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He's a troper from [[HollywoodNewEngland Massachusetts]].
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!!Tropes in his life
* BrilliantButLazy
* CovertPervert: He himself is an example, but his cripplingly shy first girlfriend was into light S&M in the bedroom.
* DeadpanSnarker: In real life.
* FamousAncestor: Charlemagne is his great (x36) grandfather through William the Conqueror.
** James Fenimore Cooper is the second cousin four times removed of the wife of his great-great-uncle.
* ForeheadOfDoom
* FreudianTrio: KB (the ultra-fangirl) is the id and IJVin and RM trade off being the ego and the superego.
* FullNameBasis: His stepmother has been married three times. Two of the husbands have the same first name, one of whom is IJVin's dad, so when referring to the other, the family uses his full name.
* GenerationXerox: Other than being six inches taller than his dad, the two are nearly identical in appearance, voice and personality.
** This also applies to his dad and ''his'' dad, so there's some IdenticalGrandson stuff going on.
* LargeHam
* MakingLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces: Lost his virginity in college on the floor of a hallway of a campus building after hours.
* MistakenForGay: He was at a restaurant on New Year's Eve when a good, close friend walked in. They were comfortable enough with each other that they ran into a hug shouting each other's names. Turns out IJVin's gay neighbor was in the restaurant, too. He introduced his friend and the neighbor introduced the guy who was probably his date. Then he asked IJVin and his friend, "So, where did you two meet?"
* ObliviousToLove: He definitely took one instance where he probably would have been very happy and screwed it up by not paying any attention to her "in that way."
* OverlyLongGag: In junior high, he did the joke "Does this make you mad?" from ''WonderShowzen''. It did make them mad.
** At an open-mic night, he read the entire text of GreenEggsAndHam.
* PersonaNonGrata: After leaving his job at Old Country Buffet without giving his two weeks notice, he's not allowed to apply to any restaurant in that chain ever again.
* SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl: His dad and stepmom
* TheStoic: When getting a cavity filled, the anesthetic wore off only slightly. He kept a straight face and the dentists said they never noticed any discomfort.
* ThrowItIn: First person accounts.
** High school:
*** At one point during ''Theatre/BeautyAndTheBeast'', we had to close the mid-stage traveler in order to change the set. During one rehearsal, Lumiere and Cogsworth went onstage and improvised a routine about Lumiere accidentally setting numerous things on fire. We kept it in the show.
*** Later, Belle took a while changing into one of her dresses. Lumiere alerted the Beast to something hanging from his nose and then asked if he was nervous. "You know, cold paws?"
*** ''TheManWhoCameToDinner''. The last night of rehearsals for each week was known as "improv night." The cast would run the scene normally at first. Then, they'd run it again with the director shouting out characterizations. Besides the funnier things which did not make it into the show, two actors added the new characterizations to their respective characters.
*** In that same show, our Whiteside added many lines on opening night (mostly from the Nathan Lane version of the show).
*** In the third act, the Khedive of Egypt sends Whiteside a sarcophagus. I discussed with our Whiteside the fact that the doctor character enters after the sarcophagus, which is fine, but what if he entered ''in'' the sarcophagus? [[RuleOfFunny Why? Who cares why?]] We brought it to the director. He presented it to the entire cast. We all worked out the logistics of when it would be opened and who would open it and we [[ThrowItIn threw it in]] on closing night. The audience cheered. It. Was. Awesome.
*** During the rehearsal period for ''ThoroughlyModernMillie'', one of the Chinese henchmen had broken his ankle and needed crutches. For the show, he used a cane. It created a backstory for the character that we never found out about, which made him more realistic.
*** Similar to above, our Roger in ''{{Rent}}: School Edition'' had a bum knee and wore a knee brace on the outside of his costume for nearly the entire show.
