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[[File:awkward-black-girl-_9492.jpg|frame|<small>Well, this is awkward.</small> ]]
{{quote|''"My name is J, and I'm awkward -- and black. Someone once told me those were the two worst things anyone could be. That someone was right."''|'''J'''}}
''The
The brainchild of writer/director Issa Rae, who was unable to identify with sexy vixens and [[Sassy Black Woman|sassy black women]] on TV, the show revolves around awkwardness, "which is a unifying and universal thing that we all have experienced in some capacity."
Check out the official site of the series at [http://www.awkwardblackgirl.com AwkwardBlackGirl.com]. The show sprung into popularity after only a couple of months, due to the relatable [[Black and Nerdy]] main character not often shown in television.
The show was accepting [http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1996857943/the-misadventures-of-awkward-black-girl donations via Kickstarter] to extend its first season. In August 2011, they received 56,000 dollars, nearly doubly their goal of 30,000.
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* [[Adult Child]]: Amir
* [[All Love Is Unrequited]]: J has a huge crush on Fred, which he hardly notices. Also, White Jay has a crush on J in episode 5, but it is rather one-sided.
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* [[Alpha Bitch]]: Nina.
* [[Ambiguously Brown]]: Amir
* [[Berserk Button]]: Do ''not'' touch J's stapler.
** Everybody in J's anger management class has one of these, eg. coworkers writing emails in Comic Sans, people not letting the microwave time run out.
* [[Better
* [[Black and Nerdy]]: A
* [[Black Gal
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* [[Brick Joke]]: CeCe randomly mentions that she had to go to Racial Insensitivity Training. Amir, who had disappeared sometime during the series due to [[Real Life Writes the Plot]], returns in the season finale, reformed by Racial Insensitivity Training. ([[Plays Great Ethnics|He needed it]].)
* [[Butt Monkey]]: J before she made a couple of friends (namely CeCe) at the office.
* [[Call Back]]
** In episode 2, her [[In
** Space-invading co-worker with AIDS, or Patti, fired sometime before episode 4, keeps re-appearing.
** "I get you."
** J ''steals'' water from her anger management class. "Shit, I thought he said the water was free."
** "Dear sushi restaurant, thank you for not being Red Lobster."
* [[The Cameo]]: [
* [[Comically Missing the Point]]
* [[Covert Pervert]]: Halloween is CeCe's second favorite holiday after [
* [[Cringe Comedy]]
* [[Designated Love Interest]]: Fred. {{spoiler|And later, White Jay.}}
* [[Dogged Nice Guy]]: White Jay
* [[Did Not Get the Girl|Did Not Get the Girl/Guy]]: Seesaws throughout the entire first season. A didn't get J. J didn't get Fred. White Jay didn't get J. {{spoiler|And in the end, Fred doesn't get J.}}
* [[Early Installment Weirdness]]: The first few episodes were more obviously low budget and were a lot shorter, compare the 5 minute first episode to the 25 minute season finale.
* [[
* [[Fan Nickname]]: "White Jay" is almost always called "White Jay."
** [[Ascended Meme]], as J and CeCe now refer to him as "White Jay"
* [[Gilligan Cut]]: As a [[Running Gag]]. J would say something calmly (e.g. "I wasn't bothered by it"), then the show would cut to her rapping furiously about just the opposite.
* [[Gratuitous Greek]]: The Gamma Ray sorority sisters wear matching T-shirts with the Greek letters of their sorority on the front. On another note, which letter of the [
* [[Gratuitous Rap]]
* [[Green
* [[He Who Must Not Be Heard]]: Darius, whose voice is so quiet that neither J nor the audience can understand what he is saying.
* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]: J and CeCe (also known as "Curry Fried Chicken")
* [[Hey,
* [[Hint Dropping]]: Fred can't take the hint that J is interested, while A cannot take the hint that J is no longer interested.
* [[Holier Than Thou]]: Delores a.k.a. Sister Mary Clarence.
* [[Hopeless Suitor]]: A. It seemed as if {{spoiler|White Jay}} was heading into this direction as well but not anymore.
* [[Hurricane of Euphemisms]]: "I want to know [
* [[Imagine Spot]]: The series is told from J's point of view so we get a lot of these.
* [[Important Haircut]]: J cuts off all her hair after her boyfriend dumps her in episode 1. Only for her boyfriend D to take her back, then dump her ''again'' because he can't deal with her being bald.
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** J's narration usually starts out with "It's not X, if you don't Y." Examples, "It's not violence, if you don't act on it." Or "It's not stalking, if you don't mean any harm."
* [[Intelligible Unintelligible]]: Has become a [[Running Gag]] that Fred is the ''only'' one who can clearly hear what Darius is saying.
* [[Just Friends]]: J and Fred, much to her dismay {{spoiler|at first. Once she gets a chance to actually date him in the Season 1 finale, she realizes they are [[Better
* [[Love At First Sight]]: J falls for Fred the first time she sees him.
* [[Love Confession]]: {{spoiler|Fred finally spits it out to J in episode 11.}}
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* [[Love Interest]]: J has ''two''. White Jay and Fred. Also A, but it's pretty much unrequited.
