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* MythologyGag: John Glover guest stars in 'Possession' as the Devil, perhaps taking a break from looking for ''Series/{{Brimstone}}'''s escapees.
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Created by Kenneth Biller and Mike Sussman, the show stars [[Series/WillAndGrace Eric McCormack]] as Dr. Daniel Pierce and Creator/RachaelLeighCook as [[FBIAgent Special Agent]] and former student Kate Moretti. Co-starring are [[Series/TheOC Kelly Rowan]] as Dr. Pierce's old flame, best friend, and dearest hallucination and Arjay Smith as his live-in teaching assistant.

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Created by Kenneth Biller and Mike Sussman, the show stars [[Series/WillAndGrace Eric McCormack]] Creator/EricMcCormack as Dr. Daniel Pierce and Creator/RachaelLeighCook as [[FBIAgent Special Agent]] and former student Kate Moretti. Co-starring are [[Series/TheOC Kelly Rowan]] as Dr. Pierce's old flame, best friend, and dearest hallucination and Arjay Smith Creator/ArjaySmith as his live-in teaching assistant.
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* BlackAndNerdy: Max Lewicki.

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* BlackAndNerdy: Max Lewicki. Ultimately deconstructed in the second season episode ''Brotherhood'', which goes into the details of his estrangement from his family and culture, not to mention how easily he is still regarded as subhuman by the police despite his academic achievements.
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* HelpfulHallucination: Whenever Daniel works up a case, his mind creates a hallucination of a person that’s involved or related to the case at hand.
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* InformedAbility: Dr Pierce's students laugh uproariously at the jokes he delivers during his lectures. They are not even mildly amusing.
** Kate is described in-universe as a tough-as-nail, strong-willed FBI investigator, but is actually slightly less intimidating than a plush poodle.
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* YourCheatingHeart: Donnie cheated on Kate with her best friend, which caused their marriage to fall apart
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* FirstEpisodeSpoiler: [[spoiler: Natalie is a hallucination of Daniel's]].

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* FirstEpisodeSpoiler: FirstEpisodeTwist: [[spoiler: Natalie is a hallucination of Daniel's]].
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* CelebrityParadox: Robert Picardo plays a man who claims to have been abducted by aliens who is signing copies of his autobiography at a convention. The same convention has a signing by Jeri Ryan (referred to by her character, Seven of Nine), Picardo's co-star on ''Series/StarTrekVoyager''.

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* CelebrityParadox: Robert Picardo plays a man who claims to have been abducted by aliens who is signing copies of his autobiography at a convention. The same convention has a signing by Jeri Ryan Creator/JeriRyan (referred to by her character, Seven of Nine), Picardo's co-star on ''Series/StarTrekVoyager''.
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* MedicationTampering: The VillainOfTheWeek in the first season finale kills her husband by replacing his blood thinner medication with sugar pills, which caused him to suffer a fatal stroke.
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*InsaneEqualsViolent: Absolutely defied. Daniel Pierce is schizophrenic and utterly non-violent, virtually none of the mentally ill people he comes across in working for the FBI are violent, and he repeatedly makes the point that people with mental illness are far more likely to be the victims of violent crimes than the perpetrators.

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* BookEnds: Each episode begins and ends (with the exception of "The Messenger" from season 1) with a lecture from Dr. Pierce that relates to whatever happened in the episode.

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Each episode begins and ends (with the exception of "The Messenger" from season 1) with a lecture from Dr. Pierce that relates to whatever happened in the episode.
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* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Donnie clearly wants Kate to be happy again, and supports Daniel's possible feelings for her


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* WorkingWithTheEx: In season 2, Kate's ex husband joins the main cast and she's obviously not happy about it
* YourCheatingHeart: Donnie cheated on Kate with her best friend, which caused their marriage to fall apart
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Created by Kenneth Biller and Mike Sussman, the show stars [[Series/WillAndGrace Eric McCormack]] as Dr. Daniel Pierce and Creator/RachaelLeighCook as [[FBIAgent Special Agent]] and former student Kate Moretti. Co-starring are [[Series/TheOC Kelly Rowan]] as Dr. Pierce's old flame, best friend, and [[spoiler: dearest hallucination]] and Arjay Smith as his live-in teaching assistant.

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Created by Kenneth Biller and Mike Sussman, the show stars [[Series/WillAndGrace Eric McCormack]] as Dr. Daniel Pierce and Creator/RachaelLeighCook as [[FBIAgent Special Agent]] and former student Kate Moretti. Co-starring are [[Series/TheOC Kelly Rowan]] as Dr. Pierce's old flame, best friend, and [[spoiler: dearest hallucination]] hallucination and Arjay Smith as his live-in teaching assistant.
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* BlandNameProduct: Caleidoscope is SecondLife in all but name.

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* BlandNameProduct: Caleidoscope is SecondLife ''VideoGame/SecondLife'' in all but name.



* IdiotBall: Doctor Pierce? Maybe someone with your condition should have thought twice before entering an immersive SecondLife-esque virtual environment? The potential for addiction and losing touch with reality are bad enough for people ''without'' already-existent psychological problems.

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* IdiotBall: Doctor Pierce? Maybe someone with your condition should have thought twice before entering an immersive SecondLife-esque ''VideoGame/SecondLife''-esque virtual environment? The potential for addiction and losing touch with reality are bad enough for people ''without'' already-existent psychological problems.
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''Perception'' is an American crime drama on {{TNT}} centered on a brilliant and eccentric neuroscientist who works as a well-liked university professor. On the side, he is recruited by the FBI, through one of his favorite ex-students, to work as a consultant for some of their more confounding cases. With the uptick in cases come flare-ups of the professor's notable mental ailments.

