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* EverythingsBetterWithPenguins: The West family cares for a penguin, Tux, whose cuteness is often commented on.
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* IllGirl: Eventually, Taylor starts to worry that her fainting, and some other health problems, are symptoms of the potentially serious condition, temporal lobe epilepsy. It isn't confirmed though.
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* WhoWearsShortShorts: Maddie, Gwen and Taylor often do.
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* IllGirl: Eventually, Taylor starts to worry that her fainting, and some other health problems, are symptoms of the potentially serious condition, temporal lobe epilepsy.
* InstantHumiliationJustAddYoutube: Taylor suffers this badly after fainting during the spelling bee.

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* IllGirl: Eventually, Taylor starts to worry that her fainting, and some other health problems, are symptoms of the potentially serious condition, temporal lobe epilepsy.
epilepsy. It isn't confirmed though.
* InstantHumiliationJustAddYoutube: Taylor suffers this badly after she's recorded fainting during the spelling bee.



* MamasBabyPapasMaybe" [[spoiler: Maddie]].

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* MamasBabyPapasMaybe" [[spoiler: Maddie]].Maddie's mom slept with someone else around when she was conceived]].



* VictimOfTheWeek: A non-fatal version appears at the start of most episodes with various people (generally outdoorsman) who John ends up needing to go save before too long.
* VitriolicBestBuds: Maddie and Gwen, at first.

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* VictimOfTheWeek: A non-fatal version appears at the start of most episodes with various people (generally outdoorsman) who get in trouble and John ends up needing to go save before too long.
* VitriolicBestBuds: Maddie and Gwen, at first.Gwen hang out a lot but frequently bicker.
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Northern Rescue is a Canadian family-drama television series distributed by CBC Television in Canada and internationally on Netflix. The first season aired March 1, 2019. William Baldwin, brother of ''Creator/AlecBaldwin'' stars as John West, a search and rescue commander who relocates to his Canadian hometown after losing his wife (a PosthumousCharacter present in flashbacks and voiceovers), raising his three children (Maddie, Scout and Taylor) to with his sister-in-law. Each episode generally follows Commander West on a mission, while exploring the rest of the families daily lives.

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''Northern Rescue''
is a Canadian family-drama television series distributed by CBC Television in Canada and internationally on Netflix. The first season aired March 1, 2019. William Baldwin, brother of ''Creator/AlecBaldwin'' Creator/AlecBaldwin, stars as John West, a search and rescue commander who relocates to his Canadian hometown after losing his wife (a PosthumousCharacter present in flashbacks and voiceovers), raising his three children (Maddie, Scout and Taylor) to with his sister-in-law. Each episode generally follows Commander West on a mission, while exploring the rest of the families daily lives.



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* WiseBeyondTheirYears: The CBC website describes Taylor as "twelve, going on thirty"

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* WiseBeyondTheirYears: The CBC website describes Taylor as "twelve, going on thirty"thirty"

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* NotSoDifferent: Henry quickly works to resolve the developing feud between Maddie and Gwen by convincing them of this, even comparing them to peas in a pod. [[NotHelpingYourCase They protest to this simultaneously, and with approximately the same words]] and then concede that he's probably right.

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* NotSoDifferent: NotSoDifferentRemark: Henry quickly works to resolve the developing feud between Maddie and Gwen by convincing them of this, even comparing them to peas in a pod. [[NotHelpingYourCase They protest to this simultaneously, and with approximately the same words]] and then concede that he's probably right.

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* {{Fainting}}: Taylor occasionally does under stress (such as during a spelling bee, which causes her embarrassment) but isn't above faking it to {{Troll}} people.

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* {{Fainting}}: Taylor occasionally does under stress (such as during a spelling bee, which causes her embarrassment) stress, but isn't above faking it to {{Troll}} people. people.
* FaintInShock: Taylor blacks out from the pressure while competing in a spelling bee. A little while later, a competitor spots a video of it online.
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Northern Rescue is a Canadian family-drama television series distributed by CBC Television in Canada and internationally on Netflix. The first season aired March 1, 2019. William Baldwin, brother of ''Creator/AlecBaldwin'' and ''Creator/AdamBaldwin'' stars as John West, a search and rescue commander who relocates to his Canadian hometown after losing his wife (a PosthumousCharacter present in flashbacks and voiceovers), raising his three children (Maddie, Scout and Taylor) to with his sister-in-law. Each episode generally follows Commander West on a mission, while exploring the rest of the families daily lives.

