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* AssholeVictim: Several, mostly in the backstories of the characters of the SympatheticMurderer variety. For example, the man [[spoiler: Claudette killed]] was abusing her workers.

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Several, mostly in the backstories of the characters of the SympatheticMurderer variety. For example, the man [[spoiler: Claudette killed]] was abusing her workers.workers.
** Deconstructed. When Piper [[spoiler: gets Pennsatucky sent to the psych unit, the damage it does is not played for catharsis but for sheer horror. Pennsatucky deserved to be punished for what she did to Piper, but the repayment was absolutely brutal and assured that things would only get worse.]]



* KickTheSonOfABitch:
** Deconstructed. When Piper [[spoiler: gets Pennsatucky sent to the psych unit, the damage it does is not played for catharsis but for sheer horror. Pennsatucky deserved to be punished for what she did to Piper, but the repayment was absolutely brutal and assured that things would only get worse.]]
** [[spoiler:The day after she found out her husband was cheating on her with his male staffer, Fig has to deal with Caputo telling her he has evidence of her embezzlement. After she gives him a blowjob hoping to keep him silent, he reveals that he already gave the evidence to the warden.]]
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* {{Prison}} : The fictional Litchfield Correctional Facility.

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* {{Prison}} : {{Prison}}: The fictional Litchfield Correctional Facility.
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* PrisonerPerformance:
** The final episode of Season 1, "[[Recap/OrangeIsTheNewBlackS01E13CantFixCrazy Can't Fix Crazy]]", centers on the Christmas pageant. It has the characters sing Christmas songs and also perform a Nativity pageant.
** {{Downplayed|Trope}} during the improv class in "[[Recap/OrangeIsTheNewBlackS03E03EmpathyIsaBonerKiller Empathy is a Bone Killer]]", which involves everyone performing in pairs for the rest of the class. Alex and Piper get paired together for a symbolic argument about their romance.
** {{Inverted|Trope}} in the episode "[[Recap/OrangeIsTheNewBlackS05E04LitchfieldsGotTalent Litchfield's Got Talent]]", where the ''guards'' are forced to put on a talent show when they are held hostage at gunpoint during the riot.
* PrisonersLastMeal: In "[[Recap/OrangeIsTheNewBlackS07E05MinorityDeport Minority Deport]]", Daya and Taystee talk about what they would want for their last meals. Daya suggests a never-ending pasta bowl from Olive Garden and a Crave Case from White Castle. Taystee says she'd rather have a Storky's supreme meal.



* PrisonerPerformance:
** The final episode of Season 1, "[[Recap/OrangeIsTheNewBlackS01E13CantFixCrazy Can't Fix Crazy]]", centers on the Christmas pageant. It has the characters sing Christmas songs and also perform a Nativity pageant.
** {{Downplayed|Trope}} during the improv class in "[[Recap/OrangeIsTheNewBlackS03E03EmpathyIsaBonerKiller Empathy is a Bone Killer]]", which involves everyone performing in pairs for the rest of the class. Alex and Piper get paired together for a symbolic argument about their romance.
** {{Inverted|Trope}} in the episode "[[Recap/OrangeIsTheNewBlackS05E04LitchfieldsGotTalent Litchfield's Got Talent]]", where the ''guards'' are forced to put on a talent show when they are held hostage at gunpoint during the riot.
* PrisonersLastMeal: In "[[Recap/OrangeIsTheNewBlackS07E05MinorityDeport Minority Deport]]", Daya and Taystee talk about what they would want for their last meals. Daya suggests a never-ending pasta bowl from Olive Garden and a Crave Case from White Castle. Taystee says she'd rather have a Storky's supreme meal.

