Hart of Dixie

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Hart of Dixie is a 2011 television series airing on The CW, starring Rachel Bilson of The OC fame.

Zoe Hart is a young, aggressive and driven New York female surgeon who seems to have it all.... and loses it really fast, when her doctor boyfriend of six years dumps her for being a workaholic and she doesn't get a cardiothoracic fellowship, which she finds out she'll have to work for a year as a general practice doctor to get.

She decides to take on the offer of an Alabama practice doctor, Harley Wilkes, who for some reason kept on trying to get her to work at his practice, and travels all the way to Bluebell, the town he hailed from, where she finds herself a bit uncomfortable...

Tropes used in Hart of Dixie include:
  • Abhorrent Admirer: Zoe treats Wade like one.
  • The Ace: Jesse for Wade.
  • Alliterative Title: Many of the episode names are this.
  • Beauty Contest: Lemon and Zoe push Magnolia and Rose to compete against each other in one in "Hairdos & Holidays".
  • Belligerent Sexual Tension: Zoe and Wade qualify as this, especially since Wade refuses to fix the generator they share because he doesn't want to stop arguing with her. Lavon points this out to Wade.
  • Betty and Veronica: Lemon is torn between her longtime fiance George (Betty) and Lavon (Veronica), the man she had an affair with and is still attracted to.
    • Zoe is also torn between her crush, the respectable lawyer George (Betty) and the hot guy next door, Wade (Veronica).
  • Black Best Friend: Lavon is this to Zoe. Addie also probably counts.
  • Brainy Brunette: Brunette Zoe is an ambitious surgeon.
  • Brother Chuck: Nancy Travis' character disappears after episode 2, probably because of her role in Last Man Standing.
  • Celebrity Paradox: In an episode, a visiting friend of Zoe's says 'It's gonna be like Friday Night Lights, but without the sad parts'. Scott Porter (George) played Jason Street in that show.
  • Family Theme Naming: Lemon, Magnolia and Brick Breeland.
  • First Episode Spoiler: Repeated ad nauseam in the "Previously On..." montage Harvey Wilkes was Zoe's biological father.
  • Fish Out of Water: The premise of the show.
  • Gypsy Curse: Some of the women of Bluebell believe they are under a gypsy curse not to have children until after Lemon marries. She later releases them from the curse.
  • Hey, It's That Guy!: Looks like Summer went into the family business.
  • Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: Every episode is named 'Thing & Thing', usually with a rhyme or alliteration. Examples are Hairdos & Holidays, Homecoming & Coming Home, The Undead & The Unsaid...
  • Little Black Dress: Zoe wears when she goes to see Wade in "In Havoc & In Heat".
  • Zoe, He Was Your Father: the true reason Harley wanted Zoe to take over his part of the clinic.
  • Lovable Alpha Bitch: Lemon. She is definitely the queen bee of her group of friends, but they adore her.
  • Love Triangle: George, Lemon and Lavon. Kind of subverted because George is oblivious to Lemon and Lavon.
  • Love Dodecahedron: Lavon loves Lemon who is engaged to George who has a crush on Zoe who likes George too, but also kind of likes Wade who loves Zoe. Also Zoe dates Judson who slept with her friend Gigi.
  • Missing Mom: Lemon and Magnolia's mom left the family when Magnolia was little so she could make it big as an actress. In Hairdos And Holidays, Lemon finds out that her mother is actually doing a play in a nearby town, so she decides to see how she's doing, and she finds out her mother has a new family, and presumably left her, Magnolia and Brick for them. This incident also starts her reciprocated interest in Lavon.
  • Mr. Fanservice: Wade. Wilson Bethel even made a commercial called Give A Shirt lampshading how his character is pretty much always shirtless.
  • Never Found the Body: The Patient of the Week in The Undead & The Unsaid.
  • Pimped-Out Dress: Lemon Breeland and the other belles.
  • Power Blonde: Lemon Breeland
  • Punny Name: Zoe Hart. Lampshaded in the pilot when Zoe says that her surname being Hart made it 'destiny' for her to become a cardiac surgeon.
  • Quirky Town: Bluebell is this. In fact, the town set is the same one from Gilmore Girls so it has much of the same feel as Stars Hollow.
  • Small Town Boredom: George has shades of this, which is why he lived in New York City before the start of the series and is attracted to NYC native Zoe.
  • Southern Belle: Most of the female characters, but especially Lemon.
  • Stepford Smiler: Lemon. She's a Type A.
  • Sugar and Ice Personality: Lemon Breeland.
  • Sweater Girl: Most of Lemon's clothes are this.
  • Sweet Home Alabama: Bluebell definitely counts.
  • Talk Like a Pirate: Part of Bluebell's annual "Planksgiving" celebration in "The Pirate & The Practice"
  • The Prankster: Lemon was this in high school, and is still able to concoct a good revenge scheme.
  • Will They or Won't They?: Zoe & Wade
    • they did in the season 1 finale
  • Well, Excuse Me, Princess!: Zoe & Wade's relationship in the early stages was this.
  • Wham! Episode: Bachelorettes & Bullets: Zoe starts something with a marine biologist, Jesse Kinsella. Lemon and George break up after she comes clean about the affair she had with Lamont.
  • What the Hell, Hero?: Wade manages to deliver one to both Jesse and Zoe at the same time in Bachelorettes & Bullets. Zoe gets one of those by George, too at the end of the episode, as does Lemon.
    • Zoe gets two, one from Lavon and the other from Rose's mother in The Race & The Relationship.
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