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Shameless (US)

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Shameless (US)	comment	Based on the British series of the same name, Shameless revolves around the Chicago-based Gallagher family: a clan of poverty-struck misfits constantly finding themselves engaged in rowdy, shameless behavior, usually against their better efforts — or because of them.Much like their Manchester counterparts, the Chicago-based Gallagher family depicted here consists of: Frank Gallagher, the patriarch (played by William H. Macy) Fiona Gallagher, the eldest child (played by Emmy Rossum) Philip "Lip" Gallagher, the second-eldest (played by Jeremy Allen White) Ian Gallagher, the older-middle child (played by Cameron Monaghan) Debbie Gallagher, the younger-middle child (played by Emma Kenney) Carl Gallagher, the second-youngest (played by Ethan Cutkosky) Liam Gallagher, the youngest child (played by Christian Isaiah since Season 8. Previously played by various kids note originally Brennan Kane and Blake Alexander Johnson, then Brenden and Brandon Sims)Among the characters seen on this show, other notable ones include: Kevin Ball and Veronica "V" Fisher, their married friends/neighbors (played by Steve Howey and Shanola Hampton) Mickey Milkovich, the neighborhood bully and Ian's love interest (played by Noel Fisher) Mandy Milkovich, Mickey's troubled sister, frequently Lip's love interest. (played by Emma Greenwell note Jane Levy in season one) Sheila Jackson, Frank's agoraphobic love interest (played by Joan Cusack) Steve, Fiona's on-off beau (played by Justin Chatwin)Debuting on Showtime in 2011, this version of the show is largely a successful Cultural Translation of the original, maintaining its sense of Gallows Humor dramedy while still changing enough of the concept for American audiences to resonate with. Also boasts a handful of Emmy nominations on its mantel (ironically, none for Emmy Rossum), as well as three Screen Actors Guild wins for William H. Macy's performance as Frank.Ran on TV for 10 years and 11 seasons.
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Shameless (US) / int_1270db02	type	Sorting Algorithm of Deadness
Shameless (US) / int_1270db02	comment	Sorting Algorithm of Deadness: Jimmy/Steve had his fair share of runs through it at the end of season 3 and all of season 4.
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Shameless (US) / int_14beeefd	type	Darker and Edgier
Shameless (US) / int_14beeefd	comment	Darker and Edgier: Season 3 is darker than the previous seasons, including a sub-plot with Estefania's brutal Cartel Faux Affably Evil father coming to America, Frank becoming even worse, and Jimmy being forced to find a job by Estefania's father's right hand. Season 4 is even darker than this, with Frank becoming terminally ill and needing a liver transplant, Liam almost dying after eating cocaine Fiona left out on the table, and Fiona becoming a convicted felon.
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Shameless (US) / int_1616e13	type	Ripped from the Headlines
Shameless (US) / int_1616e13	comment	Ripped from the Headlines: Season 11 takes place during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Shameless (US) / int_16ad6f7f	type	"It" Is Dehumanizing
Shameless (US) / int_16ad6f7f	comment	"It" Is Dehumanizing : Karen's attitude towards her Down Syndrome afflicted son.
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Shameless (US) / int_17cec902	type	Little Brother Is Watching
Shameless (US) / int_17cec902	comment	Little Brother Is Watching: Ian and Lip make their little brother Carl wear earmuffs at night so they can talk about various illegal activities openly. However, Carl is naturally more sociopathic than either of his older brothers. Ian has trouble during one of his "anytime blowjobs" from Mickey. Not the least reason is Liam watching from the corner.
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Shameless (US) / int_19209d54	type	Sibling Rivalry
Shameless (US) / int_19209d54	comment	Sibling Rivalry: One begins between Lip and Ian in season 2; Lip has an inside for Ian to get into West Point, but his plan backfires, and Lip is the one who is offered recruitment instead. Ian becomes so furious he even refuses to speak to him. Not until a second No-Holds-Barred Beatdown won by Ian did get the two back on speaking terms.
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Shameless (US) / int_19851b86	type	The Sociopath
Shameless (US) / int_19851b86	comment	The Sociopath: Frank's mother definitely. She didn't care at all about those two college kids who died in the meth lab explosion that got her jail time. Karen increasingly became this as she Took a Level in Jerkass. Confirmed as of the penultimate episode of season 3. A brain-damaged Karen admits to Lip she can't "feel things inside". Frank, of course.
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Shameless (US) / int_1994ba0b	type	Gone Horribly Right
Shameless (US) / int_1994ba0b	comment	Gone Horribly Right: Kevin usually grows a few marijuana plants in the basement, mostly for his own consumption. In Season 2, he has a great growing season and ends up with a basement full of high quality weed worth thousands of dollars. However, if caught, he would face some serious prison time for trafficking. Veronica makes him destroy most of it At the midpoint of the season, Kevin reveals he didn't destroy all of the weed but buried it; Ethel and Malik later dig up the buried weed and sell it to leave town together. Since Shelia is a dominatrix with a pegging fetish and Jody is a recovering sex addict who can only have sex for romantic purposes in missionary style without losing control, Shelia grows bored with her and Jody's sex life. Shelia enlists Frank's help in convincing Jody to be more adventurous in bed. Jody warns them both if he starts, he won't be able to stop, and they won't like what happens. Eventually they wear him down, and it takes all of a week for his fetishes to blow past Shelia's comfort zone.
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Shameless (US) / int_1b4e322c	type	Mr. Fanservice
Shameless (US) / int_1b4e322c	comment	Mr. Fanservice: Jimmy/Steve, Lip, Jody, Kev, Ian, and Mickey.
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Shameless (US) / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Shameless (US) / int_1b596e24	comment	The Beard: Mandy for Ian during the early seasons. Svetlana for Mickey, although Svetlana was a Honey Trap and partly enforced by Terry to cure his son of being gay.
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Shameless (US) / int_1c5599e4	type	Reformed, but Rejected
Shameless (US) / int_1c5599e4	comment	Reformed, but Rejected: Season 7 has Lip go before the board in college to see if his expulsion can be revoked. Even though he's sobered up and brought Ian as a character witness, the expulsion stands. That starts him on an alcoholic binge.
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Shameless (US) / int_1c79ae8c	type	Those Two Guys
Shameless (US) / int_1c79ae8c	comment	Those Two Guys: Kermit and Tommy, the two patrons at The Alibi Room that are there from opening to closing.
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Shameless (US) / int_1e8f4221	type	Fingore
Shameless (US) / int_1e8f4221	comment	Fingore: Jimmy in season 3, in a scene that manages to be horrifying and hilarious at the same time.
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Shameless (US) / int_23ff95fb	type	Brutal Honesty
Shameless (US) / int_23ff95fb	comment	Brutal Honesty: Neil, though due to brain damage, he just genuinely cannot filter his thoughts.
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Shameless (US) / int_24e51e8	type	Mistaken for Murderer
Shameless (US) / int_24e51e8	comment	Mistaken for Murderer: When Eddie is found dead, people assume Frank did it.
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Shameless (US) / int_2554f670	type	Smite Me, O Mighty Smiter
Shameless (US) / int_2554f670	comment	Smite Me, O Mighty Smiter: The end of Season 4 has Frank yelling at God that he failed to kill him this time, celebrating by having a drink at the waterfront.
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Shameless (US) / int_25bc8511	type	Generation Xerox
Shameless (US) / int_25bc8511	comment	Generation Xerox: Fiona and Lip have more than a few similarities to their dear old dad, particularly in the selfishness department. Fiona slept with a married man even though she knew she would regret it. Lip especially showed signs when he tried to break Karen and Jody up by sending Mandy to their house so Mandy would sleep with Jody. This trope is even lampshaded in "A Beautiful Mess." In Season 4, Ian begins to show signs of bipolar disorder, just like Monica, which is confirmed in the next season.
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Shameless (US) / int_26eb6287	type	Funny Background Event
Shameless (US) / int_26eb6287	comment	Funny Background Event: In Season 5's "Carl's First Sentencing", Frank takes Doctor Bianca Samson to her first drug buy. Everything goes smooth until she decides to yell, "Hands up! I'm a cop! You're under arrest!" The drug dealer isn't amused and Frank smooths things over quickly, but as the camera pans between them, you can see all the other dealers in the alley running out of there.
