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''Action'' was a [[Too Good to Last|short-lived]] [[FOXFox]] 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 Byby the Network|Should never have been cancelled.]]
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* [[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 Withwith 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]].
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* [[Refuge in Audacity]]: And ''how''.
* [[Straight Gay]]: 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 [[FOXFox]], 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.
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