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[[File:tumblr_kyixfiwOSZ1qzdduoo1_500_5657.jpg|frame|The main cast of the first two
{{quote|''"Tickets this way to the Chatsworth Express! Come and watch pikeys making a mess of the lives they were given by Him upstairs! And kids, they're convinced, aren't actually theirs... What sounds on earth could EVER replace kids needing money? Or wives in yer face... 'cause this, people reckon - and me included - is why pubs and drugs were kindly invented to calm us all down and stop us going mental! These are Chatsworth estate's BASIC essentials! We're worth every penny for grinding your axes... You shit on our heads, but, you pay the taxes! Imagine Britain without Chatsworth buccaneers, who'll cum on your face for the price of a beer... [[No Poverty|Make poverty history!]] Cheaper drugs now! Make poverty history! Cheaper drugs now! Heh heh heh heh... scatter! Partay!"''|'''Frank Gallagher''', ''Shameless opening monologue''}}
Imagine the ultimate [[Crapsack World]]. No one has a job, kids have lost their parents, or the parents simply just don't care. The [[Police Are Useless|police are corrupt and
However...
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At some point in the gestation process, the team realized that what they had been planning could ALSO work as a comedy. And the rest... is history.
''Shameless'' tells the story of a family of brothers and sisters, [[Parental Abandonment|abandoned by their
Early seasons focus more closely on the Gallagher clan; later on, existing characters role have expanded, such as the notorious [[Irish Mob|Maguire
Currently airing its ninth series, ''Shameless'' is a British TV series produced for [[Channel 4]]. It has recently been given a [[Foreign
The big break of [[James
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=== The original show provides examples of: ===
* [[Aesop
* [[The Alcoholic]]: Frank Gallagher.
* [[Alcoholic
* [[All Devouring Black Hole Loan
** And one of Paddy's first appearances has him and two [[Mooks|
* [[Alone with the
* [[Ambulance
* [[Ascended
* [[
* [[Bad Humor Truck]]: The Maguires use an ice cream van as a front for dealing drugs and give Frank a job on it ("If someone asks for a smartie... give them a pill. If someone asks for a polo...give them a pill."). Backfires somewhat when Frank takes some himself and ends up giving pills to an old woman who wanted some actual smarties.
* [[Black Comedy
* [[Breaking the Fourth Wall]]: A very surreal moment towards the end of the Series 6 finales has Frank address the audience by knocking on the camera lens and talking about fairy tales beginning and ending. Its set in black and white and is a very strange and out there moment. It's repeated {{spoiler|with Mandy's... ghost or angel I guess during her funeral}}.
* [[Bribe
* [[British
* [[The Bus Came Back]]: ''Shameless'' enjoys [[Killed Off for Real|killing off]], [[Chuck Cunningham Syndrome|forgetting the existence of]], or [[Put on a Bus|otherwise
** {{spoiler|Kev and Marty both return in separate episodes in the later series. Marty returns to drive a wedge between Kelly and Shane and Kelly falls for him despite them barely speaking to each other when they were both together in the early seasons. Kev returns for the 100th episode as a one-off; his time in prison, Veronica's whereabouts, and how he could afford to move to Nottingham and start a new life, or even why exactly he's brought back, are explained.}}
* [[Bus Crash]]: Subverted. Debbie leaves to join the army at the end of Series 6, and later sent a letter saying she was in Afghanistan. In the first episode of Series 8, an army officer tells Frank that Debbie was killed in action, but it turns out to be a malicious prank by ex wife Monica.
* [[Butch
* [[Chained to a Bed]]: The main feature of Frank and Sheila's sex life, played for comedy. Used much more chillingly when {{spoiler|Paddy is chained to a bed and forcibly injected with heroin by psychotic Maureen}}.
* [[Christmas Special]]: But a very weird one - Lip and Kev steal a load of meat to sell on the cheap, then {{spoiler|it turns out the meat is a biohazard, so the Military quarantine the area}}.
* [[Chuck Cunningham
** Dialogue in earlier seasons reveals that the Maguires had seven children in all; however, by the later seasons, this is suddenly changed to them having had five children with no explanation given whatsoever as to having forgotten the birth of two of their children.
