* HilariousInHindsight: Watching this show after UsefulNotes/SarahPalin makes it unintenionally hilarious. Even more so after an AbortedArc had Mac's son knocking a girl up. You can't make this stuff up.
* SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome: The speech Mac gives at the end of the first episode was worthy of a Sorkin script, and Geena Davis lent it just the right air of gravity without crossing into melodrama.
* RetroactiveRecognition:
** Horace [[spoiler: sleeps with and impregnates]] [[Series/{{Heroes}} Claire Bennet]]. And he himself also appeared on ''Heroes''. Only this time, he ended up [[spoiler: raping her. And killing her. (Well, temporarily.)]]
** He was later [[Series/BeverlyHills90210 Liam Court]].
* TearJerker: In the final episode, President Allen leaving the town hall meeting to thunderous applause from the students assembled outside.
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