History Series / StateOfGrace

* MistakenForRacist: Grandma Ida gets hit with this. No one in the family is available to take her on errands, so Tattie volunteers her Black chauffeur Greer. Ida adamantly refuses to accept rides from him because she feels uncomfortable with the socioeconomic implications, but Greer assumes she's racist. Thankfully, this gets cleared up when both Ida and Greer end up waiting for Evelyn to get ready for a drive. They share a cup of coffee and discuss the similarities between being Black and Jewish in oppressive environments. It becomes a HeartwarmingMoment.

* YouKnowImBlackRight: After Grandma Kiki tells a racist story in front of Hannah, not knowing she's Jewish, Tattie pulls Grandma aside and reams her out for it; then Grandma makes comments about how she thought Hannah was Black Irish and how "kinky" her hair is in front of the black family maid Cookie, who is very shocked.

* DangerouslyShortSkirt: This became the epicenter of a controversy at Hannah and Grace's Catholic girls' school. SternNun Sister Winters, who according to Hannah was "obsessed with legs and her belief that no one should see them," did not want the girls to wear hemlines above their knees. This resulted in an order being handed down from Mother Superior that the girls wear uniforms. However, [[spoiler: Hannah started a protest in order to get Grace, who had been suspended for her refusal to dress as Sister Winters wanted, back in school. At an assembly, Hannah signals for all the girls to raise the hemlines of their uniform skirts, and then explains to Mother Superior that having all the girls dress the same goes against the school's mission of nurturing "young ladies of distinction." The Mother Superior agrees, and though the girls still have to wear uniforms, she institutes Casual Friday.]]

* CinderellaCircumstances: Grace fears having to endure this when [[spoiler: Tattie announces her intention to marry beau Tommy Austin in season two.]]

Tropes include:

* CivilRightsMovement: A couple of episodes mention it. One has part of Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech in it, and another episode features Hannah and Grace observing, then deriding, a teenager's mistreatment of a colleague with an intellectually disability at a burger joint.

* TheVietnamWar: The episode "Fortunate Son" of season two featured it, when Grace's gardener Greer's son went off to fight.

''State of Grace'' was a show that aired on Creator/ABCFamily from 2001-2002. It concerned the friendship of Grace [=McKee=] and Hannah Rayburn (Creator/MaeWhitman and [[Series/ArrestedDevelopment Alia Shawkat]]), two twelve-year-old girls coming of age in TheSixties (1965-66, to be exact). Grace is a blonde, Southern Catholic girl. Hannah, who moved with her family from Chicago to Grace's fictitious town of Ashmore, North Carolina, is a brunette Jewish Yankee. The series centered on the comic and tragic moments of their friendship and family lives in a similar format to The Wonder Years.

State of Grace was a show that aired on ABC Family (then Fox Family) from 2001-2002. It concerned the friendship of Grace [=McKee=] and Hannah Rayburn (Creator/MaeWhitman and [[Series/ArrestedDevelopment Alia Shawkat]]), two twelve-year-old girls coming of age in TheSixties (1965-66, to be exact). Grace is a blonde, Southern Catholic girl. Hannah, who moved with her family from Chicago to Grace's fictitious town of Ashmore, North Carolina, is a brunette Jewish Yankee. The series centered on the comic and tragic moments of their friendship and family lives in a similar format to The Wonder Years.

State of Grace was a show that aired on ABC Family (then Fox Family) from 2001-2002. It concerned the friendship of Grace [=McKee=] and Hannah Rayburn, two twelve-year-old girls coming of age in TheSixties (1965-66, to be exact). Grace is a blonde, Southern Catholic girl. Hannah, who moved with her family from Chicago to Grace's fictitious town of Ashmore, North Carolina, is a brunette Jewish Yankee. The series centered on the comic and tragic moments of their friendship and family lives in a similar format to The Wonder Years.

* HeyItsThatVoice: Frances [=McDormand=] voices Adult Hannah.

* YouKnowImBlackRight: After Grandma Kiki tells a racist story in front of Hannah, not knowing she's Jewish, Tattie pulls Grandma aside and reams her out for it.

* HeyIt'sThatVoice: Frances McDormand voices Adult Hannah.

State of Grace was a show that aired on ABC Family (then Fox Family) from 2001-2002. It concerned the friendship of Grace McKee and Hannah Rayburn, two twelve-year-old girls coming of age in TheSixties (1965-66, to be exact). Grace is a blonde, Southern Catholic girl. Hannah, who moved with her family from Chicago to Grace's fictitious town of Ashmore, North Carolina, is a brunette Jewish Yankee. The series centered on the comic and tragic moments of their friendship and family lives in a similar format to The Wonder Years.

State of Grace was a show that aired on ABC Family (then Fox Family) from 2001-2002. It concerned the friendship of Grace McKee and Hannah Rayburn, two twelve-year-old girls coming of age in * The Sixties (1965-66, to be exact). Grace is a blonde, Southern Catholic girl. Hannah, who moved with her family from Chicago to Grace's fictitious town of Ashmore, North Carolina, is a brunette Jewish Yankee. The series centered on the comic and tragic moments of their friendship and family lives in a similar format to The Wonder Years.

