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* TheOner: Aside from a few brief scenes at the start, the episode ''Review'' is one long shot. According to star Jeremy Allen White, it was done with "no cheating".

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Aside from a few brief scenes at the start, the episode ''Review'' is one long shot. According to star Jeremy Allen White, it was done with "no cheating".cheating".
** Approximately the first ten minutes of the Season 2 finale "The Bear", from Sydney running orders to [[spoiler:Carm getting stuck in the walk-in fridge]] are one long-take.
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* EurekaMoment: While struggling to fix the Bear's fire suppression system to pass a critical test, Fak sees a scorched picture of Mikey and has a sudden realization; Mikey once bypassed the suppression system when trying to burn the restaurant down for the insurance. Fak is able to reactivate it and they pass the test.

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* EurekaMoment: While struggling to fix the The Bear's fire suppression system to pass a critical test, Fak sees a scorched picture of Mikey and has a sudden realization; Mikey once bypassed the suppression system when trying to burn the restaurant down for the insurance. Fak is able to reactivate it and they pass the test.



* MeaningfulRename: [[spoiler: At the end of ''Braciole'', Carmy decides to rename the Beef to [[TitleDrop the Bear]]]]. It is heavily implied this is what he and Mikey had talked about calling their own place when they were younger.

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* MeaningfulRename: [[spoiler: At the end of ''Braciole'', Carmy decides to rename the Beef to [[TitleDrop the The Bear]]]]. It is heavily implied this is what he and Mikey had talked about calling their own place when they were younger.



** The opening of ''System'' sees Carmy trying to approach a bear in the middle of bridge. The bear slowly approaches him at first, then it bears its teeth and lunges after him. He immediately jolts awake before the dream finishes.

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** The opening of ''System'' sees Carmy trying to approach a bear in the middle of bridge. The bear slowly approaches him at first, then it bears its teeth and lunges after him. He immediately jolts awake before the dream finishes.we can see what happens next.

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* InheritanceBacklash: Carmy inherited the Beef from Mikey, so he left his job at one of the best restaurants in the country to run a failing sandwich shop with mountains of debt. However, [[spoiler: Mikey had clearly been planning for a change for some time, saving up hundreds of thousands of dollars, leaving it for Carmy to find to change the restaurant).]] It's made clear that Carmy has a choice to not run the restaurant -- Cicero clearly wants to buy it -- but he refuses because the restaurant means a lot to him and the others.



* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: Almost all of the episode titles are {{One Word Title}}s, with the only exception so far being the second season's finale ''The Bear''. In addition, all of the titles are [[TitleDrop name-dropped]] somewhere within the episode, either verbally by way of the characters or visually through key items.
* InheritanceBacklash: Carmy inherited the Beef from Mikey, so he left his job at one of the best restaurants in the country to run a failing sandwich shop with mountains of debt. However, [[spoiler: Mikey had clearly been planning for a change for some time, saving up hundreds of thousands of dollars, leaving it for Carmy to find to change the restaurant).]] It's made clear that Carmy has a choice to not run the restaurant -- Cicero clearly wants to buy it -- but he refuses because the restaurant means a lot to him and the others.



* LighterAndSofter: Season 2, but this is entirely by design. The cast has learned from the previous season and a number of them TookALevelInBadass; one episode focuses on a character being taught in Europe; another focuses on a character getting a job at a prestigious fine dining establishment. The only truly stressful episodes are Episodes 6 and 10, the former being a flashback episode and the latter being centered around a launch.

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* LighterAndSofter: Season 2, but this is entirely by design. The cast has learned from the previous season and a number of them TookALevelInBadass; one episode focuses on a character being taught in Europe; another focuses on a character getting a job at a prestigious fine dining establishment. The season also features more obviously humorous moments, usually revolving around the characters' antics clashing with The Bear's launch. The only truly stressful episodes are Episodes 6 and 10, with the former being a flashback episode and the latter being centered around a launch.



* PosthumousCharacter: Carmy's brother, Mikey, died, leaving him the restaurant. Everyone in the cast -- from the restaurant workers to their friends and family -- are ''still'' working through their grief, heartbreakingly so. [[spoiler: Almost classifies as TheGhost, although we end up seeing him in some flashbacks.]]

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* PosthumousCharacter: Carmy's brother, Mikey, died, leaving him the restaurant. Everyone in the cast -- from the restaurant workers to their friends and family -- are ''still'' working through their grief, heartbreakingly so. [[spoiler: Almost He almost classifies as TheGhost, although we end up seeing him in some flashbacks.]]flashbacks, most prominently in ''Ceres'' and ''Fishes''.



