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Northern Exposure

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Northern Exposure	comment	Northern Exposure was an American Dramedy series co-created by Joshua Brand and John Falsey, which aired for five seasons (1990â€“95) on CBS. It's a relatively rare US example of the "Northern" â€“Â a more typically Canadian frontier drama akin to The Western, but taking place in the sub-Arctic regions of northern Canada and Alaska.Joel Fleischman (Rob Morrow) is a young doctor from New York City, fresh out of med school, who is contractually obligated to practice medicine in the small town of Cicely, Alaska (pop. 215) as part of a financial aid package from the state. As Fleischman dreams of escaping Cicely, the locals all seem to be escaping from the rest of the world.The town's quirky residents include: Maurice Minnifield (Barry Corbin), a millionaire former astronaut who wants to turn his 15,000 acres of nearby land into an attractive vacation spot on the "new Alaskan Riviera." Maggie O'Connell (Janine Turner), a bush pilot from a rich family who has a love-hate relationship with Fleischman. Holling Vincoeur (John Cullum), the town barkeep and one of its oldest residents. Shelly Tambo (Cynthia Geary), Holling's ditzy, barely-legal lover. Marilyn Whirlwind (Elaine Miles), the utterly laconic, native Alaskan receptionist who is the perfect foil to all Fleischman's Woody Allen-esque whining. Chris "in the Morning" Stevens (John Corbett), the philosophic DJ (and former JD) at the local radio station. Ed Chigliak (Darren E. Burrows), a native Alaskan with an affable lack of tact and an Encyclopaedic Knowledge of film. Ruth-Anne Miller (Peg Phillips), a kindly older woman who runs the town's general store.The show holds a similarity to Twin Peaks, with its use of extensive dream imagery, fantasy elements, and symbolism to explore its characters, and was one of the most successful "stealth fantasy" shows (in that most fans of the show would never admit that it was a fantasy show) in network television history. In its sixth and final season, Rob Morrow left the show and his character Joel Fleischman was Suspiciously Similar Substituted by Paul Provenza's character Phil Capra.A tie-in novel, Letters From Cicely, came out between the third and fourth seasons.In late 2018, it was announced that a revival of the series was being mounted by CBS, with Morrow returning to star as Fleischman, but the project continues to be hit with various delays and setbacks, including the 2019 death of series co-creator John Falsey.
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Northern Exposure / int_107edaa4	type	Comforting the Widow
Northern Exposure / int_107edaa4	comment	Comforting the Widow: Inverted in "The Three Amigos": Maurice and Holling arrive at their friend's cabin to take his body for burial, and his widow starts hitting on them.
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Northern Exposure / int_1181a575	type	The Unsolved Mystery
Northern Exposure / int_1181a575	comment	The Unsolved Mystery: In "All is Vanity", a man who no one in the small town knows drops dead of natural causes in Joel's waiting room, and the episode ends with it remaining unknown who he was or what he was doing in either Cicely or the waiting room. In "The Mystery of the Old Curio Shop," Joel convinces Maggie that she's a Windmill Crusader in thinking some shopkeepers are criminals and explains most of their odd behavior, but it isn't shown exactly why they outright lied to Maggie about having never had a statuette like the one she tried to buy earlier. It's also never revealed who stole two nitrous oxide tanks from the dentist (in a notoriously crime-free town) or why.
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Northern Exposure / int_150b33c0	type	Parents for a Day
Northern Exposure / int_150b33c0	comment	Parents for a Day: An off-screen woman leaves her child in Joel's waiting room. The townspeople try to take turns caring for the child, with varying results. At the end of the episode, Marilyn hands the baby back to the mother, who has second thoughts about the abandonment.
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Northern Exposure / int_16405e4b	type	Expensive Glass of Crap
Northern Exposure / int_16405e4b	comment	Expensive Glass of Crap: A variation, where Maurice, in one of his Jerkass moves, donates oxidised fine wine to a local charity auction. It turns around on him when Holling innocently buys the wine and invites Maurice to dinner, forcing him to drink it and pretend it's good. He's called on it by Walter Kupter, a gruff local trapper with an unexpected background as a Wall Street trader. In another episode, Shelly accidentally breaks a bottle of fine wine Maurice plans to serve the next day. Eve manages to create a replacement using cheap wine and household ingredients, explaining that as the wife of a master chief she has developed a skill in fooling discerning palates.
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Northern Exposure / int_171c50a9	type	The Philosopher
Northern Exposure / int_171c50a9	comment	The Philosopher: Chris frequently waxes philosophic over the airwaves, often name-checking various tropes in the process.
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Northern Exposure / int_183d79a0	type	The Alleged Expert
Northern Exposure / int_183d79a0	comment	The Alleged Expert: In "A Bolt from the Blue," the state police hostage negotiator's tactics consist of extremely terse small talk and asking his adversary to promise not to take anyone who comes inside to talk to him hostage for additional leverage. And he only thinks to worry about giving a potentially unhinged man another hostage during a standoff after Joel points it out.
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Northern Exposure / int_1c5002bc	type	The Stoic
Northern Exposure / int_1c5002bc	comment	The Stoic: Marilyn never betrays emotion.
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Northern Exposure / int_1da5941e	type	The Quiet One
Northern Exposure / int_1da5941e	comment	The Quiet One: Marilyn. Especially in situations where Joel would find it helpful for her to be more verbose. Of special note is her testimony at Chris's trial: Also of note is her reaction to finding Joel in his office, after he's been missing for several days and has his wrists shackled:
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Northern Exposure / int_1e7487cd	type	Breaking the Fourth Wall
Northern Exposure / int_1e7487cd	comment	Breaking the Fourth Wall: Fleischman obliterates the fourth wall in "War and Peace". When Maurice and Nikolai are about to duel to the death, Joel steps between them and says, "Look, we play to a very sophisticated television audience. They know Maurice isn't going to kill Nikolai and they definitely know Nikolai isn't going to kill Maurice." Maggie then calls him out for stepping out of character, Ruth-Anne suggests going to a previous draft of the script, everyone complains that it's too cold, and then Marilyn suggests they just move on to the next scene. Also happens in the dream sequence in "Russian Flu": after Holling mentions condom use, Joel remarks that they're risking "turning this dream sequence into a public service announcement".
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Northern Exposure / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Northern Exposure / int_1f799027	comment	Obstructive Bureaucrat: The health inspector who threatens to shut down Holling's bar. At least he's polite about it.
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Northern Exposure / int_22f5d1b9	type	Some of My Best Friends Are X
Northern Exposure / int_22f5d1b9	comment	Some of My Best Friends Are X: Maurice tries to pull this on Bernard when he takes offense at being told, "You don't sound black." Unsurprisingly, it doesn't work too well.
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Northern Exposure / int_234fa9ba	type	Mayâ€“December Romance
Northern Exposure / int_234fa9ba	comment	Mayâ€“December Romance: Holling and Shelly. Funnily enough, he worries in one episode that he might outlive her. Men in Holling's family have, without exception, lived to get extremely old. It's implied Holling thinks of their relationship as a Mayflyâ€“December Romance. Chris mentions this trope by name in one episode, citing examples of this type of relationship in Hollywood. Shelly's own mother shows up in Cicely with a boyfriend who is barely older than Shelly.
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Northern Exposure / int_25ea229	type	Siege Engines
Northern Exposure / int_25ea229	comment	Siege Engines: Chris builds a trebuchet, called the Fling, for an art project. He initially plans to fling a cow; when Ed tells him that Monty Python and the Holy Grail already did it, he instead flings Maggie's fire-damaged piano.
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Northern Exposure / int_27a42ebc	type	Spiritual Successor
Northern Exposure / int_27a42ebc	comment	Spiritual Successor: to Local Hero, another Fish out of Water story with magical realist elements where an urban professional played by a Jewish actor is sent to a rural Quirky Town full of Eccentric Townsfolk.
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Northern Exposure / int_280333d4	type	Hollywood Heart Attack
Northern Exposure / int_280333d4	comment	Hollywood Heart Attack: Averted when Maurice simply got light-headed and lost his balance. When Joel tells him he had a heart attack, Maurice doesn't believe it and says "I've had indigestion worse than that".
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Northern Exposure / int_28a5213a	type	Small Name, Big Ego
Northern Exposure / int_28a5213a	comment	Small Name, Big Ego: Maurice. The man went into space once and now he believes himself to be an American institution. It doesn't help that he seems to own most of the town.
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Northern Exposure / int_2a090d00	type	Lampshade Hanging
Northern Exposure / int_2a090d00	comment	Ed finds a ring from Federico Fellini and starts seeing the world in Fellini imagery.
