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E. Howard Hunt (Creator/WoodyHarrelson) is a former CIA agent who was sacrificed with the failure of the Bay of Pigs invasion. He works a mind-numbing job at a public relations agency and writes spy novels on the side to relive his glory days. So he's pretty happy when he's hired by the Nixon Administration to form a new "Special Intelligence Unit" to investigate leaks. Hunt is paired up with former FBI agent G. Gordon Liddy (Creator/JustinTheroux.) They rechristen the SIU as the "Plumbers" because they "fix leaks." Hunt, Liddy, and the Plumbers proceed to botch a break-in to Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist's office, but that does not stop them from getting another assignment, namely, to break into Democratic National Committee headquarters. That break-in, at the Watergate office building, destroys the presidency they tried to keep safe.
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E. Howard Hunt (Creator/WoodyHarrelson) is a former CIA agent who was sacrificed with the failure of the Bay of Pigs invasion. He works a mind-numbing job at a public relations agency and writes spy novels on the side to relive his glory days. So he's pretty happy when he's hired by the Nixon Administration to form a new "Special Intelligence Unit" to investigate leaks. Hunt is paired up with former FBI agent G. Gordon Liddy (Creator/JustinTheroux.) (Creator/JustinTheroux). They rechristen the SIU as the "Plumbers" because they "fix leaks." Hunt, Liddy, and the Plumbers proceed to botch a break-in to Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist's office, but that does not stop them from getting another assignment, namely, to break into Democratic National Committee headquarters. That break-in, at the Watergate office building, destroys the presidency they tried to keep safe.
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* CastingGag: Woody Harrelson previously played a retired person coming out of retirement in a way in Film/TheHungerGames. Harrelson also previously played authoritarian characters in Film/WarForThePlanetOfTheApes and Film/Rampart.
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* RealityIsUnrealistic: Both Theroux and Harrelson match the cadence and tone of Liddy and Hunt. See William F. Buckley's interviews with the two on Series/FiringLine.
* LogoJoke: Episodes open and close with what appears to be the very first HBO logo. Home Box Office launched in November 1972, soon after the events dramatized in this series took place.
* RealityIsUnrealistic: Both Theroux and Harrelson match the cadence and tone of Liddy and Hunt. See William F. Buckley's interviews with the two on Series/FiringLine.
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* JockDadNerdSon: Hunt has a hippie elder son and hip\pie hippie daughter.
* LogoJoke: Episodes open and close with what appears to be the very first HBO logo. Home Box Office launched in November 1972,soon after around the time the events dramatized in this series took place.
* RealityIsUnrealistic: Both Theroux and Harrelson match the cadence and tone of Liddy and Hunt. See William F. Buckley's interviews with the two onSeries/FiringLine.''Series/FiringLine''.
* LogoJoke: Episodes open and close with what appears to be the very first HBO logo. Home Box Office launched in November 1972,
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* RunningGag: Gordon Liddy's weird Nazi fetish. Liddy would like to name their special ops group "Project ODESSA" after the operation that smuggled ex-Nazis [[ArgentinaIsNaziLand to South America]]. When he and Hunt are flying back east after breaking into an office, Liddy asks a stewardess for a beer--"anything German."
* {{Scandalgate}}: Hunt and Liddy were co-conspirators in the plot.
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* RunningGag: Gordon Liddy's weird Nazi fetish. Liddy would like to name their special ops group "Project ODESSA" after the operation that smuggled ex-Nazis [[ArgentinaIsNaziLand to South America]]. When he and Hunt are flying back east after breaking into an office, Liddy asks a stewardess for a beer--"anything German."
" When Howard and Dorothy pay a visit to the Liddy home, Gordon entertains them by playing Hitler speeches on the record player, much to Dorothy's horror.
* {{Scandalgate}}: Hunt and Liddy were co-conspirators in theplot.TropeMaker, breaking into the Watergate building and starting a gigantic political scandal.
