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* TruthInTelevision: The morning after pill does in fact have a higher chance of failing for people over a certain weight, particularly if taken close to the end of its effective timeframe, although it's not as hard-and-fast a distinction as the pharmacist makes it sound when Annie asks.
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* OpenMindedParent: Vera and Bill are this, as they know that Fran is queer and dates (sleeps with) lots of women and Vera openly wishes that Annie "plays the field" like Fran does.
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* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: Averted. Annie takes the Morning After Pill and after it is revealed to not work, she goes to have an abortion and it is treated as a non-issue. The next season has Annie name her abortion as a moment of self-care.
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* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: Averted. Annie takes the Morning After Pill and after it is revealed to not work, she goes to have an abortion and it is treated as a non-issue.non-issue (aside from Ryan's MyBelovedSmother wanting to make a funeral for the fetus). The next season has Annie name her abortion as a moment of self-care.
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** Ryan's mother is this full stop: she does his dishes at his house and treats him like a child.
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** Gabe has plenty of {{Jerkass}} moments but, deep down, does have Annie's best interests in mind.
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** Gabe has plenty of {{Jerkass}} moments but, deep down, does have Annie's best interests in mind. In Season 2, he shows concern when Annie tells him that the corporate-minded WAHAM (Women Having A Moment) event is monetizing feminism and self-care to sell more insecurity to women and is open only to privileged women (despite aiming to empower women) and takes Annie seriously when she says that her moment of self-care was having an abortion.
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* ShoutOut: In one episode, Annie and her dad play [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down]] on the piano and clarinet. Aidy Bryant is a WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes fan.
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* ShoutOut: In one episode, Annie and her dad play [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down]] on the piano and clarinet. Aidy Bryant is a WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes fan.
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* ShoutOut: Aidy Bryant is a Series/LooneyTunes fan. So, in one episode, Annie and her dad play "The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down"[[note]]the theme song for the Looney Tunes series of Warner Brothers cartoons[[/note]] on the piano and clarinet.
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* ShoutOut: Aidy Bryant is a Series/LooneyTunes fan. So, in In one episode, Annie and her dad play "The [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down"[[note]]the theme song for the Looney Tunes series of Warner Brothers cartoons[[/note]] Down]] on the piano and clarinet. Aidy Bryant is a WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes fan.
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* ShoutOut: Aidy Bryant is a Series/LooneyTunes fan. So, in one episode, Annie and her dad play "The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down"[[note]]the theme song for the Looney Tunes series of Warner Brothers cartoons[[/note]] on the piano and clarinet.
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* {{Jerkass}}: The troll, known only by his screenname "The Awesome," who mocks Annie for her weight in the comment sections of her articles. When she confronts him, he shows no remorse whatsoever for the way he treated her.
** The obnoxious fitness trainer in the pilot, who passive aggressively criticizes Annie for her larger body type.
** The obnoxious fitness trainer in the pilot, who passive aggressively criticizes Annie for her larger body type.
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** Gabe has plenty of {{Jerkass}} moments but, deep down, does have Annie's best interests in mind.
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* BlackBestFriend:
** Fran is a well-developed version of this trope, as she isn't a SatelliteCharacter and her own mind and dating life.
** Annie's "work husband", Amadi, is a straight example (and not just because [[IncrediblyLamePun he ''is'' straight]]), although she and Fran are closer and they live together. Amani, on the other hand, is mostly seen through his and Annie's work and we learn very little about his life.
** Fran is a well-developed version of this trope, as she isn't a SatelliteCharacter and her own mind and dating life.
** Annie's "work husband", Amadi, is a straight example (and not just because [[IncrediblyLamePun he ''is'' straight]]), although she and Fran are closer and they live together. Amani, on the other hand, is mostly seen through his and Annie's work and we learn very little about his life.
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** Fran is a well-developed aversion of this trope, as she isn't a SatelliteCharacter and her own mind and dating life.
** Annie's "work husband", Amadi, is a straight example (and not just because [[IncrediblyLamePun he ''is'' straight]]), although she and Fran are closer and they live together. Amani, on the other hand, is mostly seen through his and Annie's work and we learn very little about his life.
** Fran is a well-developed aversion of this trope, as she isn't a SatelliteCharacter and her own mind and dating life.
** Annie's "work husband", Amadi, is a straight example (and not just because [[IncrediblyLamePun he ''is'' straight]]), although she and Fran are closer and they live together. Amani, on the other hand, is mostly seen through his and Annie's work and we learn very little about his life.
