One Of The Boys / Live-Action TV

• That '70s Show gives us Donna. Almost always in jeans, happy to shoot hoops with the guys, with a booming voice (hey, she’s played by deep-voiced Laura Prepon), but she doesn’t seem to have a problem being seen in a sexy red dress.
  • This is actually a very sore subject with Donna, as episodes reveal that she’s bothered when people treat her TOO MUCH like a ladette. In one episode when Kitty needs two people with a feminine touch, she picks (right in front of Donna) Jackie and Fez. Donna’s response doesn’t help: “I’m feminine DAMNIT! I should kick her ass for that.”
• According to Jim: Dana is portrayed to enjoy American football just as much as her younger brother Andy and her brother-in-law Jim, with them three of them often hanging around watching the sport together while wearing their team's jerseys. That's also one of the few times where Dana and Jim actually get along.
• Beka Valentine, Captain and owner of the salvage ship Eureka Maru from Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda. The first time we see her in a dress, she's complaining about how she can't run and fight in all that cloth... and she's still wearing her combat boots.
• Susan Ivanova in Babylon 5 is very much the hard-edged officer, and pals around with her male colleagues like it's nothing (which to some degree it is in 23rd-century human society). On the other hand, she does strike up friendships with other women, including Delenn, and even falls in love with Talia. Any complexity in her relationships with other women have tended to be on account of the fact that most other human women she interacts with are telepaths, and her relationship with telepathy and the Psi Corps is... not very good.
• Battlestar Galactica: Because she is a Viper pilot and Commander Cain's daughter, Sheba fits into this trope. Subverted in that she retains many feminine traits.
• Ivy from Beverly Hills, 90210 is a surfer chick who gets very testy when someone doesn't treat her as Just One of the Guys.
• Jackie Curatola in Blue Bloods is kind of like this being comfortable in a male environment and having a rather hard-bitten personality. She is nice but she is edgy and is obviously not a Proper Lady.
• Detective Erin Lindsay on ChicagoPD, likely due to her having been raised by Sergeant Hank Voight alongside his son Justin, then her joining the police force.
• Sarah Schneider on MTV's The College Humor Show
• Degrassi: The Next Generation:
  • Emotionless Girl Ellie is a drummer in an otherwise all-male garage band with a number of piercings. She does have a good female friend, but she is the only girl by season five who has a strictly platonic relationship with a guy and she does maintain friendships with a couple of others.
  • After she upsets Darcy, Jane says she can't deal with girls because they're too sensitive. Later on, Jane joins the football team.
• Dexter: Debra Morgan, detective of the Miami Metro Police Department Homicide division and sister of Dexter, ability to be "one of the guys" is what allows her to be so effective at her job.
• Kaywinnet Lee Frye in Firefly is the mechanic for the titular ship in the series and is rarely found in anything other than a greasy pair of coveralls. Her version of One of the Boys is interestingly played with/inverted, in that she is shown desperately wanting to express her femininity and get dolled up on more than one occasion instead of it being simply thrust upon her by others.
• Forever: Detective Jo Martinez fits right in to a male-dominated workplace at the 11th Precinct, and readily joins her (generally all-male) colleagues for drinks or karaoke. She complains to Henry in "Fountain of Youth" that in her line of work, her drop-dead gorgeous looks are more of a liability than an asset.
• Frasier: By season five, Roz has been invited to join Martin's poker game and fits right in with the guy talk about autoshops, hardware stores and which actresses they'd want to be on a desert island with^* "One last time: if I had to choose.".
  Martin: Roz is like one of the guys, she knows more dirty jokes than Duke.
• Amy in the Frontier Circus episode "Stopover in Paradise". The only child of a rancher, her mother dies when she was few months old and her father raised her like he would a son.
• Game of Thrones: The other Ironborn consider Yara to be this, much preferring her companionship to Theon's.
• Jo, in Good Luck Charlie, who likes 'monster trucks, mixed martial arts... and dolls'.
• Hightown: Jackie's mostly friends with guys, and appears perfectly happy that way. She acts and dresses much like them, while being The Lad-ette and a Butch Lesbian.
• Robin on How I Met Your Mother. She isn't completely unfeminine but shares a lot of interests with the male cast, not to mention she also smokes and likes guns and sports. This is due to her father raising her like a boy because he wanted a son.
• Sweet Dee in It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, overlapping with The Lad-ette.
• Jack Ass has consistently been mainly a group of guys (besides the usual appearance by April Margera, Bam’s mother, and Stephanie Hodge who occasionally participated in stunts), but starting with “Jackass Forever”, Rachel Wolfson has officially joined the cast, and certainly shown to be just as daring as the dudes, from licking a taser without making a sound, and letting a scorpion sting her lips.
• Law & Order: SVU: Olivia Benson can use the Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique with the best of them. And her partner is Elliot UnStabler, so that's saying something.
• Jenny from The League is better-versed in football and fantasy football than her own husband, and seems to mostly hang out with the guys even when their wives are around (case in point, Sofia). However, she is still quite feminine in many ways.
• Of the most, if not the most frequent subject of MTV's MADE is a burping, swearing, and usually athletic tomboy who wants to become a girly-girl of some caliber (usually a beauty pageant queen, but some of them just settle for just the femininity lessons) to make boys stop seeing her as One Of The Boys and want to go out with her. Since All Guys Want Cheerleaders, simply finding a guy who likes tomboys is of course out of the question. There were several (though not as many) episodes in the reverse wherein girly girls wanted to pursue a more traditionally masculine sport and had to work not only on their abilities but being taken seriously.
