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* NonIndicativeTitle: Played with in "Garry Falls Down a Hole": He actually fell into it ''before'' the episode started.
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* OverlyLongGag: "Garry Falls Down A Hole." There's no monologue, since Garry never shows up. There's dead air for an uncomfortably long moment. The theme song plays, and no one comes out afterward. Nancy eventually comes in to break up the tension, calling out for Garry, to no avail. The theme song plays ''again.'' No Garry. This goes on for an interminable amount of time and the audience is audibly uncomfortable for much of it, until Nancy thankfully returns with Leonard for some actual dialogue. No points for guessing where Garry was.
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* OverlyLongGag: "Garry Falls Down A a Hole." There's no monologue, since Garry never shows up. There's dead air for an uncomfortably long moment. The theme song plays, and no one comes out afterward. Nancy eventually comes in to break up the tension, calling out for Garry, to no avail. The theme song plays ''again.'' No Garry. This goes on for an interminable amount of time and the audience is audibly uncomfortable for much of it, until Nancy thankfully returns with Leonard for some actual dialogue. No points for guessing where Garry was.
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''It's Garry Shandling's Show'' was a late-1980s comedy on Creator/{{Showtime}} (which would later be rebroadcast on Creator/{{Fox}}) that turned NoFourthWall into an art form. Comedian Creator/GarryShandling played comedian Garry Shandling, who not only knew he lived inside a sitcom, but had a StudioAudience "inside" his house. (Sometimes their presence there waiting for him would surprise him when he first came out of his bedroom in the morning.) Garry's visitors, friends and neighbors, while not possessing studio audiences of their own, were all aware of his, and everyone made a point of addressing the audience at some point in the show.
The entire point of the show, around which almost all of its plots revolved, was deconstructing, subverting and inverting all the standard tropes of broadcast television sitcoms. In any given episode, Garry would have a monologue to set up whatever the standard sitcom plot of the week is, talk directly to the audience mid-scene (which the other cast members rarely acknowledged), and even change scenes by walking off one set and directly onto the next one. This total lack of regard for the fourth wall, the conventions of sitcoms, [[SelfDeprecation and even the show in and of itself,]] was pretty unusual and [[PostModernism strikingly postmodern]] for the straight-faced [[TheEighties 80s.]] Considering that writers for this show went on to work on ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' and ''Series/{{Seinfeld}},'' one could say that this show was quite a few years ahead of its time.
Shandling would later use similar methods to skewer late night television with ''Series/TheLarrySandersShow''.
The entire point of the show, around which almost all of its plots revolved, was deconstructing, subverting and inverting all the standard tropes of broadcast television sitcoms. In any given episode, Garry would have a monologue to set up whatever the standard sitcom plot of the week is, talk directly to the audience mid-scene (which the other cast members rarely acknowledged), and even change scenes by walking off one set and directly onto the next one. This total lack of regard for the fourth wall, the conventions of sitcoms, [[SelfDeprecation and even the show in and of itself,]] was pretty unusual and [[PostModernism strikingly postmodern]] for the straight-faced [[TheEighties 80s.]] Considering that writers for this show went on to work on ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' and ''Series/{{Seinfeld}},'' one could say that this show was quite a few years ahead of its time.
Shandling would later use similar methods to skewer late night television with ''Series/TheLarrySandersShow''.
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''It's Garry Shandling's Show'' was a late-1980s comedy 1986–90 sitcom on Creator/{{Showtime}} (which would later be rebroadcast on Creator/{{Fox}}) that turned NoFourthWall into an art form. Comedian Creator/GarryShandling played comedian Garry Shandling, who not only knew he lived inside a sitcom, but had a StudioAudience "inside" living inside his house. "house". (Sometimes their presence there waiting for him would surprise him when he first came out of his bedroom in the morning.) Garry's visitors, friends and neighbors, while not possessing studio audiences of their own, were all aware of his, and everyone made a point of addressing the audience at some point in the show.
The entirepoint purpose of the show, this series, around which almost all of its plots revolved, was deconstructing, subverting and inverting all the standard tropes of broadcast television sitcoms. In any given episode, Garry would have perform a monologue to set up whatever the standard sitcom plot of the week is, was, talk directly to the audience mid-scene (which the other cast members rarely acknowledged), and even change scenes by walking off one set and directly onto the next one. This total lack of regard for the fourth wall, the conventions of sitcoms, [[SelfDeprecation and even the show in and of itself,]] was pretty unusual and [[PostModernism strikingly postmodern]] for the straight-faced [[TheEighties 80s.'80s.]] Considering And considering that writers for this show the series went on to work on ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' and ''Series/{{Seinfeld}},'' one could say that this show ''It's Garry Shandling's Show'' was quite a few years ahead of its time.
