History Series / WelcomeToChippendales

* CharityWorkplaceCalendar: The series will depict the inception and making of Chippendales' famous calendars. One of the scenes in the full trailer shows Otis posing for the calendar, wearing nothing but a red speedo and a rose in his mouth.

* ClosetGay: Nick shows up to Destiny II with two women on his arm, and he brags about his soon-to-be-ended marriage to actress Jennifer O'Neal, but he's revealed to be a closeted homosexual.

** Denise has one of her own in "Velveeta", after sleeping with Lance.

* MeetCute: Steve chats up an uncomfortable Irene at Chippendale's bar where she's ordering a coke and not watching the show. He introduces himself as the owner, and she sheepishly admits its not her kind of place. He smiles and admits it is not his kind of place either, and they bond over coca-cola, which is on the house.

* MrFanservice: The dancers, obviously; most notably, Otis and Lance.

* StealingTheCredit: Steve finds himself incensed when Nick is introduced on a TV interview as the brains behind Chippendales. This ends up being the catalyst to their feud, culminating in Steve hiring Ray Colon to murder Nick.

* TokenMinority: Conversed through the character of Otis, the only black Chippendales dancer in a sea of white men. Although he initially rises into the role of most popular dancer at the original Los Angeles club, he's isolated from the others from the start, isn't completely comfortable with the harassment he gets from the women at the club, and even Steve had certain reservations about hiring him due to his skin color. Otis will eventually question this role, and this will result in a rift between him and Steve, leading to Otis' departure.

* MeetCute: Steve chats up an uncomfortable Irene at Chippendale's bar where she's ordering a coke and not watching the show. He introduces himself as the owner, and she sheepishly admits its not her kind of place. He smiles and admits it is not his kind of place either, and they bond over coca-cola, which is on the house.

* AdaptedOut: Bruce Nahin, Steve's real-life business partner, is nowhere to be found here.

* ChippendalesDancers: The trailer shows the founding of the original troupe.

* RomanAClef: Downplayed. The characters of Lance [=McCrae=] seems to be fictionalized portrayals of real-life Chippendales dancer Michael Rapp, who starred in an ambitious Frankenstein-inspired routine just as Lance does in the show.

** Irene and Denise are both mostly based on real people (see RomanAClef specifically for Denise), but Irene's entire backstory is fabricated due to a lack of information, and Denise's real-life equivalent wasn't a costume designer nor did she come up with the breakaway pants.

* RomanAClef: Downplayed. Most of the real people featured in the show are clearly themselves, but the characters of Denise and Lance [=McCrae=] seem to be fictionalized portrayals of real-life Chippendales executive producer Candace Mayeron, who worked alongside Nick De Noia in New York, and dancer Michael Rapp, respectively.

** The show portrays Steve as the one who came up with the idea for a male strip club and Paul as the one who named it Chippendales. In real life, it was the other way around.

* AllWomenAreLustful: Downplayed in the narrative itself, but actively invoked by the concept of Chippendales as a business. Dorothy has to spell it out to Paul to convince him to go along with it, and later, Irene suggests to have men allowed in the club past 10PM in order to appease the horny women once the strip show is done.

* EurekaMoment: Steve gets the inspiration to create a strip club for women, from watching a male stripper perform for the crowd at a gay nightclub, and specifically Dorothy's euphoric reaction to it.

* SirNotAppearingInThisTrailer: Although he's set to appear in four of the show's eight episodes, Lance barely has any screentime in the trailers, only appearing in a blink-and-you'll-miss-it capacity. Fellow dancer Otis, who is the most fleshed out from the troupe and appears as early as the second episode, at least gets some more scenes and a line of dialogue, and got his own individual poster.

* RomanAClef: Downplayed. Most of the real people featured in the show are clearly themselves, but the characters of Denise and Lance [=McCrae=] seem to be fictionalized portrayals of real-life Chippendales executive producer Candace Mayeron and dancer Michael Rapp, respectively.

* GayBarReveal: Steve is initially unsettled when Dorothy and Paul take him to a gay nightclub to unwind after a less than favorable day at Destiny II. It turns out to be there that Steve gets the inspiration to create a strip club for women, from watching a male stripper perform for the crowd, and specifically Dorothy's euphoric reaction to it.

* TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth: Dorothy is portrayed as fawned over by many men, is responsible for most of the ideas that lead Chippendales to success, and is offered a starring role in Peter Bogdanovich's movie. Unfortunately, she doesn't last long in the narrative.

* SirNotAppearingInThisTrailer: Although he's set to appear in four of the show's eight episodes, Lance barely has any screentime in the trailers, only appearing in a blink-and-you'll-miss-it capacity. Fellow dancer Otis, who is the most fleshed out from the troupe, at least gets some more scenes and a line of dialogue.

* MoralGuardians: At one point in "Four Geniuses", a group of women come to Chippendales to protest the club's “sinfulness”. Steve takes advantage of news, calling up a news crew to report on it, with the intention of further spreading the word about the club.

* TooCoolToLive: Dorothy is portrayed as fawned over by many men, is responsible for most of the ideas that lead Chippendales to success, and is offered a starring role in Peter Bogdanovich's movie. Unfortunately, she doesn't last long in the narrative.

* ClingyJealousGuy: Paul, who's bothered by Dorothy supporting Steve's idea of a strip club for women, and throws a tantrum when Peter Bodganovich offers her a movie role, thinking he just wants to sleep with her and take her away from him. It's what ultimately leads to both Paul being dismissed from Chippendales as well as his and Dorothy's demise.

* TokenMinority: Conversed through the character of Otis, the only black Chippendales dancer in a sea of white men. Although he initially rises into the role of most popular dancer at the original Los Angeles club, he's isolated from the others from the start, isn't completely comfortable with the harassment he gets from the women at the club, and even Steve had certain reservations about hiring him due to his skin color. Him questioning this role will result in a rift between him and Steve, leading to Otis' departure.

* DeadStarWalking: Paul Snider and Dorothy Stratten are key players in the development of the Chippendales troupe, and their actors are featured prominently in promotional materials... But they're billed as guest stars, due to Paul's eventual murder of Dorothy and suicide early into the troupe's tenure.

* MoralGuardians: At one point in the trailer, a group of women are seen protesting Chippendales’ “sinfulness”.

* SirNotAppearingInThisTrailer: Although he's set to appear in four of the show's eight episodes, Lance barely has any screentime in the trailers, only appearing in a blink-and-you'll-miss-it capacity. Fellow dancer Otis at least gets some more scenes and a line of dialogue.

* TokenMinority: Conversed through the character of Otis, the only black Chippendales dancer in a sea of white men. Him questioning this role will result in a rift between him and Steve, leading to Otis' departure.

* SirNotAppearingInThisTrailer: Although he's set to appear in four of the show's eight episodes, Lance barely has any screentime in the trailers. Fellow dancer Otis at least gets some more scenes and a line of dialogue.