History Series / Undercovers

* ButNotTooBlack: The two leads are both mixed race and have very fair complexions.

* TheResolutionWillNotBeTelevised: Though episodes were still airing after the cancellation was announced NBC has held back on airing the season/series finale in the US. Instead, they were aired in Australia ''over a year'' later. US viewers were out of luck until the entire season finally came out on some streaming platforms.

* ActionGirl
* [[EvilCounterpart Amoral Counterparts]]: In "Not Without My Daughter" Steven and Samantha run into a married couple of spies from the DSGE who are willing to hold a defecting North Korean physicist's daughter as collateral to secure an important piece of tech (and would have killed father and daughter both, as well, had they gotten what they wanted).

* AscendedFanboy: Hoyt.
* BattleCouple

* [[GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex Good People Have Good Sexpionage]]
* HappilyMarried

* MrFanservice: Unavoidable when your male lead is Boris Kodjoe.

* SpyFiction: Martini flavored.
* StockScream: Used in the pilot.

* BlackBestFriend: Inverted, for obvious reasons.

''Undercovers'' is a lighthearted espionage drama from Creator/JJAbrams and co-creator Josh Reims. Word from Creator/{{NBC}} is that it will avert the NoughtiesDramaSeries formula of Abrams shows like ''Series/{{Alias}}'', ''Series/{{Lost}}'' and increasingly ''Series/{{Fringe}}'', concentrating on self-contained episodes.

* [[EvilCounterpart Amoral Counterparts]]: In "Not Without My Daughter" Steven and Samantha run into a married couple of spies from the DSGE who are willing to hold a defecting North Korean physicist's daughter as collateral to secure an important piece of tech.
** And would have killed father and daughter both, as well, had they gotten what they wanted.

* DeadpanSnarker: Director Shaw, who turns abusing sarcasm into an art form.

** Also "[[UnusualEuphemism sexpionage]]",

* IvyLeagueForEveryone: Samantha was recruited while at Yale. TruthInTelevision, the CIA and other organizations tend to look for intelligent, highly motivated recruits and Yale specifically has a long association with the agency.

*** However, whenever a computer makes a file, especially a document, it adds a tag to it with some information about the computer that it was on. Depending on how much of that data is available, and whether or not the computer in question is online, it may be possible to locate it.
*** Metatags don't work that way. While you could get some information (generally things like the author, timestamp, and other information if the word processor and file format in question are set to do so (and only if entered)), this doesn't have anything to do with IP addresses, MAC addresses, or any other sort of Internet protocol or anything else of the sort. The best one could do is identify the computer it came from assuming you had the computer in question on hand.

* TheResolutionWillNotBeTelevised: Though episodes were still airing after the cancellation was announced NBC has held back on airing the season/series finale.
* RunningGag: Every episode has an ongoing fight between the Blooms, ranging from Samantha's "sexpionage" to Steven not-reading the directions for an espresso machine to reliance on technology.

* TelevisionGeography: In "Not Without My Daughter", there's no way the first scene takes place in North Korea - it's too well-lit. North Korea at night is [[http://doctorbulldog.files.wordpress.com/2006/10/northkorea-at-night.jpg a big black empty space above South Korea]], not to mention that in Pyongyang, there is a mandatory lighting reduction after 9 pm at night.

* TheCastShowoff: Averted because, being a spy, there's logical story reasons for Boris Kodjoe to display his fluency in French and German (and some ability in Spanish).

