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'''''Skins''''' (2007-2013) is a British teen drama set in Bristol, England and commissioned by [[Channel 4]] in an attempt to put more homegrown talent on television. Now in its sixth series and third generation, the show grew popular among its mostly 14-21 audience for its edgy (often rude) take on teenage life in the late '00s and early '10s, specifically with its party scenes in which actors/actresses were left to their own devices as chaos ensued.
The second series was much criticized by fans of the show for its shift from the more fun story lines of the previous season to the more dramatic plots, and many angry letters were sent when a major character was eventually killed off. As a majority of the characters left Bristol to go onto university, future careers, etc
So far ''Skins'' is a show with often outstanding writing, great acting and lovable characters. Whilst its wild New Rave-esque scenes and occasionally disturbing plot twists (not to mention explicit sex scenes) may very well make this the show you don't want your kids watching, they'll probably find a way to watch anyways.
[[MTV]] launched [[Trans
Back on home shores, a ''Skins'' movie has been given the
Now with a [[Skins/Characters|character page]]. Some Tropes have been moved there.
{{tropelist}}
* [[Abusive Parents]]:
** Cook, definitely.
** The neglect and punch to the face Freddie gets from his dad.
** Cassie's parents. Some could argue that her seeing them naked all the time, as well as the pictures of her mother giving birth to her brother with the ''umbilical cord still attached'' constitute abuse. They are definitely negligent of her and (to a lesser degree) of her brother. As far as we know, they didn't even
*** Not to mention in
** Sid's dad started out as fairly emotionally abusive.
*** He's probably a subversion on the whole.
** There are subtle hints that Jim Stonem may be partially responsible for his children's bizarre sociopathic behavior.
** Michelle's mother isn't abusive, but she's definitely negligent. She's totally focused on her own love life and doesn't notice when Michelle and Tony have broken up.
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** Possibly justified in that the series is from the point of view of teenagers, who often feel let down or ignored by adults.
** And that the sort of teens who could get away with as much partying, drug use and sex as these characters do would ''have'' to have somewhat inept/oblivious parents.
* [[Affectionate Gesture to the Head]]: JJ is forever having his hair ruffled; he's well aware that it's mostly
{{quote|"Then I'd tell Freddie and Cook to stop fighting over Effy before they hate each other forever, and not make me take sides. And they'd listen to me for once and not fucking ruffle my hair!"
And then about two minutes later, Karen [Freddie's sister] does exactly that.}}
* [[The Alleged Car]]: Keiran's car.
* [[Alliterative Name]]: Franky Fitzgerald, Jonah Jeremiah Jones, Lara Lloyd, Mini McGuinness and Thomas Tomone. Not to mention '''Ton'''y S'''ton'''em. The American version has Chris Collins and Cadie Campbell.
* [[All There in the Manual]]: The novel is supposed to fill in the gap between
* [[Anguished Declaration of Love]]:
* [[Arcadia]]: Creevey farm and Somerset; the latter is [[Truth in Television]].
* [[Ascended Extra]]: Pandora had a small part before being made full cast in Series 3
* [[Beta Couple]]: Grace and Rich were this in
* [[Better as Friends]]:
** What ended up happening in
** What
** How
* [[Betty and Veronica]]:
** ''Skins'' is fond of playing with this trope. With Sid as the Archie, it initially appears that Cassie is the Betty while Michelle is the Veronica. Series 2 turns this on its head.
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** With Chris as the Archie, Jal is the Betty to Angie's Veronica.
** The [[Fan Nickname|Triangle of Doom]] has Freddie as the Betty and Cook as the Veronica to Effy's Archie. JJ also liked to fancy himself as a [[Third Option Love Interest|Cheryl Blossom]] for a time.
** The show plays with the trope again in Thomas's
** In the triangle with Franky as the Archie, it's hard to tell which one is Mini and which one is Matty. However, with Matty at the center, it's clear that Franky is the Betty and Liv is the Veronica.
** In the U.S. version: when Tony is the Archie, Michelle is the Betty and Tea is the Veronica. With Tea as the Archie, Betty is, well, [[Captain Obvious|the Betty]] and Tony is the Veronica.
* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]: Josh in
* [[Big Damn Heroes]]: Maxxie and the Russian police in "Maxxie and Anwar
* [[Big Game]]: Subverted. Nick's [[Rugby Union]] match is set up as one of these in his
* [[Bilingual Bonus]]: Whenever Thomas speaks French.
* [[Binge Montage]]
* [[Blank Slate]]:
* [[Boggles the Mind]]: When recovering anorexic Cassie and one of her loony bin mates play Scrabble, the whole board is covered in foods.
* [[Bonnie Scotland]]:
** Cassie moves to Elgin in between
** Mini and her mother are from Scotland. However, they mostly Avert the trope since, the mother's Glaswegian accent aside, they don't follow any stereotypes about the Scots.
