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* TheBartender: Billie, introduced as a plot device in season 2 to help Grace learn something about herself. Comes into her own as this trope later when she realises that she actually likes tending bar, and even later [[spoiler: when Grace goes on a bender.]] She also appears to be the {{Bouncer}}.
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* TheBartender: Billie, introduced as a plot device in season 2 to help Grace learn something about herself. Comes into her own as this trope later when she realises realizes that she actually likes tending bar, and even later [[spoiler: when Grace goes on a bender.]] She also appears to be the {{Bouncer}}.
* ButtMonkey: Most often the children, specifically Coyote, Bud or Mallory.
* GoneHorriblyWrong: Grace and Frankie's #RiseUp campaign to advertise their "Rise Up" toilets for seniors ended up targeting [[ThoseWackyNazis another completely different audience.]]
* GranolaGirl: Frankie, except for the veganism part. She loves eating meat, especially bacon, which is doubly funny because both she and Sol are Jewish.
** Sol and Robert's friend Peter seems go through one after firing Sol from the production of 'Man of La Mancha' and his husband calling him out on it. Subverted when Peter reveals after being called out on his being a jerk, he divorced his husband.
* OppositesAttract: Seen with both Sol and Robert, who are married, and Grace and Frankie, who are not married. Sol and Frankie are Jewish, emotional, hippie-esque people and Grace and Robert are Irish-Catholic, direct, more conservative people, as far as their behaviors go.
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* SiblingYinYang: Brianna & Mallory and Bud & Coyote. Brianna is a tough businesswoman with no desire to even be around kids, while Mallory is a housewife and mother of four. Bud is responsible lawyer, whereas Coyote is a former professor who had problems with drugs and alcohol and is now a substitute teacher.
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* SiblingYinYang: Brianna & Mallory and Bud & Coyote.
** Brianna is a tough businesswoman with no desire to even be around kids, while Mallory is a housewife and mother offour. four.
** Bud is responsible lawyer, whereas Coyote is a former professor who had problems with drugs and alcohol and is now a substitute teacher.
** Brianna is a tough businesswoman with no desire to even be around kids, while Mallory is a housewife and mother of
** Bud is responsible lawyer, whereas Coyote is a former professor who had problems with drugs and alcohol and is now a substitute teacher.
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* TwoTimerDate: Frankie tries this briefly in season 6. It doesn't last long.
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* ArchEnemy: Grace's new husband, Nick, considers Mark Cuban his arch-enemy, which ruins Grace and Frankie's audition on ''[[Series/SharkTank ''Shark Tank'']]''. [[spoiler: Turns out he simply hates Cuban for being richer than him, and for once outbidding him to buy a sports team.]]
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** After Frankie was upset when she realized the genetic connection between Coyote and his birth mother, Coyote says that Frankie is his mother.
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** In season 6 Bud is strictly against seeking out his biological family, and unusually it's his wife and father who gleefully do that behind his back, although it's more for genetic information than anything else.
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* WhamEpisode: [[spoiler:The Season 4 finale. Grace and Frankie are pushed into moving into a home, when they realize their kids tricked them into it, they escape to find their house sold.
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* WhamEpisode: [[spoiler:The Season 4 finale. Grace and Frankie are pushed into moving into a home, when they realize their kids tricked them into it, they escape to find their house sold. ]]
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* ProtectedByAChild: Bud is very much into this trope when it comes to anyone hurting Frankie, and with good reason. As he points out to her, "Dad is the nicest guy in the world, and he broke your heart." For this reason he's deeply suspicious of Jacob, who Coyote immediately warms to. [[note]]This leads to a CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming when Grace comes home drunk in the middle of Jacob having lunch with Frankie, Bud and Coyote, and starts being incredibly obnoxious to Frankie: after patiently sitting there for several minutes while Grace is being a {{Jerkass}}, Jacob finally says "All right, that's enough", picks Grace up and carries her outside. Bud turns to Frankie and mutters "I love him."[[/note]]
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* ProtectedByAChild: Bud is very much into this trope when it comes to anyone hurting Frankie, and with good reason. As he points out to her, "Dad is the nicest guy in the world, and he broke your heart." For this reason he's deeply suspicious of Jacob, who Coyote immediately warms to. [[note]]This leads to a CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming when [[note]]When Grace comes home drunk in the middle of Jacob having lunch with Frankie, Bud and Coyote, and starts being incredibly obnoxious to Frankie: after patiently sitting there for several minutes while Grace is being a {{Jerkass}}, Jacob finally says "All right, that's enough", picks Grace up and carries her outside. Bud turns to Frankie and mutters "I love him."[[/note]]
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* AThreesomeisHot: [[spoiler:Season 4 ends with Sol and Robert having a threesome with their very good looking friend Roy.]]
