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You're the Worst is an American dramedy series, created by Stephen Falk, that premiered on FX on July 17, 2014. Starting with its second season, the show's been airing on FX's sister channel FXX. The show concluded in 2019 after five seasons.Jimmy (Chris Geere) is a cynical, self-centered struggling writer who believes all relationships are doomed from the start. Gretchen (Aya Cash) is a self-destructive PR executive for a rap group who isn't sure if relationships are her "thing". When they meet at the wedding of Jimmy's ex-girlfriend (the sister of Gretchen's best friend), they are quickly attracted to each other and despite whatever little better judgment they possess, that attraction turns into something deeper. But can these two deeply dysfunctional people find happiness and love with each other? Or are they doomed to heartbreak?Also part of the main cast are Edgar (Desmin Borges), an Iraq War veteran living with Jimmy who's suffering from PTSD; and Lindsay (Kether Donohue), Gretchen's best friend, a newlywed who can't seem to get rid of her selfish nature at the expense of her husband.Despite the broad rom-com-esque premise, the show takes its characters' emotions very seriously, giving it a much more melancholic vibe than it first appears.Now with a recap page in need of love.
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Therapy Is for the Weak
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Combined with Therapy Is for the Weak, Gretchen has clinical depression but has never gotten treatment because she "doesn't want to lose her edge", despite the fact that she becomes entirely nonfunctional when it flares up. Refreshingly, antidepressants are treated as neither evil nor a magic cure-all, and continued therapy is the main avenue needed to effectively manage it.
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Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other
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Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: Gretchen and Jimmy are endlessly snarky, constantly deny and mock the concept of having feelings, and both react to Paul's definition of love (putting someone else's needs above your own) with "ew", but it just makes the sweet moments all the more heartwarming. Possibly the most striking example shows up in "Other Things You Could Be Doing", when Jimmy builds a pillow fort around miserable depressed Gretchen and stays instead of leaving her. The actual words don't make an appearance until the last episode of season 2 and the first of season 3, though.
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Control Freak
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Jimmy, through learning of Gretchen's secret, as well as finally getting to confront his messed-up family (and particularly his emotionally distant father), starts to act less like a Control Freak and learns to better appreciate the people he has in his life. He also realizes his writing doesn't need to be fueled by sadness and heartbreak thanks to Gretchen appreciating the "erotic tales" he wrote in his teens.
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No Accounting for Taste
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No Accounting for Taste: Lindsay and Paul, Becca and Vernon.
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Adam Westing: Ben Folds occasionally pops in, usually as an annoying drunk.
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Creator Cameo
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Creator Cameo: Stephen Falk voices the radio DJ Edgar calls in episode 6.
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No Celebrities Were Harmed: Sam is apparently based on Tyler, the Creator.
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Drunk Driver: The reason Gretchen is not allowed to drive in season 1: she got a DUI shortly before the events of the pilot. The incident is shown in the flashback episode "Constant Horror and Bone-Deep Dissatisfaction."
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Tempting Fate: Becca insisting that Jimmy finish his insult at her wedding. In "Fix Me, Dummy", Gretchen apologizes for swearing in therapy. Her therapist says it's okay and Gretchen can say whatever she wants. Cue a veritable flood of insults, expletives, and vulgarity.
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"Well Done, Son" Guy: Gretchen behaves completely differently around her parents out of fear of disappointing them. She even goes to great lengths to prevent Jimmy and her parents from ever meeting, and when they do, Jimmy tells them how much in the wrong they are about her. Sadly, she doesn't take it well, and prefers to keep lying to her parents rather than realize that Jimmy accepts her just as she is. In "A Right Proper Story", we learn that Jimmy desperately sought his father's approval during his childhood, but their differences made it impossible for them to connect with each other: Following his father's death in Season 3, Jimmy realizes how much of his life has been a direct result of this, and begins to reevaluate his whole identity afterward. Both Lindsay and Becca, whose bitter sibling rivalry was a result of constantly vying for their mother's limited attention.
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Artistic License – Biology
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Artistic License – Biology: The infamous scene in which Lindsay thaws out Paul's frozen sperm in a microwave until it explodes, scrapes it off the inside of the machine and then inserts it into herself with a turkey baster, scalding herself in the process. It should pretty much go without saying that this would kill off all the sperm, yet she still manages to get pregnant. Of course, this is later discussed and subverted when Paul realizes she got pregnant from his pre-ejaculate instead, which is possible.
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Title Drop: In the pilot, Jimmy and Gretchen talk about being called "the worst".
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The Glorious War of Sisterly Rivalry: Lindsay and Becca will take care of each other in their times of need, but not without a load of passive-aggressive remarks about why one is superior to the other.
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Heterosexual Life-Partners: Jimmy and Edgar, and Gretchen and Lindsay.
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Chekhov's Gun: The gun Jimmy's father bought and left at the house in "A Right Proper Story" resurfaces in "A Rapidly Mutating Virus" when Gretchen uses it to threaten the gangsters attacking Sam's group and Lindsay.
