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''American Horror Story'' is a 2011 Horror series created by Ryan Murphy (creator of ''[[Nip Tuck]]'', another FX series) and Brad Falchuk (Two of the ''[[Glee]]'' co-creators) . It follows the story of a couple from Boston, Ben and Vivien, and their daughter, Violet, who decide a change in location to sunny Los Angeles will help heal the wounds left by Vivien’s miscarriage and by Ben’s affair with a former student. Their nightmares are far from over, however, as their new dream house turns out to be full of dark secrets.
The series is known as a "movie buff's delight", as its plot, soundtrack and visual style thrive on numerous classic movies and horror stories (including, but not limited to, ''[[The Shining]]'', ''Frankenstein'', ''[[Bram Stoker's Dracula]]'', ''[[The Sixth Sense]]'', ''[[Twisted Nerve]]'', ''[[Taxi Driver]]'') as well as pay homages to American urban legends and folklore.
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* [[Abusive Parents]]: {{spoiler|Constance locks Adelaide in a closet full of mirrors after she interrupts Constance's "business meeting". She also chains her son Beau up in the attic because of a genetic deformity. It's further implied that she physically--and certainly emotionally--abused Tate.}}
* [[A Date with Rosie Palms]]: Ben walks in on a young!Moira doing this and quickly exits to his bedroom to do a little of his own...
** Vivien enjoys herself while she has a [[Dream Sequence]] about Luke, Ben and the Rubber Man.
* [[A Day in the Limelight]]: "Rubber Man". Explains the origins of the rubber suit {{spoiler|and reveals that Tate had donned the suit to kill Patrick and Chad, then to father one of Vivien's twins, just because Nora wanted her baby.}}
* [[Adults Are Useless]]: Violet walks around public areas of the school smoking and is never confronted by any authority figures about it, she is also repeatedly attacked in those same public places and no authority figure ever steps in. Given one of the writer's [[Glee|other show]], the high school's Darwinian approach to discipline isn't too surprising.
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* [[Artistic Title]]: The opening credits manage to be both creepy and fascinating.
* [[Ass Shove]]: {{spoiler|Tate shoved a fireplace poker up Patrick's ass before killing him.}}
* [[Ate His Gun]]: How {{spoiler|Nora Montgomery}} committed suicide {{spoiler|after killing her husband out of grief over her [[Came Back Wrong|mutated baby]].}}
* [[The Atoner]]: {{spoiler|Larry.}}
** {{spoiler|Tate as well, if his conversation with Ben in the finale was him being genuine about redemption.}}
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* [[Blondes Are Evil]]: Constance and Nora, although both of them seem to be driven this way by sheer desperation.
* [[Blonde Guys Are Evil]]: Tate
* [[Breather Episode]]: It's an odd show where an episode featuring multiple characters being shot and another attempting suicide is the breather episode, but "Piggy Piggy" was much less chaotic and downplayed following the big grand Halloween episodes, and had more answers than questions.
* [[Bury Your Gays]]: The last couple to die (that we know of) before the Harmons move in was a gay couple, in an apparent murder/suicide.
** {{spoiler|Revealed to have been the work of the rubber suit man.}}
** In the flashback in "Home Invasion," the nurse who is referred to as a "lezzie" is drowned in the bathtub later that same scene.
* [[Bury Your Disabled]]: {{spoiler|Adelaide, who has Down Syndrome, is fatally hit by a car in the fourth episode.}}
* [[Calling the Old Man Out]]: Violet does this to her parents, though it remains to be seen if they got the message. Tate also did this to his mom.
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** Chekhovs Cupcakes: the cupcakes Constance brought over for Violet. {{spoiler|One is eaten by one of the home invaders, which makes her ill and results in her not joining the other two in the basement.}}
** Chekhovs Crime: A subtle one, but the cop at the end of the second episode said that {{spoiler|Bianca was found blocks away from the murder house, cut in half.}} He said that it looked like her friends tried to do a Black Dahlia on her. {{spoiler|Which famous crime is said to have happened in the murder house in episode 9? And how do they carry Travis' corpse out of the house?}}
** The realtor had an actual gun {{spoiler|which Vivien later stole and accidentally shot her husband with}} In fact, quite a lot of the onscreen deaths are caused by guns.