* WhamEpisode: [[spoiler:The Season 4 finale. Grace and Frankie are pushed into moving into a home, when they realize their kids tricked them into it, they escape to find their house sold. [[spoiler:After facing many troubles in their marriage, Sol and Robert warm up to the idea of open marriage and have a three way with Roy.]]
* WhamEpisode: [[spoiler:The Season 4 finale. Grace and Frankie are pushed into moving into a home, when they realize their kids tricked them into it, they escape to find their house sold. [[spoiler:After facing many troubles in their marriage, Sol and Robert warm up to the idea of open marriage and have a three way with Roy.]]
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* AThreesomeisHot: [[spoiler:Season 4 ends with Sol and Robert having a threesome with their very good looking friend Roy. Subverted when they back out of it in Season 4 premiere.]]
* WhamEpisode: [[spoiler:The Season 4 finale. Grace and Frankie are pushed into moving into a home, when they realize their kids tricked them into it, they escape to find their house sold.[[spoiler:After facing many troubles in their marriage, Sol and Robert warm up to the idea of open marriage and have a three way with Roy.]]
* WhamEpisode: [[spoiler:The Season 4 finale. Grace and Frankie are pushed into moving into a home, when they realize their kids tricked them into it, they escape to find their house sold.
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* AThreesomeisHot: [[spoiler:Season 4 ends with Sol and Robert having a threesome with their very good looking friend Roy.]]
* WhamEpisode: [[spoiler:The Season 4 finale. Grace and Frankie are pushed into moving into a home, when they realize their kids tricked them into it, they escape to find their house sold. [[spoiler:After facing many troubles in their marriage, Sol and Robert warm up to the idea of open marriage and have a three way with Roy.]]
* WhamEpisode: [[spoiler:The Season 4 finale. Grace and Frankie are pushed into moving into a home, when they realize their kids tricked them into it, they escape to find their house sold. [[spoiler:After facing many troubles in their marriage, Sol and Robert warm up to the idea of open marriage and have a three way with Roy.]]
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* BottleEpisode: "The Lockdown" takes place in two locked scenarios: While Grace, Frankie, Sol and Robert, as well as the neighbor couple Jo and Oliver, are locked in an awkward situation [[labelnote:Explanation]]As a sober Grace becomes more unhinged, Robert has tod deal with the fallout of telling a neighbor couple that the man was gay, being already in a rough patch with Sol and Frankie and Sol are trying to escape.[[/labelnote]]. Meanwhile, Bud, Mallor, Allison and Coyote are stuck in Bud's apartment and have to [[spoiler:deliver Allison's baby without Frankie's help.]]
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* FriendVersusLover: Frankie's new boyfriend, Jacob, clearly dislikes her best friend Grace. In this case, this seems to stem from the fact that he thinks that Grace is a toxic influence to Frankie, rather than her taking over Frankie's time, though that starts becoming a problem when they open a business together.
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* SiblingYinYang: Brianna & Mallory and Bud & Coyote. Brianna is a tough businesswoman with no desire to even be around kids, while Mallory is a housewife and mother of four. Bud is responsible lawyer, whereas Coyote is a former professor who had problems with drugs and alcohol and is now a substitute teacher.
