History Series / Veep

-->'''Lee:''' They though I was a mouse. Well, this mouse will roar.

** Senator Doyle backs Selina's Clean Jobs program, only two have two oil lobbyists put on the committee. He takes on the thankless role of Vice President, which she uses to vindictively snub him just as she was snubbed. Despite this, Kent polls other candidates for Veep, breaking Selina's promise that Doyle would stay on the ticket. Though Selina had every desire to kick him to the curb during the next election, she ultimately forced him to feign prostate cancer and resign by blackmailing him with sexual assault allegations coming from his office. [[spoiler: Doyle finally gets his revenge by [[TheChessmaster orchestrating an electoral tie in the Senate, allowing him to select the other party's Vice Presidential candidate to serve as President in exchange for Secretary of State]].]]

* CompletelyMissingThePoint: When [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness Gary]] snaps at Selina's staff and Tom James for [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech being so incompetent]] that [[spoiler:Selina and their party lost the presidential election]], they're all quieted by the outburst. Afterwards, whereas one may have a HeelRealization from this, [[AesopAmnesia unsurprisingly]], they all comment that "that just made this entire last year {{worth it}}." Mike even had the audacity to record Gary's rant on his phone.

* ICallHimMrHappy: From "Data," while Ben and Dan are each at their own urinal.
-->'''Ben:''' You don't tell anyone until she's made an announcement. You got it?\\

* HeightInsult: Jonah is constantly mocked for his height.

* FatBastard: This is how the Meyer camp views Senator O'Brien, Selina's opponent in the general election in Season 4. [[NotSoDifferent He's no more of a jerkass then Selina, which isn't saying much]].

* NotSoDifferent: After she becomes President and Senator Doyle becomes her vice-president, Selina ignores him as thoroughly as President Hughes ignored her.

Other members of the cast include Creator/AnnaChlumsky (Chief of Staff Amy Brookheimer), Creator/TonyHale (Gary Walsh, personal assistant to the VP), Creator/ReidScott (Dan Egan, Deputy Director of Communications), Matt Walsh (Mike [=McLintock=], Director of Communications), Sufe Bradshaw (Sue Wilson, executive assistant to the Vice President), Timothy Simons (Jonah Ryan, White House Liaison to the VP), Creator/KevinDunn (Ben Cafferty, White House Chief of Staff), Creator/GaryCole (Kent Davison, White House senior strategist and polling adviser), and Sarah Sutherland (Catherine Meyer, Selina's daughter).

* BlackComedy: '''All the time'''. The series is packed with cynicism and shear volatility (present in the entire cast), just like ''The Thick of It''.

* {{Jerkass}}: Nearly the entire main cast, with the exception of Gary (and even then he has his moments if left alone), Richard, Catherine, and Marjorie.

[[caption-width-right:350:''"The level of incompetence in this office is staggering!"'']]

Other members of the cast include Creator/AnnaChlumsky (Chief of Staff Amy Brookheimer), Creator/TonyHale (Gary Walsh, personal assistant to the VP), Creator/ReidScott (Dan Egan, Deputy Director of Communications), Matt Walsh (Mike [=McLintock=], Director of Communications), Sufe Bradshaw (Sue Wilson, executive assistant to the Vice President), Timothy Simons (Jonah Ryan, White House Liaison to the VP), Creator/KevinDunn (Ben Cafferty, White House Chief of Staff), Creator/GaryCole (Kent Davison, White House senior strategist and polling adviser), and Creator/SarahSutherland (Catherine Meyer, Selina's daughter).

* OutWithABang: Selina's father died while having sex with his secretary. [[RealityEnsues Apparently, the secretary was so traumatized that she had to be institutionalized]].

The show ran for seven seasons from 2012 to 2019. Compare and contrast with the American version of ''Series/{{House of Cards|US}}'', which also is a dark dramedy (though the latter is more dramatic than comedic and borrows heavily from Shakespearean plays about power and corruption, like ''Macbeth'' and ''Richard III'') about modern politics and the people who do anything and everything to get power, even if it ends badly for them and also had rocky final seasons due to TroubledProduction issues: Julia Louis-Dreyfus had to go through chemo for her breast cancer while Kevin Spacey was kicked off his own show due to his long history of sexual abuse and predatory behavior (leading to the final season of ''House of Cards'' to focus on Frank Underwood's wife, who was elected president and tries to do her job, despite her husband's reputation).

* OneWordTitle: The series title and more than half of the episode titles (28 out of 48).

** Creator/GaryCole previously played as a veep himself in ''Series/TheWestWing''.
*** His character was the subject of a [[ThrowingOutTheScript teleprompter fail and speech improv]] at his oath of office, whereas here he's involved in the teleprompter failing.
%%** Maybe. Kent finds the trope of {{Alternate Timeline}}s to be a lazy way to create a sci-fi work. Creator/GaryCole previously played in ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooMysteryIncorporated'', [[spoiler:which ended with the original universe getting {{Cosmic Retcon}}ned out of existence in favor of an alternate timeline where the BigBad didn't exist.]]

Other members of the cast include Creator/AnnaChlumsky (Chief of Staff Amy Brookheimer), Creator/TonyHale (Gary Walsh, personal assistant to the VP), Creator/ReidScott (Dan Egan, Deputy Director of Communications), Matt Walsh (Mike [=McLintock=], Director of Communications), Sufe Bradshaw (Sue Wilson, executive assistant to the Vice President), Timothy Simons (Jonah Ryan, White House Liaison to the VP), Kevin Dunn (Ben Cafferty, White House Chief of Staff), Creator/GaryCole (Kent Davison, White House senior strategist and polling adviser), and Sarah Sutherland (Catherine Meyer, Selina's daughter).