Shandling would later use similar methods to skewerlate night late-night television with ''Series/TheLarrySandersShow''.''Series/TheLarrySandersShow''.
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''It's Garry Shandling's Show'' was a late-1980s comedy on Creator/{{Showtime}} (which would later be rebroadcast on Creator/{{Fox}}) that turned NoFourthWall into an art form. Comedian Garry Shandling played comedian Garry Shandling, who not only knew he lived inside a sitcom, but had a StudioAudience "inside" his house. (Sometimes their presence there waiting for him would surprise him when he first came out of his bedroom in the morning.) Garry's visitors, friends and neighbors, while not possessing studio audiences of their own, were all aware of his, and everyone made a point of addressing the audience at some point in the show.
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''It's Garry Shandling's Show'' was a late-1980s comedy on Creator/{{Showtime}} (which would later be rebroadcast on Creator/{{Fox}}) that turned NoFourthWall into an art form. Comedian Garry Shandling Creator/GarryShandling played comedian Garry Shandling, who not only knew he lived inside a sitcom, but had a StudioAudience "inside" his house. (Sometimes their presence there waiting for him would surprise him when he first came out of his bedroom in the morning.) Garry's visitors, friends and neighbors, while not possessing studio audiences of their own, were all aware of his, and everyone made a point of addressing the audience at some point in the show.
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* {{Corpsing}}: More than once Garry does this and it's left in.
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* SpiritualSuccessor:
** The first couple seasons of ''{{Series/Seinfeld}}'' played a lot like a less [[MetaFiction Metafictional]] version of this show. Not accidental, since Jerry Seinfeld had been a longtime associate of Shandling, and Creator/LarryDavid even wrote one episode (credited to "Mac Brandes"). Frequent IGSS writers Tom Gammill and Max Pross also moved on to ''Seinfeld''.
** Some of the show's [[LampshadeHanging Lampshading]] spirit lives on in ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', where staff writers Al Jean and Mike Reiss ended up after its run was over (Sam Simon also had a hand in the writing).
** Shandling himself went on to create ''Series/TheLarrySandersShow'' which further explored the disconnect between the world of television and the world of reality (albeit in a less fourth-wall breaking way).
** Comedian starring in a self-titled sitcom who keeps BreakingTheFourthWall to make snarky comments to the audience... are we talking about Garry Shandling, or [[Creator/MirandaHart Miranda]] [[Series/{{Miranda}} Hart]]?
** The first couple seasons of ''{{Series/Seinfeld}}'' played a lot like a less [[MetaFiction Metafictional]] version of this show. Not accidental, since Jerry Seinfeld had been a longtime associate of Shandling, and Creator/LarryDavid even wrote one episode (credited to "Mac Brandes"). Frequent IGSS writers Tom Gammill and Max Pross also moved on to ''Seinfeld''.
** Some of the show's [[LampshadeHanging Lampshading]] spirit lives on in ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', where staff writers Al Jean and Mike Reiss ended up after its run was over (Sam Simon also had a hand in the writing).
** Shandling himself went on to create ''Series/TheLarrySandersShow'' which further explored the disconnect between the world of television and the world of reality (albeit in a less fourth-wall breaking way).
** Comedian starring in a self-titled sitcom who keeps BreakingTheFourthWall to make snarky comments to the audience... are we talking about Garry Shandling, or [[Creator/MirandaHart Miranda]] [[Series/{{Miranda}} Hart]]?
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* WholePlotReference: There were episodes that parodied ''Film/TheGraduate'', ''Film/TheNatural'' and ''Film/DrivingMissDaisy''.
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* WholePlotReference: There were episodes that parodied ''Film/TheGraduate'', ''Film/TheNatural'' ''Film/TheNatural'', ''Series/TheFugitive'' and ''Film/DrivingMissDaisy''.
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* ShowStopper: Invoked OnceAnEpisode when Garry comes out of his bedroom to greet the audience, who greet him in return with a round of applause. This obviously suits [[ItsAllAboutMe glory-hog Garry]] just fine.