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''Grace and Frankie'' is a Creator/{{Netflix}} original comedy, debuting on May 8, 2015. The show stars Creator/JaneFonda and Creator/LilyTomlin as two women whose husbands fall in love and leave them. HilarityEnsues. Co-created by [[Series/{{Friends}} Marta Kauffman]].
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''Grace and Frankie'' is a Creator/{{Netflix}} originalcomedy, debuting on May 8, 2015. The show series, co-created by Marta Kauffman (''Series/{{Friends}}'').
It stars Creator/JaneFondaand & Creator/LilyTomlin as two rivalrous women whose business partner husbands fall in love and (Creator/MartinSheen & Creator/SamWaterston) suddenly leave them. HilarityEnsues. Co-created by [[Series/{{Friends}} Marta Kauffman]].them for one another after admitting to their decades-long affair. With nowhere else to go, both women end up moving into their shared beach house together, and {{hilarity ensues}}.
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* ADateWithRosiePalms : Much of the end of Season 2 and Season 3's main story arc involve Grace and Frankie developing a line of vibrators. Because of arthritis.
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* ADateWithRosiePalms : ADateWithRosiePalms: Much of the end of Season 2 and Season 3's main story arc involve Grace and Frankie developing a line of vibrators. Because of arthritis.
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* BerserkButton : Frankie hates being talked about in the third person.
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* FunnyAneurysmMoment : Discussed InUniverse. While trying to figure out what to do after they both throw their backs out, Frankie tells Grace a story about a man whose wife was injured in the tub and he hurt himself trying to help.
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* FunnyAneurysmMoment : FunnyAneurysmMoment: Discussed InUniverse. While trying to figure out what to do after they both throw their backs out, Frankie tells Grace a story about a man whose wife was injured in the tub and he hurt himself trying to help.
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* MarijuanaIsLSD : When Grace hate-smokes Frankie's pot, once it (finally) kicks in she laughs uncontrollably at the hole in Frankie's face.
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* {{Hypocrite}}: Robert kicks Sol out after he cheats on him with Frankie despite the fact that they cheated on Grace and Frankie for 20 years. Grace even calls him out on it.
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* {{Hypocrite}}: Robert kicks Sol out after he cheats on him with Frankie Frankie, despite the fact that they cheated on Grace and Frankie for 20 years. Grace even calls him out on it.
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* NoodleIncident: Whatever Coyote did when drunk, it was bad. Explained later.
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* NoodleIncident: Whatever Coyote did when drunk, it was bad. Explained later.[[spoiler:he got drunk and crashed his car on Mallory's lawn, then begged her not to marry that guy, after she was already married with a kid on the way.]]
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** Grace to. She's a more business type of person who has her own standards in how people should behave. But she eventually warms up to others more and tries to put her own beliefs aside for what is right.
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** Grace to.too. She's a more business type of person who has her own standards in how people should behave. But she eventually warms up to others more and tries to put her own beliefs aside for what is right.
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* DrivenToSuicide: Grace and Frankie's old friend Babe decides to commit suicide after her cancer returns terminally rather than suffer again.
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* ImagineSpot: In episode 5, Grace has a fall at the frozen yogurt shop. [[spoiler: She breaks her hip and the bickering continues in the hospital. When Grace panics at her MRI, Frankie runs in and stays with her.]]
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* ImagineSpot: In episode 5, Grace has a fall at the frozen yogurt shop. [[spoiler: She breaks her hip and the bickering continues in the hospital. When Grace panics at her MRI, Frankie runs in and stays with her. Turns out it was all her imagination.]]
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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Briana is a rather snarky and unpleasant person at times, but she never likes to hurt those close to her. After she kicked Frankie off her lube project, she really felt remorseful since Frankie was like a mother to her. She tries to make amends by funding her and her mother's vibrators.
** Grace to. She's a more business type of person who has her own standards in how people should behave. But she eventually warms up to others more and tries to put her own beliefs aside for what is right.
