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* [[Abusive Parents]]: Addison's. Later subverted with a [[Reveal]].
* [[Ascended Extra]]: Sheldon started as a guest star in season two, was upgraded to "also starring" status in season three, and became main cast in season four. Fans probably breathed a sigh of relief, since Sheldon is the most consistently level-headed person on the show. Amelia also guest-starred in season three before becoming main cast in season four.▼
* [[Alliterative Name]]: The title.
▲* [[Ascended Extra]]: Sheldon started as a guest star in
* [[Badass]]: Charlotte getting her arm sewn up without any kind of pain relievers because she's allergic to local anesthetics and is also
* [[Berserk Button]]: Cooper once punched a patient's father when he the child mentioned being touched. The dad wanted to sue him
* [[Biggus Dickus]]: Apparently
* [[Bittersweet Ending]]: Episode 14 of the
* [[Chew Toy]]: {{spoiler|Betsy}} in Season 4.▼
* [[Dark and Troubled Past]]: Amelia Shepherd, who along with [[Grey's Anatomy|her brother Derek]]
* [[Defrosting Ice Queen]]: Charlotte, since she began dating Cooper.
* [[Double Standard]]: The entire cast is suggest to this every now and then, though it applies especially to Violet (and of all people, {{spoiler|Catie, the one who cut her open}}, calls her on it in Season 4
* [[Driven to Suicide]]:
* [[Dysfunction Junction]]
* [[Mr. Fanservice]]: Dell. Lampshaded in an early episode, where the ladies pretend not to notice him as he's walking out to the beach with a surfboard.▼
{{quote| "If that didn't satisfy, there's another showing in an hour. And it's ''wet.''"}}▼
* [[Fiery Redhead]]: Addison, of course.
* [[Gag Penis]]:
* [[Happily Adopted]]: Coop.
* [[Idiosyncratic Episode Naming]]: All of The first season episodes were titled ''In Which'' followed by an event in the episode, a la ''[[Friends]]''.▼
* [[Idiot Ball]]: Pretty much every single main character has carried it around for awhile.
▲* [[Idiosyncratic Episode Naming]]: All of The first season episodes were titled ''In Which'' followed by an event in the episode, a la ''[[Friends]]''.
* [[Informed Ability]]: Amy is supposed to be a crack neurosurgeon, but so far she's killed more people than she's helped.
* [[It Got Worse]]: {{spoiler|Susan's cancer}} was supposed healed. However, {{spoiler|she collapses moments after her wedding night. She signed a D.N.R, so Addison didn't have the right to bring her back when she coded. Buzzy is devastated, and after tricking Addison into leaving her alone at the Hotel, she commits suicide, leaving only a rather cold letter to her daughter}}. The last scene we see is {{spoiler|Addison crying over her mother's dead body}}.▼
* [[Jerkass]]: Addison's father, and her mother too. Also Violet in Season 2. And Fife in Season 3, in spite of being wheelchair-bound, manages to come off as a complete asshole. And then there's Cooper's recent ''uber''-asshole behaviour towards Charlotte.▼
** The first part of
▲* [[Jerkass]]: Addison's father, and her mother too. Also Violet in Season 2. And Fife in Season 3, in spite of being wheelchair-bound, manages to come off as a complete asshole. And then there's Cooper's recent ''uber''-asshole
** Charlotte is a pretty big [[Jerkass]] herself, what with all the [[Consummate Liar|lying]] and [[Your Cheating Heart|cheating]].
▲* [[It Got Worse]]: {{spoiler|Susan's cancer}} was supposed healed. However, {{spoiler|she collapses moments after her wedding night. She signed a D.N.R, so Addison didn't have the right to bring her back when she coded. Buzzy is devastated, and after tricking Addison into leaving her alone at the Hotel, she commits suicide, leaving only a rather cold letter to her daughter}}. The last scene we see is {{spoiler|Addison crying over her mother's dead body}}.
▲** The first part of season 5 has Amelia's substance abuse getting worse and worse, especially after {{spoiler|her terminally ill friend commits suicide}}.
* [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]]: Archer may not be very nice, but he really likes his sister (not [[Brother-Sister Incest|THAT]] way,pervs). Also, Charlotte. Fife (see above) seems to be headed this way, too.
* [[Killed Off for Real]]:
* [[Law of Inverse Fertility]]: Addison.
