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Private Practice

412 statements
80 feature instances
31 referencing feature instances

Private Practice	type	TVTItem
Private Practice	label	Private Practice
Private Practice	page	PrivatePractice
Private Practice	comment	A Spin-Off of the hugely popular Medical Drama Grey's Anatomy, Private Practice follows one of its most popular characters, Fiery Redhead Addison Montgomery (formerly Montgomery-Shepherd, played by Kate Walsh) and her new life and job in Los Angeles, at a private practice founded by Addison's friends from Med School, Sam and Naomi. Other coworkers include Pete, the alternative medicine expert, Violet, the psychiatrist who is so good at helping others but can't help herself and Cooper, a brilliant pediatrician who dates girls he meets in online chats. Also in the cast is Charlotte, a chief of staff in a local hospital who doesn't like private practices much.
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Private Practice	processingComment	Dropped link to SouthernBelle: Not a Feature - ITEM
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Private Practice	isPartOf	DBTropes
Private Practice / int_11340841	type	Fat Suit
Private Practice / int_11340841	comment	Fat Suit: Worn by Brett Delbuono playing a 500 pound boy named Justin in Just Lose It.
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Private Practice / int_12982918	type	Same-Sex Triplets
Private Practice / int_12982918	comment	Same-Sex Triplets: Cooper and Charlotte's triplet daughters, Georgia, Caroline, and Rachel.
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Private Practice / int_12dd1d4c	type	Rape as Drama
Private Practice / int_12dd1d4c	comment	Rape as Drama: Charlotte.
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Private Practice / int_13d7a65e	type	The Artifact
Private Practice / int_13d7a65e	comment	The Artifact: The practice itself ended up becoming this in later seasons, as the show started spending more time in St. Ambrose Hospital, with Amelia, Addison and Sam regularly performing surgeries. In fact, the only character who consistently practiced his or her specialty within the practice for the whole show was Cooper. After the first two seasons, you could count on one hand the number of times Pete practiced alternative medicine, Violet rarely saw patients after being attacked (not helped by the fact that the practice hired a second psychiatrist in Sheldon), and Naomi wasn't around enough to take more than few cases a year. Perhaps most egregiously, Charlotte is hired on as a sexologist, opening the door for a number of interesting plots... and was shown doing this job in exactly two episodes. Hell, even at St. Ambrose, she's allegedly an attending urologist, but all she seems to do there is administrate, with not a single case in six seasons relating to urology.
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Private Practice / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
Private Practice / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: At the very end of the show, the title comes in as Violet's new book. The show ends on a debate over how odd the name is.
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Private Practice / int_1b4e322c	type	Mr. Fanservice
Private Practice / int_1b4e322c	comment	Mr. Fanservice: Dell. Lampshaded in an early episode, where the ladies pretend not to notice him as he's walking out to the beach with a surfboard.
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Private Practice / int_1c445e86	type	Poor Communication Kills
Private Practice / int_1c445e86	comment	Poor Communication Kills: Because Charlotte refused to say she was raped and refused to identify the rapist the first time around, he almost got away with it. It took his own wife to turn him in before he sees justice.
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Private Practice / int_1c96f945	type	Wrong-Name Outburst
Private Practice / int_1c96f945	comment	Wrong-Name Outburst: Sam calls out Naomi's name while having sex with Sonya.
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Private Practice / int_24321e44	type	Only Sane Man
Private Practice / int_24321e44	comment	Only Sane Man: Sheldon occasionally fills this role, giving advice to other members of the practice, and staying (comparatively) drama-free.
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Private Practice / int_2de495bb	type	Missing Child
Private Practice / int_2de495bb	comment	Missing Child: All the mini-arc about the little girl who disappeared in season 6 revolves around this trope. The parents are worried sick, and their girl shows no sign of being alive after 3 months of disappearance. The mother believes she's still alive, whereas the father doesn't... Because he can't stand the thought that she may have been kidnapped by a pedophile who may be abusing her. It turns out she was kidnapped by a pedophile, and locked inside his basement for the whole time. Said pedophile, who hopefully didn't abuse her during this time, was talking about ending things with her... Depending on how you read between the lines, he may have been talking about taking her by force, releasing her, or simply kill her.
