Line #28 Series/Felicity


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3	''Felicity'' is a ComingOfAgeStory from [[Creator/ImagineEntertainment Imagine Television]] and [[Creator/TouchstonePictures Touchstone Television]], set at [[NoCommunitiesWereHarmed the University of New York]] and focusing mostly on the LoveTriangle between the main character (Creator/KeriRussell) and her two on-and-off paramours Noel Crane (Creator/ScottFoley) and Ben Covington (Creator/ScottSpeedman). The cast is rounded out by Felicity's first friend at UNY, aspiring musician Julie Emrick (Creator/AmyJoJohnson), competitive pre-med student Elena Tyler (Creator/TangiMiller), Ben's landlord who is an inventor, Sean Blumberg (Creator/GregGrunberg), and Felicity's caustic roommate, Meghan Rotundi (Creator/AmandaForeman), as well as Felicity's boss at Dean & Deluca, the big-hearted eccentric, Javier Quintata (Creator/IanGomez).
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5	One of the strongest offerings in the WB's 1998 season, this show suffered a massive UsefulNotes/{{ratings}} drop in its second season. Executives reportedly blamed the newly-shortened hairstyle of the main character (a drastic response to a harsh breakup), and WB executive Susanne Daniels famously said of the show, "No one is cutting their hair again on this network".
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7	Early episodes featured a unique framing device, in which Felicity would record an audio tape letter to her friend Sally at the beginning of the episode briefly highlighting the major events of her past week; at the end of the episode Sally's response (voiced by Creator/JaneaneGarofalo) would be played.
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9	With declining ratings each season, the show finally ended after its fourth season. The finale (and episodes leading up to it) integrated a ClipShow and TimeTravel, and then turned out to maybe be AllJustADream.
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11	Created by a pre-Bad Robot Creator/JJAbrams and Creator/MattReeves, which explains a lot.
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13	!!This show provides examples of:
14	* ActressAllusion: A "Pink Ranger" can be seen in the background of the first year HalloweenEpisode. Amy Jo Johnson (Julie) played the Pink Ranger on ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers.'' Even more humorous is that this random Pink Ranger acts as throwaway rival in the eyes of [[ClingyJealousGirl Felicity]], a role that Amy Jo Johnson filled in earlier episodes.
15	* AllWomenAreLustful: Felicity in the first season episode "Gimme an O!"
16	* AndStarring:
17	** And Scott Foley.
18	** Ian Gomez was PromotedToOpeningTitles and given the "With" credit for Season 4.
19	* BettyAndVeronica: Felicity (Archie), Noel (Betty), and Ben (Veronica).
20	* CampGay: Javier.
21	%%* CaptainsLog
22	* TheCastShowOff: Julie is a singer/songwriter/guitarist on the show, as Amy Jo Johnson is in real life.
23	* ClipShow: The series finale
24	* DroppedABridgeOnHer: Elena
25	* EyeContactAsProof: Sean tells Ben to look him in the eyes and say, "If I knew Felicity loved me, I wouldn't freak out." Ben refuses to say this, which Sean uses as evidence that Ben needs to break up with Felicity.
26	* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: Ruby in "Truth and Consequences" makes it all the way to the clinic appointment, but can't go through with it. Later, in season 4, Meghan talks her sister out of having an abortion.
27	%%* GrandFinale
28	* HowUnscientific: In its final five episodes, the heretofore completely realistic show threw time travel at us. The producers were caught off guard at being given those episodes, and just decided to go for broke on any crazy idea that would let them fill that space.
29	%%* ImportantHaircut
30	%%* LoveTriangle
31	* NotQuiteDead: Despite Elena dying and the rest of the cast attending her funeral, Elena shows up in the final episode. Production crew later explained that they had filmed an explanation tied into the TimeTravel arc, but it had been cut.
32	** Although that wouldn't make sense either, as it was well established that none of what Felicity did in the past had any impact on the "prime" universe (for one thing, Noel was killed in a fire, and yet he too is still alive).
33	* OstentatiousSecret: Felicity's witchy roommate Meghan made a big issue of no one having permission to look in her locked box. In this case the box was used as a RunningGag and its contents were never revealed. There was a FormulaBreakingEpisode styled after ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'' in which it was intimated that all the series regulars were actually trapped in a magical universe within the box.
34	%%* QuirkyCurls
35	* TimeTravel: Which turned out to maybe have been AllJustADream.
36	* TheVoice: Sally
37	* TrueCompanions: Felicity, Ben, Noel, Julie, Meghan, Elena, Sean, and Javier are all basically one big extended family, a point driven home with season 1's Thanksgiving episode.
38	* VitriolicBestBuds: Meghan, despite being selfish, cynical, rude and brutally honest, grows to become fiercely protective of the much more naive and trusting Felicity.

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