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* TrojanHorse: Subverted when Jane is trying to get back into the wedding expo in "Our Best Friend's Wedding". She sees a large display labeled "Trojan Horse Limousine Service", complete with wooden horse styling, about to be wheeled into the expo, with drapes that seem to be big enough to cover a person. Cut to the horse going through the entrance...at which point Jane loudly rushes the checkpoint from stage left and is immediately taken down by a guard.
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* {{Homage}}: The end of "The Marry Prankster" is an homage to ''Film/TheUsualSuspects'', revealing [[spoiler:Alex to be the mastermind of the prank war, complete with a ''fax'' to the bar with her face on it, and a closeup of her feet walking as she stops faking the limp she's been putting on for half the episode.]]
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Not really a spoiler (and she even says it before the big reveal). And just a great quote for this trope :)


* DumbBlonde: Alex. Subverted in "The Straight Dope" when she's shown being able to pick up concepts pretty quickly and in "The Marry Prankster" when [[spoiler: she's revealed as the Master Planner behind the prank war. "I'm not as dumb as I am."]]

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* DumbBlonde: Alex. Subverted in "The Straight Dope" when she's shown being able to pick up concepts pretty quickly and in "The Marry Prankster" when [[spoiler: she's revealed as the Master Planner behind the prank war. ]] "I'm not as dumb as I am."]]"

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** Phil [=McGraw=]

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** [[Series/DrPhil Phil [=McGraw=]McGraw]]


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** Creator/AnneHathaway
--->'''Derrick''': You're like Anne Hathaway's accents - you're all over the place.

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a couple from "Big White Lie". Also updated indentation to match current style guide and good look.


* NoSenseOfPersonalSpace: Daphne Wilson does this when she's trying to make plans with Penny. It's part of her generally irritating friendly personality, and goes along with her tendency to invite herself to join the gang and be oblivious to little white lie excuses.



--> '''Max''': ''Film/UpInTheAir'' was overrated.\\
'''Dave''': What, no? I mean, yeah, of course it was. Who's gonna believe that [[Creator/GeorgeClooney Clooney's]] gonna be alone at that age?

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--> '''Max''': ** Max declares ''Film/UpInTheAir'' was overrated.\\
'''Dave''':
overrated.
--->'''Dave''':
What, no? I mean, yeah, of course it was. Who's gonna believe that [[Creator/GeorgeClooney Clooney's]] gonna be alone at that age?



--> '''Dave''': I'm doing lots of stuff: taking online yoga, meeting great people. They're calling me Bodhi, which is awesome, 'cause of ''Film/{{Point Break|1991}}''. I've been watching that a lot. Totally holds up. What happened to LoriPetty, right?
** Max saying Nicole is "like crazy stupid love crazy, not she loved ''Film/CrazyStupidLove'' crazy. She's not a psycho.

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--> ---> '''Dave''': I'm doing lots of stuff: taking online yoga, meeting great people. They're calling me Bodhi, which is awesome, 'cause of ''Film/{{Point Break|1991}}''. I've been watching that a lot. Totally holds up. What happened to LoriPetty, Lori Petty, right?
** Max saying Nicole is "like crazy stupid love crazy, not she loved ''Film/CrazyStupidLove'' crazy. She's not a psycho."
** Phil [=McGraw=]
--->'''Penny''': The only people who can get away with being mean are rock stars, brain surgeons, and Mr. Phil.
--->'''Jane''': You mean ''Doctor'' Phil.
--->'''Penny''': Come on, it's a [=PhD=]. Everybody caaalm down.

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a few from "Part of Six"


* {{Curse}}: "Party of Six" explores Penny's "birthday curse", which dictates her birthday celebrations will never go well. Most traumatically illustrated by a clown who may or may not have died when she was turning seven. In TheTag she declares the curse beaten, only to fall victim to GypsyCurse immediately after.



* FreakyFridayFlip: Apparently caused by a GypsyCurse at the end of "Party of Six".
-->'''Max/Alex''': Oh my god did we just switch bodies!?
-->'''Penny/Max''': [[CatchPhrase Here we GO!]]
-->'''Dave/Penny''': My god, you guys, this pizza is [[CatchPhrase ah-mah-zing]].
-->'''Alex/Dave''': [[DramaticDeadpan I'm Dave]].



