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[[folder:Spencer Blitz]]
->'''Played By:''' George Hamilton
A wealthy ex-convict who went to jail for insider trading, spending 20 years in the slammer. Upon his release he moves back home to Westport. He has no heirs, leading Oliver to befriend him and hope to be named his beneficiary.
* 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.
* 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".]]
->'''Played By:''' George Hamilton
A wealthy ex-convict who went to jail for insider trading, spending 20 years in the slammer. Upon his release he moves back home to Westport. He has no heirs, leading Oliver to befriend him and hope to be named his beneficiary.
* 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.
* 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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* 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.
* DiscoDan: Still lives like it's TheEighties. Justfied, as he'd been in prison for over 20 years and hasn't had
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[[folder:Spencer Blitz]]
->'''Played By:''' George Hamilton
A wealthy ex-convict who went to jail for insider trading, spending 20 years in the slammer. Upon his release he moves back home to Westport. He has no heirs, leading Oliver to befriend him and hope to be named his beneficiary.
* 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.
* 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".]]
[[folder:Spencer Blitz]]
->'''Played By:''' George Hamilton
A wealthy ex-convict who went to jail for insider trading, spending 20 years in the slammer. Upon his release he moves back home to Westport. He has no heirs, leading Oliver to befriend him and hope to be named his beneficiary.
* 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.
* 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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* BreakTheCutie: Oliver gets hit with a surprising amount of this throughout the show's run. All three of his major love interests dump him (Alice by two-timing him and then staying away after Anna-Kat threatens him, Gina by refusing to pass up the opportunity to attend an elite ballet school, and Brie by breaking up with him in solidarity with her friend dumping Cooper). Spencer Blitz, his mentor, abruptly passes on. He is injured, putting a premature end to his ballet career (and his planned ticket into Harvard). It even looks like his best friend Cooper might leave him, though ultimately he does not.
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* BreakTheCutie: Oliver gets hit with a surprising amount of this throughout the show's run. All three of his major love interests dump him (Alice by two-timing him and then staying away after Anna-Kat threatens him, her, Gina by refusing to pass up the opportunity to attend an elite ballet school, and Brie by breaking up with him in solidarity with her friend dumping Cooper). Spencer Blitz, his mentor, abruptly passes on. He is injured, putting a premature end to his ballet career (and his planned ticket into Harvard). It even looks like his best friend Cooper might leave him, though ultimately he does not.
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* BreakTheCutie: Oliver gets hit with a surprising amount of this throughout the show's run. All three of his major love interests dump him (Alice by two-timing him and then staying away after Anna-Kat threatens him, Gina by refusing to pass up the opportunity to attend an elite ballet school, and Brie by breaking up with him in solidarity with her friend dumping Cooper). Spencer Blitz, his mentor, abruptly passes on. He is injured, putting a premature end to his ballet career (and his planned ticket into Harvard). It even looks like his best friend Cooper might leave him, though ultimately he does not.
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* ADayInTheLimelight: Cooper tends to average about [[OnceASeason one of these per season]], where he's the focus of his own plotline and not just Oliver's SecondBanana:
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* ADateWithRosiePalms: The other characters, particularly his mother, often imply that he masturbates frequently, although he always denies it and nobody ever actually claims to have caught him in the act.
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* SitcomArchNemesis: Katie is known for her large number of feuds with various people. The two biggest and oldest thorns in her side are Tara Summers and Chloe Brown Mueller.
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* DumbJock: Although his athleticism isn't hugely emphasized most of the time, he ''is'' a jock and he is very, ''very'' dumb.
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* DumbJock: Although his athleticism isn't hugely emphasized most of the time, he ''is'' a jock and he is very, ''very'' dumb. It takes him two tries to graduate high school, and even then he has the lowest grade point average of any student in the graduating class.
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* HiddenDepths: Ordained to perform wedding ceremonies, which happened because he and Anna-Kat wanted two of her ponies to be married "for real", so he went online and got certified. This saves Katie's bacon when she needs a minister on super-short notice.
