History Series / TheSpoilsOfBabylon

* InMediasRes

* ActorAllusion: One of the shticks of the series is that the actors are playing actors, who in turn are playing the characters in the InUniverse epic 70's miniseries. One example is Jellybean Howie as Gumdrop Howard as Marianne More house.

* GreenAesop: Horribly mishandled by Eric Jonrosh InUniverse
* HeyItsThatGuy: Haley Joel Osment as Winston
* IncestIsRelative: Cynthia and Devon are adopted siblings and lovers

* {{Jerkass}}: Eric Jonrosh is a pretentious alcoholic weirdo prone to attempting sexual harassment

* TheSixties: Parodied in the part of the story in which Devon Morehouse becomes a Bob Dylan lookalike Beat poet addicted to heroin
* SmallNameBigEgo: Eric Jonrosh in-universe
* SoUnfunnyItsFunny: Some rather strange and comical lines are delivered entirely straight, including bizarre forays into Shakespearean monologues in some scenes

* StylisticSuck: Pretty much the series's ''raison d'etre''. It's full of BadBadActing, deliberate examples of SpecialEffectsFailure and an entire part played by a mannequin voiced by Carey Mulligan.
* VanityProject: An in-universe example, "The Spoils of Babylon" was [[CopiouslyCreditedCreator produced, written, and directed by Eric Jonrush]] who wrote the novel it was based on and plays the Shah of Iran in an episode.

* StrawPolitical: Jonas Morehouse's business associates are a strawman stereotype of Herbert Hoover-era business conservatives. The writers of the show clearly had fun by having them complain about FDR using phrases that are word-for-word from frequent criticisms of the Obama administration.

* ActorAllusion: One of the shticks of the series is that the actors are playing actors, who in turn are playing the characters in the InUniverse epic 70's miniseries. One example is Jellybean Howie as Gumdrop Howard as Marianne Morehouse.

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* TheSixties: Parodied in the part of the story in which Devon Morehouse becomes a Beat poet addicted to heroin

''The Spoils of Babylon'' is an IFC miniseries that parodies classic television soaps such as ''{{Series/Dallas}}'', and miniseries such as ''TheThornBirds''. The plot concerns the birth of a large corporation, Morehouse Conglomerated, and the drama over the Morehouse family who runs it. Rivalries, vendettas, and forbidden semi-incestuous love affairs abound. The story is framed by the twisted narrative of Eric Jonrosh, an old burnt-out author/actor who wrote the fictional ''Spoils of Babylon'' novel in-universe.

''TheSpoilsOfBabylon'' is an IFC miniseries that parodies classic television soaps such as ''{{Series/Dallas}}'', and miniseries such as ''TheThornBirds''. The plot concerns the birth of a large corporation, Morehouse Conglomerated, and the drama over the Morehouse family who runs it. Rivalries, vendettas, and forbidden semi-incestuous love affairs abound. The story is framed by the twisted narrative of Eric Jonrosh, an old burnt-out author/actor who wrote the fictional ''Spoils of Babylon'' novel in-universe.

* WorldOfHam

* {{Jerkass}}: Eric Jonrosh is an alcoholic weirdo prone to attempting sexual harassment

* LiteraryAgentHypothesis: The series is presented as if it's an actual 70's miniseries based on a novel that is only being shown for the first time, with author-director Eric Jonrosh introducing and outroducing each episode. Thus, we get chains of actors playing characters playing characters.

* StylisticSuck: Pretty much the series's ''raison d'etre''. It's full of BadBadActing, deliberate examples of SpecialEffectsFailure and an entire part played by a mannequin voiced by Carey Mulligan.

* FakeNationality: Will Ferrell as Eric Jonrosh as the Shah of Iran
* GreenAesop: Horribly mishandled by Eric Jonrosh in-universe

* StylisticSuck: Pretty much the series's ''raison d'etre''. It's full of BadBadActing, deliberate SpecialEffectsFailures and an entire part played by a mannequin voiced by Carey Mulligan.

TheSpoilsOfBabylon is an IFC miniseries that parodies classic television soaps such as ''Dallas'' and TheThornBirds. The plot concerns the birth of a large corporation, Morehouse Conglomerated, and the drama over the Morehouse family who runs it. Rivalries, vendettas, and forbidden semi-incestuous love affairs abound. The story is framed by the twisted narrative of Eric Jonrosh, an old burnt-out author/actor who wrote the fictional ''Spoils of Babylon'' novel in-universe.

* HeyItsThatGuy: Haley Joel Osment as Winston

* TheSixties: parodied in the part of the story in which Devon Morehouse becomes a Beat poet addicted to heroin

* SoUnfunnyItsFunny: some rather strange and comical lines are delivered entirely straight, including bizarre forays into Shakespearean monologues in some scenes