History Series / JustShootMe

* BlackComedySuicide: In "Donnie Reedemed" after Donnie's girlfriend leaves him he tries to kill himself a couple times, which is [[BungledSuicide completely bungled]]. This is {{played for laughs}}.

* BookDumb: Nina.

* DrinkBasedCharacterization: Finch always orders a Sea Breeze; the show usually treats it as a sign that he isn't very manly.

* ExpansionPackPast: Nina. A separate page would be required to list all the examples.

* FanserviceExtra: The ''Blush'' covers that are shown between scenes. Also, the setting is a fashion magazine and often features real-life supermodels as guest stars.

* TheGhost

* GloryDays: Nina and Jack sometimes lament their best times.

* ImmuneToDrugs: Nina, seemingly.

* InflationNegation: "The Kiss" has a landlady who is apparently so far behind the times that she charges ridiculously low prices for her apartments, resulting in her tenants doing all her shopping for her to prevent her from catching on. In the end, it turns out that she is aware of her apartments' true value but goes along with the game because she is more concerned with having good people around than making money.

* IntoxicationEnsues: Lemon Wacky Hello was the former Trope Namer.

** Finch.
** Elliott, depending on how attractive you consider him to be.

* MoustacheDePlume: In universe example, inverted. The advice column "Miss Pretty" is actually written by Finch.

* MyBelovedSmother: In "Mum's the Word", Nina dates a guy whose mom is an epic one. He still lives with her, and she tried her hardest to drive them apart, using every means at her disposal. In the end, he chooses her over Nina.

* ThemeTune

* ChekhovsAshes: In "Bye Bye, Binnie". Nina carries around the urn of her best friend's ashes, acting as if she were still alive. One morning she finds the urn empty and realizes that putting it in the mechanical bull at a bar was maybe not the best idea.

''Just Shoot Me!'' (1997–2003) was an Creator/{{NBC}} WorkCom about Maya Gallo (Laura San Giacomo), a highly qualified but difficult-to-work-with journalist, who, after alienating one news anchor too many, is forced to take a job with the trashy ''[[Magazine/{{Cosmopolitan}} Cosmopolitan]]''-esque fashion magazine run by her estranged father Jack Gallo (Creator/GeorgeSegal).

Originally focusing on the father-daughter relationship, the show quickly became a workplace ensemble piece. The other main characters included Dennis Finch (Creator/DavidSpade), Jack's snarky personal assistant; Nina Van Horn (Creator/WendieMalick), a hard-partying ex-model turned fashion editor; and Elliott [=DiMauro=] (Enrico Colantoni), the head photographer and a relentless womanizer. Creator/BrianPosehn had a recurring role as Kevin, the weird and awkward mailroom clerk.

* ParentalSexualitySquick: Red, Dennis' father, briefly gets involved with Nina. When he asks Dennis something related to their sex life, Dennis faints.

* RightBehindMe: Nina and Elliot have lunch with Greta, Nina's old FormerlyFit roommate. After Greta leaves, Nina starts talking about how thin she used to be. When Elliot says that Greta looks beautiful anyway, Nina thinks Greta is behind her, despite watching her walk out the door.

** In "Saving Private Trainer", Jack's handsome new ex-marine trainer keeps trying to ask Nina out. Nina, who usually ReallyGetsAround, keeps refusing, much to her surprise. It is at episode's end that she discovers why she's not attracted to him: they're cousins.

** The drag queen Robert in "The Goodbye Girl" mentions planning on having a sex reassingment.

** In "Puppetmaster", Maya dates the puppeteer behind a popular children's show. A panda {{Expy}} of Maya soon appears and each real-life date is somehow reflected on the show (such as the panda hogging all of the pizza). It gets so out of hand that Maya assaults him on live television.

* {{Transgender}}: Dennis' childhood friend Bert who moved to Colorado when they were 12 came back into Dennis' life as an adult in Season 5 named Brandi and was played by Creator/JennyMcCarthy. Dennis found it difficult at first to accept her but after talking to Maya, it was like old times. Until Dennis tried to make a move and Brandi makes it clear that they're LikeBrotherAndSister. Dennis wasn't sure at first how to handle the attraction, but he accepted how he felt.

Originally focusing on the father-daughter relationship, the show quickly became a workplace ensemble piece. The other main characters included Dennis Finch (Creator/DavidSpade), Jack's snarky personal assistant; Nina Van Horn (Wendie Malick), a hard-partying ex-model turned fashion editor; and Elliott [=DiMauro=] (Enrico Colantoni), the head photographer and a relentless womanizer. Creator/BrianPosehn had a recurring role as Kevin, the weird and awkward mailroom clerk.

