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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })Royal Pains is a summer series airing on USA Network about medical genius Hank Lawson (played by Mark Feuerstein) who makes a decision triaging "some kid off the street" and saving him over a billionaire trustee, whom he had declared stable and subsequently died. The resulting legal backlash makes him lose pretty much everything he has, including his fiancée due to the emotional difficulties, and is blacklisted from any medical position even remotely worth his skills.His brother Evan Lawson takes it upon himself to cheer his brother up by organizing a trip to crash a South Hampton party, which would be a party God would be at "If he could get in." By a twist of fate, Hank is around when a party attendant has an allergy attack and proves himself better able to handle these on-the-spot medical emergencies than the local concierge doctor.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_2'); })Hank receives an offer to replace the older concierge doctor by the enigmatic German multi-billionaire Boris Kuester von Jurgens-Ratenicz, but he has some reservations about taking such a position because it cateurs exclusively to the wealthy (many of whom are very self-indulgent and self-absorbed). After discussing the issue with a newfound friend, the Hampton Heritage Hospital administrator Jill Casey, Hank takes up the job. Evan helps manage the finances of "Hank Med", and Physician Assistant Divya Katdare is his very savvy assistant.Each episode is about Hank making house calls and dealing with the eccentricities of this obscenely rich community. As with other USA shows with a strong episodic premise, around 2012, the show has occasionally moved away from pure Patient of the Week storylines and focused on more overarching drama and story in order to develop the characters and introduce future conflicts and plots while wrapping up older ones.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_1'); })The show concluded in 2016, after eight seasons on the air. This also marked the end of USA Network's "Blue Sky" era of family-friendly programming and a transition to more adult-oriented fare. | |
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Adorkable: Dr. Jeremiah Sacani. How adorkable? He's got a note card to help him remember what to do to try and flirt with Divya. | |
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No Celebrities Were Harmed | |
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No Celebrities Were Harmed: A parody of Vince Offer (the Sham Wow Guy), "Spencer the Spaz", is the subject of the second season premiere. | |
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Annoying Younger Sibling: Evan. Strangely, most of his Unwanted Assistance seem to be motivated by genuine care for Hank's wellbeing...and his desire to get some tail. | |
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Heroic B.S.O.D.: Hank goes into one after being fired and finding he's been black-balled. He sits around his apartment and watches TV. His brother snaps him out of it by pointing out that he should come to the Hamptons because a)he needs cheering up, and b)he's out of booze and his Netflix account was suspended. | |
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Rescue Romance | |
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Rescue Romance: Deconstructed in the pilot. Hank saved the life of a girl and she fell in love with him. He recognized that this was simply a Nightingale effect and told her to wait a few weeks and the feeling would disappear, which she refused to believe. But sure enough, she never showed up again. | |
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The Rival: Dr. Emily Peck, Hank's "temporary replacement," is now made into this. And as of "The Hankover", they now have Foe Yay. More specifically, they slept together. | |
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Aborted Arc: It's extremely clear watching the earlier seasons that they were setting up Divya and Evan to get together through the use of Belligerent Sexual Tension. However Evans unexpected chemistry with Paige killed that plots line. | |
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Unwanted Assistance | |
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Unwanted Assistance: Evan seems hellbent on getting HankMed more customers, over the insistence of Hank himself. When he buckles down to it, he is a good CFO. | |
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Promotion to Opening Titles | |
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Promotion to Opening Titles: As of the fourth episode of season four, both Brooke D'Orsay (Paige) and Campbell Scott (Boris) have been upgraded to the opening credits, replacing Jill Flint (Jill Casey). | |
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Disappeared Dad | |
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Disappeared Dad: Eddie was this until the beginning of Season 2. | |
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Limited Wardrobe: Hank's staggering amount of blue shirts. | |
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It's Always Sunny in Miami | |
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It's Always Sunny in Miami: Semi-justified in that the show is actually shot in the Hamptons (or at least Long Island), but really? The other half is semi-justified in that anything that might ruin a shot is probably cut out since it suddenly raining during random scenes would likely ruin the mood or make it harder to film/get audio/etc. | |
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Ambiguously Jewish | |