** Sid's dad also has a Scottish accent.
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** The beginning of that second season closer also begins zeroing in on Tony's face in the bed, essentially in the same place he was at the beginning of the first episode.
** The first episode begins with Tony in his bed, and finishes with Tony and ''Sid'' in the bed.
** The last shot of Series 6 (the final regular series of the show, as well) is a zoom-out shot of Rich saying "bye
* [[Break the Haughty]]: {{spoiler|Tony}} in the
** {{spoiler|Mini}}'s episode pretty much destroyed her, though [[Your Mileage May Vary]].
* [[British Brevity]]: Seasons range from 8-10 episodes.
* [[Broken Bird]]:
* [[Brother-Sister Incest]]: Tony and Effy are ''very'' infatuated with each other. Tony's own girlfriend admits that Effy is the only person in the world Tony truly cares about. Expect eye rolls from Effy every time a girl hits on Tony in her presence. Also, Tony's
** [[Your Mileage May Vary]] as to how ''brotherly'' their affections are ([[Relationship Writing Fumble|staring longingly at each other through the window whenever Effy leaves...]]), but the Stonemcest fandom is quite popular, despite being [[Brother-Sister Incest|what it is]].
*** Effy's Unseen Skins episode in Series 1 takes this [[Up to Eleven]].
*** It's also implied that Tony's absence was one of the contributing factors to her deteriorating mental health in Generation 2.
** Conversed with Tony's cruel prank on Josh
** This may have something to do with the fact that
* [[Brutal Honesty]]: "My name's Keiran, and I
* [[Burial At Sea]]:
* [[But Not Too Bi]]: Tony and Cassie are the second type.
* [[But Not Too Gay]]: Played straight with Maxxie in the first generation. Averted with Naomi and Emily in the second generation. Doubly subverted with Tea in the American remake (in that she was billed as being a really strong lesbian character and her episode makes her out to be one, but her main series plot ended up focusing on her confusion over and hook-ups with Tony rather than anything she had with other girls).
** Averted by Alex in his episode, as he actually does have a sex scene with another male.
* [[Call Back]]: Effy's
* [[Calling the Old Man Out]]: Sid in his Series 1 episode, first when he calls his dad a dildo, and second {{spoiler|right after his mom leaves them because of his father's insufferable behavior}}.
**
* [[Cannot Spit It Out]]: The theme of Jal's Series 2 episode. Jal can't figure out how to tell Chris that {{spoiler|she's pregnant}}, partly because she's worried about how he will influence her choice about whether to {{spoiler|keep the baby or have an abortion}}. Unbeknownst to Jal, though, Chris has his own, far more dangerous secret he's keeping from her: {{spoiler|he has the same illness that killed his brother}}.
* [[Cast Full of Gay]]: A surprisingly large number of main characters across the show are gay/bisexual, with at least one openly gay character in each generation:
** In Generation One, Maxxie is gay, Tony is at least
** In Generation Two, Emily and Naomi are lesbians, as is supporting character Sophia.
** In Generation Three, Alex is gay, Franky is pansexual (at least in
* [[Catch Phrase]]: Quite a few.
{{quote|'''Cassie:''' Wow!
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'''Doug:''' Oggi! Oggi! Oggi!
'''Danny:''' Nice one!
'''Cook:''' Grab my balls!
* [[Caught with Your Pants Down]]: Sketch in Maxxie's room; Tony catching Sid with a picture of Michelle; Cassie catching {{spoiler|Sid and Michelle}} making out and about to have sex; and lastly, Freddie and Katie being interrupted by his sister, ''her'' sister and
** He was walked in twice by his sister and
* [[Character Development]]:
** If you didn't have much love for Cook and Katie in Series 3, then their Series 4 episodes should change that to some degree. Tony was much more sympathetic by the end of
** Mini, Nick and Rich have become more and more likeable since their respective episodes.
** Jal gets a lot of this in Chris's S2 episode, as well as her own.
* [[Characterization Marches On]]: In the early series, Doug is portrayed as a bumbling, Brittas-like character, rarely taken seriously by colleagues or students. By the sixth series, he has become the principal of Roundview and is shown as far more in-tune with the students and the issues they face.
* [[Childhood Friend Romance]]: In the US version, this is what happens to
* [[Class Trip]]:
** Abbud's episode takes the gang on school camp to Canada.
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Cassie, [[The Danza|Josie]] the career counselor, and Pandora.
* [[Color Wash]]: All the outdoor scenes are extremely saturated.
* [[Concert Climax]]:
**
**
** In Series 2
** Jal's episode in
** The Everyone/Eura episode of the US remake ended with the gang reuniting in a frantic search for Eura at a club where a band is playing. After they've found her Stanley steps up to sing "Shout
* [[Continuity Nod]]:
** In the first episode of
** Girls in the uniform of Abigail Stock's school are spotted watching Naomi and Emily zoom around Bristol on a scooter in Emily's
** Cook's dorm room at Roundview is the same one that used to belong to Chris, indicated by "Chris Miles" being written on the door and Chris's fish drawings on the walls.
