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* PreciousPuppy: Creator/SophieTurner has her corgi playing a Rodent of Unusual Size. Said puppy starts giving her a lot of kisses during the "attack".
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** Creator/JackBlack is featured in a lengthy scene, harkening back to ''Film/BeKindRewind'', where remaking movies using StylisticSuck for comedic effect was a major part of the premise.
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* {{Muppet}}: A generic "Whatnot" Muppet substitutes as Westley's (kinda) dead body during the scene with the healer.
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Since the demise of Quibi in December 2020, this series' availability to the general public has been left up in the air, as it was not acquired alongside the rest of Quibi's library when Roku purchased the streaming service's assets in January 2021. As of August 2021, there is still no legal way to watch the series proper, and no official promotional material or clips remain accessible to the general public.
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** Prince Humperdinck's last appearance is played by Creator/CaryElwes, who portrayed Westley in the original film.
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** ''Series/TheOfficeUS'' costars Creator/AngelaKinsey, Creator/BrianBaumgartner, and Creator/OscarNunez play Vizzini, Fezzik, and Inigo respectively during the Cliffs of Insanity scene.
** Creator/ElijahWood and Creator/AndySerkis act opposite each other as Prince Humperdinck and Count Rugen, respectively, making jokes about [[Film/TheLordOfTheRings Frodo turning into an assholish prince and Gollum becoming said assholish prince's right hand]] inevitable.
** ''Series/TheOfficeUS'' costars Creator/AngelaKinsey, Creator/BrianBaumgartner, and Creator/OscarNunez play Vizzini, Fezzik, and Inigo respectively during the Cliffs of Insanity scene.
** Creator/ElijahWood and Creator/AndySerkis act opposite each other as Prince Humperdinck and Count Rugen, respectively, making jokes about [[Film/TheLordOfTheRings Frodo turning into an assholish prince and Gollum becoming said assholish prince's right hand]] inevitable.
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* RemakeCameo: Creator/FredSavage briefly reprises his role as the Grandson, and Creator/CaryElwes (original Westley) is one of the actors playing Humperdinck.
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* AwkwardKiss: PlayedForLaughs when Westley and Buttercup, played by Creator/NeilPatrickHarris and his real-life husband [[GenderFlip David Burtka]], respectively, reunite for the first time, and Harris slobbers all over his husband's face.
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* AwkwardKiss: PlayedForLaughs when Westley and Buttercup, played by Creator/NeilPatrickHarris and his real-life husband [[GenderFlip David Burtka]], Creator/DavidBurtka, respectively, reunite for the first time, and Harris slobbers all over his husband's face.
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''Home Movie: The Princess Bride'' is a comedic nearly line-for-line "home movie"-style recreation of the 1987 film ''Film/ThePrincessBride'' in miniseries form. Directed by Creator/JasonReitman, it was released on the streaming service Quibi as a ten-episode miniseries from June 29th to July 8th, 2020 for charity, to benefit the World Central Kitchen during the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic.
The plot is familiar to anyone who has watched the original film- a boy staying home sick from school listens to a story read by his grandfather about evil princes, pirates, swashbuckling, swordfights, and true love conquering all. The catch, however, is that every character in this classic film is played by a different celebrity in each scene while they were all isolated at home in the early days of the pandemic, using homemade costumes, props, and whatever locations each actor had access to in their respective private homes and backyards, all shot on smartphones with the actors' family members as crew. HilarityEnsues.
Since the demise of Quibi in December 2020, this series' availability to the general public has been left up in the air, as it was not acquired alongside the rest of Quibi's library when Roku purchased the streaming service's assets in January 2021. As of August 2021, there is still no legal way to watch the series proper, and no official promotional material or clips remain accessible to the general public.
'''Note that spoilers for the events of the original 1989 film will be unmarked, and that only tropes specific to this particular adaptation should be on this page. Although, to be honest, this series is not nearly as effective unless you've watched the original.'''
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!This miniseries contains examples of:
* AdaptationDistillation: Some scenes deemed unnecessary for the target audience of people who know the original were cut for time to meet Quibi's ten-minute limit on episode length, such as Westley's explanation to Buttercup on how he became the Dread Pirate Roberts.
