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Line 1: {{work}} [[File:~~MV5BMjA0ODM1NzE5NF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwODAwODEzMQ__V1__SY317_CR30214317__5217~~Action_TV_cover_5217.jpg\|frame\|This is where the magic happens!]] '''''Action''''' was a [[Too Good to Last\|short-lived]] [[FOX]] series (September-December, 1999. One further episode was broadcast in August, 2000) , starring comedian Jay Mohr as ruthless movie producer Peter Dragon, who's just had the biggest bomb of his career, and is now trying to get his comeback movie, ''Beverly Hills Gun Club'', made. Not an easy task. Helping him is his new partner, Wendy Ward ([[Illeana Douglas]]), and his [[Honorary Uncle\|Uncle]] Lonny ([[Buddy Hackett]]). Also, there are Peter's assistant, [[~~Straight~~Invisible ~~Gay~~to Gaydar\|Stuart Glazer]], and the film's irritable, unsavvy writer, [[No Celebrities Were Harmed\|Adam Rafkin]]. Together, they deal with prima donna actors, crazy directors and the arrogant studio head, Bobby G, who also happens to be Peter's ex-wife's [[~~Straight~~Invisible to ~~Gay~~Gaydar]] current husband. [[Screwed Byby the Network\|Should never have been cancelled.]]▼ Not to be confused with [[Action\|all the other works titled "Action"]]. ▲''Action'' was a [[Too Good to Last\|short-lived]] [[FOX]] series (September-December, 1999. One further episode was broadcast in August, 2000) , starring comedian Jay Mohr as ruthless movie producer Peter Dragon, who's just had the biggest bomb of his career, and is now trying to get his comeback movie, ''Beverly Hills Gun Club'', made. Not an easy task. Helping him is his new partner, Wendy Ward ([[Illeana Douglas]]), and his [[Honorary Uncle\|Uncle]] Lonny ([[Buddy Hackett]]). Also, there are Peter's assistant, [[Straight Gay\|Stuart Glazer]], and the film's irritable, unsavvy writer, [[No Celebrities Were Harmed\|Adam Rafkin]]. Together, they deal with prima donna actors, crazy directors and the arrogant studio head, Bobby G, who also happens to be Peter's ex-wife's [[Straight Gay]] current husband. [[Screwed By the Network\|Should never have been cancelled.]] ~~----~~ {{tropelist}} ~~===== Related Tropes =====~~ * [[Adam Westing]]: A lot of celebrities made cameos on this show, including [[Salma Hayek]] (who beats up Peter), [[Sandra Bullock]] (who beats up Peter), [[Scott Wolf]] ([[Very Punchable Man\|sensing a pattern here?]])... * [[Badass Grandpa]]: Uncle Lonny {{quote\| '''Lonnie''':You're threatening me? That's a laugh...I'm 79 years old. I've got one kidney, one ball and one lung. I take Viagra just to keep from peeing on my shoes, and you're threatening me? Who are you frightening?}} * [[Bi the Way]]: Given Peter's reaction when Bobby G. disrobes, he could be. * [[Blood Brothers]]: Hilariously inverted. A very drunk Peter declares he and Adam to be this, then stabs both himself and Adam through the hand with a toothpick. Adam's horrified reaction shows the feeling is ''not'' mutual. * [[Butt Monkey]]: Stuart, especially when he complains that Peter is now taking movie advice from his "whore" (Wendy). Peter's response? {{quote\| "She's not my whore, she's my prostitute. '''You're''' my whore."