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* InsultingFromBehindTheLanguageBarrier: When Ruth tags along with the Russian motel keeper to a family occasion to learn more about Russian culture, the motel owner has a discussion in Russian with a relative in which the relative insults Ruth with her being none the wiser.
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* BenevolentBoss: Ray, the owner of the strip club where Sam discovered Yolanda is a jovial and nice family man who just happens to own a chain of strip clubs. When the cast are gathered at the end of their season finale, we even see he and Yolanda are physically close without any sexual overtone, and Yolanda vouches for him when he pitches the cast on taking GLOW to Las Vegas as a live show.
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** Sheila herself is very credulous, which makes her a favorite target of Dawn and Stacy's prank phonecalls.
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* InsistentTerminology: Sheila is not a werewolf. She is a wolf.
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** Bash's haughty, conservative mother is impressed by Ruth's speech at the fundraiser, and while she won't give Bash any more money, she is willing to let them shoot the pilot for GLOW in a ballroom the family owns.
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** Melanie is somewhat VitriolicBestBuds with Jenny, who bristles at Melanie's penchant for casual racist jokes about Asians, until in "Freaky Tuesday" when Jenny hears Melanie do a way over the top racist caricature of Fortune Cookie, which was already a pretty racist stereotype. The conflict does get resolved during the CampfireCharacterExploration.
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* [[PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy Pretty Fly For A White Girl]] Yolanda and Ruth's breakdance battle.
-->Arthie: Are you doing a white-girl-trying-to-break-dance act for the match?\\
Ruth: No, we're doing a white-girl-DOES-break-dance act.\\
Arthie: *laughs* That's spot-on. White girls definitely talk like that.
-->Arthie: Are you doing a white-girl-trying-to-break-dance act for the match?\\
Ruth: No, we're doing a white-girl-DOES-break-dance act.\\
Arthie: *laughs* That's spot-on. White girls definitely talk like that.
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* RacialFaceBlindness: a girl at Stanford confuses Tammé's son for the other black student in their year. We later see the other student, who has a completely different build and is noticeable much lighter skinned.
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** When Bash and Debbie go to a conference in season two, they realize they don't have much in the way of material to court networks, so Bash gets the idea to copy the whisper campaign from ''Film/TheMuppetsTakeManhattan'', explaining the plot in more detail than necessary until Debbie picks up the gist of it.
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* WhereEverybodyKnowsYourFlame Shenanigans, the bar where Bash goes with Rhonda and Carmen to look for Florian.
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** During the above mentioned Challenger incident is already crossing the line when Zoya is making fun of the crew just before the accident, but if you look at Debbie's face as she is watching the launch on a TV off screen, it becomes clear that Ruth is still speaking as the shuttle has exploded and is accidentally mocking the ongoing tragedy live on TV.
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* PornStache: Sam and Russell both sport bushy upper lips, and Sam used to make softcore exploitation movies, and Russell was an actual porn camera man previous to working on GLOW.
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* PlasterCastDoodling: After Ruth is injured, Bash signs her cast as "A Bash Howard production" and Sam first puts his initials "SS" but as Ruth mentions the UnfortunateImplications (it's commonly associated with the Nazi Schutzstaffel), he adds a small "F" for "Francis" between the letters.
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* PlasterCastDoodling: After Ruth is injured, Bash signs her cast as "A Bash Howard production" and Sam first puts his initials "SS" but as Ruth mentions the UnfortunateImplications poor optics (it's commonly associated with the Nazi Schutzstaffel), he adds a small "F" for "Francis" between the letters.
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* TrappedByGamblingDebt: Cherry finds herself $5,000 in the hole fro the craps table. To find the money to pay it off, she and Carmen do MudWrestling for a paid audience.
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* TrappedByGamblingDebt: TrappedByGamblingDebts: Cherry finds herself $5,000 in the hole fro from the craps table. To find the money to pay it off, she and Carmen do MudWrestling for a paid audience.
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* QuickNip: Sam, especially early on, often needs some alcohol and/or cocaine before going in front of his actors. Debbie also needs some DutchCourage every now and then, and once, while already mad about everything that happened that day, takes some of Sam's cocaine, and ends up [[InjuryOnSet breaking Ruth's ankle]].
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* QuickNip: Sam, especially early on, often needs some alcohol and/or cocaine before going in front of his actors. Debbie also needs some DutchCourage every now and then, and once, while already mad about everything that happened that day, takes some of Sam's cocaine, and ends up [[InjuryOnSet [[invoked]] [[OnSetInjury breaking Ruth's ankle]].
