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ABC Family Teen Drama almost two sixteen-year-old girls who were switched at birth.

Bay was raised in a Big Fancy Business firm by the wealthy John and Kathryn Kennish. Daphne, who went deafened after catching meningitis as a toddler, was raised by unmarried female parent Regina Vasquez in a tough neighborhood. Neither girl knew that they weren't biologically related to their families, and in fact didn't know virtually each other, until Bay requested a DNA test. Once the secret is out, the Kennishes invite the Vasquezes to motion in, and the two families start to go to know their biological daughters. In addition, we have generalized family unit drama in the form of boy problems, the growing pains of the elderberry Kennish sibling Toby, and various personality conflicts between the parents. The show debuted in 2011 and ran for v seasons until final in 2017.

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• Absentee Actor: Sean Berdy gets an onscreen credit for "Las Dos Fridas," only Emmett simply appears in the Previously on… segment and not in the episode itself. Similarly, Gilles Marini gets Promoted to Opening Titles in season ii, just Angelo doesn't announced in every episode. He'southward credited on a few episodes even after Angelo is killed off.
• Absurdly High-Stakes Game: Toby loses thousands of dollars in poker because Daphne misread the other players' torso language.
• Abusive Parents: In season 3, Sharee's mother is shown to be verbally abusive, and implied to be physically calumniating, although she has an unspecified mental disorder.
• Historic period-Gap Romance:
  • Sixteen-year-former Daphne starts a romance with her dominate, the much older Chef Jeff, to her family's disapproval. In fact, it'due south afterwards shown that he was interested in her at first because he idea she was in college; information technology's only when she tells him that she wants it to happen that he gives in and kisses her.
  • In season 5 Regina dates Luca, a college pupil.
• All Gays Are Pedophiles: Afterward Travis tells his mom her brother had molested him as a child, she replies it's not true-because he isn't gay.
• All Girls Want Bad Boys: Daphne sneaks out of school to have a drunken make out with Wilke. She afterwards dresses very sultry in order to attract the caustic Chef Jeff. Regina calls Daphne out on this trope later finding out about her involvement with Nacho.
• Alliterative Name: Kathryn Kennish
• Alternating Reality Episode: Done twice:
  • In "Ecce Mono," John imagines that Regina came clean well-nigh discovering the switch in 1998 but lost custody of the girls due to her drinking. Daphne is raised with the Kennishes, getting a cochlear implant to assistance her hear and not identifying as Deafened—merely is a manipulative brat. Bay is at present a studious immature adult female who falls in her sister'due south shadow; Toby is still gambling, and Kathryn is having an matter with another man (Bit Coto)). The girls abound up thinking that Regina stopped contacting them birthday. She actually has tried to make contact with them their entire lives, just the Kennishes stash away the messages and presents instead of giving it to the girls. When they discover this out and get to find Regina, they instead only notice Adrianna; they discover out from her that Regina died of drinking on their altogether.
  • In "Yuletide Fortune Tellers," the girls are upset about their families' Christmas traditions just to wake up in a world where the switch never happened. Daphne is Bay, a star athlete, with Toby a moody musician and John and Kathryn having marriage problems. Bay is Daphne, raised with a younger brother but Regina nevertheless drinking and Emmett only a friend.
• Ambiguously Bi: Bay'south new boyfriend Alex reads most Emmett in Kathryn'south volume, and tells Bay that "[Emmett] sounds hot."
• And Knowing Is Half the Battle: Katie Leclerc and Vanessa Marano appeared in character in a PSA virtually the dangers of texting while driving.
• Anguished Declaration of Dear:
  • Daphne to Emmett, later she finds out about him and Bay.
  • Emmett to Bay, later in the aforementioned episode:

    Emmett: [speaking] I...merely...want...you.

• Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking:

  Tune: [signing, to Emmett] Y'all started going with Bay, and now you lot're sneaking around, lying, and talking nearly going to spoken language therapy!

