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Skins (2007-13) is a British teen drama set in Bristol, England and commissioned by Channel 4 in an attempt to put more homegrown (read: sexy) talent on television. The show grew popular among its mostly 14-21 audience for its candid take on teenage life in the late '00s and early '10s, specifically with its party scenes in which actors/actresses were left to their own devices as chaos ensued.The second series was much criticized by fans of the show for its shift from the more lighthearted tone of the previous season to more dramatic storylines, and many angry letters were sent when a major character was eventually killed off. As a majority of the characters left Bristol to go onto university, future careers, etc., Series 3 began with a completely new cast (save for two of the minor characters in the original cast who are upgraded to the major cast), the so-called "second generation." Series 4 took an even sharper turn toward the Darker and Edgier and received even worse criticism than S2, since it was also Screwed by the Network into leaving some plots hanging. On the upside, the second generation received lots of critical acclaim for its treatment of lesbian Super Couple Naomi and Emily.Another cast, "the third generation," was introduced in 2011, and occupied the fifth and sixth series. It was announced during the latter series that they would be the final generation and the show is to end in 2013; a movie had previously been given the greenlight but quickly headed into Development Hell. Instead, the seventh series consisted of three two-part stories subtitled "Fire", "Pure" and "Rise", each focusing on what happened next to characters from the first two generations (Effy, Cassie and Cook respectively, with Naomi and Emily appearing in the first as well).Abroad, the series airs on SBS2 in Australia and BBC America in the United States (despite not being a BBC show). MTV launched an American version in January 2011. Most of the attention it gained was on the back of the controversy it generated, with Moral Guardians accusing it of breaching child pornography laws and pressuring advertisers to pull their ads from the show (and they mostly listened, with eight sponsors pulling their ad revenue). It also came under fire from critics for being what they saw as a poor imitation of the British show, especially in the acting and writing departments. Despite all that plus lukewarm ratings, it managed to reach the end of its first season before being cancelled.Now with a character page. Some Tropes have been moved there.
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Pull the Thread
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Pull the Thread: Emily's S4 episode, which very consciously painted her as the intrepid Private Detective in a Film Noir. Her life would have been so much easier if she could have stopped herself. Freddie as well in Effy's S4 episode.
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Funeral Banishment
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Funeral Banishment: Following Chris' death, his friends are barred from attending his funeral by his father. In response, Tony and Sid steal his casket, before Jal convinces them to return it. In the end, all of his friends hold their own funeral for him on a hill overlooking the service overseen by his father.
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Morning Routine
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Morning Routine: Both the UK and US version have this in the pilot episode. The S3 opener introduces Emily and Katie by showing them getting ready for their first day of college.
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Four-Philosophy Ensemble
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Five Philosophy Ensemble: The guys of the first generation. Tony is the cynic, Sid is the conflicted, Chris is the optimist, Maxxie is the realist and Anwar is the apathetic.
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All There in the Manual
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All There in the Manual: The novel is supposed to fill in the gap between series 3 and 4. S4 has used elements from the book for crucial plot points, and alluded to goings on from the E4.com character blogs.
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Hands-Off Parenting
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Hands-Off Parenting: Cassie's parents are preoccupied with sex and making nude paintings that they tend to overlook their daughter. In a twist the father is the artist. Naomi's mother subscribes to the New-Age Retro Hippie variant, having turned their house into a commune. And Cook's mother is a wackjob conceptual artist too, although that's the least of her problems. Liv's mom all the way. Her oldest daughter's in prison for stabbing somebody, her middle daughter parties, drinks, and does drugs heavily, and her youngest daughter always has her face buried in sci-fi books. What does she do? Abandons them to go to conventions about rocks and magic and aliens.
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Never Trust a Trailer
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Never Trust a Trailer: A little rule of thumb for this show. If a scene appears in the Next Week segment, expect the actual meaning of the scene to be the exact opposite of whatever's shown. Especially if the scene depicts any two characters kissing.
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Underestimating Badassery
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Underestimating Badassery: John Foster does this to Cook. He probably realized his mistake very quickly, given Cook's response.
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Single Woman Seeks Good Man
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Single Woman Seeks Good Man: Subverted with Michelle, who seems to understand that Sid cares about her more and would be a nicer boyfriend than Tony, but still prefers Tony. Played with more in S2, when Michelle and Sid do get together and it doesn't work out because, despite everyone's theorizing to the contrary in S1, Sid doesn't actually love Michelle but Cassie, and it turns out Tony really does love her. Subverted, averted, and played straight throughout Franky's S6 episode. For one, she wants nothing to do with Matty because she would rather put all the blame for Grace's death on him than deal with the immense guilt she feels and seeks out Luke, the guy who, at its core, pretty much caused the whole mess at Morocco. The two enter into a mutually abusive relationship that eventually culminates in Luke raping her after he feels threatened by a phone call from Matty and an earlier conflict with Nick, who'd been playing the Dogged Nice Guy trying to get Franky to realize just how fucked up Luke was. The problem with that approach was that Franky knew exactly what kind of guy Luke was and sought him out specifically (or at least on a subconscious level) to punish herself for her own involvement in Grace's death. By the end of the episode though, Franky arrives at Nick's doorstep to apologize for what happened and the two share a cute moment of crossed signals.
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Dead All Along
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Dead All Along: Grace in the second episode of season six. Makes you wonder what exactly would have happened if Blood hadn't caught him and "Grace" when they were "making out"
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The Movie
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The Movie: It's happening. Or maybe it isn't.
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Masochist's Meal
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Masochist's Meal: In series 3, gang boss Johnny challenges Thomas to a spicy pepper eating contest to settle his debts. Thomas smugly devours a whole handful without breaking a sweat. Johnny tries to one-up him and immediately soils himself.
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Yaoi Fangirl
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Maxxie and Tony getting it on is, for the Yaoi Fans in the audience at least, a pretty hot moment... until the camera pans to Michelle and you see her wince. And whatever leftover hotness is then doused in cold water when Maxxie rebuffs Tony, saying that "We've finally found something you're not actually good at."
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Childhood Friend Romance
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Childhood Friend Romance: In the US version, this is what happens to Michelle and Stanley.
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Heterosexual Life-Partners
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Heterosexual Life-Partners: Let's face it, Skins loves this trope. Sid and Tony. Tony kisses Sid once on the lips and once on the forehead, they sleep naked or mostly naked in the same bed, and Tony cries when he's sending Sid off to New York to find Cassie. Michelle and Jal. They've been friends since they were 4. The S2 finale really brought this home. Maxxie and Anwar - minus the "heterosexual" part for Maxxie, obviously, but it's the same idea. Cook and Freddie from the second generation even more so. (Seriously, have you seen the Unseen Skins?) Hell they've said "I love you" more frequently to each other than their actual love interest.
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Diabolus ex Machina
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Diabolus ex Machina: Freddie's death in Series 4. It happened with very little build-up and the aftermath completely changes Cook's life for the worst.
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Birthday Party Goes Wrong
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Birthday Party Goes Wrong: Pandora's only Pandora-centric episode of the series revolves around her birthday party, which goes horribly wrong when Effy derails it with her usual destructive ways. She ends up having sex with Cook to Effy's disapproval, which in turn causes Pandora to give Effy a "Reason You Suck" Speech.
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Stealth Pun
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Stealth Pun: In the first episode Pandora appears in, Tony receives Michelle's watch in the post.
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Sorting Algorithm of Mortality
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Sorting Algorithm of Mortality: Subverted, at least as far as race and sexuality go. Both characters killed off were White straight guys. One article joked about the S4 finale, "This might be the first time in human history that at the story’s end, everyone’s life is shit except for the lesbians’ and the black guy’s." But Season 6 breaks this pattern, killing off Grace.
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Punch-Clock Villain
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Punch-Clock Villain: The pair of affable geezers who happen to make a living as Johnny White's muscle. Even while on duty, they surreptitiously provide Thomas with the right cues to retain his flat and object to their boss's more depraved posturing.
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Black Comedy
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In Sketch's episode, Maxxie and Michelle are to star in "Osama: the Musical".
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Betty and Veronica Switch
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With Sid as the Archie, it initially appears that Cassie is the Betty while Michelle is the Veronica. Series 2 turns this on its head.
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Brutal Honesty
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Brutal Honesty: "My name's Keiran, and I hate being a fuckin' teacher."
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Birds of a Feather
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Birds of a Feather: Cassie and Chris, probably the two most dysfunctional and immature members of Generation 1, become incredibly close and affectionate friends after living together for a while. This makes his abrupt death in her arms all the harder for her to deal with.
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Defrosting Ice Queen
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By the time you get to the end of the series, it's difficult to remember that Naomi started this way (she's explicitly referred to as the "snow queen" in the book) before Emily defrosted the hell out of her.
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Disappeared Dad
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Disappeared Dad: In Generation 1 we have Chris' father, that abandoned his family after Chris' brother Peter died, Michelle's father is never even mentioned though we see two step-dads, and Sid's father dies in the third episode of season 2. In Generation 2 we have Pandora, that never knew her father (though the man that helps her in her season 4 Unseen Skins is hinted to be her dad), Effy's dad is suspiciously absent when his daughter is in the hospital after trying to kill herself, Thomas' dad is gone, Naomi's dad is mentioned in passing as being a twat, and Cook's father is absent from his son's life, making his only appearence in the season 3 finale. In Generation 3, Liv's dad is just never brought up. One notable aversion is Franky who has two very supportive dads. In fact she's the one who tends to disappear on them. Deconstructed in Mini's series 6 episode only for it to then be immediately reconstructed
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Bilingual Bonus
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Bilingual Bonus: Whenever Thomas speaks French.
