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Line 4: Pay attention this time. I hate repeating myself. A short-lived 2007 [[~~NB[[Category:TV Series]~~NBC]] drama that consists of 13 episodes. Six were actually aired on the network; the other seven were only released online (and subsequently DVD). ''[[The Black ~~Donnelly[[Category:TV Series]~~Donnellys]]'' follows four young Irish-American brothers in New York who get involved in organized crime, with varying degrees of intent. When Kevin can't pay off a gambling debt, his brother Jimmy helps him kidnap the Italian bookie in hopes that the ransom money will get them out of trouble. Instead, the boys' youngest brother Sean is attacked by the Italian mob in retaliation and lands in the hospital; in response, Jimmy kills the bookie. Trying to get his brothers out of trouble, Tommy kills the local heads of the Italian and Irish mobs and accidentally takes over the neighborhood. Then [[It Got Worse\|everything goes to hell.]] Canceled by [[~~NB[[Category:TV Series]~~NBC]] for poor ratings despite being one of the most downloaded new series on iTunes. {{tropelist}} * [[Actor ~~Allusio[[Category:TV Series]~~Allusion]]/[[Retroactive ~~Recognitio[[Category:TV Series]~~Recognition]]: Joey Ice Cream and Samson [[The Pacific\|are Marine buddies.]] * [[An Axe to Grind]]: Dokey. * [[Affably Evil]]: To a degree, Nicky Cottero. * [[The Alleged ~~Ca[[Category:TV Series]~~Car]]: Sean is the lucky recipient of one. Which then gets traded by his brothers for an Alleged Van. He's not very happy about it. * [[~~Asexualit[[Category:TV Series]~~Asexuality]]: Kevin. When trying to help Jenny find her father, one of his elderly gambling friends gives odds that Jenny isn't Kevin's girlfriend because "[he'~~[[Category:TV Series]~~s] never seen a more asexual kid in [~~hi[[Category:TV Series]~~his] life." * [[The ~~Atone[[Category:TV Series]~~Atoner]]: Tommy. * [[Bandaged ~~Fac[[Category:TV Series]~~Face]]: Sean, post-beating, for a while. * [[Beware the Nice ~~One[[Category:TV Series]~~Ones]]: Tommy thinks he's a nice guy and most people would agree. Screw with his family or Jenny, though... * [[BFG]]: "A ''rocket launcher''?" {{spoiler\|It never gets used, though.}} * [[Big Brother ~~Instinc[[Category:TV Series]~~Instinct]]: A huge theme in general. * [[Blatant ~~Lie[[Category:TV Series]~~Lies]] {{quote\|'''Kevin''': Tommy. Me and Jimmy went downtown with goodness in our hearts to work out a deal. But Louie starts threatening me, I mean what was I supposed to do? '''Tommy''': Kevin, everybody knows who did this. You kidnap somebody, they're not supposed to know who you are. '''Kevin''': Tommy, you think we're stupid? We wore masks! '''Tommy''': You went down there with goodness in your hearts but you wore masks? }} * [[Born ~~Luck[[Category:TV Series]~~Lucky]]: Subverted. Kevin thinks he fits this trope. It does not occur to him that he's actually just a gambling addict who's never won a bet in his life. * [[Break the ~~Haught[[Category:TV Series]~~Haughty]] / [[Jerkass ~~Woobi[[Category:TV Series]~~Woobie]]: Happens to Jimmy when {{spoiler\|Dokey humiliates him by convincing him to shave his head and doing...something that involves motor oil and a lack of clothes. He turns this into an [[Important ~~Haircu[[Category:TV Series]~~Haircut]], though, sort of.}} * [[Broken Pedestal]]: {{spoiler\|Tommy discovers that his mother sent the boys' father to the meeting that ended in his death.}} * [[Butt ~~Monke[[Category:TV Series]~~Monkey]]: Joey, arguably--the brothers get him to do all sorts of favors and menial tasks without showing much gratitude. {{quote\|'''Kevin:''' ''(as a huge dog chases Joey, whom they used as bait)'' I thought Joey could run faster than that.}} * [[The ~~Charme[[Category:TV Series]~~Charmer]]: Sean. * [[Cliff ~~Hange[[Category:TV Series]~~Hanger]]: The fates of {{spoiler\|the boys' mother, Dokey, Samson and Nicky are all left hanging.}} * [[Comes Great ~~Responsibilit[[Category:TV Series]~~Responsibility]]: A local drug dealer invokes this to get Tommy to drive her competition out. * [[Cut ~~Shor[[Category:TV Series]~~Short]]: The last episode of the series ends {{spoiler\|with most of the main characters on the run in a van, getting shot at, and the boys' mother possibly dying.}} {{quote\|'''Joey''': ''(narrating)'' That's the thing about the Donnellys. They never could get more than a block out of the neighborhood.