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Private Practice / int_2f36d97	type	Older Than They Look
Private Practice / int_2f36d97	comment	Older Than They Look: Real Life example: Tim Daly (Pete) is 53 and doesn't look a day older than 41.
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Private Practice / int_34e3784f	type	Please, Don't Leave Me
Private Practice / int_34e3784f	comment	Please, Don't Leave Me: A variation happens to Betsey in the 4th episode of the 4th season, when no one is willing to step in and adopt her. This character's line "Don't you want to take care of me ?" is quite poignant, considering that both her parents are dead, her aunt literally abandoned her, and now the only people she knew besides her family did the same to her. As Violet put it : "We did a bad thing. You know it".
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Private Practice / int_38b05ae7	type	Poorly Disguised Pilot
Private Practice / int_38b05ae7	comment	Poorly-Disguised Pilot: The two part episode 'The Other Side Of This Life' in Grey's Anatomy.
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Private Practice / int_38bb862f	type	Don't You Dare Pity Me!
Private Practice / int_38bb862f	comment	Don't You Dare Pity Me!: The reason why Charlotte refuses to inform anyone that she was raped. Much to her chagrin, it happens to her once the rest find out either through Addison or by figuring it out for themselves.
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Private Practice / int_3ac8ba6a	type	Ignorant About Fire
Private Practice / int_3ac8ba6a	comment	Ignorant About Fire: Dr. Sam Bennett recalls a time when, as a teenager, his bipolar older sister left some oil on the stove, which caught fire and nearly burned the house down. She watched the flames rise, transfixed, instead of moving to put it out.
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Private Practice / int_3fca462c	type	Deus ex Machina
Private Practice / int_3fca462c	comment	Deus ex Machina: Amelia is first brought into the story when the team faced an almost impossible challenge involving a comatose woman, who she manages to save. However, she doesn't become their ace in the hole as she manages to fail their next major surgery and for a majority of her second season, becomes a dwindling wreck.
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Private Practice / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Private Practice / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: Several episodes end with some surgeries being a success, while others end in failure. Episode 14 of the 4th season is a good example: Charlotte's rapist finally got what he deserved... But on the other hand, Susan, Bizzy's lover, died, and Bizzy soon follow her, by committing suicide.
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Private Practice / int_41c08e5	type	Establishing Series Moment
Private Practice / int_41c08e5	comment	Establishing Series Moment/Establishing Character Moment: The show opens off with Addison leaving to go to Oceanside, with her telling the supervisor why exactly she's leaving. As she does this, she also introduces the starting cast and by doing so, cuts to them caught in a situation that best sums up their character.
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Private Practice / int_43a831db	type	Epic Tracking Shot
Private Practice / int_43a831db	comment	Epic Tracking Shot: One is pulled off in the finale as it zooms out from the kitchen where the staff hang out at, tracks away to the reception desk, and finally into the elevators, the main way of how people enter and exit the practice.
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Private Practice / int_4548bae	type	Teen Pregnancy
Private Practice / int_4548bae	comment	Teen Pregnancy Maya, who's keeping her baby and marrying the father at fifteen years old.
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Private Practice / int_4781adbb	type	Jerk with a Heart of Gold
Private Practice / int_4781adbb	comment	Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Archer may not be very nice, but he really likes his sister (not THAT way, pervs). Also, Charlotte. Fife (see above) seems to be headed this way, too.
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Private Practice / int_4f5f008e	type	Patient of the Week
Private Practice / int_4f5f008e	comment	Patient of the Week
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Private Practice / int_4f773434	type	Wise Beyond Their Years
Private Practice / int_4f773434	comment	Wise Beyond Their Years: Mason is able to guess with accuracy what's going on around him. A memorable moment of this trope being when he correctly guesses the reason Cooper is sticking around is because he's his father.
