Northern Exposure: Difference between revisions

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* [[All Bikers Are Hells Angels]]: [[Played for Laughs]]. Ruth-Anne briefly takes up with some bikers who turn out to have normal, mundane lives.

* [[Belligerent Sexual Tension]]: Joel and Maggie actually came to blows once.

* [[Bishounen]]: Ed, just... ''Ed''. And Chris in the Morning, a rare scruffy version of this type.

* [[Breaking the Fourth Wall]]: "War and Peace" has Marilyn explicitly change the scene.

* [[California Doubling]]: Alaska, I mean um, Washington state, [[Scenery Porn|sure is beautiful]].

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** In "What I Did for Love" Maggie repeatedly dreams she's playing ''Clue'' with Joel, who, in the dream, will die in a plane crash on his way back to New York.

** And [[Vision Quest]] for (naturally) Ed.

* [[Drop in Character]]: Ed. He doesn't seem to believe in knocking, and will already be in the room before the person he came to visit (frequently Joel) will even notice him.

* [[Drop-In Character]]: Ed. He doesn't seem to believe in knocking, and will already be in the room before the person he came to visit (frequently Joel) will even notice him.

** Joel's house seems to be a magnet for these kinds of characters. Particularly in the middle of the night.

* [[Dropped a Bridge on Him]]: {{spoiler|Rick became a victim of "The O'Connell Curse" when he got a ''satellite'' dropped on him.}}

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* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]: Chris is also [[My Big Fat Greek Wedding|a vegetarian English professor]] and [[Sex and the City|dating Carrie until she leaves him for Mr. Big]].

* [[Hide Your Lesbians]]: In-universe example - Maurice tells Joel that, [[Suspiciously Specific Denial|whatever he may have heard]], the two women who founded the town were just good friends.

* [[Hollywood Atheist]] averted hard with General Store owner Ruth-Anne Miller, one of the friendliest and most down-to-earth residents of Cicely, who just happens to be an atheist.

* [[Innocent Blue Eyes]]: Ed, as part of his total [[Bishounen]] look.

* [[Insult to Rocks]]: At one point, Maggie decides that calling Joel a moron would be "an insult to morons".

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* [[Noodle Incident]]: Maggie's first boyfriend was apparently killed by potato salad.

* [[Not-So-Imaginary Friend]]: Adam, originally.

* [[Magic Realism]] (and the [[Sci Fi Ghetto]]): dream sequences,

* [[Magical Native American]]: Ed in later seasons

* [[A Man Is Not a Virgin]]: Ed plays this out and lampshades it later.

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* [[Two Lines, No Waiting]]: Aside from the pilot, all episodes had two, three or four plots.

* [[Unfortunate Implications]]: In-universe example: In one episode, Joel is listing strains of flu, and when he says "Russian flu", everyone immediately thinks [[Windmill Political|the Soviets sent the flu across the Bering Strait to them]] and [[The Great Politics Mess-Up]] was a hoax.

* [[Visions of Another Self]]: The residents of 1909 Cicely in the [[Flash Back]] to the town's founding: Maurice becomes the ruthless crime-boss Mace Mobrey; Maggie is the stong-willed missionary Mary O'Keefe; Chris's counterpart is the philisophical gunfighter Kit; and Ed is Ned, the old man telling Joel the story. Joel himself? His counterpart is [[Franz Kafka]]!

** They revisited this past period in a later episode, only recasting Joel as a personal physician to Lenin and Maggie as a handmaiden to Anastasia. According to the story, Anastasia had agreed to emerge from hiding to meet with Lenin about possibly returning to the Soviet Union.

* [[Vitriolic Best Buds]]: Maurice and Holling, [[Love Triangle|frequently over Shelly]].