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3->''"Those observant eyes of yours? You better keep 'em wide open, 'cuz you ain't seen nothin' yet!"''
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5''Royal Pains'' is an American summer series on Creator/USANetwork about medical genius Hank Lawson (Creator/MarkFeuerstein) who is fired for correctly prioritizing a clearly-medically-unstable “average Joe” patient over a seemingly-stable one who subsequently died… and happened to be a billionaire on the hospital’s board of trustees. He is also blacklisted by both the hospital administrators and the deceased patient’s family, making it impossible for him to find work or establish a medical practice. During his ensuing depression (and adding insult to injury), his fiancée leaves him & takes most of their joint possessions, leaving him with little more than mounting debts.
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7His brother Evan Lawson (Creator/PauloCostanzo) takes it upon himself to cheer his brother up by organizing a trip to crash a South Hampton party which allegedly even God would be at "if He could get in." By a twist of fate, Hank is nearby when a party attendant has an attack brought on by insecticide exposure and proves himself better able to handle the emergency than the local concierge doctor, who assumes drug use rather than interrogate for the correct differential.
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9Hank receives an offer to replace the older concierge doctor by the enigmatic German multi-billionaire [[OverlyLongName Boris Kuester von Jurgens-Ratenicz]] (Creator/CampbellScott), but he has some reservations about taking such a position because it caters exclusively to the wealthy (many of whom are very self-indulgent and self-absorbed). After discussing the issue with a newfound friend, the Hampton Heritage Hospital administrator Jill Casey (Creator/JillFlint), Hank takes up the job. Evan helps manage the finances of "HankMed", and savvy, driven Divya Katdare (Creator/ReshmaShetty) becomes his Physician Assistant.
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11Each episode is about Hank making house calls and dealing with the eccentricities of this obscenely rich community, figuring out their problems along the way. As with other USA shows with a strong episodic premise around 2012, the show occasionally moved away from pure PatientOfTheWeek storylines and focused on more overarching drama and long-term character development.
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13The show concluded in 2016, after eight seasons on the air. This also marked the end of USA Network's "Blue Sky" era of family-friendly programming and a transition to more adult-oriented fare.
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17* AbortedArc:
18** It's extremely clear watching the earlier seasons that they were setting up Divya and Evan to get together through the use of BelligerentSexualTension. However, Evan's unexpected chemistry with Paige killed that plot's line. However it's brought back up in Season 5 when Paige starts to believe there might be something going on between them, only for Divya to flat out state she never had feelings for Evan above friends.
19** People didn’t think much of [[spoiler: the previously declared dead Boris suddenly coming back to life.]]
20** Evan runs for city council in Season 5, getting the seat at the end of the season. Season 6 never brings it up again.
21** It's mentioned in s6x04 "Steaks on a Plane" that Hank was (unknowingly) awarded power of attorney over Boris's affairs 3 years ago. [[spoiler: This was well-before Boris's choice to fake his dementia]], so what did the financial world think of a simple doctor having part control over the world's banks and did he keep that as well the cufflinks?
22* ActorAllusion: Eddie can tell something is wrong with Paige in s8x07 “The Good News is...” giving Henry Wrinkler a chance to once again use The Fonz’s “Step into my office”
23* AffablyEvil: Eddie Lawson. He's a con artist who walked out on his own sons, then came back and swindled them out of their money. But, what're you gonna do? He's [[Series/HappyDays The Fonz]].
24* AmbiguouslyJewish: The Lawsons, until "Keeping the Faith", when it becomes more or less explicit. They aren't the least bit observant, though. Eddie recommending Evan try a black ham and brie sandwich [[note]] In Jewish cuisine, not only are meat and dairy product supposed to be completely separate, pork products themselves are prohibited[[/note]] shows that they don't keep kosher either.
25** Interestingly, the professions of the seen Lawsons are incredibly stereotypically Jewish: Doctor (Hank), accountant (Evan), and shyster (Eddie). All you need is a lawyer and an academic and you have the Jewish home run.
26** Lampshaded/played with in the episode where Evan and Paige get married. She reminds them that it's the first day of Hanukah... and is surprised that all three Lawsons not only didn't remember that it was, but don't even have any of the trappings with which to observe.
27* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Evan. Strangely, most of his UnwantedAssistance seem to be motivated by genuine care for Hank's wellbeing...and his desire to get some tail.
28* ArrangedMarriage: Divya is drifting towards accepting her arranged marriage to a childhood friend. At the beginning, she tried to call it off, but when the engagement ceremony came around, she couldn't bring herself to do it. However, it's not like she ''couldn't'' call it off or she hates the guy (he's kind of clueless and cheerful, actually); she's simply not certain she should be ''married'' to him.