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Oliver's best friend, and the son of the wealthiest family in Westport. He isn't stupid, exactly, but he seems to have trouble comprehending what it means to not be able to afford whatever his heart desires. Cooper's parents are unseen characters who are constantly absent from his life, leading him to latch onto Katie (much to her own chagrin) as a surrogate mother figure.
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Oliver's best friend, and the son of the wealthiest family in Westport. He isn't stupid, exactly, but he seems to have trouble comprehending what it means to not be able to afford whatever his heart desires. Cooper's parents are unseen characters who are constantly absent from his life, leading him to latch onto Katie (much to her own chagrin) as a surrogate mother figure.
figure. In season 5, after the Bradfords leave Westport to move to Palm Beach, they agree to let Cooper remain to finish his schooling there, and so he moves in with the Ottos.
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* SitcomArchNemesis: She seems to have a particular animus for Oliver, of all people. One suspects it's a case of "likes repel".
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* CharacterDevelopment: Oliver goes through more of this than any other character on the show. His (grudging) evolution into a good person is complete that Katie, feeling genuine pride in her son's compassion, eventually comments that "it's like your soul is going through puberty".
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The titular American Housewife, and the second-fattest housewife in Westport. Forced to move to Westport because it has a public school with one of the best special needs programs in the country, she spends the series valiantly attempting to prevent her family from becoming corrupted by the materialism, vanity, and greed of the people who live there.
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The oldest child of the Ottos, whose arrival was unexpected. Beautiful and athletic, Taylor is substantially the dumbest person in her family, easily outwitted by both her parents and her younger siblings. Katie's eternal fear is that she will be corrupted by her wealthy friends (and later her wealthy boyfriend) to prefer a life as arm candy rather than try to make something of herself.
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The Ottos' middle child and their only son. Obsessed with money, he often schemes to get rich quick, and comes up with some pretty devious ways to do so. As the series begins, Katie laments that they have screwed up completely with Oliver, but over the course of the series he discovers (much to his own shame and disappointment) that he does indeed have a conscience, one of the many things he blames his parents for burdening him with.
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The reason the Ottos are in Westport in the first place, their youngest child begins the series with OCD and is being treated for it at Westport Unified's special needs program. Katie's blatant favoritism toward Anna-Kat is a running gag throughout the series. As Anna-Kat matures she begins to grow out of her OCD and into what Katie hates most: a tweenage girl.
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Doris is an Asian-American friend of Katie, one of the few Westport housewives who will give her the time of day. As the series begins she is married to Richard, a very wealthy and aloof husband with whom she has several children whom she variably neglects or disciplines depending on her mood. Doris is gleefully lacking in scruples or morals, leading her own best friends to call her sociopathic.
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Angela is an African-American friend of Katie, a high-powered lawyer who is also a lesbian who cheated on her ex-wife, having joint custody over their children. Angela is a very laissez-faire parent who suggests to Katie that she should befriend her children and treat them as equals, and for this reason Katie usually ignores Angela's advice.
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A weird kid and a fellow student of Anna-Kat's in her special needs class. She is extremely fond of him, seeing in him what nobody else does.
* AmbiguousDisorder: Franklin's main "problem" is his complete lack of understanding social cues, which could describe any number of mental/social disorders.
* AmbiguousDisorder: Franklin's main "problem" is his complete lack of understanding social cues, which could describe any number of mental/social disorders.
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She moves in across the street from the Ottos in the pilot, an obnoxiously perky woman whom Katie instinctively dislikes. Still, she's the only Westport housewife other than Katie's friends who seems to genuinely like her.
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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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* ScreamsLikeALittleGirl: So much so that Katie mistakes Oliver's screams for Anna-Kat's. Impressively, Daniel [=DiMaggio=] was able to keep this up Anna-Kat's, even after puberty hit him ''hard'' and his he hits puberty. (Made doubly funny because Daniel [=DiMaggio=]'s voice dropped to like a baritone.stone.)
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* Fiction500: By implication the Bradfords are this, being the richest family in a town full of insanely wealthy people. More concrete examples: the Bradfords have ''at least'' one house on every continent, and possibly more; they have ''multiple'' yachts; their ''son'' has exclusive access to his own private jet and a helicopter; their palatial estate has a bowling alley and an arcade with a full-time employee even though the place is usually empty; Cooper is able to buy and sell a Porsche as if he was shopping for clothes.