  • Subverted—this is really an extremely of import bespeak for Tune.
• Best Woman: Bay fills this role at Lily and Toby's wedding. Conveniently, she already has a tux from the prom in flavor iii.
• Better as Friends: Daphne and Emmett.
• Betty and Veronica:
  • Daphne's the Betty and Bay'south the Veronica to Emmett's Archie. Complete with pilus colors.
  • Melody was the Betty and Olivia was the Veronica to Cameron's Archie.
  • And earlier in the serial, Emmett was the Betty and Wilke was the Veronica to Daphne'southward Archie.
  • After Bay and Emmett broke up in season 1 and she starts dating again, in that location are several Betty and Veronica's with Emmett pining for Bay. Whether he's the Betty or the Veronica depends on the other guy.
• Big Fancy House: The Kennish residence, with a prissy invitee house in the back.
• Bilingual Bonus:
  • Daphne and her friends use sign linguistic communication, which is usually subtitled or interpreted for the audience's benefit; and Daphne'south mom and grandmother both speak Spanish. Specifically, they're signing using ASL ^note American Sign Language and SEE ^note Signed Exact English language , in a mixture called Pidgin Signed English language.
  • Angelo speaks Italian and French.
• Birds of a Feather: Emmett and Bay share a passion for fine art. Then again, both Emmett and Daphne tin can communicate easier and relate with each other because they are both Deaf and able to sign fluently.
• Bittersweet Ending:
  • In the flavor 2 jump finale, John wins his country senate campaign past default, simply admits that he had hoped he would lose, and that Kathryn should have run instead of him.
  • Also the flavor 3 finale, in which Bay, Daphne and their friends graduate from Carlton, only learn Carlton will be permanently closed. Bay confesses to vandalizing the construction site then that Daphne won't become to jail and ruin her chances of going to medical school, although this means Bay can't movement to LA with Emmett.
• Blackmail: Daphne and her Temporary Satellite Beloved Interest Jace blackmail Senator Coto virtually his affair with an intern, in gild to kill an abstinence-only education neb. Coto somewhen catches Daphne, and blackmails her (and John) right dorsum. In order to spare John from having to pay off Coto, Daphne sends info of the affair to the news media, taking Coto down with her.
• Blest with Suck: Emmett'due south begetter's family is open-minded and giving, only because of their youthfulness he's often forgotten.
• Bookends: "This Is The Colour Of My Dreams" begins with Regina having a dream that she's marrying Angelo and ends with her marrying him for real to go on him from being deported.
• Both Sides Have a Signal: Both the Kennishes and Vasquezes are forced to realize this during their attempts to live together peacefully.
• Intermission His Heart to Relieve Him: A gender-flipped version. Ty lies to Bay that he cheated on her, considering the alternative—admitting that he's going into a loftier-risk warzone with a serious chance of getting killed and leaving her heartbroken—is something he tin't do.
• Break the Cutie:
  • Most of the characters (more than or less), but Daphne is the nigh vulnerable target. Before finding out virtually the switch, she was very positive and well-adapted. Afterwards, well....
  • Fifty-fifty more and so in Chef Jeff's kitchen. While she was working there, Daphne was guaranteed to mess up and freak out Once an Episode.
  • Daphne once more, with the nutrient truck robbery.
• Double-decker Crash:
  • Averted. Ty doesn't die in the assault on his unit in Transitional islamic state of afghanistan.
  • The Bus Came Back: Ty comes dorsum dwelling house from war with psychological trauma after losing an Regular army buddy in the attack.
• The Cake Is a Lie: Wilke promises that Guitar Face volition open up for a notable ring, but they terminate up playing the D Stage.
• Cessation of Existence: Discussed by Regina and John. He believes there's some afterlife where you can meet your loved ones once again, but Regina doesn't, unfortunate as she finds that.
• Chekhov's Gun: The guest business firm is this in the showtime episode.
• Chekhov'south Skill: Daphne's abilities as a human prevarication detector. They're established early on in the first season when Toby takes her to a poker game to help him place the other players' tells. Later on in the flavour, she asks Emmett if he cheated on Bay with Simone, and he lies and says it didn't happen. Daphne instantly knows he's lying, and he realizes that she now knows for sure.
• Childhood Retention Demolition Team: A variation; Bay and Daphne must work together to save Emmett'southward motorcycle, which he built with his dad.
• Chocolate Infant: Daphne. Unlike both her presumed birth parents, Regina and Angelo, she was pale-skinned, plus red-haired. Naturally, Angelo thought Regina cheated on him and Daphne wasn't his. He was right on the latter, though wrong nearly the reasons, as she was switched for their existent girl while in the hospital. Later information technology turns out that John had as well suspected this of Bay for simply the aforementioned reasons, getting both their Dna secretly tested. Information technology explains why he'southward non surprised virtually the DNA results when Bay later gets them to as well. However, though he thought Kathryn must take cheated on him, he'd already decided that no matter what, Bay and she are nevertheless his family unit.
• Citizenship Union: Regina marries Angelo in guild to proceed him in the country for Bay's sake. However, the ii have to keep up the facade that they're happily married and living together, so they don't become to jail for immigration fraud.
• Conflict Ball: Good grief, every character has at least one. Some are juggling two or three, when they aren't playing hot potato with another one.
  • Such as Daphne and Bay fighting over Liam, then Ty, Emmett, and later Noah.
  • John suing the hospital for an apology.
  • Regina and Kathryn fighting over whether or not Regina tin can engagement Bruce.
    • Regina and Kathryn fighting, flow.
    • Regina and everyone fighting.
  • Toby and his gambling woes.
  • Emmett and his mom disagreeing about him taking spoken communication therapy and dating Bay.
  • Angelo showing up and pretty much making everyone upset, though Bay somewhen warms to him.
  • Bay and Emmett having a huge spat about Emmett's living arrangements...which happens at the same fourth dimension that Toby and Simone accept a spat about Simone's trustworthiness, leading to Emmett and Simone sleeping together.
  • Toby shoving Emmett for adulterous on Bay with Simone.
  • John screaming at Regina almost the grudge he'southward felt against her for her knowing the truth virtually the switch, only keeping Daphne out of his life.
  • John and Kathryn'south marital problems—he was fine with the condition quo, and she was unhappy and seeking a modify in the routine. As with most marital issues in Real Life, both parties were obstinate and unwilling to hear each other out.
  • Daphne takes the ball and runs wild with it after Angelo dies. Pretty much everyone calls her out on it.
• Continuity Nod: To Emmett and Daphne beingness fans of Deaf horror films when they make a "Dawn of the Deaf". Also, when Daphne's room is shown you tin see the poster Emmett gave her in an earlier episode.
• Cool Wheel: Emmett's motorcycle. John gets i of his own in season iii, merely it doesn't last long.
• Cool Machine: The Kennishes have a whole armada: a BMW convertible for the kids, Kathryn's Mercedes Thou-Wagen, and John's Porsche Panamera (which was an Aston Martin in the pilot). This all might be justified—John is a former major league baseball game star, and currently owns a successful chain of car washes.
• Cool Loser: Daphne sees herself as a loser after dressing more than sultry and failing to become Chef Jeff'southward attention, even though she's a basketball game star and very social.
• Defunction Friction match the Window: The biological Vasquezes have dark hair and night optics.
• Cut Himself Shaving: Bay and Emmett get cut on some barbed wire during an endeavour to tag an unused billboard. Bay explains her wounds as a nasty rosebush incident, and Emmett tells his female parent he fell on a sprinkler head playing football at his friend's house.
• Trip the light fantastic toe of Romance: John and Kathryn reconcile with one of these while chaperoning at the Carlton prom.
• Dance Party Ending: "Dance Me To The End Of Love" has one of these. Seriously.
• Dark Secret:
  • The Kennishes kind of suspected that Regina knew something about the switch. And they were right. Effectually the time of Daphne'southward meningitis infection in 1998, Angelo had Daphne DNA tested, and Regina figured out so that the hospital had switched the girls at birth in 1995. Fearing that, as a poor alcoholic, she'd lose Daphne, Regina kept the secret to herself. Afterwards, she hired a individual investigator to rails downward Bay, and watched Bay from distant for several years. And now it's not a secret anymore.
  • Later, when Regina begins drinking again she tries to keeps this a secret as well.
  • So is Simone and Emmett sleeping together. Both felt too guilty to tell anyone else, though anybody finds out eventually anyway.
  • Later Angelo's death from an aneurysm, Bay finds out that aneurysms can be genetic, and that Angelo had a sister who died of one when she was eighteen, the age Bay is currently. She doesn't tell her family almost her concerns, or when she gets an MRI.
• Dating What Mommy Hates:
  • Kathryn and John disapprove of Bay's relationship with the older Ty. They are "relieved" when he joins the army.
  • Melody profoundly disapproves of hearing/Deaf relationships. All the same, she eventually warms to Bay when Emmett dates her.
  • Toby thinks this trope is in play after Elisa tries to leap his bones in a hot tub—she forgot to tell him that her mom is his dad'south opponent in the election, and she opposes her mom's policies. That said, Elisa genuinely was interested in Toby.
• A 24-hour interval in the Limelight: Angelo is the central focus of "The Image Disappears" which follows on from his car crash at the end of the previous episode... and switches tropes to become A Decease in the Limelight around halfway through.
• Daydream Surprise: Daphne imagines that she and Emmett kiss while they're studying.
• Deadpan Snarker: Bay.

