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[[File:ncis-poster.jpg|frame| From left to right (For Seasons 3-5):
Created by [[Donald P. Bellisario]] and Don McGill, ''NCIS'' is a spinoff of ''[[JAG]]'' that leaped on the [[Forensic Drama]] bandwagon started by ''[[CSI: Crime Scene Investigation]]'', with some traditional [[Crime and Punishment Series|Crime And Punishment]] and even a bit of [[Spy Drama]] thrown in for good measure. ''NCIS'' (''[[Department of Redundancy Department|Navy NCIS]]'' for its first season) depicts a team of investigators assigned to deal with criminal activity involving Navy personnel and Marines. That means that the entire gamut of crime -- from [[Serial Killer|Serial Killers]] to fraud to international espionage to Unauthorized Absences-- can turn up. This particular team is led by Leroy Jethro Gibbs, a retired Marine gunnery sergeant, and contains (surprise!) a rather colorful collection of detectives and lab workers. The series debuted in September 2003 and is still ongoing.
A classic example of a [[Sleeper Hit]], the show was largely ignored at the beginning of its run, but has gained viewers with virtually every season and as of 2012 is the number one scripted drama on network television.
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A spinoff series, ''[[NCIS: Los Angeles]]'', premiered in 2009.
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== A-E ==
* [[Abuse Is Okay When Its Female On Male]]: Subverted in Season 3 Episode 14 "Light Sleeper". The initial suspect in the murder of a Korean woman is her Marine husband. Their neighbor claimed she frequently heard them screaming at each other, leading her to believe that husband was abusive. However, the husband reveals to Gibbs that she was the abusive one and proves by lifting up his shirt to reveal a large burn mark where she hit him with an iron. He's actually taken seriously and released.▼
* [[Action Girl]]: First Kate, a former Secret Service agent in the presidential protection detail, then Ziva, whose background with the Mossad was as a spy and an assassin rather than as an investigator.
* [[Adorkable]]: In "Jurisdiction", the CGIS expy of Abby is a cute Asian [[Meganekko]] wearing [[Nerd Glasses]].
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*** It's mutual, too.
** In "Seadog", Ducky goes ballistic on a local LEO who contaminates a crime scene so he can get in good with the news reporter on the scene.
* [[BFG]]: Ex-Watcher operator Casey Stratton uses a Desert Eagle chambered in .50 Action Express against the NCIS team in "Housekeeping".▼
* [[Big Blackout]]: "Power Down". Oh, the fun the writers must have had poking fun at the usual ''NCIS'' bells and whistles.
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* [[Bilingual Bonus]]: Ziva is Hebrew, even though it's sorta mangled. Also, Abby and Gibbs using sign language. Gratuitous second-year undergrad level Russian for a lot of characters. Passable French and some level of Arabic.
** Averted hard in the episode "Primitus Victor". "Victor" isn't Latin for "victim;" it's Latin for "victor".
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** Tony in Season 4.
** Trent Kort, the CIA agent who also infiltrated René Benoît's arms-dealing enterprise.
* [[Department of Redundancy Department]]: The show was originally named "Navy NCIS", despite the N standing for Navy. This was most likely done to prevent confusion with ''[[CSI: Crime Scene Investigation]]'', something which the series [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshades]] occasionally.
* [[Determinator]]: Gibbs becomes one toward finding Ari over the course of the second season. A repeated motif is the one monitor on his desk that's dedicated to running a facial recognition program on Ari. After Ari briefly kidnaps Kate, Gibbs starts displaying Ahab-ish tendencies, which DiNozzo lampshades.
* [[Did Not Do the Research]]:
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** A conversation between Gibbs and Vance implies that {{spoiler|Ziva was this as well}}, something that was treated as pretty much a given by everyone in her first season.
