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''Once and Again'' was a drama series created by Edward Zwick Creator/EdwardZwick and Marshall Herskovitz, who also were the driving force behind ''Series/{{Thirtysomething}}'' and ''Series/MySoCalledLife'', and it starred Creator/SelaWard, Creator/BillyCampbell, and Creator/EvanRachelWood, among others.
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* ClosetKey: Jessie discovers she is attracted to another girl: upperclassman Katie Singer (Mischa Barton) whom she befriended.
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* ClosetKey: Jessie discovers she is attracted to another girl: upperclassman Katie Singer (Mischa Barton) (Creator/MischaBarton) whom she befriended.
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%% **first, during season 2. In season 3, when Rick and Lily have gotten married and the two families are living together, it turns into TheGloriousWarOfSisterlyRivalry.
* [[CoolUncle Cool Aunt]]: Graceand (briefly) Jessie see sees Judy as this, confiding in her in ways that she can't with her mom, and except for a brief estrangement in the Season 1 episode "Outside Hearts" when Judy gets in trouble for letting Grace go to a party, the two stay close. Later in the series, Judy also becomes this to Jessie as well.well, giving her books (see ShoutOut below) and being the one non-judgmental adult in her life, at least as far as Jessie feels.
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* HostageSituation: In the Season 2 episode "The Other End of the Telescope", a busboy at Jake's restaurant (played by Brian Krakow) takes the restaurant hostage after Jake fires him.
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* HostageSituation: In the Season 2 episode "The Other End of the Telescope", a busboy at Jake's restaurant (played by Brian Krakow) (Creator/DevonGummersall) takes the restaurant hostage after Jake fires him.
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* PopCulturalOsmosisFailure: In one of the black-and-white segments, Grace gushes about how cool Judy's life has been, and mentions Judy was once involved with a Doobie Brother - "whatever that is."
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* PopCulturalOsmosisFailure: In one of the black-and-white segments, Grace gushes about how cool Judy's life has been, and mentions Judy was once involved with a [[Music/TheDoobieBrothers Doobie Brother Brother]] - "whatever that is."
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* WildTeenParty: In a season 1 episode, both Eli and Grace (without Lily knowing) end up attending a teen party, during which a classmate of theirs accidentally overdoses. Judy agrees to keep it a secret, but Rick ends up telling Lily about what happened anyway.
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* WildTeenParty: In a the season 1 episode, episode "Outside Hearts", both Eli and Grace (without Lily knowing) end up attending a teen party, during which a classmate of theirs accidentally overdoses. Judy agrees to keep it a secret, but Rick ends up telling Lily about what happened anyway.
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* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: In addition to Rick, Lily, their children and their exes, there's also Lily's sister Judy, Rick's co-worker David (at least until he was PutOnABus) and several others with recurring roles.
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* NoPeriodsPeriod: Averted with Jessie; when she gets her first period (in the first season episode "There Be Dragons"), there's no attempt to make this a VerySpecialEpisode, as both Rick and Karen have an appropriate response, and when Jessie gets angry at her father later that episode, there's no connection.
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** Averted with Jessie; when she gets her first period (in the first season episode "There Be Dragons"), there's no attempt to make this a VerySpecialEpisode, as both Rick and Karen have an appropriate response, and when Jessie gets angry at her father later that episode, there's no connection.
** Averted with Jessie; when she gets her first period (in the first season episode "There Be Dragons"), there's no attempt to make this a VerySpecialEpisode, as both Rick and Karen have an appropriate response, and when Jessie gets angry at her father later that episode, there's no connection.
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* SecretRelationship: the two girls quietly begin dating while hiding their romance from everyone, in what became the first teen lesbian romance on American network television.
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* SecretRelationship: the The two girls Jessie and Katie quietly begin dating while hiding their romance from everyone, in what became the first teen lesbian romance on American network television.
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* ClosetGay: Jessie and Katie, as they have to keep their relationship a secret.
* ClosetKey: Jessie discovers she is attracted to another girl: upperclassman Katie Singer (Mischa Barton) whom she befriended.
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* LoveRevelationEpiphany: Katie acknowledges her own romantic feelings towards Jessie with a love letter.
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* HeterosexualLifePartners: Jessie and Katie. Eventually it turns romantic.
* LipstickLesbian: Jessie and Kate eventually. Lipstick bisexuals in their case.
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* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Tiffany.
* CoolBigSis: Zoe thinks Jessie is this...at first.