* GuysAreSlobs: ''Max'

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* GuysAreSlobs: ''Max'''Max''
* GypsyCurse: DoubleSubverted in TheTag of "Party of Six". Penny declares her previous curse beaten, when a stooped old woman walks up and shouts at her in a vaguely Romani-esque language. It turns out she just wants the salt. Which she pours into her hand and viciously blows in their faces, apparently causing a FreakyFridayFlip. There is [[RuleOfFunny no obvious motive]]. %% I didn't recognize the language so I don't know if that was real, although it seemed pretty specific. If anybody can clarify, please edit!
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** In "Party of Six", focusing on Penny's "birthday curse", Dave's former fling tells Alex she slashed the tires on his Altima. Alex mutters he doesn't have an Altima, before getting distracted by something else. Later when the valet brings over Penny's car, it's revealed who ''does'' drive an Altima, slashed tires and all.
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* RunawayBride: Alex, obviously.

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* RunawayBride: Alex, obviously.in the very first scene.



* ShoutOut: Exces of examples means [[ShoutOut/HappyEndings they have their own subpage.]]

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* ShoutOut: Exces The excess of examples means [[ShoutOut/HappyEndings they have their own subpage.]]
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* IncompatibleOrientation: Max and Penny are exes and best friends, and in the season three premiere Penny laments that they're perfect for each other. Played for laughs in one episode Alex falls for Max, to everyone's confusion and irritation.
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** When Penny is dating Jane's boss the Car Czar, he calls her "[[HereComesHoneyBooBoo Honey]] [[BuxomIsBetter boobs-boobs]]."

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** When Penny is dating Jane's boss the Car Czar, he calls her "[[HereComesHoneyBooBoo "[[Series/HereComesHoneyBooBoo Honey]] [[BuxomIsBetter boobs-boobs]]."
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---->'''Penny''': What if you were, like, stuck in a trap in the woods and, like, a cougar was trying to eat you?]] Would you date then?\\
'''[[TropeNamer Alex]]''': [[SelfDeprecation That's insane, why would that even happen?]]\\

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---->'''Penny''': What if you were, like, stuck in a trap in the woods and, like, a cougar was trying to eat you?]] you? Would you date then?\\
'''[[TropeNamer Alex]]''': [[SelfDeprecation '''Alex''': That's insane, why would that even happen?]]\\happen?\\
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* ActorAllusion:
** There are several related to Creator/ElishaCuthbert (Alex):
*** Penny and Alex have a conversation related to someone being trapped in the woods surrounded by cougars, which Alex thinks is insane. Infamously, Cuthbert's side plot in ''Series/TwentyFour'' involving being trapped in the woods surrounded by mountain lions is the TropeNamer for TrappedByMountainLions.
---->'''Penny''': What if you were, like, stuck in a trap in the woods and, like, a cougar was trying to eat you?]] Would you date then?\\
'''[[TropeNamer Alex]]''': [[SelfDeprecation That's insane, why would that even happen?]]\\
'''Penny''': I have no idea, forget that, cause maybe your dad is the head of some elite counter-terrorist unit and he has 24 hours to - I don't know! The point is, would you date?
*** In the same vein, when discussing what to do when it comes to tracking a missing person (in "The Ex Factor"), Alex suggests that they "call CTU."
*** Alex is a huge fan of ''Film/LoveActually'' - in which Elisha Cuthbert had a supporting role.
** Jane once said that she made a "vision-board" in order for the universe to get her what she wants, including Brad. Brad then said that it wasn't really him on her vision-board, but instead it was one of the guys from ''Series/InLivingColor'' Brad is played by Damon Wayans Jr., and ''In Living Color'' starred several members of Creator/TheWayansFamily, including his father (Damon Sr.), aunt (Kim), and uncles (Keenan, Marlon, and Shawn).


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* CelebrityParadox:
** ''Series/TwentyFour'' and ''Film/LoveActually'' are established as existing in the show's universe, both of which feature Creator/ElishaCuthbert, who plays Alex.
** Jane once said that she made a "vision-board" in order for the universe to get her what she wants, including Brad. Brad then said that it wasn't really him on her vision-board, but instead it was "one of the guys from ''Series/InLivingColor''" Brad is played by Damon Wayans Jr., and ''In Living Color'' starred several members of Creator/TheWayansFamily, including his father (Damon Sr.), aunt (Kim), and uncles (Keenan, Marlon, and Shawn).

