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Californication is a Showtime dramedy created by Tom Kapinos and starring David Duchovny, Natascha McElhone and Evan Handler.Duchovny plays Hank Moody, a ladies' man and occasional novelist who likes his booze and pot a bit too much. When he is first introduced in the first season, his life has slowly fallen apart since his longtime girlfriend Karen (McElhone) left him. He struggles to be a good parental figure to his and Karen's daughter Becca (Madeleine Martin), and he fails to produce any kind of written work due to his drug use and sex addiction. He becomes more unstable especially after his book, "God Hates Us All", gets turned into a gooey, flowery movie called "A Crazy Little Thing Called Love". His producer and best friend, Charlie Runkle (Evan Handler) constantly goofs up mishap after mishap, as his marriage to his wife Marcy (Pamela Adlon) crumbles.The show premiered in 2007. The final seventh season aired in 2014.Not to be confused with the Red Hot Chili Peppers album of the same name, or with Hollywood Provincialism, a trope that is often called "Californication" outside this wiki (especially in the western US)note It's usually associated with Southern California-style suburban sprawl, though it's also used to refer to the "big city" attitudes that many Californians bring with them when they move to places like Colorado and Oregon..
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Fair Cop
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Fair Cop: In season 4, Hollywood actress Sasha Bingham is seen starring in a Show Within a Show where she plays a very sexualized cop. Hank Moody appreciates her outfit.
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Rick Springfield in season 3 makes fun of his own character. He is playing "a twisted version of himself," a "Rick Springfield of the past," according to Wikipedia.
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No Celebrities Were Harmed
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No Celebrities Were Harmed: Hank is loosely based on Charles Bukowski. Lew Ashby is loosely based on music producer Rick Rubin.
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All Men Are Perverts
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All Men Are Perverts: Hank, Charlie, and just about every other male character really.
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Erotic Asphyxiation
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Erotic Asphyxiation: When Hank and Charlie are supposed to meet a producer who is funding "Fucking and Punching", the movie, they discover that he has killed himself via auto-erotic asphyxiation. And Charlie kills the producer's pet monkey. Shenanigans ensue.
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Darker and Edgier: While Californication's tragicomedic tone remains monstly consistent, nuances of the show's feel tend to shift back and forth a lot. A good example being the show's progression from season 1-4 towards a somewhat darker and more serious tone. This turns backwards after season 5, though, as the storytelling reverts back to a slightly goofier feel.
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Gratuitous Spanish: Hank loves this trope and uses it quite amusingly. His passable El Spanish "-o" makes a hispanic Girl of the Week laugh.
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Sex, Drugs and Rock & Roll
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Season six has Faith, a former Catholic school girl. Ironically, she's very spiritual.
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"Well Done, Son" Guy: All Hank really wanted from his dad was for him to appreciate his writing and to be a good parental figure. His father responds by saying he never read any of Hank's books and never changes his ways. Hank proceeds to blame it all on his father and tries to do everything differently from his father, including never cheating on Karen and being completely self-centered from his newfound fame. It backfires. Hank's father read every single one of his son's books. He never could face his son when Hank paints all of his fictional fathers in a bad light.
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Papa Wolf
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Papa Wolf: Hank takes this to varied degrees of overprotectiveness towards Becca. He immediately takes a disliking to every single one of her boyfriends, even if they aren't complete toolbags. And when Becca has her first period, he fights the husband of a woman who took the last box of tampons in the store.
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I Need a Freaking Drink
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I Need a Freaking Drink: Richard Bates takes one look at Hank, one look at a whore he cheated on Karen with, and one look at Karen. He immediately downs a bottle of the nearest alcohol (despite his sobriety) and gets the hell out of there.
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Marry Them All
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Marry Them All: Hank is proposed to by Felicia, Jill, and Jackie all in under five minutes. While he's in a relationship with Karen. Hilarity Ensues.
