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* BiggerIsBetterInBed: In season 1 (''Cro Magnon''), Ally and Renee attend a sculpting class featuring Glenn, a well-endowed model. Ally briefly dates him afterwards.
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* BiggerIsBetterInBed: In season 1 (''Cro Magnon''), Ally and Renee attend a sculpting class featuring Glenn, a well-endowed model. Ally briefly dates him afterwards. And the "dating" part only comes after she is [[SlutShaming slut-shamed]] by [[{{Hypocrite}} Billy]] and called out by Glenn (the model) himself for only being interested by the latter's, well, asset, not the man himself.
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* BiggerIsBetterInBed: Glenn.
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* BiggerIsBetterInBed: Glenn.In season 1 (''Cro Magnon''), Ally and Renee attend a sculpting class featuring Glenn, a well-endowed model. Ally briefly dates him afterwards.
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WorkCom-slash-{{Dramedy}} created by Creator/DavidEKelley about a neurotic lawyer and the wacky people she works with. The series ran on Creator/{{Fox}} from 1997 to 2002, a total of 112 episodes (all but one of which was written or co-written by Kelley) in five seasons. Ally herself was played by Calista Flockhart.
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I know there's so much more to life,\\
Now I know I can shine a light,\\
To find my way back home.''
-->From the opening theme by Music/VondaShepard "Searching my Soul".
'''''Ally [=McBeal=]''''' is a WorkCom-slash-{{Dramedy}} created by Creator/DavidEKelley about a neurotic lawyer and the wacky people she works with. The series ran on Creator/{{Fox}} from 1997 to 2002, a total of 112 episodes (all but one of which was written or co-written by Kelley) in five seasons. Ally herself was played by Calista Flockhart.
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* RantInducingSlight: Ling hates it when people mispronounce her name by putting emphasis on the G or using a hard L.
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** Ling hates it when people mispronounce her name by putting emphasis on the G or using a hardL.L.
** In the scene where Cage is defending the restaurateur that served the claimants horse meat, the defendant ponders whether Creator/ElizabethTaylor ate her horse in ''Literature/NationalVelvet''. The judge is not amused.
-->'''Judge:''' Mr. Handy, it would be a grave mistake to insult Elizabeth Taylor in my courtroom.
** Ling hates it when people mispronounce her name by putting emphasis on the G or using a hard
** In the scene where Cage is defending the restaurateur that served the claimants horse meat, the defendant ponders whether Creator/ElizabethTaylor ate her horse in ''Literature/NationalVelvet''. The judge is not amused.
-->'''Judge:''' Mr. Handy, it would be a grave mistake to insult Elizabeth Taylor in my courtroom.
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* BackForTheFinale
* BaitAndSwitchCredits: The opening promised a smiling and happy women most of the time, downplaying the show's dramatic moments.
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* BouquetToss: Ally fights for the bouquet with other bridesmaids in one episode. She's so embarrassed with her behaviour that she swears not to attend any more weddings. She breaks her promise in the same episode because one of her clients made her come to her wedding and she couůdn't refuse, and Ally has to dance in the street wearing her pyjamas which was a bet/dare/"punishment" agreement with Renée.
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WorkCom-slash-{{Dramedy}} created by DavidEKelley about a neurotic lawyer and the wacky people she works with. The series ran on Creator/{{Fox}} from 1997 to 2002, a total of 112 episodes (all but one of which was written or co-written by Kelley) in five seasons. Ally herself was played by Calista Flockhart.
The series went for 'nutty' in a very big way, with preposterous lawsuits (man is fired for having bad comb over and sues, dying boy sues God, etc), dream and fantasy sequences all over the place, spontaneous dance numbers and the like. Probably best known in its early years for the CGI baby dancing to the "ooga-chaka" chorus from Blue Swede's "Hooked on a Feeling", and in its later seasons for a surfeit of "daring" "lesbian" kisses among various women in the cast. Achieved a kind of brilliance in the legal arguments made by the character John Cage. Achieved retch-inducing horror in its mundane romantic complications.
