Line #3 WebVideo/ConMan


1	-->'''Trailer voice:''' ''In the fall of 2004, a television network foolishly cancelled the epic space show: ''Spectrum''. But fans kept ''Spectrum'' alive in their imaginations and safe in their shattered hearts. Now, ten years later an army of fans celebrate the cast, and conventions are devoted to the adventure and the mythos that was and always will be ''Spectrum''. Everyone loves ''Spectrum''.''\
2	'''Wray Nearly:''' [[DescriptionCut I HATE SPECTRUM!]] IHATEITIHATEITIHATEITIHATEIT!\
3	'''Trailer voice:''' ''Well, everyone but Wray Nearly.''\
4	'''Woman:''' But ''Spectrum'' was was a great show!\
5	'''Wray:''' It was the best thing I've ever done.
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7	''Con Man'' is a comedy WebVideoSeries created, directed, and written by Creator/AlanTudyk. A Platform/{{Vimeo}} exclusive, which probably didn't help it.
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9	Wray Nerely (Alan Tudyk), is a struggling actor whose last big role was as pilot Cash Wayne on the sci-fi show ''Spectrum'' before it was cancelled in the middle of its first season. Many years later, ''Spectrum'' still has fans, and Wray's costar, Jack Moore (Creator/NathanFillion), who played Captain James Raaker, lives the life Wray wishes he had. Bobbie (Mindy Sterling), his booking agent, attempts to squeeze every penny she can from Wray, making his life that much worse. The series follows Wray as he spends his time attending sci-fi conventions panels, hating ''Spectrum'' more each day.
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12	!!Tropes include:
13	* AccidentalUnfortunateGesture: Wray's action figure is either slamming his fist down, or... IllBeInMyBunk.
14	* TheAce: Jack Moore is this, and has had more professional success following ''Spectrum'' than all of his former co-stars combined.
15	-->'''Jack:''' ''[over the phone]'' Poker 'til the sun came up. And then somehow it turned into a quinceanera.\
16	'''Wray:''' ''[at fan convention]'' I like your life so much better than mine.
17	* [[invoked]]ActorSharedBackground:
18	** Obviously, Wray's big role as a space pilot on [[Series/{{Firefly}} a short-lived but fondly-remembered sci-fi show]], some of whose other stars have gone on to more visible success, which is verging on AdamWesting.
19	** Wray had a role in "[[Film/AbrahamLincolnVampireHunter the Abraham Lincoln movie with vampires]]". Alan Tudyk played Stephen A. Douglas in that movie.
20	** Jerry Lansing is a voice actor who refers to himself as "the Mo-Cap King". Nolan North has done a considerable amount of motion capture work in his career, particularly as Nathan Drake in the ''VideoGame/{{Uncharted}}'' series.
21	* [[invoked]]AdaptationDisplacement: The ''Ambivalence'' film trilogy largely displaced the books.
22	-->'''Janet Carney:''' I love post-apocalyptic adventures. Have you read the books?\
23	'''Rico Java:''' No!\
24	'''Janet Carney:''' Me neither. So good.\
25	'''Rico Java:''' Right! My favourite one was probably maybe two.
26	* AnimatedCreditsOpening: The show ''Spectrum'' had these for the Lost/Stolen Episode. Show creator P. J. Haars remade the opening, since he hated the original one.
27	* AsYouKnow: During a conversation between Bobby and Wray early in ''Full Release'' (probably as a ParodiedTrope):
28	-->'''Bobby:''' P. J. Haars... You know, the creator of ''Spectrum''...\
29	'''Wray:''' Yeah, I know who he is.
30	* BabyDollBaby: An entire doll convention is taking place at the same hotel as the scifi convention. Louise (Creator/TriciaHelfer) treats her doll as her child, helping her cope with the trauma of her first... uh, "baby" dying in a fire.[[note]](It was a baby doll.)[[/note]]
31	* BerserkButton: Do not do an ape imitation in Jerry Lansing Mo-Cap classes. Apes are the domain of that hack, Creator/AndySerkis.
32	* BlatantLies: Wray hates ''Spectrum'', but claims that he would choose a ''Spectrum'' movie over a Creator/ClintEastwood movie.
33	* {{Blackface}}: Wray previously voiced Rigamarole in ''Wassup, Bitch?'', which is described as Vocal Blackface by Casey.