* [[Chekhov's Gunman]]: The young woman Ben is counseling in the second episode. {{spoiler|Later one of the three people who invade the house, and is the only one who escapes alive. She is later found dead by the cops who believe she was murdered by her accomplices whose bodies haven't been found.}}
* [[Chick Magnet]]: Ben, bordering on [[Even the Guys Want Him]]. Ghosts in particular seem turned on by him.
* [[Christianity Is Catholic]]: The Anti Christ subplot is played out in definitely Catholic terms.
* [[Creepy Child]]/[[Man Child|Womanchild]]: Adelaide.
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* [[The Eighties]]: The beginning of the third episode takes place during this time period.
* [[Enfant Terrible]]: {{spoiler|The baby-thing in the basement that attacks [[Alpha Bitch|Leah]], nearly attacks Violet, and is responsible for the death of the twins. If Tate can be believed, this is Thaddeus, the son of Charles and Nora Montgomery, killed in revenge for an abortion and [[Came Back Wrong|resurrected using a ''still-beating heart'']] by Charles.}}
* [[Mr. Fanservice]]: [[Axe Crazy|All]] [[Stalker with a Crush|things]] [[Heroic Sociopath|considered]], Tate has a rather large fanbase.
* [[Evil-Detecting Dog]]: Hallie, Vivien's dog, which leads Violet to the basement the first time they visit the house and bites Adelaide.
* [[Evil Redhead]]: The twins, though they were more [[Jerkass]] than outright evil.
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* [[Glasgow Smile]]: Given to both Elizabeth Short and {{spoiler|Travis'}} corpses by {{spoiler|Charles Montgomory.}}
* [[Going in Circles]]: Violet flees the house but keeps ending back inside no matter how many times she tries {{spoiler|because she died and is now a ghost trapped in the house}}.
* [[Groin Attack]]: {{spoiler|Moira's part of the plan to kill the Armenian man. Under the pretense of fellatio, she ''bites his penis off''.}}
* [[Haunted House]]: [[All in The Manual|According to the show's website]], murders and suicides have been taking place in the house since at least the 1920's.
* [[Has Two Daddies]]: In a way. {{spoiler|Vivian's twins were fathered by Tate ''and'' Ben.}}
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* [[Nice Guy]]: Travis. {{spoiler|Yes, he cheated on Constance with Hayden, but he genuinely seemed to care about her and wanted to adopt a child with her. He was also one of the few to treat Adelaide with dignity, and after he dies, he even spends time playing with Larry's daughters.}}
** {{spoiler|Even in death, he cares about Constance. He asks Larry about her, and in "Afterbirth" forcibly takes Vivien and Tate's son away from Hayden so that Constance can have him.}}
* [[Nightmare Fetishist]]:
** Violet only wants to move in the house after the real estate ladies tells the family about the murders.
** Tate, who has many macabre fantasies and interests. {{spoiler|Some of which he has acted on.}}
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** [[Fridge Logic|Why don't they make the effort to tell someone where the bodies are for proper burying so they could go to rest?]]
** This seems to only be the case with Moira, we don't know why everyone else is stuck there and it's not possible that all of their bodies are buried on the grounds since there are records of their deaths, meaning that someone would have had to have found their bodies following said deaths (or else the records would have just said that they disappeared.) The only condition for someone becoming a ghost in the house is that they die on the grounds, not that their bodies remain there.
*** It's explained that the only reason Moira wants her body found is so that Constance will finally be caught and face retribution for what she did. It won't get her out of the house, but it would probably make it easier on her mind frame if she didn't have her murderer mocking her at every turn.
* [[The Seventies]]: The beginning of the pilot takes place in this time period.
* {{spoiler|[[Ship Sinking]]: Tate and Violet, torpedoed near the end of the season once Violet learns that Tate killed Chad and Patrick and raped her mother.}}
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*** And other people's houses as well.