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Northern Rescue is a Canadian family-drama television series distributed by CBC Television in Canada and internationally on Netflix. The first season aired March 1, 2019. William Baldwin, brother of ''Creator/AlecBaldwin'' and ''Creator/AdamBaldwin'' stars as John West, a search and rescue commander who relocates to his Canadian hometown after losing his wife (a PosthumousCharacter present in flashbacks and voiceovers), raising his three children (Maddie, Scout and Taylor) to with his sister-in-law. Each episode generally follows Commander West on a mission, while exploring the rest of the families daily lives.
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* BigSisterInstinct: Mrs. West to Charlei, having once came back to tow to take care of her while she was sick when no one else was there for her (something she [[WhatTheHellHero doesn't hesitate to remind her boyfriend when he tries to get back into her life]]).

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* BigSisterInstinct: Mrs. West to Charlei, Charlie, having once came back to tow to take care of her while she was sick when no one else was there for her (something she [[WhatTheHellHero doesn't hesitate to remind her boyfriend when he tries to get back into her life]]).
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* {{BlackMail}}: The season finale reveals Mrs. West was being blackmailed by [[YourCheatingHeart her old flame]] Rick Walker [[spoiler: Maddie's real father]].

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* {{BlackMail}}: The season finale reveals Mrs. West was being blackmailed by [[YourCheatingHeart her old flame]] flame Rick Walker [[spoiler: Maddie's [[spoiler:Maddie's real father]].
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* VitrolicBestBuds: Maddie and Gwen, at first.

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* VitrolicBestBuds: VitriolicBestBuds: Maddie and Gwen, at first.
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* [[MySisterIsOffLimits My Brother Is Off Limits]]: Subverted. Maddie is upset when she finds her friend Gwen flirting with and spending time with her brother Scout. But only because her dad had threatened to ground her if she had Gwen over, considering her to be a bad influence ([[ProperlyParanoidwhich she had been]], [[DownplayedTrope but mainly just for one episode]]) and wants to get Gwen out of their before their dad gets back, and actually doesn't mind Scout and Gwen hanging out in general.

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* [[MySisterIsOffLimits My Brother Is Off Limits]]: Subverted. Maddie is upset when she finds her friend Gwen flirting with and spending time with her brother Scout. But only because her dad had threatened to ground her if she had Gwen over, considering her to be a bad influence ([[ProperlyParanoidwhich ([[ProperlyParanoid which she had been]], [[DownplayedTrope but mainly just for one episode]]) and wants to get Gwen out of their before their dad gets back, and actually doesn't mind Scout and Gwen hanging out in general.
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* [[MySisterIsOffLimits My Brother Is Off Limits]]: Subverted. Maddie is upset when she finds her friend Gwen flirting with and spending time with her brother Scout. But only because her dad had threatened to ground her if she had Gwen over, considering her to be a bad influence (which she had been, but just for one episode and wants to get Gwen out of their before their dad gets back, and actually doesn't mind Scout and Gwen hanging out in general.
* MilitarySchool: Gwen's brother got sent to one (causing him to nickname their mom "The General"), which contorted to her moving to live with her dad instead.

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* [[MySisterIsOffLimits My Brother Is Off Limits]]: Subverted. Maddie is upset when she finds her friend Gwen flirting with and spending time with her brother Scout. But only because her dad had threatened to ground her if she had Gwen over, considering her to be a bad influence (which ([[ProperlyParanoidwhich she had been, been]], [[DownplayedTrope but mainly just for one episode episode]]) and wants to get Gwen out of their before their dad gets back, and actually doesn't mind Scout and Gwen hanging out in general.
* MilitarySchool: Gwen's brother got sent to one (causing him to nickname their mom "The General"), which contorted contributed to her moving to live with her dad instead.



* TwoGirlsAndAGuy: Maddie, Gwen and Henry. Unusually for the trope, while Gwen and Henry have the romantic interest, it takes a while to develop, and Gwen and Henry have been JustFriends since well before meeting Maddie.

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* TwoGirlsAndAGuy: Maddie, Gwen and Henry. Unusually for the trope, while Gwen Maddie and Henry have the romantic interest, it takes a while to develop, and Gwen and Henry have been JustFriends since well before meeting Maddie.
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* KidsAreCruel: Downplayed, but present when Stacey posts a humiliating YouTube video of Taylor and accuses her of cheating at the Spelling Bee to justify her actions. The fact that a lot of other kids watch and laugh at the video doesn't help.

