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Line 2: [[File:SoRandom_503.jpg\|frame\|Now with 90% less Sonny.]] Technically the third season of what once was ''[[Sonny With a Chance]]'', ''[[So Random!]]'' ~~(2011) is~~was a 2011 [[Sketch Comedy]] series on the [[Disney Channel]]. ~~Technically the third season of what once was ''[[Sonny With a Chance]]''. In that show,~~ ''So Random!'' was a [[Show Within a Show]] in ''Sonny With a Chance'' that the characters were stars on and snippets would be shown in between the off-set plots.▼ ▲''So Random!'' (2011) is a [[Sketch Comedy]] series on the [[Disney Channel]]. Technically the third season of what once was ''[[Sonny With a Chance]]''. In that show, ''So Random'' was a [[Show Within a Show]] that the characters were stars on and snippets would be shown in between the off-set plots. However, [[Demi Lovato]], who played Sonny, refused to reprise her role after the second season [[Real Life Writes the Plot\|in order to focus on her musical career and resolve some personal issues]]. The show was retooled and [[Defictionalization\|defictionalized]] into its own show, losing the backstage plots and becoming a full-fledged [[Sketch Comedy]] show complete with special and musical guests. Only had one season and ended in 2012. ~~----~~ {{tropelist}} ~~=== ''So Random'' provides the following tropes: ===~~ * [[Action Girl]]: In the ''[[Wheel of Fortune]]'' [[Parody]], the [[Lovely Assistant\|Vanna White]] girl got so annoyed by [[Fred]], that she ''ripped off a piece of the board'', and '''''bashed it onto Fred's head'''''. {{quote\| '''Vanna:''' You're welcome, America!}} ** Apparently, ''[[Strawberry Shortcake]]'' as well, in a parody segment called "Strawberry Shortbread Saves the Earth". * [[Adorkable]]: Becky, the Girl Who was Raised By '''''[[Sting (music)\|\|DUN DUN DUNNN]]''''' Beavers! * [[Affectionate Parody]] / [[Stylistic Suck]]: Similar to its role in ''[[Sonny With a Chance]]'', it is a parody of ''[[All That]]'', ''[[You Can't Do That Onon Television]]'', ''[[The Amanda Show]]'', ''[[Mickey Mouse Club\|MMC]]'', etc. and its tone reflects that. [[Poe's Law\|Unfortunately, without knowing this]], [[Defictionalization\|or with the burden of it having to stay true to its parodic nature and hold together as its own entity sans SWAC]], [[Broken Base\|it can come across as over the top or mediocre in its own right]]. * [[Age-Inappropriate Dress]]: ''Your Daughters Closet'', the only store that sells cool clothes to moms who are too old to rock them! * [[The Band Minus the Face]]: At least where the nucleus of the cast is concerned, it is basically ''[[Sonny With a Chance]]'' minus Sonny. The behind the scenes plotlines concerning Sonny have been abandoned as well, but the behind the scenes part came for one episode only- the one where Tony Hawk guest starred. Line 22 ⟶ 21: ** Including the fact that people think she throws tantrums. * [[Breaking the Fourth Wall]]: In [[The Muppets\|Miss Piggy]]'s episode, we see her talking to Kermit on the phone. Her side of the conversation (we don't hear Kermit's) goes something like: {{quote\| "Kermit, Kermit. Let me explain this again. ''So Random!'', the [[Show Within a Show]] is now [[Spin-Off\|its own show]]. Yes, Chad's a Random now, deal with it!"}} * [[Call Back]]: In one of the Tantrum Girl skits, Allisyn Ashley Arm wears her Blossom Scout uniform from ''Sonny With A Chance''. ** Glendovia, the [[Ruritania\|imaginary country]] featured in a ''[[Sonny With a Chance]]'' episode, gets a fair mention in one sketch. Line 28 ⟶ 27: * [[Captain Ersatz]]: One of the sketches has a cheery food-themed girl named Strawberry Shortbread. Of course, it's definitely not [[Strawberry Shortcake]]: This one [[Big Damn Movie\|avenges her friends and saves the world from extraterrestrials]]! * [[Captain Obvious]]: [[Taylor Swift]] in the ''[[Wheel of Fortune]]'' sketch: {{quote\| '''Taylor:''' ''(singing)'' I'll spin the wheel, it'll turn clockwise.