* WholeEpisodeFlashback: "Fishes" is set five years earlier, during a Berzatto family Christmas that goes spectacularly off-the-rails. The only regulars who appear are Carmy, Ritchie and Sugar, and its notable for being the longest appearance of Jon Bernthal as Mikey and the introduction of Jamie Lee Curtis as Donna, the Berzatto matriarch.

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* WholeEpisodeFlashback: "Fishes" is set five years earlier, during a Berzatto family Christmas that goes spectacularly off-the-rails. The only regulars who appear are Carmy, Ritchie and Sugar, Natalie, and its notable for being the longest appearance of Jon Bernthal Creator/JonBernthal as Mikey and the introduction of Jamie Lee Curtis Creator/JamieLeeCurtis as Donna, the Berzatto matriarch.
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* OneShotCharacter: Creator/WillPoulter as Luca in Season 2 Episode 4.

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* ArcWords: For season 2: "Every second counts."



* BottleEpisode: Episode 7 is filmed in a long take in the BOH.

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* BottleEpisode: Aside from the opening, most of Episode 7 is filmed in a long take in the BOH.



* FamilyOfChoice: Carmen and Richie aren't related by blood but refer to each other as "cousin" as a sign of how close they are. In a way, the whole restaurant is this -- they have a tiny staff of 9 people (10 if you count Fak) which means they all work all day, every day seeing each other probably more than they see anyone else. The restaurant is a terrible place to work at first (and is implied to have been the same under Mikey) yet they choose to stay, partly because some of them have nowhere else to go and to cement this point, they have family meals together, often bonding over the food.

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In a way, the whole restaurant is this -- they have a tiny staff of 9 people (10 if you count Fak) which means they all work all day, every day seeing each other probably more than they see anyone else. The restaurant is a terrible place to work at first (and is implied to have been the same under Mikey) yet they choose to stay, partly because some of them have nowhere else to go and to cement this point, they point. They have near-daily family meals together, often bonding over the food.



* HonorBeforeReason: the restaurant where Carmy sends Richie to stage is collectively ''obsessed'' with providing a perfect dining experience, to the point they'll even forego the check if it means ensuring the customer is happy. It still works out for them because they have an endless supply of reservations and word-of-mouth advertising.

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* HonorBeforeReason: the The restaurant where Carmy sends Richie to stage is collectively ''obsessed'' with providing a perfect dining experience, to the point they'll even forego the check if it means ensuring the customer is happy. It still works out for them because they have an endless supply of reservations and word-of-mouth advertising.



* LetsSplitUpGang: In season 2, Carmy sends Tina, Ebrahim, Marcus and Ritchie off to get more culinary experience, to prepare for the opening of The Bear. Tina and Ebrahim enroll in culinary school, Marcus ''stages'' with a former colleague of Carmy's in Copenhagen, and Ritchie ''stages'' with the wait staff at a high-end restaurant in Chicago run by Carmy's former boss.

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* LetsSplitUpGang: In season 2, Carmy sends Tina, Ebrahim, Ebraheim, Marcus and Ritchie off to get more culinary experience, to prepare for the opening of The Bear. Tina and Ebrahim enroll in culinary school, Marcus ''stages'' with a former colleague of Carmy's in Copenhagen, and Ritchie ''stages'' with the wait staff at a high-end restaurant in Chicago run by Carmy's former boss.



* NightmareSequence: ''Braciole'' opens with Carmy dreaming he works on a cooking show called ''The Bear'' that is very PBS style with bright colors and a studio audience. However, he quickly relates the story of Mike's suicide, which is a CallBack to the opening of episode 1 (when Carmy dreamt of a bear on a bridge -- the bridge Mike killed himself on), and talks about how he feels the restaurant going to him was a fuck you from Mike. Soon, his utensils disappear, he burns himself on a mysteriously hot pot, and calls out for his brother while flashbacks of the last episode, jagged static, and bear behind the camera all intrude on his dream. It eventually [[CatapultNightmare jolts him out of sleep]] and his brother's voice continues to haunt him after he is awake.

