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* SigingOffCatchphrase: "Goodnight, America, wherever you are."
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* SigingOffCatchphrase: SigningOffCatchphrase: "Goodnight, America, wherever you are."
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* SigingOffCatchphrase: "Goodnight, America, wherever you are."
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* EightiesHair: Jack's producer Billy Po's mullet, and his friend Deacon's flattop haircut.
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* EightiesHair: Jack's producer Billy Po's mullet, and his friend Deacon's flattop hi-top fade haircut.
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* DeliveryGuy: Jack tries to be this when Devon gives birth, but he faints as soon as he sees her in labor.
* QuittingToGetMarried: Devon sells KJCM early in the third season so she can move to Tahiti with her husband and baby.
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* TomboyishName: Devon King.
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* TomboyishName: Devon King.King, and her replacement Nicky Molloy.
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* WeddingDay: Devon marries Richard Clark in "Sale Away." She goes into labor in the middle of the ceremony, causing the priest to rush through the rest of it as quickly as possible. By the time he says, "You may kiss the bride," everyone has run out of the room.
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* ZippingUpTheBodybag: In "The Language Barrier," a Chinese man is killed in a hate crime. A cop pulls a sheet over his head before his body is carried away.
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* PreviouslyOn: "A Snitch in Time (Part 2)" opens this way.
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** "A Snitch in Time (Part 2)" opens thisway.way.
** "Sale Away" opens with a recap of the previous episode, "Ain't Too Proud to Beg."
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* GiveTheBabyAFather: Part of Jack's reason for proposing to Devon. He remembers what it was like to grow up fatherless and doesn't want Devon's baby to go through the same thing.
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* NamedLikeMyName: The father of Devon's child is named [[Creator/DickClark Richard Clark]]. He insists on being called Richard and not Dick.
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* PornStache: Zymak grows one in the third season. Deacon likes it, since he has a mustache himself, but Jack thinks it looks like a caterpillar. He shaves it off two episodes later.
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* PornStache: Zymak grows one in the third season. Deacon likes it, approves, since he has a mustache himself, but Jack thinks it looks like a caterpillar. He shaves it off two episodes later.
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* PornStache: Zymak grows one in the third season. Deacon likes it, since he has a mustache himself. Jack thinks it looks like a caterpillar.
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* PornStache: Zymak grows one in the third season. Deacon likes it, since he has a mustache himself. himself, but Jack thinks it looks like a caterpillar.caterpillar. He shaves it off two episodes later.
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* ElderAbuse: A minor character from "Old Friends" is an old woman whose finger was cut off to steal her wedding ring. [[spoiler:Also, one of the orderlies is euthanizing very elderly patients, and smothers one man who witnesses one of the murders.]]
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* ElderAbuse: A minor character from "Old Friends" is an old woman whose finger was cut off to steal her wedding ring. [[spoiler:Also, one of the orderlies an orderly is euthanizing very elderly patients, and smothers one man who witnesses one of the murders.]]
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* ElderAbuse: A minor character from "Old Friends" is an old woman whose finger was cut off to steal her wedding ring. [[spoiler:Also, one of the orderlies is euthanizing very elderly patients, and smothers one man who witnesses one of the murders.]]
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* ThoroughlyMistakenIdentity: One old man from "Old Friends" is convinced that it's 1945, and Jack is his friend Duncan Ingleheart who was wounded in Normandy.
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* HonestJohnsDealership: Boxing promoter Cash Dollar from "Kid Salinas" has a long history of scams, including a used car dealership where he would turn back the odometers.
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* HonestJohnsDealership: Boxing promoter Cash Dollar Ralston J. Cashdollar from "Kid Salinas" has a long history of scams, including a used car dealership where he would turn back the odometers.
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* BachelorAuction: Jack participates in one in "Class of 1980." Naturally, the woman who buys him is a murder suspect.
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* LamazeClass: Devon and Jack attend one in the third season, after Devon gets pregnant. She tells the teacher Jack is her husband to avoid having to explain [[DisappearedDad the truth]].
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* PornStache: Zymak grows one in the third season. Deacon likes it, since he has a mustache himself. Jack thinks it looks like a caterpillar.
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* CareerVersusMan: In "Nighthawk's Got the Blues," Devon's boyfriend buys a sailboat so he can fulfill his lifelong dream of sailing around the world. He asks Devon to come, but she doesn't want to leave KJCM, so he goes without her.
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* CareerVersusMan: In "Nighthawk's Got the Blues," Devon's boyfriend buys a sailboat so he can fulfill his lifelong dream of sailing around the world. He asks wants Devon to come, but abandon KJCM to come with him, while she doesn't want wants him to leave KJCM, so abandon his dream and stay in San Francisco. In the end they break up, and he goes without her.
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* CareerVersusMan: In "Nighthawk's Got the Blues," Devon's boyfriend buys a sailboat so he can fulfill his lifelong dream of sailing around the world. He asks Devon to come, but she doesn't want to leave KJCM, so he goes without her.
