Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* ConfidentialityBetrayal: Sheriff Brock has apprehended a criminal, and brought him to trial. The defendant's counsel, Douglas Wambaugh, puts the sheriff on the stand and asks him how he determined the defendant was the culprit. The sheriff replies that his wife, the town surgeon, patched up wounds on the defendant that are consistent with his crime. When Wambaugh asks the sheriff if he sought a warrant before this information was divulged, the sheriff answers no, to which Wambaugh declares, "Tainted fruits," and retires his defense. The judge reminds the sheriff that a physician's confidence is sacrosanct, and cannot be divulged unless under warrant. The whole case is dismissed because Jill broke her vow of patient confidentiality.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 76 (click to see context) from:
* ObstructiveBureaucrat: The current mayor (Rome goes through a lot of them) always seems to fill this role, especially Mayor Bill Pugen in the first season who is so obsessed with the town's reputation and his prospects of being re-elected at the next mayoral election that he is constantly trying the stop the Sheriff's Department from openly investigating crimes that might reflect badly on the town.
to:
* ObstructiveBureaucrat: The current mayor (Rome goes through a lot of them) always often seems to fill this role, role (Howard Buss and Laurie Bey are the least obstructive), especially Mayor Bill Pugen in the first season who is so obsessed with the town's reputation and his prospects of being re-elected at the next mayoral election that he is constantly trying the stop the Sheriff's Department from openly investigating crimes that might reflect badly on the town.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 36 (click to see context) from:
* CrossOver: The show crosses over with Creator/DavidEKelley's other show ''ChicagoHope'' in the episode "Rebels with Causes".
to:
* CrossOver: The show crosses over with Creator/DavidEKelley's other show ''ChicagoHope'' ''Series/ChicagoHope'' in the episode "Rebels with Causes".
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
Removed malformed wicks to GCPTR per TRS thread
Deleted line(s) 55 (click to see context) :
%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 8,9 (click to see context) from:
The show centers around the residents of Rome, in particular the functionally dysfunctional Brock family consisting of the town's Sheriff, Jimmy Brock (Creator/TomSkerritt); his wife, Jill (Creator/KathyBaker); their daughter, Kimberly (Creator/HollyMarieCombs); and their two sons, Matthew (Creator/JustinShenkarow) and Zachary (Creator/AdamWylie). Sheriff Brock, along with his deputies at the Rome Sheriff's Department, sometimes struggles to maintain order faced with such strange crimes and occurrences as cow udders exploding and a spate of people turning up dead in freezers. During its tenure, the show also dealt with unusual-for-the-time topics including (but not limited to) abortion, homophobia and LGBT adoption, transsexualism, racism, belief in God, medical ethics, polygamy, polyamory, adolescent sexuality, date rape, masturbation, the Holocaust, cryonics, shoe fetishism, {{spontaneous human combustion}}, and constitutional rights.
to:
The show centers around the residents of Rome, in particular the functionally dysfunctional Brock family consisting of the town's Sheriff, Jimmy Brock (Creator/TomSkerritt); his wife, Jill (Creator/KathyBaker); their daughter, Kimberly (Creator/HollyMarieCombs); and their two sons, Matthew (Creator/JustinShenkarow) and Zachary (Creator/AdamWylie). Sheriff Brock, along with his deputies at the Rome Sheriff's Department, sometimes struggles to maintain order faced with such strange crimes and occurrences as cow udders exploding and a spate of people turning up dead in freezers. During its tenure, the show also dealt with unusual-for-the-time topics including (but not limited to) abortion, homophobia and LGBT adoption, transsexualism, transgender identity, racism, belief in God, medical ethics, polygamy, polyamory, adolescent sexuality, date rape, masturbation, the Holocaust, cryonics, shoe fetishism, {{spontaneous human combustion}}, and constitutional rights.
