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* [[Acceptable Targets]]: The show preserves the grand Canadian tradition of making fun of Newfoundland.
** Which could actually be a bit of an in joke, considering that ''that's where the first season was actually filmed''.
* [[Designated Hero]]: In theory at least, the viewers are supposed to root for and sympathize with Casey, [[Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist|but many fans found her at least as annoying as Derek, if not moreso]].
* [[Die for Our Ship]]: And how...
** There are a handful of [[Not Blood Siblings|Dasey]] shippers who tend to demonize Emily in fanfics, portraying her as a jealous [[Stalker With a Crush]] who would [[Yandere|do anything to get Casey out of the way and have Derek for herself]]. 
** Then there's [[Canon Sue|Sally]]...
** [[Stalking Is Love|Oh, and let's not forget]] [[The Scrappy|Truman]].
* [[Fan Preferred Couple]]: Derek/Casey, ''[[Fandom|and how]]''.
** [[Ensemble Darkhorse|For a character that only appeared in three episodes, Noel created a pretty signficant ship with Casey in the fandom.]] You won't find many Noel/Casey fanfics, but there are quite a number of videos of [[YouTube]] of the two. 
** Edwin/Lizzie is another.
* [[Incest Yay Shipping]]: Derek/Casey, [[Not Blood Siblings|despite only being step-siblings]].
* [[The Masochism Tango]]: Sam and Casey's extremely fragile on-again, off-again relationship.
* [[Portmanteau Couple Name]]: [[Fan Preferred Couple|Dasey]] is popular with shippers.
** To name a few others: [[Toy Ship|Lizwin]], [[Official Couple|Geora]], [[Playing Hard to Get|Dally]], [[Victorious Childhood Friend|Demily]], [[Let's Just Be Friends|Sasey]], [[Why Would Anyone Take Him Back?|Trashy]]... shall I continue?
* [[Relationship Writing Fumble]]: Casey and Derek seem more like they have [[Belligerent Sexual Tension]] than just [[Sibling Rivalry]] most of the time.
* [[Strangled By the Red String]]: This is how many fans felt about  {{spoiler|Derek and Emily's}} relationship at the end of the series.
* [[Tastes Like Diabetes]]: Marti. ''Very'' much.
* [[Tear Jerker]]: When Derek says goodbye to Sally.
** There's also one earlier on, when Casey's dad comes to visit.

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