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Shameless (US) / int_28f852ea	type	Wholesome Crossdresser
Shameless (US) / int_28f852ea	comment	Wholesome Crossdresser: Molly was raised as a girl with a "girl penis", and clearly thinks of herself as a girl. However, everyone else tends to think of her more as this trope.
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Shameless (US) / int_294ed981	type	Bilingual Bonus
Shameless (US) / int_294ed981	comment	Bilingual Bonus: Almost all of Estefania's lines are in unsubtitled Portuguese.
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Shameless (US) / int_297ab1b9	type	Parental Abandonment
Shameless (US) / int_297ab1b9	comment	Parental Abandonment: Monica Gallagher left her husband and six children almost two years prior to the start of the series. Frank stuck around but has been completely useless most of the time. When he actually moves out, it makes things easier for the kids. Fiona gets custody of the rest of her siblings during Season 3. In Season 6, she starts pushing Debbie away during her pregnancy, and from Season 8 onwards, she spends most of her time at the apartment building she owns, and very little time actually with her siblings. Finally, in Season 9, Fiona decides to leave for good. By this point, Lip and Ian are adults, and Debbie and Carl are somewhere between 16 and 18, but Liam is still only 11.
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Shameless (US) / int_2a015a74	type	Beauty Equals Goodness
Shameless (US) / int_2a015a74	comment	Beauty Equals Goodness: In the Gallagher family, it's a pretty straight example with the virtuous Fiona being contrasted with the scumbag Frank, and in the Milkovich family, with Mickey and Mandy being terrorized by Terry, a balding, fat, tatted up gangster. On the other hand, every character is attractive, even monsters like Karen.
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Shameless (US) / int_2a6a8e89	type	Sadist Teacher
Shameless (US) / int_2a6a8e89	comment	Sadist Teacher: Lip has a sadist professor at the start of Season 4, complete with him locking Lip out of a midterm because Lip was just a few minutes late.note In real life, depending on the university, some professors may indeed lock the door after exams (or even classes) start, but students at other locations may go an entire college career without this happening. Considering the rising cost of university tuition, some students feel that with what they're forced to pay, they should walk into class whenever they want.
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Shameless (US) / int_2bf7f3ab	type	Apathetic Clerk
Shameless (US) / int_2bf7f3ab	comment	Apathetic Clerk: A dark version of this trope appears when Fiona gets a job as a check out girl. Her manager tells her if she wants her job, she'll have to give him oral sex. She manages to record their conversation and blackmails him into giving him the job. However, she learns that the manager is forcing the other female cashiers to perform oral sex. She gets them all together to discuss coming forward and getting the manager fired. Some are on board with this, but others are against it, claiming it's not that bad. One points out the manager lets them take sick days when they aren't sick, which his replacement might not do. In the end, they put it to a vote and decide against turning in their manager. To make things worse, the other cashiers turn on Fiona after learning she hasn't performed oral sex on their manager, feeling that she's not pulling her weight.
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Shameless (US) / int_2d4fa515	type	Ax-Crazy
Shameless (US) / int_2d4fa515	comment	Season 9 has Ax-Crazy Kassidi disappearing in the season premiere. A cadet implies that he killed her, but she never appears again, dead or alive.
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Shameless (US) / int_2d7ef923	type	Mistaken for Cheating
Shameless (US) / int_2d7ef923	comment	Mistaken for Cheating: Veronica thinks Kevin is cheating on her with another woman and follows him to her apartment. After Kevin leaves, she confronts the woman but realizes the woman is just teaching Kevin to read.
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Shameless (US) / int_326a740c	type	Scatterbrained Senior
Shameless (US) / int_326a740c	comment	Scatterbrained Senior: Season 7 introduces Etta, the manager of Wendell's Laundromat. Fiona has to put her in assisted living due to Alzheimer's.
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Shameless (US) / int_32976084	type	Destination Defenestration
Shameless (US) / int_32976084	comment	Destination Defenestration: "The Defenestration of Frank" is Exactly What It Says on the Tin. Frank's homeless shelter finds his stash of money and they promptly throw him out the window.
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Shameless (US) / int_3297cfbb	type	Evolving Credits
Shameless (US) / int_3297cfbb	comment	Evolving Credits: In the third season after Karen leaves, the portion in the intro sequence featuring her and Lip is cut in favor of Lip and Ian rough housing. A significant portion of the credits were reshot for Season 10, after Liam and Tami are promoted to main cast, Fiona leaves, and Mickey returns to the main cast: Fiona's scene dragging Frank out of the bathroom and then using the toilet is replaced by Debbie doing the same. The scene where Debbie wraps Liam in toilet paper is replaced by a scene where Liam does the same to Frannie. Frannie also gets Liam's scene, brushing her teeth with toilet water. The final scene, of Fiona and Jimmy/Steve having sex is replaced by intercut scenes of Ian and Mickey having sex and Lip and Tami having sex.
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Shameless (US) / int_32da91b8	type	Out of Focus
Shameless (US) / int_32da91b8	comment	Out of Focus: Ian in Season 2, especially in comparison to the rest of the Gallaghers. Carl, in general, compared to the other Gallaghers until Season 4 or 5. He would usually show up to cause antics for a "CARL!" and rarely get a storyline. In the next few seasons, Carl drifts in and out of focus as he gets a spot at military school that takes him away from Chicago for months at a time.
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Shameless (US) / int_3322dd48	type	Hollywood Law
Shameless (US) / int_3322dd48	comment	Hollywood Law: After Fiona gets slapped with a 6 million dollar lawsuit from a roofer who broke his leg falling from the roof of her building, her lawyer advises her that this basically means financial ruin and her only chance to escape is to sell the building, spend the money and declare bankruptcy. Suffice to say, this is terrible legal advice and realistically the roofer could never have hoped to sue her for even a fraction of that amount.
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Shameless (US) / int_341b1691	type	"Take That!" Kiss
Shameless (US) / int_341b1691	comment	"Take That!" Kiss: After Ian points out Mickey is too afraid to kiss him.
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Shameless (US) / int_36135fb0	type	Official Couple
Shameless (US) / int_36135fb0	comment	Official Couple: Subverted with Fiona and Steve/Jimmy. Though the very first episode points to them being a sure thing, and their UK counterparts are married, the US versions end up breaking it off for good in Season 5.
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Shameless (US) / int_361a1d26	type	Anguished Declaration of Love
Shameless (US) / int_361a1d26	comment	Anguished Declaration of Love: Fiona gives one to Gus in "Uncle Carl" to beg him to stay instead of going on tour without her. It doesn't work, and their marriage doesn't last much longer.
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Shameless (US) / int_3678bb22	type	Russian Roulette
Shameless (US) / int_3678bb22	comment	Russian Roulette: The Gallaghers feel cursed that because they're Monica's children, they'll never know if they or their children will get bipolar disorder, which Ian is confirmed to have in season 5. In the Season 5 finale, Frank's girlfriend Bianca plays this with herself for the rush.
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Shameless (US) / int_3763bcf8	type	False Rape Accusation
Shameless (US) / int_3763bcf8	comment	False Rape Accusation: After cousin Patrick outwits the Gallaghers to get the house, Debbie claims that he molested her to force him to give them the house back. Mickey's reason he needs to find Frank and kill him is that he raped a girl.
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Shameless (US) / int_3820a9ea	type	Tomboyish Name
Shameless (US) / int_3820a9ea	comment	Monica's girlfriend Bob is rude, psychopathic (she tries to run down Frank and Kev with her 18-wheeler), and basically announces she's going to take Liam because he needs to be raised by a black person.
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Shameless (US) / int_3a79872e	type	Double Standard: Rape, Female on Female
Shameless (US) / int_3a79872e	comment	Double Standard: Rape, Female on Female: The "wifely duties" are handwaved as a release of tension, not gay sex.
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Shameless (US) / int_3f11ef74	comment	Then played with for Karen's child, as it could be Lip's or someone else's. Though in her own words, it's Jody's because real dads are overrated. It turns out neither Lip nor Jody is the father of her baby, but rather an Asian guy Karen was having sex with on the side.
