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* OhCrap: Kelly, when Mercer catches her in bed with [[BoldlyComing a blue alien]].
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* OhCrap: Kelly, when Mercer [[PlotIncitingInfidelity catches her in bed with with]] [[BoldlyComing a blue alien]].
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* GeniusBonus: For anyone who knows what a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tardigrade tardigrade]] is.
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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Isaac is introduced as the science and engineering officer. Future episodes have a separate Chief Engineer, Steve Newton [[spoiler:who is later replaced by [=LaMarr=]]].
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* ThatsAnOrder: Mercer tries this when Gordon is deliberately flying the shuttle erratically, saying "I am literally ''ordering you'' to stop." It doesn't work (a near-collision seconds later does the trick, though.)
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* BizarreAlienBiology: "Papa Smurf". In addition to being a RubberForeheadAlien, he also [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything squirts some kind of blue liquid from his face]] after being interrupted mid-coitus with Kelly. [[spoiler:And then it turns out that [[Recap/TheOrvilleS1E09CupidsDagger he gives off pheromones]] that may have had Kelly KissingUnderTheInfluence]].
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--> '''[=LaMarr=]:''' You see that dog in the background lickin' its balls?\\
'''Malloy:''' First thing I saw.
'''Malloy:''' First thing I saw.
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* BizarreAlienBiology: "Papa Smurf". In addition to being a RubberForeheadAlien, he also [[Doesthisremindyouofanything squirts some kind of blue liquid from his face, the nature of which is never explained.face]] after being interrupted mid-coitus with Kelly.
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* ShoutOut: ''Franchise/{{theSmurfs}} "Papa Smurf"''
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* WorkingWithTheEx: Captain Mercer is unhappy to learn that his new first officer is none other than his ex-wife. [[WeAreStrugglingTogether While they tend to bicker]], they also agree to [[ConsummateProfessional put aside their differences as best they can.]] For the most part, they tend to work well together.
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* WorkingWithTheEx: Captain Mercer is unhappy to learn that his new first officer is none other than his ex-wife. [[WeAreStrugglingTogether While they tend to bicker]], they also agree to [[ConsummateProfessional put aside their differences as best they can.]] For the most part, they tend to work well together.together.
* YourCheatingHeart: Kelly with "Papa Smurf" in the prologue.
* YourCheatingHeart: Kelly with "Papa Smurf" in the prologue.
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* FunnyBackgroundEvent: While Aronov is talking to Mercer on the viewscreen, his dog is busy licking his balls. Naturally, that's what Malloy and [=LaMarr=] focus on.
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* BizarreAlienBiology: "Papa Smurf". In addition to being a RubberForeheadAlien, he also squirts some kind of blue liquid from his face, the nature of which is never explained.
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* StarfishAlien: Alara mistakes a fish-like scientist for one of the facility's experiments until she's corrected.
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* StarfishAlien: Alara Finn mistakes a fish-like scientist for one of the facility's experiments until she's corrected.
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* DistantReactionShot: Heavily {{Downplayed}} on the "distant" part, but while Mercer is arguing with Kelly in his office, the camera cuts to TheBridge where everyone can hear the argument. Malloy's face clearly says "IWarnedYou".
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* NoOSHACompliance: So the temporal field that hyper-ages things doesn't have anything to prevent people from, say, falling into the field?
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* ItsAllMyFault: After giving Mercer a damage report, Bortus says "I have failed you." Mercer reassures him that he did a good job.
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* CoolVsAwesome: Malloy's holo-program let's him dress as a samurai and fight an ogre.
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* CoolVsAwesome: Malloy's holo-program let's him dress as a samurai and fight an ogre.
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* FragileSpeedster: The ''Orville'' may not be as powerful or durable as a Krill destroyer, but she (almost) makes up for it by flying circles around the destroyer, allowing her to dodge more hits than she would have otherwise.
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* PreMortemOneLiner: Mercer gives one to the Krill captain moments before the time-acceleration device activates and grows a redwood tree in moments, breaking the Krill destroyer in two. Subverted in that most of the bridge crew have no idea what he meant. Kelly tells him what she would've said, and even he has to admit that would've been better.
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* PreMortemOneLiner: Mercer gives one to the Krill captain moments before the time-acceleration device activates and grows a redwood tree in moments, breaking the Krill destroyer in two. two: "Happy Arbor Day." Subverted in that most of the bridge crew have no idea what he meant. Kelly tells him what she would've said, and even he has to admit that would've been better.
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* BondOneLiner: Mercer gives one to the Krill captain moments before [[spoiler:the time-acceleration device activates and grows a redwood tree in moments, breaking the Krill destroyer in two]]. Subverted in that most of the bridge crew have no idea what he meant. Kelly tells him what she would've said, and even he has to admit that would've been better.
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* DullSurprise: When the ''Orville'' launches, Lamarr is too busy [[TheSnackIsMoreInteresting drinking a soda]] to look as awed as the other humans.