29** In the season two finale, [[spoiler: it's officially called off.]]
30** [[spoiler: Ironically, they do marry each other, it's just by their own choice.]]
31* AsYouKnow; Parodied in 2x13, when Jill is paired up with a famous golfer and two random people. They ask her if she knows his story. She says she does, and they're just so enthusiastic they tell her--and the audience--anyway.
32* BelligerentSexualTension: Divya and Evan had a number of frustrated arguments as Evan appeared to flirt with her and misinterpret some of her aggravation as her flirting back. The bickering tapers off rapidly once Evan hooks up with Paige, but they remain VitriolicBestBuds most of the time.
33-->'''Divya:''' Let's have dinner, but ''absolutely'' no conversation.\
34'''Evan:''' Like we're married!
35* BigBrotherInstinct: Hank towards Tucker. [[spoiler:After Tucker's dad fires him, Hank still hangs around Tucker, saying he wasn't banned from being his friend.]]
36* BlessedWithSuck: "Whole Lotto Love"'s client of the week deals with lottery winners, one of which is convinced that he was cursed. Eventually subverted: the lottery winner's streak of bad luck wasn't a curse.
37* BlindIdiotTranslation: Jill thinks she heard "Es ist nicht ihr", and a translator reads it as "It is not her," but the actual German translation would be "It is not their." Could be a plot point, but even Google agrees with the correct version.
38* BollywoodNerd: Divya. She's a brilliant physician assistant, and even the cover story she tells her parents is that she is attending Wharton.
39* BullyTurnedBuddy: Hank has repeatedly found himself treating his childhood nemesis Ken, which has led them to almost becoming friends.
40* BunnyEarsLawyer: Despite the fact that he's a shallow, off-putting goofball womanizer who never seems to take the right things seriously and who shirks doing anything difficult, Evan is actually a pretty competent and effective accountant, and his efforts are one of the primary reasons why Hankmed is such a successful business. He's also fluent in multiple languages (including French and Italian, but not Spanish), is a wizard at dominoes, and is a super-taster with a palate so sharp he can tell the components that went into a wine with just a single sip.
41%%* TheButlerDidIt: [[spoiler: Dieter poisoned Boris.]]
42* CanNotSpitItOut:
43** Boris goes to ridiculous lengths to hide and/or find a cure for his condition, often alienating Hank, the one doctor who seems to thinks he can help him.
44** Jeremiah and his feelings for Divya. He even denies it when Evan notices and says something. Had Jeremiah been more upfront with her to begin with, he could have saved himself some heartache.
45* CassandraTruth: Hank, re: Eddie R. Evan and Ms. Newberg both seem erroneously convinced that he really can't be as bad as all that.
46* CatapultNightmare: Jill is being afflicted by nightmares that jolt her awake in bed after her "accident".
47* CatchPhrase: Aristotle, the coolest taxicab driver in New York featured in "The Hankover", has ''got'' to make money on the deal ''somehow''. Also, Evan will say whenever meeting someone new "Hi, I'm Evan R. Lawson, CFO of [=HankMed=]."
48** Divya's greeting is not dissimilar with patients; along the lines of, "My name's Divya Katdare, I'm a Physician's Assistant." Though that's likely for accountability issues.
49** Expect to hear the phrase "when caught early" or similar often.
50* ChickMagnet: Let's just say Hank has a way with the ladies.
51* CoattailRidingRelative:
52** Both Hank's brother and father seem to depend on medically licensed Hank to get rich.
53** Reversed in Season 4, where Hank finds himself needing Evan's accounting abilities to keep his medical business afloat, while Evan can get along fine without Hank. Even Eddie R. is working on getting his book published on its own merits.
54* ComicallyMissingThePoint: In 1x03, "Strategic Planning", the Senator's wife is yelled at by her daughter for pressuring her son to play football as part of her plan to get him into the White House, unlike his father. (The son in question ''just'' wants to play football.) Then the wife, with a gleam in her eye, notes to Hank that her daughter standing up to her took almost...''Presidential'' leadership. The looks on Hank and Divya's faces are hilarious.
55* ContinuityNod: When Evan tries to drum up business in the season 2 premiere, the people he talks to on the phone are all clients from Season One.
56* CosmopolitanCouncil: "Manimal" has an ArabOilSheikh in appropriate garb and a black man, plus a Russian and the ambiguously European-American Boris. This makes sense, given that it's about oil.
