History Series / Californication

* CatholicSchoolGirlsRule:

* JailBait: Mia, and she really cashes in on the jail ramifications.

** Mia attends one, where nearly every girl is JailBait. Becca later attends the same school, much to Hank's chagrin.
** Season six has Faith, [[SexDrugsAndRockAndRoll a former Catholic school girl]]. Ironically, she's very spiritual.

* MarryThemAll: Hank is proposed to by Felicia, Jill, and Jackie [[WackyMarriageProposal all in under five minutes.]] [[YourCheatingHeart While he's in a relationship with Karen.]] HilarityEnsues.

Not to be confused with the Music/RedHotChiliPeppers album of the [[NamesTheSame same name]], or with * HollywoodProvincialism, a trope that is often called "Californication" outside this wiki (especially in the western US)[[note]]It's usually associated with Southern California-style suburban sprawl, though it's also used to refer to the "big city" attitudes that many Californians bring with them when they move to places like Colorado and Oregon.[[/note]].

Not to be confused with the Music/RedHotChiliPeppers album of the [[NamesTheSame same name]], or with SoCalization, a trope that is often called "Californication" outside this wiki (especially in the western US)[[note]]It's usually associated with Southern California-style suburban sprawl, though it's also used to refer to the "big city" attitudes that many Californians bring with them when they move to places like Colorado and Oregon.[[/note]].

* BiTheWay: [[spoiler: Bates]]. Everyone is relieved from this revelation, however.

* NeverLiveItDown: In-universe, Charlie is remembered as "the masturbating agent" wherever he goes. He tried to get Redtube to take the video down, but it still gets a lot of hits.

* DarthWiki/SoBadItsHorrible: In-universe. How Hank feels about the [[ShowWithinAShow Samurai Apocalypse movie]] he gets trapped in. A view shared by the main actress who gives him a blowjob as a reward for some quick good lines added to her role. It does Hank little good; [[InterruptedIntimacy the film crew shows up]] and Samurai punishes him with a HighAltitudeInterrogation.

* SoBadItsHorrible: In-universe. How Hank feels about the [[ShowWithinAShow Samurai Apocalypse movie]] he gets trapped in. A view shared by the main actress who gives him a blowjob as a reward for some quick good lines added to her role. It does Hank little good; [[InterruptedIntimacy the film crew shows up]] and Samurai punishes him with a HighAltitudeInterrogation.

* DarthWiki/SoBadItsHorrible: How Hank feels about the [[ShowWithinAShow Samurai Apocalypse movie]] he gets trapped in. A view shared by the main actress who gives him a blowjob as a reward for some quick good lines added to her role. It does Hank little good; [[InterruptedIntimacy the film crew shows up]] and Samurai punishes him with a HighAltitudeInterrogation.

* WellDoneSonGuy: All Hank really wanted from his dad was that his dad should appreciate his fame as a great writer and be a good parental figure. His father responds by [[ParentalNeglect saying he never read any of Hank's books]] and never changes his ways. Hank [[CallingTheOldManOut proceeds to blame it all on his father]] and tries to do everything differently from his father, including [[CheatersNeverProsper never cheating on Karen]] and being [[LonelyAtTheTop completely self-centered]] from his newfound fame. [[LikeFatherLikeSon It backfires.]] [[spoiler: Hank's father read every single one of his son's books. [[AwkwardFatherSonBondingActivity He never could face his son]] when Hank paints [[FreudianExcuse all of his fictional fathers in a bad light.]]]]

* PapaWolf: Hank takes this to [[BerserkButton varied degrees of overprotectiveness]] towards Becca. He immediately takes a disliking to every single one of her boyfriends, even if they aren't complete toolbags. And when Becca has her first period, he fights the husband of a woman who took the last pair of tampons in the store.

--> '''Marcy:''' [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xrr_Az2zEgY Charlie, are you inside that woman?]]

