History YMMV / Medium

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: The end of "Wicked Game". And this subtly {{Badass}} line:

* HeyItsThatGuy / RetroactiveRecognition
** [[{{Series/Supernatural}} Crowley]] shows up in one of Allison's dreams in "Penny for your Thoughts"...in a role not out of the realm of his characterization on {{Series/Supernatural}}

** In "The Devil Inside": [spoiler: The ghosts of the dead victims that couldn't be saved because Allison's stalker was interfering with her dreams (because he thought she was doing the Devil's work) going after the stalker's ghost.] Allison's faith in her dreams is renewed; the implication being, if they don't come from the devil, whose else could the dreams be coming from?

** [[{{Series/Supernatural}} Crowley]] shows up in one of Allison's dreams...in a role not out of the realm of his characterization on {{Series/Supernatural}}

** [[{{Series/Supernatural}} Crowley]] shows up in one of Allison's dreams...in a role not out of the realm of his characterization as the King of Hell

* HeyItsThatGuy

* {{Anvilicious}}: Someone involved in the writing process for Dead Meat was absolutely a vegetarian. There's a rather gratuitous scene of a man eating a bacon sandwich which squeals every time he takes a bite.

* EarWorm: "The Song Remains the Same"
-->''I will survive, survive, survive, survive.''

* SeasonalRot: In later years it starts using "And it was all a dream" as a twist a good deal too many times. It also starts re-using other twists from previous episodes.

* HarsherInHindsight: The episode guest starring David Carradine where he played a spirit that ''looked'' like David Carradine ([[CelebrityParadox who apparently is also an actor in this universe]]). It obviously couldn't be Carradine's ghost since, as Allison states more than once, David Carradine wasn't dead. Three years after the episode aired, David Carradine died during an auto-erotic asphyxiation accident.

* HarsherInHindsight: The episode guest starring David Carradine where he played a spirit that ''looked'' like David Carradine ([[CelebrityParadox who apparently is also an actor in this universe]]). It obviously couldn't be Carradine's ghost since, as Allison states more than once, David Carradine wasn't dead. Three years later...

* HighOctaneNightmareFuel: Allison gets most of her visions in nightmares...
** In "The Devil Inside", a man claiming to be doing God's work by screwing up Allison's visions, uses an extreme version of this (to be [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment redundant]]) as a last resort to stop her from foiling his plans.
** In the episode ''Will The Real Fred Rovick Please Stand Up?'' the end moment when Mallory Kessinger changes from the ultra-hot Ellen Hollman to [[{{Squick}} a man in a bikini]]. Possibly NightmareFuelStationAttendant material, for those who think it's that way.

** In the episode ''Will The Real Fred Rovick Please Stand Up?'' the end moment when Mallory Kessinger changes from the ultra-hot Ellen Hollman to [[{{Squick}} a man in a bikini]]. Possibly NightmareFuelStationAttendant material, for those who think it's that way. [[YourMileageMayVary Your Mileage WILL Vary]] on this one though.

* HarsherInHindsight: The episode guest starring David Carradine where he played a spirit that ''looked'' like David Carradine ([[CelebrityParadox who apparently is also an actor in this universe]]). Allison knew he couldn't be Carradine's ghost since, as she repeats more than once, David Carradine wasn't dead. Three years later...

* HarsherInHindsight: The episode guest starring David Carradine where he played a spirit that ''looked'' like David Carradine. Allison knew he couldn't be Carradine's ghost since, as she repeats more than once, David Carradine wasn't dead...

* HarsherInHindsight: The episode guest starring DavidCarradine where he played a spirit that ''looked'' like David Carradine. Allison knew he couldn't be Carradine's ghost since, as she repeats more than once, David Carradine wasn't dead...

