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City Guys
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City Guys was an American teen sitcom that ran from September 1997 to December 2001 on NBC, as part of the network's Saturday morning Saved by the Bell-clone block, TNBC. Created by Peter Engel (who was responsible for the vast majority of TNBC's shows, except for a small few such as NBA Inside Stuff) and Scott Spencer Gorden (a former writer for SBTB), the series centered on a group of students at the fictional Manhattan High School in an unidentified section of the New York City borough of Manhattan, specifically Chris Anderson (Scott Whyte), an otherwise normal upper-crust teen from Park Avenue, and Jamal Grant (Wesley Jonathan), who comes from a working class family in Harlem. Both boys transfer to Manhattan High (or "Manny High," as the school is usually called in-series) in the pilot episode "New Kids," where they're both revealed to have been troublemakers (Chris was kicked out of two schools, and actually was dishonorably discharged from military school, while Jamal was suspended during his first two years at his last high school and expelled junior year). Chris and Jamal don't get along at first, but despite their different upbringings, the two eventually become friends after realizing they're not that different.Helping round out their group are Cassidy Guiliani (Marissa Dyan), an aspiring actress who serves as Chris' love interest; Alberto "Al" Ramos (Dion Basco), a cool guy grifter; and Dawn Tartikoff (Caitlin Mowrey), a smart girl who initially served as a Soapbox Sadie, before being turned into more of the smart girl. Lionel "El-Train" Johnson (Steven Daniel) is introduced in the pilot as the aforementioned school bully whom Chris saves Jamal from, but is given a Heel–Face Turn, becoming a likeable lunkhead (a seventh year senior at the start of the series) known for his constant malaprops. Finally, there's Karen Noble (Marcella Lowery) is Manny High's no-nonsense principal and Reasonable Authority Figure, who routinely catches Chris, Jamal and the others in their schemes.The show is notable among TNBC shows for featuring virtually the same cast throughout its run (whereas the others have had some cast changes) and its racially diverse cast (consisting of three Caucasians, four African-Americans and one Filipino).Also has a character sheet. | |
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Look Behind You | |
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Look Behind You: The B-plot of the episode "The Roommate" involves Al taking photos of Cassidy and Dawn as they're working as models for an agency. Late in the episode, Cassidy and Dawn confront Al at the Manhattan Diner because the agency has the girls' image photo-shopped for a "before" picture for a weight-loss program. Seeing himself in trouble, Al points to the restroom and say "ooh, Leonardo DiCaprio", and then hightails it out of the diner the moment the girls turn around at the direction of the restroom, prompting the girls to run after him. | |
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All Men Are Perverts | |
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All Men Are Perverts: Played heavily straight in "Raise the Roofies," in which Cassidy's Guy of the Week Trent tries to use the date rape drug Rohypnol to have his way with Cassidy. | |
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Gratuitous Spanish | |
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Gratuitous Spanish: "Old Friends" has Cassidy trying to teach El-Train how to speak Spanish. He tries out his new "skills" in the language to a Latina waitress at the diner, while making an order. As she points out to him, he inadvertently orders "tres chili cheese gatos" – or three chili cheese cats – rather than three chili cheese hot dogs. | |
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Right Behind Me | |
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Right Behind Me: A textbook example when Jamal leads the class in a protest against Ms. Noble canceling the homecoming game. He does a huge speech about fighting for their rights, tossing up his hands to declare "Who's with me?" Seeing everyone looking away, a still-smiling Jamal states "Noble's behind me, isn't she? | |
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Title Drop | |
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Title Drop: "Gift of Friendship,": The episode title is said verbatim by Al when he realizes that accepting charity from people isn't embarrassing, when people do it because they care about the person in need. "Presumed Innocent": The episode title is said verbatim by Dawn, when referring to the principal rule of the legal system, after a student named Louis (whom Jamal and Chris accuse of being a skinhead) is accused of spray-painting "jerk" on Jamal's locker. | |
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Comic-Book Time | |
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Comic-Book Time: In season one, the characters are implied to be in their senior year of high school, if not in their second semester of junior year (it is mentioned in the pilot that Jamal was expelled from his last school during junior year). However, the characters' grade levels are never explicitly mentioned until season five. The ages of characters are rarely mentioned as well; though in "Mo' Money, Mo' Problems," Ms. Noble states Cassidy's age as being "barely 17". NBC didn't help matters for viewers trying to figure out which grade they're in by merging halves of two different seasons into one beginning with season three (which is comprised of episodes produced during the second half of season two and the first half of season three); this is particularly glaring with "Frisky Business", which is set on the first day of a new school year but aired midway through season four. Against logic, Chris, Jamal, Al, Dawn and Cassidy stay at Manny High for all five seasons (this is excuseable with El-Train, as his lack of intelligence resulted in him having been held back a grade multiple times). | |
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The Bully | |
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The Bully: Only a handful of the show's incidental characters are this, and only when the plot calls for one to be included. El-Train started out as this before he was retooled as the lunkhead goofball. | |
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Green-Eyed Monster | |
