History Series / GraceAndFrankie

* 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.

* FunnyBackgroundEvent: In "The Spelling Bee," while Frankie and Grace, the announcer of the spelling bee playing in the background says, "The word is 'negus.'" This is a reference to a viral video of a boy terrified of spelling the word in a spelling bee.[[note]]It sounded a lot like another n-word.

* 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]]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]]

* DivorceAssetsConflict: Robert and Sol are lawyers, so there is quite a lot of this.

* Foreshadowing: Nick's business deal are frequently commented upon, even by Nick himself, especially during season 6. He brags about his skills with avoiding taxes, makes trips to the Cayman Islands, and is often away on business deals. At the end of the season, he is arrested for tax evasion. [[LampshadeHanging Both Grace and Frankie both comment on how they couldn't see it coming.]] Earlier, a statue Grace used to help herself get up off the toilet is sold to the president of Uruguay, with the later reveal Nick was selling some of his assets, like his paintings and sculptures.

* NoodleIncident: Whatever Coyote did when drunk, it was bad. [[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.]]

The show currently consists of 6 seasons. The seventh and final season premiered on August 13 2021, when the first four episodes of the season were made available. The remaining 12 episodes of the season, which production on was delayed due to the pandemic, premiered in April 2022.

The show currently consists of 6 seasons. The seventh and final season premiered on August 13 2021, when the first four episodes of the season were made available. The remaining 12 episodes of the season, now in production after the pandemic delay, are set to premiere in 2022.

* 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.
--> They both died.

* ExplainExplainOhCrap: Grace, Brianna and Mallory think a rival company stole their scented lotion. While filing a lawsuit, Grace has a flashback of how she created the scent: while at her favorite seaside bar, drinking several margaritas and enjoying the ocean breeze it came to her. Mallory reveals the rival company has been making the scent for years, and use it on fabrics. Cut to Grace having another flashback where [[RealityEnsues after having multiple margaritas she is passed out on the linen table]], explaining where she got the idea for the sent in the first place. They quickly attempt to withhold their lawsuit.

* RealityEnsues: The main characters are all in the 70s and 80s. The characters go through issues related to old age such as heart attacks, high blood pressure, arthritis, overcoming physical handicaps, dealing with mental handicaps such as Alzheimer's, and of course, death. Grace in particular suffers from busted knees, giving her trouble getting up from low sitting objects such as couches or toilets. This leads her and Frankie developing a toilet for the elderly called the "Rise Up".

The show currently consists of 6 seasons, with a seventh and final season now in development for release in 2021.

* StatingTheSimpleSolution: In Season 6, Frankie attempts to keep Joan-Margaret in the country by finding a man that she can marry quickly for a green card, and even attempting to marry her herself when that falls through. Grace is the one to end the whole scheme by reminding her that, as her bosses, they themselves can garantee her a work visa and keep her in the country.

** Especially jarring since Saul has a hard time letting Frankie go, stating he still loves her, and even having sex with her once post-breakup. Still, the word "bisexual" is not even muttered, rather having him depicted as confused and finally as nothing but gay.

* AThreesomeisHot: [[spoiler:Season 4 ends with Sol and Robert seemingly having a threesome with their very good looking friend Roy. Subverted when they back out of it in Season 4 premiere.]]

* WackyStartupWorkplace: Parodied when the title characters try to pitch their business concept to a super-trendy startup incubator. The office laser tag game and other workplace reactions look cool, but its representative explains that they care about ''looking'' cutting-edge and progressive, not about actually incubating new businesses.

* GoodAdulteryBadAdultery: Discussed. Brianna rightly points out that there would be a lot more drama if Robert and Sol had been cheating with women for the past 20 years. Bud later realizes she is right and calls Robert and Sol out on it.

* AllGaysArePromiscuous: Defied; Robert experimented with other men during a brief period away from Sol, but prefers married life. Other gays characters on the show are shown to be very sexually active, with their partners and others.

* TheLadette: Billie is a very Hollywood version, down to the multiple facial piercings, the penchant for quasi-military clothing, the short hair and the fact that she works as a bartender. The show opens with the title characters' 70-odd-year-old husbands not only coming out but admitting that they've had a SecretRelationship for over 20 years. Their side plots address the hurdles of reestablishing their relationships with their loved ones, adjusting to life as an open couple, and struggling to fit in with the LGBT* community.

* DidntThinkThisThrough: In an effort to advertise their vibrators, Frankie decides to create a national "Donut and Vibrator Day". While Grace tells her this is unrealistic, Robert, [[FunnyMoment while high after eating some of Frankie's edible gummies]] convinces her to do so. A few 50,000 tweets later, Frankie is seen cooking batches of donuts to send out to her followers. Most of her "donuts" are powdered bagels.

* TheLadette: Billie is a very Hollywood version, down to the multiple facial piercings, the penchant for quasi-military clothing, the short hair and the fact that she works as a bartender.
The show opens with the title characters' 70-odd-year-old husbands not only coming out but admitting that they've had a SecretRelationship for over 20 years. Their side plots address the hurdles of reestablishing their relationships with their loved ones, adjusting to life as an open couple, and struggling to fit in with the LGBT* community.

* ImAHumanitarian: Guy.

* NobodyOver50IsGay: Averted in the first scene of the first episode, and by the main premise of the show.

* AllGaysArePromiscuous: Defied; Robert experimented with other men during a brief period away from Sol, but prefers married life.

* IllTellYouWhenIveHadEnough: When Grace gets rat-arsed on martinis in her favourite bar one morning, Billie the bartender refuses to serve her any more drinks, and Grace invokes this trope (although she doesn't use these exact words.)

* TestosronePoisoning: Happens with Mallory's date Dan in the season 6 episode "The Short Rib". After criticizing the choice of wine glasses to be used with dinner, defending himself he used to be a waiter himself and has high standards, it reaches a breaking point when the titular short rib arrives. Dan believes it to be burnt; Mallory, Barry and the waiter insist it is charred (Brianna couldn't really care that much). Dan insists the meat is ruined and cuts into it, revealing the food to be fine. Still insisting it is ruined, and hushing up Brianna with a finger wag, Dan ends up punching the meat, sending it flying all over the place. He is later, off screen, escorted out by police.

* 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.]]

* BaitAndSwitch: A sweet one happens when Robert is having breakfast with Sol in Sol's crappy house [[spoiler: after they've reconciled with each other after their breakup]], and the upstairs neighbour turns on really loud hip-hop. Robert asks Sol if this happens a lot, and Sol replies "Every day." Robert gets up, looking like he's about to go upstairs and go all lawyer on their asses...and then he holds out his arms and invites Sol to dance with him.

* GoneHorriblyWrong: Grace and Frankie's #RiseUp campaign to advertise their "Rise Up" toilets for seniors ended up targeting [[ThoseWackyNazis another completely different audience.]]

* GoodIsNotNice: Grace gets intimidated by Grandma Jean, Mallory's kids' other grandma, who's much better at playing with them, can talk to them on their own level and who, unlike Grace, knows better than to pretend to be a clown (because of Mallory's son Macklin's coulrophobia.) Then Frankie points out to her that she's not that kind of grandma: she's the "kind with a drinking problem that inspires them to grow up and become writers." This pays off when Grace realises that Macklin regards her as wise and knowledgeable rather than fun. She also learns from Mallory she had said something horrible 5 years earlier about her not having anymore children because she apparently needed to start her life again, so Mallory decided to keep it from her that she was pregnant at first.