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Cars [[Every Car Is a Pinto|explode frequently]].
* ''One For The Money''
* ''Two For The Dough''
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* [[The Alleged Car]]: Stephanie has a lot of these, due to financial constraints.
* [[All Girls Want Bad Boys]]: Stephanie's juggling two of them - Joe, her childhood crush turned sexy cop; and Ranger, ex-Special Forces Batman-esque badass.
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* [[Betty and Veronica]]: With her childhood friend Morelli being the Betty, and Ranger being a mega-Veronica.
* [[Big Beautiful Woman]]: Lula.
* [[Big Damn Heroes]]: Since Stephanie is often [[
* [[Big Eater]]: Lula, Bob, Stephanie (especially with regards to cake), Valerie (Stephanie's sister) when pregnant, and possibly Morelli.
* [[Big Friendly Dog]]: Bob. ''Very'' friendly, as his greeting involves sticking his nose into your crotch. [[Big Eater|Eats]] <s> a lot</s> [[Extreme Omnivore|everything]].
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* [[Casual Danger Dialog]]: Spectacularly averted - whenever Stephanie is in serious physical danger, she loses all of her [[Deadpan Snarker]] ways and becomes a crying, terrified wreck.
** She's much more in control when she's only being threatened, but often collapses into a blubbering mess after.
** Ranger is a straight example--he seems pretty much completely calm and in control in every situation up to and including shoot-outs, except for {{spoiler|the time his daughter was threatened; even then, his composure was only mildly shaken, though he did manage to get himself shot.}}
* [[Cluster F-Bomb]]: Nearly every sentence out of Sally Sweet's mouth, and occasionally by other characters.
* [[Cool Car]]: Uncle Sandor's Buick. Guys love it (and have said the exact same phrase about it), and it's indestructible to boot. Stephanie doesn't share their opinion on the Buick's inherent coolness, because it guzzles gas like there's no tomorrow. However, she does appreciate the car's indestructibility, and on at least one occasion deliberately uses it.
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** [[Never Mess with Granny]]: Try to stuff her in a freezer, and she'll burn the place down.
* [[Cop Boyfriend]]: Joe Morelli
* [[
* [[A Date with Rosie Palms]]: Occurs with some regularity in the books. Stephanie herself admits to sampling the pleasures of the shower massage. Also, Lula and Joyce are apparently vibrator connoisseurs. Stephanie gets saddled with buying a rather impressive model that even garners [[Really Gets Around|Joyce's]] respect.
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Connie, most of the time. Ranger, though most people don't see it coming and it causes spit-takes and choking.
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* [[Discretion Shot]]: The literary version, with at least two cases of make-out scenes stopping abruptly when the male partner to Stephanie reaches her groin area.
** In the movie, Stephanie gets naked and handcuffed to a shower and is just barely covered by the shower curtain, also an old man who likes to "expose himself" is covered by conveneniently placed objects, [[Squick|thank goodness]]
* [[
** Surprisingly inverted in the film, as she manages to knock a guy to the ground and handcuff him after he shoots Ranger, she pepper sprays Benito Ramirez while he's fighting Joe, allowing him to knock out Benito, and when {{spoiler|[[Big Bad]] Jimmy Alpha has Stephanie and Joe cornered and is planning to kill them, Stephanie knocks him down and he shoots her in the ass, but it barely slows her down and she manages to grab a gun from her purse and promptly shoots Jimmy in the chest five times in a row}}
* [[Drag Queen]]: Sally, Sugar, and their band. While Sugar is actually gay, Sally only likes to take advantage of the aesthetic.
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* [[The Fun in Funeral]]: Grandma Mazur likes to attend viewings at the local funeral home and gets annoyed when it's a closed coffin viewing. She has on several occasions tried to open said coffin.
** Or the time that the funeral home got blown up.
* [[Good
** There's also Ranger's "merry men", the Rangeman employees like Tank and Lester, who are ex-military and good-looking (just ask Lula).
* [[Groin Attack]]: Happens often enough that Stephanie has taken to calling it her [[Signature Move]].
* [[Heroic BSOD]]: [[Played for Laughs]] (mostly) When Tank gets engaged to Lula, he spends the next few weeks mildly stunned.
* [[I Am Big Boned]]: Lula. Sometimes she goes for [[Fat and Proud]] instead, but this is rarer.
* [[Idiosyncratic Episode Naming]]: Most of the books have a number in the title, and they're sequential. There are four "between the numbers" books with holiday themes and the word "Plum" in their titles.
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* [[Rape as Drama]]: Benito Ramirez rapes and beats Lula, then cuffs her to Stephanie's fire escape. This is what convinces Lula to stop being a 'ho.
* [[Road Apples]]: As mentioned above, Bob eats everything. That has to go somewhere, and Stephanie decides that Joyce's front lawn makes an ideal toilet. Vinnie's staff, with the obvious exception of Joyce, approves.
* [[Sanity Ball]]: Half the time, Steph is boggled by the sheer weirdness of her nearest and dearest. The other half the time, they're boggling at her.
* [[Sassy Black Woman]]: Lula again.
** Jackie in the film as well.
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