* TheAllegedSteed: During Tom Lennon's turn as Humperdinck, the horses are subbed during his portion of the search for Buttercup with small dogs held to his and his son's chests, bent over like they're leaning over a horse, as the actors replicate a horse gallop.
* AntiClimaxCut: When Creator/KeeganMichaelKey as Inigo is communing with his dead father on his revenge mission against the six-fingered man, he appears to be doing so in a forest, like in the original, until it suddenly cuts to Key's other side to reveal the scene is being shot in a little landscaping patch bordering a city, complete with cars driving by in the background. As he has his revelation, he turns on the glass collector's lightsaber he was using as his sword, complete with an audible lightsaber-y "whoosh".
* AwkwardKiss: PlayedForLaughs when Westley and Buttercup, played by Creator/NeilPatrickHarris and his real-life husband [[GenderFlip David Burtka]], respectively, reunite for the first time, and Harris slobbers all over his husband's face.
* BadassMustache: Creator/FinnWolfhard has a fake mustache for his turn as Inigo. He peels it off when he loses the duel with Westley.
* BigOlEyebrows: Creator/SarahSilverman wears a salt-and-pepper set of super-bushy eyebrows (and matching mustache) for her turn as the Grandfather.
* BuiltWithLEGO: Some scenes are recreated in stop-motion LEGO, mostly scenes that really can't be replicated with live actors in a home movie style. Some shots of the boat that Vizzini uses to kidnap Buttercup are in LEGO, as is their climb up the Cliffs of Insanity, and part of the ending, where the four leads ride out of the castle on the Prince's horses.
* CarpetOfVirility: With two different actors for Inigo.
** Sarah Cooper replicates chest hair by drawing a single curly squiggle on her upper chest with black marker.
** For Creator/JavierBardem's turn as Inigo, he has what is clearly a curly black wig stuffed down his shirt standing in for chest hair. In addition to clutching a gut wound like in the original, he seems to be holding up the wig as well so it doesn't slide all the way into his shirt.
* ColorblindCasting: All of the characters who are portrayed by multiple actors mix race, gender, and age, mostly for comedic purposes.
* CreatorCameo: A variant- the director of the original film, Creator/RobReiner, portrays both the Grandfather and the Grandson in two different scenes.
* CrosscastRole: The main characters, most of whom are portrayed by multiple actors, all have at least a few actors among them each who are of a different gender than the original character, with varying levels of effort to make them seem like the character's gender. Of course, this is for [[PlayedForLaughs comedy reasons]].
* FakeShemp: Any time a scene calls for two actors not in actual physical proximity to be in the same shot, the actors would use someone they were sheltering in place with, such as a child or other family member, sometimes even of the canine variety. The substitutes, of course, are pretty much never someone who looks convincingly like either the original character or like the other actor playing them for this scene, and most instances do not make any real attempt to make the substitute look anything like the original, but that's part of the fun. Creator/TaikaWaititi uses a particularly unique version of this during his turn as Westley- he ropes in two unidentified people and has them each hold up (really well-done) portraits of Inigo and Fezzik from the original film drawn on cardboard with Sharpie.
* GoofyPrintUnderwear: For Creator/PedroPascal's turn as Inigo, he wears a reasonably accurate recreation of Inigo's costume, [[PantsFree sans trousers]]- the camera cuts to him to reveal that he's wearing green tropical leaf-patterned boxers.
* HilariousOuttakes: Every full episode ''opens'' with an outtake or behind-the-scenes bit. Highlights include actors practicing lines, raw footage of a LEGO sequence complete with audible instructions from the "director", a pre-effects rehearsal shot of the Fire Swamp sequence, and Creator/JavierBardem's wig falling off.
* MechanicalHorse: Parodied for Creator/DavidOyelowo's turn as Humperdinck, which has him for the scene where he rides up on horseback to send Westley to the Pit of Despair. Except instead of a horse, Oyelowo rides up in a golf cart, and exits stage left by putting the golf cart in reverse and backing out of frame.
* {{Muppet}}: A generic "Whatnot" Muppet substitutes as Westley's (kinda) dead body during the scene with the healer.
* PantsFree: For Creator/PedroPascal's turn as Inigo Montoya, he wears a reasonably accurate recreation of Inigo's costume from the waist up and calves down with a crappy wig, and GoofyPrintUnderwear in place of trousers.