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* CoolBigSis: Zoe thinks Jessie is this...at first.
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* MayDecemberRomance: Karen and Leo are a GenderFlipped version of this trope, until Leo gets PutOnABus.
** Karen seemed to be getting involved in another one of these in Season 3 with Henry.
* MyBelovedSmother: Both Eli and Jessie see Karen as this.
** Karen seemed to be getting involved in another one of these in Season 3 with Henry.
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%% ** Karen seemed to be getting involved in another one of these in Season 3 with Henry.
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%% ** Karen seemed to be getting involved in another one of these in Season 3 with Henry.
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''Once and Again'' was a drama series created by Edward Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz, who also were the driving force behind ''Series/{{Thirtysomething}}'' and ''Series/MySoCalledLife'', and it starred Creator/SelaWard, Billy Campbell, Creator/BillyCampbell, and Creator/EvanRachelWood, among others.
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''Once and Again'' was a drama series created by Edward Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz, who also were the driving force behind ''Series/{{Thirtysomething}}'' and ''Series/MySoCalledLife'', and it starred Sela Ward, Creator/SelaWard, Billy Campbell, and Creator/EvanRachelWood, among others.
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* LiteraryAllusionTitle: Various episodes are named after either [[TitledAfterSong songs]] (Season 2 episodes "Wake Up,Little Susie", "The Other End of the Telescope") or movies (Season 1 episode "My Brilliant Career", Season 2 episode "Thieves Like Us"), and even plays ("Love's Laborer's Lost") or poems ("Ozymandius 2.0").
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* LiteraryAllusionTitle: Various episodes are named after either [[TitledAfterSong [[TitledAfterTheSong songs]] (Season 2 episodes "Wake "[[Music/TheEverlyBrothers Wake Up,Little Susie", "The Susie]]", "[[Music/ElvisCostello The Other End of the Telescope") Telescope]]") or movies (Season 1 episode "My Brilliant Career", "Film/MyBrilliantCareer", Season 2 episode "Thieves Like Us"), "Film/ThievesLikeUs"), and even plays ("Love's ("[[Theatre/LovesLaboursLost Love's Laborer's Lost") Lost]]") or poems ("Ozymandius ("[[Creator/PercyByssheShelley Ozymandius 2.0").0]]").
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* LiteraryAllusionTitle: Various episodes are named after either songs (Season 2 episodes "Wake Up,Little Susie", "The Other End of the Telescope") or movies (Season 1 episode "My Brilliant Career", Season 2 episode "Thieves Like Us"), and even plays ("Love's Laborer's Lost") or poems ("Ozymandius 2.0").
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* LiteraryAllusionTitle: Various episodes are named after either songs [[TitledAfterSong songs]] (Season 2 episodes "Wake Up,Little Susie", "The Other End of the Telescope") or movies (Season 1 episode "My Brilliant Career", Season 2 episode "Thieves Like Us"), and even plays ("Love's Laborer's Lost") or poems ("Ozymandius 2.0").
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* HostageSituation: In the Season 2 episode "The Other End of the Telescope", a busboy at Jake's restaurant (played by [[MySoCalledLife Brian Krakow]]) takes the restaurant hostage after Jake fires him.
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* HostageSituation: In the Season 2 episode "The Other End of the Telescope", a busboy at Jake's restaurant (played by [[MySoCalledLife Brian Krakow]]) Krakow) takes the restaurant hostage after Jake fires him.
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* GreyAndGrayMorality: Just as in ''MySoCalledLife'', everyone is portrayed as having their faults and their virtues. The worst on the show is Miles Dentrell, and even he gets to show a human side.
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* GreyAndGrayMorality: Just as in ''MySoCalledLife'', ''Series/MySoCalledLife'', everyone is portrayed as having their faults and their virtues. The worst on the show is Miles Dentrell, and even he gets to show a human side.
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''Once And and Again'' was a drama series created by Edward Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz, who also were the driving force behind ''Series/{{Thirtysomething}}'' and ''Series/MySoCalledLife'', and it starred Sela Ward, Billy Campbell, and Creator/EvanRachelWood, among others.
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The show ran for three seasons (from 1999-2002) on ABC, and while it didn't earn the acclaim of their previous show ''Series/MySoCalledLife'', it was praised for its handling of the teen characters, and was probably the show that first brought [[Series/TheOC Mischa Barton]] and Creator/EvanRachelWood to people's attention. The show was also known for having the characters speak their innermost thoughts in black-and-white segments scattered throughout each episode.
