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Desperate Housewives

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Desperate Housewives	comment	Desperate Housewives is not a porn mag, but an American Sunday Evening Drama Series on ABC, about four bored wives — Susan (Teri Hatcher), Bree (Marcia Cross), Lynette (Felicity Huffman) and Gabrielle (Eva Longoria) — living in Wisteria Lane, a suburbia in the fictional city of Fairview, Eagle State that all experience endless drama in their lives after the suicide of their friend Mary Alice (Brenda Strong). The entire series is narrated by the dulcet tones of the aforementioned late friend.The show is basically a comedic soap, which means that unlike a regular soap, it prioritizes humor and has interesting plotlines. However, the situations are often just as ridiculous, and the relationships and plots just as hopelessly tangled-up and interwoven as any old-fashioned soap (though unlike daytime soaps, the fast pace tends to leave many confused if they miss a couple of episodes — probably why the clip show specials still proved relatively popular).Owing to creator Marc Cherry's penchant for comedy, the series pokes fun at itself and its characters about as often as it takes them seriously, probably the number one thing that attracted most of its initial viewership, aside from the fact that it throws vicious, subversive holes in the ideas of suburban paradise and maternal bliss. In fact, ratings dropped after Executive Meddling caused the second season to be more "dramatic" (read: melodramatic) leading to the panicked execs basically saying "OK, OK we'll go back to doing more comedy again, Marc. You win." Ratings apparently improved again after that point.Think Sex and the City meets Twin Peaks meets daytime soap meets parody of daytime soaps, set in the suburbs instead of the city, with housewives instead of single women, and narrated by a dead woman.Airing for eight seasons from 2004 to 2012, Desperate Housewives surpassed Charmed as the longest-running hour-long TV series with all-female leads. Alongside Lost, the show helped pull ABC out of an Audience-Alienating Era of low ratings and critical reviews. It also gained a PC game adaptation, bizarrely enough.WARNING: This show is basically one string of continuous spoilers, so it is hard to detail just about anything that happens without revealing one twist or another. So be prepared for unmarked spoilers below.Has a character sheet.
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Desperate Housewives / int_1237828f	comment	Anyone Can Die: Reserved for plot twist moments. While most of the time they only kill off villains and B-characters no one really cares about, every once in a while they'll surprise you by killing off someone important.
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Desperate Housewives / int_13973747	type	Necro Non Sequitur
Desperate Housewives / int_13973747	comment	Season 6 has Boom Crunch, which details how a series of events lead up to a plane crash in Wisteria Lane.
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Desperate Housewives / int_141a6acb	type	Madness Mantra
Desperate Housewives / int_141a6acb	comment	Madness Mantra: Eddie Orlofsky, before he strangles women who mock him.
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Desperate Housewives / int_149ff4b0	type	HilarityEnsues
Desperate Housewives / int_149ff4b0	comment	The show often juxtaposes scenes of differing moods (serious, comical, dramatic, emotional, contemplative, surreal, etc.). Many storylines in a single episode start off as one mood and end up in another. It is not uncommon to see one of the housewives get into some sort of extremely humorous antic (sometimes while playing detective), only to reveal deep trauma or a disturbing fact with another character. It is also not uncommon for a sequence of dramatic scenes serving as a set-up for a disastrous...
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Desperate Housewives / int_14beeefd	type	Darker and Edgier
Desperate Housewives / int_14beeefd	comment	Darker and Edgier: Season 2, which gradually became more melodramatic.
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Desperate Housewives / int_175683fa	type	Staging an Intervention
Desperate Housewives / int_175683fa	comment	Staging an Intervention: A spectacularly unsuccessful version and simultaneous case of Hypocrite Has a Point / Jerkass Has a Point / Both Sides Have a Point in season eight. After turning their backs on Bree in the aftermath of the Alejandro situation, Bree falls Off the Wagon and spirals out of control, nearly committing suicide in the process. The girls staunchly ignore her until they find out she's started drinking again, at which point they decide to try surprising her with an intervention. They do so, but when they try telling her how much they care about her Bree takes the opportunity to read them to filth. She shuts them down, rejects their help, and heads back to the bar.
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Desperate Housewives / int_19102429	type	Twist Ending
Desperate Housewives / int_19102429	comment	Twist Ending: The show tries, but over time the twists have became easier and easier to spot, the worst being season 5, when everyone had the whole mystery figured after the first episode. Season 6 finally was able to pull off a surprise when it came to Patrick's demise thanks to red herrings and misleading spoilers. In Season 5, it is explicitly stated from the start that Dave is planning to kill Mike, so the tension of this Season comes from Dramatic Irony, we watch as he gets close to the main characters, always knowing his motive.
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Desperate Housewives / int_19da80d3	type	Hypocrite Has a Point
Desperate Housewives / int_19da80d3	comment	Hypocrite Has a Point: See Staging an Intervention below. The girls had some gall trying to stage a loving intervention for Bree after shunning her for months during an extremely difficult time, but they were right about her drinking and self-destructive behavior.
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Desperate Housewives / int_1b4e322c	type	Mr. Fanservice
Desperate Housewives / int_1b4e322c	comment	Mr. Fanservice: Most of the guys, but Karl, Carlos, John, Mike and Danny (for the younger girls) stand out the most.
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Desperate Housewives / int_1c445e86	type	Poor Communication Kills
Desperate Housewives / int_1c445e86	comment	Poor Communication Kills: It would be impossible to list all the examples, but there are many.
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Desperate Housewives / int_2292c854	type	Between My Legs
Desperate Housewives / int_2292c854	comment	Between My Legs: Seen in the season 7 promo.
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Desperate Housewives / int_23698fa8	type	Aborted Arc
Desperate Housewives / int_23698fa8	comment	Aborted Arc: Holy hell, a domestic terrorist was killed in a carbomb in Wisteria Lane, the Solises have suddenly gone on the run and... oh wait, forget all of that, that was yesterday! Let's focus on Susan's problems, which are far more important! In the first season, Tom tells his father there is a thing Lynette is never supposed to know... and no follow up on that. Until the seventh season where we learn that Tom and Renee slept together when he and Lynette were broken up.
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Desperate Housewives / int_24181f1e	type	Graduate from the Story
Desperate Housewives / int_24181f1e	comment	Graduate from the Story: Having been a major character throughout Seasons 1 to 4, Season 4 had Susan's daughter Julie go off to Princeton and only appear in one episode of Season 5, which was set five years later. She drops out of med school before Season 6 and comes back on a more permanent basis for that season, before graduating from the story again at the end of Season 6 by going back to med school. She's then absent for all of Season 7 except one episode, and comes back late in Season 8 having finished school to help Susan after Mike's death. Danielle graduates more permanently; she leaves the story to go to Columbia at the end of Season 4 and then only appears in two episodes of Season 5, to show her taking Benjamin back from Bree, and then not at all until one episode of Season 8.
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Desperate Housewives / int_26d1f65f	type	Verbal Tic
Desperate Housewives / int_26d1f65f	comment	Verbal Tic: Mary Alice has a fondness of constantly beginning a narration with "Yes...".
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Desperate Housewives / int_26eb6287	type	Funny Background Event
Desperate Housewives / int_26eb6287	comment	Funny Background Event: In episode 6 of season 1, Bree explains why she loves sex so much. A guy behind her obviously has a great time listening in.
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Desperate Housewives / int_27690f66	type	Literary Allusion Title
Desperate Housewives / int_27690f66	comment	Literary Allusion Title / Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: Most episodes are named after titles of or lyrics from Stephen Sondheim songs. "Epiphany", takes the Sondheim allusions even further, as much like in Sweeney Todd, we learn the precise Rage Breaking Point that drove kindhearted Eddie Orlofsky to become a deranged serial killer.
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Desperate Housewives / int_294ed981	type	Bilingual Bonus
Desperate Housewives / int_294ed981	comment	Bilingual Bonus: In the Pilot, Edie welcomes Mike to the neighborhood with a bowl of sausage puttanesca. "Puttanesca" is Italian for "whore's sauce".
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Desperate Housewives / int_295087bf	type	Non-Indicative Name
Desperate Housewives / int_295087bf	comment	Non-Indicative Name: Some of the Stephen Sondheim-inspired idiosyncratic episode titles have only a very weak connection to the episode's plot; others have none at all. Season 4's "Welcome to Kanagawa" was all about the aftermath of a tornado that struck Wisteria Lane, and nothing about characters arriving in Japanese prefectures.
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Desperate Housewives / int_2aff6a25	type	Death of the Hypotenuse
Desperate Housewives / int_2aff6a25	comment	Death of the Hypotenuse / Murder the Hypotenuse: Often. Specifically: In Season 2, George tampers with Rex's medication so that he dies and he can have Bree all to himself. In Season 4, Victor tried to shoot Carlos during the tornado, but failed. In the same episode, Sylvia, with whom Adam had a brief affair, died in the tornado. (Although Katherine and Adam didn't last either.) Karl dies partway through Season 6, during his affair with Bree, leaving her with Orson. Nora in Season 3 and Jane both died in Season 3 before interfering more with Susan and Ian (though they didn't last) and Tom and Lynette. Carlos also often threatened to do this with John, but never did.
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Desperate Housewives / int_2b7d29e1	comment	Artifact Title: All four leads have been non-housewives at some point on the show (Lynette by virtue of having a paying job, the other three by virtue of not being married).
