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Red Band Society
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Red Band Society is an American comedy-drama television series on FOX developed by Margaret Nagle. The series premiered on September 17, 2014, put on hiatus after the tenth episode on December 3, 2014, and effectively ended on February 7, 2015.Based upon the Catalan drama series Polseres vermelles, the series is a dark dramedy focused on a group of teenagers living together as patients in a hospital's pediatric ward.Interestingly, one of the show's executive producers is none other than Steven Spielberg.Red Band Society was highly anticipated to be a major headliner for FOX in the 2014-15 season. It instead got Screwed by the Network, having been scheduled on Wednesday nights at 9:00pm alongside ABC's (who, coincidentally, co-produced Red Band Society) Modern Family, CBS's Criminal Minds and NBC's Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. Ratings were abysmal, and fell further behind when FOX preempted the series for two weeks to cover the 2014 MLB World Series. FOX lost confidence and canceled the series after ten episodes. On January 31, 2015, FOX decided to air the eleventh episode, finally letting the series end a week afterward. | |
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Neurodiversity Is Supernatural | |
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Neurodiversity Is Supernatural: Somehow, being in a coma allows Charlie to communicate with people who are passed out. | |
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Cool Old Guy | |
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Cool Old Guy/Erudite Stoner: Ruben Garcia, a hypochondriac "rich hippie" who has a wing of the hospital named after him, and plans to donate all his money there after he dies. | |
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Title Drop | |
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Title Drop: The seventh episode marks the first time the Red-Banders identify themselves as the "Red Band Society". | |
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The Heart | |
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Dash turns out to know a lot about interior design, enough to successfully convince a realtor that he's an interior designer Lately he's also showing signs of being The Heart of the group. Hunter actually regards him as the real leader of the Red-Banders. | |
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Heterosexual Life-Partners | |
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Heterosexual Life-Partners: Leo and Dash to an extent. Emma even starts to suspect that Dash is in love with Leo. | |
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Black Comedy | |
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Black Comedy: Given that some of the main cast is explicitly stated to be dying, this shouldn't come as a surprise. Most of Emma's snarky comments are of this nature; Leo is barely able to deal with it, while Jordi is actually impressed. | |
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Holding Hands | |
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Holding Hands: More than a few scenes between Emma and Jordi have them doing this. At the end of the fifth episode, even after Jordi knows Emma's back together with Leo, he still reaches out for her hand while Leo's nearby. | |
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Hufflepuff House | |
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Hufflepuff House: The rest of the kids at the hospital, which includes several guest stars scheduled for the future. | |
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Like Is, Like, a Comma | |
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Like Is, Like, a Comma: Nurse Jackson calls Brittany out on this. | |
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Break the Haughty | |
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Break the Haughty: Kara has an enlarged heart, which would eventually require her to get a heart transplant. Unfortunately, her unsavory habits put her at the bottom of the transplant list. | |
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Hidden Depths | |
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Hidden Depths: Why Kara's red band is from Leo's skin graft operation. Dash turns out to know a lot about interior design, enough to successfully convince a realtor that he's an interior designer Lately he's also showing signs of being The Heart of the group. Hunter actually regards him as the real leader of the Red-Banders. | |
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Hospital Hottie | |
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Hospital Hottie: Brittany. To the point that a few frat boys think she's a stripper when she retrieves Leo from a fraternity house he and Dash sneaked into earlier. Adam McAndrew also qualifies. The image above even says so. Dr. McAndrew's ex Erin (who also happens to be the Chief of Surgery — his superior) is played by Mandy Moore. | |
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Shipper on Deck | |
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Shipper on Deck: Charlie is amused with Kara and her interactions with "Water Girl". While Emma is faced with a Love Triangle, Dash always insists that she pick Leo. Later on however, when she agonizes over it yet again, Dash advises her that she should address her own self-esteem issues first before deciding to be with someone. After Emma's condition grows worse, Dash outright tells Leo to "set her free". | |
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Anguished Declaration of Love | |
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Anguished Declaration of Love: | |
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Don't You Dare Pity Me! | |