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Green-Eyed Monster: A few instances: Al becomes jealous of Nate, a new student whom Dawn has been hanging out with (to get him acclimated at Manny High and to plan the school dance), in "Making Up is Hard to Do". His worries are alleviated when Nate informs Al that Dawn talked about him the whole time they were working together... which leads Al to bail on a plan to spray Nate with ink when he opens the raffle box. The misunderstanding that led to Al and Dawn breaking up is rectified by the end of the episode. Dawn becomes this in "Red Dawn," after Al (whom she mutually broke up with in "E-Breakup") begins seeing a girl named Brittany. Cassidy tries to help Dawn get a date to the school dance to make Al jealous. After that fails, Dawn hatches a plan to break the two up by sending herself flowers claiming to be from Al. After Al finds out and confronts Dawn, Brittany breaks up with him. After Cassidy helps her realize that Al needs to move on at his own pace, Dawn decides to give Brittany her blessing to date him. | |
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Gender-Equal Ensemble | |
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Gender-Equal Ensemble: Subverted. This was the case during the first season, but this was thrown off in season two when El-Train became a main character, resulting in the cast consisting of four males and three females. | |
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Heterosexual Life-Partners | |
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Heterosexual Life-Partners: Chris and Jamal. | |
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With Great Power Comes Great Insanity | |
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With Great Power Comes Great Insanity: When Al and El-Train are appointed school monitors in "Reluctant Hero," the two end up abusing their responsibilities by "confiscating" soda cans to give to two girls, and accepting fudge brownies from a student as a bribe to get out of a littering citation. Cassidy and Dawn teach the guys a lesson by having the same student who gave them the brownies and donuts give them chile-spiced Philly cheesesteaks, and toying them with some sodas. | |
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Screw the Rules, I Have Money! | |
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Screw the Rules, I Have Money!!: After Chris gets a failing grade on his midterm, his father decides to put him back at his old prep school. Mr. Anderson ends up pulling some strings to have his teachers give him good grades by donating money to the school for a new wing. | |
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Promotion to Opening Titles | |
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Promotion to Opening Titles: Steven Daniel (who plays Lionel "El-Train" Johnson) is upgraded to a series regular in season two. | |
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Parental Abandonment | |
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"Miracle on 134th Street and Lexington Avenue," from season three, involves Chris and Cassidy helping grant a Christmas wish by a little girl named Allison for the father who left her and her mother because his janitor job couldn't provide for his family return home. | |
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Auction | |
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Auction: In "Get to Preppin'," Al and El-Train sell a 1975 basketball trophy on an online auction site. When they find out that Manny High's 1975 basketball team is coming to take a photo with the trophy to be featured in the local newspaper after they had already sold it, El-Train has a decoy made. The problem? He used a gold balloon as a makeshift basketball, which ends up floating away when uncovered. Ms. Noble lowers the boom and reveals that she bought it back online, knowing that Al and El-Train sold the trophy anyway after she told them not to use the homeroom computer for personal (i.e., non-research) use. | |
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Catapult Nightmare | |
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Catapult Nightmare: El-Train has one in "An SAT Carol," at the end of A Christmas Carol parody. | |
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Yet Another Christmas Carol | |
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Yet Another Christmas Carol: A twist in that the episode itself isn't set around Christmas. "An SAT Carol" features a dream sequence in which Ms. Noble as the funkily-dressed Ghost of SAT Future shows El-Train, who had given up on studying for the SATs earlier in the episode, two scenarios on what life will be like if he doesn't take the test. | |
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Got Me Doing It | |
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Got Me Doing It: Invoked by Jamal in "Frisky Business," after Dawn repeatedly calls Cassidy a "freak" (see under Department of Redundancy Department): | |
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Brilliant, but Lazy | |
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Brilliant, but Lazy: Severl episodes depict him as Book Dumb, though "Get to Preppin'" paints him as this, through a self-realization that he later explains to his father about when he doesn't feel right about getting good grades for work he's not doing to rightfully earn them. | |
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Lethal Chef | |
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Lethal Chef: During the school fundraising auction, Ms. Noble sells her homemade cookies. Only El-Train bothers to bid on them, prompting a frustrated Ms. Noble to close the bid on El-Train's offer. El-Train grabs the cookies, takes a bite, and then loudly proclaims: "Just the way I like them -- hard as rocks!", much to Ms. Noble's chagrin. | |
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Official Couple | |
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Official Couple: | |
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Agony of the Feet | |
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Agony of the Feet: Twice in one episode, as the result of an Operation: Jealousy gone awry (see below). | |
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Hormone-Addled Teenager | |
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Hormone-Addled Teenager: This is a high school sitcom. So, yeah. | |
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Noodle Incident | |
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Noodle Incident: In "Old Friends," Chris asks Al about his meeting with the FBI about an unspecified incident that got him banned from the United Nations Building: | |
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Driving Test | |
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Driving Test: As mentioned in Drives Like Crazy above, Cassidy manages to blunder her driver's test using a computer simulation (the experience is not made more relaxing by El-Train's yelling), and ends up inadvertently destroying the simulator by short-circuit. | |
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Malaproper | |
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Malaproper: El-Train is the clown prince of these in the TNBC universe. | |
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Unexpectedly Obscure Answer | |
