—Brit.
—Prisint!

The fist bump was perfect. I'd spent the whole episode up to that point longing for the two of them to have one of their cool little moments, and the dap-plus-explosion delivered it. It reminded us that the characters have history together—she's already taught him the first part—but it also promised, as it were, that…

You know what he has in his pocket?

You mean separately? (Saw SS in one thing, MS in another—probably TtW and MoS, resp.)

"a race element": Given the people involved—comedians not averse to mining delicate racial stuff for humor—perhaps my mind might be forgiven for originally misconstruing this phrase.

To prevent clients from stealing from one another, was my thought.

At first I thought her name was something like Fiona Shmooney, which gets shortened to Fi Shmooney, and from there the smashing together of the two words results in the fish motif.

btw I'm already cueing up "Hallelujah" for Barbara "Marissa Cooper" Gordon.

"Don't call it that."

Ah, I see what you're saying! Great point.

And they play Alicia's brother on The Good Wife.

It's true the Brady Bunch did it, but the similarities were still peculiar: IIRC, in both the Step by Step pilot and A Brand New Life, the adults meet while on holiday and come back married without having first told their respective kids.

It's the eyebrows. Chicks dig the eyebrows.

And Hagman would insist on covering up Duffy's belly button, so used was he to said body part's absence.

I could have sworn I watched a Wonderful World of Disney "movie" (probably a failed or backdoor pilot) starring Barbara Eden that was identical to Step by Step's premise.

I wonder what would be better: that they include that self-directed trope in their lists, or having that one be the single one that's left out :)

LOL, same! TV Tropes is like Wikipedia in that it can actually remove months from one's lifespan. :)

E.g., a show might have a character say "Dawn's in trouble; must be Tuesday," and from then on, the producers make a point of giving the character more function than just the mission motivator for a given episode. [I cannot actually recall whether Buffy actually did this, so please take the example as a hypothetical,…

You're right!

If wig technology has advanced to such a degree that I can't spot one even when I know the actor is wearing one and even though I have a clear notion, from ER, of what Julianna Margulies's hair should actually look like, then, for all that is holy, why is the one in The Strain so ridiculously bad :)