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Don't You Dare Pity Me!: Kara is not a big fan of being shown compassion or pity for her condition. Thanks to her, Leo comes to realize that he'd rather not be known as the cancer survivor/soccer superstar. | |
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Must Not Die a Virgin | |
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Must Not Die a Virgin: Dash tries to invoke this on Brittany. He tries this again later on Delaney Shaw. | |
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Breakfast Club | |
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Breakfast Club: The kids. Made abundantly clear by the extensive Shout Outs to the film in the seventh episode. | |
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Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! | |
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Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: Nurse Jackson switches Charlie's blood sample with that of another patient to delay his transfer to another facility. While it does buy him enough time to finally open his eyes, it also gets her suspended. | |
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Manic Pixie Dream Girl | |
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Manic Pixie Dream Girl: Kara calls this trope by name in episode 8, when describing an ex-girlfriend of Hunter. | |
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Jerk with a Heart of Gold | |
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Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Nurse Jackson prides herself on acting like a self-professed "Scary Bitch" around her hospital colleagues (her coffee cups are even labeled as such!), but is genuinely concerned for her patients' well-being. Kara at times, especially in the Pilot. She still lets Charlie's dad know what Charlie said to her while she was unconscious, even though she was unsatisfied with the the beer he bought her and she really had no reason to get Nurse Jackson to send up pizza for Charlie like he asked. Leo seems to see something in her. | |
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I Just Want to Be Normal | |
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I Just Want to Be Normal: Leo initially wants to get his physical therapy over with so he can get back to playing varsity soccer and try for a scholarship from Stanford. Kara's Homecoming debacle later leads him to realize that he'd rather just be a regular guy. By the tenth episode however, Kara convinces him to consider going back to playing soccer. | |
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Wham Shot | |
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Wham Shot: At the end of "Know Thyself", Charlie's eyes are open and he's blinking. | |
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Narrator | |
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Narrator: Charlie, a nine-year-old patient in a coma, who is somehow still aware of everything going on within the hospital. Even more strangely, when Kara, Jordi, and Leo were unconscious, they managed to have conversations with him! | |
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Snark-to-Snark Combat | |
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Snark-to-Snark Combat: Emma provokes this out of everyone she talks to. The rest of the cast do give as good as they get from her. | |
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The Smurfette Principle | |
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The Smurfette Principle: Emma used to be the only girl in Leo's circle of friends, until Kara came along. Charlie lampshades this. | |
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Sorry That I'm Dying | |
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Sorry That I'm Dying: During a discussion on Shakespeare's Henry V, Leo implies that this may be why he decided not to get serious with Emma, or make friends with anyone else. | |
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Parental Issues | |
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Parental Issues: Where to begin? Jordi doesn't know who his dad is, and says to the hospital staff that his mother is dead. It turns out she's alive and well; just not a very capable (and willing) mother. Meanwhile, his abuela (grandmother) believes he has "demons in his leg". Emma used to be very close with her family, until her eating disorder made them focus on her condition instead. The tenth episode further clarifies that her mother kept Emma's grandmother's anorexia a secret. Kara's parents are divorced, and her mother married the nanny. | |
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Bunny-Ears Lawyer | |
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Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Dr. Naday, the outside specialist recommended by Nurse Jackson to help with Charlie's case. Half of the eighth episode has the hospital staff convinced that he's a fake, but he later explains what he's doing to Nurse Jackson: motivating Charlie to wake up by mending his parents' strained relationship. | |
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Go into the Light | |
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Go into the Light: After his death, Hunter still can't do this because he still has to fully convince Kara — while she's receiving his heart — to live on. | |
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Missing Mom | |
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Missing Mom: Jordi insists to the hospital staff that his mother is dead. She later turns out to be the woman Dr. McAndrew just had a one-night stand with. | |
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Oracular Urchin | |
