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3	-> ''" In 1958, [=FBI=] agent Dick Jett was kidnapped and cryogenically frozen by a diabolical Nazi scientist! He awoke in the future world of two thousand and twenty-one, a terrifying dystopian apocalypse! He started his own detective agency there, and now this G-man from the past is solving the crimes of the future--the old fashioned way! Always keeping vigilant of the ever-present threat of international Communism, he's the hero America needs! He is...'''The Frozen '50s Man!'''"''
4	-->--'''Opening Narration'''
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6	''Frozen '50s Man'' is a satirical comedic DetectiveDrama created by Andrew Rakich of Creator/AtunSheiFilms. The first episode released on March 21, 2021, with episodes being released intermittently after that point.
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8	In 1958, FBI agent, HardboiledDetective and archetypical man of TheFifties Dick Jett (Rakich) is kidnapped and [[HumanPopsicle cryogenically frozen]] by the evil ''Oberführer-SS'' Klaus ([[ActingForTwo also Rakich]]), a [[ThoseWackyNazis high-ranking Nazi]] turned HumanoidAbomination. After being released in the future year of 2021, Dick [[FishOutOfTemporalWater suddenly finds that his fifties values have no place in the modern progressive world]]. Naturally, he starts a private detective agency in order to secure a steady job, and soon finds a partner in Alexis Buttle (Kendra Unique), [[OddFriendship a radically progressive empowered black woman of the 21st century]]. Together, TheyFightCrime
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10	The series is notable for lampooning modern politics from an EqualOpportunityOffender standpoint, but also clearly being [[ShownTheirWork very well-researched]] and never engaging in {{Windmill Political}}s. It's also notable for just being ''really'' silly.
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12	[[folder:Episodes currently released]]
13	* Episode 1: "Cancelled...for Murder"
14	* Episode 2: "Dick's Undercover"
15	* Episode 3: "The Corsican Dildo"
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18	!! ''Frozen '50s Man'' contains examples of:
19	* AmbiguouslyGay: Two examples from episode 3:
20	** Bing Fluffernutters, Dick Jett's old partner in the FBI, tells Dick that he looks cute today, has a rather flamboyant manner, and is completely immune to [[FemmeFatale Miss Dubois]]' charms. It's never elaborated upon, but it's unclear whether he's CampGay or CampStraight. If Dick was comfortable working with him, it's likely that he at least thought he was the latter.
21	** Thebes Karnak, who speaks with an...interesting accent, [[EroticEating likes to put the head of his cane in his mouth]], and outright claims that his sexuality is ambiguous. Becomes less ambiguous(at least in Dick's mind) when Dick discovers a ticket to a Creator/JudyGarland film festival in his wallet with the tagline "Bring your boyfriends!"[[note]]Garland was a noted LGBT ally in the '50s and '60s, to the point where gay men of the time used "[[Film/TheWizardOfOz Dorothy]]" as a [[TrustPassword code word for identifying each other]][[/note]]. He's also clearly based on Joel Cairo from ''Film/TheMalteseFalcon1941'', who was gay in the source material but was toned down to (very strong) subtext in the film itself.
22	* AppealToForce: In Episode 3, after Dick makes a tasteless joke about "identifying" as a '51 Chrysler when his ANTIFA captors give him their {{Expository Pronoun}}s, a swift punch to the face gets him to cough up his actual pronouns of he/him.
23	* ArmouredClosetGay: Inverted with Kit Thistle. Despite being being publicly known as a flamboyant pansexual man in a polyamorous relationship, Thistle's terrible DarkSecret was that he was actually heterosexual and desired a monogamous relationship. Conrad blackmailed him into aiding his scheme by threatening to out him.
24	* BattleStrip: Bill Racehate removes his shirt before engaging in GoodOldFisticuffs with Dick.
25	* BreakingTheFourthWall:
26	** Klaus at the end of Episode 1 says that Dick is very important to his plans, which will be revealed at the end of a multi-episode arc.
27	** At the end of episode 2, while recounting the plot revelations he's experienced that day, Dick wonders if the industry insiders he knows are watching will finally reach out to Atun-Shei and commission a full ''Frozen '50s Man'' series from him.
28	* CorruptPolitician: Senator Clint Sleazy from Episode 2. He's TheDragon of the (in-universe incarnation of) the Qanon organization and, like his fellow Q followers and [=MAGAheads=], wants to overthrow the democratic government of America and replace it with a much more reactionary and authoritarian one. Satirically, at the end of the episode [[spoiler: after his death, the FBI still tries to cover for him, since he was part of the ruling class and therefore is under their protection despite his efforts to dismantle American democracy]].
