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* MixedAncestry: Travis is half-black on his father's side.
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* ValuesDissonance: InUniverse, during episode 6, Ruth explains to Travis that there was a short period of time where abandoning one’s children was considered innocent.
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* ShellShockedVeteran: Carter, the dispensary security guard, has PTSD from serving [[TheWarOnTerror in Iraq]]. He finds relief from it by smoking weed.

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* ShellShockedVeteran: Carter, the dispensary security guard, has PTSD from serving [[TheWarOnTerror [[UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror in Iraq]]. He finds relief from it by smoking weed.

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* RunningGag: There's a ''ShowWithinAShow'' called "Strain O' The Day" in every one, which usually shares the title of the episode. There are also a collection of fake adverts in every episode which center around the products and services that stoners love.

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* RunningGag: There's a ''ShowWithinAShow'' ShowWithinAShow called "Strain O' The Day" in every one, which usually shares the title of the episode. There are also a collection of fake adverts in every episode which center around the products and services that stoners love.


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* {{Dramedy}}: Despite having a lot of humor, there are quite a bit of sad points in the plot, including Carter's PTSD, Ruth and Travis' complicated relationship, Jenny's hard times with her parents and, as of part 2, Maria's husband cheating on her and [[spoiler:Walter's cancer]].

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* {{Dramedy}}: Despite having a lot of humor, there are quite a bit of sad points in the plot, including Carter's PTSD, Ruth and Travis' complicated relationship, Jenny's hard times with her parents and, as of part 2, Maria's husband cheating on her and as well as [[spoiler:Walter's cancer]].



* RunningGag: There's an episode of "Strain O' The Day" in every one, which usually shares the title of the episode. There are also a collection of fake adverts in every episode which center around products and services that stoners love.

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* RunningGag: There's an episode of a ''ShowWithinAShow'' called "Strain O' The Day" in every one, which usually shares the title of the episode. There are also a collection of fake adverts in every episode which center around the products and services that stoners love.
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* RunningGag: There's an episode of "Strain O' The Day" in every one, which usually shares the title of the episode. There are also a collection of fake adverts in every episode which center around products and services that stoners love.
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* BittersweetEnding: As the series is cancelled, this is the ending of Part 2 and the entire show. [[spoiler:Ruth and Walter decide to make a road trip together, traveling to visit places Walter never did and enjoy his last year as the cancer will kill him soon. Olivia comes back to Ruth's Alternative Caring after a failed business attempt, but is received with open arms by her old friends. Jenny has begun to reconcile with her mother, Tae Kwon Doug has made peace with Ruth and caught Maria's eye; and Carter has begun to achieve his goal of doing stand-up comedy]].

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* BittersweetEnding: As the series is cancelled, this is the ending of Part 2 and the entire show. [[spoiler:Ruth and Walter decide to make a road trip together, traveling to visit places Walter never did and enjoy his last year as the cancer will kill him soon. Olivia comes back to Ruth's Alternative Caring after a failed business attempt, but is received with open arms by her old friends. Jenny has begun to reconcile with her mother, Tae Kwon Doug has made peace with Ruth and caught Maria's eye; and Carter has begun to achieve his goal of doing stand-up comedy]].comedy. Travis is presumably running the dispensary in Ruth's abscence, which is what he always wanted]].
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* BittersweetEnding: As the series is cancelled, this is the ending of Part 2 and the entire show. [[spoiler:Ruth and Walter decide to make a road trip together, traveling to visit places Walter never did and enjoy his last year as the cancer will kill him soon. Olivia comes back to Ruth's Alternative Caring after a failed business attempt, but is received with open arms by her old friends]].

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* BittersweetEnding: As the series is cancelled, this is the ending of Part 2 and the entire show. [[spoiler:Ruth and Walter decide to make a road trip together, traveling to visit places Walter never did and enjoy his last year as the cancer will kill him soon. Olivia comes back to Ruth's Alternative Caring after a failed business attempt, but is received with open arms by her old friends]].friends. Jenny has begun to reconcile with her mother, Tae Kwon Doug has made peace with Ruth and caught Maria's eye; and Carter has begun to achieve his goal of doing stand-up comedy]].
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* OohMeAccentsSlipping: Pete spends part of the first episode talking to his plants in an Australian accent. He only realises he's doing it when Ruth walks in and points it out.
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* {{Dramedy}}: Despite having a lot of humor, there are quite a bit of sad points in the plot, including Carter's PTSD, Ruth and Travis' complicated relationship, Jenny's hard times with her parents and, as of Season 2, Maria's husband cheating on her and [[spoiler:Walter's cancer]].