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* LiteraryAllusionTitle: "Wait Until Midnight" is a reference to ''Theatre/WaitUntilDark'', which is also about a blind woman who uses her disability to her advantage.
* LittlestCancerPatient: Emily from "Do You Believe in Miracles?" [[spoiler:Her father even steals a statue of Jesus in the hopes that it will heal her, inadvertently kicking off the episode's plot.]]
* LittlestCancerPatient: Emily from "Do You Believe in Miracles?" [[spoiler:Her father even steals a statue of Jesus in the hopes that it will heal her, inadvertently kicking off the episode's plot.]]
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* LiteraryAllusionTitle: "Wait Until Midnight" is a reference to ''Theatre/WaitUntilDark'', which is also about a blind woman who uses her disability to her advantage.
* LittlestCancerPatient: Emily from "Do You Believe in Miracles?" [[spoiler:Her father even steals a statue of Jesus in the hopes that it will heal her, inadvertently kicking off the episode's plot.]]
* LittlestCancerPatient: Emily from "Do You Believe in Miracles?" [[spoiler:Her father even steals a statue of Jesus in the hopes that it will heal her, inadvertently kicking off the episode's plot.]]
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* LiveButDelayed: Jack's show works like this.
-->'''Billy:''' It's on a seven-second delay, so if the caller becomes abusive or obscene, you have enough time to cut him off before the call gets on the air.\\
'''Jack:''' What if I become abusive or obscene?\\
'''Billy:''' Then I cut you off.
-->'''Billy:''' It's on a seven-second delay, so if the caller becomes abusive or obscene, you have enough time to cut him off before the call gets on the air.\\
'''Jack:''' What if I become abusive or obscene?\\
'''Billy:''' Then I cut you off.
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* CallingCard: A hitman in "Protection" leaves little stick figures, apparently made out of white wire, at every crime scene.
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* CareerEndingInjury: Hank from "Twelve Gauge" used to work in construction. After becoming paralyzed from the waist down in an accident, he feels that he has nothing left to live for.
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* CallingTheOldManOut: When Jack's brother Frankie meets their father J. J. for the first time since Frankie was a baby, the first thing he does is punch him in the face, knocking him to the floor.
-->'''Frankie''': I always promised myself that I'd do that if I ever met this son of a bitch.
-->'''Frankie''': I always promised myself that I'd do that if I ever met this son of a bitch.
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* PreppyName: While investigating a stolen statue, J. J. Killian participates in an art auction under the name Roland Smythe Hide. His performance is so over-the-top, and his British accent so unconvincing, that his cover is blown almost immediately.
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* PoliceBrutality: Zymak is accused of beating up a black teenager in "The Reverend Soundbite." [[spoiler:He was actually beaten during a gang initiation, and made up the lie to avoid getting in trouble with his parents.]]
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* SaltAndPepper: Jack and Deacon, when they work together. Deacon is more relaxed and outgoing than Jack, but he takes his job very seriously, which can lead to conflict when Deacon publishes articles that hurt Jack's case.
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* YourCheatingHeart: In "The Reverend Soundbite," [[spoiler:Zymak admits that he is having an affair with the city supervisor. He eventually breaks it off, but by then the damage to his marriage is done.]]
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* {{Sting}}: A seven-note sting plays every time Jack's show goes to commercial.
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* {{Sting}}: A seven-note sting taken from the theme song's bass line plays every time Jack's show goes to commercial.
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* GuiltByCoincidence: In "A Snitch in Time," a man who matches Jack's description commits a hit-and-run while driving a car that looks like Devon's.
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* PreviouslyOn: "A Snitch in Time (Part 2)" opens this way.
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* {{Badbutt}}: The villain of "Kid Salinas" calls another character a "worthless sack of poop."
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* CutHimselfShaving: When Jack has a black eye from being punched in the face, he tells Zymak that a book fell on him after he dozed off.
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* HonestJohnsDealership: Boxing promoter Cash Dollar from "Kid Salinas" has a long history of scams, including a used car dealership where he would turn back the odometers.
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* TheIllegal: Kid Salinas, aka Carlos Mendez, came to America illegally before falling under the control of a corrupt boxing promoter.
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* TheTeaser: Every episode starts with one.
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* SeanConneryIsAboutToShootYou: The villain of "Blood Red" fires his gun into the camera.
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* SeanConneryIsAboutToShootYou: SeanConneryIsAboutToShootYou:
** The villain of "Blood Red" fires his gun into thecamera.camera.
** During the ColdOpen of "Kid Salinas," a boxer punches the camera in the face. The screen goes black, followed by the TitleSequence.
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* OffTheWagon: Nearly happens in "Based on a True Story." Jack puts a cigarette in his mouth and raises the lighter, pauses for a moment, then mutters "Nah," and spits the cigarette out.
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* DisappearedDad: Jack's father walked out on him and his siblings when they were kids, leaving them $486 and an overdue rent bill.
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* DisappearedDad: Jack's father walked out on him and his siblings when they were kids, he was seven, leaving them $486 and an overdue rent bill.