}} * [[Deadpan ~~Snarke[[Category:TV Series]~~Snarker]]: Most of the characters, but Tommy probably holds the crown. * [[Deal with the Devil]]: Tommy cuts a deal with Nickey Cottero to try to take down Dokey and Alo. * [[Disappeared Dad]]: Bobby Donnelly died when the boys were still kids. Part of the series involves the brothers finding out the truth about their dad's involvement with the local organized crime scene. * [[Disposing of a ~~Bod[[Category:TV Series]~~Body]]: Good Lord, in practically every episode. Played somewhat [[Dead Baby Comedy\|for ~~comed[[Category:TV Series]~~comedy]] when {{spoiler\|Jimmy kills Whitey and spends an entire day debating with Joanie about what to do with him.}} * [[Don't Tell ~~Mam[[Category:TV Series]~~Mama]] * {{spoiler\|[[Downer ~~Endin[[Category:TV Series]~~Ending]]}} * [[Even Bad Men Love Their ~~Mama[[Category:TV Series]~~Mamas]] * [[Even Evil Has ~~Standard[[Category:TV Series]~~Standards]]: Happens a few times, most amusingly when Kevin refuses to cut in line at the housing development office...minutes after {{spoiler\|[[Cold-Blooded Torture\|burning Lino with a ~~lighte[[Category:TV Series]~~lighter]] to get information.}} * [[First Girl ~~Win[[Category:TV Series]~~Wins]]: It's not that Tommy doesn't date. It's ''certainly'' not that Tommy doesn't notice other women. But Jenny Reilly will always have his heart. ** {{spoiler\|She doesn't really ''win'', though, as they don't necessarily end up together.}} * [[Flash Back]]: Each episode includes flashbacks to the boys' childhood. Technically, the entire series is a flashback, as Joey is telling the story from an unspecified point in the future. * [[~~Foreshadowin[[Category:TV Series]~~Foreshadowing]]: Joey occasionally indulges, mentioning something at the beginning of an episode that only makes full sense at the end. * [[Four-Temperament ~~Ensembl[[Category:TV Series]~~Ensemble]]: Jimmy (Choleric), Tommy (Melancholic), Kevin (Phlegmatic) and Sean (Sanguine). ** Similarly, [[Four-Philosophy ~~Ensembl[[Category:TV Series]~~Ensemble]]: Jimmy (The Cynic), Tommy (The Realist), Kevin (The Apathetic) and Sean (The Optimist). * [[Framing ~~Devic[[Category:TV Series]~~Device]]: Joey Ice Cream narrates the entire story from prison. To anyone who will listen. Sometimes this is cops or lawyers who are asking for the story in order to find evidence or facts. Sometimes it's the guard sitting outside Joey's cell who just wants him to shut up. * [[The Gambling ~~Addic[[Category:TV Series]~~Addict]]: Kevin, and he loses a lot, although he has good instincts. ([[It Makes Sense in Context\|It's ~~[[Category:TV Series]~~a]] [[Daddy ~~Issue[[Category:TV Series]~~Issues]] thing.) Jimmy also won the Firecracker in a bet, although we don't know with whom. * [[Guns ~~Akimb[[Category:TV Series]~~Akimbo]]: Joey does this in the penultimate episode when Tommy goes after Dokey. {{spoiler\|OK, no, he doesn't, [[Unreliable Narrator\|but that's the first version he tells.]]}} * [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]: All over the place-- Nicky is [[Oz\|Miguel Alvarez]], [[Band of Brothers (TV series)\|Joe ~~Toy[[Category:TV Series]~~Toye]] and [[Fringe\|Charlie ~~Franci[[Category:TV Series]~~Francis]] Samson is [[24\|Jack Bauer's sidekick]], a [[Rubicon\|twitchy ~~codebreake[[Category:TV Series]~~codebreaker]] and Joey Ice Cream's [[The Pacific\|Marine ~~budd[[Category:TV Series]~~buddy]] Kevin was also in the [[Generation Kill\|~~Corp[[Category:TV Series]~~Corps]] and an undercover cop [[The Chicago Code\|out ~~wes[[Category:TV Series]~~west]]. Sean [[Cloverfield\|gets killed by an alien, along with most of New York]] Jimmy is [[The Sandlot\|killin' me, Smalls!]] Dokey is [[Pulp Fiction\|Zed]] (and Zed's dead, baby. Zed's dead) ** Huey is [[The Wire\|Frank ~~Sobotck[[Category:TV Series]~~Sobotcka]]. * [[Institutional Apparel]]: Joey wears a bright orange prison jumpsuit in all of the framing scenes. * [[The Irish Mob]] * [[It Got ~~Wors[[Category:TV Series]~~Worse]]: Much of the series is made up of things getting as bad as they can, and then ''getting even worse''. * [[Ladykiller in ~~Lov[[Category:TV Series]~~Love]]: Sean with Nadine. * [[Local ~~Hangou[[Category:TV Series]~~Hangout]]: The Firecracker. * [[Looking for Love In All the Wrong ~~Place[[Category:TV Series]~~Places]]: Jenny would like to be [[Single Woman Seeks Good ~~Ma[[Category:TV