** {{spoiler|NCIS attempts to have Jonathan Cole act as this to them regarding Harper Dearing in the Season 9 finale, which Cole agrees to in exchange for a lighter sentence when he gets back to prison. Unfortunately, Dearing was [[Genre Savvy]] enough to realize what the NCIS was planning to do, so he instead has a waitress deliver the cellphone to Cole for him and then communicate with him via phone and relay a message to Gibbs}}.
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* [[Double Tap]]: The show has almost without exception invoked this; both here and in real life, Federal agents ''never'' fire only once or twice. They will keep shooting you until either you fall down or they run out of bullets, whichever comes first.
* [[Dress Code]]: Forcing Abby to follow one makes her so uncomfortable that it actually hurts her analytical skills.
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* [[False-Flag Operation]]: The whole point in the end of "Devil's Triangle".
* [[Family Relationship Switcheroo]]: At the end of one Season 6 episode, a young Marine mentions that his mother took care of Gibbs when he was wounded on a mission in her country. {{spoiler|Gibbs tells the Marine that his mother was already pregnant when they met. Seconds later, in Vance's office, Vance asks Gibbs if Gibbs told the young man that his mission had been to kill his father}}.
* [[Fan Service]]: Abby, mostly. At times, Director Shepard, especially after wardrobe started putting her in tight skirts and [[Sweater Girl|sweaters]]. And let us not forget [https://web.archive.org/web/20210321080148/http://www.celebrity-pictures.ca/
** One of the most blatant instances of potential fan service (Ziva in a fairly skimpy bikini) actually ended up being a half-subversion, as she's lying on her side reading a book and the audience never gets a good look... unless you count the screensaver McGee made from Tony's pictures of her.
** Kate as an adult version of a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HD0NGf1YEk4 'Catholic Schoolgirl' and as a Dominatrix]. This was the lighter side of a very serious episode.
* [[Fatal Attractor]]: The entire cast. With relatively few exceptions, every date any of the characters go on will be with someone evil.
* [[Fatal Family Photo]]: The ending of the episode "Rekindled" features a Marine out at sea on an amphibious carrier accidentally dropping his cell phone through the grates, reassembling it to see his family photo, only to find flickering lights underneath the door to the electric room (strongly implied to be the arson electrical bomb trap from earlier) before he is knocked back in an explosion that's heavily implied to have sunk or at the very least severely damaged the ship.
* [[Feuding Families]]: The Reynosas vs Gibbs and his father and teammates.
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** Child genius Angela in Season 7 Episode 9 "Child's Play".
* [[Give Away the Bride]]: When {{spoiler|Ziva}} is considering marrying {{spoiler|Ray}}, everyone assumes Gibbs would walk her down the aisle. {{spoiler|It does ''not'' happen, and never will. Marrying Ray, that is, not Gibbs walking her down the aisle. Still holding out hope for the second bit}}.
* [[Give the Villain a Hero's Funeral]]: NCIS decided to do this with [[The Mole]] {{spoiler|Agent Michelle Lee, after learning that she was blackmailed into her role. When her handler uses her as a [[Human Shield]] against Gibbs, she signals for Gibbs to shoot her, sacrificing her life in the process. Despite knowing how much information she compromised, NCIS covers up the treason and gives her a funeral with full honors.}}
* [[The Glomp]]: Abby, usually to Tony and McGee (especially if they're injured, which seems to be a minor [[Running Gag]]).
* [[Glove Snap]]: Tony does this comically quite often.
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'''Tony''': There we go. That wasn't so tough, was it? Now how about a little hug? Big buddy hug. Come on.
[''Abby immediately hugs Ziva, Ziva slowly reciprocates'']
'''Tony''': Now a [[Girl-On-Girl Is Hot|deep tongue kiss]].
[''Abby and Ziva punch him in the chest at the same time'']
'''Tony''': OOF! Now we feel better.}}
* [[Iron Lady]]: Director Shepherd.