** Katie remembers Tony when she meets Effy in the S3 opener, and mentions how all her friends fancied him but she didn't.
** Thomas's apartment complex seems to be the same one that housed Maxxie and Sketch in
** In Liv's episode in
** In the finale of
* [[Contrived Coincidence]]:
* [[Cosmic Deadline]]: All the evidence and clues suggest that the
** All but confirmed by [[Word of God]] - Jamie Brittain is on record as saying that the latter half of the season didn't go as planned (the finale was supposed to be entirely Naomi's episode, rather than the
* [[Country Matters]]: [[The Thick of It|Peter Capaldi]] guest starred on this show. A few other characters have thrown the C-bomb around too.
** Tony's father asks him if he thinks he's a complete "James Blunt" in the pilot, which is rhyming slang for [[Country Matters]].
* [[Cowardly Sidekick]]: Arguably Sid Jenkins, and initially
* [[Crowd Song]]: The last 4 minutes of
** A less disbelief-suspending one happens in the Eura episode of the US remake as Stanley takes the stage with a cover of [[Tears for Fears]]' "Shout" (after having just interrupted the bands performance and getting booed off stage). Cadie and the band join in the fun.
* [[Cruel Twist Ending]]:
* [[Curb Stomp Battle]]: Seems to be
* [[Darker and Edgier]]:
** Series 1 dealt with some serious issues, but was mostly upbeat. Series 2 starts with
** The pattern held for the second generation as well; Series 3 was much lighter in tone than Series 4, probably the darkest ''Skins'' season yet. Thankfully, [[Word of God|Jamie Brittain]] has said that they do not plan to continue the pattern with the current generation; however, the first episode of
* [[A Date with Rosie Palms]]
* [[A Day
* [[A Day in the Limelight]]: [[Once an Episode]] - each episode focuses on a different character (or, occasionally, character''s'').
* [[Dead All Along]]: {{spoiler|Grace in the second episode of
* [[Dead Baby Comedy]]: The [[School Play]] in Series 2, entitled
* [[Deus Angst Machina]]:
** Arguably, with all the crap that happens
** This was basically the default setting for Chris. In
** Several characters get this in Series 4, most prominently Cook and Effy.
* [[Diabolus Ex Machina]]:
* [[Did Not Do the Research]]:
** Jal's profile on the E4 website lists her favorite "musical dynamics" as Dolce, Affettuoso, Rubato and Giocoso. Those are actually tempo (speed) and articulation markings; "dynamics" refers to markings that govern amplitude (loudness), such as "fortissimo" or "piano
** Two characters make it to [[Ivy League for Everyone|Harvard]] at the end of Series 4. {{spoiler|Thomas goes there on an athletics scholarship - which is (vaguely) possible for some people, but not for Thomas, who let's not forget was EXPELLED from Roundview - and [[The Ditz|Pandora]] got a surprise admission there solely due to the grade she got on her History A-Level. While that is typical for top UK universities, with any US university she would have had to apply, be accepted and make her decision ''months'' before she would have any idea what her A-level scores were
* [[Driven to Suicide]]: Romantic rejection leads to {{spoiler|Cassie}}'s attempted suicide in Series 1 and Sophia's successful one in Series 4. {{spoiler|Effy}} also tries to kill herself in Freddie's Series 4 episode, though it's never clear just ''what'' drives her to do it.
* [[Eagle Land]]: ''Osama! The Musical'' is a definite example of Type 2. And oddly enough, the way the ''Skins'' characters are viewed by the Russians in the school trip episode encompasses a lot of stereotypes about Americans (culturally ignorant/insensitive, arrogant, gullible, etc) as opposed to English ones.
**
* [[Everybody Has Lots of Sex]]: Played straight with most of the characters, but averted by others who started their arcs as virgins, such as Sid, Anwar, Pandora, JJ, Alo, Rich, Franky and {{spoiler|Mini}}, and most likely Jal, Emily and Grace, too. {{spoiler|So far, all of them have lost their virginities, all but Jal and Alo in their first series}}. In the US remake, Stanley, Daisy and Abbud also started as virgins, {{spoiler|but that didn't last long, either}}.
* [[Everybody Must Get Stoned]]: Even the "good" kids party.
* [[Everybody Smokes]]: Except JJ and Katie.
* [[Expy]]: Most of the US cast are based on characters from the first UK generation. Besides those that share the same first name, Stanley=Sid, Cadie=Cassie, Daisy=Jal, Abbud=Anwar, and Tina=Angie. Tea could also be considered the [[Distaff Counterpart]] of Maxxie, though she plays a much bigger role in the plot.