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Shameless (US) / int_3fca462c	type	Deus ex Machina
Shameless (US) / int_3fca462c	comment	Deus ex Machina: Lip abruptly getting an offer from a stranger to pay his remaining tuition after he's unable to get his grant paperwork in on time. He even says as much to Amanda. After spending most of Season 4 dying and seemingly having no hope, Frank abruptly gets a new liver in the penultimate episode.
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Shameless (US) / int_40bb59d0	type	Blatant Lies
Shameless (US) / int_40bb59d0	comment	Blatant Lies: Everything Debbie tells the police after she returns the little boy she kidnapped. However, the Gallagher family seems to run on this a lot, especially Lip.
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Shameless (US) / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: The penultimate episode of Season 2, "Just as the Pilgrims Intended". A suicidal Monica is institutionalized after slitting her wrists, leaving a numb Frank to sit down and keel over on a curb in the middle of the night. At the birth of Karen's baby, Lip is heartbroken when he realizes that the baby isn't his, and the adoptive parents leave when they find out that the child was born with Down Syndrome. Karen wants nothing more to do with "it," but Sheila loves the baby from the moment she sees him, and the episode ends with her and Jody stealing the baby and riding off, whooping and victorious, into the night. The series finale. Frank dies, and Lip and Debbie aren't that far removed from the doomed cycle of Frank and Monica. That being said, they're still doing slightly better than their parents, Carl and Liam have a brighter future, and Ian and Mickey are happily married.
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Shameless (US) / int_424c9a9b	type	Cold-Blooded Torture
Shameless (US) / int_424c9a9b	comment	Cold-Blooded Torture: Implied by Jimmy/Steve, when talking about Estefania's father.
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Shameless (US) / int_4523420b	type	Love Dodecahedron
Shameless (US) / int_4523420b	comment	Another one involving Frank: he becomes the centre of a Love Dodecahedron amongst the parents at Liam's school, having sex with half of the mothers. Given who did and didn't get Frank's ST Is, it's easy to tell that some of the parents' marriages were this trope.
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Shameless (US) / int_479f9ad0	type	Characterization Marches On
Shameless (US) / int_479f9ad0	comment	Characterization Marches On: Mandy was originally portrayed as a Perky Goth, but from the second season onward, she became more of a calm Broken Bird, yet still angry, who ends up being a Sugar-and-Ice Personality. Karen Jackson was originally much more sympathetic, showing some shades of questioning her promiscuity. But then she Took A Level In Jerk Ass and turned into The Sociopath.
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Shameless (US) / int_48b8ae85	type	Pregnancy Does Not Work That Way
Shameless (US) / int_48b8ae85	comment	Pregnancy Does Not Work That Way: Karen's pregnancy in season 2 may have lasted most of the season, but it's actually quite short. She tells Lip she's pregnant over the summer (when she isn't showing at all), doesn't start showing until school starts, then has a big baby belly and gives birth on Thanksgiving.
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Shameless (US) / int_49334c8e	type	Coitus Uninterruptus
Shameless (US) / int_49334c8e	comment	Coitus Uninterruptus: This has happened with Fiona walking in on people, especially Veronica and Kevin. It's also happened to Mandy.
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Shameless (US) / int_49d59be9	type	Scenery Porn
Shameless (US) / int_49d59be9	comment	Scenery Porn: The final scene of Season 4 shows Frank and Carl overlooking the frozen Lake Michigan, one of the most gorgeous examples of cinematography from the show.
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Shameless (US) / int_4a4d6f7c	comment	Comedic Sociopathy: A common occurrence for many of the Gallaghers, particularly Frank.
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Shameless (US) / int_4b0ef86e	comment	Advertised Extra: Liam Gallagher is always present in advertisements because he is a member of the Gallagher family, but he does not have a role outside being a toddler. He's finally promoted to full recurring status in Season 8, and to the main cast in Season 9, so this no longer applies.
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Shameless (US) / int_4c851777	type	Black Comedy Rape
Shameless (US) / int_4c851777	comment	Black Comedy Rape: Sheila raping Frank with a dildo in the second episode. It is the show's general treatment of their sex life.
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Shameless (US) / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
Shameless (US) / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: Season 3's "Frank The Plumber" hits a downer note. Mickey and Ian break up, and Karen is run over by Mandy (who was intending to kill her).
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Shameless (US) / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
Shameless (US) / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: Season 5's episode "Rite of Passage" ends with a huge one;
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Shameless (US) / int_52a9bc4e	type	Rape by Proxy
Shameless (US) / int_52a9bc4e	comment	Rape by Proxy: In Season 3, Terry catches Mickey and Ian having sex. He then forces Mickey at gunpoint to have sex with a Russian prostitute while Ian watches.
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Shameless (US) / int_5313c266	comment	Book Ends: The pilot starts with and the finale ends with the Gallaghers standing around a fire as Frank describes them in a voice over.
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Shameless (US) / int_53367dfd	type	Hereditary Homosexuality
Shameless (US) / int_53367dfd	comment	Hereditary Homosexuality: Debbie eventually comes to identify as a lesbian, making her the second openly queer Gallagher child. Their mother Monica, on the other hand, was bisexual. Sandy Milkovich is introduced in season ten and identifies as gay, much like her cousin Mickey.
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Shameless (US) / int_56515a39	type	Artistic License â€“ History
Shameless (US) / int_56515a39	comment	Artistic License – History : In-universe, Frank's creative re-telling of the Gallagher family's arrival in Chicago and placement of a Gallagher ancestor into most of Chicago's important events.
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Shameless (US) / int_5834239a	type	The Diss Track
Shameless (US) / int_5834239a	comment	The Diss Track: Fiona briefly marries a musician, only to leave him not long after. When she tries to talk to him, he insists that he feels no ill will towards her. He then proceeds to perform a song titled "Fuck You Fiona".
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Shameless (US) / int_5924454b	type	Cerebus Call-Back
Shameless (US) / int_5924454b	comment	Cerebus Call-Back: In the first episode, Fiona and Steve start to have sex in the kitchen, but have to stop when an inebriated Frank is dragged in. During his return in "Crazy Love", they start to have sex again in the same location, but it's less sexy than it is sad, and Fiona herself ends it abruptly after she can't stop sobbing.
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Shameless (US) / int_5be919ae	comment	Break-Up/Make-Up Scenario: V and Kev briefly separate in the middle of Season 5. V starts regretting the separation when her mother and friends remind her of how good a partner Kev is and that it's rare to get a present and supportive father in the hood. Kev regrets the separation when a bunch of male college students remind him of how hot and sexually capable V is.
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Shameless (US) / int_5d86966a	type	Man on Fire
Shameless (US) / int_5d86966a	comment	Man on Fire: In Season 6, Kevin's neighbor Yanis burns himself to death with Molotov cocktails by accident after learning it was Kevin who's responsible for him being paralyzed.
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Shameless (US) / int_60426489	type	Citizenship Marriage
Shameless (US) / int_60426489	comment	Citizenship Marriage: Between Jimmy and Estefania, a Brazilian drug lord's daughter. Jimmy was forced into it. Between V and Svetlana in Season 6, though Season 7 finds that it was invalid due to her already being married — to a man she knew before Mickey!
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Shameless (US) / int_606244c2	comment	Parental Incest : Played with, when Frank tracks down his oldest daughter and tries to get her to give him her liver in Season 4. Played straight with Terry Milkovich, who drunkenly molested his daughter, Mandy, and impregnated her.
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Shameless (US) / int_63d861f8	type	Even Evil Has Loved Ones
Shameless (US) / int_63d861f8	comment	Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Peggy Gallagher genuinely cared about her children and grandchildren. Except for Frank. Even when Sammi goes off the deep end in Season 5, she still loves Chuckie, even if her means of showing it can be... unique at times.
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Shameless (US) / int_65b696be	type	Fille Fatale
Shameless (US) / int_65b696be	comment	Fille Fatale: Karen is stated to have first started experimenting around sexually when she was just 11 years old and Mandy is implied to have started around the same time, as is evidenced when she asks Debbie (who was 13 at the time) why she waited so long to lose her virginity. Subverted with Holly Hickemer, who thinks she's this but she's still too young to actually be sexual.
