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* WorldOfSnark: Every one of the main cast members on the show is a DeadpanSnarker or a {{Ditz}}, and they are frequently seen engaging in witty, caustic banter.
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* WorldOfSnark: Every one of the main cast members on the show is a DeadpanSnarker or a {{Ditz}}, TheDitz, and they are frequently seen engaging in witty, caustic banter.
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* CoolLoser: Reggie is gorgeous, funny, and runs her own business, but is portrayed as a total failure who can't get her life together or make a relationship work.
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** Linda as well. She frequently fouls up even marginal tasks at Becker's office, but Becker and Margaret put up with her, in part because Becker owed her dad a favor, and she has fantastic rapport with the patients, especially children. Her parents are also wealthy (albeit neglectful) and she lives in a penthouse apartment overlooking Central Park that is bought and paid for. However, even though she's a Houdini, Linda is savvy enough to know that she has the apartment because her parents don't trust her to be on her own in a more low-rent living space.
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%% ** Linda as well. She frequently fouls up even marginal tasks at Becker's office, but Becker and Margaret put up with her, in part because Becker owed her dad a favor, and she has fantastic rapport with the patients, especially children. Her parents are also wealthy (albeit neglectful) and she lives in a penthouse apartment overlooking Central Park that is bought and paid for. However, even though she's a Houdini, Linda is savvy enough to know that she has the apartment because her parents don't trust her to be on her own in a more low-rent living space.
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* MsFanservice: Linda.
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%% * MsFanservice: Linda.
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* SecretlyWealthy: Played with. When John goes to offer Linda her job back in "Linda Quits," he, and likely the audience, are floored to discover that Linda lives in a big penthouse apartment overlooking Central Park, (with an original Monet painting) bought for her by her wealthy parents.
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* UnlimitedWardrobe: Linda has an endless supply of midriff baring, or body accentuating clothing, as she serves as MsFanservice for the show. Justified as her parents are rich and likely provide her money (in addition to having bought her a penthouse apartment) for her needs.
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* HatesBeingTouched: After Becker rehires Linda in "Linda Quits," Linda tells Becker she feels the urge to hug him. He responds that he feels an urge to kill her and live in her Central Park overlooking apartment.
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** Airhead Linda is extremely well-loved by the patients (especially kids), speaks Mandarin and Portuguese, and (despite her constant mooching) is the child of very wealthy parents who bought her a penthouse apartment overlooking Central Park.
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** Airhead Linda is extremely well-loved by the patients (especially kids), speaks Mandarin and Portuguese, and (despite her constant mooching) is the child of very wealthy parents who bought her a penthouse apartment overlooking Central Park. When John realistically tells her she doesn't even need to work for him, she tells him that she prefers the job over her lavish apartment.
** Linda as well. She frequently fouls up even marginal tasks at Becker's office, but Becker and Margaret put up with her, in part because Becker owed her dad a favor, and she has fantastic rapport with the patients, especially children. Her parents are also wealthy (albeit neglectful) and she lives in a penthouse apartment overlooking Central Park that is bought and paid for. However, even though she's a Houdini, Linda is savvy enough to know that she has the apartment because her parents don't trust her to be on her own in a more low-rent living space.
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** As much of a jerk as Becker is to Linda and (at times) Margaret, he truly seems to care for most of his patients. That is, the ones that aren't stupid.
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** As much of a jerk as Becker is to Linda and (at times) Margaret, he truly seems to care for them, as well as most of his patients. That is, the ones that aren't stupid.
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* LastNameBasis: Everyone but Margaret, Chris, and sometimes Jake call him Becker instead of John.
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* LastNameBasis: Everyone but Margaret, Chris, and sometimes Jake call him Becker instead of John. Linda subverts this slightly by always including his title, calling him Dr. Becker pretty much all the time.
* MsFanservice: Linda.
** We never know exactly what the backstory is behind Becker and Linda's father, only that what Linda's father did ensured Becker will employ Linda permanently.
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%% ** John has plenty of these moments. One standout is in season two, after Linda quits, and Becker goes to her at Margaret's insistence to bring her back.