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* ShowStopper: ShowStopper:
** Invoked OnceAnEpisode when Garry comes out of his bedroom to greet the audience, who greet him in return with a round of applause. This obviously suits [[ItsAllAboutMe glory-hog Garry]] just fine.
** Gilda Radner annoys Garry in her appearance by continuously trying to invoke this, starting right from her IncomingHam entrance to a massive reaction.
** Invoked OnceAnEpisode when Garry comes out of his bedroom to greet the audience, who greet him in return with a round of applause. This obviously suits [[ItsAllAboutMe glory-hog Garry]] just fine.
** Gilda Radner annoys Garry in her appearance by continuously trying to invoke this, starting right from her IncomingHam entrance to a massive reaction.
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** In another season 3 episode, the audience completely [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere walk out in protest]] after Garry cancels Sheena Easton's appearance, in favor of a much more mundane plot of playing catch with a young boy as part of the Big Brother program.
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-->-- [[ThisIsASong The theme song,]] [[EstablishingSeriesMoment which tells you exactly]] [[MediumAwareness what kind of show you're in for.]]
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* ShowStopper: Invoked OnceAnEpisode when Garry comes out of his bedroom to greet the audience, who greet him in return with a round of applause. This obviously suits [[ItsAllAboutMe glory-hog Garry]] just fine.
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->''This is the theme to Garry's show, the theme to Garry's show \\
Garry called me up and asked if I would write his theme song \\
I'm almost halfway finished; how do you like it so far? \\
How do you like the theme to Garry's show? \\
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This is the theme to Garry's show, the opening theme to Garry's show \\
This is the music that you hear as you watch the credits \\
We're almost to the part of where I start to whistle \\
Then we'll watch It's Garry Shandling's Show \\
[whistling the main riff] \\
This was the theme to Garry Shandling's show''
Garry called me up and asked if I would write his theme song \\
I'm almost halfway finished; how do you like it so far? \\
How do you like the theme to Garry's show? \\
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This is the theme to Garry's show, the opening theme to Garry's show \\
This is the music that you hear as you watch the credits \\
We're almost to the part of where I start to whistle \\
Then we'll watch It's Garry Shandling's Show \\
[whistling the main riff] \\
This was the theme to Garry Shandling's show''
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* ToBeContinued: Parodied with a season one cliffhanger that’s intentionally never resolved, because Garry immediately decides the plot threads aren’t really worth resolving.
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* ToBeContinued: Parodied Parodied, and defied, with a season one cliffhanger that’s intentionally never resolved, because Garry immediately decides the plot threads aren’t really worth resolving.
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->''"...hope you enjoyed the list of Garry's tropes!"''
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->''"...hope you enjoyed the list of Garry's tropes!"''It's Garry Shandling's Show!"''
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** Comedian starring in their own self-titled sitcom who keeps BreakingTheFourthWall to make snarky comments to the audience... are we talking about Garry Shandling, or [[Creator/MirandaHart Miranda]] [[Series/{{Miranda}} Hart]]?
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** Comedian starring in their own a self-titled sitcom who keeps BreakingTheFourthWall to make snarky comments to the audience... are we talking about Garry Shandling, or [[Creator/MirandaHart Miranda]] [[Series/{{Miranda}} Hart]]?
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* BreakingTheFourthWall: There is none, as far as Garry's concerned. One standout example was when, after we meet Pete Schumaker, Garry promises we'll meet his wife Jackie in the next episode, and they couldn't meet her this week since ''they haven't cast her yet.''
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* BreakingTheFourthWall: There is none, as far as Garry's concerned. One standout example was when, after we first meet Pete Schumaker, Garry promises we'll meet his wife Jackie in the next episode, and they couldn't meet her this week since ''they haven't cast her yet.''''
* BrokenPedestal: There's a season 4 episode called "Dinner At Eddy King's House," where Eddy King, a variety show host from the 50s, has Garry and Phoebe over for dinner to "talk shop." Garry's excited to meet one of his influences, but unfortunately, Eddy's GloryDays are far behind him, and his resulting bitterness overwhelms the entire dinner. He's especially snippy toward his wife, who's used to this by now. By the time he leaves with Phoebe, Garry is left disillusioned and scared that he, too, will become a bitter, nasty old has-been like Eddy.