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Ambiguously Jewish: The Lawsons, until "Keeping the Faith," when it becomes more or less explicit. They aren't the least bit observant, though. Interestingly, the professions of the seen Lawsons are incredibly stereotypically Jewish: Doctor (Hank), accountant (Evan), and shyster (Eddie). All you need is a lawyer and an academic and you have the Jewish home run. Lampshaded/played with in the episode where Evan and Paige get married. She reminds them that it's the first day of Hanukah... and is surprised that all three Lawsons not only didn't remember that it was, but don't even have any of the trappings with which to observe. | |
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Catapult Nightmare | |
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Catapult Nightmare: Jill is being afflicted nightmares that jolt her awake in bed after her "accident". | |
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We Help the Helpless | |
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We Help the Helpless: In addition to making house calls for the rich, Hank regularly treats the town's lower class residents at no cost. This is often because these people cannot afford a private doctor under regular circumstances, and because they must dig through a mile of red tape to get treatment at the local hospital. For bonus points, a smaller-scale version of this resulted in his blacklisting. The kid was in critical condition, while the rich guy was apparently stable. Until he died, Hank had no reason to suspect there'd be complications. And as of "Mano a Mano," Hank's hospitality extends to people who could be considered enemies of the state in Cuba. Due to the wealth (or lack there of) of some of Hank's clients, he occasionally gets paid in other ways. For instance, a fisherman pays Hank in fish. Evan, to his credit, has no problems with that and in 3x15 upon noticing a number of fresh fish in the refrigerator, asks if said fisherman is okay. | |
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Eccentric Townsfolk | |
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Eccentric Townsfolk: Pretty much every resident of the Hamptons except our main characters. | |
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Gentle Giant | |
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Gentle Giant: Donald (played by The Big Show), who plays the apparently very popular "Garbage Collector" in the Garbage Collector series of films. | |
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Title In: The show made use of Fringe-style 3D titles in "The Hankover". | |
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Actor Allusion | |
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Actor Allusion: Eddie can tell something is wrong with Paige in s8x07 “The Good News is...” giving Henry Wrinkler a chance to once again use The Fonz’s “Step into my office” | |
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Properly Paranoid | |
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Properly Paranoid: Boris's measures to protect his privacy seem ridiculous, until the third season where it's revealed that members of his massive ancient noble family have been feuding with each other for centuries, and Boris is now a prime target since he's just had a son who can inherit his fortune and title. Oh, and the mysterious "illness" that's been killing off the men in his family for generations? May not have been an illness at all. Someone's been poisoning him. | |
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Blessed with Suck | |
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Blessed with Suck: "Whole Lotto Love"'s client of the week deals with lottery winners, one of which is convinced that he was cursed. Eventually subverted: the lottery winner's streak of bad luck wasn't a curse. | |
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Sibling Team | |
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Sibling Team : Hank and Evan | |
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Female Gaze | |
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Female Gaze: In 2x03, Emily Peck Boris' new concierge doctor uses her rear-view mirror to check out Hank's butt as he jogs away. | |
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Pretty in Mink | |
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Pretty in Mink: Ms. Newberg in the pilot. | |
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Honor Before Reason | |
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Honor Before Reason: Divya feels honor bound to go through with an Arranged Marriage. When she finally cancels the wedding she feels honor bound to repay her ex-fiance's family the money they spent on the engagement. She works a second job to raise the money which leaves her exhausted. Her insistence to keep this secret from Hank directly leads to her screwing up and endangering the life of a patient. | |
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Yo-Yo Plot Point | |
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Yoyo Plot Point: Hank and Jill's relationship is nearly reached this point, until it was resolved in the Season 1 finale. They broke up, and have since shown interest in other people. In effect again as of episode 16 of season 2. Off again as of the mid-season 3 premiere. The issue finally is settled in the series finale as they are engaged. Then again, so was Hank in the beginning of the series... | |
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Music Video Syndrome | |
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Music Video Syndrome: There's a lot of music from hip, fresh new bands over the scene transitions. Turned into Left the Background Music On when Hank walks into a room with the patient while the music continues to play, loudly, and the patient has trouble hearing him. So Hank reaches out and turns off the nearby boombox. Turns out the music playing loud was actually a symptom; the patient had gone slightly deaf. | |
