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* TheComicallySerious: Shu Shu's younger self in the flashbacks in 'Grandma & Chill'.
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* TheComicallySerious: Shu Shu's younger self in the flashbacks in 'Grandma & Chill'.Chill': she has the modest demeanour of a stereoypical mid-20th century young Chinese woman but talks like a ValleyGirl.
-->'''Shu Shut''': Ohhh, Garbage Boy! He is ''fiiiine''. Saw him rip apart a cardboard box once. No scissors. Shit was '''sick'''.
-->'''Shu Shut''': Ohhh, Garbage Boy! He is ''fiiiine''. Saw him rip apart a cardboard box once. No scissors. Shit was '''sick'''.
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* FlappingCheeks: Shu Shu gets these in 'Grandma & Chill' when she's first introduced, with her character viewed in slo-mo with the wind dramatically blowing flower petals around her.
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* TheComicallySerious: Shu Shu's younger self in the flashbacks in 'Grandma & Chill'.
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* AgeLift: Nora tries to warn her childhood self when she accidentally ended up in 2003. In real life, Awkwafina would have been a teenager during that year.
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* BitchInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler: Greta is revealed to have been a serial killer and took Nora with her to the house she lived in so she can kill her baby herself and frame Nora for it.]]
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* BitchInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler: Greta is revealed to have been a serial killer and took Nora with her to the house she lived in so she can kill her baby herself self and frame Nora for it.]]
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* TurnOfTheMillennium: Nora accidentally time travels to 2003 while getting CPR.
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* TurnOfTheMillennium: Nora accidentally time travels to 2003 while getting CPR.2003.
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* BitchInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler: Greta is revealed to have been a serial killer and took Nora with her to the house she lived in to so she can kill her baby herself and frame Nora for it]]it.]]
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* OrWasItADream?: [[spoiler: "Stop! Nora Time" confirms it was not a dream due to Nora waking up and discovering Greta does not exist and meets the other Asian girl she talked to in the past who becomes a wealthy and happy adult by the time she meets Nora in the present.]]
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* OrWasItADream?: OrWasItADream: [[spoiler: "Stop! Nora Time" confirms it was not a dream due to Nora waking up and discovering Greta does not exist and meets the other Asian girl she talked to in the past who becomes a wealthy and happy adult by the time she meets Nora in the present.]]
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* OrWasItADream?: [[spoiler: "Stop! Nora Time" confirms it was not a dream due to Nora waking up and discovering Greta does not exist and meets the other Asian girl she talked to in the past who becomes a wealthy and happy adult by the time she meets Nora in the present.]]
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* BitchInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler: Greta is revealed to have been a serial killer and took Nora with her to the house she lived in to kill her baby herself and frame Nora for it]]
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* FlirtyStepsiblings: Played with when Nora goes on vacation with Wally and Brenda. [[spoiler:Nora falls in love with another tourist, Chuck, only to learn that he's Brenda's son from a previous marriage. The thought of becoming stepsiblings creeps Nora and Chuck out of continuing their romance.]]
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* [[MyHairCameOutGreen My Hair Came Out Orange]]: At the salon, Nora asks to have her hair bleached blond. Asha, the stylist, warns her against it multiple times ("Bleaching virgin Asian hair ''this'' dark is always unpredictable and often unfortunate") but Nora insists. The result? Wavy '''orange-red''' hair.
-->'''Asha:''' I only feel like 20% bad about this because I did warn you multiple times.
-->'''Asha:''' I only feel like 20% bad about this because I did warn you multiple times.
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* [[MyHairCameOutGreen My Hair Came Out Orange]]: At the salon, Nora asks to have her hair bleached blond. insists on having Asha, the stylist, dye her hair blond, even though Asha warns her against it multiple times ("Bleaching that bleaching virgin Asian hair ''this'' dark is always "always unpredictable and often unfortunate") but Nora insists. ''often unfortunate.''"). The result? Wavy '''orange-red''' hair.
