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** Brunette Women Are Evil: Any brunette women (aside from Juliette outside the classroom) tend to be evil (Isabel, Amos's Portuguese pianist) or rivals (Edda's schoolmate Mary, whom Amos had a crush on). Fernanda Jons, a South American ballet dancer, once made homophobic remarks at [[Straight Gay|Seth]], although she appears to be foolish rather than evil.
* [[Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick]]:
{{quote| '''Seth's note''': Stepped out to buy some Brussels sprouts, fresh morels, aged Gouda and Cabernet Sauvignon. {{spoiler|Stopping by your Uncle Roger's to tell him he's gay}}. Back by seven.}}
* [[Brutal Honesty]]: Roger and Seth didn't meet on the right foot, what with Seth thinking Roger's mother's "affair" was highly romantic and Roger {{spoiler|being in deep, deep denial about being gay, or at least really annoyed with Seth's insistence that he's in denial about being gay}}.
{{quote| '''Roger''': Edda tells me you're a wonderful, nurturing person who stands by his convictions and speaks from the heart. [[[Beat]]] So is it all those special qualities that excuses you for being arrogant?}}
* [[Calling the Old Man Out]]: {{spoiler|Old woman, anyway. Roger, Edna's son with Bill, isn't as [[Angst? What Angst?|happy]] with things as his half-sister and niece are.}}
* [[Cannot Spit It Out]]: Played straight when Edda can't tell Amos how his adoration of [http://www.hilaryhahn.com/ Hillary Hahn] makes her jealous.
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* [[Foregone Conclusion]]: We already know Gran chooses Bill in the end, it's stated right at the beginning of the arc!
* [[From a Certain Point of View]]:
{{quote| '''Gran:''' I didn't say that was how I met and fell in love with your dad. I said that was how I met and fell in love with [[Luke, I Am Your Father|your father]].}}
* [[Gentle Giant]]: Thorax; Edda's dance partner. He's about a head taller than the rest of the cast, except when he isn't.
* [[Gentleman Snarker]]: Seth and Thorax, to some extant.
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* [[She's Got Legs]]: All the female characters have or had them.
* [[Shout-Out]] / [[Take That]]: Several weeks of ''[[The Devil's Dictionary]]''-style definitions circa 2007:
{{quote| '''Truth''': Noun. That which most easily appeals to the fears, hopes, and prejudices of the hearer; in essence, a lie.}}
 
{{quote| '''Lie''': Noun. That which causes its utterer to be reviled; in essence, the truth.}}
 
{{quote| '''Deceit''': Noun. Example: A dog rolls on the carcass of a dead possum in order to deceive other animals regarding his identity as a dog (whereas) a man lolls in the scents of church in order to deceive himself regarding his identity as a thief, an adulterer, and a liar (the difference is that the dog does not first have to endure being bored by the possum).}}
 
{{quote| '''Democracy''': Noun. Informal. A form of government in which people, faced with the prospect of self-rule, cast the job into [[Strawman Political|an exclusive mire of unskilled panderers.]] In earlier times, entire wars were waged for the stated purpose of protecting democracy. Now wars are waged to protect freedom, [[What the Hell, Hero?|democracy having been abolished toward that end.]]}}
 
{{quote| '''Allegiance''': Noun. An undefined word school children are taught to pledge daily toward a flag that is otherwise ignored. [[Lovable Traitor|The purpose of this pledge is to teach the young that "allegiance" has a limited shelf life of 24 hours.]]}}
 
{{quote| '''Friendship''': Noun. [[Fantastic Racism|That which unites person 1 with person 2 though their mutual hatred of person 3.]]<ref> See [[Discworld|the first page quote]].</ref>}}
 
{{quote| '''"Nothing is Perfect"''': A phrase demoting that [[Mary Sue|the speaker is familiar enough with perfection]] to state, categorically, that it does not exist. Compare this with [[Holier Than Thou|the preacher who is unfamiliar enough with hell to state that it does.]]}}
 
{{quote| '''Tolerance''': Noun. The implicit affirmation that [[Hair-Trigger Temper|there is something about nearly everybody else that must be tolerated.]]}}
 
