The Loop

A short lived comedy series on Fox airing from 2006 to 2007. The show focuses on Sam Sullivan, a young professional hired straight out of school by an airline company. Initially the focus of the series was Sam balancing his social life with his responsibilities, the second season became a more standardized Work Com, and most of the non-work cast was written out of the show. This change didn't save the show, and the second season was cut short.

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This show provides examples of:

• Acceptable Targets: An episode is built around the fact that fat people are often considered this.
• Catch Phrase: Darcy's "I went to M.I.T."
• Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Lizzie and Piper in between the first and second seasons. Particularly jarring because Sam's crush on Piper is the major subplot of the first season.
• Cloudcuckoolander: Sully.
• Dude Looks Like a Lady: NOT Meryl.
• Fat Suit: Sam dons one in order to experience what his overweight passengers experience on his planes.
• Fetish Fuel: Darcy, on her date with Derek Tricoli.
• Genre Shift: Mild example, but between the first and second seasons, the premise of the show was Sam balancing a healthy social life and his job. The second season effectively shifted to a full-fledged Work Com, complete with most of the cast that wasn't affiliated with his job being written out of the show.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: Snobby Derek Tricoli works for Goldman Sachs. Two years later, the firm's reputation would suffer due to the 2008 financial crisis.
• Hypercompetent Sidekick: Darcy, though Sam isn't incompetent by any means.
• Jerkass: Derek Tricoli.
• Long-Distance Relationship: Piper, which is part of the reason for her UST with Sam.
• Product Placement: The central theme of one episode.
• Unresolved Sexual Tension: Thanks to Chuck Cunningham Syndrome, very unresolved.