Series]~~Man]]. Unfortunately, her husband is a deadbeat drug dealer who gets murdered before the series starts; Samson turns out to be a blackmailing stalker; and Tommy, her childhood sweetheart, is well on his way to becoming the head of organized crime in the area. * [[Love ~~Dodecahedro[[Category:TV Series]~~Dodecahedron]]: Tommy loves Jenny. Jenny loves Tommy. They are totally meant to be. Except that if there was no Jenny, Mary Anne would have been the one for Tommy, but instead she married a gambling addict. And Tommy's kind of carrying a thing for Kate Farrel, but that's complicated because he killed her husband Huey. Meanwhile, Jenny's gotten married; her husband's dead, but she doesn't find out about that until after she's hooked up with Samson, who subsequently turns out to be a majorly creepy [[Stalker with a Crush]]. Also, it turns out that Jimmy is also carrying a torch for Jenny, but he's dating Joanie, who sometimes hooks up with Whitey for drugs. (Joey also claims he and Jenny were kind of an item, but it's Joey so we probably shouldn't take that seriously.) * [[Mama ~~Bea[[Category:TV Series]~~Bear]]: Helen to the boys. ** In possibly the harshest example, when the brothers don't tell her the real reason behind Sean's beating, she comes to the conclusion that his girlfriend Kim was responsible and accordingly chases Kim off harshly. When Kim refuses to return Sean's calls later on, he assumes that it's because she was turned off by watching him get his ass kicked, and Helen is content to let him think this - until ''Kevin'' informs him what really happened. * [[Mob ~~Wa[[Category:TV Series]~~War]] * [[Momma's ~~Bo[[Category:TV Series]~~Boy]]: All the Donnelly brothers, to various degrees. Sean gets it the worst, being the youngest. * [[Nice Job Breaking It, ~~Her[[Category:TV Series]~~Hero]]: Tommy kills Sal and Huey after realizing that Huey is planning to cut a deal with the Italian mob -- Jimmy's life in exchange for letting Louie' death go. Rather than solving any problems, this sets off a chain reaction of events leading to Tommy giving up virtually everything that ever mattered to him in order to protect his brothers' lives. * [[No Good Deed Goes Unpunished]] * [[Off the ~~Wago[[Category:TV Series]~~Wagon]]: Tommy gets Jimmy arrested and sent to jail in order to get him into rehab. Kevin goes behind Tommy's back and bails Jimmy out. Jimmy immediately thanks Kevin and goes to find his dealer. * [[Perfect ~~Poiso[[Category:TV Series]~~Poison]]: Averted. In the series finale, {{spoiler\|Nicky and Alo are both poisoned, and Nicky is in quite a lot of pain when [[Cliff Hanger\|we last see him.]]}} * [["Previously On..."]]: Usually narrated by Joey, often with some irritation that people need a recap. * [[Rape and ~~Reveng[[Category:TV Series]~~Revenge]]: {{spoiler\|Jenny and Samson. [[No-Holds-Barred Beatdown\|Holy shit.]]}} * [[Retro ~~Univers[[Category:TV Series]~~Universe]]: Nobody can agree when this show is set. Technology points to 2007-ish, but the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood the show presents is more faithful to the area in the 1990s. Joey Ice Cream's inability to get any dates right doesn't make it any easier. * [[Screwed by the Network]]: ''Six episodes'' of thirteen were aired. * [[Secret ~~Keepe[[Category:TV Series]~~Keeper]]: Most of the main cast. * [[Stalker with a Crush]]: {{spoiler\|Samson}}, to a very disturbing degree. * [[Timeshifted ~~Acto[[Category:TV Series]~~Actor]]: The flashbacks to the brothers as kids; sometimes includes young Jenny and/or Joey as well. ** Though they could have chosen actors who looked more like the adult versions, particularly in the cases of Kevin and Jimmy. * [[Unreliable ~~Narrato[[Category:TV Series]~~Narrator]]: And how. The narrator, Joey Ice Cream, is a friend of the brothers, telling the story from prison at some point in the future. He injects himself into scenes he couldn't possibly have been at, contradicts himself, gets called out on lies, and tries to gloss over details. * [[Xanatos ~~Gambi[[Category:TV Series]~~Gambit]]: Nicky gets pretty good at this. {{reflist}} [[Category:Live-Action TV of the ~~2000[[Category:TV Series]~~2000s]] [[Category:Short ~~Runner[[Category:TV Series]~~Runners]] [[Category:American ~~Serie[[Category:TV~~ Series]]] {{DEFAULTSORT:Black Donnellys, The}} [[Category:{{PAGENAME}}]] ~~[[Category:Western Animatio~~[[Category:TV Series]]]