• PJ of My Boys, sort of fits this trope; she works in a predominantly male profession (sportswriting), has a group of male friends she hangs out with, likes to play poker, and typically dons jeans-and-sweatshirts attire. But she also has a close female friend and isn't averse to occasionally acting more girly.
• In NCIS, Ziva is very much this. She takes pride in "boy" things such as the many ways she knows how to kill people.
• Moze from Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide. Her best friend is Ned, she doesn't have any real female friends (she spends some two seasons hunting for one), hangs out with Ned and Cookie, is aggressively athletic and very competitive (she joined the boys' wrestling team just to set enough athletic records to beat Polk's all-time high of 6 records), likes sports (particularly volleyball), loves woodshop, was dared to wear a flowery dress, has been beating Ned up since Pre-K, and actively hates skirts.
• The Order: Lilith is The Lad-ette and she mostly hangs out with her male fellow werewolves, with much the same interests (she's actually the most aggressive of the bunch).
• Power Rangers Ninja Storm (the first PR series with a single female Ranger) - Shane offhandedly tells Tori that a guy at the beach was asking about her. When she asks why he didn't mention this before the guy (who she thinks is cute) left, he doesn't get it. Later, he and Dustin dig themselves even further into a hole.
  Tori: You don't get it either. I'm a girl. Girrl.
  Dustin: Yeah, I know, but - like, you're not a girl-girl.
  Shane: You're like a guy-girl.
  Kelly: My advice to you both? Stop trying to make it better, 'cause it's only getting worse.
• Elizabeth "Busy" Ramone from Ready or Not (1993) is an only girl with three older brothers who were fairly close in age. She's by no means a pampered baby-girl of the family and has to be tough. She loves sports, mends her bike, plays the drums, works in her father's butcher's shop, and hangs out with guys. Her only female friend is her best friend Girly Girl Amanda.
• Reservation Dogs: Jackie is only seen with the boys in her gang prior to befriending Elora.
• Djaq, from Robin Hood. At one point, a fellow outlaw says: "Apart from being a girl, Djaq is one of the lads."
• Tori on Saved by the Bell.
• Elaine from Seinfeld. In one episode the fact that she only hangs out with guys becomes a plot point.
  Kramer: You're a man's woman. You hate other women, and they hate you.
• Invoked in the original pilot of Star Trek: The Original Series, "The Cage", when the female first officer (Number One) objects to Captain Pike's displeasure at having a woman on the bridge, and he has to hastily justify his obvious error by making her an exception to the rule.
• Step by Step:
  • Frank's daughter, Al, fit very much in this trope in early episodes, due to being the only daughter of a single father with two brothers & her interest in sports (as well as the apparent lack of girls-only teams in Port Washington). Although Al very much may have continued her interest in sports later, this is very much forgotten onscreen by midway through the series as Christine Lakin entered puberty and the producers wanted to take advantage of her physical attractiveness.
  • There were several episodes where Frank (a construction contractor) hired female construction workers who very much had male-oriented interests and spent off-work time with the guys. Said episodes would invariably deal with Carol's insecurities over Frank's relationship with the worker he hired.
  • Sam (short for Samantha), JT's girlfriend in later seasons, having predominantly male interests (her reputation as a mechanic preceded her, which combined with the Tomboyish Name led to a Samus Is a Girl moment for JT when he first met her) and generally acting very much like a female version of her boyfriend.
• Any Super Sentai team where The Smurfette Principle is a tomboy technically qualifies, like Yuuri from Mirai Sentai Timeranger. Any Super Sentai with a single female member is pretty much this by default since the team always hangs out together, she'll always be hanging out with 4 other guys. Occasionally she'll have a social life or at least another non-hero female friend, but usually she won't. In comparison teams with 2 female members will often have the two girls hanging together more often than with the males. This often makes the two female members treated as a unit during their focus episodes meaning single heroines on the squad tend to get developed better.
• S.W.A.T. (2017): Chris is The Lad-ette and The Squadette, who largely is shown fitting in perfectly with her male friends/colleagues on the team. Although she does have women as friends, they either rarely show up or are killed off.
• Erin from Titus. While she is certainly fine with acting girly, the producers admitted that they wrote Erin as being One Of The Guys and Tommy was more feminine.
• CJ from The West Wing. Her male coworkers completely accept her as part of the staff's boy's club (her best friend is a man) and treat her feminine characteristics as extensions of her personality rather than a divide between themselves and her. In an added layer, the only things she has that resemble female friends are Abbey and Donna, who are her boss's wife and a much younger underling respectively, and either never gets close to or outright dislikes the women on the same level as her.
• DC Riley of Whitechapel (TV Series) is this. Lampshaded in-universe.
• The X-Files: Dana Scully is shown to have been like this as a child in flashbacks. Her brothers even went so far as to get her a rifle for her birthday. She chooses not only a male-dominated college major (her undergraduate degree was Physics; her medical degree is specialized in pathology) but a male-dominated profession (the FBI), which is commented on at times in the series. While not a tomboy in clothing or mannerisms, she gets very upset when someone does not treat her as One of the Boys. She puts up a tough front on pretty much everything; it takes a season and a half of Mulder telling her she can lean on him and a kidnapping encounter with a sociopath to even get her to lower her walls at all. And even though she's small, she's mighty.