* PrecisionFStrike: Music/JoeJonas-as-Buttercup cries, "Oh, shit!" when the Rodent of Unusual Size attacks.
* SameLanguageDub: Creator/ZoeyDeutch's turn as Fezzik is dubbed over with Wrestling/AndreTheGiant's lines from the original film audio.
* SignificantDoubleCasting: If by "significant" you mean "because it's funny", there's a handful of scenes where actors act opposite themself.
** Creator/JenniferGarner plays Buttercup during her introduction to the town as princess, and is also the Booer.
** Creator/NickKroll plays Inigo, Vizzini, and Fezzik, all opposite himself, for part of the scene where they're sailing away after kidnapping Buttercup.
** Catherine Reitman portrays both Inigo and Fezzik in the scene just prior to the climax where they're scoping out Humperdinck's castle with a still-unconscious Westley. Westley's played by a FakeShemp in all of Reitman's shots.
** Creator/PenelopeCruz plays both Buttercup and Prince Humperdinck for the scene where Buttercup's reluctantly getting ready for the wedding and insists to Humperdinck that Westley will save her. Her husband Creator/JavierBardem couldn't play Humperdinck because he was already playing Inigo.
* SpeechImpediment: Creator/NickKroll's Vizzini has a lisp, perhaps to help distinguish him from his portrayals of Inigo and Fezzik in that same scene.
* SpiritualSuccessor: Some viewers consider this series to be in the same vein as ''Film/BeKindRewind'', with the premises of both being about recreating a classic film in an amateur way.
* StockFootage: For the ending after the characters ride out of the castle and Westley and Buttercup share their BigDamnKiss, footage from the original movie is used instead.
* StylisticSuck: This production was shot during the early days of the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic as a fun little project for the actors to do while quarantined at home. Director Creator/JasonReitman instructed everyone to "think like kids" creating a home movie, and to use whatever props, costuming, and equipment they happened to have lying around, as well as their private homes and yards. No significant attempt is made to make the actors' sets of choice look like the same place beyond the absolute most basic aspects, and only the most basic considerations are made for maintaining consistent eyelines and blocking. Some scenes that would be impractical to recreate with live actors in a home movie style are instead recreated in stop-motion LEGO. The footage is all shot on smartphones held vertically- per Quibi -with the actors' respective family members as amateur cinematographers, and with a few exceptions for actors who were sheltering in place together at the time, none of the scenes actually have the actors physically act opposite of each other. It all gives the production a quality not unlike... a home movie of children playing make-believe in the backyard.
** Numerous things are used to substitute for the swords in this movie, ranging from actual toy swords and toy lightsabers, to virtually anything with a handle (feather duster, tennis racket, umbrellas, scissors, golf club, various cooking utensils, cane, etc.). This is lampshaded for the climactic swordfight between Inigo and Count Rugen- the prop standing in for Inigo's sword changes with every single cut to increasingly ridiculous things, starting with a baguette.
** The fire plumes in the Fire Swamp are done with deliberately cheap-looking digital fire effects added in post, and the Rodent of Unusual Size is portrayed by Creator/SophieTurner's corgi wearing a neck pillow licking her and Music/JoeJonas to death.
** For Creator/TaikaWaititi's turn as Westley, Inigo and Fezzik are represented by- really well-done -portraits of those characters' portrayals from the original movie drawn in Sharpie on cardboard.
** When Westley is laying on Buttercup's bed and monologuing at Humperdinck, you can see Creator/PaulRudd's Westley reaching out to adjust the zoom on the smartphone he's using, and he also restarts a line to zoom back out. The zooms are all a little fast, of course, because it's very difficult to control zoom speed on a smartphone.
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The plot is familiar to anyone who has watched the original film- a boy staying home sick from school listens to a story read by his grandfather about evil princes, pirates, swashbuckling, swordfights, and true love conquering all. The catch, however, is that every character in this classic film is played by a different celebrity in each scene while they were all isolated at home in the early days of the pandemic, using homemade costumes, props, and whatever locations each actor had access to in their respective private homes and backyards, all shot on smartphones with the actors' family members as crew. HilarityEnsues.
Since the demise of Quibi in December 2020, this series' availability to the general public has been left up in the air, as it was not acquired alongside the rest of Quibi's library when Roku purchased the streaming service's assets in January 2021. As of August 2021, there is still no legal way to watch the series proper, and no official promotional material or clips remain accessible to the general public.
