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| 2 | [[caption-width-right:315:Ladies and gentlemen, it's ''The Eric Andre Show''![[note]] And yes, he ''is'' attempting to interview the fire.[[/note]]]] |
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| 4 | ->''"AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!"'' '''[[TrashTheSet *CRASH*]]''' |
| 5 | -->-- '''Eric Andre''' rampaging on his own set [[OnceAnEpisode at the start of each episode]] |
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| 7 | ''The Eric Andre Show'' is a "talk show" that airs on Creator/AdultSwim, created, written and hosted by actor, comedian, and all-around [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} crazy person]] Creator/EricAndre, with various fellow comedians as co-hosts. We use the term "talk show" loosely since it barely begins to capture the essence of what this show truly is -- imagine a [[JustForFun/RecycledInSpace live-action]] ''WesternAnimation/SpaceGhostCoastToCoast'', but a hundred times crazier.[[note]]Andre has even noted ''Space Ghost'' as one of his influences for coming up with the idea for his show.[[/note]] |
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| 9 | The crux of the show is in its interviews of celebrity guests (who are totally unaware of what they're supposed to expect 90% of the time), engineered to be as bizarre as possible. During the interviews, Eric will almost always go off on unrelated tangents, just not pay attention at all while random and absurd things happen, spring crass and explicit jokes on the fly to gross out his captive audience, or just go berserk without warning and attack whatever thing in the room makes him the angriest at the moment, be it furniture, equipment, or person. |
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| 11 | The show's primary co-host for its first four seasons was Creator/HannibalBuress, who helped co-create the show with Andre. After leaving the show early in its fifth season, the show has rotated through a variety of co-hosts, including Hannibal's "clone" Blannibal,[[note]]Played by actor and musician James Hazley[[/note]] comedian Felipe Esparza, and [[BlatantLies "Reese Witherspoon."]][[note]]Played by comedian Kyle Bostic in a wig[[/note]] |
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| 13 | These co-hosts only add to the surrealism of the show, tending to fill the roles of {{Cloudcuckoolander}} and StraightMan ''simultaneously.'' Further chaos is induced through recurring elements including sketches, [[CandidCameraPrank candid camera]] street pranks and monologues courtesy of Eric, and the show's set. The set is specifically designed to keep the guests not exactly relaxed, in ways such as putting a heater in the guest's seat beforehand or spraying water all over the guest. Eric also has a habit of wrecking the set at the start of every episode (after which it gets magically fixed by stagehands). |
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| 15 | The show premiered in 2012 and ran for four seasons until fall 2016, with a TV special in Paris later airing in early 2018. In late 2019, a fifth season was officially announced; it premiered on October 25, 2020 and ran until November 22. In late 2022, the show was renewed for a sixth season, which premiered on June 4, 2023. |
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| 17 | !!Trope me, brotendo. |
| 18 | * ActuallyPrettyFunny: Some of the guests or people in the street segments with a good sense of humor will actually laugh at the nonsense happening around them: |
| 19 | ** Creator/RaymondCruz is probably the best example, even cracking a clever pun during his interview. |
| 20 | ** At the end of the "Octopus" segment, when Eric and his tentacles surround a man who apparently has nobody else to eat with and start chanting [[ComedicSociopathy "ARE YOU LONELY? ARE YOU LONELY?"]] at him, the camera zooms in to show that the man in question has a small smirk on his face. |
| 21 | * AdamWesting: Music/HenryRollins pops up to deliver the full force of his intimidating stage presence in a screaming monologue... [[MundaneMadeAwesome about frozen yogurt.]] |
| 22 | * AndIMustScream: Eric seems to be in this situation. One monologue has him asking Hannibal how to escape the show, falling into a void only to reappear on stage, and then screaming for help as occult symbols flash on the screen, implying that he is doomed to forever host the show in some sort of personal hell. |
| 23 | * AntiHumor: On the few occasions where Eric attempts to do a normal talk show monologue, his jokes are staggeringly unfunny. The [[LaughTrack audience]] is always reduced to [[DissonantLaughter hysterics]] anyway. |
| 24 | * AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Hannibal is repeatedly shown to be much more rich and successful than Eric. For example, during the time Hannibal was the main host of the show he opens the episode with a one liner that not only reduces the whole audience into hysterics, but also causes him to spontaneously win several awards as "Best Talk Show Host" and "Best Talk Show Co-Host". Eric is understandably peeved at his success. |
| 25 | * AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: Hannibal's father (inexplicably a white man with [[FanDisservice his penis hanging out]]) randomly appears during his interview with Creator/NickCannon to half-heartedly apologize for not being there for him. Hannibal is appropriately non-plussed. |
| 26 | * ApatheticCitizens: Apparently, [[BystanderSyndrome absolutely no one on the street]] thinks it would be a good idea to intervene when Eric is [[ItMakesSenseInContext beating the shit out of Santa Claus.]] |
| 27 | * ArtisticLicenseGunSafety: Of all the places you'd expect to see this, this one is impressively averted in the famous "Who killed Hannibal?" gag. Eric doesn't point the gun at anything ''besides'' Hannibal, and after running the mag dry, he reloads with his finger off the trigger and the muzzle pointed downwards. Eric Andre practicing proper gun safety while gunning his friend down for no reason [[RuleOfFunny is much funnier than him being careless in doing so.]] |
| 28 | * AxCrazy: Eric, in every intro. |
| 29 | * BaitAndSwitch: Pretty much the entire point of the show. It's set up for unknowing celebrities to come on expecting a relatively ordinary talk show, while the actual content of the show is...[[StylisticSuck not]] [[SurrealHumor that.]] |
| 30 | * BattleOfTheBands: One episode ends with a bass-off between Music/{{Thundercat}} and Hannibal 9000...the latter of whom does nothing other than move his head in contrast to the former's complex bass licks. And then "Hannibal's dad" enters [[FanDisservice pantsless]], calmly breaks it up and hugs Thundercat, much to Thundercat's dismay. |
| 31 | * BeatThemAtTheirOwnGame: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHX0kR58Y1w Dennis Rodman]] is, and remains, possibly the only guest ever on the show to be so weird that ''Eric and Hannibal'' are the ones left feeling confused and uncomfortable. |
| 32 | * BilingualBonus: Music/JayZ mostly talks in untranslated Cantonese, with some broken English mixed in. |
| 33 | * BlackComedy: One of the street skits has Eric take a suitcase out onto a busy street...but with a human hand emerging from the open zipper and a woman audibly sobbing inside as Eric repeatedly insists to the horrified passers-by that [[BlatantLies there's nothing weird about his suitcase.]] |
| 34 | * BlackComedyRape: The ending of Creator/RaymondCruz's interview. |
| 35 | ** The end of Creator/HaleyJoelOsment's interview has Eric announce that it's time to play "forced to orgasm". The scene cuts off before it goes any further. |
| 36 | * BlackIsBiggerInBed: Apparently, UsefulNotes/BarackObama is, at least according to that sexually explicit picture of him that Eric has [[RunningGag repeatedly shown]] to his female guests. |
