Line #132 Series/Girls5eva


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2	[[caption-width-right:350:''Gonna be famous [=5eva=]\
3	'Cos [=4eva=]'s too short'']]
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5	->''"Well, strap in. Four grown ladies trying to be pop stars. Get ready for the same amount of respect I get when I'm riding my recumbent bike."''
6	-->-- '''Gloria'''
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8	''[=Girls5eva=]'' is a musical comedy series created by Meredith Scardino and co-produced by Creator/TinaFey & Robert Carlock (''Series/UnbreakableKimmySchmidt'').
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10	When [[TheNineties late '90s]] {{girl group}} [=Girls5eva=] unexpectedly returns to relevancy after their first ([[OneHitWonder and only]]) hit single is sampled by an up-and-coming rapper, the ladies (now in middle age) reunite in the hopes of [[CareerResurrection making a comeback]]. Now they must navigate a music industry that's very different from how it was in the Y2K era, fight the mentality that they are past their prime, and deal with their own personal dramas.
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12	The titular group is comprised of timid sweetheart Dawn Solano (Music/SaraBareilles), vapid [[HollywoodToneDeaf non-singer]] Summer Dutkowsky (Creator/BusyPhilipps), workaholic "[[GayEuphemism tomboy]]" Gloria [=McManus=] (Creator/PaulaPell), and glamorous diva Wickie Roy (Creator/ReneeEliseGoldsberry). Creator/AshleyPark also appears in flashbacks as [[TheDanza Ashley Gold]], the [[PosthumousCharacter deceased]] member of the group.
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14	The series premiered on Creator/{{Peacock}} in May 2021. A second season arrived in May 2022. A third season premiered on Creator/{{Netflix}} in 2023.
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16	!!''[=Tropes5eva=]'':
17	* ActorAllusion:
18	** Wickie mentions that she had a "Henrietta Lacks situation with HPV cells". Her actress Creator/ReneeEliseGoldsberry played Lacks in the biopic ''Film/TheImmortalLifeOfHenriettaLacks''.
19	** In "Can't Wait 2 Wait," the group is asked to write a love song. Dawn grumbles, "[[Music/SaraBareilles I'm not gonna write them a love song 'cause they asked for it]]."
20	* AdamWesting:
21	** In "Tour Mode," [[spoiler: [[Series/PropertyBrothers the Property Brothers]] parody their NiceGuy image when they finally show up. They both act like jerks, Drew gets into a brawl with Gloria, and Jonathan begs for her to kill him from the sidelines.]]
22	** In "New York," Richard Kind does this, [[LampshadeHanging Lampshading]] his career as an actor in the "medium time" who's had small parts in everything. As he puts it, he's famous enough to keep working but not so famous that people bother him. [[spoiler: This actually inspires Dawn to write a song about this and all the other members of the group accept their status...until the very end of the episode, when Wickie gets the gang another big comeback. Maybe.]]
23	* AdorablyPrecociousChild: Parodied with the concept of the "New York lonely boy": a young boy who, because he's [[OnlyChildSyndrome an only child]] living in NYC, makes friends with doormen, enjoys going to the bookstore, watches documentaries, listens to Creator/{{NPR}} every day, and gets niche hobbies.
24	* AgeCut: In the first episode, the members are introduced by cutting from an interview of them from the '90s to their present-day selves.
25	* AgeGapRomance: In the fourth episode, Nick and Wickie discuss the nuances of dating someone younger. Nick is in disbelief that Wickie's current boytoy Cray is apparently so devoted to her. [[spoiler:He's actually two people setting her up for a [=TikTok=] prank, though.]]
26	* AndTheAdventureContinues: Season 2 ends with [[spoiler: the group heading out to tour on their own, with Percy as their driver.]]
27	* ArtifactName: The group's name came from the fact that there were originally five members. They keep the name even when they become a quartet.