Changed line(s) 48 (click to see context) from:
* EasySexChange: Subverted in "Pageantry" when the post-operative transsexual teacher explains to Jimmy the lengths that she had to go through to change her gender.
to:
* EasySexChange: Subverted in "Pageantry" when the post-operative transsexual transgender teacher explains to Jimmy the lengths that she had to go through to change her gender.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 92 (click to see context) from:
* SocietyIsToBlame: This argument is used by Wambaugh when he is defending the boy who shot Matthew in the episode "Remote Control", particularly the effect of violent television and video games. [[spoiler: It doesn't work.]]
to:
* SocietyIsToBlame: This argument is used by Wambaugh when he is defending the boy who nonfatally shot Matthew in the episode "Remote Control", particularly the effect of violent television and video games. [[spoiler: It doesn't work.]]]]
* SomeoneToRememberHimBy: GenderInverted in multiple episodes.
** In "[[spoiler:Thanksgiving]]," a woman who has cystic fibrosis and will die from it in a few years discusses wanting to have a baby first.
** In "The Body Politic," a brain-dead car accident victim is pregnant, and her husband and mother go to court arguing about whether to keep her on life support long enough for her child to be born, with her husband calling that idea one of the only things he has left after her accident and discussing how the baby will have her eyes.
* SomeoneToRememberHimBy: GenderInverted in multiple episodes.
** In "[[spoiler:Thanksgiving]]," a woman who has cystic fibrosis and will die from it in a few years discusses wanting to have a baby first.
** In "The Body Politic," a brain-dead car accident victim is pregnant, and her husband and mother go to court arguing about whether to keep her on life support long enough for her child to be born, with her husband calling that idea one of the only things he has left after her accident and discussing how the baby will have her eyes.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 71 (click to see context) from:
* MistakenForIncest: in one episode, Kimberly Brock sees her best friend kissing her father. She reports it to her own father, the town sheriff. In court it's revealed by Douglas Waumbaugh that the young woman is not the man's daughter. The man is a polygamist, and the girl is his second wife, posing as his daughter publicly, with her "mother" being the first wife. Judge Bone points out that the laws against polygamy may one day be challenged on religious grounds to the Supreme Court, and he doesn't want [[SitcomArchNemesis Waumbaugh]] to be the one who brings the case, so urges the town to get the man to dissolve one of his marriages, preferably his eighteen year old bride, the one that started the whole mess in the first place.
to:
* MistakenForIncest: in In one episode, Kimberly Brock sees her best friend kissing her father. She reports it to her own father, the town sheriff. In court it's revealed by Douglas Waumbaugh that the young woman is not the man's daughter. The man is a polygamist, and the girl is his second wife, posing as his daughter publicly, with her "mother" being the first wife. Judge Bone points out that the laws against polygamy may one day be challenged on religious grounds to the Supreme Court, and he doesn't want [[SitcomArchNemesis Waumbaugh]] to be the one who brings the case, so urges the town to get the man to dissolve one of his marriages, preferably his eighteen year old bride, the one that started the whole mess in the first place.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* MistakenForIncest: in one episode, Kimberly Brock sees her best friend kissing her father. She reports it to her own father, the town sheriff. In court it's revealed by Douglas Waumbaugh that the young woman is not the man's daughter. The man is a polygamist, and the girl is his second wife, posing as his daughter publicly, with her "mother" being the first wife. Judge Bone points out that the laws against polygamy may one day be challenged on religious grounds to the Supreme Court, and he doesn't want [[SitcomArchNemesis Waumbaugh]] to be the one who brings the case, so urges the town to get the man to dissolve one of his marriages, preferably his eighteen year old bride, the one that started the whole mess in the first place.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* ShamingTheMob: An unusual example, as Bone shames a group celebrating a girl escaping punishment for selling drugs. She'd been charged at the local level after admitting to trying the drugs and then attempting to sell the remainder of her supply to classmates after she determined that she didn't like them. But the Feds wanted to make an example of her that they treated white drug dealers just as harshly as minorities. John Littleton, who'd made that very point in the hearing, sabotages the case because he felt the federal mandatory punishment of ten years was too harsh for a teenager who did something stupid and ignorant rather than acting maliciously. But when everyone starts celebrating that the case being sabotaged meant she was getting off Scot-free, Bone reminds her sharply that she was, in fact, guilty and deserved punishment, and was only being spared because of Littleton's mercy, not for anything just or righteous on her part.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
TRS cleanup: Not much context
Changed line(s) 102 (click to see context) from:
* WillTheyOrWontThey: Kenny and Max's relationship is based off of this. [[spoiler: TheyDo.]]
to:
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
Death By Sex is no longer a trope per this TRS thread
Zero Context Examples and examples that do not fit existing tropes will be deleted.