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Better as Friends
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Better as Friends: Tony recovers from the bus accident and regain Michelle's love, but they are not going to get back together and say goodbye forever. What ended up happening in S4 with Naomi and Cook. What Sid and Michelle were as of the end of S1. By Michelle's S2 episode, however, they're both single and lonely again and end up getting together. Even after they broke up, their friendship never quite recovered from the fall-out. How Mini/Franky seems to be as of the beginning of S6.
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Kissing Under the Influence
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Kissing Under the Influence: Multiple times, though averted at least once (when Emily admits she wasn't high the first time she kissed Naomi.)
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Distaff Counterpart
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Most of the US cast are based on characters from the first UK generation. Besides those that share the same first name, Stanley=Sid, Cadie=Cassie, Daisy=Jal, Abbud=Anwar, and Tina=Angie. Tea could also be considered the Distaff Counterpart of Maxxie, though she plays a much bigger role in the plot.
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Burial at Sea
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Burial at Sea: In S6; Alex holds one for his gran after she kills herself.
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Girl on Girl Is Hot
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Girl on Girl Is Hot: Subverted with Pandora, who seems a bit shocked and appalled to see Cassie "man-and-woman kissing" another girl in Effy's S2 episode. Cook's rationale for crashing Pandora's pajama party. JJ doesn't believe him, until he runs into Naomi and Emily... Also a possible reason why Maxxie was replaced with a lesbian in the American remake. In the American remake, Abbud follows Tea to a lesbian bar for this reason. He is disappointed when the girls are way more interested in each other than in putting on a show for him. Also, Alo's reaction to Mini and Franky kissing. Averted with Matty when Liv attempts to get with Franky in front of Matty so that he would stay interested in her. It doesn't work, and actually has the opposite effect
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Cluster F-Bomb
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Cluster F-Bomb: Many characters engage in this occasionally.
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Anguished Declaration of Love
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Anguished Declaration of Love: S2 has two, from Chris to Jal in the former's episode, and from Sid when he reunites with Cassie in Effy's episode. But the show's most notable one came in the S4 finale, from Naomi to Emily.
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Feud Episode
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Feud Episode: Happens all the time with Tony, Cook and Mini. And Tea in the US version gets this from Michelle.
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G-Rated Drug
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G-Rated Drug: The American version has the kids referring to fictional pharmaceutical drugs by their color (mainly blue, which are apparently mood enhancers). Otherwise, though, both shows avert this.
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Character Development
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Character Development: If you didn't have much love for Cook and Katie in Series 3, then their Series 4 episodes should change that to some degree. Tony was much more sympathetic by the end of series 2 as well. Mini, Nick and Rich have become more and more likable since their respective episodes. Jal gets a lot of this in Chris's S2 episode, as well as her own. It's hard to imagine S1 Jal even considering keeping her baby and staying in Bristol with Chris, even if that still isn't what she decides in the end.
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Recurring Extra
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Recurring Extra: Posh Kenneth from the first generation is the only real example of this. He shows up in a lot of episodes as an incidental comic relief character, who never has any bearing at all on the plot.
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Noodle Incident
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Noodle Incident: Literal example. Episode 2 starts off with Michelle's house trashed after a party that we never saw, complete with actual noodles strewn all over the place. Michelle's mum is not pleased. Don't forget "And they've banned her for life from operating a concrete mixer, and a cattle prod."
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Conflict Ball
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Conflict Ball: Skins has a habit of randomly throwing this at characters in each generation's second series. Thomas in the S4 opener is one of the least contentious examples in the fanbase, with nearly everyone agreeing that his sudden Took a Level in Jerkass made no sense, despite the fact that during the same episode we are shown time and again during that same episode just how much pressure he is being put under from every angle of his life. Some also say this about Cassie, Naomi and Emily, although these are considered more debatable, with plenty seeing them as genuine Character Development. Some fans argue that this was a major factor present in series 6, while others see the same examples as being more of a direct result of what happened in Morocco
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Concert Climax
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Concert Climax: Both of Rich's episodes had very powerful scenes that took place during concerts. Season 2, Episode 2 has the performance of Osama! The Musical as its climax. In Series 2, Episode 3, Sid opens up to Tony about his father's death at a Crystal Castles concert. Jal's episode in Season 1 ends with her performance of the Mozart Clarinet Concerto - not necessarily the climax, but the whole episode is pretty much building up to the competition. The Everyone/Eura episode of the US remake ended with the gang reuniting in a frantic search for Eura at a club where a band is playing. After they've found her Stanley steps up to sing "Shout." Cadie joins in, everyone comes to some sort of realization while watching the performance. Possibly the best part of US Skins.
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Curb-Stomp Battle: Seems to be what Cook did to John Foster in the final reels of the series 4 finale.
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Took a Level in Kindness
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Took a Level in Kindness: Not exactly. But David Blood is perhaps slightly more human by the end of S6.
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Twincest
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Twincest: Episode 9 in the third series certainly had lots of undertones with Katie and Emily.
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Bump into Confrontation: Cook shortly after seeing Effy and Freddie kissing at a party.
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Bittersweet Ending
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Bittersweet Ending: Let's have a look. First Generation: Tony recovers from the bus accident and regain Michelle's love, but they are not going to get back together and say goodbye forever. Jal keeps studying the clarinet and follows her dream of being a musician, but Chris died and she aborted their child. Cassie and Sid are reconciled but after Chris' death, Cassie run away to New York. Sid at the ending is looking for her in Manhattan but we don't know until Skins Pure if they have seen each other again. Anwar goes to London with his friend, dumping his girlfriend but has not a clue about what he will do with his life. Second Generation: Effy's mental health finally is getting better but Freddie has been killed by her psychologist and no one except Cook knows it. Cook himself become a murder and a fugitive after killing the psychologist but he vindicated Freddie's murder.
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Dropped a Bridge on Him
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Dropped a Bridge on Him: In S4, Freddie is unceremoniously beaten to death with a baseball bat. In S6, there's Grace's death from complications following a car accident.
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Logging onto the Fourth Wall
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Logging onto the Fourth Wall: The third generation all have Twitter accounts, and Franky has a YouTube account.
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Love Dodecahedron
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Love Dodecahedron: Skins loves this trope. Generation 1: Tony and Michelle start the series as a couple. But Tony's best friend Sid is in love with Michelle. And Tony cheats on Michelle with Abigail and Maxxie. Cassie falls for Sid, and Sid slowly finds himself returning her feelings and they became a couple before Cassie moves to Scotland. After discovering Tony's cheating and dumping him, Michelle hooks up with Abigail's brother, Josh, leading Tony to frame Josh as having slept with Abigail. Josh retaliates by drugging Tony's sister Effy and demanding that Tony has sex with her if he wants Josh to call an ambulance (he doesn't, but Effy survives). In the finale, Tony tries to get back together with Michelle, telling her he loves her before getting hit by a bus. In S2, Tony's accident results in various complications including erectile dysfunction, putting his relationship with Michelle on hold. Sid/Cassie are also falling apart, so Sid and Michelle end up getting together out of loneliness. Cassie returns and rejects Sid for his infidelity, suggesting to Tony that the two of them should hook up. When Tony declines, Cassie begins sleeping around with people of both genders to make Sid jealous. It works; Sid and Michelle break up, and Sid gets back with Cassie. By this point, Tony has mostly recovered from his injury, and he and Michelle reunite as well. Through all of this, Chris is dating his teacher, Angie, but she's engaged. So he hooks up with Jal. But then Angie comes back and he cheats on Jal with her, but Jal forgives him and they get back together and remain so until Chris's death, even after Jal gets pregnant by Chris (which ends in an an abortion). Maxxie is being stalked by a girl named Sketch, despite him being gay, and Sketch hooks up with Maxxie's best friend Anwar (who had previously lost his virginity to a Russian girl in S1) when she can't have Maxxie. She tries to make Anwar look like Maxxie and the two break up when Anwar realizes this. Maxxie finds a boyfriend in James, and they move away to London at the end of the series with Anwar in tow. Generation 2: In the first episode, best friends Freddie, Cook and JJ all meet Effy and all immediately fall for her. Cook and Effy sleep together and continue to for much of the series, while Freddie continues to pine for Effy. Effy's best friend Pandora gets together with Thomas, but after he leaves the country, she starts an affair with Cook, which she continues after he returns and it eventually results in their breakup. While all this is going on, Naomi and Emily start up a heartfelt but unofficial romance behind closed doors. Naomi promises Cook that she'll sleep with him if he wins the student election, which she almost goes through with when he does. Emily gives JJ a sympathy shag for him to lose his virginity. Effy falls for Freddie, but he has started a relationship with Katie. While high on shrooms at a party, Effy gets into a fight with Katie and hits her with a rock, and then sleeps with Freddie. After Katie is taken into hospital, Effy skips town with Cook. The next episode, despite Katie's interference, Emily and Naomi resolve their issues and become an official couple, as do Thomas and Pandora. In the series finale, JJ and Freddie track down Cook and Effy. JJ demands that Effy choose between the three of them right there and then: she picks Freddie. In series 4, Freddie and Effy are a couple but Cook still holds feelings for Effy. Naomi cheats on Emily with Sophia (who kills herself when Naomi rejects her) and the two all but break up. Emily falls to pieces and starts punishing Naomi, including sleeping with her friend Mandy. Thomas, still angry at Pandora for sleeping with Cook, cheats on her with Andrea, which causes Pandora to dump him. Naomi kisses Cook but rejects him because she's in love with Emily. JJ gets a girlfriend in Lara. Katie kisses and develops feelings for Thomas, but he still loves Pandora. Effy goes crazy and almost kills herself, and gets a psychologist, John Foster. Foster falls in love with Effy and so beats Freddie to death with a baseball bat. The series ends with Naomi and Emily, and