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Oracular Urchin: Charlie seems to be one. See Narrator above. | |
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Jerkass Has a Point | |
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Jerkass Has a Point: In "Know Thyself", Hunter shows the Red-Banders a surgery in progress and tells them that no matter what friends you make in the hospital, when you have surgery, you're alone and if the surgery goes wrong and you die, you're alone for that too. Later, Kara admits that he's right about that, but argues that dying alone doesn't mean having to live alone. The next episode has him refusing to accept his sister's offer to donate half her liver to him. Kara at first views this as suicidal stupidity, but later empathizes with his perspective that his sickness is taking all control of his life away from him, and choosing a donor is one of the few things left that he can still decide on. | |
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Serious Business | |
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Serious Business: Jordi and his mom play five-hand poker — him betting his medical rights (he gets emancipated if he wins), her betting her right to be his mom. Jordi decides to let her win. | |
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Anthropic Principle | |
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Anthropic Principle: The show's very premise runs on it, with our having to accept that the Society members are all sick enough to have to live in the hospital, yet not sick enough that they're kept from doing things that make for interesting stories (starting right from the pilot where some of them steal a car to buy beer). Critics are quite divided on how much the stories themselves make up for this. | |
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Camp Gay | |
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Camp Gay: Kenji, one of the nurses. | |
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Put on a Bus | |
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Put on a Bus: Word of God said that the show is more likely to have the kids get better and leave the hospital than to have them die. | |
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Out-of-Character Alert | |
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Out-of-Character Alert: After Nurse Jackson gets used to Kara's incessant use of the call button (and her attempt to use Charlie's as her own), she realizes something's wrong when Kara signals only once before falling into unconsciousness, knowing that she usually tended to mash the button repeatedly. The next time Kara sends out a message, she resorts to using masking tape on her window. | |
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Armor-Piercing Question | |
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Armor-Piercing Question: Leo knows Kara's hiding a lot behind all her meanness. | |
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech | |
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech: After insulting the pep squad girl, Kara is angrily told that no one else wanted to come because everyone hates her. She doesn't mind though. In fact, she confesses to Leo that she would rather be hated than loved. At Homecoming, she is quite upset when people start treating her nicely because of her condition, calling her kind and electing her Queen on a sympathy vote. Leo saves the day by giving her one of these speeches calling her a complete bitch, which prompts her to smile and kiss him. Later, Leo has another similar speech, this time for Emma regarding her jealousy at Kara. Emma returns the favor in the next episode, accusing him of "slumming it" with her and really wanting to be with Kara because he can't be anything other than an "alpha male American Dream." Kara gives one to Hunter outlining exactly what an idiot she thinks he is for not accepting his sister's transplant offer. | |
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Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! | |
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Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Leo wants Emma back, and thinks supporting her budding relationship with Jordi will help his case. When the two of them discuss their previous relationship later, a misunderstanding causes him to inadvertently friend-zone himself. | |
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How We Got Here | |
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How We Got Here: Lampshaded by the aptly-titled episode "How Did We Get Here?", which starts with Adam going to work with a black eye, Kara straddling an old guy, Jordi and Dash in bed with a girl between them, and Leo's prosthetic leg on fire. | |
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Relative Error: In Episode 8, Kara goes all Clingy Jealous Girl over seeing Hunter having an argument with another girl. Turns out, the girl is his sister and the argument in question was about his refusal to accept a transplant from her. | |
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UST | |
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UST: Between Emma and Leo, then Emma and Jordi, and even with Leo and Kara. | |
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Has Two Mommies | |
| Red Band Society / int_8347d55e | comment |
Has Two Mommies: Kara. Apparently, her new step-mom used to be her nanny. | |
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World of Snark | |
| Red Band Society / int_85f0f0fb | comment |
World of Snark: There are a lot of Deadpan Snarkers: Charlie, Emma, Kara, and Nurse Jackson, just for starters. | |
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Jerk Jock | |
| Red Band Society / int_863fac26 | comment |
Jerk Jock: Leo to some extent, who's occasionally prone to suddenly lashing out at others without warning. Kara's new... acquaintance Hunter seems to be this. | |