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Private Practice / int_54cbd0cb	type	This Is Unforgivable!
Private Practice / int_54cbd0cb	comment	This Is Unforgivable!: An early 4th season episode has the drunk driver that nearly killed Maya and killed Dell arrive to apologize, though his presence infuriated Sam to the point where, when it's revealed that said driver needed surgery, he struggled with the decision of even performing the surgery in the first place. Didn't help that he said that he shouldn't be forgiven and it triggered flashbacks of a surgery he performed with the exact same circumstances (heart problem, had committed a heavy crime) in which he let the patient die.
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Private Practice / int_61b8f9e2	type	Bunny-Ears Lawyer
Private Practice / int_61b8f9e2	comment	Bunny-Ears Lawyer: They all have their little quirks and dysfunctions, but they are extremely good at their various jobs.
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Private Practice / int_63389b0b	type	Kids Are Cruel
Private Practice / int_63389b0b	comment	Kids Are Cruel: Some episodes focus on the psychiatrists dealing with kids, and some of those episodes show that said kid isn't working right, like Betsy's adoptive brother who kept abusing her or one kid who stabbed her sister to the point of brain death because she enjoyed it.
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Private Practice / int_66cdb21b	type	Gag Penis
Private Practice / int_66cdb21b	comment	Gag Penis: Sheldon, of all people, is reputed to have one, and he knows how to use it!
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Private Practice / int_6ae4dedd	type	The Unfair Sex
Private Practice / int_6ae4dedd	comment	The Unfair Sex: Everything Violet does is justified by this, and the sheer power of Wangst. Dell's daughter is almost killed because his wife thought it perfectly safe to cook meth in the kitchen, and when he gets insanely pissed off about it (wouldn't you?) he's being a bad, baaaad parent. This in spite of the fact that Dell supported her through her addiction, took her back after multiple relapses, and even forgave her for kidnapping his child, after all of which the beautiful fair lady went ahead and decided cookin' meth in the kitchen with her little girl sitting in the next room was an awesomely good idea. Seriously, what could possibly go wrong? And then he was deemed wrong for Not wanting his daughter to see her badly burned, mutilated mother before she died. Really?
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Private Practice / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
Private Practice / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: Bizzy.
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Private Practice / int_6eef5fc6	type	Temporary Substitute
Private Practice / int_6eef5fc6	comment	Temporary Substitute: Brian Benben finally started getting his own plots when Amy Brenneman took a leave of absence for a few episodes in Season 3. The first of these episodes is especially obvious about it; it's clear that a good 90% of Sheldon's dialogue was originally written for Violet.
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Private Practice / int_71e8a5c5	type	Trauma Conga Line
Private Practice / int_71e8a5c5	comment	Trauma Conga Line: Amelia in season 5. It's quite a miracle she managed to recover from all the horrors she suffered (see her nightmare fuel entry for the details).
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Private Practice / int_76d233f9	type	Straw Feminist
Private Practice / int_76d233f9	comment	Straw Feminist: Addison in one episode in which the practice was holding a meeting to decide whether or not to perform abortions, when she said that the vote of anyone who didn't have a vagina didn't count. They may be guys, but they're partners in the practice too. They have to have their say. Of course, considering her past — aborting a child even though she really wanted to be a mother because the father wasn't the "right guy" — it was probably a little to personal an issue for her to see clearly how unfair she was being. And to be fair, this is a real life limitation commonly imposed on abortion debates and generally considered acceptable by both pro-choice and pro-life women; if it hadn't been an issue that had a direct impact on how they would have to run their business, some would consider it reasonable. To be even fairer, she didn't say their votes wouldn't count, she said for them to leave the room unless they wanted to fight with her. Which they didn't. As much as the issue was debated, it was never put to a vote onscreen with or without the guys.