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* {{Dramedy}}: Despite having a lot of humor, there are quite a bit of sad points in the plot, including Carter's PTSD, Ruth and Travis' complicated relationship, Jenny's hard times with her parents and, as of Season part 2, Maria's husband cheating on her and [[spoiler:Walter's cancer]].
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* CentralTheme: The benefits medicinal and recreational use of marijuana can offer to people, as well as its place in society and modern medicine.
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* {{Dramedy}}: Despite having a lot of humor, there are quite a bit of sad points in the plot, including Carter's PTSD, Ruth and Travis' complicated relationship, Jenny's hard times with her parents and, as of Season 2, Maria's husband cheating on her and [[spoiler:Walter's cancer]].
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* BittersweetEnding: As the series is cancelled, this is the ending of Part 2 and the entire show. [[spoiler:Ruth and Walter decide to make a road trip together, traveling to visit places Walter never did and enjoy his last year as the cancer will kill him soon. Olivia comes back to Ruth's Alternative Caring after a failed business attempt, but is received with open arms by her old friends]].
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Twenty episodes of the series have been ordered by Netflix. The first 10 episodes premiered on August 25, 2017. The second part premiered on January 2018.

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Twenty episodes of the series have been ordered by Netflix. The first 10 episodes premiered on August 25, 2017. The second part premiered on January 2018.
2018. The show was then cancelled.

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* AIIsACrapshoot: Pete gets a special robot to help with his grow-op. Then he hallucinates the robot becoming sentient and voiced by Creator/Frank Caliendo, with plans to exterminate humanity.

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* AIIsACrapshoot: Pete gets a special robot to help with his grow-op. Then he hallucinates the robot becoming sentient and voiced by Creator/Frank Frank Caliendo, with plans to exterminate humanity.


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* CountryMatters: When the women-only growers meeting descends into squabbling, Dabby drops this word in a ''spectacular'' rant about respecting Ruth and the importance of solidarity.


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* StrangeMindsThinkAlike: In episode 10, when Agent Schwartz tells Ruth and Travis the reason for the raid (Dank and Dabby giving out free joints in the parking lot, some of which got into the hands of minors), they both have the exact same reaction.
--> "Those fucksticks!"
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* AIIsACrapshoot: Pete gets a special robot to help with his grow-op. Then he hallucinates the robot becoming sentient and voiced by Creator/MorganFreeman, with plans to exterminate humanity.

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* AIIsACrapshoot: Pete gets a special robot to help with his grow-op. Then he hallucinates the robot becoming sentient and voiced by Creator/MorganFreeman, Creator/Frank Caliendo, with plans to exterminate humanity.
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* SitcomArchnemesis: Tae-Kwon-Doug, the owner of the martial arts school next to the dispensary is almost a parody of the SmugStraightEdge archetype.

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* SitcomArchnemesis: Tae-Kwon-Doug, the owner of the martial arts school next to the dispensary is almost a parody of the SmugStraightEdge archetype. However, after striking up an OddFriendship with Pete and getting in a little bonding moment with Ruth over their shared disdain over the new artisinal pretzel shop that opened in the shopping center, he's let up some.
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* WhamEpisode: Episode 10 - [[spoiler:the dispensary is raided by the DEA, Maria is arrested, and Ruth has lost her money]].

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* WhamEpisode: Episode 10 - [[spoiler:the dispensary is raided by the DEA, Maria is arrested, and Ruth has lost her money]].money]].
* {{Yandere}}: Mary Jane, the spiritual embodiment of marijuana, is this to Pete. When he breaks up with her, she becomes a WomanScorned.
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* ShipTease: Between Jenny and Carter, who actually come ''very'' close to kissing each other in episode 10. They become an Official couple in the second series.

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* ShipTease: Between Jenny and Carter, who actually come ''very'' close to kissing each other in episode 10. They become an Official couple OfficialCouple in the second series.
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Twenty episodes of the series have been ordered by Netflix. The first 10 episodes premiered on August 25, 2017.

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Twenty episodes of the series have been ordered by Netflix. The first 10 episodes premiered on August 25, 2017.
2017. The second part premiered on January 2018.



* ShipTease: Between Jenny and Carter, who actually come ''very'' close to kissing each other in episode 10.

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* ShipTease: Between Jenny and Carter, who actually come ''very'' close to kissing each other in episode 10. They become an Official couple in the second series.
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* AIIsACrapshoot: Pete gets a special robot to help with his grow-op. Then he hallucinates the robot becoming sentient and voiced by Creator/MorganFreeman, with plans to exterminate humanity.
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* BadassGrandma: For her hippie background, Ruth is tough as nails.
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* DoomyDoomsOfDoom: The lullaby Ruth would sing to Travis as a baby is a rather (comically) dark piece titled "We Are Doomed". She says that she sang it because Travis was too cheerful as a baby and needed a reality check.
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* UnsuspentinglySoused: Olivia ate some pot-infused fudge swirls that took a bit to kick in, so she ate more than she needed, ending up getting so high that she felt panicky and on edge.