*** In the same show, during "Over the Moon," Maureen hit her sound board prop to cue the pianist to stop playing. He didn't see the cue and kept going, so Maureen started hitting the prop over and over again. The pianist did the same thing for the rest of the show's run.
*** When I played Flastaff in ''TheMerryWivesOfWindsor'', I had rehearsed with the beard and wig and with the hat, but never both at once. When the show came, the hat wouldn't stay on the wig/my head. For the first few scenes, I decided this would be a RunningGag, until finally I (Falstaff, that is) got fed up and threw it offstage.
** College:
*** ''EvilDead: The Musical'' veritably ''ran'' on this, for better or for worse. Mostly, the cast made jokes about how cheap the set was.
*** When we produced a student-written play called ''The Playwright,'' I was given pants that were far too large for me. I suggested that I keep the pants and make it a joke. The director and costume designer went along with it and my pants fell throughout the show on purpose.
*** For ''YouCantTakeItWithYou,'' we added two more police officers to the arrest of the family. As the police chief, I was to tell Mac and one of the other cops to go downstairs to investigate. Since the other cop isn't in the script, he had no canonical name, so every night, I called him by the last name of a different cast member or friend who was in the audience that night.
* TypeCasting: In high school drama club, he often played fathers.
* YoungerThanTheyLook: In high school.
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!!Tropes in his life
* BrilliantButLazy
* CovertPervert: He himself is an example, but his cripplingly shy first girlfriend was into light S&M in the bedroom.
* DeadpanSnarker: In real life.
* FamousAncestor: Charlemagne is his great (x36) grandfather through William the Conqueror.
** James Fenimore Cooper is the second cousin four times removed of the wife of his great-great-uncle.
* ForeheadOfDoom
* FreudianTrio: KB (the ultra-fangirl) is the id and IJVin and RM trade off being the ego and the superego.
* FullNameBasis: His stepmother has been married three times. Two of the husbands have the same first name, one of whom is IJVin's dad, so when referring to the other, the family uses his full name.
* GenerationXerox: Other than being six inches taller than his dad, the two are nearly identical in appearance, voice and personality.
** This also applies to his dad and ''his'' dad, so there's some IdenticalGrandson stuff going on.
* LargeHam
* MakingLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces: Lost his virginity in college on the floor of a hallway of a campus building after hours.
* MistakenForGay: He was at a restaurant on New Year's Eve when a good, close friend walked in. They were comfortable enough with each other that they ran into a hug shouting each other's names. Turns out IJVin's gay neighbor was in the restaurant, too. He introduced his friend and the neighbor introduced the guy who was probably his date. Then he asked IJVin and his friend, "So, where did you two meet?"
* ObliviousToLove: He definitely took one instance where he probably would have been very happy and screwed it up by not paying any attention to her "in that way."
* OverlyLongGag: In junior high, he did the joke "Does this make you mad?" from ''WonderShowzen''. It did make them mad.
** At an open-mic night, he read the entire text of GreenEggsAndHam.
* PersonaNonGrata: After leaving his job at Old Country Buffet without giving his two weeks notice, he's not allowed to apply to any restaurant in that chain ever again.
* SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl: His dad and stepmom
* TheStoic: When getting a cavity filled, the anesthetic wore off only slightly. He kept a straight face and the dentists said they never noticed any discomfort.
* ThrowItIn: First person accounts.
** High school:
*** At one point during ''Theatre/BeautyAndTheBeast'', we had to close the mid-stage traveler in order to change the set. During one rehearsal, Lumiere and Cogsworth went onstage and improvised a routine about Lumiere accidentally setting numerous things on fire. We kept it in the show.
*** Later, Belle took a while changing into one of her dresses. Lumiere alerted the Beast to something hanging from his nose and then asked if he was nervous. "You know, cold paws?"
*** ''TheManWhoCameToDinner''. The last night of rehearsals for each week was known as "improv night." The cast would run the scene normally at first. Then, they'd run it again with the director shouting out characterizations. Besides the funnier things which did not make it into the show, two actors added the new characterizations to their respective characters.
