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* BuffySpeak: Occasionally, from Bridget

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* BuffySpeak: Occasionally, from BridgetBridget. Appropriate, considering [[SarahMichelleGellar who]] [[BuffyTheVampireSlayer plays her.]]
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* TheChessmaster: Siobhan. Responsible for, among other things, [[spoiler:Jimmy the cop convincing Bridget that she's not safe and must run to L.A., setting up the whole plot. And Bridget thought that taking Siobhan's place was her own idea]]!

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* TheChessmaster: Siobhan. Responsible for, among other things, [[spoiler:Jimmy the cop convincing Bridget that she's not safe and must run to L.A., NYC, setting up the whole plot. And Bridget thought that taking Siobhan's place was her own idea]]!
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* GoldDigger: Siobhan.
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* BecomingTheMask: Bridget doesn't take long to decide to try her best to fix Siobhan's relationships with her friends and family, and is horrified to realize that she's actually falling in love with Andrew.
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* YourCheatingHeart: The affair between Siobhan and Henry eventually culminates in a possible [[spoiler:MurderTheHypotenuse]] situation after Henry discovers Gemma's plans to [[spoiler:blackmail him into losing everything in a divorce]]. Apparently this isn't the only instance of YourCheatingHeart: Siobhan and Andrew were dating when Andrew was [[spoiler:still married to his first wife.]]

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* YourCheatingHeart: The affair between Siobhan and Henry eventually culminates in a possible [[spoiler:MurderTheHypotenuse]] situation after Henry discovers Gemma's plans to [[spoiler:blackmail him into losing everything in a divorce]]. Apparently this isn't the only instance of YourCheatingHeart: Siobhan and Andrew were dating when Andrew was [[spoiler:still still married to his first wife.]]
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* TheChessmaster: Siobhan. Responsible for, among other things, [[spoiler:Jimmy the cop convincing Bridget that she's not safe and must run to L.A., setting up the whole plot]].

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* TheChessmaster: Siobhan. Responsible for, among other things, [[spoiler:Jimmy the cop convincing Bridget that she's not safe and must run to L.A., setting up the whole plot]].plot. And Bridget thought that taking Siobhan's place was her own idea]]!
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* BuffySpeak: Occasionally, from Bridget
* TheChessmaster: Siobhan. Responsible for, among other things, [[spoiler:Jimmy the cop convincing Bridget that she's not safe and must run to L.A., setting up the whole plot]].
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* IrishNames: Both Siobhan (usually pronounced "She-von") and the less dautingly spelled and pronouced Bridget.

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* IrishNames: Both Siobhan (usually pronounced "She-von") and "She-von"), the less dautingly dauntingly spelled and pronouced Bridget.pronounced Bridget Kelly, and Siobhan's alias, Cora Farrell.
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[[caption-width-right:220:Bridgett's no safer as Siobhan than she is as herself]]

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[[caption-width-right:220:Bridgett's [[caption-width-right:220:Bridget's no safer as Siobhan than she is as herself]]
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* IrishNames: Both Siobhan (usually pronounced "She-von") and the less dautingly spelled and pronouced Bridget.
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[[caption-width-right:220:Bridgett's no safer as Siobhan than she is as herself]]

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* AcceptableEthnicTargets averted. The BigBad crime boss who murdered one of his own strippers is a Native American.
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* AcceptableEthnicTargets averted. The BigBad crime boss who murdered one of his own strippers is a Native American.
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* TheMole: [[spoiler: as of episode 7 in season one: Bridget's new sponsor Charlie.]]
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** Bridget gets another when [[spoiler: she's in the hospital and the doctors want to "check on the baby as a precaution" after a concussion.]]
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TRS thread decided on cutting Hollywood Thin.


* HollywoodThin: Subverted, as everyone notices how thin Bridget is as part of her difficulty in assuming Siobhan's life, this largely isn't viewed as a positive, and she's even told that she looks anorexic.
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* ShoutOut: Andrew has a surprise for Bridget/Siobhan in [[Series/HoratioHornblower Horatio]] Street.

