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* DisabledLoveInterest: Sydney's high school boyfriend Kyle has his arm amputated due to cancer. She can handle it, but he can't and breaks up with her. Later, Joanie dates a paraplegic, but it fizzles out when she can't get over her anxiety that he'll be unable to perform and he receives an out of town job offer.
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* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: The comatose Sydney looks as gorgeous as she did when she was healthy.
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* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: The comatose Sydney looks as gorgeous as she did when she was healthy. The same thing happens when she's ill with mononucleosis a few years later.
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* AndStarring: Mike Farell gets this distinction.
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* FeverDreamEpisode: Jim becomes very ill in one episode and spends most of his scenes conversing with one of his canine patients. In another, Sydney can't understand why she keeps hallucinating the characters from Literature/AlicesAdventuresInWonderland until she finally collapses and is diagnosed with encephalitis.
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* {{Cliffhanger}}: The fourth season ends with both Tina and her newborn son in perilous condition and Sydney trapped in her burning clinic with her only means of escape being the schizophrenic patient who's been stalking her for weeks. By the next season opening, all situations have been resolved safely--Tina and the baby are fine, Sydney is safe, and her patient is in the hospital. The only drawback is that her clinic is still in ruins.
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* LifesavingMisfortune: Sydney's schizophrenic patient spends several episodes stalking her. But because of this, he's able to rescue her when her clinic catches fire.
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* NotMeThisTime: It's seems likely that Sydney's schizophrenic pyromaniac patient Kevin set her clinic on fire, but it turns out to have been electrical.
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* CatapultNightmare: Sydney tends to wake up like this from her dreams even though they're usually comedic.
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* TheVillainKnowsWhereYouLive: Sydney returns home from work to find her schizophrenic patient chatting with Joanie and Hannah in the living room as comfortably as if he's known the family for years. Already unnerved by this, she's even moreso to find that he has a StalkerShrine full of pictures of her. Later, she finds her car papered with pictures of her family and coworkers.
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* TheVillainKnowsWhereYouLive: Sydney returns home from work to find her schizophrenic patient Kevin chatting with Joanie and Hannah in the living room as comfortably as if he's known the family for years. Already unnerved by this, she's even moreso to find that he has a StalkerShrine full of pictures of her. Later, she finds her car papered with pictures of her family and coworkers.
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* WhamShot: Sydney walks into the hospital room where her patient Kevin is visiting a badly burned friend of his and chatting with another friend. But a confused Sydney asks "Who are you talking to?" as we see the room from her point of view--it's ''completely empty'', thus revealing that Kevin's friend is a hallucination and that he's mentally ill.
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* TheVillainKnowsWhereYouLive: Already freaked out to find her schizophrenic patient has a StalkerShrine full of pictures of her, she's even moreso to find her car papered with pictures of her family and coworkers.
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* TheVillainKnowsWhereYouLive: Already freaked out Sydney returns home from work to find her schizophrenic patient chatting with Joanie and Hannah in the living room as comfortably as if he's known the family for years. Already unnerved by this, she's even moreso to find that he has a StalkerShrine full of pictures of her, she's even moreso to find her. Later, she finds her car papered with pictures of her family and coworkers.
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* ItHasBeenAnHonor: Jim and Sam exchange this sentiment when the latter decides to accept a prestigious fellowship rather than enter a professional partnership, with Jim sincerely thanking him for taking over during his recovery and Sam being equally grateful for the learning experience.
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* ShotgunWedding: Sydney and Joanie think their parents had this when they realize that she was born ''8'' months after their wedding, but her father tells her that she was conceived on their honeymoon and born a month premature. There was still a variation on this in that they married quickly to spare her the humiliation of having been dumped by her original fiancé only a few weeks before ''their'' wedding.
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* ShotgunWedding: Sydney and Joanie think their parents had this when they realize that she was born ''8'' months after their wedding, but her father tells her that she was conceived on their honeymoon and born a month premature. There was still a variation on this in that they married quickly to spare her the humiliation of having been dumped by her original fiancé only a few weeks before ''their'' wedding. This was also the case with both of Joanie's aborted weddings, even though she and the respective grooms actually loved each other, but it's still clear that in both cases, her pregnancy was the deciding factor.
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* BelligerentSexualTension: Sydney and her lawyer clash the moment they meet and continue doing so throughout her lawsuit. By the series finale, they're married.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Our first introduction to the lawyer representing Sydney in her malpractice suit is of him vacuuming his own office, having just hosted a hemp-growing client and eating breakfast at 8PM. Sure enough, he turns out to be one of the best lawyers in the city.
