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* AbusiveParents: Laurie's mother is the emotionally abusive kind. She made Laurie feel like her father leaving them was Laurie's fault and only shows up in her daughter's life when she wants a favor.
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* SexWithTheEx: Jules and Bobby have sex in "Stop Dragging My Heart Around" after Jules's break up with Jeff.

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* MakingLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces: In "Don't Do Me Like That", Josh says he fantasizes about having sex with Jules on a beach. Jules says this would be a bad idea because of all the sand and bugs. The same episode has Bobby reminisces two separate occasion in which he had sex with on a beach and a putt putt course, neither of which was with Jules.

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In "Don't Do Me Like That", Josh says he fantasizes about having sex with Jules on a beach. Jules says this would be a bad idea because of all the sand and bugs. The same episode has Bobby reminisces two separate occasion in which he had sex with on a beach and a putt putt course, neither of which was with Jules.Jules.
** In "Here Comes My Girl", Ellie mentions one time she and Andy had sex on a bouncing castle at a kid's birthday party.

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* FauxYay: Laurie pretends to be Ellie's lesbian lover to get her son into a prestigious pre-school looking for "alternative" families.

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** In "Two Gunslingers", Travis pretends to be into guys to mess with Grayson's head as revenge for ruining his chances of getting a girl into bed.
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Laurie pretends to be Ellie's lesbian lover to get her son into a prestigious pre-school looking for "alternative" families.
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--> '''Andy:''' "That guy over there is taller than me, better looking, and has more hair. But his wife is less attractive than mine. If we were to make eye-contact, he'd know ''I won''".

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--> '''Andy:''' "That guy over there is taller than me, better looking, and has more hair. But his wife is less attractive than mine. If we were to make eye-contact, he'd know ''I won''".won''.

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* TooDumbToLive: Out of the group, only Ellie and Travis know that Mexico isn't an island.

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of the group, only Ellie and Travis know that Mexico isn't an island.



** Laurie once thought it was a good idea to pick a fight with a veteran of the Afghanistan War for the pettiest of reasons. See UnderestimatingBadassery below.



* UnderestimatingBadassery: In "You Wreck Me", Laurie decides to pick a fight with a woman her boyfriend Dale hooked up with while they were broken up. Said woman is an Afghanistan war veteran and gives Laurie a bloody nose.

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* UnderestimatingBadassery: In "You Wreck Me", Laurie decides to pick a fight with a woman named Chrissy who once hooked up her boyfriend Dale hooked up with while they he and Laurie were broken up. Said woman Chrissy is an Afghanistan war veteran veteran, something Laurie is fully aware of, and she gives Laurie a bloody nose.
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* UnderestimatingBadassery: In "You Wreck Me", Laurie decides to pick a fight with a woman her ex-boyfriend hooked up with. Said woman is an Afghanistan veteran and gives Laurie a bloody nose.

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* UnderestimatingBadassery: In "You Wreck Me", Laurie decides to pick a fight with a woman her ex-boyfriend boyfriend Dale hooked up with. with while they were broken up. Said woman is an Afghanistan war veteran and gives Laurie a bloody nose.

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--> '''Andy:''' "That guy over there is taller than me, better looking, and has more hair. But his wife is less attractive than mine. If we were to make eye-contact, he'd know ''I won''"

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--> '''Andy:''' "That guy over there is taller than me, better looking, and has more hair. But his wife is less attractive than mine. If we were to make eye-contact, he'd know ''I won''"won''".
* UnderestimatingBadassery: In "You Wreck Me", Laurie decides to pick a fight with a woman her ex-boyfriend hooked up with. Said woman is an Afghanistan veteran and gives Laurie a bloody nose.
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* {{Gainaxing}}: Laurie in "You Wreck Me". Jules actually encourages her to wear a more secure bra since she doesn't want her sending the wrong message to the wife of a couple whom they are selling a house to.
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* MakingLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces: In "Don't Do Me Like That", Josh says he fantasizes about having sex with Jules on a beach. Jules says this would be a bad idea because of all the sand and bugs.

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* MakingLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces: In "Don't Do Me Like That", Josh says he fantasizes about having sex with Jules on a beach. Jules says this would be a bad idea because of all the sand and bugs. The same episode has Bobby reminisces two separate occasion in which he had sex with on a beach and a putt putt course, neither of which was with Jules.
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* MakingLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces: In "Don't Do Me Like That", Josh says he fantasizes about having sex with Jules on a beach. Jules says this would be a bad idea because of all the sand and bugs.
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* GirlOnGirlIsHot: In "Into The Great Wide Open", it's mentioned that Ellie once killed another woman. Andy's response to this is, "Awesome!".
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* DistractedByTheSexy: In the pilot, Jules flashes a boy riding his bicycle causing him to crash into a parked car.
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** Bill Lawrence appears as a cop during Jules' drinking montage in the second episode

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** Bill Lawrence Creator/BillLawrence appears as a cop during Jules' drinking montage in the second episode
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* SharedUniverse: With ''Series/Scrubs'', as recurring character Ted Buckland made a couple appearances on ''Cougar Town''.