presumably Thomas and Pandora, reuniting, while Cook avenges Freddie's death by seemingly beating up Foster, possibly to death. Generation 3: Nick and Mini start the series as a couple. Franky met and developed feelings for Matty. Rich and Grace become a couple. After Mini was reluctant to sleep with Nick, he cheated on her with her best friend, Liv, which ultimately results in Mini and Nick breaking up a few episodes later. The next episode, Liv hooked up with Nick's brother Matty in a drug-fueled night of passion, and then they became a couple, but Nick holds a torch for Liv until she rejects him in his episode. Feelings are still shared between Franky and Matty, and Liv eventually gets sick of their obvious feelings and breaks up with Matty. Matty and Franky try and have sex only for Franky to Freak Out hinting at possible past abuse, and they come to an understanding of sorts. Also, Mini has developed a blatantly-obvious one-sided crush on Franky as of the S5 finale. In series 6, Franky and Matty are an official couple for all of one episode, and during that time their relationship is definitely strained, before it finally collapses in on itself with Grace dying and Matty running away from the scene, which obviously leaves Rich depressed. Mini has given up her crush on Franky, and her and Alo begin a friends with benefits relationship that ends with Mini pregnant and the two keeping the baby as a happy couple. Meanwhile, Nick has gained feelings for Franky, but is unsure to act on them considering the circumstances, especially after Franky hooks up with the abusive Luke. Once Franky leaves him though, her and Nick eventually hook up, but their relationship appears to be almost completely sexual. Liv, who used to be interested in both Nick and Matty, appears to have a crush on new kid Alex, but this is shut down by him after he reveals that he's gay, and the two become best buds instead. At the end of the series, Matty returns, and is fully invested in getting Franky back, however she wants nothing to do with him considering how he was involved with Grace's death In spite of this, the finale reveals that Franky cares for both of the Levan boys, but honestly believes that no good can come from her being with either of them, which leaves Nick and Matty reestablishing their bond as brothers, while Rich finally is able to get the closure he needs from Grace's death after the two share a surreal, and final, kiss in a pool US Remake: Tony and Michelle are a couple, though Tony cheats on her repeatedly, including with a rich girl named Tabitha. Tea hooks up with Betty, who is initially reluctant to ditch her beard boyfriend, but they eventually start dating. However, Tony begins to fall for Tea, who confuses her friendly chemistry with him for sexual attraction and sleeps with him. Abbud, who liked Tea but thought she was gay, feels betrayed by this. Michelle finds out about Tony's cheating when she catches chlamydia from him, causing her to cut all ties with both him and Tea, who also gets dumped by Betty. Michelle goes after Stanley, who is torn between her and Cadie (who is now dating Warren). Abbud and Daisy sleep together "as friends," but begin to develop feelings for each other. Meanwhile, Chris is sleeping with his teacher Tina, who gets fired and charged as a sex offender, forbidden to contact Chris again. In the finale, Stanley/Michelle and Daisy/Abbud become couples, Cadie and Warren break up and Tea apologizes to Tony for leading him on while trying to fix things with Betty.
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Manic Pixie Dream Girl
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Manic Pixie Dream Girl: The writers seemed to have a special love for subverting this trope. Every character who remotely fit the description of a MPDG is in some way deconstructed: Cassie, in generation 1, was a seemingly happy-go-lucky Cloudcuckoolander who flitted through life without a care, except for her miserable inner life and constant struggle with an eating disorder. Beth from Tony's season 2 episode plays it straight, which makes perfect sense considering she's a manifestation of Tony's subconscious. Effy becomes something of an MPDG in generation 2, but she also goes through some serious mental trauma and gets manipulated by her sadistic psychiatrist. Grace, in generation 3, plays this the straightest, though she's hiding some serious family issues. In Alo's season 6 episode, he meets a girl named Poppy Champion, who first appears dressed as a fairy, is charmingly blissful, and actually only 13. Which Alo is not happy to discover, as it makes him an unintentional paedophile, and he spends a lot of the episode dealing with the charges Poppy's family brings against him.
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In-Universe
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In-Universe example. Sid is helping Jal zip up a dress in a changing booth and gets his finger stuck. The resulting conversation causes a few worried looks from the other shoppers.
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Doppelgänger Dating
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Doppelgänger Dating: Cook's new girlfriend Arcia in S4's "Everyone" looks so much like Effy that Naomi calls her that by accident.
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Characterization Marches On
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Characterization Marches On: In the early series Doug is portrayed as a bumbling, Brittas-like character, rarely taken seriously by colleagues or students. By the sixth series, he has become the principal of Roundview and is shown as far more in-tune with the students and the issues they face.
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Is This a Joke?
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Is This a Joke?: Naomi initially thinks Katie is kidding when she tells her that the Fitch family needs to stay at her house for a while. There's this exchange between Grace and Rich:
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Butt-Monkey
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In the finale to Series 1, Anwar is seen getting out of bed naked in the morning. Then his mom and his sisters suddenly barge into the room to wish him happy birthday, but they all end up laughing and mocking him for his size while he has a Naked Freak-Out.
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Informed Attractiveness
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Informed Attractiveness Is Michelle really that much better looking than Cassie or Jal? Franky of the third generation is described as 'beautiful' much more often than any of the other girls in the group. While she's not unattractive, one could agree that she's actually the most plain of them (regardless of the Girliness Upgrade).
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Paper-Thin Disguise
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Paper-Thin Disguise: Grace, in Rich's S5 episode, dresses up as a metalhead and takes the name "Sub Rosa" (Sub for short). Rich isn't fooled, but indulges her anyway. (And for anyone with a cursory knowledge of Latin, even her name is as lazy as "Guy Incognito.")
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Gory Discretion Shot
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Gory Discretion Shot:
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Leaning on the Fourth Wall
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Leaning on the Fourth Wall: Done several times, especially by Effy in Series 2. Chris's comment in Michelle's S1 episode about how it's "like a fuckin' episode of The O.C. in here!" could be seen as this. When trying to get into Pandora's slumber party, J.J. tells Cook that "teen dramas" tend to exaggerate what happens at such events. Cook's response? S6 ends with Rich looking up to the camera and saying "Bye" to Grace, and as we may assume to the viewers also.
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Big Game
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Big Game: Subverted. Nick's Rugby Union match is set up as one of these in his season 5 episode, only for him to quit the team before it even starts.
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Break the Cutie
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Break the Cutie: Happens a lot - just about every character deals with getting "broken" to some degree, and they all have varying degrees of cuteness.
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Fashion Show
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Fashion Show: Much of Mini's season 5 episode revolves around one for charity; it is Serious Business.
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Honey Trap
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Honey Trap: Twice in the first season, both using men: Mad sends his right-hand-man William to seduce Jal in order to lure out Sid, and Josh has his buddy Spencer seduce Effy in order to lure out Tony.
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Downer Ending
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Second Generation: Effy's mental health finally is getting better but Freddie has been killed by her psychologist and no one except Cook knows it. Cook himself become a murder and a fugitive after killing the psychologist but he vindicated Freddie's murder.
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Their First Time
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Their First Time: Mini and Nick in season 5 go through this, with the complication being that only Mini is a virgin and extremely reluctant. Compounding the disaster, Mini's fear of loss and reckless jealousy after confirming her suspicions of Nick and Liv are all what spur her to his bed; Mini ends the episode so miserable that many viewers took it as a Tear Jerker. The scene where Mini practices sexual positions is some kind of broken Heartwarming moment.
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Making Love in All the Wrong Places
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Making Love in All the Wrong Places: So much that it would probably be easier to list all the times that this show has averted it.
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Blank Slate
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Blank Slate: John Foster tries to turn Effy into this. He basically admits as such, in the season finale, that it's so he can have her for himself, by taking away all her memories of Freddie and Cook and everyone to whom she was ever close.
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Hurricane of Euphemisms
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Hurricane of Euphemisms: JJ a lot (it's a sure sign he's become locked on); Katie and Naomi have done it too. Tony comes up with an annoyingly long list of euphemisms for Sid losing his virginity in the first episode of the first series. Sid eventually tells him to "fuck off."
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We Used to Be Friends
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We Used to Be Friends: Freddie goes through a period of this with Cook, as does JJ. Mini instigates one of these between herself and Liv in both S5 and S6, though the S5 example is just as much Liv's fault. Sid and Tony's entire friendship is basically set-up like and on and off again relationship. How Michelle feels about Tea in the U.S. remake.
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Bookends
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Book Ends: The first season opens with Tony in bed, close up on his face; the second season closes with Effy in the same bed, close up on her face. The beginning of that second season closer also begins zeroing in on Tony's face in the bed, essentially in the same place he was at the beginning of the first episode. The first episode begins with Tony in his bed, and finishes with Tony and Sid in the bed. The last shot of Series 6 (the final regular series of the show, as well) is a zoom-out shot of Rich saying "bye," contrasting to the first shot of Series 1 being a zoom-in shot of Tony opening his eyes. Contrasting as well to the first shot of Series 5 being zoom-in shot of Franky opening her eyes (which is most likely also a Continuity Nod to Series 1).
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Country Matters
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Tony's father asks him if he thinks he's a complete "James Blunt" in the pilot, which is rhyming slang for Country Matters.
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But Not Too Bi
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But Not Too Bi: Tony and Cassie are the second type. Mini is a version of the first type; while she never had sex with or dated other girls, she clearly had crushes on at least two of them - but there's no sign of any of that as of the S6 premiere. Many people assume Franky's "I like people" comment when asked about her sexuality to mean that she's bi, despite the fact that she'd only ever shown interest in boys.