~~<br />~~ '''Pat:''' Okay thank you Princess Obvious, now will you spin the wheel? }} Also, a literal incarnation of the trope (a captain who goes around pointing out obvious things) in one episode. Line 38 ⟶ 37: "I don't play by the rules. (food item)!" (crashes into something) ** "Have you seen my shins? They're like sticks." * [[Dawson Casting]]: Tiffany Thorton, who plays Tawni, who is stated as been in her late teens, in real-life 26. * [[Dead Baby Comedy]]: The "Zombie Man" skits. One of them involves Zombie Man eating his teacher and then [[Crosses the Line Twice\|using her bones as a science project]]. * [[A Dog Ate My Homework]]: Not a dog, but a monkey took it instead. (Actually, [[Double Subversion\|the monkey force-fed the dog the homework]]). The dog did, however, eat the plane tickets. * [[Extreme Doormat]]: Subverted. The [[Goth]] girl from the Garage Band sketches acts like one, but she goes [[Berserk Button]] at the not raging people who try to join the band. {{quote\| '''Girl:''' '''GET OUTTA MY GARAGE'''! ''[screams several times]''}} * [[Defictionalization]] * [[Do-It-Yourself Theme Tune]]: Sung by cast member Brandon Mychal Smith, titled "So Random (It's A Party In Here)". Line 55 ⟶ 54: * [[Hide Your Pregnancy]]: Presumably what's going to happen with [[Tiffany Thornton]], since she's pregnant with her first child. * [[Hitler Ate Sugar]]: Joked with in in skit: {{quote\| '''Announcer:''' You know who else said they looked good in hats? '''Attila the hun'''.}} * [[Idiosyncratic Episode Naming]]: Unusually for a [[Kid Com]] these days, averted. Episodes are named for the (usually)musical guest. * [[Improbably Predictable]]: In a school news sketch, one of the anchors keeps handing the other letters responding to his response to the previous letter. At one point, the other anchor asks "when did you find the time to write all these letters and how did you know what I was going to say?", which is replied to with a letter saying "[[Lampshade Hanging\|Because you're very predictable]]". * [[Ironic Echo]]: In the "MC Grammar" sketch. {{quote\| '''Rapper:''' You say we rhymin' bad?~~<br />~~ '''MC Grammar:''' No, you're rhyming badly.~~<br />~~ ''(Later))''~~<br />~~ '''Rapper #1:''' You wanna beat him bad?~~<br />~~ '''Rapper #2:''' Let's beat him bad''ly''. }} * [[Lighter and Softer]]: The show is essentially a kid-friendly [[Saturday Night Live]] Line 71 ⟶ 70: * [[Muppet Cameo]]: "Miss Piggy". * [[New Transfer Student]]: In one sketch, Oscar becomes the [[Funny Foreigner]] Olaf, who came from Glendovia. * [[Parental Bonus]]: A few, with shout-outs to ''[[The King's Speech]]'' (a R-rated film with a famous [[Cluster F-Bomb]] scene) and "[[The Most Interesting Man in ~~The World (Advertising)\|The Most Interesting Man in The~~the World]]" (an ad for ''beer''). * [[Parody]]/[[Homage]]: [[MC Hammer\|MC Grammar]]. * [[Retool]]: How do you carry on without your main character? Why focus on the [[Show Within a Show]] of course. Line 80 ⟶ 79: * [[Spin-Off]]: In fact, the show (and its promos) removed all mentioning of the [[Sonny With a Chance\|original show]] and counts it as a "New season of ''So Random''". * [[Spiritual Successor]]: To Nickelodeon's ''[[All That]]''. * [[Stalker ~~With~~with a Crush]]: "I'm Gonna Marry Zac Feldman Show!" revolves around one. The [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin\|name of the sketch]] is a dead ringer for it. * [[Take That]]: One sketch has [[Fred]], [[Taylor Swift]] and Willow Smith participate in a game show, but no one can actually play because Taylor keeps singing all her answers (in a [[The Jimmy Hart Version\|Jimmy Hart Version]] of the pre-chorus of "''You Belong With Me''"), Willow keeps flipping her weave and saying repeating everything she says at least twice, and Fred is too busy being... Well, ''Fred''. The show itself seems like a parody of SNL Celebrity Jeopardy. Another sketch has [[Harry Potter]] struggling to understand "the real world". Even though he spent 11 years there and then some. * [[Tantrum Throwing]]: [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin\|Tantrum Girl, of course]]. * [[You Wouldn't Believe Me If I Told You]]: There is a character who [[Memetic Mutation\|mutated this phrase]] into his [[Catch Phrase]], "Oh, you're not going to believe this!" ** Everything he says is true. No matter how ridiculous it is. Which makes him a [[Gender Flip]] [[Expy]] of ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'''s Penelope. Line 92 ⟶ 91: [[Category:Sketch Comedy]] [[Category:The New Tens]] [[Category:SoTV ~~Random~~Series]] [[Category:~~Series~~{{PAGENAME}}]]