* [[Let Them Die Happy]]: Pete with
* [[Looking for Love In All the Wrong Places]]: Addison is an expert at this trope, but the rest of the cast is certainly no slouch in this department.
* [[Love Triangle]]: Sam/Naomi/Dell, Violet/Cooper/Charlotte, Pete/Violet/Sheldon, Addison/Noah/Noah's-poor-wife-whose-name-fans-don't-even-remember-any-more.....
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* [[Southern Belle|Mauvaise Belle]]: Charlotte.
* [[Medical Drama]]
▲* [[Mr. Fanservice]]: Dell. Lampshaded in an early episode, where the ladies pretend not to notice him as he's walking out to the beach with a surfboard.
* [[Older Than They Look]]: Real Life example: Tim Daly (Pete) is ''53'' and doesn't look a day older than 41.
* [[One of Our Own]]: Most notably Violet; at the end of Season 2 she is
** His wife, who
*** Charlotte, who
** Amelia, a former addict who's started to relapse.
* [[Only Sane Man]]: Sheldon occasionally fills this role, giving advice to other members of the practice, and staying (comparatively) drama-free.
* [[Patient of the Week]]
* [[Please Don't Leave Me]]: A variation happens to
* [[Poorly-Disguised Pilot]]: The two part episode
*
* [[Real Life Writes the Plot]]
* [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]]: Amelia has various for all of her colleagues, but especially Addison, during an intervention. Borders on being a [[Hannibal Lecture]] at points. ▼
* [[Spin-Off]]
* [[Straw Feminist]]: Addison in one episode in which the practice was holding a meeting to decide whether or not to perform abortions, when she said that the vote of anyone who didn't have a vagina didn't count. They may be guys, but they're ''partners in the practice too''. They have to have their say.
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** And to be fair, this is a real life limitation commonly imposed on abortion debates and generally considered acceptable by both pro-choice and pro-life women; if it hadn't been an issue that had a direct impact on how they would have to run their business, some would consider it reasonable.
** To be even fairer, she didn't say their votes wouldn't count, she said for them to leave the room unless they wanted to fight with her. Which they didn't. As much as the issue was debated, it was never put to a vote onscreen with or without the guys.
* [[Teen Pregnancy]]
* [[Troubled but Cute]]: Pete. Amelia.
* [[The Unfair Sex]]: Everything Violet does is justified by this, and the sheer power of [[Wangst]]. Dell's {{spoiler|daughter is almost killed because his wife thought it perfectly safe to ''cook meth in the kitchen''}}, and when he gets insanely pissed off about it (wouldn't you?) he's being a bad, baaaad parent. This in spite of the fact that {{spoiler|Dell supported her through her addiction, took her back after multiple relapses, and even forgave her for ''kidnapping his child''}}, after all of which the beautiful fair lady went ahead and decided {{spoiler|cookin' meth in the kitchen with her little girl sitting in the next room was an awesomely good idea}}. Seriously, what could possibly go wrong?▼
▲* [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]]: Amelia has various for all of her colleagues, but especially Addison, during an intervention. Borders on being a [[Hannibal Lecture]] at points.
** And then he was deemed wrong for
▲* [[The Unfair Sex]]: Everything Violet does is justified by this, and the sheer power of Wangst. Dell's {{spoiler|daughter is almost killed because his wife thought it perfectly safe to ''cook meth in the kitchen''}}, and when he gets insanely pissed off about it (wouldn't you?) he's being a bad, baaaad parent. This in spite of the fact that {{spoiler|Dell supported her through her addiction, took her back after multiple relapses, and even forgave her for ''kidnapping his child''}}, after all of which the beautiful fair lady went ahead and decided {{spoiler|cookin' meth in the kitchen with her little girl sitting in the next room was an awesomely good idea}}. Seriously, what could possibly go wrong?
* [[Wham! Episode]]: The final episode of
▲** And then he was deemed wrong for {{spoiler|Not wanting his daughter to see her badly burned, mutilated mother before she died.}} Really?
▲* [[Wham! Episode]]: The final episode of season 2 and the first of season 3. Then, [[Nightmare Fuel|episode 7 of season 4 came...]]
* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: Dell is the frequent invoker of this trope - He's called out Violet, Naomi, Sam and even Addison about their bad decisions on more than one occasion. Fans practically cheered their lungs out when Violet ''finally'' got a good telling-to. Go, Dell!
* [[What Were You Thinking?]]: Happens every now and then.
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