*** In that same show, our Whiteside added many lines on opening night (mostly from the Nathan Lane version of the show).
*** In the third act, the Khedive of Egypt sends Whiteside a sarcophagus. I discussed with our Whiteside the fact that the doctor character enters after the sarcophagus, which is fine, but what if he entered ''in'' the sarcophagus? [[RuleOfFunny Why? Who cares why?]] We brought it to the director. He presented it to the entire cast. We all worked out the logistics of when it would be opened and who would open it and we [[ThrowItIn threw it in]] on closing night. The audience cheered. It. Was. Awesome.
*** During the rehearsal period for ''ThoroughlyModernMillie'', one of the Chinese henchmen had broken his ankle and needed crutches. For the show, he used a cane. It created a backstory for the character that we never found out about, which made him more realistic.
*** Similar to above, our Roger in ''{{Rent}}: School Edition'' had a bum knee and wore a knee brace on the outside of his costume for nearly the entire show.
*** In the same show, during "Over the Moon," Maureen hit her sound board prop to cue the pianist to stop playing. He didn't see the cue and kept going, so Maureen started hitting the prop over and over again. The pianist did the same thing for the rest of the show's run.
*** When I played Flastaff in ''TheMerryWivesOfWindsor'', I had rehearsed with the beard and wig and with the hat, but never both at once. When the show came, the hat wouldn't stay on the wig/my head. For the first few scenes, I decided this would be a RunningGag, until finally I (Falstaff, that is) got fed up and threw it offstage.
** College:
*** ''EvilDead: The Musical'' veritably ''ran'' on this, for better or for worse. Mostly, the cast made jokes about how cheap the set was.
*** When we produced a student-written play called ''The Playwright,'' I was given pants that were far too large for me. I suggested that I keep the pants and make it a joke. The director and costume designer went along with it and my pants fell throughout the show on purpose.
*** For ''YouCantTakeItWithYou,'' we added two more police officers to the arrest of the family. As the police chief, I was to tell Mac and one of the other cops to go downstairs to investigate. Since the other cop isn't in the script, he had no canonical name, so every night, I called him by the last name of a different cast member or friend who was in the audience that night.
* TypeCasting: In high school drama club, he often played fathers.
* YoungerThanTheyLook: In high school.
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!!Tropes in his life
* BrilliantButLazy
* CovertPervert: He himself is an example, but his cripplingly shy first girlfriend was into light S&M in the bedroom.
* DeadpanSnarker: In real life.
* FamousAncestor: Charlemagne is his great (x36) grandfather through William the Conqueror.
** James Fenimore Cooper is the second cousin four times removed of the wife of his great-great-uncle.
* ForeheadOfDoom
* FreudianTrio: KB (the ultra-fangirl) is the id and IJVin and RM trade off being the ego and the superego.
* FullNameBasis: His stepmother has been married three times. Two of the husbands have the same first name, one of whom is IJVin's dad, so when referring to the other, the family uses his full name.
* GenerationXerox: Other than being six inches taller than his dad, the two are nearly identical in appearance, voice and personality.
** This also applies to his dad and ''his'' dad, so there's some IdenticalGrandson stuff going on.
* LargeHam
* MakingLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces: Lost his virginity in college on the floor of a hallway of a campus building after hours.
* MistakenForGay: He was at a restaurant on New Year's Eve when a good, close friend walked in. They were comfortable enough with each other that they ran into a hug shouting each other's names. Turns out IJVin's gay neighbor was in the restaurant, too. He introduced his friend and the neighbor introduced the guy who was probably his date. Then he asked IJVin and his friend, "So, where did you two meet?"
* ObliviousToLove: He definitely took one instance where he probably would have been very happy and screwed it up by not paying any attention to her "in that way."