Other members of the cast include Creator/AnnaChlumsky (Chief of Staff Amy Brookheimer), Creator/TonyHale (Gary Walsh, personal assistant to the VP), Reid Scott (Dan Egan, Deputy Director of Communications), Matt Walsh (Mike [=McLintock=], Director of Communications), Sufe Bradshaw (Sue Wilson, executive assistant to the Vice President), Timothy Simons (Jonah Ryan, White House Liaison to the VP), Kevin Dunn (Ben Cafferty, White House Chief of Staff), Creator/GaryCole (Kent Davison, White House senior strategist and polling adviser), and Sarah Sutherland (Catherine Meyer, Selina's daughter).

* TheAce: Senator Tom James in season 4. He is well spoken, caring, sociable amongst voters and has a disabled son who served in the military, hence why [[spoiler: Selina picks him as VP for her 2012 ticket]]. However, he does have certain controversial personal views he keeps out of the public eye [[spoiler: such as wanting to legalize ''all'' drugs, and not fully blaming victims of PTSD when they kill others]].

** In season 8, Jonah constantly refers to his wife as his "half-sister," causing his handlers to correct him that she's his "''step''-sister." When it turns out that she really is his half-sister, he starts calling her his "step-sister," causing his handlers to correct him in the reverse. This all culminates during a party meeting when officials argue about who will run for vice-president, and Jonah interjects, "''step''-president!"

** In Season 8, all of Jonah's campaign rallies include someone from the audience shouting, "Kill her!" He always responds by agreeing. In the final episode, he's talking about his "hot wife" when the call to "kill her" comes. He automatically agrees, then partially backtracks, "Well, not my wife... but yeah!"

** In Season 8, he bows out of the primary race, claiming that he'll support Selina, but he doesn't. He lets the candidates tear each other to shreds so that he can return to the race later and look like a white knight.

The show ran for seven seasons from 2012 to 2019. Compare and contrast with the American version of ''[[Series/HouseOfCardsUS House of Cards]]'', which also is a dark dramedy (though the latter is more dramatic than comedic and borrows heavily from Shakespearean plays about power and corruption, like ''Macbeth'' and ''Richard III'') about modern politics and the people who do anything and everything to get power, even if it ends badly for them and also had rocky final seasons due to TroubledProduction issues: Julia Louis-Dreyfus had to go through chemo for her breast cancer while Kevin Spacey was kicked off his own show due to his long history of sexual abuse and predatory behavior (leading to the final season of ''House of Cards'' to focus on Frank Underwood's wife, who was elected president and tries to do her job, despite her husband's reputation).

The show ran for seven seasons from 2012 to 2019. Compare and contrast with the American version of ''[[Series/HouseOfCardsUS House of Cards]]'', which also is a dark dramedy (though the latter is more dramatic than comedic and borrows heavily from Shakespearean plays about power and corruption, like ''[=MacBeth=]'' and ''Richard III'') about modern politics and the people who do anything and everything to get power, even if it ends badly for them and also had rocky final seasons due to TroubledProduction issues: Julia Louis-Dreyfus had to go through chemo for her breast cancer while Kevin Spacey was kicked off his own show due to his long history of sexual abuse and predatory behavior (leading to the final season of ''House of Cards'' to focus on Frank Underwood's wife, who was elected president and tries to do her job, despite her husband's reputation).

The show ran for seven seasons from 2012 to 2019. Compare and contrast with the American version of ''[[Series/HouseOfCardsUS House of Cards]]'', which also is a dark dramedy (though the latter is more dramatic than comedic and borrows heavily from Shakespearean plays about power and corruption, like ''[=MacBeth=]'' and ''Richard III'') about modern politics and the people who do anything and everything to get power, even if it ends badly for them.

* SoCalization: In "Oslo," Selina wants her daughter to get married in Europe in order to avoid U.S. community property laws. Divorce is governed by the state of residency, not the jurisdiction where the ceremony is performed. Catherine and Marjorie appear to be New York residents. Unlike California, New York is not a community property state. So this also counts as HollywoodLaw.

** Selina too was always a semi-competent ManipulativeBitch with delusions of grandeur...but she at least had some morals, principles, and she could actually be a competent and confident schemer who was intelligent and savvy too. Around Season 6 and Season 7, she openly disdains every single person around her, has no moral compass at all, and openly only cares about what she can use to prop up her reputation.

* BlackmailIsAnUglyWord: The Georgian war criminal president Murman wants to fund Selina's presidential campaign. Selina parrots that she will never stand for "foreign interference in Elections", at which point Murman nods and says he wants to "buy" Selina's house for $114 Million and would prefer to "avoid real estate agents".

Other members of the cast include Anna Chlumsky (Chief of Staff Amy Brookheimer), Creator/TonyHale (Gary Walsh, personal assistant to the VP), Reid Scott (Dan Egan, Deputy Director of Communications), Matt Walsh (Mike [=McLintock=], Director of Communications), Sufe Bradshaw (Sue Wilson, executive assistant to the Vice President), Timothy Simons (Jonah Ryan, White House Liaison to the VP), Kevin Dunn (Ben Cafferty, White House Chief of Staff), Creator/GaryCole (Kent Davison, White House senior strategist and polling adviser), and Sarah Sutherland (Catherine Meyer, Selina's daughter).

* SuddenlySexuality: In fifth-season episode "C**tgate", Catherine comes out as a lesbian. In Season 2 she had a boyfriend, an Iranian student named Rahim, and in Season 4 she was engaged to be married to a lobbyist named Jason.