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  • Adorkable: Stripperella herself. Despite being very in-control and very attractive, she has constant difficulty with her quips, often backtracking or needing to explain them. She's also a terrible liar when it comes to her secret identity, and is portrayed as being unlucky in love.
  • Audience-Alienating Premise: An example that has more to do with Values Dissonance, as with the rest of the animated shows in Spike TV’s lineup. On one hand, it’s explicitly marketed as a show dedicated with excessive fan service and satire with nearly naked women throughout. On the other hand, it sticks to a lot of semi-outdated stereotypes, such as Women Are Wiser and All Men Are Perverts, that might not be too out-of-place on Lifetime.
  • Best Known for the Fanservice: Besides the lawsuit, the show is best known for having dance montages by scantily-clad strippers. Then again, since the series is called Stripperella, it was deliberately invoking this trope.
  • Crosses the Line Twice:
    • Dr. Caesarian’s origin: it isn’t just one tragic event but four, all focussed around making him hate models.
    • As we learn in a flashback to her childhood, Erotica is in fact her actual birthname.
    • In "The Bridesmaid", the priest's sermon about sex and being single.
  • Ensemble Dark Horse:
    • Giselle, for being pretty similar to a brunette, non-villainous stripper version of Harley Quinn.
    • Chief Stroganoff, because everything he says and does is hilarious.
  • Fetish Retardant: The end result of mixing gross out humor in between the constant fanservice and sex jokes. Probably best exemplified in Erotica's lovingly animated strip performance in the pilot, which is peppered by over the top reaction shots of men frothing at the mouth and drooling literal puddles on the floor.
  • Fridge Logic: Erotica's back tattoo should be visible with that costume. And since her job is a stripper...how does she keep her identity secret?
  • Funny Moments: Just about anything Chief Stroganoff does.
  • Hilarious in Hindsight: One episode has a bunch of men doing a song and dance number about how they have to hurt her because she knows too much...and one of the singers who appears prominently looks almost exactly like Troy Calypso down to the hairstyle and the skin tone.
  • Rated M for Money: A lot of advertisements during the original run.
  • Values Resonance: Bizarrely enough, despite being an incredibly over the top and intentionally unflattering caricature of a mentally disabled man, Special Agent 14 is depicted as being extremely competent at his job, and held in high esteem by his peers, none of whom acknowledge his very odd mannerisms. We also find out in his first appearance that he is happily married to a very attractive woman.

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