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The show ran for three seasons (from 1999-2002) on ABC, Creator/{{ABC}}, and while it didn't earn the acclaim of their previous show ''Series/MySoCalledLife'', it was praised for its handling of the teen characters, and was probably the show that first brought [[Series/TheOC Mischa Barton]] and Creator/EvanRachelWood to people's attention. The show was also known for having the characters speak their innermost thoughts in black-and-white segments scattered throughout each episode.
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* DawsonCasting: Averted with all the main children except for Shane West as Eli, who was 21 when the show started and he was playing a 16-17 year old. Also played straight for Eli's girlfriends (Carla, his girlfriend in season 2, was played by Audrey Marie Anderson, who was 25), but averted with Mischa Barton, who was only a year or two older than her character Katie.
* ExecutiveMeddling
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* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: As of now, only the first two seasons are available on DVD, and there seem to be no plans on releasing the third season.
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* ScrewedByTheNetwork: Season 1 and 2 were released on DVD but Season 3 (featuring the Jessie-Katie storyline) was not.
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''Once And Again'' was a drama series created by Edward Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz, who also were the driving force behind ''Series/{{Thirtysomething}}'' and ''Series/MySoCalledLife'', and it starred Sela Ward, Billy Campbell, and Creator/EvanRachelWood, among others.
Rick Sammler, a divorced architect, and Lily Manning, a soon-to-be-divorced salesperson, MeetCute when Lily takes her daughter Grace to see the school doctor during a soccer game while Rick is waiting with his son Eli to see the principal. They soon become romantically involved, but their relationship is complicated not only by their children (they each have two; Rick's son Eli and daughter Jessie, while Lily has two daughters, Grace and Zoe), but also their respective exes (Jake and Karen).
The show ran for three seasons (from 1999-2002) on ABC, and while it didn't earn the acclaim of their previous show ''Series/MySoCalledLife'', it was praised for its handling of the teen characters, and was probably the show that first brought [[Series/TheOC Mischa Barton]] and Creator/EvanRachelWood to people's attention. The show was also known for having the characters speak their innermost thoughts in black-and-white segments scattered throughout each episode.
This show provides examples of:
* AlmostKiss: Eli and Grace have one of these before Jessie interrupts them.
* BrotherSisterIncest: Downplayed on Eli's part, but while Grace's feelings for him fluctuate throughout the series, there's still a pretty strong IncestSubtext there.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Tiffany.
* CoolBigSis: Zoe thinks Jessie is this...at first.
** Grace and (briefly) Jessie see Judy as this as well.
* {{Crossover}}: Miles Dentrell from ''Series/{{Thirtysomething}}'' appears as a recurring character here. [[spoiler: Until he kicks it.]]
* DarkerAndEdgier: While Season 1 had its heavy storylines (Eli having trouble with reading and concentrating in school), it balanced it with lighter moments. Season 2, on the other hand...
* DawsonCasting: Averted with all the main children except for Shane West as Eli, who was 21 when the show started and he was playing a 16-17 year old. Also played straight for Eli's girlfriends (Carla, his girlfriend in season 2, was played by Audrey Marie Anderson, who was 25), but averted with Mischa Barton, who was only a year or two older than her character Katie.
* ExecutiveMeddling
* TheGloriousWarOfSisterlyRivalry: Lily and Judy have this throughout the series. Grace and Jessie have this to a lesser extent in Season 3 - or at least, Grace feels this way.
* GreyAndGrayMorality: Just as in ''MySoCalledLife'', everyone is portrayed as having their faults and their virtues. The worst on the show is Miles Dentrell, and even he gets to show a human side.
* HeroicBSOD: Jessie has one when she finds out [[spoiler: Karen was hit by a car]].
* HostageSituation: In the Season 2 episode "The Other End of the Telescope", a busboy at Jake's restaurant (played by [[MySoCalledLife Brian Krakow]]) takes the restaurant hostage after Jake fires him.
* IHaveThisFriend: Subverted in the Season 2 episode "Best of Enemies"; when Grace brings up anorexia, Judy thinks Grace is having problems with it, but Grace is actually talking about Jessie.
* ItsAllAboutMe: Lily, big time.
* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: As of now, only the first two seasons are available on DVD, and there seem to be no plans on releasing the third season.