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** In "Linda Quits," John and Margaret hire a woman named Ann as a replacement. It turns out she's a sex addict and they have to fire her.
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** In "Linda Quits," John and Margaret hire a woman named Ann as a replacement. It turns out she's a sex addict and they have to fire her.her, not because of the addiction itself, but because John walks in on her "helping" an elderly patient.
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* BlindBlackGuy: Jake is an African-American who lost his sight in a car wreck years ago.
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* BlindBlackGuy: Jake is an African-American who lost his sight in a car wreck five years ago.prior to the first episode.
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* GenreBlindness: Happens with Reggie in "Becker the Elder." She is completely perplexed as to why Becker was being so rude to his father, who showed up out of the blue at the diner after having clearly not seen Becker in years. Reggie just chalked it up to John [[{{Jerkass}} being his cranky self]], and encourages him to be more pleasant with his father. It didn't occur to her (until she was told) that [[DisappearedDad there might be more to the story, and that his father wasn't always the jolly guy he presented himself as at the diner.]]
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* GenreBlindness: Happens with Reggie in "Becker the Elder." She is completely perplexed as to why Becker was being so rude to his father, who showed up out of the blue at the diner after having clearly not having seen Becker in years.for some time. Reggie just chalked it up to John [[{{Jerkass}} being his cranky self]], and encourages him to be more pleasant with his father. It didn't occur to her (until she was told) that [[DisappearedDad there might be more to the story, and that his father wasn't always the jolly guy he presented himself as at the diner.]]
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* GenreBlindness: Happens with Reggie in "Becker the Elder." She is completely perplexed as to why Becker was being so rude to his father, who showed up out of the blue at the diner after having clearly not seen Becker in years. Reggie just chalked it up to John [[{{Jerkass}} being his cranky self]], and encourages him to be more pleasant with his father. It didn't occur to her (until she was told) that [[DisappearedDad there might be more to the story, and that his father wasn't always the jolly guy he presented himself as at the diner.]]
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* PineappleRuinsPizza: In one episode, Becker was treating a homeless man who was rewriting the bible to add in some extra commandments he thought god had missed. One of then was "Thou shall not put pineapple on pizza".
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* SpoilingShoutOut: In "The Film Critic," Becker tries to see a film called ''Lethal Vision'' but everyone seems to want to talk about the twist ending and spoil it for him. His angry rant on the subject contains a spoiler itself.
-->'''Becker:''' You know, when Hitchcock made ''Film/{{Psycho}}'', they had signs in the lobby warning people not to talk about the movie and you know what? They didn't. That way nobody knew that Tony Perkins dressed up as his mother and killed all those people.
-->'''Becker:''' You know, when Hitchcock made ''Film/{{Psycho}}'', they had signs in the lobby warning people not to talk about the movie and you know what? They didn't. That way nobody knew that Tony Perkins dressed up as his mother and killed all those people.
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* TheCameo: In the episode "Drive, They Said," Becker encounters Ray Barone (''Series/EverybodyLovesRaymond''), Doug Heffernan (''Series/TheKingOfQueens''), and Hilton Lucas (''Series/{{Cosby}}'') sitting silently in his waiting room. All three starred in CBS sitcoms of the time. (The scene was cut from syndicated and DVD episodes of the show.)
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* TheCameo: In the episode "Drive, They Said," Becker encounters [[Creator/RayRomano Ray Barone Barone]] (''Series/EverybodyLovesRaymond''), [[Creator/KevinJames Doug Heffernan Heffernan]] (''Series/TheKingOfQueens''), and [[Creator/BillCosby Hilton Lucas Lucas]] (''Series/{{Cosby}}'') sitting silently in his waiting room. All three starred in CBS sitcoms of the time. (The scene was cut from syndicated and DVD episodes of the show.)
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* ItIsPronouncedTroPAY: One segment in the episode "Crosstalk" has Linda pronouncing "UsefulNotes/AspergerSyndrome" as "ass burgers". Margaret starts correcting her on it, but later in the episode [[NotSoAboveItAll starts giggling about "ass burgers" herself]].
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* OneWordTitle: Surname of ProtagonistTitle.
