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* TheVietnamVet: It's mentioned that Beau fought in the Vietnam War.

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* ProductPlacement : Maggie's trailer is always an Airstream.

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* ProductPlacement : Maggie's :
**Maggie's
trailer is always an Airstream. Airstream.
** If somebody is drinking a beer, it's going to be Budweiser (which is a little strange because the show is set in Colorado where Coors is king), and if they're drinking whiskey, it will probably be Jim Beam.
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* {{Expy}}: Colt and Rooster are basically grown-up versions of Kelso and Hyde from ''Series/That70sShow'', and Beau is basically a cowboy version of Red Foreman.
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* TheHedonist: Colt. As Beau explains, he's either drank, smoked, or screwed away every opportunity he's ever had. Rooster comments that if Colt inherited the ranch and sold it off, a lot of strippers in Denver would have money to buy new boobs.
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* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling : While both Bennett boys drink and sleep around a lot, Rooster stayed on the ranch to work while Bennett pursued (and screwed up) a football career.
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* SiblingRivalry: Colt and Rooster's relationship is mostly this.
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* NeverMyFault : Colt won't accept responsibility for his screwups.
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* BettyAndVeronica : Abby and Heather, to Cole. Kenny and Cole, to Abby.

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* BettyAndVeronica : Abby and Heather, to Cole. Colt. Kenny and Cole, Colt, to Abby.



* MayDecemberRomance : Played with. Cole is 12 years older than Heather. Then Rooster picks up Heather's mom Mary, but points out that they're closer in age (about 6 years' difference) than Cole is to Heather.
* {{Metrosexual}} : Cole is critical of others' fashion choices (though he dresses like a fratboy himself) and is awfully attached to his hair care regime.

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* MayDecemberRomance : Played with. Cole Colt is 12 years older than Heather. Then Rooster picks up Heather's mom Mary, but points out that they're closer in age (about 6 years' difference) than Cole Colt is to Heather.
* {{Metrosexual}} : Cole Colt is critical of others' fashion choices (though he dresses like a fratboy himself) and is awfully attached to his hair care regime.
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* MayDecemberRomance : Played with. Cole is 12 years older than Heather. Then Rooster picks up Heather's mom Mary, but points out that they're closer in age (about 6 years' difference) than Cole is to Heather.

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* BettyAndVeronica : Abby and Heather, to Cole. Kenny and Cole, to Abby.



* CoolOldGuy : Beau
* CoolOldLady: Maggie



* TheStoner: Maggie, who tried to microwave frying pan while high.

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* StacysMom : Mary, hot mom to both Heather and her sister Darlene, Rooster's blind date.
* TheStoner: Maggie, who tried to microwave a frying pan while high.
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* BrokeEpisode : While a backdrop of the series is that the ranch is failing due to the drought, in the tenth episode Beau decides the market is so bad he won't sell the calves. He also cuts the power. At the last minute, a DeusExMachina disaster befalls the competition.

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* BasementDweller: Lampshaded by Abby.
--> Am I the only one here who doesn't live with their parents?



* CasanovaWannabe: Rooster.



* MsFanservice : Heather spends most of her scenes running around in cute underwear.

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* MsFanservice : Heather spends most of her scenes running around in cute underwear. It's even lampshaded by Colt.
--> Colt: What happened to your shirt?
--> Heather: Do you really care?

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* CanadaEh : Colt's last job was on the "Saskatoon Cold," which is like the Miami Heat only, you know, cold. Also a bit of ArtisticLicense, as Saskatoon doesn't have a CFL team. The closest would be the junior Saskatoon Hilltops, or the Saskatchewan Roughriders.



* JerkJock : Colt.

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* JerkJock : Colt. He's also very much a DumbJock.


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* UnusualEuphemism : Beau refers to the cow's "address."
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* BadassMustache : Beau, of course. Discussed when one of the boys suggests Creator/BurtReynolds has the all-time greatest mustache.


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* CaliforniaDoubling : Though set in Colorado, most of the show is filmed on a soundstage in LA. The external shots in the credits are unclear.
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* AbsurdlyYouthfulMother : Megyn Price, who plays Heather's mom Mary, is only 19 years older than Kelli Goss. Discussed in-universe, as Mary was only 17 when she had her first child.