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Seduction-Proof Marriage: Hank Moody cites this at times to girls that come on to him/coworkers who set him up while he's trying to repair his relationship with his long-term domestic partner (his wife in everything but name).
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Like Father, Like Son
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Like Mother, Like Daughter: At the end of season 5, Becca looks like she'll go down the same road as Karen, as she has fallen in love with Tyler. Becca uses this to justify her getting high, claiming that it runs in her genes.
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Justified with Samurai Apocalypse. Samurai isn't arrested for shooting Charlie in the middle of a freaking movie set, but then again, he's a fucking mobster.
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Aborted Arc: The Showtime series pitch by Stu, Marcy, & Charlie about a waxing professional to the stars. It seemed to go well (eventually), but what happened with it?
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This little scene plays out at least twice, once when Becca is 11 and says it innocently, and the second when Becca is well into her teens and says it sarcastically.
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Unwanted Assistance: Samurai Apocalypse's unsolicited actions againts Becca's boyfriend put Hank into a world of mess.
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Genre Blindness: No matter how many times they get caught, none of the characters ever learn that it might be a good idea to lock the door when masturbating or engaging in whatever bizarre sex act strikes them at the moment. Also, hiding behind the desk never works, yet they keep trying.
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Generation Xerox: Charlie's son is a carbon copy of him. Down to the whole masturbation in public shtick.
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Impersonating an Officer: In the course of doing research for Santa Monica Cop, Samurai Apocalypse does this after his real cop companion suffers a stroke. Hilarity Ensues after he and Hank decide to go with it and drive around in the police car.
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A Date with Rosie Palms
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A Date with Rosie Palms: Charlie jerking off in his office. Constantly. Doesn't he know there are cameras everywhere?
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Limited Wardrobe: Blue jeans and black T-shirt for Hank, with the occasional dark shirt or jacket. And the sunglasses.
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Unsettling Gender-Reveal: Charlie discovers mid-oral that an affectionate hooker was not a she. Charlie is the only one not amused.
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Hollywood Law: When a cop arrests Hank in Season 2, he completely insults Hank for screwing up with Karen instead of just reading him his rights. When Hank retaliates, the officer gets him in his sweet spot. It doesn't help that Hank's just had a vasectomy, but he recovers soon. Justified with Samurai Apocalypse. Samurai isn't arrested for shooting Charlie in the middle of a freaking movie set, but then again, he's a fucking mobster.
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This Is Wrong on So Many Levels!
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Charlie falls in love with Daisy, despite the fact that she's much younger than him, he's her agent, he was married at the time, she's a porn star, and... well, you get the idea.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup: Hank's long anticipated novel in the first season. One of the drawbacks of writing it on a typewriter. He gets savvy and starts to use digital media throughout the series.
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Dinner and a Show
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Dinner and a Show: Every time Hank is at a dinner party, you can expect something will derail the pleasant evening. It's almost a Running Gag. Hank being outed as an accidental father (though this proves to be false), Marcy admitting the real father of her child, Hank tearing his daughter's boyfriend to shreds, and Hank getting completely chewed out by his ex are just some of the notable examples.
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The Fellowship Has Ended
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The Fellowship Has Ended: An interesting case, since this has already occurred at the beginning of the series. Whenever the core four of Hank, Charlie, Karen and Marcy get together for some reason, they inevitably lament about how much they miss the good old days. And, inevitably, whenever Hank and Karen manage to reconcile, Charlie and Marcy are on the outs, and vice versa. More often than not, both couples are split, and at best, all four are on speaking terms. Even Becca, who would have been little more than a child when both couples were new to LA and happily together, believes things were better in those days. The result gives the series a decidedly bittersweet epilogue feel. Also happens at the end of several of the seven seasons, in particular seasons two and six, when the temporary fellowship built around Hank's association with Lew Ashby and Atticus Fetch, respectively come to their inevitable end.
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Cluster F-Bomb: Lew Ashby, most prominently.