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Northern Exposure / int_2b45c6e	type	Adam and/or Eve
Northern Exposure / int_2b45c6e	comment	Adam and/or Eve: When Dr. Fleischman discovers that Adam's wife is called Eve, he cannot resist taunting them about this. When their first baby is born, he asks them whether or not they called him Cain or Abel.
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Northern Exposure / int_2bf993ad	type	Secret Relationship
Northern Exposure / int_2bf993ad	comment	Secret Relationship: Joel and Maggie finally go to bed together, and after keeping it secret for about forty-five minutes they can't stand the subterfuge anymore and actually announce it to everyone in Roslyn's Cafe. Nobody cares.
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Northern Exposure / int_2c9e262	type	Catapult Nightmare
Northern Exposure / int_2c9e262	comment	Catapult Nightmare: In "All Is Vanity," Holling becomes convinced fiancÃ©e Shelly prefers circumcised men and schedules an appointment with Dr Fleischman. He soon has second thoughts.
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Northern Exposure / int_2d7f0748	type	Raised by Natives
Northern Exposure / int_2d7f0748	comment	Raised by Natives: Ed is a founding adopted by a native tribe.
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Northern Exposure / int_2e8875f0	type	Misplaced Retribution
Northern Exposure / int_2e8875f0	comment	Misplaced Retribution: On Joel's first Thanksgiving in Cicily, he's shocked when local Native Americans throw tomatoes at him as part of their tradition of pelting local whites for the atrocities of their ancestors. Joel is quick to point out that his Jewish ancestors arrived in America well after colonial expansion and were never in any position to exploit Native Americans. Once word spreads in the Native American community, they exclude him from pelting.
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Northern Exposure / int_2f226fee	type	You Didn't Ask
Northern Exposure / int_2f226fee	comment	You Didn't Ask: Marilyn has a habit of being as vague as possible when others need information from her. Ask her if she knows why the wacky hijinks of the week are taking place in Joel's waiting room, the town, or just in Alaska in general, and she'll probably just respond "Yes". You Do Not Want To Know: Marilyn's response when Joel asks what the tribal flu remedy "Hio Hio Ipsanio" is made of.
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Northern Exposure / int_302fd82f	type	Unconventional Courtroom Tactics
Northern Exposure / int_302fd82f	comment	Unconventional Courtroom Tactics: Mike Monroe, completely out of his depth when acting as Chris's attorney, makes a desperate defence on the grounds of identity - that Chris has changed so much since committing the crime that he was no longer the same person. It would have failed immediately, except that the prosecution's paperwork was so shoddy that it took them several days to actually prove that they had the right person on trial, buying Chris's case some time.
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Northern Exposure / int_31578d72	type	Hates Everyone Equally
Northern Exposure / int_31578d72	comment	Hates Everyone Equally: Adam, up to and including his own wife.
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Northern Exposure / int_32976084	type	Destination Defenestration
Northern Exposure / int_32976084	comment	Destination Defenestration: Maurice does this to Chris within mere minutes of the audience being introduced to the latter.
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Northern Exposure / int_32c930e8	type	Eccentric Townsfolk
Northern Exposure / int_32c930e8	comment	Eccentric Townsfolk: One of the chief reasons that Cicily is such a Quirky Town is all of its eccentric residents.
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Northern Exposure / int_38a1e0eb	type	Foreign Cuss Word
Northern Exposure / int_38a1e0eb	comment	Foreign Cuss Word: A French chef working for Maurice gets away with "Merde!" when the English equivalent clearly wouldn't have been allowed in an American primetime network show.
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Northern Exposure / int_3c0a4666	type	Noodle Incident
Northern Exposure / int_3c0a4666	comment	Noodle Incident: Maggie's first boyfriend was apparently killed by potato salad.
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Northern Exposure / int_3ebc57ac	type	Going Native
Northern Exposure / int_3ebc57ac	comment	Going Native: Joel in season 6. An episode in season three where Joel is (much to his own chagrin) adopted by a local tribe foreshadows this.
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Northern Exposure / int_3ec7c277	type	Every Car Is a Pinto
Northern Exposure / int_3ec7c277	comment	Every Car Is a Pinto: Some engine problems cause Joel's car to erupt into flames while he's driving it down Main Street. While waiting for the town's fire department to show up, the truck explodes.
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Northern Exposure / int_3f11ef74	type	Parental Substitute
Northern Exposure / int_3f11ef74	comment	Parental Substitute: Maurice is a bit of a domineering father figure in Ed's life, while Ruth-Anne is the gentler mother figure. This leads to Ed being caught in the middle in Season 4 when Ruth-Anne buys her store from Maurice and the two get into a terrible argument about it, both of them trying to manipulate Ed into quitting working for the other.
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Northern Exposure / int_401d4116	type	Broken Aesop
Northern Exposure / int_401d4116	comment	Broken Aesop: In "Learning Curve", Maggie locks horns with a woman with opinions about what women should and shouldn't do that could only be called incredibly sexist (not to mention hypocritical, since she's a former Air Force pilot but believes women shouldn't be pilots because they lack emotional stability). At one point, the other woman calls Maggie out as a Straw Feminist, for assuming all women agree with her point of view. That would have made for a good Aesop, but the episode doesn't leave it there. It goes on to have Maggie see the error of her ways and agree to disagree — really not a good lesson to teach anyone when you're talking about sexist beliefs that belong on the scrap heap of history.
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Northern Exposure / int_40cbee83	type	Wretched Hive
Northern Exposure / int_40cbee83	comment	Wretched Hive: Sleetmute, judging from the way characters occasionally describe it in comparison to Cicely.
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Northern Exposure / int_417c78f5	type	Robinsonade
Northern Exposure / int_417c78f5	comment	Robinsonade: Joel and Maggie get to do this for an episode after Maggie's plane goes down in the vast Alaskan wilderness.
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Northern Exposure / int_43a045de	type	Dropped a Bridge on Him
Northern Exposure / int_43a045de	comment	Dropped a Bridge on Him: Rick became a victim of "The O'Connell Curse" when he got a satellite dropped on him.
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Northern Exposure / int_455f6a91	type	Long-Lost Relative
Northern Exposure / int_455f6a91	comment	Long-Lost Relative: Pretty much everyone in Cicely has a few of these: Chris's half-brother Bernard is one of the series' most notable recurring characters. Maurice has a half-Korean son. Holling has a daughter who was conceived after he was told he was sterile. Ed spends a few episodes looking for his biological father. Joel has a twin brother. No, he doesn't.
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Northern Exposure / int_46cf13c9	type	Kid from the Future
Northern Exposure / int_46cf13c9	comment	Kid from the Future: In "Hello, I Love You," Shelly, who is overdue to give birth, meets three young girls who are actually future versions of the daughter she's about to give birth to.
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Northern Exposure / int_47198ac4	type	You Do NOT Want to Know
Northern Exposure / int_47198ac4	comment	You Do Not Want To Know: Marilyn's response when Joel asks what the tribal flu remedy "Hio Hio Ipsanio" is made of.
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Northern Exposure / int_4755314a	type	Magical Native American
Northern Exposure / int_4755314a	comment	Magical Native American: A good portion of the Magical Realism of the series is due to the influence of the local Native American tribe. Ed becomes a shaman in later seasons and puts this out into the forefront.
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Northern Exposure / int_48aac61d	type	Chummy Commies
Northern Exposure / int_48aac61d	comment	Chummy Commies: Cicely gets its annual visit from Nikoli Applanov, a famous Soviet chess player. He likes to come to Cicely to relax and get away from his adoring fans back home. Everybody loves him except Maurice, who hates him because he's a Communist.
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Northern Exposure / int_49d59be9	type	Scenery Porn
Northern Exposure / int_49d59be9	comment	Scenery Porn: The gorgeous Alaskan mountains, forests, and prairies make for frequent striking background shots.
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Northern Exposure / int_49fd7ad5	type	Troll Bridge
Northern Exposure / int_49fd7ad5	comment	Troll Bridge: in the magical realist sequence in "The Quest," when Fleischman leaves the show.
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Northern Exposure / int_4ca056e4	type	The Dentist Episode
Northern Exposure / int_4ca056e4	comment	The Dentist Episode: In "Jaws of Life", a traveling dentist makes his routine visit to Cicely, and the townsfolk go out of their way to avoid him as much as possible.
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Northern Exposure / int_4dd6313f	type	It's Always Spring
Northern Exposure / int_4dd6313f	comment	It's Always Spring: The show does try to demonstrate that it's Alaska and there are true seasons... but filming in Washington a few months ahead of the intended airdate means that it's going to be sunnier and more colorful on Thanksgiving day that any real Alaskan town would probably be. (Autumn in Alaska typically ends in October.)
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Northern Exposure / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
Northern Exposure / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: Late in season one, an old flame of Shelly's visits town, talking about how he's marrying her old best friend, and then drops a line that casts Shelly's relationships with Holling and Maurice in a different light and temporarily damages her relationship with the honor-minded Holling.
