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Widget Series has been renamed to Quirky Work as per TRS (it's also YMMV).


* WidgetSeries: The show is absurdist, surrealistic and deconstructionist. A lot of the humor is derived from parodying comedy tropes and niche aspects of American culture that you'd have to be familiar with to get the joke.
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* LookBehindYou: A novelist with writer's block manages to distract the guys and steal their manuscript by shouting "Oh my gosh! A baby deer!", despite the fact that they weren't even outdoors. Long after she's gone, they're still discussing whether or not there really was a deer.

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* {{Cloudcuckooland}}: No other characters manage to out-crazy Michael, Michael and David, but they all seem to share the same fragile grip on reality, and even the ones who seem relatively normal never notice or remark on just how weird the guys really are.



** {{Cloudcuckooland}}: No other characters manage to out-crazy Michael, Michael and David, but they all seem to share the same fragile grip on reality, and even the ones who seem relatively normal never notice or remark on just how weird the guys really are.
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Watching ''Stella'' is a jarring experience. Featuring three guys from ''TheState'', one of whom teaches romantic comedy screenwriting at NYU, one who is a permanent fixture on VH-1's ''ILoveTheExties''' series, and another who plays The Warden on ''WesternAnimation/{{Superjail}}'', you can only watch it expecting a very specific, very strange sense of comedy. Stella is about as close as American television gets to absurdist {{Britcom}}s like ''Series/FatherTed'', ''Series/BlackBooks'' and ''Series/{{Spaced}}'', while still maintaining its own sense of pseudo-Borscht Belt Vaudevillain shtick that only Americans can appreciate fully. The comedy of Michael Showalter, Michael Ian Black and David Wain is definitely not for everybody, and if it's for anybody at all, they're not really enough to keep a television show [[ShortRunners running for very long.]]

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Watching ''Stella'' is a jarring experience. Featuring three guys from ''TheState'', ''Series/TheState'', one of whom teaches romantic comedy screenwriting at NYU, one who is a permanent fixture on VH-1's ''ILoveTheExties''' series, and another who plays The Warden on ''WesternAnimation/{{Superjail}}'', you can only watch it expecting a very specific, very strange sense of comedy. Stella is about as close as American television gets to absurdist {{Britcom}}s like ''Series/FatherTed'', ''Series/BlackBooks'' and ''Series/{{Spaced}}'', while still maintaining its own sense of pseudo-Borscht Belt Vaudevillain shtick that only Americans can appreciate fully. The comedy of Michael Showalter, Michael Ian Black and David Wain is definitely not for everybody, and if it's for anybody at all, they're not really enough to keep a television show [[ShortRunners running for very long.]]



This show is ''about'' deconstructing tropes, so this list is far from conclusive. Just about any trope that applies to sitcoms, romantic comedies or '80s teen flicks is used in ''Stella'' to some degree. In this regard it is similar to the 2001 comedy ''Film/WetHotAmericanSummer'', which the trio and many of their fellow ''TheState'' alumni are also responsible for.

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This show is ''about'' deconstructing tropes, so this list is far from conclusive. Just about any trope that applies to sitcoms, romantic comedies or '80s teen flicks is used in ''Stella'' to some degree. In this regard it is similar to the 2001 comedy ''Film/WetHotAmericanSummer'', which the trio and many of their fellow ''TheState'' ''Series/TheState'' alumni are also responsible for.
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* {{Dissimile}}: "I like my coffee they way I like my women; strong, black, and proud."

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* {{Dissimile}}: "I like my coffee they the same way I like my women; strong, women: Strong, black, and proud."

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* DistaffCounterpart: Jennifer, Stacy and Amy, the girls that live on the lower floor. They're slightly more functional compared Michael, Michael and David, but they have a similar dynamic between them and can be just as immature.

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* {{Dissimile}}: "I like my coffee they way I like my women; strong, black, and proud."
* DistaffCounterpart: Jennifer, Stacy and Amy, the girls that live on the lower floor. They're slightly more functional compared to Michael, Michael and David, but they have a similar dynamic between them and can be just as immature.

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