Terry & Terrance/Tropes

Terry & Terrance is an American television adult animated surreal comedy series created by Stephen Greenberg, the show premiered on September 14th, 2015.

Tropes

 * Adam Westing: Bob, big time.


 * Berserk Button: There are plenty for Terry: don't mess with his rare baseball cards, don't you even dare say that Adam Sandler's movies are amazing around him, and best of all, never, and we mean never, call him at 3am in the morning, the man loves his sleep.
 * Think Terrance is always happy all the time?, nope!, if you have a protective shield ready if you wanna mess with him on April Fools Day, then it's the right time to use the shield.
 * Vincent does not like to be called "George Costanza", he is not George Costanza, he is Vincent Frankman.
 * Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: The psychedelic drug trip Terrance goes through in Ellisdee, complete with that and nightmare fuel.
 * Black Comedy: Not that much (unless if you count some of Greg's jokes), as the creator wanted to focus on Monty Python-like humor than edgy dark jokes, however, that doesn't mean the show can live without a few dark comedic jokes, a specific example is the musical number "Good To Be Me" in the episode The Musical Episode No One Asked For, where Terrance sings how much it is good to be himself, while car crashes and truck crashes happen, a crazy fight happens, and a fire occurs out of nowhere.
 * Bland Name Product: Played with, in the beginning of the episode Terrance The Rapper, Terrance buys cereal for Terry for breakfast, then Terry finds out the cereal products are actually bootlegs, which include Fruit Circles, Leprechaun Magic Power Cereal, and Choreeios.

Terrance: You told me to go to Well-Mart, then i typed in "Well-Mart" on my GPS, and then i drove to Well-Mart.

 * Butt-Monkey: Vincent Frankman, though everyone probably had their fair share of unluckiness.
 * Catchphrase: [TO BE DATED]
 * Christmas Episode: Season 1's A Very Merry Jolly Holly Terry & Terrance Christmas Show, where Vincent becomes a Grinch-like character because he always get Desperate Housewives DVDs from Santa Claus, so he tries to steal Christmas, but his friends stop him and tell him the true meaning of Christmas, with the true meaning of Christmas speech by Rachel being interrupted by a live-action Christmas rap music video about the commercialism of Christmas and how Christmas is always about toys, ending the episode, oh, and Kurtwood Smith narrates the episode.
 * Cloudcuckooland: The universe, where the earth starts dancing out of nowhere, surrealism is a common thing on earth, 50% of the population on the world is a complete ditz, and it seems to imply that God is a cloudcuckoolander himself, though the creator of the show most of the time avoids religious references.


 * Cloudcuckoolander: Terrance, he mistakes Wal-Mart with "Well-Mart", puts kitchen bowls on heads for protection of dangerous weather, and many other more crazy things.
 * Then there's Bob, who has a thousand pictures of Saul Goodman from Breaking Ball/Better Call Saul in his mansion, says a bunch of random things on stage, and thinks that earth is actually the moon and that we landed on it.
 * Cool Old Guy: Danny Clane.


 * Crossover: A small one with Parks and Recreation at the end of the episode Greg: A Dog's Life: The Autobiography: Long Title, where Terry mentions that NBC will never get rid of it's popular programs, then it cuts to animated versions of Leslie Knope, Ron Swanson, and Tom Haverford, with them fearing that since Parks and Rec got cancelled, Pawnee will have to self-destruct in 5 days.

Leslie: Well, fun having you all, but we will still have more to come in the last 5 days, nothing can go wr-(PAWNEE EXPLODES, THEN CREDITS ROLL)