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* KidsAreCruel: Downplayed, but present when Stacey posts a humiliating YouTube Website/YouTube video of Taylor and accuses her of cheating at the Spelling Bee to justify her actions. The fact that a lot of other kids watch and laugh at the video doesn't help.
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* MistakenForCheating: Gwen and Scout have a decent amount of ShipTease, but in the season finale he sees her walking out of a bedroom with a boy changing his shirt (because he'd just spilled a drink on his and Gwne had to show him where the spare shirts where) leading to [[HotBlooded a fight breaking out]].

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* MistakenForCheating: Gwen and Scout have a decent amount of ShipTease, but in the season finale he sees her walking out of a bedroom with a boy changing his shirt (because he'd just spilled a drink on his and Gwne Gwen had to show him where the spare shirts where) leading to [[HotBlooded a fight breaking out]].
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* DueToTheDead: Even though her mother is dead, Taylor works to prepare a surprise anniversary party (assisted by her aunt) for her parents in one episode.


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* KidsAreCruel: Downplayed, but present when Stacey posts a humiliating YouTube video of Taylor and accuses her of cheating at the Spelling Bee to justify her actions. The fact that a lot of other kids watch and laugh at the video doesn't help.


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* NotSoDifferent: Henry quickly works to resolve the developing feud between Maddie and Gwen by convincing them of this, even comparing them to peas in a pod. [[NotHelpingYourCase They protest to this simultaneously, and with approximately the same words]] and then concede that he's probably right.


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* VictimOfTheWeek: A non-fatal version appears at the start of most episodes with various people (generally outdoorsman) who John ends up needing to go save before too long.

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* TheRunaway: Hinted that [[spoiler: Maddie]. will leave home in the final scene of season one.

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* TheRunaway: Hinted that [[spoiler: Maddie].Maddie]]. will leave home in the final scene of season one.


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* VitrolicBestBuds: Maddie and Gwen, at first.
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* {{Cliffhanger}}: The first season end season ends with [[spoiler: Maddie’s relationship with John being damaged by the reveal he isn’t her real father, and possibly running away, Taylor worrying she has a serious medical condition and hesitant about whether to get tested for it and out the family through more stress and worry, Scout apparently estranged from Gwen and Jason and Charlie being pulled over driving her boyfriends car, with the cop implying that he may have stolen it from someone]].


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* EmbarrassingNickname: Jason calls Scout jockstrap.
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* IllGirl: Eventually, Taylor starts to worry that her fainting, and some other health problems, are symptoms of the potentially serious condition, temporal lobe epilepsy.


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* TheRunaway: Hinted that [[spoiler: Maddie]. will leave home in the final scene of season one.

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* BigSisterInstinct: Mrs. West to Charlei, having once came back to tow to take care of her while she was sick when no one else was there for her (something she [[WhatTheHellHero doesn't hesitate to remind her boyfriend when he tries to get back into her life]]).



* ClicheStorm: A common criticism of the show, although it maintains a fanbase and even critics generally find it well-acted and with the potential for growth.



* GirlfriendInCanada: Or rather, girlfriend ''not'' in Canada. Scout claims he had one back in Boston but they broke up when the family moved, although he could easily be telling the truth there.

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* GirlfriendInCanada: Or rather, girlfriend ''not'' in Canada. Scout claims he had has one back in Boston but they who he broke up with when the family moved, although he could easily be telling the truth there.left but still has some feelings for.

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* [[CoolUncle Cool Aunt]]: Charlie Anders, the kids aunt and MaternalSubstitute.

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* [[CoolUncle Cool Aunt]]: Charlie Anders, the kids aunt and MaternalSubstitute.[[PaternalSubstitute Maternal Substitute]].



* DysfunctionalFamily: A downplayed, PlayedForDrama example.



* HiddenDepths: Scout has an artistic streak he's bit quite sure how to express to his father.



* MistakenForCheating: Gwen and Scout have a decent amount of ShipTease, but in the season finale he sees her walking out of a bedroom with a boy changing his shirt (because he'd just spilled a drink on his and Gwne had to show him where the spare shirts where) leading to a fight breaking out.