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* BondOneLiner: Mercer gives one to the Krill captain moments before [[spoiler:the time-acceleration device activates and grows a redwood tree in moments, breaking the Krill destroyer in two]]. Subverted in that most of the bridge crew have no idea what he meant. Kelly tells him what she would've said, and even he has to admit that would've been better.
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* NotThisOneThatOne: A variation - the admiral who gives Mercer command of the ''Orville'' tells him that if it hadn't been for the recent downturn in his job performance stemming from the divorce, he could've been given a heavy cruiser instead of a mid-level explorer. Fortunately, Mercer's too excited about being in space to care much about what kind of ship he commands.
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* ImpossiblePickleJar: When Mercer can't open a heavy door, he asks Alara to "open this jar of pickles for me". She then uses her SuperStrength to smash the door down.
--> '''Mercer:''' ''({{beat}})'' I loosened it for you.
--> '''Mercer:''' ''({{beat}})'' I loosened it for you.
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* ChekhovsGun: The apparently merely interesting information that the genetically engineered redwoods can grow anywhere, even in space, becomes critically important to dealing with the Krill.
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* WorkingWithTheEx: Captain Mercer is unhappy to learn that his new first officer is none other than his ex-wife. [[WeAreStrugglingTogether While they tend to bicker]], they also agree to [[ConsumateProfessional put aside their differences as best they can.]] For the most part, they tend to work well together.
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* WorkingWithTheEx: Captain Mercer is unhappy to learn that his new first officer is none other than his ex-wife. [[WeAreStrugglingTogether While they tend to bicker]], they also agree to [[ConsumateProfessional [[ConsummateProfessional put aside their differences as best they can.]] ]] For the most part, they tend to work well together.
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* WeNeedADistraction: In order to buy some time for Isaac to get the engines working, Ed and Kelly start arguing with the Krill commander about their failed marriage. It works for a bit, but he loses patience and fires a warning shot to get them back on task, forcing them to come up with an alternate plan.
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* WeNeedADistraction: In order to buy some time for Isaac to get the engines working, Ed and Kelly start arguing with the Krill commander about their failed marriage. It works for a bit, but he loses patience and fires a warning shot to get them back on task, forcing them to come up with an alternate plan.plan.
* WorkingWithTheEx: Captain Mercer is unhappy to learn that his new first officer is none other than his ex-wife. [[WeAreStrugglingTogether While they tend to bicker]], they also agree to [[ConsumateProfessional put aside their differences as best they can.]] For the most part, they tend to work well together.
* WorkingWithTheEx: Captain Mercer is unhappy to learn that his new first officer is none other than his ex-wife. [[WeAreStrugglingTogether While they tend to bicker]], they also agree to [[ConsumateProfessional put aside their differences as best they can.]] For the most part, they tend to work well together.
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* TheReveal: The final scene reveals it was ''Kelly'' who pressed for Ed to get command of the ship, thinking he needed encouragement to get out of his funk.
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Captain Ed Mercer is given command of the Orville, an exploratory vessel and his first command. This is his last chance to prove himself, after a year of poor performance in the aftermath of a divorce. On their way to their first mission, they stop to pick up Mercer's new first officer... his ex-wife, Commander Kelly Grayson.
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* ComicallyMissingThePoint: The ''Orville'' is called in to protect a science facility that has developed technology capable of accelerating the flow of time. Before they explain, a banana is used in a demonstration, rotting in seconds. Ed and Kelly promptly tag team some snark until the explanation begins.
-->'''Ed:''' So ... it's an anti-banana ray.\\
'''Kelly:''' [[SarcasmMode That's really interesting.]]\\
'''Ed:''' We need no longer fear the banana.\\
'''Kelly:''' Does it work on all fruit?\\
'''Ed:''' [[MundaneUtility What about salads?]]
* CriticalStaffingShortage:
** All things being equal, Ed Mercer wasn't exactly on the short list for command of a starship. But, as the admiral meeting with him admits, they have ''three thousand'' ships to staff and are in dire need of captains to command them, so he's getting a shot. In actuality, however, they wouldn't have brought him on if not for Kelly secretly pleading on his behalf.
** Kelly also gets the chance to be his first officer because of this alleged shortage but also because her father is close friends with the Admiral.
* DrinkingOnDuty: Malloy has a beer while shuttling Mercer to the ''Orville''. Mercer is not amused by this, especially when Malloy pretends to be a DrunkDriver and almost causes a crash.
* EveryoneMeetsEveryone: First Ed and Kelly, then Malloy, and then everyone else on the ''Orville''.
* ExplosiveInstrumentation: A few sparks fly across TheBridge during the battle, but don't kill anyone.
* InertialDamping: {{Averted}} on the shuttle, and to the benefit of our heroes when Mercer defeats a Krill stowaway by hitting the brakes. Because the Krill isn't wearing a seatbelt, he flies into the windshield.
