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[[File:HotInClevelandGroupPic 1758.png|frame|From left to right: Victoria, Melanie, Joy and Elka]]
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▲'''''Hot in Cleveland''''' is an American sitcom on TV Land starring Valerie Bertinelli (Melanie Moretti), Jane Leeves (Rejoyla "Joy" Scroggs), and Wendie Malick (Victoria Chase) as three past-their-prime entertainment industry veterans from Los Angeles. One day, their lives are changed when their Paris-bound plane makes an emergency landing in Cleveland, Ohio. Here, the group finds a welcoming community that is less shallow, youth-obsessed and weight-conscious than LA. Melanie falls in love with the place and leases a home with sassy caretaker Elka Ostrovsky, played by [[Betty White]]. It's essentially ''[[Golden Girls]]'' with a slightly younger cast. The series, which is TV Land's first original scripted series, premiered on June 16, 2010, and was the channel's highest rated telecast in the cable network's fourteen-year history.
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▲The show is written by Suzanne Martin (''[[Frasier]]'', ''Ellen'') and is produced by Sean Hayes and Todd Milliner of Hazy Mills Productions. The series is taped in front of a live studio audience at CBS' Studio City in Los Angeles using a multi-camera format. Season 3 began airing in November 2011.
* [[Accidental Marriage]]: In the season two finale, Joy and Victoria wake up to discover that they got married the other night. {{spoiler|It isn't until the end that they discover they married each other}}.
* [[Actor Allusion]]: Lots. Betty White's cellmate in the second season premiere is [[The Mary Tyler Moore Show|Mary Tyler Moore]]. The mother of Melanie's boyfriend is [[One Day At a Time|Bonnie Franklin]]. [[Frasier|Peri Gilpin]] plays a friend of all three of the gals.
* [[Adam Westing]]: [[Susan Lucci]] seems to be getting a big kick out of playing an exaggerated version of herself as a mean, vindictive, spiteful rival and frenemy to Victoria.
* [[All Girls Want Bad Boys]]
* [[Ascended Extra]]: Elka was only supposed to appear in the pilot, but was so well-received by early viewers, she was made into a core cast member.
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* [[But for Me It Was Tuesday]]: In the second season premiere.
{{quote|Elka: So, what are you in for?
[[Mary Tyler Moore|Cellmate:]] Drunk and disorderly. Or as I call it...
* [[Brick Joke]]: That "Mommy Dearest" tell-all Victoria mentions one of her children as having threatened to write about her? Gets turned into a movie two seasons later...
* [[But We Used a Condom]]: Joy claims that she became pregnant even when using a condom.
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* [[Gosh Dang It to Heck]]: Melanie does this a lot, but she is able to curse out her ex-husband.
* [[Hair Flip]]: Victoria attempted to do one while on ''All My Children'', but due to Susan Lucci's interference, was unable to complete it.
* [[Hey, It's That Guy!|Hey, It's That Gal]]: The show has [[One Day At a Time|Barbara Cooper]] (or [[Touched By an Angel|Gloria]]) sharing a house with [[Frasier|Daphne Moon]] and [[Just Shoot Me|Nina Van Horn]] (or [[Fillmore!|Principal Folsom]]), with [[The Golden Girls|Rose Nylund]] (or, if you like, [[The Mary Tyler Moore Show|Sue Ann Nivens]]) as their caretaker.
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* [[Homage]]: The episode "Indecent Proposals" is basically one to ''[[Sex and the City]]''.
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* [[Japandering]]: Victoria dreamed of the day that she build enough success, respect, and credibility as an actor to piss it all away for a boatload of cash. She didn't, however, expect it to be for [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGNZGKiMV-E "Lady Pants."]
* [[Kavorka Man]]: Rick
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'''Victoria:''' *surprised look on her face* }}
** Granted, she could've had a multiple birth but it's always stated in a way that points to the otherwise.
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* [[Reality Is Unrealistic]]: Victoria entered and LOST a look-a-like contest, as herself. She was supposed to be a drag queen look-a-like, but she still lost (to a Susan Lucci look-a-like.)
* [[Rich Bitch]]: Victoria can be considered an example, except her finances, or lack thereof are a recurring problem for her.
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* [[Squick]]: An In-Universe - example Victoria fills in for Juliet in the High School play and has to kiss a high school boy. The audience cringes. Lampshaded by Elka
{{quote|'''Elka:''' [[Refuge in Audacity|it's funny]] [[Crosses the Line Twice|'cause it's gross]]}}
* [[Stripper Cop Confusion]]: At Elka's bachelorette party.
* [[Take That]]: To [[Justin Bieber]] of all people. When it's discovered that Elka has him on her iPod:
{{quote|"I ''love'' her! They keep saying she's a boy, but I'm not buying it."}}
** And to ''[[Glee]]'', too:
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** Joy's admirer Rick mentions that in the Battle of the Bands, a group of hot youngsters will perform and blames it on ''[[Glee]]''.
* [[Teen Pregnancy]]: Joy was revealed to have given a child up for adoption in episode 2.
* [[Theme Naming]]: Meet Victoria's children: Emmy, Oscar, and Tony (She doesn't like Tony that much.)
* [[The Unfavorite]]: Victoria's third child, Tony
* [[White Dwarf Starlet]]: Victoria
* [[Whole-Plot Reference]]: "Elka's Big Day" for ''[[The Hangover]]".
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[[Category:Comedy Series]]
[[Category:Live-Action TV of the 2010s]]
[[Category:The New Tens]]
▲[[Category:Hot in Cleveland]]
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