* OverlyLongGag: In junior high, he did the joke "Does this make you mad?" from ''WonderShowzen''. It did make them mad.
** At an open-mic night, he read the entire text of GreenEggsAndHam.
* PersonaNonGrata: After leaving his job at Old Country Buffet without giving his two weeks notice, he's not allowed to apply to any restaurant in that chain ever again.
* SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl: His dad and stepmom
* TheStoic: When getting a cavity filled, the anesthetic wore off only slightly. He kept a straight face and the dentists said they never noticed any discomfort.
* ThrowItIn: First person accounts.
** High school:
*** At one point during ''Theatre/BeautyAndTheBeast'', we had to close the mid-stage traveler in order to change the set. During one rehearsal, Lumiere and Cogsworth went onstage and improvised a routine about Lumiere accidentally setting numerous things on fire. We kept it in the show.
*** Later, Belle took a while changing into one of her dresses. Lumiere alerted the Beast to something hanging from his nose and then asked if he was nervous. "You know, cold paws?"
*** ''TheManWhoCameToDinner''. The last night of rehearsals for each week was known as "improv night." The cast would run the scene normally at first. Then, they'd run it again with the director shouting out characterizations. Besides the funnier things which did not make it into the show, two actors added the new characterizations to their respective characters.
*** In that same show, our Whiteside added many lines on opening night (mostly from the Nathan Lane version of the show).
*** In the third act, the Khedive of Egypt sends Whiteside a sarcophagus. I discussed with our Whiteside the fact that the doctor character enters after the sarcophagus, which is fine, but what if he entered ''in'' the sarcophagus? [[RuleOfFunny Why? Who cares why?]] We brought it to the director. He presented it to the entire cast. We all worked out the logistics of when it would be opened and who would open it and we [[ThrowItIn threw it in]] on closing night. The audience cheered. It. Was. Awesome.
*** During the rehearsal period for ''ThoroughlyModernMillie'', one of the Chinese henchmen had broken his ankle and needed crutches. For the show, he used a cane. It created a backstory for the character that we never found out about, which made him more realistic.
*** Similar to above, our Roger in ''{{Rent}}: School Edition'' had a bum knee and wore a knee brace on the outside of his costume for nearly the entire show.
*** In the same show, during "Over the Moon," Maureen hit her sound board prop to cue the pianist to stop playing. He didn't see the cue and kept going, so Maureen started hitting the prop over and over again. The pianist did the same thing for the rest of the show's run.
*** When I played Flastaff in ''TheMerryWivesOfWindsor'', I had rehearsed with the beard and wig and with the hat, but never both at once. When the show came, the hat wouldn't stay on the wig/my head. For the first few scenes, I decided this would be a RunningGag, until finally I (Falstaff, that is) got fed up and threw it offstage.
** College:
*** ''EvilDead: The Musical'' veritably ''ran'' on this, for better or for worse. Mostly, the cast made jokes about how cheap the set was.
*** When we produced a student-written play called ''The Playwright,'' I was given pants that were far too large for me. I suggested that I keep the pants and make it a joke. The director and costume designer went along with it and my pants fell throughout the show on purpose.
*** For ''YouCantTakeItWithYou,'' we added two more police officers to the arrest of the family. As the police chief, I was to tell Mac and one of the other cops to go downstairs to investigate. Since the other cop isn't in the script, he had no canonical name, so every night, I called him by the last name of a different cast member or friend who was in the audience that night.
* TypeCasting: In high school drama club, he often played fathers.
* YoungerThanTheyLook: In high school.
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* BiggerIsBetterInBed: According to his first girlfriend. Not that he's bragging.
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* CovertPervert: He himself is an example, but his cripplingly shy fight girlfriend was into light S&M in the bedroom.
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* MakingLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces: Lost his virginity on the floor of a hallway of a campus building after school hours in college.
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* OverlyLongGag: In junior high, he did the joke "Does this make you mad?" from WonderShowzen. It did make them mad.