34	* BloodOath: When Wray makes Bobbie his agent, she is too old-fashioned to have him sign a contract. Instead, she simply offers her hand,... then when he goes to shake, she grabs his wrist, stabs his palm with a meat fork, and spreads his blood on a contract.
35	-->'''Bobbie:''' ''[holding up contract to the heavens]'' Through this blood, we are bound. ''(DramaticThunder)''
36	* BrickJoke: In ''Full Release'', Jack invites the cast over to watch the Lost/Stolen Episode. When inviting Wray, he mentions that Stutter, who has a vendetta against Wray, is already there, but that Jack has hidden all the knives. Two episodes later in ''Too Much Closure for Comfort'', Stutter ties Wray up, and threatens him with... a cake server.
37	* BrutalHonesty: When Jack has a meeting with his [[ProfessionalButtKisser other three agents]] in person, his brutally honest agent Susan [[VoiceWithAnInternetConnection teleconferences in]]. She is the one that tells him Creator/LiamHemsworth has replaced Jack in his biggest franchise, and [[MassiveNumberedSiblings another (fictional) Hemsworth]] has replaced him in another franchise. After Jack leaves, [[BearerOfBadNews she enters from the next room]].
38	-->'''Susan:''' Wake up, your film career is over.
39	* TheCameo:
40	** Creator/SummerGlau as a makeup girl.
41	** Creator/SeanMaher [[AsHimself as himself]].
42	** Creator/JewelStaite as the Afghanistan War fan at the Comic Book Store.
43	** Creator/GinaTorres as a video game audio director.
44	** Creator/JossWhedon as a stagehand.
45	** There are dozens of non-''Series/{{Firefly}}'' cameos, but the most notable is Creator/StanLee, who appears for five seconds, but then [[LampshadeHanging he says]] he has to [[TheCameo/StanLee leave to go do some cameos]].
46	* CampGay: Creator/LeslieJordan's character uses both this and WebVideo/SassyGayFriend as a ruse to get close to older conservative women before convincing them that they have turned him straight in order to have sex with them. Can also be seen as CampStraight.
47	* CatchPhrase: Cash Wayne apparently routinely yelled "I will see you in hell!" on ''Spectrum'', while slamming his fist on a table, if Wray's fan interactions are anything to go by.
48	* CelebrityParadox:
49	** Creator/SeanMaher appears and talks about his time as Simon Tam from ''Series/{{Firefly}}''. This brings into question who played Captain Malcolm Reynolds and Hoban Washburne in this universe. (Since ''Spectrum'' is a thinly-disguised ersatz version of ''Firefly'', it risks unravelling the whole conceit of the series.)
50	** Tangentially related to that, during Wray's panel there is a person cosplaying as [[WebVideo/DoctorHorriblesSingAlongBlog Captain Hammer]], bringing into question who played Captain Hammer and Penny.
51	** When trying to describe Louise (played by Creator/TriciaHelfer), Wray describes her as looking like one of the Cylons from ''Series/BattlestarGalactica2003''.
52	* ChekhovsGag: Karen is introduced exiting a bathroom, having some [[PottyEmergency digestive distress]], from eating another fan's bourbon balls. At the Platinum Party, a fan tires to give a drunk Wray some bourbon balls, though Karen stops him from eating (he just orders some bourbon instead). After his disastrous panel, Wray meets Creator/SeanAstin, and Wray [[LaxativePrank gives him the bourbon balls in revenge]] for Astin encouraging the use of "[[HavingAGayOldTime retarding]]".
53	%%* ChewingTheScenery: Bobbi, when she tries to help Wray rehearse the audition script for an Eastwood film.
54	* ClothesMakeTheManiac: A possible, though unlikely, explanation for Jerry Lansing behaviour. He claims early motion capture suits were made of lead (lined with asbestos).
55	* {{Cloudcuckoolander}} Jerry Lansing, judging by his panel, and later, his Mo-Cap classes.
56	-->'''Jerry:''' Who likes Jesus? I have a theory that he wasn't crucified. I think vikings killed Jesus Christ.
57	* CockFight: An interesting take on this between the gay Creator/SeanMaher and posing-as-gay Creator/LeslieJordan, who are both attracted to Bobbie (a cis woman). A fight ensues when she separately invites both of them for a drink and they show up at the bar around the same time.
58	* [[invoked]]CompletelyDifferentTitle: ''Spectrum'' was retitled ''Spacey Plane Shoot-'Em-Up'' in Australia.