29	* DameWithACase: Parodied in Episode 3. Caroline Dubois arrives in Dick and Bing's office with a case and is a FemmeFatale who is obviously wealthy due to all the "[[PrettyInMink dead, tortured animals]]" she's wearing. However, Dick and Bing are ''FBI agents'', not private investigators, so Dick immediately points out that [[ArtisticLicenseLaw civilians aren't allowed to just waltz in and proposition specific agents with cases]]. Once Miss Dubois points out that she's rich, however, Dick decides to hear her out.
30	* DepravedHomosexual: One features in Episode 1. [[spoiler: Conrad the Comrade, a gay communist [=YouTuber=], cheated on his husband with a fan in his husband's bed. Then he garrotes his lover to death on video, eats the victim's corpse to hide the evidence, and then kills the victim's boyfriend when he discovers Conrad's guilt.]]
31	* DrivenToSuicide: Bill Racehate in Episode 2 tells everyone at the table that he'd [[AteHisGun commit suicide via gun-in-the-mouth]] if he ever ate soy. [[spoiler:When Alexis brings a vegan burger to his battle with Jett, and he consumes it to top up on meat, he finds out and calmly puts his money where his mouth is... no pun intended.]]
32	* EqualOpportunityOffender: ''Frozen '50s Man'' mocks all sides of the political spectrum through the lens of its FishOutOfTemporalWater protagonist Dick Jett. Episode 1 satirizes the online left and Breadtube, while Episode 2 satirizes the [=MAGA=] right and Qanon. Episode 2 also ends with Dick getting kidnapped by [=ANTIFA=], and Episode 3 makes fun of people with a basic, surface-level understanding of [=ANTIFA=] as "[[ArtisticLicensePolitics a leftist terrorist group]]".
33	* {{Expy}}: In Episode 1, Dick's investigation at one point leads him to Kit Thistle, the host of web series ''Paleontology Tube'', who speaks in a ridiculously British accent. Kit looks a lot like Abigail Thorn,[[note]](As in, how she looked before she came out as a transgender woman.)[[/note]] the British host of web series ''WebVideo/PhilosophyTube'', and the one video shown of ''Paleontology Tube'' looks like equal parts ''Philosophy Tube'' and ''WebVideo/ContraPoints''. Additionally, the murder victim [[spoiler:and actual culprit]] is an expy of socialist streamer Vaush.
34	* FauxHorrific: In Episode 3, Alexis' plan for what she's going to do with the money from selling the Dildo is related to Dick as if it were a supervillain's master plan, even though it's all about providing equity for all and helping marginalized communities. Of course, to a man of the Eisenhower era like Dick, it might as well actually ''be'' horrific.
35	* HaveAGayOldTime: Parodied in episode 3, with Dick reminiscing about his old partner Bing Fluffernutter and calls him "straight as an arrow"...right before Fluffernutter [[AmbiguouslyGay tells him how cute he is]].
36	* HistoricalInJoke: In Episode 2, when Dick is pressed about being a Biden supporter, he says that he would never support a Catholic president. Dick was cryogenically frozen in 1958, just a few years before the presidency of UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy, one of only two Catholic presidents in American history (the other being Joe Biden) at the time that the episode came out.
37	* LikeRealityUnlessNoted: ''Frozen '50s Man'' appears to take place in a world like this, where it's the 2020s like in reality, except cryogenics work, [[TheExtremistWasRight right-wing misconceptions about ANTIFA are actually true]], and the Q of [=QAnon=] is [[BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy secretly a time-traveling Nazi with mystical occult powers]].
38	* MonochromePast: Generally, any flashbacks that take place in the '40s or '50s are shot entirely in black and white. Episode 3 is mostly in black and white for this reason since it takes place primarily in the past, but also to make the shadows deeper and evoke the feeling of a '50s FilmNoir, since it's a WholePlotReference to [[Film/TheMalteseFalcon1941 one such story]].
39	* PaperThinDisguise: In episode 2, Dick and Alexis roll up to Senator Sleazy's house in an unmarked white van with the label "DEFINITELY ''NOT'' THE FBI" crudely scrawled on it.
40	* PoliticallyIncorrectHero: Dick Jett, the titular "Frozen 50's Man." Justified by DeliberateValuesDissonance, given that he is [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin from the 1950s]], and doesn't even have a good idea of what "politically correct" means. He believes things from that time period like that [[AllWomenArePrudes women owe men sex and are just playing hard to get]], that [[DirtyCommunists Communism is the greatest threat to American society]] and while he definitely isn't an outright racist, he speaks with the [[YouAreACreditToYourRace paternalism and condescension]] of someone who doesn't know how to be ''not'' racist.
41	* PunchPunchPunchUhOh: Dick Jett tries to incapacitate [[TheBrute Bill Racehate]] with a karate chop to the neck ([[CallBack similarly to how he dispatched Kit Thistle an episode earlier]]) after getting caught snooping around Senator Sleazy's office, but Bill [[NoSell effortlessly shrugs it off]]. Dick follows it up with several more karate chops, but Bill just laughs and [[NowItsMyTurn punches him in the head]].