The show was a ratings success when it aired, and a big enough part of pop culture that ''[[Magazine/TimeMagazine Time]]'' ran a cover story on it, accusing it of killing feminism. However, after its cancellation it vanished off the public radar.
The series went for 'nutty' in a very big way, with preposterous lawsuits (man is fired for having bad comb over and sues, dying boy sues God, etc), dream and fantasy sequences all over the place, spontaneous dance numbers and the like. Probably best known in its early years for the CGI baby dancing to the "ooga-chaka" chorus from Blue Swede's "Hooked on a Feeling", and in its later seasons for a surfeit of "daring" "lesbian" kisses among various women in the cast. Achieved a kind of brilliance in the legal arguments made by the character John Cage. Achieved retch-inducing horror in its mundane romantic complications.
The show was a ratings success when it aired, and a big enough part of pop culture that ''[[Magazine/TimeMagazine Time]]'' ran a cover story on it, accusing it of killing feminism. However, after its cancellation it vanished off the public radar.
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WorkCom-slash-{{Dramedy}} created by DavidEKelley Creator/DavidEKelley about a neurotic lawyer and the wacky people she works with. The series ran on Creator/{{Fox}} from 1997 to 2002, a total of 112 episodes (all but one of which was written or co-written by Kelley) in five seasons. Ally herself was played by Calista Flockhart.
The series went for 'nutty' in a very big way, with preposterous lawsuits (man is fired for having bad comb over and sues, dying boy sues God,etc), etc.), dream and fantasy sequences all over the place, spontaneous dance numbers and the like. Probably best known in its early years for the CGI baby dancing to the "ooga-chaka" chorus from Blue Swede's "Hooked on a Feeling", and in its later seasons for a surfeit of "daring" "lesbian" kisses among various women in the cast. Achieved a kind of brilliance in the legal arguments made by the character John Cage. Achieved retch-inducing horror in its mundane romantic complications.
The show was a ratings success when it aired, and a big enough part of pop culture that ''[[Magazine/TimeMagazine Time]]'' ran a cover story on it, accusing it of killing feminism. However, after its cancellation it vanished off the publicradar.
radar quite a bit.
The series went for 'nutty' in a very big way, with preposterous lawsuits (man is fired for having bad comb over and sues, dying boy sues God,
The show was a ratings success when it aired, and a big enough part of pop culture that ''[[Magazine/TimeMagazine Time]]'' ran a cover story on it, accusing it of killing feminism. However, after its cancellation it vanished off the public
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* BitterSweetEnding:Several episodes end this way, specially [[GrandFinale the last one]].
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* BunnyEarsLawyer: A whole office full of them, and they are literally lawyers. All are very weird, but their firm hardly ever loses the case. Elaine is a Bunny-Ears secretary.
** Elaine has the potential to be a subversion here, however, considering that she's one of the most efficient and capable secretaries in TV history; in fact, {{Word of God}} states that she has so much free time on her hands (which she often uses to invent things) because she's ''supremely'' good at what she does.
** Elaine has the potential to be a subversion here, however, considering that she's one of the most efficient and capable secretaries in TV history; in fact, {{Word of God}} states that she has so much free time on her hands (which she often uses to invent things) because she's ''supremely'' good at what she does.
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** A whole office full of them, and they are literally lawyers. All are very weird, but their firm hardly ever loses thecase. case.
** Elaine is a Bunny-Earssecretary.
** Elaine has the potential to be a subversion here, however, considering that she'ssecretary. She's one of the most efficient and capable secretaries in TV history; in fact, {{Word of God}} states that she has so much free time on her hands (which she often uses to invent things) because she's ''supremely'' good at what she does.
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** Elaine is a Bunny-Ears
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* SleepsWithEveryoneButYou: Elaine is notorious for her oozing sexuality and flirting with every men around. She is sued by her friend nicknamed Peanut who feels she intentianally humiliated him. Eventually his issues are revealed — he's in love with her and thinks everyone is her type but him. They manage to patch things up and he drops the lawsuit, though she doesn't like him back in that way. Interestingly, later seasons imply Elaine doesn't sleep around and has problems finding a relationship.