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* BrickJoke : Happens at least once an episode. Something is mentioned early on, and returns later in the episode, such as Beau making fun of Maggie for reading ''Literature/TheBridgesOfMadisonCounty'' and thinking she's a relationship expert.
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* ActorAllusion : Beau is pretty attached to his beef.
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** Technically, they're separated, not divorced, but have been living apart for years. After a fire in Maggie's trailer, the boys invite Maggie to stay at the ranch until it's fixed. Beau thinks he and Maggie should re-marry, but Maggie likes her life away from the ranch.


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* TherapyIsForTheWeak : Beau isn't interested in marriage counselling.
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* ProductPlacement : Maggie's trailer is always an Airstream.
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* ManChild : Both the Bennett sons are this, in different ways.


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* {{Metrosexual}} : Cole is critical of others' fashion choices (though he dresses like a fratboy himself) and is awfully attached to his hair care regime.


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* RealSongThemeTune : "Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys."


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** Also to Barack Obama, and Democrats in general.
* TrollingTranslator : Colt tries to get Abby to break up with Heather via text. She sends a text telling Heather they have to meet in person.
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* CookingShow: Rooster pretends to be narrating one while he cooks breakfast.
--> Making scrambled eggs is like making love to a beautiful woman. You want to gentle, you want to take your time, you want to last. But most importantly, you want to use a shit-ton of butter.
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* MsFanservice : Heather spends most of her scenes running around in cute underwear.

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* AbhorrentAdmirer: Hank, to Maggie. Colt, to Abby.



* AmicablyDivorced: Maggie and Beau, who still sleep together after they argue.

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* AmicablyDivorced: Maggie and Beau, [[FriendsWithBenefits who still sleep together together]] after they argue. And they spend most of their time arguing, largely because Beau isn't interested in much besides cattle.
* BandGeek : Kenny was in the band in high school.



--> Colt: You tried to kiss a woman holding a big red stop sign?
** It's creepier when he asks a high school girl if she's a senior, and seems interested in a young woman who had her prom a year ago. He's 35.



* PoliceAreUseless : If "Beer Pong" is any indication.

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* PoliceAreUseless : If "Beer Pong" is any indication. He leaves his gun in the refrigerator at one point.


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* TheStoner: Maggie, who tried to microwave frying pan while high.


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** Subverted with Beau, who says that while his dad was tough on him, the family was just glad he'd made it out of Vietnam alive.
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* DeadpanSnarker : Most of the cast, but especially Rooster.
--> Beau: When you say stupid shit like that all day, do you go to bed proud of yourself?
--> Rooster: Yes, I do sir. [[ADateWithRosiePalms Then I do something else in bed]], and I feel ashamed.


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* MistakenForPedophile: Rooster.
--> If I avoided every girl I tried to kiss, I'd have to avoid the bank, the dentist, middle school. (Beat) Relax, you pervert, it was the crossing guard.

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--> When I sit on the porch and drink alone, but when you're here, it's just two brothers bonding.

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--> When I sit on the porch and drink alone, alone I'm an alcoholic, but when you're here, it's just two brothers bonding.



* DadTheVeteran: Beau is a Vietnam veteran.



* DietEpisode : Played with. In the third episode, Beau is diagnosed with high blood pressure and has to change his eating habits, including giving up alcohol and red meat.
--> Doctor: What do you do to relieve stress?
--> Beau : Eat steak and drink whiskey.



* JadedWashout: Colt. Technically many of the cast members could fit this, but Colt's the one with the most promise in high school.

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* JadedWashout: Colt. Technically many of the cast members could fit this, but Colt's the one with who had the most promise in high school.


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* ManlyTears : Colt has a heart-to-heart with Beau in Episode 3. Quickly subverted when Beau tells him he'll end up eating quinoa, "whatever the fuck that is."


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* PoliceAreUseless : If "Beer Pong" is any indication.
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* JadedWashout: Colt. Technically many of the cast members could fit this, but Colt's the one with the most promise in high school.
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* WellDoneSonGuy : Both Colt and Rooster long for their father's approval.