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* SharedUniverse: With ''Series/Scrubs'', ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'', as recurring character Ted Buckland made a couple appearances on ''Cougar Town''.
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* SharedUniverse: With ''Series/Scrubs'', as recurring character Ted Buckland made a couple appearances on ''Cougar Town''.
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* {{Expy}}: Ellie for [[Series/{{Scrubs}} Jordan]], both created (at least partially) by Bill Lawrence and played by his wife, Christa Miller.

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* {{Expy}}: Ellie for [[Series/{{Scrubs}} Jordan]], both created (at least partially) by Bill Lawrence and played by his wife, Christa Miller.Creator/ChristaMiller.
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Your Cheating Heart is an index, not a trope.


* YourCheatingHeart: The reason Jules divorced Bobby was because he kept sleeping around. Seemingly mostly with waitresses.
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Latino Is Brown has been tightened to refer to when all Latinos are brown, or when someone thinks they are. Single-character examples fit in Phenotype Stereotype and Averted Trope examples should not be listed unless notable. (think this counts as the stereotype is alluded to)


* LatinoIsBrown: Has a big aversion with Andy Torres, who is Cuban but doesn't look or sound like one. This is lampshaded in at least one episode.

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* LatinoIsBrown: Has a big aversion with Andy Torres, who is Cuban but doesn't look or sound like one.a stereotypical Latino. This is lampshaded in at least one episode.

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dewicking per TRS thread.


* SixStudentClique: An adult version, naturally.
** The Head: Grayson
** The Muscle: Bobby
** The Quirk: Andy
** The Pretty One: Jules
** The Smart One: Ellie
** The Wild One: Laurie
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* LineOfSightName: In "Between Two Worlds", Bobby inpersonates someone named Ron to take his coffee order, then sees a poster for Mexican-grown coffee and gives himself the last name Mexico.

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* LineOfSightName: LineOfSightAlias: In "Between Two Worlds", Bobby inpersonates someone named Ron to take his coffee order, then sees a poster for Mexican-grown coffee and gives himself the last name Mexico.

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* DrinkOrder: Eventually Laurie has just made up names for all the coffee drinks at [[BlandNameProduct Coffee Bucks]].
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* ClingyCostume: Andy gets stuck in a [[Franchise/ToyStory Buzz Lightyear]] costume he rented for his son's birthday party, just as he's about to have a business lunch.

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* ClingyCostume: Andy gets stuck in a [[Franchise/ToyStory [[WesternAnimation/ToyStory Buzz Lightyear]] costume he rented for his son's birthday party, just as he's about to have a business lunch.
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* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: When Grayson loses his temper and punches a hole in the wall, Jules discovers that his anger ''really'' turns her on. She knows its not healthy, but she can barely keep her hands off him for the rest of the episode.

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* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: When Grayson loses his temper and punches a hole in the wall, Jules discovers that his anger ''really'' turns her on. She knows its it's not healthy, but she can barely keep her hands off him for the rest of the episode.



--> '''Jules:''' [[Beat]] Is he single?

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--> '''Jules:''' [[Beat]] (Beat) Is he single?
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** Matt, the guy Jules met in the pilot episodes, comes back in Season 2.

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** Matt, the guy Jules met in the pilot episodes, episode, comes back in Season 2.



* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Jules' shrink Glenn (played by Creator/JenniferAniston), whose dog even had a baptism

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* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Jules' shrink Glenn (played by Creator/JenniferAniston), whose dog even had a baptismbaptism. And she cried all night when the dog had his first sleepover.
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** Matt, the guy Jules met in the pilot episodes, comes back in Season 2.
** Jules' orange negligee she wears when she first had sex with Josh, is seen again when she and Grayson were a couple already.
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** Fake suicides and murder-suicides. Basically, when someone is talking and talking about something the others don't care about. They would act out shooting themselves with a gun out of sheer boredom
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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Jules' red Lexus is not seen in the pilot episode
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** In the Valentine episode in season 1, Jules says she got boobs at age 11, in an episode near the end of Season 2, Chick mentions Jules as a teenager cried a lot from having a flat chest

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