Zero Context Examples and examples that do not fit existing tropes will be deleted.Deleted line(s) 40 (click to see context) :
* DeathBySex [=/=] OutWithABang: How [[spoiler:Carter Pike's]] mother ended up dying (subsequently of a heart attack soon after). Around ''Christmas.''
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* AnyoneCanDie: Sympathetic guest characters can die, [[spoiler:starting with a CoolTeacher with a tumor in the third episode]]: [[spoiler:Father Barrett, Barnaby Wood, Frank the Potato Man, and three different mayors]] can all attest that recurring characters can suffer bizarre deaths, as does main cast member [[spoiler:Ginny]].
Added DiffLines:
* TheMainCharactersDoEverything: Jimmy has lots of deputies, but Kenny and Max are the only ones who ever seem to do anything remotely relevant to the plot, besides one episode where Kenny is in the hospital and another deputy gets to be a SpearCarrier until Kenny recovers.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
Deleted line(s) 35 (click to see context) :
* CourtroomAntic: Used very often by Wambaugh. Usually [[SubvertedTrope subverted]], because Judge Bone always called him on it.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 8,9 (click to see context) from:
The show centers around the residents of Rome, in particular the functionally dysfunctional Brock family consisting of the town's Sheriff, Jimmy Brock (Creator/TomSkerritt); his wife, Jill (Creator/KathyBaker); their daughter, Kimberly (Creator/HollyMarieCombs); and their two sons, Matthew (Creator/JustinShenkarow) and Zachary (Creator/AdamWylie). Sheriff Brock, along with his deputies at the Rome Sheriff's Department, sometimes struggles to maintain order faced with such strange crimes and occurrences as cow udders exploding and a spate of people turning up dead in freezers. During its tenure, the show also dealt with unusual-for-the-time topics including but not limited to abortion, homophobia and LGBT adoption, transsexualism, racism, belief in God, medical ethics, polygamy, polyamory, adolescent sexuality, date rape, masturbation, the Holocaust, cryonics, shoe fetishism, {{spontaneous human combustion}}, and constitutional rights.
to:
The show centers around the residents of Rome, in particular the functionally dysfunctional Brock family consisting of the town's Sheriff, Jimmy Brock (Creator/TomSkerritt); his wife, Jill (Creator/KathyBaker); their daughter, Kimberly (Creator/HollyMarieCombs); and their two sons, Matthew (Creator/JustinShenkarow) and Zachary (Creator/AdamWylie). Sheriff Brock, along with his deputies at the Rome Sheriff's Department, sometimes struggles to maintain order faced with such strange crimes and occurrences as cow udders exploding and a spate of people turning up dead in freezers. During its tenure, the show also dealt with unusual-for-the-time topics including but (but not limited to to) abortion, homophobia and LGBT adoption, transsexualism, racism, belief in God, medical ethics, polygamy, polyamory, adolescent sexuality, date rape, masturbation, the Holocaust, cryonics, shoe fetishism, {{spontaneous human combustion}}, and constitutional rights.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 8,9 (click to see context) from:
The show centers around the residents of Rome, in particular the functionally dysfunctional Brock family consisting of the town's Sheriff, Jimmy Brock (Creator/TomSkerritt); his wife, Jill (Creator/KathyBaker); their daughter, Kimberly (Creator/HollyMarieCombs); and their two sons, Matthew (Creator/JustinShenkarow) and Zachary (Creator/AdamWylie). Sheriff Brock, along with his deputies at the Rome Sheriff's Department, sometimes struggles to maintain order faced with such strange crimes and occurrences as cow udders exploding and a spate of people turning up dead in freezers. During its tenure, the show also dealt with unusual (for the time) topics not limited to abortion, homophobia and LGBT adoption, transsexualism, racism, belief in God, medical ethics, polygamy, polyamory, adolescent sexuality, date rape, cryonics, the Holocaust, shoe fetishism, masturbation, {{spontaneous human combustion}}, and constitutional rights.