59	* CountryMatters: Girth Hemsworth calls Wray either this or a "cut".
60	%%* CreepyDoll: The dolls at the convention and the people who treat them as real.
61	* CrazyInTheHeadCrazyInTheBed: Wray describes Louise to Jack as a "crazy, crazy, hot lady". Jack says he's lucky, as a "CCHL" (Crazy crazy hot lady) are super fun in bed.
62	* CueCardPause: Faith's letter to Wray has at the bottom of the page "So I guess what I'm trying to say can be summed up in one word. Over". [[spoiler:Not "the relationship is over", but "this letter is continued over on the other side of the paper". The letter continues "And that one word is respect." Due to Wray's reaction, Faith proceeds to edit out the second page.]]
63	* CureYourGays: Used by the fictional Creator/LeslieJordan (who is openly gay in real life) in order to convince women to sleep with him.
64	* CutAndPasteNote: At the cast reunion in ''Found and Lost'', Stutter leaves the room when Wray arrives, but not before leaving such a note. He ran out of letters halfway through, leaving the note incomplete and verbally meaningless (though the intent is still perfectly clear, if only from the form of the note alone).
65	* DeathCourse: The Ambivalence Course, leading to a high death count at ''Shock-A-Con''. The final obstacle is a thin bridge over a BottomlessPit (or at least a very deep one), with [[SmashingHallwayTrapsOfDoom four axes chopping down onto the bridge]] (and frequently the contestant). It gets nicknamed the "Obstacle Corpse".
66	* [[invoked]]DeletedRole: When rehearsing the opening scene of ''Of Mice and Men: The Musical'', Wray gets annoyed at a voice actor's overzealous hooting. When the curtain rises for the premiere, Wray is roasting an owl prop over a fire.
67	* [[invoked]]DirectToVideo: Exaggerated - ''Wassup, Bitch?'' was only released as an extra on a VHS tape of Truck and Tractor Pull bloopers.
68	* DirtyCop: The cop that pulls Jack over in ''Found and Lost'' (Officer Ricketts, played by Creator/MichaelTrucco) claims he was about to [[DisproportionateRetribution shoot Jack for talking on a phone while driving]], before recognising him. He appears to let Jack go without any punishment, because of Jack's fame (and Jack enacts an action scene with him, with Jack wielding his gun).
69	* DreamWithinADream: ''Shock to the System'' opens with this, with Wray dreaming he's at the Shock-A-Con bar, and gets repeatedly [[JumpScare Jump Scared]] and thus woken by the bartender's face turning into some horrible monster's.
70	* DressesTheSame: Wray's assistant, Karen, dresses the same as him all the time. She even manages to appear at Wray's door with the same shirt (including arm-through-head-hole) less than thirty seconds after he put it on. She claims this is so she can act as a decoy if necessary (see PaperThinDisguise).
71	* DodgyToupee: Bobbie is occasionally seen adjusting her wig. When Wray knocks on Bobbie's door for the second time, Creator/LeslieJordan answers wearing it.
72	* EnhanceButton: Use in ''Doctor-Cop-Lawyer'', to view a murderer's face in the reflection of a bystander's sunglasses... which were enhanced from a different bystander's sunglasses in the original image.
73	* EyeScream: Under pressure from the fans at his pannel, Wray tries to return Ari Stidham's lucky pen. He does so by throwing it, but hits another fan in the eye. [[note]]This is likely a reference to an event at Comic-Con, where an attendant's eye was injured with a pen (albeit by another attendant, not a panelist).[[/note]]
74	* [[invoked]]FakeAmerican: This is the current trend, resulting in Jack being told he has lost two roles to two of the [[MassiveNumberedSiblings Hemsworth Brothers]].
75	-->'''Jess:''' It's an industry wide trend. All leading men are being replaced with Australians.\
76	'''Bryce:''' They're just more American.
77	* FakeStatic: Of the "lost signal drop" variant. Wray tries this on a call to Jack. [[EpicFail On a landline]].
78	%%* FanDisservice: One episode opens up with Bobbie wearing a rather {{Stripperific}} cosplay outfit.
79	* FictionalCounterpart: ''Spectrum'' for ''Series/{{Firefly}}'', with Wray and Jack playing the ''Spectrum'' counterpart characters as Creator/AlanTudyk and Creator/NathanFillion respectively did on ''Firefly'' in real life (i.e. the actors that are playing Wray and Jack). Oddly, there's a passing mention of ''Firefly'' [[CelebrityParadox existing in the Con Man universe]].