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Unexpectedly Obscure Answer: During a quiz bowl competition in "Keep on the Download," the final question is give one of three nicknames for catfish. Dawn and a student from Washington High are stumped, but El-Train of all people correctly answers all three ("bullhead," "mudcat" and "mud puppy"), winning Manny High the competition. | |
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Compressed Vice | |
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Compressed Vice: Cassidy's caffeine pill addiction in "Over the Speed Limit". | |
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Funny Foreigner | |
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Funny Foreigner: The Romanians in "Down and Out in Soho," though they're a lot smarter and more tech savvy than everyone thinks. Rashid in "Jamal Got His Gun" and Enzo Perelli in "Mo' Money Mo Problems" also. | |
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In-Universe | |
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Invoked In-Universe. During a Quiz Bowl in "Keep on the Download," Manny High's team (consisting of Dawn, Al and El-Train, the latter two of whom replaced Cassidy and Martin after they quit due to Dawn's rigid teaching) is asked, "in which Dakota is Mount Rushmore located?" El-Train's answer?... | |
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Characterization Marches On: In "New Kids," El-Train was depicted as the school bully. Episodes afterward depict him as the dumb goofball that fans knew for the rest of the series. A Call-Back to his former bully persona in "Bully, Bully" leads to a Face–Heel Revolving Door, when he briefly falls back into his old ways after knocking out a guy who stole his basketball from Al, whom El-Train loaned it to, and begins running with the crowd of the guy he hit. | |
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Local Hangout | |
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Local Hangout: The Manhattan Diner, which is owned by Jamal's father Virgil and where Jamal works as a busboy. The main characters and other students serving as extras also hang out on the school's rooftop between breaks in the school day. | |
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One Head Taller | |
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One Head Taller: El-Train (and by association, Steven Daniel) is the tallest of any of the characters in the series, and is about a foot taller than the shortest of the group, Al (and his actor, Dion Basco). | |
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Acquired Situational Narcissism | |
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Acquired Situational Narcissism: Occurs to Jamal in "Mr. Baseball," after he leads Manny High's baseball game to victory. He becomes humbled though, when he fails to help the team win their next game, causing him to make the rash decision to quit the team. | |
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The Dentist Episode | |
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The Dentist Episode: The B-Plot in the episode "Shock Jock" involves El-Train getting a toothache early on in the episode, with Cassidy strong-arming him into going to a dentist due to his fear of seeing one. He gets over his fear late in the episode... after realizing that the dentist he's scheduled to see is a beautiful young woman. | |
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Stock Sitcom Grand Finale | |
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Stock Sitcom Grand Finale: The show managed to do two of these. "Goodbye Manny High" has the gang graduating with Ms. Noble announcing her retirement. It ends with shots of the various school sets as we hear voiceovers of the cast from past episodes of great moments of the show. The actual final episode "And There Were None" has the gang meeting up at the diner a few months later for a Clip Show. It ends with them one-by-one parting ways, Chris and Jamal bidding a final farewell with Jamal telling a diner worker that "they'll be coming back." | |
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Not What It Looks Like | |
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Not What It Looks Like: In "Harlem Honey," Chris and Jamal decide to create a fake profile on a dating website to cheer up Jamal's father after a breakup. Jamal comes up with a line for Chris to write as "harlemhoney," when Al overhears them in the homeroom: | |
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Gratuitous Japanese: Dawn carries a conversation like this with a Japanese chef named John Wang (which she points out is not a Japanese surname) in "Model Behavior," much to the confusion of El-Train (and probably any audience members who don't know the language, since the subtitles shown during the exchange are mostly in Japanese characters) and the surprise of Al. | |
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High School | |
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Beta Couple: Dawn and Al, during the second half of season four and the early episodes of season five. | |
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Recycled IN SPACE! | |
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Recycled IN SPACE!!: Quite clearly Saved by the Bell if set on the East Coast and with a more diverse cast. | |
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Recycled Plot: Although similar plots have been done on other teen sitcoms, the B-plot involving Dawn in "Bully, Bully" in which Chris and Jamal teach Dawn about the ins and outs of football to prepare for a date with a player on Manny High's football team, is similar to the B-plot in the Hang Time episode "Fighting Words," in which Mary Beth and Julie teach Kristy how to relate to the same interests as her date (ironically played by Chris' portrayer, Scott Whyte). Both episodes even have the latter character in the respective plots incorrectly guess the day most NFL games are held. The plot involving Cassidy's caffeine pill addiction in "Over the Speed Limit" is basically recycled from the Saved by the Bell episode "Jessie's Song". The story of L-Train's blues music idol stealing his songs is taken from a popular California Dreams episode. | |
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Near-Death Experience: Chris, El-Train and Jamal experience this in "Almost Fatal," when a car nearly crashes into them and a lost dog they saw on a poster seconds earlier outside the diner. Jamal starts stops taking things for granted and mellows out, El-Train suddenly becomes scared of anything that could kill him, and Chris decides against going to college and starts doing death-defying stunts such as skydiving, racing cars and ski jumping (despite never having skiied before). | |
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Courtroom Episode | |
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"Presumed Innocent" deals with the topic of judging people by their appearance (see Courtroom Episode for more). | |
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Can't Get Away with Nuthin' | |