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* UnsuspentinglySoused: UnsuspectinglySoused: Olivia ate some pot-infused fudge swirls that took a bit to kick in, so she ate more than she needed, ending up getting so high that she felt panicky and on edge.
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* IgnoredEpiphany: In Episode 10, Dank and Dabby actually sober up when they aren't able to light up, regain their bearings for a moment, and actually smarten up and make goals and plans for their futures... until they find some matches and immediately fire up some joints.



* ShipTease: Between Jenny and Carter, who actually come ''very'' close to kissing each other in episode 10.



* StonersAreFunny: Naturally.

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* StonersAreFunny: Naturally.Naturally.
* UnsuspentinglySoused: Olivia ate some pot-infused fudge swirls that took a bit to kick in, so she ate more than she needed, ending up getting so high that she felt panicky and on edge.
* WhamEpisode: Episode 10 - [[spoiler:the dispensary is raided by the DEA, Maria is arrested, and Ruth has lost her money]].

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* HippieParents: Ruth, for Travis, though she was fairly level in raising him. Pete meanwhile was born and raised in a hippie commune.

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* DeadpanSnarker: Ruth has a sharp and dry wit.
* HippieParents: Ruth, for Travis, though she was fairly level in raising him. Pete meanwhile was born and raised in a hippie commune.{{commune}}.


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* LooksLikeJesus: Dank describes Pete as looking like "white Jesus".


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* MushroomSamba: Mostly for Carter anytime he gets stoned, largely due to him still being relatively new to pot in general. They take the form of trippy {{Deranged Animation}}s that wouldn't be out of place on ''WesternAnimation/OffTheAir''.
* NewAgeRetroHippie: Ruth, as well as her old friends that we see in "Donna Weed".
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* ShellShockedVeteran: Carter, the dispensary security guard, has PTSD from serving [[TheWarOnTerror in Iraq]].

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* ShellShockedVeteran: Carter, the dispensary security guard, has PTSD from serving [[TheWarOnTerror in Iraq]]. He finds relief from it by smoking weed.

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''Disjointed'' is a Creator/{{Netflix}} original comedy series created by David Javerbaum and Creator/ChuckLorre. Creator/KathyBates stars as Ruth Whitefeather Feldman, a longtime advocate of legal marijuana usage who opens up a dispensary in UsefulNotes/LosAngeles with the help her son Travis and her hired "budtenders". HilarityEnsues.

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''Disjointed'' is a Creator/{{Netflix}} original comedy series created by David Javerbaum and Creator/ChuckLorre. Creator/KathyBates stars as Ruth Whitefeather Feldman, a longtime advocate of legal marijuana usage who opens up a dispensary in UsefulNotes/LosAngeles with the help of her son Travis and her hired "budtenders". HilarityEnsues.



* CloudCuckoolander: Pete, Dank, and Dabby.



* IWantGrandkids: Ruth tries to get her son Travis together with one of the dispensary employees Olivia, telling them right away she wants them to pop out some babies.

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* IWantGrandkids: Ruth tries to get her son Travis together with one of the dispensary employees Olivia, telling them right away she wants them to pop out some babies. She does lay off when she realizes how uncomfortable it makes them.



* TheStoner: Many characters count, but Pete, Dank, and Dabby are the most stereotypical.

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* SitcomArchnemesis: Tae-Kwon-Doug, the owner of the martial arts school next to the dispensary is almost a parody of the SmugStraightEdge archetype.
* TheStoner: Many characters count, but Pete, Dank, and Dabby are the most stereotypical.stereotypical.
* StonersAreFunny: Naturally.
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''Disjointed'' is a Creator/{{Netflix}} original comedy series created by David Javerbaum and Creator/ChuckLorre. Creator/KathyBates stars as Ruth Whitefeather Feldman, a longtime advocate of legal marijuana usage who opens up a dispensary in UsefulNotes/LosAngeles with the help her son Travis and her hired "budtenders". HilarityEnsues.

Twenty episodes of the series have been ordered by Netflix. The first 10 episodes premiered on August 25, 2017.

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* BadassGrandma: For her hippie background, Ruth is tough as nails.
* CoolOldLady: Ruth has had quite an adventurous life and still has the spirit of her youth.
* HippieParents: Ruth, for Travis, though she was fairly level in raising him. Pete meanwhile was born and raised in a hippie commune.
* IWantGrandkids: Ruth tries to get her son Travis together with one of the dispensary employees Olivia, telling them right away she wants them to pop out some babies.
* MixedAncestry: Travis is half-black on his father's side.
* ShellShockedVeteran: Carter, the dispensary security guard, has PTSD from serving [[TheWarOnTerror in Iraq]].
* TheStoner: Many characters count, but Pete, Dank, and Dabby are the most stereotypical.

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