| 37 | * BlandNameProduct: |
| 38 | ** Eric has, erm, "advertised" Sudway sandwiches and Spiite soda before. |
| 39 | ** During his appearance on the show, Wink Martindale took time out to shill Scoap mouthwash. |
| 40 | * BlatantLies: |
| 41 | ** Some of the guests clearly aren't who Eric says they are, but he treats them as if they were the real deal anyway. For example, Creator/RussellBrand is an elderly shirtless Ethiopian man, Creator/ReeseWitherspoon is a black guy wearing a wig, Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger is comedian Bruce Vilanch riding a motor scooter, Music/{{Beyonce}} and Music/JayZ appearing together as a white red-headed woman and a short Asian man respectively, and UsefulNotes/JoeBiden is a cooked duck hanging from a string on the ceiling with a cutout of Joe Biden's face glued to its head. |
| 42 | ** For a non-celebrity example, there's the time when a random old ''white'' man walks out on stage [[FanDisservice with his penis hanging out]] and claims to be Hannibal's father and the time another old white man was introduced by Eric as Music/TylerTheCreator's dad. |
| 43 | ** Eric also likes to make up stuff about his guests to annoy them. Like accusing them of making a racist post on Twitter or something just as incredulous. Such as on [[Series/JerseyShore Pauly D]]'s interview: |
| 44 | -->'''Eric''': Your mom is Paula Deen? |
| 45 | -->'''Pauly D''': Who said that? |
| 46 | -->'''Eric''': That's what it says on my notes. ''(camera cuts to show Eric's "notes" are just a bunch of flashcards with [[RefugeInAudacity swastikas]] crudely drawn on them)'' |
| 47 | ** There was also the one time Eric claimed to have footage of Creator/KrystenRitter's new movie, much to Krysten's confusion. Said footage was actually [[spoiler:[[ShockSite 2 Girls 1 Cup]]]]. |
| 48 | * BloodyHilarious: Just about every time Eric or Hannibal [[NegativeContinuity kills or injures]] the other or himself. |
| 49 | * BodyHorror: See TeleporterAccident below. |
| 50 | * BoundAndGagged: Unlike other celebrity guests, Music/RickSpringfield is wheeled in, apparently kidnapped, tied up and with a cloth over his mouth (which is taken off afterwards), solely so Eric and Hannibal can beat him up. He remains like this for the last segment of the episode. |
| 51 | * BreakoutCharacter: Occasionally parodied with Hannibal, who has at various points entered the stage to raucous applause (compared to the tepid claps Eric gets), won the award for best talk show while filling in as host for Eric, received his own spin-off series where he travels to Japan, and had his reality show ''Snail Down!'', a competitor to Eric's ''Bird Up!'', get greenlit for several seasons within ''seconds'' of premiering. Of course, in the cases of both the latter examples, his shows end up getting cancelled before getting past the opening credits. |
| 52 | * BreakTheCutie: Creator/JackMcBrayer's appearance on the show. Known for being one of the most chipper, nicest guys in the business, it seems like Eric and co went out of their way to pull out no stops with the SurrealHorror on the poor guy. |
| 53 | * BreathlessNonSequitur: Eric does this constantly to confuse his interview subjects. |
| 54 | * BrickJoke: During the Creator/LanceReddick episode, Reddick delivers his iconic [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OC5NgvAnVY "I wish I were LeVar Burton" monologue]]. Two seasons later, it comes full circle once Creator/LeVarBurton himself cameos and says, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAsf9OXSynE "I wish I was Lance Reddick."]] |
| 55 | * TheBusCameBack: Creator/GeorgeClooney, Creator/ReeseWitherspoon, and Creator/RussellBrand (not the celebrities, but the weirdos who have their names) return in season 5 after being last seen in season 3. Hannibal [[spoiler:and Blannibal return after leaving the show, with Hannibal revealing that he was a figment of Eric's imagination]]. |
| 56 | * ButtMonkey: Eric. |
| 57 | ** That poor, ''poor'' drummer. |
| 58 | ** As of Season 4, Kraft Punk is turning into this. Every time he comes on camera Hannibal and Eric run him off and hurl insults at him. |
| 59 | ** The naked PA, who exists solely to be tormented by Eric. |
| 60 | * CallBack: Early in Season 2 there was an extremely uncomfortable interview with Eric Balfour from ''Series/{{Haven}}'' where Eric asked if he'd ever slept with any "Oriental background actresses". A few episodes later, Eric mentioned meeting up with some Oriental background actresses during one of the "Ranch It Up" segments. |
| 61 | * CallingTheOldManOut: Hannibal does this when his "dad" crashes the show. |
| 62 | --> "You haven't been in my life at all! AND I'M INTERVIEWING [[Creator/NickCannon NICK CANNON]], [[StealthInsult FORMER R. KELLY COLLABORATOR]], AND STAGE HANDS LET YOU WALK IN HERE [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext WITH YOUR DICK OUT]]!" |
| 63 | * {{Calvinball}}: A running gag is Eric making his guests play nonsensical games during interviews for the sake of tormenting them. Most notable is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h58BN-w-lxg Rapper Warrior Ninja]], where contestants had to freestyle rap during an obstacle course for Eric and Hannibal's amusement. |
| 64 | * TheCameo: |
| 65 | ** [[Music/FallOutBoy Pete Wentz]] appears for a few seconds at the end of the Lorenzo Lamas episode to deliver AnAesop and walk away. |
| 66 | ** Creator/ChrisRock briefly appears near the end of the Season 3 finale as the director of the "Bird Up!" segments. |
| 67 | ** [[Music/SkidRow Sebastian Bach]] barges into the Music/DemiLovato interview to plant his leg on the desk and ask the visibly confused woman if she likes his hair, before leaving moments later. |
| 68 | ** Creator/JohnKricfalusi shows up in the New Year's Halloween Spooktacular, doodling on a large canvas in the background. |
| 69 | ** Adam Conover of ''Series/AdamRuinsEverything'' appears in one of the Season 5 intros, explaining how [[CaptainObvious the set being destroyed by Eric isn't real and only designed to be destroyed.]] Eric then proceeds to [[DisproportionateRetribution throw him over the desk and beat him to death.]] |
| 70 | ** Music/{{Lizzo}} also appears to put her own spin on "Bird Up!", performing a segment called "Bird Down" in Eric's place. |
| 71 | * CandidCameraPrank: A lot of them, including but not limited to Eric [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxwU_Avq2qY having sex on a bed in a store]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_URCSCFZ0Sg pretending to scalp himself]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnIqhU-3gfI setting up a smoothie stand]] and [[spoiler:sticking his hand in the blender]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85H6M599qBM dressing up as a construction worker and faking being electrocuted]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pROomL6IiOw destroying a "NYPD car"]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAeQJKw2_Fs dragging around a suitcase with a crying woman trapped inside]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQzteyXbqNg breaking into a dojo to deliver a "pizza ball"]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdba3P7Rtws taking pictures of a fashion model while wearing cyclops prosthetics]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yet2Q0M32GQ becoming a black scientologist]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uA3D1UtSSQo destroying an art gallery]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IRVUocP1_c running from a bunch of guys dressed as him]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPRKbdMKObc pretending to be blind and swinging a walking stick around a lightbulb shop]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UlXcoVHnog turning his body into a Froot Loops communion]], and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fm-xSSARyo making out with a cop who has just apprehended him]]. Some of the most popular ones have to be "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6A_lSlD8sM Ranch It Up!]]" and "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxR50HxH48E Bird Up!]]". |
