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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: NBC was interested in the series, ordering and shooting the pilot. Somewhere along the line, it wound up on Sci-Fi.
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* OutOfOrder: Based on surviving production codes, several episodes were clearly aired out of their production order. This was rarely a continuity issue, but it was noticeable that "Let Sleeping Dogs Fry" (where Tucker can't work up the nerve to ask a new intern out) aired after "Bring Me the Head of Tucker Burns" (where Tucker starts a relationship that lasts the rest of the season).
** In "Touched by an Alien," Tucker mentions being trapped in a cursed stove all night. He's referring to "Hot from the Oven," which was produced before "Touched by an Alien," but aired weeks afterward.
** In "Touched by an Alien," Tucker mentions being trapped in a cursed stove all night. He's referring to "Hot from the Oven," which was produced before "Touched by an Alien," but aired weeks afterward.
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* DawsonCasting: InUniverseExample. In "The Stepford Cheerleaders," Tucker, Grace and Wes have to go undercover as high schoolers for a story. Tucker points out the implausibility of this, but Grace and Wes respond by invoking ''Series/BeverlyHills90210''.
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* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Has never been released on DVD in any form other than bootleg. Even few clips survive on the internet.
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* DawsonCasting: In "The Stepford Cheerleaders," Tucker, Grace and Wes have to go undercover as high schoolers for a story. Tucker points out the implausibility of this, but Grace and Wes respond by invoking ''Series/BeverlyHills90210''.
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* BlackBestFriend: Wes to Tucker.
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* AscendedFanboy: In "The King is (Un)Dead," Tucker gets to investigate a story about his childhood hero - ElvisPresley. He delightfully geeks out as much as Wes does about sci-fi shows.
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* AscendedFanboy: In "The King is (Un)Dead," Tucker gets to investigate a story about his childhood hero - ElvisPresley.Music/ElvisPresley. He delightfully geeks out as much as Wes does about sci-fi shows.
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''The Chronicle'' (2001-2002) is a sci-fi TV series based on the ''News from the Edge'' novel series by Mark Sumner. The show follows a group of reporters for the tabloid newspaper ''The Chronicle'' and their encounters with real monsters and aliens -- most of whom turn out to be not as scary as they seem. The show ran for one season of 22 episodes on the [[Creator/{{Syfy}} Sci Fi Channel]].
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''The Chronicle'' (2001-2002) is a sci-fi TV series based on the ''News from the Edge'' novel series by Mark Sumner. Sumner and developed for television by Silvio Horta. The show follows a group of reporters for employees at the tabloid newspaper ''The Chronicle'' newspaper, the ''World Chronicle'': Tucker Burns, the everyman and latest hiring; Grace Hall, a veteran reporter and multiple alien abductee; Wes Freewald, the staff photographer and proud sci-fi geek; and Donald Stern, the enigmatic editor/owner. Also turning up frequently are Sal, a PigMan that runs the paper's archives, and Vera, the SassySecretary. While everyone thinks they just make up their encounters with stories, they always do encounter real monsters and aliens -- most of whom turn out to be not as scary as they seem. The show ran for one season of 22 episodes on the [[Creator/{{Syfy}} Sci Fi Channel]].
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* FriendshipMoment: Following his break-up with his girlfriend from the first episode, Tucker winds up staying in a rat hole apartment building. Seeing this, Wes immediately invites him to be his roommate.
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* GoodParents: Wes' parents. They're just as big sci-fi fans as he is, even taking him to see ''TheEmpireStrikesBack'' - ''nine times''. They also overwhelmingly support his working at the tabloid (whereas Grace's mother doesn't and Tucker is certain his parents wouldn't). They do have one vice - swinging, which they had been doing since before Wes was born. Wes is naturally freaked out when he finds out, but he realizes that's their personal life and that it doesn't change how they raised him.
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* GoodParents: Wes' parents. They're just as big sci-fi fans as he is, even taking him to see ''TheEmpireStrikesBack'' ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack'' - ''nine times''. They also overwhelmingly support his working at the tabloid (whereas Grace's mother doesn't and Tucker is certain his parents wouldn't). They do have one vice - swinging, which they had been doing since before Wes was born. Wes is naturally freaked out when he finds out, but he realizes that's their personal life and that it doesn't change how they raised him.
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''The Chronicle'' (2001-2002) is a sci-fi TV series based on the ''News from the Edge'' novel series by Mark Sumner. The show follows a group of reporters for the tabloid newspaper ''The Chronicle'' and their encounters with real monsters and aliens -- most of whom turn out to be not as scary as they seem. The show ran for one season of 22 episodes on the SciFiChannel.
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* HeyItsThatGuy: Sal was [[RevengeOfTheNerds Booger]] and [[HeyItsThatVoice later]] [[DanVs Dan]].