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Incompatible Orientation
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In S3, Emily is the only one who truly sympathizes with and listens to JJ, helping him to confront his crummy friends, even flashing her breasts at him to get him to focus when he's getting "locked-on." He also comforts her later in his episode, when she's crying about her homophobic sister finding out that she's a lesbian. They even share a sympathy screw at the end! ...But wait, we did mention Emily is a lesbian, right? Just in case anyone hadn't figured it out from the previous episode, Emily gives JJ a spectacular coming-out speech.
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Everybody Must Get Stoned
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Everybody Must Get Stoned: Even the "good" kids party.
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Just Friends
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Mini and Franky are shaping up to become this, Mini's one-sided crush on Franky aside.
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Through the Eyes of Madness
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Through the Eyes of Madness: In Cassie's A Day in the Limelight episode she keeps getting texts telling her to EAT! on her phone and seeing the word spelled out elsewhere. Nobody is texting her. They are all just hallucinations. Tony's season 2 episode, without a doubt. Effy has a couple of moments like this. In her S3 episode, when she is on mushrooms, we see her fight with Katie through her stoned haze; in Freddie's S4 episode we see the attackers she's hallucinating as we watch Freddie scare them away for her. We also watch her tell herself that bad things didn't happen and see those things actually disappear - or play out as she wanted them to play out like Tony walking across the street without getting hit - in her S4 episode when John Foster is directing her to forget all her bad memories. Tends to happen when a character is on some particularly powerful or hallucinogenic drug. Besides Effy in her S3 episode, there's also Sid in the S2 opener when he's on the LSD Cassie gave him, and Liv and Matty in the former's S5 episode after they've taken the drugs they nicked from the bum. In S6 the deceased Grace would occasionally pop up around her grieving friends. And then of course there's Rich's S6 episode
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Single-Target Sexuality
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Single-Target Sexuality: All the questions about Naomi's sexuality turn out to be pretty much moot, when she finally turns out to have always been an Emilysexual; The Speech in the S4 finale is basically her coming out as such. Emily could be seen as one towards Naomi as well, since in the school party she mentions that she loves a girl, not just girls. However, she also has sex or at least kisses other girls while she and Naomi are estranged due to the latter's cheating with Sophia, and she does tell JJ she is into girls in general. Emily seems to be more obviously a lesbian, just with her One True Love being Naomi (which makes her uninterested in any other girls in normal circumstances), while Naomi is a more classical example of Single-Target Sexuality. Cassie also appears to be one toward Sid romantically, if not sexually.
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Long List
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Long List: Karen's got one in gen 2. Also Cassie's video diary whilst in therapy. "But I like all the wrong things. Y’know, Gossip Girl, Davina, Dick Van Dyke, Lady and the Tramp, Hannah Montana, monster trucks, Dancing on Ice, mojitos, Rio Ferdinand, Masala Zone, Pop Tarts, Jude Law’s accent in Cold Mountain, hair straighteners, Love Actually, Kylie, Whitney, Britney, Robbie, Brucie, L’oreal, Wild At Heart, milk, Comic Relief, ponies, Posh, Becks, pecs, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, and heavy petting. God, I fucking love that."
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Starter Villain
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Starter Villain: Mad Twatter for Gen 1's first series, and his Expy Johnny White for Gen 2's, both of whom are taken out at the episode 3 mark.
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Identical Twin ID Tag
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Identical Twin ID Tag: The twins, Katie and Emily, have birth marks by opposite eyes. Katie's is by her left eye, while Emily's is by her right. Though these appear to be make up that the twins put on, as Emily can be seen without hers after swimming with Naomi, and also switches which eye it is by when she pretends to be Katie. In Series 4, Katie dyes her hair a much darker color, while Emily keeps hers red. This makes identification much easier. Even in Series 3, while Katie and Emily still look pretty similar, Katie has a generally flashier way of dressing, choosing bold patterns like animal prints, while Emily goes for more classic, simple styles - emphasizing their personality differences.
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Limited Social Circle
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Limited Social Circle: Whenever a major character's list of friends is displayed on their mobile phone, only other major characters are listed. Conversely, the 24-Hour Party People turn up whenever a larger gathering is required.
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Slumber Party Ploy
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Slumber Party Ploy: Pandora's mother is the one parent who seems to be concerned about how drugs and sex will impact her daughter. Pandora gets around this by telling her mother she's staying over at Effy's house every time she's getting up to some bad behavior.
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Rich Bitch
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Rich Bitch:
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Cannot Spit It Out
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Cannot Spit It Out: The theme of Jal's S2 episode. Jal can't figure out how to tell Chris that she's pregnant, partly because she's worried about how he will influence her choice about whether to keep the baby or have an abortion. Unbeknownst to Jal, though, Chris has his own, far more dangerous secret he's keeping from her: he has the same illness that killed his brother.
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Caught with Your Pants Down
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Caught with Your Pants Down: Sketch in Maxxie's room; Tony catching Sid with a picture of Michelle; Cassie catching Sid and Michelle making out and about to have sex; and lastly, Freddie and Katie being interrupted by his sister, her sister and J.J. He was walked in twice by his sister and J.J., the first time he was having sex with Katie and the second time he was masturbating.
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Four-Temperament Ensemble
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Four-Temperament Ensemble: The girls of the third generation. Liv is sanguine, Mini is choleric, Franky is melancholic and Grace is phlegmatic.
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Only One Name
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Only One Name: Crispin. Some have speculated that his first name may be "Just." Matty from Gen 3, until Liv's episode. Rider from Gen 3 Various minor characters, when you think about it. Even Sketch never gets a last name. Betty in the American remake.
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British Brevity
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British Brevity: Seasons range from 6-10 episodes.
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Starts with a Suicide
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Starts with a Suicide: Series 4, with Sophia's suicide.
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School Play
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School Play: In Sketch's episode, Maxxie and Michelle are to star in "Osama: the Musical". In S5, Grace's episode revolves around a production of Twelfth Night complete with Unresolved Sexual Tension-laden scenes.
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Missing Mom
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Missing Mom: A common trope for the show. Chris' mom ditches him in his season 1 episode without us even seeing her until Cassie's episode in season 2. In season 5, we get a scene between Matty, Nick, their father, and David Blood, with Blood questioning how "Mrs. Levan" feels about Matty joining Roundview. There is a notable tension between the three Levan boys after that, with both Nick and Matty glaring at their father in response (Nick had to actually remind himself to look away though Matty took a moment or two before doing the same) and Mr. Levan's response is to start trashing on the woman and how she isn't "committed to anything". The exact reason behind her leaving is never fully explained.
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Gilligan Cut
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Gilligan Cut: Directly after Doug tells the students to take it easy before their exams. Take a guess as to what it cuts to.
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Girliness Upgrade
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Franky of the third generation is described as 'beautiful' much more often than any of the other girls in the group. While she's not unattractive, one could agree that she's actually the most plain of them (regardless of the Girliness Upgrade).
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Ivy League for Everyone
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Ivy League for Everyone: Thomas's sports scholarship and Panda's history scholarship to Harvard at the end of S4. While Thomas's scholarship was particularly impossible with him having been EXPELLED and all, both demonstrate massive research failure in terms of differences between English and American university admissions.
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Driven to Suicide
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Driven to Suicide: Romantic rejection leads to Cassie's attempted suicide in S1 and Sophia's successful one in S4. Effy also tries to kill herself in Freddie's S4 episode, though it's never clear just what drives her to do it.
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The Stoner
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The Stoner: Everybody is one to at least some degree, but certain characters stand out as more drug-loving than others.
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Affectionate Gesture to the Head
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Affectionate Gesture to the Head: JJ is forever having his hair ruffled; he's well aware that it's mostly patronising.
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Sexiness Score
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Sexiness Score: JJ doesn't believe his relationship with Lara will work out because he thinks she's a "ten" while he's a "three".
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Fictionary
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Fictionary: Twins Katie and Emily have their own language. Technically not a true example, as 'twin talk' is real: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin_language
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Everybody Smokes
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Everybody Smokes: Except JJ and Katie. Until her S4 episode.
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Opposites Attract
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Opposites Attract: Both Chris/Jal and Grace/Rich. It's even lampshaded in the latter case, by Grace. Naomi and Emily could also be a minor version of this, in that Naomi is headstrong and independent while Emily is (at least initially) meek and a bit clingy.
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Token Minority
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Token Minority: Jal Fazer, a bright girl who is discriminated against because she is black. Anwar Kharral, a Pakistani Muslim whose religion leads him to question his friendship with Maxxie.
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The Woobie
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Arguably, with all the crap that happens to Jal (almost to the point of becoming The Woobie) at the end of Series 2. Chris dead, unwanted teen pregnancy and eventual abortion, AND Mommy issues? How she managed to keep it together at Chris' funeral is a wonder.
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Put on a Bus
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Put on a Bus: Harriet, the hapless college Principal, is abruptly removed from her post at Roundview and replaced with the draconian Professor David Blood in series 4. Professor Blood himself disappears after the death of his daughter in series 6. Doug is eventually promoted to Principal, implying that Blood was too grief-stricken to return to Roundview College.
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Brother–Sister Incest
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As to how brotherly their affections are (staring longingly at each other through the window whenever Effy leaves...), but the Stonemcest fandom is quite popular, despite being what it is. It's also implied that Tony's absence was one of the contributing factors to her deteriorating mental health in Generation 2.
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Not Listening to Me, Are You?