* BrokenPedestal: There's a season 4 episode called "Dinner At Eddy King's House," where Eddy King, a variety show host from the 50s, has Garry and Phoebe over for dinner to "talk shop." Garry's excited to meet one of his influences, but unfortunately, Eddy's GloryDays are far behind him, and his resulting bitterness overwhelms the entire dinner. He's especially snippy toward his wife, who's used to this by now. By the time he leaves with Phoebe, Garry is left disillusioned and scared that he, too, will become a bitter, nasty old has-been like Eddy.
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* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: Ruth Shandling loves her "bubba" to death, and maybe a little too much in too many inopportune moments for Garry's liking. The apex is when Ruth does a nightclub routine in season 3 [[spoiler:with a lanky Garry {{Expy}} dancing behind her, and a slideshow of Garry's high school photos plays on the side of the stage.]] Garry looks ''miserable'' sitting through it.
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* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: Ruth Shandling loves her "bubba" to death, and maybe a little too much in too many inopportune moments for Garry's liking. The She's embarrassed him in front of a couple of prospective girlfriends, for instance, but the apex is when Ruth does a nightclub routine in season 3 [[spoiler:with a lanky Garry {{Expy}} dancing behind her, and a slideshow of Garry's high school photos plays on the side of the stage.]] Garry looks ''miserable'' sitting through it.
* LoveInterest: Phoebe, Garry's girlfriend who moves in with him in season 4, after a few seasons of the GirlOfTheWeek format. Nancy beat Garry to it, though, with Ian, who debuts in season 3.
* ProductPlacement: Ruth invokes this when she discovers she can advertise her pet store on "Bubba's" show, which drives her sales through the roof. Garry quickly gets sick of it and they get into a spat over it.
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->''"...hope you enjoyed the list of Garry's tropes!"''
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* BreakingTheFourthWall: There is none, as far as Garry's concerned. One standout example was when, after we meet Pete Schumaker, Garry promises we'll meet his wife Jackie in the next episode, and they couldn't meet her this week since ''they haven't cast her yet.''
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* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Garry's friend Lewis disappeared from the show after the first six episodes, in favor of Leonard Smith, Garry's camera-hungry landlord.
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* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Garry's friend buddy Lewis disappeared from early season 1, who just seemed kind of there most of the show time, and only contributed one really memorable moment - when he was late for the plot in the first episode and Garry had to stop the closing credits to squeeze in a scene with him. It never got better from there, and after the first six episodes, in favor of Lewis disappeared from the series. He was replaced by Leonard Smith, Garry's camera-hungry landlord.
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* GenreSavvy: Imagine this trope was an entire series, and you have this show. Garry of course is the most savvy of them all.
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* MediumAwareness: Imagine this trope was an entire series, and you have this show. Garry of course is the most aware of them all, but other characters know what they're getting into when they go over to Garry's condo. As mentioned above, Garry would talk to — and with — the crew and audience; move between scenes by walking around the walls of the sets (or driving by golf cart), and declare time lapses if he didn't feel like waiting for something (and once missed a visit from a guest because his GirlOfTheWeek did a time lapse without his permission). One episode featured Creator/GildaRadner (her last role before her untimely death), and Garry chastised her for looking into the camera. Only he was allowed to BreakTheFourthWall.
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* AudienceParticipation: Garry likes getting the audience involved in the show. One episode had Garry marry an illegal immigrant so she could stay in the country, and Garry took a mic and went into the audience to ask them their feelings on the topic and generally play [[Series/TheOprahWinfreyShow Oprah Winfrey]] for them. Also, in season 2's "The Schumakers Go To Hollywood," Garry tries getting the StudioAudience to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jp0QQvmxhYQ sing the theme song]] ("tries" being the operative word).
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* AudienceParticipation: Garry likes getting the audience involved in the show.
** One episode had Garry marry an illegal immigrant so she could stay in the country, and Garry took a mic and went into the audience to ask them their feelings on the topic and generally play [[Series/TheOprahWinfreyShow Oprah Winfrey]] forthem. them.
** Also, in season 2's "The Schumakers Go To Hollywood," Garry tries getting the StudioAudience to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jp0QQvmxhYQ sing the theme song]] ("tries" being the operativeword). word).
** During a season 3 episode, Garry and Pete are trying to have breakfast together but something's bothering Pete and he takes it out on Garry, and then the audience. The audience ''throw rolls at him.''