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| Red Band Society / int_8e20979 | type |
Wham Episode | |
| Red Band Society / int_8e20979 | comment |
Wham Episode: "What I Did For Love". Hunter gets a new liver, Leo and Kara have sex, Jordi is forced to deal drugs to expedite his emancipation and get surgery, and Emma relapses and falls unconscious on her first night back home. On the bright side, Charlie can now move his fingers, after secretly getting Dr. Naday and Nurse Jackson to kiss. "The Guilted Age". It says a lot when Dash seems to be the only Red-Bander who ends the episode relatively unscathed. Emma is hospitalized again, with her anorexia having made her physically sick now. Jordi's emancipation appeal is denied, after which he confesses to Nurse Jackson about dealing drugs to expedite his request. Hunter's body rejects the liver that was transplanted to him, and he dies on Dr. McAndrew's table — leaving his heart to Kara, who doesn't feel like she deserves it after having slept with Leo. Worst of all, Leo's cancer returns, and he and his parents learn this just as he was about to be discharged. | |
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| Red Band Society / int_9053903 | type |
Ignored Epiphany | |
| Red Band Society / int_9053903 | comment |
Ignored Epiphany: After spending a whole episode giving Nurse Jackson grief over an upcoming drug test, Kara's results are clean and Nurse Jackson tells her how surprised she was 'And I am never surprised'. Kara smiles as Nurse Jackson leaves... before immediately swallowing a pill that she dug out of her bag. | |
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Been There, Shaped History | |
| Red Band Society / int_9a1d239e | comment |
Been There, Shaped History: Ruben Garcia claims to have helped plan Woodstock when he was 16. | |
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This Is Reality | |
| Red Band Society / int_9d3b4703 | comment |
This Is Reality: In "Know Thyself", Hunter shows the Red-Banders a surgery in progress and tells them that they're at the hospital for that reason only, not to "fall in love, or form secret societies that band together around a tough nurse with a heart of gold." | |
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Secret-Keeper | |
| Red Band Society / int_9f970427 | comment |
Secret-Keeper: Nurse Jackson knows that Charlie's dad is visiting the hospital as a volunteer despite having lost his right to see his son. So does Kara, after having had a conversation with Charlie himself while unconscious. Emma is the only other person who knows that Jordi let his mom win so that she would stick around for a while longer. Dash lets Kara in on his "art project", as well as his true reason for doing them. | |
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She's a Man in Japan | |
| Red Band Society / int_a0955420 | comment |
She's a Man in Japan: The equivalent character to Kara in the original Catalan series was Ignasi, who was "the handsome guy" of the group. | |
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Mood Whiplash | |
| Red Band Society / int_a4c37cbe | comment |
Mood Whiplash: Charlie's snarky commentaries tend to lessen the impact of some otherwise emotional scenes throughout the series. | |
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And There Was Much Rejoicing | |
| Red Band Society / int_a5cfe2ac | comment |
And There Was Much Rejoicing: A non-fatal example: When Kara has her accident, the entire cheer squad stops to take photos, except for one girl who is actually concerned for her. | |
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Amicable Exes | |
| Red Band Society / int_a681bfc6 | comment |
Amicable Exes: Emma and Leo, once you get past all the snark. | |
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Absurdly Youthful Mother | |
| Red Band Society / int_a7f7e5f4 | comment |
Absurdly Youthful Mother: Jordi's "dead" mom. | |
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And I Must Scream | |
| Red Band Society / int_a8a04f6f | comment |
And I Must Scream: Charlie is a relatively lighthearted example. When Kara comes up with the incredibly insensitive idea of blowing cigarette smoke right on his face, his only reaction is to narrate, "You gotta wonder what I did to deserve this." He does get some revenge later, farting loudly while Kara's nearby. As of the seventh episode, Charlie's eyes have opened. The following episode clarifies that he can communicate by blinking, but still can't wake up. Charlie is finally fully conscious by the series finale. | |
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Odd Friendship | |
| Red Band Society / int_a94eaaa4 | comment |
Odd Friendship: Kara has this with all of the Red-Banders, to the extent that she can be called their friend. | |
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| Red Band Society / int_aa42306e | type |
Totally Radical | |
| Red Band Society / int_aa42306e | comment |
Totally Radical: This series provides The New '10s equivalents — "awesomesauce", "YOLO", "cray-cray", etc. | |
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Deadpan Snarker | |
| Red Band Society / int_ae3d6438 | comment |
Deadpan Snarker: Most of the cast, but the most prominent example among them has to be Emma. | |
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First-Person Smartass | |
| Red Band Society / int_af157b58 | comment |
First-Person Smartass: Charlie is the Narrator and quite the Deadpan Snarker. | |
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| Red Band Society / int_b032e4ed | type |
Ms. Fanservice | |
| Red Band Society / int_b032e4ed | comment |
Ms. Fanservice: Kara. Also Jordi's mom, whose outfits always show off her cleavage. | |
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Loophole Abuse | |
