Basic Trope: A celebrity will appear as a Special Guest As Themselves, and the characters will fawn over them and talk them up heavily.
- Straight: Alice is a famous musician and model in Real Life who guest stars in an episode of Life of Bob. As soon as she shows up, Bob and all his friends start geeking out around her and throughout the episode they stop for extended periods to gush about how awesome and beautiful Alice is and how much they love her music.
- Exaggerated: The moment Bob and all his friends hear that Alice is within a hundred mile vicinity of their town, they begin gushing over her and letting out whatever wild (possibly sexual) fantasies they have.
- Downplayed:
- Bob goes absolutely gaga over Alice for a scene, but once it's done the gushing more or less stops, and the characters treat her like anyone else.
- Bob might be an Alice super-fan, but other members of his friend group either don't know about her or aren't fans.
- Justified:
- Bob and his friends grew up with Alice's music, so it's not hard to see why they wouldn't be excited when she comes back to town.
- Alice and Bob grew up together along with all their friends, so when Alice leaves for a bigger career, they're all a little sad and lonely at first (though they do get better), but when Alice makes a comeback to her home town, everyone's all excited because they're going to see their old friend again.
- Inverted: Alice is coming to town. Bob and his friends get into a collective groan, because Alice had been doing some shady stuff behind the scenes, and her music isn't even that good!
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- Averted: Bob and his friends aren't really that excited or scared of Alice coming to town.
- Enforced:
- It's similar to Character Shill, but for real life people.
- Alice has a music video coming out, which is going to premiere at the end of the episode. All the gushing is the show's way of hyping things up before the big premiere.
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- Implied: When Alice is mentioned about coming to town, the faces of the townspeople light up, as if they're excited for her arrival.
- Deconstructed: ???
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- Played for Laughs: ???
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- Played for Horror: ???
Back to Gushing About Guest Stars. And did you know that marcoasalazarm is in town!? He's sooo cool!