* [[Fallen Princess]]:
** Tony can count as a male version in the beginning of Series 2.
**
** Mini in her Series 5 episode.
* [[Fan Service]]: Angie, Michelle, Chris, Maxxie, Tony, Anwar although his is played for laughs, Freddie, and pretty much everyone else to varying extents.
** Holy hell, Katie in her
** Or the beginning scene in the Series 4 episode "Emily" where Emily walks around Naomi's living room in nothing but her panties and the postman sees her breasts.
** Tea gets changed a few times in her episode.
* [[Fashion Show]]: Much of Mini's
* [[Feud Episode]]: Happens all the time with Tony, Cook and Mini. And Tea in the US version gets this from
* [[Fictionary]]: Twins Katie and Emily have their own language.
** Technically not a true example, as 'twin talk' is real: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin_language
* [[Foreshadowing]]: Possibly a case of [[Fridge Brilliance]] as well but a number of major plot points in Series 4 were arguably foreshadowed back in Series 3, such as the song playing off at the end of the twins' Series 3 episode, particularly when the vocals come in. [[Lyrical Dissonance]], perhaps? Or in Freddie's episode, Naomi's analysis of ''Hamlet''.
* [[Four-Girl Ensemble]]: In the second generation, Effy and Katie split the "sexy one"; Pandora is the sweet, naive one and [[The Ditz]]; Emily is the nurturing one; and Naomi is the [[Deadpan Snarker]]. In the third generation, Liv is the "sexy" one who [[Really Gets Around]]; Mini is the naive, cute one; Grace is the [[Team Mom]]; and Franky is the mannish one.
* [[Four-Temperament Ensemble]]: The girls of the third generation. Liv is '''{{color|maroon|sanguine}}''', Mini is '''{{color|orange|choleric}}''', Franky is '''melancholic''', and Grace is '''{{color|green|phlegmatic}}'''.
* [[Four-Philosophy Ensemble|Five Philosophy Ensemble]]: The guys of the first generation. Tony is '''the cynic''', Sid is '''the conflicted''', Chris is '''the optimist''', Maxxie is '''the realist''', and Anwar is '''the apathetic'''.
* [[Freudian Excuse]]: Most of the characters have ''terrible'' parents, but none more so than Chris and Cook.
* [[Freudian Slip]]: In
* [[Friendship Moment]]: Many, often [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|Heartwarming]].
* [[G-Rated Drug]]: The American version has the kids referring to fictional pharmaceutical drugs by their color (mainly blue, which are apparently mood enhancers). Otherwise, though, both shows avert this.
* [[Gainax Ending]]: Generation Two went out with a... something.
* [[Gayngst]]: Emily, Naomi, Mini, and once or twice Maxxie.
** In the American version, Tea and Betty.
* [[Genius Book Club]]: Tony and Cassie, plus Effy in her
* [[Get Back in the Closet]]: BBC America got a lot of criticism along these lines for how they edited Series 3, allowing fairly raunchy moments between opposite-sex couples (like Cook and Effy's grinding in the closet) while pulling a [[Fade to Black]] with far tamer scenes featuring Naomi and Emily.
* [[Gilligan Cut]]: Directly after Doug tells the students to take it easy before their exams. Take a guess as to what it cuts to.
* [[Girl-On-Girl Is Hot]]:
** Subverted with Pandora, who seems a bit shocked and appalled to see Cassie "man-and-woman kissing" another girl in Effy's
** Cook's rationale for crashing Pandora's pajama party. JJ doesn't believe him, until he runs into [[Schoolgirl Lesbians|Naomi and Emily]]...
** Also a possible reason why Maxxie was replaced with a lesbian in the American remake.
** In the American remake, Abbud follows Tea to a lesbian bar for this reason. He is disappointed when the girls are way more interested in each other than in putting on a show for him.
** Also, Alo's reaction to
* [[Good Angel, Bad Angel]]:
** Maxxie and Anwar are this for Sid in his
** Katie and Cook don the outfits in Freddie's episode, and he needs both of their help to try and save Effy.
* [[Good Girls Avoid Abortion]]: Averted
* [[Good People Have Good Sex]]
* [[Gory Discretion Shot]]:
** {{spoiler|Freddie's fate}}.
** Also used when Alo accidentally [[It Makes Sense in Context|blows up a cow.]]
* [[Hands-Off Parenting]]: Cassie's parents are preoccupied with sex and making nude paintings that they tend to overlook their daughter. In a twist, the father is the artist.
** Naomi's mother subscribes to the [[New Age Retro Hippie]] variant, having turned their house into a commune.
** And Cook's mother is a
* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]: Let's face it, ''Skins'' loves this trope.
** Sid and Tony. Tony kisses Sid once on the lips and once on the forehead, they sleep naked or mostly naked in the same bed, and {{spoiler|Tony cries when he's sending Sid off to New York to find Cassie}}.