57* DeadpanSnarker: Starting with '''everyone'''. Boris probably does it best.
58* DisappearedDad: Eddie was this until the beginning of Season 2.
59* DoomMagnet: Hank and friends can't seem to go very far without a sudden medical emergency happening near them.
60* EccentricTownsfolk: Pretty much every resident of the Hamptons except our main characters.
61* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: [[spoiler: The reason Paige left the tour group was because she found out the director (who is a woman) only hired her to get her to sleep with her.]]
62* ExactWords: Divya gets Evan to help her by telling him that she will tell him everything she knows about Boris. After it is all done, she tells him that Boris is a "very private person", and that is it. She told him everything she '''knew''' about Boris.
63* FakingTheDead: [[spoiler: Boris at the end of Season 4.]]
64* FakeCrossover: Trying to ride the popularity of ''Series/BurnNotice'' they have Michael Westen send Hank a care package in a commercial. It contains C4 ("because you never know when you'll need a stable plastic explosive").
65** Worth noting is that USA does this a ''lot'' with commercials for all of their shows. There's a crossover commercial with ''Series/WhiteCollar'', too, though when the summer 2010 schedule got locked down they've been cross-promoting with ''Burn Notice'' since they both come on on the same night.
66** A new set in late 2010 [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzS4b3m7i4Q&feature=channel started pairing]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fgspbQ9kOU&feature=channel Hank and Evan with Kate Reed]] from ''Series/FairlyLegal''.
67** In a 2012 crossover commercial, [[Series/WhiteCollar Neal]] praises Hank's set up as a consignment doctor but wonders how he can keep up being a fake doctor. Hank dully points out it's probably a talent he [[DeadpanSnarker picked up during all those years of medical school]]. [[ComicallyMissingThePoint Neal praises his willingness to go for that long of a con]].
68* FallenPrincess: [[spoiler: Divya, as of Season 3: her parents cut her off after she breaks off her engagement with Raj, even going so far as to have her car repossessed. She is reduced to crashing in Hank's guest room.]]
69* FanService: Most of the women are attractive and wearing nice dresses.
70* FemaleGaze: In 2x03, Emily Peck [[spoiler: Boris' new concierge doctor]] uses [[WatchingTheReflectionUndress her rear-view mirror]] to check out Hank's ass as he jogs away.
71%%* FemaleMisogynist: Emily Peck accuses Divya of being one, but Divya hates Peck for a valid reason.
72* {{Flanderization}}: Evan turns into more of an idiotic jerk as the series goes on. This is actually a plot point, as he mentions in 1x11 that the Hamptons are "changing" him.
73** Subverted in the way Hank's plotline progresses. It seems ridiculous how an ordinary ER doctor who was fired by the hospital board for letting a billionaire trustee die can end up [[spoiler: involved in so much political intrigue, sitting ''on'' a hospital administration, and announcing he's physician of the patient zero of a world-changing clinical trial, who is also his multi-billionaire boss]]. But that's more related to the reclusive Boris [[spoiler: becoming less private about his life and affairs]].
74* FlorenceNightingaleEffect: Invoked by name by Hank after the young girl he saves during the pilot falls for him. And again when he saves the life of an attractive young woman's uncle in Cuba. [[spoiler:She doesn't agree.]]
75* FollowtheLeader: USA put a lot of shows like this on the air in the wake of the Emmy-award-series Monk
76* FootDraggingDivorcee: Jill's husband Charlie, who left her in favor of his job rather than work on their relationship, does this for pretty much the entire first season. Despite her wanting him to sign the papers long before he left, he keeps postponing it in an attempt to woo her. However, sometime between seasons 1 and 2, she finally gets him to sign them and he [[PutOnABus leaves]].
77* FriendVersusLover: As both doctors, Hank and Marisa disagree over Boris's treatment. It's clear Boris and Marisa are still romantically attached, but Marisa seems unhappy about Boris choosing to bring his personal doctor simply to do his medical work-up in her clinical trial. When Hank walks away due to how the trial is proceeding, she's resentful over having to be Boris's doctor again [[note]] It breaks the Hippocratic Oath for a doctor to be romantically involved with their patients [[/note]].
78** Things are [[spoiler: resolved and the two become friends. Marisa trusts Hank enough to disclose and treat her for the pregnancy she's been hiding from Boris and Hank comes along when she goes to reveal it. After Boris evicts Hank, Marisa refuses to move back into Shadow Pond without him there. Hank is chosen to be their son's godfather]].