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Northern Exposure / int_4f4e6987	type	Scolding the Fourth-Wall Breaker
Northern Exposure / int_4f4e6987	comment	Fleischman obliterates the fourth wall in "War and Peace". When Maurice and Nikolai are about to duel to the death, Joel steps between them and says, "Look, we play to a very sophisticated television audience. They know Maurice isn't going to kill Nikolai and they definitely know Nikolai isn't going to kill Maurice." Maggie then calls him out for stepping out of character, Ruth-Anne suggests going to a previous draft of the script, everyone complains that it's too cold, and then Marilyn suggests they just move on to the next scene.
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Northern Exposure / int_4fff0dfe	type	Sarcasm-Blind
Northern Exposure / int_4fff0dfe	comment	Sarcasm-Blind: Ed.
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Northern Exposure / int_5017da77	type	Church of Saint Genericus
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Northern Exposure / int_505a1021	type	The Farmer and the Viper
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Northern Exposure / int_516ac9a8	type	Viking Funeral
Northern Exposure / int_516ac9a8	comment	Viking Funeral: Chris uses his trebuchet to give his old friend Tooley a metaphorical Viking funeral — one final Fling for the world's greatest party animal.
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Northern Exposure / int_53224e46	type	Bookends
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Northern Exposure / int_53d2d85	type	"Last Supper" Steal
Northern Exposure / int_53d2d85	comment	"Last Supper" Steal: Chris experiences this in a dream sequence.
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Northern Exposure / int_5530e11b	type	Founder of the Kingdom
Northern Exposure / int_5530e11b	comment	Founder of the Kingdom: The town of Cicely celebrates a Founder's Day in honor of its founders Cicely and Gwendolyn.
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Northern Exposure / int_5541da8c	type	Lotus-Eater Machine
Northern Exposure / int_5541da8c	comment	Lotus-Eater Machine: In one episode, Joel is back in New York, and everyone from Cicely is there. Ed's a hedge fund Wunderkind, and Maurice is just a bellhop.
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Northern Exposure / int_55b1f9a1	type	Easy Amnesia
Northern Exposure / int_55b1f9a1	comment	Easy Amnesia: In the episode after Joel and Maggie have sex, Maggie seems to genuinely not remember what happened.
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Northern Exposure / int_561dab6b	type	Mistaken for Gay
Northern Exposure / int_561dab6b	comment	Mistaken for Gay: This happens to Maurice when he sells a home to a gay couple, due to his of love cooking and showtunes. Leads to a Have I Mentioned I Am Heterosexual Today? scene.
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Northern Exposure / int_571833a	type	Aren't You Going to Ravish Me?
Northern Exposure / int_571833a	comment	Aren't You Going to Ravish Me?: In the episode "It Happened in Juneau". Maggie and Joel, lonely and drunk, agree to Do it; but Maggie passes out. Joel puts her to bed alone. The next day they return to Cicely and Maggie tells Joel, "It was great, I'm glad it happened, but let's pretend it didn't". Some time goes by before Joel succeeds in telling Maggie what really happened, and she is insulted: "Why didn't you? I had consented!" She invites him to try again - but then finds that what she wanted was his expression of committed desire, rather than the fulfillment, and dismissed him.
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Northern Exposure / int_58626d87	type	Genius Ditz
Northern Exposure / int_58626d87	comment	Genius Ditz: Ed. He appears to catch on a bit slow, especially in social situations, but the man knows his movies, and can easily relate anything he or another character is going through to a plot element from a favorite vintage film.
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Northern Exposure / int_59788b2c	type	Hiding Behind the Language Barrier
Northern Exposure / int_59788b2c	comment	Hiding Behind the Language Barrier: Happens and is also discussed. The older Native Americans all speak Tlingit when they don't want the youngsters to understand what they're saying. When Ed talks to Joel about this, Joel mentions a similar thing happening in Queens where Alter Kockers speak in Yiddish in order to keep secrets. Both Tlingit and Yiddish are dying languages; Ed decides to dub The Prisoner of Zenda into Tlingit in order to preserve the language.
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Northern Exposure / int_5b973520	type	Alternate Reality Episode
Northern Exposure / int_5b973520	comment	Alternate Reality Episode: "Cicely" begins with an aged visitor telling the story of the town's founding in 1909, and the rest of the episode depicts the story with the main actors playing various roles therein.
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Northern Exposure / int_5c0902e7	type	Boyish Short Hair
Northern Exposure / int_5c0902e7	comment	Boyish Short Hair: Straw Feminist Maggie used to keep her hair cut short, but she eventually adopted a Tomboyish Ponytail in later seasons as she mellowed.
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Northern Exposure / int_5cc25ed	type	Not-So-Imaginary Friend
Northern Exposure / int_5cc25ed	comment	Not-So-Imaginary Friend: Adam, originally.
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Northern Exposure / int_615fdb1f	type	Dream Sequence
Northern Exposure / int_615fdb1f	comment	Dream Sequence: The entire show was made of these. In "What I Did for Love" Maggie repeatedly dreams she's playing Cluedo with Joel, who, in the dream, will die in a plane crash on his way back to New York. And Vision Quest for (naturally) Ed. In "Aurora Borealis," Chris and Bernard have the same dream at the same time.
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Northern Exposure / int_63be4131	type	Pretty Boy
Northern Exposure / int_63be4131	comment	Pretty Boy: Ed. And Chris in the Morning, a rare scruffy version of this type.
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Northern Exposure / int_6492f4ca	type	Spirit Advisor
Northern Exposure / int_6492f4ca	comment	Spirit Advisor: One Who Waits
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Northern Exposure / int_66755d29	type	Author Avatar
Northern Exposure / int_66755d29	comment	Author Avatar: In-universe, Ed is working on a screenplay called "The Shaman". It becomes pretty clear that the titular character is based on his own life in the episode "Balls", where Lester Haines agrees to finance the film but wants to change the ending, because he doesn't find it believable that the main character gets the girl in the end. This happens while Ed is dating Lester's daughter Heather, which Lester implies will never work out in real life.
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Northern Exposure / int_66b98472	type	Erotic Dream
Northern Exposure / int_66b98472	comment	Erotic Dream: In one episode, the yearly "cracking of the ice" on the nearby river causes general goofiness; in the case of Joel and Maggie, they have erotic dreams about each other. In another episode, Joel has a dream that starts out as a pitch-perfect remake of the video to Robert Palmer's "Simply Irresistible" - until the song stops mid-note and the dancing models try hitting on him. The Russian Flu inverts the trope as Joel keeps having dreams interacting with various Cicelians who always keep referring to Elaine (then Joel's fiancee) as his sister. The final dream ends with Maggie showing up as his wife.
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Northern Exposure / int_67b9dd47	type	Repeating So the Audience Can Hear
Northern Exposure / int_67b9dd47	comment	Repeating So the Audience Can Hear: Often averted when characters are speaking in foreign languages, and characters unfamiliar with the language have to stumble through as best they can, just like the audience does. But played somewhat straight when Marilyn dates a man who only communicates via sign language. It's probably the most dialogue Marilyn has had in any episode up until that point.
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Northern Exposure / int_681bcd81	type	Clumsy Copyright Censorship
Northern Exposure / int_681bcd81	comment	Clumsy Copyright Censorship: The first season was released to DVD with all of its music intact, but it wound up retailing for $60 due to the cost of licensing. As a result, Universal chose to replace much of the music in the remaining seasons with generic muzak to keep the costs down.
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Northern Exposure / int_685d06d	type	Plot Parallel
Northern Exposure / int_685d06d	comment	Plot Parallel: Most episodes.
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Northern Exposure / int_69f7765	type	Need a Hand, or a Handjob?
Northern Exposure / int_69f7765	comment	Need a Hand, or a Handjob?: Inverted in the first episode, where Joel mistakenly believes Maggie to be a prostitute based on her offers to help. She does not react well to this, of course.
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Northern Exposure / int_6b5a92dc	type	Uncanny Valley
Northern Exposure / int_6b5a92dc	comment	Uncanny Valley: In-universe. A wax replica of Maurice has this effect on people, and it starts to become the butt of their jokes until Maurice decides he can't stand it any more.
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Northern Exposure / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Northern Exposure / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: Holling Vincoeur runs the local bar; his surname is French for wine-heart, although nobody pronounces it very Frenchly.
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Northern Exposure / int_6c81c95	type	True Art Is Incomprehensible
Northern Exposure / int_6c81c95	comment	True Art Is Incomprehensible: In-universe, folks often react this way to Chris's various art exhibits. Often Chris himself doesn't even understand what he's building.
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Northern Exposure / int_6c8ce91f	type	Insult to Rocks
Northern Exposure / int_6c8ce91f	comment	Insult to Rocks: At one point, Maggie decides that calling Joel a moron would be "an insult to morons."