{{quote|'''Tony''': "I always loved you the best, Sid."}}
** Michelle and Jal. They've been friends since they were 4. The
** Maxxie and Anwar - minus the "heterosexual" part for Maxxie, obviously, but it's the same idea.
** Cook and Freddie from the second generation even more so
** Effy and Pandora end up like this.
** Alo and Rich for ''sure'' in Generation 3.
** [[Just Friends|Mini and Franky]] are shaping up to become this,
* [[Hookers and Blow]]:
** When Cook and JJ visit a brothel in the former's Series 3 episode.
** Nick has a rather bizarre encounter with a prostitute in his episode, too.
* [[Horrible Camping Trip]]: In Series 2 and 3.
* [[Hurricane of Euphemisms]]: JJ a lot (it's a sure sign he's become locked on); Katie and Naomi have done it too.
** Tony comes up with an annoyingly long list of euphemisms for Sid losing his virginity in the first episode of the first series. Sid eventually tells him to "fuck off
* [[Ice Queen]]: Effy Stonem, she of the sly reticence and the glacial indifference. It was a stroke of genius to overlap this with her role as [[Fille Fatale]].
** By the time you get to the end of the series, it's difficult to remember that Naomi started this way (she's explicitly referred to as the "snow queen" in the book) before Emily [[Defrosting Ice Queen|defrosted the hell out of her]].
* [[Identical Twin ID Tag]]:
** The twins, Katie and Emily, have birth marks by opposite eyes. Katie's is by her left eye, while Emily's is by her right. Though these appear to be make up that the twins put on, as Emily can be seen without hers after swimming with Naomi, and also switches which eye it is by when she pretends to be Katie.
** In Series 4, Katie dyes her hair a much darker color, while Emily keeps hers red. This makes identification much easier.
** Even in Series 3, while Katie and Emily still look pretty similar, Katie has a generally flashier way of dressing, choosing bold patterns like animal prints, while Emily goes for more classic, simple styles - emphasizing their personality differences.
* [[Idiosyncratic Episode Naming]]: The title of each episode is simply the name of the main character featured that week, mostly because the writers know that people will just refer to (for example) "Naomi's episode". Exceptions are the first episode per generation (usually called ''Everyone'') and the last (usually called ''Finale''), because they normally cover virtually everyone. Of course, this results in considerable ambiguity; there are ''four'' episodes called "Effy".
* [[Incompatible Orientation]]:
** Maxxie to his stalker Sketch.
** Emily to JJ and, [[Single-Target Sexuality|most likely]], Naomi to Cook.
** In Series 3, Naomi tells Emily this, but
** Tea to Tony and Abbud, though even she took a while to figure this out in the former case.
* [[I Never...]]
* [[Informed Attribute]]: A lot of the characters have interests and attributes in their E4 character profiles that never show up in the actual show - the biggest examples being Naomi's interest in politics and Liv's obsession with dancing.
* [[Innocent Innuendo]]: In-universe example. Sid is helping Jal zip up a dress in a changing booth and gets his finger stuck. The resulting conversation causes a few worried looks from the other shoppers.
** Also, Maxxie's mom helping Tony with his fly.
* [[Intoxication Ensues]]: In
* [[Is This a Joke?]]:
* Naomi initially thinks Katie is kidding when she tells her that the Fitch family needs to stay at her house for a while.
* There's this exchange between Grace and Rich:
{{quote|'''Rich''': "I'm a metalhead, I like metal music... why do you think I dress like this?"
'''Grace''': "I thought it was a joke or something!"
* [[Ivy League for Everyone]]: {{spoiler|Thomas's sports scholarship and Panda's history scholarship to Harvard at the end of Series 4}}. While {{spoiler|Thomas's scholarship}} was particularly impossible {{spoiler|with him having been EXPELLED and all}}, both demonstrate massive [[Did Not Do the Research]] in terms of differences between English and American university admissions.
* [[Kissing Under the Influence]]: Multiple times, though averted at least once (when Emily admits she wasn't high the first time she kissed Naomi).
* [[Land Down Under]]: Angie's [[Ambiguously Gay]] fiancé from the Series 1 finale is a particularly obnoxious version of this stereotype.
* [[Law of Inverse Fertility]]: The show's only [[Teen Pregnancy]] storyline among the main cast was given to {{spoiler|Jal}}, who was implied to be a virgin - or, at least, extremely choosy - before the sex with {{spoiler|Chris}} that knocked her up. Contrast that with two seasons later, when {{spoiler|Katie}}, who has bragged about her numerous boyfriends, goes in for a pregnancy test and finds out that {{spoiler|she is going through [[No Periods, Period|premature menopause]] and will never conceive}}.