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Shameless (US) / int_6a4f3cf7	type	Took a Level in Dumbass
Shameless (US) / int_6a4f3cf7	comment	Took a Level in Dumbass: Lip starts the series a genius, but gradually succumbs to the inevitable realities of his position as well as his own self-sabotage such as squandering his chance at an education or high-paying job. By the final season, he's outright stated to be not as smart as he used to be to the point where he may as well be the next Frank. Even his sale of the house is tainted with this, since he ends up selling it a fraction for what it's going to end up being worth after the neighborhood development is finished.
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Shameless (US) / int_6ae4dedd	type	The Unfair Sex
Shameless (US) / int_6ae4dedd	comment	The Unfair Sex: Veronica intentionally dry humping a stranger to orgasm is made to be Kevin's fault for his failure to fulfill her sexual needs while he's busy taking care of their children. Had the roles been reversed, a husband cheating on his homemaking wife because she's focusing on raising the children instead of having sex with him probably wouldn't go over as well. Averted with Fiona, whose cheating (on Mike with Robbie and on Gus with Jimmy/Steve) almost always has negative consequences that she has to face and own up to.
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Shameless (US) / int_6b05b601	type	Jerkass Has a Point
Shameless (US) / int_6b05b601	comment	Jerkass Has a Point: Absolutely awful as Frank is to ruin Fiona's wedding to Sean, the single bright spot is that it allowed her to learn of his relapse, and though Sean leaves Fiona, his weak and remorseless attempts to minimize his continued doping prove that Fiona's trust in his promise of going sober were unfounded, and regardless, his priority was always his son over Fiona. Not to mention that, as crude and horrible as his calling out of his own children's flaws is, he's completely correct.
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Shameless (US) / int_6c87dbef	type	Masturbation Means Sexual Frustration
Shameless (US) / int_6c87dbef	comment	Masturbation Means Sexual Frustration: Occurs twice in the Season 4 premiere episode. Once per Episode if you count Ian in the title sequence. Frank tells Carl not to masturbate in the shower, but in season 11 Frank masturbates in the shower. Frank tries to do some good by giving the teenage Carl advice on masturbating and how to avoid accidentally impregnating his own sister. Mickey asks anyone who knows him about Ian. He later tries to masturbate to a photo of Ian but instead becomes angry, putting his fist into the bathroom mirror. In the season 9 mid-season premiere, 17-year-old Carl is challenged by his father to a masturbating duel. Frank bets his son that Carl can't successfully rub one out in under three minutes — of course, this is all a ruse to procure healthy young semen that Frank can later give to the fertility doctor. Carl wins the bet, earning $100 in the process.
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Shameless (US) / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
Shameless (US) / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: Eddie killing himself in the Season 1 finale. Monica trying to do the same at the end of Season 2. Her attempt is unsuccessful.
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Shameless (US) / int_6f44042b	type	The Immodest Orgasm
Shameless (US) / int_6f44042b	comment	The Immodest Orgasm: Estefânia
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Shameless (US) / int_7032976	type	Sex Montage
Shameless (US) / int_7032976	comment	Sex Montage: "The Helpful Gallaghers" starts this way.
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Shameless (US) / int_707bb8ce	type	Pair the Spares
Shameless (US) / int_707bb8ce	comment	Pair the Spares: Sheila and Jody, after Karen ends her relationship with Jody and Frank goes back to Monica. Lip and Mandy, at the end of Season 2.
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Shameless (US) / int_70ce4934	type	Law of Inverse Paternity
Shameless (US) / int_70ce4934	comment	Law of Inverse Paternity: Liam turns out to be Frank's son even though everyone assumed he was not. Similarly, Lip hoped he was not Frank's son but turned out to be his. However, Ian is not actually Frank's son, but his nephew. Likewise, Lip wanted badly to be the father of Karen's baby, despite Karen explicitly stating at least twice it may not be his. He continues being involved with Karen's pregnancy, even going so far to help her look for potential parents to adopt her baby after it is born, and making a videotape for the parents to give it when it's older. However, when Karen gives birth, he realizes it is not his when the baby turns out to be part-Asian. In Season 3, Mickey winds up getting the hooker his father forced him to have sex with pregnant. This leads to a forced marriage organized by his abusive father and destroys his relationship with Ian.
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Shameless (US) / int_716cdf08	type	Vorpal Pillow
Shameless (US) / int_716cdf08	comment	Vorpal Pillow: Averted. When Sheila gives a Mercy Kill to Peggy, she finds herself struggling to actually kill her (especially when the latter's survival instincts kick in and she starts thrashing), and she has to sit on the pillow to get the job done.
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Shameless (US) / int_754df088	type	Put on a Bus
Shameless (US) / int_754df088	comment	Ian and Mickey are on and off for much of the series, constantly being driven apart by both conflict and outside forces. They apparently break up for good and Ian begins dating other people as Mickey is intermittently Put on a Bus, but eventually he comes back to resume their relationship, and finally, they get married at the end of the tenth season.
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Shameless (US) / int_7eebe99c	type	The Alcoholic
Shameless (US) / int_7eebe99c	comment	The Alcoholic: Frank Gallagher. Lip also starts to follow this route as early as Season 2, becoming a defining character trait in Season 6 onwards. Like father, like son. In latter seasons we also have Lip's mentor, Professor Youens, as well as his AA sponsor Brad; both are on and off the wagon multiple times, which plays a big part in his own efforts to get his act together.
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Shameless (US) / int_8159411a	type	Extreme Omnisexual
Shameless (US) / int_8159411a	comment	Extreme Omnisexual: Frank advocates for having sex with anyone who will have you. Anything too.
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Shameless (US) / int_8183248	type	Never Mess with Granny
Shameless (US) / int_8183248	comment	Never Mess with Granny: Frank's mother Peggy Gallagher.
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Shameless (US) / int_81f8731	type	Chosen Conception Partner
Shameless (US) / int_81f8731	comment	Chosen Conception Partner: Bizarrely enough, Kevin chose Veronica's mother. They had a threesome.
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Shameless (US) / int_83f0971b	type	Mexican Standoff
Shameless (US) / int_83f0971b	comment	Mexican Standoff: Mickey and his dad have one in season 10. Both give a vibe that it is not the first time the two have done it. They even have the same type of gun from the same place. At one point, Frank spends his time masturbating in the graveyard of Bianca while under the influence of drugs and alcohol.
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Shameless (US) / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
Shameless (US) / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: Kash abandons a pregnant and bedridden Linda at the start of Season 2. Though this could have been usable plot material, and Ian and Mickey continue working at the store through Season 3, Linda's final appearance is in episode 2 of Season 2, and even then that was just her voice. Season 6 also has Chuckie and Queenie Slott both at the hippie commune the last time we see them. They don't get an appearance or mention in season 7. Season 9 has Ax-Crazy Kassidi disappearing in the season premiere. A cadet implies that he killed her, but she never appears again, dead or alive.
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Shameless (US) / int_875615dd	type	Truth in Television
Shameless (US) / int_875615dd	comment	In Season 4, Lip stating that alcoholism is the nature part of nature vs. nurture (which is somewhat Truth in Television). He himself goes off the deep end in a massive alcoholic downward spiral later on.
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Shameless (US) / int_8829dfa0	type	What the Hell Is That Accent?
Shameless (US) / int_8829dfa0	comment	What the Hell Is That Accent?: Emmy Rossum has a hard enough time concealing her native New York accent that her attempt at a Chicago accent can be... dicey at best. Though a few other characters (who are ostensibly Chicago natives) are Not Even Bothering with the Accent. Cameron Monaghan also uses a bizarre accent in later seasons.
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Shameless (US) / int_89102272	comment	Artistic Title: The opening (which chronicles a day in the Gallagher's bathroom) really does nail the tone of the show.
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Shameless (US) / int_8928fe5f	comment	Dead Man's Chest: When Aunt Ginger died (before the start of the series), Frank buried her in the backyard, and began collecting and cashing her Social Security checks years after. However, in Season 3 when the city has to dig up the yard to fix the water pipes, the kids have to dig up Ginger's body before the city does or they face charges.