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Northern Exposure / int_6f3b8432	type	Visions of Another Self
Northern Exposure / int_6f3b8432	comment	Visions of Another Self: The residents of 1909 Cicely in the Flashback to the town's founding: Maurice becomes the ruthless crime-boss Mace Mobrey; Maggie is the stong-willed missionary Mary O'Keefe; Chris's counterpart is the philosophical gunfighter Kit; and Ed is Ned, the old man telling Joel the story. Joel himself? His counterpart is Franz Kafka! They revisited this past period in a later episode, only recasting Joel as a personal physician to Lenin and Maggie as a handmaiden to Anastasia. According to the story, Anastasia had agreed to emerge from hiding to meet with Lenin about possibly returning to the Soviet Union.
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Northern Exposure / int_71c5dc4e	type	Addictive Foreign Soap Opera
Northern Exposure / int_71c5dc4e	comment	Addictive Foreign Soap Opera: In the first episode of the second season, Shelly receives a satellite dish from her husband and becomes addicted to a telenovela, which is both Played for Laughs and used to help set up her realization that she has become disconnected from reality and the things she cares about.
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Northern Exposure / int_754df088	type	Put on a Bus
Northern Exposure / int_754df088	comment	Put on a Bus: Mike Monroe, literally.
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Northern Exposure / int_75d6bf40	type	Belligerent Sexual Tension
Northern Exposure / int_75d6bf40	comment	Belligerent Sexual Tension: Joel and Maggie actually come to blows once.
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Northern Exposure / int_76d233f9	type	Straw Feminist
Northern Exposure / int_76d233f9	comment	Straw Feminist: Maggie started out as a strong, independent woman, but she degenerated in later seasons into a caricature. All of the women in the town become this for a day when Maggie decides to defiantly give the boot to Maurice and the men he's hired to dig up some Indian artifacts that were discovered in her front yard.
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Northern Exposure / int_77a55dfa	type	Endless Daytime
Northern Exposure / int_77a55dfa	comment	Endless Daytime: One episode takes place during the Midnight Sun. People go a little crazy. Er.
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Northern Exposure / int_7886d4d0	type	Decemberâ€“December Romance
Northern Exposure / int_7886d4d0	comment	Decemberâ€“December Romance: Ruth-Anne and Walt.
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Northern Exposure / int_78c895c8	type	Amusing Injuries
Northern Exposure / int_78c895c8	comment	Amusing Injuries: In the episode "Old Tree", Joel seems to get spontaneously injured every time Maggie tries to do something nice for him.
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Northern Exposure / int_7a163538	type	Brooklyn Rage
Northern Exposure / int_7a163538	comment	Brooklyn Rage: Joel. (He's technically from Queens, but close enough.) This comes out whenever anyone, knowingly or inadvertently, makes his life difficult. In an episode where he starts to worry that he's losing his "New York edge", what ends up curing his homesickness is a heated argument with a repairman who Joel thinks is ripping him off.
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Northern Exposure / int_7bb1296b	type	"Rashomon"-Style
Northern Exposure / int_7bb1296b	comment	"Rashomon"-Style: The first time Holling met Shelly (who was dating his friend Maurice at the time) is retold in three different flashbacks. Holling remembers himself being polite to Shelly but only beginning to fall for her after she smiled at him for helping her open a bottle while Maurice was busy. Maurice remembers Holling leering at Shelly from the start and pushing past Maurice to open the bottle for her. Shelly remembers Dave, the dorky counter man, opening the bottle for her while Holling and Maurice were busy and says she and Holling only fell in love at a later meeting.
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Northern Exposure / int_7c4ae6b0	type	Hot Librarian
Northern Exposure / int_7c4ae6b0	comment	Hot Librarian: Maggie becoming mayor of Cicely has this effect on Chris, who is attracted to her authority.
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Northern Exposure / int_7e081ea0	type	Slice of Life
Northern Exposure / int_7e081ea0	comment	Slice of Life: A defining trait of the series. Most plots arise from the mundane minutiae of life in Cicely than those that are based on obviously massive, life-changing events.
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Northern Exposure / int_7ef728b1	type	Tsundere
Northern Exposure / int_7ef728b1	comment	Tsundere: Maggie is definitely Type 1.
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Northern Exposure / int_7f67e11	type	The Night That Never Ends
Northern Exposure / int_7f67e11	comment	The Night That Never Ends: Happens in "Northern Lights", which is sort of the inverse of the Endless Daytime episode mentioned above. Though the sun is still up for about an hour each day, which is true in many locations just north of the Arctic Circle.
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Northern Exposure / int_7f760614	type	The Silent Bob
Northern Exposure / int_7f760614	comment	The Silent Bob: Marilyn. Enrico Belotti, "The Flying Man" who arrives in Cicely with the circus. Communicating only in sign language, he makes Marilyn (who happens to be the object of his affection) seem rather talkative in comparison. He does actually speak to Marilyn in his second appearance, though he still prefers not to do it unless he has something extremely important to say. Oh, and yes, he really can fly.
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Northern Exposure / int_7fd86888	type	Mountain Man
Northern Exposure / int_7fd86888	comment	Mountain Man: Recurring character Walt, a trapper in his mid-60s who becomes a love interest for Ruth-Anne.
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Northern Exposure / int_8391b1c7	type	Artistic License â€“ Law
Northern Exposure / int_8391b1c7	comment	Artistic License â€“ Law: An episode where Chris is on trial for skipping parole and his lawyer, Mike Monroe, knows he has no real case, seems to head straight into this when they try to make the metaphysical argument that Chris is a different person now. It's subverted when the judge, who has humored their ridiculous argument for several days, still sentences Chris to finishing his prison term, but is lenient enough to stay the sentence for three years, having become someone sympathetic to Chris during her time in Cicely. The "ironclad" contract that requires Joel to practice medicine for four/five years in Cicily, Alaska, or face 15 years in prison would be unenforceable in real life. This would constitute involuntary servitude under the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. In actuality, the doctor could only be subject to civil suit for damages, as well as possible revocation of his medical license. Personal services contracts are also notoriously difficult to enforce.
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Northern Exposure / int_8504b817	type	Where the Hell Is Springfield?
Northern Exposure / int_8504b817	comment	Where the Hell Is Springfield?: All right, it's in Alaska. But fan discussions pointed out that there can not possibly be anywhere in the state with ALL the characteristics which have been indicated in-episode.
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Northern Exposure / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
Northern Exposure / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: Episodes often end this way — a character will get into some sort of situation which won't really resolve itself, with the narrative resolution coming instead from the character learning something about him/herself or others. A good example is Maggie playing Nancy Drew in "The Mystery of the Old Curio Shop". The episode never actually tells us what the deal was with the couple running that curio shop.
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Northern Exposure / int_87ee897	type	Crazy Cultural Comparison
Northern Exposure / int_87ee897	comment	Crazy Cultural Comparison: The Eskimo Indians celebrating Thanksgiving as "The Day of the Dead," where they throw tomatoes at white people. Inverted in "Rosebud." Leonard looks for white folktales for his work as a healer. The results are disappointing.
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Northern Exposure / int_8b200e5f	type	Hypochondria
Northern Exposure / int_8b200e5f	comment	Hypochondria: Eve, one of Joel's least favorite patients, has a habit of showing up at his practice claiming she is suffering some terrible self-diagnosed illness. Though she gets a little better after she gets pregnant (the one thing she didn't suspect she had).
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Northern Exposure / int_8d718b9e	type	Bears Are Bad News
Northern Exposure / int_8d718b9e	comment	Bears Are Bad News: Holling was once mauled by a bear (whom he named Jesse) while hunting. While recovering, he claimed to have a nightmare where he was pursued by all the animals he had hunted in the past. The experience changed Holling: while he had sworn vengeance against Jesse (to the point where Jesse had become his personal Moby-Dick), he vowed never to hunt any animal other than Jesse except with a camera.
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Northern Exposure / int_8da65890	type	Commuting on a Bus
Northern Exposure / int_8da65890	comment	Commuting on a Bus: Joel commutes on a boat for about a third of Season 6.
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Northern Exposure / int_8de7402d	type	Measuring the Marigolds
Northern Exposure / int_8de7402d	comment	Measuring the Marigolds: Inverted. Ed Chigliak - Magical Native American, artist, and Bishōnen, hates computers until he realizes that ones and zeroes are just his people's view that the universe is made up of two things: Nothing, and everything.
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Northern Exposure / int_8e4a0f15	type	Dumb Blonde
Northern Exposure / int_8e4a0f15	comment	Dumb Blonde: Shelly seems to exist at the three-way intersection between this trope, Valley Girl, and Trailer Trash. At other times she demonstrates Hidden Depths.
