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* Double Standard Rape Female On Female: Vause threatens to rape Pennsatucky, and this is played for laughs, titilation, and implied to be something Pennsatucky has coming.
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* MoodDissonance: Gets used a lot, with the show often switching from comedy to tragedy very quickly. This trope is especially pronounced in the very last scene of the last episode of season one: [[spoiler:Everyone except Chapman is having a great time at the Christmas pageant, inmates and guards all together. Even Doggett, who gets to perform in the pageant, is happy. Chapman meanwhile, is totally alone and friendless, and goes outside in the snow, where Doggett follows her to kill her.]] The switch from the warmth and happiness of the [[spoiler:pageant]] to [[spoiler:Chapman fighting for life alone in the cold Winter darkness]] is very jarring, and very effective.
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* MoodDissonance: Gets used a lot, with the show often switching from comedy to tragedy very quickly. This trope is especially pronounced in the very last scene of the last episode of season one: [[spoiler:Everyone except Chapman is having a great time at the Christmas pageant, inmates and guards all together. Even Doggett, who gets to perform in the pageant, is happy. Chapman meanwhile, is totally alone and friendless, and goes outside in the snow, where Doggett follows her to kill her.]] The switch from the warmth and happiness of the [[spoiler:pageant]] to [[spoiler:Chapman fighting for her life alone in the cold Winter darkness]] is very jarring, and very effective.
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Not so. He doesn\'t like lesbianism, but nothing implies he\'s religious or a regular church-goer.
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** Also, "I could tell you that I'm going to make you my [[PrisonRape prison bitch]]. I could tell you that I'm going to make you my house mouse. That I will have sex with you even if we don't have an emotional connection."
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* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: "I have been felt up...stalked...and called Taylor Swift."
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* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: "I have been felt up...stalked... stalked... and called Taylor Swift."
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* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: "I have been felt up...stalked...and called Taylor Swift."
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* BerserkButton: Don't tell Chapman that she doesn't deserve to be loved by anyone.
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* BerserkButton: Don't tell Chapman that she doesn't deserve to be loved by anyone.anyone.
* BettyAndVeronica: Larry and Alex, respectively, for Piper.
* BettyAndVeronica: Larry and Alex, respectively, for Piper.
* LoveTriangle: The two major ones are [[spoiler: Piper/Alex/Larry and Daya/Bennett/Pornstache.]]
* OnlySaneWoman: Susan, among the guards, is the only one who seems to be completely free of corruption or chips on her shoulder.
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* WhatTheHellHero: Pennsatucky delivers a fairly epic one to Piper in episode 12, when she points out that by {{Gaslighting}} her, Piper (and Alex, although Pennsatucky chooses to put all the blame on Piper) pretty much completely destroyed her life, and very nearly destroyed the faith in God that was getting her through prison.
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* WhatTheHellHero: Pennsatucky delivers a fairly epic one to Piper in episode 12, when she points out that by {{Gaslighting}} her, Piper (and Alex, although Pennsatucky chooses to put all the blame on Piper) pretty much completely destroyed her life, and very nearly destroyed the faith in God that was getting her through prison.prison.
** Piper gets a few of these, with a few memorable ones coming from [[spoiler: Suzanne/Crazy Eyes, Larry, and Alex.]]
* WhatsAnXLikeYouDoingInAYLikeThis
** Piper gets a few of these, with a few memorable ones coming from [[spoiler: Suzanne/Crazy Eyes, Larry, and Alex.]]
* WhatsAnXLikeYouDoingInAYLikeThis
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* CastShowOff: The Christmas pagaent was an excuse to show off all the talents the actresses had.
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* CastShowOff: TheCastShowOff: The Christmas pagaent was an excuse to show off all the talents the actresses had.
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* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: Loosely based on the memoir of the same name by Piper Kerman, on whom Piper Chapman is based. Some lines of dialogue are lifted directly from the book, but no characters save for Piper and Larry have the same names as they do in the book. In RealLife, Piper and Larry [[spoiler: never went through any public relationship turmoil as a result of her stay in prison.]] Her family was also very supportive and loving during her time leading up to, in, and after her stay in prison, quite unlike the snooty WASPs Piper's family is depicted as in the series. Piper's drug-dealing ex, called "Nora" in the book, was not housed in the same minimum-security prison as her, though they did see each other while in a Chicago prison for the trial of their drug kingpins.
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* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: Loosely based on the memoir of the same name by Piper Kerman, on whom Piper Chapman is based. Some lines of dialogue are lifted directly from the book, but no characters save for Piper and Larry have the same names as they do in the book. In RealLife, Piper and Larry [[spoiler: never went through any public relationship turmoil as a result of her stay in prison.]] Her family was also very supportive and loving during her time leading up to, in, and after her stay in prison, quite unlike the snooty WASPs Piper's family is depicted as in the series. Piper's drug-dealing ex, called "Nora" in the book, was not housed in the same minimum-security prison as her, though they did see each other while in a Chicago prison for the trial of their drug kingpins.kingpins.
* WhatTheHellHero: Pennsatucky delivers a fairly epic one to Piper in episode 12, when she points out that by {{Gaslighting}} her, Piper (and Alex, although Pennsatucky chooses to put all the blame on Piper) pretty much completely destroyed her life, and very nearly destroyed the faith in God that was getting her through prison.
* WhatTheHellHero: Pennsatucky delivers a fairly epic one to Piper in episode 12, when she points out that by {{Gaslighting}} her, Piper (and Alex, although Pennsatucky chooses to put all the blame on Piper) pretty much completely destroyed her life, and very nearly destroyed the faith in God that was getting her through prison.
