A Slice of Life series focused on a couple teenagers in northern New Jersey.
This series provides examples of:
- Accent Upon The Wrong Syllable: John seems to be particularly fond of this.
John: This is Bri-uh-na.Briana: Yeah that's... not actually how you say my name.
- Affectionate Gesture to the Head: Head-patting or hair-stroking seems to be a common occurrence.
- Affectionate Nickname
- Alliterative Name: Ada, Connie, Damian, Kayla, and Kyle, plus several minor characters.
- Ambiguously Gay
- Anguished Declaration of Love: From Caroline to Isaac, and John to Kyla.
- Apologizes a Lot: A good portion of the main cast has a problem with this.
- Ascended Extra: Over the course of the series, many irrelevant characters have upped themselves to recurring status, e.g. Camille 2.
- Bilingual Bonus: Whenever Ada and Caroline speak Polish.
- Big-Lipped Alligator Moment
- Birthday Episode: Camille, Caroline, and Kyla have each had two. Ada and Nancy have had their own as well.
- Kyla's sweet was a particularly big example.
- Brutal Honesty
- Cast Full of Gay
- Catchphrase: Everyone: "I ship it."
- Character Development: Everyone gets a handful.
- Characterization Marches On
- Clothing Switch: Clothes osmosis, anyone?
Alexa: So do you guys just share clothing, or...John: I'm wearing Ada's underwear right now.Camille: ...I sleep in Esteban's shorts.Esteban: ...I sleep in Ada's shirt.Nancy: ...This is Camille's fleece.
- Continuity Nod: Everywhere, to the extent of Continuity Porn.
- Conversational Troping: Tropes in other media are sometimes discussed.
- Corrupt the Cutie: The gradual destruction of Nancy's innocence from the beginning of the series to the present is notable.
- In addition, the many of the other main characters frequently attempt to pressure Kyla into deviating from her customary timid, law-abiding nature.
- Crack Pairing: In-universe. Anyone and everyone.
- Crash-Into Hello: The story of Esteban and Camille 2's meeting.
- Dysfunction Junction: To be expected in a cast of real people. Downplayed, in that the cast more or less manages to function normally when necessary; Discussed.
- Ensemble Cast
- Fan Fiction: In-universe.
- Notably, TRAOCAM, the Estancy Epilogue, and the Nyla fanfiction, all written by at least one of the main characters.
- For Want Of A Nail: An Alternate Timeline was established in which
- Friendship Moments: To be expected in a group of closely-knit friends.
- Fun with Foreign Languages
- Funny Background Events
- The Ghost: Up until Relay, Ada was this for a number of PC students.
- Girl on Girl Is Hot: Universally agreed upon.
- The Glomp: The Estancy Plop?
- Good Angel, Bad Angel: Whenever someone has a confliction there's bound to be at least one person urging on either side of the decision, even if only for the sake of disagreement.
- Group Hug
- Guilt Complexes
- Guy on Guy Is Hot: Even more agreeable than its counterpart.
- Halloween Episode
- Heterosexual Life-Partners
- Hot for Teacher: Alexa for a certain history teacher.
- And now a certain English teacher.
- I Can't Believe It's Not Heroin!: A few of the main characters experience simple withdrawal-like symptoms after being away from technology (specifically cell phones and the internet) for extended periods of time.
- Immigrant Parents: Each of the main characters' parents are from other countries.
- Informed Ability
- I Never: Seems to be a favorite at school retreats.
- Innocent Innuendo
- Insane Troll Logic
- I Think You Broke Him
- Just Friends
- Like Brother and Sister
- Local Hangout: Barnes & Noble.
- Moment Killer
- Mood Whiplash: John, Camille, and Ada were in the latter's basement watching a particularly quiet, emotional scene of some TV show, when, out of nowhere, a mood-killing cry was heard.
Kaya: CHEESECAAAKE!!!
- Moral Myopia
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero
- No Sense of Personal Space: Boundaries? What are those?
- The Not-Love Interest: Common sources of shipping fuel.
- Old Shame
- Only-Child Syndrome: Averted to the extreme - all the main characters have at least one sibling.
- One-Steve Limit: Averted with Camille 2 and several minor characters.
- Played straight with John being the only John in the entire school.
- Out of Focus
- Platonic Life-Partners
- Pop-Cultural Osmosis Failure
- Portmanteau Couple Name: Literally any combination one could come up with probably has a couple name—Estancy, Nada, and Jawline, to name a few.
- Power of Friendship
- Puppy-Dog Eyes
- Put on a Bus: The majority of recurring characters in Seasons 3 and 6.
- Real Men Wear Pink: Best observed that time both John and Esteban (the only male main characters) took to wearing fabulously pink pants.
- Reference Overdosed
- Refuge in Audacity
- Running Gag
- Sarcasm Mode
- Sarcastic Confession
- Saw Star Wars 27 Times: The Princess Diaries, the Lizzie Mc Guire Movie, et al.
- Sexy Shirt Switch
- Ship Sinking
- Ship Tease: And how.
- Ship-to-Ship Combat
- Shipper on Deck
- Shirtless Scene: Esteban has his shirt off more often than not, almost to the point of Walking Shirtless Scene.
- Kyle at Relay.
- Even John has had a few.
- Single-Target Sexuality
- Strange Minds Think Alike
- Sure, Let's Go with That: Vagueness abounds.
- Token Minority Couple
- True Companions
- Unresolved Sexual Tension
- We Used to Be Friends
- What Could Have Been
- What Happened to the Mouse?
- What If?
- What the Hell, Hero?
- Will They or Won't They?: Imagined scenarios just to keep things interesting.
- The Woobie: Ada.
"Pitiful."
- Camille as well. A number of PC kids have taken to making fun of her in a teasing manner.
Max: Oh my God, I can actually feel the average IQ of everyone in the world dropping the more she talks. - Zany Scheme
