History Series / NightCourt2023

* BavarianFireDrill: In "A Crime of Fashion", the court is overwhelmed by fashion models due to it being Fashion Week. Wyatt finds that the models only listen to production managers, so he buys a headset to pretend to be one and order the models to go anywhere else.

* BlandNameProduct: In "Form Fetish" Gurgs and Olivia find a stash of a heavily caffeinated soft drink called "Joltron Cola" in the basement and decide to sell it in the cafeteria. This is based on RealLife Jolt Cola.
* TheBusCameBack: Guess who returns in "Wheelers of Fortune", everybody's favourite ChewToy couple known as Bob and June Wheeler. Their bad luck streak came with them. Interestingly, their daughter, Carol Ann also makes an unexpected return despite only appearing in the Wheelers' first appearance in the original series.

* ChristmasEpisode: The first episode of Season 2 is "A Night Court Christmas": a special episode where Abby and Dan have to find a child's Christmas wish list. It was shown out-of-order due to the 2023 Hollywood strikes as Dan is still working in New York instead of being a Louisiana judge in the next episode.
* CloudCuckoolander: Judge Flobert, a particularly weird judge who subs for Abby in Season 1 and inexplicably decides to become Abby's court clerk in Season 2 and then just hangs around after Wyatt joins the team.
* CobwebOfDisuse: In "Form Fetish" Abby goes to Linda the OMB bureaucrat to get the budget for her courtroom restored. A determined Abby says "I'm going to get you to use that YES stamp," only to look over and see the YES stamp on the desk covered by cobwebs.
* ContrastingReplacementCharacter: Donna Gurgs is a large black female bailiff, much like Roz Russell from the original series. However, Donna is outwardly cheerful and prone to physical gags, unlike the DeadpanSnarker Roz. If anything, Gurgs seems to be a CompositeCharacter melding the physicality and snark of Roz with the naïveté, cheerfulness and {{Cloudcuckoolander}} tendencies of Bull Shannon.

* CourtroomAntics: Manhattan Criminal Court Part 2 is as wacky as it ever was, with Abby having to deal with StupidCrooks, flashers, brawling twins, flocks of pigeons, [[ItMakesSenseInContext Drunk and Disorderly Orc barbarians]] and much more. Plus, Dan hasn't grown out of all his old ways.
* DatingCatwoman: In Season 2, Dan develops feelings for Julianne, a mentally unstable criminal who wants to ruin his life in retaliation for successfully prosecuting her decades prior. As a fun bonus, this happens when she's actually dressed as Selina Kyle.
* DeadpanSnarker: Dan is as snarky as ever despite [[TookALevelInKindness softening out]] and losing his lecherous ways. Neil and Olivia aren't too behind in the sarcasm department, with many of their remarks revolving around their cynicism from being on the night shift.

* DenserAndWackier: Season 2 goes in a more absurdist direction for comedy with characters engaging in more physical gags, getting in strange hijinks away from the courtroom, and the occasional fantastical element being thrown in as surprise punchlines.
* DidYouJustHaveSex: In "A Crime of Fashion", Abby's date with a fashion designer went so well that she is actually saying the word "sigh" in her chambers. Gurgs's response is "Oh my God you had sex!" (She's right.)

* ExplainExplainOhCrap: In "Marathon-thon-thon-thon-thon", Rand (Abby's boyfriend) says that Neil is volunteering for the marathon because he wants to impress a woman he's got a crush on, but she had a really tall, annoying boyfriend--and he stops as he realizes that that Neil has a crush on Abby and the tall annoying boyfriend is him.
* FamedInStory: Roz is apparently a legend among New York's bailiffs with Gurgs fangirling over her when she appears in front of Abby.
* FullyAbsorbedFinale: The very end of the last episode of the original ''Series/NightCourt'' had Dan running off to Washington, DC to pursue a romantic relationship with Christine, who had just gotten elected to Congress. That LeftHanging plot was resolved 32 years later in this show's second-season finale, "The Best Dan". Dan tells Abby that he did go to DC to find Christine, and pledged his "undying love" for her. Apparently they were an item for a while but he left her because he felt that he "wasn't good enough for her."

* HeightAngst: Abby is the shortest member of the cast and gets defensive on the occasions the topic is brought up.

* HugeGuyTinyGirl: Abby is much shorter than Rand, her fiancé[[note]]Creator/MelissaRauch is 4' 11" while Creator/PeteHolmes is 6' 5"[[/note]]. Even with heels or platforms, the top of her head doesn't quite reach his shoulders.

* InternalAffairs: In "Just Tuesday" Olivia is miffed because the cops in the courtroom have stopped doing her favors, like letting her go through security or letting her park wherever she wants. She thinks it's because of an incident where an undercover cop was outed, but it's actually because IA has been sniffing around, as Olivia finds out at the end of the episode.

** Fast forward to the Season 1 finale when Abby is facing charges for trying to spring a woman's boyfriend from his nursing home. Dewitt is prosecuting Abby and that's not the worst of it: he threatens Olivia's job to make her join the prosecution, and blackmails Louise - who got Abby into this mess - into wearing a wire to catch Abby incriminating herself. Olivia chooses friendship instead and Louise admits she was blackmailed, getting the case dismissed.

* MalcolmXerox: In "Justice Buddies", Abby and her team deal with a street artist, Malcolm Richardson (who calls himself "Malcolm FX") who openly confesses to vandalism against a statue of Christopher Columbus so that he can use the trial as a forum for his political views.

* PhonyPsychic: "Wheelers of Fortune" has Abby encountering a psychic named Jovan, whom Abby hopes can relay a secret message her father had promised to send from beyond the grave. Naturally, Jovan is fake--but Abby gets the message in a different way.

* RequestForPrivacy: In "The Apartment", Abby has had a very long day, between the normal stresses of her job and finding out that her boyfriend has had to cancel plans to visit her, but she is trying very hard to keep her usual sunny disposition and not to lose her temper. And then she learns that her attempt to get a new and better apartment has fallen through because her prospective landlord hates judges. Dan and Gurgs happen to be in her chambers as this happens, so she asks them to leave. The camera cuts to outside her chambers, where you can hear a guttural scream of rage and things being thrown around.

* SeenItAll: The protest in "Justice Buddies" leaves everyone else surprised, but Dan is constantly making light of the whole thing. When Abby questions him, Dan retorts that a bunch of kids chanting in the courtroom is nothing compared to the crazy antics he witnessed back in the original series. He wouldn't even put this in the top 20.

* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Abby encourages Neil to find some passion in his work and make changes around the courthouse. This results in [[MakesSenseInContext a ceiling collapse releasing the pigeons roosting inside the space which then wreaks havoc]] in Abby's courtroom.

* WhamEpisode: The Season 2 finale drops the bombshell that [[spoiler:Abby's boyfriend, Jake, could be Dan's biological son]].

* WhoNamesTheirKidDude: Abby discovers late in life that her official name isn't actually "Abigail" -- it's actually "Abracadabra". It makes a weird sort of sense because her father was the quirky, magic-obsessed Harry Stone of ''Series/NightCourt''.

** Some of Abby's dialogue heavily implies she, like her actress, is in her forties.

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