79* FriendsRentControl: Played with. The main characters are allowed to use Boris' guesthouse (initially rent-free but later Hank insists on paying some rent) due to his gratitude towards Hank. [[spoiler: After Boris' faked death, Dmitry allows Evan and Paige the use of the main house... for free.]]
80* FunctionalAddict: After needing neurosurgery caused by the explosion resulting in Boris' [[spoiler: [[FakingTheDead faked death]]]], Hank became addicted to pain meds. [[spoiler: Subverted in that they discovered a valid need for them]], but it still caused a loss of trust between Jeremiah and Hank due to Hank obtaining under them false pretense.
81* GameOfNerds: In "Lawson Translation", we find out that Jeremiah's a huge baseball fan, owing largely to the fact his love of statistics intersected with an interest of his father's.
82* GentleGiant: Donald (played by [[ProfessionalWrestling The Big Show]]), who plays the apparently very popular "Garbage Collector" in the ''Garbage Collector'' series of films.
83* GilliganCut: In the pilot, Hank insists that the partygoer who was poisoned by pesticides that he subsequently saved be taken to a hospital, and that "you can't just shoot her up and put her to bed." SmashCut to the partygoer waking up in bed in Boris' home.
84* GiveGeeksAChance: In the third-season episode "Ta Da..." we meet Magic Andy, a professional stage magician played by character actor Tony Hale (who has made a career of playing nerds and geeks like Buster Bluth in ''Series/ArrestedDevelopment'' and Emmett Milbarge in ''Series/{{Chuck}}''). While Magic Andy bemoans the fact that girls aren't interested in him at all, by the end of the episode, he's started a relationship with Betty, who works as a waiter for a caterer who handles the same sort of parties Andy gets hired to perform at. She's been watching Andy's show's for a while, and thinks he's an amazing performer. And handsome. And cute.
85* GoodAllAlong: [[spoiler: Dmitry was loyal to Boris all along, and was just pretending to have killed him to find out who was trying to assassinate Boris.]]
86* GushingAboutGuestStars: In one of the more shameless examples of this trope, one episode features a sudden guest appearance by Khloe Kardashian, with Hank's girlfriend enthusing over her, which is especially jarring given that the series usually makes fun of reality TV stars.
87* HackerCave: Tucker has a very nice computer setup. However, it's in an open area, on the second floor, with a very nice view, and he's not a hacker. Considering he's a smart kid who knows how to deal with finances, it's possible, even likely, that the multi-monitor setup is for financial analysis (in real life, some may reach up to 6 monitors). The side effect of being a nice set up for other things like computer games is probably a bonus.
88* HeroicBSOD: Hank goes into one after being fired and finding he's been black-balled. He sits around his apartment and watches TV. His brother snaps him out of it by pointing out that he should come to the Hamptons because a) he needs cheering up, and b) he's out of booze and his Netflix account was suspended.
89* HonorBeforeReason: Divya feels honor-bound to go through with an ArrangedMarriage. When she finally cancels the wedding she feels honor-bound to repay her ex-fiance's family the money they spent on the engagement. She works a second job to raise the money which leaves her exhausted. Her insistence to keep this secret from Hank directly leads to her screwing up and endangering the life of a patient.
90* HowWeGotHere: "The Hankover" ([[ShoutOut wink]], [[Film/TheHangover wink]]) opens with Hank, Evan, and others the aftermath of a party at Boris' house, and Divya and Jill waking up in a taxi at some beach somewhere. "24 hours ago..."
91* HypocriticalHumor: When Evan finds out Divya's getting married, he starts going on about how awesome weddings are, what with getting to be with someone you love. Divya doesn't meet his eye, so he asks if it's an arranged marriage. Divya protests him applying the stereotype before admitting that yes, it's a ''strategic'' one.
92* IHaveNoSon: [[spoiler: Pretty much Divya's parent's reaction to when she called off the marriage. Cutting her off from of all of her assets and throwing her on the street.]] Sadly this is TruthInTelevision, as some families treat their daughters as nothing more than objects to marry off as business deals. And if the daughter does not want to go through with it, the family will disown them.
93* InformedAbility: In 3x08, we meet a female Boston Marathon champion runner who boasts of her perfect stride. However, when shown running, she clearly is at most only a recreational runner, occasionally showing form more like a T-1000 than Joan Benoit.
94* InsultBackfire: In 1x11, Evan is admiring a boat, and Divya says something about him playing with something like it in the bathtub.
95-->'''Evan:''' Well, the scale's about right, so...\
96'''Captain:''' I like this guy.
