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* CanadaEh: Averted. The show portrays a fairly realistic (at least, as realistic as you can get on a TV show that features time travel) and non-stereotypical version of urban Canadian life. Which isn't surprising, since it's a [[CanadianSeries Canadian show]].

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* MeaningfulName: Erica has an occasional nemesis whose name is "Antigone". (Antigone, antagonist, geddit? Nyuk Nyuk.)


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* PunnyName: Erica has an occasional nemesis whose name is "Antigone" (...as in "antagonist".)
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* CultDefector: Seth writes a memoir about escaping a cult. [[spoiler:It turns out to be a sect of Orthodox Judaism that Seth considers cultish. Given that his family shunned him for leaving, he has a point.]]
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* FanService: Erica manages to spend a lot of time in various states of undress throughout the series. Erica losing her towel while her boyfriend manages to stay fully clothed is actually the video example for ReallyGetsAround.

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* FanService: Erica manages to spend a lot of time in various states of undress throughout the series. Erica losing her towel while her boyfriend manages to stay fully clothed is actually the video example for ReallyGetsAround. There’s also sexy scenes with Cassidy, Ryan, Ethan, and Kai, among others.



* FiendishFraternity: When Erica manages to prevent Leo's death and he goes to university, he joins a frat. They're all bullies who torment him, pushing him into a deep depression, and he's also sodomized during his initiation, a crime for which none of them shows any remorse, sending him over the DespairEventHorizon. Even worse, Leo's rapist shows no regret about it when Erica confronts him.

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* FiendishFraternity: When Erica manages to prevent Leo's death and he Leo goes to university, he joins a frat. They're all bullies who torment him, pushing him into a deep depression, and he's also sodomized during his initiation, a crime for which none of them shows any remorse, sending him over the DespairEventHorizon. Even worse, Leo's rapist shows no regret about it when Erica confronts him.



* GayRomanticPhase: In one episode, Erica explores a time during her university days where she dated a female classmate.
* GirlOnGirlIsHot: The Season 1 episode "Everything She Wants" has a lot of this, as Erica explores her "feelings" for a lesbian friend, since one of her regrets was hurting her friend by not making her discomfort with the friend's advances clear in the past. However, once she travels back to the past, she begins reconsidering and wondering what she likes about the closeness with her friend. That closeness gets physical.

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* GayRomanticPhase: In one episode, Erica explores a time during her university days where she dated a female classmate.
* GirlOnGirlIsHot: The Season 1 episode "Everything She Wants" has a lot of this, as Erica explores her "feelings"
feelings for a lesbian friend, since one Cassidy. One of her regrets was hurting her friend Cassidy by not making her discomfort with the friend's advances it clear in the past.sooner that she (Erica) is straight. However, once she travels back to the past, she begins reconsidering and wondering what she likes about the closeness with her friend. That closeness gets physical. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, Erica isn’t comfortable getting as sexual as Cassidy wants, and they realize it won’t work out. So Cassidy ends up hurting anyway.]]
* GirlOnGirlIsHot: The Season 1 episode "Everything She Wants" has this. In one scene, Erica and Cassidy are dancing at a club. Some guys in the bar are watching, clearly thinking they look hot together.



* InterClassRomance: Sam's relationship with Lenin revolves around her struggling with having this not be the case with her being a doctor and him being a janitor

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* InterClassRomance: Sam's relationship with Lenin revolves around her struggling with having this not be the case with her being a doctor and him being a janitor

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