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* [[Jerk Jock]]: Though not in high school, Tony, especially in early McGee episodes. Incidentally, his major was Phys. Ed.
* [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]]: Tony, although [[Your Mileage May Vary|depending on your mileage]], he skirts into [[Jerkass]] territory.
* [["Join the Army," They Said]]: The [[Victim of the Week]] in one episode was an unscrupulous Marine recruiter who made promises that would never be met, such as promising one recruit that he would be trained as a medic. As Gibbs points out, the Marine Corps doesn't have medics; they use Navy corpsmen.
* [[Jurisdiction Friction]]
== K-O ==
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* [[Magical Database]]
** Lampshaded in "False Witness" when there is a national database for the DNA of ''wild turkeys'' and both Abby and Gibbs find it weird.
*** [[Truth in Television]]! [https://web.archive.org/web/20110826052741/http://www.nwtf.org/nwtf_newsroom/press_releases.php?id=12351 National Wild Turkey Federation DNA Database].
* [[Magnetic Hero]]: Gibbs. But "he only uses his powers for good."
* [[Malaproper]]: Ziva (the ESL variety) which is a [[Running Gag]] on the show; she speaks English perfectly, except for idioms, which she constantly gets wrong and is usually corrected by Tony. What's strange is that she [[Rule of Funny|actually has a remarkably good grasp of American pop culture]]. That and her level of English proficiency mean she shouldn't get nearly ''every single idiom'' she uses wrong. It's eventually revealed that Ziva was using a ''For Dummies'' book to memorize pop culture cliches from by rote, especially movie lines. And it's hinted in a later episode that she was, at times, [[Obfuscating Stupidity|playing dumb]] to get people off-guard (and yank Tony's chain). Possibly a [[Retcon]], though.
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** Abby, in the few times when she wears glasses.
** Male example; Jimmy Palmer. Agent Lee definitely thought so.
* [[Memetic Badass]]: Gibbs is an in-universe example. When asked what the most awesome [[Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny|cage fight opponent]] for Gibbs would be, McGee and Abby casually discard such foes as Godzilla and Mothra, and decide (however unintentionally) that Gibbs vs. ''Gibbs'' would be pretty much impossible to top. At least once, Abby has put forth the theory that Gibbs has magical powers. Tony once compared Gibbs arresting [[God]] to [[Fantastic Four (Comic Book)|The Thing]] arresting [[The Hulk]]. Even ''diseases'' know better than to mess with Gibbs, as proven in "SWAK".
{{quote|'''Gibbs''': Never had a cold. Never had the flu, either.
'''Kate''': ...Why do I believe that?
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** McGee is also frequently guilty. Hilariously lampshaded somewhat in one episode:
{{quote|'''McGee:''' All right. I think I know what happened here.
'''Tony''': Oh, [[Genre Savvy|twenty bucks says McGee's about to say something nobody understands again!]]
'''McGee''': The GPS coordinates came bundled in a proprietary packet. Since it was a beta, I thought--
'''Gibbs''': I'm starting to think you can't ''help'' yourself, McGee.}}
** In "Baltimore", Gibbs actually throws away one of McGee's reports because of the technical jargon he used.
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{{quote|'''Agent Borin:''' Is this a record?
'''Abby:''' No, we don't talk about the record.}}
* [[No Ontological Inertia]]: Averted. Long term health problems from [spoiler]Tony being infected with the bubonic plague[/spoiler] are referenced seasons latter, even after the infection itself is no longer present.
* [[No Sense of Direction]]: Ducky. He blames his assistants but he's always the one giving directions.
* [[Not Proven]]: In one case, the perpetrator is a gang leader, and the team know he killed a sailor and the previous leader, but can't prove it. {{spoiler|So they showed the other gang members their evidence, mentioned that they would never get a conviction, and [[Batman Gambit|the leader shows up the next morning dead in a dumpster]]}}.