97* ItsAlwaysSunnyInMiami: Semi-justified in that the show is actually shot in the Hamptons (or at least Long Island), but ''really''? The other half is semi-justified in that anything that might ruin a shot is probably cut out since it suddenly raining during random scenes would likely ruin the mood or make it harder to film/get audio/etc.
98* {{Jerkass}}: Dr. Van Dyke. A lot. He even tries to do a CPRCleanPrettyReliable stunt on Divya.
99* {{Joisey}}: Evan and Hank are from there. It's fairly hard to tell. Likely through a combination of RealityIsUnrealistic (most accents aren't nearly as extreme as media likes to portray it) and exposure to a variety of accents, theirs has toned down to something else.
100* JewishAndNerdy: The Lawson family is Jewish, and Evan fulfills many nerdy stereotypes, acting like a kid most of the time.
101* KarmaHoudini: For all the crimes Eddie's committed, his total punishment amounts to six months in a white-collar prison, a few days of house arrest (which he doesn't even abide by), and [[spoiler: the opportunity to make amends with his estranged father.]]
102%%* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: Jack]] and [[spoiler: Dmitry]]
103* LimitedWardrobe: Hank's staggering amount of blue shirts.
104* MacGyvering: The commercials boast about this aspect of Hank. One patient's girlfriend asks him, "What are you, [=MacGyver=]?" after he saves his life with a bottle of vodka, a BIC pen, duct tape, a sharp knife, and a sandwich bag. All of this he used to save a hemophiliac who had internal bleeding from a car crash.
105* MaleGaze: One shot had Evan talking to Divya, who was at the top of some stairs. The angle reverses, and Evan is sharing the frame with Divya's butt.
106* ManipulativeBastard: Despite what good friends they are, Hank learns Boris very-well can be this. When he's not being indirect or dodging questions, expect even the legitimate answers or explanations Boris gives to be hiding something. [[DysfunctionJunction Hank's speaking from experience when he says how nothing's ever as simple as it seems with Boris.]]
107* MistakenForCheating: “A Bridge Not Quite Far Enough” has Hank treating a private investigator who’s been investigating her husband who is seeing another woman. It’s later revealed the woman is a car designer and he was just working on an anniversary gift.
108* MistakenForPedophile: Evan and Paige thought Paul Van Dyke was in a relationship with a fifteen year old and they broke, he clarifies the 15 year old is actually his pet rabbit that he needs to put down.
109* MistakenForPregnant: During "In Vino Veritas", Evan sees Divya buying a pregnancy test and assumes she's having a baby. When she later clarifies it was for someone else, it just makes Evan think Jill is pregnant, to Divya's frustration (this does make her realize her patient is pregnant, though).
110* MsFanservice: Hot women seem to be the rule rather than the exception in this world.
111* MusicalEpisode: The penultimate episode of the series “The Good News is...” is this. Justified as [[spoiler: it’s from the point of view of the hallucinating patient-of-the-week]].
112** As an added bonus, the full title sequence returns for this episode and now the lyrics are sung by the cast
113* MusicVideoSyndrome: There's a lot of music from [[TotallyRadical hip, fresh new bands]] over the scene transitions. Turned into SorryILeftTheBGMOn when Hank walks into a room with the patient while the music continues to play, loudly, and the patient has trouble hearing him. So Hank reaches out and turns off the nearby boombox. [[spoiler:Turns out the music playing loud was actually a symptom; the patient had gone slightly deaf.]]
114* MyFistForgivesYou: The ending of 2x01 appears to set this up, but it ends up subverted in 2x02 as [[spoiler:Hank Lawson]] still harbors negative feelings towards [[spoiler: his dad]].
115* MySisterIsOffLimits: Subverted in "Keeping the Faith." Donald instructs Evan to take his sister/manager "to a nice restaurant, a place where a gentleman would take a lady." So the little sis is ''not'' off-limits, so long as you act nice. To be fair, Donald is also over 7 feet tall and about 300 pounds of muscle so...
116* MysteriousMiddleInitial: Eddie and Evan have an R as their middle name with several people asking what it stands for. According to Hank it is just an R and doesn't mean anything. [[spoiler: It is later revealed to mean Roth, Eddie's original last name.]]
117* NewMediaAreEvil: Invoked by an expectant mother who wanted her nieces and nephews to give up all their electronic devices while on the family's private island. She believes it makes it harder to connect with people.
118%%* NonIdleRich: Divya.
119* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: A parody of Creator/VinceOffer (the Sham Wow Guy), "Spencer the Spaz", is the subject of the second season premiere.