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Shameless (US) / int_89434320	comment	Protagonist-Centered Morality: Seen most starkly in "When There's a Will", when cousin Patrick takes the house and outwits the Gallaghers at nearly every turn. To try to get it back, they order a hit on him, Carl poisons him to try and kill him, and then they only manage to get it back after Debbie claims Patrick molested her. Though they were desperate to not be homeless, this is still some pretty dark behavior that is mostly Played for Laughs, in contrast to Frank's comparable manipulations that are usually designed to show how horrible he is.
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Shameless (US) / int_8a817c2a	comment	Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: More specifically, child rape. As shown in "May I Trim Your Hedges?", pretty much everyone in the neighborhood agrees to go beat up a pedophile that Lip found living near them.
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Shameless (US) / int_8b5df221	type	Surprise Car Crash
Shameless (US) / int_8b5df221	comment	Surprise Car Crash: It plays with this in season 3 (episode 9). Karen, Lip's on-again, off-again girlfriend, pisses off Mandy Milkovich, Lip's other interest. After a heated conversation, Karen walks home alone, and as she crosses the street a car veers very close to her and she has to leap out of the way. As it speeds off, she flips it the finger — only to be hit by another car coming from the other direction, driven by Mandy.
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Shameless (US) / int_8cb12b49	type	Took a Level in Jerkass
Shameless (US) / int_8cb12b49	comment	Karen Jackson was originally much more sympathetic, showing some shades of questioning her promiscuity. But then she Took A Level In Jerk Ass and turned into The Sociopath.
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Shameless (US) / int_8cb1a369	type	Took a Level in Jerkass
Shameless (US) / int_8cb1a369	comment	Took a Level in Jerkass: Lip and Karen in season 2. Debbie suffers from this when going through puberty in season 4, and again in season 6 and 7 as her teen pregnancy (and motherhood) has a tendency to bring out the worst in her. Debbie's level in jerkass can certainly be blamed on Fiona's own, who from Season 6 onwards starts dishing out various ultimatums to her siblings, and generally running an unfairly tight ship, especially considering how little time she eventually spends at the Gallagher house herself. Granted, the ultimatums aren't exactly unprecedented – she did the same to Lip in Season 2 when he almost dropped out of high school – but they're certainly more frequent in the later seasons.
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Shameless (US) / int_8dc8a02d	comment	Derailing Love Interests: Though he was never quite able to be the Knight in Shining Armor that he tried/wanted to be, Jimmy/Steve's reappearance in Season 5 as a full-blown Jerkass received some complaints that he was only written that way to force Fiona to end their relationship for good and push her to explore other love interests. Considering that Mickey/Ian is one of the most popular ships of the show, a lot of fans weren't happy that Mickey was painted as the bad guy in the breakup when he was genuinely trying to be the good guy, whereas Ian's culpability was mostly ignored. This was rectified somewhat during his return near the end of Season 7.
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Shameless (US) / int_8e4a0f15	comment	Dumb Blonde: Monica, Jasmine, Holly Hickemer. Averted with Bianca, who is book smart, but as a result of the knowledge of her impending death displays some bizarre behavior regardless.
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Shameless (US) / int_920b5728	comment	Sleeping with the Boss: In Season 3, Fiona gets a low-paying job at a supermarket, and soon learns that most of her co-workers have been pressured into doing sexual acts for the boss, Bobby. When she gets them all together to talk about it and find a way to get rid of him, some of them actually defend it on the grounds of Better the Devil You Know. Fiona in Season 4 with Mike and Seasons 5-6 with Sean.
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Shameless (US) / int_927b2f11	type	The Bus Came Back
Shameless (US) / int_927b2f11	comment	Mandy and abusive boyfriend Kenyatta leave for Indiana during season 5, and Mandy returns on her own in season 6.
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Shameless (US) / int_94e4c8ab	type	Betty and Veronica
Shameless (US) / int_94e4c8ab	comment	Betty and Veronica: Fiona had to choose between bad boy car thief Steve and nice guy police officer Tony. For some time, she chose neither but chose Jimmy/Steve at the end of Season 2. Lip also had Karen and Mandy in the later half of Season 3, who play with this in their own ways. In "Frank The Plumber", he tells Karen he chooses Mandy because Mandy is good for him and Karen is not, officially breaking up with Karen. In the next scene of the same episode, Mandy hits Karen with her car and leaves her for dead. He abandons both in Season 4. Amanda from Season 5-6 replaces Karen. Amanda comes from money, is haughty, shows Lip how to dress in dapper clothes, and puts fine accessories on him. Mandy grew up in the same messed up neighborhood as Lip and shares his hobbies, including committing petty crimes. In Season 4, Fiona has her Nice Guy boss Mike and his exciting bad boy brother Robbie. As of Season 5, she has her husband Gus and the now-returning Jimmy/Steve. Until Jimmy/Steve left and Gus went on tour with his band, leaving her to think about her life while being attracted to her new boss, Sean.
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Shameless (US) / int_94f3791a	type	Furniture Assembly Gag
Shameless (US) / int_94f3791a	comment	Furniture Assembly Gag: Lip and Brad are brought in to see the most powerful mobster in Chicago and fear that they are going to be killed. However, the mobster just needs some skilled mechanics to fix his kid's birthday present: a kid-size car powered by an electric motor. The assembly instructions were apparently incomprehensible. Lip and Brad successfully assemble the car and seem to be off the hook. However, Lip tells Brad that they better get out of there quickly because he found some left over parts that he really hopes are not vital to something like the brakes.
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Shameless (US) / int_957e5fc2	type	Villainous Breakdown
Shameless (US) / int_957e5fc2	comment	Villainous Breakdown: Frank is not a nice person, but when horrible things happen to him, he starts to lose it.
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Shameless (US) / int_96251156	type	Deer in the Headlights
Shameless (US) / int_96251156	comment	Deer in the Headlights: The older siblings' reactions to seeing a CPS worker in the house. She comes in to find a dozen screaming kids and a man in scrubs pulling bullet fragments out of the ass of a screaming teenage boy. Then Fiona comes in looking visibly filthy. This is bad enough on its own, then Debbie seals the deal by bursting into the house crowing about how she nearly drowned that "slut" at the public pool.
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Shameless (US) / int_9c8701b5	type	A Day in the Limelight
Shameless (US) / int_9c8701b5	comment	A Day in the Limelight: Carl gets his own day in the limelight when he goes to cancer camp, as part of another one of Frank's schemes. Carl's time there goes about as well as you'd expect.
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Shameless (US) / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Shameless (US) / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: In one episode, a grocery checkout clerk goes berserk because Debbie was insisting on using multiple coupons, all while the manager keeps telling her to go on her break. The next episode reveals these "breaks" are when the manager is expecting to get blowjobs. In the first episode of the show, Ian says that Frank hates him, and Fiona says that Ian probably scares him because he looks more like Monica than the rest of the children; Ian replies that "he ain't seen nothing yet." Ian later develops bipolar disease, which Monica has, and his behavior has clear parallels with Monica's. In the first season, Debbie shows particular interest in babies and young children. In season 4, she finds out that she’s pregnant and decides she wants to keep it. In Season 4, Lip stating that alcoholism is the nature part of nature vs. nurture (which is somewhat Truth in Television). He himself goes off the deep end in a massive alcoholic downward spiral later on.
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Shameless (US) / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
Shameless (US) / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: Heavily used. One moment the show is dramatic, then the next moment something funny happens.
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Shameless (US) / int_a54534a0	type	Parental Neglect
Shameless (US) / int_a54534a0	comment	Parental Neglect: Frank, obviously. In one episode, he even gives a speech claiming that being negligent is the best way to raise independent kids.
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Shameless (US) / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
Shameless (US) / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: Frank. One moment he's in deep trouble, then the next he's off the hook somehow. Actually getting a liver transplant near the end of Season 4 was widely criticized for being an unbelievable Deus ex Machina. The event in the spoiler is an especially egregious case of this trope considering it wasn't too long ago that he cheated someone else out of getting the organ transplant they needed, and then literally shagged them to death.
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Shameless (US) / int_abc60c5d	type	Harmful to Minors
Shameless (US) / int_abc60c5d	comment	Harmful to Minors: Everything and everyone on the show. Even the somewhat conscientious Fiona accidentally leaves cocaine where Liam can get to it! These kids see more harmful stuff than many small town cops would! Extends all the way down to Mickey's newborn son, who was being raised by prostitutes.