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* OverlyLongGag: In junior high, he did the joke "Does this make you mad?" from WonderShowzen.''WonderShowzen''. It did make them mad.
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* PersonaNonGrata: After leaving his job at Old Country Buffet without giving his two weeks notice, he's not allowed to apply to any restaraunt in that chain ever again.
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* PersonaNonGrata: After leaving his job at Old Country Buffet without giving his two weeks notice, he's not allowed to apply to any restaraunt restaurant in that chain ever again.
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* YoungerThanTheyLook: Apparently.In high school.
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* CatchPhrase / PhraseCatcher: Used to say, "Shut up, IJVin" to himself when he rambled on and on.
* CovertPervert: He himself is an example, but his cripplingly shy girlfriend is into light S&M in the bedroom.
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* SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl: His dad and stepmom, to an extent.
* ShipperOnDeck: HM really wants IJVin and AJ to get together.
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* PersonaNonGrata: After leaving his job at Old Country Buffet without giving his two weeks notice, he's not allowed to apply to any restaraunt in that chain ever again.
* SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl: His dad andstepmom, to an extent.
* ShipperOnDeck: HM really wants IJVin and AJ to get together.stepmom
* SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl: His dad and
* ShipperOnDeck: HM really wants IJVin and AJ to get together.
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* PetPeeveTrope: TheUnfairSex
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* BiggerIsBetterInBed: According to his first girlfriend. Not that he's bragging.
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* MakingLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces: Lost his virginity on the floor of a hallway of a campus building after school hours in college.
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* ShipperOnDeck: He's in love with KM and he's pretty sure SR is all for it. Meanwhile, HM really wants IJVin and AJ to get together.
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* ShipperOnDeck: He's in love with KM and he's pretty sure SR is all for it. Meanwhile, HM really wants IJVin and AJ to get together.
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*** When I played Flastaff in ''The Merry Wives of Windsor'', I had rehearsed with the beard and wig and with the hat, but never both at once. When the show came, the hat wouldn't stay on the wig/my head. For the first few scenes, I decided this would be a RunningGag, until finally I (Falstaff, that is) got fed up and threw it offstage.
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*** When I played Flastaff in ''The Merry Wives of Windsor'', ''TheMerryWivesOfWindsor'', I had rehearsed with the beard and wig and with the hat, but never both at once. When the show came, the hat wouldn't stay on the wig/my head. For the first few scenes, I decided this would be a RunningGag, until finally I (Falstaff, that is) got fed up and threw it offstage.
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* CovertPervert: He himself is an example, but his cripplingly shy girlfriend is into light S&M in the bedroom.
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* LargeHam: Onstage.
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* LargeHam: Onstage.LargeHam
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* PetPeeveTrope: ThePornomancer, though TheUnfairSex is angering.TheUnfairSex
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* ShipperOnDeck: He's in love with KM and he's pretty sure SR is all for it. Meanwhile, HM really wants IJVin and AJ to get together.
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* CatchPhrase / PhraseCatcher: Often says, "Shut up, IJVin" to himself when he rambles on and on.
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* FamousAncestor: Charlemagne is his great (x36) grandfather.
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* FamousAncestor: Charlemagne is his great (x36) grandfather.grandfather through William the Conqueror.
* GenerationXerox: Other than being six inches taller than his dad, the two are nearly identical in appearance, voice and personality.
** This also applies to his dad and ''his'' dad, so there's some IdenticalGrandson stuff going on.
** This also applies to his dad and ''his'' dad, so there's some IdenticalGrandson stuff going on.
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* OverlyLongGag: In junior high, he had the joke "Does this make you mad?" from WonderShowzen. It did make them mad.
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* OverlyLongGag: In junior high, he had did the joke "Does this make you mad?" from WonderShowzen. It did make them mad.
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* ThrowItIn:ThrowItIn: First person accounts.
