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* FortuneTeller: The Infield family is revealed to have one in the finally, who has predicted numerous things from when members of the family would die to [[spoiler:Stanton stabbing his friend.]] The last prediction, [[spoiler:that Stanton will be killed by a "noble fish", is seemingly averted when Stanton eats some fugu and lives just fine.]] But as the episode ends, [[spoiler:Stanton begins choking on some crackers, from the "Noble Fish" brand.]]

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* FortuneTeller: The Infield family is revealed to have one in the finally, finale, who has predicted numerous things from when members of the family would die to [[spoiler:Stanton stabbing his friend.]] The last prediction, [[spoiler:that Stanton will be killed by a "noble fish", is seemingly averted when Stanton eats some fugu and lives just fine.]] But as the episode ends, ends [[spoiler:Stanton begins choking on some crackers, crackers from the "Noble Fish" brand.]]
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* FortuneTeller: The Infield family is revealed to have one in the finally, who has predicted numerous things from when members of the family would die to [[spoiler:Stanton stabbing his friend.]] The last prediction, [[spoiler:that Stanton will be killed by a "noble fish", is seemingly averted when Stanton eats some fugu and lives just fine.]] But as the episode ends, [[spoiler:Stanton begins choking on some crackers, from the "Noble Fish" brand.]]
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* PutOnABus: Hannah in Season 3, and Carmen and Pindar in season 4.
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''Franklin & Bash'' is a comedy/legal series on Creator/{{TNT}}. It stars Creator/MarkPaulGosselaar (aka Zack Morris of ''Series/SavedByTheBell'' fame) as Peter Bash and {{Creator/Breckin Meyer}} as Jared Franklin, two irreverent young lawyers and legal partners who are recruited to a prestigious law firm to bring a fresh energy to the overly-stuffy atmosphere in the law firm. It ran for four season, from 2011 to 2014.

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''Franklin & Bash'' is a comedy/legal series on Creator/{{TNT}}. It stars Creator/MarkPaulGosselaar (aka Zack Morris of ''Series/SavedByTheBell'' fame) as Peter Bash and {{Creator/Breckin Meyer}} as Jared Franklin, two irreverent young lawyers and legal partners who are recruited to a prestigious law firm to bring a fresh energy to the overly-stuffy atmosphere in the law firm. It ran for four season, seasons from 2011 to 2014.


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* AmbiguousEnding: Two in the finale. [[spoiler:Franklin and Bash take a roulette, with the black or red determining whether they stay in Los Angeles or move to a new job in Austin. No say on what happens if [[TakeAThirdOption it lands on green.]]]] The second is with Stanton, [[spoiler:who begins choking on a cracker as the episode ends.]]
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* OutWithABang: In an early episode Franklin and Bash are tasked with defending a woman accused of killing her wealthy old husband with sex that caused a heart attack.
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''Franklin & Bash'' is a comedy/legal series on Creator/{{TNT}}. It stars Creator/MarkPaulGosselaar (aka Zack Morris of ''Series/SavedByTheBell'' fame) as Peter Bash and {{Creator/Breckin Meyer}} as Jared Franklin, two irreverent young lawyers and legal partners who are recruited to a prestigious law firm to bring a fresh energy to the overly-stuffy atmosphere in the law firm.

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''Franklin & Bash'' is a comedy/legal series on Creator/{{TNT}}. It stars Creator/MarkPaulGosselaar (aka Zack Morris of ''Series/SavedByTheBell'' fame) as Peter Bash and {{Creator/Breckin Meyer}} as Jared Franklin, two irreverent young lawyers and legal partners who are recruited to a prestigious law firm to bring a fresh energy to the overly-stuffy atmosphere in the law firm.
firm. It ran for four season, from 2011 to 2014.
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* ADateWithRosiePalms: In one episode Damien needs Pindar to delete a video accidentally take of himself masturbating and its accidentally mailed to a judge instead.

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* CourtroomAntic: Franklin in particular specializes in these.



* RefugeInAudacity:
** The main characters often engage in this as part of their CourtroomAntic
** A man who is FakingTheDead appears to Pindar on a beach while wearing a sci-fi costume. He knows that Peter and Jared cannot not use this to prove in court that he is alive because Pindar will never be believed if called as a witness.

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* RefugeInAudacity:
** The main characters often engage in this as part of their CourtroomAntic
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RefugeInAudacity: A man who is FakingTheDead appears to Pindar on a beach while wearing a sci-fi costume. He knows that Peter and Jared cannot not use this to prove in court that he is alive because Pindar will never be believed if called as a witness.
%%** The main characters often engage in this as part of their CourtroomAntics.

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* AmoralAttorney: Damien in the first episode, when he colludes with a CEO to sell out an airline pilot to limit an airline's liability by paying a witness to make false testimony.