| 72 | ** Even Kraft Punk got in on the fun with his prank show ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucpOQYJICYI Kraft Punk'd]]'' (or ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9r0egZH7tU Kraft Dunk'd]]''). |
| 73 | * CaptainErsatz: Kraft Punk is designed after the members of Music/DaftPunk, robot helmet and all. |
| 74 | * CarefulWithThatAxe: One of the guest performers on the show was Eric himself. His performance consisted of him manically screaming into the microphone over a jazz drum solo. |
| 75 | * CargoShip: InUniverse. Eric apparently [[BlackComedyRape raped his desk.]] |
| 76 | * CasanovaWannabe: Eric frequently hits on his attractive female guests, but they're inevitably far too distracted by the absurd, vulgar, or disturbing madness going on around them to respond well to his advances. |
| 77 | ** Notably averted with Amber Rose, as she [[RefugeInAudacity actually briefly hooked up with him for a while in real life]] after her "interview". |
| 78 | ** Hannibal, for once, made a few lame attempts at flirting with Krysten Ritter during her interview, which [[ActuallyPrettyFunny got her to crack up.]] |
| 79 | * CatchPhrase: |
| 80 | ** "''Time for some RANCH!''" |
| 81 | ** "You guys are watchin' ''Bird Up!'', the ''worst'' show on television!" |
| 82 | ** During interviews, Eric likes to say "I want you to have sex with my wife." and "You seem like the kind of woman who likes Doritos." as a quick way of confusing the person he's speaking to. |
| 83 | * CensoredForComedy: Hannibal signing the lyrics to "Hard in da Paint" by Music/WakaFlockaFlame, where the most offensive lines are beeped out but ''not'' the [[NWordPrivileges multiple N Words]]. |
| 84 | * ChestOfMedals: Hannibal's Brother has this even though he's a WalkingShirtlessScene. |
| 85 | * ChewingTheScenery: More like "violently destroy the scenery with a baseball bat" (which, on this show, is often a LiteralMetaphor).There will always be at least one person per segment (sometimes Eric, sometimes a random stagehand or extra) who is [[LargeHam living LARGE]] and doesn't care who sees it. [[NoIndoorVoice Hannibal's brother]] is probably the best example. |
| 86 | * TheChewToy: |
| 87 | ** Street Correspondent Paul Littleson appears a few times, in all of them, he is being hurt in a mundane but funny way. |
| 88 | ** Again, as it bears repeating, but that poor, ''poor'' goddamn drummer. |
| 89 | ** And, of course, there's the Naked PA. |
| 90 | * ChingChong: When Eric reads what he claims to be a tweet from Amber Rose: |
| 91 | -->'''Eric:''' "Ching chong ching chong. Go back to your country." |
| 92 | -->'''Amber:''' That's a fuckin' lie. I never said that! |
| 93 | -->'''Eric:''' Why would you say something so controversial, yet so brave? |
| 94 | * ChubbyChaser: Hannibal appears to be this, as he was once confronted in the middle of the Asa Akira interview by an ex who was fairly hefty. On another occasion, he was [[DistractedByTheSexy distracted from an urgent phone call with Eric]] by an ''extremely'' heavy BigBeautifulWoman taking off her robe in front of him ([[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext to reveal a gangster-themed]] WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext novelty t-shirt]]). The same woman would later show up (wearing the same Looney Tunes t-shirt, no less) in the Ryan Kwanten interview to accuse Hannibal of cheating on her and then make out with him for almost the entire rest of the segment. |
| 95 | * ChurchOfHappyology: Addressed directly by name in the Black Scientologists skit. |
| 96 | * CleanPrettyChildbirth: Averted when [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext Eric's desk has a baby]], which comes out covered in amniotic fluid. |
| 97 | * CloudCuckooland: The set of the show itself starting in Season 2; [[WordOfGod Eric himself]] credits a dream sequence in ''Series/TwinPeaks'' as an inspiration for the set. Lampshaded by [[Music/TheRoots Questlove]]: |
| 98 | -->'''Questlove''': "...What is this place?" |
| 99 | * CloudCuckoolander: Eric, and fake Creator/RussellBrand in spades. Some of the guests can act this way as well.(Hannibal is generally the voice of comparative, critical reason.) The drummer in season 4 is pretty strange as well. |
| 100 | * ComedicSociopathy: All over the place, with Eric as the most frequent victim. |
| 101 | * TheComicallySerious: The producer, who's often seen on the backstage with a complete deadpan reaction at the antics going on in the show or even joining in on the antics himself (like randomly firing a gun during an interview) still with a complete deadpan reaction. |
| 102 | * ContinuityNod: The New York interview has Eric call back to the incident where Hannibal kicked [[Music/PublicEnemy Flavor Flav]] in the face, remarking how funny it was that Flavor Flav "took it like a little bitch." |
| 103 | * CoolVsAwesome: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fG9JbqcC-i8 Eric vs.]] Creator/NardwuarTheHumanServiette, each fighting to get the other one to break character. More than a few [=YouTube=] commenters have not-inaccurately compared it to a [[HamToHamCombat battle between two Greek gods.]] |
| 104 | * CostumeEvolution: In the first season, Eric wore a causal outfit consisting of a light grey t-shirt, black jeans, and a dark-grey/brown suit blazer. The next season had him wear a light grey suit with a green tie with a woven basket pattern on it. He wears the same suit in season three, but with a different blue and black tie and a hairstyle made to resemble Katt Williams. In the fourth season, he wears the grey suit once more, but with a white pleated dress shirt and a gold bowtie; he's also brought back his afro, but in a more clumped, dread-like style and now has severely uncut fingernails. In the fifth season, almost all of his body hair is shaved off and he's gained considerable weight, as well as being far tanner; he now wears a gaudy cream colored suit with floral patterns etched on to the blazer. |
| 105 | * CouchGag: Eric destroying the set during the introduction sequence has different actions per episode, with the scenes being inter-cut in the middle of Eric's rampage. All of these sequences end with the set repairing itself and Hannibal walking on-set, oblivious to what just happened. |
| 106 | * CrazyPrepared: The ''stagehands''. One imagines they have a warehouse full of desks at the ready, because each one is promptly replaced the ''moment'' that Eric breaks it. |
| 107 | * CreativeDifferences: InUniverse: Parodied when Hannibal joins Eric’s new band, Kuwait Grips, only to quit less than a minute later in order to go in his own musical direction. Namely, combining scatting and autotune. |
| 108 | * CringeComedy: Most of the guest segments. Especially Tatanya Ali and Creator/{{Sinbad}}. The show is basically half this and half SurrealHumor. |
| 109 | ** The street segments in Season 2 take this up to eleven. |
| 110 | * {{Cuckold}}: "I want you to have sex with my wife" seems to be one of Eric's go-to phrases, using it on both men and women. |
| 111 | * DancePartyEnding: Music/TylerTheCreator's interview ends with him, Eric, and a random guy breaking out in dance after the random guy demands to "investigate 311". |
| 112 | * DeadpanSnarker: Hannibal, usually in response to Eric's attempts at telling jokes. |
| 113 | * DeathSeeker: Eric attempts to kill himself more than a few times. |
