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* RealitySubtext: Westley's remark about how he thinks everybody will be wearing masks in the future, recreated here precisely, takes on a darkly humorous bent considering that this series was shot in quarantine during the COVID-19 pandemic, when everybody was urged to wear masks in public.
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** Westley's remark about how he thinks everybody will be wearing masks in the future, recreated here precisely, takes on a darkly humorous bent considering that this series was shot in quarantine during the COVID-19 pandemic, when everybody was urged to wear masks inpublic.public.
** Creator/StephenMerchant's parts involve cardboard props that are clearly made from Amazon boxes, a grim reminder that delivery services like Amazon saw a boom during this period.
** Westley's remark about how he thinks everybody will be wearing masks in the future, recreated here precisely, takes on a darkly humorous bent considering that this series was shot in quarantine during the COVID-19 pandemic, when everybody was urged to wear masks in
** Creator/StephenMerchant's parts involve cardboard props that are clearly made from Amazon boxes, a grim reminder that delivery services like Amazon saw a boom during this period.
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* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: In early January 2021, approximately five months after this series ended its run on the platform, Quibi was shut down and its library was sold to Roku, who later announced that they would be releasing the platform's entire original library on one of their free ad-supported channels. Unfortunately, this series was not included in the Roku acquisition due to its status as a remake of a preexisting film. By May 2021, Quibi's official [=YouTube=] channel had been set to private, including this series' trailer and the full fourth episode, scrubbing the last of the series' officially released material from public viewing. [[https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2021/06/homemade-princess-bride-emmys According to a June 2021 Vanity Fair article]], the only remaining legal way to watch this series is a private streaming service accessible only to Emmy voters, and the creators of the series are hoping that the series might hopefully capture enough attention through the Emmys for it to be released to the public somehow once more. Despite- or perhaps ''because'' of -this, people have been able to easily continue illegally distributing it, even on [=YouTube=].
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* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: In early January 2021, approximately five months after this series ended its run on the platform, Quibi was shut down and its library was sold to Roku, who later announced that they would be releasing the platform's entire original library on one of their free ad-supported channels. Unfortunately, this series was not included in the Roku acquisition due to its legal status as a remake of a preexisting film.film with rights partially owned by the estate of William Goldman, author of the original ''The Princess Bride'' novel upon which the 1987 film was based. By May 2021, Quibi's official [=YouTube=] channel had been set to private, including this series' trailer and the full fourth episode, scrubbing the last of the series' officially released material from public viewing. [[https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2021/06/homemade-princess-bride-emmys According to a June 2021 Vanity Fair article]], the only remaining legal way to watch this series is was a private streaming service accessible only to Emmy voters, voters for the 2020 awards season, and the creators of the series are were hoping that the series might hopefully capture enough attention through the Emmys for it to be released to the public somehow once more. Despite- or perhaps ''because'' of -this, people have been able to easily continue illegally distributing it, even on [=YouTube=].
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* FakeNationality: Out of the eleven actors who play Inigo Montoya, Creator/JavierBardem is the only Spaniard. Four others are of some other Hispanic nationality with Spanish ancestry- Chilean-American Creator/PedroPascal, Mexican/British Creator/DiegoLuna, and Cuban-American Creator/OscarNunez and Creator/NatalieMorales.
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* ProductionPosse: Seven of the actors had previously been directed by Jason Reitman in ''Film/GhostbustersAfterlife'' (including Logan Kim, for whom ''Afterlife'' was his first-ever film role).
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* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: In early January 2021, approximately five months after this series ended its run on the platform, Quibi was shut down and its library was sold to Roku, who later announced that they would be releasing the platform's entire original library on one of their free ad-supported channels. Unfortunately, this series was not included in the Roku acquisition due to its status as a remake of a preexisting film. By May 2021, Quibi's official [=YouTube=] channel had been set to private, including this series' trailer and the full fourth episode, scrubbing the last of the series' officially released material from public viewing. [[https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2021/06/homemade-princess-bride-emmys According to a June 2021 Vanity Fair article]], the only remaining legal way to watch this series is a private streaming service accessible only to Emmy voters, and the creators of the series are hoping that the series might hopefully capture enough attention through the Emmys for it to be released to the public somehow once more. Despite this, people have been able to easily continue illegally distributing it, even on [=YouTube=].