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Can't Get Away with Nuthin': Almost every episode featuring some scheme concocted by Chris, Jamal or their friends ends up like this. | |
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Cold Turkeys Are Everywhere | |
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Cold Turkeys Are Everywhere: In "Papa Please," while Dawn is trying to help her quit smoking, Ms. Noble imagines Al as a cigarette (which Dawn had him dress as for a lecture about the dangers of smoking), tempting Noble to smoke until Dawn snaps her out of the hallucination. In "Jamal X," El-Train and Al enter into a mattress store's contest, in which the winner gets $500 if they can stay awake for five days. The two try to psych each other out to get the other to fall asleep, until Cassidy and Dawn suggest that they should help each other stay awake instead. Three days in, Al ends up hallucinating, seeing El-Train as Ms. Noble. They fail in the end, when El-Train suggests they swap the sleep-tracking beeper given to Al as part of the contest in order to take turns sleeping, he fails to stay awake himself and the mice that El-Train put the beeper on run loose from the school and get run over by a paving machine. | |
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Parental Issues: Chris' issues with his parents are touched upon in a few early episodes; his parents' inattentiveness to him due to their careers is depicted in "For the Love of Mother" (in regards to his jealousy towards her treating Jamal as a surrogate mom, and her attention towards charitable causes in that episode) and "The Communication Gap" (in regards to his dad). There's also his hard time dealing with his parents' divorce in "The Divorce". In "Get To Preppin'" Chris's father becomes a domineering dad who forces Chris to go back to prep school, though he changes his mind after Chris faces up to him. Dawn's mother's alcoholism is depicted in the season three finale "Mom on the Rocks". | |
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Death Glare | |
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Death Glare: Ms. Noble gives one at times. | |
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Beware the Silly Ones | |
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Bewarethe Silly Ones: El-Train may be a loveable goofball for much of the series, but "Bully, Bully" makes a Call-Back to the pilot, when he was the meanest bully at Manny High. A few episodes have El-Train intimidating some students to get people to do what he wants, such as "Dance Fever," when he gets a boy to donate his jacket while volunteering for a clothing drive. | |
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Serious Business | |
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Serious Business: El-Train treats driver's ed this way when serving as the T.A. in class in "Big Brothers". It pays off in the end as the entire class passes, even Cassidy, who blew the driving simulator... up. | |
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Punny Name: When Dawn and Cassidy begin their assignments as Ms. Noble's appointed assistant principals in "Just for the Record," Dawn reads from a roll call sheet that is filled with these kind of names. Hilariously, Dawn, who's supposed to be the smart girl, fails to realize that "Oliver Clothesov" ("all of her clothes off") and "Anita Mann" ("I need a man") are joke names until Cassidy points it out to her. | |
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Parental Dating Veto: Mr. Giuliani's disapproves of Cassidy's relationship with Chris in "Papa Please," telling her not to see him after a bad first meeting. Cassidy agrees to a plan cooked up by Jamal to date Chris behind her dad's back while having someone weird, i.e. El-Train, pretend to be her new boyfriend. The plan begins backfiring when Mr. Guiliani actually takes to El-Train over their shared interest in golf, and in full when he later catches Chris and Cassidy on a date. | |
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Christmas Episode: Two during the series: "Gift of Friendship," from season two, centers around Jamal discovering that the Ramos family is in need after Al's dad is laid off of his factory job due to outsourcing, a situation which leads him to drop out of school to get a job. When his friends find out, they give the Ramos' a Christmas tree and presents, and Ms. Noble (as Santa) offers Mr. Ramos the one Christmas gift he really needs... a temp job at Manny High until he can get full-time work. "Miracle on 134th Street and Lexington Avenue," from season three, involves Chris and Cassidy helping grant a Christmas wish by a little girl named Allison for the father who left her and her mother because his janitor job couldn't provide for his family return home. | |
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Performance Anxiety | |
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Performance Anxiety: Serves as the plot driver in "An SAT Carol," which leads to the dream in which El-Train is shown what life would be like if he didn't take the SATs. | |
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New Transfer Student | |
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New Transfer Student: Chris and Jamal transfer to Manny High in "New Kids," after being expelled from their previous schools. Chris had previously been kicked out of two private schools – Bennington Prep and Danforth Prep – and was dishonorably discharged from Norwalk Military School (one of the expulsion-worthy infractions was for flooding the soccer field at one of the schools during a game, justifying it as a "mercy flood" since the team was losing), while Jamal was expelled from Brooklyn High during junior year (and was suspended during his freshman and sophomore years for getting into fights). | |
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Vandalism Backfire | |
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Vandalism Backfire: In "Keep on the Download," Chris and Jamal break into the radio studio at Washington Prep one night, as part of an escalating series of pranks between them and their rivals at Washington's school radio station WFAK. Jamal decides to cut a wire on the studio's broadcasting equipment, and accidentally short-circuit the entire thing when they turn it on. In fairness, Jamal was the one who came up with the idea to mess up the radio equipment, it just ended up going more wrong than he intended. | |
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Token Minority: A subversion since almost half of the show's seven cast members are black; Filipino-American Dion Basco (Al), however, fits as he is the only Asian in the main cast. | |