28	* BadInfluencer: Wickie enters into a relationship with a devoted younger man... who promptly reveals himself to be ''two'' different guys with followings on [=TikTok=]. They continuously switched out as part of an online prank, and Wickie didn't notice because of her narcissism.
29	* BaitAndSwitch: Lil Stinker lays down what sounds like gun noises for his latest single, only to reveal that he's actually making bird calls.
30	* BlameTheParamour: In ''Alf Musik'', it's shown one of the group's older songs is about this, with them even saying the cheating was her fault only.
31	* BuryYourGays: Discussed after Summer binges queer theory. At the gay rave the girls attend in the sixth episode, she mentions that gay characters on TV are much more likely to die compared to straight characters.
32	* TheCameo: Creator/JohnSlattery and his family pop up to briefly reassure Dawn that Max will be fine as an only child -- or, more specifically, a "New York lonely boy".
33	* CareerResurrection: InUniverse, a group of {{One Hit Wonder}}s reunite and try to become successful.
34	* CelebrityLie: As part of her MockMillionaire act Wickie pretended to be friends with the Dalai Lama.
35	* CompanyCrossReferences: The show moved to Creator/{{Netflix}} in season 3. To emphasize this, several references to now-fellow Netflix shows are made:
36	** Dawn watches a fake season of ''Series/TheCrown2016''. [[spoiler:Wickie's song "Yesternights" plays in ''The Crown'''s season finale, and the possibility of her career receiving a RevivalByCommercialization is explicitly compared to Music/KateBush's "Running Up That Hill" skyrocketing in popularity after its usage in ''Series/StrangerThings''.]][[invoked]]
37	** Streamberry, the FictionalCounterpart to Netflix from ''Series/BlackMirror'', appears several times, [[spoiler:and is repeatedly bought out/merged multiple times in the span of minutes, parodying the unstable streaming economy]].
38	* ContractualPurity: InUniverse, Summer and Kev are strongly tied to their chaste Christian brand, which makes it difficult when they decide to finally get a divorce, as Kev knows it goes against his Christian values and what the fans want from them. Once it goes live, Summer becomes an online pariah as Kev pins the blame on her.
39	* DanceSensation: "The Splingee" is Dawn's attempt at creating a dance sensation: the lyrics list out the choreography. Their one attempt at performing it live bumbles, but [[spoiler:Dawn eventually sells it to Nance Trace, who diverts it to popular [=TikTokers=] who perform it at Jingle Ball, indicating it will go viral after all.]]
40	-->''"First you grab your ear like\
41	What's that noise? Shimmy, shimmy\
42	Shake it down to the ground, two-handed salute\
43	Then back it up, back it up, back it up, back it up!"''
44	* ADayInTheLimelight: "Leave A Message If You Love Me" finally returns to the question of whether Ashley is alive or not. [[spoiler: So far, it seems like she's not, but the group processes their loss by recording a tribute song.]]
45	* DeliberateValuesDissonance: Problematic lyrics in pop music from the early 2000s are discussed in "Alf Musik", when Dawn notes how sexist a lot of their songs were but never noticed until now.
46	* DidntThinkThisThrough: Every member of the band has this at a few points but the topper is likely Wickie thinking she's done a great job booking them for a concert at Radio City Music Hall...on Thanksgiving Day...when most everyone in New York is watching the Macy's Day Parade. It takes the ladies pointing it out for Wickie to muse on why the place was available.
47	* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: "Can't Wait 2 Wait" has Dawn watch ''Business Throne'' with Ray before watching it with her husband, which is framed as if she were having an affair with Ray. This includes her begging him to "put it in" when he has a USB drive of the leaked finale, and her defending herself to Scott by saying she couldn't even finish, because the effects on the leak weren't fully rendered.
48	* DoubleMeaningTitle: InUniverse, Dawn's song for the group, "Four Stars", has two meanings. There are four of them in the girl group, and the title refers to being less than perfect (ie. four out of five stars).