| 114 | * DeconstructiveParody: Of late-night, mid-90s public access talk shows. Imagine the comedy talk show from Hell, and that's pretty much it. Eric specifically stated in an interview with Creator/LarryKing that he set out to make the [[StylisticSuck worst talk show of all time.]] |
| 115 | * DepravedKidsShowHost: Hannibal as the Safety Stegosaurus who proceeds to make kids recite disturbing phrases like "I don't wanna die", eat directly out of a garbage can in front all of them, and then vomit afterwards. |
| 116 | * DespairEventHorizon: |
| 117 | ** He often intends to inflict this on his interviewees; of note is Creator/{{Sinbad}} during the "Wheel of Prizes" segment, in which he becomes so tired of the never-ending wheel spinning[[labelnote:*]]Eric mentioned behind the scenes that the wheel actually spun for about ''thirty minutes'' before Sinbad intervened[[/labelnote]] he ends up stopping the wheel himself on "Move to North Korea", just to make it end. |
| 118 | --> '''Sinbad''': I'll just move to North Korea. I just-I'll just move to North Korea, ok? |
| 119 | ** Rory Scovel crosses it while showing us how to cook like a pro, going into a nihilistic monologue about TheNothingAfterDeath before crushing glass into his face, pushing the table to the floor, and collapsing on the floor while crying. |
| 120 | --> '''Eric:''' Yeah, uh... can't wait to try that at home. |
| 121 | * DirtyOldMan: Fake Creator/GeorgeClooney is both this and a DepravedBisexual. |
| 122 | * DissonantLaughter: The "studio audience" responds to almost everything that happens on set, be it [[VulgarHumor obscene acts of vulgarity]], spontaneous violence, frequently naked cast members or [[AntiHumor staggeringly]] [[SoUnfunnyItsFunny unfunny jokes]] with bouts of raucous laughter, which makes the whole thing even more surreal. |
| 123 | * DistantFinale[=/=]DownerEnding: Parodied at the end of the first season. [[spoiler:R.I.P. Eric Andre (1983–2028)]] |
| 124 | * {{Doppelganger}}: Creator/JamesVanDerBeek and [[Series/JerseyShore Pauly D's]] interviews have Eric summon identically-dressed doppelgangers of him, Hannibal, and ''James and Pauly themselves'', who stand next to and copy everything that their respective original does. The Jillian Barberie-Michaels interview also has a similar premise, only it involved Eric ripping apart his desk to reveal a pair of dwarves dressed as Eric and Jillian conducting an interview, complete with miniaturized furniture. |
| 125 | * DudeNotFunny: InUniverse; Hannibal is constantly calling Eric out on this. |
| 126 | * DropTheCow: Happens whenever that episode's guest has become just a bit ''too'' comfortable. Usually arriving in the form of Eric or a random stagehand beating the other up or [[NegativeContinuity getting shot]]. Creator/JackMcBrayer notably gets a ''gauntlet'' of these during his interview; a man in white facepaint bursts through Eric's desk and yells at Jack about prices, a row of firecrackers detonate on-stage, and someone begins ''primally screaming'' backstage that leaves poor Jack a nervous wreck for the remainder of the interview. Creator/JoeyFatone, for his part, had one happen right at the end of his interview, when a motorcyclist suddenly crashed into Eric's desk. |
| 127 | * DroneOfDread: One suddenly takes over the soundtrack when [[Music/TheRoots Questlove]] makes the mistake of saying "Questlove's in the house." |
| 128 | * DumbassHasAPoint: Once in a blue moon, Eric will suddenly make a genuine point amid his usual nonsense which is equal parts shocking and hilarious for the sheer MoodWhiplash factor of it all. See TakeThat for an example. |
| 129 | * TheEeyore: The black saxophonist, who often has a mopey expression. |
| 130 | * EekAMouse: Stacey Dash has nearly this exact reaction when she notices the rats emerging from Eric's desk. |
| 131 | * EldritchAbomination: The Octopus, who is covered in poison (or as the French say, ''[[ElSpanisho la poison]]''), has a HiveMind with its tentacles, and believes Creator/BillCosby is innocent. |
| 132 | * EldritchLocation: The set itself, which has been repeatedly hinted to be some kind of nightmarish Hell where Eric is trapped and forced to reenact public access talk show programs forever. |
| 133 | * ElectricTorture: Creator/JackBlack has a shock collar strapped to his wrist and is forced to answer questions and is shocked whether or not he tells the truth. |
| 134 | --> '''Eric:''' You're well known in Hollywood... as a liar. |
| 135 | * EveryoneHasStandards: |
| 136 | ** In the "Who Can Hold the Most Babies?" sketch, Eric is clearly [[CringeComedy just as uncomfortable as the people in the sketch]] and completely breaks character, saying, "[[WhoWritesThisCrap I hate this bit]]" after he unintentionally [[ComedicSociopathy makes a child cry]]. |
| 137 | ** Eric and Hannibal are both always visibly annoyed and disgusted by Kraft Punk's antics whenever he appears, and, by season 4, try to kick him out before he gets to do anything as soon as he shows up. |
| 138 | ** In the DrivesLikeCrazy prank "Goober Driver" in season 6, Eric quickly drops his act when a passenger attempts to actually escape the car by openeing the door while the car is still speeding. |
| 139 | * FanDisservice: Lots of penises get whipped out on this show and not just Eric's. |
| 140 | * TheFriendNoOneLikes: While Eric tends to be abusive with most of his staff, he and Hannibal openly can't stand Kraft Punk, and actively boo and try to get rid of him whenever he appears in season 4. |
| 141 | -->'''Kraft Punk''': "WHAT'S UP GUYS, I'M KRAFT PUNK." |
| 142 | -->'''Eric''': Ugh, this guy ''sucks''. |
| 143 | -->'''Hannibal''': Get outta here, Kraft Punk! |
| 144 | * FunnyBackgroundEvent: Even the background is not safe from the bizarre and random occurrences happening during each interview. |
| 145 | * GainaxEnding: Nearly every episode and segment ever. |
| 146 | * GenderFlip: Parodied by a reboot of Eric's other in-universe star vehicle ''[[ShowWithinAShow Bird Up]]'' starring Music/{{Lizzo}}. Eric winds up having a HeroicBSOD on the spot after watching an episode. |
| 147 | --> '''Lizzo:''' These are my streets now, Eric! |
| 148 | * GenreBlindness: Those poor, innocent foolish celebrity guests who seem to think that this is a ''real' talk show. Music/DemiLovato is probably the worst example of this, as she's visibly about this close to running off the stage screaming once the madness gets started. |
| 149 | * GenreDeconstruction: This seems to basically be the concept of the show. |
| 150 | ** DeconstructiveParody: Of the talk show, more specifically, public access talk shows. |
| 151 | * GrossoutShow: The show doesn't shy away from this in the slightest. Expect to see a lot of jokes involving bodily fluids or, on occasion, body horror. |
| 152 | * HamToHamCombat: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fG9JbqcC-i8 Eric's interview]] with Creator/NardwuarTheHumanServiette was dedicated solely to see who could get on the other's nerves more and make them break character. [=YouTube=] commenters have compared it to various things including a battle between two Greek gods, and [[UnstoppableForceMeetsImmovableObject an unstoppable force (Eric) meeting an immovable object (Nardwuar)]]. |
| 153 | * HairTriggerTemper: It doesn't take a whole lot to set Eric off. Fake Music/JayZ also reacts very poorly to questions about his music or his personal life. |
| 154 | * HellIsThatNoise: Loud and disturbing noises are one of the many weapons in his arsenal Eric uses to torment his guests, like when the drummer inexplicably lets out a [[SurrealHorror tortured and demonic-sounding scream]] during Creator/JackMcBrayer's interview. |
| 155 | * HeroicBSOD: Eric occasionally descends into catatonia when the SurrealHorror becomes too much. |
