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This is Wonderland
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Canadian courtroom dramedy that ran from 2004 to 2006, winner of four Gemini Awards. Set in Toronto's Old City Hall courtrooms, it gave a much more realistic and unromanticized view of courtroom procedure than most similar shows: instead of there being a Mystery of the Week, there would be multiple cases per episode, and most of them would go to Plea Court, Bail Court, or the ever-depressing Mental Health Court. Very rarely would a trial actually commence, and very rarely would the case be particularly high profile. It was usually stuff like Illegally Being on the Premises or drugs.It focused primarily on a young defense attorney named Alice De Raey, who is basically good-natured but has the tendency to swear under her breath. She is occasionally helped by scary-efficient Vietnamese-Canadian law student Nancy Dao, given frequent helpful advice from scruffy and sex-crazed defense counsel Elliot Sacks, and not helped at all by her boss, James Ryder, who is in the middle of a nervous breakdown.Not to be confused with the Australian relationship dramedy Wonderland. | |
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Alice Allusion | |
| This is Wonderland / int_1da3a484 | comment |
Alice Allusion - The main character's name is Alice DeRaey. And it's Wonderland. | |
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Parents as People | |
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Parents as People: Zig-Zagged. Alice's mother was an alcoholic, but Alice claims she always did her best and was always there for her when she needed her. However, her older sister claims that their mother was terrible and Alice was just too young to understand and she sheltered her from the worst of it. It's never revealed which of them, if either, is right. | |
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Verbal Tic | |
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Verbal Tic - Alice has the tendency to swear under her breath. | |
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Special Guest - Quite a few actors did guest spots as defendants, complainants, or witnesses, including Frank McKenna of The Red Green Show, Graham Greene, and Richard "Albert Wesker" Waugh | |
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Latin Lover | |
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Latin Lover - Elliot dates the courtroom's Spanish translator for a little while | |
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Magical Negro | |
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Magical Negro - Subverted with Mr. Jackson, who is a highly religious and sweet-natured homeless black man, but he's also very smart and demands respect. | |
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So Beautiful, It's a Curse | |
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So Beautiful, It's a Curse - Elliot tries to use this as a way of hitting on a woman, speculating that in her native South America, her beauty must have been a curse. | |
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Bunny-Ears Lawyer | |
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Bunny-Ears Lawyer - In Season 3, Elliot goes through an identity crisis and tries new "looks" for himself, including Goth, and Dressed Exactly Like Kaye. Judge Frasier also has the tendency to hum loudly when people he doesn't like are talking, and complain of boredom. | |
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Animal Wrongs Group | |
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Animal Wrongs Group: | |
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Monster Clown | |
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Monster Clown - Played with: Judge Frasier develops a bizarre obsession with clowns, and fills his office with porcelain ones, which frighten children in one scene. They ultimately serve as a sort of Morality Pet for him, though. | |
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Punctuated! For! Emphasis! | |
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Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: Judge Frasier's infamous "BIZARRE! MEXICAN! NIGHTMARE!" Also, Richard Waugh's character, repeatedly questioned as to the location of his mom, eventually screams "AT! THE! LAKE!" | |
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Catchphrase | |
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Catchphrase - Judge Malone gradually acquires "There must be something we can do to help this man/woman/child." | |
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Wire Fu | |
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Wire Fu - A defendant claims to have been intimidated by the martial arts stance of a Chinese man he put in the hospital. "I had just seen that movie, Crouching Tiger, or whatever..." causing Judge Frasier to quip, "And you thought he was gonna fly?" | |
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Realistic Diction Is Unrealistic | |
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Realistic Diction Is Unrealistic - Very much averted. This is something of creator George Walker's trademark. | |
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Interchangeable Asian Cultures | |
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Interchangeable Asian Cultures: Nancy is Vietnamese, but also speaks Chinese and Tagalog and; when dealing with Asian defendants from other backgrounds, chastises them for making "us", i.e. Asians , look bad. | |
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Did I Just Say That Out Loud? | |
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Did I Just Say That Out Loud? - Alice occasionally gets called on her external monologue. | |
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Ambiguously Gay | |
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Ambiguously Gay - Crown Prosecutor David Kaye (not to be confused with the voice actor for Megatron on Beast Wars). He's fashion-conscious, moonlights as a hairstylist, and mentions that he loves musical theatre. | |
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Freudian Slip | |
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Freudian Slip - After Elliot reveals too much about his adolescence during a trial, Judge Serkis accidentally calls him "Mr. Sex". | |
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You Are Number 6 | |
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You Are Number 6: In one episode, a mentally unstable woman claims a man, who is an agent of the Catholic Church, kidnaps her every week. This nefarious man has no name and is only known by a roman numeral. He turns out to be her son taking her to doctor's appointments, she's so far gone she can't recognise him. | |
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One-Steve Limit | |
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One-Steve Limit - Averted: there are two characters with the last one Davis. One, Anthony Davis, is a handsome black lawyer who used to be a cop. Another, Rosemary, is an incredibly ugly and none-too-bright white trash crackhead. | |
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