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* BirthdayHater: Ally was unable to appreciate her friends' plans for her birthday parties and couldn't even civilly accept their birthday wishes. She hated getting older without a husband in sight, feeling like a bit of a ChristmasCake. However, her friends could have been handling the issue differently. Why inflict parties on her when she hates them?
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* BirthdayHater: Ally was unable to appreciate her friends' plans for her birthday parties and couldn't even civilly accept their birthday wishes. She hated getting older without a husband in sight, feeling like sight and without a bit prospect of a ChristmasCake.having babies soon. However, her friends could have been handling the issue differently. Why inflict parties on her when she hates them?
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* ContinuityNod: In episode 5 of season 2, Ally gets stuck with a case without time to prepare, and it's her client fault, so a judge leaves no room for protest. What judge does do is saying that there are also good news: Ally can dress however she likes. Makes sense in connection with previous episode, in which a different judge cost Ally a night in jail for refusing to meet demands of wearing skirt longer than her mini- in court.
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* ContinuityNod: ContinuityNod:
** In "The Blame Game", the judge in charge of trial of the week greets the defendant attorney Ally, asking how her potato chips hunt goes. The same judge in "One Hundred Tears Away" (8 episodes back) was part of the board considering revoking Ally's lawyer licence (last straw being an alledged assault on a supermarket customer who at first only started arguing over a can of chips).
** In episode 5 of season 2, Ally gets stuck with a case without time to prepare, and it's herclient client's fault, so a judge leaves no room for protest. What judge does do is saying that there are also good news: Ally can dress however she likes. Makes sense in connection with previous episode, in which a different judge cost Ally a night in jail for refusing to meet demands of wearing skirt longer than her mini- in court.
** In "The Blame Game", the judge in charge of trial of the week greets the defendant attorney Ally, asking how her potato chips hunt goes. The same judge in "One Hundred Tears Away" (8 episodes back) was part of the board considering revoking Ally's lawyer licence (last straw being an alledged assault on a supermarket customer who at first only started arguing over a can of chips).
** In episode 5 of season 2, Ally gets stuck with a case without time to prepare, and it's her
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* ContinuityNod: In episode 5 of season 2, Ally gets stuck with a case without time to prepare, and it's her client fault, so a judge leaves no room for protest. What judge does do is saying that there are also good news: Ally can dress however she likes. Makes sense in connection with previous episode, in which a different judge cost Ally a night in jail for refusing to meet demands of wearing skirt longer than her mini- in court.
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* SuetifulAllAlong: While Ally certainly is attractive, the number of men declaring her oh-so-special (even when they'd met her an hour before) over the course of the series gets a little silly.
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adjusing the description — it seems more than a bit unfair (\"it\'s now known only for being a subject of Futurama\")
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The show was a ratings success when it aired, and a big enough part of pop culture that ''[[Magazine/TimeMagazine Time]]'' ran a cover story on it, accusing it of killing feminism. However, after its cancellation [[DeaderThanDisco it vanished off the public radar]], and now it's most known for being the subject of a ''{{Futurama}}'' episode.
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The show was a ratings success when it aired, and a big enough part of pop culture that ''[[Magazine/TimeMagazine Time]]'' ran a cover story on it, accusing it of killing feminism. However, after its cancellation [[DeaderThanDisco it vanished off the public radar]], and now radar.
Among sci-fi nerds, it'smost known for being the subject of a ''{{Futurama}}'' episode.''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' episode as a show called ''Single Female Lawyer''.
Among sci-fi nerds, it's
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* OverthetopChristmasDecorations: Ally loves Christmas, but her boyfriend Larry's not too keen. Ally pesters him to decorate his office a bit and he gets piles and piles of illuminated Christmas stuff and mechanized reindeer. We later find out he doesn't like Chistmas and other holidays because he has a small son, and Larry misses him even more during holidays.