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Northern Exposure / int_902cc70b	type	Battered Bouquet
Northern Exposure / int_902cc70b	comment	Battered Bouquet: At Adam and Eve's wedding, the bride and groom act so disagreeably that when Eve does the traditional bridal bouquet toss, everybody shies away like she had tossed a dead skunk and the flowers crash to the ground with nobody even attempting to catch them.
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Northern Exposure / int_91e894b4	type	Apocalypse How
Northern Exposure / int_91e894b4	comment	Apocalypse How: Ed has a dream about the residents of the town suffering from horrible mutations because they weren't environmentally conscious enough to prevent the ozone layer from breaking down.
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Northern Exposure / int_92a642f1	type	Credits Jukebox
Northern Exposure / int_92a642f1	comment	Credits Jukebox: The show used a different previously-existing song for the closing credits of each episode. Usually the lyrics had some kind of thematic relevance. This caused major problems with music rights for the home video release.
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Northern Exposure / int_96cc4848	type	"Dear John" Letter
Northern Exposure / int_96cc4848	comment	Joel's reaction to the "Dear John" Letter from his fiancee Elaine is straight out of The Graduate.
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Northern Exposure / int_96e5792c	type	Moral Guardians
Northern Exposure / int_96e5792c	comment	Moral Guardians: Sort of inverted in the episode "Northern Hospitality". A resident is Driven to Suicide and leaves a note saying that the song "Pencil-Necked Geek" that Chris broadcast on the radio was what convinced him to do it. Chris immediately takes it upon himself to remove anything that could be remotely construed as angry or depressing from his playlist, which leads many of the townspeople to complain that the station is now quite boring, and that the music shouldn't be blamed for the suicide.
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Northern Exposure / int_991af300	type	Poke the Poodle
Northern Exposure / int_991af300	comment	Poke the Poodle: Satan visits Cicily and reveals that, with all the atrocities going on in the world, humanity already has big-time evil covered, so he's content to convince good people to make small concessions in their morality.
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Northern Exposure / int_9952b10b	type	Re-Release Soundtrack
Northern Exposure / int_9952b10b	comment	Re-Release Soundtrack: The home release had the soundtrack replaced. Because the show involves a DJ at a radio station playing commercial music appropriate to the situation or character, a lot of the original intent is lost in the home release version.
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Northern Exposure / int_9b0ecf33	type	Title by Number
Northern Exposure / int_9b0ecf33	comment	Title by Number: Grosse Point, 48230 and Three Doctors.
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Northern Exposure / int_9d6e002e	type	Whole Episode Flashback
Northern Exposure / int_9d6e002e	comment	The Whole Episode Flashback "Zarya" features Princess Anastasia of Russia, who survived the Revolution in secret and is living in secret in an Alaskan colony with a handful of soldiers, a cabinet minister, a priest, and a few servants, while warily conducting peace negotiations with Vladimir Lenin.
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Northern Exposure / int_9fc04a54	type	Have I Mentioned I Am Heterosexual Today?
Northern Exposure / int_9fc04a54	comment	Have I Mentioned I Am Heterosexual Today?: Maurice hits this one pretty hard after selling a home to a pair of men he later realized was a gay couple. He doesn't take kindly to them pointing out that he appreciates several of the same activities as they do (cooking, interior decorating, etc.) When he starts ranting about their "unnatural lifestyle", they think he is just trying to jack the price up. Chris deals with this in his usual open-minded manner when he finds himself inexplicably sexually attracted to a man who never speaks. The worst part? It happens in the middle of a spiritual retreat at a monastery, and the man in question is one of the monks. Subverted when the monk's hood finally comes off and the character is revealed to be a woman.
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Northern Exposure / int_a02779f2	type	Terra Deforming
Northern Exposure / int_a02779f2	comment	Terra Deforming: Maurice Minnifield sees Alaska as just a huge opportunity for business.
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Northern Exposure / int_a4ffefce	type	Dream Intro
Northern Exposure / int_a4ffefce	comment	Dream Intro: Used in several episodes. One in particular starts inside Joel's sex dream where he's Robert Palmer singing "Simply Irresistible." There's a Sexy Discretion Shot fading to the opening credits when things turn steamy.
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Northern Exposure / int_a5cfe2ac	type	And There Was Much Rejoicing
Northern Exposure / int_a5cfe2ac	comment	And There Was Much Rejoicing: Holling is decidedly not proud of his ancestry. He once told Shelly that the death of his grandfather is still celebrated as a national holiday in France.
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Northern Exposure / int_a679184b	type	Due to the Dead
Northern Exposure / int_a679184b	comment	Due to the Dead: The reason for Maurice and Holling's wilderness excursion in "Three Amigos". It doesn't quite go as planned. Chris also struggles with this when a friend's remains are mailed to him in "Heroes".
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Northern Exposure / int_a734c20	type	Black Widow
Northern Exposure / int_a734c20	comment	Black Widow: Maggie O'Connell. She doesn't kill any of them; her boyfriends just seem to keep dying on her. One was hit by a falling satellite.
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Northern Exposure / int_a8b5a55e	type	Welcome Episode
Northern Exposure / int_a8b5a55e	comment	Welcome Episode: Joel gets an unexpected and confusing welcome to Alaska in the pilot.
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Northern Exposure / int_a8bd420e	type	Nancy Drew (Franchise)
Northern Exposure / int_a8bd420e	comment	A good example is Maggie playing Nancy Drew in "The Mystery of the Old Curio Shop". The episode never actually tells us what the deal was with the couple running that curio shop.
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Northern Exposure / int_aaedd10	type	Given Name Reveal
Northern Exposure / int_aaedd10	comment	Given Name Reveal: Regular guy Holling Vancouer reveals that his family name is actually du Vincouer, and that he's descended from French royalty - but every male in his family is a Jerkass, so he changed it to try to get away from that, which is also why he's decided not to have any offspring.
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Northern Exposure / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
Northern Exposure / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Joel and Maggie do this with each other all the time, but whenever Adam's around, he's skilled enough at it to make anyone else's attempts at snark look like child's play.
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Northern Exposure / int_af696bef	type	Fish out of Water
Northern Exposure / int_af696bef	comment	Interestingly, in Phil's second episode, he and Joel play a round of golf together, which serves to illustrate how much Joel has changed since the beginning of the series while Phil now takes on the Fish out of Water role occupied by Joel earlier in the series.
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Northern Exposure / int_b15ad926	type	Time-Shifted Actor
Northern Exposure / int_b15ad926	comment	Time-Shifted Actor: Tara Subkoff plays 15-year-old version of Maggie in "The Letter".
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Northern Exposure / int_b1efb7a7	type	Mayflyâ€“December Romance
Northern Exposure / int_b1efb7a7	comment	Holling and Shelly. Funnily enough, he worries in one episode that he might outlive her. Men in Holling's family have, without exception, lived to get extremely old. It's implied Holling thinks of their relationship as a Mayflyâ€“December Romance.
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Northern Exposure / int_b275df3d	type	Asian Babymama
Northern Exposure / int_b275df3d	comment	Asian Babymama: Maurice has one who pays him a visit in "Seoul Mates". Enough time has passed since the Korean War that she's now a baby grand-mama.
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Northern Exposure / int_b3e3b9af	type	Playing Cyrano
Northern Exposure / int_b3e3b9af	comment	Playing Cyrano: In "War and Peace," Chris ghostwrites Ed's love letters to his crush White Feather.
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Northern Exposure / int_b4d3489e	type	Severely Specialized Store
Northern Exposure / int_b4d3489e	comment	Severely Specialized Store: In one episode, Shelly is interested in going to the Mall of America; she mentions that they have a whole store that's just socks.
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Northern Exposure / int_b503102e	type	Terrified of Germs
Northern Exposure / int_b503102e	comment	Terrified of Germs: Mike Monroe, introduced in season 4, is so hyper-sensitive to compound chemicals that he can sense them in the atmosphere from hundreds of miles away. When we first meet the character, he lives in a hermetically sealed geodesic dome and never ventures outside. Maggie gradually coaxes him into venturing out a bit more.
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Northern Exposure / int_b506c9ff	type	Hide Your Lesbians
Northern Exposure / int_b506c9ff	comment	Hide Your Lesbians: In-universe example — Maurice tells Joel that, whatever he may have heard, the two women who founded the town were just good friends.
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Northern Exposure / int_b7e0c5ff	type	Love Triangle
Northern Exposure / int_b7e0c5ff	comment	Maurice and Holling, frequently over Shelly.
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Northern Exposure / int_b807624a	type	And Show It to You
Northern Exposure / int_b807624a	comment	And Show It to You: Adam threatens to rip Maurice's heart out and show it to him while the two are Volleying Insults over a disagreement regarding the town's newspaper.