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* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: In early January 2021, approximately five months after this series ended its run on the platform, Quibi was shut down and its library was sold to Roku, who later announced that they would be releasing the platform's entire original library on one of their free ad-supported channels. Unfortunately, this series was not included in the Roku acquisition due to its status as a remake of a preexisting film. By May 2021, Quibi's official [=YouTube=] channel had been set to private, including this series' trailer and the full fourth episode, scrubbing the last of the series' officially released material from public viewing. [[https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2021/06/homemade-princess-bride-emmys According to a June 2021 Vanity Fair article]], the only remaining legal way to watch this series is a private streaming service accessible only to Emmy voters, and the creators of the series are hoping that the series might hopefully capture enough attention through the Emmys for it to be released to the public somehow once more. Despite this, Despite- or perhaps ''because'' of -this, people have been able to easily continue illegally distributing it, even on [=YouTube=].
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* ActingForTwo:
** Creator/NickKroll plays Inigo, Fezzik and Vizzini all at once during the boat scene.
** Creator/PenelopeCruz plays both Humperdinck and Buttercup during one scene.
** Creator/NickKroll plays Inigo, Fezzik and Vizzini all at once during the boat scene.
** Creator/PenelopeCruz plays both Humperdinck and Buttercup during one scene.
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** ''Series/TheOfficeUS'' costars Creator/AngelaKinsey, Creator/BrianBaumgartner, and Creator/OscarNunez as Vizzini, Fezzik, and Inigo 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 as Vizzini, Fezzik, and Inigo 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/CaryElwes returns not to play Westley, but Humperdinck. Wielding a Swiffer Sweeper as his "sword".
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* CrosscastRole: David Burtka and Music/JoeJonas as Princess Buttercup, Creator/SophieTurner as Westley, Creator/ZoeyDeutch as Fezzik, Creator/MckennaGrace as the Grandson, among others.
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* CastingGag: Creator/ElijahWood and Creator/AndySerkis act opposite each other as Prince Humperdinck and Count Rugen, respectively, making jokes about Frodo turning into an assholish prince and Gollum becoming said assholish prince's right hand inevitable.
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** ''Series/TheOfficeUS'' costars Creator/AngelaKinsey, Creator/BrianBaumgartner, and Creator/OscarNunez as Vizzini, Fezzik, and Inigo 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 righthand hand]] inevitable.
** ''Series/TheOfficeUS'' costars Creator/AngelaKinsey, Creator/BrianBaumgartner, and Creator/OscarNunez as Vizzini, Fezzik, and Inigo 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
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* CrosscastRole: David Burtka and Music/JoeJonas as Princess Buttercup, Creator/SophieTurner as Westley, Creator/ZoeyDeutch as Fezzik, among others.
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* CrosscastRole: David Burtka and Music/JoeJonas as Princess Buttercup, Creator/SophieTurner as Westley, Creator/ZoeyDeutch as Fezzik, Creator/MckennaGrace as the Grandson, among others.
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* CrosscastRole: David Burtka and Music/JoeJonas as Princess Buttercup, Creator/SophieTurner as Westley, Creator/ZoeyDeutch as Fezzik, among others.
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* IronyAsSheIsCast: Some of the humor is from some actors being ''radically'' different from the characters they're supposed to be playing, such as 5'4" Creator/ZoeyDeutch playing the giant Fezzik.
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* NoStuntDouble: Everybody acted out their own stunts, because this ''is'' supposed to be a home movie. For the scene where Westley and Buttercup roll down the hill, a flight of stairs inside a house stands in for the hill, and the characters are substituted with garbage bags loosely stuffed with some other clothes for weight and volume, "dressed" in the characters' costumes, and then tossed down the stairs with their dialogue dubbed in post. (The "Buttercup" trash bag has a blonde wig affixed to it, and the wig falls off once it reaches the bottom.)
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* NoStuntDouble: Everybody acted out their own stunts, because this ''is'' supposed to be a home movie. For the scene where Westley and Buttercup roll down the hill, a flight of stairs inside a house stairwell stands in for the hill, and the characters are substituted with garbage bags loosely stuffed with some other clothes for weight and volume, "dressed" in the characters' costumes, and then tossed down the stairs with their dialogue dubbed in post. (The "Buttercup" trash bag has a blonde wig affixed to it, and the wig falls off once it reaches the bottom.)
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* CastingGag: So [[Creator/ElijahWood Frodo Baggins]] became the assholish Prince Humperdinck, and [[Creator/AndySerkis Gollum]] murdered Inigo's father and became Frodo's Count Rugen?
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* CastingGag: So [[Creator/ElijahWood Creator/ElijahWood and Creator/AndySerkis act opposite each other as Prince Humperdinck and Count Rugen, respectively, making jokes about Frodo Baggins]] became the turning into an assholish Prince Humperdinck, prince and [[Creator/AndySerkis Gollum]] murdered Inigo's father and became Frodo's Count Rugen?Gollum becoming said assholish prince's right hand inevitable.
