Offspring
Offspring is an Australian comedy-drama show that aired on Channel Ten in August 2010. It centres around a Melbourne obstetrician, as she deals with her family, and her love life.
Characters include:
- Nina Proudman- The protagonist of the series, an obstetrician who was newly single at the beginning of the show.
- Billie Proudman- Nina's older sister, a real estate agent who works in the family business.
- Jimmy Proudman- The youngest of the Proudman children, and also the one without any sense of where he's going.
- Darcy Proudman- Father to Nina, Billie, Jimmy and Ray. A real estate agent and serial Casanova.
- Geraldine Proudman- Mother to Nina, Billie and Jimmy. A teacher, ostensibly separated from Darcy (but it can depend on the episode).
- Cherie Butterfield- A nurse Nina works with at the hospital. She gives birth to Ray in the pilot episode and it is revealed that Darcy is the father.
- Mick Holland- Billie's ex, a sometime musician/composer and landscape gardener. He and Billie get back together and marry at the end of season 2.
Originally it was planned to be a telemovie but television executives were surprised but the quality of it, leading it to be spun off into a 13 episode series. Series 3 began airing in April 2012.
Not to be confused with The Offspring.
Tropes used in Offspring include:
- Above the Influence: Averted.
- All Lesbians Want Kids: Made for a strange yet amusing subplot between Kim and her partner that climaxes in the final episode in Season 1.
- Animal Motif: Nina has a strange obsession with Owls
- Aw, Look -- They Really Do Love Each Other: Billie and Mick, as well as Darcy and Geraldine
- The Bartender: Jimmy.
- Babies Make Everything Better: This show normally portrays it, given Nina's job.
- Big Beautiful Woman: Cherie.
- Break the Cutie: Poor Nina.
- Taken Up to Eleven in the season 3 opener: after seemingly earning her happy ending with Patrick at the end of season 2, in one night her apartment goes up in flames and she finds out that Darcy isn't her biological father.
- The Cameo: Shaun Micallef appears one episode as a energetic Real Estate Agent rival. That Billie wants to work for.
- The Cast Showoff: Eddie Perfect gets a number of scenes to show off his musical skills as composer/musician Mick.
- The Charmer: Darcy, Jimmy
- Cloudcuckoolander: Zara.
- Martin Clegg.
- Cool Big Sis: Nina to Billie and Jimmy
- Daydream Surprise: Frequently from Nina's perspective.
- Doctor Jerk: Nina and Fraser regard Patrick this way at first.
- Drunken Montage: After she breaks up with Patrick, Nina goes on a bender with the nurses. Leads to a What Did I Do Last Night? in the next episode when she wakes up in a stranger's bed on the morning after.
- Everyone Meets Everyone: Season 1 Finale, a BBQ to say goodbye to Nina who is leaving to go work in Baltimore and basically gathers the main cast and the supporting characters.
- First Boy Wins: Subverted with the Chris/Nina/Patrick storyline.
- Genki Girl: Tammy, the girl Jimmy brings home with him after his journey to find himself .
- Hey, It's That Guy!: Plenty.
- Hospital Hottie: Most of the characters who work at the hospital. Series two has taken it Up to Eleven by introducing two new male doctors and giving both shirtless scenes.
- The Ladette: Billie is borderline, but her pregnant friend definitely is.
- Love Triangle: In season one: Nina <> Chris < Zara
- In season 2: Patrick <> Nina <> Chris
- Luke, I Am Your Father: At the end of the telemovie it is revealed that Darcy is Ray's father.
- Another is subverted, at the very end of season 2, with Dr. Clegg and Cherie finding out that Darcy is not Nina's father.
- Continued in series 3 with a Luke, You Are My Father when Nina meets with Phillip Noonan to tell him he's her father.
- Another is subverted, at the very end of season 2, with Dr. Clegg and Cherie finding out that Darcy is not Nina's father.
- Man Child: Jimmy bounces between various jobs and money-making schemes and tests the patience of his entire family. He eventually is called out on this by Mick, after he manages to botch an expensive landscaping job that was going to provide Mick's payment on the house he bought with Billie.
- Zara also calls him this after revealing she's pregnant.
- Missing Mom: Chris' wife Chris had gotten word of her whereabouts, she was up north. She eventually came back to Melbourne to see her daughter.
- Operation: Jealousy
- Present Day
- Psycho Ex Boyfriend Nina's ex husband, shows his love to her by blowing her favourite chair up
- Put on a Bus: Upon her return from the US, Nina discovers that Chris has moved back to Brisbane with Alice and Lucy. It remains to be seen if/when he'll return.
- Random Events Plot
- Runaway Bride: Tammy
- Savvy Guy, Energetic Girl: Mick and Billie, respectively.
- Self-Proclaimed Liar: Jimmy.
- Sex Changes Everything: Oooh boy does it ever... Especially when its with your sisters ex.
- "Shut Up" Kiss: Nina and Chris
- Another in Season 2 between Nina and Patrick
- Invisible to Gaydar: Andrew, Mick's brother
- Tall, Dark and Handsome: Chris
- Patrick.
- Teen Pregnancy: Billie reveals to Mick how she got two abortions in those years.
- Token Lesbian: Kim, arguably.[context?]
- Tsundere: Billie
- Wacky Cravings: Kim during her pregnancy, displayed in the Webisodes.
- Written-In Absence: Billie disappears off to New Zealand for a conference in series 3 and gets stuck there when a volcanic ash cloud causes her flight to be cancelled. Billie appears briefly via phonecalls or on Skype. This was done to cover up Kat Stewart's pregnancy.
- Woman Scorned: In season one, Billie.
- You Know What You Did: Billie constantly berates Nina when she finds out she slept with Mick.
- Your Cheating Heart: Darcy, while married to Geraldine.
- Implied now with Geraldine too, after Nina finds out that Darcy isn't her father.