  Reporter: What will you practice next? Was anybody injure in at that place?

  Bay: Um, you know he'due south deaf, right?

• The Determinator: Daphne, plain inherited from her biological male parent.
• Disabled Beloved Interest: The serial has several deafened characters, all of whom are quite attractive—Daphne, Emmett, Emmett's female parent—and have relationships with hearing people. However they're all played every bit ordinary people, with some of the relationships lasting a very long fourth dimension.
• Disabled Ways Helpless: Emmett thinks that Bay thinks this when she tries to help him communicate with hearing people.
• Disappeared Dad: Bay's biological begetter, Angelo. She's not happy virtually this. He eventually shows upward out of the blue in the midseason finale, afterward reading most the switch in a newspaper. Then disappears again. So comes back. You can understand why Regina told him she wants off his roller coaster of comings and goings. Before this, he'd also left after Daphne was born, rightly suspecting she wasn't really his girl given that she looked distinctly unlike from both him and Regina. Then he disappears at last for proficient, dying of a cerebral hemmorhage acquired by injuries he received from a car accident.
• Do Not Accommodate Your Set: "Uprising" starts with Katie Leclerc (speaking in her normal phonation) and Vanessa Marano explaining the setup for the episode, including Marano assuring the viewers that "in that location's nothing wrong with your Idiot box." All of the episode's dialogue is delivered in ASL, and the only spoken conversations are in the first scene betwixt Bay and Noah. The only other spoken line of dialogue is the episode'due south concluding line, when Bay tells Daphne (who tin't hear the budgeted constabulary sirens) "The cops are here."
• Dream Sequence: Daphne has a dream in which the switch never happened. Regina dreams she is at her and Angelo'south wedding and Patrick is marrying them. Daphne has a dream in which she is a doctor and dances with Jorge and Campbell.
• Even the Subtitler Is Stumped: A season ii episode has a scene where the usual subtitles for sign language are barely working. This is to show Bay's POV and how much problem she has following what a teacher is signing to the class.
• For Want of a Smash:
  • Touched on every and then often, as Bay, Daphne, and their families wonder how the girls would accept ended up had the switch not taken place. Notable when Emmett and Daphne talk about Bay in the first episode:

    Emmett: Who's that?

    Daphne: Me, in another life.