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Private Practice / int_786bf97f	type	Real Life Writes the Plot
Private Practice / int_786bf97f	comment	Real Life Writes the Plot Amelia's pregnancy.
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Private Practice / int_7870735b	type	From Bad to Worse
Private Practice / int_7870735b	comment	From Bad to Worse: Susan's cancer was supposed healed. However, she collapses moments after her wedding night. She signed a D.N.R (Do Not Resuscitate), so Addison didn't have the right to bring her back when she coded. Buzzy is devastated, and after tricking Addison into leaving her alone at the Hotel, she commits suicide, leaving only a rather cold letter to her daughter. The last scene we see is Addison crying over her mother's dead body. The first part of season 5 has Amelia's substance abuse getting worse and worse, especially after her terminally ill friend commits suicide.
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Private Practice / int_7d89315b	type	"The Reason You Suck" Speech
Private Practice / int_7d89315b	comment	"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Amelia has various for all of her colleagues, but especially Addison, during an intervention. Borders on being a Hannibal Lecture at points. And despite her being an addict who needs help and this being her intervention, she is still absolutely spot on with everything she says about the others.
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Private Practice / int_820ac3c5	type	Dysfunction Junction
Private Practice / int_820ac3c5	comment	Dysfunction Junction: Ooooooh boy. Where do we begin? Shall we start with the protagonist and her relationship issues brought on over from Grey's Anatomy? Sam's Parental Abandonment? Pete's Dark and Troubled Past? Amelia's drug addiction? You'll be willing to bet that by the end of each season save the last, that there's still someone with emotional baggage.
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Private Practice / int_868409c	type	Broken Pedestal
Private Practice / int_868409c	comment	Broken Pedestal: Both Pete and Sheldon encountered their respective mentors doing questionable activities (Pete's mentor operates as doctor from his home without a warrant and receives funding from gangs, while Sheldon's mentor has given into the influence of drugs, decrying talk therapy in favor for drugs to help out the patient) and reacting with this trope.
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Private Practice / int_8687f945	type	What Were You Thinking?
Private Practice / int_8687f945	comment	What Were You Thinking?: Happens every now and then.
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Private Practice / int_8e20979	type	Wham Episode
Private Practice / int_8e20979	comment	Wham Episode: The final episode of season 2 and the first of season 3. Then, episode 7 of season 4 came... The sixth season premiere, "Aftershock" ends with Pete dying.
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Private Practice / int_90e31482	type	Laser-Guided Karma
Private Practice / int_90e31482	comment	Laser-Guided Karma: Charlotte's rapist gets hit with a Humiliation Conga as soon as he begins beating his wife. It starts with a stabbing and ends with him being arrested.
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Private Practice / int_915bac57	type	TheNotSecret
Private Practice / int_915bac57	comment	The Not Secret: Half of the group finds out Charlotte's rape this way, though for Sheldon, he needed only to recall his interview with said rapist to get the secret.
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Private Practice / int_931fc523	type	Back for the Finale
Private Practice / int_931fc523	comment	Back for the Finale: Naomi returns for the finale to bring closure to a subplot that had been lingering since the show began: Sam and her getting back together.
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Private Practice / int_9c73b5b2	type	Let Them Die Happy
Private Practice / int_9c73b5b2	comment	Let Them Die Happy: Pete with Heather, Dell's wife.
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Private Practice / int_9c8701b5	type	A Day in the Limelight
Private Practice / int_9c8701b5	comment	A Day in the Limelight: In season six (the final one), each character gets an episode that focuses on them.
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Private Practice / int_a65288e2	type	Ascended Extra
Private Practice / int_a65288e2	comment	Ascended Extra: Sheldon started as a guest star in season two, was upgraded to "also starring" status in season three, and became main cast in season four. Fans probably breathed a sigh of relief, since Sheldon is the most consistently level-headed person on the show. Amelia also guest-starred in season three before becoming main cast in season four.
