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| 3 | ->''"From the ABC Broadcast Center in UsefulNotes/{{New York|City}}, it's the TV Tropes Creator/DanaCarvey Show!"'' |
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| 5 | ''The Dana Carvey Show'' ran for eight episodes, seven of which originally aired on [[Creator/AmericanBroadcastingCompany ABC]] in 1996. The short-lived sketch comedy helped launch the careers of Creator/SteveCarell and Creator/StephenColbert, while also introducing television audiences to The Ambiguously Gay Duo, which would later achieve fame on ''Series/SaturdayNightLive''. |
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| 8 | !!The TV Tropes Dana Carvey Show would like to present "trope examples": |
| 9 | * BitingTheHandHumor: Several jokes and pot-shots were made at the network executives following the show's disastous opening. |
| 10 | * {{Crossover}}: "We now rejoin the one man show ''Creator/MarkTwain Tonight'', as performed by STOMP, already in progress." |
| 11 | * DeterioratesIntoGibberish: This happens in a sketch of a ''Series/TheTonightShow'' interview between Creator/JayLeno and Creator/QuentinTarantino. |
| 12 | * TheEponymousShow |
| 13 | * ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: Many of the sketch titles. "Germans Who Say Nice Things" and "Waiters Who Are Nauseated by Food" come to mind. |
| 14 | * FishOutOfWater: DavidBrinkley on a roller coaster |
| 15 | * LaughingAtYourOwnJokes: Carvey and Carell often play pranksters who pay people for service, then quickly run/drive away before being served. Cut to them laughing their heads off. |
| 16 | * NoIndoorVoice: The Germans who Say Nice Things |
| 17 | --> One German: "OUR FRIENDSHIP IS VERY IMPORTANT TO ME!" |
| 18 | --> Another German: "LET'S ALL PILE INTO THE MINIVAN AND GO GET SOME FROZEN YOGURT!" |
| 19 | * ProductPlacement: Every episode had a new title sponsor, getting more esoteric as the ratings fell to the point a local restaurant was apart of the name of the show. |
| 20 | * ProductPlacementName: The first five episodes all had Pepsi subsidiaries within the show's title. (e.g., Taco Bell for Episode 1, Mug Root Beer for Episode 2, Mountain Dew Episode 3, Diet Mug Root Beer Episode 4, Pepsi Stuff Episode 5) Plus a local Chinese restaurant for Episode 6. |
| 21 | * RefugeInAudacity: The very first episode opens with a skit of then-president UsefulNotes/BillClinton (played by Carvey) breastfeeding, and it just gets crazier from there. |
| 22 | * SpecialGuest: Creator/PhilHartman in Episode 3, Creator/JanHooks in Episode 4. |
| 23 | * ThisJustIn: One sketch has Carvey as Creator/TomBrokaw rehearse for a news promo in case UsefulNotes/GeraldFord dies. Since this episode didn't air, [[PopularityRedo it was recycled]] for when Carvey hosted SNL. |
| 24 | --> '''Carvey:''' Gerald Ford is dead today and I'm gay. |
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