  • It's after touched on in a Dream Sequence. Daphne dreams that the switch never happened, and that she was Bay and Bay was Daphne. The Christmas special between seasons 3 and four takes this idea and runs with it—Bay was raised past both Regina and Angelo and has a biological brother, Regina never overcame her alcoholism, Toby is an emo hipster, John and Kathryn are on the brink of divorce, Emmett is dating a different hearing girl, and Daphne is an Olympic hopeful soccer thespian.
  • The episode "Ecce Mono" revolves around what might accept happened if Regina had revealed the switch when she get-go found out. Both girls live with the Kennishes after a custody boxing in 1998 and accept had no contact with Regina. Daphne has a cochlear implant and is spoiled and shallow, Bay is an overachieving outsider because of her status as the adopted sister, Toby never kicked his gambling addiction, Kathryn is unhappy in her marriage and schtupping Senator Coto on the side, and Regina is expressionless.
• Feminine Women Tin Melt: Daphne and Kathryn both love to cook.
• Fourth Appointment Marriage: Nikki and Toby get engaged after dating for only three months, having just recently broken up over their religious differences. Not to mention Toby was making out with Elisa two episodes ago. Needless to say, John and Kathryn aren't happy almost it, and their matrimony quickly fails.
• A Friend in Need: Emmett ofttimes rides to Daphne'south aid when she's gotten herself in a gummy situation. Fifty-fifty after he starts dating Bay, he all the same genuinely cares about her well-beingness.
• From Bad to Worse:
  • Daphne'southward already having a bad day, having just establish out near Emmett and Bay dating. And so Angelo shows upwardly to see Bay.
  • In the season two wintertime finale, Bay gets chewed out by Daphne for speaking to the printing after the demonstration, gets dumped by Noah afterwards finding out he has feelings for Daphne, finds out Regina is leaving for rehab, and then has to watch Angelo dedicating himself to taking care of his new daughter, making her realize what she missed out on.
• Gay Best Friend: Renzo for Kathryn in season 3.
• "Gender-Normative Parent" Plot: Downplayed; John prefers his son Toby's baseball game to his music as hobbies and professions.
• Good Girls Avoid Ballgame: Subverted and then played straight with Lily in season four. She and Toby at commencement retrieve ballgame is the obvious selection, although the give-and-take "abortion" is never mentioned, but Toby convinces her they should keep the baby after he visits a school for children with special needs.
• Gray-and-Gray Morality: Amidst the girls. Even "sweet, innocent Daphne" has been known to occasionally potable, near had sex with Wilke, and seduced the older Chef Jeff.
• Easily-Off Parenting: Emmett's dad.
• Hand Signals: Since a expert corporeality of the characters apply ASL/PSE, it's a given.
• Happily Married: John and Kathryn, until Flavor 2. They even so dear each other very much, they're merely having some bug.
• Hidden Depths: Toby turns out to exist pretty good at baseball, in addition to beingness a musician.
• High-Schoolhouse Dance: Carlton'southward prom happens in the first season bound finale, and in season three's "Girl on the Cliff."
• Hollywood Atheist: Averted. Regina says she'due south an atheist when Angelo is injured, explaining to Kathryn that she won't pray since it would make her a hypocrite, "one of those people who only believe in God when something goes wrong". This is not shown to exist bad (nor does she begin to pray, though Kathryn says God won't heed).
• Homage / Lawyer-Friendly Cameo: I of Daphne'southward favorite movies is Deafenstein, an incredibly cheesy Frankenstein accommodation performed entirely in ASL. It's a takeoff of the Real Life film Deafula, a 1975 version of Dracula done in ASL, with a similar reputation.
• How We Got Here: "And We Bring The Light" starts with Kathryn existence woken upwards by her phone ringing; when she answers she's told there's been an blow—and after the opening title we flash back to twelve hours before. At the terminate of the episode nosotros discover out Angelo was in the accident, with medical staff seeing to him over the end credits.
• Humiliation Conga:
  • Played for Drama with one of the protagonists. Everyone eventually finds out that Regina knew virtually the switch (and Bay'due south whereabouts) every bit far back equally 1998. Daphne disowns Regina for lying to her for years. Bay disowns Regina for not trying to be a part of her life. The Kennishes are so put off that they pretty much adios Regina and make plans to accept custody of Daphne.
  • Daphne goes through one also. She finds out that her mother knew near the switch; and then when she realizes that she is in dear with Emmett because he has always been there for her, she finds out he is dating Bay.
• Hypocrite:
  • Emmett's angered when Daphne disapproves of him and Bay, whereas he'south judged every love interest she'southward had during the show's run.
  • Bay has basically instructed Daphne to stand aside with every male child from Bay'south world she'south dated during the prove's run—despite the fact that she's dated both Ty and Emmett, friends of Daphne.
  • Bay is furious at Emmett, and afterwards Ty for cheating on her, only in season 3, she doesn't exactly break up with Tank before hooking upwardly with Emmett.
• I Call It "Vera": Emmett named his motorbike Ripley.
• I Fight for the Strongest Side!: Daphne wants to quit the Carlton basketball team because of their lack of determination. She eventually returns, though.
• The "I Beloved You" Stigma: In "Human being/Demand/Want," Nikki accidentally blurts out that she loves Toby, and so flees in embarrassment before he can say anything. He reciprocates the adjacent chance he gets, though she breaks up with him after in the episode.
• I Desire My Dear to Be Happy: Daphne lets Bay ride with Emmett on his last ride of the motorcycle.
• Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: Each episode is named after a work of art, such every bit American Gothic, or Dogs Playing Poker. This is because Bay and Regina are both painters (although not all episodes are named a paintings specifically).
• Informed Flaw:
  • People, including Daphne herself, say how Daphne is simply as flawed as Bay, but... how, exactly?
  • Daphne seems to be showing more flaws, with her desire to delight others getting both her and Toby in big trouble.
    • Played straight with Bay's ability to seem victimized when problems ascend. Several people have already mentioned how "it'due south always Bay and her drama."
    • "Y'all are going to driblet this the way you drib everything." What exactly has Bay dropped since the show began?
    • It'south not uncommon for people to continue to associate others with their past deportment instead of seeing how they've changed. And Emmett was looking for a reason to break upwardly with Bay in his Daphne-confession induced confusion.
• Inspirationally Disadvantaged:
  • Deconstructed when the Buckner basketball motorbus only recruits Daphne to get a grant for a new locker room.
  • Possibly played straight when Carlton goes to Springfield. Deafened people from all over come to see the match and information technology's mentioned that a person in Nihon was auspicious for them.
  • Defied by Chef Jeff, who tells Daphne that he doesn't purchase into information technology, and was forced to hire her by his superiors. To drive the point home, he tells her she's a hazard to the rest of the kitchen, and demotes her to dishwasher where she won't get in anyone'southward way.
• Information technology'due south All About Me: Both Daphne and Bay believe they are victims of this from each other. Daphne thinks Angelo exhibits this trope, too.
• Jerk Jock: Liam's friends. Bay worries that Tank is i, too.
• Just Friends: Daphne claims that she and Emmett are this when the Kennishes assume that they are dating.
• Know When to Fold 'Em: One of Toby'south plot themes.
• Lamarck Was Right: Daphne gravitates toward athletic endeavors, as her biological male parent John is a retired major league ballplayer. She is also a actually good cook like her mother Kathryn. Bay is an aspiring artist, a trait that she seems to take inherited from her biological mother Regina. Daphne even states that she believes she inherited her basketball game skills from John.
• Last-Infinitesimal Hookup: Subverted. Emmett and Daphne kiss, merely he decides to stay with Bay.
• Late-Inflow Spoiler: Woe be to anyone who missed the episode "Game On," since ABC Family is already showing previews that bargain with the hitherto unforeseen twist of Emmett cheating on Bay with Simone.
• Latino Is Brownish: Regina, Adriana, Natalie and other Latinos in E Riverside are all dark-skinned. Regina'southward daughter, Daphne (blanched, red-haired, green-eyed) is revealed to take been Switched at Nascence. Regina's biological daughter Bay, played by a white actress of Italian descent, is very pale skinned (which is really unlikely given her heritage). This becomes a plot point in one episode where Daphne applies for a Latina scholarship, and every other candidate in that location is very stereotypical of a Latina. She laments to Regina that fifty-fifty though they think she's Latina, no one else sees information technology that way. Later though when she'due south introduced to Jorge'due south family unit, none of them questions it. A chemical science professor who she has is fascinated, remarking how rare red hair is amid Puerto Ricans.