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Getting Crap Past the Radar | |
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Getting Crap Past the Radar: In the pilot, it's clearly possible to see Boris' penis through his wet swimsuit. After learning Evan used her share of HankMed as leverage against Hank, Divya angrily declares that "[she's] going to shuck Evan". | |
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Painting the Medium | |
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Painting the Medium: One episode involved a woman who only spoke Italian, with her words subtitled. She didn't understand when Divya asked her to roll up her left sleeve. Evan tries to explain, and his poor Italian is accurately conveyed by his subtitles' bad grammar and whimsical font. When the woman he's talking to starts babbling, the subtitles eventually give up and go "Etc... Etc.... Etc..." | |
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Cosmopolitan Council | |
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Cosmopolitan Council: "Manimal" has an Arab Oil Sheikh in appropriate garb and a black man, plus a Russian and the ambiguously European-American Boris. This makes sense, given that it's about oil. | |
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Not What It Looks Like | |
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Not What It Looks Like: In the season one finale, Jill goes looking for Hank to tell him something important. She finds him getting a palm reading, and from a distance it looks like they're doing something intimate. She's actually flirting with him after he just told her he's not interested in a relationship. Jill walks away without either of the two lovebirds "noticing". A staggering amount of drama in Divya's life is this, on both sides: After having a fight with her father due to him trying to completely wipe out all traces of his wife's existence from his life and refusing to talk to her even though she was willing to reconcile, Divya came back to find her father face down in the pool. He fell in from the 2nd floor balcony trying to spray a bees nest and had an allergic reaction. When Divya leaves Sashi alone in the car to quickly help a person in need, the police assume she left her there to go shopping when they see the bags. Without the person there to vouch for her, Divya's arrested when she resists them taking Sashi and the story's spread on the Internet out of context. | |
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Affably Evil | |
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Affably Evil: Eddie Lawson. He's a con artist who walked out on his own sons, then came back and swindled them out of their money. But, what're you gonna do? He's The Fonz. | |
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Fake Crossover | |
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Fake Crossover: Trying to ride the popularity of Burn Notice they have Michael Westen send Hank a care package in a commercial. It contains C4 ("because you never know when you'll need a stable plastic explosive"). Worth noting is that USA does this a lot with commercials for all of their shows. There's a crossover commercial with White Collar, too, though when the summer 2010 schedule got locked down they've been cross-promoting with Burn Notice since they both come on on the same night. A new set in late 2010 started pairing Hank and Evan with Kate Reed from Fairly Legal. In a 2012 crossover commercial, Neal praises Hank's set up as consignment doctor but wonders how he can keep up being a fake doctor. Hank dully points out it's probably a talent he picked up during all those years of medical school. Neal praises his willingness to go for that long of a con. | |
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Florence Nightingale Effect | |
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Florence Nightingale Effect: Invoked by name by Hank after the young girl he saves during the pilot falls for him. And again when he saves the life of an attractive young woman's uncle in Cuba. She doesn't agree. | |
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Parent with New Paramour | |
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Parent with New Paramour: Eddie Lawson and "New Parts" Newburg. Hank is not pleased. | |
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Pretty Boy | |
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Pretty Boy: Tucker. | |
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Gilligan Cut | |
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Gilligan Cut: In the pilot, Hank insists that the partygoer who was poisoned by pesticides that he subsequently saved be taken to a hospital, and that "you can't just shoot her up and put her to bed." Smash Cut to the partygoer waking up in bed in Boris' home. | |
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Big Brother Instinct | |
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Big Brother Instinct: Hank towards Tucker. After Tucker's dad fires him, Hank still hangs around Tucker, saying he wasn't banned from being his friend. | |
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Serious Business | |
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Serious Business: Evan can get over a kidnapping attempt but how DARE you try to sell him counterfeit Cohibas. In "The Hankover"; | |
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Here We Go Again! | |
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The issue finally is settled in the series finale as they are engaged. Then again, so was Hank in the beginning of the series... | |