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E. Howard Hunt (Creator/WoodyHarrelson) is a failed spy who washed out of the CIA when the Bay of Pigs operation ended in fiasco. So he's pretty happy when he's hired by the Nixon Administration to form a new "Special Intelligence Unit" to investigate leaks. Hunt is paired up with G. Gordon Liddy (Creator/JustinTheroux), a lawyer, former FBI agent, and all-around creepy weirdo. They rechristen the SIU as the "Plumbers" because they "fix leaks." Hunt, Liddy, and the Plumbers proceed to botch a break-in to Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist's office, but that does not stop them from getting another assignment, namely, to break into Democratic National Committee headquarters. That break-in, at the Watergate office building, destroys the presidency they tried to keep safe.
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E. Howard Hunt (Creator/WoodyHarrelson) is a failed spy former CIA agent who washed out of was sacrificed with the CIA when failure of the Bay of Pigs operation ended in fiasco.invasion. He works a mind-numbing job at a public relations agency and writes spy novels on the side to relive his glory days. So he's pretty happy when he's hired by the Nixon Administration to form a new "Special Intelligence Unit" to investigate leaks. Hunt is paired up with former FBI agent G. Gordon Liddy (Creator/JustinTheroux), a lawyer, former FBI agent, and all-around creepy weirdo. (Creator/JustinTheroux.) They rechristen the SIU as the "Plumbers" because they "fix leaks." Hunt, Liddy, and the Plumbers proceed to botch a break-in to Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist's office, but that does not stop them from getting another assignment, namely, to break into Democratic National Committee headquarters. That break-in, at the Watergate office building, destroys the presidency they tried to keep safe.
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* UpperClassEquestrian: Hunt's wife rides horses. The Hunts live in a nice home and drive nice vehicles in a nice neighborhood.
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* RetiredBadass: How both Liddy and Hunt view themselves. Liddy's mustache and loud '70s clothing greatly contrast with the conservative, clean-cut image of Hoover's FBI. Liddy wants to use lie detectors, which Special Agent Mark Felt tells him the Bureau no longer uses. Hunt resents Kennedy for not supporting the Bay of Pigs invasion. Hunt writes novels to escape his boring job in public relations.
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* BaitAndSwitch: Viewers expect to see Hunt having sex with the stewardess Linda. He is actually having sex with his wife and insists that she call him Edward.
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It was a memoir and ot a novel.
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* TheShowOfTheBooks: Based on Egil "Bud" Krogh and Matthew Krogh's novel ''Integrity: Good People, Bad Choices, and Life Lessons from the White House''.
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* AllPsychologyIsFreudian: Liddy explains how his German housekeeper brought Hitler as an orator to his attention. The housekeeper was likely a mother figure for Liddy. Liddy notes how his wife is blonde and has Teutonic lineage.
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* TheComicallySerious: Liddy. He attacks all his ridiculous missions as if they're the Manhattan Project. He never uses contractions. He talks in an oddly stiff and formal way that the CIA disguise guy laughs at when handing out their silly wigs.
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** When Hunt says that the CIA will provide disguises for the Dr. Fielding break-in, Krogh says "What kind of disguises?" Cut to Hunt and Liddy at a CIA safe house, getting ridiculous fake teeth and silly wigs andglasses.glasses.
** Hunt says that he's bringing in team members who will work for free. After Liddy calls them "real Americans", Hunt says "''Better''." Cut to three Cubans, vets of the Bay of Pigs, arriving at the hotel.
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** Hunt says that he's bringing in team members who will work for free. After Liddy calls them "real Americans", Hunt says "''Better''." Cut to three Cubans, vets of the Bay of Pigs, arriving at the hotel.
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* StealthInsult: Fran Liddy manages to do this to herself while talking about how she and Gordon got married, after Gordon the creepy semi-Nazi praises her "Celtic and Teutonic genes."
-->'''Fran''': Lineage is very important to Gordon. Even more so than intelligence!
