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* [[Aesop]]: The third season had a tendency to get this way. The episode "[[Green Aesop|Poaching]]" came dangerously close to being [[Anvilicious]].
* [[Berserk Button]]: Blair does not tolerate cheating, plagiarism, or you messing with his students. He jumped out of a helicopter after the last guy to do all three of those things, just to make sure the guy got to see the inside of a prison cell.
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* [[Cowboy Cop]]: Jim was this in a big way early in his career until he ended up with Jack Pendergast as his partner. By the beginning of the series he's described by his co-workers as a lone wolf and a [[Jerkass]]. Then Blair comes along and mellows him... sorta.
* [[CPR: Clean, Pretty, Reliable]]: Averted. {{spoiler|Jim fails to revive Blair with CPR, which makes sense since Blair's heart had stopped. The panther/wolf merger though, which made less sense, succeeded.}}
* [[Cursed Withwith Awesome]]/[[Blessed Withwith Suck]]: Jim feels this way about his abilities a lot of the time. See also [[I Just Want to Be Normal]]; below.
* [[Da Chief]]: Captain Simon Banks. He knows about Jim's abilities and is continually having to explain away Jim's eccentricities to his superiors along with why Blair's still hanging around when his observer's pass expired years ago.
* [[Deadly Closing Credits]]: Season Three finale. The fans had to wait a year and a half to find out if {{spoiler|Blair would live}}
* [[Distaff Counterpart]]: An episode with [[Star Trek: Voyager|Jeri Ryan]] as a woman who also gains hyper-senses. Turned out she was also {{spoiler|an [[Evil Counterpart]]}}. Cassie Welles is a female version of Blair before he figured out that listening to Jim would keep him alive longer.
* [[Evil Counterpart]]: Alex Barnes.
* [[Forced Prize Fight]]: A prison warden has prisoners fight each other at night. Anyone who knows is either part of the scheme or knows that they will be killed if they tell others.
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* [[Heroic Bastard]]: Blair's mother has never told him who his father is, and may not even know.
* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]: Jim and Blair live together from episode three through the finale.
* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]: [[Star Trek: Voyager|Jeri Ryan]] as Alex Barnes. Also Udo Kier, the go-to guy anytime anyone needs a creepy-looking German guy, as Klaus Zellar.
* [[Hippie Parents]]: Blair's mother Naomi.
* [[Ho Yay]]: Due to Blair's position as Jim's guide, he spends a lot of time touching Jim to keep him from zoning.
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* [[Hot Mom]]: Jim feels this way towards Blair's mother, much to the latter's chagrin.
* [[How Do I Shot Web?]]: Blair's job is essentially to help Jim learn to master his abilities. This role becomes more nominal in later episodes, though he still has to provide Jim with advice every now and then.
* [[I Just Want to Be Normal]]: Jim, even after he accepts his abilities help people, never stops bitching about how he's [[Blessed Withwith Suck]].
* [[Improvised Weapon]]: Blair really doesn't like guns. Instead he uses doors, vending machines, fire hoses, and anything else he can get his hands on when stuff hits the fan.
* [[Internal Affairs]]: Sheila Irwin. Apparently Jim was an ass to her when she was still in the Major Crimes unit. Two years later she's investigating him for the murder of his old partner and the theft of over $500,000 in ransom money. Guess how the rest of this story goes.
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* [[Motor Mouth]]: Blair.
* [[Mushroom Samba]]: After Blair eats the pizza in "Blind Man's Bluff."
* [[New Powers Asas the Plot Demands]]: Played with. While Jim (or more often, Blair) figure out new things he can do with his senses every once in a while (especially in the earlier episodes), they're always something to do with the fact that his normal five senses are hyper-acute, and are generally at least somewhat logical extensions of things he already knew how to do.
* [[The Not Love Interest]]: Blair to Jim, see [[Ho Yay]] above. Most of the roles typically filled by the girlfriend of the protagonist are filled by him, from being Jim's emotional ballast to [[James Bondage|constantly getting in trouble and needing to be rescued by Jim.]]
* [[The Other Rainforest]]: It's set in Washington state.
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** The in-universe outrage that this provokes is kind of funny in retrospect.
* [[Weirdness Magnet]]: Jim. Since the activation of his Sentinel abilities, he's been contacted by a ghost, sent on vision quests, and pestered by a frickin' spirit panther.
* [[Working Withwith the Ex]]: Jim's ex-wife worked in the department with him during the first season. She got [[Put Onon a Bus]] before long, though.
 
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