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2 | [[caption-width-right:350: Chapel, A Drug Dealer.]] |
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5 | ->''And now, the latest exploits of America's [[Series/BreakingBad third favorite]] [[Series/{{Weeds}} drug dealer]]...'' |
6 | -->--'''Narrator,''' "[[http://vimeo.com/17838187 Inked]]." |
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8 | ''Chapel'' is a monthly web series about a female Wisconsin drug dealer with terrible luck. Ashley Banks (no, not [[Series/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir that one]]) [[JustGotOutOfJail gets out of prison,]] and becomes a drug dealer, [[OnlyKnownByTheirNickname going by the name]] [[OnlyOneName "Chapel."]] |
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10 | Not to be confused with [[Series/VengeanceUnlimited Mr. Chapel]], [[Manga/{{Trigun}} Chapel The Evergreen]], or [[Webcomic/TheChapelChronicles Chapel Smith]]. Although WordOfGod says she was named after [[Franchise/StarTrek Nurse Chapel]]. |
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12 | This web series is produced by ''WebVideo/ChadVader'' alum Rob Matsushita and Iver Pictures (formerly Claymore Pictures), and can be found [[http://vimeo.com/channels/chapel here]] or on their [[http://www.iverpictures.com official homepage]]. Emily Mills stars as the eponymous Chapel. |
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14 | Chapel finished its first season in 2010, followed by a second. |
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18 | !!This web series contains examples of: |
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20 | * AbsurdlySharpBlade: Chapel manages to [[spoiler: decapitate Porter]] with a sword she bought...at Ren Faire. |
21 | * ActionSurvivor: Arguably Chapel herself. |
22 | * AllLowercaseLetters: Almost all titles and credits are done in this style. |
23 | * AntiHero: Chapel may be a Type III. |
24 | * ArchEnemy: Burke. Full stop. |
25 | * BackStory: The pilot episode, [[http://vimeo.com/17858996 "Audited."]] |
26 | * BerserkButton: Lehaney from "Famed" was apparently in "that movie with the pie." No one gets to say more than that when reminding her of it. |
27 | * BigApplesauce: The first season finale. |
28 | * BigBad: A few to choose from, but [[spoiler:Burke, after surviving gunshot wounds to the eye and cheek, then sending a delusional psychopath Chapel's way]] seems to rise to the top. Or did, until Mr. Finley showed up during the second season. |
29 | * BookSafe: A gun is hidden in an encyclopedia in "Complicated." |
30 | * BountyHunter: [[StealthPun Butch Sauft]], the man who originally caught Chapel. But [[PunchClockHero it wasn't personal]]. |
31 | --> '''Butch:''' Sorry I caught you. |
32 | --> '''Chapel:''' Sorry I ''ran.'' |
33 | * BreastAttack: "You just SHOT ME IN THE BOOB!!!" |
34 | * BulletproofVest: Chapel is offered one while gun-shopping in the second season. She buys it before the gun seller can even finish his pitch. |
35 | * CameraAbuse: Invoked when Yvonne delivers a point-blank shotgun blast. |
36 | * ChainedToABed: At the beginning of "Guilted," Chapel wakes up to find herself in a wig and dress and tied to a bed. She's arguably more upset about the dress. |
37 | * CharacterTitle |
38 | * CoolShades: Part of Chapel's new look for the second season is a pair of vintage Ray-Ban's. |
39 | * ClickHello: Benny is told by Burke that he was ''never'' Burke's partner, but a ''gift'' for her real partner. Enter [[spoiler: Yvonne]]. |
40 | * ConvenientMisfire: At the end of "Complicated." |
41 | * CountryMatters: Benny's nickname for Yvonne in "Battered, Part One." [[spoiler: He lives to regret it]]. |
42 | * CreateYourOwnVillain: Not like they were exactly friends before, but [[spoiler: Burke]] gets a whole lot worse when Chapel doesn't kill her quite thoroughly enough. |
43 | * CriminalProcedural: Chapel herself falls into the Outsiders/Hangers On category. |
44 | * DeliberatelyMonochrome: The pilot episode, "Audited," is shot mostly in black and white. |
45 | * DidntWantAnAdventure: In Chapel's case, "I could have finished high school..." |
46 | * DisproportionateReward: In "Jacked, Part Two," mobster Capobianco tells Chapel that he owes her a favor for saving his life, even though Princess, his own daughter, did a lot more work. Lampshaded by Chapel, who points out that she "only shot the one guy," but Princess insists that Chapel take the favor anyway. |
