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* ArtisticLicenseHistory: Colette seems to think its the primary United States which try to wash the Germans of their WW2 guilt (See Quote). At the time she says this, the Treaty of Élysée of French-German Friendship had been signed for 6 months in order to finally move beyond the century long feud between both nations.
--> '''Colette''': "Your president tries so hard to lift [the Germans'] shame, but they should feel shame. I came to Germany to forgive, but I still hate them. And I don't know how to stop."
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*** Both apparently resolved in the finale, at least enough to give some closure.
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* XMeetsY: This show can be described as ''MadMen'' ''[[TropesOnAPlane on a plane!]]''
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DuelingShows with {{NBC}}'s ''ThePlayboyClub'' and both attempting to capture the success of ''MadMen'' for primetime broadcast television. Neither attempt worked, though ''Pam Am'' barely "won" the duel by lasting a whole season before being quietly canceled.
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* HairOfGold: Laura
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* DuelingShows: With ''The Playboy Club''. Both are considered to be knock-offs of ''MadMen'' to boot. And this show is the big winner, as ''Playboy Club'' was cancelled after just three episodes.

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* DuelingShows: With ''The Playboy Club''. Both are considered to be knock-offs of ''MadMen'' to boot. And this show is the big winner, as ''Playboy Club'' was cancelled after just three episodes.episodes before the show had even premiered
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since it\'s canceled...


''Pan Am'' is a television series currently showing on 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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''Pan Am'' is was a television series currently showing which aired on 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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* ToplessnessFromTheBack: [[spoiler: Laura]] at the end of " Romance Languages."
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* SexyBack: [[spoiler: Laura's,]] at the end of "Romance Languages".
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** [[TheyDo. They all do.]]

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** [[TheyDo. [[TheyDo They all do.]]
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* StealthPun: What's the first episode of a television show called? A pilot. Who is one of the main focuses of the first episode of Pan Am? The pilot.


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** [[TheyDo. They all do.]]
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* FridgeLogic: Anderson encourage Kate to stay on with the CIA even though she was involved in the mission [[spoiler: where he tries to sell out MI6]].
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* NewYearHasCome: The first season finale ends with the gang watching the New York City ball drop from a nearby balcony.


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* RuleofDrama: When they were trapped on the short runway in Haiti Dean could have technically turned the plane around instead of lightening the load.


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* ScrewedByTheNetwork: ABC aired Pan Am on Sunday at 10PM against the Super Bowl Sunday and the Grammys.


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** Dean cheats on Colette by sleeping with [[spoiler: Bridget]] when she returns.
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* FridgeLogic: Anderson encourage Kate to stay on with the CIA even though she was involved in the mission [[spoiler: where he tries to sell out MI6]].
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* CreepyChild: Charlie has shades of this when breaks into Colette's hotel room in the middle of the night while she's asleep and stands over her bed.


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* LocalHangout: The pilots and the stewardesses will often hang out in the empty jet.


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** Maggie gets called out again by Colette for [[spoiler: ratting out Dean and Ginny's affair to his superior]].
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* FaceHeelTurn: In the first season finale, [[spoiler: Anderson]] betrays the CIA and MI6.


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* ShipSinking: There probably won't be too many fans of Kate and [[spoiler: Anderson]] since in the finale [[spoiler: he betrayed the CIA and MI6 and threatened to kill her]].
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* ShotgunWedding: Seems on the cards for [[spoiler: Ted and Amanda]].
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** Also, Laura/Ted/Amanda.

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* AffablyEvil: Broyles is a smuggler who uses his personal relationship with Juan Trippe to get out of a lot of jams. That, and he is incredibly charming. He isn't an antagonist, but otherwise he fits this trope like a glove.



* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Amanda deploys an...unusual variation of this trope when she [[spoiler: asks Laura to be Ted's mistress]]



* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Ted.

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** The first scene we see Ted's dad in he is refusing to help his son get back into the Navy test pilot program because it would involve looking for the flaw in the plane's design Ted claims crashed the plane...which, since his company has a contract to make that plane, would cost him a lot of money.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Ted.Ted and Broyles. They both become more likable the more you get to know them



* MilitaryMaverick: Ted when he was in the Navy. It backfires horribly when he crashes the test plane.

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* MilitaryMaverick: Ted when he was in the Navy. It backfires horribly when he crashes the test plane. he claims the plan had a defect, the Navy ruled that he made an error.
* TheMole: [[spoiler: Anderson]] is a Soviet double agent.


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** Also no one freaks out when Maggie mentions that [[spoiler: Amanda]] kissed her on the lips, in a time period where gay people were generally thought to be predatory perverts.
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* PsychoEx: Ginny when Dean breaks up with her.
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* PrecociousCrush: Charlie on Colette in "Romance Languages".
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* SexyBack: [[spoiler: Laura's,]] at the end of "Romance Languages".

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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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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).
** Also "Romance Languages" is shown several weeks late and resolves several plot threads that were skipped over in running order (When did Laura take the nude photos? When did Ginny and Dean break up?).

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* ForegoneConclusion: "New Frontiers" ends with news that JFK has been shot.
-->'''WalterCronkite''': (''on the news'') As of ten minutes ago, the president was still alive.
-->'''Maggie''': He'll be fine...he has to be...

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* ForegoneConclusion: "New Frontiers" ends with the news that JFK has been shot.
-->'''WalterCronkite''': (''on the news'') As of ten minutes ago, the president was still alive.
-->'''Maggie''': He'll be fine...he has to be...
shot, and people wondering whether he'll make it.
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* ForegoneConclusion: "New Frontiers" ends with news that JFK has been shot.
-->'''WalterCronkite''': (''on the news'') As of ten minutes ago, the president was still alive.
-->'''Maggie''': He'll be fine...he has to be...
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* HeyItsThatGuy: [[{{Twilight}} Alice Cullen]] plays Ted's [[spoiler:lesbian]] childhood friend.
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Is the name ginny alone a shoutout these days? There was nothing to indicate that her character had anything to do with Harry Potter


* ShoutOut: Dean gets into a relationship with a girl named [[HarryPotter Ginny]] and it doesn't work out. [[ThereAreNoCoincidences That can't be a coincidence]], can it?
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* ShoutOut: Dean gets into a relationship with a girl named [[HarryPotter Ginny]] and it doesn't work out. [[ThereAreNoCoincidences That can't be a coincidence]], can it?
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* KingIncognito: Prince Incognito actually.

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* BigApplesauce: Subverted. The crew's home base is in New York, but every episode features a flight to at least one location overseas.

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* BigApplesauce: Subverted. The crew's home base is in New York, but every episode features a flight to at least one location overseas. TheBeard: [[spoiler: How Amanda sees Ted if they get married.]]


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* BigApplesauce: Subverted. The crew's home base is in New York, but every episode features a flight to at least one location overseas.

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