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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Brad and Jane discussing their web history in "Bo Fight".
-->'''Brad''': I mean, a small typo on the word "Canal" and you're in a whole different family of sites.\\
'''Jane''': I know, the same thing happened to me when I searched for a pair of black crocs.
** Also when Alex gets a late night booty call from her latest guy in "The Code War".
-->'''Alex''': I thought maybe he wanted to have a late European dinner\\
'''Penny''': Look how he spelled "come over."\\
'''Alex''': I thought it was the European spelling.
** In the halloween episode, Alex was talking about how they both went as Sean Penn
-->'''Dave''': What, I thought you loved double Penn!
** In "You Snooze, You Bruise":
-->'''Jane''': I'm gonna go take a nap, think about it, maybe buzz one out.\\
'''Brad''': "Buzz one out"? That's a weird way to say "snoring".
** Dave's song in "Fowl Play/Date"
-->'''Dave''':\\
♫ Al, I miss you, you're the only one. I wish I knew how to make you come...\\
Home to me, home to me. Come, come, come... ♪

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%% * GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Brad GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and Jane discussing their web history in "Bo Fight".
-->'''Brad''': I mean, a small typo on the word "Canal" and you're in a whole different family of sites.\\
'''Jane''': I know, the same thing happened to me when I searched for a pair of black crocs.
** Also when Alex gets a late night booty call from her latest guy in "The Code War".
-->'''Alex''': I thought maybe he wanted to have a late European dinner\\
'''Penny''': Look how he spelled "come over."\\
'''Alex''': I thought it was the European spelling.
** In the halloween episode, Alex was talking about how they both went as Sean Penn
-->'''Dave''': What, I thought you loved double Penn!
** In "You Snooze, You Bruise":
-->'''Jane''': I'm gonna go take a nap, think about it, maybe buzz one out.\\
'''Brad''': "Buzz one out"? That's a weird way to say "snoring".
** Dave's song in "Fowl Play/Date"
-->'''Dave''':\\
♫ Al, I miss you, you're the
persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only one. I wish I knew how until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make you come...\\
Home to me, home to me. Come, come, come... ♪
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* DinnerAndABreakup: One episode sees the group go to a Mexican restaurant that Brad hasn't been to in years. He reveals that it was the restaurant he'd always take girlfriends to in order to dump them so that this trope would be downplayed--the furniture was bolted to the floor and couldn't be thrown, all the cutlery was soft plastic, and the mariachi band would play over any yelling. Of course a wrench gets thrown into his plans when Jane points out that he once brought ''her'' to the restaurant.
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* TooSoon: In-universe
-->'''Alex''': So, this is it.\\
'''Max''': I think it was "it" when you ran out on your wedding. Too soon?\\
'''Penny''': Yes.
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* BiTheWay: Jane-its established in Season 1 that she dated a bunch of girls in college, and in season 3, we met an ex-girl that she once loved.
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'''Brad''': [[HelloNurse Damn.]]

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'''Brad''': [[HelloNurse Damn.]]


--> '''Jane:''' "You and the guys wanna check out some porno? Get some eyes on some thighs? Some peepers on some creepers? Rods and cones on some bras and [[PainfulRhyme thongs]]?"

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--> '''Jane:''' "You and the guys wanna check out some porno? Get some eyes on some thighs? Some peepers on some creepers? Rods and cones on some bras and [[PainfulRhyme thongs]]?"thongs?"
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* BookcasePassage: Referenced in "Sabado Free-Gante" where Dave and Alex give their real-estate agent increasingly ridiculous requirements for their new apartment. She finally finds one that meets almost all of them, aside from this.
-->'''Realtor''': It doesn't have a secret turny-roundy bookcase, but it is zoned for one and I know a guy.

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A 2011–13 Creator/{{ABC}} {{Sitcom}} which followed a group of six friends: a former couple, Alex and Dave; Alex's sister Jane, and her other half Brad; their chronically single friend, Penny; and her gay ex-boyfriend and Brad's BFF, Max. The series begins when Alex leaves Dave [[RunawayBride at the altar]]. This completely traumatizes Dave, and leaves their friends lamenting how they will probably end up torn apart by the fallout and rarely see each other again.

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A 2011–13 Creator/{{ABC}} {{Sitcom}} which followed a group of six friends: a former couple, Alex and Dave; Alex's sister Jane, and her other half Brad; their chronically single friend, Penny; and her gay ex-boyfriend and Brad's BFF, Max. The series begins when [[RunawayBride Alex leaves Dave [[RunawayBride at the altar]]. This completely traumatizes Dave, and leaves their friends lamenting how they will probably end up torn apart by the fallout and rarely see each other again.



* LegalJailbait: Dave's date, Jackie, in "Pilot"
-->'''Jackie''': I can't wait until I'm 26. I feel like no one takes you seriously when you're in high school.