47 | --> '''Princess:''' Take it. It's kind of a big deal. |
48 | * DoubleTap: [[spoiler: Burke]] nails a couple of cops at close range with a silenced .25 Colt in "Handcuffed." |
49 | * EvilLaugh: Burke, but an honorable mention goes to [[http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=10150155105545597 Yvonne's crazed giggle]] in "Battered, Part Two." |
50 | * ExtendedDisarming: A {{Mook}} searches Burke for weapons and finds a sword cane and several handguns. A final patdown causes several more small pistols to fall out from Burke's coat, causing the mook to say, "Jesus. I just started patting her down and she gave birth to a gun store." |
51 | * EyeScream: [[spoiler: Burke]] takes a bullet to the eyeball in "Extremed." |
52 | * FacialHorror: Burke, and we're finally shown the extent of the damage in "Neutralized." However, it's hinted that [[spoiler: the mob [[WeCanRebuildHim can rebuild her]]]]... |
53 | * FantasticDrug: Lots. Chapel doesn't seem to deal in any kind of regular street drugs, but instead, bizarre experimental hallucinogens, like "Fourcolor," which makes the world seem like a comic book, or "Dimestore," which reverses the effects of pain. |
54 | * TheFarmerAndTheViper: Chapel manages to save Yvonne's life, but it doesn't matter--Yvonne still wants revenge. |
55 | --> '''Chapel:''' Are we cool? |
56 | --> '''Yvonne:''' Is my brother still dead? ({{Beat}}.) Then I guess we're not cool. |
57 | * FirstPersonSmartass |
58 | * FormulaBreakingEpisode: The episode "Inked" is done in motion comic format. |
59 | * FreezeFrameBonus: Going frame-by-frame through the shot of the "Won't It Rule" webpage has a few extra jokes, including a [[ShoutOut Shout Out]] to the creators of WebVideo/ChadVader. |
60 | * GirlsWithGuns: Um, ''yeah.'' |
61 | * GroinAttack: Female-on-female example, when Chapel kicks Stone in the groin in the episode "Handcuffed." |
62 | * GunsDoNotWorkThatWay: In "Extremed," when [[spoiler: Burke literally has to bite a bullet: "What if it goes off in my mouth?"]] [[LampshadeHanging "That's impossible! You know how unlucky you would have to be?"]] |
63 | * HowWeGotHere: Used in "Complicated," "Battered, Part One," and "Handcuffed." |
64 | * IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim: In "Matched," Chapel gets the drop on Burke, who tells her, "Chapel, if you kill me, you will be just like me." |
65 | --> '''Chapel:''' "No, I'll be just as bad as you. There's a difference." |
66 | * IKEAWeaponry: Burke assembles one of these in the season one finale. It's the exact same gun used in the movie ''Film/InTheLineOfFire''. [[spoiler: However, it falls apart (being made of plastic and all) when she tries to use it on Chapel.]] |
67 | * ImportantHaircut: In "Audited," after being grabbed by her hair several times during fights, Chapel gets her hair cut very short. It's more practical than symbolic. |
68 | * ItGetsEasier: Chapel says this almost exactly in "Famed." |
69 | --> '''Chapel:''' "I've killed people, you know. Doing this. And the scariest fucking thing about it to me is that every single time [[ItGetsEasier it gets a little bit easier to live with.]] But [[IDidWhatIHadToDo I would kill twice as many people]] just to have [[GrassIsGreener your problems instead of mine..."]] |
70 | * ItsWhatIDo: Butch responds with this exact phrase when Chapel asks why his research on her was...oddly specific. |
71 | * LegionOfDoom: Pretty much the story of "Inked." |
72 | * LetsYouAndHimFight: [[spoiler: Burke and Benny's]] gambit during "Guilted." |
73 | * KickTheDog: In "Famed," when [[spoiler: former movie star Lehaney]] realizes that she's dying, she begs Chapel for help. Chapel's response? [[spoiler: She watches Lehaney bleed out, then takes pictures of her dead body to sell to the press.]] |
74 | * MortalWoundReveal: [[spoiler: The knife sticking out of Lehaney's chest]] in "Famed." |
75 | * NeverFoundTheBody: In "Famed:" |
76 | -->'''Chapel:''' Whoop-dee-hell, you saw four dead bodies. Doesn't make you [[ShoutOut Zoe Bell.]] |
77 | -->'''Lehaney:''' Don't exaggerate. There weren't ''four'' dead bodies. |
78 | -->'''Chapel:''' ...[[OhCrap What]]? |
79 | * NoodleIncident: We never do find out why Burke needed a bullet wound in "Extremed." When asked directly in a flashback, she simply says, [[HandWave "That's not important."]] |