80	* ForcedOutOfTheCloset: Wray accidentally does this to Stutter, who he thought was already out. [[spoiler:However, Stutter was not outed as being gay (that is fine in Hollywood), but for being a Republican.]]
81	* FormerChildStar: Tiffany was a child during the ''Spectrum'' heyday, and has become this during the present day. She is the only cast member that Wray feels any amount of affection for.
82	-->'''Dream!Tiffany:''' I'm releasing a sequel to my sex tape. Will you come to the premiere?
83	* FormerlyFat and FormerlyFit: Brenda. During the filming of ''Spectrum'', she was fit, but by the present day, she's fat. Pounder's Weight Loss hired her as a spokesperson, and they would pay her $10000 for every pound she lost. Instead, she gained 150 pounds, and as per her contract, '''she''' owes '''them''' $1500000. By season two, she's lost all but the last seven points ($70000), but that remaining fat is concentrated entirely on her neck.
84	* GetOut: Wray does a subdued version of this in ''Back to the Past'' when Bobby, Stutter, Tiffany and Brenda all intrude into his hotel room [[DysfunctionJunction with all their problems]].
85	-->'''Wray:''' Hey, uh, everybody? I want, I really want you ... to get out.
86	%%* FunnyBackgroundEvent: The bar scene in episode seven.
87	* GirlsWithMoustaches: Creator/SeanMaher sees a moustache on Bobbie. She then uses Wray's razors to shave it off.
88	* GoingDownWithTheShip: Jack Moore does ''not'' do this in Wray's dream, which reflects him being the only successful actor from ''Spectrum''.
89	* GoryDiscretionShot: When Randy Lane lifts his shirt to reveal an old stunt injury (that he [[NoodleIncident somehow acquired]] on ''Series/ReadingRainbow''), Wray blocks the camera.
90	* GroinAttack: When stuntman Randy Lane's job is threatened by Wray declaring he doing his own stunts, Randy uses the costume's harness to enact one of these.
91	* HavingAGayOldTime: Creator/SeanAstin uses "retarding" in its original sense (slowing, impeding). Wray tries to use it, but makes the mistake of doing so on stage, in front of several people in wheelchairs.
92	* HeadDesk: In the wings during the impromptu premiere of ''Of Mice and Men: The Musical'' Wray is told that the show will be officially premiering Off-Broadway. However, his role is being recast to [[ShakespearianActors a big-name British actor]]. He then head desks, into some make-up, which he spreads to cover his black eye.
93	* HighTurnoverRate: While in his agency's parking lot, Wray call up his agent, Stephanie. Expecting Stephanie's assistant Gordon, he instead gets Daniel, Gordan's assistant, as Stephanie has been fired and Gordan has replaced her. When he reaches his agent's office, he finds Gordan has been fired, and Daniel has replaced him, with Pascal as his new assistant. In the meeting with Daniel, Wray drops his phone on the floor, and after reaching down to pick it up, finds Daniel has been replaced by Pascal. [[GenreSavvy Pascal immediately fires his assistant]]. Unfortunately, he gets a new assistant within two minutes. When Wray goes to pick up his car, he finds his former agents are now working as valets. It's a volatile time.
94	* HollywoodGenetics: Dawn's twin children were born three weeks apart. They are also different races, and the black one may be Wray's child.
95	* IgnoringBySinging: In this case, by blending. When Wray starts ranting about characters with humps, the bartender turns on the blender for a good fifteen seconds. Then the bartender adds a few ingredients and repeats. Twice.
96	* InstantlyProvenWrong: In the smoothie bar:
97	-->'''Wray:''' Did you tell them that I'm manly? Did you tell them that? 'Cause I am.\
98	'''Employee:''' ''[handing to Wray]'' Hello Kittly Lemonade Spritz.\
99	'''Wray:''' ''[yo himself]'' A little light on the sprinkles.
100	* IntoxicationEnsues: Wray figures the best way to [[NailedToTheWagon keep Tiffany sober]] is to drink any alcohol she orders. Problem is, they are at an open bar.
101	* IronicNickname: Bucky got her nickname not from her buckteeth, but because of an incident in her childhood where she was pinned under a buck (elk) for several days, and forced to eat the family dog, Lucky.