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Jizzed in My Pants: Charlie Runkle, more than once. On one occasion he gets off in a strip club during a lap dance at this moment. He tries to present it as a compliment. The stripper doesn't respond so well either way.
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Collini, out.
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Hot for Student: Hank becomes a teacher in season three. You can imagine how that turns out. Richard Bates to Karen, before she met Hank.
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Naughty Under the Table: Dinner Table version. In a first-season episode, Hank's date squeezes his thigh. Seated on his other side, Mia goes right for his crotch.
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Bittersweet Ending: Too many to list. Numerous episodes close this way, as well as most of the seven season finales (with the salient exceptions of Season One's played-straight happy ending and the disturbing cliffhanger at the end of Season Five). Usually consists of Hank riding off into the sunset, either toward or away from LA. Actually, the tone of the series as a whole is rather bittersweet.
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Stylistic Suck : Many writing examples, but notably Hank's creative writing student's lovelorn vampire story.
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The Sponsor: In the latter part of season 5, Bates gets one, Gabriel, to help him quit his alcohol addiction. They end up having sex.
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Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: Charlie and Hank, respectively. Zigzagged as Hank is manly but not unemotional, and sometimes more empathetic than Charlie.
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Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Hank really loves his daughter. And Karen, too.
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Butt-Monkey
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Butt-Monkey: Charlie constanly getting screwed over, mostly by women is played for laughs.
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Sexy Surfacing Shot: In "Hell-A Woman", Hank is entranced as he sees Mia pull herself out of the pool in a bikini. When she notices he's Eating the Eye Candy, she jokes about him being careful not to have a heart attack due to his "age". In "Here I Go Again", the incident which gets Lizzie fired as a nanny by Marcy is Stu catching Lizzie Skinny Dipping in their pool, with him catching her just as she was surfacing from the water while naked. When she tells the story to Charlie, she's portrayed as a shy girl who had no bathing suit and wanted to take a quick swim, and has a Naked Freak-Out when caught by Stu who acts like a Dirty Old Man. When Charlie hears the story from Stu, she's portrayed as a Shameless Fanservice Girl who seductively gets out of the water naked in front of him in a deliberate attempt to seduce him, and Stu reacts awkwardly to it, which is the first hint she's trying to be an actress via Casting Couch.
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Most Writers Are Writers: Hank and others. Philandering aside, Hollywood and literature are two of the main subjects.
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Taking the Heat: Richard spends a wild night with a hooker who shows up at his home the next day. A noble Hank sets-up a farce in a pure Screwball Comedy fashion where she is his girlfriend, so Karen won't be unhappy about the infidelity. Hilarity Ensues.
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Rated M for Manly
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Rated M for Manly: Much like Entourage, the show has been described as the manly version of Sex and the City.
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Wham Line: "How would you feel if I had slept with Becca?" -Bill
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Wise Beyond Their Years: Becca and Mia. The latter more malevolently so.
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Like Parent, Like Spouse
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Like Parent, Like Spouse: Becca's boyfriend Tyler is a younger version of Hank. Acknowledged in-universe, which Hank does not take well.
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Do Not Do This Cool Thing
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Do Not Do This Cool Thing: In-universe. When Hank tries to teach Becca that Drugs Are Bad, they find Marilyn Manson doing drugs and chilling out in Atticus' house. Becca finds the experience incredibly cool and Hank's aesop completely backfires.
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The Swear Jar: Hank Moody has this arrangement with his daughter — both ways. She gets most of the money. They grow out of it in the latter seasons.
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The Caligula
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Eddie Nero has a voracious appetite for... "deviant" sexual acts. Nero was a Roman Emperor notorious for his debauched behavior who presided over a city that was equally notorious for this too, and it would get worse. The name also makes an obvious connection with Robert De Niro, with whom he shares the extreme implication with a role.
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Book Ends: The Pilot begins with "You Can't Always Get What You Want" and Hank in his car, and the Season 4 finale ends with the song playing over Hank driving out of LA. Thus begins and ends the main story arc.
