells cool clothes to moms who are too old to rock them!

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* AgeInnapropriateDress: AgeInappropriateDress: ''Your Daughters Closet'', the only store that sells cool clothes to moms who are too old to rock them!
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** Including the fact that people think she throws tantrums.
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* DawsonsCasting: Tiffany Thorton, who plays Tawni, who is stated as been in her late teens, in real-life 26.

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* MuppetCameo: "Miss Piggy".
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**Tawni's character says this to angus in every sketch: "Oh Angus, you know (insert whatever he's doing in the sketch) drives me CRAZY!
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* HideYourPregnancy: Presumably what's going to happen with Tiffany Thornton, since she's pregnant with her first child.

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* HideYourPregnancy: Presumably what's going to happen with Tiffany Thornton, TiffanyThornton, since she's pregnant with her first child.
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[[caption-width-right:333:Now with 90% less Sonny.]]

''So Random!'' (2011) is a SketchComedy series on the DisneyChannel. Technically the third season of what once was ''SonnyWithAChance''. In that show, ''So Random'' was a ShowWithinAShow that the characters were stars on and snippets would be shown in between the off-set plots.

However, DemiLovato, who played Sonny, refused to reprise her role after the second season [[RealLifeWritesThePlot in order to focus on her musical career and resolve some personal issues]]. The show was retooled and [[{{Defictionalization}} defictionalized]] into its own show, losing the backstage plots and becoming a full-fledged SketchComedy show complete with special and musical guests. Whether it stands on its own merits is up to the viewers.
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!!''So Random'' provides the following tropes:
* ActionGirl: In the ''WheelOfFortune'' {{Parody}}, the [[LovelyAssistant Vanna White]] girl got so annoyed by {{Fred}}, that she ''ripped off a piece of the board'', and '''''bashed it onto Fred's head'''''.
-->'''Vanna:''' You're welcome, America!
* {{Adorkable}}: Becky, the Girl Who was Raised By *'''''DUN DUN DUNNN'''''* Beavers!
* TheBandMinusTheFace: At least where the nucleus of the cast is concerned, it is basically ''SonnyWithAChance'' minus Sonny. The behind the scenes plotlines concerning Sonny have been abandoned as well.
* BigDamnMovie: Parodied with ''[[StrawberryShortcake Strawberry Shortbread]] [[SaveTheWorld Saves the Earth]]''.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Tantrum Girl.
* BerserkButton: In the "Tantrum Girl" skits, EVERYTHING.
* BreakingTheFourthWall: In [[TheMuppets Miss Piggy]]'s episode, we see her talking to Kermit on the phone. Her side of the conversation (we don't hear Kermit's) goes something like:
-->"Kermit, Kermit. Let me explain this again. ''So Random!'', the ShowWithinAShow is now [[SpinOff its own show]]. Yes, Chad's a Random now, deal with it!"
* CallBack: In one of the Tantrum Girl skits, Allisyn Ashley Arm wears her Blossom Scout uniform from ''Sonny With A Chance''.
** Glendovia, the [[WhereTheHellIsSpringfield imaginary country]] featured in a ''SonnyWithAChance'' episode, gets a fair mention in one sketch.
* CannotConveySarcasm: The eponymous character of "Possibly Sarcastic Skip", was born with a terrible disease that makes everything he says sarcastic, whether he intends it that way or not.
* CaptainErsatz: One of the sketches has a cheery food-themed girl named Strawberry Shortbread. Of course, it's definitely not StrawberryShortcake: This one [[BigDamnMovie avenges her friends and saves the world from extraterrestrials]]!
* CaptainObvious: TaylorSwift in the ''WheelOfFortune'' sketch:
-->'''Taylor:''' ''(singing)'' I'll spin the wheel, it'll turn clockwise.\\
'''Pat:''' Okay thank you Princess Obvious, now will you spin the wheel?
* {{Catchphrase}}: "Oh, you're not going to believe this!"
** "Tell ya WUUUUUUUT!"
** "Well I don't mean to BRAG but.."
** "Angus, you know that pose drives me CRAAAAAZZYYY!"
* DeadBabyComedy: The "Zombie Man" skits. One of them involves Zombie Man eating his teacher and then [[CrossesTheLineTwice using her bones as a science project]].
