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** Rather more tragically: "He'll pull through. He has to."
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Ted isn\'t pretending to be a jerk on purpose with some ulterior motive. He\'s just a nicer guy than it initially seems.
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* JerkAssFacade: Ted.
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* JerkAssFacade: JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Ted.
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* DeliberateValuesDissonance: Some pretty clear examples in the way the stewardesses are treated, but others include the strong taboo against interracial relationships (shown in the outcome of the public display between Laura and a black sailor) and the treatment of women's sexuality.
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* DeliberateValuesDissonance: DeliberateValuesDissonance:
** Some pretty clear examples in the way the stewardesses are treated, but others include the strong taboo against interracial relationships (shown in the outcome of the public display between Laura and a black sailor) and the treatment of women's sexuality.
** Some pretty clear examples in the way the stewardesses are treated, but others include the strong taboo against interracial relationships (shown in the outcome of the public display between Laura and a black sailor) and the treatment of women's sexuality.
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The episode structure is getting more varied
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* HowWeGotHere: Each episode shows the events of a single flight, mixed with flashbacks to explain how all the girls are acting, with the exception of "Unscheduled Departure", which forgoes the flashback and has a more linear story.
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* HowWeGotHere: Each episode shows Some episodes show the events of a single flight, mixed with flashbacks to explain how all the girls are acting, with the exception of "Unscheduled Departure", which forgoes the flashback and has a more linear story.acting.
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** Almost all of Kate's schemes when her missions go awry demonstrate her ingenuity and ability to force others to do what she wants through manipulation (for instance, using a combination of eliciting sympathy and blackmail to get Anastasia and Broyles to help her when Laura and Bridget get taken by the KGB)
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* DeliberateValuesDissonance: Some pretty clear examples in the way the stewardesses are treated, but others include the strong taboo against interracial relationships (shown in the outcome of the public display between Laura and a black sailor) and the treatment of women's sexuality.
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* DeliberateValuesDissonance: Some pretty clear examples in the way the stewardesses are treated, but others include the strong taboo against interracial relationships (shown in the outcome of the public display between Laura and a black sailor) and the treatment of women's sexuality.sexuality.
** A rather subtle example is how when one of the stewardesses gets married, it's presumed that she will quit (this is the reason why everyone thought Bridget quit), however no such assumption is made about the male pilots.
** A rather subtle example is how when one of the stewardesses gets married, it's presumed that she will quit (this is the reason why everyone thought Bridget quit), however no such assumption is made about the male pilots.
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* LipstickLesbian: [[spoiler: Amanda]], apparently.
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* DirtyCommunists: The first Pan Am flight to Moscow goes pretty awry thanks to some less than hospitable KGB agents. Invoked strongly in-universe in conjunction with RedScare, especially by the intelligence agents that Kate has contact with.
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* RedScare: Kate's handlers often invoke this trope.
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''Pan Am'' is an American Series on ABC. It focuses on four Pan Am stewardesses (Maggie Ryan, Kate Cameron, Laura Cameron and Colette Valois) during the airline's height of popularity in the 1960s. Expect lots and lots of TropesOnAPlane.
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''Pan Am'' is an American Series a television series currently showing on ABC. ABC in the USA. It focuses on four Pan Am stewardesses (Maggie Ryan, Kate Cameron, Laura Cameron and Colette Valois) and their two regular pilots (Dean Lowery and Ted Vanderway) during the airline's height of popularity in the 1960s. Expect lots and lots of TropesOnAPlane.
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* DeliberateValuesDissonance: Some pretty clear examples in the way the stewardesses are treated, but others include the strong taboo against interracial relationships (shown in the outcome of the public display between Laura and a black sailor) and the treatment of women's sexuality.
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* JerkAss: a lot of the passengers on the Caracas flight, but the guy who tries to steal his suitcase back after everyone's been ordered to lighten the plane is probably the most explicit
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* JerkAss: a A lot of the passengers on the Caracas flight, but the guy who tries to steal his suitcase back after everyone's been ordered to lighten the plane is probably the most explicit
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* PoliticallyCorrectHistory: Although smoking was much more accepted in TheSixties (and even allowed on planes), nobody does so on screen.
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* PoliticallyCorrectHistory: In some ways. Although smoking was much more accepted in TheSixties (and even allowed on planes), nobody does so on screen.screen. However when a black sailor has a budding romance with Laura in public, he gets assaulted.
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* LieDetector: Kate has to pass a polygraph test to prove that she [[spoiler: didn't shoot the man she shot in the previous episode. She passes.]]
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* LoveTriangle: Dean/Colette/Bridget [[spoiler: once she returns]].
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* GirlNextDoor: Laura and Kate both start out as this but get plenty of CharacterDevelopment over the course of the season.
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Moving Les Yay to YMMV. I can\'t see it for the life of me.
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** Emerging between Kate and Colette.
** From episode 4, we now have Maggie and Laura.
** Emerging between Kate and Colette.
** From episode 4, we now have Maggie and Laura.
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* RomanticFalseLead: Ginny for Dean, Amanda for Ted
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* RomanticFalseLead: Ginny for Dean, Amanda for TedTed.
* UnrequitedLoveSwitcheroo: Laura rejects Ted's advances in Berlin, but then starts regretting that after finding out he's not as much of a jerk as he seems and as he pursues romance with a childhood friend.