* JustThinkOfThePotential: Doctor Aronov extols the potential benefits of the quantum field manipulator, especially when it comes to feeding people with fast-growing crops and healing injuries in an instant.
* TheMole: One of the scientists at the Epsilon station is in league with the Krill.
* NoSell: The ''Orville'''s weapons don't inflict any damage to the Krill destroyer.
* OhCrap: Kelly, when Mercer catches her in bed with [[BoldlyComing a blue alien]].
* PopCulturalOsmosisFailure: Apparently, Arbor Day is a holiday not practiced by the majority of the quadrant.
* RapidAging: The inventor of the quantum field technology is pushed into her own device, aging her 100 years in 10 seconds. This kills her, of course.
* RapidFireNo: Ed when he's informed that Kelly is being assigned to his ship, which is stretched over several scenes as he sprints to his office.
* SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale: Averted, as Mercer takes a moment to comment that 3,000 ships exploring a quadrant of the galaxy really isn't that many when you think about it.
* StarfishAlien: Alara mistakes a fish-like scientist for one of the facility's experiments until she's corrected.
* TrojanHorse: The crew rigs the quantum field manipulator to immediately accelerate time by 100 years when the Krill activate it, having glued a modified redwood seed to the emitter. Cue a redwood sapling splitting the Krill Destroyer in half.
* WeNeedADistraction: In order to buy some time for Isaac to get the engines working, Ed and Kelly start arguing with the Krill commander about their failed marriage. It works for a bit, but he loses patience and fires a warning shot to get them back on task, forcing them to come up with an alternate plan.
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* ComicallyMissingThePoint: The ''Orville'' is called in to protect a science facility that has developed technology capable of accelerating the flow of time. Before they explain, a banana is used in a demonstration, rotting in seconds. Ed and Kelly promptly tag team some snark until the explanation begins.
-->'''Ed:''' So ... it's an anti-banana ray.\\
'''Kelly:''' [[SarcasmMode That's really interesting.]]\\
'''Ed:''' We need no longer fear the banana.\\
'''Kelly:''' Does it work on all fruit?\\
'''Ed:''' [[MundaneUtility What about salads?]]
* CriticalStaffingShortage:
** All things being equal, Ed Mercer wasn't exactly on the short list for command of a starship. But, as the admiral meeting with him admits, they have ''three thousand'' ships to staff and are in dire need of captains to command them, so he's getting a shot. In actuality, however, they wouldn't have brought him on if not for Kelly secretly pleading on his behalf.
** Kelly also gets the chance to be his first officer because of this alleged shortage but also because her father is close friends with the Admiral.
* DrinkingOnDuty: Malloy has a beer while shuttling Mercer to the ''Orville''. Mercer is not amused by this, especially when Malloy pretends to be a DrunkDriver and almost causes a crash.
* EveryoneMeetsEveryone: First Ed and Kelly, then Malloy, and then everyone else on the ''Orville''.
* ExplosiveInstrumentation: A few sparks fly across TheBridge during the battle, but don't kill anyone.
* InertialDamping: {{Averted}} on the shuttle, and to the benefit of our heroes when Mercer defeats a Krill stowaway by hitting the brakes. Because the Krill isn't wearing a seatbelt, he flies into the windshield.
* JustThinkOfThePotential: Doctor Aronov extols the potential benefits of the quantum field manipulator, especially when it comes to feeding people with fast-growing crops and healing injuries in an instant.
* TheMole: One of the scientists at the Epsilon station is in league with the Krill.
* NoSell: The ''Orville'''s weapons don't inflict any damage to the Krill destroyer.
* OhCrap: Kelly, when Mercer catches her in bed with [[BoldlyComing a blue alien]].
* PopCulturalOsmosisFailure: Apparently, Arbor Day is a holiday not practiced by the majority of the quadrant.
* RapidAging: The inventor of the quantum field technology is pushed into her own device, aging her 100 years in 10 seconds. This kills her, of course.
* RapidFireNo: Ed when he's informed that Kelly is being assigned to his ship, which is stretched over several scenes as he sprints to his office.
* SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale: Averted, as Mercer takes a moment to comment that 3,000 ships exploring a quadrant of the galaxy really isn't that many when you think about it.
* StarfishAlien: Alara mistakes a fish-like scientist for one of the facility's experiments until she's corrected.
* TrojanHorse: The crew rigs the quantum field manipulator to immediately accelerate time by 100 years when the Krill activate it, having glued a modified redwood seed to the emitter. Cue a redwood sapling splitting the Krill Destroyer in half.
* WeNeedADistraction: In order to buy some time for Isaac to get the engines working, Ed and Kelly start arguing with the Krill commander about their failed marriage. It works for a bit, but he loses patience and fires a warning shot to get them back on task, forcing them to come up with an alternate plan.