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* TheCastShowoff: John Cameron Mitchell gets to showcase his singing chops in season 2.
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* TheCastShowoff: John Cameron Mitchell gets to showcase his singing chops in season 2.
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* MyBelovedSmother: Deconstructed with Annie's Mom, while she does push Annie to diet to lose weight and can stand to back away, she is not painted as a one-note gorgon and instead as a complex person with feelings.
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* MyBelovedSmother: Deconstructed with Annie's Mom, while she does push Annie to diet to lose weight and can stand to back away, she is not painted as a one-note gorgon and instead as a complex person with feelings. She and Annie's dad, surprisingly enough, even take a liking to Ryan (despite how embarrassingly he behaves when meeting them).
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* NiceGirl: Annie is usually a very polite and friendly woman. Almost to a fault, as she lets Gabe and Ryan (and to a lesser extent her mom) walk all over her. Over the course of the show, she becomes more confident and learns to stand up for herself with these people.
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* NiceGirl: Annie is usually a very polite and friendly woman. Almost In the beginning, she's almost this [[ExtremeDoormat to a fault, fault]], as she lets Gabe and Ryan (and to a lesser extent her mom) walk all over her. Over the course of the show, she becomes more confident and learns to stand up for herself with these people.
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** She does this again with Ryan in the season two finale. Annie reminds him of how hurt she was by how he used to hide her from his friends after sex. Ryan tries to brush this off by saying he's over his shame of being seen with her. Annie, on the other hand, tells him straight up that she is not over how disrespectful he was towards her in those moments and that she may never really get over it.
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** She does this again with Ryan in the season two finale. Annie reminds him of how hurt she was by how he used to hide her from his friends after sex. Ryan tries to brush this off by saying he's over his shame of being seen with her. Annie, on the other hand, tells him straight up that she is not over still deeply hurt by how disrespectful he was towards her in those moments and that she may never really get over it.
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** She does this again with Ryan in the season two finale by reminding him that she was seriously wounded by his insistence on not being seen with her when they were f*ck buddies. Ryan tries to blow it off by saying he's "over it." Annie, on the other hand, tells him straight up that she is not and may never really get over it.
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** She does this again with Ryan in the season two finale by reminding finale. Annie reminds him that of how hurt she was seriously wounded by how he used to hide her from his insistence on not being seen with her when they were f*ck buddies. friends after sex. Ryan tries to blow it brush this off by saying he's "over it." over his shame of being seen with her. Annie, on the other hand, tells him straight up that she is not over how disrespectful he was towards her in those moments and that she may never really get over it.
* ExtremeDoormat: Annie is this in the beginning, as she lets both Ryan and Gabe take advantage of her, while passively letting people belittle her for her weight. [[CharacterDevelopment She gradually becomes more confident and able to stand up to the people (both in and out of her immediate circle) who mistreat her.]]
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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Ryan treats Annie horribly in the beginning, from making her jump over his fence after sex (out of shame over being seen with a fat woman) to blowing off dates so he can engage in frat boy activities like pencil fighting. Once they officially become a couple, however, he does make a serious effort to be a good and supportive boyfriend to her. Unfortunately, it's too little too late. As her TheReasonYouSuck speech (cited below) illustrates.
* ManChild: Ryan. He's well into his 30's or 40's but dresses like a child, still lives with his mother, is unable to keep a steady job, continues to engage in goofy fratboy activities even while he's in a relationship with Annie, etc.
* ManChild: Ryan. He's well into his 30's or 40's but dresses like a child, still lives with his mother, is unable to keep a steady job, continues to engage in goofy fratboy activities even while he's in a relationship with Annie, etc.
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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Ryan is an example of this trope being portrayed in a rather negative fashion. He treats Annie horribly in the beginning, from making her jump over his fence after sex (out of shame over being seen with a fat woman) to blowing off dates so he can engage in frat boy activities like pencil fighting. Once they officially become a couple, however, he does make a serious semi-serious effort to be a good and supportive boyfriend to her. her, even showing occasional moments of tenderness and compassion. Unfortunately, it's it winds up being too little too late. As late, as her TheReasonYouSuck speech (cited below) illustrates.
* ManChild:Ryan. Ryan is this, up to eleven! He's well into his 30's or 40's a grown adult (played by the 44 year old Luca Jones!) but dresses like a child, still lives with his mother, is unable to keep a steady job, continues to engage in prioritizes goofy fratboy activities even while he's in a like pencil fighting over his relationship with Annie, etc.