• Loads and Loads of Characters: Outside of the master characters, we have a ton of other additional recurring characters. Many of them are Beloved Interests and the like, and many come up and go, but each one plays some kind of role in the plot at some betoken.
• Lonely Piano Slice:
  • Plays whenever Emmett doesn't empathize what someone'due south proverb and nosotros cutting to the conversation from his perspective.
  • Daphne as well had a scene similar this during her beginning breakfast with the Kennishes.
• Honey Triangle:
  • Bay and Emmett become a couple—correct most the aforementioned time that Daphne realizes that she has a thing for Emmett herself. Bay and Daphne also compete over Noah in early flavour ii.
  • The triangle between Daphne, Campbell and Jorge in flavor 3 is exceptionally blatant.
  • In season 5 there's Travis/Bay/Emmett.
• Love Dodecahedron:
  • Wilke decides he likes Daphne, who decides to fight for Emmett, who wants to make things piece of work with Bay.
  • Plus Toby dates Simone, who has an thing with Emmett.
  • Then there'due south another deafened teen named Travis, who very blatantly likes Daphne, who has the hots for Chef Jeff, who is seeing and sleeping with Melody.
• Manly Tears: Toby after he and Nikki make up one's mind to get divorced then she is free to travel doing missionary work, and again in season 4 afterward learning that Lily is pregnant, and the babe has Downwardly'south Syndrome.
• Masculine–Feminine Gay Couple: Natalie is fairly feminine, in contrast to her girlfriend Hilary, who's more masculine and has curt hair. The latter pointedly refuses to wear a dress for the prom, going in a tuxedo instead. They get barred every bit a effect, because their school clothes code requires girls clothing dresses. In protest, they phase their ain prom dance on the backyard exterior with friends.
• Mistaken for Cheating:
  • Before the families reveal to the public that Daphne and Bay were switched, Kathryn'due south friends recollect that John had a relationship with Regina.
  • John, with Sarah Lazar. Daphne calls John out on it when she sees the two together at a eatery, but he promises her that there's nada going on, and that he was trying to talk Sarah out of writing her book nearly the switch. Kathryn as well once had the same thoughts nearly John and Sarah.
  • Years back, Angelo suspected that Regina had cheated on him, because Daphne's eyes and pilus color didn't lucifer either of them. Daphne's DNA test, during her illness at historic period 3, appeared to ostend his suspicions and caused him to walk out on Regina and Daphne.
  • Bay tries to tell Emmett what happened with Tank, but he initially thinks she's confessing this, enraging him.
• Mistaken for Gay:
  • The Kennishes' lawyer, which proves to be a plot indicate since she has a relationship with the hospital director.
  • Daphne introduces Chef Jeff to her 2 mothers, Regina and Kathryn. Jeff is unaware of the switch, and thinks the 2 are a lesbian couple.
  • During a trip to New York for the release of Kathryn's 2d book in Season iii, she and Regina intentionally play this up to get a creepy guy with whom Kathryn once had a 1 nighttime stand up to exit her solitary. Kathryn'south publisher loves the buzz it creates and encourages them to proceed upwardly the charade.
• Modesty Bedsheet: This is used by many female characters after they've had sex activity.
• My Beloved Smother:
  • Emmett'south mom Melody is this, and it'south hinted that information technology's because of her ongoing divorce. Information technology eventually drives Emmett to move in with his male parent.
  • Regina follows both Daphne and Bay effectually at certain points in their lives.
• My Sister Is Off-Limits!: Toby tells Wilke this most Bay and Daphne in the fourth episode, but warms upwardly to the thought of Daphne/Wilke.
• Mysterious Informant: Angelo had an informant who knew the inner workings of the infirmary and had relevant information virtually the switch. Kathryn somewhen suspects that it'due south a maternity ward nurse who Angelo may have had a fling with.
• Myth Arc: The show features a fair amount of continuing Soap Opera-esque storylines about relationships, equally information technology is an ABC Family evidence and all. Merely the predominant storyline is the big mystery concerning the switch, and who knows what about information technology.
• Never Trust a Trailer: Modest but a lot of the previews use different takes than the take used in the episode when aired. A notable example is during a confrontation with Regina, John says in an aroused only somewhat restrained tone "You kept my daughter from me for thirteen years!" But in the episode proper John employs Suddenly Shouting with "You kept...my daughter from me...for Xiii YEARS!!!"
• No Bisexuals: When Kathryn is discussing with John whether her mother Bonnie and Bonnie's friend Lucille are lovers, she expresses skepticism at the idea of her "turning gay" now afterwards all the years of being married to Kathryn's begetter. The idea she might be just bi never comes up.
• No-Dialogue Episode: The second season episode "Uprising" isn't exactly lacking dialogue, just it is entirely in ASL, without speech.
• Nonuniform Compatible:
  • Buckner Hall'southward clothes code seems to exist "equally long as it looks kinda-sorta preppy, no affair how revealing it is, it'due south fine by us."
  • A particularly egregious example is during one episode where Bay walks effectually the campus in a tank tiptop and plaid skirt that vaguely resemble the school colors.
• No Party Given: John's run for office. He's either an former-schoolhouse New England mode Republican (in Kansas!) or a Blue Canis familiaris Democrat—liberal on "live and let alive" social problems, fiscally conservative. Good luck getting through the principal! Later he's explicitly called a Republican, simply the issues higher up remain.
• Not Claret Siblings: Averted.

