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[[caption-width-right:300:SHIVAKAMINI SOMAKANDARKRAM!!!.]]
-->''"Suck it!"''
A 2009 FX sitcom about a [[VitriolicBestBuds group of friends]] who all play in a fantasy football league. It's cut from a similar cloth as the show it airs after, ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia--frequently [[CrossesTheLineTwice Crossing the Line Twice]] and [[RefugeInAudacity taking Refuge in Audacity]]--but a little better-adjusted (maybe you can think of it as ''[[ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia Always Sunny]]'' [[ThisIsYourPremiseOnDrugs on meds]]. [[TheWindyCity In Chicago]], [[{{Metaphorgotten}} With football]]).
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!!Tropes:
* ActorAllusion: In the pilot, Taco attempts to draft a player from the Calgary Stampeders. JonLajoie, who plays Taco, is the only Canadian actor in the league.
* AmbiguouslyGay - Andre.
* AmoralAttorney - Both Ruxin and Kevin; a rare example where a criminal prosecutor isn't really any better than his defense attorney counterpart.
* AnythingThatMoves - Russell. Really the only thing he doesn't seem to be turned on by is Jenny.
* BrilliantButLazy - Pete
* ButtMonkey - Andre, though when he isn't the victim, he gives as good as anyone else. Sometimes Ruxin, but he tends to bring it on himself.
* TheCameo Various NFL players and personalities appear as themselves. Including Terry Bradshaw, Matt Forte, and Matthew Berry.
* CasanovaWannabe - Andre, particularly evident when he's discussing pickup artist tips with Pete.
* TheCastShowoff - Jon [=LaJoie=] has broke out into song on several occasions.
* CloudCuckoolander - Taco.
* ClusterFBomb - Kevin in ''Kegel the Elf''. [[spoiler:After [[DespairEventHorizon failing to get to the championship yet again]], he goes completely berserk, kicking over a nativity scene and [[CrowningMomentofFunny telling his five year old daughter that Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, and God do not exist.]]]]
* DeadpanSnarker - Pete and Ruxin. Andre gets in on it occasionally.
* EveryoneWentToSchoolTogether - Pete, Ruxin, Kevin, Andre, Taco, and Shiva all went to high school together, and at least the former three went to college together too.
* FawltyTowersPlot - Most episodes.
* FriendsRentControl - Mostly averted, as Ruxin and Andre at least are both relatively wealthy. Though Kevin's income as an assistant district attorney is probably modest, Jenny is a real estate agent, justifying their house between them. This only leaves Pete and Taco; Taco's home has only been glimpsed briefly a few times and Pete's lifestyle has been going down since the pilot.
** There have been frequent references to Taco being "pretty much homeless".
* {{Gainaxing}} - In episode two, "The Bounce Test", various circumstances force Ruxin to find a "porn loophole": an underwear website featuring video demonstrations of their products being used by well-endowed joggers.
* GilliganCut - Kevin promises that he, Jenny, Ruxin, and Sofia won't [[spoiler:talk about Pete and Meegan's breakup]] at dinner. Cut to...
* HappilyMarried- Kevin and Jenny, who never have ANY serious marital issues, and the only minor ones are fantasy football related.
* HenpeckedHusband- Ruxin and Pete, at first. Pete got divorced in season 1. Ruxin just stopped caring about his wife, and doesn't listen to her anymore.
* HeterosexualLifePartners - Pete and Kevin. Dirty Randy mistook them for actual life partners.
* HollywoodDateless - Andre, though possibly justified, as being a wealthy, successful plastic surgeon probably helps him get dates. He just has trouble hanging on to women.
* JerkAss - Everyone to some extent, though Ruxin and Rafi are probably the worst.
* KarmaHoudini - Though everyone gets away with things sometimes, [[spoiler:like when Kevin lost his virginity to Shiva in Pete's mom's car, left the condom behind, and kept the incident a secret for years, only revealing the truth after Pete had returned the favor to the person he THOUGHT guilty of the offense, losing an amazing job offer in the process]], Taco rarely receives any sort of comeuppance for his outrageous behavior. Possibly justified, as they are used to his antics and/or feel guilty over making him smoke pot when he was 8, turning him into the massive stoner he is today.
* LastNameBasis - Rodney Ruxin. He thinks "Rodney" is an EmbarrassingFirstName. His dad, Rupert, has the same problem.
* LaserGuidedKarma: Ruxin's Dark Victory is immediately followed by him being the only guy left to deal with the broken windshield.
* MistakenForGay - Has happened to everyone except Taco.
* MyFriendsAndZoidberg - A nonverbal example. After [[spoiler:[[TheBadGuyWins Ruxin wins]] the championship in the finale of season 2, he tussles with Andre for possession of the trophy. It ends up sailing off a fire escape and smashing through a car windshield.]] At that point, Pete [[spoiler:arrives in the cop car he now drives, takes control of the situation, and whisks everyone away... except Ruxin, who they gleefully leave behind to deal with the furious owner of the car.]]