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Aborted Arc: Edgar dealing with a heroin addiction was dumped in season 2. Also in season 2, Gretchen has her car back and is apparently able to drive legally (she crashed into an off-duty cop and was charged with a DUI shortly before the events of the pilot).
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Babies Make Everything Better: Subverted to the point of deconstruction. Lindsay decides to have a baby in order to keep Paul with her, only for Becca to announce that she's pregnant. When Lindsay attempts to overshadow her and announce her pregnancy plans, Paul finally stands up to her and dumps her. Meanwhile, Becca's pregnancy is not happy at all and one gets the feeling that she is officially stuck in her loveless marriage. And then Double Subverted in the second season finale when Paul, learning that Lindsay got pregnant from the one time they slept together, decides to leave Amy and rekindle his relationship with Lindsay. It goes about as well as one would expect, and it's finally subverted fully when Lindsay has an abortion in "Talking To Me, Talking To Me", and when Paul finds out in final episodes of the third season, they're broken up for good. Subverted even further in "No Longer Just Us" when Becca confesses to Lindsay her fears that she's slowly losing her identity and freedom because of Vernon and Tallulah, her newborn daughter. .
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Gretchen's comment regarding Jimmy's Brutal Honesty subtly foreshadows her dysfunctional relationship with her parents, to whom she prefers to keep lying to rather than be true to herself. Naturally, Jimmy very much disagrees with this attitude, resulting in a massive fight between them.
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Trash of the Titans: Gretchen's apartment is a complete mess.
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Rude Hero, Nice Sidekick: If Jimmy can be classified as a hero, Edgar is definitely his nice sidekick.
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Practically a Verbal Tic for Sam.
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Funny Background Event: After giving a generous handout to Killian, who turned up in an unexpected place, Jimmy is distracted by Edgar's arrival, while behind him, the money is promptly stolen from Killian with little effort by a homeless man.
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Career-Ending Injury: Nina skied professionally and won a bronze medal at the Winter Olympics before she had a horrific crash and snapped her leg in multiple places.
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A Date with Rosie Palms: Jimmy is shown doing this in several scenes. Turns out he can't do it while Gretchen's watching, though. Gretchen has a vibrator plugged into a string of Christmas lights (couldn't find an extension cord) on her couch and is about to use it in "Fists and Feet and Stuff" before Jimmy shows up at her apartment. She also has one in her car, which she uses after getting bored with her meditation app.
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Sexual Karma
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Sexual Karma: Played With. Jimmy and Gretchen aren't exactly "good people", but they are the protagonists and their sex life is portrayed as healthy and positive (even if the actual relationship can be dysfunctional). Just about every sexual encounter that isn't between the two of them is awkward or unpleasant in some way.
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Conversational Troping: Jimmy and Edgar discuss Ferris Bueller's Day Off:
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Bland-Name Product: In "Equally Dead Inside", Jimmy gets a "Manchester FC" football jersey from his father. There's also the Zoiddle car, Blue Cube DVD rental kiosk, Eurotune song contest, and Red Napkin pre-portioned meals.
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Sophisticated as Hell: Sam. He swears and is vulgar nonstop, but he's deceptively intelligent and insightful. He's also read Jimmy's book ("You clearly used to jack off to Hemingway in high school, but your prose was good"), and scoffs at the idea of being Gretchen's "side bitch" because she eats floor candy and hasn't seen a foreign film in years.
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Little "No": A series of them when Jimmy gets an email regarding a plane from Heathrow to LA with his family on it. Followed by a Big "NO!" and some scenery-chewing when he realizes that Gretchen has mailed the "threat" letters that she was supposed to mail on specific dates if he didn't follow his writing deadlines.
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Hidden Depths: A few of Gretchen's less-obvious talents are revealed in "Try Real Hard" when Jimmy realizes he doesn't actually know that much about her and starts asking questions. She competed in the US Teen Nationals for showjumping (yes, Jimmy, in "horsery"), did ink work for a professional counterfeiter for ten months, is "generally spiritual" (not religious), and speaks Spanish.
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Stuff Blowing Up: In a promotional ad (not in the actual show), Jimmy and Gretchen are out walking and become personally offended by the existence of a minivan with stick figure family decals. They smash the shit out of it and set it on fire (complete with death metal soundtrack), and then Gretchen jumps onto Jimmy's back and he walks away as the minivan explodes.
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Shipper on Deck: Edgar actively ships Jimmy and Gretchen. Lindsay gets on board a little later. Jimmy and Gretchen say they're "totally invested" in the Edgar/Lindsay ship, but they just think it's going to be hilarious no matter how it goes.
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Girl on Girl Is Hot: Jimmy certainly thinks so, most obviously in "Equally Dead Inside". The following exchange takes place in the season 2 finale.
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Friends with Benefits: Jimmy and Gretchen at the beginning, until they agree to be exclusive at the end of "PTSD". As of Season 4, Lindsay and Edgar have become this.
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Lethal Chef: Jimmy, though he's more useless than lethal. At the end of "Finish Your Milk", Edgar comes home to find Jimmy at the stove and is shocked to see him cooking. Jimmy then admits that he has no idea how to cook and he's just stirring ketchup in a pan.