| 156 | * HeroismMotiveSpeech: After being insulted by Eric, Hannibal retorts with an emotional speech about his childhood and what his brothers taught him growing up, while a family video (possibly of Hannibal?) is overlayed on top. Finally, he punctuates the speech with "And... ''*beat*''... you a bitch-ass nigga." |
| 157 | * HollywoodAtheist: Rory Scovel, judging by his nihilistic monologue during his "Cooking Like a Pro" segment. |
| 158 | * HurricaneOfPuns: Ariel Pink's performance, which was followed by Ariel Stinks (aka Ariel Pink [[ToiletHumor with sewage dumped on him]]), [[Music/{{Blink182}} Ariel Plink-182]], [[Music/{{NSYNC}} Ariel *NSYNC]] and... [[OddNameOut Ariel Black]], which is just Hannibal wearing drag. |
| 159 | * IncrediblyLameFun: The "What If It Was Purple" segment, which has Eric and the audience applauding (and vomiting) at the sight of various purple things. |
| 160 | -->'''Hannibal''': Nothing about this game is ''that'' intense. |
| 161 | * InNameOnly: Most of the "celebrity guests", which leads to more confusion as they get more obscure and you actually don't know if it's the real one or not. |
| 162 | ** Happens much less often after season 1, which feature mostly actual celebrities with a couple fake ones recurring from the first season. |
| 163 | * JackBauerInterrogationTechnique: What Creator/JackBlack's interview devolves into. |
| 164 | * JiveTurkey: Parodied and exaggerated to no end in Eric's "Ranch It Up!" skits, which run on Eric's character having a completely nonsensical frat boy slang. |
| 165 | * JumpScare: Often deployed against the show's guests, usually involving something bursting out of Eric's desk. |
| 166 | * KickTheDog: One segment had Eric violently assaulting a little person dressed as a leprechaun during the opening sequence for no apparent reason. |
| 167 | * KubrickStare: The trombonist/singer in Season 4 has a habit of doing this directly into the camera. It's appropriate, considering that the band in season 4 is an homage to ''Film/TheShining''. |
| 168 | * LaughTrack: Wouldn't be a surreal fever-dream-nightmare-parody of talk shows without it. The clips chosen for the show in particular seem specifically selected to [[StylisticSuck sound as fake and unconvincing as possible.]] |
| 169 | * LighterAndSofter: The Creator/RaymondCruz interview is probably the only time a guest has actually ''enjoyed'' his time on the show. |
| 170 | * LineOfSightName: Eric's "Top 10 Things of 2012" list, which included desks, chairs, Hannibal Buress, and desks again. |
| 171 | * LittlePeopleAreSurreal: Quite a few dwarves show up on the show, to [[Creator/DavidLynch Lynchian]] effect. In particular, the Octopus skit has Eric in an elaborate octopus costume, with Eric in the costume's main body and a few little people as its tentacles, who proceed to terrorize an innocent restaurant. One poor little guy showed up in the opening sequence of one segment dressed as a leprechaun, where Eric [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown beat the shit out of him]] for no apparent reason. |
| 172 | * LukeIAmYourFather: The black saxophonist is apparently [[Music/TheRoots Questlove]]'s father. |
| 173 | * MadeOfIron: The shit that Eric puts his body through is ridiculous. It'd be impossible to count how many times he's just been shot. |
| 174 | ** More literally with Kraft Punk, who commented that he is unable to die and subsequently proved so by shooting himself in the head multiple times with no effect. |
| 175 | * MadnessMantra: "Everything... is in... ''the NEWS today''..." |
| 176 | ** "Hey Hannibal... Did you hear about this... Did you hear about this..." |
| 177 | * MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext: Pick a random segment of a random episode. ''Any segment of any episode.'' |
| 178 | * MindRape: Arguably the entire goal of the show. Eric and Hannibal always position themselves so that the guest can never watch both of them at once, making it that much more traumatic for the poor interviewee. |
| 179 | * MindScrew: Constantly and PlayedForLaughs. Some segments seem particularly [[Creator/DavidLynch Lynchian]], such as "Savion Glover", who just ran around screaming with a rotisserie chicken taped around his head and over his face while wearing a wig and breaking things, and... tap dancing? The ''Bird Up!'' episode might be the crowning example of this trope in the series; featuring the regular studio segment getting completely overridden by the ''Bird Up!'' sketch, which in turn gets repeatedly overridden by ''other'' ''Bird Up!'' sketches, which get overridden by ''other'' ''Bird Up!'' sketches and... you get the picture. |
| 180 | * MistakenForSpecialGuest: While fooling around at the RNC 2016 event, Alex Jones mistakes Eric for [[Series/TheDailyShowWithTrevorNoah Trevor Noah]] and invites him on-stage at his rally, with Eric saying his usual stuff. |
| 181 | -->'''Eric:''' I want you to have sex with my wife. |
| 182 | * MoodDissonance: Frequently. A good example is the segment where Hannibal briefly hosts the show in Eric's absence, where, when after he wins the award for Best Talk Show Host, seemingly the entire crew hoists him on their shoulders to celebrate, with the exception of the house band, who is crowded around the bassist that Hannibal gunned down during the [[OncePerEpisode opening]] [[CouchGag sequence]], as he lies dying on the floor, thrashing weakly. |
| 183 | * MoodWhiplash: Equally frequently. |
| 184 | ** Eric and Hannibal's New Year's Eve Halloween song starts with intentionally stupid Halloween-themed lyrics before it gets... strange. |
| 185 | --> "Hey everybody! It's that special time\ |
| 186 | When ghouls and goblins, ghosts and mimes\ |
| 187 | Come alive and dance and have a great time\ |
| 188 | It's that special time\ |
| 189 | [[BreadEggsMilkSquick When there's no forgiveness]]\ |
| 190 | You know what you've done is wrong\ |
| 191 | It's that New Year's time\ |
| 192 | The spookiest time of the year!" |
| 193 | * MoreDakka: Whereas Eric destroys the set by turning himself into a human wrecking-ball, Hannibal (when he was hosting the show) has this as a simpler solution by unleashing a hail of bullets on the set and at the band while they're performing. |
| 194 | * MundaneMadeAwesome: "And now, ladies and gentlemen, Flying Lotus CHECKS... HIS... EMAILS!" |
| 195 | * NWordPrivileges: |
| 196 | ** Hannibal's Brother is trying real hard to say it less. |
| 197 | ** Hannbal drops N-bombs a lot and Eric (who's half black and white) has used the word "mulatto". |
| 198 | * NakedPeopleAreFunny: Eric will often appear naked while [[TrashTheSet trashing the set]] in the opening credits. |
| 199 | ** A RunningGag in the street segments of season 1 was Eric streaking. [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] in one episode, where he crashes a ''nudist colony'' wearing a tuxedo, shouting "[[RefugeInAudacity We're going reverse streaking!]]" |
| 200 | * NauseaFuel: InUniverse; apparently, the sight of a purple rabbit is this to Eric, as it makes him vomit instantenously. |
| 201 | * NegativeContinuity: ''To say the least.'' |
| 202 | * NeverMyFault: After Eric shoots [[OverlyLongGag two magazines worth of ammunition]] at Hannibal, he whispers: |
| 203 | -->"[[Series/TwinPeaks Who killed Hannibal?]]" |
| 204 | * TheNicknamer: Eric's "Ranch It Up!" character. |
| 205 | -->"Wait, I know you! You're Pimple Pete!"\ |
| 206 | (''guitar riff'')\ |
| 207 | ''"'Sup, Pimple Pete?"'' |
| 208 | * NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Frequently done by Eric to his crew during the opening segments, like the one time he beat the shit out of a [[LittlePeopleAreSurreal midget dressed as a leprechaun]] for no apparent reason. |
| 209 | * NonSequitur: Extremely frequent, not just in dialogue but in the many, many random moments per episode, such as a two-second cut to Eric running maniacally through the street screaming and holding a chicken. |