* LiteraryAllusionTitle: Various episodes are named after either songs (Season 2 episodes "Wake Up,Little Susie", "The Other End of the Telescope") or movies (Season 1 episode "My Brilliant Career", Season 2 episode "Thieves Like Us"), and even plays ("Love's Laborer's Lost") or poems ("Ozymandius 2.0").
* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: In addition to Rick, Lily, their children and their exes, there's also Lily's sister Judy, Rick's co-worker David (at least until he was PutOnABus) and several others with recurring roles.
* MayDecemberRomance: Karen and Leo are a GenderFlipped version of this trope, until Leo gets PutOnABus.
** Karen seemed to be getting involved in another one of these in Season 3 with Henry.
* MyBelovedSmother: Both Eli and Jessie see Karen as this.
* NoPeriodsPeriod: Averted with Jessie; when she gets her first period (in the first season episode "There Be Dragons"), there's no attempt to make this a VerySpecialEpisode, as both Rick and Karen have an appropriate response, and when Jessie gets angry at her father later that episode, there's no connection.
** Also, there's an episode where Lily thinks she might be pregnant, but it turns out to be a false alarm. [[spoiler: She finds out she's pregnant in the season finale, though]].
* PopCulturalOsmosisFailure: In one of the black-and-white segments, Grace gushes about how cool Judy's life has been, and mentions Judy was once involved with a Doobie Brother - "whatever that is."
* PutOnABus: David, as well as the ex-boyfriends of Karen ([[UnfortunateNames Lloyd Lloyd]] and Leo) and Judy (Sam Blue and Will Gluck), Eli's ex-girlfriends Jennifer and Carla, and Jake's ex-girlfriend Tiffany.
** TheBusCameBack: Sam and Tiffany.
* SchoolgirlLesbians: Jessie and Katie.
* ScrewedByTheNetwork: Season 1 and 2 were released on DVD but Season 3 (featuring the Jessie-Katie storyline) was not.
* ShoutOut: In "Best of Enemies", Judy gives Jessie a copy of the book ''The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter'', which she said helped her get through high school.
* TeacherStudentRomance: Ultimately averted, but Grace does develop strong feelings for Mr. Dimitri throughout Season 3.
* ThereAreNoTherapists: Subverted with Jessie - as she's sent to see Dr. Rosenfeld in Season 2 - but played straight with the other characters, particularly Grace.
* TookALevelInJerkass: Eli in Season 3. He got better, though.
* UnfortunateNames: Karen's boyfriend for part of Season 1 was Lloyd Lloyd. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by Eli, Jessie and Rick in Season 1, and by Judy in Season 2.
* WildTeenParty: In a season 1 episode, both Eli and Grace (without Lily knowing) end up attending a teen party, during which a classmate of theirs accidentally overdoses. Judy agrees to keep it a secret, but Rick ends up telling Lily about what happened anyway.
* YourCheatingHeart: The reason why Lily divorces Jake in the first place.
Rick Sammler, a divorced architect, and Lily Manning, a soon-to-be-divorced salesperson, MeetCute when Lily takes her daughter Grace to see the school doctor during a soccer game while Rick is waiting with his son Eli to see the principal. They soon become romantically involved, but their relationship is complicated not only by their children (they each have two; Rick's son Eli and daughter Jessie, while Lily has two daughters, Grace and Zoe), but also their respective exes (Jake and Karen).
The show ran for three seasons (from 1999-2002) on ABC, and while it didn't earn the acclaim of their previous show ''Series/MySoCalledLife'', it was praised for its handling of the teen characters, and was probably the show that first brought [[Series/TheOC Mischa Barton]] and Creator/EvanRachelWood to people's attention. The show was also known for having the characters speak their innermost thoughts in black-and-white segments scattered throughout each episode.
This show provides examples of:
* AlmostKiss: Eli and Grace have one of these before Jessie interrupts them.
* BrotherSisterIncest: Downplayed on Eli's part, but while Grace's feelings for him fluctuate throughout the series, there's still a pretty strong IncestSubtext there.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Tiffany.
* CoolBigSis: Zoe thinks Jessie is this...at first.
** Grace and (briefly) Jessie see Judy as this as well.
* {{Crossover}}: Miles Dentrell from ''Series/{{Thirtysomething}}'' appears as a recurring character here. [[spoiler: Until he kicks it.]]
* DarkerAndEdgier: While Season 1 had its heavy storylines (Eli having trouble with reading and concentrating in school), it balanced it with lighter moments. Season 2, on the other hand...