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Not Listening to Me, Are You?: When Michelle tells her mother that she has broken up with Tony due to his frolic with Maxxie, her response is "Oh right, well just say you're sorry or something." When Effy attempts to explain to her mother about wanting to break up with Cook and realises she isn't listening, she announces "It's going to make it really difficult to look after our baby," and finally drops a vase on the floor. JJ's mother also pulls one of these on her husband, who never looks up from his newspaper, in JJ's S4 episode. The U.S. version has Eura pull this on her parents by stripping down to her bra and panties and pouring a container of yogurt over her head.
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Eagleland
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Eagle Land: "Osama! The Musical" is a definite example of Type 2. And oddly enough, the way the Skins characters are viewed by the Russians in the school trip episode encompasses a lot of stereotypes about Americans (culturally ignorant/insensitive, arrogant, gullible, etc.) as opposed to English ones. The taxi driver and the Iowa boy who help Cassie when she escapes to New York give a more positive portrayal of Americans. Although Sid still manages to meet some asshole Noo Yawkers when he goes around asking where Cassie is.
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DuelingShows
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Dueling Shows: The Inbetweeners. Especially with series 3 episode 2 of The Inbetweeners. Skins has taken years to try and give drug culture a positive image, Inbetweeners successfully ruins that image in 25 minutes. Misfits has also been a contender, with some critics and fans calling it "Skins meets Heroes."
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Sensual Slavs
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Sensual Slavs: Anka, the sexy Russian who takes Anwar's virginity, and the Polish girl in the pilot.
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Celebrity Paradox
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Celebrity Paradox: Megan Prescott appeared in the Casualty episode Duty of Care. In series 5 episode 7, Mini says, "Have you any idea how much this sounds like the beginning of an episode of Casualty?"
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Dawson Casting
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Dawson Casting: Largely averted, as most of the cast were at or slightly above playing age at time of filming.
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Freak Out
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Generation 3: Nick and Mini start the series as a couple. Franky met and developed feelings for Matty. Rich and Grace become a couple. After Mini was reluctant to sleep with Nick, he cheated on her with her best friend, Liv, which ultimately results in Mini and Nick breaking up a few episodes later. The next episode, Liv hooked up with Nick's brother Matty in a drug-fueled night of passion, and then they became a couple, but Nick holds a torch for Liv until she rejects him in his episode. Feelings are still shared between Franky and Matty, and Liv eventually gets sick of their obvious feelings and breaks up with Matty. Matty and Franky try and have sex only for Franky to Freak Out hinting at possible past abuse, and they come to an understanding of sorts. Also, Mini has developed a blatantly-obvious one-sided crush on Franky as of the S5 finale. In series 6, Franky and Matty are an official couple for all of one episode, and during that time their relationship is definitely strained, before it finally collapses in on itself with Grace dying and Matty running away from the scene, which obviously leaves Rich depressed. Mini has given up her crush on Franky, and her and Alo begin a friends with benefits relationship that ends with Mini pregnant and the two keeping the baby as a happy couple. Meanwhile, Nick has gained feelings for Franky, but is unsure to act on them considering the circumstances, especially after Franky hooks up with the abusive Luke. Once Franky leaves him though, her and Nick eventually hook up, but their relationship appears to be almost completely sexual. Liv, who used to be interested in both Nick and Matty, appears to have a crush on new kid Alex, but this is shut down by him after he reveals that he's gay, and the two become best buds instead. At the end of the series, Matty returns, and is fully invested in getting Franky back, however she wants nothing to do with him considering how he was involved with Grace's death In spite of this, the finale reveals that Franky cares for both of the Levan boys, but honestly believes that no good can come from her being with either of them, which leaves Nick and Matty reestablishing their bond as brothers, while Rich finally is able to get the closure he needs from Grace's death after the two share a surreal, and final, kiss in a pool
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Open Secret
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Open Secret: Sid's crush on Michelle, who happens to be Tony's girlfriend, is pretty apparent to the whole gang — including (as noted by Cassie) Michelle, and Tony as well.
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Outlaw Couple
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Outlaw Couple: Cook and Effy throughout points of series 3, possibly (particularly towards the end), It's even lampshaded. Liv and Matty could count too on Liv's episode of series 5.
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Breather Episode
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S4 had this on the episode level - Freddie's incredibly bleak episode is followed by JJ's rather sunny, sweet one, which is then followed by another very dark Effy episode that ends with Freddie's death. Many fans interpreted "JJ" as a breather.
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Left Hanging
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Left Hanging: Happens at the end of both the completed generations: At the end of Series 2, we never find out what happens between Sid and Cassie. And while it's implied that Tony and Michelle don't get back together, it's never quite revealed why, and there's hope left for a reunion. It's revealed in Skins: Pure, Cassie's two parter that Sid did find Cassie and after traveling America for about four years prior to the events in Skins: Pure, Cassie dumped him and left for London. Several at the end of Series 4, due to it being cancelled: Cook is a fugitive who presumably just murdered someone. Cook is the only cast member who knows that Freddie is dead. As of Skins: Fire, Cook's two parter episode and the last episode of Skins, Cook did in fact kill John Foster and it has haunted him for years. As far as anyone else knowing if Freddie is dead, it hasn't been brought up. The fact of the matter is we only know definitively about the future plans of Thomas and Pandora as well as Freddie's lack of them. As of Skins: Fire, Pure and Rise, we find out that Effy's going to prison after partaking in illegal insider trading; Naomi and Emily do stay together though, with Naomi becoming a famous comedienne and Emily working in New York...until Naomi's untimely death due to cancer; Cassie ends up back in London and after her father runs off, she becomes the legal guardian of her little brother while also becoming a model; and Cook is still running from the cops. It was also suggested that Naomi will be going to some sort of university - though even that's unclear - and Word Of God has said that Naomi and Emily end up getting married note He was lying though.. And it's assumed that JJ is staying in Bristol to help Lara take care of her baby, though again, not confirmed. Other than that, though, there's nothing. Katie's fate is left completely open. Part of the problem is that the creators were likely banking on the Skins movie (which planned to focus on Gen 2) to resolve these loose ends, but now they've decided to use three two-parter episodes based on the characters Effy, Cook and Cassie to wrap things up completely.
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Gainax Ending
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Gainax Ending: Generation Two went out with a... something.
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Pun
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Tony and Cook are described this way by spurned girlfriends. Coincidentally or not these characters are the biggest womanizers on the show.
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Good Girls Avoid Abortion
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Good Girls Avoid Abortion: Averted when Jal gets an abortion in Series 2, so she can continue on with her music studies at Uni.
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Twerp Sweating
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Twerp Sweating: Katie and Emily's father Rob Fitch, greeting Freddie and JJ with a big smile on his face:
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What Happened to the Mouse?
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What Happened to the Mouse?: Cassie's parents appear in her Series 1 episode and are then never seen again - even after Cassie attempts suicide and ends up in hospital. The fact that Cassie's parents are woefully neglectful of her when we do see them might account for this.
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Parental Favoritism
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Parental Favoritism: Anthea clearly favors Effy; in general, Tony's parents are the only ones who see him for the Jerkass he is. Chris' father is also heavily implied to have not paid any attention to him, preferring his deceased son Peter. When Chris goes to visit him, there are no baby photos of Chris and his father refuses to see him. Nick and Matty's father clearly prefers Nick (the "good" son) over Matty. Interestingly, however, Nick is the one who is jealous of Matty, not the other way around. Freddie's father certainly seems to favor his sister Karen.
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Denser and Wackier
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Denser and Wackier: While wacky from the beginning, Skins lost a lot of subtlety with time. Just compare the very beginnings of the respective opening episodes of the first and second generations. The first depicts Tony's morning routine: excessive, but realistic pranks on Jim Stonem and getting away with them, being mean to people and flirting with an older neighbour. The second depicts Freddie's morning: skating on the street so recklessly he causes two accidents (including scenes where a guy drops ice cream on his own crotch making it look like Raging Stiffie, and the same guy falling into a trash truck after chasing Freddie), and Jim Stonem getting physically hurt while his daughter Effy couldn't care less about it. And while Tony is presented as an asshole for his part, Freddie and Effy are supposed to be seen as cool.
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Commune
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Commune: Naomi's mum Gina turns their house into a commune populated by naked people, Jesus lookalikes, free love (one of the hippies notes of just-woken-up-naked-Naomi that "it's nothing he hasn't seen before", and she's "even got the same haircut her mum does" — he's not looking at her head), random transients and dopey women called Dopey who object to the heteronormative patriarchal symbolism of the humble banana.
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Wild Teen Party
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Wild Teen Party: Which should have been named Skins Party, as it is pretty much standard affair in the series.
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Stalker with a Crush
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In S6, when Matty's Stalker with a Crush behavior becomes too much for Franky, she yells at him to drop the Twilight act.
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Good Angel, Bad Angel
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Good Angel, Bad Angel: Maxxie and Anwar are this for Sid in his S1 episode, with Maxxie wearing devil horns encouraging Sid to go outside and smoke pot with his friends, while Anwar, wearing a halo, tells him he should go to class even if he's late. Katie and Cook don the outfits in Freddie's episode, and he needs both of their help to try and save Effy.
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Wham Episode
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The first two episodes of S4 qualify as well. You could even say the entire season was one long Wham Episode.
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Get Back in the Closet
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Get Back in the Closet: BBC America got a lot of criticism along these lines for how they edited Series 3, allowing fairly raunchy moments between opposite-sex couples (like Cook and Effy's grinding in the closet) while pulling a Fade to Black with far tamer scenes featuring Naomi and Emily.