49	* ExactWords: "Clarksville" reveals that [[spoiler: Wickie has been exploiting this to hide the fact the she had a comfortable and loving upbringing without lying. For example, she previously claimed her father was "never in the picture" (because he always took the family photos), her siblings are "in and put of hospitals" (they're doctors) and that she had a "hardscrabble" life (because her family played Scrabble and it was hard).]]
50	* FanCommunityNickname: InUniverse, Zander's army of followers call themselves "Zander Fanders".
51	* FakeShemp:
52	** The pilot features a flashback of [=Girls5eva=] on ''Series/{{TRL}}''. While Carson Daly voices himself, he is portrayed on screen by a body double seen from the back.
53	** The second episode features a flashback of the girls on ''Series/LarryKingLive'', while actual footage of King is used to make it seem like he was interviewing them.
54	* FearSong: PlayedForLaughs with Dawn's "I'm Afraid", which she wrote over an all-nighter. It starts out sincerely but then derails into outlandish fears.
55	-->''"I'm afraid that during high winds\
56	The stop sign will uproot and decapitate me\
57	Or that I might thrive on to Scientology\
58	I'm afraid that after I die\
59	Someone will have sex with my dead body\
60	And be like, "Not worth it"!"''
61	* {{Foil}}: The women of [=Girls5eva=] contrast each other in varying ways.
62	** Dawn and Summer. Summer is the next to be introduced after Dawn, which highlights their contrasting family lives. Dawn lives in a New York apartment, has a stable marriage and a good relationship with her son. Summer lives in a large New Jersey home, but her husband Kev is never home and her daughter Stevia is a disaffected influencer.
63	** Dawn and Wickie. Both are the two most musically talented members of the group, but Wickie is selfish, ambitious, and likes to live large, while Dawn is a kind doormat who is for the most part fine with her cozy, normal life. Over the course of the eight episodes Wickie helps Dawn become more assertive while Dawn helps Wickie become a team player.
64	** Gloria and Summer, the most overtly masculine and feminine members of the group. Gloria is a successful doctor; Summer is a ditzy housewife. Neither's marriage turned out well, but Gloria has been through divorce and is the only one to tell Summer (who is still putting up a HappyMarriageCharade) that her marriage is not long for this world and help her through the process.
65	* FollowTheLeader: An InUniverse tactic employed by Larry, to no success:
66	** In the first episode, he's trying to get a young moody wannabe singer to become "the next Music/BillieEilish" by setting up a streaming farm for her music.
67	** In "A.I.R.P.I.G.", he's trying to emulate the success of KPop by starting [=BPop=] (Bulgarian Pop) by throwing his weight behind some random Bulgarian boys he found.
68	* {{Foreshadowing}}: In the first scene of Season 3's "Maryland," Wickie is shown back in 2005 giving her mother a house with the woman trying to say "you don't have to" before Wickie cuts her off with a song. In the present, it's revealed that [[spoiler: Wickie's mother was saying her daughter didn't have to because her mom was rich enough to afford a home of her own.]]
69	* FourGirlEnsemble: The modern day lineup of [=Girls5eva=] as follows — Dawn (admirable leader), Summer (sweet & naive), Wickie (sexy one), and Gloria (snarky tomboy).
70	* FourTemperamentEnsemble: The modern day lineup of [=Girls5eva=] as follows — Dawn (phlegmatic), Gloria (melancholic), Summer (sanguine), and Wickie (choleric).
71	* FriendOrIdolDecision: In "[=Separ8=] Ways" [[spoiler:the foursome take the financially stable but unfulfilling jobs offered to them by megaproducer Nance Trace...for a while. When presented with the opportunity to reunite and perform music with each other, they take it, even if it means destroying their fledgling careers.]]
