61 Facts About Being Erica

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Being Erica is a Canadian comedy-drama television series that aired on CBC from January 5,2009, to December 12,2011.

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Being Erica Strange is a young woman, smart and well-educated, but an underachiever who has been perennially unlucky in her career and her love life.

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3.

Being Erica has a nut allergy and after accidentally drinking coffee with nut syrup in it, she ends up in hospital where she is approached by someone she initially believes to be connected with the hospital.

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4.

Being Erica introduces himself as "Dr Tom" and is a therapist who can help her.

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5.

The penultimate episode of season 3 ends with Being Erica walking down a street in Toronto looking for somebody to give her business card to so they can become her first patient.

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6.

Being Erica's office is a quote-plastered artist's studio loft with a honeycomb-style bookcase and a tan leather chair behind a large, red desk.

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7.

Being Erica has a habit of citing quotations, often to Erica's annoyance.

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8.

Being Erica's office is very regal, and looks very much like a study or a library.

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9.

Being Erica is introverted and prefers stability and predictability, in contrast to his ex-wife Claire's and Erica's extroverted personalities.

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10.

Being Erica's growing love for him after fifteen years of "just friends" was a major theme in the first season.

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11.

Being Erica reveals that he had just gotten out of a serious relationship until Erica pushes him to confront his real reason for the breakup.

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12.

Being Erica realizes that he wants his girlfriend back and reunites with her, along with Erica's help.

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13.

Being Erica was one of Erica's closest friends whom Erica had known since elementary school.

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14.

Being Erica then reported the incident to the principal and got Callahan fired later that day, completing her session.

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15.

Jenny is then seen crying in the hall outside Being Erica's apartment, having lost the only friend she ever had.

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16.

Being Erica has since gotten her life together with a job in real estate.

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17.

Being Erica is undergoing the same sort of therapy that Erica is doing with Dr Tom, albeit with a different doctor named Fred.

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18.

In "Physician, Heal Thyself", he and Being Erica make love to each other before he leaves and presumably returns to the year 2019.

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19.

Being Erica realizes that his regret is not to complete his first album, but to bid farewell to Erica, his one true love.

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20.

Being Erica was married to Barbara Strange, but they divorced a year after Leo's death, partly because he had an affair.

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21.

Being Erica believed her mother was the reason for her parents' divorce, when in reality, it was her father's infidelity – a fact which was kept secret from Being Erica.

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22.

Being Erica then makes amends with Barbara, who explains that she tried to make her marriage work for her children's sake.

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23.

Being Erica has a one-night stand with Gary in "Bear Breasts", but has reservations about reconciliation.

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24.

In Season 1, Sam and Being Erica are close until Being Erica attempts to dissuade Sam from marrying Josh five minutes before the wedding.

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25.

Being Erica enters into a short-lived affair with Kai Booker but finds new love during the third season with janitor Lenin Crosby at her new hospital.

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26.

Being Erica later gives birth to a baby boy she names Leo Crosby in honor of her late brother.

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27.

Leo Strange – Being Erica's deceased older brother, who died 13 years before the series begins.

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28.

Season 1 finale shows Being Erica rewriting history, and Leo does not die in the barn.

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29.

Leo returns one last time as Being Erica is transported by Dr Naadiah into a hallway of doors that represents his limbo; each door leads to a different memory of his life, and Leo has been continually revisiting these.

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30.

Being Erica tries in vain to convince him that he needs to open the mysterious door at the end of the hallway, which he has been resisting—although he eventually does so, and enters a luminous white light.

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31.

Being Erica owns a successful wedding gown business, White Dreams, where Erica worked for half a day.

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32.

Being Erica always felt guilty about this, but after finally meeting Daniel he tells her it was the right thing to do and that he had an amazing childhood.

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33.

Being Erica was born via home birth, and named in honour of his late uncle.

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34.

Being Erica is direct, yet calm in her demeanour, although she becomes noticeably more agitated when expressing her concerns about Dr Tom's behaviour to their supervisor, Dr Arthur.

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35.

Being Erica's office is large, white, with a simple and very modern decor that Erica describes as "cold".

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36.

Being Erica brought Kai and Erica together, by one day "accidentally" spilling her coffee, and recommending Goblins to her.

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37.

Being Erica's office is a lush green field surrounded by forest with glass furniture.

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38.

Being Erica reappears in the fourth season and reveals Erica's possible fate in 2019 – she would die in a bombing attack that destroys Union Station, which she later learns that with that knowledge she is able to avoid the attack and survive after being visited and receiving guidance from her future 43-year-old self who is alive and a doctor.

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39.

Being Erica's office is in the middle of the woods with glass furniture.

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40.

Being Erica is seen interacting with Dr Naadiah in a couple of episodes, voicing concern on Dr Tom's unethical behavior such as traveling to the future for information on Erica's fate.

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41.

Being Erica then intervenes in "Physician, Heal Thyself" as Dr Tom hides behind his work upon seeing his long-absent daughter for the first time.

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42.

Being Erica's office is a large, open, brick-style machine shop where he works on a car.

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43.

Being Erica had an unhappy childhood, where he and his brother John experienced physical abuse from their father and emotional withdrawals from their mother.

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44.

Being Erica spent several years working in organized crime as an enforcer for a loan shark, but left that job and is working as a labourer with a landscaping company, with new aspirations of studying to become a landscape architect.

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45.

Being Erica uses her 24-hour time-travel pass to alter her day with Adam without his consent.

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46.

Being Erica is always well-dressed and well-kept and worked as an underwear model before joining River Rock, leading many people to initially assume that he is gay.

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47.

Being Erica is friendly to Erica, having been in her shoes before.

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48.

Being Erica then goes behind her back to get her fired by revealing her secret affair with renowned author Thomas Friedken and taking his book away from Julianne.

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49.

Being Erica finally professes his love to Julianne, of which she reciprocates, and they begin an official relationship.

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50.

Claire is the daughter of a wealthy francophone industrialist from Montreal, but during her university days she hid her identity, until Being Erica disclosed it during a time travel, in order to appear more believable in her left-wing activism.

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51.

Bill Turnbull appears in season 1 episode 4 as a bar man presenting a poetry slam while Being Erica is at college; it is unknown if they are the same character.

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52.

Katie Atkins – Despite being attached at the hip since childhood, her friendship with Erica takes a downhill turn in high school after getting fired from Casa Loma for co-hosting an unauthorized Halloween party.

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53.

Being Erica finds Josh to be both obnoxious and crass, and he is shown to be controlling and verbally and emotionally abusive to Sam on several occasions.

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54.

Being Erica, completely turned off, swears him to silence about the truth to protect her sister.

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55.

Being Erica is shown to be a kind, caring, supportive person who stands by Sam, particularly during her divorce proceedings.

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56.

Antigone Kim Morris – A woman with whom Being Erica had an antagonistic relationship as a university student, due to their constant competition to be seen as the smartest student in their literature class.

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57.

Being Erica occasionally appears as a minor player in some of Erica's other university-era sessions.

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58.

Julianne initially dislikes her, leading to a confrontation when her unsolicited book suggestion triggers Julianne's intellectual insecurities, but is ultimately won over by Rachel's competence the same way she once was with Being Erica; she gives Rachel the affectionate pet name "Ray Ray".

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59.

Being Erica's parents wanted her to consider commerce for her career, but she wished to become a painter.

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60.

Dr Being Erica meets Sarah for the first time as her therapist and hands her a business card, mirroring her own first encounter with Dr Tom, Sarah's father.

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61.

Being Erica was pulled off the schedule on Net 5 after the 10th episode to make room for 90210 and Gossip Girl.

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