* [[Stock Unsolved Mysteries]]: Elizabeth Short, AKA The Black Dahlia, {{spoiler|was accidentally killed during an operation, and her body was dismembered by a ghost for easier transport. She is now one of the ghosts haunting the house.}}
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* [[Straw Misogynist]]: The Armenian man who plans on buying the house displays this behavior, especially towards Constance and Moira. {{spoiler|However, this isn't the reason why Constance, Moira, and Larry team up to do away with him. He planned on tearing the house down.}}
* [[Suicide by Cop]]: {{spoiler|Tate.}}
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* [[Surreal Horror]]: Bondage monster. That is all.
* [[Swiss Cheese Security]]: Even discounting the ghosts, it seems there is always at least one person in the house who shouldn't be there. The only thing missing is the [[The Calls Are Coming From Inside the House|creepy phone calls]], which show up in the Halloween episode.
* [[Tangled Family Tree]]: {{spoiler|Tate causes all sorts of tangles when it's revealed that he is the Rubber Man and the one who had sex with Vivien}}.
* [[Teacher-Student Romance]]: One of the reasons for the tension between Ben and Vivien.
* [[Teens Are Monsters]]: [[Up to Eleven]]. Her first day at school, Violet is confronted by a group of girls who give her an insane rant for smoking on campus. [[Alpha Bitch|Leah]] tries to make her ''eat'' her cigarette and promptly screams "YOU ARE SO DEAD!" in a high-pitched wail once Violet manages to get away.
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*** {{spoiler|Some of his backstory is revealed in episode 5: he's Constance's son. Episode 6 reveals that he did shoot several of his fellow students, including the ones who had hunted him down in the episode before, to the point where a full-on ''SWAT team'' was sent to apprehend him. This led to a [[Suicide by Cop]].}}
** Violet, as well. She can be exceptionally cruel to her parents, and was willing to go along with Tate's basement plan without asking too many questions.
*** Though to be fair, she was horrified when she found out what he was doing and never thought he'd go that far.
*** She also lied to her father and the police about what she and her mother saw, allowing them to conclude that her mother is insane.
* [[There Are No Therapists]]: Averted, as Ben ''is'' one. It doesn't help a whole lot.
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** {{spoiler|Ben, Vivien, Violet, and the deceased twin.}}
** Chad and Patrick. However, this is not a happy ending for them. {{spoiler|They were about to split up when Tate murdered them.}}
* [[Tomato in the Mirror]]: Happens to {{spoiler|Violet}} in Smoldering Children, although subtle hints are dropped in past episodes that she is a ghost trapped in the house.
* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: Probably literally. It's not like Violet can't guess that continuing to stay in that house will likely lead to the deaths of her and her family, but she really doesn't seem to want to leave.
** {{spoiler|It's not ''wanting'' to leave. [[Dead All Along|She ''can't'' leave.]]}}
*** That's only after turning down several opportunities to leave and even threatening to run away if she can't live in Murder House.
* [[Unusual Euphemism]]: "The procedure", for abortion. Justified in that, during the timeframe Charles and Nora Montgomery lived in, one did not discuss such things openly.
* [[Urban Legends]]: One of Ben's patients, Derek, recounts one of these, about a man with a pig's head. {{spoiler|Ben has him enact the legend. Instead of the pig man, he sees one of the nurses from the second episode. Later on, he does it again. This time, he surprises a burglar in the act and is shot.}}
* [[Viral Marketing]]: Several videos, referred to as clues to the show's content, have been released on the show's [[YouTube]] channel. {{spoiler|These directly hint towards Vivien's miscarriage, her later pregnancy, and the rubber suit man's involvement, among other things.}} There was also a chance to sign up for a "house call" to come face-to-face with one of the show's characters.
* [[Vomit Indiscretion Shot]]: Episode 3, Ben after {{spoiler|Hayden gets whacked.}}
** Episode 6, when Tate {{spoiler|shoves his fingers down Violet's throat to try to keep her from dying. Thank goodness, too. Who knows what would have happened if she had died in that house.}}
*** {{spoiler|Episode 10 reveals what would've - and did - happen. Tate wasn't able to save her, and she became one of the house's ghosts.}}
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