'''Note that spoilers for the events of the original 1989 film will be unmarked, and that only tropes specific to this particular adaptation should be on this page. Although, to be honest, this series is not nearly as effective unless you've watched the original.'''
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!This miniseries contains examples of:
* AdaptationDistillation: Some scenes deemed unnecessary for the target audience of people who know the original were cut for time to meet Quibi's ten-minute limit on episode length, such as Westley's explanation to Buttercup on how he became the Dread Pirate Roberts.
* TheAllegedSteed: During Tom Lennon's turn as Humperdinck, the horses are subbed during his portion of the search for Buttercup with small dogs held to his and his son's chests, bent over like they're leaning over a horse, as the actors replicate a horse gallop.
* AntiClimaxCut: When Creator/KeeganMichaelKey as Inigo is communing with his dead father on his revenge mission against the six-fingered man, he appears to be doing so in a forest, like in the original, until it suddenly cuts to Key's other side to reveal the scene is being shot in a little landscaping patch bordering a city, complete with cars driving by in the background. As he has his revelation, he turns on the glass collector's lightsaber he was using as his sword, complete with an audible lightsaber-y "whoosh".
* AwkwardKiss: PlayedForLaughs when Westley and Buttercup, played by Creator/NeilPatrickHarris and his real-life husband [[GenderFlip David Burtka]], respectively, reunite for the first time, and Harris slobbers all over his husband's face.
* BadassMustache: Creator/FinnWolfhard has a fake mustache for his turn as Inigo. He peels it off when he loses the duel with Westley.
* BigOlEyebrows: Creator/SarahSilverman wears a salt-and-pepper set of super-bushy eyebrows (and matching mustache) for her turn as the Grandfather.
* BuiltWithLEGO: Some scenes are recreated in stop-motion LEGO, mostly scenes that really can't be replicated with live actors in a home movie style. Some shots of the boat that Vizzini uses to kidnap Buttercup are in LEGO, as is their climb up the Cliffs of Insanity, and part of the ending, where the four leads ride out of the castle on the Prince's horses.
* CarpetOfVirility: With two different actors for Inigo.
** Sarah Cooper replicates chest hair by drawing a single curly squiggle on her upper chest with black marker.
** For Creator/JavierBardem's turn as Inigo, he has what is clearly a curly black wig stuffed down his shirt standing in for chest hair. In addition to clutching a gut wound like in the original, he seems to be holding up the wig as well so it doesn't slide all the way into his shirt.
* ColorblindCasting: All of the characters who are portrayed by multiple actors mix race, gender, and age, mostly for comedic purposes.
* CreatorCameo: A variant- the director of the original film, Creator/RobReiner, portrays both the Grandfather and the Grandson in two different scenes.
* CrosscastRole: The main characters, most of whom are portrayed by multiple actors, all have at least a few actors among them each who are of a different gender than the original character, with varying levels of effort to make them seem like the character's gender. Of course, this is for [[PlayedForLaughs comedy reasons]].
* FakeShemp: Any time a scene calls for two actors not in actual physical proximity to be in the same shot, the actors would use someone they were sheltering in place with, such as a child or other family member, sometimes even of the canine variety. The substitutes, of course, are pretty much never someone who looks convincingly like either the original character or like the other actor playing them for this scene, and most instances do not make any real attempt to make the substitute look anything like the original, but that's part of the fun. Creator/TaikaWaititi uses a particularly unique version of this during his turn as Westley- he ropes in two unidentified people and has them each hold up (really well-done) portraits of Inigo and Fezzik from the original film drawn on cardboard with Sharpie.
* GoofyPrintUnderwear: For Creator/PedroPascal's turn as Inigo, he wears a reasonably accurate recreation of Inigo's costume, [[PantsFree sans trousers]]- the camera cuts to him to reveal that he's wearing green tropical leaf-patterned boxers.
* HilariousOuttakes: Every full episode ''opens'' with an outtake or behind-the-scenes bit. Highlights include actors practicing lines, raw footage of a LEGO sequence complete with audible instructions from the "director", a pre-effects rehearsal shot of the Fire Swamp sequence, and Creator/JavierBardem's wig falling off.