** One episode had Garry marry an illegal immigrant so she could stay in the country, and Garry took a mic and went into the audience to ask them their feelings on the topic and generally play [[Series/TheOprahWinfreyShow Oprah Winfrey]] for
** Also, in season 2's "The Schumakers Go To Hollywood," Garry tries getting the StudioAudience to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jp0QQvmxhYQ sing the theme song]] ("tries" being the operative
** During a season 3 episode, Garry and Pete are trying to have breakfast together but something's bothering Pete and he takes it out on Garry, and then the audience. The audience ''throw rolls at him.''
** Comedian starring in their own self-titled sitcom who keeps BreakingTheFourthWall to make snarky comments to the audience... are we talking about Garry Shandling, or [[Creator/MirandaHart Miranda]] [[Series/{{Miranda}} Hart]]?
* SympatheticAdulterer:
** The episode "Pete Has An Affair" is pretty self-explanatory. Pete actually [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone takes his own actions harder than Jackie does,]] and the episode focuses on his overwhelming guilt.
** Nancy is caught cheating on Ian in the season 3 finale, but she's still somewhat sympathetic only because Ian recently chickened out on proposing to her.
** The episode "Pete Has An Affair" is pretty self-explanatory. Pete actually [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone takes his own actions harder than Jackie does,]] and the episode focuses on his overwhelming guilt.
** Nancy is caught cheating on Ian in the season 3 finale, but she's still somewhat sympathetic only because Ian recently chickened out on proposing to her.
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** "Pete Has An Affair" is pretty self-explanatory. Pete actually [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone takes his own actions harder than Jackie does.]]
** Nancy is caught cheating on Ian in the season 3 finale.
** "Pete Has An Affair" is pretty self-explanatory. Pete actually [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone takes his own actions harder than Jackie does.]]
** Nancy is caught cheating on Ian in the season 3 finale.
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* AnAesop: Garry likes to end shows by telling the audience what the lesson is from the episode, but it’s obviously tacked on and Garry never feels bothered to explain it very well. Nancy tried to deliver the episode’s Aesop once, but it kinda got away from her a bit.
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* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: Ruth Shandling loves her "bubba" to death, and maybe a little too much in too many inopportune moments for Garry's liking. The apex is when Ruth does a nightclub routine in season 3 [[spoiler:with a lanky Garry {{Expy}} dancing behind her, and a slideshow of Garry's high school photos plays on the side of the stage.]] Garry looks ''miserable'' sitting through it.
* AnAesop: Garry likes to end shows by telling the audience what the lesson is from the episode, but it’s obviously tacked on and Garry never feels bothered to explain it very well. Nancy tried to deliver the episode’s Aesop once, but it kinda got away from her a bit.
* AnAesop: Garry likes to end shows by telling the audience what the lesson is from the episode, but it’s obviously tacked on and Garry never feels bothered to explain it very well. Nancy tried to deliver the episode’s Aesop once, but it kinda got away from her a bit.
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* CleanPrettyChildbirth: Jackie delivers one of these in season 2, and Garry thoughtfully (as in, thoughtful of the ratings) had the entire episode centered around it.
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* CleanPrettyChildbirth: Jackie Schumaker delivers one of these in season 2, and Garry thoughtfully (as in, thoughtful of the ratings) had has the entire episode centered around it.
* ADayInTheLimelight: Ruth Shandling gets a focus episode in season 3, "Mum's The Word," where she "gets the bug again" and decides to revive her old nightclub act. Periodically the cast check in on Garry's show, and all he's doing is being a personal trainer for his neighbor, so they immediately stop caring... until they see Ruth's risque striptease act, which hits a lot different now that she's in her 60s, and they turn on Garry's show again.
* MouthyKid: Grant Schumaker isn't one to be shy about his opinions, especially where it concerns Garry's comedy talents (or lack thereof, in Grant's view).
* ShowWithinAShow: Played with. Garry will sometimes rewatch footage of the show ''on'' the show. One episode saw him come home from a new job and turn on the TV... only to watch a live feed of himself watching that very TV, since his TV is set up to get nothing but his own show.
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* YourCheatingHeart: "Pete Has An Affair" is pretty self-explanatory. Pete actually [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone takes his own actions harder than Jackie does.]]
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** "Pete Has An Affair" is pretty self-explanatory. Pete actually [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone takes his own actions harder than Jackie does.]]]]
** Nancy is caught cheating on Ian in the season 3 finale.
** "Pete Has An Affair" is pretty self-explanatory. Pete actually [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone takes his own actions harder than Jackie does.