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Desperate Housewives / int_2f5b9954	type	Alphabetical Theme Naming
Desperate Housewives / int_2f5b9954	comment	Alphabetical Theme Naming / Letter Motif: Lynette's kids; Porter, Parker, Preston, Penny, and Paige. Paige's twin, a baby Tom and Lynette lost, was to be named Patrick. Not to mention Lynette and her sisters — Lydia and Lucy.
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Desperate Housewives / int_30725d31	type	Medication Tampering
Desperate Housewives / int_30725d31	comment	Medication Tampering: George Williams replaces Rex van de Kamp's medications with potassium pills, and Rex suffers a fatal heart attack.
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Desperate Housewives / int_32da91b8	type	Out of Focus
Desperate Housewives / int_32da91b8	comment	Out of Focus: Bree spends virtually half of season 3 on a freakishly long honeymoon.
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Desperate Housewives / int_392372f9	type	Actor Allusion
Desperate Housewives / int_392372f9	comment	Actor Allusion: Richard Roundtree appeared in five episode as a private detective working for the Hafts Detective Agency...and what do you get when you rearrange the letters in 'Hafts'?
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Desperate Housewives / int_3c51db1c	type	Zany Scheme
Desperate Housewives / int_3c51db1c	comment	Zany Scheme: All the housewives like to cook up one quite often — with varying degrees of success... Susan is the most prone to Epic Fails in this department.
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Desperate Housewives / int_3d23c418	type	Closet Shuffle
Desperate Housewives / int_3d23c418	comment	Closet Shuffle: Several times every season. But special points go to Gabby from escaping her lover's room by hiding in a very small suitcase.
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Desperate Housewives / int_3d69ca47	type	AmicablyDivorced
Desperate Housewives / int_3d69ca47	comment	Amicably Divorced: Susan and Karl during the third season. And after the first season their relationship went from toxic to a snarky competitiveness than anything.
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Desperate Housewives / int_4063acfd	type	Woman Scorned
Desperate Housewives / int_4063acfd	comment	Woman Scorned: Many, many examples, but the prize goes to Carolyn Bigsby, who reacted to her husband's infidelity by taking his supermarket hostage in order to kill him.
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Desperate Housewives / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Desperate Housewives / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: The finale has Mary Alice funnily explain the peaceful destinies of the housewives, Lynette remarrying Tom and finally landing her dream job as a CEO in New York, Gabrielle moving to California and becoming the host of a home-shopping TV show; Bree marrying Trip and becoming a legislator in Kentucky while Susan's destiny is left a bit on the dark, but with her children and granddaughter by her side. Then we understand that they will never meet again. Plus, Karen succumbs to cancer, but at least she's revealed to be with her son in the afterlife. It gets worse when Jennifer, the new owner of Susan's house, is revealed to have a terrible secret of her own.
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Desperate Housewives / int_42008602	type	Story Arc
Desperate Housewives / int_42008602	comment	Story Arc: Investigation of Mary Alice's past... among other things. The number of subplot arcs in this show can make your head spin.
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Desperate Housewives / int_421ae215	type	Mysterious Past
Desperate Housewives / int_421ae215	comment	Mysterious Past: Almost everyone.
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Desperate Housewives / int_43a045de	type	Dropped a Bridge on Him
Desperate Housewives / int_43a045de	comment	Dropped a Bridge on Him: Karl is killed in a plane crash by the very plane he hired to fly a banner over Wisteria Lane.
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Desperate Housewives / int_44bed14c	type	Hostage Situation
Desperate Housewives / int_44bed14c	comment	In the episode Bang! in Season 3, Carolyn Bigsby snaps and takes a local supermarket hostage. The episode is also peppered with Lynette having recurring dreams of Mary Alice.
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Desperate Housewives / int_44f5d199	type	Pretty in Mink
Desperate Housewives / int_44f5d199	comment	Pretty in Mink: A few furs show up, notably the sable coat Bree wore to try to get Rex back. Hilarity Ensues
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Desperate Housewives / int_4523420b	type	Love Dodecahedron
Desperate Housewives / int_4523420b	comment	Love Dodecahedron: Oh, where do we start? Bree had an affair with Karl, who's divorced from Susan, who's married to Mike, who once dated Edie, who almost got pregnant by Carlos, who's been twice married to Gaby, who had a blind date with Zach, who had a crush on Julie, who got pregnant by Porter...
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Desperate Housewives / int_4548bae	comment	Teen Pregnancy: Danielle in Season 3/4.
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Desperate Housewives / int_4637914d	type	Suburban Gothic
Desperate Housewives / int_4637914d	comment	Suburban Gothic: In the apparently perfect suburb of Wisteria Lane, neighbors committed suicide, kept the dismembered body parts of a former drug addict under their pool for years so that they could raise her kidnapped son as their own, raised an Enfant Terrible, kept a falsely accused murderous son chained up in the basement, and murdered Gaby's abusive stepfather and cover up the crime.
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Desperate Housewives / int_46d3f869	type	Family Business
Desperate Housewives / int_46d3f869	comment	Family Business: The Scavo pizzeria which may finally be dead.
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Desperate Housewives / int_47bb1101	comment	Amazing Freaking Grace: At Mike's funeral.
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Desperate Housewives / int_47fea76b	type	Butt-Monkey
Desperate Housewives / int_47fea76b	comment	Butt-Monkey: Everyone gets this treatment at one point or another during the show, but Bree and Tom Scavo appear to be the go-to characters for when the writers need something horrible to happen to a character. Susan gets her fair share of this also, to the point where the other housewives don't bat an eyelid when they find out she's in trouble yet again.
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Desperate Housewives / int_4a6e9fd9	type	Obnoxious In-Laws
Desperate Housewives / int_4a6e9fd9	comment	Obnoxious In-Laws: Every single mother-in-law on the show, without exception.
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Desperate Housewives / int_4ac8b81f	type	Humans Are the Real Monsters
Desperate Housewives / int_4ac8b81f	comment	Humans Are the Real Monsters: Paul Young lampshades this during the Riot, that his entire goal was to prove this point;
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Desperate Housewives / int_4c851777	type	Black Comedy Rape
Desperate Housewives / int_4c851777	comment	Black Comedy Rape: If you want to have a baby with your ex-husband (and thereby force him back into marriage with you), just drug him and rape him! And make sure you do the reveal with the wife realizing what was done to her husband by his ex by having her use the "R" word in an over the top fashion.
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Desperate Housewives / int_4ec4c5ab	type	Harsher in Hindsight
Desperate Housewives / int_4ec4c5ab	comment	Harsher in Hindsight: In-universe, Eddie saying, â€œPeople are always telling me how funny I am,â€� and that his (awful) stand up comedy routine is "going to kill".
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Desperate Housewives / int_4f6d87f7	type	Huge Guy, Tiny Girl
Desperate Housewives / int_4f6d87f7	comment	Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: Carlos is a big hot blooded bruiser, and Gabrielle is so small that anyone can pick her up over their shoulder, and in one episode was able to quickly hide herself inside a small travel bag and carried around discreetly. Makes you wonder how she became a model at all, considering models are usually super-tall; runway models are 5'10" at a minimum. It can be assumed that Gabrielle was some other type of model, perhaps a petite model or catalogue model. Indeed, being tall isn't a prerequisite for many men's magazines/glamour models (and Eva Longoria is no stranger to such spreads in real life). Lampshaded by Marc Cherry in the commentary of the first episode: When you see Gabrielle walking down a runway he admits the irony of his casting decisions.
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Desperate Housewives / int_50b9b3d0	comment	In Season 1, Crazy Jealous Guy Carlos replaces Gaby's birth control pills with sugar pills, and she gets pregnant. She has a Convenient Miscarriage, just as she's starting to warm up to the idea of having children.
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Desperate Housewives / int_51be8071	type	Forced from Their Home
Desperate Housewives / int_51be8071	comment	Forced from Their Home: Bree abandoned Andrew by the side of the road at the end of Season 2 due to his increasingly out-of-control behavior. He did return in Season 3, though, after six months living on the street, much more humbled.
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Desperate Housewives / int_52989fee	type	Narrator
Desperate Housewives / int_52989fee	comment	Narrator: Mary Alice. Edie narrates the episode following her own death. Rex Van de Kamp did it first after his own death.
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Desperate Housewives / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
Desperate Housewives / int_5313c266	comment	With almost every episode ending on a dramatic note, the ending music never fails to be perky. Also see Book Ends.
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Desperate Housewives / int_5679208c	type	No Bisexuals
Desperate Housewives / int_5679208c	comment	No Bisexuals: According to the characters on the show, if Katherine admits she's attracted to women, it means she must forsake her attraction to men entirely. It's impossible to like both, apparently.
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Desperate Housewives / int_567e7c4d	type	Wounded Gazelle Gambit
Desperate Housewives / int_567e7c4d	comment	Wounded Gazelle Gambit: Kayla attempted this in the last few episodes of season four...and ultimately backfired on her.
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Desperate Housewives / int_567f7ec	type	Shock Value Relationship
Desperate Housewives / int_567f7ec	comment	Shock Value Relationship: Andrew and Justin.
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Desperate Housewives / int_56866bd2	type	Never Wake Up a Sleepwalker
Desperate Housewives / int_56866bd2	comment	Never Wake Up a Sleepwalker: Averted. Susan finds Orson standing on her front lawn naked and muttering to himself. Once she figures out he's sleepwalking, she slaps him awake.