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* NightmareSequence: Carmy has a number of these throughout season 1 as a result of his unresolved trauma.
** The opening of ''System'' sees Carmy trying to approach a bear in the middle of bridge. The bear slowly approaches him at first, then it bears its teeth and lunges after him. He immediately jolts awake before the dream finishes.
** ''Hands'' has one where Carmy is seen cooking while giving out orders, trying to keep up with the demand of the printer. Then the printer goes from orders to self-deprecating messages, while flashbacks to his days in a professional kitchen and prior episode's events intersperse with the dream's events. He wakes up when he nearly sets fire to his apartment by cooking random items in his kitchen.
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''Braciole'' opens with Carmy dreaming he works on a cooking show called ''The Bear'' that is very PBS style with bright colors and a studio audience. However, he quickly relates the story of Mike's suicide, which is a CallBack to the opening of episode 1 (when Carmy dreamt of a bear on a bridge -- the bridge Mike killed himself on), and talks about how he feels the restaurant going to him was a fuck you from Mike. Soon, his utensils disappear, he burns himself on a mysteriously hot pot, and calls out for his brother while flashbacks of the last episode, jagged static, and bear behind the camera all intrude on his dream. It eventually [[CatapultNightmare jolts him out of sleep]] and his brother's voice continues to haunt him after he is awake.



* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Carmy. He's stern and can be abrasive, but he understands that the Beef staff is very different from what he's used to and is working on helping them improve.

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Carmy. He's stern and can be abrasive, but he understands that the Beef staff is very different from what he's used to and is working on helping them improve.



* SirSwearsALot: Pretty much every character in the show swears like crazy, with Carmy and Richie being the worst offenders.



* TookALevelInBadass: Downplayed, but Sydney becomes noticeably more confident as the series goes on, and is fully capable of going toe-to-toe with Richie in a heated argument.

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Downplayed, but Sydney becomes noticeably more confident as the series first season goes on, and is fully capable of going toe-to-toe with Richie in a heated argument.



* VerbalTic: Carmen addresses everyone in the kitchen as "chef" both as a sign of respect and out of habit from his former profession as a fine-dining ''chef de cuisine''. Like his mean boss before him, he also sometimes uses "Yes Chef" as a prompt to get that same response back from someone he's talking to, as a way to indicate they are supposed to just agree and listen, not actually talk back.

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Carmen addresses everyone in the kitchen as "chef" both as a sign of respect and out of habit from his former profession as a fine-dining ''chef de cuisine''. Like his mean boss before him, he also sometimes uses "Yes Chef" as a prompt to get that same response back from someone he's talking to, as a way to indicate they are supposed to just agree and listen, not actually talk back.
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* FreudianTrio: Throughout season one, we see the hot-tempered but street smart Richie (the Id) clash with the formally trained but less personable Sydney (the Superego), with Carmy functioning as the Ego in between them due to a personal background similar to Richie's and a professional background similar to Sydney's.
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** Throughout season 2, other characters keep asking Carmy to call a repairman to fix the restaurant's refrigerator, only for him to get distracted and push it back each time. [[spoiler: This comes back bite him in the finale, when the fridge handle breaks and Carmy gets stuck inside during The Bear's soft opening.]]

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** Throughout season 2, other characters keep asking Carmy to call a repairman to fix the restaurant's refrigerator, only for him to get distracted and push it back each time. [[spoiler: This comes back to bite him in the finale, when the fridge handle breaks and Carmy gets stuck inside during The Bear's soft opening.]]

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* ChekhovsGun: Throughout season 2, other characters keep asking Carmy to call a repairman to fix the restaurant's refrigerator, only for him to get distracted and push it back each time. [[spoiler: This comes back bite him in the finale, when the fridge handle breaks and Carmy gets stuck inside during The Bear's soft opening.]]