* [[Leaning on the Fourth Wall]]:
** Done several times, especially by Effy in Series 2.
** Chris's comment in Michelle's
** When trying to get into Pandora's slumber party,
**
{{quote|'''Cook:''' "Have you ever heard of wish fulfillment,
* [[Left Hanging]]: Happens at the end of both the completed generations:
** At the end of Series 2, we never find out what happens between
** Several at the end of Series 4, due to it being [[Screwed by the Network]]:
*** {{spoiler|Cook is a fugitive who presumably just murdered someone
*** {{spoiler|Cook is the only cast member who knows that [[Killed Off for Real|Freddie is dead]]
*** The fact of the matter is we only know definitively about the future plans of
* [[Logging Onto the Fourth Wall]]: The third generation all have [[Twitter]] accounts, and Franky has a [http://www.youtube.com/user/frankyfitzgerald/videos YouTube account].
* [[Love Dodecahedron]]: ''Skins'' loves this trope.
** Generation 1:
** Generation 2:
** Generation 3:
** US Remake:
* [[Making Love in All the Wrong Places]]: So much that it would probably be easier to list all the times that this show has ''averted'' it.
* [[Manic Pixie Dream Girl]]: Heavily deconstructed with Cassie, as if the writers were exploring how miserable and messed up it would be for everybody if this trope was real.
** Beth from Tony's
* [[Manipulative Bastard]]:
** Tony in Series 1, before his fall from grace.
** Sketch then becomes the old Tony's [[Suspiciously Similar Substitute]] in
** Effy in her
** Mini in Franky and Rich's episodes, before her own fall from grace.
* [[Mistaken for Masturbating]]: Anwar's mother knocks on his bedroom door, asking "Anwar? Are you masturbating?" (
* [[Mood Whiplash]]:
** Maxxie and Tony getting it on is, for the [[Yaoi Fangirl|Yaoi Fans]] in the audience at least, a pretty [[Fetish Fuel|hot]] moment... until the camera pans to Michelle and you see her wince. And whatever leftover hotness is then doused in cold water when Maxxie rebuffs Tony, saying that "We've finally found something you're not actually good at."
** In Cassie's
**
* [[Moral Guardians]]: The US remake. Even with the nudity and most of the swearing from the UK original gone, it was described as "child porn
* [[Morning Routine]]:
** Both the UK and US version have this in the pilot episode.
** The
* [[The Movie]]: [[Memetic Mutation|It's happening.]] [[Development Hell|Or maybe it isn't.]]
* [[Nature Abhors a Virgin]]:
** Sid, Anwar, and the ostensibly-celibate-in-
** Even
**
* [[Never Trust a Trailer]]: A little rule of thumb for this show. If a scene appears in the Next Week segment, expect the actual ''meaning'' of the scene to be the exact opposite of whatever
* [[Nice Hat]]:
** Chris has a couple of them. Sid has a few hats not very many of them are nice though.
** In Chris's
* [[Noodle Incident]]: Literal example. Episode 2 starts off with Michelle's house trashed after a party that we never saw, complete with actual noodles strewn all over the place. {{spoiler|Michelle's mum is ''not'' pleased
* [[Nothing Is the Same Anymore]]: The Series 2 finale. Bizarrely averted with the Series 4 finale.
* [[Not Listening to Me, Are You?]]:
** When Michelle tells her mother that she has broken up with Tony due to his frolic with Maxxie, her response is "Oh right, well just say you're sorry or something."
** When Effy attempts to explain to her mother about wanting to break up with Cook and
** JJ's mother also pulls one of these on her husband, who never looks up from his newspaper, in JJ's
** The U.S. version has Eura pull this on her parents by stripping down to her bra and panties and pouring a container of yogurt over her head.
* [[The Not Love Interest]]:
** Played with in the case of Sid and Michelle. The [[Dogged Nice Guy]] loves his [[Jerkass]] best friend's girlfriend? Clearly, it's only a matter of time before the girl's heart gets broken and she realizes what she really wanted was just underneath her nose, right? By the time this happens, though, Sid's affections have already turned toward Cassie and he's realized he never ''truly'' loved Michelle.
** In
* {{spoiler|[[Wedding Day|Not Wedding Day]]: Rich and Grace's wedding in the S5 finale. It doesn't go according to plan, and they don't go though with it, but it still ends happily}}.
* [[Only Known by Their Nickname]]: Most of the teenage characters are referred to almost exclusively by shortened versions of their first names
** Franky seems almost physically unable to refer to herself as Francesca, and is embarrassed when Doug says it.
** Toxic Bob, the music shop owner from Series Five.
** [[Averted Trope|Averted]] and [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] with Mini. Alo refers to her as Minerva during Series 5 Episode 6, but she denies that it's her full name, although many assume it still is.