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Desperate Housewives / int_5fcb9ad1	type	Time Skip
Desperate Housewives / int_5fcb9ad1	comment	Time Skip: The fourth season finale.
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Desperate Housewives / int_606244c2	type	Parental Incest
Desperate Housewives / int_606244c2	comment	Parental Incest: In season 5, Lynette pretends to be a teenage girl online to get her son to open up and find out what's going on in his life. ... then she sort of accidentally became his online girlfriend. Much to her shock.
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Desperate Housewives / int_611a1a5e	type	Nosy Neighbor
Desperate Housewives / int_611a1a5e	comment	Nosy Neighbor: Martha Huber. Don't worry, she gets her comeuppance. And to a lesser extent, virtually everyone else on the block.
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Desperate Housewives / int_630910ba	type	Finger-Twitching Revival
Desperate Housewives / int_630910ba	comment	Finger-Twitching Revival: Subverted. Edie is accidentally electrocuted, falls down, then we get a close up of the Twitching Hand right before the credits. The following episode starts with the character already cremated, and her ashes about to be delivered to the family.
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Desperate Housewives / int_63719fc4	type	Plot Archaeology
Desperate Housewives / int_63719fc4	comment	Plot Archaeology: In the first season, Bree's son Andrew accidentally runs over Carlos's mother Juanita, an event that results in her death. The plot is seemingly resolved when Andrew is sent to a rehabilitation camp as punishment by his parents for his crime and various other transgressions. However, the story picks it up again when Bree and Andrew confess to Gabby in the season 6 finale. Carlos eventually learns about Andrew's involvement in his mother's death in season 7, which leads to some hostility between him and Bree. In the season 1 episode "Your Fault", Lynette and Tom's plot deals with the latter's father having an affair. At some point, Tom mentions to his father something that Lynette is never supposed to know. The audience is led to believe that this has to do with Tom working with his ex-girlfriend, but we learn in the seventh season that this refers to a one-night stand Tom had with Renee Perry when he and Lynette were briefly broken up.
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Desperate Housewives / int_644eca71	type	Rich Bitch
Desperate Housewives / int_644eca71	comment	Rich Bitch: Gabrielle, who also gets her comeuppance. Also Renee from Season 7 on.
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Desperate Housewives / int_65bc92fc	type	Four-Temperament Ensemble
Desperate Housewives / int_65bc92fc	comment	Four-Temperament Ensemble: Susan is sanguine, Bree is melancholic, Lynette is phlegmatic and Gabrielle is choleric. The husbands qualifies as well: Orson is melancholic, Carlos is choleric, Tom is sanguine and Mike is phlegmatic. Mary Alice would qualify as leukine, as in flashbacks she is shown to be the force that bonds the four leads together, but has no real defining character quality that sets her apart.
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Desperate Housewives / int_6774150c	type	If I Can't Have Youâ€¦
Desperate Housewives / int_6774150c	comment	In Season 6, Katherine and Mike's relationship is finally over, but Katherine has transformed into an insane stalker who torments Mike and Susan in an If I Can't Have Youâ€¦ mode.
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Desperate Housewives / int_6941e30b	type	Room Full of Crazy
Desperate Housewives / int_6941e30b	comment	Room Full of Crazy: The episode "If..." features Gabby having a nightmare where she becomes My Beloved Smother to Celia, causing Carlos to leave her, slowly loose her grip on reality and living off food-stamps in her house with the walls covered in newspaper clippings.
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Desperate Housewives / int_6ae4dedd	type	The Unfair Sex
Desperate Housewives / int_6ae4dedd	comment	The Unfair Sex: The females get away with crap that would get them put to death if they were males. Like throwing your spouse out a upstairs window because they caught you trying to con them out of all their money. And no, it never gets mentioned again. When Tom finally stands up to Lynette, he calls her out on her controlling attitude and having the nerve to shoot him down everytime he actually makes a genuine decision for himself, despite her claims that she wants him to become more independent.
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Desperate Housewives / int_6b05b601	type	Jerkass Has a Point
Desperate Housewives / int_6b05b601	comment	Jerkass Has a Point: Mrs. Huber's sister spent season two trying to turn the neighbors against Paul and have him arrested for murder, and repeatedly attempted to kill him. We seem to be intended to feel sorry for him, but it's sort of hard considering he actually is a murderer who had been getting away with everything he did in the past. Technically, Paul was an accomplice to Mary Young's murder of Deirdre. The only person he actually killed was Martha Huber in a fit of passion, after discovering she blackmailed his wife and drove her to commit suicide. While Paul is a murderer, he is far more sympathetic than his victim and spends several years in prison after Felicia Tilman fakes her own murder. When she finally reappears in Series 6, it's clear that she's become far more of a monster than he is!
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Desperate Housewives / int_6b3c357e	type	Ivy League for Everyone
Desperate Housewives / int_6b3c357e	comment	Ivy League for Everyone: Every one of the families seem to be able to sneak their kids into the same incredibly exclusive and expensive private school. Though Lynette every now and then mentions the financial troubles with it, and Susan manages to get MJ in by getting employed as a teacher's assistant. Julie gets into Princeton, although in fairness, she gets off the waitlist and is presented as being highly intelligent. Danielle, presented as stupid for most of the series, ends up attending Columbia University.
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Desperate Housewives / int_6b7e3069	type	Birth-Death Juxtaposition
Desperate Housewives / int_6b7e3069	comment	Birth-Death Juxtaposition: The series finale spliced scenes of Julie's baby being born with Mrs. McKlusky succumbing to cancer.
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Desperate Housewives / int_6d9bc945	type	Babies Ever After
Desperate Housewives / int_6d9bc945	comment	Babies Ever After: Julie has a baby with Porter in the last episode.
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Desperate Housewives / int_6e1e6488	type	Moving-Away Ending
Desperate Housewives / int_6e1e6488	comment	Moving-Away Ending: All four of the main characters move away from Wisteria Lane in the series finale.
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Desperate Housewives / int_6e5c03dc	type	Parking Payback
Desperate Housewives / int_6e5c03dc	comment	Parking Payback: Susan trips the guy who takes her spot, grabs his keys to move his car, then closes the window on his neck when he attempts to stop her. However, it wasn't really just about the parking space; she was pissed off that her fiance and ex-boyfriend made her the prize in a poker game, and thus was not feeling kindly to any men at the time.
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Desperate Housewives / int_6e872753	type	Sexiness Score
Desperate Housewives / int_6e872753	comment	Sexiness Score: In "The Art of Making Art", Renee tries to help Lynette get back into the dating pool by taking her to a singles bar, under the excuse her Love Interest Ben isn't that great. But after a while at the bar Renee admits she lied and that "Ben is a 10 and if you add up every guy in this place and you get a 6".
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Desperate Housewives / int_6edc54d5	type	Here We Go Again!
Desperate Housewives / int_6edc54d5	comment	Here We Go Again!: The ending of the very last episode features a woman moving into Susan's house after she leaves, taking out a box that she looks at with worry before hiding it, clearly implying it containing a secret. And that's where it ends.
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Desperate Housewives / int_6f80d730	type	But Liquor Is Quicker
Desperate Housewives / int_6f80d730	comment	But Liquoris Quicker: Lynette mentions this in the season six episode Don't Walk On The Grass when looking for Tom in a frat party. Also in Season Seven after Gabby calls the immigration cops then changes her mind and pretends to be Carmen and Carman pretends to be Gabby
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Desperate Housewives / int_6ff54932	type	Hereditary Twinhood
Desperate Housewives / int_6ff54932	comment	Hereditary Twinhood: Lynette and Tom have twins Porter and Preston at the beginning of the series. So when Lynette has a Surprise Pregnancy in Season 5, she gets pregnant with twins again, although one of them dies in utero.
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Desperate Housewives / int_707bb8ce	type	Pair the Spares
Desperate Housewives / int_707bb8ce	comment	Pair the Spares: In Seasons 3 and 4, after his temporary breakup with Gaby, Carlos and Edie get together. Mike and Katherine after the five-year jump and in Season 5. Between the end of season 5 and the middle of season 6, Bree and Karl count until Karl's death.
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Desperate Housewives / int_71384f0e	type	Two-Person Pool Party
Desperate Housewives / int_71384f0e	comment	Two-Person Pool Party: the way we find out Andrew is gay is that he's doing this with his friend Justin.
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Desperate Housewives / int_716c0b1b	type	And the Adventure Continues
Desperate Housewives / int_716c0b1b	comment	And the Adventure Continues: The last scene and ending narration indicate that although the main characters will all eventually leave Wisteria Lane and never really meet again, life there will go on its merry way without them.
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Desperate Housewives / int_717d735a	type	Suicide by Pills
Desperate Housewives / int_717d735a	comment	Suicide by Pills: Subverted. George Williams didn't mean to really kill himself when he swallows a deadly dose of sleeping pills; he was expecting his ex-fiancee Bree Van de Kamp to save him by calling for an ambulance upon finding his body. Unfortunately for him, she chooses not to and lets him die, making this overlap with Murder by Inaction.
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Desperate Housewives / int_71cc4b5a	type	Descent into Addiction
Desperate Housewives / int_71cc4b5a	comment	Descent into Addiction: Bree's alcoholism develops throughout season two.
