Line #14 Series/FindingPrinceCharming


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4	''Finding Prince Charming'' is a [[RealityShow reality dating show]] on Creator/{{LOGO}}.
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6	Hosted by Creator/LanceBass, it could be easily summed up as "Gay [[Series/TheBachelor Bachelor]]'', featuring {{cast full of gay}} men vying for the affections of their titular PrinceCharming through a series of challenges and one-on-one time with him.
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8	Season one's Prince Charming is [[LatinLover Robert Sepulveda Jr.]], an interior designer from UsefulNotes/{{Atlanta}}, Georgia. A second season was announced and voting on some the suitors to appear was even held online, but since then any news of the second season has been nonexistent and show has been assumed to have been quietly cancelled.
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10	''Finding Prince Charming'' is notable for being the first gay reality dating show on American television, Bravo's ''Boy Meets Boy'' [[note]]which saw straight men competing alongside gay men for money rather than love[[/note]] a decade earlier notwithstanding.
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13	!! ''Finding Prince Charming'' provides examples of the following tropes:
14	* AllGaysArePromiscuous: Averted by many of the suitors, who claim to be monogamous and relationship-oriented. Some might argue, however, that the trope was played straight (pun not intended) with Prince Charming himself.
15	* BalancedHarem: A rare all-male version of this trope.
16	* BlackDudeDiesFirst: [[spoiler:Brodney is technically the third suitor eliminated, but he's still gone by the end of the first episode regardless]].
17	** Also features an aversion of this trope as [[spoiler:Dillon made it to the final three before quitting]].
18	* BeachEpisode: The second episode of season two sees everybody spending time with Robert at the beach.
19	* BitchInSheepsClothing: Dillon.
20	* BreakoutCharacter: Robby quickly became a favorite with his bubbly personality and witticisms.
21	* CastFullOfGay: Naturally, given the premise. Lance Bass makes a point of spelling it out in the premiere episode, knowing some viewers may remember the aforementioned ''Boy Meets Boy'', which was only ''kind'' of a gay dating show.
22	* ConfessionCam: Like most other competitive reality shows.
23	* HaremSeeker: Prince Charming. Robert is season one's.
24	* HopelessSuitor: Robert's reason for joining the show. Many of the contestants are also here for that same reason.
25	* ImNotHereToMakeFriends: Invoked by X in the season one premiere, telling Robert this verbatim while trying to steal some time alone with him.
26	* LoverTugOfWar: As per the norm with these reality dating shows. It's twelve guys competing for the attention of one man.
27	* MonochromeCasting: It's too early to tell whether or not this show will fall into the racist pitfalls of ''Series/TheBachelor'' and its spin-offs, but for what it's worth, Robert himself is of [[UsefulNotes/PuertoRico Puerto Rican]] descent. That said, [[spoiler: the first elimination saw one of the cast's few black men being given the boot]].
28	* MrFanservice: While just about every guy on this show is attractive in their own way, they ''all'' regard Robert in this way.
29	* MyNaymeIs: Jasen's uncommon spelling of the name "Jason."
30	* PoolScene: Did you ''really'' think a show with this many attractive gay men would make it past the first episode without [[WalkingShirtlessScene gratuitous swimsuit shots]] of its participants?
31	* RealityShowGenreBlindness: Many of the suitors are ''totally'' off-base about Robert's feelings toward them at any given moment.
32	** Particularly egregious with [[spoiler:Chad, who dramatically shouted "I don't do players!" upon quitting the show. Whether he was emotionally imbalanced or just didn't quite understand the presence will never be understood.]]
33	* RealityTVShowMansion: One filled with attractive gay men, in this case.
34	* TheReveal: [[spoiler:One of the suitors, Eric, reveals he is HIV positive.]]
35	* SpitefulSpit: Sam during a particularly nasty argument with Dillon. Afterward, [[spoiler:Sam quits the show]].
36	* TakeThisJobAndShoveIt: [[spoiler:Three of the suitors - Sam, Chad, and Dillon - end up quitting the series voluntarily. Chad's "I quit" moment is particularly fiery, as he flings down his tie at Robert's feet and tells him, "I don't do players."]]
37	* TokenMinority: Brodney, Danique, and Dillon are the only non-white suitors in the first season. Brandon is Latino, but fairly light-skinned and could be mistaken for white.
38	* WeHardlyKnewYe: [[spoiler:Charlie, Nick, and Brodney are the first three suitors eliminated in episode one]].

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