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* PrisonerPerformance:
** The final episode of Season 1, "[[Recap/OrangeIsTheNewBlackS01E13CantFixCrazy Can't Fix Crazy]]", centers on the Christmas pageant. It has the characters sing Christmas songs and also perform a Nativity pageant.
** {{Downplayed|Trope}} during the improv class in "[[Recap/OrangeIsTheNewBlackS03E03EmpathyIsaBonerKiller Empathy is a Bone Killer]]", which involves everyone performing in pairs for the rest of the class. Alex and Piper get paired together for a symbolic argument about their romance.
** {{Inverted|Trope}} in the episode "[[Recap/OrangeIsTheNewBlackS05E04LitchfieldsGotTalent Litchfield's Got Talent]]", where the ''guards'' are forced to put on a talent show when they are held hostage at gunpoint during the riot.
* PrisonersLastMeal: In "[[Recap/OrangeIsTheNewBlackS07E05MinorityDeport Minority Deport]]", Daya and Taystee talk about what they would want for their last meals. Daya suggests a never-ending pasta bowl
PrisonsAreEducationalInstitutions: Pennsatucky suffers from Olive Garden dyslexia and as a Crave Case from White Castle. Taystee says she'd rather have a Storky's supreme meal.result is almost illiterate. While in prison, she studies enough to earn her GED, [[spoiler: although she doesn't live long enough to know it]].



** Averted in Lichfield; it was only at the time of "Blood Donut" when they opened the track, and Janae in order not to "let herself go soft" had to exercise in her bunk, during nights (irritating the other inmates). Although they do have yoga classes, courtesy of Jones.

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** Averted in Lichfield; Litchfield; it was only at the time of "Blood Donut" when they opened the track, and Janae in order not to "let herself go soft" had to exercise in her bunk, during nights (irritating the other inmates). Although they do have yoga classes, courtesy of Jones.
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* TheQueenpin: Befitting an a women's prison, all gang leaders are (of course) female.
** Red is a sympathetic figure who runs the illegal smuggling operations, having run her BigScrewedUpFamily's crimes on the outside.
** Red's EvilCounterpart, Vee, is also this on both the inside ''and'' outside. She adopts children solely so they can act as drug runners for her, deals with all the money, has many corrupt cops on her payroll, and [[spoiler:kills anyone who steps out of line.]]
** Piper herself becomes this (reluctantly) to the White Power Group in Season 4 over her underwear empire, [[spoiler:though she later turns her back on it after being punished by the Dominicans]].
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* BaffledByOwnBiology: "[[Recap/OrangeIsTheNewBlackS02E04AWholeOtherHole A Whole Other Hole]]" reveals that many of the inmates are unaware that the "pee hole" and the "main coochie hole" are two separate orifices. Even Black Cindy, who has given birth, was surprised to learn this. By the end of the episode, former firefighter Sophia offers some basic sex education to her fellow inmates.
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* ActorAllusion: Nicky tells Trisha she annoyed the nurses in rehab by pretending she was the girl from ''Film/TheExorcist''. Natasha Lyonne played Megan in ''Film/ScaryMovie 2'', parodying Reagan from ''The Exorcist''.
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-->-- '''Music/ReginaSpektor''', ''You've Got Time''

''Orange Is the New Black'' is a dramedy from {{Creator/Netflix}} based on the book of the same name. [[VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory Loosely based on the memoirs]] of Piper [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed Kerman]], the series follows her incarceration in a women's prison.

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-->-- '''Music/ReginaSpektor''', ''You've "You've Got Time''

Time"

''Orange Is the New Black'' is a dramedy {{dramedy}} series from {{Creator/Netflix}} based on the book of the same name. [[VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory Loosely based on the memoirs]] of Piper [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed Kerman]], the series follows her incarceration in a women's prison.



Each episode is a look into life at the Litch. Chapman is largely the focus character, the center of {{Flashback}}s depicting her life before prison, but more often than not, one of the other cons shares the spotlight. The politics of prison life dominate most episodes, and Piper has to navigate her way through its world of work, power structures, death threats, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking lesbians]]. And there's always the actual wardens to think about.

Debuting in 2013, the series ran for seven seasons, 13 episodes each, which ended in 2019. At 91 episodes, it is Netflix's second-longest original scripted programme, behind ''Series/GraceAndFrankie''.

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Each episode is a look into life at the Litch. Chapman is largely the focus character, the center of {{Flashback}}s {{flashback}}s depicting her life before prison, but more often than not, one of the other cons shares the spotlight. The politics of prison life dominate most episodes, and Piper has to navigate her way through its world of work, power structures, death threats, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking lesbians]]. And there's always the actual wardens to think about.

Debuting in 2013, the series ran for seven seasons, 13 episodes each, which and ended in 2019. At 91 episodes, it is Netflix's second-longest original scripted programme, behind ''Series/GraceAndFrankie''.

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