* [[Only One Name]]:
** Crispin. Some have speculated that his first name may be "Just".
** Matty from Generation 3, {{spoiler|until Liv's episode}}.
** Rider from Generation 3.
** Various minor characters, when you think about it. Even Sketch never gets a last name.
** Betty in the American remake.
* [[Opposites Attract]]: Both Chris/Jal and Grace/Rich. It's even [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] in the latter case, by Grace. Naomi and Emily could also be a minor version of this, in that Naomi is headstrong and independent while Emily is (at least initially) meek and a bit clingy.
* [[Outlaw Couple]]: Cook and Effy throughout points of
** Liv and Matty could count too on Liv's episode of
* [[Overprotective Dad]]: Rob Fitch (Katie and Emily's dad).
{{quote|'''Rob:''' They're not still virgins tomorrow, I'll hunt you down like dogs.}}
** ...and Rob is nothing compared to
* [[Paper-Thin Disguise]]: Grace, in Rich's
* [[Parental Favoritism]]:
** Anthea clearly favors Effy; in general, Tony's parents are the only ones who see him for the [[Jerkass]] he is.
** Chris' father is also heavily implied to have not paid any attention to him, preferring his deceased son Peter. When Chris goes to visit him, there are no baby photos of Chris and his father refuses to see him.
** Nick and Matty's father clearly prefers Nick (the "good" son) over [[Cute but Troubled|Matty]]. Interestingly, however, Nick is the one who is jealous of Matty, not the other way around.
* [[A Party - Also Known as an Orgy]]
* [[Platonic Life Partners]]:
** Chris and Cassie in
**
* [[Plucky Comic Relief]]:
** It's easy to forget it with [[Deus Angst Machina|all the shit he was put through]] in
**
** Alo - the character, not the episode - is this for
** Chris Collins, like his UK counterpart, seems to have taken up this role in the U.S. remake.
* [[
** With the Terrible Trio in
** Mini's crew in Generation 3 can be seen as such: Liv is the Id, Mini is the Ego, and Grace is the Superego.
** And a separate
* [[Pull the Thread]]: Emily's
**
* [[Queer Romance]]: The show wasn't intended as this trope, but a lot of the acclaim it received for the second generation was due to its lesbian [[Super Couple]] of Naomi and Emily. By
* [[Rich Bitch]]: Abigail Stock.
** Subverted with Mini, who appears this way (with her clothes and love of shopping) but who is actually from a low-income neighborhood.
* [[Rousing Speech]]: Cook in a way, to himself, at the end of Series 4, could also count as a {{spoiler|[[Shut UP, Hannibal]]}}.
* [[Schoolgirl Lesbians]]: Naomi and Emily; Tea and Betty.
* [[School Play]]:
** In Sketch's episode, Maxxie and Michelle are to star in [[Dead Baby Comedy|''Osama! The Musical'']].
** In Series 5, Grace's episode revolves around a production of [[Twelfth Night]] complete with [[Unresolved Sexual Tension]]-laden scenes.
* [[Sensual Slavs]]: Anka, the sexy Russian who takes Anwar's virginity, and the Polish girl in the pilot.
* [[Sex as Rite-
* [[Ship Tease]]: {{spoiler|Mini and Franky in Grace's episode
* [[Shout-Out]]: Cook's look towards the end of his
** Anka, the woman Anwar meets in Russia, claims she learned English from "best American TV show" but never names it. Some fans, however, may have been able to guess, as she later uses that famous phrase [[Friends|"we were on a break."]]
** Also, earlier, she says [[Friends|"Yaha!"]] and [[Friends|"How are you doing?"]] which are phrases from that same TV show.
** Don't forget she says "He'll be there for you when the rain starts to fall" in reference to Maxxie being a good friend to Anwar, another possible ''[[Friends]]'' reference.
** In
** The theme tune is a possible [[Shout-Out]] to ''[[Rugrats]]''. They sound similar, and it would be thematically relevant: the lives of babies vs. the lives of teens, and both shows were made for the same generation.
** Eura's episode in the North American series has a scene in her room where we see a large poster with backwards writing hanging on her wall. The words on that poster is the speech Effy made in her
* [[Sibling Triangle]]: In
* [[Single-Target Sexuality]]:
** All the questions about Naomi's sexuality turn out to be pretty much moot, when she finally turns out to have always been an Emilysexual
** Emily is clearly one toward Naomi as well; Cassie also appears to be one toward Sid romantically, if not sexually.
* [[Single Woman Seeks Good Man]]: Subverted with Michelle, who seems to understand that Sid cares about her more and would be a nicer boyfriend than Tony, but still prefers Tony.
* [[Slumber Party]]: Pandora's episode.
* [[Smug Straight Edge]]: Cook and Effy meet one in the
* [[Sorting Algorithm of Deadness]]:
* [[Sorting Algorithm of Mortality]]: Subverted, at least as far as race and sexuality go.
* [[Soundtrack Dissonance]]: Lots, and the music team know it.