'''red''' hair that Asha says reminds her of [[{{WesternAnimation/Brave}} Merida]].
-->'''Asha:''' ''(stifling giggles)'' I only feel like 20% bad about this because I did warn you multiple times.
-->'''Asha:''' ''(stifling giggles)'' I only feel like 20% bad about this because I did warn you multiple times.
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* [[MyHairCameOutGreen My Hair Came Out Orange]]: At the salon, Nora asks to have her hair bleached blond. Asha, the stylist, warns her against it multiple times ("Bleaching virgin Asian hair ''this'' dark is always unpredictable and often unfortunate") but Nora insists. The result? Wavy '''orange-red''' hair.
-->'''Asha:''' I only feel like 20% bad about this because I did warn you multiple times.
-->'''Nora:''' [[{{Angrish}} What, what even color is this?]] And ''the texture''! Is that a natural wave? Because I look like a Hot f------ Cheeto right now!
-->'''Asha:''' I only feel like 20% bad about this because I did warn you multiple times.
-->'''Nora:''' [[{{Angrish}} What, what even color is this?]] And ''the texture''! Is that a natural wave? Because I look like a Hot f------ Cheeto right now!
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* {{Yellowface}}: Parodied in season 2, when Nora and Melanie's old schoolfriend Jennifar comes back to Queens to hang out, and insists that they cosplay as the 2000 Charlie's Angels--but also insists that she herself gets to be Creator/LucyLiu, in spite of Nora being the one of the three who is Chinese-American. Jennifar's impersonation of Lucy Liu consists of her wearing a black wig and dotting a few freckles on her face, while Nora is obliged to use talcum powder and Vaseline in order to squeeze into her very tight Cameron Diaz costume.
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* BittersweetEnding: Season 1 ends with Nora getting fired from her high paying job at the Chinese tech company that bought her cousin's app and deported from China after taking the fall for her assistant Grace when the police accused her for possessing drugs left by the other foreign expats. Despite that, Nora is happy to learn that Grace finally got promoted by the company after years of trying, and resolves to finally move out in a more thought-out manner.
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* BittersweetEnding: BittersweetEnding:
** Season 1 ends with Nora getting fired from her high paying job at the Chinese tech company that bought her cousin's app and deported from China after taking the fall for her assistant Grace when the police accused her for possessing drugs left by the other foreign expats. Despite that, Nora is happy to learn that Grace finally got promoted by the company after years of trying, and resolves to finally move out in a more thought-out manner.
** Season 1 ends with Nora getting fired from her high paying job at the Chinese tech company that bought her cousin's app and deported from China after taking the fall for her assistant Grace when the police accused her for possessing drugs left by the other foreign expats. Despite that, Nora is happy to learn that Grace finally got promoted by the company after years of trying, and resolves to finally move out in a more thought-out manner.
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** Season 2 ends with Nora realizing that the compound she is staying at is a fraudulent place filled with people pretending to be cut off from society. She also learns about the COVID-19 virus sweeping the world and rushes to New York to be with Grandma, who is all alone in the house (Wally is staying with Brenda). She succeeds and reunites with her. They stay in quarantine together while playing Zoom games with Wally, Brenda and Edmund.
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* ParentalSubstitute: When Nora's friends dare her to prank call a sex hotline, the operator proves surprisingly understanding and forgiving towards Nora. She proceeds to call the operator again whenever she needs motherly advice.
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[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/awkwafina_is_nora_from_queens172971.jpg]]''Awkwafina is Nora from Queens'' is a television series on Creator/ComedyCentral starring Creator/{{Awkwafina}}.
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[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/awkwafina_is_nora_from_queens172971.jpg]]''Awkwafina org/pmwiki/pub/images/5b5a44d7_5500_4a75_bf21_490705ac7bd4.jpeg]]''Awkwafina is Nora from Queens'' is a television series on Creator/ComedyCentral starring Creator/{{Awkwafina}}.