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** Throughout season 2, other characters keep asking Carmy to call a repairman to fix the restaurant's refrigerator, only for him to get distracted and push it back each time. [[spoiler: This comes back bite him in the finale, when the fridge handle breaks and Carmy gets stuck inside during The Bear's soft opening.]]
** Early in season 2, Richie reveals that Mikey once hit such a low point that he tried to burn down The Beef for insurance money. As the renovations proceed, the restaurant keeps failing its fire suppression tests and Fak is stumped on what is going on. He finally has a EurekaMoment when he remembers the arson story and realizes that Mikey must have sabotaged the fire suppression system's control unit and never got around to repair it after the arson scheme failed.
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* ChekhovsGun: Throughout season 2, other characters keep asking Carmy to call a repairman to fix the restaurant's refrigerator, only for him to get distracted and push it back each time. [[spoiler: This comes back bite him in the finale, when the fridge handle breaks and Carmy gets stuck inside during The Bear's soft opening.]]
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* NoOSHACompliance: In season 2, the attempt to transform The Beef into The Bear hits serious snags when the restaurant has to be re-certified and serious health and safety issues are discovered in the building. When they take down some of the drywall, what they discover there is enough for them to consider the building a biohazard till they knock down all the interior walls and do a huge deep clean on the entire building. When they keep failing the fire safety tests, they discover that the fire suppression system has been sabotaged and has not worked for a very long time.
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* HonorBeforeReason: the restaurant where Carmy sends Richie to stage is collectively ''obsessed'' with providing a perfect dining experience, to the point they'll even forego the check if it means ensuring the customer is happy. It still works out for them because they have an endless supply of reservations and word-of-mouth advertising.
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* BigScrewedUpFamily: "Fishes" is a flashback episode revealing the entire Berzatto clan is a mess of neuroses, addiction issues, mental health problems, and a breathtaking lack of anger management, culminating in Mikey almost coming to blows with his mom's partner and matriarch Donna crashing her car into the family living room.
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* EurekaMoment: While struggling to fix the Bear's fire suppression system to pass a critical test, Fak sees a scorched picture of Mikey and has a sudden realization; Mikey once bypassed the suppression system when trying to burn the restaurant down for the insurance. Fak is able to reactivate it and they pass the test.
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* TruthInTelevision: Carmy's flashbacks to his time in culinary school show his instructor treating him and his colleagues as ''subhuman,'' expecting complete and utter submission in the face of nonstop verbal abuse. Sadly, this exemplifies the [[https://www.hawaii.edu/news/2023/05/17/abuse-baked-into-restaurant-industry/ well-known]], real-world problem for professional chefs, who are subjected to verbal or even physical abuse because it's seen as inherent to the position--"If you can't take the heat, get out of the kitchen."
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* SliceOfLife: The show runs hard on showing the many real-life struggles and details of running (and renovating) a restaurant, especially one packed with people dealing with their own personal and family issues.
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* LetsSplitUpGang: In season 2, Carmy sends Tina, Ebrahim, Marcus and Ritchie off to get more culinary experience, to prepare for the opening of The Bear. Tina and Ebrahim enroll in culinary school, Marcus ''stages'' with a former colleague of Carmy's in Copenhagen, and Ritchie ''stages'' with the wait staff at a high-end restaurant in Chicago run by Carmy's former boss.
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* WholeEpisodeFlashback: "Fishes" is set five years earlier, during a Berzatto family Christmas that goes spectacurlarly off-the-rails. The only regulars who appear are Carmy, Ritchie and Sugar, and its notable for being the longest appearance of Jon Bernthal as Mikey and the introduction of Jamie Lee Curtis as Donna, the Berzatto matriarch.

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* WholeEpisodeFlashback: "Fishes" is set five years earlier, during a Berzatto family Christmas that goes spectacurlarly spectacularly off-the-rails. The only regulars who appear are Carmy, Ritchie and Sugar, and its notable for being the longest appearance of Jon Bernthal as Mikey and the introduction of Jamie Lee Curtis as Donna, the Berzatto matriarch.
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** In a funny play on this, Tina first mishears this as "Jeff", and thereafter frequently refers to Carmy as "Jeff".

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** In a funny play on this, Tina first mishears this as "Jeff", and thereafter frequently refers to Carmy as "Jeff".
"Jeff" and occasionally "Jeffrey".
* WholeEpisodeFlashback: "Fishes" is set five years earlier, during a Berzatto family Christmas that goes spectacurlarly off-the-rails. The only regulars who appear are Carmy, Ritchie and Sugar, and its notable for being the longest appearance of Jon Bernthal as Mikey and the introduction of Jamie Lee Curtis as Donna, the Berzatto matriarch.
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* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Richie in season 2. [[spoiler: Goes from being a foul mouthed dumbass to working at a fine dining establishment, learning so many tricks of the trade and becoming a bona-fide fine dining professional.

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* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Richie in season 2. [[spoiler: Goes from being a foul mouthed dumbass to working at a fine dining establishment, learning so many tricks of the trade and becoming a bona-fide fine dining professional. ]]
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* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Richie in season 2. [[spoiler: Goes from being a foul mouthed dumbass to working at a fine dining establishment, learning so many tricks of the trade and becoming a bona-fide fine dining professional.
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** Season 2 is basically a whole season of this trope. [[spoiler: Carmy helms a whole renovation and relaunch of The Beef as a new, hot dining establishment known as The Bear. Sydney becomes far more of a leader in the kitchen. Richie gets a job at a sophisticated fine dining establishment and comes out of it a changed man with far more maturity and a better understanding of what makes a fine night out in Chicago. Marcus is trained in Europe by a world class fine dining chef. Tina is trusted as a leader in the kitchen and leads the kitchen with TONS of confidence.]]
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* LighterAndSofter: Season 2, but this is entirely by design. The cast has learned from the previous season and a number of them TookALevelInBadass; one episode focuses on a character being taught in Europe; another focuses on a character getting a job at a prestigious fine dining establishment. The inly truly stressful episodes are Episodes 6 and 10, the former being a flashback episode and the latter being centered around a launch.