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Shameless (US) / int_b032e4ed	type	Ms. Fanservice
Shameless (US) / int_b032e4ed	comment	Ms. Fanservice: Fiona, Karen, Veronica, Mandy, Estefania, Sierra, and Svetlana.
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Shameless (US) / int_b11ac9f5	type	Abusive Parents
Shameless (US) / int_b11ac9f5	comment	Abusive Parents: All over the place. Frank's mother. Frank - his general neglect, including headbutting Ian. He gets worse as the series progresses. Both of them pale in comparison to Mickey and Mandy Milkovich's father Terry, who raped and impregnated Mandy in season 2. In season 3, after walking in on Mickey and Ian having sex, he gives both boys a severe beating and he forces Mickey to have sex with a prostitute in front of Ian at gunpoint. Debbie's temporary foster guardian when the kids are split up by Child Protective Services in Season 3. She runs a sweatshop where she forces the foster children in her care to make jewelry to sell, and "sees all". No wonder Debbie superglues her eyes shut for all the horrible things she and the other kids there went through.
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Shameless (US) / int_b2280b66	type	Retcon
Shameless (US) / int_b2280b66	comment	Retcon: Fiona is brought into a diner by her PO at the end of season 4 ("Lazarus") to get a waitressing gig. She's welcomed with open arms by the manager Charlie (played by Jeffrey Dean Morgan) and they both go to an NA meeting. Season 5 starts with Fiona still waitressing and going to NA meetings with her manager, but the restaurant is now Patsy's Pies and the manager is now Sean (Dermot Mulroney). Dialogue between him and Fiona confirms that she's been working at Patsy's since she got out of jail, and her fellow waitress Jackie appears in both seasons.
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Shameless (US) / int_b2f26025	type	Genki Girl
Shameless (US) / int_b2f26025	comment	Genki Girl: Though she may be a a bit older than most examples, Sheila Jackson when she's not in a rough patch.
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Shameless (US) / int_b352e864	comment	Sexless Marriage: Mickey and Svetlana, since he's gay and the one time they did actually have sex was a case of "corrective rape" orchestrated by Terry. Svetlana seems genuinely frustrated that Mickey just isn't into her, eventually reaching the point where she attempts to increase her allure to him by dyeing her hair red like Ian's and presenting herself to Mickey wearing a strap-on. They finally divorce by Season 5. When Frank meets the parents of the young man from whom he got his new liver, he finds out that they haven't had sex since the couple's son died, leading the wife to come on to Frank. Another one involving Frank: he becomes the centre of a Love Dodecahedron amongst the parents at Liam's school, having sex with half of the mothers. Given who did and didn't get Frank's ST Is, it's easy to tell that some of the parents' marriages were this trope.
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Shameless (US) / int_b532f68b	comment	Everybody Has Lots of Sex: So much so that Debbie feels like she's a late bloomer for not having lost her virginity by thirteen; Mandy even asks her what took her so long. Deconstructed, as teen pregnancies (and unplanned pregnancies in general) are a real concern, and promiscuity doesn't make every character happy.
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Shameless (US) / int_b77eb3b2	type	Revenge by Proxy
Shameless (US) / int_b77eb3b2	comment	Revenge by Proxy: After Carl (and Frank) get Chuckie arrested, Sammi gets Ian arrested as revenge.
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Shameless (US) / int_b7c53a22	type	Blood Knight
Shameless (US) / int_b7c53a22	comment	Blood Knight: The Gallaghers are often accused of "being addicted to chaos". Fiona has a tendency to make a mess of her life as soon as things seem to go well for her. Lip is often on the verge of throwing his future away because of the criminal stunts he pulls. Ian is confirmed to have bipolar disorder and his manic episodes are more and more destructive. Carl is a little psycho who likes to fight and start fires. When disaster strikes, the family pulls together and everybody seem to be at the top of their game. When things become calm and routine, the Gallaghers get bored and start looking for a new conflict to jump in headfirst.
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Shameless (US) / int_b82ca416	type	Rage Against the Heavens
Shameless (US) / int_b82ca416	comment	Rage Against the Heavens : Frank, in the Season 4 finale.
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Shameless (US) / int_bac96249	type	Cop Hater
Shameless (US) / int_bac96249	comment	Cop Hater: All of the characters despise the police, usually because it runs the risk of interrupting some sort of scam they're running, but also because the police are presented as corrupt at best.
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Shameless (US) / int_bb18a227	type	It's All About Me
Shameless (US) / int_bb18a227	comment	It's All About Me: Frank and his mother. Also Karen got into this territory.
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Shameless (US) / int_bda2a088	type	Did They or Didn't They?
Shameless (US) / int_bda2a088	comment	Did They or Didn't They?: At the send of Season 2 after a great amount of teasing, Estefania asks Lip to sleep with her. But it's not crystal clear if it's literal sleep or "sleeping".
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Shameless (US) / int_be009bbc	comment	Alliterative Name: Mandy and Mickey Milkovich, Casey Casden, Holly Herkimer. Sammi Slott. Oddly averted with all of the Gallaghers.
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Shameless (US) / int_bf1255fa	type	Really Gets Around
Shameless (US) / int_bf1255fa	comment	Really Gets Around: Karen, Lip, and Fiona.
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Shameless (US) / int_bf3d0873	type	Where Everybody Knows Your Flame
Shameless (US) / int_bf3d0873	comment	Where Everybody Knows Your Flame: "White Swallow" and "Fairy Tail", the gay bars where Ian works, are a step up for people used to the Alibi.
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Shameless (US) / int_c289826f	comment	Double Standard Rape: Female on Male: The first time Sheila and Frank have sex, he tells her repeatedly to stop, then ends up limping for the rest of the day because she shoved a big dildo up his ass, which is supposed to be hilarious. The show's treatment of Karen raping Frank. It even comes back in Season 2's "Father's Day", when Sheila had found out and consoled Frank after Karen told the "truth" to a detective who was looking into Eddie's death and found the video of Karen and Frank online, wanting to arrest him for having sex with a minor. Jimmy and his wife Estefania. She puts his hand under her dress, despite his repeated objections. When her father's dragon scolds him for cheating on Fiona, he insists he never moved his hand while it was underneath. The dragon doesn't care and continues to act as if Jimmy's a cheating jerk rather than a person who was just sexually assaulted. When Mickey's father comes in and sees Mickey and Ian having sex, he beats them up and forces Mickey to have sex with a Russian hooker under threat he will literally shoot him and Ian. The next day, both Ian and Mickey are shell-shocked. Played straight because nobody subsequently treats it as rape, even though Mickey is forced to marry the prostitute, Svetlana, when she becomes pregnant. In a bit of surprising hypocrisy, Mandy is even angry with Mickey when he doesn't want to go be with Svetlana when she gives birth, and he points out he doesn't even really know if the child is his. Happens again with Lip and Mandy, after he had learned she had run Karen down and crippled her. He objects and Mandy doesn't listen because they hadn't done it in a week. When Lip, Ian, and Mickey discover a female pedophile has moved into the neighborhood, Lip wants to drive her out of town. Ian defends her because he thinks Carl would be "lucky" to be targeted for sex by an adult woman, whereas a man of the same age going after Debbie would be "different." It's ultimately averted here when Mandy helps Lip get rid of the woman. In Season 5, Debbie loses her virginity this way. An older male friend of hers, on whom she has a crush, gets drunk and passes out. She notices he has an erection and has sex with him. The next morning he is disturbed by what happened and cuts off contact with her, which baffles and upsets her, and Lip even says that a guy would be lucky to be raped by her.
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Shameless (US) / int_c2cedc1c	comment	Big "NO!": Frank has one of these in Episode 11 of the first season.
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Shameless (US) / int_c33ba0a8	type	Chuck Cunningham Syndrome
Shameless (US) / int_c33ba0a8	comment	Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: During the finale of Season 9, Lip tells Sierra he's not sure if he's actually in love with her or not and their relationship seems to end as he also encourages her to take back Charlie as well since his getting another girl pregnant was something Charlie didn't know at the time. As far as the audience is aware, she still works at the diner and still would be in Fiona's life—and by extension, Lip's. By Season 10, she's totally gone without another mention.