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* ThrowItIn: (First person from here on.)
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* ThrowItIn: (First person from here on.)ThrowItIn:
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*** ''TheManWhoCameToDinner''. For those uninitated with the show: Sheridan Whiteside, a radio star of the 1930s, is making a nationwide tour. Two weeks before Christmas, he has a publicity stunt dinner at the Stanley household in a small town in Ohio. As he's leaving the house, he slips and breaks his hip. Now he must stay in the house while he heals, taking it over in the process. All of his Hollywood friends either send gifts or show up in person. HilarityEnsues. Firstly, the last night of rehearsals for each week was known as "improv night." The cast would run the scene normally at first. Then, they'd run it again with the director shouting out characterizations. Besides the funnier things which did not make it into the show, two actors added the new characterizations to their respective characters.
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*** ''TheManWhoCameToDinner''. For those uninitated with the show: Sheridan Whiteside, a radio star of the 1930s, is making a nationwide tour. Two weeks before Christmas, he has a publicity stunt dinner at the Stanley household in a small town in Ohio. As he's leaving the house, he slips and breaks his hip. Now he must stay in the house while he heals, taking it over in the process. All of his Hollywood friends either send gifts or show up in person. HilarityEnsues. Firstly, the The last night of rehearsals for each week was known as "improv night." The cast would run the scene normally at first. Then, they'd run it again with the director shouting out characterizations. Besides the funnier things which did not make it into the show, two actors added the new characterizations to their respective characters.
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He's a troper from [[HollywoodNewEngland Massachusetts]].
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!!Tropes in his life
* BrilliantButLazy
* CatchPhrase / PhraseCatcher: Often says, "Shut up, IJVin" to himself when he rambles on and on.
* DeadpanSnarker: In real life.
* FamousAncestor: Charlemagne is his great (x36) grandfather.
** James Fenimore Cooper is the second cousin four times removed of the wife of his great-great-uncle.
* ForeheadOfDoom
* FreudianTrio: KB (the ultra-fangirl) is the id and IJVin and RM trade off being the ego and the superego.
* FullNameBasis: His stepmother has been married three times. Two of the husbands have the same first name, one of whom is IJVin's dad, so when referring to the other, the family uses his full name.
* LargeHam: Onstage.
* MistakenForGay: He was at a restaurant on New Year's Eve when a good, close friend walked in. They were comfortable enough with each other that they ran into a hug shouting each other's names. Turns out IJVin's gay neighbor was in the restaurant, too. He introduced his friend and the neighbor introduced the guy who was probably his date. Then he asked IJVin and his friend, "So, where did you two meet?"
* ObliviousToLove: He definitely took one instance where he probably would have been very happy and screwed it up by not paying any attention to her "in that way."
* OverlyLongGag: In junior high, he had the joke "Does this make you mad?" from WonderShowzen. It did make them mad.
** At an open-mic night, he read the entire text of GreenEggsAndHam.
* PetPeeveTrope: ThePornomancer, though TheUnfairSex is angering.
* SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl: His dad and stepmom, to an extent.
* TheStoic: When getting a cavity filled, the anesthetic wore off only slightly. He kept a straight face and the dentists said they never noticed any discomfort.
* ThrowItIn: (First person from here on.)
** High school:
*** At one point during ''Theatre/BeautyAndTheBeast'', we had to close the mid-stage traveler in order to change the set. During one rehearsal, Lumiere and Cogsworth went onstage and improvised a routine about Lumiere accidentally setting numerous things on fire. We kept it in the show.
*** Later, Belle took a while changing into one of her dresses. Lumiere alerted the Beast to something hanging from his nose and then asked if he was nervous. "You know, cold paws?"
