History Series / BostonCommon

** Joy breaking off her and Jack's engagement towards the end of the series.

* JerkAss: Jack, until he and Boyd found common ground following Jack and Joy's breakup.

* BirthdayEpisode: "This Ain't No Party, This Ain't No Disco..." (Season 2, Episode 3). [[spoiler: In the episode's first minute, Tasha gives Jack a birthday card to give to Joy, as it's Joy's birthday the following day. This makes Jack realize that [[ForgottenBirthday he's forgotten about the occasion]]. Jack reluctantly recruits Boyd to throw a SurpriseParty for Joy, though at a cost: Jack will get Boyd a ski weekend at the university's condo on Mt. Killington in Vermont between Christmas and New Year's. The party must be thrown that night, as Jack as a lecture he can't get out of on Joy's birthday night. The two meet up that afternoon, and quickly put everything together (the party will be held at Jack and Joy's apartment), and invite guests. There's just one problem: they forget to have someone "go shopping" with Joy and accompany her back to the apartment for the party. Joy's not

* DancePartyEnding: The pilot ends with Boyd getting down in the student union to Bizarre Inc's 1992 single "I'm Gonna Get You", which he was listening to in the cold open during his and Wyleen's drive to Boston (in this scene, Boyd was ''[[DontTryThisAtHome listening to the song on his headphones while driving!]]''), with the night janitor watching (the song is playing on the radio that is on the janitor's cart), wondering WhatTheFuAreYouDoing?

* StalkerWithACrush: Sometimes, Boyd would go through Joy's mailbox in the student union, or wait around for her just to have a conversation. [[spoiler: In by far his creepiest move in the series, he once went through Joy's trash to find pieces of a note she wrote him, only to throw it away. Attempting to piece it back together in his and Wyleen's apartment, he finds that most of the ink has been dissolved by strawberry yogurt.]]

* MaturityIsSeriousBusiness: Boyd gets some pretty serious character development in "Mercury Retrograde" (Season 2, Episode 4). [[spoiler: The early part of season two sees Boyd trying to move past his feelings for Joy. In this episode, Tasha sets him up on a blind date with a woman named Lisa. Boyd attempts to call Lisa, leaving her many - rather embarrassing - messages on her answering machine (you can tell Boyd hasn't dated in a while). As this is going on, Joy and Jack are cuddling inside Jack's classroom. When Jack tells Joy he loves her, she responds, "I love you, too, ''Boyd''." Jack and Joy then fight about what she said, and Joy leaves the room. She makes her way to the Pritchetts' apartment, where she tells Boyd what happened. They're sitting on the couch, ready to kiss, and possibly go even further, when Joy begins crying. She tells Boyd she doesn't know who she wants between him and Jack, and it's ''Boyd'' who tells her that he can't wait on her forever, and that Joy has to decide for herself who she wants to be with, and what she wants to do with her life. Joy returns to Jack, and they get engaged on a whim. Later on, Joy and Boyd are outside the student union, Joy waiting on Jack, and Boyd waiting on Lisa. Joy attempts to apologize for what happened, but Boyd tells her an apology isn't necessary. Lisa approaches Boyd, telling him the messages he left on her machine were "cute", and they leave, as Joy leaves with Jack, looking back at Boyd, as she is not over him, while he is making good progress on getting over her. Boyd does have some lapses on his feelings for Joy during the course of the second season, but this season focuses more on Joy's (obvious) feelings for Boyd.]]

* MistakenForPedophile: In "Virginia Reeling" (Season 1, Episode 6), Wyleen meets a famous country musician named Aubrey [=McLean=], whose lead singer has decided to leave the band finish high school. [[spoiler: Wyleen asks [=McLean=] how old the girl is, and he answers 15, and says they've been together for six months. Wyleen responds, "You know what they say, Aubrey: '15'll get you 20.'" Aubrey assures Wyleen that his "attraction was strictly vocal."]]

* MistakenForPedophile: In "Virginia Reeling" (Season 1, Episode 6), Wyleen meets a famous country musician named Aubrey McLean, whose lead singer has decided to leave the band finish high school. [[spoiler: Wyleen asks McLean how old the girl is, and he answers 15, and says they've been together for six months. Wyleen responds, "You know what they say, Aubrey: '15'll get you 20.'" Aubrey assures Wyleen that his "attraction was strictly vocal."]]

