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!!Henry Baker (Kevin G. Schmidt)

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!!Henry Baker (Kevin G. Schmidt)(Creator/KevinGSchmidt)
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* BigBrotherInstinct: Has this for Mark after he learns the latter is being bullied.
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* OnlyChildSyndrome: Dylan desperately wants to have siblings, but his mother refuses to have any more.

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* OnlyChildSyndrome: SiblingsWanted: Dylan desperately wants to have siblings, but his mother refuses to have any more.
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* AloofOlderSibling: Becomes this after the family moves because he's miserable at his new high school.

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* AloofOlderSibling: AloofBigBrother: Becomes this after the family moves because he's miserable at his new high school.
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* AloofOlderSibling: Becomes this after the family moves because he's miserable at his new high school.
* CoolBigBro: Is this initially, especially to Henry.

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!!Shake [=McGuire=] (Creator/RichardJenkins)
* {{Jerkass}}
* PhraseCatcher: "What a hotdog!"
!!Hank (Creator/AshtonKutcher)
* {{Jerkass}}
* LargeHam

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* %%* PhraseCatcher: "What a hotdog!"
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* %%* {{Jerkass}}
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* {{Jerkass}}: Tina.
* NiceGuy: Bill is this, having a much more open mind towards the Bakers than Tina. When she straight up refuses to help the family find Mark, Bill and Dylan immediately volunteer regardless of Tina's protests.

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* LonelyRichKid: Dylan's family is very well off and his parents throw him a ridiculously lavish birthday party. He loves the company of the Baker kids and wants to have siblings.
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NiceGuy: Bill is this, nice, having a much more open mind towards the Bakers than Tina. When she straight up refuses to help the family find Mark, Bill and Dylan immediately volunteer regardless of Tina's protests.



* SpoiledSweet: Dylan's family is very well off and his parents throw him a ridiculously lavish birthday party, but he doesn't have a selfish bone in his body and loves the company of the Baker kids.
* StrawVegetarian: Sort of. Tina mentions that she doesn't eat meat, and Tom and Kate respond in a polite-but-clearly-disapproving way.



!!Bud [=McNulty=] (Johnathan Bennett)
* HappilyMarried: To Nora.
!!Jimmy Murtaugh (Creator/EugeneLevy)
* BigOlEyebrows: As per Eugene Levy.

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!!Bud %%!!Bud [=McNulty=] (Johnathan Bennett)
* %%* HappilyMarried: To Nora.
!!Jimmy %%!!Jimmy Murtaugh (Creator/EugeneLevy)
* %%* BigOlEyebrows: As per Eugene Levy.



* StarCrossedLovers: He goes on a date with Sarah Baker, only to be interfered by her father.

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* StarCrossedLovers: DatingWhatDaddyHates: He goes on a date with Sarah Baker, only to be interfered by her father.
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!!Sarah Baker (Alyson Stoner)

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!!Sarah Baker (Alyson Stoner)(Creator/AlysonStoner)
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* DarkAndTroubledPast: Was forced to grow up without her sister, who died when she was still a child.


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* HenpeckedHusband: Bill doesn't offer much resistance to Tina's usually domineering style of parenting, and it is subtly implied that he would've happily had more children if Tina had willed it. It's when one of the Baker children go missing though that he ignores Tina and offers whatever help he can.


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* NiceGuy: Bill is this, having a much more open mind towards the Bakers than Tina. When she straight up refuses to help the family find Mark, Bill and Dylan immediately volunteer regardless of Tina's protests.


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* SpoiledSweet: Dylan's family is very well off and his parents throw him a ridiculously lavish birthday party, but he doesn't have a selfish bone in his body and loves the company of the Baker kids.
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!!Nora Baker-[=McNulty=] (Piper Perabo)

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!!Jessica & Kim Baker (Liliana Mumy and Morgan York)

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!!Jessica & Kim Baker (Liliana Mumy (Creator/LilianaMumy and Morgan York)
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!!Kate Gilbreth-Baker (Bonnie Hunt)

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!!Kate Gilbreth-Baker (Bonnie Hunt)(Creator/BonnieHunt)
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!!Tom Baker (Steve Martin)

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* {Jerkass}: She would rather choose her boyfriend over her family. Luckily she changes though.
* OnlySaneWomen: She is this to her family.
!!Charlie Baker (Tom Welling)
!!Lorraine Baker (Hilary Duff)

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* {Jerkass}: {{Jerkass}}: She would rather choose her boyfriend over her family. Luckily she changes though.
* OnlySaneWomen: OnlySaneWoman: She is this to her family.
!!Charlie Baker (Tom Welling)
(Creator/TomWelling)
!!Lorraine Baker (Hilary Duff)(Music/HilaryDuff)



* BigBeotherWorship: He has this for Charlie.

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* BigBeotherWorship: BigBrotherWorship: He has this for Charlie.