** Nancy is caught cheating on Ian in the season 3 finale.
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The entire point of the show, around which almost all of its plots revolved, was deconstructing, subverting and inverting all the standard tropes of broadcast television sitcoms. In any given episode, Garry would have a monologue to set up whatever the standard sitcom plot of the week is, talk directly to the audience mid-scene (which the other cast members rarely acknowledged), and even change scenes by walking off one set and directly onto the next one. This level of PostModernism, and a total lack of regard for the fourth wall, the conventions of sitcoms, [[SelfDeprecation and even the show in and of itself,]] was pretty unusual for the straight-faced [[TheEighties 80s.]] Considering that writers for this show went on to work on ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' and ''Series/{{Seinfeld}},'' one could say that this show was quite a few years ahead of its time.
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The entire point of the show, around which almost all of its plots revolved, was deconstructing, subverting and inverting all the standard tropes of broadcast television sitcoms. In any given episode, Garry would have a monologue to set up whatever the standard sitcom plot of the week is, talk directly to the audience mid-scene (which the other cast members rarely acknowledged), and even change scenes by walking off one set and directly onto the next one. This level of PostModernism, and a total lack of regard for the fourth wall, the conventions of sitcoms, [[SelfDeprecation and even the show in and of itself,]] was pretty unusual and [[PostModernism strikingly postmodern]] for the straight-faced [[TheEighties 80s.]] Considering that writers for this show went on to work on ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' and ''Series/{{Seinfeld}},'' one could say that this show was quite a few years ahead of its time.
* TheCameo: Music/TomPetty shows up in season 2 to play a song, and basically kill some time until Jackie Schumaker gives birth. He occasionally, and rather unceremoniously, pokes his head in for a cameo in a few later episodes, such as accompanying the main cast to Las Vegas. Creator/RobReiner also shows up from time to time.
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* CharacterAsHimself: [[Father Guido Sarducci Series/SaturdayNightLive]] in episode 3.
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* CharacterAsHimself: [[Father [[Series/SaturdayNightLive Father Guido Sarducci Series/SaturdayNightLive]] Sarducci]] in episode 3.3. He'd become a minor recurring character.
* GreaseMonkey: Nancy is revealed to be pretty good with cars in season 2.
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* StudioAudience: Practically characters in their own right. In one episode they go to a big band club, and it really is a "big" band - the audience are part of it, playing along on instruments.
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* StudioAudience: Practically characters in their own right. right.
** In one episode they go to a big band club, and it really is a "big" band - the audience are part of it, playing along oninstruments.instruments.
** In season 3, when Grant gets in trouble for allegedly beating up TheBully at school, an audience member gets up to prove Grant's innocence, since technically, the audience were witnesses. As such, she's backed up by a few dozen more audience members who literally just get up from their seats and gather on set.
** In one episode they go to a big band club, and it really is a "big" band - the audience are part of it, playing along on
** In season 3, when Grant gets in trouble for allegedly beating up TheBully at school, an audience member gets up to prove Grant's innocence, since technically, the audience were witnesses. As such, she's backed up by a few dozen more audience members who literally just get up from their seats and gather on set.
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* TheThemeParkVersion: ''Literally.'' In season 2, it's revealed that Garry's show has inspired an amusement park called Shandlingland, complete with big rubber costume facsimiles of the main cast. Nancy has a human {{Expy}}, who's so demure and saccharine that she infuriates the real Nancy.
* TheThingThatWouldNotLeave: Leonard Smith hangs around Garry's condo a ''bit too much'' for Garry's liking, and it's obvious Leonard wants camera time. Sometimes it's not even just him, but his ''barbershop quartet'' - Leonard & The Lads.
* TheThingThatWouldNotLeave: Leonard Smith hangs around Garry's condo a ''bit too much'' for Garry's liking, and it's obvious Leonard wants camera time. Sometimes it's not even just him, but his ''barbershop quartet'' - Leonard & The Lads.
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* TheVietnamVet: Leonard Smith reveals he's this in the season 2 finale, "Mr. Smith Goes To Nam," and a bad flashback is triggered when he sees someone he fought alongside - Creator/GildaRadner's male nurse.
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* ChristmasEpisodeChristmasEpisode: "It's Garry Shandling's Christmas Show," of course. In the Christmas spirit, Leonard Smith's vocal group is actually willfully given camera time - though it just so happens that this time, one of the singers is Music/TomPetty. There's no fanfare about it whatsoever; he's just ''there''.
