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* OneWordTitle:
** ''Pilot''.
** ''Ends''.
** ''Gaslighting''.
** ''Flamingos''.
** ''Elidee''.
** ''Saturdaze''.
** ''Crackback''.
** ''Doink''.
** ''Copernicursed''.
** ''Municipal''
** ''Crumbs''.
** ''Edutainment''.

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* OneWordTitle:
OneWordTitle: Happens several times over the course of the series.
** ''Pilot''.
** ''Ends''.
** ''Gaslighting''.
**
Season 1: ''Pilot'', ''Ends'', ''Gaslighting'', and ''Flamingos''.
** ''Elidee''.
**
Season 2: ''Elidee'', and ''Saturdaze''.
** Season 3: ''Crackback''.
** Season 4: ''Doink''.
** ''Copernicursed''.
** ''Municipal''
** ''Crumbs''.
** ''Edutainment''.
Season 5: ''Copernicursed'', ''Municipal'', ''Crumbs'', and ''Edutainment''.
* RealMenWearPink: Spencer, driving around town whilst happily singing along to "Take It Off" by Music/TaylorSwift.
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''Ballers'' (stylized as '''ballers''') was an American ComedyDrama following a former NFL player (Creator/DwayneJohnson) in his new career as a financial manager and dealing with football players and their friends, family, and entourages.

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''Ballers'' (stylized as '''ballers''') was an American ComedyDrama following Spencer Strasmore (Creator/DwayneJohnson), a former NFL player (Creator/DwayneJohnson) in his new career as a financial manager and dealing with football UsefulNotes/AmericanFootball players and their friends, family, and entourages.
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* {{Fanservice}}: Almost every other scene features a beautiful woman in a bikini or just straight up topless[=/=]naked.

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* {{Fanservice}}: Almost every other scene features a beautiful woman in a bikini bikini, lingerie, or just straight up topless[=/=]naked.
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* {{Fanservice}}: Every named woman in the series is model-beautiful and has at least one scene in a bikini or lingerie, not to mention plenty of groupies and strippers who are often shown wearing even less. Even female extras are sexualised: female golfers are shown training in miniskirts and a scene of Spencer in the gym has multiple attractive women in tight athletic wear working out in the background.

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* {{Fanservice}}: Every named Almost every other scene features a beautiful woman in the series is model-beautiful and has at least one scene in a bikini or lingerie, not to mention plenty of groupies and strippers who are often shown wearing even less. Even female extras are sexualised: female golfers are shown training in miniskirts and a scene of Spencer in the gym has multiple attractive women in tight athletic wear working out in the background. just straight up topless[=/=]naked.

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* {{Fanservice}}: Every named woman in the series is model-beautiful and has at least one scene in a bikini or lingerie, not to mention plenty of groupies and strippers who are often shown wearing even less. Even background female characters are sexualised- a scene of Spencer in the gym has multiple attractive women in tight athletic wear working out in the background. There's also more than a few shots of muscular men with their shirts off, including the Rock.

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* {{Fanservice}}: Every named woman in the series is model-beautiful and has at least one scene in a bikini or lingerie, not to mention plenty of groupies and strippers who are often shown wearing even less. Even background female characters extras are sexualised- sexualised: female golfers are shown training in miniskirts and a scene of Spencer in the gym has multiple attractive women in tight athletic wear working out in the background. There's background.
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also more than a few shots of muscular men with their shirts off, including the Rock.
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* {{Fanservice}}: Every woman in the series is model-beautiful and has at least one scene in a bikini, lingerie or just straight-up topless, even the ones who aren't groupies or strippers. There's also more than a few shots of muscular men with their shirts off, including the Rock.

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* {{Fanservice}}: Every named woman in the series is model-beautiful and has at least one scene in a bikini, lingerie bikini or just straight-up topless, even the ones who aren't lingerie, not to mention plenty of groupies or strippers.and strippers who are often shown wearing even less. Even background female characters are sexualised- a scene of Spencer in the gym has multiple attractive women in tight athletic wear working out in the background. There's also more than a few shots of muscular men with their shirts off, including the Rock.
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* {{Fanservice}}: Every woman in the series is model-beautiful and has at least one scene in a bikini, lingerie or just straight-up topless, even the ones who aren't groupies or strippers. There's also more than a few shots of muscular men with their shirts off, including the Rock.
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* NWordPrivileges: At a party mostly for Black athletes, Spencer's very drunk and very white partner Joe yells "Let's get this party started my Niggaaaas!" They throw him in the sea.
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* JerkassHasAPoing: When Spencer comes back from a friend's funeral, his boss asks him if he was able to sign up anyone and says that funerals are a great place to get clients as attendees are often reevaluating their life choices. Spencer is pretty uncomfortable at this but, as his boss points out, his friend died bankrupt and left his wife and son with nothing, which wouldn't have happened if they had been taking care of his finances.

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* JerkassHasAPoing: JerkassHasAPoint: When Spencer comes back from a friend's funeral, his boss partner asks him if he was able to sign up anyone and says that funerals are a great place to get clients as attendees are often reevaluating their life choices. Spencer is pretty uncomfortable at this but, as his boss points out, his friend died bankrupt and left his wife and son with nothing, which wouldn't have happened if they had been taking care of his finances.
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* JerkassHasAPoing: When Spencer comes back from a friend's funeral, his boss asks him if he was able to sign up anyone and says that funerals are a great place to get clients as attendees are often reevaluating their life choices. Spencer is pretty uncomfortable at this but, as his boss points out, his friend died bankrupt and left his wife and son with nothing, which wouldn't have happened if they had been taking care of his finances.
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* {{Tagline}}: "Legends Don't Die. They Reinvent".

