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{{quote|'''God:''' Good is relative. Beauty's relative. Everything's relative. Except for me. I'm absolute.
'''Joan:''' I thought that was vodka.}}
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Will Girardi has moved to Arcadia, Maryland to take over as chief of their disorganized police department. His son, Kevin, has been paralyzed from the waist down since a car accident half a year ago. His wife, Helen, is quietly trying to deal with the collapse of her faith and the near-collapse of her family. His other son, Luke, is brilliant but along for the ride. And his daughter, Joan, keeps having encounters... with God?
Lasting two seasons, this [[Magic
Although Joan's interactions with God were the center of each episode, the lives of her family and friends continued [[Two Lines, No Waiting|in the background]], making for a mixed genre show; Will would [[Crime and Punishment Series|bust
The show's second season suffered from massive amounts of [[Executive
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* [[Aborted Arc]]: The subplot in season one of Luke helping Kevin in a slow but promising recovery in his legs was almost completely dropped in season two, save for a single episode which showed him doing a news story about the subject.
* [[Aesop
* [[All Powerful
* [[Author On Board]]
* [[Awesome but Impractical]]: The AP Chemistry teacher is fun and cool, but the way she teaches and discusses is more than a little too distracting to properly get anything fixed into the student's minds beyond "hey our teacher is cool!"
* [[Axes At School]]: When it's revealed that a student had brought a gun to school, ''major'' changes in the school's security went up for the rest of the series.
* [[
* [[Badass
* [[Beauty Is Bad]]: Joan thinks this is the lesson she is supposed to preach in one episode. But it turns out it isn't. But it kind of is. Sort of. It was confusing.
* [[The "B"
* [[Bomb-Throwing
* [[Can't Get Away with Nuthin']]: Even if the parents don't find out, God will:
{{quote|'''Joan:''' Oh, the package is C.O.D.? Uh, I don't have any cash...
'''God:''' You have 12 dollars in your pocket which you were going to buy a muffin and a frappucino with while you ditched history class, which you really shouldn't do, by the way.}}
* [[Chuck Cunningham
* [[Clueless Aesop]]: Some episodes didn't seem to have much of a clear reason ''why'' God had Joan do something. Like joining the cosmetology class. Sure, Glynis learns to be herself, and Joan's dad stops a criminal, but they both did that on their own, and Joan didn't have anything to do with them.
* [[Conspiracy
* [[Cosmic
* [[Cowboy Cop]]: Will very much was a by-the-books cop for the most part in the first season, but he became a [[Cowboy Cop]] briefly in Season 2 after {{spoiler|Judith's murder}}, when he goes on the warpath to catch the perpetrator. In a subversion of [[Turn in Your
* [[Cuckoo
* [[Deadpan
* [[Dead Person
* [[Deus Ex
* [[Divine Race
* [[Easily
* [[Evil
* [[Fake Guest
* [[Figure It Out Yourself]]
* [[Forgotten Fallen Friend]]: It really doesn't take many of the characters that long to completely get over {{spoiler|Judith's death}}. Friedman gets about one scene in an episode afterwards being sad for a moment, but besides that after about three episodes it just gets watered down into another generic subplot for the police to solve.
* [[A Form You Are Comfortable With]]: The [[Trope
{{quote|'''Joan:''' "Are you — Are you being snippy with me? God is snippy?"
'''God:''' (exasperated) "Let me explain something to you, Joan. It goes like this: I don't look like this. I don't look like anything you'd recognize. You can't see me. I don't sound like this, I don't sound like anything you'd recognize. You see, I'm beyond your experience. I take this form [[A Form You Are Comfortable With|because you're comfortable with
* [[Frivolous
* [[Geeky Turn
* [[Genre
* [[Girl of the Week]]: The girl that Adam randomly hooks up with for one episode in Season 2. Kevin's ex girlfriend in Season 2.
* [[Godly Sidestep]]: The creators made this rule, actually listing things God couldn't say with regards to universal truths and religion.
* [[God
{{quote|'''Joan:''' "...that's a tree."
'''God:''' "I'd like to see ''you'' make one."}}
* [[Happily Married]]: Will and Helen.
* [[High School]]
* [[Hippie
* [[Hollywood Nerd]]: Luke,
* [[Informed
* [[
* [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]]: God can sometimes shift into this, mostly because she always refuses to explain why (s)he wants Joan to do what (s)he wants her to do, and often the task results in someone getting hurt.
* [[Large
* [[Little Miss
* [[Mission from God]]: A new one every episode.
* [[Mundane Made
* [[N-Word
* [[New Powers as the Plot
* [[Obstructive
** If they aren't this, then they're a [[Corrupt Corporate
* [[Omniscient Morality
** One episode that stands out in particular would be where God is the school's musical director. He has a girl who had the lead singing role whose family was coming in from across the country to watch her perform get [[Demoted to
* [[Opposites
* [[Oracular
* [[Ordinary High School
* [[Part-Time
* [[Author Avatar|Producer
* [[Real Song Theme
* [[Refusal of the Call]]: About every other episode.
* [[Romantic False Lead]]: Iris. Glynis.
* [[Second Season Downfall]]
* [[Shaggy Dog
* [[She Cleans Up
* [[She Is Not My Girlfriend]]: Joan, regarding boyfriend prospect Adam, for the first half of Season 1.
* [[Spirit
* [[Spock Speak]]: Luke and Glynis often talked this way.
* [[Status Quo Is God]]: Glynis and Luke break up after she gets a makeover and wants to enjoy people who acknowledge her appearance. By the next episode she's back to her same old image, friends, and mannerisms.
* [[Strawman Political]]: Grace is a [[Conspiracy
* [[Straw
* [[The Television Talks Back]]: One of the ways God communicates with Joan.
* [[Totally Radical]]: The science teacher. Who tries ''way'' too hard to look cool.
** A better example might be the guidance counselor, who basically acts like a teenager despite being in his thirties
* [[Turn in Your
* [[TV
* [[Two-Teacher School]]: If there's any teacher shown besides the science teacher or Helen, it's safe to assume they're either God in disguise, or only here for just that week.
* [[Two Lines, No
* [[Universe
* [[Unnaturally Blue
* [[Very Special
* [[Will They or Won't They?]]: Both Joan/Adam and Luke/Grace.
* [[Woobie of the Week]]: Joan helps out someone new every week, whether she wants to or not. For the first season, at least.
* [[Xanatos
* [[X Called. They Want Their Y Back.]]
* [[You Called Me "X" - It Must Be
** He does it once they've broken up, and when he starts calling her "Jane" again, it means they've reconciled.
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