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* MistakenForCheating: Gwen and Scout have a decent amount of ShipTease, but in the season finale he sees her walking out of a bedroom with a boy changing his shirt (because he'd just spilled a drink on his and Gwne had to show him where the spare shirts where) leading to [[HotBlooded a fight breaking out.out]].



* OddFriendship: Between Scout and Jason after Scout [[spoiler: starts skipping wrestling meets]].

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* OddFriendship: Between Scout and Jason after Scout [[spoiler: starts skipping pretends he's still attending wrestling meets]].



* UnconfessedUnemployment: Or rather unconfessed [[spoiler: being cut from the wrestling team]].



* WhoWearsShortShorts: Maddie, Gwen and Taylor often do.

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* WhoWearsShortShorts: Maddie, Gwen and Taylor often do.do.
* WiseBeyondTheirYears: The CBC website describes Taylor as "twelve, going on thirty"

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Northern Rescue is a Canadian drama television series distributed by CBC Television in Canada and internationally on Netflix. The first season aired March 1, 2019. William Baldwin, brother of ''Creator/AlecBaldwin'' and ''Creator/AdamBaldwin'' stars as John West, a search and rescue commander who relocates to his Canadian hometown after losing his wife (a PosthumousCharacter present in flashbacks and voiceovers), raising his three children (Maddie, Scout and Taylor) to with his sister-in-law. Each episode generally follows Commander West on a mission, while exploring the rest of the families daily lives.

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Northern Rescue is a Canadian drama family-drama television series distributed by CBC Television in Canada and internationally on Netflix. The first season aired March 1, 2019. William Baldwin, brother of ''Creator/AlecBaldwin'' and ''Creator/AdamBaldwin'' stars as John West, a search and rescue commander who relocates to his Canadian hometown after losing his wife (a PosthumousCharacter present in flashbacks and voiceovers), raising his three children (Maddie, Scout and Taylor) to with his sister-in-law. Each episode generally follows Commander West on a mission, while exploring the rest of the families daily lives.



* {{BlackMail}}: The season finale reveals Mrs. West was being blackmailed by [[YourCheatingHeart her old flame]] Rick Walker [[spoiler: Maddie's real father]].



* FirstKiss: Maddie and Henry during a truth or dare game.



* LiteralCliffhanger: One episode has John rescuing a climber stuck on the face of a cliff, while trying to distract her with jokes and personal stories.* [[MySisterIsOffLimits My Brother Is Off Limits]]: Subverted. Maddie is upset when she finds her friend Gwen flirting with and spending time with her brother Scout. But only because her dad had threatened to ground her if she had Gwen over, considering her to be a bad influence (which she had been, but just for one episode and wants to get Gwen out of their before their dad gets back, and actually doesn't mind Scout and Gwen hanging out in general.

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* JerkJock: Jason has his unpleasant edges even after he and Scout resolve most of their feud.
* LiteralCliffhanger: One episode has John rescuing a climber stuck on the face of a cliff, while trying to distract her with jokes and personal stories.stories.
* LoopholeAbuse: When Maddie is trying to get Gwen and Henry to leave before John gets back because she's not supposed to have them over, Scout points out that no one said ''he'' couldn't invite them back in. Maddie is skeptical but ultimately goes along with it. In a later incident (which ends less well) Gwen goes to confront Taylor's cyber bully Stacey after Maddie tells her what's going on because she hadn't made a promise to leave it alone.
* MamasBabyPapasMaybe" [[spoiler: Maddie]].
* [[MySisterIsOffLimits My Brother Is Off Limits]]: Subverted. Maddie is upset when she finds her friend Gwen flirting with and spending time with her brother Scout. But only because her dad had threatened to ground her if she had Gwen over, considering her to be a bad influence (which she had been, but just for one episode and wants to get Gwen out of their before their dad gets back, and actually doesn't mind Scout and Gwen hanging out in general.


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** In an earlier episode, when Maddie is conflicted about reading her mothers diary and asks Gwen about a [[IHaveThisFriend hypothetical situation]] of whether you'd read something private if it would reveal something you think you have a right to know and Gwen thinks that means she thinks Henry is seeing other girls leading to a [[SheIsNotMyGirlfriend He is not my boyfriend]] response.
* OddFriendship: Between Scout and Jason after Scout [[spoiler: starts skipping wrestling meets]].


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* SpikyHair: One of John's most notable traits.


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* WalkingSwimsuitScene: Maddie and Gwen have one in one episode.