** Before the season 3 draft, Ruxin beckons the rest of the league to Andre's balcony.
-->'''Ruxin:''' Gentlemen. Taco.
* ObfuscatingStupidity - Taco, if Ruxin and Sofia's anniversary is any indication. He shot behind the scenes footage of their wedding and saved it for ten years, using it [[spoiler:in what seems to be a very lengthy XanatosRoulette, or even BatmanGambit, to incriminate and embarrass not only Ruxin, but Kevin, Andre, and Meegan as well]], at an anniversary party he manipulated Ruxin into throwing in the first place. When his plan culminates in Ruxin [[spoiler:having to eat a piece of wedding cake that had been thrown onto a bathroom floor]], Ruxin even calls him "an evil genius."
** In an interview the Producers confirm Taco is far smarter than given credit.
* OneOfTheBoys - Jenny, though a somewhat unusual example--she's not really a tomboy and certainly is feminine. She's just really good at fantasy football and can engage with and challenge the guys on their own terms. She also seems more comfortable with the boys than with Sofia, who she finds irritating, though notably Sofia is the only female (other than her own daughter) that viewers see her interacting with on even a semi-regular basis.
* RefugeInVulgarity - Vaginal Hubris, [[UnusualEuphemism Vinegar Strokes]].
* RunningGag - Shivablasting, Eskimo brothers, Andre looking like Nosferatu, vinegar strokes and Mr. Mcgibletts.
* SportsWidow: Sofia knows to leave Ruxin alone when he and the rest of the league show up to watch. Averted by Kevin and Jenny: she's a bigger football fan (and better team owner) than he is.
* StatusQuoIsGod: Andre doesn't leave the league for another, where he is adored.
* TheStoner: Taco.
* TheWindyCity
* UglyGuyHotWife - Nick Kroll himself, but in-universe, Ruxin has purposely invoked this trope, and plays it up especially hard at his high school reunion.
** The reunion wasn't this as much as showing off that he's no longer dating fat girls like he did in high school.
** The entire show is a group of average looking guys who have no problem attracting disproportionately attractive women.
* UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist - Periodically, the characters execute borderline-sociopathic hijinks, generally because of some misunderstanding, and usually come off the worse for it. [[ComedicSociopathy This is all, of course, very funny]].
* UnusualEuphemism: The gang likes to use the word "frittata" in place of "retarded".
* WithFriendsLikeThese - Even without the constant volleys of insults and pranks, every single member of the League will manipulate and betray any other member for even the slightest of advantages in their fantasy football tournament. Except for Taco, who is to stoned to know what manipulate means.
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[[caption-width-right:300:SHIVAKAMINI SOMAKANDARKRAM!!!.]]
-->''"Suck it!"''
A 2009 FX sitcom about a [[VitriolicBestBuds group of friends]] who all play in a fantasy football league. It's cut from a similar cloth as the show it airs after, ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia--frequently [[CrossesTheLineTwice Crossing the Line Twice]] and [[RefugeInAudacity taking Refuge in Audacity]]--but a little better-adjusted (maybe you can think of it as ''[[ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia Always Sunny]]'' [[ThisIsYourPremiseOnDrugs on meds]]. [[TheWindyCity In Chicago]], [[{{Metaphorgotten}} With football]]).
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!!Tropes:
* ActorAllusion: In the pilot, Taco attempts to draft a player from the Calgary Stampeders. JonLajoie, who plays Taco, is the only Canadian actor in the league.
* AmbiguouslyGay - Andre.
* AmoralAttorney - Both Ruxin and Kevin; a rare example where a criminal prosecutor isn't really any better than his defense attorney counterpart.
* AnythingThatMoves - Russell. Really the only thing he doesn't seem to be turned on by is Jenny.
* BrilliantButLazy - Pete
* ButtMonkey - Andre, though when he isn't the victim, he gives as good as anyone else. Sometimes Ruxin, but he tends to bring it on himself.
* TheCameo Various NFL players and personalities appear as themselves. Including Terry Bradshaw, Matt Forte, and Matthew Berry.
* CasanovaWannabe - Andre, particularly evident when he's discussing pickup artist tips with Pete.
* TheCastShowoff - Jon [=LaJoie=] has broke out into song on several occasions.
* CloudCuckoolander - Taco.
* ClusterFBomb - Kevin in ''Kegel the Elf''. [[spoiler:After [[DespairEventHorizon failing to get to the championship yet again]], he goes completely berserk, kicking over a nativity scene and [[CrowningMomentofFunny telling his five year old daughter that Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, and God do not exist.]]]]
* DeadpanSnarker - Pete and Ruxin. Andre gets in on it occasionally.
* EveryoneWentToSchoolTogether - Pete, Ruxin, Kevin, Andre, Taco, and Shiva all went to high school together, and at least the former three went to college together too.
* FawltyTowersPlot - Most episodes.
* FriendsRentControl - Mostly averted, as Ruxin and Andre at least are both relatively wealthy. Though Kevin's income as an assistant district attorney is probably modest, Jenny is a real estate agent, justifying their house between them. This only leaves Pete and Taco; Taco's home has only been glimpsed briefly a few times and Pete's lifestyle has been going down since the pilot.
