History Series / DueSouth

* CanadaEh[=/=]{{Eagleland}}: The series is a commentary on, and gentle ribbing of, Canadian AND American approaches to policing and life.
-->'''Bush pilot''': You sure they were Americans, eh?\\
'''Fraser''': They were all wearing new boots, they were driving a Jeep Wrangler, and they carried big guns.\\
'''Bush pilot''': Americans it is.
-->--"[[Recap/DueSouthS1E0Pilot Pilot]]"

* CopKiller: The series begins with the murder of a [[CanadaEh Royal Canadian Mounted Policeman]] in the wilderness of the Northwest Territories. The plot of the pilot episode centers around [[YouKilledMyFather his son]], Benton Fraser ([[InTheBlood also a Mountie]]) , teaming up with a Chicago detective to [[AlwaysGetsHisMan track down the killer]] after he crosses the border into the [[EagleLand United States]]. It turns out the killer was hired by another [[spoiler:Mountie, a close friend of the Frasers, no less.]]

* AndTheAdventureContinues: ''[[spoiler:"If we do find his Hand, the reaching-out one, we'll let you know."]]''

* ExtraLongEpisode: "[[Recap/DueSouthS1E07ChicagoHolidayPart1 Chicago]][[Recap/DueSouthS1E08ChicagoHolidayPart2 Holiday]]" on its first run.

** Also, the climax of "Victoria's Secret" makes it unclear to the audience whether or not [[spoiler:Victoria is pointing a gun at Fraser. love-struck Fraser sees an open-hand, while some distance away Ray sees a gun. Camera shots from their different perspectives show either case.]]

* AxeCrazy: Randall Bolt, the crazy White Supremacist terrorist.

* NiceHat: Fraser's stetson, nicknamed the Stetson Of Invulnerability by the fandom[[note]]He only gets injured on occasions when he isn't wearing it[[/note]]. As Kowalski said, the hat is sacred.
-->'''Fraser:''' She shot me in the hat, Ray.\\
'''Ray:''' She shot you in the ''hat?''\\
'''Fraser:''' I can feel air coming in through the hole.\\
'''Ray:''' She shot you in the hat, all right.\\
'''Fraser:''' We'll have to go home and get my other one.\\
'''Ray:''' We can do that, Fraser.\\
'''Fraser:''' Thanks, Ray.\\
''Due South'', "[[Recap/DueSouthS1E01FreeWillie Free Willie]]"
** One of Fraser Sr.'s greatest regrets about being dead is they cut off the back of his favorite hat in order to fit it on his head in his coffin, and now he's stuck with it like that for eternity.

Cst. Benton Fraser (rhymes with "razor", though Ray V usually pronounces it "Series/{{Frasier}}") is the living incarnation of almost every Mountie stereotype ever conceived. He's polite to a fault, can track a man for months across an Arctic waste, fights honorably, doesn't lie, is almost always impeccably clean, even after climbing out of a sewer. During the first two seasons, he's frequently shown wearing civilian clothes, but during the last seasons, he almost always wears the formal red dress uniform, which in real life is only worn for special public occasions or for publicity.

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* ArtisticLicenseLinguistics: in "[[Recap/DueSouthS1E12AHawkAndAHandsaw A Hawk and a Handsaw]]," Fraser says that the Inuit have over 60 words for snow. (Linguist Geoffrey Pullum estimates that [[http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/000405.html the actual number is around five]], roughly the same as in English; however, this might have more to do with settler colonialism and resulting language loss [[https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/inuit-unikkaangit-kuniluusie-nutarak-1.6330149 as revealed on a recently discovered CBC archival recording of an Inuit elder]], and that linguists and native speakers don't necessarily agree on what counts as a 'word'.) The trope is somewhat averted in that this is a very widespread myth, but Fraser's character is a stickler for detail who grew up in a part of Canada with a large Inuit population; you'd think he'd have noticed the 50-some-odd missing words for snow, at some point.