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* ScreamsLikeALittleGirl: So much so that Katie mistakes Oliver's screams for Anna-Kat's. Impressively, Daniel [=DiMaggio=] was able to keep this up even after puberty hit him ''hard'' and his voice dropped to a baritone.
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* TheDitz: There's no way of getting around it: Taylor's really dumb.
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* GratuitousSpanish: Frequently peppers his speech with phrases you'd hear in any introductory Spanish class. Lampshaded when, after someone responds to one of his Spanish salutations in kind, he has no idea what they're saying.
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* TokenGoodTeammate: For the rich women in town. She's a snob and often thoughtless, but she's rarely malicious and actually likes Katie. Several of her appearances also portray her sympathetically, such as having a neglectful husband and a couple stepchildren who hate her.
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* TokenGoodTeammate: For the rich women in town.town (excluding Doris and Angela). She's a snob and often thoughtless, but she's rarely malicious and actually likes Katie. Several of her appearances also portray her sympathetically, such as having a neglectful husband and a couple stepchildren who hate her.
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* OnlySaneMan: With the exception of when he is focused on money and/or wealth, Oliver is the most level-headed member of the family as he is able to see past and call out the quirks and eccentricities they display.
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* LikeFatherUnlikeSon: A number of episodes highlight how his personality and quirks clash with Katie and Greg, particularly his desire to become rich. Greg admits he and Katie have discussed the possibility that Oliver was SwitchedAtBirth.
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* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Cooper.
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* CruelToBeKind: [[spoiler:He ultimately decides not to leave Oliver his millions. He knows that might seem harsh, but he feels that would rob Oliver of the joy of becoming rich on his own.]] Oliver agrees with this.
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* FreudianExcuse: He grew up being part of the richest family in town. That explains his poor people skills, but he says it's also why he doesn't care that Oliver is substantially poorer than he is. Everyone else is already poorer than he is, so he has no reason to care about stuff like that.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Oliver.
* HiddenDepths: The richest kid in town cares way less about class differences than a lot of the adults.
* LonelyRichKid: Double subverted. While he acknowledges his parents are always away, he often seems blissfully unaware of why that's a bad thing. Season 3's "Insta-Friends" shows this is more of a StepfordSmiler attitude; his parents bail on him at literally the last minute for a social function, and he suffers a major depression.
* RichInDollarsPoorInSense: Often unaware of anything he says that might be insulting or out of touch.
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* GlamorousSingleMother: Subverted in Season 3. She is a constant wreck and exhausted from the baby's needs, as well as regularly going to Katie for help. She considers getting back together with her ex just to take the pressure off.
* TokenGoodTeammate: For the rich women in town. She's a snob and often thoughtless, but she's rarely malicious and actually likes Katie. Several of her appearances also portray her sympathetically, such as having a neglectful husband and a couple stepchildren who hate her.
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* FreudianExcuse: He grew up being part of the richest family in town. That explains his poor people skills, but he says it's also why he doesn't care that Oliver is substantially poorer than he is. Everyone else is already poorer than he is, so he has no reason to care about stuff like that.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Oliver.
* HiddenDepths: The richest kid in town cares way less about class differences than a lot of the adults.
* LonelyRichKid: Double subverted. While he acknowledges his parents are always away, he often seems blissfully unaware of why that's a bad thing. Season 3's "Insta-Friends" shows this is more of a StepfordSmiler attitude; his parents bail on him at literally the last minute for a social function, and he suffers a major depression.
* RichInDollarsPoorInSense: Often unaware of anything he says that might be insulting or out of touch.
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* GlamorousSingleMother: Subverted in Season 3. She is a constant wreck and exhausted from the baby's needs, as well as regularly going to Katie for help. She considers getting back together with her ex just to take the pressure off.
* TokenGoodTeammate: For the rich women in town. She's a snob and often thoughtless, but she's rarely malicious and actually likes Katie. Several of her appearances also portray her sympathetically, such as having a neglectful husband and a couple stepchildren who hate her.
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* CluelessChickMagnet: He has no idea, but a lot of the women in Westport are attracted to him because of how nice he is and are hoping Katie dies relatively young so they can have a chance at wooing him.
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* DiscoDan: Still lives like it's TheEighties. Justfied, as he'd been in prison for over 20 years and hasn't had much contact with the outside world.
* {{Expy}}: Of [[Film/WallStreet Gordon Gekko]], PlayedForLaughs.
* IntergenerationalFriendship: Develops one with Oliver, becoming a mentor to him.
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* DiscoDan: Still lives like it's TheEighties. Justfied, as he'd been in prison for over 20 years and hasn't had much contact with the outside world.