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Cannot Spit It Out: Boris goes to ridiculous lengths to hide and/or find a cure for his condition, often alienating Hank, the one doctor who seems to thinks he can help him. Jeremiah and his feelings for Divya. He even denies it when Evan notices and says something. Had Jeremiah been more upfront with her to begin with, he could have saved himself some heartache. | |
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Put on a Bus | |
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Put on a Bus: Charlie, who was supposed to fill the third part of an awkward Love Triangle between Hank and Jill, is noticeably absent from the second season premiere. Jill remarks that she finalized their divorce and nothing of him is mentioned ever again, especially since she keeps his surname. Jill, as of the fourth season and The Bus Came Back for the final season. | |
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Belligerent Sexual Tension | |
Royal Pains / int_75d6bf40 | comment |
Belligerent Sexual Tension: Divya and Evan had a number of frustrated arguments as Evan appeared to flirt with her and misinterpret some of her aggravation as her flirting back. The bickering tapers off rapidly once Evan hooks up with Paige, but they remain Vitriolic Best Buds most of the time. | |
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New Media Are Evil | |
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New Media Are Evil: Invoked by an expectant mother who wanted her nieces and nephews to give up all their electronic devices while on the family's private island. She believes it makes it harder to connect with people. | |
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A Threesome Is Hot | |
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A Threesome Is Hot: Evan's reaction to seeing Jill and Emily in Hank's bed in "Pit Stop". | |
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech | |
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Hank to Eddie on how he walked out on his wife just as she began getting sick. This gets flipped on Hank by both Evan and Eddie that while what he did was messed up, it was 20 years ago and he came back into their lives sorry and wanting to make amends. It's fine if Hank wants to hold onto that grudge, but he can't interfere with what Evan wants. | |
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Tsundere | |
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Tsundere: Divya, but especially concerning Evan, whom she can't seem to stand, and yet.... | |
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Functional Addict | |
Royal Pains / int_7f1be21 | comment |
Functional Addict: After needing neurosurgery caused by the explosion resulting in Boris' faked death, Hank became addicted to pain meds. Subverted in that they discovered a valid need for them, but it still caused a loss of trust between Jeremiah and Hank due to Hank obtaining under them false pretense. | |
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How We Got Here | |
Royal Pains / int_80251be3 | comment |
How We Got Here: "The Hankover" (wink, wink) opens with Hank, Evan, and others the aftermath of a party at Boris' house, and Divya and Jill waking up in a taxi at some beach somewhere. "24 hours ago..." | |
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Arranged Marriage | |
Royal Pains / int_80621707 | comment |
Arranged Marriage: Divya is drifting towards accepting her arranged marriage to a childhood friend. At the beginning, she tried to call it off, but when the engagement ceremony came around, she couldn't bring herself to do it. However, it's not like she couldn't call it off or she hates the guy (he's kind of clueless and cheerful, actually); she's simply not certain she should be married to him. In the season two finale, it's officially called off. Ironically, they do marry each other, it's just by their own choice. | |
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Red Oni, Blue Oni | |
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Red Oni, Blue Oni: The members of HankMed go out of their way to those in need alongside catering to the rich. Dr. Emily Peck has shown herself to be more concerned with "Hollywood style" medicine while avoiding situations that could get her sued. | |
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Sharp-Dressed Man | |
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Sharp-Dressed Man: Evan, starting sometime 'round Season 3/4. Includes a Waistcoat of Style. | |
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YourCheatingHeart | |
Royal Pains / int_8c80a69f | comment |
Your Cheating Heart: Divya's sister and husband make their arranged marriage work by sleeping with other people. | |
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Voice with an Internet Connection | |
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Voice with an Internet Connection: Usually over the phone, and usually Hank, but used literally in the late first-season episode where Evan, Divya, and the patient are stuck on a boat. | |
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Royal Pains / int_8e9cf84e | comment |
"Blind Idiot" Translation: Jill thinks she heard "Es ist nicht ihr," and a translator reads it as "It is not her," but the actual German translation would be "It is not their." Could be a plot point, but even Google agrees with the correct version. | |
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Overly Long Name | |
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Overly Long Name: Boris Kuester von Jurgens-Ratenicz. | |
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The Bus Came Back | |
Royal Pains / int_927b2f11 | comment |
Jill, as of the fourth season and The Bus Came Back for the final season. | |
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You Keep Using That Word | |
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You Keep Using That Word: In the second season two episode, Evan keeps using "subliminal" and Hank even tells him he should look it up. | |