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''Perception'' is an American crime drama on {{TNT}} Creator/{{TNT}} centered on a brilliant and eccentric neuroscientist who works as a well-liked university professor. On the side, he is recruited by the FBI, through one of his favorite ex-students, to work as a consultant for some of their more confounding cases. With the uptick in cases come flare-ups of the professor's notable mental ailments.
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The show premiered on July 9, 2012, after TNT greenlit 10 episodes for the first season. A second season was announced in August, 2012, and ended after three seasons, the final episode airing on March 17th, 2015

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The show premiered on July 9, 2012, after TNT greenlit 10 episodes for the first season. A second season was announced in August, 2012, August 2012 and ended after three seasons, the final episode airing on March 17th, 20152015.
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Created by Kenneth Biller and Mike Sussman, the show stars [[WillAndGrace Eric McCormack]] as Dr. Daniel Pierce and Creator/RachaelLeighCook as [[FBIAgent Special Agent]] and former student Kate Moretti. Co-starring are [[TheOC Kelly Rowan]] as Dr. Pierce's old flame, best friend, and [[spoiler: dearest hallucination]] and Arjay Smith as his live-in teaching assistant.

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Created by Kenneth Biller and Mike Sussman, the show stars [[WillAndGrace [[Series/WillAndGrace Eric McCormack]] as Dr. Daniel Pierce and Creator/RachaelLeighCook as [[FBIAgent Special Agent]] and former student Kate Moretti. Co-starring are [[TheOC [[Series/TheOC Kelly Rowan]] as Dr. Pierce's old flame, best friend, and [[spoiler: dearest hallucination]] and Arjay Smith as his live-in teaching assistant.

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* BigSecret: [[spoiler:In "Toxic" a group of girls develop mass Tourette's hysteria due to the guilt they feel over driving the victim to suicide ... only to discover she was murdered by someone else]].



* BigSecret: [[spoiler:In "Toxic" a group of girls develop mass Tourette's hysteria due to the guilt they feel over driving the victim to suicide ... only to discover she was murdered by someone else]].

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* BigSecret: [[spoiler:In "Toxic" a group of girls develop mass Tourette's hysteria due to the guilt they feel over driving the victim to suicide ... only to discover she was murdered by someone else]].BlandNameProduct: Caleidoscope is SecondLife in all but name.
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The show premiered on July 9, 2012, after TNT greenlit 10 episodes for the first season. A second season was announced in August, 2012.

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The show premiered on July 9, 2012, after TNT greenlit 10 episodes for the first season. A second season was announced in August, 2012.2012, and ended after three seasons, the final episode airing on March 17th, 2015
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* GoodAngelBadAngel: In "Romeo" Daniel has two of his hallucinations arguing about how he should deal with his feelings to Kate: One for him confessing and the other for him to not. Almost to use this trope while waiting at the wedding they argue with each other between his shoulders while sitting behind him.
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* CelebrityParadox: Robert Picardo plays a man who claims to have been abducted by aliens who is signing copies of his autobiography at a convention. The same convention has a signing by Jeri Ryan (referred to by her character, Seven of Nine), Picardo's co-star on StarTrekVoyager.

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* CelebrityParadox: Robert Picardo plays a man who claims to have been abducted by aliens who is signing copies of his autobiography at a convention. The same convention has a signing by Jeri Ryan (referred to by her character, Seven of Nine), Picardo's co-star on StarTrekVoyager.''Series/StarTrekVoyager''.
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* CelebrityParadox: Robert Picardo plays a man who claims to have been abducted by aliens who is signing copies of his autobiography at a convention. The same convention has a signing by Jeri Ryan (referred to by her character, Seven of Nine), Picardo's co-star on StarTrekVoyager.

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* CreatureOfHabit: Daniel, by necessity. His routine helps keep is paranoid schizophrenia under control, but working with the FBI screws with that routine a lot, and so he becomes noticeably more unstable when out in the field with Kate.

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* CreatureOfHabit: Daniel, by necessity. His routine helps keep is his paranoid schizophrenia under control, but working with the FBI screws with that routine a lot, and so he becomes noticeably more unstable when out in the field with Kate.


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* IdiotBall: Doctor Pierce? Maybe someone with your condition should have thought twice before entering an immersive SecondLife-esque virtual environment? The potential for addiction and losing touch with reality are bad enough for people ''without'' already-existent psychological problems.


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* LongingLook: Between Daniel and Kate at the end of "Faces".
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* FutureMeScaresMe: Peirce sees a hallucination of homeless guy in one episode. It turns out it is his possible future self.
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*YourMindMakesItReal: In the first episode, Dr. Pierce explains that that's how reality works. Our minds cannot tell the difference between hallucinations, 'actual' reality, or things we think are real. It's all the same to the mind.
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* SkewedPriorities: In the season one finale, [[spoiler:Kate's partner, pretending to be Daniel, is nearly run over by the killer, and all Daniel cares about is his bike that was damaged in the incident]].

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* SkewedPriorities: In Played for laughs in the season one finale, [[spoiler:Kate's partner, pretending to be Daniel, is nearly run over by the killer, and all Daniel cares about is his bike that was damaged in the incident]].

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