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Like J.J.'s other shows, it has a slowly developing [[Myth Arc]] involving an [[Alternate Universe]], an [[Action Girl]], and also has some crazy, off-the-wall happenings right from the get-go. It's quite a [[Mind Screw]]. The show premiered in August 2008 on FOX.

 

 

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== Tropes A-E ==

* [[I Just Want to Be Normal]]: "Baby Boy Brian" AKA Eugene underwent experiments that made him invisible and also put off a fatal condition. He spent his episode stealing other people's pigment to make himself visible again, {{spoiler|never mind the fact that it would kill him}}.

* [[I Know You Know I Know]]: The bad guy in "The Plateau" can use math to predict and manipulate the future. When Charlie and Olivia realize what it means for their investigation, they call Astrid and ask her if it's possible to compute whether he'll predict between their two choices. She says it's a mathematical impossibility, an infinite loop, and basically gives this trope. He can predict what they'll do since he knows that they know that he'll know he can predict them knowing that he can predict them, etc. Olivia just says "screw it" and decides to go to the hotel. {{spoiler|[[Answer Cut]] to the bad guy standing in front of a window with a hotel sign visible next to it}}.

* [[Improbable Aiming Skills]]: Fauxlivia has an incredible knack for shooting people right between the eyes. Becomes a plot point in the Season 3 premiere, when Olivia pulls off an absolutely insane shot to a gas gauge with a handgun from a car moving at full speed. {{spoiler|It means the brainwashing is working}}.

** Olivia {{spoiler|seems to have retained her new-found marksmanship skills even though the brainwashing isn't permanent}}. [[Foreshadowing|What this means]] [[Red Herring|is unclear.]] Later episodes have shown that she remembers ''all'' her time over there (she gives frequent guidance on how Fringe Division does things as [[It Got Worse|events warrant it]]), she's just clear now that {{spoiler|she's not Fauxlivia, although she remembers being her}}. So that's okay, then. Probably.

* [[Incredibly Lame Pun]]:

** The title of the episode with the melting brains? "No-Brainer".

** The Fringe team finds that someone has dug something up out of a hole in a basement. [[Discworld|Walter thinks it would be delightful were it a box with tiny legs that got up and ran away.]]

*** Speaking of which, here's a somewhat far-fetched one from "Jacksonville"... [http://img44.imageshack.us/img44/1284/trousersoftime.jpg This is one Ted Pratchett.] Could this be a really twisted double allusion to the "trousers of time" theory? (Warning: the image is fairly [[Body Horror|disturbing]].)

** The glasses Walter wears in "The Firefly" are said to have been made by a friend of Walter's, a [[Twin Peaks|Dr. Jacoby from Washington state]] (who wore similar glasses in that show).

** "The [[Firefly]]" was the first episode in the [[Friday Night Death Slot]].

** Even before being committed, he apparently preferred to use dated technology in his everyday life, all the more surprising for a cutting-edge scientist. He has a typewriter ({{spoiler|which the ZFT manifesto was typed on}}) and his record collection is pre-CD.

* [[Tele Frag]]: Happens in "Jacksonville" (Season 2 Episode 15) to an entire building when it(and the people inside) are merged with their [[Alternate Universe]] counterparts.

* [[Trapped in Another World]]:

** {{spoiler|Olivia at the end of Season 2}}.

** ''[[Back to The Future]]'' starring Eric Stotlz (in a [[Shout-Out]] to the circumstances of [[The Other Marty]]).

** ''[[The West Wing]]'' Season 11, complete with an Obama lookalike on [http://i42.tinypic.com/4pv1np.png the poster] and a slightly different logo ("the" is on the right hand side, not in the middle).

** ''[[Cats|Dogs]]'', now enjoying its 18th year on Broadway.

** Queen Diana is visiting the States apparently. Depressing both IRL and in-universe, since it suggests an early death for Queen Elizabeth II.

 

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