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* [[Real Life Writes the Plot]]:
** {{spoiler|Kate's death}} was either because Sasha Alexander wanted to have a child, which wouldn't have worked into the episodes very well or because she was exhausted by her role.
** Pauley Perrette's [https://web.archive.org/web/20130522072559/http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,216205,00.html nightmarish divorce from ex-husband Coyote Shivers] may or may not have been the basis for the plot for "Bloodbath", where the team has to deal with Abby's stalker ex-boyfriend, but the parallels are impossible to deny.
* [[A Real Man Is a Killer]]: Inverted. McGee and DiNozzo are capable of killing, and Gibbs is an expert, but Ziva boasts about her talents enough to make everyone, including the male characters, mildly uncomfortable.
* [[Rear Window Witness]]: "Witness".
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'''McGee''': He figured it out for himself.}}
*** In the very early episodes, Gibbs is the one who is movie savvy.
** One Halloween episode has the team being mistaken for lousy ''[[CSI: Crime Scene Investigation]]'' cosplayers.
** In "Secrets", one of the neighbourhood-vigilante superheros being interrogated exclaims "Why on [[Marvel Universe|Earth 616]] would I kill a fellow superhero!?"
** When Tony refers to assistant coroner Palmer as "the autopsy gremlin", Gibbs' response is telling Tony to [[Gremlins|not get him wet.]]
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** The team has also run into "child versions" of DiNozzo and Gibbs, respectively.
** In "Jurisdiction", one of the CGIS investigators is a red-haired female version of Gibbs. Tony is the first to notice and the others are all rather amused. Gibbs is apparently the only member of the team that is not aware of this.
* [[Single Woman Seeks Good Man]]: Delilah seeks out McGee for this reason. Bonus for [[Geeky Turn On]].
* [[Sixth Ranger]]: Kate is an example of this from the first episode, since the team was established in ''[[JAG]]''. Later, McGee, and then once again with Ziva {{spoiler|following Kate's death}}.
* [[Slap Slap Kiss]]: McGee and Abby in the first season.
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* [[Throwing the Fight]]: Ziva in the Season 5 episode "Shalom" {{spoiler|against an Iranian Agent so she would [[Just Between You and Me|confess who she was thinking she was going to kill Ziva right after said confession.]] Ziva laughs, thanks her and promptly kills her}}.
* [[Tomboy and Girly Girl]]: Kate and Abby, and then Ziva and Abby.
* [[Took a Level
** Tony, who Shepard puts in charge when Gibbs is seriously injured and doesn't appear to be coming back. Once he puts aside the smart-ass tendencies, he becomes quite the effective leader. This, of course, shows us some [[Hidden Depths]], and leads to a great exchange when he starts channeling Gibbs during a team argument.
{{quote|'''Abby''': You're not Gibbs, Tony.
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* [[Unexplained Recovery]]: Fornell died in one episode, then showed up at the end without any explanation (though everyone but Gibbs was surprised).
{{quote|'''Tony:''' Didn't you ''die?''
'''Fornell:''' I'm feeling much better.
* [[Unfortunate Names]]:
** "La Grenouille" translates to "The Frog", a very old nickname for people from France.
*** It's noteworthy that La Grenouille's real name is René. In Latin America, Kermit the Frog is named La Rana René (or René, the Frog).
** It's absolutely no surprise that someone with a name like [[Donald Duck|Donald]] [[wikipedia:Mallard|Mallard]] should have picked up the nickname "Ducky".
* [[Unorthodox Holstering]]: Largely averted, as the team members almost always wear their sidearms on their "strong side" hip<ref> (specifically, outside-the-waistband paddle holsters, oriented to "FBI forward cant")</ref> though several times they have experienced difficulties when changing where or how they carry. A mini-dress wearing undercover Agent Lee once complained that she could "barely walk straight" because of the location of her gun<ref> (Get your mind out of the gutter)</ref>, and while dating Jeanne, Tony once almost blew his cover when trying to control a potentially violent situation by reaching for his gun... which he had forgotten he wasn't wearing.
