Line #24 WebVideo/BurningLove


1	''Burning Love'' is a web series parody of reality dating shows like ''Series/TheBachelor'' and ''Rock of Love''. Starring Ken Marino and Michael Ian Black, firefighter Mark must follow his heart to select one woman from fifteen to propose to. Many actors from ''Series/TheState'' and ''Series/PartyDown'' make an appearance. Despite that, Music/RobThomas has nothing to do with the series.
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3	Hosted [[http://www.hulu.com/burning-love here]] on Hulu.
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5	!!This Web Series provides examples of:
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7	* AccidentalMisnaming: Mark continuously fumbles up on the pronunciation of Titi's name. No points for guessing what it is.
8	* AffectionateParody: Of a variety of reality dating shows, most obviously ''Series/TheBachelor''.
9	** Season 3 (''Burning Love: Burning Down The House'') takes aim at ''Bachelor Pad''.
10	* AllGirlsWantBadBoys:
11	** In the second season, Julie falls for Blaze repeatedly even though he's a jerk who just wants to yank her chain. He manages to break her heart three times before she takes the hint.
12	** Subverted in the third season, where only Lexie wants Blaze as a bad boy. Julie has learned her lesson about him, and Annie only gets together with him when he [[TookALevelInKindness Takes A Level In Kindness]]. [[spoiler:And even then, Annie reveals she was never attracted to him and dumps him for money and subsequently reveals her feelings for the host Bill, leaving him alone and heartbroken.]]
13	* AscendedFanboy: Hathwell in season 3.
14	* AttentionWhore: Haley. What else can explain a woman who walks around without any pants or underwear.
15	** Julie also displays this behavior, as part of her DesperatelyCravesAffection personality, she even gets mad when another contestant goes into labor and pulls away attention from her "catharsis."
16	** Mark as well.
17	* BerserkButton: Do ''not'' insult puppet shows in front of Julie. [[DoubleStandard Unless you're]] [[MrFanservice Blaze.]]
18	* BitchInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler:Annie]], as revealed in the GrandFinale.
19	* ButchLesbian: In addition to being a lesbian, Carly is very physically fit and has a tough attitude.
20	** LipstickLesbian: That being said, she's also very pretty and is shown in makeup and dresses throughout most of the show.
21	* ButtMonkey: Hathwell, the Burning Love superfan who gets to compete in season 3, is openly loathed by everyone else, but he's so thrilled to be on the show he doesn't care.
22	* ClingyJealousGirl: Lexie becomes obsessed with Mark, to the point where she intrudes on his every conversation with a female contestant.
23	** Exaggerated in season 3, where Lexie becomes so obsessed with Blaze that she [[spoiler:tries to poison Annie when they start dating, but Mark ends up drinking it by accident.]]
24	* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Despite her TransparentCloset, Mark absolutely cannot figure out that Carly is a lesbian and keeps picking her.
25	* ConfessionCam: Where the characters can discuss how they won, lost, or [[HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday are totally not gay]].
26	* CovertPervert: In season 2 [[spoiler:Alex, the strait-laced, emotional single dad]] is revealed to be a [[spoiler:hardcore BDSM enthusiast]].
27	* TheDitz:
28	** Mark is this in spades.
29	** Julie as well, but that's mostly because she's [[ItsAllAboutMe too wrapped up in herself]] to understand anything.
30	* EskimosArentReal: The medics who treat Mark in season 3 aren't familiar with ipecac and think it's some sort of voodoo cure.
31	* ExtremeLibido: In the second season, Creator/PaulRudd [[TheCameo guest-stars]] as Annie's fiance, who tells her moments after she accepts his proposal that, by the way, he's a sex addict who has had literally thousands of partners. [[spoiler: Not surprisingly, the engagement doesn't last long.]]
32	** Haley as well.
33	* TheFaceless: Dana arrives wearing a face-concealing panda suit so she'll be judged by her personality rather than her looks. [[spoiler:After Mark sends her home, she's revealed to be [[Creator/JenniferAniston extremely attractive]] and laments that she should have just gone with her looks.]]
34	* {{Foreshadowing}} A subtle case:
35	-->'''Titi:''' Mark always looks for the best in people, which is why we're perfect for each other because ''I'' always look for the '''worst''' in people.
36	** It's Titi trying to tell Mark she suspects that [[TransparentCloset Carly isn't in the show for the right reasons]] that leads to Mark deciding to [[spoiler: eliminate Titi in favor of Carly and Annie.]]
37	* GenderBlenderName: Allison in season 2 is a guy.
38	* GreenEyedMonster: In the season one reunion finale, Haley can be seen looking upset when Titi reveals that she's been hired as a playboy model.
39	* HappyEndingOverride: Mark's marriage at the end of the first season is broken up partway through the second, and season 2's couple drifts apart over the course of the third season. It's also implied that Annie's marriage from her (nonexistent) season didn't work out.
40	* HiddenDepths: Host Bill Tundle also writes poetry.
41	* IronicNickname: The neurotic Jolly Wally in season 2 (with the irony increased by having Creator/MichaelCera play the role).
42	* LimitedLyricsSong: The song constantly sung by CountryMusic wannabe singer Teddy in season 2
43	-->''Ain't got time for love''
44	-->''Ain't got time for you''
45	* ManipulativeBastard: [[spoiler: Annie turns out to be this.]] Considering most of the others tend to be [[{{Jerkass}} self absorbed and inconsiderate,]] they might count as a GuileHero instead.
46	* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Bill Tundle is such an exact parody of ''The Bachelor'' host Chris Harrison that for a while the ''Burning Love'' Website/{{Wikipedia}} page actually listed Michael Ian Black as playing Harrison.
47	* OnlySaneMan: Annie and, when her love interests aren't involved, Carly.
48	** Titi is also arguably this, as she's the only one to realize Carly is a lesbian and that Ballerina is a transexual.
49	* ReallyGetsAround: Haley.
50	* RichBitch: Titi is very wealthy and very bitchy. Her worst fear is ''homeless people.''
51	* ThirdOptionLoveInterest:
52	** Mark ends up rejecting both finalists of his season in favour of another woman who was sent home earlier. [[spoiler:This woman, Ballerina, is turned down as well when he learns she's transexual, and Mark ends up getting together with ''fourth'' option Tamara G instead.]]
53	** In Julie's season, she also turns down both finalists in favor of a third man. [[spoiler:Said third man, Blaze, ditches her immediately, leaving her to take a fourth option as well by marrying Mark.]]
54	* ThirdPersonPerson: Blaze tends toward this.
55	-->''Just Blaze bein' Blaze''
56	* TimeSkip: The finale of the first season includes a trailer for the next season to be titled "Burning Love: Hot For Teacher," starring [[spoiler: Annie]] as the new bachelorette choosing between prospective bachelors. The ''actual'' second season is the fourth in-universe and often refers back to the events of "Hot For Teacher," which was never actually produced.
57	* TransparentCloset: Creator/JanetVarney's character is clearly interested in the ladies, and is doing an absolutely terrible job of hiding it.
58	* UnInstallment:
59	** The in-universe "first season" doesn't actually exist. Aside from cameo appearances by its loving couple, little is revealed about it.
60	** "Hot For Teacher", the season between Mark's and Julie's in-universe, is also fictitious. Its events are often referenced in later seasons, but the season itself was never produced.
61	* UpperClassTwit: Allison in season 2.
62	* VirginShaming: Basically the ''raison d'etre'' for Noah in season 3.

Context WebVideo / BurningLove