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Your life's no blast when you can't get cast 'cause... THE BATTERY'S DOWN! |
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The Battery's Down is a Web series about an actor trying to get a job on Broadway. It's Better Than It Sounds. Jake Wilson plays the main character Jake Wilson. The show features several guest stars from broadway.
Tropes used in The Battery's Down include:
- A Date with Rosie Palms: "This is Your Life" hints that Jake does this while watching the Tonys
- Also, Dr. Essajay suggests masturbation to help Jake get over his nightmares about Sutton Foster.
- Ambiguously Gay: Jake
- lampshaded several times
- Author Avatar: Jake
- Author Filibuster: An Andrew's Blog episode on Gay Marriage during the final episode
- Bad Bad Acting: Molly at Jake's Roller Coaster Highway audition.
- Also Jake in-universe. His improv is god awful
- Bad Girl Song: Takin' off
- Catch Phrase: You should be in that
- Clip Show: "Intermission"
- Cloudcuckoolander: Molly Black
- Comically Missing the Point: Molly Black does this a lot.
- The Danza: Jake Wilson.
- The Ditz: Nuance is the LA Stoner version of this.
- Dr. Feelgood: Dr. Essajay.
- She gave Nuance pot.
- For the Evulz: Why Pepe is trying to wreck Broadway
- Fun with Acronyms: Men for Ethical Animal Treatment. Led by Jesse Tyler Ferguson
- Hey, It's That Guy!: Way too many to count
- "I Am" Song: "This is your life"
- I Need a Freaking Drink: Molly's brother is Irish. Need I say more?
- It's All About Me: Bat'ya actually sings a song called "All about me"
- With a chorus that every broadway obsessed teenager would know.
- Product Placement: "Roller Coaster Highway" seems like an ad for 7-up at times.
- Running Gag: Every time Pepe drinks vodka, he will end up coughing.
- Sassy Black Woman: Lala
- Shout-Out: The whole series
- Show Within a Show: "Roller Coaster Highway"
- The Stoner: Nuance
- Triumphant Reprise: of "This is your life" after Jake books his first Broadway show
- This Is All The Tropes Bitch: During "Keep It Campy"
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"This song is a lesson and a threat you bitch!" |
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- Villain Song: "Down! Down! Down!"