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* HistoryWithCelebrity: [[Series/VanderpumpRules Lisa Vanderpump]] is his godmother, and he makes use of this connection when the Ottos are vacationing in Los Angeles to arrange a meet-and-greet as a birthday present for Katie.
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** "All Coupled Up" in season 2, where Cooper is the central character in the FriendVersusLover plot when Oliver picks his new girlfriend Gina over him. He seeks out Katie to help him reform so that Gina (a girl from Branford who hates stuck up "Westport kids") will tolerate him spending time with Oliver. He doesn't really put it off but Oliver's so touched by him trying anyway that he puts in a good word for him.
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** "All Coupled Up" in season 2, where Cooper is the central character in the FriendVersusLover plot when Oliver picks his new girlfriend Gina over him. He seeks out Katie to help him reform so that Gina (a girl from Branford who hates stuck up "Westport kids") will tolerate him spending time with Oliver. He doesn't really put pull it off but Oliver's so touched by him trying anyway that he puts in a good word for him.
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** "Insta-Friends" in season 3 finally shows his StepfordSmiler side after three years of pretending that his parents never being around doesn't really bother him, and he admits how much being Oliver's friend and the Ottos taking him in really means to him.
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** "Insta-Friends" in season 3 finally shows his StepfordSmiler side after three years of pretending that his parents never being around doesn't really bother him, and he admits how much being Oliver's friend and the Ottos taking him in really means to him. From this point forward, he's much more open about his unhappiness with his home life.
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* PuppyLove: Her relationship with Franklin officially becomes a romantic one at the end of season 3, in "The Dance", when they are just nine years old (well, Franklin is nine-and-a-half, as Anna-Kat angrily informs Taylor).
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* PuppyLove: Her relationship with Franklin officially becomes a romantic one at the end of season 3, in "The Dance", when they are just nine years old (well, Franklin is nine-and-a-half, as Anna-Kat angrily informs Taylor). Anna-Kat had previously decided Franklin was her "boyfriend" in the season 2 episode "All Coupled Up" after Oliver got a new girlfriend of his own (leaving her as the only single Otto), but Franklin was in no way ready for even a "relationship" at that time and so it didn't take.
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* TheGhost: Cooper is mentioned several times before he makes his first appearance midway through season 1. His ''parents'', whom Cooper mentions constantly, have yet to make an onscreen appearance at all.
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** "Hip to Be Square" has Cooper ready to tell his first serious girlfriend that he loves her, which Oliver protests, because they're both in lockstep in their relationships with their respective girlfriends and Oliver isn't ready to say it yet. Cooper eventually says it anyway after asking Katie and Greg for advice, only to get rejected and heartbroken. (This also means that Oliver's girlfriend dumps ''him'' as well - the girls were in lockstep too.) At the end of the episode, [[spoiler:[[HeterosexualLifePartners he says "I love you" to Oliver, and Oliver reciprocates]]]].
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** "Hip to Be Square" in season 4 has Cooper ready to tell his first serious girlfriend that he loves her, which Oliver protests, because they're both in lockstep in their relationships with their respective girlfriends and Oliver isn't ready to say it yet. Cooper eventually says it anyway after asking Katie and Greg for advice, only to get rejected and heartbroken. (This also means that Oliver's girlfriend dumps ''him'' as well - the girls were in lockstep too.) At the end of the episode, [[spoiler:[[HeterosexualLifePartners he says "I love you" to Oliver, and Oliver reciprocates]]]].
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** "The Walk" in season 1, where Katie, annoyed that he's a terrible influence on his son, picks on him mercilessly; surprisingly, he's so touched by her refusal to defer to him as the son of the richest couple in town that he speaks on her behalf when all the other housewives accuse her of neglecting Anna-Kat when she lets her walk to the library on her own.
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** "The Walk" in season 1, where Katie, annoyed that he's a terrible influence on his her son, picks on him mercilessly; surprisingly, he's so touched by her refusal to defer to him as the son of the richest couple in town that he speaks on her behalf when all the other housewives accuse her of neglecting Anna-Kat when after she lets her walk to the library on her own.