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* NiceGirl: Annie is usually a very polite and friendly woman. Almost to a fault, as she lets Gabe and Ryan (and to a lesser extent her mom) walk all over her. Over the course of the show, she becomes more confident and learns to stand up for herself with these people.
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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Annie delivers a blunt one to Ryan when she breaks up with him at the end of Season Two. Citing the lingering emotional damage done by his earlier treatment of her, her constant need to parent him, and the bitter fact that she was basically just settling for him out of fear that she wouldn't be able to do better because of her weight.
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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Annie delivers a blunt one to Ryan when she breaks up with him at the end of Season Two. Citing She cites the lingering emotional damage done by his earlier treatment of her, her constant need to parent him, and the bitter fact that she was basically just settling for him out of fear that she wouldn't be able to do better because of her weight.better. She officially breaks up with him afterwards.
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** She does this again with Ryan in the season two finale by reminding him that she was seriously wounded by his insistence on not being seen with her when they were f*ck buddies. Ryan tries to blow it off by saying he's "over it." Annie, on the other hand, tells him straight up that she is not and may never really get over it.
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* WhatDoesSheSeeInHim: Ryan, Annie's boyfriend. He is mediocre, doesn't have a job, very lazy, has only one pillow, insists on having sex without a condom, and makes Annie sneak out the back after she spends the night so his roommates don't see her.
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* WhatDoesSheSeeInHim: Ryan, Annie's boyfriend. He is mediocre, doesn't have a job, very lazy, has only one pillow, insists on having sex without a condom, and makes Annie sneak out the back after she spends the night so his roommates don't see her. After a short lived romantic relationship with him, Annie finally confesses that she never really liked him and was just dating him out of fear that nobody else would want to be with her.
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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Ryan treats Annie horribly in the beginning, from making her jump over his fence after sex to avoid being seen with her to blowing off dates so he can engage in frat boy activities like pencil fighting. Once they officially become a couple, however, he does make a serious effort to be a good and supportive boyfriend to her. Unfortunately, it's too little too late. As her TheReasonYouSuck speech (cited below) illustrates.
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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Ryan treats Annie horribly in the beginning, from making her jump over his fence after sex to avoid (out of shame over being seen with her a fat woman) to blowing off dates so he can engage in frat boy activities like pencil fighting. Once they officially become a couple, however, he does make a serious effort to be a good and supportive boyfriend to her. Unfortunately, it's too little too late. As her TheReasonYouSuck speech (cited below) illustrates.
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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Ryan treats Annie horribly in the beginning, from making her jump over his fence after sex to avoid being seen with her to blowing off dates so he can engage in frat boy activities like pencil fighting. Once they officially become a couple, however, he does make a serious effort to be a good and supportive boyfriend to her. Unfortunately, it's too little too late. As her TheReasonYouSuck speech (cited below) illustrates.
* ManChild: Ryan. He's well into his 30's or 40's but dresses like a child, still lives with his mother, is unable to keep a steady job, continues to engage in goofy fratboy activities even while he's in a relationship with Annie, etc.
* ManChild: Ryan. He's well into his 30's or 40's but dresses like a child, still lives with his mother, is unable to keep a steady job, continues to engage in goofy fratboy activities even while he's in a relationship with Annie, etc.
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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Annie delivers a blunt one to Ryan when she breaks up with him at the end of Season Two. Citing the lingering emotional damage done by his earlier treatment of her, her constant need to parent him, and the bitter fact that she was basically just settling for him out of fear that she wouldn't be able to do better because of her weight.
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* RealityEnsues: Annie quits her job at the Thorn to get back at her BadBoss Gabe, but she can't find work. Although she is a pretty respected writer, she can only get offers for an "internship".
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* BlackBestFriend: Fran is a well-developed version of this trope, as she isn't a SatelliteCharacter and her own mind and dating life.
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* BlackBestFriend: BlackBestFriend:
** Fran is a well-developed version of this trope, as she isn't a SatelliteCharacter and her own mind and dating life.
** Annie's "work husband", Amadi, is a straight example (and not just because [[IncrediblyLamePun he ''is'' straight]]), although she and Fran are closer and they live together. Amani, on the other hand, is mostly seen through his and Annie's work and we learn very little about his life.
** Fran is a well-developed version of this trope, as she isn't a SatelliteCharacter and her own mind and dating life.
** Annie's "work husband", Amadi, is a straight example (and not just because [[IncrediblyLamePun he ''is'' straight]]), although she and Fran are closer and they live together. Amani, on the other hand, is mostly seen through his and Annie's work and we learn very little about his life.