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"Rashomon"-Style: "Subway Confessions" has Chris, Jamal, Dawn, Cassidy, El-Train and Al make increasingly outlandish recounts (lies) to Ms. Noble on why they were three hours late to school (they left to get tickets to a concert). An cop who recounts the real story explains that the reason they were late was because they (sort of) assisted her, while working undercover as a bag lady on the subway train, in helping a pregnant clown give birth to a baby boy.note Chris and Jamal had told a half-true version of this story to Ms. Noble, claiming they were the ones who delivered the baby (which given the seeming absurdity of the story, she didn't believe one bit until the cop told her the actual version of said event). | |
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Large Ham | |
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Large Ham: El-Train has his moments. Dawn, as well, especially in season one. | |
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Pygmalion Snap Back: Subverted in "This Old Nerd," Jamal helps nerdy debate team member (and grade school friend) Vincent act cooler to improve his place in Manny High's popularity chain, in a bet with Chris and Al. With his new look and persona as Vince, he gets the girl of his dreams, but starts shuns his nerd friends and quits the debate team, costing him a chance at a scholarship that could get him into college. After Vince finds out about the bet, Jamal convinces him to mix his smart persona in with his cool persona. It works, and Vince and Dawn end up winning the debate finals, earning him the scholarship. | |
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New Year Has Come: The wraparound plot device in "Party Like It's 1999," surrounding the characters having a New Year's party on the school roof. | |
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Cool Car | |
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Cool Car: The titular car in "Red Ferrari," which Chris takes out at Jamal's suggestion when his parents forget his birthday and gets involved in a hit-and-run while Chris and Jamal are inside the diner. Al hires El-Train, who was working at a garage that repairs classic cars, to fix the car, which they manage to fix... as Chris and his friends try to stall his parents. The plan backfires when Mr. Anderson catches Al in the car. | |
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Prison Episode: "Men Behind Bars" has Chris and Jamal end up in jail after getting caught by a cop breaking into the Manhattan Diner to retrieve Jamal's camera, and in possession of fake IDs they were going to use to get into the Fashion Cafe to meet supermodels. Al and El-Train are thrown in jail as well when El-Train is busted impersonating as Chris and Jamal's lawyer and reveals that Al sold them the IDs. To make matters worse, Chris and Jamal were supposed to be at the school fundraising auction to bid on Dawn and Cassidy, to avoid being bought by two slick guys, Vinnie and Rocco, who want more than tutoring from them. Even worse, Ms. Noble finds out that Chris, Jamal, Al and El-Train are in jail. "This Old Nerd" has Ms. Noble pretend to be jailed as payback after she finds out that El-Train bought a watch from a beared woman who robbed it from a jewelry store a week earlier as a birthday present from the group. | |
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California University: Cassidy's boyfriend Trent in "Raise the Roofies" attends NYCU (New York City University, as opposed to the Real Life New York University), which Ms. Noble states she was her alma mater. | |
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Ageless Birthday Episode | |
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Ageless Birthday Episode: "The Third Wheel" has Dawn and El-Train arguing over whom Al should spend his birthday with. The episode makes no mention of Al's age, though. | |
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Practical Joke: Jamal, Al and Chris try to concoct a senior prank on Ms. Noble, whose never been pranked during her tenure as Manny High's principal, in "Prose and Cons". After two other attempts fail thanks to Cassidy and Dawn, Noble commends Chris and Jamal for being mature enough to resist pranking her... just as Al is busy turning her homeroom into a farm, complete with hay, roosters, ducks and even a horse! Then, she comes back to school to find out what the boys did... | |
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Inspirationally Disadvantaged: Tommy, the wheelchair-bound son of the toy store's owner in "Rollin' With the Homies". Much to his chagrin, when Chris and Jamal treat him differently because of his disability. | |
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Mood Whiplash: Particularly noticeable in the more serious episodes in which a comic scene is injected between the serious scenes. | |
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Karma Houdini | |
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Karma Houdini: A few times. Yuri the con-artist in "Down and Out in Soho" gets way with stealing the volunteer house's television and computer. The guy who robs Jamal in "Jamal Gets His Gun" is never caught. | |
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Only Known by Their Nickname: Everybody, except Ms. Noble and his own mother, calls Lionel Johnson "El-Train" and everybody, except Ms. Noble and occasionally himself and some guest characters, calls Alberto Ramos "Al". | |
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Two First Names: Jamal Grant. Chris Anderson could qualify, though Anderson is not as common a first name. | |
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Adults Are Useless: Averted thanks to Ms. Noble and (usually) Jamal's dad. Pretty much every other adult qualifies, though. | |
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Holiday Volunteering | |
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Holiday Volunteering: In "Gift of Friendship," Dawn, Cassidy, and unwittingly Chris and Jamal serve as volunteers for the school's food drive. It drives the plot surrounding Al's family, who is going through tough times, by way of Jamal taking some of the donations to the Ramos' apartment third-way through the episode. | |
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Repeat What You Just Said: Invoked by El-Train in "Old Friends," while Cassidy is giving him a Spanish lesson to prepare for an upcoming test: | |
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Embarrassing Middle Name: Chris' middle name is referred to as "Mortimer" in "Get to Preppin'". However, this retcons the pilot "New Kids," in which his middle name is said to be Robert. | |
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Big Brother Mentor | |
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Big Brother Mentor: Chris and Jamal try to be this to a pre-teen kid named Ernesto, whom they were assigned as part of a Big Brother program in "Big Brothers". It doesn't go smoothly when they don't take the job seriously at first, and then disagree over how to act toward him (Jamal thinks he needs to act as an authority figure, while Chris thinks Ernesto just needs someone to hang out with) when Ms. Noble scolds them into doing better. By the end of the episode, they discover that Ernesto has a talent for art when seeing a mural he spray-painted on the wall of school roof, and team him up with Dawn's adopt-a-grandparent, who used to be an artist, to help mentor him. | |