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Betty and Veronica
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Betty and Veronica: Skins is fond of playing with this trope. With Sid as the Archie, it initially appears that Cassie is the Betty while Michelle is the Veronica. Series 2 turns this on its head. It's much clearer for Michelle: Sid is the Betty and Tony is the Veronica. And the same is true for Michelle, Stanley and Tony in the U.S. version. With Chris as the Archie, Jal is the Betty to Angie's Veronica. The Triangle of Doom: Freddie as the Betty and Cook as the Veronica to Effy's Archie. JJ also liked to fancy himself as a Cheryl Blossom for a time. The show plays with the trope again in Thomas's S4 episode. Thomas and his family see Andrea as the Betty to Pandora's Veronica. Viewers know, however, that it's actually the reverse and Thomas learns this by the end of the episode. In the triangle with Franky as the Archie, it's hard to tell which one is Mini and which one is Matty. However, with Matty at the center, it's clear that Franky is the Betty and Liv is the Veronica. Then in series 6, we have Franky as the Archie once more, with Nick as the Betty and Luke as the original Veronica, though he is eventually replaced by Matty once more. In the U.S. version: when Tony is the Archie, Michelle is the Betty and Tea is the Veronica. With Tea as the Archie, Betty is, well, the Betty and Tony is the Veronica.
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Moral Guardians
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Moral Guardians: The US remake. Even with the nudity and most of the swearing from the UK original gone, it was described as "child porn."
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There Are No Therapists
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There Are No Therapists: Oh there are... just not very good ones, in some cases really not good ones. Though this is more to do with the writer's issues concerning mental health professionals.
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Class Trip
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Class Trip: "Episode 6: Maxxie and Anwar" in which the gang go to Russia. Described by one reviewer as "Carry on Russia", since it is a fairly dramatic break from the standard Skins episode. Abbud's episode takes the gang on school camp to Canada.
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Implied Trope
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Chris is Implied to have one twice in first two episodes. While the first mention could pass as a harsh joke by Jal, the second one has Jal and Cassie discussing it and taking pity on him.
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Re-Release Soundtrack
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Re-Release Soundtrack: Bob Dylan's Wigwam on the fourth episode was replaced by a generic track.
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Home Nudist
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Or the beginning scene in the Series 4 episode "Emily" where Emily walks around Naomi's living room in nothing but her panties and the postman sees her breasts (The viewer only sees Toplessness from the Back and Shoulders-Up Nudity).
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Nothing Is the Same Anymore
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Nothing Is the Same Anymore: The Series 2 finale. Bizarrely averted with the Series 4 finale. One of Series 6's main themes, if not the main one, is this.
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One True Love
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Emily could be seen as one towards Naomi as well, since in the school party she mentions that she loves a girl, not just girls. However, she also has sex or at least kisses other girls while she and Naomi are estranged due to the latter's cheating with Sophia, and she does tell JJ she is into girls in general. Emily seems to be more obviously a lesbian, just with her One True Love being Naomi (which makes her uninterested in any other girls in normal circumstances), while Naomi is a more classical example of Single-Target Sexuality.
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A Day in the Limelight
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In Cassie's A Day in the Limelight episode she keeps getting texts telling her to EAT! on her phone and seeing the word spelled out elsewhere. Nobody is texting her. They are all just hallucinations.
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Ice Queen
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Ice Queen: Effy Stonem, she of the sly reticence and the glacial indifference. It was a stroke of genius to overlap this with her role as Fille Fatale. By the time you get to the end of the series, it's difficult to remember that Naomi started this way (she's explicitly referred to as the "snow queen" in the book) before Emily defrosted the hell out of her.
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Foreshadowing
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Foreshadowing: Possibly a case of Fridge Brilliance as well but a number of major plot points in S4 were arguably foreshadowed back in S3, such as the song playing off at the end of the twins' S3 episode, particularly when the vocals come in. Lyrical Dissonance, perhaps? Or in Freddie's episode, Naomi's analysis of Hamlet.
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Continuity Nod
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Continuity Nod: In the first episode of S3, the locker that is set on fire has Sid's name written on it, and also contains one of his beanies and a copy of "Asian Fanny Fun." Speaking of AFF, it shows up again in S5 when Alo's friends use a copy of it to lure him away from his parents. Girls in the uniform of Abigail Stock's school are spotted watching Naomi and Emily zoom around Bristol on a scooter in Emily's S4 episode. Cook's dorm room at Roundview is the same one that used to belong to Chris, indicated by "Chris Miles" being written on the door and Chris's fish drawings on the walls. And interestingly enough, they both get expelled and end up having to vacate it by the time their respective generations are over. Katie remembers Tony when she meets Effy in the S3 opener, and mentions how all her friends fancied him but she didn't. Thomas's apartment complex seems to be the same one that housed Maxxie and Sketch in S2 or, at least, strongly resembles it. In Liv's episode in S6, Doug talks about a time when he had to dance disco to help a girl get through her exam. That girl was Cassie in her S2 episode. In the finale of Season 3, Cook and his father visit a bar that looks to be the same bar that is featured in generation 1's Unseen episode "To Russia With Love..." where Chris meets porn star Kathy Barry and eventually receives a check in order to go with the rest of the class to Russia in episode 6 of season 1. Two girls with hairstyles matching Emily and Naomi's show up in Liv's series 5 episode, but their faces are never shown
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New-Age Retro Hippie
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Naomi's mother subscribes to the New-Age Retro Hippie variant, having turned their house into a commune.
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Sibling Triangle
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Sibling Triangle: In season 5, both Matty and Nick are interested in Liv. And in season 6, it happens over again with their target this time being Franky.
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Dogged Nice Guy
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Subverted, averted, and played straight throughout Franky's S6 episode. For one, she wants nothing to do with Matty because she would rather put all the blame for Grace's death on him than deal with the immense guilt she feels and seeks out Luke, the guy who, at its core, pretty much caused the whole mess at Morocco. The two enter into a mutually abusive relationship that eventually culminates in Luke raping her after he feels threatened by a phone call from Matty and an earlier conflict with Nick, who'd been playing the Dogged Nice Guy trying to get Franky to realize just how fucked up Luke was. The problem with that approach was that Franky knew exactly what kind of guy Luke was and sought him out specifically (or at least on a subconscious level) to punish herself for her own involvement in Grace's death. By the end of the episode though, Franky arrives at Nick's doorstep to apologize for what happened and the two share a cute moment of crossed signals.
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Mood Whiplash
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Mood Whiplash: Maxxie and Tony getting it on is, for the Yaoi Fans in the audience at least, a pretty hot moment... until the camera pans to Michelle and you see her wince. And whatever leftover hotness is then doused in cold water when Maxxie rebuffs Tony, saying that "We've finally found something you're not actually good at." In Cassie's S2 episode, it's easy to forget that just a few minutes before Chris's death, Cassie was dancing around to "Funkytown" before her final exam and, then, stealing a goofy t-shirt for Chris. S4 had this on the episode level - Freddie's incredibly bleak episode is followed by JJ's rather sunny, sweet one, which is then followed by another very dark Effy episode that ends with Freddie's death. Many fans interpreted "JJ" as a breather. The S6 premiere starts out incredibly light, with the only drama being the friction between Matty and Franky and Alo and Mini hooking up. Then, the crash happens and everything goes to shit. The feeling is portrayed heartbreakingly well across Rich's face. Another one would be in Alex's episode, when he takes everybody out for a boat party. Sure Mini and Liv are off in a corner having deep thoughts and whatnot but Alo, Franky, Nick, and Alex are all having a great time. Then Mini accidentally discovers Alex's grandmother's corpse and what was once a fun binge at sea becomes a powerful moment of grief that helps the characters really come to turns with how effected they are by Grace's death.
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Cruel Twist Ending
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Cruel Twist Ending: The ending of Rich's episode in the series 6. While many would have figured out by then that his encounters with Grace were hallucinations, you still wouldn't necessarily think it would be revealed at the same time that she was dead, mainly because the deaths for the other two generations had both happened towards the end, yet this was only episode 2. Most would have expected the death would happen later on and to someone else.
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Ascended Extra
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Ascended Extra: Pandora had a small part in Effy's episode in series 2. Along with Effy, she was promoted to a central protagonist in series 3 and 4. Professor David Blood also rose considerably in importance in the third generation, as his daughter became a part of the main cast.
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Only Known by Their Nickname
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Only Known by Their Nickname: Most of the teenage characters are referred to almost exclusively by shortened versions of their first names Franky seems almost physically unable to refer to herself as Francesca, and is embarrassed when Doug says it. Toxic Bob, the music shop owner from series five. Averted and lampshaded with Mini. Alo refers to her as Minerva during 5x06 but she denies that it's her full name, although many assume it still is.
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Adults Are Useless
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Adults Are Useless: On so many levels, though it does get subverted at times with the parents. Possibly justified in that the series is from the point of view of teenagers, who often feel let down or ignored by adults and that the sort of teens who could get away with as much partying, drug use and sex as these characters do would have to have somewhat inept/oblivious parents. One of the best subversions on the show is Doug, a part of Roundview's faculty throughout all six seasons who, though frequently treated with little respect, does his best to understand and nurture the characters.
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Rousing Speech
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Rousing Speech: Cook in a way, to himself, at the end of Series 4, could also count as a Shut Up, Hannibal!.
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Sleeps in the Nude
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Sid and Tony. Tony kisses Sid once on the lips and once on the forehead, they sleep naked or mostly naked in the same bed, and Tony cries when he's sending Sid off to New York to find Cassie.
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Idiosyncratic Episode Naming
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Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: The title of each episode is simply the name of the main character featured that week, mostly because the writers know that people will just refer to (for example) "Naomi's episode". Exceptions are the first episode per generation (usually called Everyone) and the last (usually called Finale), because they normally cover virtually everyone. Of course, this results in considerable ambiguity; there are four episodes called "Effy".