** "Here There Be Dragons" features GeorgeTakei as a prideful father.
*** And Creator/DanteBasco as a noodle delivery boy
** In "Baby Got Back," a Satanic cult is led by [[HomeImprovement Al Borland]].
** Grace's mother was played by Adrienne Barbeau.
** One of the group therapy members in "Take Me Back" has prompted people to say [[Series/TheInvisibleMan "Shut up, Eberts."]]
** In "Bring Me the Head of Tucker Burns," MarkSheppard plays Nitro, the owner of a bike shop. [[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Casey Biggs]], meanwhile, plays Dick Blanston.
** "Here There Be Dragons" features GeorgeTakei as a prideful father.
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** In "Baby Got Back," a Satanic cult is led by [[HomeImprovement Al Borland]].
** Grace's mother was played by Adrienne Barbeau.
** One of the group therapy members in "Take Me Back" has prompted people to say [[Series/TheInvisibleMan "Shut up, Eberts."]]
** In "Bring Me the Head of Tucker Burns," MarkSheppard plays Nitro, the owner of a bike shop. [[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Casey Biggs]], meanwhile, plays Dick Blanston.
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* FalseRapeAccusation: Tucker reveals that the reason no other newspaper or magazine will hire him is because, back in journalism school, he was approached by a girl claiming her professor molested her. He started an investigation, and then another girl approached him claiming the same thing. Concluding he had enough evidence, he wrote an article slamming the guy. The professor lost his job, his marriage, etc. And then it's revealed that the two girls were lying because the professor gave them bad grades. Not only did this not help the professor, but it also cost Tucker his career.
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* AbortedArc: Several episodes demonstrated that Donald had a MysteriousPast and that he was not quite what he seemed. When an alien assassin comes for him, he knows why, but the story he gives the staff doesn't pan out. Assuming the writers had answers in mind for this arc, the show's cancellation meant they never got the chance to follow through.
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* AlienAbduction: Grace claims that she was abducted several times when she was a child by at least two different alien races. One of these later returns to check up on their subjects... and remove their brains.
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* AlienAbduction: Grace claims that she was abducted several six times when she was a child by at least two different alien races. One of these later teenager. She mentions having encountered [[Creator/StevenSpielberg Spielberg-like]] aliens, TheGreys and a nasty reptilian species. The last one returns to check up on their her and other subjects... and remove by removing their brains.
* BlessedWithSuck: In "Take Me Back," an alien tells Grace that her brain has a unique bio-chemical structure, which might explain why she's a multiple abductee.
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: In "Take Me Back", Grace's alien abduction experiences play an awfully lot like sexual assault.
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* DawsonCasting: In "The Stepford Cheerleaders," Tucker, Grace and Wes have to go undercover as high schoolers for a story. Tucker points out the implausibility of this, but Grace and Wes respond by invoking ''Series/BeverlyHills90210''.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: In "Take Me Back", Grace's alien abduction experiences play an awfully lot like sexual assault. Tucker actually gets accused of doing just that when the police bust in on him and Grace recreating an experience as part of a therapy technique.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: In "Take Me Back", Grace's alien abduction experiences play an awfully lot like sexual assault. Tucker actually gets accused of doing just that when the police bust in on him and Grace recreating an experience as part of a therapy technique.
* TheGreys: One's body has been in the Archives since a certain crash in 1947. Grace also says she was abducted by them. According to her, they're more friendly in comparison to some other species.
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** In "Here There Be Dragons," a woman gives birth to a baby that's half-dragon. [[spoiler:Subverted when the father turns out to be a human suffering from Ichthyosis and was faking dragon sightings to scare people away.]]
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** In "Here There Be Dragons," a woman gives birth to a baby that's half-dragon. [[spoiler:Subverted when the father turns out to be a human suffering from Ichthyosis and was faking dragon sightings to scare people away. Only the woman knew the truth.]]
* HiddenDepths: Donald is fluent in Italian, not too shabby with German and knows how to perform an exorcism.
* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: The hybrid creatures in "Pig Boy's Big Adventure" really despise humans due to what they've experienced throughout their lives. Sal begins to question humanity, but snaps back when he witnesses the hybrids kill the doctor that experimented on them.
* IronicHell: In "Touched by an Alien," the staff has to deal with an alien assassin after Donald that possesses people and can move from body-to-body by having sex. The alien soon takes over Grace, but needs to take over Sal to get to Donald. As alien!Grace puts on the moves, Sal learns the truth and (much to his irritation) realizes he can't go through with it.
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-->"I'm in Hell!"
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* PigMan: Sal, a heroic hacker pigman, was the consequence of government genetic manipulation.
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** In "Touched by an Alien," Tucker mentions being trapped in a cursed stove all night. He's referring to "Hot from the Oven," which was produced before "Touched by an Alien," but aired weeks afterward.