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Closer to Earth | |
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Closer to Earth: Ms. Noble compared to the rest of the characters, even Cassidy, who herself is usually the more down to earth one out of her friends. | |
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Blue Blood | |
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Blue Blood: The Andersons. | |
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Sticky Situation | |
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Sticky Situation: In "Almost Fatal," Dawn gets her head stuck in a horse head that's part of a costume for Cassidy's latest play. This leads Al to come up with the idea to have Cassidy pretend to be Dawn during an interview with a Harvard recruiter, which bombs when Cassidy (who's an actress!) forgets what she's supposed to say. After the horse head is removed from Dawn's (with turkey grease applied by the lunch lady as lubricant), Ms. Noble tries on the same head at the end of the episode and gets her head stuck. | |
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Oh, Crap! | |
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Oh, Crap!: Chris and Jamal's reaction to accidentally blowing up WFAK's radio equipment in "Keep on the Download" equates to this. | |
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Expository Theme Tune | |
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Expository Theme Tune: The rap/R&B-style theme, in a way, summarizes Chris and Jamal's personalities as regular guys from the city. | |
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Catchphrase | |
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Catchphrase: El-Train's "don't try to fool a fool, fool!" during the later episodes. | |
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Genki Girl | |
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Genki Girl: Dawn Tartikoff fits this, especially in season one. | |
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The Ace | |
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The Ace: Al and Jamal are both depicted as this in separate episodes: Al in "Kickin' It" and Jamal in "Mr. Baseball". | |
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The Bet | |
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The Bet: In "This Old Nerd," Jamal bets Chris and Al that he can't make his grade school friend, nerdy debate team member Vincent, cool. See Pygmalion Snap Back for more. Cassidy bets Chris and Jamal that they can't get Ms. Noble in shape for her class reunion in "Kickin' It". Cassidy has Noble get fit the hard way by having her take an aerobics class and putting her on a strict diet; while Chris and Jamal, with El-Train's help, demonstrate a machine that flexes muscles with electric shocks (which isn't government-approved for obvious reasons) and drink a smelly herbal drink. Ms. Noble decides to go to the reunion the way she is, and reveals that she wanted to get in shape to impress an former crush. | |
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Operation: Jealousy | |
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Operation: Jealousy: The B-plot of the episode "Jamal Got His Gun" has a guy of the week hitting it off with Cassidy, only to reveal near the end that he intends to have Cassidy along with him to make his ex-girlfriend jealous. Cassidy, upon realizing his intention, responds by stomping on his foot before storming off. When Dawn asks him what he'd like, he asks Dawn to pretend to be Cassidy to enable him to carry out his plan. Dawn reacts the same way Cassidy does. | |
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Love Triangle | |
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Love Triangle: In "Party of Three," Jamal advises a girl named Samantha, who calls anonymously into his and Chris' radio show, to dump her current boyfriend and pursue the guy she has a crush on. When Jamal discovers that he is the crush and Al was the boyfriend in question, he tries to act inattentive during his date with Samantha to get her to stop liking him... naturally, the plan backfires. Al finds out everything when he sees them at the diner. After Al is caught shoving Jamal outside of the school, Jamal and Chris explain everything. | |
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Girl of the Week | |
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Girl of the Week: Or, for that matter, guy. Almost every main character has had at least one of these. | |
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Tyrant Takes the Helm | |
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Tyrant Takes the Helm: "A Noble Profession" has an interesting variation: Ms. Noble's replacement, Mr. Brown, isn't strict so much as lazy and apathetic towards his students. | |
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Accidental Hero | |
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Accidental Hero: In "Reluctant Hero," Jamal takes down a mugger while coming home with Chris, using techniques he learned in a self-defense class, whose attractive female instructor Jamal had went out to the movies with earlier that night. Problem is, his dad grounded Jamal for being late to a volunteer gig at the church. So, Jamal has Chris pretend to be the hero. Jamal eventually admits the truth to his dad. | |
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Idiosyncratic Wipes | |
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Idiosyncratic Wipes: Very late '90s flash-cut sequences featuring aerials and ground views of the New York City skyline and its buildings (including those used for the exterior shots of some of the settings used for a particular scene). | |
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Big Applesauce | |
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Big Applesauce: The show is set in New York City (but filmed on a Hollywood soundstage). Various buildings in the city are featured virtually throughout the show's opening titles and Idiosyncratic Wipes, and many of NYC's landmarks, streets and sports teams (among other things) are referenced in certain episodes. | |
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Cool and Unusual Punishment | |
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Cool and Unusual Punishment: Several. | |
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Who Names Their Kid "Dude"? | |
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Who Names Their Kid "Dude"??: In "Mo' Money, Mo' Problems," Chris asks this about El-Train's cousin Lumpy during a story about how El-Train injured his nose while playing basketball. El-Train responds that if he was born a girl, Lumpy's parents were going to name him Lumpina. | |