  Wilke: So if Bay's not really your sister, you could totally take a run at that?

  Toby: NO!

  • In the season 3 Christmas episode, alternate universe Toby senses a "connection" with Bay and hits on her. Bay is appropriately squicked.
• Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: Cassi Thomson's Australian tones poke through from time to fourth dimension, about notable in "Man/Demand/Desire" when Toby and Nikki are in the car and she says "I love information technology."
• Off the Wagon: Non long after seeing Simone at an AA meeting, Regina catches a guy buying booze for Simone. Afterwards getting chewed out, Simone tells Regina that she savage off the carriage afterward her indiscretion was spread effectually the schoolhouse, and that she felt similar she had no friends anymore. Regina later on falls off the wagon herself, though she gets sober.
• Office Romance: Daphne dating her dominate, Chef Jeff, leading to trouble with co-workers and management.
• 1 Dialogue, Ii Conversations: A brief one between Bay and Simone. Bay is trying to panel Simone about the tournament loss, and Simone is still feeling guilty about hooking up with Emmett. Simone somewhen catches on and doesn't reveal what happened.

  Bay: So I heard what happened at the tournament...
  Simone: [HUGE Oh, Crap! look on her face] Aye, about that...
  Bay: Don't worry nigh it, you lot shouldn't blame yourself.

