Line #68 Series/Everwood


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3	''Everwood'' was a drama series that ran from 2002-06 on what was then Creator/TheWB, starring Creator/TreatWilliams as Dr. Andrew Brown (unlike most of the WB's shows, this was cancelled when it merged with Creator/{{UPN}} to create Creator/TheCW). After the death of his wife, Brown left his prestigious position at a New York hospital, packed up his teenage son and nine-year-old daughter, and left the big city for the quiet, sleepy mountain town of Everwood, Colorado.
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5	According to Website/TelevisionWithoutPity, its stories were often pure cheese in concept, but executed so awesomely they could only sputter, "Damn you, [[Creator/GregBerlanti Berlanti]]!"
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8	!!This show provides examples of:
9	* AbusiveParents:
10	** Rose's mother was psychologically abusive to the point of bullying her.
11	** Reid's mom is portrayed as emotionally distant (until she has a very strong wake-up call).
12	** Irv's daughter resented her mother.
13	** Madison's mother was distant enough that she wasn't told about the pregnancy.
14	* AlphaBitch: Delia's friend Brittany is a toned-down, younger version. She has a posse of friends and is rather haughty.
15	* ArtisticLicenseLaw: Madison and Ephram's relationship is said by other characters to be "illegal" but in real life their relationship is actually perfectly legal under the "Close in Age" exception clause in the [[https://www.shouselaw.com/co/defense/laws/statutory-rape/#3.1 Colorado law for statutory rape]]
16	%% * BadassBiker: Edna is of the granny variety.
17	* TheBeard: Turns out that Nina was a Beard for her gay husband. They have a long-distance marriage as he's travelling salesman or agent. Nina is extremely upset when she finds out he cheats on her with a guy. She had no idea he was gay. This effectively ends their marriage.
18	%% * BetaCouple: Bright and Hannah to Amy and Ephram in season 3.
19	* BigBrotherInstinct: For all they annoy each other and often conflict, Bright and Amy are really close and he's quite overprotective whenever he feels she might be in danger or treated unfairly.
20	* BreadEggsBreadedEggs:
21	-->'''Lanie:''' I've got to break something to you.
22	-->'''Ephram:''' You're married?
23	-->'''Lanie:''' No.
24	-->'''Ephram:''' You're leaving the country?
25	-->'''Lanie:''' Stop.
26	-->'''Ephram:''' You're marrying Bright and then leaving the country?
27	* BrokenPedestal: Happens ''twice'' to poor Ephram in the second half of season one:
28	** Ephram finds out his mother had been cheating on his father, probably right up until she died.
29	** Ephram's piano teacher has to leave town because he got one of his female students pregnant.
30	%% * ChristmasEpisode
31	%% * TheCityVsTheCountry: The basic premise.
32	* CliffHanger: The first season finale. [[spoiler:Colin Hart's fate is not revealed until the second season premiere]].
33	* CloudCuckoolander: Andy Brown is frequently considered this; he's completely okay with it.
34	-->'''Edna:''' Remind me again why you're offering this thankless town free medicine?
35	-->'''Andy:''' Well, the long answer is that after fifteen years of making money off of other people's sickness, I've decided to alleviate my guilt by doing something incredibly altruistic. The short answer is: I'm nuts!
36	* ComingOutStory: Kyle, one of Ephram's piano students in the fourth season, comes out as gay. Kyle's mother is glad that Kyle finally has a good male role model. Ephram tries to help Kyle's improve his social skills, since he's alone and mostly awkward around his peers. When Reid suggests Kyle is likely gay, Ephram thinks he's too young to come out and that high school kids will be jerks about it. Kyle denies it at first but eventually decides to come out. Ephram successfully coaches Kyle into Juilliard.
37	* CompoundTitle: The beginning of season 3. First episode was titled "For Every Action..." and "...There Is a Reaction" was the name of the second one.
38	* ContinuityNod:
39	** In the first episode, Andy tells Delia she'll get a pony if she's willing to move to Everwood. Then when the Andy-Linda plot rolls around:
40	--->'''Andy:''' The thing is, I promised Delia I wouldn't date her.
41	--->'''Edna:''' You also promised Delia a horse; I don't see Mr. Ed clomping around!
42	** Delia gets her horse in the series finale. She's beyond happy.
43	%% * CoolOldLady: Edna.
44	* CutShort: The show was cancelled when WB merged with UPN into The CW - one of the few WB shows that got this fate.