| 210 | * NoSell: When [[Music/TheRoots Questlove]] appeared as the drummer on the show, he knocked Eric out with one punch when he tried to attack him in the intro sequence. |
| 211 | * NotSoAboveItAll: Most of the time Hannibal is the StraightMan to Eric's wacky antics, but occasionally he'll join in the madness happening on set, like punching Eric in the face, screaming while trying to stuff a bunch of pancakes into his mouth, [[NegativeContinuity gunning Eric down apropos of nothing]], or asking him if getting crabs is more embarrassing than getting AIDS. |
| 212 | * OnceAnEpisode: Eric trashing the set. More specifically, Eric violently assaulting the drummer of his band, usually by tackling him through a wall and then punching him in the face. |
| 213 | * OnlySaneMan: |
| 214 | ** Hannibal, [[OnlySaneByComparison relatively speaking.]] |
| 215 | ** The saxophonist of the first band. While the rest of his band often joins in on the madness, he's the only one who seems genuinely unamused by events transpiring. [[NotSoAboveItAll This doesn't stop him from claiming to Questlove that he's his father, though.]] |
| 216 | * OverlyLongGag: Hannibal explaining to Creator/HarryShumJr what he'd want his Fatality to be if he were a ''Franchise/MortalKombat'' character. It's basically Hannibal standing still and repeatedly pantomiming throwing an apple. |
| 217 | ** The "Wheel of Prizes", which keeps spinning for nearly a ''full minute'' and only stops turning when Creator/{{Sinbad}} physically intervenes and grabs it. (It lands on "Move to North Korea".) |
| 218 | ** During one opening, Eric grabs a random scientist and starts punching him for a solid thirty seconds. It takes so long that even the house band eventually stops playing in exasperation. |
| 219 | ** In the middle of asking Wrestling/ChrisJericho how he got his start, Eric starts spasming and moaning. This lasts for ''the entire rest of the segment'' while the set grows increasingly chaotic and poor Chris just stares ahead with [[StunnedSilence a frozen expression of stunned disbelief]] the whole time. |
| 220 | * ThePigpen: Eric didn't bathe or do any kind of personal grooming throughout the entirety of season 4's filming and it shows; with him looking visibly greasy and unwell and the guests often commenting on how awful he smells. Even outside of that season, Eric is prone to casually engaging in absolutely disgusting behavior to make his guests retch. |
| 221 | * PoliticallyCorrectHistory: Subverted and disrupted for laughs when [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFlJ361av4U Eric and Hannibal]] run through a Civil War Reenactors' camp [[BlackComedy dressed as runaway slaves.]] |
| 222 | * PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: One of Eric's most reliable tactics for setting a guest on edge is reading off some hideously offensive or racist statement that he [[BlatantLies claims the guest made]] before congratulating them on their "bravery". |
| 223 | * PracticalJoke: Eric does a lot of absurd, creative pranks on the city streets... like running from a pack of guys dressed up just like him. He longs for people to stop and stare, confounded at human bizarreness. |
| 224 | * RaceLift: InUniverse, Eric claims that Creator/LRonHubbard was a black man whose real name was L. Ron Hoyabembe. |
| 225 | * RageBreakingPoint: [[Series/TheSopranos Steve Schirripa]] is mostly calm throughout his interview right up until Eric [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext tries to interview his penis]] [[TheLoinsSleepTonight and insinuates that it's been dormant for years]], at which point Schirripa promptly starts manhandling him. |
| 226 | * RapidFireComedy: So many, many examples. Eric's usual strategy is to unleash another bizarre event on his guests the literal second he thinks they're getting comfortable, or even when they aren't comfortable. |
| 227 | -->'''Eric:''' Speaking of climate change, when is Hannibal Burress gonna start thinking about some ''underwear'' change? Am I right, ladies? ''(Audience cheers, [[MoodWhiplash without missing a beat Eric turns around]] and shoots Hannibal half a dozen times, [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill reloads]], and [[OverlyLongGag shoots Hannibal even more]] before turning back to the audience with a confused expression)'' [[Series/TwinPeaks Who killed Hannibal?]] |
| 228 | * RealLifeWritesThePlot: See the chair on fire in the picture up there? [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ATc0oZcX9Y The segment lasts about 15 seconds]] before the crew cuts the segment because it was about to endanger the studio. |
| 229 | * TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Eventually, Creator/EricBalfour has enough and completely tears into Eric and the show, yelling at everyone for the uncomfortable and unsanitary conditions they put guests through in order to milk funny reactions and tells Eric that he has no hope for a career as a talk show host because nobody relevant would ever agree to come on. |
| 230 | -->'''Eric Balfour''' (''SingleTear rolling down his cheek''):...What's going on with you, what are you talking about? ''[[HypocriticalHumor You sound insane]]''. |
| 231 | * RedOniBlueOni: Eric (Red) and Hannibal (Blue). |
| 232 | * RefugeInAudacity: The show ''runs'' on this. Expect constant speechlessness from guests and witnesses to street segments. |
| 233 | ** To cite one particular example: Eric Andre [[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer actually]] put up Creator/SethRogen's cell phone number for people to call, despite Seth's repeated demands that he don't. |
| 234 | ** [[https://youtu.be/GVLAAMZeraQ?t=142 According to]] his appearance on ''WebVideo/HotOnes'', one episode was supposed to have an interview where a transgender couple [[MakingLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces were having sex just off-camera]], with Eric and Hannibal acting like it was perfectly normal, and after that got shot down he then suggested having a trasngender woman [[PottyHumor taking a dump out on the street]]. |
| 235 | --->'''Eric:''' ...he's like, "you can get in serious trouble". He's just tryin' to keep me out of jail, which I've been to. I've already been arrested on the show, I almost got arrested again this year (2016).\ |
| 236 | '''Sean Evans:''' How'd you almost get arrested?\ |
| 237 | '''Eric:''' [[OurLawyersAdvisedThisTrope I've been legally advised not to discuss.]] |
| 238 | * {{Retraux}}: The first season is shot in low, analog quality reminiscent of 1970s talk shows. |
| 239 | * RuleOfFunny: And occasionally RuleOfScary. |
| 240 | * RuleOfThree: In the Season 3 premiere, Eric repeats the "Season 3? More like Season ''Pee''" joke three times, each time making it more disgusting. |
| 241 | * RunningGag: |
| 242 | ** Eric seems to like bringing up famous sex offenders and Scientology at awkward times. |
| 243 | ** The sliding doors used to enter the set seem to become more and more difficult to push open as time goes on. |
| 244 | ** Jokes about UsefulNotes/BarackObama, who Eric insulted in the New Year's Special. On at least two other occasions, he pulled out a (photoshopped) sexually explicit picture of Obama to the horror of that episode's female guest. |
| 245 | ** Eric's "notecards", which contain [[BlatantLies obviously untrue]] and [[SerialEscalation increasingly offensive]] "facts" about his guests (and in close-up shots are usually revealed to contain just scribbles or no information whatsoever). |
| 246 | ** The voiceclip of that guy screaming "YES" in almost every episode. |
| 247 | ** Having random old men introduced to black cast members and guests (like [[Music/TheRoots Questlove]], Music/TylerTheCreator, and Hannibal himself) as their "real fathers." Said old men in question are usually [[BlatantLies extremely white.]] |