102	* LandDownunder: Girth Hemsworth survived the outback by eating wild butterflies, which he states are "wicked poisonous". (He [[BrickJoke later]] describes a cut on his forehead as stinging like a butterfly bite.)
103	* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: When Wray ties to watch the final episode on Platform/{{Vimeo}} (where Con Man was released, behind a paywall).
104	-->'''Wray:''' Someone uploaded it to Platform/{{Vimeo}}. I love Vimeo. Wait, paywall.
105	* LockedInARoom: Happens to Wray and Creator/LouFerrigno at The Long Con, due to wandering through a self-locking door. They are joined by Bobbie and Creator/LeslieJordan, the Tooth Fairy, Jerry Lansing and his groupies, and bunch of bystanders who just so happen to have skills that can be applied to theatre (a comic book artist starts painting scenery, and a [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin voice actor does voice acting]]). Each time someone enters, Wray calls for them to hold the door, only for it to shut just before they grab it. Finally, during a RousingSpeech by Creator/LouFerrigno, Karen enters and successfully hold the door open, only for Wray, moved by the speech, to tell her to close it. [[BrickJoke The Tooth Fairy despairs over his missing medication]].
106	* LostInTransmission: Due to the bartender's blender.
107	-->'''Wray:''' ...Cynthia Nixon, 1986 Chicago Bears, and a six inch piece of string. And I'm like "What, I don't think so. not on a Tuesday."...
108	* ManlyTears: Invoked by Wray during his video game voice audition, when he is asked to voice a character who was shot in the ass, as his voice was not as deep and manly as the other two actors.
109	* MassiveNumberedSiblings: Jack loses a role to Creator/LiamHemsworth, and another roles to (the fictional) Chip Hemsworth. When he asks how many Hemsworths there are, one of his agents does not know, while another starts counting on his fingers, getting to six before the scene changes.
110	* MasterOfDisguise: Stutter successfully disguises himself as a tree, bed and seat, only being seen after he reveals himself.
111	* MeetCute: Wray is standing in line at a hotel, and tries to put down the handle on his luggage. Instead, the handle jams, and the luggage is forced backwards into the legs of Louise, knocking her down. Wray helps her up, claiming "[[ExactWords she fell]]". At the end of their conversation, he knocks her down the same way.
112	* MessyHair: Ever since he was outed [[spoiler:as a Republican]], no hairdresser will give Stutter a haircut, which is one of the main reasons for his vendetta against Wray. Fortunately, Faith solves the issue due to knowing a [[spoiler:born again Christian]] hairdresser.
113	* MicDrop: Wray finishes his TheReasonYouSuckSpeech at the end of ''Shock-A-Con'' with this. It is a lapel mic, so he drags it along the floor by the hip-transmitter for a few seconds, before untangling himself and redropping the mic and transmitter.
114	* MistakenForPregnant: Wray does this at the Platinum Party
115	-->'''Woman:''' The Alien Baby was awesome.\
116	'''Wray:''' I bet you think that about all babies because you're about to have one.\
117	'''Woman:''' One what?
118	* MistakenForProfound: Tiffany is despairing over how her life has turned out. "It's harder to become anything you want once you start actually becoming who you are." Wray turns around, and finds she read the last line off a shampoo bottle.
119	* ModestyTowel: Bobbie wears one after her night with Jerry Lansing. When Wray drops his coffee on his laptop, she offers it to clean up the spill. He [[BigNo adamantly refuses]].
120	* MysteryMeat: Bobbie's massage parlour at [[ShoddyKnockoffProduct Half Foods]] also sells "Roadside Discovery" sausages. Ingredients include foal prepuce and pig anus.
121	* NeverFoundTheBody: Bruise Camp Bell, the only ''Spectrum'' cast member that doesn't appear in the present day, disappeared under unknown circumstances. The authorities believe that the sharks got him.
122	* NobleBigot: After talking about how killing job-stealing foreigners does not count as murder because they are not citizens ([[DiscriminateAndSwitch He is talking about Australians]]), Stutter reveals his [[TheSponsor main goal]] at ''Shock-A-Con'' is to ensure [[RecoveredAddict Tiffany]] does not fall OffTheWagon.
123	* OffscreenTeleportation: During ''Too Much Closure for Comfort'', Dawn rattles the locked handle of the only door to the bathroom that Wray is currently in. While Wray is talking through the door, Dawn appears behind him.