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Northern Exposure / int_b9561236	type	A Good Name for a Rock Band
Northern Exposure / int_b9561236	comment	A Good Name for a Rock Band: Happened in real life when Justin Vernon was home sick with mono, and watching the series on DVD. The scene at the end of "First Snow" where everyone wishes each other "Bon hiver!" inspired his stage name, Bon Iver.
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Northern Exposure / int_bc2139f8	type	We Sell Everything
Northern Exposure / int_bc2139f8	comment	We Sell Everything: The general store seems to have everything (so long as Joel isn't looking for something New York-ish). "Left-handed noodle strainer? Let me look in the back.".
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Northern Exposure / int_bc6c6c90	type	Drop-In Character
Northern Exposure / int_bc6c6c90	comment	Drop-In Character: Ed. He doesn't seem to believe in knocking, and will already be in the room before the person he came to visit (frequently Joel) will even notice him. Joel's house seems to be a magnet for these kinds of characters. Particularly in the middle of the night.
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Northern Exposure / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
Northern Exposure / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: Never, ever insinuate that one of Maurice's heroes might have been a homosexual. Especially when you're broadcasting live on his radio station.
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Northern Exposure / int_be009bbc	type	Alliterative Name
Northern Exposure / int_be009bbc	comment	Alliterative Name: Mike Monroe (Anthony Edwards).
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Northern Exposure / int_be30e493	type	Undignified Death
Northern Exposure / int_be30e493	comment	Undignified Death: Rick, Maggie's boyfriend, is killed when a satellite falls from the sky and lands on him. It fuses with his body to the point that it can't be removed so a coffin has to be specially made to allow parts of the satellite to protrude from it. The sight of this causes the guests at his funeral to erupt with laughter while Maggie vainly reminds them that a man is dead.
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Northern Exposure / int_bf1255fa	type	Really Gets Around
Northern Exposure / int_bf1255fa	comment	Really Gets Around: Rick. After he dies, he tells Maggie in a dream sequence that he's slept with 2,500 women. Chris gets his fair share as well. Pheremones might have something to do with it.
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Northern Exposure / int_c1bff55b	type	Bubble Boy
Northern Exposure / int_c1bff55b	comment	Bubble Boy: Mike has developed severe allergies to artificial materials (basically, to US civilization). His whole house is encased in a bubble. At one point he borrowed a space suit from Maurice to go among the townsfolk.
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Northern Exposure / int_c25cf377	type	Costumer
Northern Exposure / int_c25cf377	comment	Costumer: The third finale was a Whole Episode Flashback to the founding of Cicely.
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Northern Exposure / int_c33ba0a8	type	Chuck Cunningham Syndrome
Northern Exposure / int_c33ba0a8	comment	A minor example happens in Season 5, when Dave, a recurring character who works at Holling's bar, gets replaced by Eugene without explanation.
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Northern Exposure / int_c38afac1	type	Otaku
Northern Exposure / int_c38afac1	comment	Otaku: Ed. More attractive than most, and less socially awkward, but he still gets into film themes.
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Northern Exposure / int_c3bafbce	type	Satan
Northern Exposure / int_c3bafbce	comment	Satan: In "The Robe", Satan comes to Cicely as a short, wimply little man played by Charles Martin Smith (Toad from American Graffiti). With the world already in shambles due to war and ethnic cleansing, Satan now amuses himself by tempting good people into making very small concessions of morality. He offers Shelly a more glamorous life if she will only burn her husband's favorite sweater, but she refuses.
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Northern Exposure / int_c3cdd2b8	type	Water Source Tampering
Northern Exposure / int_c3cdd2b8	comment	Water Source Tampering: Maurice taps into an underground water source and starts bottling and selling the water. Everyone who drinks it begins displaying a number of Gender-Inverted Tropes.
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Northern Exposure / int_c4f3a09a	type	Share the Male Pain
Northern Exposure / int_c4f3a09a	comment	Share the Male Pain: Chris in the Morning announces over the radio that Holling is considering circumcision. Ed says only, "Ow."
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Northern Exposure / int_c631f304	type	We Want Our Jerk Back!
Northern Exposure / int_c631f304	comment	We Want Our Jerk Back!: Joel begs Maggie to go back to being mean to him in an episode where her attempts to be kind inadvertently end up injuring him.
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Northern Exposure / int_c67e470	type	But You Were There, and You, and You
Northern Exposure / int_c67e470	comment	But You Were There, and You, and You: One of this show's many All Just a Dream episodes ends with this. It's a pretty obvious spoof of The Wizard of Oz, right down to the placement of the characters at the dreamer's bedside and window.
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Northern Exposure / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Northern Exposure / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Chris' radio monolouges are shot through with literary and philosophical references. In addition: Ed finds a ring from Federico Fellini and starts seeing the world in Fellini imagery. "The Russian Flu" ends with Holling, Joel, and Elaine doing an extended Twin Peaks riff. Joel's reaction to the "Dear John" Letter from his fiancee Elaine is straight out of The Graduate. In "Kaddish For Uncle Manny", the townsfolk are trying to find other Jews in Alaska. Joel has a dream that these Jews approach him on horseback, like in an old Western. Two of them are named Joel and Ethan Coen. "War and Peace" borrows the singing Russian visitor subplot from Local Hero. On a more general level, Cicely, Alaska bears a certain resemblance to Furness, Scotland. "Joel et Jules" ends with an homage to The Wizard of Oz. One of Cicely's lesbian founders is named Rosalyn — after the town in Washington state where the show's exterior scenes were filmed.
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Northern Exposure / int_c7a9137e	type	Universal-Adaptor Cast
Northern Exposure / int_c7a9137e	comment	Universal-Adaptor Cast: Seen in two episodes where Cicely's history is explored, as well as the premiere of Season 6, where Joel experiences a vision of how his life might have turned out had he stayed in New York City.
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Northern Exposure / int_c868a42a	type	Freudian Excuse
Northern Exposure / int_c868a42a	comment	Freudian Excuse: Holling has daddy issues with his entire paternal lineage.
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Northern Exposure / int_ca3a4a31	type	Disability as an Excuse for Jerkassery
Northern Exposure / int_ca3a4a31	comment	Disability as an Excuse for Jerkassery: The blind repairman who fixes Holling's piano in "Duets".
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Northern Exposure / int_ca7ec334	type	Two Lines, No Waiting
Northern Exposure / int_ca7ec334	comment	Two Lines, No Waiting: Aside from the pilot, all episodes had two, three or four plots.
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Northern Exposure / int_cd6458a8	type	No Control Group
Northern Exposure / int_cd6458a8	comment	No Control Group: The Episode "The Robe" averts this. When the inhabitants of Cicely sign up for a medical trial, there is a control group, and much of the episode consists of Maurice seeking assurance that obviously the most important man in town wouldn't be given a placebo, and Joel vainly attempting to explain "randomized" and "double blind" to him.
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Northern Exposure / int_ce2809ca	type	Shoe Size Angst
Northern Exposure / int_ce2809ca	comment	Shoe Size Angst: One episode had a subplot about Shelly's embarassment over her unusually large feet, brought on by having to buy new shoes. This was apparently inspired by the actor, Cynthia Geary, herself having those feelings.
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Northern Exposure / int_d0f0a80d	type	One-Word Title
Northern Exposure / int_d0f0a80d	comment	One-Word Title: Pilot. Roots. Cicely. Heroes. Thanksgiving. Revelations. Duets. Homesick. Rosebud. Zarya. Realpolitik. Horns. Balls.
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Northern Exposure / int_d1cedb73	type	Slap-Slap-Kiss
Northern Exposure / int_d1cedb73	comment	Slap-Slap-Kiss: You can probably see this coming from a mile away in the episode that begins with Maggie punching Joel in the nose. Despite being dared to hit her back, Joel retaliates in the form of legal action... and it just gets worse from there until a fight at the climax of the episode turns into a literal roll in the hay.
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Northern Exposure / int_d366883d	type	Mortality Phobia
Northern Exposure / int_d366883d	comment	Mortality Phobia: Inverted. Chris's father and grandfather both died by the age of 40, so he figures that he will too — so he tends to do risky things, like take out loans and not pay them off. But then Joel diagnoses him with high blood pressure and gives him medication, stating that his father & grandfather probably had it too. Now that Chris is given a chance at a long life, he starts toning down his risky behavior.
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Northern Exposure / int_d429d0f6	type	Canada, Eh?
Northern Exposure / int_d429d0f6	comment	Canada, Eh?: "Northern Hospitality."
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Northern Exposure / int_d72edeb0	type	Fake Guest Star
Northern Exposure / int_d72edeb0	comment	Fake Guest Star: Moultrie Patten as Walt Kupfer. He appeared in nearly every episode in the last couple seasons.