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Character Development: The four leads begin to show signs of this throughout the course of the second season. Jimmy, through learning of Gretchen's secret, as well as finally getting to confront his messed-up family (and particularly his emotionally distant father), starts to act less like a Control Freak and learns to better appreciate the people he has in his life. He also realizes his writing doesn't need to be fueled by sadness and heartbreak thanks to Gretchen appreciating the "erotic tales" he wrote in his teens. Gretchen starts to open her heart more when faced with Jimmy deciding to stay by her side in spite of her depression. She's even started taking medication, and is starting to address her problems in therapy despite extreme resistance at first. Edgar becomes more confident once he discovers that he has a knack for improv comedy, and through Dorothy, his mentor (and later girlfriend), realizes how one-sided his friendship with Jimmy actually is. Lindsay starts becoming more independent and assertive, and also realizes how harmful her constant immaturity has been to herself and everyone around her.
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Edgar's "I didn't know it was a school" Noodle Incident.
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Rhetorical Question Blunder: inverted in "Constant Horror and Bone-Deep Dissatisfaction":
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Blatant Lies:
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Surrounded by Idiots: Jimmy thinks this of himself but he's actually just a horrible person.
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Metaphorgotten: Jimmy in "Sunday Funday", after spending all day trying to get Gretchen to choose between various "diametrically opposed" things. Gretchen figures it out and tells him at the end that if he doesn't want her to go to Tribeca with Ty, he can just say that. He does it again in "Try Real Hard", while insisting that he and Gretchen barely know each other.
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Worthy Opponent
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Worthy Opponent: The mouse in "There Is Not Currently a Problem". After Gretchen drops a copy of Jimmy's book on the mouse and cripples it, Jimmy stops Dorothy from stomping on it because it put up a good fight and deserves to die with dignity. They stick the mouse in a box, write "Rocket Ship to Heaven" on the outside, and duct tape it to the exhaust pipe of Jimmy's car.
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In-Universe
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Jimmy In-Universe in the next episode. He calls his father and leaves a message that starts off mean but ends with an emotional "I sold a book, Daddy." When Gretchen walks in, he claims he just gave his dad a vicious heckling. And then Gretchen tells him Ronnie has died. Jimmy doesn't believe it for a second, and then his face just goes blank.
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Butt-Monkey
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Butt-Monkey: Edgar and Paul.
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Tagalong Kid
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Tag Along Kid: Killian. The third season shows that he has his own problems to deal with (he literally lost his dad, and begs Jimmy and Edgar for food at least a couple of times), but the cast are too self-centered and burdened themselves to even notice.
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Paper-Thin Disguise
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Paper-Thin Disguise: Jimmy's hat and Super Mario mustache.
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One Head Taller
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One Head Taller: Chris Geere (Jimmy) is 6'1", and Aya Cash (Gretchen) is 5'2". At the end of "Try Real Hard", he has to lean down to put his arm around her shoulders.
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Wham Line
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Wham Line: In "Fix Me, Dummy", Gretchen finally gets to the task of opening mail. The last piece she opens is a newspaper clipping of an obituary page and a Post-It note from Jimmy's sister. "Shitty Jimmy. Dad's dead. Sorry :(".
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I Have This Friend
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I Have This Friend: Edgar uses this to ineptly disguise his request for advice about his attraction to Lindsay. Jimmy sees through it immediately and flatly refuses to advise beyond saying, "there is no 'you and Lindsay'."
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Disproportionate Retribution
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Calling Your Orgasms
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Calling Your Orgasms: Played for Laughs in the season 3 premiere. Surprisingly, the scene even ends on a somewhat heartwarming note.
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Mistaken for Gay
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Mistaken for Gay: In "A Right Proper Story", Gretchen flees right before Jimmy's family shows up, and they meet Edgar first. They do not need any more provocation to make gay jokes at Jimmy's expense, and he drags Gretchen back upstairs to prove that he does have a girlfriend. Played with in "Keys Open Doors", when Jimmy and Gretchen get back to his house to find Sam there with the male president of a local Gay and Lesbian Student Union, both in their underwear.
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Smoking Hot Sex
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Smoking Hot Sex: Gretchen and Jimmy a few times, but the post-coital cigarette-sharing tends to be out on the steps rather than in bed.
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Growing Up Sucks
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Growing Up Sucks: A major theme of the series, where each of the main characters has to deal with the trials and tribulations of adulthood and adult life in general, from marriages and relationships, divorces, kids, responsibilities, etc. This also plays a big part in Jimmy, Gretchen and Lindsay's own Character Development arcs.
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Beta Couple
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Beta Couple: Vernon and Becca, Lindsay and Paul, Dorothy and Edgar... This role switches around a lot throughout the series, though Jimmy and Gretchen being the central pairing of the show is never affected or altered.