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Desperate Housewives / int_7286e96d	type	Idiot Ball
Desperate Housewives / int_7286e96d	comment	Idiot Ball: Susan in "Suspicion Song". After they are finally in the clear for Alejandro's murder, she decides to paint a series of portraits of the event in her art class, which her teacher ends up putting into an art gallery, in plain view of the public. Not your finest moment there... In "Who Can Say What's True", Susan then proceeds to continue this long streak of bad decisions by investigating Alejandro's life by travelling to his home, where she meets his family. Because after covering up a man's murder, it's only natural to want to become acquainted with their kin, right? There is absolutely nothing suspicious or potentially implicating about that?! In season 6, Danny telling Mona his family secrets.
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Desperate Housewives / int_72cdfc33	type	Big Bad Ensemble
Desperate Housewives / int_72cdfc33	comment	Big Bad Ensemble: As stated above, the show had this during the final season. First, there's Alejandro, as mentioned above. Although he's dead, his death triggered a lot of events, and almost got Bree arrested towards the end. Then there's Donny, a loan shark that Ben borrowed money from. Notably, he's the only "Big Bad" that killed a main character directly. Notable in that, while he did get arrested for the murder, he's still pretty much a Karma Houdini, because we never see him in prison or anything. Next, Chuck Vance, Bree's former boyfriend who investigating her for Alejandro's murder. Orson killed him, and just a few episodes later, Orson ended up being one of the big bads, since he sent evidence that Bree participated in covering up Alejandro's murder after she rejected him. Finally, There's Detective Murphy, a friend of Chuck's. He tries to find evidence against Bree after Chuck is killed, and even tries to frame her. Also, Jane is something of a minor bad, since she's trying to hurry Lynette and Tom's divorce. The show also had this during some moments before Season 8, such as with George in Seasons 1-2, Nora in Season 3, etc.
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Desperate Housewives / int_7426582d	type	Token Minority
Desperate Housewives / int_7426582d	comment	Token Minority: The Applewhite family in Season 2, eliminated after the audience failed to take to them. Gaby and Carlos, though they were there from the start, are also the only main cast members of color until Renee's arrival in season 7.
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Desperate Housewives / int_7464705c	type	Arc Words
Desperate Housewives / int_7464705c	comment	Arc Words: As of season 8, the note saying I know what you did, it makes me sick, I'm going to tell.
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Desperate Housewives / int_74ee1c2d	type	Out-of-Genre Experience
Desperate Housewives / int_74ee1c2d	comment	Out-of-Genre Experience: The disaster episodes are often quite of a different tone from the rest of the show. In the episode Bang! in Season 3, Carolyn Bigsby snaps and takes a local supermarket hostage. The episode is also peppered with Lynette having recurring dreams of Mary Alice. Season 4 has the episode Something's Coming has a storm coming to Wisteria Lane. This episode provides an example of Necro Non Sequitur Season 5 has City of Fire, where a tragic fire occurs in a club. Season 6 has Boom Crunch, which details how a series of events lead up to a plane crash in Wisteria Lane. Season 7 has Down the Block There's a Riot, where a protest in Wisteria Lane erupts into a riot.
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Desperate Housewives / int_754df088	type	Put on a Bus
Desperate Housewives / int_754df088	comment	Put on a Bus: Almost Once a Season, the season-specific housewife or their family will be put on a bus: Betty and Caleb in Season 2, Devon and Adam in Season 4, Angie and her whole family in Season 6. Averted by Katherine (Season 4) and Orson (Season 3), although both are Put on a Bus later. In Season 4, Jackson is put on a bus to Canada because he's a Canadian citizen and his attempt to have a citizenship marriage to Susan failed. In season six, Katherine is put on a bus with Robin to Paris. During season six, one of the twins mentions that he wants to go to Europe. Without any proper goodbyes or explanation he is simply gone for half the season and we can only assume he actually did end up going to Europe.
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Desperate Housewives / int_762b9223	type	Played for Laughs
Desperate Housewives / int_762b9223	comment	Played for Laughs in Season 5 when Susan embarks on a Citizenship Marriage to stop Jackson being deported since he overstayed his welcome on his visa. Though most of the housewives are supportive, it's a Running Gag that characters (Katherine in particular, who wants Susan to marry Jackson) agree that they can't let Jackson go back to the big bad country of... Canada. Dave also furthers his revenge plot against Susan by reporting Jackson and getting him deported on their wedding day.
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Desperate Housewives / int_76a5eaf8	type	Spotlight-Stealing Squad
Desperate Housewives / int_76a5eaf8	comment	Spotlight-Stealing Squad: The cover of Season Seven's DVD◊ blatantly has Renee standing center stage while all of the main characters are off in the background. Despite the fact that she was only introduced that very season, and was in no way had an important role or was even involved in that season's story arc. Susan was this for the first season, to the point where she could have been the main character.
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Desperate Housewives / int_77e45bb5	type	Why Did You Make Me Hit You?
Desperate Housewives / int_77e45bb5	comment	Why Did You Make Me Hit You?
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Desperate Housewives / int_786bf97f	type	Real Life Writes the Plot
Desperate Housewives / int_786bf97f	comment	Real Life Writes the Plot: Edie's sudden death in Season 5 was orchestrated to write the character out of the show due to Nicolette Sheridan being on increasingly bad terms with producer Mark Cherry. Season 8's subplot on Karen's illness, which would later turn on a major plot point in the finale, was heavily inspired by the Kathryn Joosten's previous two experiences with cancer and her third relapse, which coincided with the filming and would cause her death just weeks after the series finale aired in May 2012.
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Desperate Housewives / int_796f842b	type	Treehouse of Fun
Desperate Housewives / int_796f842b	comment	Treehouse of Fun: Lynette's kids briefly have a tree house in their yard for them to hang out in, though its destroyed in a tornado a few episodes later.
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Desperate Housewives / int_7a0374eb	type	Impoverished Patrician
Desperate Housewives / int_7a0374eb	comment	Impoverished Patrician: Carlos and Gabrielle spend the majority of seasons 2, 3, and 4 unemployed, yet they still live in a luxurious house, attending big parties, and collecting clothes with all the right labels. In season 4, Carlos sinks their savings in an embezzlement scam, and then loses the papers for the off-shore account and goes blind for 5 years, in that time having two kids. Then he gets his sight back and almost immediately gets a high-paying job.
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Desperate Housewives / int_7a667c8d	type	A Threesome Is Hot
Desperate Housewives / int_7a667c8d	comment	A Threesome Is Hot: Dave, Katherine and Mike go camping in "The Story of Lucy and Jesse".
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Desperate Housewives / int_7c0bc759	type	Cheater Gets Cheated On
Desperate Housewives / int_7c0bc759	comment	Cheater Gets Cheated On: Karl is a cheater to the extreme. He cheats on Susan with Edie, and then goes back to Susan and cheats on Edie with her. In addition, Carlos cheats on Edie with Gaby (who is also cheating on Victor) in Season 4. Bree starts a relationship with George while still married to Rex due to Rex cheating on her with Maisy Gibbons (to indulge in his taste for BDSM) in Season 2. Their relationship is on the rocks, but as Bree and Rex are (in theory...) devoutly religious, they still regard each other as husband and wife. Gaby has an affair with John Rowland, their gardener. In Season 2, her husband, Carlos, starts cheating on him with their maid-turned-surrogate, Xiao-Mei. Lynette has an emotional affair with Rick in Season 4. In Season 7, it's revealed that her husband, Tom, cheated on her with her best friend, Renee.
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Desperate Housewives / int_7d89315b	type	"The Reason You Suck" Speech
Desperate Housewives / int_7d89315b	comment	"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Bree to the girls during their attempted intervention in season eight.
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Desperate Housewives / int_7eebe99c	type	The Alcoholic
Desperate Housewives / int_7eebe99c	comment	The Alcoholic: Bree, for the majority of the series (though usually in recovery), and then later Andrew and Carlos.
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Desperate Housewives / int_817736c1	type	Covering Up Your Gray
Desperate Housewives / int_817736c1	comment	Covering Up Your Gray: In season 6, Susan dyes her hair to hide her graying. Gaby makes a jab to her about it during an episode, which leads to a fight between the two.
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Desperate Housewives / int_83a903f6	type	Stepford Smiler
Desperate Housewives / int_83a903f6	comment	Stepford Smiler: Bree, an apparently OCD woman who probably carries at least half of the "domestic bliss" satire. Lampshaded heavily. Andrew once even referred to her as "running for the Mayor of Stepford". However, everyone also qualifies to an extent; Mary-Alice was a murderer, Betty is another example, Angie was an eco terrorist; Orson was raised by an extremely abusive control freak mother and then framed for the murder of his wife, to the point of being Bree's Spear Counterpart...
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Desperate Housewives / int_8409a385	type	Exactly What It Says on the Tin
Desperate Housewives / int_8409a385	comment	Exactly What It Says on the Tin
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Desperate Housewives / int_8504b817	type	Where the Hell Is Springfield?
Desperate Housewives / int_8504b817	comment	Where the Hell Is Fairview? Why, in the "Eagle State", of course. (Common consent seems to be that it is located somewhere around Indiana, and the show was filmed in Southern California).