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Chuck Cunningham Syndrome | |
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Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Tina (played by Gina McLain), a main character who served as Chris' original Unrequited Love Interest in the episode, was written out after the Pilot Episode "New Kids" without any explanation. Cassidy, who is introduced in the following episode "For the Love of Mother," is more or less her Suspiciously Similar Substitute. | |
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And Starring | |
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And Starring: "and Marcella Lowery as Ms. Noble". | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: "Mo' Money, Mo' Problems" features Chris, Jamal, El-Train and Al stage an infomercial at the diner called Amazing Inventions, a parody of the Amazing Discoveries series of infomercials from the early and mid-1990s, to sell their Glo-sketballs. The "B" plot in "Red Dawn" features references and is a homage to Survivor, as Ms. Noble challenges Chris, Jamal and El-Train to spend five days in the woods without technology and try to use survival skills to get by. However in the episode, Jamal actually votes himself out of the competition, something that isn't allowed on the real-life show. | |
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Freudian Slippery Slope | |
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Freudian Slippery Slope: This instance in "A Guy and a Goth," when Chris and Jamal meet a girl named Zoe, a goth whom Jamal set Chris up on a date with sight unseen: | |
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Two Lines, No Waiting | |
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Two Lines, No Waiting/Three Lines, Some Waiting: Many episodes had three plotlines: the "A" plot was split pretty evenly among the characters, but most often focused on Chris and Jamal; the "B" plot often involved Cassidy and Dawn, and a "C" plot usually involved Al and/or El-Train. However, this varied a lot as the supporting younger characters and even Mrs. Noble had their own individual or joint "A" plots in a few episodes. There were some exceptions as certain episodes featured a single plot or an "A" story and "B" story. In Very Special Episodes with two or three plots, one plotline was serious and the others were comedic. | |
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Tell Him I'm Not Speaking to Him | |
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Tell Him I'm Not Speaking to Him: A hilarious instance in "Making Up is Hard to Do", when Cassidy and El-Train try to help Al and Dawn talk things out, when Dawn breaks up with Al over his jealousy of a new male student she has been spending time with. As the following lines show, involving El-Train was a very bad idea. | |
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GoshDangItToHeck | |
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Gosh Dang It to Heck!!: Zigzagged, sorta, as the word "heck" is used instead of "hell" and Unusual Euphemisms are used to the effect of saying something is "bulls**t," but episodes have also featured occasional utterings of "freakin'" (a word not commonly used in teen-coms) in lieu of "f**kin'," as well as the still relatively tame "suck". The only real standout is in "Presumed Innocent," in which Jamal uses "crap" when describing the stereotyping people do to him because of the way he looks (as he had done to another student). | |
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Buccaneer Broadcaster | |
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Buccaneer Broadcaster: In "Shocked Jock," Chris and Jamal get their own show on Manny High's new radio station. After the school board's president Ms. Nusspy shuts down WMNE when the boys play a song not on the school-approved playlist called "School Sucks," Chris starts a pirate radio show under the pseudonym "The Voice". He only gets to enjoy his success for a few days before a parrot in Ms. Noble's classroom accidentally gives away the location of his latest broadcast on-air and Noble busts him. | |
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That Came Out Wrong | |
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That Came Out Wrong: In "Assault and Pepper Spray," Michael tells Coach Katowinski to "watch [coach] Larry Bird closely" for coaching ideas as Coach K prepares to leave for an Indiana Pacers game. Trying to Verbal Backspace as he realizes that came off as an insult to his coaching skills, Michael has Julie step in, causing this before they both run off: | |
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Implausible Deniability | |
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Implausible Deniability: In "Reluctant Hero," after newly-minted student monitors Al and El-Train get two girls some soda by "confiscating" cans from some other students: | |
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Dreadful Musician | |
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Dreadful Musician: Nicely subverted in one episode of Chris, L-Train and Cassidy preparing to perform at an open-audition night at a club. However, Cassidy's horrible singing convinces the guys they'll be an embarrassment if they do this so they let her go on alone. At which point, Cassidy reveals she's a terrific singer and was faking being bad to trick the guys to let her perform solo. | |
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Vitriolic Best Buds | |
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Vitriolic Best Buds: Chris and Jamal, and Cassidy and Dawn may snipe at each other at times, but for the most part are very close friends, and are there for each other when push comes to shove. | |
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Unusual Euphemism | |
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Unusual Euphemism: Ms. Noble tends to use this at times to describe the trouble the kids are in or when she knows they're lying, most commonly "deep doo-doo". The topper is in "Subway Confessions," when Noble uses virtually every (kid-friendly) euphemism for "crap" possible when fed up with the kids' increasingly unplausible "Rashomon"-Style stories for being three hours late to school, the result of them being stuck on the subway: | |
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Start My Own | |
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Start My Own: Al creates and sells a glow-in-the-dark basketball called the Glo-sketball in "Mo' Money, Mo' Problems". When Chris and Jamal dislike Al sticking them with all the work, they start their own rival product called the Glo-trotter. | |
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Reasonable Authority Figure | |
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Reasonable Authority Figure: Ms. Noble. | |
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Chekhov's Gunman | |