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* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: Janie admits to Sydney that she's "thinking about not having the baby" when she cites her numerous unfavorable circumstances, but by the time she tells her boyfriend about it, she makes it clear that she will, whether he's on board or not. This is also cited when Sydney's politician boyfriend reveals that his opponent had an abortion while in college, clearly intending to shame her for her decision and imply that it means that she's someone of poor character.
* GriefInducedSplit: Following a miscarriage, Janie develops a drinking problem and pushes her fiancé away. By the time she gets her act together, he's moved on.
* GriefInducedSplit: Following a miscarriage, Janie develops a drinking problem and pushes her fiancé away. By the time she gets her act together, he's moved on.
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* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: Janie Joanie admits to Sydney that she's "thinking about not having the baby" when she cites her numerous unfavorable circumstances, but by the time she tells her boyfriend about it, she makes it clear that she will, whether he's on board or not. This is also cited when Sydney's politician boyfriend reveals that his opponent had an abortion while in college, clearly intending to shame her for her decision and imply that it means that she's someone of poor character.
* GriefInducedSplit: Following a miscarriage,Janie Joanie develops a drinking problem and pushes her fiancé away. By the time she gets her act together, he's moved on.
* GriefInducedSplit: Following a miscarriage,
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* ItsAWonderfulPlot: The show's first ChristmasEpisode, "Home For The Holidays", had Sydney wishing she'd never returned to Providence. Her mother (of course), shows her what would have happened otherwise.
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* ItsAWonderfulPlot: The show's first ChristmasEpisode, "Home For The Holidays", had Sydney wishing she'd never returned to Providence. Her mother (of course), shows her what would have happened otherwise.otherwise--Joanie's trapped in a miserable marriage to Hannah's deadbeat father because Sydney didn't warn her not to marry him, Robbie's in jail thanks to participating in a scam because Sydney didn't warn him not to get involved, and Jim's trapped in an equally miserable second marriage because without any of his kids around, he attended a neighbor's Christmas party, where she was able to get her hooks into him.
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* MistakenForServant: When she's sued for malpractice, Sydney goes to her lawyer's office and asks who she thinks is the custodian (he's vacuuming) where he is. It turns out that he's the lawyer in question and is simply humble enough to clean his own workspace.
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* AbortionFalloutDrama: Sydney starts to become disillusioned with her politician boyfriend when he reveals that his opponent had an abortion while she was in college, disgusted and angry with him for violating the woman's privacy and shaming her for her choice.
* BrokenPedestal: Sydney is seriously contemplating moving to Washington, DC with her politician boyfriend should he win the election when she becomes disgusted with the unscrupulous tactics he uses to defeat his opponent--revealing that she had an abortion in college--and dumps him. Of course, the fact that he was cheating on his wife with her and lied about should have foreshadowed that he wasn't an upstanding character. . .
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* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: Janie admits to Sydney that she's "thinking about not having the baby" when she cites her numerous unfavorable circumstances, but by the time she tells her boyfriend about it, she makes it clear that she will, whether he's on board or not.
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* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: Janie admits to Sydney that she's "thinking about not having the baby" when she cites her numerous unfavorable circumstances, but by the time she tells her boyfriend about it, she makes it clear that she will, whether he's on board or not. This is also cited when Sydney's politician boyfriend reveals that his opponent had an abortion while in college, clearly intending to shame her for her decision and imply that it means that she's someone of poor character.
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%%* KindlyVet: Syd's dad.
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* MistakenForGay: Jim and Sam, his replacement, eventually hit it off so well that they decide to go into practice together and set out to hunt for office space. The realtor gushes over the fact that they're buying property together after having known each other only a few months, having mistaken them for a couple and clearly finding it romantic. Strangely for this trope, neither of them realizes her error.
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** From the moment she returned to Providence, it seemed be Sydney was destined to reunite with her high-school sweetheart Kyle. Only for him to see himself as damaged goods after his arm was amputated due to bone cancer and break up with her despite her repeated assurances that she loved him no matter what.
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** From the moment she returned to Providence, it seemed be Sydney was destined to reunite with her high-school sweetheart Kyle. Only for him to see himself as damaged goods after his arm was amputated due to bone cancer and break up with her despite her repeated assurances that she loved him no matter what. In fact, ''all'' of Sydney's relationships until she got engaged in the final season can be examples of this.
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** Also, Janie and her second fiancé. She becomes an alcoholic after her miscarriage and pushes him away and by the time she gets her act together, he's moved on.
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** Also, Janie Joanie and her second fiancé. She becomes an alcoholic after her miscarriage and pushes him away and by the time she gets her act together, he's moved on.
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* ShoutOut: One of Sydney's dream sequences is this to Series/NYPDBlue, being filmed in the same manner with [[SuspiciouslySimilarSong music]] that sounds very similar to the theme song.
