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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.
▲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.
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* [[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
* [[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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* [[Brilliant but Lazy]]: Joy's mum describes her as this.
* [[But for Me It Was Tuesday]]: In the second season premiere.
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[[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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* [[Cool Old Lady]]: Elka.
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Joy and Elka. Especially Elka.
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* [[Defictionalization]]: On 3/1/11 It was announced that the Scriptwriters are adding a plot in which Valerie Bertinelli's character takes a summer job as a columnist for ''Woman's Day''
* [[Did Not Do the Research]]: In one episode, after Melanie finds out her favorite singer is gay, they begin talking about some other singers they didn't know were gay. They mentioned Elton John, George Michael, and The Village People (all of them). In reality, only two members of The Village People were gay.
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* [[Expy]]: Elka is very similar to Sophia from ''[[The Golden Girls]]''.
** In a very odd coincidence that can be considered creepy. Elka and Sophia followed very similar paths. Elka was originally a much smaller part, but Betty White's [[Popularity Power]] convinced the producers to expand her character. Interestingly, Elka's ''Golden Girls'' Expy Sophia follows a similar path. Originally conceived as a [[Drop
** Let's keep this going. Victoria could be the show's Blanche, rather self-centered and vain. Joy is the second-in-command [[Deadpan Snarker]], similar to Dorothy. Melanie is the hardest to compare, although she does tend to be a rather sweet and naive Rose-type at times. At one point, Jane Leeves actually said the show could be called ''The Silver Girls.''
* [[Four-Temperament Ensemble]]: Elka is choleric, Victoria is sanguine, Joy is melancholic, and Melanie is phlegmatic.
* [[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
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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
* [[Large Ham]]: [[White Dwarf Starlet]] Victoria likes to pretend that she's still on a soap opera set.
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* [[Murder Is the Best Solution]]: Joy's first plan whenever her friends are hurt is to kill the person.
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'''Melanie:''' That's your solution for everything.
'''Joy:''' Well can't we try it just once? }}
* [[The Other Darrin]]: Chance the Dog
* [[Parents
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'''Melanie:''' Victoria, you have 3 kids....
'''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.
* [[Sitcom Arch Nemesis]]: Susan Lucci is Victoria's archnemesis.
** It's going to be interesting to see what happens next season, since Victoria has actively been trying to sabotage Susan Lucci and now ''All My Children'' is canceled.
* [[Sound Effect Bleep]]: Airport buzzers and metal detectors censor out swear words in "It's Not That Complicated".
* [[Spiritual Successor]]: To ''[[The Golden Girls]]''. See [[Expy]] above.
* [[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
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* [[Stripper Cop Confusion]]: At Elka's bachelorette party.
* [[Take That]]: To [[
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** 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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