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Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling
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Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: Deconstructed with Lindsay and Becca - on first glance, Becca seems the more responsible sister and Lindsay the foolish one. However, Becca really only has a shallow image of responsible going for her and she's revealed to be incredibly miserable with her life, having done everything she did for the sake of just wanting to show her mother (a terrible negligent parent) that she had her life "all figured out". Lindsay, on the other hand, took "foolish" to the extreme, getting married to a guy she was ridiculously incompatible with simply to beat Becca to the altar and it's shown that she has no idea how to actually act like a functional adult in any capacity (until she was forced to do a bunch of growing up when she separates from and ultimately divorces her husband).
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Time Skip
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Time Skip: Three months have passed between the Season 3 finale and the Season 4 premiere
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Big Eater
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Big Eater: Gretchen, Jimmy, and especially Lindsay. In Episode 4, she gets her mouth wired shut to lose weight.
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Bottle Episode
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Bottle Episode: "There Is Not Currently a Problem", in which the LA Marathon is keeping the group inside Jimmy's house from driving. And, of course, they all scoff at the idea of walking to wherever. "You Knew It Was A Snake" is also predominantly set in Jimmy's house, wherein three of the show's couples are all facing hard decisions regarding their relationships and confronting one another about them.
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Freeze-Frame Bonus
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Freeze-Frame Bonus: The posters at the movie theater. Jimmy's wedding heckles. The flood of angry responses Jimmy gets when he group-texts his exes in "PTSD". A less pleasant one: pausing on Ronald Overly's obituary reveals that he died of a lung condition related to lead poisoning. The DVD rental machine Jimmy and Gretchen somehow steal in the season 2 premiere shows up two episodes later in their backyard.
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But for Me, It Was Tuesday
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But for Me, It Was Tuesday: Jimmy told Becca "We haven't made love for the last time", at her own wedding. During the season Becca struggles with her feelings for Jimmy (and her being annoyed by Vernon), which culminated in her going to Jimmy's place to have sex. Jimmy's reaction when she reminded him of his words:
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Putting the Band Back Together
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Putting the Band Back Together: Subverted in "Born Dead". Gretchen invites four of her friends to a party, expecting to have crazy irresponsible fun like they used to. One has a baby, one is pregnant (Gretchen makes exceedingly unwelcome jokes about "getting rid of it" before being informed that this is an intentional pregnancy), and one is a born-again Christian and member of Alcoholics Anonymous. The only one who is anything like they used to be is a total trainwreck and steals Jimmy's stereo when she leaves.
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Formula-Breaking Episode
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Formula-Breaking Episode: "LCD Soundsystem" is a total outlier among the show's episodes, almost completely devoid of the show's usual humor, instead using a couple that looks like a more grown up version of Jimmy and Gretchen to emphasize the magnitude of Gretchen's insecurities and dysfunctional state of mind. "Twenty-Two" in Season 3, doubling as A Day in the Limelight episode following Edgar's ongoing struggle with PTSD and how it affects his everyday life. "The Seventh Layer." None of the main cast feature in the entire episode (save for one phone call with Lindsay). Instead, the episode follows Vernon and Paul as their car breaks down in the middle of a trip and they have to survive the night together. "The Intransigence of Love" starts off Season 5, and none of the main cast appear in the first half of the episode, as it's a story Jimmy and Gretchen are telling.
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Gilligan Cut
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Gilligan Cut: Played for Drama in "PTSD".
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Chewing the Scenery
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Chewing the Scenery: Jimmy's massive flip-out in "A Right Proper Story" after the realization that his family is coming to LA.
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Divorce Is Temporary
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Divorce Is Temporary: The flashforward in the final episode shows that Lindsay and Paul remarry after building a genuine relationship each other.
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Serious Business
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Serious Business: Gretchen and Jimmy have a screaming meltdown when they come upstairs in the morning in "Crevasses", because Edgar has left the house without setting up the usual Sunday Bloody Mary bar. Edgar gets severely scolded upon his return. Gretchen on the subject of going out for breakfast in "What Normal People Do" Also Gretchen in "Side Bitch" when Jimmy accidentally takes her to a water bar, the concept of which offends her on a very personal level
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Babies Ever After
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Babies Ever After: A flashforward shows Jimmy and Gretchen had a daughter later on.
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The Immodest Orgasm
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The Immodest Orgasm: Gretchen in "Try Real Hard". Her "you were so quiet" comment suggests that she's not always alone in this tendency.
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The "I Love You" Stigma
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The "I Love You" Stigma: In "Try Real Hard", Jimmy admits he's not comfortable saying "I love you" because he associates it with a promise/verbal contract that he's not ready to make. In the end though, he admits he does love Gretchen.
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No Medication for Me
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No Medication for Me: Deconstructed. Combined with Therapy Is for the Weak, Gretchen has clinical depression but has never gotten treatment because she "doesn't want to lose her edge", despite the fact that she becomes entirely nonfunctional when it flares up. Refreshingly, antidepressants are treated as neither evil nor a magic cure-all, and continued therapy is the main avenue needed to effectively manage it. Edgar dumps out his PTSD meds in "Try Real Hard" because their side effects are interfering in his relationship with Dorothy (who tried to dissuade him from doing so, stating his health should be the priority). This very quickly starts to affect him negatively, at least before he discovers marijuana as an effective alternative.