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Recurring Character: Trixie. Hank is especially fond of her, even though she has not returned since Season Five.
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Zero-Approval Gambit: Mia's agent tries to make this deal with Hank. Hank is to admit that he slept with Mia so a scandal of epic proportions can occur (and thus her agent could cash in on the subsequent publicity), and Hank can get his book back. Hank violently refuses, to avoid hurting his family. Mia's agent tells the press anyway.
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Breast Attack: Charlie Runkle suffers some serious nipple damage while attempting to have a three-way with his wife and his secretary. This is later referenced during the third season. Hank is fond of inflicting titty-twisters on people he hates.
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Bigger Is Better in Bed
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Bigger Is Better in Bed: Marcy starts dating Stu Biggs (played by Stephen Tobolowsky) in the fifth season and he looks very similar to Charlie at first, but then it's revealed that their main difference is not visible when clothed. Hank has a huge penis. And he never is shown to leave a girl unsatisfied.
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It's a Small World, After All
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It's a Small World, After All: Appears many times. Richard Bates is not only the man Eddie Nero took in his mouth, but is also the professor Karen had an affair with as a college student and never got over. Also, Eddie Nero claims to have pooped on someone. That someone turns out to be a hooker Hank's son hired in the final season.
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Bottle Episode: Season 3 Episode 8 - "The Apartment" is set entirely in - you guessed it - an apartment.
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Did You Just Have Sex?
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Did You Just Have Sex?: Karen can smell it.
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Fille Fatale: Mia doesn't reveal her true age until after she has seduced Hank, and then blackmails him.
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Nipple and Dimed
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Nipple and Dimed: Most women appear topless. Averted with Karen and Marcy. Averted as well with some of Hank's love interests; Felicia and Faith do not have a single topless scene with Hank.
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Eating the Eye Candy
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In "Hell-A Woman", Hank is entranced as he sees Mia pull herself out of the pool in a bikini. When she notices he's Eating the Eye Candy, she jokes about him being careful not to have a heart attack due to his "age".
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Ironic Nickname: Eddie Nero calls Charlie Goldilocks.
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The Remake
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The Remake: Charlie and Hank get tangled in a remake of Cruising.
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Meaningful Name
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Meaningful Name: Hank Moody is always in the mood for sex. Eddie Nero has a voracious appetite for... "deviant" sexual acts. Nero was a Roman Emperor notorious for his debauched behavior who presided over a city that was equally notorious for this too, and it would get worse. The name also makes an obvious connection with Robert De Niro, with whom he shares the extreme implication with a role. Lew Ashby's surname reflects he is an expy of The Great Gatsby.
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Once Done, Never Forgotten
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Once Done, Never Forgotten: Charlie is remembered as "the masturbating agent" wherever he goes. He tried to get Redtube to take the video down, but it still gets a lot of hits.
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Henpecked Husband: Stu is one while married to Marcy.
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Totally 18
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Totally 18: Discussed when Hank Moody discovers the attractive socialite that seduced him at a book store (while reading his book no less) is actually 16... and the daughter of his ex-girlfriend's current partner. The mistake is a major plot point for the rest of the series as the girl in question keeps the threat of blackmail pointed at Hank.
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Does Not Like Men
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Hilariously, Marcy encounters one in season 6. In trying to get over Stu cheating on her, she meets Ophelia, a feminist author who has a severe misandrist streak. She frequently uses her Taser on Marcy's former lovers, and eventually tases Marcy when the latter doesn't take her confession of love well. After Charlie tries to rescue Marcy and gets tased and Bound and Gagged for his trouble, the couple end up realizing that they still have feelings for each other and rekindle their relationship after knocking Ophelia out with her own Taser.
