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* {{Expy}}: The CharacterSheet shows that most of the characters are an Expy of a character from Franchise/JamesBond in some way (which have long since become {{Stock Character}}s in the spy genre). The NebulousEvilOrganization "CHIMERA" we learn about in TheReveal is one for similar evil conspiracies named after fantasy monsters like [[Film/{{Spectre}} SPECTRE]] or ComicBook/HYDRA.
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* GovernmentAgencyOfFiction: The KGB is called by its real name, but the names of the CIA and [=MI6=] are never mentioned; Curt and Owen's respective agencies are only described by the generic name of the American and British "secret service".
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** When Tatiana begins to sing "Prisoner of My Past" she says "Let's start at the very beginning," to which Curt replies, "[[Film/TheSoundOfMusic A very good place to start!"]]
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* SpiritualSuccessor: This show is often counted by Creator/TeamStarkid fans as an "honorary Starkid musical", seeing it as having the same relationship to the Franchise/JamesBond franchise that ''Theatre/{{Starship}}'' does to the works of Creator/JamesCameron.
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* FlashbackCut: Hilariously, this show pulls this off in ''live theatre'', with the top of Act 2 (where Curt shows up at the gala) explaining to Cynthia HowWeGotHere step-by-step, rapidly "cutting" back and forth between the gala and Curt recovering from his gunshot injury in an elevator with Barb several hours earlier. This is accomplished by blacking out the stage for a few seconds with each "cut" and everyone frantically clearing the stage and coming back, with Curt frantically taking off his tuxedo jacket and putting it back on.
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* AudienceParticipation: Baron von Nazi encourages the public to start chanting "Nazis are not so bad!" along with him, only to fall silent and let Curt Mega [[YouBastard angrily shame]] everyone who took him up on it.
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* SequelHook: The show ends with a promise that "Agent Curt Mega will return in... Spies Are Forever 2: [[Film/LiveAndLetDie Live and Let Spy]]". (As of 2020, there's still no news about a sequel.)
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* ShoutOut: The opening song "Spies Are Forever" includes the line "[[Film/DieAnotherDay Die another day]]", and the ending SequelHook says the sequel will be subtitled ''[[Film/LiveAndLetDie Live and Let Spy]]''.
** The [=YouTube=] recording titles Chapter 4 of Act 2 "[[Theatre/{{Hamilton}} The Room Where Reich Happens]]".
** The [=YouTube=] recording titles Chapter 4 of Act 2 "[[Theatre/{{Hamilton}} The Room Where Reich Happens]]".
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* EndOfAnAge: The ending reveals the theme of the show is the passing away of the glamorous era of TuxedoAndMartini espionage as the world grows more high-tech and automated.
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** It's also hard not to see the character of Dr. Baron von Nazi as a TakeThat at the rise of the alt-right as a component of UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump's electoral base in 2016, with "Nazis Are Not So Bad" [[MemeticMutation going viral]] as a mockery of their attempt to softpedal white supremacist ideology.
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* FoeYay: [[spoiler: Played with with Owen/Curt in the end.]]
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* ArchaicWeaponForAnAdvancedAge: "One Step Ahead" takes this UpToEleven as a joke, with [[spoiler: Owen]] and Curt somehow ending up in the "International Weapons Museum" where they steadily progress through the history of warfare, first dueling with [[SimpleStaff quarterstaves]], then [[HeroesPreferSwords longswords]], then [[TheMusketeer muskets]], before finally coming full-circle back to their original semiautomatic pistols.
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* ArtisticLicenseGeography: The New Democratic Republic of Old Socialist Prussian Sloviskia is obviously fictional, but [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prussia Prussia]] is, of course, a real place that's part of Germany, which makes it a little confusing that Dr. Baron von Nazi's German government-in-exile wants to conquer it on Germany's behalf. Presumably this is an AlternateHistory where Germany broke into a few more pieces than the two halves it was left in after World War II in our timeline.