80 | * NotHerself: In "Guilted," a flashback (told from another character's point of view) shows Chapel behaving very strangely indeed, even commenting that she has to go to a party, because she has "handsome men to impress." Hearing this, Chapel even lampshades it. Later, we find out [[spoiler: that the person telling the story was given faulty information, and that the drug dealer in the story isn't Chapel at all, but ''Burke.'']] |
81 | * OnTheNext: Done as motion typography using just dialogue from the next episode, along with the title. |
82 | * PregnantHostage: Who'd have thought it'd be [[spoiler: Burke]]? |
83 | * PreviouslyOn: Even the ''pilot'' had one when it was first uploaded, but this was cut when new viewers who hadn't seen the original shorts [[LateArrivalSpoiler found it to be filled with spoilers]]. |
84 | * PrivateEyeMonologue |
85 | * PutOnABus: Labyrinth decides to leave town to see [[spoiler: her and Chapel's mother]]. Labyrinth even goes so far as to say "put me on a bus, I'm outta here!" |
86 | * RealLifeWritesThePlot: Burke's [[spoiler: pregnancy]] was a result of her actress, Kelly Maxwell, [[spoiler: being eight months pregnant during the shooting of the episode]]. |
87 | * RedRightHand: Burke has a creepy half-mask that she sometimes puts makeup on. |
88 | * RevolversAreJustBetter: When buying a gun in "Loaded," Chapel picks a customized Smith & Wesson .44 magnum, naming this trope for the reason. |
89 | * ReportsOfMyDeathWereGreatlyExaggerated: Chapel says to [[spoiler: her mother]], "[[spoiler: Dad]] said you were dead." |
90 | -->[[spoiler: '''Christine Church]]:''' "Yeah, well, [[spoiler: your father]]'s a douchebag." |
91 | * ScaryShinyGlasses: Grocer's aviators in "Karated." Chapel's own Ray-Ban's are also a variant. |
92 | * ShotgunsAreJustBetter: Yvonne seems to prefer using one in more than one episode. |
93 | * ShoutOut: So many that they got their [[http://vimeo.com/20153422 own movie]], which is [[http://www.everythingisaremix.info/ also]] a ShoutOut. |
94 | * ShurFineGuns: Will seems to be carrying at least one of these (if not two) in "Extremed." |
95 | * [[spoiler: SiblingYinYang:]] Crazy theater girl Labyrinth is revealed to be [[spoiler: Chapel's little sister]]. |
96 | * StylisticSuck: Lehaney reading from a movie script in "Famed." It's basically the same opening monologue from "Complicated," with a few cheesy lines thrown in. |
97 | * SwordCane: Burke alludes to having one in season one and finally uses it in season two. |
98 | * TagAlongActor: The premise of the episode "Famed:" Lehaney, a once-famous actress, follows Chapel around to research for a possible upcoming role as a drug dealer in a gritty crime drama. |
99 | * TerribleTrio: Burke, Stone, and Yvonne team up to kill Chapel in "Inked." Burke seems to be the brains, Yvonne the beauty, and Stone the muscle, but these roles are a bit subjective. |
100 | * TheStinger: Almost every episode has one. |
101 | * ThemeMusicPowerUp: When Chapel returns to [[spoiler: save Yvonne]] in "Battered, Part Two." |
102 | --> "Forgot my purse." |
103 | * ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: [[spoiler: Ronny's death]] in "Famed." |
104 | * TimeSkip: Between Season One and Two. |
105 | * TriggerHappy: At first, Burke seems to [[DoesntLikeGuns not like guns at all]], but after getting [[spoiler: shot through the eye]], she develops a pretty major gun fetish. |
106 | * UnknownRival: Chapel isn't even aware that [[spoiler: Burke is still alive]] until the episode "Inked." |
107 | * VerbedTitle: Every episode. |
108 | * WakingUpElsewhere: When Chapel has to get out of town at the end of "Inked," Butch Sauft [[TapOnTheHead punches her out.]] She wakes up to see [[spoiler: the Statue Of Liberty. Right next to her.]] |
109 | * WeMeetAgain: Subverted. A female {{Mook}} says this to Princess. [[spoiler: Princess blows the mook's brains out before she can say anything else, however.]] |
110 | * WeWillMeetAgain: Burke says this a lot. |
111 | * WhyWontYouDie: Yvonne says this to Chapel in "Inked." Also counts as a PunctuatedForEmphasis. |
112 | --> '''Chapel:''' "Offhand, I'd say it's because YOU SUCK AT KILLING ME!!!" |
113 | * WorthyOpponent: Burke says this to Chapel in "Matched." |
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