* MechanicalHorse: Parodied for Creator/DavidOyelowo's turn as Humperdinck, which has him for the scene where he rides up on horseback to send Westley to the Pit of Despair. Except instead of a horse, Oyelowo rides up in a golf cart, and exits stage left by putting the golf cart in reverse and backing out of frame.
* {{Muppet}}: A generic "Whatnot" Muppet substitutes as Westley's (kinda) dead body during the scene with the healer.
* PantsFree: For Creator/PedroPascal's turn as Inigo Montoya, he wears a reasonably accurate recreation of Inigo's costume from the waist up and calves down with a crappy wig, and GoofyPrintUnderwear in place of trousers.
* PrecisionFStrike: Music/JoeJonas-as-Buttercup cries, "Oh, shit!" when the Rodent of Unusual Size attacks.
* SameLanguageDub: Creator/ZoeyDeutch's turn as Fezzik is dubbed over with Wrestling/AndreTheGiant's lines from the original film audio.
* SignificantDoubleCasting: If by "significant" you mean "because it's funny", there's a handful of scenes where actors act opposite themself.
** Creator/JenniferGarner plays Buttercup during her introduction to the town as princess, and is also the Booer.
** Creator/NickKroll plays Inigo, Vizzini, and Fezzik, all opposite himself, for part of the scene where they're sailing away after kidnapping Buttercup.
** Catherine Reitman portrays both Inigo and Fezzik in the scene just prior to the climax where they're scoping out Humperdinck's castle with a still-unconscious Westley. Westley's played by a FakeShemp in all of Reitman's shots.
** Creator/PenelopeCruz plays both Buttercup and Prince Humperdinck for the scene where Buttercup's reluctantly getting ready for the wedding and insists to Humperdinck that Westley will save her. Her husband Creator/JavierBardem couldn't play Humperdinck because he was already playing Inigo.
* SpeechImpediment: Creator/NickKroll's Vizzini has a lisp, perhaps to help distinguish him from his portrayals of Inigo and Fezzik in that same scene.
* SpiritualSuccessor: Some viewers consider this series to be in the same vein as ''Film/BeKindRewind'', with the premises of both being about recreating a classic film in an amateur way.
* StockFootage: For the ending after the characters ride out of the castle and Westley and Buttercup share their BigDamnKiss, footage from the original movie is used instead.
* StylisticSuck: This production was shot during the early days of the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic as a fun little project for the actors to do while quarantined at home. Director Creator/JasonReitman instructed everyone to "think like kids" creating a home movie, and to use whatever props, costuming, and equipment they happened to have lying around, as well as their private homes and yards. No significant attempt is made to make the actors' sets of choice look like the same place beyond the absolute most basic aspects, and only the most basic considerations are made for maintaining consistent eyelines and blocking. Some scenes that would be impractical to recreate with live actors in a home movie style are instead recreated in stop-motion LEGO. The footage is all shot on smartphones held vertically- per Quibi -with the actors' respective family members as amateur cinematographers, and with a few exceptions for actors who were sheltering in place together at the time, none of the scenes actually have the actors physically act opposite of each other. It all gives the production a quality not unlike... a home movie of children playing make-believe in the backyard.
** Numerous things are used to substitute for the swords in this movie, ranging from actual toy swords and toy lightsabers, to virtually anything with a handle (feather duster, tennis racket, umbrellas, scissors, golf club, various cooking utensils, cane, etc.). This is lampshaded for the climactic swordfight between Inigo and Count Rugen- the prop standing in for Inigo's sword changes with every single cut to increasingly ridiculous things, starting with a baguette.
** The fire plumes in the Fire Swamp are done with deliberately cheap-looking digital fire effects added in post, and the Rodent of Unusual Size is portrayed by Creator/SophieTurner's corgi wearing a neck pillow licking her and Music/JoeJonas to death.
** For Creator/TaikaWaititi's turn as Westley, Inigo and Fezzik are represented by- really well-done -portraits of those characters' portrayals from the original movie drawn in Sharpie on cardboard.
** When Westley is laying on Buttercup's bed and monologuing at Humperdinck, you can see Creator/PaulRudd's Westley reaching out to adjust the zoom on the smartphone he's using, and he also restarts a line to zoom back out. The zooms are all a little fast, of course, because it's very difficult to control zoom speed on a smartphone.
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