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* ImaginaryFriend: Toeknee for Nora, who torments all of Wally's girlfriends.
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* OlderThanSheLooks: Shu Chu looks exactly the same as she did in TheSixties, except her hair has turned grey.
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* TimeshiftedActor: Creator/JamieChung and Alan Kim play the younger versions of Grandma and Wally in flashbacks.
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** Nora runs into Annabelle Chow when seeking herself from 2003. [[spoiler:However, Olivia J. Lu plays the ''real'' Young Nora.]]
** Creator/JamieChung and Alan Kim play the younger versions of Grandma and Wally in
** Nora runs into Annabelle Chow when seeking herself from 2003. [[spoiler:However, Olivia J. Lu plays the ''real'' Young Nora.]]
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* HelpYourselfInThePast: "Stop! Nora Time" unexpectedly sends Nora back to 2003, giving her the chance to advise her younger self towards a brighter future. [[spoiler:She accidentally gives her advice to another Asian girl instead, who heeds it towards becoming a wealthy and happy adult by the time she meets Nora in the present.]]
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* TokenBlackFriend: Variation, as the majority of cast members are Asian. In 'Grandma & Chill', the Chinese Young Grandma had two friends of color upon arriving in Queens -- a Haitian woman and a Hispanic woman, both nurses -- who just exist to commentate on their love lives.
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* TokenBlackFriend: Variation, as the majority of cast members are Asian. In 'Grandma & Chill', the Chinese Young Grandma had two friends of color upon arriving in Queens -- a Haitian woman and a Hispanic Puerto Rican woman, both nurses -- who just exist to commentate on their love lives.
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* RediscoveringRootsTrip: Alluded to in 'China', as the Chinese-American Nora has never even been on the plane, and her family mentions that this might be a good opportunity to get to know her roots and eat some authentic Chinese food. (She gets KFC.)
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* RediscoveringRootsTrip: Alluded to in 'China', as the Chinese-American Nora has never even been on the a plane, and her family mentions that this might be a good opportunity to get to know her roots and eat some authentic Chinese food. (She gets KFC.)
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* StylisticSuck: In 'Grandma & Chill' the story of how Grandma met Nora's grandfather is told in the style of a low-budget K-Drama. At one point characters are running in front of an obvious green screen.
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* TheStoner: Nora is shown to smoke.
* StylisticSuck: In 'Grandma & Chill' the story of how Grandma met Nora's grandfather is told in the style of a low-budget K-Drama. At onepoint point, characters are running in front of an obvious green screen.
* StylisticSuck: In 'Grandma & Chill' the story of how Grandma met Nora's grandfather is told in the style of a low-budget K-Drama. At one
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* ScreamingAtSquick: Nora and Edmund scream in utter horror and disgust at the sight of Wally's accidental dick pic on Instagram.
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* ShoutOut:
** The episode "Savage Valley":
*** The eponymous game Nora plays is evocative of ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'' and its logo looks exactly like ''VideoGame/StardewValley''.
*** Nora's nonstop working and hyper efficiency after taking Adderall is a WholePlotReference to ''Film/{{Limitless}}''.
** The episode "Savage Valley":
*** The eponymous game Nora plays is evocative of ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'' and its logo looks exactly like ''VideoGame/StardewValley''.
*** Nora's nonstop working and hyper efficiency after taking Adderall is a WholePlotReference to ''Film/{{Limitless}}''.
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* TimeshiftedActor: Creator/JamieChung plays the young version of Grandma in 'Grandma & Chill'.
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* DesperatelySeekingAPurposeInLife: Nora's job at the real estate agency ends after the owner retires, so Nora tells Wally of her desire to find a job that lets her "make an impact".
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* BirdsOfAFeather: Brenda and Wally bond over being struggling single parents with kids in their '20s.
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* GirlFriday: In 'China', the company gives Nora an overly invested and enthusiastic personal assistant named Grace.
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