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* LighterAndSofter: Season 2, but this is entirely by design. The cast has learned from the previous season and a number of them TookALevelInBadass; one episode focuses on a character being taught in Europe; another focuses on a character getting a job at a prestigious fine dining establishment. The inly only truly stressful episodes are Episodes 6 and 10, the former being a flashback episode and the latter being centered around a launch.
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* LighterAndSofter: Season 2, but this is entirely by design, in a combination with GrowingTheBeard. The cast has learned from the previous season and a number of them TookALevelInBadass; one episode focuses on a character being taught in Europe; another focuses on a character getting a job at a prestigious fine dining establishment. The inly truly stressful episodes are Episodes 6 and 10, the former being a flashback episode and the latter being centered around a launch.

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* LighterAndSofter: Season 2, but this is entirely by design, in a combination with GrowingTheBeard.design. The cast has learned from the previous season and a number of them TookALevelInBadass; one episode focuses on a character being taught in Europe; another focuses on a character getting a job at a prestigious fine dining establishment. The inly truly stressful episodes are Episodes 6 and 10, the former being a flashback episode and the latter being centered around a launch.
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* LighterAndSofter: Season 2, but this is entirely by design, in a combination with GrowingTheBeard. The cast has learned from the previous season and a number of them TookALevelInBadass; one episode focuses on a character being taught in Europe; another focuses on a character getting a job at a prestigious fine dining establishment. The inly truly stressful episodes are Episodes 6 and 10, the former being a flashback episode and the latter being centered around a launch.
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* EpicRiff: The useage of the intro to "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJa3eUczYaM New Noise]]" by {{Music/Refused}} is meant to mark an important event happening.
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* ClusterFBomb: Every episode is absolutely ''filled'' with almost every imaginable profanity, but especially the word "fuck"- which, if you've worked in a kitchen, you'd know is ''[[TruthInTelevision VERY accurate]]''. The first season alone has a whopping 403 uses of the word "fuck" across all 8 episodes.

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* ClusterFBomb: Every episode is absolutely ''filled'' with almost every imaginable profanity, but especially the word "fuck"- which, if you've worked in a kitchen, you'd know is ''[[TruthInTelevision VERY accurate]]''. The first season alone accurate]]''.
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has a whopping 403 uses of the word "fuck" across all 8 episodes.episodes.
** Season 2 has ''578'' uses of the word "fuck", with an impressive 192 of them coming from episode 6, "Fishes", and 123 in episode 10 "The Bear".
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* WhamEpisode: "Review" ends with both [[spoiler:Sydney and Marcus quitting their jobs after a high stress situation caused by trying to implement delivery services.]]


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* CallBack: In ''System'' Richie complains about Carmy not making spaghetti. Later in ''Braciole'', [[spoiler: the last note Mikey left for Carmy turns out to contain a spaghetti recipe. When Carmy tries out the recipe, he discovers that Mikey hid stacks of cash in the tomato sauce]].

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* CallBack: In ''System'' "System," Richie complains about Carmy not making spaghetti. Later Later, in ''Braciole'', the Season 1 finale "Braciole," [[spoiler: the last note Mikey left for Carmy turns out to contain a spaghetti recipe. When recipe that suggests using small cans of tomatoes. Carmy tries out and the recipe, he discovers that Mikey hid stacks of staff open all the cans they have in stock and find cash hidden in the tomato sauce]]. all of them]].
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''The Bear'' is an Creator/FXNetworks {{Dramedy}} created by Christopher Storer. It stars Jeremy Allen White, Creator/EbonMossBachrach, Ayo Edebiri, Lionel Boyce, Liza Colón-Zayas, and Creator/AbbyElliott.

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''The Bear'' is an Creator/FXNetworks {{Dramedy}} created by Christopher Storer. It stars Jeremy Allen White, Creator/EbonMossBachrach, Ayo Edebiri, Creator/AyoEdebiri, Lionel Boyce, Liza Colón-Zayas, and Creator/AbbyElliott.

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