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Chekhov's Gunman: In "Shocked Jock," Ms. Noble brings her very talkative parrot, Molly, to the school while her apartment is being painted. Chris ends up being busted doing a pirate radio broadcast over the P.A. system in Ms. Noble's classroom, when Molly constantly talks on-air. | |
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Drugs Are Bad | |
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Drugs Are Bad: Enforced in some Very Special Episodes, see that trope for more. | |
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Sexy Santa Dress | |
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Sexy Santa Dress: Cassidy wears one when she and Dawn bring over a turkey and Christmas decorations to Al's family in "Gift of Friendship". | |
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Goth | |
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Goth: In "A Guy and a Goth," Jamal sets Chris up on a date with a caller to their radio show named Zoe, not knowing that she is a goth until they meet her in-person. Chris and Zoe bond over common interests and being children of divorced parents (the reason Zoe gives as to why she became goth). After taking a ribbing from his friends, Chris fakes sick to avoid taking Zoe to Ms. Noble's anniversary party, which Jamal chastizes him for. Chris gets caught in the lie when she arrives at the party, leading to An Aesop drop by Ms. Noble about intolerance because of someone's appearance. After asking her to meet at the diner to apologize in-person on the radio show, Chris dresses like a goth out of support, just before Zoe arrives completely made over. | |
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Talking to the Dead | |
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Talking to the Dead: Happens to Jamal in "Future Shock," when his friend Charlie comes to Jamal in a dream to convince him to give the eulogy at his funeral. | |
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Stereo Fibbing | |
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Stereo Fibbing: Occurs in "Old Friends," when Ms. Noble asks Jamal and Chris where the camera loaned to them for their video yearbook project is: | |
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O.O.C. Is Serious Business | |
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O.O.C. Is Serious Business: In "Raise the Roofies," El-Train plays against a girl named Alexandra in a chess match. He refuses to trash talk her because his mom taught him not to do that to women. Then, Alexandra trash talks El-Train's mom. Big mistake... El-Train is ever so pissed that he trash talks Alexandra's mom, and beats her in the game handily in only two moves. | |
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Artistic License – Geography | |
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Artistic License – Geography: Invoked In-Universe. During a Quiz Bowl in "Keep on the Download," Manny High's team (consisting of Dawn, Al and El-Train, the latter two of whom replaced Cassidy and Martin after they quit due to Dawn's rigid teaching) is asked, "in which Dakota is Mount Rushmore located?" El-Train's answer?... No wonder why El-Train got held back twice. Not only does East Dakota not exist, but there is no U.S. state with the word "east" at the beginning of its name.note For reference, the only U.S. states with a direction in their name are North Carolina, North Dakota, South Carolina, South Dakota (the correct answer to the above question) and West Virginia. There are also no states with omni-directional names (i.e., "northeast," "southwest") in their name. He also thought Nebraska was pronounced "New-braska". | |
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Cosmetic Catastrophe | |
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Cosmetic Catastrophe: In "The Divorce," El-Train uses a hair care product called Whoopee-do, to keep his hair in tip-top style. Later, Ms. Noble catches him wearing a hat, a violation of the school dress code, and takes it off to reveal El-Train's hair resembles Buckwheat from The Little Rascals. For his sake, Noble lets the hat infraction slide for the day. | |
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High-School Dance | |
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High-School Dance: Several episodes have one, some of which usually result in some bungle. | |
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Attempted Rape | |
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"Raise the Roofies" deals with the topic of date rape and the use of "roofies" (also known as Rohypnol, "the date rape drug") (see Attempted Rape and Date Rape Averted for more). | |
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Get-Rich-Quick Scheme | |
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Get-Rich-Quick Scheme: Al was continually hatching these. They usually tended to blow up in his face by his own doing or some other circumstance. | |
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Drives Like Crazy | |
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Drives Like Crazy: Novice driver Cassidy in "Big Brothers". During the driver's ed class, she is a virtual Driving Disaster Area as shown in "Big Brothers"... and, we mean virtual in the literal sense. While using a driving simulator in class, Cassidy does so badly, making a litany of errors (including nearly crashing into a bus, nearly hitting an old woman on a crosswalk and driving on the sidewalk), that she manages to actually short-circuit the simulator, leading to Al remarking that she "took out more of New York than Godzilla did". In fairness, she did mention earlier in the episode that she sucks at driving simulators. She somehow later does pass, with the lowest passing score in the history of the driver's ed class. | |
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Group Hug | |
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Group Hug: Chris tries this, when a misunderstanding about Jamal dating Al's ex-girlfriend Samantha is resolved in "Party of Three": | |
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Comically Missing the Point | |
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Comically Missing the Point: El-Train is a master of this trope. | |
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Department of Redundancy Department | |
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Department of Redundancy Department: Invoked by Dawn in "Frisky Business," when Cassidy insults her with a crack about her "cheese hips" (after the two girls decide to be honest, which causes more problems than it solves): | |
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Skyward Scream | |
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Skyward Scream: Ms. Noble gives one when she spots a bear that Chris and El-Train thought they escaped from in the woods in the school hallway in "Red Dawn". | |
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