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* LargeHam: Not usually the show's style, except for Leonard Smith, who likes to butt in for camera time, by himself or with his vocal group. A huge exception is made for Creator/GildaRadner's appearance, as she shamelessly mugs for the camera even when Garry tells her to stop.
-->'''Garry:''' ...are you looking into the camera?
-->'''Gilda Radner:''' [[BlatantLies No. No I didn't.]]
-->'''Garry:''' Don't look into the camera.
-->'''Gilda Radner:''' I didn't!
-->'''Garry:''' Don't. Don't come in here and look at the camera.
-->'''Gilda Radner:''' I ''didn't!''
-->'''Garry:''' I'll bop you. I will. ''[Gilda mugs for the camera some more the moment Garry turns away]''
-->'''Garry:''' ...are you looking into the camera?
-->'''Gilda Radner:''' [[BlatantLies No. No I didn't.]]
-->'''Garry:''' Don't look into the camera.
-->'''Gilda Radner:''' I didn't!
-->'''Garry:''' Don't. Don't come in here and look at the camera.
-->'''Gilda Radner:''' I ''didn't!''
-->'''Garry:''' I'll bop you. I will. ''[Gilda mugs for the camera some more the moment Garry turns away]''
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* {{Corpsing}}: More than once Garry does this and it's left in.
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* LockedInAFreezer: With Garry commenting that he hates this trope but the nature of the show does not allow them to skip it.
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* LockedInAFreezer: With Garry once gets locked in a freezer with Creator/JeffGoldblum, with Garry [[LampshadeHanging lampshading it before it even happens,]] and commenting that he hates this trope but the nature of the show does not allow them to skip it.
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* TimeSkip: Parodied sometimes. When the story has to move ahead for a few weeks or so, Garry will just stop mid-scene and ''say'' that a specific amount of time has passed, and then the scene will continue from that point. Or stuff will be literally ''thrown'' onto the set to make it look like the place has been unkempt for that entire amount of time. For example, Garry was once in a deep funk and ostensibly spent two weeks sitting on the couch, so the crew off-screen ''threw two weeks worth of newspapers at him.''
-->'''Nancy:''' Garry, what are you doing? You’ve been sitting here for a ''month!''\\
''[{{Beat}}, before Garry [[ThisIsGonnaSuck cringes]] as ANOTHER two weeks of newspapers are thrown at him]''
** One time in season 2, Garry's [[GirlOfTheWeek new girlfriend]] presumptuously tried to invoke it herself, so she could get Garry's car fixed faster, so Garry wouldn't know she totalled it. It worked, but [[spoiler:this caused Garry to miss his calligraphy lesson with Magic Johnson.]]
-->'''Nancy:''' Garry, what are you doing? You’ve been sitting here for a ''month!''\\
''[{{Beat}}, before Garry [[ThisIsGonnaSuck cringes]] as ANOTHER two weeks of newspapers are thrown at him]''
** One time in season 2, Garry's [[GirlOfTheWeek new girlfriend]] presumptuously tried to invoke it herself, so she could get Garry's car fixed faster, so Garry wouldn't know she totalled it. It worked, but [[spoiler:this caused Garry to miss his calligraphy lesson with Magic Johnson.]]
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* OverlyLongGag: "Garry Falls Down A Hole." There's no monologue, since Garry never shows up. There's dead air for an uncomfortably long moment. The theme song plays, and no one comes out afterward. Nancy eventually comes in to break up the tension, calling out for Garry, to no avail. The theme song plays ''again.'' No Garry. This goes on for an interminable amount of time and the audience is audibly uncomfortable for much of it, until Nancy thankfully returns with Leonard for some actual dialogue. No points for guessing where Garry was.
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* RippedFromTheHeadlines: "Garry Falls Down A Hole." They're not even coy about how it's a reference to Baby Jessica.
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* LoveGoddess: Zsa Zsa Gabor in a two-part special as the "Goddess of Commitment". When Garry and Phoebe finally commit to their relationship, she bursts in and impatiently starts moving Phoebe's stuff into Garry's home
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* LoveGoddess: Zsa Zsa Gabor in a two-part special as the "Goddess of Commitment". When Garry and Phoebe finally commit to their relationship, she bursts in and impatiently starts moving Phoebe's stuff into Garry's homehome.
* MetaGuy: Garry, usually, but given the nature of the show, other cast members get a crack at this from time to time.
