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===== Related Tropes =====
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* [[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!
* [[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 {{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?!?
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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 [[
* [[This Is Wrong on 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.
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