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Desperate Housewives / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
Desperate Housewives / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: What the heck happened to Karl's son? In the finale, when Susan drives out of the neighbourhood while being watched by the ghosts of all the people who died throughout the serie, Edie is missing. This was due to Nicollette Sheridan still refusing to appear on the show because of her previous fall out with the director.
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Desperate Housewives / int_869e787c	type	Creepy Gym Coach
Desperate Housewives / int_869e787c	comment	Creepy Gym Coach: Art Sheperd in Season 3 is a swim teacher and, after happening to go into his house, Lynette learns that he has pictures of half-naked boys. However, Art claims they're just his students who he's proud of, but a PÃ¦do Hunt kicks off which kills Art's sister Rebecca and drives him out of town. Before he leaves, though, he confirms that he's a pedophile who has never acted on his urges before because he needed to take care of Rebecca, but now that she's dead, nothing needs to hold him back. However, there is a possibility that he's just trying to scare Lynette to punish her.
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Desperate Housewives / int_8767b1f3	type	Black-and-Gray Morality
Desperate Housewives / int_8767b1f3	comment	Black-and-Gray Morality: As the series progresses, the housewives and their families commit acts that are more and more questionable, both morally and legally. Such acts include sleeping with an underage boy, denying aid to a man who has poisoned himself, hiding the corpse of a murder victim and so on. Mary Alice went so far as murdering a young woman. On the other hand, a good part of these deeds have a motivation behind them, and the villains are more dangerous than the protagonists, being mentally unstable (Dave), domestic abusers (Wayne) or straight-up sociopaths (Gloria).
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Desperate Housewives / int_89102272	type	Artistic Title
Desperate Housewives / int_89102272	comment	Artistic Title: Literally. The opening credits (as used from seasons 1-3) depict various situations in which women find themselves 'desperate' throughout time. Eve being the very first 'Desperate Housewife', through various pieces of art until we eventually see the four protagonists holding an apple (alluding to Eve's downfall) of their own, symbolising the very contemporary and yet timeless idea of female desperation.
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Desperate Housewives / int_8928fe5f	type	Dead Man's Chest
Desperate Housewives / int_8928fe5f	comment	Dead Man's Chest
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Desperate Housewives / int_8a1215e0	type	Bratty Teenage Daughter
Desperate Housewives / int_8a1215e0	comment	Bratty Teenage Daughter: Played straight with Danielle, averted with Julie. Thirteen-year-old Kayla is one that qualifies as an Enfant Terrible, and Juanita is another very young example.
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Desperate Housewives / int_8b68d9a7	type	Stalker with a Crush
Desperate Housewives / int_8b68d9a7	comment	Katherine seems to be treading a fine line between this and being a Stalker with a Crush. As of the ninth episode of the sixth season, she has officially gone over into this.
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Desperate Housewives / int_8cb1a369	type	Took a Level in Jerkass
Desperate Housewives / int_8cb1a369	comment	Took a Level in Jerkass: Carlos seems to go back and forth on this. For the most part he's an easy going nice guy, but sometimes he will suddenly become a intimidating vindictive ass doing needlessly villainous things, such as physically abusing Gaby and repeatedly trying to impregnate her against her will. Then later firing Lynette when she's the sole supporter of a family of six and pregnant with twins solely because he didn't want to give her maternity leave. Actually, the reason that Carlos put Lynette through hell was because Gabrielle had asked him too(which is shown in a quick scene where Gabrielle admits a bit of guilt for it). The reason why he fires her, is because Lynnette sends her Lawyer to his house. His justification is that firing a pregnant woman would be bad PR, so he does increasingly cruel things to force her to leave, finally firing her because she could not complete the impossible task of auditing an entire years finances in less than a day. Overall, this doesn't make that much sense, since this would be pretty solid grounds for suing him for unfair dismissal and harassment, potentially giving the company even worse PR! It's even worse than no-one even points this out! Orson. Although he was suspected to be a murderer, he was revealed to be a good husband to Bree and at the mercy of his evil mother and psychotic spouse when he ran down Mike Delfino. He was also happy to go along with Bree's schemes, such as raising Danielle's son as their own, but come Season 5, most of those positive traits have gone. He's a needling, borderline abusive, bitter washout who is a kleptomaniac and loathed by Bree. Gets even worse upon his return in Season 8, too, where he is revealed to Bree's blackmailer and therefore the cause of most of her suffering.
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Desperate Housewives / int_8dc8a02d	type	Derailing Love Interests
Desperate Housewives / int_8dc8a02d	comment	Derailing Love Interests: Orson in season 5 was derailed by being emotionally abusive to Bree, then appeared to get back on the rails in season 6...only to be derailed even harder when it was revealed in Season 8 that he was Bree's blackmailer who had nearly driven her to suicide. Katherine got derailed late in Season 5 and fully in Season 6; while she and Mike weren't the most popular couple in general, she became increasingly manipulative of him via MJ, and then went insane when he broke up with her.
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Desperate Housewives / int_8e3980c7	type	Mistaken Nationality
Desperate Housewives / int_8e3980c7	comment	Mistaken Nationality: When interviewing for a fancy prep school, Juanita is revealed to be completely unaware that her family are of Mexican descent.
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Desperate Housewives / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
Desperate Housewives / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Technically, Paul was an accomplice to Mary Young's murder of Deirdre. The only person he actually killed was Martha Huber in a fit of passion, after discovering she blackmailed his wife and drove her to commit suicide. While Paul is a murderer, he is far more sympathetic than his victim and spends several years in prison after Felicia Tilman fakes her own murder. When she finally reappears in Series 6, it's clear that she's become far more of a monster than he is!
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Desperate Housewives / int_931fc523	type	Back for the Finale
Desperate Housewives / int_931fc523	comment	Back for the Finale: The final sequence of the series finale features Susan, who is moving away, taking one last drive down Wisteria Lane, as the spirits of many people who have lived and died during the run of the series watching her drive away.
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Desperate Housewives / int_93b92ca4	type	Lousy Lovers Are Losers
Desperate Housewives / int_93b92ca4	comment	Lousy Lovers Are Losers: Edit Britt claims her first husband was terrible in bed and she spent the entire marriage faking a lot of orgasms. But she claims it was Worth It since it taught her how to lie and bluff.
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Desperate Housewives / int_9633f14b	type	Badass Bystander
Desperate Housewives / int_9633f14b	comment	Badass Bystander: No one seemed to expect that the psychopathic gun toting hostage holder in season 3 to be taken down and shot by a nameless extra who commented earlier that the woman with the gun taught her daughter's Sunday school class.
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Desperate Housewives / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
Desperate Housewives / int_970c790a	comment	Big Bad: One for every season. Season 1: Mary Alice Young, since she was the one who killed Deirdre. Season 2: Matthew Applewhite Season 3: Gloria Hodge, the murderer of Monique. Season 4: Wayne Davis, Katherine's bitter Corrupt Cop ex-husband. Season 5: Dave Williams Season 6: Patrick Logan, Angie's ex-husband. Season 7: Felicia Tillman, as an ironic reversal to the situation in the first season. The Final Season notably averts this, using several different characters during different arcs of the last season. Arguably, Ramon Sanchez/Alejandro Perez, Gaby's step father is the big bad. Sure, he was killed at the end of the previous season, but it's because of him that a lot of the plot points occur.
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Desperate Housewives / int_98aaf983	type	Comically Small Bribe
Desperate Housewives / int_98aaf983	comment	Comically Small Bribe: Gabrielle tries to bribe a nurse into letting her into a patient's room... with twelve dollars. But then remembers she needs to pay for parking and brings the bribe down to two dollars.
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Desperate Housewives / int_98e358c	type	Learning to Ride a Bike
Desperate Housewives / int_98e358c	comment	Learning to Ride a Bike: In season 5, Mike realizes that he doesn't spend enough time with his son MJ, so he buys him a bike to teach him how to ride. Unfortunately, MJ asks Susan's boyfriend Jackson to teach him instead.
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Desperate Housewives / int_99ef0b32	type	Absent Animal Companion
Desperate Housewives / int_99ef0b32	comment	Absent Animal Companion: Mike's dog Bongo is never seen again after season 2. Lynette also gets the family a dog in a Season 2 episode which only has a few appearances before it completely disappears as well with no explanation.
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Desperate Housewives / int_9d5a2cdf	type	Intimidating Revenue Service
Desperate Housewives / int_9d5a2cdf	comment	Intimidating Revenue Service: From "Now I Know, Don't Be Scared" (Season 4, Episode 6): Edie goes to the local IRS office to rat out Carlos for having millions in an offshore account in the Caribbean...until the agent tells her that the account numbers she gave him don't exist.
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Desperate Housewives / int_9ec132e7	type	Accomplice by Inaction
Desperate Housewives / int_9ec132e7	comment	Accomplice by Inaction: Paul Young sees Wisteria Lane as this for his framing.
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Desperate Housewives / int_9f80e1da	type	Sarcasm Mode
Desperate Housewives / int_9f80e1da	comment	Holy hell, a domestic terrorist was killed in a carbomb in Wisteria Lane, the Solises have suddenly gone on the run and... oh wait, forget all of that, that was yesterday! Let's focus on Susan's problems, which are far more important!