* FakeAmerican:
** Creator/GuguMbathaRaw is English.
** While Boris Kodjoe is a naturalized American, he was born in Austria with a German mother and Ghanaian father.
* FakeDefector

* FridgeLogic
** The phone bomb in "Instructions". The test bomb is shown to blow up a car rather impressively and have enough force to toss two other cars and three men standing perhaps 50 yards away. The men, however, are relatively uninjured. The real bomb is shown to be identical and planned to blow up a conference of business men. However, cellphones are confiscated before hand and taking to a security room. The timer itself is set to go off during the conference. Meaning unless the bomb was somehow much more powerful, the worse that would happen is the security room blowing up.
** Steven mentions that he first noticed Sam during training and hacked into a CIA database to get her name. Due to a fellow agent telling on him, Steven was kicked out of training but otherwise remained in the CIA. This is highly unlikely as the CIA takes the identities of their agents very seriously. Simply revealing that you are an agent or that someone else is an agent to someone is grounds for treason. The -least- of Steven's problems over the incident would have been getting kicked out of training. To boot, the agent that told on him is painted as the bad guy when he was just doing the right thing and preventing a possible security risk.

* HappilyMarried
* HoYay: One sided by Hoyt to Steven.
--> '''Samantha:''' It's the wife of the man you're in love with...

* TheOtherMarty: Mekia Cox replaced Creator/JessicaParkerKennedy as Lizzie in the original pilot.

* MrFanservice: Unavoidable when your male lead is Boris Kodjoe.
* FakeAmerican: Gugu Mbatha-Raw is English. Boris Kodjoe is a naturalized American: he was born in Austria with a German mother and Ghanaian father.

* TheOtherMarty: Mekia Cox replaced Jessica Parker Kennedy as Lizzie in the original pilot.

* RecycledINSPACE: The show has been described as ''Series/HartToHart'' (or ''Film/MrAndMrsSmith'') [-WITH A BLACK COUPLE-]!

** Anybody who has been to Madrid once could write a long list of things that are plain wrong with the pilot, but those [[DecadeDissonance 1970s-looking posters]] advertising TheWorldCup with grammar mistakes and a chubby guy in a three-piece suit sporting a mustache straight from TheEdwardianEra [[note]]The lamest possible cameo Greg Grunberg could made in his career[[/note]] deserve an award. And just as we thought soccer was making inroads in the United States...

* HeyItsThatGuy: Samantha looks a lot like [[Series/DoctorWho Martha's little sister Tish]].
*** [[UncannyFamilyResemblance Probably a cousin]].
** And Steven looks like [[Film/ResidentEvilAfterlife Luther]].
** The Blooms run missions for MajorDad.
** In 1.02, [[Series/BurnNotice Nate Westen]] took espionage lessons from his big brother.
** [[Series/{{Alias}} Julian Sark]] shows up in episode 7 as a reporter / corrupt oil executive. His name? Matt ''[[Film/MissionImpossible Hunt]]''.
** Hoyt tried to buy a nightclub with [[Series/ParksAndRecreation Tom Haverford]].
** Apparently [[{{Series/Dollhouse}} Boyd]] and [[{{Series/Dollhouse}} Victor]] are involved in busting and aiding (respectively) the world of counterfeit.

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** Hoyt tried to buy a nightclub with [[ParksAndRecreation Tom Haverford]].
** Apparently [[{{Dollhouse}} Boyd]] and [[{{Dollhouse}} Victor]] are involved in busting and aiding (respectively) the world of counterfeit.

** [[Series/{{Alias}} Julian Sark]] shows up in episode 7 as a reporter / corrupt oil executive. His name? Matt ''[[MissionImpossible Hunt]]''.

* SpyCouple

''Undercovers'' is a lighthearted espionage drama from JJAbrams and co-creator Josh Reims. Word from Creator/{{NBC}} is that it will avert the NoughtiesDramaSeries formula of Abrams shows like ''Series/{{Alias}}'', ''Series/{{Lost}}'' and increasingly ''Series/{{Fringe}}'', concentrating on self-contained episodes.

** Anybody who has been to Madrid once could write a long list of things that are plain wrong with the pilot, but those [[DecadeDissonance 1970s-looking posters]] advertising TheWorldCup with grammar mistakes and a chubby guy in a three-piece suit sporting a mustache straight from TheEdwardianEra [[hottip:* :The lamest possible cameo Greg Grunberg could made in his career]] deserve an award. And just as we thought soccer was making inroads in the United States...