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A drama/comedy/fantasy series on Lifetime.
Deb (Brooke D'Orsay) is an attractive, ditzy blonde who is auditioning for a job as a game show hostess. She is engaged to be married to her lawyer fiancé Grayson (Jackson Hurst). She goes off to her audition to be a model on ''[[The Price Is Right]]'', talking to her friend Stacy (April Bowlby) on her mobile and filing her nails, all at the same time. Poor Deb. If she had looked up for only a minute, maybe she would have noticed the grapefruit delivery truck parked in the middle of the intersection up ahead...
Meanwhile, at a law firm (the exact one Grayson got a job at, we learn later) in the same city, a literal 'Plain' Jane (Brooke Elliott), is preparing for her day. She is mousy, overweight, has many self help books, has a witty assistant Terri ([[Margaret Cho]]), and a business rival Kim (Kate Levering) who is busy showing off her new purse. Jane steps out of her office just in time to see an armed gun man come in. Apparently, Jane's boss was dating the gun man's wife. She tries to calm down the situation, but trips over a purse (Kim's, no less), and the paranoid gun man shoots her dead.
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Deb gets stopped on her way to heaven by angel Fred (Ben Feldman), because she has never done a good or bad deed in her whole life.
"It doesn't mean you're a bad person. Probably just really shallow
Now poor Jane/Deb has to deal with being a skinny girl in a fat girl's body, work as a lawyer with Jane's legal smarts (strange fact, Deb has all of Jane's knowledge of courtroom operations, but no memories of Jane's past), handle working in the same room with her (ex?)fiancé, and just get used to her new life, including dealing with things from both her and Jane's pasts.
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* [[Bunny Ears Lawyer]]: [[Lampshade Hanging|Even literally.]]
** Counts as a [[Shout-Out]] too. Remember that other blonde ditz lawyer named [[Legally Blonde|Elle Woods]]?
* [[Butt Monkey]]: Grayson claims himself to be this, given that some of his cases included representing a monkey, a
* [[California Doubling]]: Atlanta for Los Angeles.
* [[The Cast Showoff]]: Brooke Elliott has a ''really'' good singing voice, and the show wastes no opportunities in reminding the viewer.
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* [[Cloning Blues]]: Invoked in "Chinese Wall". Though in this case the clone is a dog and it's the master that's blue. As in the trope, the clone is age-identical; however, the dog is "imperfect" in that it no longer responds to the master's commands.
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Stacey occasionally falls into a ditzy version of this. Jane comes across as this to her boss, though primarily due to her lateral thinking.
* [[Curse Cut Short]]: Fred's cry of "Je-!" when Stacey uses mace on him. Beyond the
** In "Dead Model Walking", after unknowingly agreeing to a double-date with current boyfriend, rival, and ex?-fiance, Jane lets out a flat "Fun
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Rosie O'Donnell's judge is pretty snarky.
** In fact, several of the judges on the show have a notable sarcastic edge.
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* [[Dumb Blonde]]: Deb and Stacy. And often subverted; both of them are a lot smarter than given credit for. It's just that their smarts don't necessarily revolve around the sort of knowledge most people would consider worthwhile. Plus, Stacy figures out and accepts Deb's new body/situation pretty quickly.
** It becomes much more subverted in the second season where Stacy starts to get a lot more savvy and smart, even using her image as a dumb blonde to her advantage.
** Also, the more Deb learns and experiences Jane's life and hears about Jane's life before
* [[Feigning Intelligence]]: Stacy.
* [[Flash Back]]: Used to flesh out Deb and her relationship with Grayson before her death. Also used with stories or phrases Deb told Grayson and that Jane repeats; this confuses Grayson immensely.
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** In "Chinese Wall", Terri bluffs her way into a dog show by saying she's an editor with the magazine, Doggy Style. Kim asks afterwards if that's actually a real magazine. The reply is "Yes, it's just not about dogs."
* [[Identity Amnesia]]: Used by Deb!Jane as an excuse why she's different after Deb!Jane got shot.
* [[Meaningful Name]]: Plus-sized Jane as in
* [[Meganekko]]: Stacy wears a pair while helping Grayson on a case. She also does a [[Hot Chick in a Badass Suit]] to go with for a twofer.
* [[Mood Whiplash]]: After a heart felt speech to save the home of an old lady who refused to move due to sentimental value, having lived there with her husband, had given Kim and Grayson cookies, etc
* [[Our Angels Are Different]]: Fred.
* [[Phony Psychic]]: "Make Me A Match" features two of these, or so you think. However, while the two act like phonies and the entire cast of characters sees them as such, to the viewers, they actually are legitimate (for the most part).
* [[Pstandard Psychic Pstance]]: Whenever Deb gets an unusual flash of knowledge from Jane's mind, she tends to act like she has a mild shock/headache.
* [[Ripped from the Headlines]]: Several of the cases that Jane's law firm handles are based on real life cases. For instance, Mary Ann Nealy, in the
* [[What Happened to the Mouse?]]: Parker started off as a cheating womanizer. Once his relationship with Kim kicks into full swing, however, his wife isn't brought up even when Kim shows up at his home or when he's drinking over having broken up with Kim temporarily. Only the womanizing aspect remains and even then it's been downgraded mostly to him simply disassociating himself from past girlfriends.
* [[Wistful Amnesia]]: In regards to Fred towards everyone but Deb!Jane after he romances Stacey. Unlike the trope though since this comes from above, it's a perfectly clean slate so no one remembers Fred.
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