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** Or the convict that Matt strangled to death in his cell.
* [[Back-Alley Doctor]]: Dr. Merrill Bobolit loses his medical license after botching a cosmetic surgery on a dog, and winds up performing cheap liposuctions in the back of a Korean nail salon.
* [[Back for
* [[Back From the Dead]]: Julia's mother dies in a plane crash. When looking through the bodies, Julia finally finds the unidentifiably charred, but still human-shaped, remains of her mother. Suddenly, the body takes a huge gasp. Terrified, and knowing the woman will not have much a chance at survival anyway, Julia smothers her with a pillow. Later, she enters her apartment, where her mother has been sitting safe and sound all along, as she decided not to take the plane today.
* [[Bodybag Trick]]: {{spoiler|The Carver}} gets away with this in season three.
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* [[Bungled Suicide]]: {{spoiler|Sean}} in Season 6, even though he claims he just [[Blatant Lies|"swam out too far."]]
* [[The Casanova]]: Christian.
* [[Chained to
* [[Character Blog]]: Serial killer The Carver had a [[My Space]], in which he would post videos about his motives and philosophy of life, and finally, unmasking.
* [[Clear My Name]]: In the episode "Granville Trapp," Christian was hauled into jail on suspicion of being the Carver — a hypothesis which would have demanded truly frightening devotion on his part, as both he and his partner had been Carver victims. The frame-up was, of course, {{spoiler|1=perpetrated by the actual Carver team: Dr. Quentin Costa, aided by Det. Kit McGraw.}}
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* [[Dawson Casting]]: Really obvious on Matt.
** it gets a little creepy as the actor playing Matt was dating the actress playing his mom (like Matt didn't have enough issues).
* [[Death
* [[Detective Mole]]: serial killer The Carver turns out to be {{spoiler|Quentin Costa}} and {{spoiler|1=Detective Kit McGraw, who's investigating the case, is his sister and accomplice}}.
* [[Deus Angst Machina]]: Everything about this show. If it can go wrong, it will a million times over.
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* [[It's Not Rape If You Enjoyed It]]: {{spoiler|Lesbian Liz is raped by Christian. She then claims it was fantastic and they begin a relationship.}}
* [[Ivy League for Everyone]]
* [[Jerkass]] / [[Jerk
* [[Just the Way You Are]]: ''Aversion being the entire point of the show''
** Becomes completely ridiculous and hypocritical when {{spoiler|Liz sleeps with a pre-op transexual woman, telling her she sees her for who she is. After she decides not to have her penis removed Liz tells her that she doesn't want to pursue a long-term relationship, saying that she won't be able to look past her "wrapping." What.}}
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* [[No Pregger Sex]]: Christian gets physically violent with a store clerk who has sex with the woman carrying his child (even though Christian and the woman no longer have a sexual or emotional relationship). Even though Christian has sex with her later on to help reduce her tension. The implication is that Christian freaks out because the clerk has a pregnancy fetish, which makes Christian "sick" for having sex with women to whom he's attracted. Considering that Christian is the show's Casanova, this helps solidify his position as being a giant hypocrite.
* [[Once Per Episode]]: "Tell me what you don't like about yourself."
* [[Out
* [[Parental Incest]]: The girl was really male, but with a rare physical deformity.
* [[Patient of the Week]]: Or "Client of the Week", depending on how you look at it.
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* [[Prison Rape]]: The show managed to take the jackpot without even showing anything. All it took was one word - "anal retread". That's the type of operation a former inmate blackmails a surgeon into performing on him for free. The patient claims what happened to him wasn't gay - it was about surrendering. During the operation, the surgeon doesn't forget to turn on "How Deep Is Your Love" and mention how loose his patient's anus is.
* [[Promotion to Opening Titles]]: Several. Liz gets one in Season 2 (along with a new last name), and Kimber, Gina and Dr. Costa all get one in Season 3, although Gina was only credited for her appearances. {{spoiler|Liz and Kimber remain so until the end of the show, Gina and Dr. Costa are both dropped after Season 3, although Gina begins appearing as a guest star again.}}
* [[Rape
* [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]]: Handed out to Christian and Sean (as well as several others) at least once per season.
* [[Redemption Equals Death]]: Even after knowing she'll probably go to jail, Marcy Hamill decides to call Virginia Hayes herself so she can apologize to her in person for stealing her identity. When Virginia shows up, she takes a pillow and suffocates Marcy.
* [[Refuge in Audacity]]
* [[A Riddle Wrapped in
* [[Sex Is Good]]: So prevalent that attempts made by the writers to cast certain sex acts as having been a bad idea often fall flat. Indeed, when characters are informed of having made poor judgment calls in their sex lives, usually they give off a look of surprise, as if the possibility of negative consequences hadn't even remotely occurred to them [[Aesop Amnesia|regardless of how often this had happened to them in the past]].
* [[Sex Is Interesting]]: Those who thought the [[High Concept]] of "a TV show about plastic surgeons" is interesting enough to hold the viewers' interest by itself will have to get used to the constant influx of sex-related plots, most of which surprisingly enough don't even involve [[The Casanova|Christian]], the one character you'd expect it of.
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* [[Something Completely Different]]: Season 5 and 6 of the show take place in Hollywood, not Miami.
* [[Split Personality]]: In the episode Montana/Sassy/Justice, the client has a split personality, where one personality wants her ankles fixed and another wants her breasts reduced because she is 5.
* [[Stalker
* [[Stepford Smiler]]: Julia McNamara is half [[Stepford Smiler]] and half [[Defrosting Ice Queen]]. You have to have a little sympathy for the woman, as she ''has'' been keeping her son's paternity secret from both his natural father and assumed father. Unfortunately, her eternal struggle over "Sean or Christian?" just annoys most people.
* [[Surprise Incest]]: In season 5, Christian finds out that he fathered a daughter when he was in college. She just happens to be {{spoiler|Matt's}} new girlfriend. The [[Squick]] comes in when once {{spoiler|Matt}} realizes that he's slept with his sister, ''he wants to marry her and even goes to a website to show that any children they might have would be normal!''
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* [[Villainous Rescue]]: In the last episode of Season 3 {{spoiler|Kit}} saves Christian and Sean from the Carver by shooting him in the back. Sounds good, huh? Not really, since {{spoiler|she is Carver's sister, they were working together all along and this is just a part of Carver's escape plan.}}
* [[Wham! Line]]: {{spoiler|"Ava's a man."}}
* [[What Happened to
** This also seems to happen when a character is promoted to series regular. Grace Santiago was dropped with no explanation toward the end of the first season, and when Gina was added to the main cast of Season 3, she appeared a grand total of... four times. And was promptly removed and began appearing regularly as a guest star again.
* [[White Mask of Doom]]: The Carver.
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