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* SexySantaDress: Ally wears it while singing "Santa Baby" in one of the Christmas episodes. Very hot indeed.
* ShesGotLegs: All the female regulars, but Ally in particular is a poster child for the trope.
* ShesGotLegs: All the female regulars, but Ally in particular is a poster child for the trope.
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* SexySantaDress: Ally wears it a short red Santa dress with white lining while singing "Santa Baby" in one of the Christmas episodes. Very hot indeed.
* ShesGotLegs: All the female regulars, but Ally in particular is a poster child for the trope. In one episode, a judge sent her to jail for disrespecting him because she refused to give up her very short mini-skirt.
* ShesGotLegs: All the female regulars, but Ally in particular is a poster child for the trope. In one episode, a judge sent her to jail for disrespecting him because she refused to give up her very short mini-skirt.
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* LocalHangout: The Martini Bar, home of Vonda Shepard and the Dancing Twins.
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* RichBitch: Ling.
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* RichBitch: Ling.Ling and Nelle.
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The series went for 'nutty' in a very big way, with preposterous lawsuits (man is fired for having bad comb over and sues, dying boy sues God, etc), dream and fantasy sequences all over the place, spontaneous dance numbers and the like. Probably best known in its early years for the CGI baby dancing to the "ooga-chaka" chorus from Blue Swede's "Hooked On A Feeling", and in its later seasons for a surfeit of "daring" "lesbian" kisses among various women in the cast. Achieved a kind of brilliance in the legal arguments made by the character John Cage. Achieved retch-inducing horror in its mundane romantic complications.
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The series went for 'nutty' in a very big way, with preposterous lawsuits (man is fired for having bad comb over and sues, dying boy sues God, etc), dream and fantasy sequences all over the place, spontaneous dance numbers and the like. Probably best known in its early years for the CGI baby dancing to the "ooga-chaka" chorus from Blue Swede's "Hooked On A on a Feeling", and in its later seasons for a surfeit of "daring" "lesbian" kisses among various women in the cast. Achieved a kind of brilliance in the legal arguments made by the character John Cage. Achieved retch-inducing horror in its mundane romantic complications.
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The show was the second-most-popular program on Fox when it was around, and was such a huge part of pop culture that ''Time'' ran a cover story on it, accusing it of killing feminism. However, after its cancellation [[DeaderThanDisco it vanished off the public radar]], and now it's most known for being the subject of a ''{{Futurama}}'' episode.
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The show was the second-most-popular program on Fox a ratings success when it was around, aired, and was such a huge big enough part of pop culture that ''Time'' ''[[Magazine/TimeMagazine Time]]'' ran a cover story on it, accusing it of killing feminism. However, after its cancellation [[DeaderThanDisco it vanished off the public radar]], and now it's most known for being the subject of a ''{{Futurama}}'' episode.
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The show was the second-most popular program on Fox when it was around, and was such a huge part of pop culture that ''Time'' ran a cover story on it, accusing it of killing feminism. However, after its cancellation [[DeaderThanDisco it vanished off the public radar]], and now it's most known for being the subject of a ''{{Futurama}}'' episode.
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The show was the second-most popular second-most-popular program on Fox when it was around, and was such a huge part of pop culture that ''Time'' ran a cover story on it, accusing it of killing feminism. However, after its cancellation [[DeaderThanDisco it vanished off the public radar]], and now it's most known for being the subject of a ''{{Futurama}}'' episode.
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The show was the second-most popular program on {{Fox}} when it was around, and was such a huge part of pop culture that ''Time'' ran a cover story on it, accusing it of killing feminism. However, after its cancellation [[DeaderThanDisco it vanished off the public radar]], and now it's most known for being the subject of a ''{{Futurama}}'' episode.
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The show was the second-most popular program on {{Fox}} Fox when it was around, and was such a huge part of pop culture that ''Time'' ran a cover story on it, accusing it of killing feminism. However, after its cancellation [[DeaderThanDisco it vanished off the public radar]], and now it's most known for being the subject of a ''{{Futurama}}'' episode.