* MetaGuy: Garry, usually, but given the nature of the show, other cast members get a crack at this from time to time.
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* TheNotLoveInterest: Nancy, who's Garry's "attractive, yet non-threatening, platonic neighbor."
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* TheNotLoveInterest: Nancy, who's Garry's "attractive, yet non-threatening, platonic neighbor."" One episode teased this status changing, but ended in an AnchoredShip.
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* StylisticSuck:
** The set can be this occasionally, especially in a DreamSequence. Garry once had a fantasy about a girl where he carved their initials into a tree, but since it was a cheap paper backdrop, Garry just stuck a big hole in it.
** When Garry decides to quit his show in the season one finale, it's so he can star in a cop show, which he champions as his first chance at a really serious role. Garry shows us a preview, and it has unimaginative dialogue, a downright pathetic fight scene and Garry looking completely out-of-place doing a gritty cop show like this. His character’s name is literally ''[[MeaningfulName Force Boxman.]]'' As in, metaphorically forcing himself into a box.
** The set can be this occasionally, especially in a DreamSequence. Garry once had a fantasy about a girl where he carved their initials into a tree, but since it was a cheap paper backdrop, Garry just stuck a big hole in it.
** When Garry decides to quit his show in the season one finale, it's so he can star in a cop show, which he champions as his first chance at a really serious role. Garry shows us a preview, and it has unimaginative dialogue, a downright pathetic fight scene and Garry looking completely out-of-place doing a gritty cop show like this. His character’s name is literally ''[[MeaningfulName Force Boxman.]]'' As in, metaphorically forcing himself into a box.
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* GenreSavvy: Imagine this trope was an entire series, and you have this show. Garry of course is the most savvy of them all.
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* YourCheatingHeart: "Pete Has An Affair" is pretty self-explanatory. Pete actually [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone takes his own actions harder than Jackie does.]]
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* AudienceParticipation: Garry likes getting the audience involved in the show. One episode had Garry marry an illegal immigrant so she could stay in the country, and Garry took a mic and went into the audience to ask them their feelings on the topic and generally play [[Series/TheOprahWinfreyShow Oprah Winfrey]] for them. Also, in season 2's "The Schumakers Go To Hollywood," Garry tries getting the StudioAudience to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jp0QQvmxhYQ sing the theme song]] ("tries" being the operative word).
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The entire point of the show, around which almost all of its plots revolved, was deconstructing, subverting and inverting all the standard tropes of broadcast television sitcoms. In any given episode, Garry would have a monologue to set up whatever the standard sitcom plot of the week is, talk directly to the audience mid-scene (which the other cast members rarely acknowledged), and even change scenes by walking off one set and directly onto the next one. This level of PostModernism, combined with a total lack of regard for the fourth wall, the conventions of sitcoms, [[SelfDeprecation and even the show in and of itself,]] was pretty unusual for the straight-faced [[TheEighties 80s,]] and considering that writers for this show went on to work on ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' and ''Series/{{Seinfeld}},'' one could say that this show was quite a few years ahead of its time.
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The entire point of the show, around which almost all of its plots revolved, was deconstructing, subverting and inverting all the standard tropes of broadcast television sitcoms. In any given episode, Garry would have a monologue to set up whatever the standard sitcom plot of the week is, talk directly to the audience mid-scene (which the other cast members rarely acknowledged), and even change scenes by walking off one set and directly onto the next one. This level of PostModernism, combined with and a total lack of regard for the fourth wall, the conventions of sitcoms, [[SelfDeprecation and even the show in and of itself,]] was pretty unusual for the straight-faced [[TheEighties 80s,]] and considering 80s.]] Considering that writers for this show went on to work on ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' and ''Series/{{Seinfeld}},'' one could say that this show was quite a few years ahead of its time.
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* CleanPrettyChildbirth: Jackie delivers one of these in season 2, and Garry thoughtfully (as in, thoughtful of the ratings) had the entire episode centered around it.
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* DidntThinkThisThrough: Garry had an entire episode for Jackie giving birth, but when she isn't delivering the baby on schedule, Garry has ''nothing'' to fall back on. A performance from Music/TomPetty and a cameo from Susan Anton only kills a few minutes each before Garry has to scramble some more to get ''anything'' to fill the dead air.
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* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Garry's friend Lewis disappeared from the show after the first six episodes, in favor of Leonard Smith, Garry's camera-hungry landlord.