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* {{Tagline}}: "Legends Don't Die. They Reinvent".Reinvent".
* TakeThat:
** Season 4 has Spencer challenge the UsefulNotes/{{NCAA}} over their use and exploitation of college athletes, with Joe even directly calling the organisation corrupt.
** The final episodes of the series take aim at the UsefulNotes/{{NFL}} for not taking care of it's athletes following traumatic injuries that continue to hamper the living conditions of former players into their retirement.
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** It's not necessarily canonical, but the title sequence shows Dwayne "The Rock' Johnson in his playing days at the university of Miami.

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** It's not necessarily canonical, but the title sequence shows Dwayne "The Rock' Johnson in his playing days at the university of Miami.Miami - though this could be easily explained away as footage of Spencer’s college football days.
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An American Comedy Drama that has a former NFL player (Creator/DwayneJohnson) becoming a financial manager and dealing with football players and their friends and family.

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An ''Ballers'' (stylized as '''ballers''') was an American Comedy Drama that has ComedyDrama following a former NFL player (Creator/DwayneJohnson) becoming in his new career as a financial manager and dealing with football players and their friends friends, family, and family.
entourages.



The series aired on Creator/{{HBO}} for five seasons.

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The series aired on Creator/{{HBO}} for five seasons.
seasons between 2015 and 2019.

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* HappilyAdopted: In the episode "Ride and Die," Spencer starts to tell Joe a story about his father.
-->'''Joe:''' What, your real dad or your adopted dad?
-->'''Spencer:''' Asshole, my adopted dad ''is'' my real dad.
-->'''Joe:''' Good, I didn't want to hear a story about you searching for your biological father.


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* HappilyAdopted: In the episode "Ride and Die," Spencer starts to tell Joe a story about his father.
-->'''Joe:''' What, your real dad or your adopted dad?\\
'''Spencer:''' Asshole, my adopted dad ''is'' my real dad.\\
'''Joe:''' Good, I didn't want to hear a story about you searching for your biological father.
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* HappilyAdopted: In the episode "Ride and Die," Spenser starts to tell Joe a story about his father.

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* HappilyAdopted: In the episode "Ride and Die," Spenser Spencer starts to tell Joe a story about his father.



-->'''Spenser:''' Asshole, my adopted dad ''is'' my real dad.

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-->'''Spenser:''' -->'''Spencer:''' Asshole, my adopted dad ''is'' my real dad.

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* HappilyAdopted: In the episode "Ride and Die," Spenser starts to tell Joe a story about his father.
-->'''Joe:''' What, your real dad or your adopted dad?
-->'''Spenser:''' Asshole, my adopted dad ''is'' my real dad.
-->'''Joe:''' Good, I didn't want to hear a story about you searching for your biological father.



** IT's not necessarily canonical, but the title sequence shows Dwayne "The Rock' Johnson in his playing days at the university of Miami.

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** IT's It's not necessarily canonical, but the title sequence shows Dwayne "The Rock' Johnson in his playing days at the university of Miami.


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* DareToBeBadass: The motive for most of the characters.
* EveryoneWentToSchoolTogether: Ricky, Charles and Julie all went to University of Miami at the same time.


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* SoftWater: Averted in a flashback in "Protocol Is for Losers." Spencer tells a story about how he was hurt jumping off a cliff into lake as a boy.
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An American Comedy Drama that has a former NFL player (Creator/DwayneJohnson) becoming a financial manager and dealing with football players and their friends and family.

The show also featured Creator/RobCorddry, Creator/JohnDavidWashington, Creator/OmarBensonMiller, Creator/LondonBrown, Creator/TroyGarity, and Creator/JazmynSimon.

The series aired on Creator/{{HBO}} for five seasons.

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!Tropes for the series:
* CelebrityParadox:
** IT's not necessarily canonical, but the title sequence shows Dwayne "The Rock' Johnson in his playing days at the university of Miami.
** The season 5 premiere begins with Johnson's character reading ''The Flight is Our Fight'' by Elizabeth Warren... a book in which, on the very first page, the TV show itself is mentioned.
* MoneyDumb: Spencer Strasmore is a former NFL football player who was hit by this trope during his days as a sports star. He earned a lot of money but he put most of it into stupid investments and had the rest embezzled by crooked managers. When an injury forced to retire from football he found himself with very little money. Learning from his mistakes, he got a job at a financial management company that handles money for sports stars. As a financial manager it is his job to avert this trope on behalf of his clients who are earning millions but are prone to spending their money as fast as they receive it. Spencer has to go to great lengths to convince them to invest for the future so they do not repeat his mistakes.
* OneWordTitle:
** ''Pilot''.
** ''Ends''.
** ''Gaslighting''.
** ''Flamingos''.
** ''Elidee''.
** ''Saturdaze''.
** ''Crackback''.
** ''Doink''.
** ''Copernicursed''.
** ''Municipal''
** ''Crumbs''.
** ''Edutainment''.
* {{Tagline}}: "Legends Don't Die. They Reinvent".

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