History Literature / NakedCameTheStranger

* RecognizableBySound: As soon as porn writer Ansel Varth opens his mouth, Gillian recognizes him as [[spoiler:Jack the Fucker, the dirty caller who harassed her a few chapters ago]].

* ShotgunWedding: Alan lost his virginity to Gerda, a girl who helped him through medical school. The condom failed, and they were married ten weeks into the resulting pregnancy.

* TeenyWeenie: Paddy Madigan is huge and muscular everywhere except his micropenis. His wife Agnes is the one woman who never laughed at it, as she believes that SexIsEvil.

* AfraidOfBlood: General practitioner Dr. Alan Hettinger struggled through med school partly because he sometimes cries at the sight of blood.

* MarriageOfConvenience: Mario married Donna Marie to cement the alliance between his organization and that of her father, Septimo Caggiano.

* BarelyThereSwimwear: Gillian seduces Morton Earbrow by wearing a bathing suit with "openings in unexpected places" that seems to be [[TheissTitillationTheory held together by shoelaces]].

* HappilyMarried: Billy & Gilly pretend to be. In fact, Gillian thinks the main reason they're still together is because of the show.

* PornWithoutPlot: The book was intentionally written to be a plotless, awful and blatantly pornographic mess to prove the author's beliefs that SexSells regardless of quality

* StylisticSuck: [=McGrady=] had to heavily edit some chapters that weren't badly-written enough.

* ChristianRock: A Jewish example. Rabbi Turnbull is hiring a band called Jonah and the Wails, who use two electric guitars, a tambourine, and a whale's jawbone banged against a kettle drum. [[spoiler:His sexual frustration over Gillian leads him to disappear three days before their appearance. He reappears in the middle of their performance, calls them Philistines, and tries to beat up the Temple Vice Presidents.]]

* GroinAttack: During Turnbull's first attempt at having sex with Gillian, he leaps towards he on the bed and lands crotch-first on the bedpost.

* ChristianRock: A Jewish example. Rabbi Turnbull is hiring a band called Jonah and the Wails, a move criticized by even his fellow Reform Jews. On ''The Billy & Gilly Show'', he and Gillian get into a debate about it. She majored in Eastern Religions and is very skilled in "intellectual guerilla warfare," giving the impression that she won, even though Rabbi Turnbull knows more about the subject than she does.

** William notes that Rabbi Joshua Turnbull resembles Skitch

* CelebrityResemblance: William was told in his youth that he could be a stand-in for Prince Philip.

* AssShove: Gillian's first conquest, Ernie Miklos, once had sex with a hooker in Honolulu who inserted a chunk of ice up his rectum. The resulting orgasm was so incredible that he feels like a part of him died, and still wakes up screaming about ice cubes.

* StarbucksSkinScale: An uncommon white example. Gillian is "the color of India tea at summer's end."

* AssShove: Gillian's first conquest, Ernie Miklos, once helped a Japanese lieutenant commit hara-kiri by shoving a knife into his rectum.

* GloryDays: Ernie Miklos fantasizes about his days as a high school quarterback and later as a marine, when he was known as Iron Man Ernie Miklos. Now, as a middle-aged man with a wife and kids he doesn't like, he lives mostly for Saturday afternoon football games.

* IHaveBoobsYouMustObey: During arguments with her husband Marvin, Helen Goodman partly unbuttons her blouse to make him calmer and more likely to agree with her.