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Desperate Housewives / int_a0a364d5	type	Intimate Lotion Application
Desperate Housewives / int_a0a364d5	comment	Intimate Lotion Application: Played With in "If There's Anything I Can't Stand". Gabrielle discovers she has given Victor crabs, but doesn't want him to find out. So the next night she dresses up in a Naughty Nurse Outfit and roleplays a sexy nurse who's going to apply scented oil all over his body, while secretly she's actually applying actual medicine. At first, he's distracted by the strange smell and tingling sensation this supposed "oil" causes, but he forgets all about it once Gabrielle starts really starts rubbing her hands on him.
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Desperate Housewives / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
Desperate Housewives / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: With almost every episode ending on a dramatic note, the ending music never fails to be perky. Also see Book Ends. The show often juxtaposes scenes of differing moods (serious, comical, dramatic, emotional, contemplative, surreal, etc.). Many storylines in a single episode start off as one mood and end up in another. It is not uncommon to see one of the housewives get into some sort of extremely humorous antic (sometimes while playing detective), only to reveal deep trauma or a disturbing fact with another character. It is also not uncommon for a sequence of dramatic scenes serving as a set-up for a disastrous...
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Desperate Housewives / int_a5dbfd85	type	Contraception Deception
Desperate Housewives / int_a5dbfd85	comment	Contraception Deception: A common plot thread. In Season 1, Crazy Jealous Guy Carlos replaces Gaby's birth control pills with sugar pills, and she gets pregnant. She has a Convenient Miscarriage, just as she's starting to warm up to the idea of having children. In Season 3, Edie and Carlos agree that they'll try for a baby, but Edie continues taking birth control pills. When Carlos finds out, he breaks up with Edie. In Season 6, Carlos reveals he lied to Gaby about having a vasectomy, because he hoped they'd have a son. (They already have two daughters. However, they ultimately don't have another child, but Gaby forgives him easily.)
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Desperate Housewives / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
Desperate Housewives / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: Art Shepard. Lynette suspects he's a pedophile after finding some risque photos of young boys in his basement. This quickly spreads throughout the neighborhood, and they show up to protest at Art's house. The stress induced by the rumors and protests causes Art's sister Rebecca to go into cardiac arrest and ultimately pass away. Lynette feels guilty for jumping to conclusions, and when she apologizes to Art, he pretty much admits to being a pedophile. After that, we never hear from him again, having apparently moved off of Wisteria Lane.
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Desperate Housewives / int_a87e94fe	type	Worthless Foreign Degree
Desperate Housewives / int_a87e94fe	comment	Worthless Foreign Degree: A house cleaner teaches Juanita while she's being home schooled. She had a doctorate in engineering from the University of Bucharest.
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Desperate Housewives / int_a8a04f6f	type	And I Must Scream
Desperate Housewives / int_a8a04f6f	comment	And I Must Scream: Orson's mother, who suffered a stroke and no longer is able to move or speak, but still has a fully functioning mind.
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Desperate Housewives / int_aaf6bf80	type	House Husband
Desperate Housewives / int_aaf6bf80	comment	Househusband: Some of the husbands become this at some points in the series, most prominently Tom Scavo whenever Lynette feels an urge to reinvigorate her High-Powered Career Woman vibe, and Carlos Solis when he becomes blind (though he also takes up a masseur job).
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Desperate Housewives / int_ab5eea65	type	Dramatic Irony
Desperate Housewives / int_ab5eea65	comment	In Season 5, it is explicitly stated from the start that Dave is planning to kill Mike, so the tension of this Season comes from Dramatic Irony, we watch as he gets close to the main characters, always knowing his motive.
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Desperate Housewives / int_ac4ac8e5	type	Idiosyncratic Episode Naming
Desperate Housewives / int_ac4ac8e5	comment	Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: Most of the episode titles are taken from Stephen Sondheim lyrics.
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Desperate Housewives / int_ad94c7a0	type	Scars are Forever
Desperate Housewives / int_ad94c7a0	comment	Scars Are Forever: Angie has a horrific looking burn scar on her back, which she got from her days as an eco-terroist. She doesn't seem to mind it though, probably because its always covered. Dylan Davis recieved a scar on her arm from a childhood bike injury. The absence of this same scar on an adult Dylan clues in Wayne about the truth that she isn't the real Dylan.
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Desperate Housewives / int_adc34767	type	Serial Homewrecker
Desperate Housewives / int_adc34767	comment	Serial Homewrecker: Edie is mentioned to have slept with lots of married men. However, late in Season 1 when Mike chooses Susan over her, she seems to actively prefer married men and men that specifically had been married to the housewives: in Season 2, she had an affair with Susan's ex Karl (now married to someone else), and she "steals" Gaby's husband Carlos, although the two are separated, in Season 3 which continues in Season 4; she even kisses Orson in Season 4. Lynette describes this as Edie's problem at the end of Season 4.
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Desperate Housewives / int_af70c7b0	type	Prison
Desperate Housewives / int_af70c7b0	comment	Prison: Three of the four main husbands have done time there.
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Desperate Housewives / int_afcc92c4	type	Self-Defense Ruse
Desperate Housewives / int_afcc92c4	comment	Self-Defense Ruse: In Season 4, Wayne, Katherine's abusive husband, brutally beats and nearly kills Adam and plans to take Dylan away after tracking them down. However, Katherine manages to get the gun from him and handcuffs him. When he brags that he'll escape the charges and poison Dylan against Katherine, Katherine shoots him. Her fellow housewives back her up about his abuse (which they, until now, hadn't been aware of) and she escapes any charges.
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Desperate Housewives / int_b2280b66	type	Retcon
Desperate Housewives / int_b2280b66	comment	Retcon: In Season 6, the existence of Rex's secret son, Sam, who was never mentioned before, and never by Rex, Rex's overbearing mother, or Rex's will after his death. Katherine's extremely callous and abusive behavior got retconned, generally suggested because they decided to keep her on past Season 4, so it's forgotten that she tormented her aunt while she was dying in order to keep her secret...even though the secret is fully understandable and makes Katherine a hundred times more sympathetic.
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Desperate Housewives / int_b39b84ee	type	Fiery Coverup
Desperate Housewives / int_b39b84ee	comment	Fiery Cover-Up: After murdering his psychiatrist in the storeroom of the Scavo pizzeria, Dave Williams puts it on fire for cover-up.
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Desperate Housewives / int_b58c51d8	type	My Beloved Smother
Desperate Housewives / int_b58c51d8	comment	In Season 6, the existence of Rex's secret son, Sam, who was never mentioned before, and never by Rex, Rex's overbearing mother, or Rex's will after his death.
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Desperate Housewives / int_b63a4507	type	High-Powered Career Woman
Desperate Housewives / int_b63a4507	comment	High-Powered Career Woman: Lynette is contrasted with Nina, her Mean Boss in Season 2, who is portrayed as ruthless, childless, and prepared to destroy Lynette's career over her not prioritizing her job over her family commitments more.
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Desperate Housewives / int_b6cebad3	type	Double Standard
Desperate Housewives / int_b6cebad3	comment	Double Standard: The very different treatment of Paul Young and Mary Alice who are eventually revealed to have committed the exact same crimes. Murderer and kidnapper Mary Alice is remembered with nothing but fondness by the four main female cast while Paul was shunned from very early on.note Paul had difficulty with acting as if he didn't have something to hide — he tore out his pool to remove the body of the woman his wife killed in the middle of the night and was dubbed CreePaul by Television Without Pity. Compare that to Mary Alice, who was extremely adept at playing like nothing was wrong. Averted in regards to sexual conduct with a minor at least. Being one of the main heroines does not protect Gaby from being labelled a statutory rapist when her affair with her sixteen/seventeen-year-old gardener John goes public; and Danielle's thirty-five-year-old history teacher, who sleeps with her at seventeen, is treated to the same shame.
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Desperate Housewives / int_b77808f2	type	"Where Are They Now?" Epilogue
Desperate Housewives / int_b77808f2	comment	"Where Are They Now?" Epilogue: The very last episode ends like this.
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Desperate Housewives / int_b7978bb4	type	Deadly Sparring
Desperate Housewives / int_b7978bb4	comment	Deadly Sparring: In "Would I Think of Suicide", Susan and Bree attend a women's self-defense class where they get paired up during exercises. Susan, who has now become aware of Bree's relationship with Susan's ex-husband Karl, uses the opportunity to choke Bree. Bree is only saved when the instructor orders them to swap positions.
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Desperate Housewives / int_b906ac5d	type	Whole Costume Reference
Desperate Housewives / int_b906ac5d	comment	Whole Costume Reference: One episode opens with Gabrielle wearing Bella Goth's dress.
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Desperate Housewives / int_bf9163d9	type	Blonde, Brunette, Redhead
Desperate Housewives / int_bf9163d9	comment	Blonde, Brunette, Redhead: The three main white housewives: Lynette (blonde), Susan (brunette), Bree (redhead). (Gaby is also brunette but she is Hispanic as well, meaning that she falls under a Token Minority.)
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Desperate Housewives / int_c02a3bf2	type	Imperiled in Pregnancy
Desperate Housewives / int_c02a3bf2	comment	Imperiled in Pregnancy: Subverted when a pregnant Bree gets stabbed in the belly. However, no blood appears because it's a fake belly. But it does threaten to uncover the truth. Lynette is imperiled by the plane after she pushes Celia out of the way, which leads her to miscarrying, and then later in Season 6 when she is held hostage by Eddie.