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Northern Exposure / int_d7fc9fd0	type	Vitriolic Best Buds
Northern Exposure / int_d7fc9fd0	comment	Vitriolic Best Buds: Maurice and Holling, frequently over Shelly. Joel and Maggie, arguably.
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Northern Exposure / int_d904a7fd	comment	Can't Live with Them, Can't Live Without Them: Adam and Eve.
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Northern Exposure / int_d935ee2f	comment	Innocent Blue Eyes: Ed, as part of his total Pretty Boy status.
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Northern Exposure / int_da46a2c0	comment	Hollywood Atheist: Averted with General Store owner Ruth-Anne Miller, one of the friendliest and most down-to-earth residents of Cicely, who just happens to be an atheist.
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Northern Exposure / int_dc3df63a	type	Death Notification
Northern Exposure / int_dc3df63a	comment	Death Notification: In "Slow Dance," Joel has to tell Maggie that Rick has just died and her oblivious comments about her complicated relationship with Rick only make it harder for Joel to spit it out right away. He ends up leading into it with an awkward joke about death notifications.
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Northern Exposure / int_dd3969b	type	Hijacked by Jesus
Northern Exposure / int_dd3969b	comment	Hijacked by Jesus: An interesting variation, where the residents of Cicily combine Christmas traditions with the local tribe's "Raven Festival", based on the story of Raven and the Sun-Holder's Daughter. While this is a traditional Raven story among some tribes and the depiction in the show is fairly accurate, it does make Raven seem like a Crystal Dragon Jesus. In one of the few points where Marilyn Whirlwind spoke more than a few words at a time, she told the story to Joel:
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Northern Exposure / int_dd45df38	type	Unfortunate Names
Northern Exposure / int_dd45df38	comment	Unfortunate Names: In-universe example: In one episode, Joel is listing strains of flu, and when he says "Russian flu", everyone immediately thinks the Soviets sent the flu across the Bering Strait to them and end of the Cold War was a hoax.
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Northern Exposure / int_de0d9b2a	comment	Alter Kocker: Transplant Joel mentions them back in his "old country" of Queens, NY from time to time. In one episode, he finds the local indians using what he knows as Yiddish words, which turns out to be due to memories of a Jewish explorer. One mentions hearing a television show using "aldakaka, that's one of our words". When Joel confirms it Jewishness, he asks "Does it mean 'wise and venerable one'?" Well... yes".
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Northern Exposure / int_de89c0a1	type	Dating What Daddy Hates
Northern Exposure / int_de89c0a1	comment	Dating What Daddy Hates: Ed falls victim to this in a Season 6 episode.
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Northern Exposure / int_de9c7ad5	type	Vision Quest
Northern Exposure / int_de9c7ad5	comment	And Vision Quest for (naturally) Ed.
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Northern Exposure / int_e022585	type	Television Geography
Northern Exposure / int_e022585	comment	Television Geography: Cicely is a little like many places in Alaska, but nowhere in Alaska is like Cicely. Judging by the clues, the town seems to be located just up the Alcan Highway from Springfield. It was inspired by the real town of Talkeetna, Alaska though, about two hours north of Anchorage. Sadly, the town is now a tourist trap. A pretty big clue that they were being intentionally cagey with the geography is the repeated references to the nearest town being Sleetmute, which is apparently over 200 miles away by road. In real life, Sleetmute is completely off the road system.
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Northern Exposure / int_e0904aa4	type	No Party Like a Donner Party
Northern Exposure / int_e0904aa4	comment	No Party Like a Donner Party: In "A Cup of Joe", Holling and Ruth-Anne discover that their grandfathers were both prospectors back in the gold rush days, and that one had to resort to eating the other's body when they got snowed in one winter.
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Northern Exposure / int_e1f59bf0	comment	Musical Episode: "Old Tree" is like this, but only for "Shelly". It's apparently a side effect of her pregnancy. Holling joins her for a duet near the end of the episode.
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Northern Exposure / int_e20106a0	comment	Spaghetti and Gondolas: The show attempts to explore Dr. Capra's Italian heritage when he discovers that Cicely has a "Little Italy". He quickly gets swept into a family feud based on a rather trivial offense from years past.
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Northern Exposure / int_e28f88b8	comment	Last-Name Basis: Maggie and Joel pretty much always refer to each other as "Fleischman" and "O'Connell". Even after they've slept together.
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Northern Exposure / int_e2e4edb2	comment	Yiddish as a Second Language: Subverted in one episode when Joel finds out that the local Indian tribe has adopted several Yiddish words and phrases into their native language, due to the influence of a 19th Century Jewish doctor who joined the tribe and became one of their heroes. When the very Jewish Dr. Fleischman starts casually using Yiddish with the local Indians in an attempt to connect with them, he's told (by them) to knock it off because he sounds like a poser.
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Northern Exposure / int_e6ab61d	comment	Magic Realism: The show takes place in the real world, but there's something magical about Cicily. Storylines include dream sequences, a flying man, ghosts and Indian spirits, pheromones, and even a visit from Satan.
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Northern Exposure / int_e7e558	comment	The Oner: a rather memorable one occurs in "Get Real." The scene begins with Joel in his truck; the camera is clamped to the door of the truck looking at Joel through the driver's side window. He offers Enrico Belotti (The Flying Man) a ride into town. When Mr. Belotti declines the offer, Joel drives off, drilling himself in preparation for his internal medicine Board exams as he goes. When he gets to town, there's Mr. Belotti waiting for him by the side of the road, looking like he's been through some vigorous exercise — and Joel realizes that they don't call Mr. Belotti "The Flying Man" for nothing.
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Northern Exposure / int_e85976d4	type	Not That There's Anything Wrong with That
Northern Exposure / int_e85976d4	comment	Chris deals with this in his usual open-minded manner when he finds himself inexplicably sexually attracted to a man who never speaks. The worst part? It happens in the middle of a spiritual retreat at a monastery, and the man in question is one of the monks. Subverted when the monk's hood finally comes off and the character is revealed to be a woman.
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Northern Exposure / int_e8f2d4f2	type	The Devil Is a Loser
Northern Exposure / int_e8f2d4f2	comment	The Devil Is a Loser: In one episode, the town is visited by Satan, who is a dumpy and unimpressive man more interested in small acts of betrayal than diabolical evil. He ultimately fails to corrupt the citizens of Cicely even slightly.
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Northern Exposure / int_ea2ae106	type	Windmill Crusader
Northern Exposure / int_ea2ae106	comment	In "The Mystery of the Old Curio Shop," Joel convinces Maggie that she's a Windmill Crusader in thinking some shopkeepers are criminals and explains most of their odd behavior, but it isn't shown exactly why they outright lied to Maggie about having never had a statuette like the one she tried to buy earlier. It's also never revealed who stole two nitrous oxide tanks from the dentist (in a notoriously crime-free town) or why.
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Northern Exposure / int_ea85d6ea	comment	Joel has a twin brother. No, he doesn't.
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Northern Exposure / int_eb52ff9b	comment	Adult Adoptee: Maurice considers adopting Chris, his radio station's DJ, as heir to his business interests.
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Northern Exposure / int_eb857152	type	Quirky Town
Northern Exposure / int_eb857152	comment	Quirky Town: Some are more understated than others, but there is nobody in Cicily that could be considered completely normal. Even "stable" people like Ruth Ann or Holling have their odder moments.
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Northern Exposure / int_eb8ec7c8	type	Jerkass
Northern Exposure / int_eb8ec7c8	comment	A variation, where Maurice, in one of his Jerkass moves, donates oxidised fine wine to a local charity auction. It turns around on him when Holling innocently buys the wine and invites Maurice to dinner, forcing him to drink it and pretend it's good. He's called on it by Walter Kupter, a gruff local trapper with an unexpected background as a Wall Street trader.
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Northern Exposure / int_ebb235cc	comment	Circumcision Angst: Holling in the Very Special Episode above.
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Northern Exposure / int_ec729d5d	type	Wild Wilderness
Northern Exposure / int_ec729d5d	comment	Wild Wilderness: Alaska!
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Northern Exposure / int_edc22fe8	type	Cartwright Curse
Northern Exposure / int_edc22fe8	comment	Cartwright Curse: "The O'Connell Curse."
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Northern Exposure / int_ee77d3e2	type	Dead Pet Sketch
Northern Exposure / int_ee77d3e2	comment	Dead Pet Sketch: When Chris runs over a woman dog in "Nothing's Perfect", he falls for and tries to court her...but ends up killing all her pets.
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Northern Exposure / int_ee7a60e9	type	One-Steve Limit
Northern Exposure / int_ee7a60e9	comment	One-Steve Limit: There are two different characters named Amy who are both Good with Numbers: Chris's Animal Lover Girl of the Week in Season 4 (a mathematician student out to make new discoveries about pi) and an IRS agent who audits and befriends Ruth-Anne in Season 5.