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Wealthy Philanthropist | |
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Wealthy Philanthropist: The premiere has the subverted version of a rich family that donates to charity, but in fact uses their money to pull the strings. Hank prioritizes a dying poor man over a rich man who was in stable condition. The rich man has unforeseen complications and dies. The dead man's family turn out to be the hospital's biggest donors and they use this to force the hospital to fire Hank even though medically he did nothing wrong. Since they also donate money to all the major hospitals in New York, Hank is blacklisted from working as a hospital doctor. | |
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Brand X | |
Royal Pains / int_978937d6 | comment |
In 2x14, "Pit Stop", Evan hands Hank a prominently placed box of Wheaties™ ("Breakfast of champions!") while he dines on Fruity Pops. | |
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As You Know | |
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As You Know; Parodied in 2x13, when Jill is paired up with a famous golfer and two random people. They ask her if she knows his story. She says she does, and they're just so enthusiastic they tell her—and the audience—anyway. | |
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Chick Magnet | |
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Chick Magnet: Both Hank and Evan have their moments. | |
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Not So Different | |
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Not So Different: Dr. Emily Peck claimed this to Divya, but a small-scale emergency subverted this. | |
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Bollywood Nerd | |
Royal Pains / int_9a279c3d | comment |
Bollywood Nerd: Divya. She's a brilliant physician assistant, and even the cover story she tells her parents is that she is attending Wharton. | |
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Continuity Nod | |
Royal Pains / int_9dab0a6e | comment |
Continuity Nod: When Evan tries to drum up business in the season 2 premiere, the people he talks to on the phone are all clients from Season One. | |
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Joisey | |
Royal Pains / int_a5096c48 | comment |
Joisey: Evan and Hank are from there. It's fairly hard to tell. Likely through a combination of Reality Is Unrealistic (most accents aren't nearly as extreme as media likes to portray it) and exposure to a variety of accents, theirs has toned down to something else. | |
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Status Quo Is God | |
Royal Pains / int_a6e8221e | comment |
Status Quo Is God: Subverted with Jill doing charity work overseas. The writers kept coming up with ways to keep Jill in the Hamptons, up to and including her telling Hank that she lost the overseas job to someone else. Then, when it looks like she might join HankMed, she gets offered a similar job with better benefits in the following episode, and does depart for Africa. Played straight with Evan and Hank parting ways and running separate businesses in the fourth season: as of the fourth episode, they've made amends and Hank is back with HankMed. | |
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Karma Houdini | |
Royal Pains / int_a70223 | comment |
Karma Houdini: For all the crimes Eddie's committed, his total punishment amounts to six months in a white-collar prison, a few days of house arrest (which he doesn't even abide by), and the opportunity to make amends with his estranged father. | |
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My Fist Forgives You | |
Royal Pains / int_a7cd0d71 | comment |
My Fist Forgives You: The ending of 2x01 appears to set this up, but it ends up subverted in 2x02 as Hank Lawson still harbors negative feelings towards his dad. | |
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Meganekko | |
Royal Pains / int_a9850481 | comment |
Meganekko: Divya, occasionally. | |
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Foot-Dragging Divorcee | |
Royal Pains / int_ab9d55f1 | comment |
Foot-Dragging Divorcee: Jill's husband Charlie, who left her in favor of his job rather than work on their relationship, does this for pretty much the entire first season. Despite her wanting him to sign the papers long before he left, he keeps postponing it in an attempt to woo her. However, sometime between seasons 1 and 2, she finally gets him to sign them and he leaves. | |
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Deadpan Snarker | |
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Deadpan Snarker: Starting with everyone. Boris probably does it best. | |
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Catchphrase | |
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Catch-Phrase: Aristotle, the coolest taxicab driver in New York featured in "The Hankover", has got to make money on the deal somehow. Also, Evan will say whenever meeting someone new "Hi, I'm Evan R. Lawson, CFO of HankMed." Divya's greeting is not dissimilar with patients; along the lines of, "My name's Divya Katdare, I'm a Physician's Assistant." Though that's likely for accountability issues. | |
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Ms. Fanservice | |
Royal Pains / int_b032e4ed | comment |
Ms. Fanservice: Hot women seem to be the rule rather than the exception in this world. | |
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Take That! | |
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Take That!: In the pilot when the on-call doctor tries to treat a girl at the party and automatically assumes it's drugs. Hank points out some important symptoms that he missed because of his assumption. A cynical doctor who assumes the worst in everyone? Hmmm.... | |
