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=== The original show provides examples of: ===
* [[Aesop Amnesia]]: Frank, after wallowing in self-pity just after Stella and Liam are taken into care, promptly mans up and puts much effort into changing his ways to appear a good parent and get them back. A couple of episodes later he's back to normal because, well, he [[Status Quo Is God|just wouldn't be Frank Gallagher]] if he'd stayed sober.
* [[The Alcoholic]]: Frank Gallagher▼
* [[Alcoholic Parent]]: Frank.
* [[All Devouring Black Hole Loan Sharks]]: After losing her shop to a fire and a flood, Yvonne has trouble raising funds to rebuild her shattered empire and seeks help from Paddy Maguire. His aggressive actions cause her to sell the shop to Joe and flee to Spain.
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* [[Bribe Backfire]]: In one episode a cop is accusing Lip of assault, so they try to bribe him. He takes the bribe to drop the charge {{spoiler|of bribing a police officer.}}
* [[British Brevity]]: Averted. The Shameless series are getting longer with average of 8 episodes for Series 1-4 and then doubled to 16 episodes for Series 5-7. Further more 22 episodes are confirmed for Series 8 in 2011.
* [[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 disappearing]] much of its ensemble, but several old characters have returned at points, such as {{spoiler|Kash returning from his faked suicide as a completely unlikeable dickwad ready to destroy Yvonne's life out of spite, only to apparently be allowed to burn/choke to death in a shop fire rather coldly by Chesney later in the episode}} and {{spoiler|Kev and Marty, who will apparently be returning for an episode in the 2011 series.}}▼
** {{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 Lesbian]]: Norma - a big, black Geordie trucker who lives in a caravan on the Gallagher's front garden in series 4-6.
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*** Retconned back to seven ({{spoiler|eight including Mimi and Billy's daughter}}) children as of episode eight 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 Clan]]: The Maguires, who have a long history of being a crime family.▼
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Sheila - a pill-popping, agoraphobic sex-maniac.
* [[Country Matters]]: Especially when Frank is around.
* [[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 Translation]]: The U.S. version.
* [[Cute Kitten]]: When Debbie goes on strike, Lip tries to win back her favor with a box of cute kittens. Debbie's response? "What am I? Six?"▼
* [[Dance Party Ending]]: Most series end with a party in the Jockey. {{spoiler|With arguably the best one being the post-funeral I'm Shipping Up to Boston number by Dropkick Murphys}}
* [[Dawson Casting]]: Played straight in several cases and interestingly used in another. An adult plays a 14/15 yr-old boy, but the audience, like a certain character, is led to believe he is a young adult, with his true age being a shock. In-universe, he's [[Younger Than He Looks]].
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* [[Dropped a Bridget On Him]]: Lip had a soft spot for call centre worker Nadia- until Ian informed him that 'she' was in fact a male transvestite.
* [[Everybody Smokes]]: see [[No Smoking]] below
▲* [[Cute Kitten]]: When Debbie goes on strike, Lip tries to win back her favor with a box of cute kittens. Debbie's response? "What am I? Six?"
* [[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.
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* [[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 deliberatley 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 Man]]: Frank, despite being a scruffy, selfish alcoholic with a violent streak, manages to be a bigamist (almost a trigamist), as well as pulling countless other women. Granted, nearly everyone he's with realises his personality traits after spending awhile with him, but maybe this is one occasion where the book should definitely be judged by its cover.
* [[Last Supper Steal]]: The dinner scene at the end of the first series Christmas special.
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** A good proportion of the shows adults are seen smoking. [[Truth in Television]], as smoking is still very common in urban communities, despite the efforts of governments across the world to outlaw it.
* [[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 Bureaucrat]]: ▼
* [[Older Than They Look]]: Lip discovers on his 18th birthday that he's actually ''19'', because Frank et al 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.
▲* [[Obstructive Bureaucrat]]:
* [[Paedo Hunt]]: Frank rouses one up after {{spoiler|Debbie}} steals someones' baby.
* [[Paper-Thin Disguise]]: In series two, Veronica gets a temporary bar from the Jockey and tries to sneak back in in disguise on two separate occasions. The first time, she wears a wig. The second, she dons a flat cap, moustache and big coat and masquerades as an old man. On both occasions she gets caught, but not as quickly as she would have done in real life. Frank also escapes some debt collectors by dressing ''very'' unconvincingly as a woman.
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{{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 That]]: Never Forget played at Karen and Jamie's wedding.
▲* [[The Alcoholic]]: Frank Gallagher
▲* [[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 disappearing]] much of its ensemble, but several old characters have returned at points, such as {{spoiler|Kash returning from his faked suicide as a completely unlikeable dickwad ready to destroy Yvonne's life out of spite, only to apparently be allowed to burn/choke to death in a shop fire rather coldly by Chesney later in the episode}} and {{spoiler|Kev and Marty, who will apparently be returning for an episode in the 2011 series.}}
▲** {{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.}}
▲* [[The Clan]]: The Maguires, who have a long history of being a crime family.
▲* [[The Irish Mob]]: The Maguires
* [[Tourettes Shitcock Syndrome]]: Marty, but later learns to say things like spongecake and buttermilk instead of swearing.
* [[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}}.
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