** The conflict reaches its climax in the Season 1 finale "The Decision", in which J is forced to choose between White Jay and Fred. {{spoiler|White Jay wins.}}
* [[Mistaken Nationality]]:
** [[Ambiguously Brown|Amir]] uses this to [[Plays Great Ethnics|his advantage]].
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** Happens to CeCe all the time. She's frequently mistaken for latina, middle-eastern and "Pocahontas."
* [[My Name Is Not Durwood]]: In Episode 12, J's boss lady keeps calling a new coworker named Jesus and pronouncing it "Jesus" when it's pronounced "hay-soos." This leads to confusion when she asks Jesus to come inside the room and everyone looks confused.
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'''Jesus''': Hay-soos! All of my ideas are good. }}
* [[N
* [[Nice Guy]]: White Jay
* [[The Nicknamer]]: J. Mostly in her narration.
* [[Oblivious to Love]]: Fred seems to be selectively oblivious to J's love, no matter how obvious she makes it. {{spoiler|At least up to episode 6.}}
* [[Off
* [[One
* [[Operation: Jealousy]]: J tried this at Fred's birthday party by dancing with White Jay in order to incite a [[Green
* [[Plays Great Ethnics]]: Amir.
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** And...
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'''CeCe''': You know [[Mistaken Nationality|I'm not Mexican]]. }}
* [[Pointy
* [[Pretty Fly for
** J's boss
** For Halloween, White Jay goes as [[Barack Obama]].
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'''J''': Who is that? Bill Clinton?
'''White Jay''': (''points to his name tag which reads'' "Michelle's Baby Daddy") Barack Obama!
'''J''': [[Sarcasm Mode|How could I possibly not get that]]? }}
* [[Prince Charming Wannabe]]: A
* [[Promoted to Love Interest]]: Happens to White Jay in episode 6.
* [[Psycho Ex
* [[Reality Subtext]]: White Jay mistakes [
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* [[Relationship Reveal]]: For Fred and Nina in episode 5.
* [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]]: "No one even likes you. So get out of my face!" (''Snaps'')
* [[The Rival|This Bitch]]: Nina
* [[Romance
* [[Romantic False Lead]]: White Jay started out as this. Has become a more developed character since then.
* [[Running Gag]]:
** J writes raps to channel her anger and passion.
** "Bitches be trippin'/lyin'/nosy."
* [[Sassy Black Woman]]: Passive-aggressive J is a deliberate aversion of this trope.
* [[Serious Business]]: Sorority life.
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* [[Shipper
** CeCe encourages J to bring her relationship with Fred further.
** Also ...
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* [[Shock Value Relationship]]: It's implied that {{spoiler|partially the reason Nina is dating Fred is because she knows how much J likes him}}.
* [[Shout
** [[Nicki Minaj]]
** The GutBusters logo and name is just a variant of [[Ghostbusters]]'.
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** In episode 5, Nina goes, "Damn, girl, I didn't know [[Love and Basketball|FUBU made dresses]]."
** ''[[She's All That]]'' in episode 7
** ''[[The Fresh Prince of Bel
** ''[[Sister Act]]'' in episode 8
** "Might as well call me 'Nelly Kelly' cuz [[
** Brandy and Monica's duet "The Boy Is Mine" in episode 9
** "Who are these [[Cirque Du Soleil|Step du Soleil]] bitches?"
** "Am I really [[Trapped in
** "Girl, you better [
** "This isn't [[Diary of a Mad Black Woman|Diary of a Sad Angry Single Black Woman]]."
** On who he was talking to on the phone, D says, "I didn't say 'Mama.' I said 'Drama.' [[Entourage|Johnny Drama]]."
* [[Sickeningly Sweethearts]]: Nina purposely flaunts her relationship with Fred around the office simply because she knows it bothers J.
** Becoming somewhat subverted as Fred had begun to [[Character Development|grow a backbone]] against Nina's advances.
* [[Silly Love Songs]]: "The perfect date is always set to a 90s love song." (''[
* [[Single Woman Seeks Good Man]]: J in the first episode. {{spoiler|She finds one in White Jay come episode 6.}}
* [[Special Guest]]: Donald Glover appears in Episode 12, as a [[Continuity Nod]] to J and White Jay's first date when she thinks the spoken word poetry they are going to see has Donald Glover in it.
* [[Spicy Latina]]: Cece lays this on thick when talking to black guys because she thinks it entices them. Shown to just creep guys out.
* [[Split
* [[Stalking Is Love]]:
** J toward Fred in the beginning of episode 3
** Also, A towards [[Rihanna]]
* [[Take That]]:
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* [[Theme Naming]]: Every episode is named "The [NOUN]"
* [[Unfortunate Implications]]: In-universe, most of what J's boss, Amir and sometimes Nina say.
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* [[Unusual Dysphemism]]: "I just Starbucked the shit out of Nina's ego."
* [[Up to Eleven]]: "Shut the front door! And the back door. And the side door."
* [[What Does She See in Him?|What Does He See in Her?]]: Said verbatim by CeCe after Fred and Nina kiss.
* [[Working
* [[You Are Worth Hell]]: J was about to quit her job until Fred walked in.
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