* DaddyDidn'tShow: This happens to Hannah when her dad doesn't show up for a father-daughter pancake breakfast at school. To make it even worse, the first time she mentions it, he thinks the breakfast already happened and he forgot. When Hannah clarifies, Dad promises to come--only to get so wrapped up in furniture design that he falls asleep at his desk and misses the event. The irony is, he was working on a line of children's furniture named for Hannah.
* DangerouslyShortSkirt: This became the epicenter of a controversy at Hannah and Grace's Catholic girls' school. * SternNun Sister Winters, who according to Hannah was "obsessed with legs and her belief that no one should see them," did not want the girls to wear hemlines above their knees. This resulted in an order being handed down from Mother Superior that the girls wear uniforms. However, [[spoiler: Hannah started a protest in order to get Grace, who had been suspended for her refusal to dress as Sister Winters wanted, back in school. At an assembly, Hannah signals for all the girls to raise the hemlines of their uniform skirts, and then explains to Mother Superior that having all the girls dress the same goes against the school's mission of nurturing "young ladies of distinction." The Mother Superior agrees, and though the girls still have to wear uniforms, she institutes Casual Friday.]]

* HollywoodPudgy: One episode had Hannah's mom concerned about her weight, which was ironic considering she wasn't fat, then or for the rest of the show.

* Standard50sFather: David Rayburn, Hannah's dad, whose major way of showing love to his family seems to be providing for them. It's worth noting, though, that he doesn't fit all the characteristics. For example, he was never a veteran, but he was [[spoiler: a Holocaust survivor]].

* UncannyValley: Occurs when Walker brings home a college classmate, Hillary, who looks remarkably like Hannah. Grace and Hannah speculate that this is Walker's Freudian way of dealing with an attraction to Hannah; it turns out that [[spoiler: Hillary is Walker's girlfriend. When Hannah finds out, she gets so upset she runs through the park, trips, and sprains her ankle, ending up in the emergency room. But she did end up in Walker's arms in the process.]]

* DangerouslyShortSkirt: This became the epicenter of a controversy at Hannah and Grace's Catholic girls' school. * SternNun Sister Winters, who according to Hannah was "obsessed with legs and her belief that no one should see them," did not want the girls to wear hemlines above their knees. This resulted in an order being handed down from Mother Superior that the girls wear uniforms. However, [[spoiler: Hannah started a protest in order to get Grace, who had been suspended for her refusal to dress as Sister Winters wanted, back in school. At an assembly, Hannah signals for all the girls to raise the hemlines of their uniform skirts, and then explains to Mother Superior that having all the girls dress the same goes against the school's mission of nurturing "young ladies of distinction." The Mother Superior agrees, and though the girls still have to wear uniforms, she institutes Casual Friday.]]

* MamaBear: Tattie. Do not EVER mess with Grace around her. Hannah sort of becomes this with Grace, when [[spoiler: she's the only one there to sit with her friend after an emergency appendectomy, and the nurse tries to keep Hannah out of the hospital room.]] Grandma Ida can be this as well.

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Grace gives one to Sister Winters over her insistence on ultra-conservative dress at school. In another episode, she hands one to [[spoiler: Grandma Kiki, over her prejudice against Jewish people.]]

* DeadpanSnarker: Adult Hannah has her moments.
* DiscreetDiningDisposal: The ladies in a book club Hannah's mother attends do this with Grandma Ida's kishka, which is a dish of cow intestine, stuffed with herbs and spices.

* IAteWhat: The book club ladies have a downplayed version of this reaction when Hannah's mother explains what kishka actually is. Hannah has a similar reaction when, on her first day at her new school, she's pressured into eating ham despite her family's keeping kosher, and [[spoiler: vomits.]]

* TheVietnamWar: The episode "Fortunate Son" of season two featured it, when Grace's gardener Greer's son went off to fight.

* IAteWHAT?: The book club ladies have a downplayed version of this reaction when Hannah's mother explains what kishka actually is. Hannah has a similar reaction when, on her first day at her new school, she's pressured into eating ham despite her family's keeping kosher, and [[spoiler: vomits.]]

* YouKnowI'mBlackRight?: After Grandma Kiki tells a racist story in front of Hannah, not knowing she's Jewish, Tattie pulls Grandma aside and reams her out for it.

* MissingMom: Her mother's constant travel in season two sometimes had Hannah feeling she possessed one of these.

* AllGirlsLikeBadBoys: Hannah has a crush on Grace's older half-brother, Walker, who's a known troublemaker.

* The"ReasonYouSuck"Speech: Grace gives one to Sister Winters over her insistence on ultra-conservative dress at school. In another episode, she hands one to [[spoiler: Grandma Kiki, over her prejudice against Jewish people.]]

* MyBelovedSmother: Hannah's mother. On Hannah's first day at her new school, Mom sent her in with a bunch of notes explaining exactly what she wasn't allowed to do or eat. [[Spoiler: Hannah is pressured to ignore the notes; they end up floating in a pool.]]

* AlterKocher: Hannah's maternal grandma, Grandma Ida, who lives with the family, is Russian Jewish. She has a typical Yiddish accent and uses Yiddish colloquialisms from time to time.

* Hey,It'sThatVoice: Frances McDormand plays Adult Hannah.

* RacistGrandma: Grace's Grandma Kiki, Tattie's mother, who openly expresses her prejudice against Jews and causes a rift in Grace and Hannah's friendship. [[Spoiler: Grace blows her top at Grandma and threatens to move in with Hannah and convert to Judaism, but Tattie helps fix things when she stands up to Kiki.]]

* ThereAreNoTherapists: Played straight when Hannah discusses some parts of the sixties, before modern theories of parenting existed. Subverted when Tattie goes to a psychiatrist because it's a fad, then decides she doesn't need him.