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WorkCom-slash-{{Dramedy}} created by DavidEKelley about a neurotic lawyer and the wacky people she works with. The series ran on Creator/{{Fox}} from 1997 to 2002. A total of 112 episodes (all but one of which was written or co-written by Kelley) in five seasons. Ally herself was played by Calista Flockhart.
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WorkCom-slash-{{Dramedy}} created by DavidEKelley about a neurotic lawyer and the wacky people she works with. The series ran on Creator/{{Fox}} from 1997 to 2002. A 2002, a total of 112 episodes (all but one of which was written or co-written by Kelley) in five seasons. Ally herself was played by Calista Flockhart.
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WorkCom-slash-{{Dramedy}} created by DavidEKelley about a neurotic lawyer and the wacky people she works with. The series lasted from September, 1997 to May, 2002. A total of 112 episodes (all but one of which was written or co-written by Kelley) in five seasons. Ally herself was played by Calista Flockhart.
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WorkCom-slash-{{Dramedy}} created by DavidEKelley about a neurotic lawyer and the wacky people she works with. The series lasted ran on Creator/{{Fox}} from September, 1997 to May, 2002. A total of 112 episodes (all but one of which was written or co-written by Kelley) in five seasons. Ally herself was played by Calista Flockhart.
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* EverybodyLovesBlondes: Nelle isn't exactly loved, but she becomes sort of a queen bee of the place and her hair is frequently mentioned as a key aspect to her attractiveness. The previous one (albeit a lot nicer) was Georgia, also a blonde - who explicitly hated Nelle partly because the latter 'out-blonded' her.
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* EverybodyLovesBlondes: EveryoneLovesBlondes: Nelle isn't exactly loved, but she becomes sort of a queen bee of the place and her hair is frequently mentioned as a key aspect to her attractiveness. The previous one (albeit a lot nicer) was Georgia, also a blonde - who explicitly hated Nelle partly because the latter 'out-blonded' her.
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* CloudCuckooLander: Ally, and lots of other people.
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* DerailingLoveInterests: Billy in Season 3.
* DerailingLoveInterests: Billy in Season 3.
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* EverybodyLovesBlondes: Nelle isn't exactly loved, but she becomes sort of a queen bee of the place and her hair is frequently mentioned as a key aspect to her attractiveness. The previous one (albeit a lot nicer) was Georgia, also a blonde - who explicitly hated Nelle partly because the latter 'out-blonded' her.
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* LicensedSexist: Richard. Billy tries it later, but no one is impressed.
* LikesOlderWomen: Richard, part of it being attracted to a 'wattle' on their necks. He's also attracted to young women, though.
* LikesOlderWomen: Richard, part of it being attracted to a 'wattle' on their necks. He's also attracted to young women, though.
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* SuetifulAllAlong: While Ally certainly is attractive, the number of men declaring her oh-so-special (even when they'd met her an hour before) over the course of the series gets a little silly.
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** Elaine has the potential to be a subversion here, however, considering that she's one of the most efficient and capable secretaries in TV history; in fact, {{Word of God}} states that she has so much free time on her hands (which she often uses to invent things) because she's ''supremely'' good at what she does.
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** And she DOES full-on kick a child attorney in the back, because she thought she was hallucinating about her "dancing baby"
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* CatFight: [[spoiler:Renee and Elaine]] in episode "Turning thirty". On a stage during a party, complete with meowing sounds at the end.
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* LighterAndSofter: Compared to David E. Kelley's other courtroom drama ''The Practice'.
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* LighterAndSofter: Compared to David E. Kelley's other courtroom drama ''The Practice'.Practice''.
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* JerkWithAHeartofGold: Richard Fish, Ling, Elaine and arguably Renee
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*LighterAndSofter: Compared to David E. Kelley's other courtroom drama ''The Practice'.
*LighterAndSofter: Compared to David E. Kelley's other courtroom drama ''The Practice'.