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* MoodWhiplash: ''Bora Bora Bora'' contrasts Alex's hilarious trolling of Pennsatucky with Tricia's gut-wrenching life story.
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* CheckovsGun: You didn't think the writers would forget about [[spoiler: that missing screwdriver]] did you?
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* [[DirtyCop Dirty Guard]]: Everyone working in the prison is corrupt to some extent, and if they do treat an inmates like human beings, they are ''explicitly'' ordered by higher ups to start treating them more like animals. Even the best of the guards are shown to be apathetic or incompetent.
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* NoBisexuals: Played with. While the word bisexual is rarely, if ever, mentioned in the series. Only "straight" and "lesbian" seem to be mentioned by inmates as options. But Piper repeatedly mentions that she in't straight and she isn't entirely lesbian, and likes attractive ''people''. And her brother calls Larry out on trying to force Piper's identity into a specific label anyways.
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* HypocriticalHumore: Two examples from the episode "The Chickening":
-->'''Red''': Black girls hear about a chicken, of course this will happen.
-->'''Chapman''': Why? Because all black people love chicken?
-->'''Red''': Don't be racist. Because they're all on heroin. Somebody's been telling them there's heroin in the chicken.
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-->'''Red''': Those Spanish probably won't even eat [the chicken], just cut her throat and drink her blood, or something else superstitious. All I wanted was to eat the chicken that is smarter than other chickens and to absorb its power. And make a nice Kiev.
-->'''Red''': Black girls hear about a chicken, of course this will happen.
-->'''Chapman''': Why? Because all black people love chicken?
-->'''Red''': Don't be racist. Because they're all on heroin. Somebody's been telling them there's heroin in the chicken.
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-->'''Red''': Those Spanish probably won't even eat [the chicken], just cut her throat and drink her blood, or something else superstitious. All I wanted was to eat the chicken that is smarter than other chickens and to absorb its power. And make a nice Kiev.
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* MailOrderBride: Healy's wife
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* MailOrderBride: Healy's wifewife.
* MoodDissonance: Gets used a lot, with the show often switching from comedy to tragedy very quickly. This trope is especially pronounced in the very last scene of the last episode of season one: [[spoiler:Everyone except Chapman is having a great time at the Christmas pageant, inmates and guards all together. Even Doggett, who gets to perform in the pageant, is happy. Chapman meanwhile, is totally alone and friendless, and goes outside in the snow, where Doggett follows her to kill her.]] The switch from the warmth and happiness of the [[spoiler:pageant]] to [[spoiler:Chapman fighting for life alone in the cold Winter darkness]] is very jarring, and very effective.
* MoodDissonance: Gets used a lot, with the show often switching from comedy to tragedy very quickly. This trope is especially pronounced in the very last scene of the last episode of season one: [[spoiler:Everyone except Chapman is having a great time at the Christmas pageant, inmates and guards all together. Even Doggett, who gets to perform in the pageant, is happy. Chapman meanwhile, is totally alone and friendless, and goes outside in the snow, where Doggett follows her to kill her.]] The switch from the warmth and happiness of the [[spoiler:pageant]] to [[spoiler:Chapman fighting for life alone in the cold Winter darkness]] is very jarring, and very effective.
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* UnusualEuphemism: Chapman lists several threats she might use to scare Dina, the last of which, riffing on a Pablo Neruda quotation, is "I'm going to do to you what the Spring does to cherry trees, but in a prison way."
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* BiTheWay: Piper and Morello. Even actually mentions the Kinsey scale and the spectrums of sexuality when accused of "turning" gay or straight.
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* GranolaGirl: Yoga Jones.
* HellholePrison: Averted. Inmates have a pretty decent amount of freedom to socialize, and not all the guards exploit their power to the extent that Pornstache and Healy do. [[spoiler: Psych, on the other hand...]]
* HellholePrison: Averted. Inmates have a pretty decent amount of freedom to socialize, and not all the guards exploit their power to the extent that Pornstache and Healy do. [[spoiler: Psych, on the other hand...]]
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* GranolaGirl: Yoga Jones.
Jones. Piper too was this, considering she was obsessed with being environmentally conscious, trying out vegan diets, and trying to get a soap-making company started.
* HellholePrison:Averted. Inmates have a pretty decent amount of freedom to socialize, and not all the guards exploit their power to the extent that Pornstache and Healy do. [[spoiler: Psych, on the other hand...]]]] Though for the most part if there is any sort of problem or conflict, the employees of the prison will either be completely inactive and apathetic at best, if not actively hostile.
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* BiTheWay: Piper and Morello.
* CallBack: Nicky repeats Red's "he's not an eggplant, he's retarded!" joke in episode 13.
* CallBack: Nicky repeats Red's "he's not an eggplant, he's retarded!" joke in episode 13.
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* CastFullOfGay: While it's hard to be absolutely certain how many of the characters are actually gay or bisexual or if they're just settling with what's available, there is an overwhelming amount of lesbian sexcapades going on in the show.
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* RuleOfFunny: Gif files do not actually make sounds, but it's simply funnier if the porn gif Larry saw made sex moans.
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* TheNoodleIncident: "Maple syrup is now contraband due to last night's incident."
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* NeverTrustATrailer: Advertisements for the show only shows sassy one-liners from the characters to make it seem more like a standard comedy series like GossipGirl or DesperateHousewives, with her lesbian affair mentioned as though it were just a silly joke.
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