72	* TheFriendsWhoNeverHang: Of the four protagonists Wickie and Summer rarely share the screen. Justified in season 3, where Summer says she deliberately avoids being alone with Wickie because the last time they were together Summer accidentally caused her to quit the group.
73	* FunWithAcronyms:
74	** The women used to invoke "D'wasg", a term comprised of their initials (Dawn, Wickie, Ashley, Summer, and Gloria) to hype themselves up. Two decades later, Scott wonders why they didn't use "D'swag".
75	** The Association of Integrated Radio Programmers International Group (AIRPIG).
76	** When Dawn starts tripping on percocets, she sings a song where the lyrics are an acrostic for "percocet," similarly to the urban legend about how "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds" was about LSD.
77	* FunWithHomophones: Specifically Fun with ''Homonyms''[[note]]Homophones are two words that sound the same but mean different things; homonyms are a subset of those that are spelled the same as well[[/note]]. Dawn writes a song that uses multiple meanings of the word "set". What results is an exhausting monstrosity that bores the life out of everyone who listens.
78	* GiveMeASign: In the first episode, Gloria, Dawn, and Summer sit on the park bench dedicated to their deceased member Ashley and ask for a sign that they should continue with the reunion show. The construction workers across the street then proclaim that they can do a five-person job with four people, inspiring Dawn and Gloria. Summer [[TheDitz doesn't quite understand what the sign was]].
79	* TheGlassesGottaGo: In "Catskills" Summer expresses her desire to learn more by discussing this trope.
80	-->'''Summer:''' I don't want to just be the hot one. I wanna know stuff, read about stuff in books, and then, when I take my glasses off, people will say, "Oh, my God. Wow. She's also hot."
81	* GoneHorriblyRight: In Season 3, Gloria helps [[spoiler: Holland fake his death in a plane crash, convincing the world he's gone so he can live a new life as just a singer. It works, all right...with Holland's fans ("which means everyone on Earth and their moms") blame the girls for his death and vow to boycott the rest of their tour.]]
82	* HelpfulHallucination: In the fourth episode, Dawn hallucinates Music/DollyParton while trying to write a breakthrough hit. While the song she writes with "Dolly's" help is lyrically a mess, Dolly does say that it's important Dawn wrote that bad first one, because better ones are on the way.
83	* HiddenDepths: In "Catskills", the kooky owner of the [=AirBnb=] the girls stay at is a former ''Series/AmericanIdol'' winner with a killer voice.
84	* HistoryWithCelebrity: As a GirlGroup in the late '90s and early '00s, the girls mingled with several celebrities. Dawn once hooked up with Derek Jeter.
85	* ImmoralRealityShow: Wickie becomes a judge on the reality show ''American Warrior Singer'', where contestants have to sing and fight off an opponent at the same time. Some are seen exiting the stage with gruesome injuries.
86	* ImprovComedyIsInane: When the socially awkward Daphne randomly texts Dawn if she wants to start an improv group, Dawn texts back, "No thanks."
87	* InstantHumiliationJustAddYouTube: Exploited. After learning that a young man named Zander has been profiting off of lip syncing to one of Wickie's diva tirades, she and Gloria strike a deal with him. Wickie will pretend to have a meltdown onstage, and Zander's following will make his lip sync of it go viral.
88	* JerkassHasAPoint: In "Orlando," Taffy is obnoxious, self-centered, and married to a "Sweet'n'Low Daddy" purely for the money. However, she's not really a bad person and makes a good point about why people love nostalgia. She also rightly calls out Dawn for being hypocritical, since Dawn's entire role in getting the group back together is also based on nostalgia.
89	* JerkassRealization: A few times with the gals, especially "B.P.E." as Summer and Gloria remember a prank show they did they thought was hilarious. Rewatching it, Summer thinks they were too cruel to the one guy they kept pranking with Gloria brushing it off as just fun. They visit the guy, who was so shaken by the pranks that he barely leaves his home and terrified a passing cloud could be part of a prank. Watching an old awards show where she was felt up on camera, Gloria realizes how the guy must have felt exploited. She goes to apologize, which he accepts...after a "revenge prank" of blowing up her car with Gloria admitting "I deserved that."