45	* DaddyHadAGoodReasonForAbandoningYou: Irv's daughter Cassie thought this was the case for most of her life, choosing to resent her mother and later Edna for the fact that she hadn't seen her father in the last five years. Irv firmly shuts this down, telling Cassie that he deserves some of the blame for not being around as much when she was a kid.
46	* DatingWhatDaddyHates: Amy's junkie boyfriend Tommy, in the second season. Her father is usually ok with her dating, for example he had no problems with Colin, but he forbids her this relationship. She insists she will help him stop but she starts using drugs herself. (They break up before it gets pretty bad.)
47	* DecemberDecemberRomance: Edna and Irving get married when they are both in their sixties or so. They don't give a rats' ass what the town think about it. There were some who didn't approve.
48	* DeadpanSnarker: Ephram. It's his self-defense mechanism. He snarks at his father, his sister Delia, at Amy when he wants to tease her, at Bright... He's sarcastic with everybody.
49	* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Reid, Ephram and Bright's room-mate from season 4, when he fails out of medical school and cheats on a test. He is caught and expelled. His friends all feel guilty for not realizing that Reid was depressed. Upon recovery, Reid pretends everything is fine, which understandably upsets them, and Hannah calls him on it]].
50	* ElegantClassicalMusician: Ephram, the handsome and brilliant pianist.
51	** PlayedStraight: Ephram Brown is a brilliant pianist. Amy Abbott, his love interest and his eventual girlfriend, likes Ephram's playing a lot. She admires his dedication to music and his immense talent.
52	** DiscussedTrope: In a flashback, Ephram's mum tells him that girls find his playing very attractive. She's convinced that they sense he's very confident when he plays.
53	** InvokedTrope: Mrs. Brown was quite a matchmaker. She tried to invoke the trope as she makes Ephram ''accidentally'' meet his crush and invite her for his piano recital.
54	* FashionHurts: What Delia learns when wearing uncomfortable stockings.
55	* FirstGirlWins: Ephram falls for Amy the moment he sets his eyes on her. He pines for her, then has a relationship with another girl, goes back to pining for Amy, they get together, break up and get back together at the end of the series.
56	* FirstPeriodPanic: Delia Brown falls in the category of girls who know what is happening, but [[MissingMom whose mom is dead]] and who have no female figure to talk to (except Andy offers to ask their friendly neighbour Nina). She gets her first period like a champ. She's not feeling too well, but insists she wants to play ice-hockey (she's a major tomboy and her teammates depend on her). She's embarrassed when her father tells her coach and he repeats it out loud in front of all the boys who laugh at her. Also, she's thrown off balance a bit when she goes shopping for pads with her dad — brand Always doesn't sound good, but Andy assures her it usually lasts from 3 to 7 days. Her cramps are pretty bad, too, because when Andy suggests she takes pain killers, she asks if she can have ten.
57	* FromNewYorkToNowhere: The Browns move from New York to Everwood, Colorado, because Andy's dead wife wanted them to. They don't particularly enjoy it, but somehow Andy sticks to his plan.
58	* HappilyMarried:
59	** Dr. Abbott and his wife Rose are very happy together. He's a doctor and she's a mayor, yet they both consider their family and especially their children their biggest success.
60	** Edna and Irving. They had their problems, but managed to deal with them. [[spoiler:Edna is devastated when Irv dies. She tries to be stoic, but admits that she misses him terribly and feels useless]].
61	* HeroismIncentive: In the pilot episode, Andy tries to convince his 15-year-old son and 9-year-old daughter to move to the titular rural town in Colorado.
62	-->'''Andy:''' Now, I want this to be a democratic decision, so we're going to put this to a vote. Everyone who wants to move...
63	-->''[Nobody moves]''
64	-->'''Andy:''' ...and get their own horse, raise your hand.
65	-->''[Delia raises her hand excitedly]''
66	%% * HighSchool
67	* JerkJock: Bright for the first half of season one. He's a popular football player, a star to everyone but he's mean to the less popular crowd, especially new-comer Ephram. He gets better and takes a liking to Ephram and eventually they become best friends. He also stops playing football and wants to focus on academic pursuits, much to his father's distress because their original plan for Bright's college education was to get a sports scholarship.
68	%% * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Dr Abbott.
69	%% * IvyLeagueForEveryone
70	%% * LoveTriangle: Several of those.
71	* LiterallyLovingThyNeighbor: Andy (widowed) and Nina (married, then divorced) are neighbours and they become friends pretty fast as nice Nina seems to be one of the few who understands Andy. They get together romantically in the final season and seal the deal in the finale.
72	* LoveObstructingParents:
73	** Andy heavily opposes Ephram and Madison at first. He's very fond of Madison but doesn't approve of their being together because of the age difference.