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* WellDoneSonGuy : Both Colt and Rooster long for their father's approval.approval.
* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent : The show is set in Colorado, yet the main cast seems to have vague, disappearing Texan accents.
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* AmicablyDivorced: Maggie and Beau, who still sleep together after they argue.
* BetterThanSex : How Rooster describes a really great pee.
* CaptainMorganPose : Colt puts his foot up on the coffee table, revealing his "lady boots" to Beau.
* CareerEndingInjury: Colt hasn't quite given up football, but three concussions and a sore knee and shoulder (shown packed in ice) have blown his chances at an NFL career.
* CPRCleanPrettyReliable : Colt delivers a calf who appears to be stillborn. After a few seconds of breathing into its mouth, not only is the calf revived, Colt is so good it's dried and blowbrushed of all its birth goo!
* DeliveryGuy : Downplayed. Colt has to help birth a breech calf, but it's old hat to him.
* FailureIsTheOnlyOption : Rooster felt he didn't have a choice but to stay and help on the ranch when Colt was accepted into college.
* GroinAttack : Colt punches Rooster in the nuts for joking about sleeping with Abby.


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* IronicEcho : Colt repeats his mom's words.
--> If it helps, we weren't facing each other.
* JerkJock : Colt.


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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: In the pilot, Beau delivers one to Colt, who has squandered every opportunity he's had.
* RedemptionInTheRain : When Beau and Colt are arguing, about to come to blows, it suddenly starts raining (for the first time in a year). Colt claims to have brought the rain with him.
* TakeThat : To Al Gore.
--> Beau: Global warming's just something Al Gore made up to sell books to Californians.
* TheUnfavorite : Both the Bennett boys seem to be this, depending on who's talking.
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''Series/TheRanch'' is an original series, premiering on Netflix as of April, 2016. It stars Creator/AshtonKutcher as a Colt Bennett semi-pro football player who returns to his dad's Colorado ranch when his career goes south. He has to contend with his unambitious brother Jameson "Rooster" Bennett (Creator/DannyMasterson), his gruff father Beau Bennett(Creator/SamElliott), and re-adjusting to small-town life.

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''Series/TheRanch'' is an original series, premiering on Netflix as of April, 2016. It stars Creator/AshtonKutcher as a Colt Bennett Bennett, a semi-pro football player who returns to his dad's Colorado ranch when his career goes south. He has to contend with his unambitious brother Jameson "Rooster" Bennett (Creator/DannyMasterson), his gruff father Beau Bennett(Creator/SamElliott), and re-adjusting to small-town life.

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''Series/TheRanch'' is an original series, premiering on Netflix as of April, 2016. It stars Creator/AshtonKutcher as a semi-pro football player who returns to his dad's ranch when his career goes south.

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''Series/TheRanch'' is an original series, premiering on Netflix as of April, 2016. It stars Creator/AshtonKutcher as a Colt Bennett semi-pro football player who returns to his dad's Colorado ranch when his career goes south.south. He has to contend with his unambitious brother Jameson "Rooster" Bennett (Creator/DannyMasterson), his gruff father Beau Bennett(Creator/SamElliott), and re-adjusting to small-town life.

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* TheAlcoholic : Both Colt and Rooster have shades of this. While it's PlayedForLaughs, it's a little depressing.
--> When I sit on the porch and drink alone, but when you're here, it's just two brothers bonding.
* HasAType : Colt's date in the pilot (Heather) and his ex-girlfriend could be related.
* LoveTriangle : Colt is still interested in Abby, who's dating Kenny.
* OneSteveLimit : Subverted. Rooster dates two girls named Linda.
--> Colt: Linda Miller? Is that Cute Linda or Pregnant Linda?
--> Rooster: They're both cute.
* {{Rancher}} : Beau, who's struggling due to the drought and depressed economy.
* UnplannedCrossdressing : Colt likes wearing Uggs, and accidentally tries to put on his date's.
* WellDoneSonGuy : Both Colt and Rooster long for their father's approval.
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''Series/TheRanch'' is an original series, premiering on Netflix as of April, 2016. It stars Creator/AshtonKutcher as a semi-pro football player who returns to his dad's ranch when his career goes south.

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