*** ''TheManWhoCameToDinner''. For those uninitated with the show: Sheridan Whiteside, a radio star of the 1930s, is making a nationwide tour. Two weeks before Christmas, he has a publicity stunt dinner at the Stanley household in a small town in Ohio. As he's leaving the house, he slips and breaks his hip. Now he must stay in the house while he heals, taking it over in the process. All of his Hollywood friends either send gifts or show up in person. HilarityEnsues. Firstly, the last night of rehearsals for each week was known as "improv night." The cast would run the scene normally at first. Then, they'd run it again with the director shouting out characterizations. Besides the funnier things which did not make it into the show, two actors added the new characterizations to their respective characters.
*** In that same show, our Whiteside added many lines on opening night (mostly from the Nathan Lane version of the show).
*** In the third act, the Khedive of Egypt sends Whiteside a sarcophagus. I discussed with our Whiteside the fact that the doctor character enters after the sarcophagus, which is fine, but what if he entered ''in'' the sarcophagus? [[RuleOfFunny Why? Who cares why?]] We brought it to the director. He presented it to the entire cast. We all worked out the logistics of when it would be opened and who would open it and we [[ThrowItIn threw it in]] on closing night. The audience cheered. It. Was. Awesome.
*** During the rehearsal period for ''ThoroughlyModernMillie'', one of the Chinese henchmen had broken his ankle and needed crutches. For the show, he used a cane. It created a backstory for the character that we never found out about, which made him more realistic.
*** Similar to above, our Roger in ''{{Rent}}: School Edition'' had a bum knee and wore a knee brace on the outside of his costume for nearly the entire show.
*** In the same show, during "Over the Moon," Maureen hit her sound board prop to cue the pianist to stop playing. He didn't see the cue and kept going, so Maureen started hitting the prop over and over again. The pianist did the same thing for the rest of the show's run.
*** When I played Flastaff in ''The Merry Wives of Windsor'', I had rehearsed with the beard and wig and with the hat, but never both at once. When the show came, the hat wouldn't stay on the wig/my head. For the first few scenes, I decided this would be a RunningGag, until finally I (Falstaff, that is) got fed up and threw it offstage.
** College:
*** ''EvilDead: The Musical'' veritably ''ran'' on this, for better or for worse. Mostly, the cast made jokes about how cheap the set was.
*** When we produced a student-written play called ''The Playwright,'' I was given pants that were far too large for me. I suggested that I keep the pants and make it a joke. The director and costume designer went along with it and my pants fell throughout the show on purpose.
*** For ''YouCantTakeItWithYou,'' we added two more police officers to the arrest of the family. As the police chief, I was to tell Mac and one of the other cops to go downstairs to investigate. Since the other cop isn't in the script, he had no canonical name, so every night, I called him by the last name of a different cast member or friend who was in the audience that night.
* TypeCasting: In high school drama club, he often played fathers.
* YoungerThanTheyLook: Apparently.
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!!Tropes in his life
* BrilliantButLazy
* CatchPhrase / PhraseCatcher: Often says, "Shut up, IJVin" to himself when he rambles on and on.
* DeadpanSnarker: In real life.
* FamousAncestor: Charlemagne is his great (x36) grandfather.
** James Fenimore Cooper is the second cousin four times removed of the wife of his great-great-uncle.
* ForeheadOfDoom
* FreudianTrio: KB (the ultra-fangirl) is the id and IJVin and RM trade off being the ego and the superego.
* FullNameBasis: His stepmother has been married three times. Two of the husbands have the same first name, one of whom is IJVin's dad, so when referring to the other, the family uses his full name.
* LargeHam: Onstage.
* MistakenForGay: He was at a restaurant on New Year's Eve when a good, close friend walked in. They were comfortable enough with each other that they ran into a hug shouting each other's names. Turns out IJVin's gay neighbor was in the restaurant, too. He introduced his friend and the neighbor introduced the guy who was probably his date. Then he asked IJVin and his friend, "So, where did you two meet?"
* ObliviousToLove: He definitely took one instance where he probably would have been very happy and screwed it up by not paying any attention to her "in that way."