90	* Letters2Numbers: [=Girls5eva=] has one of these names, which were popular at the time they were created.
91	* LGBTFanbase: Discussed InUniverse. While at a gay party, Summer comments on "gay icons" being women who often aren't gay themselves, as well as the attendees' "diva worship" towards Wickie, telling the others that they are drawn to divas and figures like Creator/JudyGarland because of their ability to project strength and vulnerability.
92	* LockedOutOfTheLoop: In "Who U Know," the girls think they've gotten a break being featured in Lil' Stinker's new video, thanks to self-professed publicist Wickie. They're happier when various celebrities start dropping out so they get more screen time. Then they discover why, as news is around that Lil' Stinker got high and drove his car to knock over gravestones at Arlington Cemetary.
93	-->'''Wickie''': I think part of being a publicist is having a phone.
94	* LongDistanceRelationship: Kev works in Tampa and only sees his wife Summer one weekend a month. Gloria comments that this is barely a relationship and Kev is clearly uninterested in her.
95	* TheMall: The nearby mall was once thriving but has now crumbled due to being abandoned for e-commerce.
96	-->'''Gloria:''' I bought Skechers here, like, a month ago. Oh, my God.
97	* MemeticMutation: "Cease and desist, bitch!", a line from one of Wickie's tirades, has become an InUniverse meme after Zander's lipsync of the moment went viral. Gay men come up to Wickie to say it, and Zander has been selling merchandise with the line.
98	* MistakenForCheating: Kev's suspicious behavior leads the girls to believe that he's cheating on Summer (and almost certainly with another man). His actual secret is that he's quit his job to start a hermit crab rescue shelter, which mollifies Summer for a second before Gloria points out the obvious (that Kev is still hiding from Summer whatever the reason, that their relationship has collapsed and that the shelter is a clear expression of Kev's [[{{Gayngst}} anxiety over his true sexuality]]).
99	* MockMillionaire: Wickie is actually doing much worse than the successful entrepreneur/influencer she presents herself as and her former band members who at least have relatively stable lives and careers while she works shooting geese at the airport.
100	* TheMusical: InUniverse; Wickie once led a short-lived musical adaptation of ''Film/TheMask''.
101	* MusicalPastiche: "New York Lonely Boy" is a folksy ballad that intentionally evokes Music/SimonAndGarfunkel.
102	* NWordPrivileges: Dawn (who is white) is hesitant to say the drink ''negroni'' in front of the black Wickie. Gets a CallBack in "Catskills" when she says she looked it up and she can say it because it was named for a real person (Count Camillo Negroni).
103	-->'''Wickie:''' Did you just whisper negronis?\
104	'''Dawn:''' I don't know the history of the word!
105	* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: As a satire of the music industry, it's no surprise that several characters are meant as spoofs of popular figures:
106	** Alf Musik is a clear parody of Swedish songwriter Music/MaxMartin.
107	** In "Tour Mode," Co-Z Boi is a parody of Music/PostMalone.
108	** TK in "Leave a Message If You Love Me" is obviously based on Music/{{Sia}}, though this is mentioned in the episode.
109	** Season 3's Gray Holland, a pretty-boy English pop star, is based on Music/HarryStyles. The music video of his song "Sensitive Boy" evokes Styles' "Late Night Talking".
110	* OnceMoreWithClarity: Played for laughs in "Catskills". We initially see Gloria and Caroline's reconnection through Gloria's eyes and they both appear to be having a good time. Later, however, we see the same events through Caroline's point of view, and Gloria is high-strung and unpleasant.
111	* OneHitWonder: InUniverse "[[IronicName Famous 5eva]]" was the group's only hit single in their short time together.