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* AmoralAttorney: Damien in the first episode, when he colludes with a CEO to sell out an airline pilot to limit an airline's liability by paying a witness to make false testimony. He rarely if ever sinks that low in future episodes but still is arguably TheFriendNobodyLikes.



* BlueOni: Peter
* BollywoodNerd: Pindar

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* BlueOni: Peter
Peter is more calm and less impulsive.
* BollywoodNerd: PindarPindar is a somewhat geeky Indian.



* BunnyEarsLawyer

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* BunnyEarsLawyerBunnyEarsLawyer: Peter and Jared are both pop culture buffs prone to CourtroomAntics, but they have a good record of wins.



* ADateWithRosiePalms: In one episode Damien needs Pindar to delete a video accidentally take of himself masturbating and its accidentally mailed to a judge instead.
* DatingCatwoman: Peter has some chemistry with Wendy Cowell starting when she's suing one of their clients in her first episode.



* FaceHeelTurn: Rachel, the films new partner, embezzles millions of dollars for their clients and flees the country between seasons 3 and 4.
* FairCop: Wendy, Peter's short-lived girlfriend is an attractive cop.



* GotVolunteered: Their corrupt client in "Big Fish". Determined not to let the guy pull a KarmaHoudini (but also afraid of getting themselves disbarred for unethical conduct they claim that if acquitted, the man will volunteer his business skills to help the economy of Haiti for the next several years, and the man is too startled to deny this before it's on record, and he faces contempt of court charges if he reneges.



%%* HeterosexualLifePartners:

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%%* HeterosexualLifePartners:* HeterosexualLifePartners: Peter and Jared are long-time close friends and companions, and both are heterosexual womanizers.



* NakedPeopleAreFunny: At the start of the Season 3 premiere, Franklin and Bash foolishly make a bet with a rival lawyer played by Heather Locklear that results in the two of them having to complete a live nationally broadcast interview on the Piers Morgan Show in the nude except for shoes and socks. (They're concealed by a desk, but the sideshots suggest that Mark Paul Gosselaar was actually naked.)

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* LongBusTrip: Wendy disappears about halfway through season 2 and doesn't reappear until an episode of season 4 which reveals she and Peter broke up after he forgot an important date (although they manage to be AmicableExes).
* NakedPeopleAreFunny: At the start of the Season 3 premiere, Franklin and Bash foolishly make a bet with a rival lawyer played by Heather Locklear Stanton's new partner, Rachel King, that results in the two of them having to complete a live nationally broadcast interview on the Piers Morgan Show in the nude except for shoes and socks. (They're concealed by a desk, but the sideshots suggest that Mark Paul Gosselaar was actually naked.)



* RedOni: Jared

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* RedOni: JaredJared is the more easily angered and risk-taking of th pair.


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* RightForTheWrongReasons: In "Big Fish" Damien and Hana get Pindar attached to meet with a client their trying to hook because she's Indian and so is Pindar. The woman instantly sees through their transparent appeal for a CommonalityConnection by having a lawyer with the same skin color as her. Then it turns out that she's a fellow germaphobe which sparks a more sincere CommonalityConnection with Pindar (and she likes his business ideas), meaning that he was the right lawyer for the job, just not as an appeal to tokenism.


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* ThanatosGambit: One episode has an old man whose prized baseball is the subject of a lawsuit (and who knows he has a bad heart) keep the baseball inside the clothes he wants to be buried in, along with a letter saying that any of his heirs who dig up his body (trying to get at the ball) will be disowned.
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''Franklin & Bash'' is a comedy/legal series on Creator/{{TNT}}. It stars Creator/MarkPaulGosselaar (aka Zack Morris of ''Series/SavedByTheBell'' fame) as Peter Bash and Breckin Meyer as Jared Franklin, two irreverent young lawyers and legal partners who are recruited to a prestigious law firm to bring a fresh energy to the overly-stuffy atmosphere in the law firm.

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''Franklin & Bash'' is a comedy/legal series on Creator/{{TNT}}. It stars Creator/MarkPaulGosselaar (aka Zack Morris of ''Series/SavedByTheBell'' fame) as Peter Bash and Breckin Meyer {{Creator/Breckin Meyer}} as Jared Franklin, two irreverent young lawyers and legal partners who are recruited to a prestigious law firm to bring a fresh energy to the overly-stuffy atmosphere in the law firm.
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* NakedPeopleAreFunny: At the start of the Season 3 premiere, Franklin and Bash foolishly make a bet with a rival lawyer played by Heather Locklear that results in the two of them having to complete a live nationally broadcast interview on the Piers Morgan Show in the nude except for shoes and socks. (They're concealed by a desk, but the sideshots suggest that Mark Paul Gosselaar was actually naked.)

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