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''Let me be your star!'' }}

* [[Darker and Edgier]]: Starting with "The Coup", Derek tries to apply this to ''Marilyn: The Musical''. After butting a few heads such darker elements make it in. It even gets a new name: ''Bombshell''. Ultimately this {{spoiler|backfires when the [[Downer Ending]] turns to be too depressing for a preview audience}}.

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Julia, following {{spoiler|the fallout with her husband.}}

'''Julia:''' Group suicide? }}

* [[Did They or Didn't They?]]: {{spoiler|Ellis and Rebecca Duvall's (male) assistant.}}

* [[Gay Conservative]]: {{spoiler|John Goodwin}}

* [[Gilligan Cut]]:

'''Derek''': Five, six, seven, eight... }}

* [[Handsome Lech]]: Derek.

** And later played straight when {{spoiler|Ivy loses the role to Karen in the season finale, despite knowing the part better. When various characters confront Derek with the fact that Ivy is better prepared, he rebukes them by saying that while Karen is green, she just ''has something'' that Ivy lacks.}}

* [[Hollywood Pudgy]]: [[Invoked]] with Karen, but handwaved with Ivy (the actress playing Ivy is of a healthy weight for any reasonable person, yet no one discusses how she's bigger than the rest of the chorus girls).

* [["I Want" Song]]: This series looks like it will be FULL of them. It already has "Let Me Be Your Star", the title of which speaks for itself.

* [[Jerkass]]: Derek.

** [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]]: YMMV, but Derek's "jerk" behavior is just managing show business. When he's speaking to Ivy as a human being (as opposed to a director), he's fairly tenderhearted and supportive.

** Ellis, what with his constant squabbling with Julia and {{spoiler|poisoning Rebecca Duval in an attempt to put Ivy in the role of Marilyn}}.

* [[Jewish Complaining]]

* [[Love Dodecahedron]]: {{spoiler|Karen is with Dev who slept with Ivy, who is dating Derek who is also involved with Rebecca.}}

* [[Mean Brit]]: Derek, Derek, Derek.

** [[Bernadette Peters]] as Leigh Conroy, Ivy's mother.

* [[So Bad It's Good]]: [[Invoked]] in-universe. One of the plays Tom, Sam, and John go to see.

'''Tom and Sam''': Because it's a train wreck! }}

* [[Straight Gay]]: Sam. He doesn't want to have to wear a label, but his massive love for sports and lack of any mannerisms make Michael comment that, if he wants to get a date with anybody, he might literally have to.