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* ReallyGetsAround: In season 3 after divorcing her husband and while staying at the Las Vegas hotel Debbie begins having sex with various male staff. Both valets, the night bartender, a baccarat dealer, and even a juggler. She also hooks up with Steel Horse a famously hung wrestler in season 1 after seeing him perform while attending her first live wrestling show. And later sleeps with an old businessman named Tex in Season 3. In total along with her husband Debbie has sex with 8 people over 3 seasons.
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* ReallyGetsAround: In season 3 after divorcing her husband and while staying at the Las Vegas hotel Debbie begins having sex with various male staff. Both valets, She mentions banging both valets (one of which we see her banging), the night bartender, a baccarat dealer, and even a juggler. She also hooks up with Steel Horse a famously hung wrestler in season 1 after seeing him perform while attending her first live wrestling show. And later sleeps with an old businessman named Tex in Season 3. In total along with her husband Debbie has sex with 8 people over 3 seasons.
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* QuickNip: Sam, especially early on, often needs some alcohol and/or cocaine before going in front of his actors. Debbie also needs some DutchCourage every now and then, and once, while already mad about everything that happened that day, takes some of Sam's cocaine, and ends up [[InjuryOnSet breaking Ruth's ankle]].
* TrappedByGamblingDebt: Cherry finds herself $5,000 in the hole fro the craps table. To find the money to pay it off, she and Carmen do MudWrestling for a paid audience.
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* WrestlingFamily: Carmen comes from one of these, which impresses the show's trainer to no end.
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* WrestlingFamily: Carmen comes from one of these, which impresses the show's trainer to no end. Her father initially dissaproves of her wrestling, since in their world, Women's Wrestling is an undignified sideshow, but eventually comes around and even starts a CrowdChant to cheer her on in her first televized match. Her brothers are also recurring characters, helping them train, getting offended over stolen moves used on TV, and acting as a referree at the Vegas show when Keith leaves for a while.
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* BrickJoke: Early in season 1, Sam describes the plot of a movie he has been trying to get made for over a decade, and it sounds like a piece of shit exploitation BMovie. It's about a horny teen who travels back in time to the 1950s, and has his mother try to have sex with him. In the penultimate episode of the season, he describes the plot to the band at a party...and they all tell him they've already seen it, as it's almost the same story as ''Film/BackToTheFuture'', which had just premiered that week.
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* BrickJoke: Early in season 1, Sam describes the plot of a movie he has been trying to get made for over a decade, and it sounds like a piece of shit exploitation BMovie. It's about a horny teen who travels back in time to the 1950s, and has his mother try to have sex with him. In the penultimate episode of the season, he describes the plot to the band at a party...and they all tell him they've already seen it, as it's almost the same story as ''Film/BackToTheFuture'', ''Film/BackToTheFuture1'', which had just premiered that week.
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** The film ''Mothers and Lovers'' that he's been working on for a decade: [[spoiler:is about a teenager who goes back in time and meets his mom when she was younger, and she spends the movie getting the hots for him. The party guests all crack about how that's the plot for a brand-new film called... ''Film/BackToTheFuture'']].
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** The film ''Mothers and Lovers'' that he's been working on for a decade: [[spoiler:is about a teenager who goes back in time and meets his mom when she was younger, and she spends the movie getting the hots for him. The party guests all crack about how that's the plot for a brand-new film called... ''Film/BackToTheFuture'']].''Film/BackToTheFuture1'']].
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** Several to ''Film/BackToTheFuture'': Sam's screenplay ''Mothers and Lovers'' is said to share more than a few plot points with the film. In the first season finale, the GLOW wrestlers recruit people waiting to see the film at a theater, which also has the [=DeLorean=] on display.
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** Several to ''Film/BackToTheFuture'': ''Film/BackToTheFuture1'': Sam's screenplay ''Mothers and Lovers'' is said to share more than a few plot points with the film. In the first season finale, the GLOW wrestlers recruit people waiting to see the film at a theater, which also has the [=DeLorean=] on display.
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* DeliberateValuesDissonance: The show faithfully presents the fact that a lot of the gimmicks and characters in wrestling in TheEighties were based on stereotypes that would be considered ''incredibly'' racist by modern standards, but were considered AcceptableTargets at the time. The show examines how the wrestlers ''really'' dislike perpetuating these stereotypes.