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* OlderThanTheyLook: Dave's date, Jackie, in "Pilot"
-->'''Jackie''': I can't wait until I'm 26. I feel like no one takes you seriously when you're in high school.
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* RealLifeRelative: Brad's father is played by Damon Wayans.
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'''Max''': Ah, this is a classic story of {{boy meets girl}}, boy loses girl to guy on rollerblades, boy becomes biggest YouTube sensation since "kitten stuck in tuba."

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'''Max''': Ah, this is a classic story of {{boy meets girl}}, boy loses girl to guy on rollerblades, boy becomes biggest YouTube Website/YouTube sensation since "kitten stuck in tuba."
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* JerkassFacade: Max tries to pretend that he doesn't care, but he really does.
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* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Inverted, apparently Jane and Alex have an older sister, that didn't appear until the series finale, despite not once being mentioned by the group, whom Dave and Penny, who have been friends with the Kerkovichs for years and Brad would be brother-in-law too, or their parents.

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* TheDeterminator: Chase, the guy whose life Max ruined. In his second episode, he hits his head, falls into a coma and awakens, refusing to die until he gets revenge on Max.

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* TheDeterminator: Chase, the guy whose life Max ruined. In his second (and ultimately last, due to the show being canceled) episode, he hits his head, falls into a coma and awakens, refusing to die until he gets revenge on Max.
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* GreenEyedMonster: Dave becomes this when he gets ''insanely'' jealous of how popular Max's new boyfriend Grant is with the rest of the group, in a very [[HoYay homoerotic]] version of him as the CrazyJealousGuy.

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* GreenEyedMonster: Dave becomes this when he gets ''insanely'' jealous of how popular cool everybody else in the group thinks Max's new boyfriend Grant is with is. Penny has a weird variant in the rest of the group, in a same episode, when she reacts very [[HoYay homoerotic]] version of him similarly to Brad and Jane preferring Max and Grant as the CrazyJealousGuy."couples friends" over her and her BoyOfTheWeek.
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A 2011–13 Creator/{{ABC}} {{Sitcom}} which followed a group of six friends: an engaged couple, Alex and Dave; Alex's sister Jane, and her other half Brad; Dave's gay roommate, Max; and their chronically single friend, Penny. The series begins when Alex leaves fellow friend and husband-to-be Dave [[RunawayBride at the altar]]. This completely traumatizes Dave, and leaves their friends, who were brought together due to Dave and Alex being a couple, lamenting how they will probably never see each other again.

When Alex returns from the honeymoon that she and Dave planned, Dave is understandably ticked off, and now the friends have a problem: having to either disband or pick sides between Dave and Alex. Fortunately, Alex and Dave decide that what happened was for the better and that it should not be something that should destroy their friendship. However many complications remain down the road for this group of friends. And HilarityEnsues.

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A 2011–13 Creator/{{ABC}} {{Sitcom}} which followed a group of six friends: an engaged a former couple, Alex and Dave; Alex's sister Jane, and her other half Brad; Dave's gay roommate, Max; and their chronically single friend, Penny. Penny; and her gay ex-boyfriend and Brad's BFF, Max. The series begins when Alex leaves fellow friend and husband-to-be Dave [[RunawayBride at the altar]]. This completely traumatizes Dave, and leaves their friends, who were brought together due to Dave and Alex being a couple, friends lamenting how they will probably never end up torn apart by the fallout and rarely see each other again.

When Alex returns from the honeymoon that she and Dave planned, Dave is understandably ticked off, and now the friends have a problem: having to either disband or pick sides between Dave and Alex. Fortunately, Alex and Dave decide that what happened was for the better best and that it should they have to find a way to be friends with each other in order not be something that should destroy to lose their friendship.other friends. However many complications remain down the road for this group of friends. And HilarityEnsues.
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* Ventriloquism: In "Cazsh Dummy Spillionaires" Brad takes a break from work to polish his act.
--> '''Sinbrad''': That girl so whack her first name oughta be "Knickknackpatty!
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* RunningGag: Dave doesn't do well on camera. Alex as a BigEater. Max consistently finding improbable jobs.

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* RunningGag: Dave doesn't do well on camera. Alex as a BigEater. Max consistently finding improbable jobs. Penny's comedic head injuries, eventually lampshaded by her having to wear a prescription helmet.

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* DumbBlonde: Alex

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* DumbBlonde: AlexAlex. Subverted in "The Straight Dope" when she's shown being able to pick up concepts pretty quickly and in "The Marry Prankster" when [[spoiler: she's revealed as the Master Planner behind the prank war. "I'm not as dumb as I am."]]

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