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This is a show caught in among [[Dramedy]], [[Fantasy]] and [[The Musical]].
Eli Stone (played by [[Jonny Lee Miller]]) is a lawyer for one of those scum-sucking firms, who develops an [[Lamarck Was Right|inherited]] and inoperable (supposedly) brain aneurysm. The [[Disability Superpower|brain aneurysm]] gives him all kinds of hallucinations, many of which involve song and end with everyone in the room staring at Eli as he's just dive-bombed the carpet during a meeting. These visions tend to have something to do with a case he's working on, indicating that the aneurysm gave Eli [[Psychic Powers]]. Eli's hallucinations start somewhat [[Freak
At the end of the first season, Eli [[I Just Want to Be Normal|had an operation to remove the aneurysm anyway.]] Thanks to [[Status Quo Is God]], he got it back...but [[I Just Want to Be Special|this time he wants it]], and gets a [[Mission
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* [[Amoral Attorney]]: Eli, at least at first. Pretty much the entire lawyer cast except Maggie starts off this way.
* [[Benevolent Boss]] / [[Mean Boss]]: Jordan flips back and forth between adoring Eli and being (for good reason) mad at him.
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** Except not. [[Word of God]] says it is actually Maggie and Nate's baby.
* [[Great Big Book of Everything]]: Dad's diary {{spoiler|which forecasts events happening ten years after his death! And then is totally subverted when Eli ''burns it''. And then gets de-subverted when we find out that "Dr. Chen" photocopied the whole thing before Eli burned it. He says Eli isn't ready to know that much future yet, but keeps it around as a guide. Eli has also had visions of the book.}}
* [[Handsome Lech]] / [[Jerk
* [[Hollywood Law]]: So very, very much. Particularly bad in the episode "Sonoma" which not only has half the lawyers thrown in jail because the [[Hanging Judge]] used to date one of them, it forces two sets of lawyers from opposing firms to ALL be working for the same woman. Conflict of interest much? Also has [[Surprise Witness]] and [[Smoking Gun|Smoking Painting With Matching Necklace]].
** Not to mention the time where Eli switched sides and suddenly prosecuted a case against his own law firm ("Chinese wall"). Note: According to [
* [[Idiosyncratic Episode Naming]]: George Michael songs in the first season
* [[
* [[Lamarck Was Right]]: Eli inherited the aneurysm from his father. [[Justified Trope|Justified]] because both Eli and his father were chosen to receive the aneurysm.
* [[Law Procedural]]
* [[Love Triangle]]: Eli, Taylor and Maggie. Later, Eli, Maggie and Scott and then Eli, Maggie and Paul.
* [[Magical Native American]]: "Dr. Chen" kind of operates as one, though he's not Native American (and may not exactly be Chinese, either). Real name: Frank Leibokowski. "They want incense, mystique, foreign accent, they want the "Dr. Chen."
* [[Make the Dog Testify|Make The Gay Chimp Testify]]
* [[Mental Time Travel]]
* [[Missed the Call]]: After Eli's [[Refusal of the Call|surgery]], his brother briefly seems to be picking up Eli's visions for him. {{spoiler|"God's fiduciary" says essentially that one Stone brother is going to get the visions, period. And if Eli doesn't take 'em, Nate will do just as well.}}
* [[Musical Episode]]: Most of them
* [[Neurodiversity Is Supernatural]]: The inexplicable actions of an autistic child are a way God communicates with Eli.
* [[Newspaper Dating]]: Notably, Eli finding out he's 10 years in the future in "Patience" by picking up a newspaper talking about Iraq withdrawal (this episode was produced in 2008) and finding out he's ten years in the past by seeing a newspaper recounting Princess Diana's death.
* [[Only Law Firm in Town]]: WPK, followed by Weathersby & Stone and Posner & Klein. We do see them fighting lawyers from other firms from time to time.
* [[Or Was It a Dream?]]: All the time. It's not.
* {{spoiler|[[Our Angels Are Different]] (see [[There Are No Therapists]])}}
* [[Parental Abandonment]]: Jordan actually drove Taylor's mom off after they split up.
* [[Parental Marriage Veto]]: Not actually involving marriage, but Jordan indicates he'd put the smackdown on Matt dating Taylor.
* [[Posthumous Character]]: Eli's dad
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* [[Psychic Powers]]
* [[Sassy Secretary]]: Patti
* [[Secret Legacy]]: Eli's dad, who everyone thought was just a drunk, also had a brain aneurysm that gave him [[Psychic Powers]].
* [[Self
* [[Ship Tease]]: The show makes you think Eli and Beth will date again. She ends up dating his brother.
** Eli and Maggie are teased throughout the series, and {{spoiler|only sort of get together in the series finale. According to [[Word of God]], Maggie too ends up with Nate.}}
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* [[Ultimate Job Security]]: ''Constantly.'' It's a frequent plot point that Eli should be canned and yet can't be. [[Justified]] in the pilot, when Beth specifically put into her settlement agreement that Eli can't be fired no matter what he does. {{spoiler|Jordan apparently doesn't have this, though.}}
* [[Tyrant Takes the Helm]]: When Marci takes over
* [[Vision Quest]]
* [[Writer
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