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* ADayInTheLimelight - Bobby gets an in-universe example in "Hit Me Baby", when Dani leaves for a short-term gig with the FBI. Charlie requests him as a temporary partner for the current case. Subverted from an audience perspective, since Bobby ends up not contributing much to the case and plays a similar role to his usual in the second half of the episode.
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* ADayInTheLimelight - ADayInTheLimelight: Bobby gets an in-universe example in "Hit Me Baby", when Dani leaves for a short-term gig with the FBI. Charlie requests him as a temporary partner for the current case. Subverted from an audience perspective, since Bobby ends up not contributing much to the case and plays a similar role to his usual in the second half of the episode.episode.
* ADeathInTheLimelight: [[spoiler:Subverted. Bobby's poisoned and almost impaled, but gets better.]]
* ADeathInTheLimelight: [[spoiler:Subverted. Bobby's poisoned and almost impaled, but gets better.]]
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* ADayInTheLimelight - Bobby gets this in "Hit Me Baby", when Dani goes off on a short-term gig with the FBI. Crews requests him as a partner and he gets to show off his detective skills for a day. Also an in-universe example due to the temporary nature of his assignment.
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* ADayInTheLimelight - Bobby gets this an in-universe example in "Hit Me Baby", when Dani goes off on leaves for a short-term gig with the FBI. Crews Charlie requests him as a partner and he gets to show off his detective skills for a day. Also an in-universe example due to the temporary nature of partner for the current case. Subverted from an audience perspective, since Bobby ends up not contributing much to the case and plays a similar role to his assignment.usual in the second half of the episode.
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* EvilGloating: Not too often, but the hit [[strike:man]] [[strike:woman]] man woman in one episode spends awhile describing the course a poison will take, enough time that she's interrupted before she can deliver a killing blow.
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* EvilGloating: Not too often, but the hit [[strike:man]] hit[[strike:man]] [[strike:woman]] man woman in one episode spends awhile describing the course a poison will take, enough time that she's interrupted before she can deliver a killing blow.
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* EvilGloating: Not too often, but the hit [[strike:man]] [[strike:manwoman]] [[strike:woman]] man woman in one episode spends awhile describing the course a poison will take, enough time that she's interrupted before she can deliver a killing blow.
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* ADayInTheLimelight - Bobby gets this in "Hit Me Baby", when Dani goes off on a short-term gig with the FBI. Crews requests him as a partner and he gets to show off his detective skills for a day.
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* ADayInTheLimelight - Bobby gets this in "Hit Me Baby", when Dani goes off on a short-term gig with the FBI. Crews requests him as a partner and he gets to show off his detective skills for a day.
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** This may also be a case of DidNotDoTheResearch, as modern ethical guidelines probably would probably rule out his experimental design in the first place.
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** This may also be a case of DidNotDoTheResearch, as modern ethical guidelines probably would probably rule out his experimental design in the first place.
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** Ted says he couldn't go back to jail, and Charlie reassures him "no-one is going back to jail, Ted". Naturally, by end of episode, one of them is framed and arrested.
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** The dinner scene from "Evil...and His Brother Ziggy" may be the most hilarious example.
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** The [[{{Quotes/Life}} dinner scene scene]] from "Evil...and His Brother Ziggy" may be the most hilarious example.
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* MeaningfulName: [[spoiler:Subverted by]] Eval (sounds like "evil"), a leading suspect in "Evil...and His Brother Ziggy." He's a sketchy guy illegally importing guns, [[spoiler:but it turns out they're musketoons for use in (historically inaccurate) reenactments for his casino.]]
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* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Mentioned above, but here's a classic lampshading.
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* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Mentioned above, but here's a classic lampshading.[[LampshadedTrope lampshading]] at the wake of a murder victim.
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* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Mentioned above, but here's a classic reaction to Charlie.
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* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Mentioned above, but here's a classic reaction to Charlie.
-->'''Charlie''': I'd like to come to my own wake.
-->'''Dani''': But then you'd be dead.
-->'''Charlie''': Except for that part. Just to see who'd show up, see what they'd say. Pretty girls in black dresses...weeping quietly in small groups. Or all by themselves...
-->'''Dani''': Lemme know when you touch down.
-->'''Charlie''': I'd like to come to my own wake.
-->'''Dani''': But then you'd be dead.