* DawsonCasting: Averted with all the main children except for Shane West as Eli, who was 21 when the show started and he was playing a 16-17 year old. Also played straight for Eli's girlfriends (Carla, his girlfriend in season 2, was played by Audrey Marie Anderson, who was 25), but averted with Mischa Barton, who was only a year or two older than her character Katie.
* ExecutiveMeddling
* TheGloriousWarOfSisterlyRivalry: Lily and Judy have this throughout the series. Grace and Jessie have this to a lesser extent in Season 3 - or at least, Grace feels this way.
* GreyAndGrayMorality: Just as in ''MySoCalledLife'', everyone is portrayed as having their faults and their virtues. The worst on the show is Miles Dentrell, and even he gets to show a human side.
* HeroicBSOD: Jessie has one when she finds out [[spoiler: Karen was hit by a car]].
* HostageSituation: In the Season 2 episode "The Other End of the Telescope", a busboy at Jake's restaurant (played by [[MySoCalledLife Brian Krakow]]) takes the restaurant hostage after Jake fires him.
* IHaveThisFriend: Subverted in the Season 2 episode "Best of Enemies"; when Grace brings up anorexia, Judy thinks Grace is having problems with it, but Grace is actually talking about Jessie.
* ItsAllAboutMe: Lily, big time.
* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: As of now, only the first two seasons are available on DVD, and there seem to be no plans on releasing the third season.
* LiteraryAllusionTitle: Various episodes are named after either songs (Season 2 episodes "Wake Up,Little Susie", "The Other End of the Telescope") or movies (Season 1 episode "My Brilliant Career", Season 2 episode "Thieves Like Us"), and even plays ("Love's Laborer's Lost") or poems ("Ozymandius 2.0").
* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: In addition to Rick, Lily, their children and their exes, there's also Lily's sister Judy, Rick's co-worker David (at least until he was PutOnABus) and several others with recurring roles.
* MayDecemberRomance: Karen and Leo are a GenderFlipped version of this trope, until Leo gets PutOnABus.
** Karen seemed to be getting involved in another one of these in Season 3 with Henry.
* MyBelovedSmother: Both Eli and Jessie see Karen as this.
* NoPeriodsPeriod: Averted with Jessie; when she gets her first period (in the first season episode "There Be Dragons"), there's no attempt to make this a VerySpecialEpisode, as both Rick and Karen have an appropriate response, and when Jessie gets angry at her father later that episode, there's no connection.
** Also, there's an episode where Lily thinks she might be pregnant, but it turns out to be a false alarm. [[spoiler: She finds out she's pregnant in the season finale, though]].
* PopCulturalOsmosisFailure: In one of the black-and-white segments, Grace gushes about how cool Judy's life has been, and mentions Judy was once involved with a Doobie Brother - "whatever that is."
* PutOnABus: David, as well as the ex-boyfriends of Karen ([[UnfortunateNames Lloyd Lloyd]] and Leo) and Judy (Sam Blue and Will Gluck), Eli's ex-girlfriends Jennifer and Carla, and Jake's ex-girlfriend Tiffany.
** TheBusCameBack: Sam and Tiffany.
* SchoolgirlLesbians: Jessie and Katie.
* ScrewedByTheNetwork: Season 1 and 2 were released on DVD but Season 3 (featuring the Jessie-Katie storyline) was not.
* ShoutOut: In "Best of Enemies", Judy gives Jessie a copy of the book ''The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter'', which she said helped her get through high school.
* TeacherStudentRomance: Ultimately averted, but Grace does develop strong feelings for Mr. Dimitri throughout Season 3.
* ThereAreNoTherapists: Subverted with Jessie - as she's sent to see Dr. Rosenfeld in Season 2 - but played straight with the other characters, particularly Grace.
* TookALevelInJerkass: Eli in Season 3. He got better, though.
* UnfortunateNames: Karen's boyfriend for part of Season 1 was Lloyd Lloyd. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by Eli, Jessie and Rick in Season 1, and by Judy in Season 2.
* WildTeenParty: In a season 1 episode, both Eli and Grace (without Lily knowing) end up attending a teen party, during which a classmate of theirs accidentally overdoses. Judy agrees to keep it a secret, but Rick ends up telling Lily about what happened anyway.
* YourCheatingHeart: The reason why Lily divorces Jake in the first place.