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Hooker with a Heart of Gold
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Hooker with a Heart of Gold: Played straight often. During their first meeting, Trixie actually seems to care for Hank, despite the fact that he has nothing to pay her (and has an ugly confrontation with her pimp). Trixie is even a recurring character, and they form an amiable relationship soon enough. Charlie falls in love with Daisy, despite the fact that she's much younger than him, he's her agent, he was married at the time, she's a porn star, and... well, you get the idea. Jackie is told to be a great writer by Hank, who gets her to quit her job as a stripper. She responds by proposing to him.
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STD Immunity
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STD Immunity: Many characters (especially Hank and Charlie) never think twice about having sex with a prostitute, stripper, or just a random woman they meet at a bar. The show is called Californication after all. Played With in Season 2. Hank is suspected to have syphilis, and Karen chides him and his sexual lifestyle. However, Karen has just had sex with Hank, and she never thinks that he may have given the disease to her as well. Played With again in the 3rd season. It is, at first, surprisingly averted with Marcy and Charlie, for they both start taking antibiotics the minute Charlie is suspected to have an STD. They seem pretty STD-conscious... until Marcy starts having sex with a guy who has probably banged thousands of women in his lifetime.
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Screwball Comedy
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Screwball Comedy: Many crazy situations spiral into it, specially in Season 3 around Dean Koons' uptight family.
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Jackie is told to be a great writer by Hank, who gets her to quit her job as a stripper. She responds by proposing to him.
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Large Ham
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Large Ham: Eddie Nero and Richard Bates are boisterous larger-than-life characters with peculiar speech patterns.
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Pals with Jesus
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Pals with Jesus: Hank is rather casual when speaking to Jesus.
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Exactly What It Says on the Tin
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Many characters (especially Hank and Charlie) never think twice about having sex with a prostitute, stripper, or just a random woman they meet at a bar. The show is called Californication after all.
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Kinky Spanking: Churlie Runkle spanks his secretary who deliberately messes up to earn more spanking. They both enjoy it.
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What Happened to the Mouse?
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What Happened to the Mouse?: Damien. Anyone see him since he derailed the entire last season over his declaration of love? Also, in Season 1, Hank steals a dog for Becca, which remains in his house for one more episode. Where did it go?
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Naughty Nuns
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Naughty Nuns: The opening scene of Californication.. Subverted when it's revealed that the whole thing was Hank's dream. It's an Establishing Series Moment nevertheless. It recurs in a later season. And in season 6, it comes true! Well, the woman was supposed to become a nun, but chose to become a groupie.
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Adaptation Decay: In-universe. Hank is so unhappy about the movie adaptation of his book God Hates Us All that he is hostile towards the film director and makes remarks about the time he slept with the man's wife. A brawl and a cell ensue.
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Grammar Correction Gag: Hank delivers an corrective, humorous rant about how writing on internet is not writing at all:
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Writer's Block
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Writer's Block: Hank is pestered by it at the start of the show and from time to time, but once he is back on track he is so good and witty that he basically has a One-Hour Work Week job.
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Dumb Blonde
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Dumb Blonde: Averted with Karen. Still, she is a bit insane to have a 15-year on-and-off relationship with Hank.
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Method Acting
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Method Acting: Eddie Nero's crazy/awesome take on interpretation: Behold his approach to a gay HIV plus role. In-universe Academy Award ensued. This becomes even funnier when, in season 6, it's revealed that the recipient of that blow job was none other than Richard Bates.
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Cliffhanger: The end of season 5 doesn't show the aftermath of Hank getting drugged and slipping into unconsciousness. Season 6 ends with Hank leaving Faith and Atticus Fetch's tour to go back to Karen. He knocks on her door... and cut to credits.
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Laser-Guided Karma: Whenever Hank sleeps with a woman who isn't Karen, it will bite him in the back. Hard. Even when the resulting mess isn't really Hank's fault. Especially when it isn't Hank's fault.
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Lousy Lovers Are Losers
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Lousy Lovers Are Losers: Being a Bromantic Foil to Chick Magnet Hank, Charlie is depicted as a lousy lover who has issues with premature ejaculation, to the point his ex-wife nicknamed him "Prema-Charlie" and often talks about how unsatisfied she was when they were together.