* {{Expy}}: Of [[Film/WallStreet Gordon Gekko]], PlayedForLaughs.
* IntergenerationalFriendship: Develops one with Oliver, becoming a mentor to him.
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:Dies in the aptly titled episode "It's Hard to Say Goodbye".]]
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* ColorBlindConfusion: Admits he’s this, which is why all of his “punch Porsches” are grey.
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* ColorBlindConfusion: Admits he’s this, which is why all of his “punch Porsches” are grey.
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* ParentalSubstitute: Finds she's this to Cooper (Oliver's snobby friend) in Season 2. She can't stand him, but he really takes to her since his own parents are never around.
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* HarmfulToMinors: She's very lenient towards Anna-Kat, allowing her youngest to watch films with mature themes, to Greg's chagrin.
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* HowTheMightyHaveFallen: She sees living in Westport as this, saying she used to be quite popular back home but is an outsider here.
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* EpicFail: In "Boo-Who?", he attempts to tell off Chloe Brown Mueller for making Katie feel bad. However, in addition to being nervous, he was in a Frankenstein's monster costume at the time, so he was pretty tired and sweaty by the time he got to Chloe's store. Some of the costume's make-up got in his eyes, he tripped, and caused a chain of accidents that destroyed the store merchandise. Unsurprisingly, Katie is nonetheless thrilled by that.
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* BrattyTeenageDaughter: Realistically portrayed. She's reached an age where she wants much more independence but her parents are reluctant to grant it so they clash. Katie even spends an entire episode wondering what happened to the sweet little girl Taylor used to be and [[spoiler: decides to infect her own daughter with head lice to force mother-daughter bonding time]].
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* BreakTheHaughty: Katie makes it her mission in life to take smug people down by a few pegs and, living in Westport, she is spoiled for choice when it comes to targets.
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* IntergenerationalFriendship: He becomes quite close to Spencer Blitz, enough for the older man to declare that Oliver is his family.
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* YoungEntrepreneur: Oliver, upon finally realizing that his parents won't simply buy him whatever he wants, starts a lucrative career repairing and selling defective designer shirts and enlists the local housekeepers to to do the repair work.
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* LipstickLesbian: She used to be married to a woman named Celeste and the divorce has not been amicable.
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* ChildrenAreAWaste: This is what she feels about her unexpected pregnancy in Season 2 as it delays her plans to retire to a small Mediterranean island by several years, thus lowering her chances of still having her looks and seducing a well-built local when she finally does get there.
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* NiceGuy: Greg's kindness and attentiveness as a husband and father have garnered the attention of more than a few Westport women. Apparently Doris gets first crack at him in the event Katie dies young.
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* FriendToAllLivingThings: Greg bought a special grill to roast a pig, but he just didn't have the heart to kill and cook the little guy.
* HenpeckedHusband: So much so that "The Pig Whisperer" sees everyone acknowledge that he always caves in to Katie, and he is determined to stand his ground for once.
* WellDoneSonGuy: "Family Secrets" shows him quite eager to please his parents, but he desperately wants the approval of his father, Thomas. It gets progressively deconstructed, as Thomas continually proves cold to Greg's overtures. Then it's revealed that Thomas had an affair in England and has had a second son for 20 years, so Greg finally blows up at him.
-->'''Greg:''' My whole life, I've looked up to you. In my eyes, you couldn't do anything wrong. In your eyes, I couldn't do anything right! Well, it turns out ''I'' did everything right!
* HenpeckedHusband: So much so that "The Pig Whisperer" sees everyone acknowledge that he always caves in to Katie, and he is determined to stand his ground for once.
* WellDoneSonGuy: "Family Secrets" shows him quite eager to please his parents, but he desperately wants the approval of his father, Thomas. It gets progressively deconstructed, as Thomas continually proves cold to Greg's overtures. Then it's revealed that Thomas had an affair in England and has had a second son for 20 years, so Greg finally blows up at him.
-->'''Greg:''' My whole life, I've looked up to you. In my eyes, you couldn't do anything wrong. In your eyes, I couldn't do anything right! Well, it turns out ''I'' did everything right!
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* HeelRealization: In Season 2, he seeks to befriend Spencer Blitz, a disgraced but wealthy former investor, in the hopes of getting into his will. "Family Secrets" shows that it's working, but hearing Spencer refer to him as like family causes Oliver to feel guilty about what he's been doing.
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* ScreamsLikeALittleGirl: So much so that Katie mistakes Oliver's screams for Anna-Kat's.
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* BalletEpisode: Takes up ballet in Season 1 purely as a strategic move to earn a scholarship to Harvard. Actually enjoys doing it, however, and, as of Season 2, is attending more advanced classes in Norwalk.
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