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* AuthorExistenceFailure: Creator/CarlReiner, father of the director of the original film, portrays the Grandfather in his final filmed performance. He passed away three days after recording his scene, the day the series premiered.
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* TheOtherDarrin: The vast majority of the main characters are portrayed by multiple actors, changing actors at least after each scene (and sometimes within scenes). Buttercup has the most at ''seventeen'' actors- not counting Creator/RobinWright in footage from the original -three of whom are men.
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* TheOtherDarrin: The vast majority of the main characters are portrayed by multiple actors, changing actors at least after each scene (and sometimes within scenes). Buttercup has the most at ''seventeen'' actors- not counting Creator/RobinWright in footage from the original -three of whom are men.
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* AllStarCast: A grand total of 90 actors were involved in this production, most of whom are recognizable stars in their own right, making this potentially one of the most star-studded live-action motion picture productions ever.
* AuthorExistenceFailure: Creator/CarlReiner, father of the director of the original film, portrays the Grandfather in his final filmed performance. He passed away three days after recording his scene, the day the series premiered.
* CastingGag: So [[Creator/ElijahWood Frodo Baggins]] became the assholish Prince Humperdinck, and [[Creator/AndySerkis Gollum]] murdered Inigo's father and became Frodo's Count Rugen?
* TheOtherDarrin: The vast majority of the main characters are portrayed by multiple actors, changing actors at least after each scene (and sometimes within scenes). Buttercup has the most at ''seventeen'' actors- not counting Creator/RobinWright in footage from the original -three of whom are men.
* DawsonCasting: PlayedForLaughs; four of the seven actors portraying the Grandson, who was played in the original by a ten-year-old, are clearly adults, with the youngest two actors being fourteen and looking a little too old to be requesting bedtime stories. One of those is the Grandson's original actor, Creator/FredSavage, 43 years old at the time of this production. Taken to an extreme with Creator/RobReiner, who was ''73'' at the time.
* DoingItForTheArt: Every single one of the actors and crew donated their time to this production, which was created to raise money for the World Central Kitchen during the COVID-19 pandemic. Director Jason Reitman instructed all of the actors to "think like kids" for their respective segments, leading to the scrappy "kids' home movie" feel of the production.
* InMemoriam: Creator/CarlReiner, father of the director of the original film, narrates the ending of the story, and passed away three days after recording his scene, the day the series premiered. The series as a whole is dedicated to his memory.
* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: In early January 2021, approximately five months after this series ended its run on the platform, Quibi was shut down and its library was sold to Roku, who later announced that they would be releasing the platform's entire original library on one of their free ad-supported channels. Unfortunately, this series was not included in the Roku acquisition due to its status as a remake of a preexisting film. By May 2021, Quibi's official [=YouTube=] channel had been set to private, including this series' trailer and the full fourth episode, scrubbing the last of the series' officially released material from public viewing. [[https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2021/06/homemade-princess-bride-emmys According to a June 2021 Vanity Fair article]], the only remaining legal way to watch this series is a private streaming service accessible only to Emmy voters, and the creators of the series are hoping that the series might hopefully capture enough attention through the Emmys for it to be released to the public somehow once more. Despite this, people have been able to easily continue illegally distributing it, even on [=YouTube=].
* NoStuntDouble: Everybody acted out their own stunts, because this ''is'' supposed to be a home movie. For the scene where Westley and Buttercup roll down the hill, a flight of stairs inside a house stands in for the hill, and the characters are substituted with garbage bags loosely stuffed with some other clothes for weight and volume, "dressed" in the characters' costumes, and then tossed down the stairs with their dialogue dubbed in post. (The "Buttercup" trash bag has a blonde wig affixed to it, and the wig falls off once it reaches the bottom.)
* RealitySubtext: Westley's remark about how he thinks everybody will be wearing masks in the future, recreated here precisely, takes on a darkly humorous bent considering that this series was shot in quarantine during the COVID-19 pandemic, when everybody was urged to wear masks in public.
* RemakeCameo: Creator/CaryElwes returns not to play Westley, but Humperdinck. Wielding a Swiffer Sweeper as his "sword".
* RoleReprise: Creator/FredSavage returns over thirty years later to play the Grandson, even though he was 43 years old at the time of shooting this series.
* UnderageCasting: Inevitable with how much ColorblindCasting is in this production; most instances are actors' clearly too-young children playing characters that are adults in the original, with no attempt to make them look older. Like everything else, it's PlayedForLaughs.
** During Tom Lennon's turn as Humperdinck, his son Oliver, eleven years old at the time of shooting, plays Count Rugen for the early search for Buttercup.
** For Creator/PattonOswalt's turn as Vizzini during the Battle of Wits, his daughter Alice, eleven years old at the time of shooting, plays Buttercup.