to:
The show centers around the residents of Rome, in particular the functionally dysfunctional Brock family consisting of the town's Sheriff, Jimmy Brock (Creator/TomSkerritt); his wife, Jill (Creator/KathyBaker); their daughter, Kimberly (Creator/HollyMarieCombs); and their two sons, Matthew (Creator/JustinShenkarow) and Zachary (Creator/AdamWylie). Sheriff Brock, along with his deputies at the Rome Sheriff's Department, sometimes struggles to maintain order faced with such strange crimes and occurrences as cow udders exploding and a spate of people turning up dead in freezers. During its tenure, the show also dealt with unusual (for the time) unusual-for-the-time topics including but not limited to abortion, homophobia and LGBT adoption, transsexualism, racism, belief in God, medical ethics, polygamy, polyamory, adolescent sexuality, date rape, cryonics, masturbation, the Holocaust, cryonics, shoe fetishism, masturbation, {{spontaneous human combustion}}, and constitutional rights.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 6,7 (click to see context) from:
Welcome to the small town of Rome, Wisconsin, where everyone knows everyone and the bizarre is an everyday occurrence. Created by Creator/DavidEKelley, the UsefulNotes/{{Emmy Award}} -winning family/cop/legal/medical dramedy ''Picket Fences'' ran on Creator/{{CBS}} for four seasons (1992–96) and 88 episodes, before it was cancelled for being a little ''too'' weird for its own good.
to:
Welcome to the small town of Rome, Wisconsin, where everyone knows everyone and the bizarre is an everyday occurrence. Created by Creator/DavidEKelley, the UsefulNotes/{{Emmy Award}} -winning UsefulNotes/EmmyAward-winning family/cop/legal/medical dramedy ''Picket Fences'' ran on Creator/{{CBS}} for four seasons (1992–96) and 88 episodes, before it was cancelled for being a little ''too'' weird for its own good.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* Catchphrase: Only a few, but they are good. Carter frequently says "I should be deputized". The judge often yells "GET OUT!", usually at Wambaugh. Mr. Wambaugh himself likes say "Its because I'm Jewish" and "I'm a character!" inside and outside the court room.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 8,9 (click to see context) from:
The show centers around the residents of Rome, in particular the functionally dysfunctional Brock family consisting of the town's Sheriff, Jimmy Brock (Creator/TomSkerritt); his wife, Jill (Creator/KathyBaker); their daughter, Kimblerly (Creator/HollyMarieCombs); and their two sons, Matthew (Creator/JustinShenkarow) and Zachary (Creator/AdamWylie). Sheriff Brock, along with his deputies at the Rome Sheriff's Department, sometimes struggles to maintain order faced with such strange crimes and occurrences as cow udders exploding and a spate of people turning up dead in freezers. During its tenure, the show also dealt with unusual (for the time) topics not limited to abortion, homophobia and LGBT adoption, transsexualism, racism, belief in God, medical ethics, polygamy, polyamory, adolescent sexuality, date rape, cryonics, the Holocaust, shoe fetishism, masturbation, {{spontaneous human combustion}}, and constitutional rights.
to:
The show centers around the residents of Rome, in particular the functionally dysfunctional Brock family consisting of the town's Sheriff, Jimmy Brock (Creator/TomSkerritt); his wife, Jill (Creator/KathyBaker); their daughter, Kimblerly Kimberly (Creator/HollyMarieCombs); and their two sons, Matthew (Creator/JustinShenkarow) and Zachary (Creator/AdamWylie). Sheriff Brock, along with his deputies at the Rome Sheriff's Department, sometimes struggles to maintain order faced with such strange crimes and occurrences as cow udders exploding and a spate of people turning up dead in freezers. During its tenure, the show also dealt with unusual (for the time) topics not limited to abortion, homophobia and LGBT adoption, transsexualism, racism, belief in God, medical ethics, polygamy, polyamory, adolescent sexuality, date rape, cryonics, the Holocaust, shoe fetishism, masturbation, {{spontaneous human combustion}}, and constitutional rights.