124	* [[invoked]]OldShame: ''Spectrum'' is this for Wray. Problem is, it is also his StarMakingRole. This drives the entire plot of the show.
125	* OnlyInItForTheMoney: Wray when he is told that going to a comic book store and being on a panel will pay $5,000.
126	-->'''[[Creator/MiloVentimiglia Milo]]:''' So you can to tonight? Great, you can go tonight.\
127	'''Wray:''' No.\
128	'''Milo:''' Just say yes.\
129	'''Wray:''' No.\
130	'''Milo:''' Say yes.\
131	'''Wray:''' No.\
132	'''Milo:''' They're going to pay you five thousand dollars.\
133	'''Wray:''' Yeah, I'll do it.
134	* PaperThinDisguise: After upsetting wheelchair-using members in the audience with the word [[HavingAGayOldTime "retarding"]], Wray escapes pursuit when his assistant, Karen, acts as a decoy by being dressed the same as him, and complaining about his life. It works, despite Karen being played by Creator/FeliciaDay.
135	-->'''Karen:''' Retarding. Retarding. I, uh, hate science fiction fans. I don't appreciate what I've got. Trophies and awards are the only sense of self worth that I have. I, uh, don't see what I have, because my head is stuck so far up my own ass. Ugh, ah, argh, I have a drinking problem.\
136	'''Pursuer:''' That's him.
137	** In season two, despite her best efforts, she can't impersonate Creator/LouFerrigno, passing only for [[DoubleSubversion his brother]].
138	* {{Pixellation}}: At the start of ''Full Release'', Wray [[NotWearingPantsDream dreams that he is naked]] as his ''Spectrum'' character, Cash. He is censored like this, but Wray/Cash can see the pixellation. Attempting to touch the pixels causes it to spread up his arms, and eventually over his entire body.
139	* PunchPunchPunchUhOh: Wray tries punching Girth Hemsworth. After missing twice, he manages to gently push his fist into Girth's face. Girth is unaffected by this, but his face [[EpicFail cuts Wray's hand]].
140	-->'''Girth:''' Look, honestly, I feel that's kind of disappointing. Have you punched people before?
141	* PrematurelyBald: [[spoiler:Jack]] is shown to be this, hiding it with a toupee.
142	* PsychoExGirlfriend: Dawn serves as one for Wray.
143	* [[invoked]]QuestionableCasting: Creator/LouFerrigno decides that, in his adaptation of ''Of Mice and Men'', he should play George and Wray should play Lennie, despite Lou being 11cm/4in taller and 50kg/100lb heavier.
144	* RasputinianDeath: The dog in ''Of Mice And Men: The Musical'' requires six shots from a revolver, several seconds of automatic gunfire, and more, due to Jerry Lansing's LargeHam portrayal.
145	* ReallyGetsAround: Bobbie looks like someone's granny. Despite this, she often has sex with convention guests.
146	* RepeatingSoTheAudienceCanHear: In this case, Wray's audience is Faith.
147	-->'''Jack:''' I'm pissed. Faith is a no-show to my ''Spectrum'' meeting with my agents. Which makes me think it's your fault.\
148	'''Wray:''' ''[to Faith]'' Faith is a no-show for the ''Spectrum'' meeting with your agents. Oh no.
149	* ScaryBlackMan: The fictional counterparts of Creator/MichaelDorn and Creator/KevinGrevioux, who are on a panel with Wray about overcoming racist stereotypes and bigotry. Both of them admit to becoming murderously angry at racist stereotypes. Wray's assistant/bodyguard Marion, a black man, also fits this trope after hearing Wray's stereotypical Black voice for an all-around racist cartoon he did called ''Wassup, Bitch?''
150	-->'''Creator/KevinGrevioux:''' Sometimes I black out, and when I come to someplace else hours later, I wake up with a blunt object covered in some poor guy's blood.\
151	'''Creator/MichaelDorn:''' I do the same thing. I have to watch the news to find out who I killed.
152	* ShoutOut:
153	** Given that the show is set at a Sci-Fi Convention, it is inevitable. Fans are seen dressed as [[Franchise/StarWars Darth Vader]], [[Series/AgentCarter Peggy Carter]] and [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Misty]].
154	** During the LockedInARoom sequence above, one of the characters should "[[Series/GameOfThrones Hodor]]" when some new people enter the room.