* DarthWiki/WallBanger: After five seasons of providing invaluable and consistently accurate information, Allison is still met with skepticism pretty much every time she experiences psychic events.
** Although the general public now knows Allison's talent, not everyone has experienced it first hand. Plus she acknowledges that not everything she sees is the truth.
*** Yes, but at least ''her own husband'' should know by now that Allison's dreams are ''not'' just dreams. They may be confusing, or even downright misleading, but they definitely mean ''something''. "Go back to sleep, Al" is probably the ''last'' thing he should be saying to her. The man takes ArbitrarySkepticism and CassandraTruth to absolutely ridiculous levels.
**** Listen, if you got woken up every night at 5 am for 16+ years, you'd get sick of it too. "I get it... You see dead crap. After seeing it your entire LIFE you'd think you be over it by now and NOT jerk awake EVERY TIME... Write it down to tell your boss in the morning and GO TO BED."
***** That and he is a scientist who KNOWS that there is a reason ArbitrarySkepticism is a MUST: because somebody needs to act as a brake on Allison's natural impetuous nature and force her to consider exactly what she is seeing and what she can realistically do. Allison's false visions in her dreams have led to numerous fiascoes, and it is hardly unjustified for Joe to be somewhat wary of just letting her run around.
** Allison will leap headfirst into any action or urge she thinks her dreams justify. Despite many of them being more symbolic than literal, and many of these actions being morally and legally questionable. As many episodes center around her realizing her first interpretation was wrong and having to fix the situation when things become clear, you would think she'd have learned to hold off on doing something crazy based on her dreams alone. [[IdiotBall But you would be wrong.]]
*** To be fair, she isn't often THAT wrong about them, and the fact remains that she is often pitted against a very nasty time crunch. It isn't unbelievable that she would get used to jumping on a situation even without knowing 100% what is going on, as waiting and hoping to get more information would often result in her being way too late to help.
** The episode where James Van Der Beek and Morena Bacarrin play brother and sister, then it turns out she's his girlfriend after plastic surgery and the sister's been dead for years. The girlfriend was an entirely different skin tone to the sister, had completely different bone structure, and the only remnant of her surgery was a single scar on her cheek, which made no sense considering how drastically the rest of her face had been changed with flawless results. On top of all this they'd played "It turns out the killer's girlfriend had plastic surgery to look like the murder victim" card in a previous episode. Once is implausible, twice is ridiculous.

* WallBanger: After five seasons of providing invaluable and consistently accurate information, Allison is still met with skepticism pretty much every time she experiences psychic events.

* TearJerker: The series finale.

* WallBanger: After five seasons of providing invaluable and consistently accurate information, Allison is still met with skepticism pretty much every time she experiences psychic events.
** Although the general public now knows Allison's talent, not everyone has experienced it first hand. Plus she acknowledges that not everything she sees is the truth.
*** Yes, but at least ''her own husband'' should know by now that Allison's dreams are ''not'' just dreams. They may be confusing, or even downright misleading, but they definitely mean ''something''. "Go back to sleep, Al" is probably the ''last'' thing he should be saying to her. The man takes ArbitrarySkepticism and CassandraTruth to absolutely ridiculous levels.
**** Listen, if you got woken up every night at 5 am for 16+ years, you'd get sick of it too. "I get it... You see dead crap. After seeing it your entire LIFE you'd think you be over it by now and NOT jerk awake EVERY TIME... Write it down to tell your boss in the morning and GO TO BED."
***** That and he is a scientist who KNOWS that there is a reason ArbitrarySkepticism is a MUST: because somebody needs to act as a brake on Allison's natural impetuous nature and force her to consider exactly what she is seeing and what she can realistically do. Allison's false visions in her dreams have led to numerous fiascoes, and it is hardly unjustified for Joe to be somewhat wary of just letting her run around.
** Allison will leap headfirst into any action or urge she thinks her dreams justify. Despite many of them being more symbolic than literal, and many of these actions being morally and legally questionable. As many episodes center around her realizing her first interpretation was wrong and having to fix the situation when things become clear, you would think she'd have learned to hold off on doing something crazy based on her dreams alone. [[IdiotBall But you would be wrong.]]
*** To be fair, she isn't often THAT wrong about them, and the fact remains that she is often pitted against a very nasty time crunch. It isn't unbelievable that she would get used to jumping on a situation even without knowing 100% what is going on, as waiting and hoping to get more information would often result in her being way too late to help.
** The episode where James Van Der Beek and Morena Bacarrin play brother and sister, then it turns out she's his girlfriend after plastic surgery and the sister's been dead for years. The girlfriend was an entirely different skin tone to the sister, had completely different bone structure, and the only remnant of her surgery was a single scar on her cheek, which made no sense considering how drastically the rest of her face had been changed with flawless results. On top of all this they'd played "It turns out the killer's girlfriend had plastic surgery to look like the murder victim" card in a previous episode. Once is implausible, twice is ridiculous.

** The episode where James Van Der Beek and Morena Bacarrin play brother and sister, then it turns out she's his girlfriend after plastic surgery and the sister's been dead for years. The girlfriend was an entirely different skin tone to the sister, had completely different bone structure, and the only remnant of her surgery was a single scar on her cheek, which made no sense considering how drastically the rest of her face had been changed with flawless results. On top of all this they'd played "It turns out the killer's girlfriend had plastic surgery to look like the murder victim" card in a previous episode. Once is implausible, twice is ridiculous.

* Narm: Quite a bit in the later years. Even in the series finale, where [[spoiler:Allison dies abruptly of old age while eating pea soup.]]