*** Retconned back to seven ({{spoiler|eight including Mimi and Billy's daughter}}) children as of Episode 8 of Season Nine.
** Which is all the more confusing when you wonder how the Maguires can effectively control the estate after Paddy leaves - with only Mimi and 3 brothers (Jamie, Shane and Mickey), rather than the large crime family we're meant to believe they are.
* [[The
* [[
* [[Country
* [[Crapsack World]]: Virtually everyone in the Shameless universe is corrupt or just nasty in general, particularly in the later series; police, priests, soldiers, doctors, the Women's Institute... Families like the Gallaghers and Maguires seem normal in comparison.
* [[Cultural
* [[Cute
* [[Dance Party
* [[Dawson
* [[Defrosting Ice
* [[Dropped a Bridget On
* [[Everybody
* [[Faking the Dead]]: {{spoiler|Frank}} and {{spoiler|Kash}} both fake their deaths to avoid debts, in unrelated incidents.
* [[Fat Bastard]]: Played straight with drug dealer Mimi Maguire in the early series, but after the Maguires became 3-dimensional main characters as opposed to just nasty antagonists (resulting in more sides to Mimi's character being shown), this trope didn't apply as well.
* [[Foreign
* [[Forgot to Pay the Bill]]: A frequent occurrence. It is set on a [[Council
* [[
** From the more recent series, Paddy's gangland rival Roscoe.
* [[Gentleman Thief]]: Steve is a middle-class car thief who prides himself on stealing from people who deserve it, as well as never having committed a violent crime.
* [[Great
* [[Hooker with a Heart of Gold]]: Kelly Ball. This troper's heart melts every time she shares a scene with Liam.
* [[Incest Is
* [[Insurance Fraud]]: In the first series, Lip earns extra money by filing out fake insurance claims for people. Also in Series 6, after the Kash & Karry burns down, Yvonne deliberately floods the stock room so she can claim extra insurance.
** And then there was Steve and Fiona setting fire to their own house in the Series 1 finale.
* [[The Irish Mob]]: The Maguires.
* [[Kavorka
* [[Last Supper Steal]]: The dinner scene at the end of the first series Christmas special.
* [[Likes Older
* [[Lower Class
* [[My Local]]: The Jockey, where most of the main characters hang out or work.
* [[Name's the
{{quote|'''Wilson''': ''Really? Liam Gallagher?.''}}
** There were also two very, very minor characters in the early series called Paddy and Mickey, before the Maguires became prominent.
* [[Naughty by
* [[Noodle
{{quote|Paddy to Mimi: "Remember those blokes who came round with the salmon?"}}
* [[No
** A good proportion of the shows adults are seen smoking. [[Truth in
* [[Not Quite Dead]]: Frank's Father Neville has one of these moments, surviving a heart attack that had been previously implied to be fatal.
* [[Obstructive
* [[Older Than They Look]]: Lip discovers on his 18th birthday that he's actually ''19'', because Frank forgot to register his birth for an entire year. When Lip angrily asks what they were doing that was so important they could have forgotten:
{{quote|'''Frank''': [[Comically Missing the Point|We went down Ladbrokes instead? Big win!]]}}
* [[Oop North]]: The series is set in Manchester.
* [[Oops, I Forgot I Was Married]]: Kev proposes to Veronica while drunk. It takes a while for him to confess to her that he never divorced his first wife, Roxy, who was a violent alcoholic who is in prison for GBH but still very much in love with him. Veronica is actually fine with this and they have a fake wedding just so they don't disappoint Veronica's mother and more importantly get wedding gifts, particularly Veronica's dad's money which would help them pay off most of their house in a right-to-buy scheme.
* [[Paedo
* [[Paper-Thin
* [[Parents as
* [[Perpetual
* [[Promotion to
* [[Put on a
** ''Shameless'' is actually pretty bad for this. Kev, Veronica and Sheila's departures were all explained and depicted on screen, but they happened suddenly, had no real fanfare leading up to them and after the characters had gone, they were seldom mentioned again. Debbie also left suddenly in the recent series.