| 248 | ** Kraft Punk randomly appearing to plug his latest ([[StylisticSuck invariably terrible]]) hidden camera prank show. |
| 249 | * SensoryAbuse: Loud noises and disturbing visuals are frequently employed for the sake of disturbing both the viewers and the guests. |
| 250 | * ScaryBlackMan: Hannibal's Brother. |
| 251 | * ScreamingWarrior: Eric is a viking berserker with a seething and unquenchable hatred for [[TrashTheSet the set.]] |
| 252 | * ScrewThisImOuttaHere: |
| 253 | ** Only two guests walked off the set during their interviews: |
| 254 | *** Music/{{TI}} walked off after seeing a random crewmember with no underwear on arrive just as he was about to suggest something to Eric. |
| 255 | *** Lauren Conrad noped out of there after seeing Eric suddenly vomit[[note]]He actually spit out hot oatmeal he put in his mouth when she wasn't looking.[[/note]] and then play with his vomit. |
| 256 | ** Tichina Arnold came ''very'' close to walking off the set when Eric brought out a coffee cup filled entirely with cockroaches. |
| 257 | ** Eric and Hannibal have had one of these moments too with the grizzly bear interview; the two immediately ran for the hills the moment the bear started manhandling Eric's desk after having ripped up the couch next to it. |
| 258 | * SelfDeprecation: All the time. One sequence near the end of Season 1 has a montage of interviews with people on the street about ''The Eric Andre Show'', all of whom have either never heard of or hate it. This causes Eric to have a HeroicBSOD. |
| 259 | ** "You guys are watching ''Bird Up!'', [[ShowWithinAShow the worst show on television!]]" |
| 260 | * SerialEscalation: Every episode seems to be more violent and destructive than the last. |
| 261 | ** Each season finale apparently sets out to be crazier than the previous one. |
| 262 | * ShapedLikeItself: From the Season 3 premiere monologue. |
| 263 | -->'''Hannibal''': Yeah, what's up with your hair, man? |
| 264 | -->'''Eric''': Got it done like Katt Williams, baby! |
| 265 | -->''(studio audience claps politely)'' |
| 266 | -->'''Eric''': Katt Williams? More like '''FAT''' Williams! ''(motions to indicate a fat belly)'' |
| 267 | -->'''Hannibal''': (''angry'') NEXT JOKE! Katt Williams is very thin! |
| 268 | -->'''Eric''': Which one is Katt Williams? |
| 269 | -->'''Hannibal''': Katt Williams! |
| 270 | -->'''Eric''': Right. |
| 271 | * ShoutOut: Many to ''Series/TwinPeaks'' in the second season, such as the change to red curtains and the statue from the Black Lodge, and a segment where Eric [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill empties two whole mags of ammunition]] into Hannibal mid-monologue, looks straight at the camera, and asks "Who killed Hannibal?", after which it segues into a parody of the ''Twin Peaks'' intro. |
| 272 | ** One prank has Eric crashing a public basketball game while dressed as a werewolf, which is a reference to the movie ''Film/TeenWolf''. |
| 273 | ** In one of the openings, Eric ends up in space and suffers ExplosiveDecompression (wherein his eyes and tongue pop out) like in ''Film/TotalRecall1990''. |
| 274 | ** The stage band in Season 4 are dressed up like the staff at [[Film/TheShining the Overlook Hotel]]. At one point the singer appears covered in blood and asks Eric "It's a great party, isn't it?", mirroring a scene from the film. |
| 275 | ** One sketch is just called "Series/{{Seinfeld}}". [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6G8YCM0pGfU It's]]...[[VulgarHumor not quite that.]] |
| 276 | ** Creator/LanceReddick gives a double shout-out to Creator/LevarBurton's two [[Series/Roots1977 most famous]] [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration roles]] in his interview by wearing a VISOR and Combadge over chains and a slave outfit. |
| 277 | *** Then in season five, Levar Burton appears in a [[Series/TheWire cop uniform]] as a shout-out to Lance Reddick's own role. |
| 278 | ** "''Film/BattlefieldEarth'' [[ItMakesSenseInContext should have been a]] Creator/TylerPerry [[ItMakesSenseInContext movie]]!" |
| 279 | ** In episode 9, when Hannibal suddenly disappears and Eric believes him to be dead, the show goes into a parody of the pottery scene from ''Film/Ghost1990''. |
| 280 | ** One of the openings has Eric do the famous "pull the chain and get drenched" shot from ''Film/{{Flashdance}}''. |
| 281 | ** Hannibal shooting Eric and a bird emerging from the gunshot wound is a reference to [[Creator/AlejandroJodorowsky Jodorowsky's]] ''[[Film/TheHolyMountain Holy Mountain]]''. |
| 282 | ** In the first intro of the fifth season, Eric crushes a stagehand's head in the same way as the memetic head-crushing in ''Film/RikiOhTheStoryOfRicky''. |
| 283 | ** The ending of the 50th episode is one to the ending of ''[[Film/TheMuppetMovie The Muppet Movie]]''. |
| 284 | * SkywardScream: Hannibal, who is usually the StraightMan, has a habit of startling the guests by randomly screaming at the ceiling at the top of his lungs. |
| 285 | * SoapBoxSadie: Eric briefly became one in the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtbBqS8cyJk "Society's Lies"]] bit. |
| 286 | * SoftGlass: Averted when Chef Rory Scovel starts [[DespairEventHorizon smashing glass on his face]] and then rubbing the resulting blood into the food he's making. |
| 287 | * SophisticatedAsHell: In his interview, J-Mo talks about Creator/GenaRowlands and her performance in ''Film/AWomanUnderTheInfluence'', which he found so poignant that he wants to smell her farts even with her pushing 80. |
| 288 | * SoundtrackDissonance: Happens frequently thanks to the band and certain guests performing during the worst times, like when the band suddenly starts playing off-kilter music while Music/HenryRollins screams about frozen yogurt. Music/TPain also started singing the national anthem in an overly dramatic manner during Rory Scovel's nihilist monologue and his subsequent breakdown. |
| 289 | * SoUnfunnyItsFunny: Whenever Eric tries to actually tell jokes, it ends up being like this, with requisite mockery from Hannibal. |
| 290 | * StealthInsult: Hannibal describes Creator/NickCannon as a "former Music/RKelly collaborator". |
| 291 | * TheStoic: Hannibal is completely unfazed by all the lunacy happening around him every episode. |
| 292 | ** Eric himself gets into this at times, on the occasions when his emotional responses aren't [[LargeHam cranked to maximum]] they're invariably set to absolute zero. |
| 293 | * StraightMan: Hannibal; the fact that he manages to be this and a CloudCuckoolander at the same time speaks about how weird this show is. |
| 294 | * StunnedSilence: A ''frequent'' and logical response by the guests to Eric's antics. Wrestling/ChrisJericho is probably the worst, the poor man doesn't say a ''word'' the entire time or even change his expression. |
| 295 | * StylisticSuck: Everything about the show, especially in the earlier seasons. The cameras seem to come from a different decade each, mostly from the seventies to the early nineties, and the sets are made to look as cheap and fragile as possible. As seasons have gone by the sets have become more and more elaborate, but also more and more gaudy and ugly. |
| 296 | ** The recurring "Bird Up!" segment is this in spades. The entire premise is that Eric is going to be green-screened out, which rarely if ever actually happens. Not only that, but the editing is frenetic and all over the place. And to further drive the point home, Eric proclaims that it is "the worst show on television" during the beginning of every bit. |
| 297 | ** Inverted during the segment before the Hannibal Buress Show, where Hannibal is seen at his mansion and the production quality is hilariously improved, featuring color grading and dolly shots. Makes for good contrast with Eric's trashy apartment and static camera angles. |