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Private Practice / int_a8b54aa7	type	Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places
Private Practice / int_a8b54aa7	comment	Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places: Addison is an expert at this trope, but the rest of the cast is certainly no slouch in this department.
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Private Practice / int_a8fa84bb	type	Medical Drama
Private Practice / int_a8fa84bb	comment	Medical Drama
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Private Practice / int_ac4ac8e5	type	Idiosyncratic Episode Naming
Private Practice / int_ac4ac8e5	comment	Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: All of the first season episodes (and the Grand Finale) were titled In Which followed by an event in the episode, a la Friends.
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Private Practice / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Private Practice / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: The reaction most of the staff have whenever an old face bursts through the elevator doors injured or on a stretcher, provided said face isn't someone that brushed off them in a bad way. If they did, the staff member's reaction would be more of a Death Glare.
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Private Practice / int_b5b4b077	type	The Ace
Private Practice / int_b5b4b077	comment	The Ace: A majority of the main characters are the best at what they do, though Amelia is a masterful neurosurgeon like her brother and her first surgery in the show winds up saving the life of someone other medical experts were willing to say was impossible to save.
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Private Practice / int_b6cebad3	type	Double Standard
Private Practice / int_b6cebad3	comment	Double Standard: The entire cast is suggest to this every now and then, though it applies especially to Violet (and of all people, Catie, the one who cut her open, calls her on it in Season 4, Episode 19).
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Private Practice / int_b7e0c5ff	type	Love Triangle
Private Practice / int_b7e0c5ff	comment	Love Triangle: Sam/Naomi/Dell, Violet/Cooper/Charlotte, Pete/Violet/Sheldon, Addison/Noah/Noah's-poor-wife-whose-name-fans-don't-even-remember-any-more... As the series goes on, the dynamics shift and eventually it becomes Sam/Addison/Jake, Pete/Violet/Scott, Naomi/Fife/William, Pete/Addison/Sam. The one major one for a good chunk of the series was Addison/Pete/Violet. It's to the point where it's more like a Love Dodecahedron.
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Private Practice / int_ba911a9a	type	You Did Everything You Could
Private Practice / int_ba911a9a	comment	You Did Everything You Could: Said every now and then.
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Private Practice / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
Private Practice / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: Cooper once punched a patient's father when he the child mentioned being touched, and this was right after he found out that Charlotte was raped and that the rapist has a clear shot of getting away with that. The dad wanted to sue him until he finds out that had jumped to conclusions. It was the mom who was touching the child.
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Private Practice / int_bec0417c	type	Happily Married
Private Practice / int_bec0417c	comment	Happily Married: Cooper and Charlotte, though it did take several episodes before they became completely well-adjusted. Charlotte ending up pregnant with triplets (on top of becoming Mason's new mother) really didn't help.
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Private Practice / int_c0d76a0c	type	Rookie Red Ranger
Private Practice / int_c0d76a0c	comment	Rookie Red Ranger: The series begins with Addison joining the Practice.
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Private Practice / int_c5249b29	type	Nice Guy
Private Practice / int_c5249b29	comment	Nice Guy: Ryan, Amelia's boyfriend during her resurfacing drug addiction. At first, he seems like a shady guy, with even Mason being suspicious of him. However, he ultimately proves to be a good guy. His moments include shooing away a group of friends when Amelia wanted them out when it looked like they were going to stay and telling Amelia to go to rehab with him so that they can be clean. It's his death that causes Amelia to consider rehab and becomes a point of guilt for her.
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Private Practice / int_c9e5a634	type	Post Coital Collapse
Private Practice / int_c9e5a634	comment	Post-Coital Collapse: Many of the shows sex scenes are show in this manner, usually including Modesty Bedsheets. One notable example being when Cooper and Charlotte first get together after he invites her for a drink.