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* HistoricalInJoke: Cynthia's NewhartPhoneCall with UsefulNotes/RichardNixon about his loss in the 1960 election, blaming it on not being prepared for a TV debate and "looking like a crook".
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* OverlyLongName: The New Democratic Republic of Old Socialist Prussian Sloviskia. We get a joke about how the TitleCard can't even fit the whole name on the screen and has to unexpectedly shrink the font of the last two words, followed by the Informant passing away in the middle of his LastWords because he couldn't finish saying the name of the country.
* PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny: The New Democratic Republic of Old Socialist Prussian Slovikia is obviously a joke about this. The "new" and the "old" are already obviously oxymoronic, before we get to how it's called a "republic" (a "socialist" one, even) but is officially ruled by a monarch with a prime minister.
* PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny: The New Democratic Republic of Old Socialist Prussian Slovikia is obviously a joke about this. The "new" and the "old" are already obviously oxymoronic, before we get to how it's called a "republic" (a "socialist" one, even) but is officially ruled by a monarch with a prime minister.
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* RippedFromTheHeadlines: The Nazis' anachronistic global electronic surveillance system is a pretty unsubtle TakeThat to the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_%28surveillance_program%29 PRISM program]] leaked to the public in 2013. [[spoiler: Owen's]] snarky comment about his planned dystopian future where "Everyone's a spy" may be a more general TakeThat about the erosion of privacy in the age of TheInternet and [[SocialMediaIsBad social media]].
* ScareChord: One plays with every appearance and mention of the Deadliest Man Alive. [[spoiler: After TheReveal, it continues to play whenever someone references Owen's evil plan for the global surveillance network.]]
* ScareChord: One plays with every appearance and mention of the Deadliest Man Alive. [[spoiler: After TheReveal, it continues to play whenever someone references Owen's evil plan for the global surveillance network.]]
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* SinisterSurveillance: [[spoiler: the advanced Nazi surveillance network]].
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* SinisterSurveillance: [[spoiler: the The advanced Nazi surveillance network]].network, which Owen says is just the beginning of a total surveillance network that will allow him to spy on everything and everyone in the world without limits.]]
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* WholePlotReference: [[spoiler: Owen's role in the story is lifted directly from Alec Trevelyan's relationship with James Bond in ''Film/{{Goldeneye}}''.]]
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* WholePlotReference: The initial ExcusePlot of the stolen nuclear warhead that can be used to hold any city in the world to ransom is obviously a very common plot, but in the Franchise/JamesBond film canon is most similar to ''Film/{{Thunderball}}''. Curt Mega's encounter with Tatiana and his relationship with her is drawn from ''Film/TheSpyWhoLovedMe'', and Tatiana's double-cross and confession of being ForcedIntoEvil is from ''Film/CasinoRoyale''. [[spoiler: Finally, the main plot of Owen's role in as the story true BigBad is lifted directly from Alec Trevelyan's relationship with James Bond in ''Film/{{Goldeneye}}''.]]
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* AlternateHistory: Asides from the existence of the New Democratic Republic of Old Socialist Prussian Sloviskia (which never existed in our timeline), Richard Nixon appears to be John F. Kennedy's vice-president.
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* AlternateHistory: Asides from ArtisticLicenseHistory: A few obvious major examples, like the existence of the fictitious [[{{Ruritania}} New Democratic Republic of Old Socialist Prussian Sloviskia (which never existed Sloviskia]], a female director of the [[GovernmentAgencyOfFiction fictional version of the CIA]] 57 years before the first RealLife [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gina_Haspel female CIA director in our timeline), Richard Nixon appears 2018]], Adolf Hitler having a surviving nephew in Germany trying to be John F. Kennedy's vice-president.carry on his legacy named "Dr. Baron von Nazi", etc. There's also wacky [[AnachronismStew anachronisms]] like Cynthia using an ASCII emoticon (the smiley ":)") long before their invention in 1982, Baron von Nazi having a rap break in "Nazis Are Not So Bad", etc.