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Arc Words
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Arc Words: "Family" is emphasized quite a lot throughout much of the third season, initially through Lindsay's pregnancy and its effect on her marriage to Paul, all the way up to the finale when Jimmy proposes to Gretchen and she starts becoming excited about her and Jimmy becoming a family, the prospect of which terrifies Jimmy enough to drive off and leave her even after putting a ring on her.
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Orphaned Punchline
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Gretchen in the pilot: "... And that's how I got crabs from my guidance counselor."
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Brother–Sister Incest
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Brother–Sister Incest: Simon and Kitty, the main characters of Jimmy's new book project in Season 3.
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Remember the New Guy?
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Remember the New Guy?: Done In-Universe with Gretchen's friends, who Jimmy (and the viewers) has never heard of.
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Shell-Shocked Veteran: Edgar suffers from PTSD after a stint in Iraq. Refreshingly, it does not make up the entirety of Edgar's character. Though "Twenty-Two" takes a very uncompromising look at Edgar's struggle with this.
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Pop-Cultural Osmosis Failure: Lindsay and Edgar have vastly different reference pools. Apparently Jimmy hasn't seen The Lion King (1994). Gretchen amuses herself trying to make him say song lyrics.
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Consummate Liar: Gretchen. Lindsay to a lesser extent.
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Armor-Piercing Question
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Armor-Piercing Question: Shitstain and Honey Nutz are baffled when Lindsay wires her jaw shut to lose weight, asking if her husband is going to mind her losing her best features. When Lindsay points out that Paul doesn't like those features, Honey Nutz asks, "Why did he buy the car if he don't appreciate the features?" Lindsay has no answer, and it begins to make her question her marriage.
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"Rashomon"-Style
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"Rashomon"-Style: A minor case wherein some of the events of "Men Get Strong" are reprised a few times in the following episode "Twenty-Two" from Edgar's perspective, while he's off his medication and struggling with the various symptoms of his PTSD.
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Potty Failure
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Potty Failure: Gretchen drinks a disgusting health-food smoothie and then goes jogging, to which her stomach objects. The next time we see her, she's hosing off her legs in a garden. Still not as humiliating as realizing that Jimmy wasn't actually intending to propose to her, which was the only reason she broke up with him.
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Gretchen to Jimmy in the pilot. Edgar to Jimmy in "Constant Horror and Bone-Deep Dissatisfaction". Gretchen to the entire cast in "There is Not Currently a Problem". "You Knew It Was A Snake" basically has three of the show's main couples go back-and-forth using this trope with one another.
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Establishing Character Moment: Jimmy taking pictures of his dingus (Vernon's words) on all the disposable cameras at Becca's wedding. Gretchen trying to steal a food processor at the same wedding.
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Motor Mouth
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Motor Mouth: Gretchen in "Crevasses", when a department store employee asks what she needs to buy.
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Artistic License – Animal Care
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Artistic License – Animal Care: In the finale of Season 1, both Jimmy and Gretchen refer to themselves as the equivalent of two pit bulls who would kill another dog but are "couch buds" with each other because a fight would result in mutually assured destruction. In reality, if you have two dog-aggressive pits (or any breed), they 100% will fight.
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Stepford Smiler
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Stepford Smiler: Lindsay is a type A.
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What Happened to the Mouse?
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What Happened to the Mouse?: In "A Right Proper Story", Jimmy discovers that Gretchen mailed all three of the letters he set up as threats for himself, only to be mailed if he did not meet his word count goals. The consequences of two of them show up in that very episode, but the love letter to Becca is never mentioned again.
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Hipster
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Hipster: A bunch of them follow the gang in "Sunday Funday".
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Didn't Think This Through
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Didn't Think This Through: Jimmy wrote a magazine article about sleeping with Megan Thomas in season 1, and his agent informs him in season 2 that he can't get magazine work anymore because Megan Thomas tried to sue him over it.
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Wham Episode
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Wham Episode: "There is Not Currently a Problem", which reveals Gretchen's ongoing struggle with depression. "No Longer Just Us," the season 3 finale. Dorothy leaves Edgar because she can't deal with his career overtaking hers. Paul and Lindsay finalize their divorce while Becca and Vernon celebrate their newborn daughter. Jimmy proposes to Gretchen, who gladly accepts, but becomes scared when he realizes this means they'll become a family and leaves her after putting the ring on her.
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Art Shift
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Art Shift: In "Sunday Funday", whenever the hipsters show up, direction switches to a 2.35:1 aspect ratio and quicker cuts to look like an artsy indie flick.
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Take a Third Option
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Take a Third Option: In "Magical Thinking", when faced with the choice between protecting Sam's ego and allowing Nock-Nock to outshine him in their new track, Gretchen instead sets off the sprinkler system at the venue of the listening party. This breaks up the party before anyone has a chance to hear the track with or without Nock Nock's verse. Unfortunately, unlike most third options, this one doesn't exactly pay off.