* ADogAteMyHomework: Not a dog, but a monkey took it instead. (Actually, [[DoubleSubversion the monkey force-fed the dog the homework]]). The dog did, however, eat the plane tickets.
* ExtremeDoormat: Subverted. The {{Goth}} girl from the Garage Band sketches acts like one, but she goes {{berserk| button}} at the not raging people who try to join the band.
-->'''Girl:''' '''GET OUTTA MY GARAGE'''! ''[screams several times]''
* {{Defictionalization}}
* DoItYourselfThemeTune: Sung by cast member Brandon Mychal Smith, titled "So Random (It's A Party In Here)".
* FunnyForeigner: Angus, the Australian Supermodel.
** One sketch revolves around a guy named Oscar who got expelled, but goes back as Olaf, a [[NewTransferStudent transfer student]] from [[CallBack Glendovia]].
* GameShowAppearance: One skit had cast members as {{Fred}}, TaylorSwift and Willow Smith on ''WheelOfFortune''.
* {{Goth}}: The "girl in the garage band" sketches. The other band members could count, to a lesser extent.
* GrammarNazi: MC Grammar, to the point of getting beat up.
* GirlfriendInCanada: Played straight and discussed in the "Learning Spanish with Reynaldo Rivera" sketch.
* HitlerAteSugar: Joked with in in skit:
-->'''Announcer:''' You know who else said they looked good in hats? '''Attila the hun'''.
* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: Unusually for a KidCom these days, averted. Episodes are named for the (usually)musical guest.
* ImprobablyPredictable: In a school news sketch, one of the anchors keeps handing the other letters responding to his response to the previous letter. At one point, the other anchor asks "when did you find the time to write all these letters and how did you know what I was going to say?", which is replied to with a letter saying "[[LampshadeHanging Because you're very predictable]]".
* IronicEcho: In the "MC Grammar" sketch.
-->'''Rapper:''' You say we rhymin' bad?\\
'''MC Grammar:''' No, you're rhyming badly.\\
''(Later))''\\
'''Rapper #1:''' You wanna beat him bad?\\
'''Rapper #2:''' Let's beat him bad''ly''.
* LighterAndSofter: The show is essentially a kid-friendly SaturdayNightLive
* MadLibsCatchphrase: "Don't mean to brag, but ''Insert Failure Here''. Hollah!"
** The Simple Country Boy has "Aint nothin' but a (Insert complicated metaphor here)" when someone thanks him for something.
* NewTransferStudent: In one sketch, Oscar becomes the FunnyForeigner Olaf, who came from Glendovia.
* ParentalBonus: A few, with shout-outs to ''TheKingsSpeech'' (a R-rated film with a famous ClusterFBomb scene) and "TheMostInterestingManInTheWorld" (an ad for ''beer'').
* {{Parody}}/{{Homage}}: [[MCHammer MC Grammar]].
* ReTool: How do you carry on without your main character? Why focus on the ShowWithinAShow of course.
* {{Sentai}}: Parodied with one sketch that was a TakeThat to {{Nickelodeon}}'s ''SupahNinjas''.
* ShoutOut: The Halloween episode has do's and don'ts done by a particular person [[HarryPotter who shall not be named]]...
* SketchComedy
* SpinOff: In fact, the show (and its promos) removed all mentioning of the [[SonnyWithAChance original show]] and counts it as a "New season of ''So Random''".
* SpiritualSuccessor: To Nickelodeon's ''AllThat''.
* StalkerWithACrush: "I'm Gonna Marry Zac Feldman Show!" revolves around one. The [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin name of the sketch]] is a dead ringer for it.
* TakeThat: One sketch has {{Fred}}, TaylorSwift and Willow Smith participate in a game show, but no one can actually play because Taylor keeps singing all her answers (in a [[TheJimmyHartVersion Jimmy Hart Version]] of the pre-chorus of "''You Belong With Me''"), Willow keeps flipping her weave and saying repeating everything she says at least twice, and Fred is too busy being... Well, ''Fred''.
** The show itself seems like a parody of SNL Celebrity Jeopardy.
** Another sketch has HarryPotter struggling to understand "the real world". Even though he spent 11 years there and then some.
* TantrumThrowing: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Tantrum Girl, of course]].
* YouWouldntBelieveMeIfIToldYou: There is a character who [[MemeticMutation mutated this phrase]] into his {{Catchphrase}}, "Oh, you're not going to believe this!"
** Everything he says is true. [[BeyondTheImpossible No matter how ridiculous it is]]. Which makes him a GenderFlip {{Expy}} of ''SaturdayNightLive'''s Penelope.
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