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* [[Confession Cam]]: They had to be very careful with this, as the actors generally recorded their confessionals out of character. This led to a moment of panic in the first season when everyone thought that Matt Kennedy Gould had overheard Lance Krall ("Kip") speaking out of character.

* [[Disney Death]]: Everett the frog and Montecore the falcon in ''Joe Schmo 2'', both of which were brought out in the finale and shown to be just fine. Additionally, Ingrid's grandfather. She stated that he was still alive and they could bring him out at the finale, but for unstated reasons, this didn't happen.

* [[Eat That]]: A good portion of the drama in one of the episodes of the first season focused around one of these. Matt Kennedy Gould said he was specifically assured before the show started that he wouldn't be put in a situation like this, yet one of the latter episodes featured a gross-eating challenge. The dishes were all supposedly [[Foreign Queasine]], such as monkey testicles or moufflon eyeballs, up until Matt's dish, which was claimed to be canine feces. Matt, having a well-known gag reflex, was immediately grossed out, but then seemed to decide that it couldn't possibly be real, until he was assured by a producer that it was. (He later revealed that he had so grown to trust the producers that the fact that none of them would even look at him led him to believe that it really was real.) Having refused to eat the canine feces, Matt met with a fake [[Network Executive]] who told him that the challenge could still be won if he got Ashleigh and Molly to either kiss or go topless. Because [[Girl On Girl Is Hot]].

* [[Eat That]]: A good portion of the drama in one of the episodes of the first season focused around one of these. Matt Kennedy Gould said he was specifically assured before the show started that he wouldn't be put in a situation like this, yet one of the latter episodes featured a gross-eating challenge. The dishes were all supposedly [[Foreign Queasine]], such as monkey testicles or moufflon eyeballs, up until Matt's dish, which was claimed to be canine feces. Matt, having a well-known gag reflex, was immediately grossed out, but then seemed to decide that it couldn't possibly be real, until he was assured by a producer that it was. (He later revealed that he had so grown to trust the producers that the fact that none of them would even look at him led him to believe that it really was real.) Having refused to eat the canine feces, Matt met with a fake [[Network Executive]] who told him that the challenge could still be won if he got Ashleigh and Molly to either kiss or go topless. Because [[Girl-On-Girl Is Hot]].

* [[Elimination Catchphrase]]: "Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, ----, you're dead to us" & "your wick is cold / your neck is bare and so is your place in ----'s heart. Please take your walk down the ''Last Chance For Love'' Trail of Tears."

* [[Elimination Statement]]: Often quite interesting, since the "contestants" being eliminated were actors. The special features on the DVD of the first season of the program contained much fuller versions and made for some very revealing viewing.

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* [[Fan Disservice]]: In a game early in the first season, the guests are split along the gender line and are asked questions about members of the other team. A wrong answer results in having to wear a penalty outfit. Unfortunately for the audience, all of the outfits are intended for women. This results in Earl wearing a Bo Peep outfit, Matt wearing a schoolgirl outfit, Hutch dressed as a [[French Maid]], and Brian in a [[Playboy Bunny]] costume. To make things worse, the penalty outfits come with a penalty action. This entails Earl pole-dancing, Brian giving Matt a spanking, and Hutch giving Earl an oily foot massage.

* [[The Frog Prince (Literature)|The Frog Prince]]: The Bryce character believed that the frog Everett was a real person, trapped in the form of a frog.

* [[Girl On Girl Is Hot]]: Lampshaded, as with so many other tropes on this show, when the Network Executive demands that Molly and Ashleigh kiss to boost the ratings.

* [[Girl-On-Girl Is Hot]]: Lampshaded, as with so many other tropes on this show, when the Network Executive demands that Molly and Ashleigh kiss to boost the ratings.

* [[Gone Horribly Right]]: The intention of the first season was to seek out the nicest guy they could find for their experiment, once it became obvious that Matt was every bit as decent and honest as he presented himself in his audition video the morality of lying to him became a central part of the show's drama.

* [[Innocent Fanservice Girl]]: Molly.

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