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Line 4: {{quote\|''If we can put a man on the Moon, then we can put a man with AIDS on the Moon. [[That Came Out Wrong\|And pretty soon, we'll be able to put everyone with AIDS on the Moon!]]'' \|'''[[Sarah Silverman]]''', ''Sarah Silverman Program''}} Created by [[Dan Harmon]] and [[Rob Schrab]] of ''[[Channel 101]]'' and ''[[Community]]'' fame along with Silverman herself, the show's ~~humour~~humor is predominantly based on [[Dead Baby Comedy\|satirizing conventional "family-friendly" or wholesome television programs.]] The show was originally titled with European English, as "The Sarah Silverman Programme". It was shown on [[Comedy Central]] in the United States, for three seasons consisting of six episodes each, then it was canceled. Comedy Central then [[Uncancelled\|decided to bring it back]] for a third season which aired alongside ''[[Important Things with Demetri Martin]]''. The show is now canceled. Reruns air on the gay-themed channel [[Logo]] apparently only because the show features a [[Invisible to Gaydar]] couple (who are actually played by straight actors). Line 12: ---- {{tropelist}} ~~=== This show provides examples of the following tropes: ===~~ * [[Abuse Mistake]]: The weird accidents happening to Laura. {{spoiler\|She only needed glasses.}}. * [[Adam Westing]] * [[All Take and No Give]]: Sarah. Oh god, Sarah. She is a lazy freeloader who has all of her money and her apartment provided to her by her [[Meal Ticket\|sister]], a hard-working nurse, and for this Sarah gives zero gratitude. * [[Beauty Is Never Tarnished]]: Averted in that Sarah is shown on the toilet in the title sequence. * [[Berserk Button]]: Sarah befriends a homeless guy she knew in high school. When she mentions his mother 'queefing' he goes crazy and tries to kill her. He is stopped by Brian who [[Took a Level Inin Badass]] and stops him with [[I Know Karate\|the karate he had learned.]] ** Jay ''hates'' slang. * [[Black Like Me]]: Parodied. The plot of an entire episode involves Sarah getting into an argument over whether it's harder to be black or Jewish. Sarah spends the rest of the episode in Al Jolson-style [[Blackface]]. Line 26: * [[Coming Out Story]]: Sarah tries to help Steve's parents accept him for being gay. Of course she does this by explicitly describing his sex life and then giving them acid. * [[Couch Gag]]: The opening monologue and the pictures shown are different for each episode. * [[Crossover]]: Mini Coffee originally appeared in the failed [[Channel 101]] pilot [https://web.archive.org/web/20110527052503/http://www.channel101.com/shows/show.php?show_id=173 Thriller Chiller Theater]. * [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass]]: Jay may be goofy and bumbling most of the time, but you should '''never''' underestimate [[Bunny Ears Lawyer\|his skill as a cop.]] Case in point: he stopped a hitman [[Improbable Weapon User\|using a slice of lemon.]] * [[Crying Wolf]]: Season 2, Episode 10, ''"Patriot Act''". Sarah attacks and accuses many bearded folks of being [[Osama Bin Laden]]. Obviously, they're not. Laura grows tired of it, and demands that Sarah just control herself, no matter what she thinks she sees. Later, while riding her [http://thevinylvillage.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/us-games-24-inch-hopper-pe-bouncing-ball.jpg green sit-and-bounce],] {{spoiler\|Sarah actually ''does'' cross paths with Bin Laden, who is getting ready for a round of tennis.}}. * [[The Cutie]]: Laura. * [[Dead Baby Comedy]] Line 40: * [[The Eponymous Show]] * [[Fag Hag]]: Her best, if not only friends are the gay couple next door, though she seems to forget that they're even gay sometimes. * [[Frivolous Lawsuit]]: Sarah sues ''[[Home Alone]]''. Not the makers of it, the movie itself. The judge points out that you can't sue a movie, which is an amorphous concept. She ends up winning the case anyways. * [[Good Girls Avoid Abortion]]: Parodied. One episode revolves around Brian and Steve attempting to stop [[The Fundamentalist\|pro-life activists]] from blowing up an abortion clinic, and it's shown that Sarah has had quite a few abortions herself. * [[Groin Attack]]: The first season finale ends with Sarah getting kicked in the crotch by some kid with leukemia. Steve gets hit in the crotch over and over again after he says he's an atheist. Sarah actually ''[[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?