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In Vino Veritas
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In Vino Veritas: "Level 2 drunk" Jimmy is angry and possibly even more brutally honest than regular Jimmy. He also first tells Gretchen he loves her while blackout drunk, but vehemently denies it for most of "Try Real Hard" because he's terrified of the verbal contract he associates with the statement.
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Never My Fault
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So far, Season 4 seems to be deconstructing this, as it's shown that Jimmy honestly does not consider how his actions affect (if not downright hurt) others, and his apologies for disappearing for three months and abandoning his friends and girlfriend may be sincere but are still rather self-centered and self-serving.
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Sleep Cute
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Sleep Cute: Gretchen and Jimmy after the opening scene of "Try Real Hard". The moment is ruined (after the title sequence in between, for what it's worth) because Jimmy fell asleep holding his phone and it slips out of his hand onto Gretchen's head.
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The Knights Who Say "Squee!"
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The Knights Who Say "Squee!": Jimmy when he is offered the chance to write a novelization of NCIS: LA. And then he realizes that the plot is way too convoluted to convert into book form. Gretchen outright screams about the "Pets of Instagram" cruise that Jimmy has found online.
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Stranger in a Familiar Land
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Stranger in a Familiar Land: In the episode, "Not a Great Bet", Gretchen returns to her old hometown to visit her family and sees how much things and the people she'd known have changed over the years.
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A Day in the Limelight
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"Twenty-Two" in Season 3, doubling as A Day in the Limelight episode following Edgar's ongoing struggle with PTSD and how it affects his everyday life.
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Foreshadowing
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Foreshadowing: At Becca's wedding, Jimmy says "Sometimes, you just want to witness the beginning of a disaster, so later, when the house is engulfed in flames, you can say, 'Yep, I was there when they installed the faulty wiring.'" In "What Normal People Do", Jimmy visits Gretchen's apartment and notes her shoddy hack of using Christmas lights as an extension cord. Guess what happens to Gretchen's apartment in the first season finale? Gretchen's comment regarding Jimmy's Brutal Honesty subtly foreshadows her dysfunctional relationship with her parents, to whom she prefers to keep lying to rather than be true to herself. Naturally, Jimmy very much disagrees with this attitude, resulting in a massive fight between them. Gretchen tells Jimmy that she's probably broken in "What Normal People Do", and the state of her apartment is pretty common for people who suffer from depression. The Reveal doesn't come until season 2, but in retrospect, there had been signs for a while. Jimmy's dad violently coughs a couple of times and is easily tired during his visit in "A Right Proper Story". In "Fix Me, Dummy", Gretchen opens an envelope containing his obituary, and a Freeze-Frame Bonus reveals he died of a lung condition resulting from years working in lead mines. In the Pilot, Jimmy tells Vernon to "enjoy [his] sham of a marriage" with Becca. In Season 4, Becca admits that her and Vernon's marriage is a sham and she only really married him for the sake of appearances.
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Whole Episode Flashback
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Whole Episode Flashback: The first two thirds of "Constant Horror And Bone-Deep Dissatisfaction". After that it picks up in the present day.
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This Is Gonna Suck
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This Is Gonna Suck: Gretchen in "Fists and Feet and Stuff", after Jimmy's speech in her apartment about how important she is to him.
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Sarcastic Confession
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Sarcastic Confession: Played with at the end of "PTSD" when Jimmy and Gretchen snark that they should just be exclusive if they're both so bothered by each other sleeping with other people. Gretchen has to clarify that they actually are both saying they want this and are not just being sarcastic anymore. Jimmy admits he lost track.
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Hand-or-Object Underwear
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Hand-or-Object Underwear: Characters can have sex on late-night television, but there are no female nipples allowed. It's very conspicuous in the opening scene of "Try Real Hard", in which Jimmy and Gretchen are having sex and his hand is aways covering her breast when one is on camera.
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And That's Terrible
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And That's Terrible!: In the pilot, Gretchen tries to get Ty to tell her the worst thing he's ever done. He says he's trying to avoid negativity, and she continues that she once set her high school on fire to get out of a math test. Ty looks at her like she's grown a second head and says "Why are you telling me this? That's horrible!" It gets even better when she tells Jimmy and he cracks up laughing.
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Mood Whiplash
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Mood Whiplash: The end of "Fix Me, Dummy". Gretchen defies her apathy and starts opening mail with entertaining enthusiasm, until she reaches an envelope for Jimmy from his sister, containing a newspaper clipping from the obituaries and a Post-It note: "Shitty Jimmy. Dad's dead. Sorry :(". It's even worse because right after this upsetting reveal, Jimmy runs up the stairs, ecstatic about his book proposal being accepted. Jimmy In-Universe in the next episode. He calls his father and leaves a message that starts off mean but ends with an emotional "I sold a book, Daddy." When Gretchen walks in, he claims he just gave his dad a vicious heckling. And then Gretchen tells him Ronnie has died. Jimmy doesn't believe it for a second, and then his face just goes blank.