* [[Starts with a Suicide]]: Series 4, with Sophia's suicide.
* [[Stealth Pun]]: In the first episode Pandora appears in, Tony receives Michelle's watch in the post.
{{quote|Pandora: Can I open it? I love parcels!}}
* [[The Stoner]]: Everybody is one to at least some degree, but certain characters stand out as more drug-loving than others.
* [[Sure, Let's Go with That]]: "It's only the drugs, right?" Yeah...
* [[Their First Time]]: {{spoiler|Mini and Nick in Series 5 goes through this with the complication being that only Mini is a virgin and extremely reluctant; it was actually a [[Tear Jerker]] to many viewers}}.
** The scene where {{spoiler|Mini}} practices sexual positions is some kind of broken Heartwarming moment.
* [[There Are No Therapists]]: Oh there are... just not very good ones, in some cases ''really'' not good ones. Though this is more to do with the [[Writer on Board|writer's issues concerning mental health professionals]].
* [[The Three Faces of Eve]]: In Generation 1: Michelle (The Seductress), Cassie (The Child),
** Following Mini's episode, one could also call Mini the Child (or Maiden), Grace as the Mother and Liv as the Seductress.
* [[Through the Eyes of Madness]]: In Cassie's episode, she keeps getting texts telling her to '''EAT!''' on her phone and seeing the word spelled out elsewhere. Nobody is texting her. They are all just hallucinations.
** There's a possibility Tony's episode in
** Effy has a couple of moments like this. In her
** Tends to happen when a character is on some particularly powerful or hallucinogenic drug. Besides Effy in her
* [[Tie-in Novel]]: Two so far both considered canon, the first featuring the [[Interquel|second generation]] and one featuring [[Prequel|the third]].
* [[Token Minority]]: Jal Fazer, a bright girl who is discriminated against because she is black, and Anwar Kharral, a Pakistani Muslim whose religion leads him to question his friendship with Maxxie.
** Maxxie, Emily, and Naomi to an extent, definitely Thomas.
** Cassie because of her anorexia and JJ because of his autism.
** Franky, being androgynous and
** Tea is a [[Twofer Token Minority]], being lesbian and (half-)Jewish. Also, Cadie is biracial, Daisy is Latina and Abbud is a Pakistani Muslim.
* [[Triang Relations]]: It's a ''[[Teen Drama]]'', of course there's Triang Relations. Cook/Effy/Freddie very boringly reached a Type 4 (or maybe Type 11 - see that page for details); Emily/Naomi/Katie played out as a triangle from Type 10 to Type 7 (but look down a couple of tropes for the twist...).
{{quote|'''Cook:''' She broke my heart as well. You broke my heart. I bet you’ve broken hers at some point. So what are we gonna do? Are we just three losers screwing each other forever? Or are we something better than that?}}
* [[True Companions]]: The whole premise of the show is about gangs of very close, very screwed-up teenagers, most of whom have poor family lives and need close, protective friendships to help them struggle through it all. In many case, they actually do take the places of the families that have abandoned them, such as with Chris,
* [[TV Teen|TV Teens]]: Strongly averted, the teens have sex, swear, take drugs... even have acne sometimes!
* [[Twin Switch]]: In Katie and Emily's
** Katie also poses as Emily later in the episode, in order to
* [[Two-Act Structure]]: Each generation roughly follows the "Rise and Fall" pattern, following its first series with a [[Darker and Edgier]] second series, where things start falling apart.
* [[Underestimating Badassery]]: John Foster does this to Cook.
* [[Very Special Episode]]: Deliberately averted with the first "Cassie". Channel 4 tried to put a
* [[We Used to Be Friends]]:
** Freddie goes through a period of this with Cook.
** How Michelle feels about Tea in the U.S. remake.
* [[Wham! Episode]]: At least one guaranteed per generation.
** Chris's
** Effy's
** The first two episodes of
** In Generation 1, the
* [[What Happened to the Mouse?]]: Cassie's parents appear in her Series 1 episode and are then never seen again - even after Cassie attempts suicide and ends up in hospital.
** The fact that Cassie's parents are woefully neglectful of her when we ''do'' see them might account for this.
* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: At least out of the first cast, Jal is probably the only major character who hasn't pulled a [[What the Hell, Hero?]].
** Pulled by ''everyone'' in the second generation.
* [[Where Were You Last Night?]]
* [[Wild Teen Party]]: Which should have been named ''Skins Party'', as it is pretty much standard affair in the series.
* [[Writer on Board]]: Jamie Brittain said in a video about the writing of Effy's
* [[You Look Familiar]]: Morwenna Banks, who played Anthea Stonem in
** This is actually Alice Lowe, possibly best known for playing Dr Liz Asher in [[Garth Marenghi's Darkplace]].
* [[You Need to Get Laid]]: In
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