*** Interestingly, Kev and Veronica would be out of prison by the end of Series 8 so they could potentially be brought back in Series 9, if only for an episode or two. It would be a brilliant call back and a great chance to see how much things have changed.
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* [[Really Gets Around]]: Karen, at least in the earlier series, in which she gave Blow Jobs to practically anybody for no real reason, and cheated on her boyfriend with his Father (who was also her Mother's partner). She calmed down a lot as she got older though, and eventually got married.
* [[Reformed Criminal]]: Jamie Maguire - spent ten years in prison for murder, now runs The Jockey and refuses to have anything to do with the family business.
* [[Rogue
* [[Rousing Speech]]: Frank's 'data not information' speech in Series 2, during which he convinces the social workers that him being recorded as dead is a computer error and that Liam is being properly taken care of by Fiona, preventing him from being taken into care.
** Frank's opening monologues from Series 5 onwards also count.
* [[Spot of
* [[Sticky
* [[Take
{{quote|'''Frank''': You hit me in the face with a pan of porridge. I went to casualty looking like [[Acceptable Political Targets|Ann fucking Widdecombe.]]}}
* [[Take That (band)|Take
* [[Tourette's Shitcock
* [[Who's Your Daddy?]]: Ian's parentage is come into question when Debbie looks at the blood types of the family, leading him on a hunt for his real father and possibly an escape from the Chatsworth Estate. Turns out {{spoiler|his dad is exactly like Frank, only he also owns the pub he constantly gets wasted at}}.
* [[Zany
=== The American series provides examples of: ===
* [[Abusive
* [[The Alcoholic]]: Frank Gallagher (yep, still a drunk). {{spoiler|Lip}} also seems to be following this route during Season 2. Like father, like son.
* [[Anything That
* [[Armor-Piercing Slap]]: Happens to Lip from Karen in "Can I Have A Mother".
* [[Artistic
* [[Ax
* [[The Beard]]: Mandy for Ian.
* [[Betty and
* [[Big
* [[Black Best Friend]]: Veronica.
* [[Blatant
* [[Broken Bird]]: Holy '''hell''', Karen Jackson. Less so during the majority of Season 1, but it was during the stuff between her and her Dad that messed her up royally.
* [[But Not Too
* [[Calling the Old Man
* [[Cold-Blooded
* [[Comically Missing the
* [[Contrived
** Shelia has almost conquered her agoraphobia when {{spoiler|a wheel falls of a plane and lands right in front of her}}.
** Carl wants an air-rifle so {{spoiler|a criminal tosses a machine pistol out of a car and it lands in front of Carl. Carl uses it to kill a BALD EAGLE}}.
** Ian spends the night with some random older guy he met at a nightclub. {{spoiler|Who turns out to be Steve/Jimmy's father}}.
* [[Couch
* [[Downer
* {{spoiler|[[Driven to
** {{spoiler|Monica at the end of Season Two, but her attempt is unsuccessful}}.
* [[Dumb
* [[Even Evil Has Loved
* [[
* [[Faking the Dead]]: {{spoiler|Frank, though it seemed to bite him on the ass}}.
* [[Fan
* [[Fille
* [[Generation Xerox]]: Fiona and Lip are beginning to show similarities to their dear old dad, particularly some shades of selfishness. Fiona {{spoiler|slept with a married man even though she knew she would regret it}}. Lip is especially showing signs with {{spoiler|attempting to break Karen and Jodie up by sending Mandy to their house so Mandy would sleep with Jodie}}. This trope is even lampshaded in "A Beautiful Mess".
{{quote|'''Frank''': Why do you have to be such an asshole?
'''Lip''': The apple fell where you left it.}}
* [[Genki Girl]]: Though she may be a a bit older than most examples, Sheila Jackson when she's not in a [[Heroic BSOD|rough patch]].
* [[Gone Horribly
** At the midpoint of the season, {{spoiler|Kevin reveals that he didn't destroy all of the weed but rather, buried it; Ethel and Malik later dig up the buried weed and sell it to leave town together}}.
* [[Informed
** Then again, Ian beats the living crap out of his brother, proving he does show these fighting abilities but just chooses not to.
