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openLawyers are liars statement Live Action TV
A dialogue between a lawyer and her 5-year-old daughter (not a precise quote, but close enough to find tropes)
daughter: You're a liar.
mother: No, I'm a lawyer.
daughter: My best friend's mother says they're the same thing.
openBlame it on an innocent animal Live Action TV
An episode begins with a broken vase on the floor. The parents ask their 5-year-old how this happened, and the child blames the neighbors' dog. Subsequent dialog tells the audience that the dog is dead, so he couldn't have done it.
Edited by Someone1981openInner entertainment title Live Action TV
An episode named "Amazing Andy and His Wonderful World of Bugs", after an entertainment show Andy puts on at a birthday party.
resolved Scope Creep Live Action TV
This could be for other things besides TV, but that's where I've seen it the most obviously. The tone doesn't shift, the genre doesn't shift, the character motives are still largely the same, but things go from focusing on small-stakes, inter-personal drama and action to large stakes, "we have to save the world!" action. Kinda a MCU-ification of the show's direction.
A couple of examples spring to mind. Penny Dreadful starts out as a gritty, realistic depiction of Victorian England mixed with occult, where the focus is on the characters dealing with supernatural threats and the very mundane threats of a restrictive society and its own burdens/expectations. But by the last season everyone has super powers and they're on a quest to save the world from being swallowed by demons or what have you.
Firefly/Serenity also does this. The show starts out with a 'not exactly smugglers' crew struggling to make ends meet while dealing with their personal struggles and history, but by the end of the show (the movie), they are on a quest to uncover a secret, and basically topple the government / start a new revolution.
The MCU up to the Avengers Endgame movies is like this, too; the first few movies are pretty independent, with (bizarrely) low emphasis on the superpowers and magic. They focus on smaller villains that are a lower-stakes, personal challenge/threat to the hero. Eventually everyone has superhuman abilities (explained in-universe or not), flinging spells and lasers and whatever in a big battle to save not just the universe, but every alternate universe as well!
The tropes in Tone Shift don't really fit, because there is no change in the genre, or adding magic where there wasn't before, or anything like that. Fantasy Creep is the most overlap that I can see, like the entry for John Wick, but a lot of shows start out with a imho more interesting premise that is explored in the early seasons but as the characters become more powerful, and defeat all their lesser foes, bigger foes and greater stakes move in and the show changes from the initial premise to "we must save the world from existential danger!"
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openI won't go there if she's there Live Action TV
The extended Braverman family is supposed to go to a specific event. Unfortunately, cousins Haddie (her brother being the central reason the family is going to the event) and Amber are so strongly opposed to each other at the time that Haddie's father has a lot of trouble convincing her to go because she expects Amber to be there, and Amber puts up such a big fuss against going that the household she belongs to ends up not going at all.
openStealing the boyfriend Live Action TV
Haddie has been going out with a boy named Steve. After one major fight between them, her cousin and close friend Amber convinces her to break up with him—and then Amber herself starts going out with Steve.
openFather doesn't seem to care when daughter injured in traffic accident Live Action TV
We do have Parental Abandonment, which the father was previously guilty of, but I want to know if there's anything stronger for this:
When Amber is hospitalized after a traffic accident, the entire maternal side of the family are present in the hospital. However, her father isn't there; and we hear her brother Drew making what is clearly not his first phone call, leaving a message for their father asking him to call back. As far as we know, he never does.
openForgot that connections can get you ahead for an expert Live Action TV
In season 3, Crosby's son is examined by a pediatrician who the son's mother subsequently says that it's hard to get an appointment with because he's popular. Crosby asks how they got the appointment, and the son's mother says that her own mother has the connections to do it; this surprises Crosby. This is despite the fact that in season 1, Crosby had similarly helped his brother get an appointment with an Asperger expert.
openOverdoing hospitality Live Action TV
When Adam and Kristina found out that their son has Asperger Syndrome, their first line of emotional support on this issue was the Lessing family who also have a son on the Autistic spectrum. When it appears the Lessings will be getting a divorce, Kristina allows this son to stay with her family for a few days; and since he needs stimulation, she set up.the Lessing family's trampoline, which drove Adam to sleep in his car instead of in his own house.
openGoes crazy if a promise is broken Live Action TV
Max has several tantrums throughout the series, but most of them are over broken promises (or perceived promises). In addition, one day he had been promised to go to the museum (he lives in Berkeley and the museum in question is in San Francisco) and no one could take him, he ran away on his own with the intention of going to the museum (given the point in the season, this would have been close to his 11th birthday).
openRomantic interest in boss Live Action TV
A female employee shows romantic interest in male boss. This is completely one-way—the boss is Happily Married and has no romantic interest in the employee.
Edited by Someone1981openSubmit someone else's work as your own Live Action TV
Amber brings home a graded paper with an A. Her mother reads the paper, and realizes that it's a copy of one she had written for school herself.
openPromoted for sexual purposes Live Action TV
Kristina was working for Bob Little's election campaign, and hired her niece, Amber, as her assistant. A few days later, Bob Little promoted Amber to be his personal assistant. Subsequent evidence shows that he intended to have sex with Amber; luckily Kristina was able to prevent it from happening.
openResigns due to feeling guilty Live Action TV
Crosby, while engaged, sleeps with the behavioral aide of his nephew with Asperger Syndrome. When she hears him apologizing to his fiancée, she is immediately struck with guilt, causing her to resign.
openWhat to to before going away to college? Live Action TV
Haddie lives in California, and is about to go to college in New York. She wants to spend time with her friends, but her extended family wants to spend time with her.
openLie to potential employer Live Action TV
Sarah is looking for a job. She goes to a photographer to deal with the arrangements for the family photo, notices they're looking for a new worker, and claims—falsely—that she has experience.
openEmployed, but not for the expected job Live Action TV
A person applies to a photographer for a job, but on the first task it turns out the potential employee gave a Very Fake Résumé. However, the employer has No Social Skills (and it will turn out he probably has Asperger Syndrome, though at this point no one suspects it; the seriesin question does have a regular who is known from the beginning of the seriesto have Asperger) and the clients enjoyed the interaction with the employee, so she got the job of the social aspect of the business.
openPrefers not to know about his employees' private lives Live Action TV
To quote the boss:
In hindsight from next season, it likely has to do with this boss having Asperger Syndrome, although no one in the series even suspects he has it at this point.
openVeterinarian giving advice on human medicine Live Action TV
While at a doctor's office, the characters hear the doctor talking on a phone to someone who apparently showed a medical report to his veterinarian cousin to get an opinion about it. Is there a trope representing the caller's apparent action?

Amber and Haddie are cousins and close friends. When Haddie had a fight with her boyfriend, Amber convinced her to break up with him, and slept with him herself. Haddie had no idea that Amber slept with him until Amber apologized to her in private; the next day, Haddie confronted Amber about it while accompanied by a few friends. Amber said she's willing to discuss it with her in private, not in the presence of others.