-->'''Charlie''': Except for that part. Just to see who'd show up, see what they'd say. Pretty girls in black dresses...weeping quietly in small groups. Or all by themselves...
-->'''Dani''': Lemme know when you touch down.
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* [[TooDumbToLive Too Dumb to Run Psychology Experiments]]: The sociology professor in "Not for Nothing" replicated an experiment specifically known for encouraging abusive behavior in its participants...and then decided that random blackouts with no direct supervision were a good idea. [[AlwaysMurder You can guess what happened.]]
** This may also be a case of DidNotDoTheResearch, as modern ethical guidelines probably would probably rule out his experimental design in the first place.
** This may also be a case of DidNotDoTheResearch, as modern ethical guidelines probably would probably rule out his experimental design in the first place.
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* DaChief (Lieutenant Karen Davis. [[JonasQuinn Replaced]] in season 2 by Capt. Brian Tidwell, played by Donal Logue. Slight subversion of the JonasQuinn in that Davis is demoted to Sergeant, but still appears on the show.)
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* DaChief (Lieutenant Karen Davis. [[JonasQuinn [[SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute Replaced]] in season 2 by Capt. Brian Tidwell, played by Donal Logue. Slight subversion of the JonasQuinn SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute in that Davis is demoted to Sergeant, but still appears on the show.)
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* Character Development: Charlie couldn't seem to complete ''any'' interaction without saying something zennishly absurd in the first season, but by the second he could hold well-reasoned, focused conversations. Considering the zen was implied to be a crutch for holding back his darkness, it seems time has allowed him to put some of the darkness behind him. By the end of the series he's genuinely quirky rather than possibly crazy.
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* Character Development: CharacterDevelopment: Charlie couldn't seem to complete ''any'' interaction without saying something zennishly absurd in the first season, but by the second he could hold well-reasoned, focused conversations. Considering the zen was implied to be a crutch for holding back his darkness, it seems time has allowed him to put some of the darkness behind him. By the end of the series he's genuinely quirky rather than possibly crazy.
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*** [[spoiler:Why would they mention it? It was the final episode and they had more important things to think about than yet another random person Roman had killed.]]
** They probably do exist, considering the cameraman and the camera are explicitly real. He'd hardly be the only person to interview people in connection to the case, so they don't find it strange enough to talk about. The documentary wasn't finished, so no one else has seen it yet. The only thing not easily explained is the footage from some of the fights in the prison, but [[spoiler: if he knew that Roman wasn't in prison and how to find him, he probably had a man inside the prison who was slipping him info and that ''could'' include security tapes]]
** They probably do exist, considering the cameraman and the camera are explicitly real. He'd hardly be the only person to interview people in connection to the case, so they don't find it strange enough to talk about. The documentary wasn't finished, so no one else has seen it yet. The only thing not easily explained is the footage from some of the fights in the prison, but [[spoiler: if he knew that Roman wasn't in prison and how to find him, he probably had a man inside the prison who was slipping him info and that ''could'' include security tapes]]
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* Mixed Marriage: Blink and you'll miss it, but one of Tidwell's ex-wives was black. There's actually a surprising number of interracial relationships for show a show otherwise full of white people. Almost eveytime the show features a black woman or a picture of a black woman, she is somehow romantically or sexually linked to a white man.
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** The actor who plays Jake Reese is Cuban. There's also Det. Carl Ames and special agent Bodner.
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* [[{{ptitle8px80d2wm3pd}} What Do You Mean, It's Not Awesome?]]: In season one there is a very dramatic sequence in which a thirty-year-old guy and a teenage girl try to play Prince of Persia to level 10.
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Not to be confused with RealLife, or LifeForce, or TheGameOfLife (John Conway's zero-player computer "game"), or the board game Life (where does this article entry go?), or the Eddie Murphy movie ''Life'', or the DiscoveryChannel nature documentary miniseries ''Life'', or the {{manga}} series ''Life'', or Life cereal.
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* CrazyAwesome (Totally Charlie)
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* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: The scene in "Powerless" where after Dani gives the bad guy the "My life sucks way more than yours ever did, so don't you talk to me about that" speech, Crews and Stark are chatting, about to bust down the door, the bad guy looks away for a second and Dani [[spoiler: picks up the empty vodka bottle and ''hits the bad guy over the head with it.'' Hard.]]