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The Un-Smile
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The Un-Smile: Gretchen pulls a particularly disturbing one at the end of "Zero Eggplants."
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No Pregger Sex
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No Pregger Sex: Invoked; Becca won't have sex with Vernon once she's reached a certain stage of her pregnancy because she thinks the baby might come out weird.
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Character Filibuster
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Character Filibuster: Jimmy tends to do this a lot. Gretchen gives an epic one in "There is Not Currently a Problem."
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Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: Every episode's title is taken from the (usually Buffy Speak) dialogue of that episode.
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Oh, Crap!
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Oh, Crap!: Jimmy at least twice. In "Fists and Feet and Stuff": Again in "There Is Not Currently a Problem", when he laughs at the vicious speeches Gretchen has just unleashed on Edgar, Lindsay, and Dorothy (Vernon wasn't even worth a speech). And then she turns her vitriol on Jimmy. "Oh shit" indeed.
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The Loins Sleep Tonight
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Edgar dumps out his PTSD meds in "Try Real Hard" because their side effects are interfering in his relationship with Dorothy (who tried to dissuade him from doing so, stating his health should be the priority). This very quickly starts to affect him negatively, at least before he discovers marijuana as an effective alternative.
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Deadpan Snarker
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Deadpan Snarker: Jimmy.
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Catchphrase
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Catchphrase: Jimmy's cigarettes. "They're pretty expensive".
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Loophole Abuse
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Loophole Abuse: Lindsay and Gretchen love abusing their local fro-yo shop's free sample policy to eat lots of yogurt for free. The shop later changes policy in reaction, which doesn't prevent Lindsay and Gretchen from straight-up disobeying the new rule.
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Take That!
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Take That!: Following his divorce from Lindsay, Paul becomes involved in some "men's rights" groups that have more than a few hints of Neo-Nazism to them (complete with him adopting a look rather similar to infamous American Neo-Nazi Richard Spencer). It's not a flattering portrayal (aside from Gretchen calling Paul's new look "oddly hot"), and being involved in this stuff ruins his chances of being able to adopt a child.
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Love Triangle
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Love Triangle: Gretchen choosing between Jimmy (fun kindred spirit) and Ty (rich and famous) barely counts as a love triangle, considering that Gretchen doesn't even like Ty much and isn't even considering the concept of loving Jimmy. Whatever it is, it's very short-lived and officially over at the end of "Sunday Funday" when Jimmy outright asks her not to go to Tribeca with Ty and she doesn't. In Season 4, Gretchen is pursuing a possible serious relationship with straight-talking divorcee Boone, and Jimmy (who she's still bitterly enraged with for what he did to her on that hilltop) has to fight to win her back. She ultimately chooses to get back with Jimmy after he showed he was willing to fight for her rather than bail out again.
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Emotionless Girl
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Emotionless Girl: Gretchen in "A Rapidly Mutating Virus", who casually lets Sam, Honey Nutz, Shitstain and Lindsay be beaten up by three female gangsters before pointing a gun at one of them and apathetically saying "Run" without a single shift in her utterly stoic expression. She later admits that all she felt during the whole altercation was "bored."
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It's All About Me
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It's All About Me: Jimmy is incredibly self-centered and borderline narcissistic. In the Pilot, he assumes that Becca only invited him to her wedding to passive-aggressively rub his nose in her happiness (at least he'd have the decency to rub her nose in it directly!) when in truth, it was Vernon who invited him. In fact, Jimmy assumes that many events have been engineered specifically to aggravate him. So far, Season 4 seems to be deconstructing this, as it's shown that Jimmy honestly does not consider how his actions affect (if not downright hurt) others, and his apologies for disappearing for three months and abandoning his friends and girlfriend may be sincere but are still rather self-centered and self-serving.
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I Shall Taunt You
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I Shall Taunt You: Gretchen notices that Lindsay and Edgar's ditzy answers in a Trivial Pursuit game are annoying Jimmy (who is sitting on the other side of the room with his laptop), and she deliberately turns it up to eleven during her turn.
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You Are What You Hate
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You Are What You Hate: Gretchen is worried that maybe only people who are actually sweater people deep down fear becoming sweater people. "Like how homophobes actually want all the dicks in their mouths."
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Anti-Hero
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Anti-Hero: Every single protagonist, especially Gretchen and Jimmy.
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Really Gets Around
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Really Gets Around: Lindsay. She blew four guys at her 5-year high school reunion. Though she managed to remain faithful to Paul for at least a couple of years. Her sister Becca calls it "cock-aholism". In season 3, she even manages to convince Paul to agree to let her sleep with other men.
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Subverted Trope
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Of course, this is later discussed and subverted when Paul realizes she got pregnant from his pre-ejaculate instead, which is possible.
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Fun with Acronyms
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Fun with Acronyms: PTSD apparently means something completely different to Lindsay.