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Home Nudist: Bates. At least, while he's drunk. No male organ in sight though; he instead tucks it between his legs and turns it into his "man-gina", much to everybody else's disgust, and Hank's amusement.
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In "Here I Go Again", the incident which gets Lizzie fired as a nanny by Marcy is Stu catching Lizzie Skinny Dipping in their pool, with him catching her just as she was surfacing from the water while naked. When she tells the story to Charlie, she's portrayed as a shy girl who had no bathing suit and wanted to take a quick swim, and has a Naked Freak-Out when caught by Stu who acts like a Dirty Old Man. When Charlie hears the story from Stu, she's portrayed as a Shameless Fanservice Girl who seductively gets out of the water naked in front of him in a deliberate attempt to seduce him, and Stu reacts awkwardly to it, which is the first hint she's trying to be an actress via Casting Couch.
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Slow Clap
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Slow Clap: Hank in the fourth episode of season 2, after his daughter defends her interest in The Satanic Bible against criticism from Julian, a self-help author whose work she describes as "gobbledygook".
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Cloud Cuckoo Lander: It's Hollywood, so many bizarre individuals and MadArtists appear time and again. Eddie Nero and Samurai Apocalypse are two of the regulars.
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As Himself
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As Himself: Rick Springfield in season 3 makes fun of his own character. He is playing "a twisted version of himself," a "Rick Springfield of the past," according to Wikipedia. Marilyn Manson in season 6.
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Amicable Exes: Hank and Karen, for the most part. Marcy and Charlie, to the extent that they remarry.
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Oh, Crap!: A muffled one of epic proportions when Hank discovers that Mia is not only 16 years old, but also the daughter of Karen's fiancé, and to compound it even more, a close friend of Becca's.
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Catholic School Girls Rule: jailbaitJailBait. Becca later attends the same school, much to Hank's chagrin. Season six has Faith, a former Catholic school girl. Ironically, she's very spiritual.
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Everybody Has Lots of Sex: Especially Hank in the early seasons. RZA (the guy who plays Samurai Apocalypse) was interviewed on David Letterman's show, and almost said the exact same words.
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Precision F-Strike: Becca, among many, many other characters of the show.
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Sleeping with the Boss's Wife: Hank Moody has sex with a drop-dead gorgeous ebony woman after meeting her on a plane ride before discovering that she's the main squeeze of gangster/rapper Samurai Apocalypse, who has hired/forced Hank to write the script for his new movie. This becomes a massive worry for Hank, who rightly fears that SA—who isn't averse to a High-Altitude Interrogation—will kill him, which he almost does when he finally finds out (Hank survives with a flesh wound).
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Sexy Secretary: Charlie Runkle's hot and submissive secretary in Season 1.
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Double Standard Rape: Female on Male: Discussed.
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Yank the Dog's Chain: The lovely Lizzie seems to be a refreshing and sweet change for Charlie at first, but her promiscuity makes him even more miserable in no time.
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In Love with the Gangster's Girl: Hank and Kali. Samurai does not take this lightly, but eventually forgives him.
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Cringe Comedy: Charlie constantly. The season 6 plot of pretending to be gay and the following "Date With Rosie Palms" events could be the crowner. Hank often gets involved in these by association, by ruining the relationships of other people.
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Shout-Out: With a name like Californication, you have to expect at least one Dani to show up. A more blatant example is Charlie's secretary in season 1; when Charlie is sent a link to her page on Suicide Girls, her handle is "DaniCA". Hank even calls her Dani California at one point. Charlie's secretary crawling on her hands and knees with a piece of paper in her mouth. Sound familiar? Hank donning a suit and remarking that he looks like "a fucking FBI agent". And Karen remarks that he looks brooding and comely. In a flashback, Mia meets Hank while wearing heart-shaped sunglasses. Rob Lowe's character◊ looks suspiciously similar to Brad Pitt. When a guy offers to let Hank write his biography, Hank says "What, like how you were born a poor black child?" When Atticus' wife climbs on top of Hank to get back at her husband, Hank resists and tries a certain Jedi Mind Trick, hand wave and everything: "These are not the droids you're looking for."