** See also HoistByHisOwnPetard, below.
** In "Fill it Up," the last episode of Season One, Crews [[spoiler:brings in the guy who actually killed his friend and his friend's family, and everyone in the squad room applauds.]]
** In season two, Crews gets shot. [[spoiler:He takes the bullet, melts it down into a new bullet, and shoots the man responsible with it.]]
** Ted gets one when he's sent to prison... by teaching the inmates about financial planning. One of the prisoners says he owes him a beating, to which Ted's "bodyguards" (sent by Crews to protect him) object. Ted holds them back... and takes the guy on, knowing he'll lose. He does, but keeps his dignity.
** Crews' HolyBacklight moment in the season one finale.
** Season two finale: [[spoiler: Crews kills Roman with his bare hands in a car full of armed bodyguards. And then he convinces the guards to throw in with him by simple logic.]]
*** This requires some elaboration; [[spoiler: first he asked Roman if he knew how Crews lasted twelve years in prison.]]
--->[[spoiler:'''Roman(laughing)''': "Zen?"\\
'''Crews''': No. (crushes Roman's larynx with one punch)]]
---> [[spoiler:Crews then calmly explains to the bodyguards, while Roman slowly asphyxiates in the seat beside hime, that anything and everything that Roman might have done to their families for failing him, died with him. Crews more or less walks out of the car and the bodyguards proceed to torch Roman's body and the car. Crews being Crews had also arranged for the whole matter to take place in an orchard he owned (not that anyone would really miss Roman).]]
* CrowningMomentOfFunny
--->'''Suspect''': I didn't steal nothing!
--->'''Crews''': Of course not. You can't steal nothing. Nothing doesn't exist.
** "Industrial glue. It's what holds us together."
** "Perhaps it's the 'Everything Must Go' signs."
** Crews and Reese are sharing a room in the hotel, and when Reese goes to take a shower, the phone rings. Crews answers and it's Tidwell who (believing he's talking to Reese), starts dirty talking. The expression on Crews' face is *priceless*. He slams the phone down, and it rings again. He nervously calls Reese in, she answers, figures out what happened, and goes beet red.
** Crews in fornt of a coke-dealing ice cream truck: "I'm going to shoot your partner on three. 1...., 2....," BANG (Commercial break)
--->While the perp is on the guerney: "He shot me on two! He didn't even get to three! He only got to two!"
* CrowningMusicOfAwesome (Every. Single. Episode. The editors have managed to make ''walking through a room'' be cool.)
** Sadly, some of the music from the broadcast version was replaced for the web and DVD releases.
** See also HoistByHisOwnPetard, below.
** In "Fill it Up," the last episode of Season One, Crews [[spoiler:brings in the guy who actually killed his friend and his friend's family, and everyone in the squad room applauds.]]
** In season two, Crews gets shot. [[spoiler:He takes the bullet, melts it down into a new bullet, and shoots the man responsible with it.]]
** Ted gets one when he's sent to prison... by teaching the inmates about financial planning. One of the prisoners says he owes him a beating, to which Ted's "bodyguards" (sent by Crews to protect him) object. Ted holds them back... and takes the guy on, knowing he'll lose. He does, but keeps his dignity.
** Crews' HolyBacklight moment in the season one finale.
** Season two finale: [[spoiler: Crews kills Roman with his bare hands in a car full of armed bodyguards. And then he convinces the guards to throw in with him by simple logic.]]
*** This requires some elaboration; [[spoiler: first he asked Roman if he knew how Crews lasted twelve years in prison.]]
--->[[spoiler:'''Roman(laughing)''': "Zen?"\\
'''Crews''': No. (crushes Roman's larynx with one punch)]]
---> [[spoiler:Crews then calmly explains to the bodyguards, while Roman slowly asphyxiates in the seat beside hime, that anything and everything that Roman might have done to their families for failing him, died with him. Crews more or less walks out of the car and the bodyguards proceed to torch Roman's body and the car. Crews being Crews had also arranged for the whole matter to take place in an orchard he owned (not that anyone would really miss Roman).]]
* CrowningMomentOfFunny
--->'''Suspect''': I didn't steal nothing!
--->'''Crews''': Of course not. You can't steal nothing. Nothing doesn't exist.
** "Industrial glue. It's what holds us together."
** "Perhaps it's the 'Everything Must Go' signs."
** Crews and Reese are sharing a room in the hotel, and when Reese goes to take a shower, the phone rings. Crews answers and it's Tidwell who (believing he's talking to Reese), starts dirty talking. The expression on Crews' face is *priceless*. He slams the phone down, and it rings again. He nervously calls Reese in, she answers, figures out what happened, and goes beet red.
