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Drama series created by [[David E. Kelley]] and airing on [[
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* [[Abusive Parents]]: Meredith Peters (AKA The Hook Lady).
* [[Adults Are Useless]]: True, but it's not as egregious as other shows with teen/adult casts.
** They're useless, but they ''do'' generally make the attempts to help. They're just not always effective ones.
* [[Bad Boss]]: Superintendant Marsha "The Dragon Lady" Shinn in the first season.▼
* [[Badass Teacher]]: Harry Senate, Danny Hanson.
▲* [[Bad Boss]]: Superintendant Marsha "The Dragon Lady" Shinn in the first season.
* [[Bald Black Leader Guy]]: Principal Steven Harper.
* [[Benevolent Boss]]: Steven. [[Beware the Nice Ones|''Most'' of the time]].
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* [[Code Silver]]
* [[Crossover]]: With ''[[The Practice]]'', and ''[[Boston Legal]]''.
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]
* [[Did Not Do the Research]]
* [[Dramedy]]
* [[Emo Teen]]
* [[Flanderization]]
* [[Former Teen Rebel]]: Steven, Danny Hanson.
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* [[Hot for Student]]
* [[Hot Teacher]]
* [[Idiosyncratic Episode Naming]]: Each episode is titled "Chapter One
* [[Informed Judaism]]: Guber, Harvey.
* [[Inner-City School]]
* [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]]: Guber, Danny, Charlie Bixby.
* [[Lesbian Jock]]
* [[Loads and Loads of Characters]]
* [[Looking for Love In All the Wrong Places]]: For the first few seasons, Guber can't catch a break with the ladies. First, he dates a woman {{spoiler|who turns out to be a hooker}}, then hooks up with Meredith Peters, a psychopathic [[Abusive Parents|Abusive Parent]] with a hook for a hand. Not to mention hopelessly pining for Lauren and later Marilyn. And what's amazing is that, [[Informed Judaism|being Jewish by his own admission]], Scott always falls for ''non-Jewish'' women. And in Season Four, he {{spoiler|ends up with an ex-porn star. ("At least she's a Democrat
* [[Luke, You Are My Father]]: Harvey finds out in Season Two that he {{spoiler|has an African-American son, grandson and great-grandchildren}}.
* [[McCloud Speech]]: Harry Senate was often on the receiving end of these.
* [[Mean Boss]]: Guber.
* [[Mood Whiplash]]
* [[N-Word Privileges]]: Harvey once used the term "African-American Black-Colored Negroes
** Also, Danny had his class read and discuss a controversial book about the N-Word.
* [[Naive Newcomer]]: Kimberly Woods in the third season.
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* [[Save Our Students]]
* [[School Play]]
* [[Soapbox Sadie]]
* [[Stalker with a Crush]]: Lauren dates one of these at first before realizing what a psycho he is. And get this? He used to be a student of hers.
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* [[Tonight Someone Dies]]: Second-string characters would get introduced for the express purpose of dying later on in the series, sometimes as soon as the same episodes they've been introduced.
* [[Two-Teacher School]]
* [[Wacky Homeroom]]: The Dungeon. The very reason why Marla walks out on the class, though not before writing "Gone to kill myself. Hope you're happy." on the blackboard.
* [[Walk and Talk]]
* [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]: Harry Senate. Dear God, Harry Senate.
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