| 298 | * SurrealHumor: And occasionally SurrealHorror. |
| 299 | * SwarmOfRats: The Stacey Dash interview randomly has rats emerge from Eric's desk, which she doesn't notice until one of them is biting her foot. |
| 300 | * SwivelChairAntics: Eric pulls off probably the least impressive swivel-chair stunt in history during the Creator/RaymondCruz interview. The audience applauds anyway. |
| 301 | * SympathyForTheDevil: One drunk interviewee in Season One has some kind words for UsefulNotes/OsamaBinLaden. |
| 302 | --> "Bin Laden was a badass. Bin Laden was a man who smoked his grass. Osama bin Laden, you'll be in my memories. Osama bin Laden... you've really been a good friend to me!" |
| 303 | * SyntheticVoiceActor: Kraft Punk speaks with one. |
| 304 | * TakeThat: |
| 305 | ** Eric throws a vicious sidewinder at the [[UsefulNotes/MargaretThatcher Thatcher]] administration (and by extension, those who consider her a "feminist role model") during the [[Music/SpiceGirls Mel B]] interview. |
| 306 | -->'''Eric:''' Do you think Margaret Thatcher had girl power? |
| 307 | -->'''Mel B:''' Yes, of course! |
| 308 | -->'''Eric:''' Do you think she effectively utilized girl power by [[MoodWhiplash funneling money to illegal paramilitary death squads in Northern Ireland?]] |
| 309 | ** When Eric disappeared after the intro in one episode, Hannibal got up to the mike and started doing stand up, targeting Creator/WoodyAllen for marrying his former step-child. |
| 310 | -->'''Hannibal:''' Woody Allen is in the news, huh? Well, he's not, but I think his whole existence is weird. ''Film/MidnightInParis'', good. Sleeping with your stepdaughter, bad. Are we just cool with that? Are we just cool what he's living with? Cuz, I'm not. BOOM! Really. Topical. Humor. |
| 311 | ** In a interview with Creator/AubreyPeeples, [[BlatantLies he asked why she retweeted the quote]]: "I believe in a white supremacy until blacks are educated to a point of responsibility", said by none other than Creator/JohnWayne. And yes, [[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer the Duke actually said that]]. |
| 312 | ** In a season 4 episode, Eric tried appealing to Middle American viewers by having Creator/JeffDunham's "racist puppets" appear, which were just knock-offs of Achmed, Jose Jalapeno, and Sweet Daddy Dee, but without their funny gimmicks. |
| 313 | -->'''Black Puppet:''' (holding a paper bottle of Colt 45) I'm a big, old black guy. |
| 314 | -->'''Middle-Eastern Puppet:''' (sinisterly) I am a terrorist. |
| 315 | -->'''Mexican Puppet:''' (sleepily) I'm lazy. |
| 316 | -->'''Hannibal:''' (shaking his head in disapproval) [[DudeNotFunny Dude]]... |
| 317 | * TeleporterAccident: In one episode, Eric gets "one of those ''Franchise/StarTrek'' transporters". He is wiping his face when transported, and comes out with his hand fused to his face. Hannibal has the person operating the transporter send Eric back to his chair, and he comes out as a shapeless blob. |
| 318 | * TinyGuyHugeGirl: Fake Music/{{Beyonce}} and Fake Music/JayZ. |
| 319 | * ToiletHumor: ''Frequently'', to say the least. |
| 320 | * TotemPoleTrench: Eric uses this for no apparent reason in the "buying a car" segment, which instantly puts the car dealership owner on edge, since he doesn't trust like that. Music/LilJon also does this when performing in the show as [[{{Pun}} Big Jon]]. |
| 321 | * TrashTheSet: At the beginning of every episode, Eric is seen rushing in and breaking everything (while also doing... other things). The set is always rebuilt within literally seconds—the net effect is to make Eric seem like a soul condemned, Sisyphus-like, eternally to roll a talk show off the edge of a cliff and then host it again. |
| 322 | ** Exaggerated in the Season 2 Finale when the entire episode is basically Eric breaking the set. |
| 323 | * TotallyRadical: Ranch Guy is this mixed with massive amounts of CloudCuckoolander. |
| 324 | * {{Troll}}: Eric's comedic style, in a nutshell. Both the interviews and hidden camera segments revolve around him making unsuspecting bystanders as uncomfortable as possible. |
| 325 | * {{Understatement}}: Frequently. The crowning moment is probably Eric grumbling in exasperation, "This thing is broken", as the mug on his desk [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext is spraying coffee into the air like a fire horse.]] |
| 326 | * UnfazedEveryman: In stark contrast to almost every other guest on the show, Ryan Kwanten from ''Series/TrueBlood'' barely reacted to Eric and Hannibal's absurd antics other that to ask "[[ItMakesSenseInContext What's with the jizz flying everywhere?]]" |
| 327 | * UnusuallyUninterestingSight: A major component of the show's humor is Eric and Hannibal's complete non-reactions to the antics of his guests, including, on one occasion, ''a fire''. |
| 328 | ** Occasionally, random citizens will completely ignore whatever surreal stunt Eric is pulling during the street segments and respond to whatever question he's asking with a completely straight face and serious tone. |
| 329 | * VoiceOfTheLegion: How the Octopus talks. |
| 330 | * VomitChainReaction: Eric fake-puking onto his desk (it was actually oatmeal he had in his mouth) very nearly made Lauren Conrad do the same for real. |
| 331 | * VomitIndiscretionShot: Eric has a habit for these, especially during public pranks, even when it makes no sense. |
| 332 | * VulgarHumor: Expect lots of vomit, bodily fluids, and naked cast members. |
| 333 | * WalkingShirtlessScene: Fake Creator/RussellBrand and Hannibal's Brother. |
| 334 | * WrapAroundBackground: The set is apparently this, given one segment where Eric chucks his desk offscreen only to be immediately hit in the back by that same desk. |
| 335 | * WhoWritesThisCrap: After trying two pretzels in "Hannibal's Pretzels", Hannibal turns to face someone off-camera and incredulously asks "What is this segment?" |
| 336 | * WithFriendsLikeThese: Even when Eric and Hannibal aren't actively trying to kill each other, they're prone to slinging insults between themselves that move beyond playful banter straight into genuine antagonism. Perhaps best shown during the Creator/HowieMandel interview: |
| 337 | -->'''Eric''': You had a talk show back in the day? |
| 338 | -->'''Howie''': I did. It was nothing like- |
| 339 | -->'''Eric''': Did you have a little bitch ass cohost like Hannibal Buress? |
| 340 | -->'''Hannibal''': What the [[SoundEffectBleep f---]] man, I been supporting your wack ass jokes! |
| 341 | * WordSaladLyrics: Every song they sing. |
| 342 | * WordSaladHumor: The show frequently devolves into this. Recurring guest [[BlatantLies "George Clooney"]] in particular is a master of this craft. |
| 343 | -->'''Clooney''': [''[[NonSequitur apropos of nothing]]''] I was hip deep in that astronaut for about 3 days of every orifice blowing the walls and, phew, well, once you’ve unloaded everything you’ve stored in your body and there’s nothing left you’re just gagging and heaving and gagging and heaving. It’s pretty good to be back in the States though, you know? [...] Stuck in a capsule, you know? I'm proud of what my buddy Brad's doing. |
| 344 | * WorldOfHam: ''The set''. |
| 345 | * YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: Flavor Flav is appropriately shocked when Eric strips naked and dunks himself in a bathtub that was inexplicably beneath his desk. |
| 346 | --> '''Flavor Flav:''' That motherfucker's not joking! |
| 347 | ---- |
| 348 | -->''Life is stupid, do whatever\ |
| 349 | You could die or live forever\ |
| 350 | What to do now, we just don't fuckin' know!\ |
| 351 | 'Cause that's all we... had planed for...\ |
| 352 | The show!'' |
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