* AppealToFlattery: In one episode, Finch goes undercover as a high school to get information for an article for the magazine. He ends up becoming popular with the younger generation and uses the opportunity as an excuse to relive his high school years. The intellectual [[HotLibrarian Maya]] asks him how the assignment is going. Finch tells her that he found out that high school boys secretly find bookish and intelligent girls attractive. This pleases Maya, who leaves without pressing him for more information that would've exposed Finch's plan.

** Dennis expresses surprise when his friend Brandi's attracted to a woman they both liked in high school, thinking that her being transgender means Brandi is exclusively into guys. She indicates this is an exception, but they don't appear to realize that bisexuality's even a possibility.
** The recurring joke that Maya's gay also don't make much sense unless you assume she's ''really'' closeted, given all her relationships have been men. She's straight, but they don't ever joke that she might be bi and also into women.

* AppealToFlatter: In one episode, Finch goes undercover as a high school to get information for an article for the magazine. He ends up becoming popular with the younger generation and uses the opportunity as an excuse to relive his high school years. The intellectual [[HotLibrarian Maya]] asks him how the assignment is going. Finch tells her that he found out that high school boys secretly find bookish and intelligent girls attractive. This pleases Maya, who leaves without pressing him for more information that would've exposed Finch's plan.

* NoBisexuals: Dennis expresses surprise when his friend Brandi's attracted to a woman they both liked in high school, thinking that her being transgender means Brandi is exclusively into guys. She indicates this is an exception, but they don't appear to realize that bisexuality's even a possibility.

** Elliott's brother Donnie has pretended to be mentally disabled since he graduated from high school in order to avoid having to get a job and start supporting himself.

* ObfuscatingDisability: Elliott's brother Donnie has pretended to be mentally disabled since he graduated from high school in order to avoid having to get a job and start supporting himself.

* NobodyLovesTheBassist: In "Nina in the Cantina", Nina keeps reminiscing about the "magical weekend" she once spent with the lead singer of a famous rock band. When she discovers that she actually slept with the bassist, she is horrified.

* BadassGay: In "Finch and the Fighter" Finch dates female boxer Kelly, who's revealed to be bisexual and have a jealous ex-girlfriend, Maria, a fellow boxer who counts as well. Both are shown to be skilled in their profession.

* HowTheCharacterStoleChristmas: Finch, of course.

** [[StrawFeminist Maya shills her feminist ideals repeatedly]], yet she dates hunks and womanizers, respectively rewarding them for getting by on their looks and objectifying women.
** In "Old Boyfriends", Jack is called a hypocrite for objecting to Maya dating an older man.

* LipstickLesbian: Jill, the gorgeous, very feminine model in "Two Girls For Every Boy". Finch is delighted when he learns she's attracted to Maya and begins trying his best to get them together [[GirlOnGirlIsHot for his pleasure]], despite the fact that [[IncompatibleOrientation Maya is straight]].

** In "Two Girls for Every Boy", Maya and a lesbian model get revenge on Finch, who tried to hook them up, by pretending they're willing to have a threesome with him but only if he completes an insane list of impossible tasks before sundown. Throughout the day, Finch is able to get anything he wants from fellow men simply by mentioning that it will help him in this goal (a mounted policeman even gives him a ride on his horse). After he fails miserably, the crowd of men waiting to know if he had succeeded (where they all failed apparently) is disappointed when he shrugs and says no… cue a Slow Clap moment for his effort.

** In the ending of another episode, Maya confronts a colleague about using flirtatious behavior to get her way around the office. The other woman then uses these same tricks on Maya, who starts getting into it. The other woman then walks away, having won the argument. After they're both gone, Dennis emerges from behind a desk, having just listened to the interplay.

** Jack's handsome new ex-marine trainer keeps trying to ask Nina out. Nina, who usually ReallyGetsAround, keeps refusing, much to her surprise. It is at episode's end that she discovers why she's not attracted to him: they're cousins.
** In another episode an old female friend of Jack's shows up with her son, and he and Maya show signs of being interested in each other. Jack, however, is horrified, because he had a one-night stand right before her wedding and the timing would line up with him being the young man's father. Eventually she reveals that she secretly got a sample of Jack's DNA years ago and tested it, showing he's not the father. By this point though Nina's broken the news to the would-be couple, and the man is horrified, so he breaks up with Maya.

* SurpriseIncest: "Where's Poppa" has Jack worried that Harrison, Maya's latest boyfriend, is his son by the widow of his friend (and thus her half-brother). It turns out he's wrong-they never actually had sex either. Harrison breaks up with Maya anyway over freaking out at her methods to keep him from discovering this.

* SoapboxSadie: Maya. Often leading to HypocriticalHumor on her part.