120* NotSoDifferentRemark: [[TheRival Dr. Emily Peck]] claimed this to Divya, but a small-scale emergency subverted this: a boy was choking and Divya helped him, while Peck did nothing.
121* NotWhatItLooksLike: In the season one finale, [[spoiler:Jill goes looking for Hank to tell him something important. She finds him getting a palm reading, and from a distance it looks like they're doing something intimate. She's actually flirting with him after he just told her he's not interested in a relationship. Jill walks away without either of the two lovebirds "noticing".]]
122:: :A staggering amount of drama in Divya's life is this, on both sides:
123** After [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech having a fight]] with her father due to him [[spoiler: trying to completely wipe out all traces of his wife's existence from his life and refusing to talk to her even though she was willing to reconcile, Divya came back to find her father face down in the pool. He fell in from the 2nd floor balcony trying to spray a bees nest and lost his balance swatting away the bees due to his allergies.]]
124** When Divya leaves [[spoiler: Sashi alone in the car to quickly help a person in need, the police assume she left her there to go shopping when they see the bags. Without the person there to vouch for her, Divya's arrested when she resists them taking Sashi and the story's spread on the Internet out of context.]]
125* ObliviousAdoption: [[spoiler: Paige had no clue she was adopted until her father had to clarify to the press [[MistakenForCheating he wasn't having an affair]] and that his secretary was arranging her adoption]].
126* OncePerEpisode:
127** Hank often has a habit of asking patients how bad their pain is in a scale of 1 to 10, which the patients telling them how his grading system is grossly inadequate.
128** Inverted in "Hank and the Deep Blue Sea" when Jack asks Hank how bad his screw up is on a scale of 1 to 2.
129* OverlyLongName: Boris Kuester von Jurgens-Ratenicz. [[spoiler: His son adds Marisa's surname to it, so it's "Carlos Casseras Kuester von Jurgens-Ratenicz". Evan [[SarcasmMode charmingly says]] that it sounds like a game of drunken Scrabble]].
130* PaintingTheMedium: One episode involved a woman who only spoke Italian, with her words subtitled. She didn't understand when Divya asked her to roll up her left sleeve. Evan tries to explain, and his poor Italian is accurately conveyed by [[FunWithSubtitles his subtitles' bad grammar and whimsical font]]. When the woman he's talking to starts babbling, the subtitles eventually give up and go "Etc... Etc... Etc..."
131* ParentWithNewParamour: Eddie Lawson and "New Parts" Newburg. Hank is not pleased.
132* PluckyComicRelief: Evan, whose [[TwoLinesNoWaiting B story]] antics get painfully humiliating.
133* PortmanteauCoupleName: InUniverse, Evan calls Jill and Hank "Jank".
134* PostCoitalCollapse: In "Something Fishy This Way Comes", when we cut to Hank and Harper as they finish having sex, we see them collapse in bed side-by-side simultaneously while breathing heavily and laughing.
135%%* PrettyBoy: Tucker.
136%%* PrettyInMink: Ms. Newberg in the pilot.
137* ProductPlacement:
138** Everyone seems to use Apple computers.
139** Blatant in the episode "It's Like Jamais Vu All Over Again" with Jill's new car.
140** In 2x14, "Pit Stop", Evan hands Hank a prominently placed box of Wheaties™ ("Breakfast of champions!") while he dines on [[BrandX Fruity Pops]].
141** Emma's constant mention of Magazine/AutoTrader is painfully obvious. Made worse when Evan and Paige give a stilted reaction to her bringing it up while confessing that she lied to them...again.
142* PromotionToOpeningTitles: As of the fourth episode of season four, both Brooke D'Orsay (Paige) and Campbell Scott (Boris) have been upgraded to the opening credits, replacing Jill Flint (Jill Casey).
143* ProperlyParanoid: Boris' measures to protect his privacy seem ridiculous, until the third season where it's revealed that [[spoiler: members of his massive ancient noble family have been feuding with each other for centuries, and Boris is now a prime target since he's just had a son who can inherit his fortune and title. Oh, and the mysterious "illness" that's been killing off the men in his family for generations? May not have been an illness at all. Someone's been poisoning them.]]
144** [[spoiler: Boris openly embraces the theory, but has to abandon it upon seeing his mentally ill cousin, Milos.]]
145* PutOnABus:
146** Charlie, who was supposed to fill the third part of an awkward LoveTriangle between Hank and Jill, is noticeably absent from the second season premiere. Jill remarks that she finalized their divorce and nothing of him is mentioned ever again, especially since she keeps his surname.