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Hookers and Blow
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Hookers and Blow: When Cook and J.J. visit a brothel in the former's S3 episode. Nick has a rather bizarre encounter with a prostitute in his ep, too.
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Catchphrase
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Catchphrase: Quite a few. Tony even lampshades it with his description of Cassie in the S2 finale: "Thin. Blonde. Says 'WOW.' a lot." Anytime Franky and Matty speak to one another, or are even being talked about, there's a eighty/twenty chance the word mindfuck will be tossed around
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Abusive Parents
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Abusive Parents: Chris has the shittiest parents in the world, directly affecting his upbringing, his welfare and his personality. His dad cut Chris out of his life permanently after the death of his brother, and his mum runs off and abandons him in series 1. Cook's dad is a pathetic loser who shirks his responsibilities, while his mum is an alcoholic conceptual "artist" with sociopathic tendencies. Neither one has a shred of love for their son, and when Cook is reunited with them throughout the series, both coldly blame him for everything that went wrong in their lives. Cassie's parents. Some could argue that her seeing them naked all the time, as well as the pictures of her mother giving birth to her brother with the umbilical cord still attached constitute as abuse. They are definitely negligent of her and (to a lesser degree) of her brother. As far as we know, they didn't even visit her in the hospital after she tried to kill herself. They also don't keep track of her behaviour in regards to her anorexia at all. When Cassie says she will be signed off from the clinic if she has gained weight, it is clear that her parents don't know if she has even done it. Not to mention in S2, they let her go back to Bristol without setting her up with any living arrangements. They must have given her some money, though, because what else would explain her being able to escape to New York in her centric episode? Sid's dad Mark starts out as distant, fiery and emotionally abusive. This becomes subverted later on though, after Sid's mum abandons them, and we get to see Mark's awful relationship with his own father. Michelle's mother isn't abusive, but she's definitely negligent. She's totally focused on her own love life and doesn't notice when Michelle and Tony have broken up.
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TV Teen
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TV Teens: Strongly averted, the teens have sex, swear, take drugs... even have acne sometimes!
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Everybody Has Lots of Sex
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Everybody Has Lots of Sex: Played straight with most of the characters, but averted by others who started their arcs as virgins, such as Sid, Anwar, Pandora, JJ, Alo, Rich, Franky and Mini, and most likely Jal, Emily and Grace, too. So far, all of them have lost their virginities, all but Jal and Alo in their first series. In the US remake, Stanley, Daisy and Abbud also started as virgins, but that didn't last long, either.
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Twofer Token Minority
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Tea is a Twofer Token Minority, being lesbian and (half-)Jewish. Also, Cadie is biracial, Daisy is Latina and Abbud is a Pakistani Muslim.
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It Makes Sense in Context
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Used when Alo accidentally blows up a cow.
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Teeny Weenie
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Teeny Weenie: A recurring gag with many of the male characters. Chris is Implied to have one twice in first two episodes. While the first mention could pass as a harsh joke by Jal, the second one has Jal and Cassie discussing it and taking pity on him. Tony and Cook are described this way by spurned girlfriends. Coincidentally or not these characters are the biggest womanizers on the show. In the finale to Series 1, Anwar is seen getting out of bed naked in the morning. Then his mom and his sisters suddenly barge into the room to wish him happy birthday, but they all end up laughing and mocking him for his size while he has a Naked Freak-Out.
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CuteButTroubled
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Nick and Matty's father clearly prefers Nick (the "good" son) over Matty. Interestingly, however, Nick is the one who is jealous of Matty, not the other way around.
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Hard Truth Aesop
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Hard Truth Aesop: Cassie rails against Jal's hidden pregnancy on the grounds that it's wrong to keep secrets from those you love. But when she runs into Chris's absent mother, who can't muster the courage to face the convalescent son she abandoned, she thinks better of disclosing this encounter and concludes that some secrets are best kept inside.
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Land Downunder
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Land Downunder: Angie's Ambiguously Gay fiancé from the season 1 finale is a particularly obnoxious version of this stereotype.
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Mistaken for Masturbating
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Mistaken for Masturbating: Anwar's mother knocks on his bedroom door, asking "Anwar? Are you masturbating?" (He isn't.)
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Berserk Button
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Berserk Button: When an anxious, edgy Cook sees Effy and Freddie kissing in a nightclub, he explodes in anger and violently takes out his rage on a bystander who brushes past him. Hilariously enough, he does this only seconds after lecturing an emotional Emily on burying her feelings and letting them burn inside her.
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Wedding Finale
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Wedding Finale: Rich and Grace's attempted wedding in the S5 finale. It doesn't go according to plan, and they don't go though with it, but it still ends happily.
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Plucky Comic Relief
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Plucky Comic Relief: It's easy to forget it with all the shit he was put through in S2, but Chris was this for much of S1. Anwar remained the comic relief throughout the first generation. J.J. and his episode have this effect in S4, as a bright spot sandwiched between two very dark episodes.
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Queer Romance
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Queer Romance: The show wasn't intended as this trope, but a lot of the acclaim it received for the second generation was due to its lesbian Super Couple of Naomi and Emily. By series 4, a fair number of viewers were watching just for the Naomily bits, especially when that series started taking all the other couples in rather trainwrecky directions. It's still recommended on various LGBT sites as one of the best portrayals of a teen queer couple to ever grace TV sets. And Generation 3 continues to draw in lesbian fans with Mini's crush on Franky, however one-sided it may be.
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Alliterative Name
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Alliterative Name: Franky Fitzgerald, Jonah Jeremiah Jones, Lara Lloyd, Mini McGuinness and Thomas Tomone. Not to mention Tony Stonem. The American version has Chris Collins and Cadie Campbell.
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Tie-In Novel
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Tie-In Novel: Two so far both considered canon, the first featuring the second generation and one featuring the third.
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True Companions
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True Companions: The whole premise of the show is about gangs of very close, very screwed-up teenagers, most of whom have poor family lives and need close, protective friendships to help them struggle through it all. In many cases, they actually do take the places of the families that have abandoned them, such as with Chris, Cassie or Cook.
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Informed Attribute
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Informed Attribute: A lot of the characters have interests and attributes in their E4 character profiles that never show up in the actual show - the biggest example being and Liv's obsession with dancing. Naomi's episode in S3 has Emily and Kieran make clear her interest in politics and her run for president
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Willing Suspension of Disbelief
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Willing Suspension of Disbelief: It takes quite a leap of faith to believe Mini and Liv could be best friends with Grace for as long as they have without finding out who her father is.
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Offscreen Moment of Awesome
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Offscreen Moment of Awesome: Series 4's finale ends just as Cook is about to fight John Foster. Who wouldn't want to see Cook tear Foster apart after what he did in the previous episode?
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Shout-Out
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The theme tune is a possible Shout-Out to Rugrats. They sound similar, and it would be thematically relevant: the lives of babies vs. the lives of teens, and both shows were made for the same generation.
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Freudian Excuse
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Freudian Excuse: Most of the characters have terrible parents, but none more so than Chris and Cook.
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Speaking Like Totally Teen
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Speaking Like Totally Teen: Usually averted, but in season 5 Nick had a habit of using really outdated slang, though it died out completely by season 6
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Power Trio
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And a separate Gen 3 Power Trio with Alo as the Id, Rich as the Ego and Franky as the Superego.
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Cloudcuckoolander
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Cassie, in generation 1, was a seemingly happy-go-lucky Cloudcuckoolander who flitted through life without a care, except for her miserable inner life and constant struggle with an eating disorder.
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Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane
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Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: Effy hearing the recently deceased Freddie calling out to her could reasonably be attributed to her psychosis — one of the "voices" in her head. But while looking into his disappearance, Cook hears that same disembodied voice.
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Smug Straight Edge
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Smug Straight Edge: Cook and Effy meet one in the S3 finale. Given the show's general disposition towards drugs and drug culture, it surprises absolutely no one that the first time we meet a teenager who doesn't take drugs, it ***has to*** be this trope.
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Killed Off for Real
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Cook is the only cast member who knows that Freddie is dead.
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Lighter and Softer
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J.J. and his episode have this effect in S4, as a bright spot sandwiched between two very dark episodes.
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Four-Girl Ensemble
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Four-Girl Ensemble: In the second generation, Effy and Katie split the "sexy one"; Pandora is the sweet, naive one and The Ditz; Emily is the nurturing one; and Naomi is the Deadpan Snarker. In the third generation, Liv is the "sexy" one who Really Gets Around; Mini is the naive, cute one; Grace is the Team Mom; and Franky is the mannish one.
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Cast Full of Gay
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Cast Full of Gay: A surprisingly large number of main characters across the show are gay/bisexual, with at least one openly gay character in each generation: In Generation One, Maxxie is gay, Tony is at least bicurious and possibly bisexual, ditto for Cassie. In Generation Two, Naomi is bisexual and Emily is lesbian, as are supporting characters Sophia and Manda. In Generation Three, Alex is gay and Mini has been hinted at being at least bisexual (though not completely gay either).
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Cowardly Sidekick
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Cowardly Sidekick: Arguably Sid Jenkins, and initially J.J. Also Grace and Liv, to Mini, in Franky's episode (though it doesn't last long).