• Only Sane Man:
  • Toby had a few problems, but he almost always can continue a level caput in the most tense of situations.
  • John and Kathryn were close to this early in the series, only slowly lost information technology in future seasons. Especially in flavour 3.
  • Mary Beth also seems to authorize.
• Operation: Jealousy: In "The Declaration of Independence," Daphne flirts with and makes plans with Travis, just only does this to get Chef Jeff's attention.
• Overprotective Dad: Subverted with John, who's more concerned about Emmett's driving abilities than his potential human relationship with Daphne.
• Parent with New Paramour: Emmett's begetter. He eventually marries another adult female, and they are expecting a babe.
• Please, Don't Leave Me: Daphne to John.
• Portmanteau Couple Proper name: Happens in-universe, with Emmett/Bay referred to every bit "Ebay".
• Do Kiss: Noah suggests to Daphne that they practice kissing before going on phase as Romeo and Juliet. Emmett points out afterward that the osculation looked pretty existent, and for Noah, it was. Daphne withal denies in that location was whatever connection at that place.
• Prom Is for Straight Kids: When Natalie brings her girlfriend Hilary to prom they're informed that considering Hilary'south in a tuxedo instead of a dress they can't go in (this violates the dress lawmaking). Although not due to their sexuality, it'south conspicuously restrictive well-nigh gender expression (since Hilary doesn't wear dresses). Some of the other girls too wear tuxs in solidarity with them, then stage a prom of their own on the lawn outside. They also mention other same-sex couples beingness refused entry elsewhere.
• Product Placement: Kathryn revealing her new Camry Hybrid was basically a Toyota commercial, consummate with description of Internet features and screenshots. Given Regina's abiding financial woes, at to the lowest degree this means her circa-1990 Camry probably won't be breaking downwards someday soon...
• Pyrrhic Victory: The schoolhouse board votes to keep Carlton open up, but to expand it to 50% hearing students, and not require those students to learn or use ASL. Daphne and Melody endeavor to convince the other students that the demonstration was a success, and this was the best result they could accept hoped for, but information technology only sort-of works.
• Questionable Consent: This outcome is raised when Bay wakes up adjacent to Tank and can't call up what happened. Later he reveals they had sex, she'southward skeptical that she'd consent to that, but he insists that she did. Others, still, note that being and so drunkard would cast doubt on her consent to start, or even automatically make it a sexual assail.
• Racist Grandma: Kathryn's mother, Bonnie. Non only that, simply she alienated Bay when she learned she wasn't her granddaughter and tells Kathryn that she sees Bay differently. Becomes a Tear Jerker when we see Bay overhearing.
• Rape as Backstory: After what happens with Bay, Kathryn reveals her all-time friend's brother once molested her when she was seventeen. After Travis reveals that a family friend had molested him besides.
• Rape as Drama: A season 4 storyline explores this.
• "Rashomon"-Manner: Whether Bay kissed Tank, or Tank Bay, is told by their two opposing stories, with no agreement.
• Reading Lips: Daphne, Emmett, and Melody can.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: Bay is Reddish. Daphne is Blueish.
• Relationship Sabotage: Initially, a pissed-off Daphne pretty much tells Bay that she intends to do this to Bay and Emmett. Equally of tardily, all the same, Daphne seems to have backed off with a I Want My Beloved to Be Happy.
• The Reveal:
  • Regina knew about the switch way dorsum in 1998 just kept information technology tranquility.
  • In the series finale, Kathryn discovers John knew about the switch via a blood test a full month earlier Bay did the blood test to find out.
• Ripped from the Headlines: Flavour 5'due south storyline about campus racism is similar to events that occurred at the University of Missouri in 2015-16.
• Savvy Guy, Energetic Daughter: Wilke's the savvy to Daphne'southward energetic.
• Cocky-Demonstrating Episode: "Uprising" chronicles the attempts of the students at Carlton Academy for the Deaf to keep the school open up. Information technology is being closed by a School Lath conclusion, which Tune claims will stand until hearing people walk a mile in Deaf shoes. Appropriately, it has but one scene (and one Wham Line at the very end) with aural spoken dialogue (when deaf characters are forced to read lips, the dialogue is italicized).
• Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: Regina's attempts to keep custody of Daphne acquired John and Kathryn to start a custody battle. Still, it could be argued that they would've done information technology even if she had told her Dark Underground.
• Sense Loss Sadness: Daphne feels a footling bit of this later her first twenty-four hours taking classes at Buckner Hall.
• Sensory Overload: Both Daphne and Emmett are shown to become distressed whenever they're forced to lip-read groups of people all at the same time, like Daphne at her starting time breakfast with the Kennishes or Emmett at the motorcar wash with Bay.
• Shipper on Deck: Regina for Bay and Emmett. In "The Declaration of Independence," Melody for Travis and Daphne. In the aforementioned episode, Bay for Toby and Nikki.
• Ship Tease: "Ecce Mono" brought dorsum Bay/Emmett. Except information technology was in an Alternate Universe / Dream Sequence; in the real storyline, Bay was in the process of hooking back upward with Ty.
• Shout-Out: Emmett's motorcycle was named Ripley, and Regina mentions The Matrix. Bay comments on how she should lookout man more sci-fi movies.
  • To Twilight:

    Bay: If vampires can date humans, I really feel like Deafened people can date hearing. At least neither of us wants to suck the other'southward blood.

  • In "Dance Me to the End of Love," Toby dances around his apartment very similarly to Tom Cruise in Risky Business, although to a dissimilar song.
• "Close Up" Buss: Both Ty, and later Emmett, do this to Bay. In season 2, Bay does it to Noah.
• Meaning Envy Redhead: Daphne, who has green eyes and cherry-red pilus (run across the image above), much like her biological mother Kathryn. It's all the more than jarring when Regina refers to Daphne every bit having been a blond, blue eyed baby. ^note Though babies often accept lighter pilus for the beginning two years or then. This indicates to them she isn't Regina's or Angelo's child biologically, which is confirmed past a Dna examination.
• Silence Is Golden: Season two episode "Insurgence" is told entirely in American Sign Language. Aside from the prologue and the catastrophe, no sound (bated from the Background Music) can be heard.
• Sitcom Archnemesis: Kathryn and Sarah Lazar.
• Slut-Shaming: Someone finds out about Simone's indiscretion with Emmett, and posts it on a Slut Shaming website for the earth to see. Toby had long since broken up with Simone over it, but he does telephone call out some classmates for reading the website and existence Slut Shamers themselves. Simone afterward confides in Regina that the slut shaming was the reason why she fell off the carriage. After, with the sexual assault storyline, this happens to Bay.
• Social Services Does Not Exist:
  • After Regina'southward secret comes out, the Kennishes' lawyer advises that information technology's too belatedly for a custody battle, since by the time information technology'due south settled the girls would be xviii (legal adults in the U.s.) anyway.
  • Too, if this happened in real life it would be national news, with possible federal kidnapping charges for Regina whether the Kennishes forgive her or not.
  • Subverted in one instance where Social Services almost took Daphne away from Regina.
• The Speechless: Melody and Emmett mostly, but Emmett does speak in the summer finale. Melody occasionally does besides. Tyler also speaks one time in a while. Natalie never does however, forth with other deafened students.
• Star-Crossed Lovers: Bay and Emmett.
  • The show seems to be setting this upward with Toby and Elisa, the daughter of Patricia Sawyer, John's opponent in his senate entrada, but this subplot is abandoned when Toby decides to reunite with Nikki instead, and Patricia ends her campaign in favor of spending more than fourth dimension with Elisa, who is revealed to exist bipolar.
• Suddenly Shouting: John during a confrontation with Regina

  John: Yous kept my daughter from me... for THIRTEEN YEARS!!!