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* ShoutOut: Andrew [[IoanGruffudd Andrew]] has a surprise for Bridget/Siobhan in [[Series/HoratioHornblower Horatio]] Street.
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* HeyItsThatGuy:
** [[BuffyTheVampireSlayer Buffy]] has a twin sister now.
** Looks like [[VeronicaMars Logan]] cleaned up his act.
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* KickTheDog: Double whammy in one episode for Siobhan. In a flashback, [[spoiler: Siobhan seriously ([[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation or maybe not?]]) suggests taking out Gemma and Andrew so that she and Henry can be together. In that same episode, it's revealed at the end that Gemma's disappearance was ordered by Siobhan.]]
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* HeyItsThatGuy:
** [[BuffyTheVampireSlayer Buffy]] has a twin sister now.
** Looks like [[VeronicaMars Logan]] cleaned up his act.
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-->Gemma:[[spoiler: That's for sleeping with my husband,]] you whore!

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-->Gemma:[[spoiler: That's -->Gemma:That's for sleeping [[spoiler:sleeping with my husband,]] you whore!
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* TakeAThirdOption: After Gemma is seemingly murdered, it seems either Bridget or Henry will have to take the fall, as each suspects the other. Bridget gets around it by [[spoiler:planting her own fingerprints on the evidence, which gets the police looking for her true identity while she's safely ensconced as Siobhan.]]
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moving to YMMV


* CompleteMonster: Foddoway (spelling?) tortures Ward by forcing him to take the drug that he used to be addicted to. Not a nice thing to do to an addict.
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* ShoutOut: Andrew has a surprise for Bridget/Siobhan in [[HoratioHornblower Horatio]] Street.

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* ShoutOut: Andrew has a surprise for Bridget/Siobhan in [[HoratioHornblower [[Series/HoratioHornblower Horatio]] Street.
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* CompleteMonster: Foddoway (spelling?) tortures Ward by forcing him to take the drug that he used to be addicted to. [[{{Understatement}} Not a nice thing to do to an addict.]]

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* CompleteMonster: Foddoway (spelling?) tortures Ward by forcing him to take the drug that he used to be addicted to. [[{{Understatement}} Not a nice thing to do to an addict.]]
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* CompleteMonster: Foddoway (spelling?) tortures Ward by forcing him to take the drug that he used to be addicted to. [[{{Understatement}} Not a nice thing to do to an addict.]]

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* RichBitch: From everything Bridget (as Siobhan) and we the audience have seen from the pilot, Siobhan seems like a real bitch.

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* RichBitch: From everything Bridget (as Siobhan) and we the audience have seen from the pilot, Siobhan seems like a real bitch.bitch.
* ShoutOut: Andrew has a surprise for Bridget/Siobhan in [[HoratioHornblower Horatio]] Street.

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* FanPreferredCouple: Bridget/Andrew is currently this for a lot of fans.


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* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: Like [[{{Damages}} several]] [[TwoAndAHalfMen other]] [[{{Deadwood}} shows]], every episode is named after a line of dialogue ("She's Ruining Everything," "If You Ever Want A French Lesson...", "It's Gonna Kill Me, But I'll Do It" and so on).

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* RichBitch: From everything Bridget (as Siobhan) and we the audience have seen from the pilot, Siobhan seems like a real bitch.
** Not too far a reach for Juliet as well, though this doubles more as SpoiledBrat.

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* RichBitch: From everything Bridget (as Siobhan) and we the audience have seen from the pilot, Siobhan seems like a real bitch.
** Not too far a reach for Juliet as well, though this doubles more as SpoiledBrat.
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* SpoiledBrat: Juliet.
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*FanPreferredCouple: Bridget/Andrew is currently this for a lot of fans.

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