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Shameless (US) / int_c3c18143	comment	Hope Spot: Sammi and Sheila apparently secure Frank a badly-needed new liver (illegally) near the end of Season 4 at the steep cost of $20,000, but later find out that not only did he not get a new liver, they actually stole one of his kidneys. Though the last seconds of the episode have him getting fast-tracked into receiving a new liver.
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Shameless (US) / int_c45c9fcd	comment	The first time Sheila and Frank have sex, he tells her repeatedly to stop, then ends up limping for the rest of the day because she shoved a big dildo up his ass, which is supposed to be hilarious.
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Shameless (US) / int_c4d09d24	comment	Couch Gag: Every episode opens with a character (usually Frank, occasionally Fiona or Lip), often in the middle of a Noodle Incident, Breaking the Fourth Wall to contemptuously tell the audience "This is what happened on Shameless last week," before shifting into the Previously on… segment. It has also doubled as foreshadowing once or twice: a Season 4 episode begins with Debbie and Lip on a staircase, with Debbie demanding to go home and this is the place where Ian has been hiding away all season. Another has Svetlana interrupting Mickey's bathroom time to give us the usual spiel and Mandy later does the same to Mickey, demanding that he finds Ian and send him back home.
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Shameless (US) / int_c5249b29	comment	Nice Guy: Jody does not seem to have a selfish bone in his body. He puts up with Karen's tantrums and her rampant cheating. He takes care of a sick Peggy Gallagher even though she threatened him with a gun during his wedding. He wants to take care of Karen's baby even after Karen dumps him and it is clear the baby is not his. However, by the end of Season 2, even he cannot be nice to Karen anymore.
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Shameless (US) / int_c631f304	type	We Want Our Jerk Back!
Shameless (US) / int_c631f304	comment	We Want Our Jerk Back!: When Frank signs up for a medical study and has to stay sober for two weeks in order to get paid, he becomes much nicer. However, he also becomes hyperactive and his attention span starts getting shorter. This starts out as endearing, then becomes disruptive, and ends up as destructive. When he starts to break down walls with a sledgehammer and wants to cut a hole in the roof for a skylight, the kids have enough and knock him out with a stun gun and pour liquor into him. They don't actually want their abusive father back but know the money he'll make from staying sober will only lead to more blackouts, and they prefer to end this before he causes a disaster.
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Shameless (US) / int_c660bc15	comment	During Fiona's arrest and processing while in jail her nudity is very much Fan Disservice, particularly the Inelegant Blubbering look of horror on her face.
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Shameless (US) / int_c6b8d37a	type	Cliffhanger
Shameless (US) / int_c6b8d37a	comment	Cliffhanger: Every season except for Season 7 ends on one.
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Shameless (US) / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Shameless (US) / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: At one point, Monica dates a meth dealer who cooks in an RV named Walter.
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Shameless (US) / int_cf6541ad	type	Social Services Does Not Exist
Shameless (US) / int_cf6541ad	comment	Social Services Does Not Exist: Subverted. They definitely exist and pop up regularly. However, the sheer dysfunction of the Gallagher household should result in everyone being shipped out to foster care. Rationalized by the system being overextended, which is to some extent Truth in Television.
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Shameless (US) / int_cfdb9e17	type	Cerebus Syndrome
Shameless (US) / int_cfdb9e17	comment	Cerebus Syndrome: Earlier seasons of the show had some dramatic moments, but it was definitely still a comedy. Season 3 started a turn toward Darker and Edgier material, becoming more of a dramedy and sometimes just a full-blown drama with a few funny moments scattered in.
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Shameless (US) / int_d08595d3	type	Broken Bird
Shameless (US) / int_d08595d3	comment	Broken Bird: Karen Jackson after her fall-out with her father. Mandy Milkovich, thanks to her all around cruddy life and a father who makes Frank look like the Dad of the Year by comparison.
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Shameless (US) / int_d4169bcb	type	Fake Alibi
Shameless (US) / int_d4169bcb	comment	Fake Alibi: After the police discover Eddie's body, Frank is the prime suspect. His initial plan is to get his sons to claim he took them on a camping trip around the time Eddie died. He then tries to goes to Terry, who suggests Frank say he was at a gun show at the time. He even gets Frank a gun he allegedly bought at the gun show and a phony witness to claim he saw Frank there.
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Shameless (US) / int_d429d0f6	type	Canada, Eh?
Shameless (US) / int_d429d0f6	comment	Canada, Eh?: In Season 1, after his usual drinking session, Frank wakes up the next morning in Toronto. The scene features a gratuitous use of a Mounty on a horse wearing full ceremonial uniform in downtown Toronto. Later, in Season 8, Frank goes through a brief arc where he opens a business buying cheap medicine from Canadian pharmacies for Southside customers along with a little human smuggling.
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Shameless (US) / int_d45c0b86	type	Refuge in Audacity
Shameless (US) / int_d45c0b86	comment	Refuge in Audacity: Might as well be the show's subtitle.
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Shameless (US) / int_d64c3cd4	type	Living MacGuffin
Shameless (US) / int_d64c3cd4	comment	Living MacGuffin: Any of the numerous babies on the show (Liam, Yevgeny, Franny, et. al.) usually fill this role at some point, mostly serving as catalysts for others and not much else. Liam is the only one who has fully progressed to being a true "character" with their own personality and storylines.
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Shameless (US) / int_da9131af	type	The Baby Trap
Shameless (US) / int_da9131af	comment	The Baby Trap: Svetlana becomes pregnant after Terry forced Mickey to have sex with her (although more than one person has questioned whether Mickey actually is the father or not), and thus they have to get married. Later, near the end of Season 5, Debbie tries to invoke this with her boyfriend to make a new family for herself and it completely blows up in her face.
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Shameless (US) / int_daee232f	type	Who's Your Daddy?
Shameless (US) / int_daee232f	comment	Who's Your Daddy?: Monica Gallagher did a lot of drugs while married to Frank and does not really remember what she did during those times. There is a fair chance some of her kids might not be Frank's. Turns out Lip and Liam are Frank's sons but Ian is actually the son of one of Frank's brothers. Then played with for Karen's child, as it could be Lip's or someone else's. Though in her own words, it's Jody's because real dads are overrated. It turns out neither Lip nor Jody is the father of her baby, but rather an Asian guy Karen was having sex with on the side. Svetlana's son Yevgeny. Given she is a prostitute, it is unclear whether or not Mickey is actually his father. Carl does a DNA test to prove he is part black. Turns out, he isn't, but he is part Native American. Frank can't be his dad, since the black DNA comes from him.
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Shameless (US) / int_dc579c91	type	Contrived Coincidence
Shameless (US) / int_dc579c91	comment	Contrived Coincidence: A lot of the show's Dark Comedy is derived from highly unlikely events happening to the characters. Shelia has almost conquered her agoraphobia when a wheel falls off a plane and lands right in front of her. Carl wants an air-rifle and coincidentally a criminal tosses a machine pistol out of a car and it lands in front of Carl. Carl uses it to kill a bald eagle. Ian spends the night with some random older guy he met at a nightclub. Who turns out to be Jimmy/Steve's father.
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Shameless (US) / int_dca6a9d	type	Start My Own
Shameless (US) / int_dca6a9d	comment	Start My Own: Season 7 has Frank start up a new family from people he recruits from the homeless shelter he stays in after getting kicked out once again by his family.
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Shameless (US) / int_dca70c44	type	Reasonable Authority Figure
Shameless (US) / int_dca70c44	comment	Reasonable Authority Figure: When Karen calls the cops because Sheila and Jody took the baby from the hospital, the officers who arrive listen to the story, realize what a jerkass Karen is and then decide the baby is going to be much better off with his loving grandmother than being left in the hospital and ultimately ending up in the foster care system. They refuse to arrest Sheila, ignore Karen's protests, and decide to go get some Thai food. The judge presiding over the legal guardianship hearing quickly recognizes Frank's lies and concludes that the children would be much better off with Fiona as their legal guardian. His main concern is whether the strain of assuming guardianship might be too much for Fiona, who would be committed to spending the next 15 years of her life taking care of the kids. As Fiona leaves at the end of Season 9, when Liam is just 10 or 11, the judge kind of had a point...