** At least one of these stories was taken from [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QOuU30FabM Clark's set at the 1995 HBO Young Comedians Special]]. [[spoiler:Boyd tells Joy about how his parents forced him to give up his pet cow because he tried to make it eat hamburger. This was a part of Clark's set. Too bad the series didn't last any longer; it would've been interesting to see how the writers could make Clark's story about reporting an Irish girl to Immigration and Naturalization Services after she dumped him into a Boyd tale.]]

** At least one of these stories was taken from [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QOuU30FabM Clark's set at the 1995 HBO Young Comedians Special]. [[spoiler:Boyd tells Joy about how his parents forced him to give up his pet cow because he tried to make it eat hamburger. This was a part of Clark's set. Too bad the series didn't last any longer; it would've been interesting to see how the writers could make Clark's story about reporting an Irish girl to Immigration and Naturalization Services after she dumped him into a Boyd tale.]]

* TheDanza: Tasha Smith as Tasha King.
** D.C. Douglas as D.C., Wyleen's chief rival.

* CaliforniaUniversity: Randolph Harrington College is based on a real Boston school, Emerson College, the alma mater of both Clark and Mutchnick.

* PutOnABus: Sherman (Fred Applegate) was never seen again after the pilot, and he was the one who hired Boyd.

* Homage: The first post-credits scene in "A Cross to Bear" (Season 2, Episode 21) features an homage to ''Seinfeld'': the opening notes of the theme song play, and the camera pans up and zooms in on Wyleen and Boyd's apartment. It turns out Wyleen is watching the beginning of a ''Seinfeld'' episode, until Boyd pushes her off the couch so he can watch ''[[WesternAnimation/MrMagoo Mr. Magoo]]''.

* RagsToRiches: In "A Night in Camelot" (Season 2, Episode 13), [[spoiler: Boyd and Jack discover a pair of tennis shoes once belonging to President Kennedy in a box Boyd had brought out of the student union's basement. Jack calls Sotheby's to see how much the shoes are worth, having to leave a message because it's Friday afternoon. So, during the weekend, Jack, Joy, Leonard, and Wyleen take turns keeping an eye on the shoes. Come Monday, the quartet begin arguing about how to split the money. The phone rings in the student union, and a homeless man who had appeared earlier in the episode (played by Patrick Thomas O'Brien) answers it. When he hears Sotheby's quote for the shoes, he takes off with them, the other four too busy to notice because they're still fighting. The man later appears at an art gallery Boyd and Tasha are at, wearing a new suit, new glasses, and sporting a better hairdo.]]

* RagsToRiches: In "A Night in Camelot" (Season 2, Episode 13), [[spoiler: Boyd and Jack discover a pair of shoes once belonging to President Kennedy in a box Boyd had brought out of the student union's basement. Jack calls Sotheby's to see how much the shoes are worth, having to leave a message because it's Friday afternoon. So, during the weekend, Jack, Joy, Leonard, and Wyleen take turns keeping an eye on the shoes. Come Monday, the quartet begin arguing about how to split the money. The phone rings in the student union, and a homeless man who had appeared earlier in the episode (played by Patrick Thomas O'Brien) answers it. When he hears Sotheby's quote for the shoes, he takes off with them, the other four too busy to notice because they're still fighting. The man later appears at an art gallery Boyd and Tasha are at, wearing a new suit, new glasses, and sporting a better hairdo.]]

* RagsToRiches: In "A Night in Camelot" (Season 2, Episode 13), [[spoiler: Boyd and Jack discover a pair of shoes once belonging to President Kennedy in a box Boyd had brought out of the student union's basement. Jack calls Sotheby's to see how much the shoes are worth, having to leave a message because it's Friday afternoon. So, during the weekend, Jack, Joy, Leonard, and Wyleen take turns keeping an eye on the shoes. Come Monday, the quartet begin arguing about how to split the money. The phone rings in the student union, and a homeless man who had appeared earlier in the episode (played by Patrick Thomas O'Brien) answers it. When he hears Sotheby's quote for the shoes, he takes off with them, the four still fighting. The man later appears at an art gallery Boyd and Tasha are at, wearing a new suit, new glasses, and sporting a better hairdo.]]

* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Throughout "Everybody's Stalking" (Season 1, Episode 9), [[spoiler: Wyleen is obsessed with a snack food called Crack 'Ums.]]