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Desperate Housewives / int_c02f148d	type	Both Sides Have a Point
Desperate Housewives / int_c02f148d	comment	Both Sides Have a Point: In episode eleven of the fifth season, Carlos is pressured by Gaby into accepting a lucrative job working under one of his morally bankrupt former associates. Having developed deeper empathy for the disabled and unprivileged during his five-year blindness, Carlos is unenthusiastic about jumping back into the apathetic corporate world and running himself ragged on behalf of an immoral boss. Gaby raises the fair point that such a sacrifice is worth it, as for five years she'd been made to look after a helpless Carlos and keep their family afloat while their finances tanked. In the end, Carlos is swayed to accept the job. Also in the conflict splitting the core four during their intervention attempt in season eight. See Staging an Intervention below.
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Desperate Housewives / int_c1408ad1	type	Oppressive Immigration Enforcement
Desperate Housewives / int_c1408ad1	comment	Oppressive Immigration Enforcement: Played for Laughs in Season 5 when Susan embarks on a Citizenship Marriage to stop Jackson being deported since he overstayed his welcome on his visa. Though most of the housewives are supportive, it's a Running Gag that characters (Katherine in particular, who wants Susan to marry Jackson) agree that they can't let Jackson go back to the big bad country of... Canada. Dave also furthers his revenge plot against Susan by reporting Jackson and getting him deported on their wedding day. In Season 7, Gaby's backseat driving gets Hector arrested, which in turn puts on Hector and Carmen, who are Juanita's biological parents and Grace's adoptive parents (Juanita and Grace were Switched at Birth, and both Gaby and Carlos and Hector and Carmen raised each others' daughters without knowing it) on ICE's radar. Gaby was tempted to suggest that she and Carlos look after or even adopt Grace. However, upon realizing how much Hector and Carmen love Grace (and vice versa), she manages to pose as Carmen and get the drop on the bullying, armed ICE agents who come to the door. As a result, Carmen, Hector, and Grace are all forced to leave the Eagle State so that they aren't picked up again.
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Desperate Housewives / int_c289826f	type	Double Standard Rape: Female on Male
Desperate Housewives / int_c289826f	comment	Double Standard Rape: Female on Male: Orson's rape by Alma is never really taken seriously by anyone. The scene even ends on a comedic note when his wife, having found her unconscious just-been-raped husband lying on the bed, tells someone to go get a wheelbarrow (but doesn't bother to phone the police).
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Desperate Housewives / int_c2d6fc5e	type	Murder by Inaction
Desperate Housewives / int_c2d6fc5e	comment	Murder by Inaction: What Bree commits when she does not call an ambulance for George after he attempts Suicide by Pills.
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Desperate Housewives / int_c33ba0a8	type	Chuck Cunningham Syndrome
Desperate Housewives / int_c33ba0a8	comment	Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Mike's dog Bongo was an important character in the early episodes but has not been seen or mentioned since mid-season 2.
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Desperate Housewives / int_c435ec5d	type	Aesop Amnesia
Desperate Housewives / int_c435ec5d	comment	Aesop Amnesia: In seasons five and six, Tom and Lynette kept going through the same loop—Tom wants to do something wild, Lynette disapproves, Tom whines about how he never gets a chance to do anything, Lynette tries to put a stop to what he is doing, the two reach a compromise, and resolve to be more understanding of each other's wishes...only to go through the exact same situation yet again a few episodes later. Between Seasons 5 and 8, Gaby and Carlos learn multiple times to be less materialistic and less focused on image. It never sticks.
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Desperate Housewives / int_c5f0119c	type	Insane Troll Logic
Desperate Housewives / int_c5f0119c	comment	Actually, the reason that Carlos put Lynette through hell was because Gabrielle had asked him too(which is shown in a quick scene where Gabrielle admits a bit of guilt for it). The reason why he fires her, is because Lynnette sends her Lawyer to his house. His justification is that firing a pregnant woman would be bad PR, so he does increasingly cruel things to force her to leave, finally firing her because she could not complete the impossible task of auditing an entire years finances in less than a day. Overall, this doesn't make that much sense, since this would be pretty solid grounds for suing him for unfair dismissal and harassment, potentially giving the company even worse PR! It's even worse than no-one even points this out!
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Desperate Housewives / int_c6ae3121	type	Modern Stasis
Desperate Housewives / int_c6ae3121	comment	Modern Stasis: Post Time Skip the show is set roughly five years in the future (confirmed in Season 7 dialogue with Bree referencing the events of a 2006 episode as taking place "9 years ago.")
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Desperate Housewives / int_c6f45871	type	Fake Orgasm
Desperate Housewives / int_c6f45871	comment	Fake Orgasm: Edith Britt disses her first husband with a Stealth Insult by invoking this, claiming he taught her how to lie and bluff since she had to fake a lot of orgasms during their marriage.
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Desperate Housewives / int_c819533b	type	Rage Breaking Point
Desperate Housewives / int_c819533b	comment	"Epiphany", takes the Sondheim allusions even further, as much like in Sweeney Todd, we learn the precise Rage Breaking Point that drove kindhearted Eddie Orlofsky to become a deranged serial killer.
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Desperate Housewives / int_c8ba12ee	type	Interplay of Sex and Violence
Desperate Housewives / int_c8ba12ee	comment	Interplay of Sex and Violence: In "Guilty", Mike and Susan having sex for the first time is contrasted with Paul Young killing Martha Huber. Played for Laughs in "Liaison". After very awkwardly having sex for the first time, Carlos and Edie accuse the other of being bad in bed. They try to have sex a second time, but end up grievously injuring each other.
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Desperate Housewives / int_c9e5a634	type	Post Coital Collapse
Desperate Housewives / int_c9e5a634	comment	Post-Coital Collapse: In "Being Alive", Kat and Orson's conversation is interrupted when they years Bree's orgasmic screech that could be heard throughout most of the neighborhood. Cut to Bree collapsing in bed next to Karl, both sweaty and wrapped up in their own Modesty Bedsheet.
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Desperate Housewives / int_cad80e66	type	Blame the Paramour
Desperate Housewives / int_cad80e66	comment	Blame the Paramour: Gloria (Orson's mother) murders Monique after learning that she is sleeping with Orson and assumes that Orson will go back to Alma (his wife). However, this is portrayed as Insane Troll Logic at best.
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Desperate Housewives / int_cc2db2cb	type	Cry for the Devil
Desperate Housewives / int_cc2db2cb	comment	Cry for the Devil: Deliberately invoked in "Epiphany", where we see how years of emotional abuse and neglect caused Eddie Orlofsky to go from a sweet kid into become the notorious Fairview Strangler.
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Desperate Housewives / int_cd54b574	type	Switched at Birth
Desperate Housewives / int_cd54b574	comment	In Season 7, Gaby's backseat driving gets Hector arrested, which in turn puts on Hector and Carmen, who are Juanita's biological parents and Grace's adoptive parents (Juanita and Grace were Switched at Birth, and both Gaby and Carlos and Hector and Carmen raised each others' daughters without knowing it) on ICE's radar. Gaby was tempted to suggest that she and Carlos look after or even adopt Grace. However, upon realizing how much Hector and Carmen love Grace (and vice versa), she manages to pose as Carmen and get the drop on the bullying, armed ICE agents who come to the door. As a result, Carmen, Hector, and Grace are all forced to leave the Eagle State so that they aren't picked up again.
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Desperate Housewives / int_cd70c3dc	type	CorruptCop
Desperate Housewives / int_cd70c3dc	comment	Season 4: Wayne Davis, Katherine's bitter Corrupt Cop ex-husband.
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Desperate Housewives / int_ce6555f0	type	Lighter and Softer
Desperate Housewives / int_ce6555f0	comment	Lighter and Softer: Season 5 was much lighter in tone than the other seasons.
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Desperate Housewives / int_d32a5fec	type	True Love Is Boring
Desperate Housewives / int_d32a5fec	comment	True Love Is Boring: Mike and Susan run afoul of this trope multiple times. The Scavos as well, which is also why it seems like Tom and Lynette actually aren't "true love" (despite being supposed to be).
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Desperate Housewives / int_d5d265ec	type	Housewife
Desperate Housewives / int_d5d265ec	comment	Housewife
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Desperate Housewives / int_d6b5863	type	Driven to Madness
Desperate Housewives / int_d6b5863	comment	At the end of Season 5, Dave is shown to be Driven to Madness and to be institutionalized, and that's the last we see or hear of him.
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Desperate Housewives / int_d6b5e3fc	type	Latino Is Brown
Desperate Housewives / int_d6b5e3fc	comment	Latino Is Brown: Subverted for the sake of a joke. Gabrielle is stopped speeding by a cop and tries to play the race card with the (fair complexioned) officer... but realizes that the name on his uniform reads 'Martinez'. Otherwise the show played this trope totally straight.
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Desperate Housewives / int_d93c5989	type	Stepford Suburbia
Desperate Housewives / int_d93c5989	comment	Stepford Suburbia
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Desperate Housewives / int_da1c8191	type	Writers Cannot Do Math
Desperate Housewives / int_da1c8191	comment	Writers Cannot Do Math: Trust us, it does not always take very long for the Fridge Logic to set in when you realize how much time has supposedly passed in between episodes, especially with the children's birthdays and ages. For example, Juanita is a year older than MJ, even though the episode where he was born happened before Gabby knew she was pregnant. Then there's Eddie, who seems to be the same age as the Scavo twins yet went to high school with Danielle, who was a teenager when the twins were little kids. The Scavo twins were explicitly stated as being 8 in the season 3 finale. This would mean that they would be 9 at the end of season 4, then 14 at the beginning of season 5, due to the five-year jump. However, Lynette says in the season 5 premiere that they're 16. Gabrielle says she is playing poker with the others for 8 years, including Mary Alice, who is dead 10 years at this point.