-->'''Fran''': Lineage is very important to Gordon. Even more so than intelligence!
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The series also stars Creator/DomhnallGleeson (John Dean), Creator/LenaHeadey (Hunt's put-upon wife Dorothy), Creator/KiernanShipka (Hunt's daughter Kevan), Creator/IkeBarinholtz, Creator/YulVazquez ("Macho" Barker, one of the Cuban burglars), Creator/DavidKrumholtz, Creator/RichSommer (Bud Krogh), and Creator/KimCoates (Frank Sturges).
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The series also stars Creator/DomhnallGleeson (John Dean), Creator/LenaHeadey (Hunt's put-upon wife Dorothy), Creator/JudyGreer (Liddy's dimwitted, Stepford-esque wife Fran) Creator/KiernanShipka (Hunt's daughter Kevan), Creator/IkeBarinholtz, Creator/IkeBarinholtz (Jeb Magruder), Creator/YulVazquez ("Macho" Barker, one of the Cuban burglars), Creator/DavidKrumholtz, Creator/RichSommer (Bud Krogh), and Creator/KimCoates (Frank Sturges).
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The series also stars Creator/DomhnallGleeson (John Dean), Creator/LenaHeadey (Hunt's put-upon wife Dorothy), Creator/KiernanShipka (Hunt's daughter Kevan), Creator/IkeBarinholtz, Creator/YulVazquez ("Macho" Barker, one of the Cuban burglars), Creator/DavidKrumholtz, Creator/RichSommer, Creator/KimCoates, Creator/LiamJames, Creator/RichSommer (Bud Krogh), and Creator/NelsonAscencio.
Creator/KimCoates (Frank Sturges).
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The series also stars Creator/DomhnallGleeson (John Dean), Creator/LenaHeadey (Hunt's put-upon wife Dorothy), Creator/KiernanShipka, Creator/KiernanShipka (Hunt's daughter Kevan), Creator/IkeBarinholtz, Creator/YulVazquez, Creator/YulVazquez ("Macho" Barker, one of the Cuban burglars), Creator/DavidKrumholtz, Creator/RichSommer, Creator/KimCoates, Creator/LiamJames, and Creator/NelsonAscencio.
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A 2023 Satirical Political {{Miniseries}} that follows the men (Creator/WoodyHarrelson and Creator/JustinTheroux) behind the Watergate break-in that overturns the presidency they tried to keep safe.
The series also stars Creator/DomhnallGleeson, Creator/LenaHeadey, Creator/KiernanShipka, Creator/IkeBarinholtz, Creator/YulVazquez, Creator/DavidKrumholtz, Creator/RichSommer, Creator/KimCoates, Creator/LiamJames, and Creator/NelsonAscencio.
The series also stars Creator/DomhnallGleeson, Creator/LenaHeadey, Creator/KiernanShipka, Creator/IkeBarinholtz, Creator/YulVazquez, Creator/DavidKrumholtz, Creator/RichSommer, Creator/KimCoates, Creator/LiamJames, and Creator/NelsonAscencio.
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* CallBack: Bud Krogh says John Dean "has too much old lady in him." At the end of episode 1 when Dean takes control of the Plumbers, he says the exact same thing of Krogh.
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* SoulCrushingDeskJob: The story begins with Hunt, once a CIA agent who was canned, working for a PR firm. He's depressed about it.
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-->"The following is based on a true story. No names have been changed to protect the innocent, because nearly everyone was found guilty."
-->"The following is based on a true story. No names have been changed to protect the innocent, because nearly everyone was found guilty."
* HowWeGotHere: The first episode begins with the Plumbers attempting to break into the DNC office--and failing. (It's the second attempt of what were eventually four.) Then the series jumps back over a year to Hunt and Liddy meeting and forming the Plumbers.
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* ThisIsAWorkOfFiction: Played for a gag in the disclaimer at the end of episodes.