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Private Practice / int_ca3a6dbd	type	Informed Ability
Private Practice / int_ca3a6dbd	comment	Informed Ability: Amy is supposed to be a crack neurosurgeon, but so far she's killed more people than she's helped.
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Private Practice / int_cb71c461	type	Deus Exit Machina
Private Practice / int_cb71c461	comment	Deus Exit Machina: Naomi left the Practice temporarily, though there's some pretty clear distinction that if she was at the Practice for the time she was absent, at least two major events (Betsy being given away to the orphanage and Charlotte's refusal to identify her rapist) would have went way differently with the boss being there to witness them and have something to do about it. Made even more evident when Betsy gets back into the hospital and she adopts her right after her previous family left her.
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Private Practice / int_cda501da	type	Killed Off for Real
Private Practice / int_cda501da	comment	Killed Off for Real: Dell and Pete.
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Private Practice / int_d076824c	type	Every Episode Ending
Private Practice / int_d076824c	comment	Every Episode Ending: Doubles with an Every Episode Beginning. For most of the episodes in Season 5 (and the finale to Season 4), Addison starts seeing a therapist, and she often starts out with something that sums up her situation, like an anecdote or discussing a problem she had, and ending them by concluding the anecdote or solving the problem.
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Private Practice / int_d129e13e	type	"Eureka!" Moment
Private Practice / int_d129e13e	comment	"Eureka!" Moment: Happens a few times, though one memorable moment was in the second episode of the first season. Sam laments that a parent is purposefully poisoning her own child and that caused Addison to realize just what happened that caused a Switched at Birth situation.
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Private Practice / int_d22a7df2	type	Troubled, but Cute
Private Practice / int_d22a7df2	comment	Troubled, but Cute: Pete and Amelia both have their Dark And Troubled Pasts and their troubling times in the show.
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Private Practice / int_d39e327f	type	What the Hell, Hero?
Private Practice / int_d39e327f	comment	What the Hell, Hero?: Dell is the frequent invoker of this trope - He's called out Violet, Naomi, Sam and even Addison about their bad decisions on more than one occasion. Fans practically cheered their lungs out when Violet finally got a good telling-to. Go, Dell! A couple of lawyers had a go at the group during a custody battle for Lucas in season 3, pointing out most of the developments that happened in the season so far and pointing out where they went wrong.
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Private Practice / int_d9ee7048	type	Spin-Off
Private Practice / int_d9ee7048	comment	Spin-Off
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Private Practice / int_da297ad2	type	One of Our Own
Private Practice / int_da297ad2	comment	One of Our Own: Most notably Violet; at the end of Season 2 she is given a C-section by a crazy patient. Also Cooper, who was imprisoned and beaten up in prison for refusing to disclose where a lying kid was staying to avoid his supposedly abusive stepfather. Dell, whose house blew up with his wife and daughter in it; the daughter came out fairly fine, but the wife died of her burns, and soon after gets into a fatal car accident. His wife, who was using the burner to make Meth and caused the explosion Charlotte, who has been brutally raped between the end of All In The Family and the beginning of Did You Hear What Happened To Charlotte King? Amelia, a former addict who's started to relapse.
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Private Practice / int_dbe013f	type	TheSixthRanger
Private Practice / int_dbe013f	comment	The Sixth Ranger: The rate in which new characters join the team become almost once per season, counting the first with Addison. Charlotte fills this trope to the Trope Namer's standards as she began the show with an antagonist relation to the main cast. Amelia and Jake are also examples of this, with James being an example of 11th-Hour Ranger, as he joined in the final season.
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Private Practice / int_dc1761bd	type	A God Am I
Private Practice / int_dc1761bd	comment	A God Am I: The idea of having the fate of someone in the palm of your hands as a surgeon gets discussed a couple of times, usually with the analogy of "playing God" being put in here and there. It's to the point where not only was there an episode titled after said analogy, but during one such surgery, Sam says something along the lines of "I am God."