 * Deadpan Snarker: Terry, while a jerk with a heart of gold guy, is pretty snarky.
 * Funny Animal: Greg, who makes politically incorrect jokes and hates David "The Drunken Lifeguard" Hasselhoff.
 * Improbable Age: Terrance is 25, yet he acts like a mix between a 14-year-old rebellious teenager and a 6-year-old brat.
 * Jerkass: Greg, Vincent, Bob, the three twins Andy, Bill, and Jason, Murray, and many more, Terry starts out as a jerkass in the early episodes before developing into a jerk with a heart of gold.
 * Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Terry, he may be snarky, but will go out of his way to help his brother and his friends.
 * Terrance can cause trouble, and he sometimes can act like a total ass, but he's very nice and doesn't even have the knowledge to think he is a jerk sometimes.
 * Rachel is sassy, can get mean-spirited, and sometimes gets into arguments with Terry, but she is mostly on the good side and can help at times.
 * Greg may have tons of jerky views on society and he may treat almost everyone like garbage, sometimes just as worst as Eric Cartman from South Park, but he cares for his owner, is friends with the main gang, and actually thinks that robbing is stupid, even more better, he gets less jerkier by season 4.
 * Vincent is just as bad as the character he was based on: George Costanza, but he really does care for everyone, since all of the main characters were mentioned, all of the gang can be classified as a jerk with a heart of gold/vitriolic best friends.
 * Murray is a crook, but he is friends with Terrance, and actually donates to charity.
 * Large Ham: Terrance.
 * Official Couple: Terry x Rachel
 * Only Sane Man: Terry.
 * Product Placement: Some pop up here and there, and NBC (and later on, Hulu) is spoofed a lot.
 * Played with in one of the season 2 episodes where Terry and Rachel are watching Superstore, with Rachel asking why workplace comedies are basically the same thing, Terry asks a similar question and says why adult animated shows are the same thing as well, and then looks at the camera with a neutral 3-second stare.
 * Shout-Out: So, so, so many, most of them being Take That's, some of them being mentions, others are just portrayed as the second coming like no tomorrow.
 * Surreal Humor: One of the main aspects of the show.
 * Take That!: So much that it will make South Park or Family Guy blush, 50% are stuff Stephen Greenberg hates, and 50% are Take That's to NBC and later on, Hulu.
 * Lots of NBC shows are parodied a lot, examples include a scene where the NBC "President of Scheduled Programming and Program Pitching" adds another workplace comedy called "Workplace Show #4160", a scene where the main gang watches Saturday Night Live and boos at a sketch where a man just says "Ok." to everything and then a host comes in saying "Live from New York, It's Unfunny Political Forced Humor Sketch Show With Unfunny Stale Comedians!" (since the episode with that scene was released in 2016, it'll become funnier later when SNL will later air a sketch where a man named Chad keeps saying "Ok." to everything), a line where Terry says that Law & Order should've stayed in the 1990s, a line in Terrance's rap music video where he calls The Office "a romantic shitshow like no tomorrow.", a scene where Pawnee (from Parks and Recreation) explodes, and a line where Vincent talks about television and says that nobody knows what Las Vegas is, Terry later corrects him saying that Las Vegas exists, Vincent later corrects him and tells him he's not talking about the city, he's talking about the NBC drama, the funny part?, the show is produced by Universal Television, in which they produce NBC shows.
 * Then there's Desperate Housewives, a show in which Stephen heavily hates with a burning passion, examples of it being spoofed is the Christmas episode where Stephen, instead of getting presents, he gets Desperate Housewives DVDs, and a scene from the beginning of an episode where Rachel plays "Would You Rather?" with Terry, and when Terry asks a "Would You Rather" if Rachel would rather be stranded on the moon or watch Desperate Housewives, Rachel says she would rather be stranded on the moon.
 * The creator also does not like the Fox Broadcasting Company, in a 2016 interview, he says that Fox is "legit garbage", so a few months after the interview, there is a scene in an episode where Terrance is watching TV, with the TV announcer saying: "You're watching Fox, legit garbage television at finest!".
 * Lastly on this trope, Stephen likes South Park, but he decided to just spoof it in a line in an episode where Vincent says "Trust me, i have watched a show where 4 boys swear and cuss and go on satirical adventures while the creators parody everything and ruin everyone's fun."
 * Up To Eleven: Literally played with, In the episode This Is Dumpster Heroes, when the main gang is getting ready to perform a song, Terrance cranks the amplifier volume up to 43, making everyone blown away with the amplifier's wind, blowing them to the ocean.
 * Vitrolic Best Friends: The main gang, they may cause fights and arguments with each other, but are sure to work together.

Trivia:

 * Creator's Favorite: Stephen Greenberg admits his favorite character is Danny Clane.
 * Cross-Dressing Voices: Whenever a child on the show appears, it is played by a female.
 * Fan Nickname: The Spoof Show whenever a parody/spoof gets mentioned.
 * Promoted Fanboy: Sort of a crossover between that and Big Name Fan, Neil Patrick Harris was invited to the show because he was a fan of the show.
 * What Could Have Been:
 * The show was originally pitched as far as 2006, originally it was gonna air on NBC, but was declined because the network didn't feel an adult animated show would work after the failure of Father of the Pride and that they didn't need another adult animated show on the network, other networks pitched include ABC, Comedy Central, HBO, and Showtime, it was shelved for a while until Hulu started getting popular, that's when it all began...
 * The show was originally going to be rated TV-MA because the original script contained 7 F-words, a raunchy romantic scene, and violence, it was later re-rated to TV-14 and the raunchy romantic scene was cut out, as well as limiting the F-words while also beeping it out, the reason for the change is because Universal said if Stephen wanted to do the show, it'll have to be on a 14-level.
 * There was going to be another main character named Zach, but the creator couldn't figure out a right personality for him.
 * There was going to be an episode of the third season called GlassEye, a parody of spy films, Terrance, Rachel, Greg, and Vincent must become spies to save Terry from the evil eye doctor Dr. I. Seeclearlee, but during the production of the episode, Stephen had a seizure, and was rushed to the hospital, the episode was later scrapped.
 * During the production of the episode This Is Dumpster Heroes, instead of fake musicians/bands with comedians voicing them, there was going to be real musicians/bands with the bandmembers voicing each other, these were going to include Paul McCartney, R.E.M, They Might Be Giants, The Rolling Stones, Gene Simmons, Josh Groban, and many others appearing, unfortunately, Stephen couldn't get the bands to appear, so instead we got fictional musicians/bands TBD