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* DeliberateValuesDissonance: The show faithfully presents the fact that a lot of the gimmicks and characters in wrestling in TheEighties were based on stereotypes that would be considered ''incredibly'' racist by modern standards, but were considered AcceptableTargets acceptable to mock at the time. The show examines how the wrestlers ''really'' dislike perpetuating these stereotypes.
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*InterruptedIntimacy: Debbie is getting railed in missionary sex by Vegas hotel valet Chet in her room when he gets distracted by loud disco music. She tells him to ignore it, then he starts doing sex moves to the music which makes Debbie reply " Don't Fuck me to the Song!". Before she finally stops him.
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* ReallyGetsAround: In season 3 after divorcing her husband and while staying at the Las Vegas hotel Debbie begins sleeping with various male staff. Both valets, the night bartender, a baccarat dealer, and even a juggler. She also hooks up with Steel Horse a famously hung wrestler in season 1 after seeing him perform while attending her first live wrestling show. And later sleeps with an old businessman named Tex in Season 3. In total along with her husband Debbie has sex with 8 people over 3 seasons.
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* ReallyGetsAround: In season 3 after divorcing her husband and while staying at the Las Vegas hotel Debbie begins sleeping having sex with various male staff. Both valets, the night bartender, a baccarat dealer, and even a juggler. She also hooks up with Steel Horse a famously hung wrestler in season 1 after seeing him perform while attending her first live wrestling show. And later sleeps with an old businessman named Tex in Season 3. In total along with her husband Debbie has sex with 8 people over 3 seasons.
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* BiggerIsBetterInBed: The wrestler Steel Horse is apparently ''very'' well endowed and ''very'' good in bed, [[spoiler:if Debbie's condition the next morning is anything to go by.]] Downplayed as while she clearly ''enjoyed'' it, it reminded her of the difference between one night of fun, and a lover who knows you intimately.
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* BiggerIsBetterInBed: The wrestler Steel Horse is apparently ''very'' well endowed and ''very'' good in bed, [[spoiler:if Debbie's condition the next morning is anything to go by.]] Downplayed as while she clearly ''enjoyed'' it, it reminded her of the difference between one night of fun, and a lover who knows you intimately. Debbie says that Steel Horse was so big that it might hurt the next time she pees.
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* ReallyGetsAround: In season 3 after divorcing her husband and while staying at the Las Vegas hotel Debbie begins sleeping with various male staff. Valets, doormen,blackjack dealers,and Both valets, the night bartender, a baccarat dealer, and even a juggler. She also hooks up with Steel Horse a famously hung wrestler in season 1 after seeing him perform while attending her first live wrestling show. And later sleeps with an old businessman named Tex in Season 3. In total along with her husband Debbie has sex with 8 people over 3 seasons.
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* ReallyGetsAround: In season 3 after divorcing her husband and while staying at the Las Vegas hotel Debbie begins sleeping with various male staff. Valets, doormen,blackjack dealers,and even a juggler.juggler. She also hooks up with Steel Horse a famously hung wrestler in season 1 after seeing him perform while attending her first live wrestling show.
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* ReallyGetsAround: In season 3 after divorcing her husband and while staying at the Las Vegas hotel Debbie begins sleeping with various male staff.Valets, doormen,blackjack dealers,and even a juggler.She also hooks up with a famously hung wrestler in season 1 after seeing her first live wrestling show.
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** Rhonda [[CitizenshipMarriage]] marries [[spoiler:Bash for a green card]], but he has the ulterior motive of needing a wife to prove to the world that he's straight.
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** Rhonda [[CitizenshipMarriage]] marries [[CitizenshipMarriage marries]] [[spoiler:Bash for a green card]], but he has the ulterior motive of needing a wife to prove to the world that he's straight.
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* PlasterCastDoodling: After Ruth is injured, Bash signs her cast as "A Bash Howard production" and Sam first puts his initials "SS" but as Ruth mentions the UnfortunateImplications (it's commonly associated with the Nazi Schutzstaffel), he adds a small "F" for "Francis" between the letters.
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* RuleAbidingRebel: Billy Offal. In spite of his punk aesthetic, he's a middle-class guy who lives with his mom and isn't allowed to play ''Clue'' because it contains a murder.
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* RuleAbidingRebel: Billy Offal. In spite of his punk aesthetic, he's a middle-class guy who lives with his mom and isn't allowed to play ''Clue'' ''{{TabletopGame/Cluedo}}'' because it contains a murder.