** There have been frequent references to Taco being "pretty much homeless".
* {{Gainaxing}} - In episode two, "The Bounce Test", various circumstances force Ruxin to find a "porn loophole": an underwear website featuring video demonstrations of their products being used by well-endowed joggers.
* GilliganCut - Kevin promises that he, Jenny, Ruxin, and Sofia won't [[spoiler:talk about Pete and Meegan's breakup]] at dinner. Cut to...
* HappilyMarried- Kevin and Jenny, who never have ANY serious marital issues, and the only minor ones are fantasy football related.
* HenpeckedHusband- Ruxin and Pete, at first. Pete got divorced in season 1. Ruxin just stopped caring about his wife, and doesn't listen to her anymore.
* HeterosexualLifePartners - Pete and Kevin. Dirty Randy mistook them for actual life partners.
* HollywoodDateless - Andre, though possibly justified, as being a wealthy, successful plastic surgeon probably helps him get dates. He just has trouble hanging on to women.
* JerkAss - Everyone to some extent, though Ruxin and Rafi are probably the worst.
* KarmaHoudini - Though everyone gets away with things sometimes, [[spoiler:like when Kevin lost his virginity to Shiva in Pete's mom's car, left the condom behind, and kept the incident a secret for years, only revealing the truth after Pete had returned the favor to the person he THOUGHT guilty of the offense, losing an amazing job offer in the process]], Taco rarely receives any sort of comeuppance for his outrageous behavior. Possibly justified, as they are used to his antics and/or feel guilty over making him smoke pot when he was 8, turning him into the massive stoner he is today.
* LastNameBasis - Rodney Ruxin. He thinks "Rodney" is an EmbarrassingFirstName. His dad, Rupert, has the same problem.
* LaserGuidedKarma: Ruxin's Dark Victory is immediately followed by him being the only guy left to deal with the broken windshield.
* MistakenForGay - Has happened to everyone except Taco.
* MyFriendsAndZoidberg - A nonverbal example. After [[spoiler:[[TheBadGuyWins Ruxin wins]] the championship in the finale of season 2, he tussles with Andre for possession of the trophy. It ends up sailing off a fire escape and smashing through a car windshield.]] At that point, Pete [[spoiler:arrives in the cop car he now drives, takes control of the situation, and whisks everyone away... except Ruxin, who they gleefully leave behind to deal with the furious owner of the car.]]
** Before the season 3 draft, Ruxin beckons the rest of the league to Andre's balcony.
-->'''Ruxin:''' Gentlemen. Taco.
* ObfuscatingStupidity - Taco, if Ruxin and Sofia's anniversary is any indication. He shot behind the scenes footage of their wedding and saved it for ten years, using it [[spoiler:in what seems to be a very lengthy XanatosRoulette, or even BatmanGambit, to incriminate and embarrass not only Ruxin, but Kevin, Andre, and Meegan as well]], at an anniversary party he manipulated Ruxin into throwing in the first place. When his plan culminates in Ruxin [[spoiler:having to eat a piece of wedding cake that had been thrown onto a bathroom floor]], Ruxin even calls him "an evil genius."
** In an interview the Producers confirm Taco is far smarter than given credit.
* OneOfTheBoys - Jenny, though a somewhat unusual example--she's not really a tomboy and certainly is feminine. She's just really good at fantasy football and can engage with and challenge the guys on their own terms. She also seems more comfortable with the boys than with Sofia, who she finds irritating, though notably Sofia is the only female (other than her own daughter) that viewers see her interacting with on even a semi-regular basis.
* RefugeInVulgarity - Vaginal Hubris, [[UnusualEuphemism Vinegar Strokes]].
* RunningGag - Shivablasting, Eskimo brothers, Andre looking like Nosferatu, vinegar strokes and Mr. Mcgibletts.
* SportsWidow: Sofia knows to leave Ruxin alone when he and the rest of the league show up to watch. Averted by Kevin and Jenny: she's a bigger football fan (and better team owner) than he is.
* StatusQuoIsGod: Andre doesn't leave the league for another, where he is adored.
* TheStoner: Taco.
* TheWindyCity
* UglyGuyHotWife - Nick Kroll himself, but in-universe, Ruxin has purposely invoked this trope, and plays it up especially hard at his high school reunion.
** The reunion wasn't this as much as showing off that he's no longer dating fat girls like he did in high school.
** The entire show is a group of average looking guys who have no problem attracting disproportionately attractive women.
* UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist - Periodically, the characters execute borderline-sociopathic hijinks, generally because of some misunderstanding, and usually come off the worse for it. [[ComedicSociopathy This is all, of course, very funny]].
* UnusualEuphemism: The gang likes to use the word "frittata" in place of "retarded".
* WithFriendsLikeThese - Even without the constant volleys of insults and pranks, every single member of the League will manipulate and betray any other member for even the slightest of advantages in their fantasy football tournament. Except for Taco, who is to stoned to know what manipulate means.
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