** At 50, Creator/SarahSilverman is the youngest of the actors to play the Grandfather. She wears a silver wig, graying bushy mustache and eyebrows, and a suit, and puts on something like an exaggerated East Coast or Philly accent ("Yes, you're very smaht."). Never mind that unless some people were having kids very young, fifty is pretty young to have an eleven-year-old grandchild, and makeup aside, she doesn't look fifty, anyway.
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* AuthorExistenceFailure: Creator/CarlReiner, father of the director of the original film, portrays the Grandfather in his final filmed performance. He passed away three days after recording his scene, the day the series premiered.
* CastingGag: So [[Creator/ElijahWood Frodo Baggins]] became the assholish Prince Humperdinck, and [[Creator/AndySerkis Gollum]] murdered Inigo's father and became Frodo's Count Rugen?
* TheOtherDarrin: The vast majority of the main characters are portrayed by multiple actors, changing actors at least after each scene (and sometimes within scenes). Buttercup has the most at ''seventeen'' actors- not counting Creator/RobinWright in footage from the original -three of whom are men.
* DawsonCasting: PlayedForLaughs; four of the seven actors portraying the Grandson, who was played in the original by a ten-year-old, are clearly adults, with the youngest two actors being fourteen and looking a little too old to be requesting bedtime stories. One of those is the Grandson's original actor, Creator/FredSavage, 43 years old at the time of this production. Taken to an extreme with Creator/RobReiner, who was ''73'' at the time.
* DoingItForTheArt: Every single one of the actors and crew donated their time to this production, which was created to raise money for the World Central Kitchen during the COVID-19 pandemic. Director Jason Reitman instructed all of the actors to "think like kids" for their respective segments, leading to the scrappy "kids' home movie" feel of the production.
* InMemoriam: Creator/CarlReiner, father of the director of the original film, narrates the ending of the story, and passed away three days after recording his scene, the day the series premiered. The series as a whole is dedicated to his memory.
* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: In early January 2021, approximately five months after this series ended its run on the platform, Quibi was shut down and its library was sold to Roku, who later announced that they would be releasing the platform's entire original library on one of their free ad-supported channels. Unfortunately, this series was not included in the Roku acquisition due to its status as a remake of a preexisting film. By May 2021, Quibi's official [=YouTube=] channel had been set to private, including this series' trailer and the full fourth episode, scrubbing the last of the series' officially released material from public viewing. [[https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2021/06/homemade-princess-bride-emmys According to a June 2021 Vanity Fair article]], the only remaining legal way to watch this series is a private streaming service accessible only to Emmy voters, and the creators of the series are hoping that the series might hopefully capture enough attention through the Emmys for it to be released to the public somehow once more. Despite this, people have been able to easily continue illegally distributing it, even on [=YouTube=].
* NoStuntDouble: Everybody acted out their own stunts, because this ''is'' supposed to be a home movie. For the scene where Westley and Buttercup roll down the hill, a flight of stairs inside a house stands in for the hill, and the characters are substituted with garbage bags loosely stuffed with some other clothes for weight and volume, "dressed" in the characters' costumes, and then tossed down the stairs with their dialogue dubbed in post. (The "Buttercup" trash bag has a blonde wig affixed to it, and the wig falls off once it reaches the bottom.)
* RealitySubtext: Westley's remark about how he thinks everybody will be wearing masks in the future, recreated here precisely, takes on a darkly humorous bent considering that this series was shot in quarantine during the COVID-19 pandemic, when everybody was urged to wear masks in public.
* RemakeCameo: Creator/CaryElwes returns not to play Westley, but Humperdinck. Wielding a Swiffer Sweeper as his "sword".
* RoleReprise: Creator/FredSavage returns over thirty years later to play the Grandson, even though he was 43 years old at the time of shooting this series.
* UnderageCasting: Inevitable with how much ColorblindCasting is in this production; most instances are actors' clearly too-young children playing characters that are adults in the original, with no attempt to make them look older. Like everything else, it's PlayedForLaughs.
** During Tom Lennon's turn as Humperdinck, his son Oliver, eleven years old at the time of shooting, plays Count Rugen for the early search for Buttercup.
** For Creator/PattonOswalt's turn as Vizzini during the Battle of Wits, his daughter Alice, eleven years old at the time of shooting, plays Buttercup.
** At 50, Creator/SarahSilverman is the youngest of the actors to play the Grandfather. She wears a silver wig, graying bushy mustache and eyebrows, and a suit, and puts on something like an exaggerated East Coast or Philly accent ("Yes, you're very smaht."). Never mind that unless some people were having kids very young, fifty is pretty young to have an eleven-year-old grandchild, and makeup aside, she doesn't look fifty, anyway.
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