-->"This program is a dramatization inspired by true events. Some of the events, characters and dialogue have been fictionalized, modified or composited for dramatic purposes. But UsefulNotes/RichardNixon definitely resigned from the Presidency in disgrace.
-->"This program is a dramatization inspired by true events. Some of the events, characters and dialogue have been fictionalized, modified or composited for dramatic purposes. But UsefulNotes/RichardNixon definitely resigned from the Presidency in disgrace.
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* StupidCrooks: Or Stupid Black Ops Specialists, although basically, they're stupid crooks. An attempt at burglarizing DNC headquarters goes awry when they forget their burglary tools. They adopt comically awful disguises for breaking into a psychiatrist's office.
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* VictorySex: Hunt comes home from the scout of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist's office and has sex with his wife. Evidently their sex life hasn't been so great lately, because after they've climaxed and he tells her that "the LA operation was a success," Dot says "That explains it."
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* CallForward: Mark Felt (Creator/GaryBusey) says that the FBI, while unwilling to do anything illegal, is dedicated to ferreting out White House leaks. Felt will soon become the biggest White House leak of all when he starts leaking to the Washington Post as "Deep Throat".
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* RunningGag: Gordon Liddy's weird Nazi fetish. When he and Hunt are flying back east after breaking into an office, Liddy asks a stewardess for a beer--"anything German."
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* FakeActionPrologue: The show starts with what appears to be a HowWeGotHere opening of the Plumbers breaking into the DNC offices at the Watergate...only for one of the burglars to realize that he left his tools in Miami. A title card then reveals that this was the second break-in attempt out of four.
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A 2023 Satirical Political {{Miniseries}} that follows the men (Creator/WoodyHarrelson and Creator/JustinTheroux) behind the Watergate break-in that overturns the presidency they tried to keep safe.
The series also stars Creator/DomhnallGleeson, Creator/LenaHeadey, Creator/KiernanShipka, Creator/IkeBarinholtz, Creator/YulVazquez, Creator/DavidKrumholtz, Creator/RichSommer, Creator/KimCoates, Creator/LiamJames, and Creator/NelsonAscencio.
It began airing on May 1, 2023 on Creator/{{HBO}}.
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* The70s: Takes place during Nixon's presidency and the Watergate break-in.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter:
** E. Howard Hunt, intelligence officer who was involved with the Bay of Pigs Invasion and helped plot the Watergate Break-in.
** G. Gordon Liddy, another co-conspirator in the break-in.
** John Dean, White House counsel.
* IWantYouToMeetAnOldFriendOfMine: Krumholtz and Harrelson previously worked together on ''Film/{{Scorched}}''.
* {{Scandalgate}}: Hunt and Liddy were co-conspirators in the plot.
* TheShowOfTheBooks: Based on Egil "Bud" Krogh and Matthew Krogh's novel ''Integrity: Good People, Bad Choices, and Life Lessons from the White House''.
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The series also stars Creator/DomhnallGleeson, Creator/LenaHeadey, Creator/KiernanShipka, Creator/IkeBarinholtz, Creator/YulVazquez, Creator/DavidKrumholtz, Creator/RichSommer, Creator/KimCoates, Creator/LiamJames, and Creator/NelsonAscencio.
It began airing on May 1, 2023 on Creator/{{HBO}}.
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!Tropes for the series:
* The70s: Takes place during Nixon's presidency and the Watergate break-in.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter:
** E. Howard Hunt, intelligence officer who was involved with the Bay of Pigs Invasion and helped plot the Watergate Break-in.
** G. Gordon Liddy, another co-conspirator in the break-in.
** John Dean, White House counsel.
* IWantYouToMeetAnOldFriendOfMine: Krumholtz and Harrelson previously worked together on ''Film/{{Scorched}}''.
* {{Scandalgate}}: Hunt and Liddy were co-conspirators in the plot.
* TheShowOfTheBooks: Based on Egil "Bud" Krogh and Matthew Krogh's novel ''Integrity: Good People, Bad Choices, and Life Lessons from the White House''.
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