| Red Band Society / int_b1dde8fd | comment |
Loophole Abuse: Charlie's dad lost his visitation rights due to being the driver at Charlie's accident. So he goes to the hospital his son is in as a volunteer instead. | |
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Love Triangle | |
| Red Band Society / int_b7e0c5ff | comment |
While Emma is faced with a Love Triangle, Dash always insists that she pick Leo. Later on however, when she agonizes over it yet again, Dash advises her that she should address her own self-esteem issues first before deciding to be with someone. After Emma's condition grows worse, Dash outright tells Leo to "set her free". | |
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| Red Band Society / int_bc74ef27 | type |
Berserk Button | |
| Red Band Society / int_bc74ef27 | comment |
Berserk Button: Kara has two: Don't insult cheerleading and don't pity her for her condition, though she never becomes violent over either one. | |
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| Red Band Society / int_bd0230fb | type |
Ambiguously Bi | |
| Red Band Society / int_bd0230fb | comment |
Ambiguously Bi: Dash hooks up with Mae but is frequently teased for his devotion to Leo. | |
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| Red Band Society / int_beb9a361 | type |
Anti-Hero | |
| Red Band Society / int_beb9a361 | comment |
Anti-Hero: Leo, Kara and McAndrew aren't bad people, but they're the most flawed of the main cast. | |
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Blonde, Brunette, Redhead | |
| Red Band Society / int_bf9163d9 | comment |
Blonde, Brunette, Redhead: Kara, Emma, Brittany. Though Charlie says of Kara "that blonde of hers is almost all extensions". | |
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Who Names Their Kid "Dude"? | |
| Red Band Society / int_c1d1d6ad | comment |
Who Names Their Kid "Dude"?: The Camp Gay Latino nurse's name is Kenji, which is a Japanese name. | |
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True Companions | |
| Red Band Society / int_c313d43a | comment |
True Companions: Leo invokes this as he gives out his red bands by reciting the "Saint Crispin's Day" speech (the Band of Brothers Trope Namer) from Henry V. | |
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Shout-Out | |
| Red Band Society / int_c75df49a | comment |
Shout-Out: In the Pilot, Nurse Jackson refers to Kara as "Rosemary's Baby." The fifth episode is titled "So Tell Me What You Want What You Really Really Want". The seventh episode is loaded with Shout Outs to The Breakfast Club. | |
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An Arm and a Leg | |
| Red Band Society / int_d028e0da | comment |
An Arm and a Leg: Jordi's cancer necessitates a leg amputation. Turns out Leo's already been through it. Though it turns out he gets to keep his leg after all, because the cancer has spread to the soft tissue, rendering amputation pointless. | |
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GoshDangItToHeck | |
| Red Band Society / int_d0b60f23 | comment |
Gosh Dang It to Heck!: | |
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You Are Not Alone | |
| Red Band Society / int_d44ea142 | comment |
You Are Not Alone: Jordi becomes a patient in the hospital due to his cancerous leg requiring an amputation. During the "goodbye party" for his leg, Leo gives him the red band from his own amputation surgery, invoking this trope as he hands the red band over. Kara invokes this in "Know Thyself:" | |
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Refuge in Audacity | |
| Red Band Society / int_d45c0b86 | comment |
Refuge in Audacity: Jordi gets himself assigned to Dr. McAndrew simply by walking into the hospital and claiming to already be a patient of his, knowing that he can't be turned away at the ER. | |
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! | |
| Red Band Society / int_d8573ef9 | comment |
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!: Kara's biological mother has this attitude, and believes she can get Kara bumped up the transplant list with this in mind. With a little nudge from Emma, Kara later admits to her mothers that she'd rather figure out for herself how to make her way up the list. | |
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I'm Standing Right Here | |
| Red Band Society / int_d9fe8277 | comment |
I'm Standing Right Here: Jordi's introduction to Leo. Later, after Kara regains consciousness with Nurse Jackson and a doctor watching over her: | |
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Good Smoking, Evil Smoking | |
| Red Band Society / int_dab2f3ee | comment |
Good Smoking, Evil Smoking: Kara, probably the most obnoxious among the cast, is also the only smoker. She apparently got it from her mom. | |
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Magic Realism | |
| Red Band Society / int_e6ab61d | comment |
Magic Realism: Everything involving Charlie, a boy in a coma who knows everything going on in the hospital and who the others can share dreams with. | |
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| Red Band Society / int_f9f2c33 | type |
Running Gag | |
| Red Band Society / int_f9f2c33 | comment |
Running Gag: References to Kara's heart, more specifically people joking about her seeming lack of one even within earshot of her. | |
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Team Mom | |
| Red Band Society / int_fb9e25e9 | comment |
Team Mom: Emma has some shades of this, lampshaded by Kara. Red-Banders aside, Nurse Jackson serves this role. | |
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Brick Joke | |
| Red Band Society / int_fe0330fb | comment |
Brick Joke: During their first meeting, Kara suggests the salted ice-cube diet to Emma. In the next episode, Kara catches Emma trying it out. | |
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