* [[Unresolved Sexual Tension]]:
** Tony and Kate to some degree.
** Tony and Ziva, four seasons and counting.
*** As one example for the former, they were required to go undercover as a couple of assassins. You read that right, ''couple''. As in ''married couple''. They engage in simulated sex for the benefit of a surveillance camera... and fool the guy who can tell if a person is faking an orgasm, who happens to enjoy <s>the "fake" porn</s> manning the camera.
*** The tension is taken to the next level in Season Six, where Tony is obviously pining for Ziva and clearly jealous of her relationship with Michael. {{spoiler|Of course, killing Michael doesn't help his chances, and probably kills any possibility of hooking up with Ziva in the near future
*** Then again in
*** Then again, {{spoiler|they're being rather cagey about who took the bed and who took the sofa while they were in Paris}}...
*** In
** Gibbs and Jenny (though theirs ''used'' to be resolved).
** McGee and Abby. When McGee has an onscreen girlfriend {{spoiler|and before she turns out to be an assassin
* [[Urban Legend Love Life]]: Tony, starting in
* [[The Uriah Gambit]]: {{spoiler|Vance is revealed to have been originally recruited to NIS in 1991 almost specifically for his expendibility. Obviously, it didn't go as planned
* [[Viewer-Friendly Interface]]: The strangest example has to be the 3-D graphic of a hard-drive when scanning a perp's computers, but even the main office contains magical displays that are able to zoom in on whatever part of a digital document is being referred to with a simple click of a remote.
* [[Villainous Breakdown]]: [[Deadpan Snarker|Kyle]] [[Magnificent Bastard|Boone]], [[Serial Killer|serial]] [[Complete Monster|killer]], in the episode
{{quote|[[spoiler: '''Boone''': Hey, do you think she screamed, when he cut out her tongue, Jethro?
'''Gibbs''': I don't know. Why don't you ask her yourself?
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'''Cassidy''': I'm afraid your lawyer's going to miss your execution tomorrow.
'''Tony''': He's kinda dead.
'''Gibbs''': [[Pre-Mortem One-Liner|Enjoy hell]].
'''Boone''': *insert breakdown and screaming here*]]
* [[Vomiting Cop]]: An amnesiac Gibbs, being brought up to speed on recent history, succumbs to this trope when his old mentor tells him about 9/11.
* [["Well Done, Son" Guy]]: Tony; slightly subverted in that Gibbs has always been proud of him... he just doesn't feel the need to say it. This has lessened in later seasons, after Gibbs left his team to Tony during his Mexican sabbatical. This quote is from
{{quote|'''Tony''': Save the pep talk. We both know I screwed up.
'''Gibbs''': Yeah, three years ago. But now you're making it right...and me proud. You've been doing a hell of a job, [[First-Name Basis|Anthony]].
** On a related note, [[Meaningful Name|Anthony means "worthy of praise
* [[We Named the Monkey "Jack"]]:
**
**
* [[Wet Sari Scene]]: A [[Nipple-and-Dimed]] (by pouring water) photo on one when a drunken Tony discovers {{spoiler|strait-laced Kate once entered (and won) a wet T-shirt contest
* [[We Want Our Jerk Back]]: When Tony abruptly goes into "serious mode", Ziva and McGee first thinks he's joking, then trying to make them look bad in front of an assistant DA and later believes he is going crazy. It turns out {{spoiler|he was feeling guilty for not noticing a woman he had a one-night-stand with who thought they were soulmates was actually seriously depressed and was trying to make up for it by not making fun of everyone. He got better after Ziva gives him a pep-talk}}.
** In "Kill Ari
* [["What Do They Fear?" Episode]]: "[[B ête]] Noire" points out a few of the main characters' (plus Ari who first appears in this episode but becomes a recurring character) fears.