* PigMan: Sal, a heroic hackerpigman, pigman. His spotlight episode reveals it was the consequence result of government genetic manipulation.a risky transplant operation when he was a baby. Sal needed a kidney transplant, but was stuck on a waiting list for over a year. His parents turned to a doctor who used animal parts in operations, which led to his porcine features.
* ProperlyParanoid: Detective Garibaldi questions how Tucker, Grace and Wes keep getting involved in his cases (which include murder and disappearances) and thinks he can find answers by investigating them.
* PigMan: Sal, a heroic hacker
* ProperlyParanoid: Detective Garibaldi questions how Tucker, Grace and Wes keep getting involved in his cases (which include murder and disappearances) and thinks he can find answers by investigating them.
* ReptilesAreAbhorrent: One of the species that abducted Grace was reptilian. She refers to them as the meanest and worst of the lot.
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* SaunaOfDeath: In one episode, the tabloid reporters were dealing with the angry ghosts fat people killed in a fat farm sauna. In the end, they had to rescue the murderer from suffering the same fate.
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* SaunaOfDeath: In one episode, the tabloid reporters were dealing with the angry ghosts fat "I See Dead Fat People," Tucker and Wes investigate a former weight-loss clinic where four people were killed in a fat farm sauna. In this fashion. As the end, duo unravel who was responsible, they had to rescue the murderer from suffering nearly suffer the same fate.fate and need a vengeful ghost's help to survive.
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* ShellShockedVeteran: In "Take Me Back," after years of having coped just fine, Grace begins experiencing violent and horrifying flashbacks of her abductions along this kind of trope.
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* TheUnreveal: In "Tears of a Clone," an alien race clones Grace and intends for the clone to take her place. Things go wrong in the swap, leaving the clone exposed and her memories damaged. The aliens clean up the mess before the staff can learn what the clone's purpose was.
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* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: The ghosts in "I See Dead Fat People." They were killed in a SaunaOfDeath by an abusive doctor pushing them well-past healthy measures to lose weight. One of the victims was scapegoated as the murderer and spent years haunting the property to try to get people to investigate what really happened. And of course, when the ghosts get their chance, they nearly kill their killer.
** The bionic cheerleader in "The Stepford Cheerleaders." She was injured in a car accident and given implants to survive, but she sees herself as a freak and has very violent mood swings.
** The bionic cheerleader in "The Stepford Cheerleaders." She was injured in a car accident and given implants to survive, but she sees herself as a freak and has very violent mood swings.
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* WireDilemma: Subverted in "Man and Superman." Wes thinks he has mere seconds to cut the right wire in a bomb hidden in a closet, but Tucker and Grace stop him--pulling aside some clothes covering the countdown clock. It turns out they got there an hour before the antagonist intended to set off the bomb.
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* BrainBleach: In "Touched by an Alien," while searching for a body surfing alien, the trio arrive at a hotel hosting a swingers convention. Tucker and Grace may be a bit unnerved by what they see, but that's nothing compared to when Wes finds his parents there.
-->"I think I need to wash my skull out with soap... good soap."
-->"I think I need to wash my skull out with soap... good soap."
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* AllMenArePerverts: Sal falls into this at times.
-->'''Grace:''' Did you just grab my ass?\\
'''Sal:''' What do you want from me? I'm a pig.
-->'''Grace:''' Did you just grab my ass?\\
'''Sal:''' What do you want from me? I'm a pig.
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* ImADoctorNotAPlaceholder: In "Baby Got Back," Donald initially objects to performing the exorcism on baby Julian.
-->"We are a newspaper; we're not the Vatican!"
* IntrepidReporter: Tucker and Grace are the reporters, while Wes is thephtographer.photographer.
-->"We are a newspaper; we're not the Vatican!"
* IntrepidReporter: Tucker and Grace are the reporters, while Wes is the
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* EvilDetectingDog: In "Baby Got Back," Wes takes [[TheAntichrist baby Julian]] to the park, where every dog that passes by starts barking uncontrollably. Wes finds the first instance of this very suspicious.
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* HauntedFetter: "Hell Mall." Personal objects are brought to the mall, stirring the ghosts of (often violent) mental patients. Ghosts start appearing in the mall and possessing people - including Tucker, with others usually being harmed in the process.
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* HauntedFetter: "Hell Mall." Personal objects are brought to the mall, stirring the ghosts of (often violent) mental patients. Ghosts start appearing in the mall and possessing people - including Tucker, (including Tucker ultimately), with others usually being harmed in the process.
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* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: The conversation between Donald, Wes, and Tucker, near the beginning of "Pig Boy's Big Adventure" certainly is something superb.
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Grace's emotionally painful flashbacks of her abductions in "Take Me Back" play a lot like a long-repressed account of a rape incident.
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