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Quite simply, a [[Dom Com]] about a married couple, with a ''[[
The well of inspiration [[Seasonal Rot|ran dry]] in the final season ([[Raging Stiffie|Viagra overdoses]] and breast implant jokes abound), but the series managed to wrap up with a [[Author's Saving Throw|truly heart-rending finale]].
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Their dog, Murray, became an [[Ensemble Darkhorse]] due to his phenomenal acting talent.
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* [[Art Shift]]: The whole comic book portion during "My Boyfriend's Back". Jamie's ex-boyfriend Alan draws her as the evil Queen Talon in a comic book, causing her a world of trouble as everyone now recognizes her as such. The episode ends with a full comic version of everyone.
* [[As Himself]]: [[wikipedia:Mark McGwire|Mark McGwire]], post-Home Run record.
** Jamie works for [[wikipedia:James Carville|James Carville]].
** Bruce Willis.
** John Astin played himself as still behaving like [[The Addams Family|Gomez Addams]] even in Real Life.
*** Garth Brooks had a cameo in the same episode, telling Paul the bar tune whose performer Paul couldn't remember was by ... Garth Brooks. (Paul thought he must be mistaken.)
* [[Birthday Hater]]: Paul always has terrible birthdays.
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'''Jamie:''' What happened?
'''Paul:''' No, no, no, I'm just practicing.
'''Jamie:''' Fine. You're gonna fall in a well. Are you happy now?
'''Paul:''' You know, I fell in a well.
'''Jamie:''' You did not.
'''Paul:''' Birthday, 15. Amish country.
'''Jamie:''' You fell in a well?
'''Paul:''' While making a wish.
'''Jamie:''' Okay? My God.
'''Paul:''' No, no, no, this is the beauty--this is the beauty of the thing. See, I know it's gonna suck. I know there's some disaster coming and still I continue to have birthdays.
'''Jamie:''' Maybe this one will be better.
'''Paul:''' Oh, no, no, it will suck. It's just that I just don't know what form the disaster will take and therein lies the fascination.
* [[Bottle Episode]]
* [[Brother Chuck]]: Selby.
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** It also turns out that Paul used to live in the apartment now inhabited by ''[[Seinfeld]]'''s Cosmo Kramer, which becomes weird when a later season finds that program's George and Susan in bed watching an episode of ''[[Mad About You]]''!
*** Likewise, in one episode, Paul runs into real-life Jerry Seinfeld, and tells him that Jaime "loves your show".
** NBC also liked to do cross over stunt nights when all the sitcoms in that night's line up would be self contained stories related to a larger arc (
** Also with the classic ''[[Dick Van Dyke Show]]'', when Carl Reiner guest stars as his DVDS character Alan Brady.
* [[Disability
* [[Doppelganger]]: In one episode, Lisa
▲* [[Disability As an Excuse For Jerkassery]]: Paul and Jamie were once harassed by a man in a wheelchair who used this. After punching Paul in the gut and subsequently receiving a black eye, [[Wounded Gazelle Gambit|he exaggerated the amount of pain he was in while others chastised Paul.]]
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▲* [[Doppelganger]]: In one episode, Lisa accidently comes home with a well trained twin of Murray.
▲{{quote| '''Jamie''': Lisa, this is not Murray! It looks like Murray, but it isn't Murray. Murray has a white spot and vacant eyes. This dog KNOWS THINGS!}}
* [[Dream Sequence]]: A whole episode of it after they eat Ostrich.
* [[Embarrassing First Name]]: Uncle Phil's real name is Deuteronomy. Naturally, he waits to mention this until after guilt-tripping Paul into naming the baby after him.
* [[Famous Last Words]]: Paul's uncle dying on-camera. "Hoooooooooooooo...Mooooooooooooooooooos!"
** In a spoof of ''[[
* [[Fun
** In the finale, a rebelling Mabel tells her parents she's changing her name to Sonya - Some Other Name You Ass-(Paul and Jamie cover the last last bit with their gasps).
* [[Godwin's Law]]: Paul uses this in "The Glue People" as a reason to vote for a different Mayor than Jaimie.
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* [[Head-Tiltingly Kinky]]: Jamie and Paul's old sex tape.
* [[Kavorka Man]]: Ira. Lampshaded when he accidentally catches himself in a mirror while having intercourse, scarring him so deeply that he loses interest in sex (for about a week).
* [[Lampshade Hanging]]: Usually in [[The Tag]], which either [[Breaking the Fourth Wall|breaks]] or [[Leaning
* [[Last-Minute Baby-Naming]]: Paul and Jamie name the baby Mabel, after a remark by Jamie's mom: "[[Fun
* [[Local Hangout]]: Riff's restaurant.
* [[Make Up or Break Up]]: The series finale shows Paul and Jamie separating for a while. They reconcile at the screening of Mabel's [[True Art Is Incomprehensible|Dada-esque]] indie film.
* [[Meaningful Echo]]: In a flashback to Paul and Jamie's introduction to each other, Jamie's [[Forceful Kiss]] is followed by this non sequitur:
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'''Jamie:''' ''(beat)'' No.
'''Paul:''' I didn't think so.
** In the series finale, Paul and Jamie (now middle-aged and separated) have the exact same exchange. As Mabel's voiceover states, Paul then escorted Jamie back home, bought a pie, "and never left".
* [[Meddling Parents]]
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* [[My Own Private I Do]]: Though the series starts with them already married, it's revealed that Jamie and Paul did this - the Plan First, Elope Later type. It happens in the middle of the night, on the sidewalk, performed by a ConEd worker, while Jamie has toothpaste on her face. And [[It Makes Sense in Context|it's adorable.]]
* [[One We Prepared Earlier]]: The Thanksgiving Episode!
* [[The Perry Mason Method]]: Uncle Phil is brought up on charges for illegally collecting old newspapers from the neighbors in his building, then amassing a fortune's worth of coupons. Phil calls the prosecutor to the stand, then proceeds to absolutely ''decimate'' his case by guilt-tripping the attorney about his parents, clipping coupons to pay for his law courses.
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'''Judge:''' Case dismissed!
* [[Precision F-Strike]]
* [[Put
* [[Runaway Bride]]: Paul and Jamie discover (in Season 7 and post-illegitimate baby) that their wedding wasn't legally valid. Naturally, Jamie starts fretting that their marriage's success rests on them [[Insane Troll Logic|not being...uh, married.]]
* [[Running Gag]]: The kitchen floor bump.
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** ''Mad About You'' had quite a few [[Thanksgiving Episode|Thanksgiving Episodes]]. The first season showed Paul and Jamie (and Lisa and [[Brother Chuck|Selby]]) heading to Jamie's family home for Thanksgiving (with Fran and Mark on the same train to ''their'' family's home), and then on the way home after their respective Thanksgiving experiences. A later T-Day episode dealt with how Paul and Jamie tried (with hilarious failure) to control the dissemination of their pregnancy to their relatives.
* [[Theme Tune Cameo]]
* [[Time Skip]]: The series finale jumps around a lot. These scenes range from funny (teenage Mabel and
* [[Timmy in
** Murray acts this out during the final credits of a Valentine's Day show as he gets Mark and Fran to rescue Paul and Jamie who have spent the entire episode [[Bottle Episode|trapped in the locked bathroom]].
* [[Truth-Telling Session]]
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