** Tony fears vampires.
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** Ari fears butterflies.
* [[What Kept You?]]: Frequently.
* [[Who Dunnit to Me?]]: "Dead Man Walking". A lieutenant is poisoned via radiation and asks NCIS to solve who did it to him before he starts getting really sick. {{spoiler|He survives to the end of the episode, but dies offscreen a few shows later
* [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?]]: "Why does it always have to be boats, and rats?"
* [[Wild Card]]: Tony describes himself as one {{spoiler|when captured by Saleem}}.
* [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds]]: A guy exploits vulnerabilities in the entire Navy fleet to avenge his son, who died when a terrorist exploited a flaw in his battleship.
* [[The Worf Effect]]: Want to show how awesome a new threat is?? Have them take down Ziva in a fight.
* [[Working with the Ex]]: Seasons
* [[Write Who You Know]]: McGee's based a series of thriller novels he's written on his coworkers and miscellaneous civilians. He is a best-selling author, under the [[Pen Name]] of "[[Significant Anagram|Thom E. Gemcity]]". Despite his picture being on the back cover, he's almost never recognized. This causes problems when a [[Loony Fan]] starts killing people based on actions taken by their fictional selves in McGee's next book (the killer {{spoiler|1=had been reading McGee's typewriter ribbons to get a sneak peek}}). In that episode, McGee finally admits that he bases the characters in his books off the NCIS team (after the content of his latest book had been revealed, [[Running Gag|he'd made it a point to deny the similarities]]).
** This gets lampshaded in the episode "Friends and Lovers", when the team has to investigate a high-class nightclub. Rather than make up a celebrity to get into the place, they simply send in McGee using his "Gemcity" identity, complete with a trio of female admirers (Ziva, Abby, and Michelle Lee).
* [[X Days Since...]]
* [[You! Get Me Coffee!]]: Regularly.
** Played with in the "[[Doppelg Ã]]¤nger" episode when the McGee analogue fetches coffee for Gibbs ''and'' his counterpart.
** This is also played with when one of the team members (usually McGee) drinks or spills Gibbs' coffee, leaving them stammering, sputtering, and scrambling to get him a fresh cup.
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* [[You Have to Believe Me]]: The show ''loves'' subverting this one. See trope page for examples.
* [[You Killed My Father]]:
** Director Shepard to La Grenouille. {{spoiler|Later she does kill him, but no one figures it out until she's already dead... [[The Un-Reveal|or was it Trent, actually telling the truth
** {{spoiler|The daughter of the drug dealer who killed Gibbs' family to Gibbs; it turns out she's now the leader of the gang and she's the one who's been orchestrating all the Mexican intrigue
** {{spoiler|Variation: You killed my daughter. [[Prepare to Die]]. -- Gibbs' former mother-in-law to the Navy captain who was the main connection to the drug dealers that killed her daughter and granddaughter (the closest she could get to the actual murderers) -- ''as he's on his knees about to propose to her''. Gibbs later reveals to her that he avenged his family and "illegally" arrests her in her lawyer's presence to negate the charges
**
* [[You Know What They Say About X...]]
* [[You Need to Get Laid]]: Gibbs' team tries to find him the perfect woman in the ninth season episode "Safe Harbor" so he will stop making them work nights and weekends.
** Gibbs told Tony he'd made a mistake in blowing off his ex-fiancee for Christmas brunch in the ninth season episode "Newborn King
** Tony and Ziva often push Tim McGee to ask out a girl and Tony once arranged a date for Tim.
* [[Your Days Are Numbered]]: Lt. Roy Sanders in "Dead Man Walking
* [[You Taste Delicious]]: During the aforementioned sexual harassment training, Ziva notices Tony not paying attention, and licks him. He promptly jumps up and draws everyone's attention.
* [[Zettai Ryouiki]]: This is one of the staples of Abby's wardrobe.
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