The Game (TV series): Difference between revisions

* [[Aborted Arc]]: At the end of season three, Kelly started falling in love with Jason again after he fought off her crazy boyfriend. Even with Jason's new relationship souring any possibility of the divorced couple re-uniting, the door was still open. Come season four, Kelly's happily divorced and shows no signs of wanting to be married to Jason again.

** In a more [[Don't Explain the Joke|literal]], [[Incredibly Lame Pun|punny]] sense, the last minute of season four: {{spoiler|when Derwin asked Melanie if he aborted his child}}.

* [[All Men Are Perverts]]: The reason many ballers' wives claim they have to be ''that'' much better in bed in order to keep their men from straying, because of all the temptation out there for the picking. Malik pretty much screws anything that walks, except for the few attempts at having a dedicated relationship. On the other hand...

* [[All Women Are Lustful]]: ...the women aren't exactly chaste either, especially in season four. The wife of the Sabers owner regularly cheats on her husband with Malik, and threatened to blackmail him when he refused her advances overtime. Women in lingerie often appear in Derwin's hotel rooms. The girlfriend of JT, Malik's best friend, screws Malik behind JT's back one day. The Game is pretty much one of the only shows that exhibit lusty behavior on both genders.

** Season five, if the premier is any indication, seems to be going even further this direction.

* [[Depraved Bisexual]]: Averted. The only bisexual woman shown so far turned out to be pretty modest and respectful, even with her open-minded sexulity.

* [[Fan Service]]: Good lord, yes. The gratuitousness goes to extremes at times, and makes one wish that The Game aired on HBO or Showtime. Viewers of both genders can scope out a reasonable amount of eye candy, though the male viewers have more to pick from.

* [[Flanderization]]: One reason, among several, that the fourth season bugged fans. Kelly acted vapid for her reality show and threw away all sense of dignified independence that she fought too hard for seasons earlier, daughter Brittany became much brattier than her younger self, and Malik became the resident [[Jerk Sue]]. In contrast, Jason, [[Averted Trope|who used to be the]] [[Jerk Sue]], [[Character Development|became the most chivalrous, selfless reasonable character in the cast]].

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