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Shameless (US) / int_dd6ce5db	type	Artistic License
Shameless (US) / int_dd6ce5db	comment	Artistic License: Generally, if you show up with a bag of money and buy back your foreclosed house from the bank, there will be questions. Also If a blonde underage beautiful girl with wealthy parents disappears from her tent just next to a military camp, with her tent showing signs of struggle and her belongings still there, it is more likely to be a worldwide news story than being forgotten and shrugged of by the next episode. If you gonna throw out a seven-year-old African kid from a private school because of his dad's behavior, you at least call his guardians, if you just tell him in a private meeting and openly admit it because of his dad without notifying anyone adults about it you are in for a really big lawsuit. If you are a defence lawyer, don't hold up a note that clearly says "you're dead" to the policeman that is currently testifying, especially in full view of the judge. Is getting shrugged off in the episode but in real life you are lucky if that just leads to a temporary disbarment.
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Shameless (US) / int_de15a322	type	Tangled Family Tree
Shameless (US) / int_de15a322	comment	Tangled Family Tree: The Gallaghers, especially with the reveal Ian is one of Frank's brother's sons.
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Shameless (US) / int_df968cf	type	Insurance Fraud
Shameless (US) / int_df968cf	comment	Insurance Fraud: Frank is supposed to have a car torched for the insurance money but stops for a drink first and it is stolen instead. Since the car was not insured against theft, he owed some gangsters a lot of money... until he faked his death.
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Shameless (US) / int_e24a1629	type	Sugar-and-Ice Personality
Shameless (US) / int_e24a1629	comment	Sugar-and-Ice Personality: Mandy. The only people who ever see her soft side are Lip and Ian.
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Shameless (US) / int_e24e15a6	type	Has a Type
Shameless (US) / int_e24e15a6	comment	Has a Type: Ned, as lampshaded by Lip in Season 4's "There's the Rub".
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Shameless (US) / int_e28f88b8	type	Last-Name Basis
Shameless (US) / int_e28f88b8	comment	Last-Name Basis: Mickey always referred to Ian as either "Gallagher" or by any of a number of nicknames for much of the first three seasons. Eventually he starts using his first name as their relationship develops.
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Shameless (US) / int_e3b0cd87	type	Morality Pet
Shameless (US) / int_e3b0cd87	comment	Morality Pet: Sheila could be seen as one to Frank and Karen. Debbie used to be one for Frank.
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Shameless (US) / int_e404c1ba	type	Go Seduce My Archnemesis
Shameless (US) / int_e404c1ba	comment	Go Seduce My Archnemesis: Lip sends Mandy to do this to Jody.
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Shameless (US) / int_e4c0b2b6	type	Primal Scene
Shameless (US) / int_e4c0b2b6	comment	Primal Scene: When Frank and Monica briefly get back together, they had sex with little regard for who would see. Including their kids, who are appropriately disgusted.
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Shameless (US) / int_e52a0409	type	Calling the Old Man Out
Shameless (US) / int_e52a0409	comment	Calling the Old Man Out: Happens frequently throughout. The first notable example is when Fiona yells at their mother Monica for trying to take Liam away from them. Lip and Fiona are prone to doing this frequently to Frank, being the complete Abusive Parent he is. Frank does this to his own mother in Season 2's "Can I Have A Mother", when he yelled at her because he was sick of the way she was treating him. She did not care. This becomes so common that even non-Gallagher characters will call Frank out on the Gallaghers' behalf, including Kev, and Ian's boyfriend Trevor.
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Shameless (US) / int_e5421161	type	Expy
Shameless (US) / int_e5421161	comment	Expy: Amy Smart is basically playing the same character she plays in Crank up to eleven.
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Shameless (US) / int_e596f27b	type	Star-Crossed Lovers
Shameless (US) / int_e596f27b	comment	Star-Crossed Lovers: Ian insists Mickey loves and wants to be with him and Mickey doesn't deny this. However the obstacles outside their relationship – Mickey's homophobic father, a forced marriage, and Mickey's total inability to be out in the environment he was raised in – is what drives them apart and nearly ends their relationship on several occasions.
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Shameless (US) / int_e6f2f710	type	But Liquor Is Quicker
Shameless (US) / int_e6f2f710	comment	But Liquor Is Quicker: In the first episode, Fiona and Steve have drunken sex in her kitchen, but Steve doesn't think she was that drunk.
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Shameless (US) / int_e83f211c	type	O.O.C. Is Serious Business
Shameless (US) / int_e83f211c	comment	O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Subverted. Ian returns in Season 4 abnormally full of energy, talkative, and bubbly, which surprises his family, but due to a slew of other pressing matters, they don't think much of it until his mood turns the other way and confirms his bipolar disorder.
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Shameless (US) / int_e8e56799	type	Blue-and-Orange Morality
Shameless (US) / int_e8e56799	comment	Blue-and-Orange Morality: Ethel, due to being raised in a cult. She's sort of a fundamentalist Christian and is very prim and proper, but is totally okay with adults having sex with underage girls (she is 13 years old and has a child), growing pot, and taking money from a purse left on the L train. The last two are probably because she lives with Kevin and Veronica and near the Gallaghers.
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Shameless (US) / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Shameless (US) / int_e9a3a1ed	comment	Never Learned to Read: Kevin has severe dyslexia, and since he spent his childhood being shuffled from foster home to foster home, it was never treated. He can read enough to get by in his job as a bartender, but has problems with more complicated writing. He's been attending special tutoring sessions so he can finally learn to read and write properly.
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Shameless (US) / int_eb8ec7c8	type	Jerkass
Shameless (US) / int_eb8ec7c8	comment	Jerkass: Frank. As of Season 2, Lip starts taking a few levels up in this, but he does get better by Season 4. Karen increasingly becomes this after her fallout with her father. Monica's girlfriend Bob is rude, psychopathic (she tries to run down Frank and Kev with her 18-wheeler), and basically announces she's going to take Liam because he needs to be raised by a black person.
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Shameless (US) / int_ecd78a30	type	Double Standard: Rape, Male on Male
Shameless (US) / int_ecd78a30	comment	Double Standard: Rape, Male on Male: The show depicts Ian rationalizing his underage sexual relationships with Kash and Lloyd as acceptable despite him being a minor and both men being adults. Lip later makes clear in a later episode that he thought Kash was a sexual predator and his behavior was unacceptable. In "I'm The Liver", Mandy, Ian, and Mickey plan to drug and rape the leader of a Westboro Baptist Church-esque cult, taking and posting compromising pictures of men giving him oral sex in order to discredit him. They end up getting compromising pictures of him while he's conscious, and although the guy was a sleazy scumbag, it's portrayed as perfectly okay because they're the good guys.
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Shameless (US) / int_ed7dde2c	comment	Popularity Cycle: Frank treats his family and the people around him this way, favoring those who are willing to help him out the most. Initially, Debbie is his favorite due to her unconditional love for him. However, she turns on him after he destroys her school project and shows no remorse. Carl then becomes Frank's favorite due to his hero worship of his dad. When Frank needs a new liver, he turns to Sammi his long lost daughter. Sammi takes the role of Frank's favorite, but he gets bored of her because she's too needy. Sammi doesn't take this well and eventually shoots Frank so he will be dependent on her.
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Shameless (US) / int_ef2d2bae	type	Mafia Princess
Shameless (US) / int_ef2d2bae	comment	Mafia Princess: Estefania, as her father is a high ranking Cartel leader.
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Shameless (US) / int_f05444a4	type	Once per Episode
Shameless (US) / int_f05444a4	comment	Once per Episode if you count Ian in the title sequence.
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Shameless (US) / int_f12d9d83	comment	Promotion to Parent: Fiona, without a doubt. It gets heavier when she is legally promoted legal guardian to her siblings in Season 3's "A Long Way From Home".
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Shameless (US) / int_f19ff224	comment	The Un-Favourite: Frank Gallagher to his father Neville and his mother Peggy. Though Frank treats all of his children with varying degrees of apathy, Ian seems to be his least favorite child, since he apparently resembles Monica the most (and later is revealed to actually be the son of Frank's brother).
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