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Unusual Euphemism
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The fact of the matter is we only know definitively about the future plans of Thomas and Pandora as well as Freddie's lack of them. As of Skins: Fire, Pure and Rise, we find out that Effy's going to prison after partaking in illegal insider trading; Naomi and Emily do stay together though, with Naomi becoming a famous comedienne and Emily working in New York...until Naomi's untimely death due to cancer; Cassie ends up back in London and after her father runs off, she becomes the legal guardian of her little brother while also becoming a model; and Cook is still running from the cops. It was also suggested that Naomi will be going to some sort of university - though even that's unclear - and Word Of God has said that Naomi and Emily end up getting married note He was lying though.. And it's assumed that JJ is staying in Bristol to help Lara take care of her baby, though again, not confirmed. Other than that, though, there's nothing. Katie's fate is left completely open. Part of the problem is that the creators were likely banking on the Skins movie (which planned to focus on Gen 2) to resolve these loose ends, but now they've decided to use three two-parter episodes based on the characters Effy, Cook and Cassie to wrap things up completely.
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Boggles the Mind
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Boggles the Mind: When recovering anorexic Cassie and one of her loony bin mates play Scrabble, the whole board is covered in foods.
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Contrived Coincidence
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Contrived Coincidence: Liv's season 5 episode involved her randomly hooking up with Matty who unbeknownst to her is the brother of Nick whom she had been sleeping with amongst other things . Luke, the sociopath who indirectly contributes to Grace's death during the gang's trip to Morocco, just happens to live in the Bristol area.
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Reasonable Authority Figure
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Reasonable Authority Figure: More prevalent in the first generation than the others, but some of the most positive characters on the show are adults who have their heads on straight. Chris in particular finds his one and only Good Mentor during a brief stint in a real estate company; and even though this venture ends in disaster, there's isn't a Broken Pedestal for either of them.
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Ship Tease
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Ship Tease: Mini and Franky in Grace's episode.
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Two-Act Structure
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Two-Act Structure: Each generation roughly follows the "Rise and Fall" pattern, following its lighter first series with a Darker and Edgier second series, where things start falling apart.
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Third-Option Love Interest
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The Triangle of Doom: Freddie as the Betty and Cook as the Veronica to Effy's Archie. JJ also liked to fancy himself as a Cheryl Blossom for a time.
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Color Wash
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Color Wash: All the outdoor scenes are extremely saturated.
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Deus Angst Machina
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It's easy to forget it with all the shit he was put through in S2, but Chris was this for much of S1. Anwar remained the comic relief throughout the first generation.
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The "Fun" in "Funeral"
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The "Fun" in "Funeral": Shenanigans aplenty with Chris's coffin. Also, the students and Doug remembering Grace.
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Calling the Old Man Out
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Calling the Old Man Out: Sid in his S1 episode, first when he calls his dad a dildo, and second right after his mom leaves them because of his father's insufferable behavior. Mark in turn does this to his own father in Sid's S2 episode. Alo and Nick do this too in their S5 episodes, though it doesn't go very well for Alo as his father collapses and ends up in the hospital after Alo yells at him.
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Expy
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Expy: Most of the US cast are based on characters from the first UK generation. Besides those that share the same first name, Stanley=Sid, Cadie=Cassie, Daisy=Jal, Abbud=Anwar, and Tina=Angie. Tea could also be considered the Distaff Counterpart of Maxxie, though she plays a much bigger role in the plot. If you think about it (a little too much), all the "main characters" of every generation, Tony for the first, Effy for the second, and Franky for the third, share a lot of basic traits in common. All are considered very attractive by their peers (Franky wasn't as popular in season 5, but then there's season 6 when she stopped taping her boobs down...); all three are prone to acting dreamily or doing downright odd things; they've all been in the center of some kind of love formation; and they all go by nicknames (which is fairly common on Skins, but still).
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Nature Abhors a Virgin
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Nature Abhors a Virgin: Sid, Anwar, and the ostensibly-celibate-in-S1 Jal all have had sex multiple times by the end of Season 2. Even J.J. from Season 3 eventually gets a sympathy screw - from the show's resident lesbian, no less. He gets some genuine lovin' in his S4 episode, though. Mini as well.
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Writer on Board
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Writer on Board: Jamie Brittain said in a video about the writing of Effy's series 4 episode that he has some unresolved issues with therapists.
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Freudian Slip
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Freudian Slip: In S4, J.J.'s mother offers Lara a "slut" of tea.
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But Not Too Gay
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But Not Too Gay: Played with for Maxxie in the first generation, as the only on-screen stuff to happen between him and another dude is making out, whereas Alex from the third generation was seen doing pretty much everything. Averted with Naomi and Emily in the second generation. Doubly subverted with Tea in the American remake (in that she was billed as being a really strong lesbian character and her episode makes her out to be one, but her main series plot ended up focusing on her confusion over and hook-ups with Tony rather than anything she had with other girls).
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Big Damn Heroes
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Big Damn Heroes: Maxxie and the Russian police in "Maxxie and Anwar," who race in in just the nick of time to protect Anwar from getting killed by Anka's husband.
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Jerkass
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Anthea clearly favors Effy; in general, Tony's parents are the only ones who see him for the Jerkass he is.
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Moment Killer
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Moment Killer: In the penultimate episode of series 3, Harriet, after having an incredibly stressful year, dances with Doug at the annual school ball. She is about to lean into kiss him... but then Emily and Katie storm into the room beating the shit out of each other.
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One-Steve Limit
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One-Steve Limit: Averted in several instances. In addition to Jim Stonem (Tony and Effy's father), Maxxie's boyfriend in late S2 is named James, and the second generation had both James Cook and James Fitch, twins Katie and Emily's younger brother. Of course, one of the writers is Jamie Brittain, although there is no obvious Author Avatar. Also, in the first series, Cassie's fellow patient at the therapeutic treatment centre ("Water Bottle Girl") is sometimes credited as Katie. The sixth series had two Al's-Alo and Alex (they're even referred to as Al 1 and Al 2 occasionally in Skins Lock-in). Alex shares his name with a hanger-on "conceptual artist" who appears in Cook's series 4 episode. The show has featured Franky's two dads, Geoff and Jeff. There have been Elizabeth Jenkins (Sid's mum), Pandora's Aunt Elizabeth, and Elizabeth "Effy" Stonem. "Beth", the Manic Pixie Dream Girl in Tony's series 2 episode may be another if she is an actual person, although many fans see her as Tony's subconscious manifestation of Effy. All the men in Sid's extended family, with the exception of Sid and his father, Mark, have names which are variations of "Alexander". She may be a Shelley, but one of the chav girls who beat Sid up in his series 1 episode is called "Shell", as is Michelle. Thomas Tomoni shares a name with the tutor Tom. Averted by Skins: Fire, where a different character named Freddie goes by without comment.
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The Lost Lenore: Grace to Rich in the sixth series. The whole second episode of this series is about his denial and later acceptance of her death.
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Innocent Innuendo: In-Universe example. Sid is helping Jal zip up a dress in a changing booth and gets his finger stuck. The resulting conversation causes a few worried looks from the other shoppers.
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Product Placement: Skins: Pure, brought to you by Canon.
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Conversed with Tony's cruel prank on Josh where he sends out sexy photos of Abigail, implying that Josh is doing her and with Josh's revenge where he tries to get Tony to have sex with Effy. The fact that Tony does not and in fact cannot might rebuff the Stonemcest theory, although it could also have been because Dude, She's Like in a Coma.
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Deadly Doctor: Effy's psychologist Dr. John Foster abuses his powers to manipulate Effy into forgetting Freddie and falling in love with him. Not to mention he's also a demented killer, but his savage murder of Freddie with a baseball bat doesn't quite fit the trope as well.
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The Danza / int_230ec9cf
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The Four Loves / int_230ec9cf
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The Ingenue / int_230ec9cf
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The Loins Sleep Tonight / int_230ec9cf
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The Oner / int_230ec9cf
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The Ophelia / int_230ec9cf
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The Quiet One / int_230ec9cf
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The Shrink / int_230ec9cf
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The Silent Bob / int_230ec9cf
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The Social Expert / int_230ec9cf
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The Stations of the Canon / int_230ec9cf
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The Twink / int_230ec9cf
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The Voiceless / int_230ec9cf
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They Wasted a Perfectly Good Sandwich / int_230ec9cf
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Think Unsexy Thoughts / int_230ec9cf
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Toad Licking / int_230ec9cf
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Tomboyish Name / int_230ec9cf
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Tonight, Someone Kisses / int_230ec9cf
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Too Cool to Live / int_230ec9cf
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Too Good for This Sinful Earth / int_230ec9cf
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Too Good to Last / int_230ec9cf
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Tough Love / int_230ec9cf
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Transatlantic Equivalent / int_230ec9cf
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Twin Banter / int_230ec9cf
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Twin Threesome Fantasy / int_230ec9cf
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Two-Act Structure / int_230ec9cf
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Two-Person Pool Party / int_230ec9cf
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Two Scenes, One Dialogue / int_230ec9cf
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Unaffected by Spice / int_230ec9cf
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Uptight Loves Wild / int_230ec9cf
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Video Credits / int_230ec9cf
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_230ec9cf
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Vile Villain, Saccharine Show / int_230ec9cf
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Violence Is Disturbing / int_230ec9cf
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Virgin-Shaming / int_230ec9cf
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Vote Early, Vote Often / int_230ec9cf
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Weight Woe / int_230ec9cf
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What's a Henway? / int_230ec9cf
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Where Were You Last Night? / int_230ec9cf
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Why Are You Not My Son? / int_230ec9cf
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Why Couldn't You Be Different? / int_230ec9cf
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Wrong Guy First / int_230ec9cf
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Almost Famous Name / int_230ec9cf
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Happily Ever After / int_230ec9cf
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It Doesn't Mean Anything / int_230ec9cf
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Opening Credits Cast Party / int_230ec9cf
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Suddenly Sexuality / int_230ec9cf
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The Snark Knight / int_230ec9cf