147** Jill, as of the fourth season [[spoiler: and TheBusCameBack for the final season]].
148* RedOniBlueOni:
149** Evan is the Red Oni to Hank's Blue. There are several times where they're respectivly wearing a red shirt and blue shirt.
150** The members of [=HankMed=] [[WeHelpTheHelpless go out of their way to those in need]] alongside catering to the rich. Dr. Emily Peck has shown herself to be more concerned with "Hollywood style" medicine while avoiding situations that could get her sued, even refusing to help a child choking.
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152* RescueRomance: Deconstructed in the pilot. Hank saved the life of a girl and she fell in love with him. He recognized that this was simply a Nightingale effect and told her to wait a few weeks and the feeling would disappear, which she refused to believe. But sure enough, she never showed up again.
153* TheRival: Dr. Emily Peck, Hank's "temporary replacement", is now made into this.
154* RomanticFalseLead: Jill's ex-husband. In a nice variation, he's a pretty nice guy, not all that different from Hank himself. He does have one glaring flaw; his near-delusional refusal to accept Jill's leaving him could be seen as stalkerish.
155* SeriousBusiness:
156** Evan can get over a kidnapping attempt but how '' '''DARE''' '' you try to sell him counterfeit Cohibas.
157** In "The Hankover";
158-->'''Evan:''' "The stripper stole my van, and I think I killed Raj."\
159'''Hank:''' "[[LampshadeHanging And you led with the van]]?"
160* SexySurfacingShot: In "The Honeymoon's Over", the PatientOfTheWeek is in a UglyGuyHotWife marriage, which is demonstrated by the wife being introduced while climbing out of the swimming pool in a tiny bikini.
161* SharpDressedMan: Evan, starting sometime 'round Season 3/4. Includes a WaistcoatOfStyle.
162** Boris is normally dressed in a suit, with an interesting choice in his dress shirt and/or tie. The amount of times he hasn't been could probably be counted on one hand.
163* ShoutOut:
164--> '''Evan:''' Hankpops, [[Film/TheHudsuckerProxy y'know...for kids.]]"
165** To this very Wiki
166-->'''Eddie:''' Remember that Halloween, we all dressed as our favorite monsters?\
167'''Hank:''' Yeah, you were Frankenstein, Mom was his bride, I was the wolfman, and Evan was a NinjaZombiePirateRobot.
168%%* SiblingTeam : Hank and Evan
169* SpellMyNameWithAnS: The subtitles can't seem to agree whether it's "Marisa" or "Marissa". The times her name is shown, it's spelled with a single 's'.
170* StatusQuoIsGod:
171** {{Subverted|Trope}} with Jill doing charity work overseas. The writers kept coming up with ways to keep Jill in the Hamptons, up to and including her telling Hank that she lost the overseas job to someone else. Then, when it looks like she might join [=HankMed=], she gets offered a similar job with better benefits in the following episode, and ''does'' [[PutOnABus depart for Africa]].
172** Played straight with [[spoiler:Evan and Hank parting ways and running separate businesses in the fourth season: as of the fourth episode, they've made amends and Hank is back with [=HankMed=].]]
173* TakeThat: In the pilot when the on-call doctor tries to treat a girl at the party and automatically assumes it's drugs. Hank points out some important symptoms that he missed because of his assumption. A cynical doctor who assumes the worst in everyone? [[Series/{{House}} Hmmm....]]
174* TelevisuallyTransmittedDisease: Generally averted, most of the patients of the week have something odd (like Lyme Disease or scurvy), but nothing one-in-a-billion obscure. Hank spends most of his time dealing with cuts and burns, broken bones, and hypertension.
175* AThreesomeIsHot: Evan's reaction to seeing Jill and Emily in Hank's bed in "Pit Stop".
176* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Hank to Eddie on how he walked out on his wife just as she began getting sick.
177** This gets flipped on Hank by both Evan and Eddie that while what he did was messed up, it was 20 years ago and he came back into their lives sorry and wanting to make amends. It's fine if Hank wants to hold onto that grudge, but he can't interfere with what Evan wants.
178** The Lawson trio collectively told off Eddie's sponsor [[spoiler:and father]] Ted Roth after threatening to not show at his parole hearing if he went to help a friend he'd made in prison and accused Eddie of marrying a GoldDigger.
179* TitleIn: The show made use of ''{{Series/Fringe}}''-style 3D titles in "The Hankover".