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Luke, I Am Your Father: Charlie to Stuart. Especially after Marcy had been in a relationship with Stu Beggs for a while, and Charlie was supposed to have had a (successful) vasectomy.
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Interplay of Sex and Violence: Hank and Mia in the pilot episode, who later names her book ''Fucking and punching''. Recreated later with the actress Sasha, only with Hank encouraging her to hit him even harder.
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Comic Sutra: Sue Collini knows way more than she lets on. Charlie has trouble saying no.
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Casting Couch: Lizzie's favorite tactic, to Charlie's chagrin.
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Deliberately Monochrome: Happy flashbacks in one episode shows Karen and Hank as they come to decision to move to California. These flashbacks are in black and white.
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Horrible Hollywood: Depicted both by the show and within it; Hank constantly remarks how much he hates LA.
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Who's Your Daddy?: Hank's upcoming and accidental paternity is one of his main concerns in season 2, but it turns out Hank and "Dalí" are not responsible. Hank celebrates like a hooligan. The paternity of Marcy's child is also uncertain for a while.
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Manchild : To varying degrees, most of the men in the show—despite tremendous career success—are drunk and irresponsible without much care or consequence.
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Running Gag: Charlie's quickness and ladies being unamused by it. Richard Bates doing his mangina-thing. This little scene plays out at least twice, once when Becca is 11 and says it innocently, and the second when Becca is well into her teens and says it sarcastically.
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Follow the Leader: In-Universe Show Within a Show examples: Vaginatown, an artsy porn version of China Town that goes through Development Hell. Samurai's movie Santa Monica Cop, a ripoff of Beverly Hills Cop. Samurai himself pictures it as his "Eddie Murphy moment."
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Lying to Protect Your Feelings: Janie Jones does this to Hank. She initially lies to Hank that she left Lew because she felt that he was cheating on her with a singer, but it turns out that Lew actually forced Janie to have an abortion.
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Kinky Spanking / int_b9e56474
 Californication
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Like Parent, Like Spouse / int_b9e56474
 Californication
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Likes Older Men / int_b9e56474
 Californication
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Lousy Lovers Are Losers / int_b9e56474
 Californication
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Meet Cute / int_b9e56474
 Californication
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Mid-Life Crisis Car / int_b9e56474
 Californication
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Most Writers Are Writers / int_b9e56474
 Californication
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Naughty Nuns / int_b9e56474
 Californication
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Naughty Under the Table / int_b9e56474
 Californication
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Pac-Man Fever / int_b9e56474
 Californication
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Platonic Prostitution / int_b9e56474
 Californication
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Purple Prose / int_b9e56474
 Californication
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Seduction-Proof Marriage / int_b9e56474
 Californication
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Series of the 2000s / int_b9e56474
 Californication
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Sex for Solace / int_b9e56474
 Californication
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Sexy Secretary / int_b9e56474
 Californication
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Sleeping with the Boss's Wife / int_b9e56474
 Californication
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Slipping a Mickey / int_b9e56474
 Californication
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Slow Clap / int_b9e56474
 Californication
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Staging an Intervention / int_b9e56474
 Californication
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Starring a Star as a Star / int_b9e56474
 Californication
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The Joy of X / int_b9e56474
 Californication
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The Muse / int_b9e56474
 Californication
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The One That Got Away / int_b9e56474
 Californication
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The Pornomancer / int_b9e56474
 Californication
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The Swear Jar / int_b9e56474
 Californication
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Three-Way Sex / int_b9e56474
 Californication
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Titled After the Song / int_b9e56474
 Californication
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Totally 18 / int_b9e56474
 Californication
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Writers Suck / int_b9e56474