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Double Standard Rape: Female on Male
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And then Double Subverted in the second season finale when Paul, learning that Lindsay got pregnant from the one time they slept together, decides to leave Amy and rekindle his relationship with Lindsay. It goes about as well as one would expect, and it's finally subverted fully when Lindsay has an abortion in "Talking To Me, Talking To Me", and when Paul finds out in final episodes of the third season, they're broken up for good. Subverted even further in "No Longer Just Us" when Becca confesses to Lindsay her fears that she's slowly losing her identity and freedom because of Vernon and Tallulah, her newborn daughter. .
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This Is for Emphasis, Bitch!: Practically a Verbal Tic for Sam. Edgar also does this in a flashback: Paul gives one to Lindsay at the end of "You Knew It Was a Snake" when she asks if he'll get rid of their prenup:
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Gosh Dang It to Heck!: Weird in a show this heavy on the profanity and sex, but Lindsay's response when she finds out she's pregnant is to mutter "farts".
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British Stuffiness: Enthusiastically defied in the case of Jimmy and his family. In "Insouciance", when Gretchen walks back into the room to find Jimmy busy: And in "A Right Proper Story", Lindsay's observation of Jimmy's father and older sisters:
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You're Insane!: In both of the existing finales, someone asks what is wrong with Jimmy and Gretchen. In "Fists and Feet and Stuff": In "The Heart is a Dumb-Dumb":
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Despair Event Horizon: Gretchen appears to hit it in "Other Things You Could Be Doing", convinced she's permanently broken. Despair Speech:
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Sentimental Drunk: Levels 3 and 4 "Jimmy drunk". Level 3 is happy, Level 4 is dramatically sad.
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Manchild: Vernon. He spews juvenile humor, makes "trash juice" punch for parties, and otherwise displays constant immaturity. Jimmy is less obviously childish most of the time and at least speaks like an adult, but Nina and Gretchen do spend some time commiserating about how immature he can be. Highlights include talking about treehouses for an hour (apparently Nina got off easy) and hiding in the bushes instead of telling Nina he's not going to the cabin (culminating in "new phone who dis"). He also purchased and then immediately broke an $80 toy helicopter at the mall, and once spilled a bowl of cereal while Edgar wasn't home and then hid under his bed for two hours until Gretchen cleaned up the mess.
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The Ditz: Lindsay. At one point she forgot her fiancé's name.
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Calling the Old Man Out: Jimmy calls out Gretchen's parents in season 1 and then his own father in season 2. Gretchen is mortified and does not appreciate his Brutal Honesty in that particular situation.
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Insistent Terminology: Gretchen is generally spiritual, not religious. And in "Born Dead", she is throwing a party, not a get-together.
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The Oner: The majority of the episode "The Inherent, Unsullied Qualitative Value of Everything" is shot this way, where each subplot is framed around the elopement party of Shitstain and Jaclyn.
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Despair Speech:
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Acronym and Abbreviation Overload: How Vernon talks.
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Jerkass: Aside from mature humor, the show devotes itself to heavily deconstructing this trope through the main characters. For example, Jimmy acts like he's constantly Surrounded by Idiots, but it's only because he puts a very high premium on emotional honesty and integrity, which he believes is a rare quality. Jimmy's older sisters (especially Di) play it completely straight.
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Flash Forward: Used in season 5 for dramatic ironic effect about whether or not Jimmy and Gretchen end up figuring out their relationship and actually going through with their marriage. They don't end up getting married on their wedding day, but they are happily together in the future, with a daughter named Felicity.
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The Alleged Car: Gretchen's. We don't get a really good look at the whole thing until "Fix Me, Dummy", but it is impressively destroyed. Judging by what was visible in the flashback in "Constant Horror and Bone-Deep Dissatisfaction", it was an alleged car even before she crashed it.
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Food Porn: Courtesy of Edgar on a regular basis.
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Lower-Class Lout: Jimmy's family.
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Suspiciously Similar Substitute: In "Fists and Feet and Stuff", Edgar introduces Jimmy to his new roommate "Nigel", and Jimmy skeptically remarks that Edgar "just happened to find another English roommate." He didn't. It's the same NCIS: LA actor from "What Normal People Do", just doing a favor for Edgar in apology for impersonating a wounded veteran.
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Running Gag: Jimmy likes to prepare (lame) heckles in advance. Jimmy and Gretchen stealing booze from places they crash. Gretchen writes absurdly long texts. Jimmy not knowing who Paul is. Jimmy completely forgetting Killian's existence. Jimmy forgetting or not believing that Edgar has a job. Anytime someone asks Jimmy if they can bum a smoke he says "They're expensive." Later, Becca does the same when Vernon asks for one. Jimmy constantly putting drinks on coasters when people aren't watching. Edgar's "I didn't know it was a school" Noodle Incident. Starting from "Try Real Hard," Jimmy's disgust at learning that Gretchen doesn't wash her legs in the shower. Another Season 3 recurring joke: "Name one family that's only X people." The guy working various menial jobs appears once a season with a different job (pizza delivery guy, mall janitor, office receptionist), talking to a different character (Gretchen, Jimmy, Edgar), and hilariously sabotaging his employment based on a misunderstanding with said character. "Why does this keep happening to me?" Vernon Comically Missing the Point.
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Vernon Comically Missing the Point.
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