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[[File:apartment23_6620.png|frame|''Bitch'' is the new... ''roommate''.]]
'''''Don't Trust The B---- In Apartment 23''''' is a short-lived [[Sitcom]] which aired on ABC for two seasons from 2012 to 2013. The show premiered on April 11, 2012, taking over ''[[Happy Endings]]''{{'}} timeslot after its second season wrapped.
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* [[A Date with Rosie Palms]]: Eli has these a lot, much to June's (horrified) discovery.
* [[Adam Westing]]: James Van Der Beek, who
* [[As Long as It Sounds Foreign]]: Shitagi Nashi supposedly means "Tall slut with no panties" in Japanese. It actually just means "without underwear".
* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]: Don't make June angry.
* [[Big Applesauce]]
* [[Big "What?"]]: June, after finding out that her fiancee is [[Your Cheating Heart|easily swayed]] in the pilot.
* [[Braces of Orthodontic Overkill]]: In a flashback to her high-school days during "Shitagi
* [[The Casanova]]: James readily uses his ''Dawson's Creek'' fame to seduce women
* [[Caught with Your Pants Down]]: Chloe catches June "playing her lady harp" in "It's Just Sex...", although June denies it.
* [[Censored Title]]: The show was originally titled ''Don't Trust The '''Bitch''' in Apartment 23'', but it was [[Bowdlerise|amended]] to its current state (or sometimes, simply, ''Apartment 23'') after the [[Media Watchdogs]] had a field day over it.
* [[Corrupt the Cutie]]: Chloe's loose morals have stated to rub off on June.
** In "The Wedding" Chloe instills confidence in June which turns her into a version of Chloe.
** Also in the following episode "Making Rent
** In "It's Just Sex" Chloe encourages June to have a one night stand. Afterwards she wants to leave a note, but Chloe's voice in her head tells her not to.
** Inverted with Chloe as June seems to be making her less of a bitch and more of a caring person, much to her irritation
* [[Department of Child Disservices]]: Chloe becomes a foster mother so she can have an assistant for free
* [[Fetish]]: Voyeurstic neighbor Eli. In the [[The Stinger|stinger]] of "Making Rent
* [[Freaky Friday Flip]]: In-universe in "Parent
* [[Friends Rent Control]]: Invoked early in the pilot when June likens the amazing, company-provided apartment that she has for all of one night to those on ''[[Friends]]''.
* [[Funny Background Event]]: Played with. Chloe steals a baguette from a passing shopper and tries to bite into it. The shopper protests before James hands him some money. All this is done without either Chloe or James slowing down or breaking their conversation rhythm.
* [[Gender Bender]]: James sometimes dreams he's a 12-year-old girl.
* [[Going Commando]]: Chloe does this, we learn in "Shitagi Nashi
* [[Gone Horribly Right]]: Chloe teaches June to be more confident, which results in her becoming a bigger bitch than Chloe.
* [[Hard-Drinking Party Girl]]: Chloe is an excellent example, down to being almost a professional [[Trickster]]. In "Shitagi Nashi
* [[Homage]]: In "Shitagi Nashi
* [[Hot Dad]]: Turns out that Chloe has one, and he becomes a [[Stacy's Mom|
* [[Idiosyncratic Episode Naming]]: Except for the pilot, every episode's title ends in an ellipsis.
* [[In Medias Res]]: The pilot begins with the event described in [[Interrupted Intimacy]] below, and then flashes back to a week earlier as June arrives in New York.
* [[Interrupted Intimacy]]: June walking in on her fiancé having sex with Chloe in the pilot.
* [[Japandering]]: James did an energy drink commercial in Vietnam. It is shown at the end of the pilot and it is hilariously bad (even more so that your usual [[Japandering]] commercial, as it includes Van Der Beek wondering what the hell he just did and asking if they've managed to get his agent on the phone).
* [[Jerkass]]
* [[Just Friends]]: Neither girl is really romantically interested in James
* [[Light Feminine and Dark Feminine]]: June and Chloe.
* [[Lovable Alpha Bitch]]: ''Chloe''.
* [[Malaproper]]: In "Making Rent
* [[Name's the Same]]: Mark Reynolds is also a baseball player for Baltimore that is known for hitting homers and striking out.
* [[Naive Newcomer]]: June. She starts catching on real quick, though.
* [[Older Than They Look]]: Chloe's dad, which is part of why June is so shocked {{spoiler|that she was about to have sex with him}}.
* [[Raven Hair, Ivory Skin]]: Chloe
* [[Relationship Reveal]]: When June discovers that the guy she spent all night talking to (and was about to have sex with) is actually {{spoiler|Chloe's father.}}
* [[Rich Bitch]]: Subverted. Chloe definitely has a nice place filled with equally as nice furniture, but she only attains all of it after [[Magnificent Bastard|taking more money than needed from her roommates, keeping their security deposits for herself, then purposely driving them out with her behavior, and finally, repeating the process.]]
* [[Screw the Rules, I Have Connections]]: Chloe is able to become a foster mother without the usual interviews, inspections and background checks because she knows someone who works at Child Services.
* [[Shout-Out]]: Plenty in the first few episodes alone, mostly relating to James. His tenure as [[Dawson's Creek|Dawson]] is naturally brought up on numerous occasions, but he also references his appearance in [[
* [[Spoiled Brat]]: Molly, Chloe and June's foster child comes off as this and is completely ungrateful for June caring for her.
* [[Stalker with a Crush]]: Heavily implied that Robin is this to Chloe.
* [[Suspiciously Specific Denial]]: "...that has nothing to do with my relationship with French President, Nicolas Sarkozy, who is
* [[Take That]]: In "Making Rent
** In "Shitagi Nashi
* [[Title Drop]]: Said uncensored by Robin (to June) in the pilot.
* [[Took a Level In Badass]]: June, in a very ''quick'' example of this trope, during the pilot. Right after finding out that Chloe has been overcharging her rent, June goes and sells all of Chloe's furniture. Even Chloe is surprised by this move, and Chloe is never surprised.
* [[Twofer Token Minority]]: James' gay black stylist.
* [[Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist]]: Chloe, even if the focus is on June.
* [[Vitriolic Best Buds]]: June and Chloe are certainly being set up this way.
* [[With Friends Like These...]]: Chloe can be a great friend but she is also capable of stealing all your credit cards and leaving you stuck in a Vietnamese prison.
* [[Your Cheating Heart]]:
** Subverted. After catching wind of [[The Mistress|his affair with his assistant]], Chloe makes a move on June's fiancee, but in a strategically planned effort to prove that he has a pair of loose
** Double subverted, when his ''mistress'' is appalled at him cheating on ''her''.
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