History Series / Wonderfalls

%% * 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.

** It was implied that the story about the maiden of the mist had a hand in this, until later in the season [[spoiler: when they casually point out it was made up a few years ago for tourism.]]

* LoveTriangle: [[TriangRelations Type number 7]] between Jaye, Eric, and Heidi.

* PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad: Inverted? Every time someone says Native American Jaye interrupts them to insist that they just call them Indians.

* OutnumberedSibling: Tyler siblings: Aaron (male), Sharon and Jaye (female).

* EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys: One of Jaye's animal advisors is a monkey figurine.

Many people missed its broadcast run, being unable to figure out when it was on. It still managed to scrounge up a few fans, though, who petitioned to get a [=DVD=] set, which collects all 13 episodes.

Jaye Tyler (Caroline Dhavernas) is a young woman with a useless Ivy League degree and no desire to pursue a career, working as a retail clerk in a UsefulNotes/NiagaraFalls souvenir shop. MagicRealism asserts itself when inanimate objects--everything from statues, bookends and plush dolls to cartoon business logos, but always animals in some form--begin to talk to her. Their cryptic clues lead Jaye to bettering the lives of people around her (usually in cleverly-conceived, indirect ways) while simultaneously causing her to seriously doubt her sanity. Worse, if she attempts to ignore their commands, they badger and pester her until she relents.

* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Alec, Jaye's boss, is almost always known (and credited as) [[EmbarassingNicknsme "Mouth Breather."]]

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: The various references to Heidi cheating on Eric can get pretty dirty ("She always said I shouldn't open my mouth to strangers." "Kind of ironic, you know...considering"), as is the policewoman's comment about how she could tell Sharon was a lesbian from her short fingernails. ("Lesbians always trim their nails like that. [[CommonHollywoodSexTraits You know why?]]")
** In "Lovesick Ass", the kid's name is Peter Johnson and his dad is Dick Johnson. They managed 3 penis euphemisms across 2 people, not bad.

* LampshadedDoubleEntendre: A police officer was able to tell that Sharon was a lesbian on sight. On a count of her... ahem... fingernail length. See GettingCrapPastTheRadar.

* FamilyThemeNaming: The Tylers are named Darren, Karen, Sharon, Aaron and [[OddNameOut Jaye]].

** In Lovesick Ass, the kid's name is Peter Johnson and his dad is Dick Johnson. They managed 3 penis euphemisms across 2 people, not bad.

* [[JeannedArchetype Jeanne d'Archétype]]: Jaye, admittedly very loosely.

* BlackBestFriend: Mahandra. (Though for the purposes of collecting federal grant money, 1/8th Native American on her grandmother's side!)

* BlackSheep: Jaye.

** Plans for the second season had the girlfriend continuing to see both Sharon and her husband, which would eventually result in Sharon becoming pregnant by her girlfriend's husband after she sleeps with them in succession, and possibly saving their marriage by giving them the baby they were never able to conceive on their own.

** It was implied that the story about the maiden of the mist had a hand in this, until later in the season [[sopiler: when they casually point out it was made up a few years ago for tourism.]]

** It was implied that the story about the maiden of the mist had a hand in this, until later in the season when thy casually point out it was made up a few years ago for tourism.

The Fox network aired four one-hour episodes of the series before cancelling it, though thirteen episodes had been completed. [[TheTimReaper Tim Minear]], one of Creator/JossWhedon's co-creators on ''Series/{{Angel}}'', wrote and executively produced, ensuring snappy post-modern dialogue and convoluted plots.

* BuffySpeak: With TimMinear on board, perhaps not surprising.

Jaye Tyler is a young woman with a useless Ivy League degree and no desire to pursue a career, working as a retail clerk in a UsefulNotes/NiagaraFalls souvenir shop. MagicRealism asserts itself when inanimate objects--everything from statues, bookends and plush dolls to cartoon business logos, but always animals in some form--begin to talk to her. Their cryptic clues lead Jaye to bettering the lives of people around her (usually in cleverly-conceived, indirect ways) while simultaneously causing her to seriously doubt her sanity. Worse, if she attempts to ignore their commands, they badger and pester her until she relents.

* CaliforniaDoubling: NiagaraFalls, ''Ontario'' (and environs) doubles for NiagaraFalls, ''New York'' (ditto). Of course, anyone who's actually been there will realize that the view directly across includes the American Falls, which would be on the left if one was actually on the American side.

* WoobieOfTheWeek: The show premise, atleast for the first two-thirds of the season. Then it became less focused on her accidentally doing good deeds and more on Heidi and Eric and beginning go into detail about just what exactly is causing her "powers".