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Desperate Housewives / int_dfe687c9	type	Alone with the Psycho
Desperate Housewives / int_dfe687c9	comment	Alone with the Psycho: Just about every season, such as Lynette with Eddie, Susan with Zach, Susan and M.J. with Dave.
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Desperate Housewives / int_e16cd2c8	type	Grief-Induced Split
Desperate Housewives / int_e16cd2c8	comment	Grief-Induced Split: After Susan kills Lila Dash and her daughter Paige in a car accident, she and Mike split up during the five-year Time Skip. This also overlaps with Relationship-Salvaging Disaster, as the revenge plan that Lila's husband Dave puts into action against Susan and Mike ends up bringing them back together.
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Desperate Housewives / int_e4f48a7f	type	The "Fun" in "Funeral"
Desperate Housewives / int_e4f48a7f	comment	The "Fun" in "Funeral": Rex's funeral, indescribably wrong and weirdly funny.
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Desperate Housewives / int_e4f5affb	type	The Chew Toy
Desperate Housewives / int_e4f5affb	comment	The Chew Toy: Lynette. Lynette has, among other things, had a plethora of uncontrollable children who constantly make her life even harder, was shot in a hostage situation after finding out her husband has a love-child, is diagnosed with cancer and once cured from cancer there is a tornado which buries her family in rubble, then framed for abuse by her stepdaughter, then a whole load of personal hell...then she gets into a divorce with her husband of 20 or so years.. Susan, too, with everything's that happened to her.
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Desperate Housewives / int_e8cb930f	type	Accidental Suicide
Desperate Housewives / int_e8cb930f	comment	Accidental Suicide: After being exposed as a murderer in Season 2, George Williams swallows a deadly dose of sleeping pills. However, he didn't actually intend to die; he was expecting his ex-fiancee Bree Van de Kamp to save him by calling for an ambulance. Unfortunately for him, she chooses not to and lets him die, letting everyone believe that he committed suicide.
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Desperate Housewives / int_eb5571a6	type	Stripping Snag
Desperate Housewives / int_eb5571a6	comment	Stripping Snag: In "Pretty Little Picture" Susan follows Karl to his car where her towel gets stuck in his car door. He drives off and leaves Susan stripped naked. She panics and runs back to her house but the door is locked.
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Desperate Housewives / int_ebfaf704	type	Scary Stinging Swarm
Desperate Housewives / int_ebfaf704	comment	Scary Stinging Swarm: In Season 2 when Edie winds up disturbing a yellow jackets' nest and is stung pretty badly. Its left up to the audience whether this is dramatic or hilarious.
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Desperate Housewives / int_ed581814	type	Dismembering the Body
Desperate Housewives / int_ed581814	comment	Dismembering the Body: Mary-Alice cut up Deirdre's body in order to fit it into the trunk so she and Paul could bury it under their swimming pool.
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Desperate Housewives / int_ee7a60e9	type	One-Steve Limit
Desperate Housewives / int_ee7a60e9	comment	One-Steve Limit: Averted. There are two Juanitas (though one is named after the other), a Ben and Benji, and a Beth and Mary Beth, as well as forementioned Mary Beth and Mary Alice, and Karl and Carlos.
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Desperate Housewives / int_eef90616	type	Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick
Desperate Housewives / int_eef90616	comment	Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick: "Oh, we had a very busy day. We dropped off the dry cleaning, we deposited money into our Christmas account and then we got circumcised."
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Desperate Housewives / int_efef300	type	Put on a Bus to Hell
Desperate Housewives / int_efef300	comment	Put on a Bus to Hell: In Season 3, Gloria Hodge is completely locked in following a stroke and is abandoned in a living hell by Orson, whom forces her to walk away. In Season 4, Kayla is taken away to her grandparents' house. While we have no reason to suspect it would be particularly horrible, it's treated like this because she is separated from every member of her living family, including Tom. At the end of Season 5, Dave is shown to be Driven to Madness and to be institutionalized, and that's the last we see or hear of him. The last time Eddie is ever mentioned, he's arrested for his crimes as the Fairview Strangler in the finale of Season 6 and that's the last we hear of him.
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Desperate Housewives / int_f26d5e66	type	Brainless Beauty
Desperate Housewives / int_f26d5e66	comment	Brainless Beauty: Susan's mother Sophie was seemingly one in her youth (and arguably still is), being a much-married serial romantic whom even Mary Alice calls "hoplessly naive" in her narration.
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Desperate Housewives / int_f36c4f98	type	Easily Forgiven
Desperate Housewives / int_f36c4f98	comment	In Season 6, Carlos reveals he lied to Gaby about having a vasectomy, because he hoped they'd have a son. (They already have two daughters. However, they ultimately don't have another child, but Gaby forgives him easily.)
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Desperate Housewives / int_f67171cc	type	Empathy Doll Shot
Desperate Housewives / int_f67171cc	comment	Empathy Doll Shot: There's a shot on a ragdoll in a tree after the tornado that devastated Wisteria Lane in season 4 has passed.
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Desperate Housewives / int_f96f8980	type	Love Makes You Crazy
Desperate Housewives / int_f96f8980	comment	Love Makes You Crazy: In Season 1, Carlos was most likely to fall victim to this, due to being extremely possessive over Gaby. He got better, though. In Season 4, the once-independent Edie attempted suicide over a man. In Season 6, Katherine and Mike's relationship is finally over, but Katherine has transformed into an insane stalker who torments Mike and Susan in an If I Can't Have Youâ€¦ mode.
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Desperate Housewives	hasFeature	The Bad Guys Are Cops / int_16aa3232
Desperate Housewives	hasFeature	The Ditz / int_16aa3232
Desperate Housewives	hasFeature	The Fashionista / int_16aa3232
Desperate Housewives	hasFeature	The Klutz / int_16aa3232
Desperate Housewives	hasFeature	The Mistress / int_16aa3232
Desperate Housewives	hasFeature	The Modest Orgasm / int_16aa3232
Desperate Housewives	hasFeature	The Patient Has Left the Building / int_16aa3232
Desperate Housewives	hasFeature	The Perfectionist / int_16aa3232
Desperate Housewives	hasFeature	Theme Twin Naming / int_16aa3232
Desperate Housewives	hasFeature	This Explains So Much / int_16aa3232
Desperate Housewives	hasFeature	This Is My Story / int_16aa3232
Desperate Housewives	hasFeature	Three-Month-Old Newborn / int_16aa3232
Tiffany Thornton	seeAlso	Desperate Housewives
Desperate Housewives	hasFeature	Title-Only Opening / int_16aa3232
Desperate Housewives	hasFeature	Titled After the Song / int_16aa3232
Desperate Housewives	hasFeature	To the Pain / int_16aa3232
Desperate Housewives	hasFeature	Turn Off the Camera / int_16aa3232
Desperate Housewives	hasFeature	Twin Desynch / int_16aa3232
Desperate Housewives	hasFeature	Two-Person Pool Party / int_16aa3232
Desperate Housewives	hasFeature	Useless Spleen / int_16aa3232
Desperate Housewives	hasFeature	Villainous Rescue / int_16aa3232
Desperate Housewives	hasFeature	Wacky Marriage Proposal / int_16aa3232
Desperate Housewives	hasFeature	Wacky Parent, Serious Child / int_16aa3232
Desperate Housewives	hasFeature	Wedding Episode / int_16aa3232
Desperate Housewives	hasFeature	Wedding Finale / int_16aa3232
Desperate Housewives	hasFeature	Whispered Threat / int_16aa3232
Desperate Housewives	hasFeature	White Anglo-Saxon Protestant / int_16aa3232
Desperate Housewives	hasFeature	Whole Episode Flashback / int_16aa3232
Desperate Housewives	hasFeature	Worthless Foreign Degree / int_16aa3232
Desperate Housewives	hasFeature	Written-In Infirmity / int_16aa3232
Desperate Housewives	hasFeature	You Did Everything You Could / int_16aa3232
Desperate Housewives	hasFeature	You Know What You Did / int_16aa3232
Desperate Housewives	hasFeature	You Need to Get Laid / int_16aa3232
Desperate Housewives	hasFeature	Yo-Yo Plot Point / int_16aa3232
Desperate Housewives	hasFeature	Zany Scheme / int_16aa3232
MacGyver	seeAlso	Desperate Housewives
666 Park Avenue	seeAlso	Desperate Housewives
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Desperate Housewives	hasFeature	Floorboard Failure / int_16aa3232
Desperate Housewives	hasFeature	Hey, It's That Place! / int_16aa3232
Desperate Housewives	hasFeature	Locked in a Room / int_16aa3232
Desperate Housewives	hasFeature	Of Corsets Sexy / int_16aa3232
Desperate Housewives	hasFeature	Parenting the Husband / int_16aa3232
Desperate Housewives	hasFeature	Recap Episode / int_16aa3232
Desperate Housewives	hasFeature	Suddenly Sexuality / int_16aa3232
desperatehousewives	sameAs	Desperate Housewives

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