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* EthicalSlut: The strippers that Annie meets encourage her to go after what she wants in life and relationships because she has a "fat ass and big titties" and she should be telling men what to do.
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* EthicalSlut: EthicalSlut:
** The strippers that Annie meets encourage her to go after what she wants in life and relationships because she has a "fat ass and big titties" and she should be telling men what todo.do.
** Discussed, rather than played straight, in Season 2. Fran ReallyGetsAround and struggles to be monogamous, but she's very upset when she learns that her onetime girlfriend, Vic, also has a steady boyfriend.
** The strippers that Annie meets encourage her to go after what she wants in life and relationships because she has a "fat ass and big titties" and she should be telling men what to
** Discussed, rather than played straight, in Season 2. Fran ReallyGetsAround and struggles to be monogamous, but she's very upset when she learns that her onetime girlfriend, Vic, also has a steady boyfriend.
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* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: Based on writer Lindy West's memoir, ''Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman''.
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* DidYouThinkICantFeel: Annie's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KU9jolIqxc "Mind Prison" speech]] is full of this after she rants and cries to Fran and her partner about how hurt she is by her boss's comments about "the obesity epidemic" and how she has been reminded everyday that she would not be seen as lovable unless she was thin enough is this.
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* BigBeautifulWoman: While there are a variety of large women of varying levels of beauty like the very cute Annie and the sexy Fran and all the plus-sized bathing beauties at the Fat Babe Pool Party, the one that stands out the most is a big, blonde, and beautiful woman in a [[LadyInRed red dress]]who by her example teaches Annie to cross the street without apology.
* BlackBestFriend: Fran is a well-developed version of this trope, as she isn't a SatelliteCharacter and her own mind and dating life.
* BrainyBrunette: Brown-haired Annie is a writer and Fran is dark-haired woman with a witty tongue.
* BumblingDad: Deconstructed with Annie's Dad, who is a goofy man and relies on his wife to run the household, but when Annie lashes out at her mother [[WhatTheHellHero he really tells her off about how self-centered she can be while her Mother hardly puts herself first]].
* EthicalSlut: The strippers that Annie meets encourage her to go after what she wants in life and relationships because she has a "fat ass and big titties" and she should be telling men what to do.
* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: Averted. Annie takes the Morning After Pill and after it is revealed to not work, she goes to have an abortion and it is treated as a non-issue.
* MyBelovedSmother: Deconstructed with Annie's Mom, while she does push Annie to diet to lose weight and can stand to back away, she is not painted as a one-note gorgon and instead as a complex person with feelings.
* BlackBestFriend: Fran is a well-developed version of this trope, as she isn't a SatelliteCharacter and her own mind and dating life.
* BrainyBrunette: Brown-haired Annie is a writer and Fran is dark-haired woman with a witty tongue.
* BumblingDad: Deconstructed with Annie's Dad, who is a goofy man and relies on his wife to run the household, but when Annie lashes out at her mother [[WhatTheHellHero he really tells her off about how self-centered she can be while her Mother hardly puts herself first]].
* EthicalSlut: The strippers that Annie meets encourage her to go after what she wants in life and relationships because she has a "fat ass and big titties" and she should be telling men what to do.
* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: Averted. Annie takes the Morning After Pill and after it is revealed to not work, she goes to have an abortion and it is treated as a non-issue.
* MyBelovedSmother: Deconstructed with Annie's Mom, while she does push Annie to diet to lose weight and can stand to back away, she is not painted as a one-note gorgon and instead as a complex person with feelings.
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* WhatDoesSheSeeInHim: Ryan, Annie's boyfriend. He is mediocre, doesn't have a job, very lazy, has only one pillow, insists on having sex without a condom, and makes Annie sneak out the back after she spends the night so his roommates don't see her.
* YouAreFat: The show explores how hard it is for a fat woman like Annie, where it even turns out she is too overweight for the morning after pill! She lives in a society where even random strangers feel entitled to commenting on her body.
* YouAreFat: The show explores how hard it is for a fat woman like Annie, where it even turns out she is too overweight for the morning after pill! She lives in a society where even random strangers feel entitled to commenting on her body.
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Annie, described as a fat young woman who wants to change her life — but not her body. Annie is trying to make it as a journalist while juggling bad boyfriends, sick parents and a perfectionist boss, while the world around her deems her not good enough because of her weight. She starts to realize that she’s as good as anyone else, and acts on it.
It stars ''Actor/{{Aidy Bryant}}'' as the main character Annie.
It stars ''Actor/{{Aidy Bryant}}'' as the main character Annie.