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Northern Rescue is a Canadian drama television series distributed by CBC Television in Canada and internationally on Netflix. The first season aired March 1, 2019. William Baldwin, brother of ''Creator/AlecBaldwin'' and ''Creator/AdamBaldwin'' stars as John West, a search and rescue commander who relocates to his Canadian hometown after losing his wife (a PosthumousCharacter present in flashbacks and voiceovers), raising his three children (Maddie, Scout and Taylor) to with his sister-in-law. Each episode generally follows Commander West on a mission, while exploring the rest of the families daily lives.


* BearsAreBadNews: Debated in one episode with an actual bear, which Scout struggles to keep from being put down.
* BigDamnHeroes: It's John's job to be one.
* BitchAlert: Mostly subverted with Gwen (whose also more of a Delinquent at worst than an Alpha Bitch). She's introduced honking her horn at Maddie on the way to school and trading insults with her, and they later have another insult-match in the hallways at school. Then, a bit later in the episode, both of them are going for a meeting with a mutual friend and formally meet each other for the first time, both are a little embarrassed and defensive, but become more friendly by the end of the episode.
* BrainyBrunette: Taylor's spelling bee rival Raji (also counts as AsianAndNerdy).
* BrattyTeenageDaughter: Maddie on occasions, having gotten into trouble both in Boston and in Canada.
* BullyHunter: Deconstructed with Gwen confronting Stacey for posting a humiliating video of Taylor online, as Maddie points out that she was kind of being bullying herself by harassing a twelve-year old bully.
* BullyTurnedBuddy: Each to the three kids has a classmate they initially clash with and later befriend to some degree, although Scout's wrestling rival Jason is probably the only one who could truly be called a bully.
* [[CoolUncle Cool Aunt]]: Charlie Anders, the kids aunt and MaternalSubstitute.
* DawsonCasting: Zigzags this. Seventeen year-olds Maddie and Gwen are played by Amanda Williamson and Elianna Jones (who were about eighteen and twenty respectively during filming but look a little younger) while Maddie's fifteen year-old brother Scout is played by Spencer McPherson, who was twenty or twenty-one during the filming of season one.
* EverythingsBetterWithPenguins: The West family cares for a penguin, Tux, whose cuteness is often commented on.
* {{Fainting}}: Taylor occasionally does under stress (such as during a spelling bee, which causes her embarrassment) but isn't above faking it to {{Troll}} people.
* GetOut: Taylor says this to Maddie once during an argument about Maddie's intervention when her sister was being bullied.
* GirlfriendInCanada: Or rather, girlfriend ''not'' in Canada. Scout claims he had one back in Boston but they broke up when the family moved, although he could easily be telling the truth there.
* InstantHumiliationJustAddYoutube: Taylor suffers this badly after fainting during the spelling bee.
* LiteralCliffhanger: One episode has John rescuing a climber stuck on the face of a cliff, while trying to distract her with jokes and personal stories.* [[MySisterIsOffLimits My Brother Is Off Limits]]: Subverted. Maddie is upset when she finds her friend Gwen flirting with and spending time with her brother Scout. But only because her dad had threatened to ground her if she had Gwen over, considering her to be a bad influence (which she had been, but just for one episode and wants to get Gwen out of their before their dad gets back, and actually doesn't mind Scout and Gwen hanging out in general.
* MilitarySchool: Gwen's brother got sent to one (causing him to nickname their mom "The General"), which contorted to her moving to live with her dad instead.
* MistakenForCheating: Gwen and Scout have a decent amount of ShipTease, but in the season finale he sees her walking out of a bedroom with a boy changing his shirt (because he'd just spilled a drink on his and Gwne had to show him where the spare shirts where) leading to a fight breaking out.
* ParentsAsPeople: A key theme of the show, between discovering the secrets of the late Mrs. West and how hard her husband has to work.
* ToxicFriendInfluence: Raji's friend Stacey (who posted the youtube video) does a lot to escalate Raji and Taylor's feud. John worries that Gwen and Henry might be this to Maddie after the three get caught shoplifting.
* TwoGirlsAndAGuy: Maddie, Gwen and Henry. Unusually for the trope, while Gwen and Henry have the romantic interest, it takes a while to develop, and Gwen and Henry have been JustFriends since well before meeting Maddie.
* WhoWearsShortShorts: Maddie, Gwen and Taylor often do.

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