History Series / TheNewNormal

* DeadPetSketch: When Shania's guinea pig dies, complete with a thorough LampshadeHanging from Rocky.
** ReplacementGoldfish: Discussed prior to attempting. It backfires, because the selected replacement turns out to be [[YourTomcatIsPregnant a girl]].

* MyBelovedSmother: Jane, while actually her grandmother, is this to Goldie and Shania.

* NoNameGiven[=/=]TheGhost: Goldie's mother. Her name is deliberately left out.

* PleasePutSomeClothesOn: David, to Monty in "The Goldie Rush", upon seeing Bryan ogling him.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: While not out-and-out villain, Jane is the main antagonist.
* RaisedByGrandparents: Goldie
* RacistGrandma: Jane, but portrayed as more threatening than usual.

''The New Normal'' is a comedy show which ran for one season in 2012 and 2013. It was created by [[Series/AmericanHorrorStory Ryan]] [[Series/{{Popular}} Murphy]] and [[Series/{{Glee}} Ali]] [[Series/{{Chuck}} Adler]], and starred Andrew Rannells, Justin Bartha, Ellen Barkin, [=NeNe=] Leakes and Creator/GeorgiaKing.

* HalloweenEpisode: "Para New Normal Activity"

* HollywoodNerd: David was a Type 2 back when he first met Bryan and he had just graduated from med school. Years later he has evolved into a HospitalHottie.
* HowWeGotHere: The basis of the pilot.

* ImagineSpot: Often.

* ManicPixieDreamGirl: Shania, at times.

''The New Normal'' is a comedy show which ran for one season in 2012 and 2013. It was created by [[Series/AmericanHorrorStory Ryan]] [[Series/{{Popular}} Murphy]] and [[Series/{{Glee}} Ali]] [[Series/{{Chuck}} Adler]], and starred Andrew Rannells, Justin Bartha, Ellen Barkin, [=NeNe=] Leakes and Georgia King.

* YourCheatingHeart: Clay gets caught - and dumped for - cheating on Goldie.

* CharacterDevelopment: Jane quickly loses her hatred over the first season. She's still snarky but does so in a sort of BlackComedy[=/=]CrossesTheLineTwice sort of way. She even calls Rocky her best friend.

* PortmanteauCoupleName: Bravid for Bryan and David.

* TakeThatMe: In 'Sofa's Choice' Bryan breaks up the main couple in his show just so he can start a Website/{{Twitter}} war, thus showing him as a pretty unprofessional and fickle writer. Series co-creator and writer of the episode [[TrollingCreator Ryan Murphy]] has been known to toy with relationships [[ForTheEvulz for his own amusement]] in [[Series/{{Glee}} his other hit show]].

* GrandmaWhatMassiveHotnessYouHave: Jane is a very attractive woman for a great-grandmother. Once she truly learns to take advantage of that fact she starts to enjoy it.

* CastingGag: Gwyneth Paltrow as Abby, the egg donor who looks a lot like the ''Film/IronMan'' actress and [[Series/{{Popular}} Leslie]] [[WhatILikeAboutYou Grossman]] as the threatening surrogate.

''The New Normal'' is a comedy show which ran for one season in 2012 and 2013. It was created by [[Series/AmericanHorrorStory Ryan]] [[{{Popular}} Murphy]] and [[Series/{{Glee}} Ali]] [[Series/{{Chuck}} Adler]], and starred Andrew Rannells, Justin Bartha, Ellen Barkin, [=NeNe=] Leakes and Georgia King.

* CastingGag: Gwyneth Paltrow as Abby, the egg donor who looks a lot like the ''Film/IronMan'' actress and [[{{Popular}} Leslie]] [[WhatILikeAboutYou Grossman]] as the threatening surrogate.

** Bryan's ex-boyfriend Monty is shirtless more than he's not and played by [[WhiteCollar Matt Bomer]].

* TakeThatMe: In 'Sofa's Choice' Bryan breaks up the main couple in his show just so he can start a {{Twitter}} war, thus showing him as a pretty unprofessional and fickle writer. Series co-creator and writer of the episode [[TrollingCreator Ryan Murphy]] has been known to toy with relationships [[ForTheEvulz for his own amusement]] in [[Series/{{Glee}} his other hit show]].

* EvilMatriarch: Jane sees herself as trying to guide her granddaughter and great-granddaughter down the "right" path in life. Ironically, despite her self-proclaimed belief in traditional values, good manners are not among those traditions she practices and she is incredibly rude to other people almost all of the time. Also racist, homophobic, anti-Semitic and every other known for of prejudice.

* FromTheMouthsOfBabes: Shania: "You're a bigot, Nana. I'm [[{{Facebook}} unfriending you]] right now."

---> '''Bryan''': Well if it's good enough for ''SavedByTheBell'' then it's good enough for me!

* AbsurdlyYouthfulMother: Jane only appears to be in [[VagueAge her sixties]] and is already a great-grandmother. Justified in that she had her daughter extremely young and her granddaughter got pregnant at around the same age.
** It's mentioned that Goldie's mother was also very young. Jane calls it "the family tradition" and hopes her great-granddaughter will break it.

''The New Normal'' is a comedy show which ran for one season in 2012 and 2013. It was created by [[Series/AmericanHorrorStory Ryan]] [[{{Popular}} Murphy]] and [[{{Glee}} Ali]] [[{{Chuck}} Adler]], and starred Andrew Rannells, Justin Bartha, Ellen Barkin, [=NeNe=] Leakes and Georgia King.

* ActorAllusion: Bryan refers to Romney as "the Mormon". Andrew Rannells played a Mormon in the Book of Mormon Musical before.

* BannedInChina: Believe it or not, the show has been banned by the NBC affiliate in Salt Lake City, Utah (which is indirectly owned by the Mormon Church). The CW affiliate there airs it on Saturdays.

* FakeAmerican: Goldie is played by the British Georgia King.

* TheNameless [=/=]TheGhost: Goldie's mother. Her name is deliberately left out.

* CloudCuckoolander [=/=] StrangeGirl: Shania. Bryan to an extent.