112	* OneSteveLimit: Summer's real name is actually Ashley, but she was advised to change it by Larry to avoid conflicting with the other member named Ashley.
113	* OnlyChildSyndrome: Scott worries about his and Dawn's son Max being an only child, fearing he'll be weird.
114	* OvershadowedByControversy: InUniverse, the reason celebrities keep dropping out of Lil' Stinker's new music video is because he's gotten terrible press from driving high through a cemetery, and nobody wants to associate with him. The girls only realize this too late, as Wickie didn't have a phone on her.
115	* ThePlace: Every episode in season 3 is [[IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming titled after]] the city the heroines are currently in.
116	* PoorCommunicationKills: The plot of the eighth episode happens because [[spoiler:Wickie saw Dawn leave Nance Trace's room and assumed she sold out. Wickie then takes Nance's job offer as well. It turned out that Dawn sold her songwriting scraps to Nance for money to invest in [=Girls5eva=].]]
117	* ThePreciousPreciousCar: Invoked. Taking a cue from one of their old songs "Carma", about destroying a boyfriend's beloved car in revenge, Summer wrecks Kev's car after she suspects him of cheating on her.
118	* PublicityStuntRelationship: Happened to more than one member of the titular girl group:
119	** Summer was initially set up with boy band member Kev by their respective teams to advertise Noxzema. They ended up with a long-running but mutually unhappy marriage.
120	** Wickie was briefly in a relationship with fellow late 90's musician Torque. She clarifies that it was PR, because Torque was HighSchoolSweethearts with his then-wife and she was boring.
121	* PuttingTheBandBackTogether: The protagonists were once a GirlGroup, and reunite twenty or so years after their breakup for a second shot at pop stardom.
122	* RebootSnark: When Dawn and the others discuss getting their original 1990s OneHitWonder GirlGroup back together for a 2020s CareerResurrection[[invoked]], their ex-manager Larry scoffs at the idea, saying they only got a little bit of airtime "because [people] have a boner for nostalgia."
123	-->'''Larry:''' They reunited ''Series/SavedByTheBell'', ''Series/KenanAndKel'', everyone from Iran-Contra.
124	* RecognitionFailure: In Season 3, Gloria sees a guy in a diner in a cap and when she comes toward him, he sighs, preparing for a reaction only to realize she has zero clue he's Gary Holland, a huge music star. In fact, Episode 4 opens with ''Access Hollywood" anchors talking of "literally everyone on the planet knows who Gary Holland is" and then GilliganCut to Gloria meeting her "trucker" pal with Gary happy to get along with someone who isn't awed by his fame.
125	-->'''Wickie:''' Jesus, Gloria! That's not some rando. That's Gray freaking Holland.\
126	'''Gloria:''' You mean, like the singer? You know that I don't memorize men's faces.
127	* RedHerring: In "Leave a Message If You Love Me," Dawn becomes convinced that Ashley is alive and performing as the mysterious TK. [[spoiler: It turns out that's not true, and TK is a completely different person who complains that everyone uses her to fuel conspiracies that their missing loved ones are alive.]]
128	* RooftopConcert: Parodied. The group try to stage a roof concert in season 2 to drum up publicity for their album drop. Wickie gets the idea from the "lunch lord" she's dating, though she protests that it's been done a million times before. It doesn't go well.
129	-->'''Reporter:''' In feel bad news, reunited girl group [=Girls5eva=] violated several FAA regulations attempting to be like Music/{{the Beatles}} from the Beatles documentary. Now, I don't like to editorialize, so I'll just reserve my opinions about just how basic that is.
130	* RunningGag:
131	** The soda fountain in the Solano restaurant dispenses red wine, which gets used multiple times throughout the series.