• Switched at Nascency: The premise of the series, pretty plain.
• Tactful Translation:
  • Daphne sometimes does this for Emmett.
  • The law interpreter for Melody.

    Melody: [Signing] That is a load of crap!

    Interpeter: [To Police force Officeholder] ...she doesn't believe you.

• That Which Must Not Be Named: Bay's biological father, aka Regina'due south ex-hubby. Regina, Daphne, and Adrianna absolutely decline to tell Bay anything about him, other than that he left when Daphne was 3. However, he does end up showing upward.
• Their Showtime Time:
  • Repeatedly subverted with Bay. She backs out of having sexual activity with Ty in the beginning season since she feels she isn't ready. After, right around the time she decides she wants to exercise it with Emmett, they argue about Angelo, and Bay refuses to sleep with him when he gives a half-assed apology. Later on, afterwards hearing virtually him adulterous with Simone, she plain backs out completely. She eventually does the deed with Ty in "The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living".
  • Daphne mentions that her first time was at military camp in a gunkhole business firm, on a tarp with an archery counselor-in-training.
• Trailers Always Spoil: ABC Family unit is pretty bad nearly this when it does its "next week" promos.
  • A "side by side week" trailer spoiled the intended Wham Line about Angelo being a fugitive.
  • Previews for the last leg of the starting time season blatantly spoiled the very finish of "The Announcement of Independence" past way of showing Daphne kissing Jeff.
  • Previews for "Dressing for the Charade" in flavor 2 blatantly spoiled Daphne and Travis kissing and becoming a couple.
• Translator Buddy:
  • Daphne operates as this for Emmett when he'south around the Kennishes.
  • Emmett worries that if he and Bay keep dating she will come to resent him for making her fit this role.
• Unexplained Recovery: After Travis and Natalie are striking by a drunk driver, they're both injured. Nosotros see him with his arm in a sling, and Natalie has a neck brace on. She also complains of pain in her dorsum and an MRI is ordered to run into if her pelvis was fractured. That is the terminal nosotros run into or hear virtually these injuries-their next appearances take them perfectly fine, and they're never brought upwards once more.
• Unlucky Childhood Friend: Emmett and subsequently Daphne.
• Unrequited Dearest Switcheroo: When Emmett gets over Daphne and starts pursuing Bay, Daphne realizes she'due south loved him all along.
• Unusual Euphemism: As a running gag with Emmett, Bay intentionally calls herself a "vegetable" in sign language whenever she means "virgin."
• Unwanted Assistance:
  • In-Universe. Emmett gets offended when Bay tries to interpret and defend him.
  • Again when Bay tells Melody about Emmett's desire to driblet out of high school. And again when Bay expresses concern to Cameron over Emmett'due south well-existence, leading to Cameron giving upwardly Emmett's custody to Melody. To say that Emmett isn't pleased would be an understatement.
• Vocal Racket: Emmett turns out to have a surprisingly deep voice for a teenager, although that also can have something to do with him being deaf—the deeper your voice goes, the easier information technology is to feel the vibrations and know y'all're making sound. For case, compare the pitch of Katie Leclerc's normal vox to Daphne's.
• Wham Episode:
  • Memory is Your Epitome of Perfection, in which Sharee's mother stabs Dr. Jackson, Bay loses all movement in her right hand, and Kathryn tells John that she'south unhappy and the life they had created together isn't the life she wants anymore.
  • At Starting time Clear Word, in which Bay is sexually assaulted.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: Regina's mother has been absent for most of (if non all of) the by couple of seasons, even in the episodes where Regina actually could have used her.
• What the Hell, Hero?: Regina is on the end of several after her Night Secret is revealed.
• Where Everybody Knows Your Flame: The gay bar that the gang goes to trying to find Daphne and Bay's 'dad.' It's obvious that it's a gay bar to everyone except Bay.
• Written-In Infirmity: Constance Marie's wrist injury has been written into the show. In-Universe, the injury was caused by signing so much combined with hairstyling, and has caused conflict between Regina and Daphne because Regina's been unable to sign.
• Yoko Oh No: Simone tries to change Guitar Confront'due south sound every bit soon equally she starts dating Toby. However, she specifically denies beingness this, with varied show.
• You lot're Not My Begetter:
  • Invoked by Bay in the first episode, after she discovers the truth. Her parents aren't happy to hear this.
  • Invoked past Daphne to Regina after she learns Regina knew well-nigh the switch, and afterward in season 3 during Daphne'due south angst following Angelo'due south death.
  • Played for Drama in "The Shock Of Beingness Seen." John restricts Bay to homework in the evenings, with no socialization. Angelo happens to walk by and offers to help Bay with her French homework. John says no, only Bay says yes, and implies to John that Angelo is the better father for offering.
    • Slightly deconstructed later in the episode. When Angelo fesses upwardly and says he covered for Bay sneaking out, John calls him on it and tells him that's Non how a begetter is supposed to behave.

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