* [[Insurance Fraud]]: Frank is supposed to have a car torched for the insurance money but stops for a drink first and it is stolen instead. Since the car was not insured against theft, he owed some gangsters a lot of money... until {{spoiler|he faked his death}}.
* [[It's All About
* [[
* [[Karma
* [[Killed Off for Real]]: {{spoiler|The two characters that are closest to being considered as their season's respective main antagonists, Eddie Jackson and Peggy Gallagher, have both been killed off}}.
* [[Law of Inverse
* [[Mafia
* [[Mistaken for
* [[Mistaken for
* [[Mood Whiplash]]: Heavily used and ''how''. One moment the show is all dramatic, then the next moment something greatly funny happens.
* [[Mr.
* [[Ms.
* [[Never Learned to Read]]: Kevin has severe dyslexia and since he spent his childhood being shuffled from foster home to foster home, it was never addressed. He can read enough to get by in his job as a bartender but has problems with more complicated writing. He's been attending special tutoring sessions so he can finally learn to read and write properly.
* [[Never Mess with
* [[Nice
* [[Oh
* [[Out of
* [[Pair the
** {{spoiler|Seems that it will happen with either Lip and Estefania, or Lip and Mandy, at the end of Season 2}}.
* [[Parental
* [[Perpetual
* [[Promotion to
* [[Put on a
** {{spoiler|Karen leaves the Jackson household at the end of Season 2, but it's possible that she will be back for Season 3}}.
* [[Rape Is Okay When Its Female On
** However, it's averted as {{spoiler|Sheila is upset and apologizes to Frank for what Karen did}}.
*** Though zigzagged since {{spoiler|Sheila is the only one who considers it rape}}.
* [[Reality
* [[Really Gets Around]]: Karen, Lip. Fiona in the first half of Season 2.
* [[Reasonable Authority
* [[Running
* [[Sibling
** Though they did have a round two and Ian did win, and they're back on speaking terms.
* [[The Sociopath]]: Frank's mother definitely, she really didn't care at all about those 2 college kids that died in the meth lab explosion that got her jail-time.
** {{spoiler|Karen}} seems to be falling under this route.
* [[Tangled Family
* [[Took a Level in
* [[Villainous
* [[We Want Our Jerk Back]]: When Frank signs up for a medical study and has to stay sober for two weeks in order to get paid he becomes much nicer. However, he also becomes hyperactive and his attention span starts getting shorter. This starts out as endearing, then becomes disruptive and ends up as destructive. When he starts to break down walls with a sledgehammer and wants to cut a hole in the roof for a skylight, the kids have enough and {{spoiler|knock him out with a stun gun and pour liquor into him}}. They don't actually want their abusive father back but know that he is not actually serious about staying sober and prefer to end this before he causes a disaster.
* [[Wham!
** Season 1 ended with {{spoiler|Eddie Jackson's suicide and the fact that Fiona wasn't going to run away with Steve}}.
** Season 2's "A Beautiful Mess" ends with Karen telling Lip off by staying away from her, Jody (her fiance), {{spoiler|[[Wham! Line|and their unborn
** Season 2's "Parenthood" ends with {{spoiler|Frank going back to [[Missing Mom|
** Season 2's "A Good Cause" featured {{spoiler|the savings that Fiona had been building up for her entire life being wasted by the unstable Monica}}. Then in "Just Like the Pilgrims Intended", {{spoiler|Karen gives birth, but the child doesn't belong to Lip or the [[Red
* [[Who's Your Daddy?]]: Monica Gallagher did a lot of drugs while married to Frank and does not really remember what she did during those times. There is a fair chance that some of her kids might not be Frank's. Turns out {{spoiler|Lip and Liam were Frank's sons but Ian is actually the son of one of Frank's brothers}}.
** Now played with Karen's child, as it could be {{spoiler|Lip's}} or someone else's. Though in her own words, its [[Parental Substitute|Jody'
** It turns out that {{spoiler|neither Lip nor Jody is the father of her baby, but rather an Asian guy Karen was having sex with on the side}}.
* [[The Windy
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