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* AwesomeMcCoolName: Agent Curt MegaMega. Even better, it's the actor's name in RealLife.
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* CrosscastRoleCrossCastRole: Lauren and Tessa play the Deadliest Man Alive's male henchmen in his first scene, along with a few other minor examples. The Informant's appearance DisguisedInDrag is a BaitAndSwitch.
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* DanceBattler: Curt and Owen in the first scene, but fair enough this is a musical.
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* DanceBattler: Curt and Owen in the first scene, but fair enough this is a musical.scene [[spoiler: and in the penultimate one]].
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* WholePlotReference: [[spoiler: Owen's role in the story is lifted directly from Alec Trevelyan's relationship with James Bond in ''Film/{{Goldeneye}}.]]
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* WholePlotReference: [[spoiler: Owen's role in the story is lifted directly from Alec Trevelyan's relationship with James Bond in ''Film/{{Goldeneye}}.''Film/{{Goldeneye}}''.]]
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* BadassGay: [[spoiler: Both Owen and Curt.]]
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* AlternateHistory: Asides from the existence of the New Democratic Republic of Old Socialist Prussian Sloviskia (which never existed in our timeline), Richard Nixon appears to be John F. Kennedy's vice-president.
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Spies are Forever is a full-length Musical Comedy created by the Tin Can Brothers (Creator/CoreyLubowich, Creator/JoeyRichter, and Creator/BrianRosenthal)), set during the UsefulNotes/ColdWar period.
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Spies are Forever is a full-length Musical Comedy created by the Tin Can Brothers (Creator/CoreyLubowich, Creator/JoeyRichter, and Creator/BrianRosenthal)), Creator/BrianRosenthal), set during the UsefulNotes/ColdWar period.
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* DrinkOrder: Parodied
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* HeyYouHaymaker: "Oh, and Curt?" Curt?"
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* HotLine: Cynthia has a phone that she uses to contact everyone from Secret Agents in the field to the [[UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy President of the United States]]
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* HotLine: Cynthia has a phone that she uses to contact everyone from Secret Agents in the field to the [[UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy President of the United States]]States]].
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* NotSoStoic: Tatiana's tearful gratitude after [[spoiler: Curt destroys the compound, erasing her history and leaving her free to be with her family]]
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* NotSoStoic: Tatiana's tearful gratitude after [[spoiler: Curt destroys the compound, erasing her history and leaving her free to be with her family]]family]].
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* OdeToIntoxication: 'One More Shot' doubles as this as well as a FriendshipSong and MisfitMobilizationMoment
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* PlatonicLifePartners: Curt and
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* DancesAndBalls: The World Peace GalaGala.
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* {{Expy}}: Chimera is basically Hydra
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* FemmeFataleSpy: Tatiana Tatiana, especially in the Casino SceneScene.
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* IncrediblyConspicuousDrag: "You have a mustache!""
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* IncrediblyLongNote: The last 'goodbye' in 'One StepAhead'.Ahead', as well as Barb's "meeee" in 'Pay Attention!'
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* BeardofSorrow: Curt grows one after [[spoiler: Owen's death]] and then it is shaved off (forcibly) to symbolise his return to heroism.
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* WhenHarryMetSvetlana: Curt and Tatiana
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* SpyVersusSpy: [[spoiler: Curt vs Owen in the climax.]]
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* ExpectingSomeoneTaller: "I was looking forward to working with the "Great Curt Mega", but clearly you are not that man." and "I thought you'd be taller y'know?"
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: "How in the flippity flappity [[PrecisionFStrike FUCK]], FUCK]] did a dangerous weapon of mass destruction end up in the hands of a Russian spy, while we are in the middle of a cold war ''with Russia'' you fucking dumb-dumb?"
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