!!Shake McGuire (Richard Jenkins)

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!!Shake McGuire (Richard Jenkins)[=McGuire=] (Creator/RichardJenkins)



!!Hank (Ashton Kutcher)

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!!Hank (Ashton Kutcher)(Creator/AshtonKutcher)



!!Jimmy Murtaugh (Eugene Levy)

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!!Jimmy Murtaugh (Eugene Levy)(Creator/EugeneLevy)



!!Eliot Murtaugh (Taylor Lautner)

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* BigBeotherWorship: He has this for Charlie.
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* {Jerkass}: She would rather choose her boyfriend over her family. Luckily she changes though.
* OnlySaneWomen: She is this to her family.


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* OnlyChildSyndrome: Dylan desperately wants to have siblings, but his mother refuses to have any more.
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* BigSisterInstinct: She has this for Sarah.


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* BrattyHalfPint: Very much so.
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!!Bud McNulty (Johnathan Bennett)

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!!Bud McNulty [=McNulty=] (Johnathan Bennett)Bennett)
* HappilyMarried: To Nora.



!!Sarina Murtaugh
Played by Carmen Electra
!!Eliot Murtaugh
Played by Taylor Lautner

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!!Sarina Murtaugh
Played by Carmen Electra
Murtaugh (Carmen Electra)
* HiddenDepths: She is initially presented as Jimmy's DumbBlonde trophy wife, but she truly wants to be a good mother to her stepkids. When she sees the wedge that Jimmy's pressuring and obsession with upping Tom is driving between himself and his kids, she sets him straight.
!!Eliot Murtaugh
Played
Murtaugh (Taylor Lautner)
* StarCrossedLovers: He goes on a date with Sarah Baker, only to be interfered
by Taylor Lautnerher father.
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!!Tropes applying to more than one person:
* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: A few episodes address the kids' being embarrassed by having famous parents, especially when they themselves are dragged into Dad's doings, such as the newsreel about burying old-fashioned pencils to make way for mechanical ones, which the children never hear the end of at school. Other times the whole family falls victim to an inaccurate portrayal in the press.
* DeadpanSnarker: Dad has a talent for sarcasm, but it clearly runs in the family (leading to SnarkToSnarkCombat). Bill and Martha are probably the leading examples among the children. Even Tom the handyman is a ServileSnarker.
* MotherNatureFatherScience: Mother the psychologist and father the efficiency expert. Both apply their respective fields in raising a huge family, and both know that their attitudes complement each other. However, after Dad dies, she takes over his position as prime mover in the field of motion study.

!!Dad
* BigFun: Dad weighs a good deal over two hundred pounds and is quite jovial, with a mischievous sense of humor.
* ClockKing: The major driving force of Dad's character. The authors relate a story about how he cut himself shaving and resented the added time needed to put on a bandage more than the cut. The mistake would be in thinking that obsessing over efficiency would necessarily mean a joyless existence.
* DirectionlessDriver: Dad frequently got lost while driving, that he ever admitted it. In fact, he frequently blamed the person trying to give him directions for getting him lost.
* DrivesLikeCrazy: Dad tends to drive far too fast for Mother's comfort. He also doesn't necessarily see the other vehicles with which he's sharing the roadway.
* EducationMama: Gender inverted; Dad is obsessed with making everything educational, via methods like having the kids listen to language records in the bath, and there's a whole chapter called "Skipping through School" about his efforts to have them skip as many grades as possible.

!!Mother
* BadlyBatteredBabysitter: Mother usually has the home situation well in hand, but she ends up worn out after taking all the children to visit her family in California while Dad is in Washington helping with the war effort. The baby was sick and Lillian had a hurt foot on the way down and everyone gets whooping cough on the way home.
* RedIsHeroic: She is redheaded and is goodnatured and helpful.
* SilkHidingSteel: She is almost-perpetually calm and polite, yet when she talks, everybody listens.
* SuperDrowningSkills: Whenever Dad tries to teach Mother how to swim, she sinks.

!!The Children
* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: When the Gilbreth girls started dating, the younger Gilbreths, jealous of the way their older sisters' boyfriends were affecting family dynamics, took it upon themselves to make them uncomfortable.
* HugeGirlTinyGuy: Anne's first boyfriend, Joe Scales, wasn't even as tall as her shoulder.
* MassiveNumberedSiblings: The Gilbreths ''did'' have 12 children (though not at the same time).
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* BlackSheep

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* BlackSheep BlackSheep: None of the other kids seem to like him and he's often ignored by his parents, causing him to feel neglected and, eventually, run away from home.
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!!Nora Baker-McNulty (Piper Perabo)

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* BandGeek: He's younger than the usual example, but he plays the clarinet and relies on his big brother Charlie to help him look cool.
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* {{Jerkass}}: Tina.
* StrawVegetarian: Sort of. Tina mentions that she doesn't eat meat, and Tom and Kate respond in a polite-but-clearly-disapproving way.