{{quote| '''[[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|Murder and Incivility]]''': Opposites on the spectrum of affronts to society, incivility being the most heinous. On earth, [[Murder Is the Best Solution|the crime of murder is universally celebrated]], a fascinating wellspring of entertainment profits that corresponds in direct proportion to the ferocity of the murder. To date, there are very few, if any, TV programs, novels, stories, plays, or films about incivility.}}
 
{{quote| '''Hate''': Noun. At an international level, [[Atomic Hate|the conventional response]] to any act of generosity, [[Ungrateful Bastard|after first accepting the generosity.]]}}
 
{{quote| '''Faith:''' Noun. The unknowable promoted to the irrefutable. [[Children Are Innocent|The child's comfort]] – [[Church Militant|the fanatic’s trigger.]]}}
 
{{quote| '''Natural-Born Leader''': Noun. An [[George W. Bush|untalented, benignly useless person,]] but for the potent services of [[Faceless Masses|the natural-born led.]]}}
 
{{quote| '''Science''': Noun. [[God Is Good|God open for questions.]]}}
 
{{quote| '''Holy''': Cosmetic Adjective. On earth, any hostile activity, such as a war or pogrom, with [[God Is Evil|celebrity endorsement from God.]]}}
* [["Shut Up" Kiss]]
* [[Sibling Yin-Yang]]: Juliette was a divorced mother of one while her brother Roger seems to be a [[Happily Married]] father of ''[[Have I Mentioned I Am Heterosexual Today?|eleven]]''. {{spoiler|Juliette is also proud to be a literal love-child while Roger has issues with his mother's past; Juliette is a uninhibitedly passionate woman while Roger is a stereotypically conservative Catholic (and if Seth is right, a closeted one); Juliette is happily remarried while Roger just got divorced.}}
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** {{spoiler|Roger}}
* [[Straw Feminist]]: A random woman who's either a colleague of Juliette's (and thus a doctor) or a mere jewelry retailer, who thinks that all unplanned pregnancies ''must'' be aborted, not knowing that Juliette was unplanned and the old woman she's talking to is Juliette's mother. Brooke later clarified:
{{quote| Q: Dear Mr. McEldowney, your cartoon yesterday was an offense and an insult to all people who uphold a woman's right to... .}}
 
{{quote| A: To sum up: The writer is indignant, righteous, and not a careful reader. E-mail in this predictable vein has been arriving sporadically from citizens infuriated by what they prefer to feel is a slap in the face administered to pro-choice acolytes everywhere. The general view is that I personally am slug vomit. I, in fact and for many reasons, may be slug vomit. However, not in this instance. The cartoon I drew [op. cit.] does not portray a pro-choice individual. It trots across the stage a harsh, dogmatic butt-head, one of a kidney not infrequently encountered, a person who clothes her unpalatable thought in a sheepskin of implicit moral virtue: the word "choice." It is obvious she is not pro-choice, because she preaches no-choice.}}
 
 
{{quote| Q: Well, I don't know anybody who would say such a thing!}}
 
{{quote| A: I can't help what you don't know.}}
 
* [[Tall, Dark and Snarky]]: Juliette, Gran, Edda, Seth, Sister "Caligula", and Roger.
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* [[Tap on the Head]]: Averted ''hard''; the doctor handling Bill O'Malley's case told Yancey flat out that his former subordinate was a shell of the man he used to be.
* [[Too Much Information]]: Remember, the WWII flashback is being told by an elderly mother to her daughter, plus her granddaughter and ''an entire ballet company'' eavesdropping on the phone. {{spoiler|And later by elderly biological father to just-discovered daughter and granddaughter.}} Lampshaded, far too late, here:
{{quote| '''Juliette:''' [[Unusual Euphemism|Gloriosky]], mother.<br />
'''Gran''': Well you asked what I did. <ref> She bought Kiesl his very first ice cream, then licked it off his fingers. In public.</ref><br />
'''Juliette''': Not in [[Squick|such detail]].<br />
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