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Northern Exposure / int_efbd4c52	type	All Bikers are Hells Angels
Northern Exposure / int_efbd4c52	comment	All Bikers are Hells Angels: Played for Laughs. Ruth-Anne briefly takes up with some bikers who turn out to have normal, mundane lives.
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Northern Exposure / int_efbfe117	type	Complaining About Rescues They Don't Like
Northern Exposure / int_efbfe117	comment	Complaining About Rescues They Don't Like: Chris reacts this way when Joel gives him some blood pressure medication intended to help stave off heart disease. Suddenly he's extremely depressed about not knowing what to do with the rest of his life, because he was planning on checking out at 40.
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Northern Exposure / int_f178203a	type	Inspector Javert
Northern Exposure / int_f178203a	comment	Inspector Javert: Officer Barbara Semanski. Chris name-checks this trope in reference to her at one point. In that very same episode, she arrests Joel for gambling. While off duty. In the middle of a date. The young, eager health inspector who threatens to shut down Holling's Bar is also a good example.
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Northern Exposure / int_f22dda19	comment	The City vs. the Country: The basic premise.
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Northern Exposure / int_f231fc12	type	I Love You Because I Can't Control You
Northern Exposure / int_f231fc12	comment	I Love You Because I Can't Control You: In the episode "Only You", Chris goes through one of his recurring hormone/pheromone surges, which make him almost irresistible to women. When he discovers that the visiting optometrist is completely immune to his pheromones, and doesn't even find him attractive at his baseline level, he becomes fixated on her. As a result, he finds himself impotent while in bed with other women, and his body actually ends the surge earlier than usual.
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Northern Exposure / int_f26d5e66	comment	Brainless Beauty: Shelly, but she's revealed to have Hidden Depths.
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Northern Exposure / int_f44ad3e1	comment	Twin Switch: In one episode, Joel Fleischman's twin brother Jules shows up in Cicely. Let's just say he's a bit more laid back than his brother. He gradually persuades his brother to switch places with him for a day, during which Hilarity Ensues on both ends. We've conveniently never heard of him before (and as it turns out, neither has Joel, because it was All Just a Dream).
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Northern Exposure / int_f5416685	type	Allergic to Love
Northern Exposure / int_f5416685	comment	Allergic to Love: The episode "The Big Kiss" had Chris struck dumb by meeting a beautiful woman. This prompted many of the citizens of the town to reflect that they felt sick when they met their partner; the one man that felt happy was dumped by his girlfriend 3 weeks later.
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Northern Exposure / int_f5a3e496	type	Suspiciously Similar Substitute
Northern Exposure / int_f5a3e496	comment	Suspiciously Similar Substitute: To be fair, Dr. Capra was a very different character and the focus of the show had already widened to the point that no one character was integral to the series. Interestingly, in Phil's second episode, he and Joel play a round of golf together, which serves to illustrate how much Joel has changed since the beginning of the series while Phil now takes on the Fish out of Water role occupied by Joel earlier in the series. Later in Season 6, Chris seems to get set up as one of these in the shipping department, since Joel's departure has left Maggie without a love interest and Dr. Capra is, well, married. A minor example happens in Season 5, when Dave, a recurring character who works at Holling's bar, gets replaced by Eugene without explanation.
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Northern Exposure / int_f9c17447	comment	The Remnant: "The Quest" features a hermit soldier who took part in Japan's conquest of the Aleutian Islands and came back to act like a Japanese holdout in his retirement. The Whole Episode Flashback "Zarya" features Princess Anastasia of Russia, who survived the Revolution in secret and is living in secret in an Alaskan colony with a handful of soldiers, a cabinet minister, a priest, and a few servants, while warily conducting peace negotiations with Vladimir Lenin.
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Northern Exposure / int_ffad4e9f	comment	Shown Their Work: One of the few shows to put consistent effort into a realistic portrayal of Native Americans, specifically Tlingits.
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Northern Exposure	hasFeature	Mayflyâ€“December Romance / int_bbe33e8a
Northern Exposure	hasFeature	Measuring the Marigolds / int_bbe33e8a
Northern Exposure	hasFeature	Mortality Phobia / int_bbe33e8a
Northern Exposure	hasFeature	Mountain Man / int_bbe33e8a
Northern Exposure	hasFeature	Musical Episode / int_bbe33e8a
Northern Exposure	hasFeature	Need a Hand, or a Handjob? / int_bbe33e8a
Northern Exposure	hasFeature	No Control Group / int_bbe33e8a
Northern Exposure	hasFeature	No Party Like a Donner Party / int_bbe33e8a
Northern Exposure	hasFeature	Not-So-Imaginary Friend / int_bbe33e8a
Northern Exposure	hasFeature	Parents for a Day / int_bbe33e8a
Northern Exposure	hasFeature	Postmodernism / int_bbe33e8a
Northern Exposure	hasFeature	Pretty Fly for a White Guy / int_bbe33e8a
Northern Exposure	hasFeature	Quirky Town / int_bbe33e8a
Northern Exposure	hasFeature	"Rashomon"-Style / int_bbe33e8a
Northern Exposure	hasFeature	Salt and Pepper / int_bbe33e8a
Northern Exposure	hasFeature	Satan / int_bbe33e8a
Northern Exposure	hasFeature	Sci-Fi Ghetto / int_bbe33e8a
Northern Exposure	hasFeature	Secret Relationship / int_bbe33e8a
Northern Exposure	hasFeature	Semper Fi / int_bbe33e8a
Northern Exposure	hasFeature	Severely Specialized Store / int_bbe33e8a
Northern Exposure	hasFeature	Shoe Size Angst / int_bbe33e8a
Northern Exposure	hasFeature	Smoking Hot Sex / int_bbe33e8a
Northern Exposure	hasFeature	Snacksploitation / int_bbe33e8a
Northern Exposure	hasFeature	Spin-Off Cookbook / int_bbe33e8a
Northern Exposure	hasFeature	Spirit Advisor / int_bbe33e8a
Northern Exposure	hasFeature	Spirit World / int_bbe33e8a
Northern Exposure	hasFeature	Student Debt Plot / int_bbe33e8a
Northern Exposure	hasFeature	Sweet on Polly Oliver / int_bbe33e8a
Northern Exposure	hasFeature	Ten Minutes in the Closet / int_bbe33e8a
Northern Exposure	hasFeature	Terra Deforming / int_bbe33e8a
Northern Exposure	hasFeature	That Didn't Happen / int_bbe33e8a
Northern Exposure	hasFeature	The Alleged Expert / int_bbe33e8a
Northern Exposure	hasFeature	The City vs. the Country / int_bbe33e8a
Northern Exposure	hasFeature	The Dentist Episode / int_bbe33e8a
Northern Exposure	hasFeature	The Devil Is a Loser / int_bbe33e8a
Northern Exposure	hasFeature	The Farmer and the Viper / int_bbe33e8a
Northern Exposure	hasFeature	The Inspector Is Coming / int_bbe33e8a
Northern Exposure	hasFeature	The Joy of X / int_bbe33e8a
Northern Exposure	hasFeature	The Oner / int_bbe33e8a
Northern Exposure	hasFeature	The Philosopher / int_bbe33e8a
Northern Exposure	hasFeature	The Pornomancer / int_bbe33e8a
Northern Exposure	hasFeature	The Quiet One / int_bbe33e8a
Northern Exposure	hasFeature	The Silent Bob / int_bbe33e8a
Northern Exposure	hasFeature	The Unsolved Mystery / int_bbe33e8a
Northern Exposure	hasFeature	Theme Twin Naming / int_bbe33e8a
Northern Exposure	hasFeature	Tie-In Novel / int_bbe33e8a
Northern Exposure	hasFeature	Title by Number / int_bbe33e8a
Northern Exposure	hasFeature	Too Good to Last / int_bbe33e8a
Northern Exposure	hasFeature	Troll Bridge / int_bbe33e8a
Northern Exposure	hasFeature	Universal-Adaptor Cast / int_bbe33e8a
Northern Exposure	hasFeature	Water Source Tampering / int_bbe33e8a
Northern Exposure	hasFeature	We Sell Everything / int_bbe33e8a
Northern Exposure	hasFeature	Well-Intentioned Replacement / int_bbe33e8a
Northern Exposure	hasFeature	Wild Wilderness / int_bbe33e8a
Northern Exposure	hasFeature	Written-In Infirmity / int_bbe33e8a
Northern Exposure	hasFeature	Yet Another Christmas Carol / int_bbe33e8a
Northern Exposure	hasFeature	You Do NOT Want to Know / int_bbe33e8a
Twin Peaks	seeAlso	Northern Exposure
northernexposure	sameAs	Northern Exposure

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