** Eddie Nero has a voracious appetite for... "deviant" sexual acts. Nero was a Roman Emperor notorious for his debauched behavior who presided over a city that was equally notorious for this too, [[TheCaligula and it would get worse]]. The name also makes an obvious connection with RobertDeNiro, with whom he shares the [[MethodActing extreme implication with a role]].

* IronicNickname: Eddie Nero calls Charlie {{Goldilocks}}.

* {{Flanderization}}: Charlie goes from a capable agent and helpful friend in season one with a weakness for kinky women to a retarded manchild in season four who will stick his wiener in anything with a pulse and actually tells a sex story in court. Seriously, the man has been a very successful agent for twenty years prior to the series, he should know better than that.

* BittersweetEnding: Too many to list. Numerous episodes close this way, as well as most of the seven season finales (with the salient exceptions of Season One's played-straight happy ending and the disturbing cliffhanger at the end of Season Five). Usually consists of Hank riding off into the sunset, either toward or away from LA). Actually, the tone of the series as a whole is rather bittersweet.

** Marcy's new boyfriend, Stu Beggs (played by StephenTobolowsky) [[DoppelgangerDating looks very similar to Charlie]] at first, but then it's revealed that their main difference is not visible when clothed.

* TheCasanova: Hank. Sometimes overlaps with ChickMagnet.
* CastingCouch: Lizzie's favourite tactic, to Charlie's chagrin.

* CloudCuckooLander: It's Hollywood so many bizarre individuals and {{MadArtist}}s appear time and again; Eddie Nero and Samurai Apocalypse are two of the regulars.

* CringeComedy: Charlie constantly. The season 6 plot of pretending to be gay and the following "Date With Rosie Palms" events arguably the worst. Hank often gets involved in these by association, by ruining the relationships of other people.
* ADateWithRosiePalms: Charlie Runkle is jerking off in his office. Constantly. [[CaughtWithYourPantsDown Doesn't he know there are cameras everywhere?]]
* DinnerAndAShow: Every time Hank is at a dinner party, you can expect something or another to happen. [[spoiler: Hank being outed as an [[WhosYourDaddy accidental father]] (though this proves to be false), Marcy admitting the real father of her child, Hank tearing his daughter's boyfriend to shreds, and Hank getting completely chewed out by his ex are just some of the notable examples]].

* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: Discussed

** Eddie Nero has a voracious appetite for... "deviant" sexual acts. Nero was a Roman Emperor notorious for his debauched behaviour who presided over a city that was equally notorious for this too, [[TheCaligula and it would get worse]]. The name also makes an obvious connection with RobertDeNiro, with whom he shares the [[MethodActing extreme implication with a role]].

* StopHelpingMe[[invoked]]: Samurai Apocalypse's unsolicited actions againts Becca's boyfriend put Hank into a world of mess.

** Lew Ashby is loosely based on music producer Rick Reuben.

** Rick Springfield in season 3 [[AdamWesting makes fun of his own character]]. He is playing [[MadArtist "a twisted version of himself,"]] a [[JerkAss "Rick Springfield]] [[HeelFaceTurn of the past,"]] according to TheOtherWiki.
** MarilynManson in season 6.

** RZA (the guy who plays Samurai Apocalypse) was interviewed on DavidLetterman's show, and almost said the exact same words.

* StylisticSuck : Many writing examples, but notably Hank's creative writing student's [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYheXulN4es lovelorn vampire story]].

** Hank donning a suit and remarking that he looks like [[Series/TheXFiles "a fucking FBI agent".]] And Karen remarks that he looks [[Main/EstrogenBrigade "Brooding and Comely".]]

** Hank donning a suit and remarking that he looks like [[Series/TheXFiles "a fucking FBI agent".]]

* StopHelpingMe[[invoked]]: Samurai Apocalypse's unsolicited actions againts Becca's boyfriend put Hank into a world of mess.

* (Auto)EroticAsphyxiation: When Hank and Charlie are supposed to meet a producer who is funding [[spoiler: "Fucking and Punching", the movie]], they discover that he has killed himself. [[ManiacMonkeys And Charlie kills the producer's pet monkey.]] Shenanigans ensue.