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Private Practice / int_dc579c91	type	Contrived Coincidence
Private Practice / int_dc579c91	comment	Contrived Coincidence: Addison and Sam encounter an injured couple while hiking, and just happen to be perfectly suited to deal with the situation because it involves both of their specialties (the woman is pregnant and goes into labor, and the man has injuries that Sam knows how to treat due to a background in cardiothoracic surgery).
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Private Practice / int_dfe687c9	type	Alone with the Psycho
Private Practice / int_dfe687c9	comment	Alone with the Psycho: Happens to Sheldon twice in the show's run. It's justified, as he's one of the two psychologists of the cast.
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Private Practice / int_e236af66	type	Who Would Want to Watch Us?
Private Practice / int_e236af66	comment	Who Would Want to Watch Us?: Downplayed. Amelia Shepard rants in front of a reality TV crew about how they're taking advantage of Sam's recent tragedy and that Sam needs more respect than that. Though the way she brings it up can also be said about the show itself.
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Private Practice / int_e3da6e6c	type	Deus Angst Machina
Private Practice / int_e3da6e6c	comment	Deus Angst Machina: Poor, poor Amelia... Her life is filled with horrible incidents, starting from her childhood to her current adulthood. The poor girl just can't catch her breath. Betsy follows right in her footsteps. Mother died in a fire, father killed in a car accident, none of the people in the hospital were willing to adopt her and she went to child services, right into the arms of an abusive family (or more appropriately, a family with an abusive son), getting beaten up and eventually be put in a coma. Poor girl couldn't catch a break until Naomi stepped in and offered to adopt her.
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Private Practice / int_eb8ec7c8	type	Jerkass
Private Practice / int_eb8ec7c8	comment	Jerkass: Addison's father, and her mother too. Also Violet in Season 2. And Fife in Season 3 manages to come off as a complete asshole. And then there's Cooper's uber-asshole behavior towards Charlotte. Though Charlotte is a pretty big Jerkass herself, what with all the lying, cheating, and the fact that she served as an antagonist for most of the early run before joining the team.
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Private Practice / int_f05444a4	type	Once per Episode
Private Practice / int_f05444a4	comment	Once per Episode/Every Episode Ending: Starting from the finale to Season 4 and throughout Season 5, we see Addison visiting a therapist and often recalling anecdotes which play their way into the episode's context.
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Private Practice / int_f3626b09	type	Mercy Kill
Private Practice / int_f3626b09	comment	Mercy Kill: Happens from time to time in the show, though often frowned upon by the staff members. One memorable moment is when Amelia's old friend comes by and asks her to kill her. She complies, but it becomes a Bungled Suicide soon after. Though the friend manages to just cut the middleman and do the killing herself.
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Private Practice / int_f4f3252e	type	Law of Inverse Fertility
Private Practice / int_f4f3252e	comment	Law of Inverse Fertility Addison. A majority of Season 5 was her trying to get a baby, first by doing it the old fashioned way (it helps that they just recruited a major in fertility) before finally settling with adoption. And Charlotte, who dislikes children and never wanted any, but ends up raising Mason (Coop's son from a previous encounter) as well as triplets of her own.
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Private Practice / int_f5a3e496	type	Suspiciously Similar Substitute
Private Practice / int_f5a3e496	comment	Suspiciously Similar Substitute: James Peterson does double duty for this one, replacing two characters that were killed off. The first being Ryan, Amelia's small-time boyfriend who died of an overdose and the second being Pete, the series mainstay that was killed off at the beginning of the season James debuted in, It doesn't help that his last name is Peterson. He fills both the roles those two have played.
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Private Practice / int_fed93e1b	type	Dark and Troubled Past
Private Practice / int_fed93e1b	comment	Dark and Troubled Past: Amelia Shepherd, who along with her brother Derek was in the store when her father was killed. Also Pete who revealed that he saw his mom murder the only man who gave a damn about him and then testified against her.
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