\|kicks God in the groin]]''. * [[Hitler's Time Travel Exemption Act]]: {{spoiler\|Averted. Dougie kills a certain [[Adolf Hitler\|Austrian art student]] and saves Sarah's life, incidentally preventing the Holocaust too.}}. She admonishes him for messing with history, but lets him off easy considering all the good he did. * [[Hugh Mann]]: Subverted. {{spoiler\|Brian and Steve}} try to impersonate one another in an attempt to convince Brian's father that they did not {{spoiler\|change bodies after touching a Chinese dragon phone at the same time,}}, but this fails, as {{spoiler\|he himself is actually a Chinese hooker who switched bodies with him through the same means.}}. * [[Impromptu Tracheotomy]]: Sarah's aesop for an episode. * [[Informed Judaism]]: Sarah and her sister are mentioned as being Jewish several times in the show. Line 52: To the point that for the first two seasons they had to [[Have I Mentioned I Am Gay?\|regularly remind the audience that they were gay.]] The most the couple had ever done on screen had give a hyper-manly fist-bump. They come off much more as overweight nerds than [[Camp Gay]]. In fact, their nerdiness is much more important to their characters than the incidental fact of their sexuality. ** In DVD commentary, Brian mentions that he didn't know the two characters were supposed to be gay until well into the 1st season. It was an afterthought, apparently. * [[I Take Offense to That Last One]]: {{quote\|'''Girl:''' What do you know about talent? You're unemployed, single, over 30 and you severely overestimate your cuteness! '''Sarah:''' I choose to be over 30! }} * [[It Makes Sense in Context]]: Many subplots, and, occasionally, entire plots, are built around the [[Deconstructed Trope\|deconstruction]] of this trope. * [[Jerkass]]: Sarah. Line 64: * [[No Bisexuals]]: Averted in that Brian thinks he might be bi instead of gay in one episode. {{quote\|''"I learned today ... gay, bisexual it really doesn't matter, because at the end of the day they're both gross." -Sarah.''}} * [[Radish Cure]]: Inverted in the episode "Muffin' Man". ~~when~~When Steve tells Brian to drink a Tab soft drink Brian doesn't really want, Brian pretends to become obsessed with Tab. Steve reciprocates and it becomes an escalating war. * [[Shout-Out]]: [[Christopher Eccleston]] appears in a clear [[Doctor Who]] parody. * [[Sickeningly Sweethearts]]: Laura and Jay. * [[Single-Target Sexuality]]: Brian says he's bisexual, and by bisexual, we mean he glues pictures of Steve's head over the bodies of girls in bikinis. He doesn't know what to make of it. Line 74: * [[Spoof Aesop]]: Every episode ends with one. * [[Stoners Are Funny]]: Brian and Steve. * [[They Call Me Mister Tibbs]]: In the episode "'Positively Negative'", Sarah has this interaction with a third grade class she is educating about AIDS awareness. {{quote\|'''Class:''' Good morning, Mrs. Silverman. '''Sarah:''' Sarah, please. Mrs. Silverman was my mom, and she was a bitch! }} * [[Toilet Humor]]: This show has it in spades. ** In the pilot, Sarah accidentally [[Potty Failure\|poops on herself]] while attempting to make a fart joke. Line 88: * [[Unkempt Beauty]]: Sarah. * [[Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist]] * [[Viewers are Morons]]: ~~lampshaded~~Lampshaded. * [[What the Hell, Costuming Department?]]: When Sarah is trying to dress up prettily. * [[Whoopi Epiphany Speech]]: Subverted in that Sarah never learns anything, at least not anything true, sensible or worthwhile. * [[Yoko Oh No]]: Brian and Steve get in a fight in an attempt to avert this. 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