132	** Dawn and Scott watch a lot of prestige TV, but the snippets of dialogue and plotlines shown to the audience are always parodic, if not outright terrible. For example, when watching ''Series/{{Succe\|ssion}}'' -- er, ''Business Throne'' in season 2: "If I could go back in time, I would have blasted on your mother's stomach. Fuck off, son." The fake season of ''Series/TheCrown2016'' in season 3 places disproportionate focus on Prince Andrew's stuffed animal obsession.
133	* {{Sampling}}: The plot of the series is set into motion when [=Girls5eva=]'s hit song is sampled by a young rapper who invites them to perform with him on ''Series/TheTonightShowStarringJimmyFallon''.
134	* SelfParody: The songs Dawn initially writes sound a lot like her actress Music/SaraBareilles's music (sweeping, piano-based ballads), except with totally ridiculous lyrics.
135	* SequelHook: In the last moments of the first season finale, Gloria brings up her suspicion that Ashley faked her death.
136	* SexWithTheEx: In one episode Gloria hooks up with her ex-wife Caroline, who admits the sex was great but she has no desire to get back together with her.
137	* ShoutOut: The series has many references to [=1990s=], [=2010s=] and [=2020s=] pop culture due to being about women who were briefly famous in the '90s and are trying to make it again in the 2020s. So many that [[ShoutOut/Girls5eva it's got its own page]].
138	* ShowWithinAShow: Dawn and Scott regularly watch ''Business Throne'', [[Series/{{Succession}} a drama about a dysfunctional rich corporation family]]. Details include a blustering Scottish patriarch (like Logan) and a son who "always goes rogue" (like Kendall).
139	* SitcomArchnemesis: Larry eventually becomes this to the group. Girls5Eva's goal is to succeed without him, and when he shows up, it's usually to present an obstacle for them to overcome. [[spoiler: In the second season, he starts managing a boy band called Collab on the same label.]]
140	* SpitTake: {{Invoked}} by Wickie and {{lampshaded}} by Dawn:
141	-->'''Wickie:''' Dawn, please spit take on my behalf.\
142	'''Dawn:''' ''(does a spit take)'' How did I do that? I'm not drinking anything.
143	* StylisticSuck:
144	** Most of the girls' old songs. They are generally good singers but the songs have basic production standards and lyrics that range from generic to problematic. Justified as Larry never saw them as anything but a cynical cash grab and so didn't care about anything else with flashbacks showing that some of the songs didn't even have proper spelling for lyrics.
145	** Wickie's solo album was also rushed, to the point of her singing placeholder lyrics during a live performance until she received said lyrics.
146	* SubvertedRhymeEveryOccasion: the full length version of "Famous 5eva" includes the lines:
147	-->Playing with our brand new flip phones
148	-->Texting with our '''friends'''
149	--> See the new ink on our hip bones
150	--> That's where our story '''begins'''
151	* UnfortunateNames: Wickie's beloved transparent piano is named Ghislaine. She refuses to rename it even after the name became tied to Ghislaine Maxwell[[note]]a noted associate of Jeffrey Epstein[[/note]].
152	* UnusualEuphemism: Gloria calls genitals "09s" as a labored pun on the Music/TommyTutone song "867-5309/Jenny" (because genitals are "gennies").
153	* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: In a Season 3 flashback, it's revealed how Summer's attempt to give Wickie a pep talk on how great a talent she was only inspired Wickie to decide to leave the group for a solo career with Summer basically blaming herself for everything that happened to the band afterward.
154	* UranusIsShowing: "Space Boys" has the girls mention they looked for boys on Mars, Venus, Jupiter, Neptune, and Pluto, then checked "one more planet" and found space boys. Sure, they ''could'' refer to Mercury, but given the show's humor[[note]]as well as the earlier mention of the "planet full of girls," which could allude to the Mercury symbol being similar to the Venus symbol for women, while the Uranus symbol is similar to the Mars symbol for men[[/note]], the implication is that the boys are on Uranus.
155	* {{WPUN}}: Kev works as a host on the ridiculous-sounding WTIT.
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