}} * [[Cluster F-Bomb]]: Everyone, especially Peter. * [[Comedic Sociopathy]] * [[Cosmic Plaything]]: The entire series is based around Peter Dragon's fall from grace and his chance to claw his way back to the top of the heap. This trope is explicitly acknowledged and lampshaded when spoiled A-List star [[Cloudcuckoolander\|Holden Van Dorn]] makes the mistake of claiming he has ''Bad Luck'' in front of [[Butt Monkey\|Peter...]] {{quote\| '''Peter''': Hey, hey, hey... bad luck? Let me tell you something - thirty-three years old I had cancer of the mole, ''that's'' "bad luck". ''to [[Badass Grandpa\|Lonnie]]'' I'm calm! Heart attack at thirty-four is "bad luck". Overdosing the Director while [[Precision F-Strike\|fucking]] his wife in the hot tub, he's ''wearing water wings'' for christ's sakes! [[Punctuated! ~~for~~For! Emphasis!\|That! Is! Just! Sheer! STUPIDITY!!!]]}} * [[Determinator]]: Peter, in spades. He may be a cold-hearted [[Dirty Coward\|amoral coward,]] but he is bound and determined to get to his place on top [[Humiliation Conga\|no matter what it takes.]] * [[Downer Ending]]: The result of being cancelled before it's main arc could be finished. * [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: Peter does have a few stray morals lurking in his heart, though they usually manifest themselves at inopportune moments... like when his [[Cloudcuckoolander\|drug-addled A-List star]] ~~accidently~~accidentally {{spoiler\|murders the director of his movie.}} * [[Eye Take]]: When Peter realizes what a smarmy agent asking him to [[Crosses the Line Twice\|cast a "falsely accused former football player" is really doing...]] {{quote\| '''Peter''': You're pitching me OJ Simpson?!?~~<br />~~ '''Agent''': Every kid knows his name!~~<br />~~ '''Peter''': Yeah, every kid knows to ''stay away from him!''' }} * [[Gag Penis]]: Bobby G. [[Smug Snake\|He isn't shy about it either,]] typically whipping it out in front of Peter to end an argument. * [[Genre Blind]]: Adam seems completely unaware of the kind of people he's dealing with. * [[Hooker ~~With~~with a Heart of Gold]]: Subverted; Wendy's more or less just as misanthropic as everybody else, but she at least has some good qualities. * [[Implausible Deniability]]: When confronted with a furious [[Sandra Bullock]], Peter denies he had anything to with releasing a sex tape featuring the two of them. Bullock then points out the '''DragonFire Films''' logo on the box, and adds that it's currently the #1 video in Taiwan. * [[Inexplicably Identical Individuals]]: When Peter asks Stuart to get the bookish Jewish screenwriter Alan Rifkin to write his film, Stuart mistakenly signs the bookish Jewish screenwriter Adam Rafkin instead. Could also be a [[Lampshade Hanging\|lampshading]] of [[All Asians Are Alike]]. Line 34 ⟶ 35: * [[Noodle Sutra]]: This show inspired the trope. * [[Refuge in Audacity]]: And ''how''. * [[~~Straight~~Invisible ~~Gay~~to Gaydar]]: Stuart and Bobby. And Cole. This is Hollywood, after all. * [[Take That]]: Once it was clear that the show wasn't going to be renewed by [[FOX]], the Creative Team took vicious aim at the [[Miramax Films\|Weinstein]] [[Weinstein Company\|Brothers]] with the ''[[No Celebrities Were Harmed\|Rothstein Brothers,]]'' portraying them as [[Villainous Glutton\|villainous gluttons]] who are [[Eviler Than Thou\|even more morally bankrupt than Peter]]. * [[This Is Wrong Onon So Many Levels]]: Explicitly invoked by an Orthodox Jewish investor when Peter attempts to give him a ''Beverly Hills Gun Club'' prayer shawl. * [[Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist]]: Pretty much everybody to some degree, but especially Peter. * [[Very Punchable Man]]: Either Peter's [[Too Dumb to Live]], or he simply doesn't care about getting the crap kicked out of him. {{reflist}} [[Category:{{PAGENAME}}]] [[Category:TV Series]] [[Category:The Nineties]] [[Category:American Series]] [[Category:~~Action~~Pages with working Wikipedia tabs]]