* OverlyLongGag: In junior high, he had the joke "Does this make you mad?" from WonderShowzen. It did make them mad.
** At an open-mic night, he read the entire text of GreenEggsAndHam.
* PetPeeveTrope: ThePornomancer, though TheUnfairSex is angering.
* SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl: His dad and stepmom, to an extent.
* TheStoic: When getting a cavity filled, the anesthetic wore off only slightly. He kept a straight face and the dentists said they never noticed any discomfort.
* ThrowItIn: (First person from here on.)
** High school:
*** At one point during ''Theatre/BeautyAndTheBeast'', we had to close the mid-stage traveler in order to change the set. During one rehearsal, Lumiere and Cogsworth went onstage and improvised a routine about Lumiere accidentally setting numerous things on fire. We kept it in the show.
*** Later, Belle took a while changing into one of her dresses. Lumiere alerted the Beast to something hanging from his nose and then asked if he was nervous. "You know, cold paws?"
*** ''TheManWhoCameToDinner''. For those uninitated with the show: Sheridan Whiteside, a radio star of the 1930s, is making a nationwide tour. Two weeks before Christmas, he has a publicity stunt dinner at the Stanley household in a small town in Ohio. As he's leaving the house, he slips and breaks his hip. Now he must stay in the house while he heals, taking it over in the process. All of his Hollywood friends either send gifts or show up in person. HilarityEnsues. Firstly, the last night of rehearsals for each week was known as "improv night." The cast would run the scene normally at first. Then, they'd run it again with the director shouting out characterizations. Besides the funnier things which did not make it into the show, two actors added the new characterizations to their respective characters.
*** In that same show, our Whiteside added many lines on opening night (mostly from the Nathan Lane version of the show).
*** In the third act, the Khedive of Egypt sends Whiteside a sarcophagus. I discussed with our Whiteside the fact that the doctor character enters after the sarcophagus, which is fine, but what if he entered ''in'' the sarcophagus? [[RuleOfFunny Why? Who cares why?]] We brought it to the director. He presented it to the entire cast. We all worked out the logistics of when it would be opened and who would open it and we [[ThrowItIn threw it in]] on closing night. The audience cheered. It. Was. Awesome.
*** During the rehearsal period for ''ThoroughlyModernMillie'', one of the Chinese henchmen had broken his ankle and needed crutches. For the show, he used a cane. It created a backstory for the character that we never found out about, which made him more realistic.
*** Similar to above, our Roger in ''{{Rent}}: School Edition'' had a bum knee and wore a knee brace on the outside of his costume for nearly the entire show.
*** In the same show, during "Over the Moon," Maureen hit her sound board prop to cue the pianist to stop playing. He didn't see the cue and kept going, so Maureen started hitting the prop over and over again. The pianist did the same thing for the rest of the show's run.
*** When I played Flastaff in ''The Merry Wives of Windsor'', I had rehearsed with the beard and wig and with the hat, but never both at once. When the show came, the hat wouldn't stay on the wig/my head. For the first few scenes, I decided this would be a RunningGag, until finally I (Falstaff, that is) got fed up and threw it offstage.
** College:
*** ''EvilDead: The Musical'' veritably ''ran'' on this, for better or for worse. Mostly, the cast made jokes about how cheap the set was.
*** When we produced a student-written play called ''The Playwright,'' I was given pants that were far too large for me. I suggested that I keep the pants and make it a joke. The director and costume designer went along with it and my pants fell throughout the show on purpose.
*** For ''YouCantTakeItWithYou,'' we added two more police officers to the arrest of the family. As the police chief, I was to tell Mac and one of the other cops to go downstairs to investigate. Since the other cop isn't in the script, he had no canonical name, so every night, I called him by the last name of a different cast member or friend who was in the audience that night.
* TypeCasting: In high school drama club, he often played fathers.
* YoungerThanTheyLook: Apparently.