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Jewish and Nerdy | |
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Jewish and Nerdy: The Lawson family is Jewish, and Evan fulfills many nerdy stereotypes, acting like a kid most of the time. | |
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Twofer Token Minority | |
Royal Pains / int_b6ec7566 | comment |
Twofer Token Minority: The four leads are the white Hank, Hank's brother Evan, Jill and Divya, an attractive Indian Englishwoman. Both Hank and Evan are Jewish, so the "token minority" in this case may well be Jill, actually. | |
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Hypocritical Humor | |
Royal Pains / int_b707726f | comment |
Hypocritical Humor: When Evan finds out Divya's getting married, he starts going on about how awesome weddings are, what with getting to be with someone you love. Divya doesn't meet his eye, so he asks if it's an arranged marriage. Divya protests him applying the stereotype before admitting that yes, it's a strategic marriage. | |
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Love Triangle | |
Royal Pains / int_b7e0c5ff | comment |
Charlie, who was supposed to fill the third part of an awkward Love Triangle between Hank and Jill, is noticeably absent from the second season premiere. Jill remarks that she finalized their divorce and nothing of him is mentioned ever again, especially since she keeps his surname. | |
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It Makes Sense in Context | |
Royal Pains / int_ba236071 | comment |
After learning Evan used her share of HankMed as leverage against Hank, Divya angrily declares that "[she's] going to shuck Evan". | |
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Plucky Comic Relief | |
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Plucky Comic Relief: Evan, whose B Story antics get painfully humiliating. | |
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Game of Nerds | |
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Game of Nerds: In "Lawson Translation" we find out that Jeremiah is a huge fan of baseball owing largely to the fact it was one of the few place his love of statistics intersected with an interest of his father's. | |
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I Have No Son! | |
Royal Pains / int_c132c0c5 | comment |
I Have No Son: Pretty much Divya's parent's reaction to when she called off the marriage. Cutting her off from of all of her assets and throwing her on the street. Sadly this is Truth in Television, as some families treat their daughters as nothing more than objects to marry off as business deals. And if the daughter does not want to go through with it, the family will disown them. | |
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Subverted Trope | |
Royal Pains / int_c145f69b | comment |
Subverted with Jill doing charity work overseas. The writers kept coming up with ways to keep Jill in the Hamptons, up to and including her telling Hank that she lost the overseas job to someone else. Then, when it looks like she might join HankMed, she gets offered a similar job with better benefits in the following episode, and does depart for Africa. | |
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Shout-Out | |
Royal Pains / int_c75df49a | comment |
Shout-Out: To this very Wiki | |
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Non-Idle Rich | |
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Non-Idle Rich: Divya. | |
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Portmanteau Couple Name | |
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Portmanteau Couple Name: In-universe, Evan calls Jill and Hank "Jank". | |
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Informed Ability | |
Royal Pains / int_ca3a6dbd | comment |
Informed Ability: In 3x08, we meet a female Boston Marathon champion runner who boasts of her perfect stride. However, when shown running, she clearly is at most only a recreational runner, occasionally showing form more like a T-1000 than Joan Benoit. | |
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Designated Love Interest | |
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Designated Love Interest: Jill Casey. | |
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Killed Off for Real | |
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Killed Off for Real: Jack and Dimitry | |
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Cassandra Truth | |
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Cassandra Truth: Hank, re: Eddie R. Evan and Ms. Newberg both seem erroneously convinced that he really can't be as bad as all that. | |
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Coattail-Riding Relative | |
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Coattail-Riding Relative: Both Hank's brother and father seem to depend on medically licensed Hank to get rich. Reversed in Season 4, where Hank finds himself needing Evan's accounting abilities to keep his medical business afloat, while Evan can get along fine without Hank. Even Eddie R. is working on getting his book published on its own merits. | |
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Hacker Cave | |
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Hacker Cave: Tucker has a very nice computer setup. However, it's in an open area, on the second floor, with a very nice view, and he's not a hacker. Considering he's a smart kid who knows how to deal with finances, it's possible, even likely, that the multi-monitor setup is for financial analysis (in real life, some may reach up to 6 monitors). The side effect of being a nice set up for other things like computer games is probably a bonus. | |
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Worst Aid | |