74	** Harold doesn't like Tommy at all. Hard to blame him when a junkie and dealer dates his little girl who is heart-broken over the death of her first boyfriend.
75	* MissingMom:
76	** Julia dies. Ephram is a young teenager and Delia about six when that happens.
77	** Edna was absent for a large part of Harold's childhood.
78	** It's mentioned that Andy's mother died when he was relatively young (though possibly already a doctor).
79	** Brittany's mother is out of the picture (she lives with her father and step-mother).
80	** Several patients have a dead or disappeared mother.
81	* MistakenForGay: Bright is convinced Reid is gay and tells Amy as such after seeing how he loves to work out and hearing he used to live with a partner. (Said partner was strictly business, someone he worked as an [=EMT=] with.)
82	* MistakenForJunkie: Delia thinks Linda is doing drugs. She's actually administering medicine because she is HIV positive.
83	* MostWritersAreWriters: Irving Harper becomes a writer. He writes a fairly successful book about people from Everwood.
84	%% * NaiveEverygirl: Hannah.
85	* NearDeathClairvoyance: Sort of. Andy's deceased wife appears a few times to discuss the difficulties of parenting with him; the first few of these are actually "replays" in Andy's mind of conversations they'd had before, but the last one is completely original.
86	* NonIdleRich: Dr. Brown's personal fortune amassed as a world-renowned neurosurgeon is large enough for him to operate a private medical practice, free of charge.
87	* OmnidisciplinaryScientist: A milder example. Andy Brown is a specialist of neurosurgery, but opens up a general practice in Everwood, and has no difficulties delivering a baby with [[MakesSenseInContext shoelaces and a whisk]].
88	* OneWordTitle: Because it's ThePlace, as it's the setting of the story.
89	* ParentWithNewParamour:
90	** Dr. Andy Brown is a widower; the death of his wife and the family dealing with their grief kicked off the series. His young daughter Delia doesn't like when he dates Linda Abbott, and his son Ephram disapproves also, but mainly because she's ill and he's afraid that Delia will become attached and they will have to go through it yet again. At the end of the series, Andy gets together with his friendly neighbor Nina. Both Ephram and Delia have always liked her, so they will probably be okay with it.
91	** When divorced, Nina dates Jake, another newcomer and a young handsome doctor. Her son Sam seems to like him.
92	** Edna, a Cool Old Lady married Irving Harper, who was in turn a Cool Old Guy. It was a wonderful case of December-December Romance and a Happily Married couple. In a flashback, the audience finds out that Edna's son Harold was against the marriage, which hurt Edna's feelings. Irving's children were fairly estranged from him anyway, but were no fans either.
93	* ThePlace: ''Everwood'' is set in Everwood. OneWordTitle variation.
94	* {{Portmantitle}}: Fusion of "Ever" and "Wood".
95	%% * SacrificialLion: Come on, did you honestly think poor Colin Hart was going to survive?
96	* SceneryPorn: The town of Everwood doesn't have much going for it, but the scenery is amazing.
97	-->'''Andy Brown:''' I MOVED INTO A SNOWGLOBE!
98	%% * ShrinkingViolet: Hannah in season 3.
99	* TeensAreMonsters: Averted. The teenage characters could be volatile and cause the adults grief, but the adults weren't always perfect either and most of the arguments were shown from both sides, displaying real conflict rather than standards kids versus parents.
100	%% * TheirFirstTime: They actually go through with it.
101	* TheTopicOfCancer: Rose Abbott has cancer at the end of season 3 and still deals with it throughout season 4. She hates that it burdens her family, for example her daughter gets to Ivy league school but chooses to go to a local community college to take care of her and the rest of the family. Or before her illness, Rose and Andy consider adoption because bringing up kids was the most satisfying thing in their life, but the adoption process is stopped because her cancer (and because Andy lied about it on their application).
102	* UnrequitedLoveSwitcheroo: A few times with Ephram and Amy. S1: Ephram --> Amy. S2: Amy --> Ephram. S4: Ephram --> Amy then Amy --> Ephram.
103	%% ** There is also a bit of this with Bright/Hannah/Topher.
104	* WorldOfSnark: Nearly everyone has snide comments for their family and friends. Ephram, Delia, and Andy in the Brown family; Harry, Bright, Edna, and sometimes Rose in the Abbott family; and often the patients snark at their doctors. Drs. Brown and Abbott often engage in SnarkToSnarkCombat--their rivalry soon changes to sympathetic banter and eventually they become friends with a healthy dose of sarcasm from both sides.

Context Series / Everwood