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!!Tom Baker
Played by Steve Martin
!!Kate Gilbreth-Baker
Played by Bonnie Hunt
!!Nora Baker-McNulty
Played by Piper Perabo
!!Charlie Baker
Played by Tom Welling
!!Lorraine Baker
Played by Hilary Duff
!!Henry Baker
Played by Kevin Schmidt
!!Sarah Baker
Played by Allison Stoner
!!Jake Baker
Played by Jacob Smith
!!Mark Baker
Played by Forrest Landis
!!Jessica & Kim Baker
Played by Liliana Mumy (Jessica) and Morgan York (Kim)
!!Mike Baker
Played by Blake Woodruff
!!Nigel & Kyle Baker
Played by Brent and Shane Kinsman

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!!Tom Baker
Played by Steve Martin
Baker (Steve Martin)
* BumblingDad
* FamilyMan
* HappilyMarried: To Kate.
* WhenYouComingHomeDad: His new coaching job means he has to spend less time with his kids.
!!Kate Gilbreth-Baker
Played by Bonnie Hunt
Gilbreth-Baker (Bonnie Hunt)
* GoodParents
* HappilyMarried: To Tom.
* {{Housewife}}
!!Nora Baker-McNulty
Played by Piper Perabo
Baker-McNulty (Piper Perabo)
* CoolBigSis: Everyone sees her as this.
* HappilyMarried: To Bud in the sequel.
!!Charlie Baker
Played by Tom Welling
Baker (Tom Welling)
!!Lorraine Baker
Played by Hilary Duff
Baker (Hilary Duff)
* TheFashionista
* TheGloriousWarOfSisterlyRivalry: Often clashes with Sarah.
!!Henry Baker
Played by Kevin Schmidt
Baker (Kevin G. Schmidt)
!!Sarah Baker
Played by Allison Stoner
Baker (Alyson Stoner)
* TheGloriousWarOfSisterlyRivalry: Often clashes with Lorraine.
* ThePrankster
* {{Tomboy}}
!!Jake Baker
Played by Jacob Smith
Baker (Jacob Smith)
* OutOfFocus
!!Mark Baker
Played by Forrest Landis
Baker (Forrest Landis)
* BlackSheep
* DemotedToExtra: Mark is the most visible of the younger children, in the sequel he gets a lot less to do.
* FriendToAllLivingThings
* NerdGlasses
!!Jessica & Kim Baker
Played by Liliana
Baker (Liliana Mumy (Jessica) and Morgan York (Kim)
York)
* FinishingEachOthersSentences
* TwinBanter
!!Mike Baker
Played by Blake Woodruff
Baker (Blake Woodruff)
* OutOfFocus
!!Nigel & Kyle Baker
Played by Brent
Baker (Brent and Shane KinsmanKinsman)
* CoordinatedClothes
* TricksterTwins



!!Shake McGuire
Played by Richard Jenkins
!!Hank
Played by Ashton Kutcher

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!!Shake McGuire
Played by Richard Jenkins
!!Hank
Played by Ashton Kutcher
McGuire (Richard Jenkins)
* {{Jerkass}}
* PhraseCatcher: "What a hotdog!"
!!Hank (Ashton Kutcher)
* {{Jerkass}}
* LargeHam



!!Bud McNulty
Played by Johnathan Bennett
!!Jimmy Murtaugh
Played by Eugene Levy

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!!Bud McNulty
Played by Johnathan Bennett
McNulty (Johnathan Bennett)
!!Jimmy Murtaugh
Played by
Murtaugh (Eugene Levy)
* BigOlEyebrows: As per
Eugene LevyLevy.

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!!Shake MgGuire

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Played by Bonnie Hunt



Played by Piper Perabo



Played by Tom Welling



Played by Hilary Duff



Played by Kevin Schmidt



Played by Allison Stoner



Played by Jacob Smith



Played by Forrest Landis



Played by Liliana Mumy (Jessica) and Morgan York (Kim)



Played by Blake Woodruff




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Played by Brent and Shane Kinsman



Played by Richard Jenkins



Played by Ashton Kutcher




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Played by Steven Anthony Lawerence (Dylan), Paula Marshall (Tina) and Alan Ruck (Bill)



Played by Johnathan Bennett



Played by Eugene Levy



!!Eliot Murtaugh

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Played by Carmen Electra
!!Eliot MurtaughMurtaugh
Played by Taylor Lautner
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Played by [url=http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Creator/SteveMartin]Steve Martin[/url]

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Played by Steve Martin

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[[folder:The Bakers]]
!!Tom Baker
!!Kate Gilbreth-Baker
!!Nora Baker-McNulty
!!Charlie Baker
!!Lorraine Baker
!!Henry Baker
!!Sarah Baker
!!Jake Baker
!!Mark Baker
!!Jessica & Kim Baker
!!Mike Baker
!!Nigel & Kyle Baker
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!!Shake MgGuire
!!Hank
!!The Shenks
[[folder:Second Movie Characters]]
!!Bud McNulty
!!Jimmy Murtaugh
!!Sarina Murtaugh
!!Eliot Murtaugh

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