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* RomanticFalseLead: Ginny for Dean, Amanda for Ted
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* BottleEpisode: Episode 8 takes place almost completely on the plane and tarmac in Haiti and the events seem to take place within roughly an hour or two, rather than several locations and a few days like most episodes.
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* CrewOfOne: Captain Lowrey and First Officer Vanderway have a heated argument on final approach to Hong Kong about the Captain's handling of the plane. While such an argument between pilots may seem [[AluminumChristmasTrees like an dramatic exaggeration]] there is actually some [[TruthInTelevision truth]] to such a situation. In the days such things as 'Crew Resource Management' came along in 1980s commercial Captains would often have a MyWayOrTheHighway attitude to flying.
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* CrewOfOne: Captain Lowrey and First Officer Vanderway have a heated argument on final approach to Hong Kong about the Captain's handling of the plane. While such an argument between pilots may seem [[AluminumChristmasTrees like an dramatic exaggeration]] there is actually some [[TruthInTelevision truth]] to such a situation. In the days before such things as 'Crew Resource Management' came along in 1980s commercial Captains would often have a MyWayOrTheHighway attitude to flying.
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* CrewOfOne: Captain Dean Lowrey has the standard MyWayOrTheHighway attitude of the time when it comes to his command of his plane and has a heated argument on final approach to Hong Kong with First Officer Vanderway. While it may seem [[AluminumChristmasTrees unlikely that such disagreements actually happened]] there is alot of [[TruthInTelevision truth]] to such arguments in the days before such things as 'Crew Resource Management' came along in the 1980s to make Captains listen to their junior colleagues.
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* CrewOfOne: Captain Dean Lowrey has the standard MyWayOrTheHighway attitude of the time when it comes to his command of his plane and has First Officer Vanderway have a heated argument on final approach to Hong Kong with First Officer Vanderway. about the Captain's handling of the plane. While it such an argument between pilots may seem [[AluminumChristmasTrees unlikely that such disagreements like an dramatic exaggeration]] there is actually happened]] there is alot of some [[TruthInTelevision truth]] to such arguments in a situation. In the days before such things as 'Crew Resource Management' came along in the 1980s to make commercial Captains listen would often have a MyWayOrTheHighway attitude to their junior colleagues.flying.
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* CrewOfOne: Captain Dean Lowrey has the standard MyWayOrTheHighway attitude of the time when it comes to his command of his plane and has a heated argument on final approach to Hong Kong with First Officer Vanderway. While it may seem [[AluminumChristmasTrees unlikely that such disagreements actually happened]] there is alot of [[TruthInTelevision truth]] to such arguments in the days before such things as 'Crew Resource Management' came along in the 1980s to make Captains listen to their junior colleagues.
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* OutOfOrder: Episode four is actually episode two (it's [[EpisodeCodeNumber production code]] is PA-102). Unfortunately the shuffle puts the launch of Mercury 9 (May 16th 1963), seen on the TV, after episode three's JFK's Berlin speech (June 26th 1963).
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* AllMenArePerverts: Ted and Sanjeev both go back "to get coffee" (even though Colette just brought some) when she mentions that Kate is taking her clothes off for the entertainment of the sailors they're flying. But not to worry...
-->'''Colette''': I said she was taking her clothes off, but I didn't say who was putting them on.
-->'''Dean''': ''(Rolling his eyes)'' Sailors...
-->'''Colette''': I said she was taking her clothes off, but I didn't say who was putting them on.
-->'''Dean''': ''(Rolling his eyes)'' Sailors...
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** PlayedForLaughs in "Truth or Dare" when, while carrying a group of sailors home, one of them starts talking to her about a "traitor" and "defector." Kate, of course, assumes this is a contact and one of the others is about to defect to the Soviets, but it turns out the sailor in question is really "betraying" their noble bachelor ranks, and the "contact" wants Kate to provide the entertainment.
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* IAmSpartacus: The girls pull this when asked which one of them brought the Haitian girl aboard
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* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: Kate's reaction to the other courier's plight. Collete bringing the Hatian refugee aboard
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* BerserkButton: Collete really does not like Germany [[spoiler: given that her entire family was killed by the Nazis]]. Of course, given that she's the most outwardly calm stewardess of the lot, she only shows this indirectly, such as by [[spoiler: singing the Nazi national anthem at a party honoring US/West German partnership]]
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* BerserkButton: Collete Colette really does not like Germany [[spoiler: given that her entire family was killed by the Nazis]]. Of course, given that she's the most outwardly calm stewardess of the lot, she only shows this indirectly, such as by [[spoiler: singing the Nazi national anthem at a party honoring US/West German partnership]]
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*WhereDaWhiteWomenAt: Laura and Joe (played by Gaius Charles).
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* PublicExposure: [[spoiler: Laura admits during a game of Truth or Dare that she had the photographer that was following her around take nude photos of her.]]
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* [[spoiler:HoneyTrap]]: [[spoiler:Kate gets "promoted" from courier to this with regards to her target, a Yugoslavian diplomat. Leads to...]]
** [[spoiler:InLoveWithTheMark]]: [[spoiler:As it is the first time she's ever tried to turn a target into an asset, Kate's feelings for Niko are genuine.]]
** [[spoiler:InLoveWithTheMark]]: [[spoiler:As it is the first time she's ever tried to turn a target into an asset, Kate's feelings for Niko are genuine.]]
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* IndyPloy: how How Kate gets an East German courier whose cover has been blown to safety in "Ich Bin Ein Berliner."