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* DrivenToSuicide: Grace and Frankie's old friend Babe decides to commit suicide after her cancer returns terminally rather than suffer again.
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* JerkassRealization: Grace refuses to take part in Babe's last party before she commits suicide since it goes against her beliefs but then realizes how selfish she's being after being called out by Frankie and Briana about her lack of unconditional love.
** Briana to after Frankie leaves the lube project because using palm oil goes against her beliefs and gets nothing out of it. Briana tries to make amends by funding Grace and Frankie's vibrators.
** Briana to after Frankie leaves the lube project because using palm oil goes against her beliefs and gets nothing out of it. Briana tries to make amends by funding Grace and Frankie's vibrators.
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* IrishmanAndAJew: Both Grace and Frankie's and Robert and Sol's interactions count as this trope.
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* MarijunaIsLSD : When Grace hate-smokes Frankie's pot, once it (finally) kicks in she laughs uncontrollably at the hole in Frankie's face.
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* ThematicThemeTune: "Stuck in the Middle With You," covered by Grace Potter.
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* ThematicThemeTune: "Stuck in the Middle With You," covered by Grace Potter.Potter.
* YankTheDogsChain: In season 3, Grace tells Sol that running a business and being with Frankie is all she needs to be happy. Mere minutes later, [[spoiler: Frankie tells Grace she's thinking about moving away to start a new life in Santa Fe.]]
* YankTheDogsChain: In season 3, Grace tells Sol that running a business and being with Frankie is all she needs to be happy. Mere minutes later, [[spoiler: Frankie tells Grace she's thinking about moving away to start a new life in Santa Fe.]]
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* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: At the end of Season 3, Grace [[spoiler: urges Frankie to move to Santa Fe and live happily ever after with Jacob--even though the idea of life without Frankie clearly devastates her.]]
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As an isolated incident with in-universe justification, this example seems better suited to Alcohol Induced Idiocy than Flanderization.
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* TheAlcoholic: Coyote. Mal even refers to him as "the alcoholic."
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** Coyote is a recovering alcoholic and drug addict. Mal even refers to him as "thealcoholic."
alcoholic", though he's recovering as of the show's timeline.
**Grace, especially Grace is a seasoned FunctionalAddict, although her unhealthy drinking habits get a harsher look in season two.Season 2.
* AlcoholInducedIdiocy: Although Grace is generally a FunctionalAddict, Grace gets unusually wasted in "The Bender", and her normal tendency to be waspish and emotionally unavailable gets awesomely magnified into extreme bitchiness and verbal cruelty to Frankie. She's uncharacteristically ashamed of the incident.
** Coyote is a recovering alcoholic and drug addict. Mal even refers to him as "the
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* AlcoholInducedIdiocy: Although Grace is generally a FunctionalAddict, Grace gets unusually wasted in "The Bender", and her normal tendency to be waspish and emotionally unavailable gets awesomely magnified into extreme bitchiness and verbal cruelty to Frankie. She's uncharacteristically ashamed of the incident.
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* {{Flanderization}}: A justified-because-alcohol-induced example of Personally Distillation happens in Season 2 episode "The Bender", in which Grace gets extremely drunk, and her normal tendency to be waspish and emotionally unavailable gets awesomely magnified into extreme bitchiness and verbal cruelty to Frankie.
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* ADateWithRosiePalms : Much of the end of Season 2 and Season 3's main story arc involve Grace and Frankie developing a line of vibrators. Because of arthritis.
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* ICallItVera : Grace has a secret gun named Louise.
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* MarijunaIsLSD : When Grace hate-smokes Frankie's pot, once it (finally) kicks in she laughs uncontrollably at the hole in Frankie's face.
* MeaningfulName: Grace is graceful, Frankie is frank. Sol is sunny. Coyote is homeless.
* MeaningfulName: Grace is graceful, Frankie is frank. Sol is sunny. Coyote is homeless.
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* AmusingInjuries: In Season 3, Frankie throws her back out and Grace throws out her own trying to help her. HilarityEnsues.
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