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* [[Dirty Old Man]]: Captain Thornton
* [[Dueling Shows]]: With ''The Playboy Club''. Both are considered to be knock-offs of ''[[Mad Men]]'' to boot. And this show is the big winner, as ''Playboy Club'' was cancelled after just three episodes.
* [[Eek!
* [[Face Heel Turn]]: In the first season finale, {{spoiler|Anderson}} betrays the CIA and [[MI 6]].
* [[Fake Nationality]]: French-Canadian Karine Vanasse as the French Colette. Also Australian Margot Robbie as [[Fake American|Laura]].
* [[Foregone Conclusion]]: "New Frontiers" ends with the news that JFK has been shot, and people wondering whether he'll make it.
* [[Four Girl Ensemble]]: Laura the sweet, naive one, Maggie the self-righteous one, Colette the romantic, and Kate the sensible [[Team Mom]].
* [[Four
* [[Girl Next Door]]: Laura and Kate both start out as this but get plenty of [[Character Development]] over the course of the season.
* [[Guile Hero|Guile Heroine]]: Maggie. So much.
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* [[Hair of Gold]]: Laura
* [[Heel Face Door Slam]]: Collete does this to the entire nation of Germany: she went to Berlin to forgive the Germans for World War II, only to discover that she couldn't.
* [[Hey
* [[Historical
** "It's Castro's country. He'll never keep it."
** "That [[Bob Dylan]] will be famous, mark my words."
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* [[How We Got Here]]: Some episodes show the events of a single flight, mixed with flashbacks to explain how all the girls are acting.
* [[I Am Spartacus]]: The girls pull this when asked which one of them brought the Haitian girl aboard
* [[Improvised Weapon]]: Maggie fends off a drunk and horny passenger with a carving fork when said passenger attempts to sexually assault her in the plane's galley. Complete with [[Bond One
* [[Indy Ploy]]: How Kate gets an East German courier whose cover has been blown to safety in "Ich Bin Ein Berliner."
* [[I Want My Beloved to Be Happy]]: Amanda deploys an...unusual variation of this trope when she {{spoiler|asks Laura to be Ted's mistress}}
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* [[Rule of Drama]]: When they were trapped on the short runway in Haiti Dean could have technically turned the plane around instead of lightening the load.
* [[Runaway Bride]]: Laura, with Kate's assistance, pulls one of these, escaping what's heavily implied to be a [[Stepford Suburbia]] to see the world as a stewardess.
* [[Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right]]: Kate's reaction to the other courier's plight. Collete bringing the Haitian refugee aboard
* [[Screwed By the Network]]: ABC aired Pan Am on Sunday at 10PM against the Super Bowl Sunday and the Grammys.
* [[Sexy Stewardess]]: Of course. Then again, for the time period it was actually an [[Enforced Trope]] - see below.
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* [[Woman Scorned]]: Maggie decides to get back at Kate after she steals the guy she had her eye on.
* [[What Could Have Been]]: In-universe example. Had Ted not crashed his test plane, he [[I Coulda Been a Contender|could have been]] part of [[NASA]] instead of an airline co-pilot.
* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: Maggie gets called out by her English professor, {{spoiler|who has figured out that she is not who she says she is. She took the place, and name, of a student who was dropping out. She did brilliantly, but he couldn't give her the grade she earned because she wasn't even his student}}.
** Maggie gets called out again by Colette for {{spoiler|ratting out Dean and Ginny's affair to his superior}}.
* [[Where Da White Women At?]]: Laura and Joe (played by Gaius Charles).
* [[Will They or Won't They?]]: Colette and Dean, Ted and Laura
** [[They Do|They all do.]]
* [[Your Cheating Heart]]: Colette is horrified to learn that a man she hooked up with is married and he, his wife and son are aboard a flight she's working.
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