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- For the Roses as a whole, necessity leads to ingenuity.
- Considering he's the most low-key member of the Rose family, Johnny has quite a few moments of awesome:
- When he tells off his former friends, a snooty couple who were making fun of the town and putting down Roland and Jocelyn.
- When he offers to be Stevie's partner in running the motel.
- When he realizes Stevie is distraught at The Hospies, and he gives up his own desire to schmooze and celebrate his award to care for her.
- When he runs all the way from the motel to the cafe to warn David he's accidentally outed Patrick to his parents.
- When he supports Stevie's desire to explore life outside the motel but is genuinely thrilled when she decides to return to the partnership.
- When he gives a heartfelt pitch to venture capitalists for The Rosebud Motel Group.
- Every moment, and there are many, where it's clear that he's still madly in love with Moira after almost 40 years.
- Moira's moments of awesome include:
- When she slaps Roland to get him to sign the contract.
- When she gives her first speech to the city council.
- When she tells Alexis to hush for once in her life, tells her children they love them and dances with her family.
- When she monologues as Viviene Blake to get a guest to take down a bad review of the motel.
- When she manages to keep her dignity and make her performance in a bird's nest actually good.
- When she makes a series of deserved diva-ish demands to the producer of Sunrise Bay.
- When she officiates her son's wedding dressed in a look that can only be described as Viking Pope.
- When she casts Stevie as Sally Bowles, giving the younger woman a much-needed boost.
- When she doubles down on that, giving Stevie a backstage pep-talk. She tells Stevie how much she loves her and how proud she is, and that this song is about how Sally wishes she were as amazing as Stevie is.
- David's moments of awesome include:
- When after he sleeps with Sebastien, he reveals rather than being used, he's the one who has used his predatory ex-boyfriend.
- Pulling together a Baby Sprinkle in less than a day, and reviving the game invented by his mother called Sleepy Mommy.
- Speaking to Ted on behalf of Alexis at Singles Week.
- Doing an aerial rope walk while declaring that he loves Patrick precisely because their relationship is so normal and comfortable.
- When he humiliates himself for a loved one, including his performance at Asbestos Fest with his mother and when he lip syncs to Tina Turner for Patrick.
- After an entire episode of being razzed for being The Load on Patrick's baseball team, watching him hit a game-winning home run is very satisfying. Not bad for a non-sports guy!
- When he is willing to carry Patrick on his back to salvage the romantic hike that he does not yet know is going to culminate in a marriage proposal.
- When he realizes that he is happy in Schitt's Creek, because his business (his passion), Stevie (his best friend), and Patrick (his love) are all there, and he chooses to stay in the town.
- Alexis's moments of awesome:
- A lot of them took place before her arrival in Schitt's Creek, some of which included escaping the Yakuza (in very tall stiletto heels!), playing pool in a Ugandan diamond smuggler's villa for her freedom and parallel parking in a burka.
- Catching a group of shoplifters at her brother's store, and pickpocketing a wallet off one.
- Convincing her ex Ted’s current girlfriend to sign an exclusive agreement with David.
- Declaring her love to Ted but knowing she has to let him go.
- Pulling together a new game for Singles Week with the press looking on.
- Drawing on her extensive history of escaping real kidnappings and other assorted international incidents, Alexis is the one who leads the family through the Escape Room challenges at David and Patrick's Bachelor Party.
- Stevie:
- Realizing Patrick is on a date with David and bowing out while encouraging David with a thumbs-up.
- Remembering to get her best friend the perfect engagement gift, right before her triumphant performance as Sally Bowles.
- When she doesn't let Johnny give up his dream to franchise the motel suggests an ambitious plan for expansion based on Johnny's own memoir. Instead of selling the second motel, they're going to buy thirty.
- When she takes David to see the house Patrick had intended to buy for David after their wedding and makes David realize that he should stay in Schitt's Creek, the place where he started his business, met his best friend and fell in love with his husband.
- Ted:
- Pretty much every time he cheerfully circumvents one of Alexis's manipulations.
- When he shows up at Patrick's housewarming ready to party.
- While in the Galapagos Islands, he arranges a romantic cyber date with Alexis for their anniversary.
- Patrick:
- The fact that he's smitten with David from the moment they meet, even as he seems fully cognizant of what he's in for if he gets involved with him.
- The fact that he knows David's overly complex coffee order while being understanding about Moira's melodramatics.
- When he and Stevie push every Berserk Button of David’s to get him to call him his boyfriend.
- Obviously, when he serenades David.
- When he refuses to leave Alexis and Moira until they have deleted an embarrassing online video of David.
- When he, well in advance, arranges a massage for David on their Wedding Day, knowing David will be stressed out. He even handles it relatively well when David gets a happy ending from the masseuse.
- Roland:
- When he lies to his old flame at the unemployment office so Johnny can collect unemployment.
- When it's Roland who tells Johnny to be understanding of David's pansexuality, while the two older men are getting stoned.
- When he returns for his briefcase and hears the venture capitalists making fun of Johnny and he sticks up for his friend emphatically.
- When he (and Jocelyn) mortgage their home to buy the second motel and go into business with Johnny and Stevie.
- Jocelyn:
- When she stands up to Moira's snobbery early on, saying one day Moira might end up shopping at The Blouse Barn.
- When she tells off Moira for not being understanding of her post-baby stress and being too obsessed with Bosnia.
- For its final season, the show became the first TV series ever to sweep all four of its eligible acting Emmys.
- In fact, in the 72 years of the Emmy Awards, no regular series has ever claimed Best Series/directing/writing/all four acting categories in the same year.
- Doubles as Heartwarming: The show has become a beacon of hope and joy for the LGBTQ community for its portrayal of queer couples living in an environment where there is no homophobia. It’s been praised for avoiding the same “tragic queer” tropes often found in even the most sympathetic media depictions. In the post-show documentary, “Best Wishes, Warmest Regards”, Dan Levy reads out a letter he received from a support group of moms with LGBTQ kids thanking him and the creative team for giving their kids an amazing show and queer role models to look up to. Not a dry eye was left in the room.
- David's "I enjoy the wine, not the bottle." has become a Stock Phrase for explaining pan/bisexuality, thanks to the show's meme-ability.
