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[[File: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, [[Invisible 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 [[Invisible to Gaydar]] current husband. [[Screwed by the Network|Should never have been cancelled.]]

 

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* [[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.

* [[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?!?

'''Agent''': Every kid knows his name!

* [[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.

 

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