42	* RepeatingSoTheAudienceCanHear: Lampshaded in episode 3. When Dick Jett receives news of [[spoiler:his partner Bing Fluffernutters' death]], he does this over the phone, but the person on the other end isn't amused.
43	-->'''Dick:''' Well yes, I'm repeating everything you're saying! No, it's not annoying or weird!
44	* SarcasticConfession: In order to get into Senator Sleazy's [=QAnon=] meeting, Dick Jett tells the unabridged truth when questioned by Bill Racehate at the door about why he was [[ObligatoryEarpieceTouch touching his ear]].
45	-->'''Dick:''' Oh, I was just talking to my partner. She's out doing surveillance in the van.
46	-->'''Bill:''' Oh, ok. [[[HorribleJudgeOfCharacter lets him inside]]]
47	* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: When "Q" appears in person in Episode 2, and is revealed to be [[spoiler: Klaus the Nazi himself, on top of some kind of HumanoidAbomination]], the remaining Q cultists immediately abandon the movement, cutting Dick and Alexis loose from their imprisonment and deciding to rethink their lives.
48	* ShaggyDogStory: Discussed in episode 3, after the entire story that Dick was recounting turns out to [[spoiler:reveal that the Corsican Dildo Dick was pursuing was a fake, and that he has no idea what happened to the original]]. Alexis is very irritated about this, but Dick gives her an explanation that doubles as a metacontextual defense of FilmNoir's slow pace and tendency toward {{Random Events Plot}}s as a genre.
49	--> '''Alexis:''' Why didn't you tell me that before!? Why did you have to make us go through this entire boring story!?
50	--> '''Dick:''' Well, y'know, cause stories like these [[ExcusePlot aren't really about the plot]], so much as they're about the suspense, the mystery, the wacky and memorable characters; y'know, just the general hard-boiled vibe of it all.
51	* ShoutOut: In Episode 2, Bill Racehate says that [[Film/InBruges he's gotta live by his principles before shooting himself in the mouth]].
52	* TakeThat: On her way to rescue Dick while he's locked in battle with Bill Racehate, Alexis can be heard listening to ''The Joe Rogan Experience'' podcast and disapproving of something Joe is saying about [[ArtisticLicenseMedicine the efficacy of Ivermectin against COVID-19]].
53	-->'''Alexis:''' Oh, Joe. You idiot.
54	* UnresolvedSexualTension: Parodied. By Episode 2, Alexis Buttle is clearly developing feelings for the [[StayInTheKitchen misogynistic]] PoliticallyIncorrectHero Dick Jett despite his constant hitting on her, except it's almost beat-for-beat ''[[{{Reconstruction}} like an actual romance subplot from a '50s detective movie]]'', and also explained in detail by FBI agent Gina Bunkerson [[ParodiedTrope directly in front of both her and Dick]] during the UnfoldingPlanMontage.
55	-->'''Gina:''' At 8:16, Ms. Buttle's mind will be a whirlwind of thoughts and emotions; "Why, Why!? Why am I attracted to him?" She'll think to herself. "He's a chauvinistic pig and I'm-I'm a dynamic progressive; [[OppositesAttract we're from two different worlds! We have nothing in common, it would never work]]! Oh, but my mind and my body are telling me two different things and I don't even know what to do!" Then at exactly 8:17 P.M, the words of your dear departed Gram-Gram will creep into your already racing mind: "Alexis, sweetie, you must always remember to tell the ones you love how you feel! Life is too short!" But is it love? Is it? Really? No, no it's not. But could it be? Could it? Given time and attention, could it not flourish like a blooming orchid on a shimmering summer morn? ~Gasp~ But you have no time for such romantic musings; you've got a job to do.
56	* WebcomicTime: So far, the entire show has only spanned from 2021 into presumably 2022 with a time skip between the first two episodes, despite how each episode's lengthy production has resulted in the show being produced well into 2024. Not helping matters is that episodes 2 and 3 have cliffhangers which cause the next episode to have to be an ImmediateSequel.
57	* WholePlotReference: Episode 3 of ''Frozen '50s Man'', "[[GagPenis The Corsican Dildo]]", is one to ''Film/TheMalteseFalcon1941''. It features Dick getting roped into machinations to claim a priceless object just as Sam Spade did in the movie. Just like in the film, [[spoiler:the Dildo turns out to be a fake, and the criminals decide to make off after the real one]], but unlike the film, [[spoiler:the woman was actually innocent of his partner's murder... but Dick needed something to show his bosses, so he scapegoated her]].
58	* WorstNewsJudgementEver: The front-page of a newspaper in 2021 announces the end of racial segregation following the 1964 Civil Rights movement [[RuleOfFunny purely so Dick Jett can express horror]].

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