155	* ShowWithinAShow: ''Spectrum'', ''Doctor-Cop-Lawyer'', ''Wassup, Bitch?'', and a few others. So far, only scenes from ''Spectrum'' have been shown. There is also ''I'm With Stupid'' (''Of Mice and Men: The Musical'') on stage.
156	* SideBet: The crew of Jack Moore's latest project bet on who he will flirt with first. [[Creator/JossWhedon The Snow Guy's]] tells Ben that he won the pool betting on [[Creator/SummerGlau Martina, the makeup girl]].
157	* SoapOperaDisease: One character apparently has Spastic Seasonal Per[--cou--][----ta----][------sis------] (every character trails off when they name the disease, which raises the question of [[PlayingSick if the disease is actually real]]).
158	* SpitTake: ''Shock to the System'' opens with Wray waking up hungover still at the bar, and nobody else around other than the bartender. He is given a glass, which he sips from, and does a spit take because it is unexpectedly... water. He then asks for a shot of [[HairOfTheDog peppermint schnapps]], and does a second spit take because it is... peppermint schnapps.
159	* StatingTheSimpleSolution: ''Doctor-Cop-Lawyer'' and the ''Spectrum'' movie begin filming on the same date. Wray chooses ''Doctor-Cop-Lawyer'', and gives a long TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to the rest of the cast. Tiffany suggests moving ''Spectrum'' back, and so Wray [[YouDidntSeeThat tries to pretend the last three minutes did not happen]].
160	* StylisticSuck: The ''Spectrum'' Lost/Stolen Episode. The show was cancelled part way through filming the episode, and the creator took the footage. Many years later, he released it, but had to fill in the gaps somehow, and chose to do so with look-alike Dutch actors, crude animation and shadow puppets. Of particular note is a scene where Dutch!Raaker is blown back in an explosion, and visibly lands on a gym mat. The camera then pans to Dutch!Chu for a reaction shot, and lingers a bit too long, to give time for the gym mat to be removed by the time the camera pans back. Meanwhile, Dutch!Wayne is giving a countdown to a hyperspace jump over the intercom, but the countdown [[MagicCountdown jumps back up a few times]], in order to stretch out to the length of the shot (and the jump actually happens on negative one). The broadcast also left in advertisements, "as a commentary on the obsolescence of advertiser based funding".
161	* ThatCameOutWrong: Diego Alfonso's (Creator/JonHuertas) description of a manly man is a series of these.
162	-->'''Diego:''' He must be such a manly man, that there is another man inside of him... No, it shouldn't sound like that... Like a Russian nesting doll man; like a man, inside of another man, inside of another man, inside of another man... Nope, no, no, no, nothing like that, no, no... Like, it's as if he has swallowed many men... That's it.
163	* ThisIsGonnaSuck: Janet and Rico think this about hosting ''Talk-A-Con'', covering ''Shock-A-Con'' continuously for the entire duration.
164	-->'''Rico:''' 24 hours a day? Just you and me? That sounds like a terrible idea, and one that I am just hearing for the first time now.\
165	'''Janet:''' I am not looking forward to this.
166	%%* ThreeWaySex: Bobbie, Creator/LeslieJordan and Creator/SeanMaher. No, really.
167	* TransChaser: Sean Maher's character mistakenly believes that Wray's convention booker Bobbie (a cis woman) is male, then interprets Wray's garbled explanation to mean that she is transgender. He immediately finds her "courageousness" attractive to the point of fetishizing her and desiring sex with "the real you." It doesn't help that Bobbie plays along.
168	* VocalDissonance: The characters voiced by Creator/MichaelDorn and Creator/KevinGrevioux. Creator/MichaelDorn voices the Warrior King Tartanos, whose high-pitch speech is full of cutesy alliteration. Creator/KevinGrevioux voices the Finicky Dragon Sparkle, whose deep speech is mostly creative threats.
169	* WhiteDwarfStarlet: Wray's landlord Dale. He used to stunt-double for actresses before stunt-women. Now he spends his day in his old dresses, falling off ladders and asking people to punch him in the face.
170	* WorstNewsJudgmentEver: ''Talk-A-Thon'' provides 24 hour coverage of ''Shock-A-Con''. Including of the empty venue overnight.
171	* YouLookFamiliar: Invoked. Creator/CasperVanDien plays every bartender (including a smoothie bartender) in the series.
172	%%* YouWouldntLikeMeWhenImAngry: Do not get Casey Wingwall's (Creator/SethGreen) hackles up.

Context WebVideo / ConMan