Line #5 Series/StanAgainstEvil


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2	[[caption-width-right:350:Right to Left: [[GrumpyOldMan Stan]], [[CloudCuckooLander Denise]], [[CluelessDeputy Leon]], [[ByTheBookCop Evie]]]]
3	A HorrorComedy series on Creator/{{IFC}}.
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5	Willard's Mill. A sleepy town in the backwoods of New Hampshire. For 20 years, grumpy sheriff Stanley "Stan" Miller (Creator/JohnCMcGinley) has kept the citizens in relative line. Until the passing of his wife that is. After a bizarre vision and violent outburst at her funeral, Stan is forced to resign.
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7	Enter new Sheriff Evie Barret. Who soon discovers Stan's wife was the only reason he survived his job. The role of sheriff of Willard's Mill is cursed. And now Stan, Evie, nitwit deputy Leon and oddball daughter Denise find themselves fighting off a cadre of demons and monsters.
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9	And Stan just wants to enjoy retirement...
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11	Cancelled after 3 seasons.
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13	!!''Stan Against Evil'' includes examples of"
14	* ActorAllusion:
15	** The demon of "Girl's Night" questions why Stan [[Series/{{Scrubs}} didn't become a doctor]] instead of a cop after he found a man having a heart attack as a kid.
16	** In "Intensive Scare Unit" Stan hallucinates a conversation with a Dr. Cox -- when trouble arises, he tells Cox to find whoever's responsible and call him a girl's name.
17	* AffablyEvil:
18	** The werepony from "Curse of the Werepony" is a friendly, folksy guy who genuinely likes Evie, and decides to murder her ex-husband Kenny to help her out.
19	** The imp in "Girl’s Night", who is a bombastic showman who is friendly with Stan all the while trying to murder him.
20	* BurnTheWitch: The curse originated two hundred years ago after the then-sheriff of Willard's Grove burned 172 people at the stake for witchcraft.
21	* ChekhovsGun: In "Know, Know, Know Your Goat" Evie notices some oversized wooden salad servers on the wall in Stan's kitchen. They turn out to be [[spoiler: the exact weapon needed to defeat the MonsterOfTheWeek]].
22	--> '''Evie:''' Hey, uh, what are those?
23	--> '''Denise:''' The salad thingies? Those are Mom's. She never let us take 'em down.
24	* CloudCuckooLander: Denise exists in her own, odd little world.
25	* CluelessDeputy: Leon is ''not'' good at his job. The only thing keeping him employed was Stan's apathy, and no other candidates to fill the position. Stan, for what it's worth, early-on claims that Leon's father owns the sheriff's office, so that if they fired him they'd have to move.
26	* CoolOldGuy: Stan may be a grumpy tool, but he's still a competent ass-kicker when he gets up.
27	* EveryoneHasStandards: Stan is a heavy drinker and delights in what is often considered an unhealthy diet, but he does not smoke; he uses profanity but usually not a common one beginning with the letter 'f', and every sort of personal insult but never a common such implying a developmental disorder. (The last may be due to actor Creator/JohnCMcGinley's activism in that area.)
28	* GroundhogDayLoop: What Stan and Evie find themselves stuck in during the season 1 finale, "Level Boss".
29	* GrumpyOldMan: Stan is curmudgeonness personified. Practically every line is a complaint about having to leave his chair.
30	%%* HollywoodHeartAttack: What did Stan's wife in.
31	* KickThemWhileTheyAreDown: What inspired Stan to become a cop? When he kicked the shit out of a guy having a heart attack.
32	* {{Manchild}}: Or rather womanchild. Stan’s daughter, Denise, is rather naïve and immature for her age, behaving more like a seven-year-old than a young adult.
33	* NeedleInAStackOfNeedles: Eccles' grave is in the cemetery amongst the 172 women he'd burned as witches, using a pseudonym (but not recorded in the ledger).
34	* PunchClockVillain: Strictly speaking most of the demons have [[NothingPersonal no personal grudge]] against Stan and Evie. They go after them just to appease Eccles. In at least one case a demon seems to believe he can use their deaths to buy back his human life, and then take up the fight against Eccles himself.
35	* RobbingTheDead: Happens quite often, usually to recover a [[MacGuffin magical artifact]]. Stan digs up his own wife in the first episode for that reason.
36	* SchizoTech: People have smartphones, [=FitBits=] and the Internet -- but home phones are all Bakelites, Stan watches an old cathode ray TV, and all of the beer seen in the show is in old pull-tab cans.
37	* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: The crux of season 2 is [[spoiler:Stan trying to travel back a year, and save his wife before she dies.]]
38	* OurWerebeastsAreDifferent: "The Curse of the Werepony". The title should clue you in.
39	* TestosteronePoisoning: Stan derides anything remotely unmanly.
40	%%* TownWithADarkSecret: Willard's Mill.
41	* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Stan doesn't really care about the demons, and his wife's secret job of killing them. He just wants to lounge about and enjoy his retirement.
42	* TheWomanBehindTheMan: Stan would have met the fate of every other Willard's Mill sheriff if not for his wife fighting the demons out to get him.

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