** Crews in fornt of a coke-dealing ice cream truck: "I'm going to shoot your partner on three. 1...., 2....," BANG (Commercial break)
--->While the perp is on the guerney: "He shot me on two! He didn't even get to three! He only got to two!"
* CrowningMusicOfAwesome (Every. Single. Episode. The editors have managed to make ''walking through a room'' be cool.)
** Sadly, some of the music from the broadcast version was replaced for the web and DVD releases.
* TheDanza (Charlie's ex-wife, Jennifer Conover, is played by Jennifer Siebel)
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* FetishFuel: One episode involved a not-KISS cover band. One of the people who applied for the lead singer was a [[WholesomeCrossdresser young woman]], who was confident and somewhat confrontational. Out of costume, she was a [[{{Meganekko}} cute, redheaded, slightly neurotic germophobe girl who wrapped everything in plastic]]. Including her leftover plastic. She also had Nerd Glasses and a habit of wearing boots.
** Crews himself, when he's sporting his gun and badge.
** Crews himself, when he's sporting his gun and badge.
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* HeyItsThatGuy - Roman is played by Garret Dillahunt, the actor who plays Cromartie on ''TheSarahConnorChronicles''. In a minor variant, he appeared on Life ''before'' [=SCC=] even started, and [[spoiler:returned for season 2]]. Dani is also the very first ghost on ''{{Supernatural}}''.
** There must have been some connection between ''Life'' and ''{{Deadwood}}''. Besides Dillahunt, who played two characters on ''Deadwood'', there was Brent Sexton (Bobby Stark on ''Life'', Harry Manning on ''Deadwood''), Robin Weigert (Karen Davis on ''Life'', Calamity Jane on ''Deadwood''), and Titus Welliver (Kyle Hollis on ''Life'', Silas Adams on ''Deadwood''), as well as William Sanderson (who played E.B. Farnum on ''Deadwood'') in a guest part. Almost all were prominent characters on both shows.
** There must have been some connection between ''Life'' and ''{{Deadwood}}''. Besides Dillahunt, who played two characters on ''Deadwood'', there was Brent Sexton (Bobby Stark on ''Life'', Harry Manning on ''Deadwood''), Robin Weigert (Karen Davis on ''Life'', Calamity Jane on ''Deadwood''), and Titus Welliver (Kyle Hollis on ''Life'', Silas Adams on ''Deadwood''), as well as William Sanderson (who played E.B. Farnum on ''Deadwood'') in a guest part. Almost all were prominent characters on both shows.
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* TooGoodToLast
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* TheDanza (Charlie's ex-wife, Jennifer Conover, is played by Jennifer Siebel)
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** Crews in fornt of a coke-dealing ice cream truck: "I'm going to shoot your partner on three. 1...., 2....," BANG (Commercial break)
--->While the perp is on the guerney: "He shot me on two! He didn't even get to three! He only got to two!"
--->While the perp is on the guerney: "He shot me on two! He didn't even get to three! He only got to two!"
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** There must have been some connection between ''Life'' and ''{{Deadwood}}''. Besides Dillahunt, who played two characters on ''Deadwood'', there was Brent Sexton (Bobby Stark on ''Life'', Harry Manning on ''Deadwood''), Robin Weigert (Karen Davis on ''Life'', Calamity Jane on ''Deadwood''), and Titus Welliver (Kyle Hollis on ''Life'', Silas Adams on ''Deadwood''). All were prominent characters on both shows.
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** There must have been some connection between ''Life'' and ''{{Deadwood}}''. Besides Dillahunt, who played two characters on ''Deadwood'', there was Brent Sexton (Bobby Stark on ''Life'', Harry Manning on ''Deadwood''), Robin Weigert (Karen Davis on ''Life'', Calamity Jane on ''Deadwood''), and Titus Welliver (Kyle Hollis on ''Life'', Silas Adams on ''Deadwood''). All ''Deadwood''), as well as William Sanderson (who played E.B. Farnum on ''Deadwood'') in a guest part. Almost all were prominent characters on both shows.
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**averted or subverted? Seever make a speech about the fact this will forcibly comes. Of course, Charlie was not listening, being in one of his ''EurekaMoment''
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