180* TransTribulations: In "The Prince of Nucleotides", it's mentioned transgender teenager Anna had depression and self-harmed in the past due to gender dysphoria before she transitioned. She also has struggles with her parents, who are mostly accepting but want her to hold off on medically transitioning. Then, after coming out to her roommate, she tells kids and Anna's beaten up.
181* TrivialTragedy: In one episode, Russell mourns over an antique rug that's been badly damaged by its NouveauRiche owners.
182* {{Tsundere}}: Divya, but especially concerning Evan, whom she can't seem to stand, and yet....
183* TwoferTokenMinority: The four leads are the white Hank, Hank's brother Evan, Jill and Divya, an attractive Indian Englishwoman. [[InvertedTrope Both Hank and Evan are Jewish, so the "token minority" in this case may well be Jill, actually.]]
184* UnwantedAssistance: Evan seems hellbent on getting [=HankMed=] more customers, over the insistence of Hank himself. When he buckles down to it, he ''is'' a good CFO.
185* VoiceWithAnInternetConnection: Usually over the phone, and usually Hank, but used literally in the late first-season episode where Evan, Divya, and the patient are stuck on a boat.
186* TheVonTropeFamily: Boris Kuester '''von''' Jurgens-Ratenicz.
187* WealthyPhilanthropist: The premiere has the subverted version of a rich family that donates to charity, but in fact uses their money to pull the strings. Hank prioritizes a dying young kid over a wealthy man who was in stable condition. The rich man has unforeseen complications and dies. The dead man's family turn out to be the hospital's biggest donors and they use this to force the hospital to fire Hank, even though medically, he did nothing wrong. Since they also donate money to all the major hospitals in New York, they get Hank blacklisted from working as a doctor in those hospitals too. They also try to have his medical license revoked if he doesn't take full responsibility for the wealthy man's death. In the latter's episode, Divya and Evan, guided by Hank online while at the Gardners' hearing, help the captain of an anonymous millionaire fugitive's Yacht after a sail boom falls on captain, causing a flail chest and paradoxical breathing. Thanks to Hank's skills and Boris' lawyers, they fail.
188* WeHelpTheHelpless: In addition to making house calls for the wealthy, Hank regularly treats the town's lower class residents at no cost. This is often because these people can't afford a private doctor under regular circumstances, and because they must dig through a mile of red tape to get treatment at the local hospital.
189** For bonus points, a smaller-scale version of this resulted in his blacklisting. The kid was in critical condition, while the wealthy man was apparently stable. Until he died, Hank had no reason to suspect there'd be complications.
190** And as of "Mano a Mano", Hank's hospitality extends to people [[spoiler: who could be considered enemies of the state]] in Cuba.
191** Due to the wealth (or lack there of) of some of Hank's clients, he occasionally gets paid in other ways. For instance, a fisherman pays Hank in fish. Evan, to his credit, has no problems with that and in 3x15 upon noticing a number of fresh fish in the refrigerator, asks if said fisherman is okay.
192* WeddingEpisode:
193** "Fight or Flight" deals with Divya and Raj's (first) wedding ceremony.
194** The two-part "Off Seasons Greetings" sees Evan and Paige trying to hold their wedding ceremony during a blizzard.
195** "The Good News Is..." is a MusicalEpisode built around Eddie's wedding to Ms. Newberg.
196* WhatTheHellHero: [[spoiler: After being disowned by her parents,]] Divya starts working at the hospital without Hank's knowledge for extra cash. However, handling two jobs at once proves to be too much for her and she makes a serious medical mistake on one of Hank's patients due to fatigue. Needless to say, Hank is not happy once he learns the truth.
197* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: When the producers brought in a linguistics expert to place Campbell Scott's accent, he said it sounded more like an amalgamation of eight different ones. They liked how unspecific it was due to Boris's involvement with so many different cultures.
198* WorstAid: The pilot episode in which Hank saves someone is rather...impractical.
199** However, the series often subverts this as several episodes have Hank chastising someone for a method that he knows will just cause more damage.
200* YouKeepUsingThatWord: In the second season two episode, Evan keeps using "subliminal" and Hank tells him he should look it up.
201* YoyoPlotPoint: Hank and Jill's relationship has nearly reached this point, until it was resolved in the Season 1 finale. [[spoiler:They broke up, and have since shown interest in other people.]]
202** [[spoiler:In effect again as of episode 16 of season 2.]]
203** [[spoiler: Off again as of the mid-season 3 premiere.]]
204** [[spoiler: The issue finally is settled in the series finale as they are engaged. Then again, so was Hank in the [[HereWeGoAgain beginning of the series...]]]]

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