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Worst Aid: The pilot episode in which Hank saves someone is rather...impractical. However, the series often subverts this as several episodes have Hank chastising someone for a method that he knows will just cause more damage. | |
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Male Gaze | |
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Male Gaze: One shot had Evan talking to Divya, who was at the top of some stairs. The angle reverses, and Evan is sharing the frame with Divya's butt. | |
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Televisually Transmitted Disease | |
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Televisually Transmitted Disease: Generally averted, most of the patients of the week have something odd (like Lyme Disease or scurvy), but nothing one-in-a-billion obscure. Hank spends most of his time dealing with cuts and burns, broken bones, and hypertension. | |
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Musical Episode | |
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Musical Episode: The penultimate episode of the series “The Good News is...” is this. Justified as it’s from the point of view of the hallucinating patient-of-the-week. As an added bonus, the full title sequence returns for this episode and now the lyrics are sung by the cast | |
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Flanderization | |
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Flanderization: Evan turns into more of an idiotic jerk as the series goes on. This is actually a plot point, as he mentions in 1x11 that the Hamptons are "changing" him. | |
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Jerkass | |
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Jerkass: Dr. Van Dyke. A lot. He even tries to do a CPR: Clean, Pretty, Reliable stunt on Divya. | |
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Fallen Princess | |
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Fallen Princess: Divya, as of Season 3: her parents cut her off after she breaks off her engagement with Raj, even going so far as to have her car repossessed. She is reduced to crashing in Hank's guest room. | |
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Once per Episode | |
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Once per Episode: Hank often has a habit of asking patients how bad their pain is in a scale of 1 to 10, which the patients telling them how his grading system is grossly inadequate. Inverted in "Hank and the Deep Blue Sea" when Jack asks Hank how bad his screw up is on a scale of 1 to 2. | |
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Female Misogynist | |
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Female Misogynist: Emily Peck accuses Divya. | |
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Product Placement | |
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Product Placement: Everyone seems to use Apple computers. Blatant in the episode "It's Like Jamais Vu All Over Again" with Jill's new car. In 2x14, "Pit Stop", Evan hands Hank a prominently placed box of Wheaties™ ("Breakfast of champions!") while he dines on Fruity Pops. Emma's constant mention of Auto Trader is painfully obvious. Made worse when Evan and Paige give a stilted reaction to her bringing it up while confessing that she lied to them...again. | |
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Insult Backfire | |
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Insult Backfire: In 1x11, Evan is admiring a boat, and Divya says something about him playing with something like it in the bathtub. | |
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Romantic False Lead | |
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Romantic False Lead: Jill's ex-husband. In a nice variation, he's a pretty nice guy, not all that different from Hank himself. He does have one glaring flaw; his near-delusional refusal to accept Jill's leaving him could be seen as stalkerish. | |
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"Friends" Rent Control | |
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"Friends" Rent Control: Played with. The main characters are allowed to use Boris' guesthouse (initially rent-free but later Hank insists on paying some rent) due to his gratitude towards Hank. After Boris' faked death, Dimitri allows Evan and Paige the use of the main house... for free. | |
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My Sister Is Off-Limits | |
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My Sister Is Off-Limits!: Subverted in "Keeping the Faith." Donald instructs Evan to take his sister/manager "to a nice restaurant, a place where a gentleman would take a lady." So the little sis is not off-limits, so long as you act nice. To be fair, Donald is also over 7 feet tall and about 300 pounds of muscle so... | |
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Comically Missing the Point | |
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Comically Missing the Point: In 1x03, "Strategic Planning", the Senator's wife is yelled at by her daughter for pressuring her son to play football as part of her plan to get him into the White House, unlike his father. (The son in question just wants to play football.) Then the wife, with a gleam in her eye, notes to Hank that her daughter standing up to her took almost...Presidential leadership. The looks on Hank and Divya's faces are hilarious. | |
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MacGyvering | |
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MacGyvering: The commercials boast about this aspect of Hank. One patient's girlfriend asks him, "What are you, MacGyver?" after he saves his life with a bottle of vodka, a BIC pen, duct tape, a sharp knife, and a sandwich bag. All of this he used to save a hemophiliac who had internal bleeding from a car crash. | |
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