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* EnragedByIdiocy: This is the main reason why she can't stand [[KindheartedSimpleton Dylan]].
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** In season 6, another crass comment from Gil Thorpe about Claire, combined with a near-miss in the car that morning, has Phil finally lose his patience with Thorpe and confront him head-on.

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** In season 6, another crass comment from Gil Thorpe about Claire, combined with a near-miss [[NearMisses near-miss]] in the car that morning, has Phil finally lose his patience with Thorpe and confront him head-on.
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* AfraidOfClowns: "Fizbo" reveals that he's deeply uncomfortable with clowns, which is caused by how he once accidentally found a dead clown in the woods as a child.
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* UsedToBeASweetKid: According to her parents, Haley was actually much sweeter and more affectionate as a child. When she was a little girl, she would always hug Phil whenever he came home from work, and was very close to her mother. When she became a teenager, however, she grew very distant from parents, and started to act rebellious and cagey around them.

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* UsedToBeASweetKid: According to her parents, Haley was actually much sweeter and more affectionate as a child. When she was a little girl, she would always hug Phil whenever he came home from work, and was very close to her mother. When she became a teenager, however, she grew very distant from her parents, and started to act rebellious and cagey around them.
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* UsedToBeASweetKid: According to her parents, Haley was actually much sweeter and more affectionate as a child. When she was a little girl, she would always hug Phil whenever he came home from work, and was very close to her mother. When she became a teenager, however, she grew very distant from parents, and started to act rebellious and cagey around them.
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** He absolutely dotes on his little French Bulldog Stella, not the kind of dog you would immediately associate with a man's-man like him. He even takes an interest in dog shows.

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* PoliticallyIncorrectHero: He generally means well and lacks malice, but he's an old-fashioned kind of guy and so there are plenty of gaps in his knowledge of modern political awareness. He loves Mitchell but just can't quite get his head wrapped fully around the "gay" thing, and while he's devoted to Gloria he can sometimes be a bit thoughtless with regards to her culture and language issues.



* SugarAndIcePersonality: Deadpan, prefers not to handle emotional stuff, and stoic. But he has a genuine love for his family and dogs are his biggest weakness.


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* SugarAndIcePersonality: Deadpan, prefers not to handle emotional stuff, and stoic. But he has a genuine love for his family and dogs are his biggest weakness.
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* SeriousBusiness: He takes closets and the design, building and sale of them ''very'' seriously.

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* OnlySaneMan: Though being around Phil makes anyone look wiser.



* WomenAreWiser: Though being around Phil makes anyone look wiser.

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* CuteAndPsycho: Claire is quite overzealous when it comes to horror, specifcially on Halloween.



* FormerTeenRebel: As a teen, she described herself as "out of control". One example involved a situation where she and her current boyfriend got arrested after skinny dipping in someone's pool. This is [[FreudianExcuse obviously the reason]] why she is focused on Haley, because even though she refuses to admit it, she sees so much of herself in Haley, and doesn't want her to make the same mistakes she did.
* HappilyMarried: While she does find Phil childish and slightly odd, Claire is still very much deeply in lov
* {{Housewife}}: She takes on a variety of community projects on the side, and is desperate for a job. She gets a job in season 5.

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* FormerTeenRebel: As a teen, she described herself as "out of control". One example involved a situation where she and her current boyfriend got arrested after skinny dipping in someone's pool. This is [[FreudianExcuse obviously the reason]] why she is focused so hard on Haley, because even though she refuses to admit it, she sees so much of herself in Haley, and doesn't want her to make the same mistakes she did.
* GuiltyPleasure: For her, it's going to the shooting range.
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HappilyMarried: While she does find Phil childish and slightly odd, Claire is still very much deeply in lov
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* {{Housewife}}: She put any career she had at the time on hold when she became pregnant with Haley, choosing to stay at home so she can raise her children while Phil works, though she takes on a variety of community projects on the side, and is desperate for a job. She gets a job in season 5.5 at her dad's company



* NightmareFetishist: Absolutely. The marriage proposal ideas she pitches to Mitchell are nothing short of cruel (yet she finds them romantic).

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* MyBelovedSmother* NightmareFetishist: Absolutely. The marriage proposal ideas she pitches to Mitchell are nothing short of cruel (yet she finds them romantic).



* ParentingTheHusband: Claire generally refers to Phil as "the kid she's married to".

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* ParentalNeglect: Out of her kids, Claire focuses most of her concern over Haley's life, over her other two kids. One episode involved her constantly focus on Haley's laziness that she doesn't notice that a sleep-deprived Alex wandering around the house reading a textbook.
* ParentingTheHusband: Claire generally refers to Phil as "the kid she's married to". She even says to this Gloria.
-->'''Claire:''' You live two adults, I live with four kids.



* TheUnfavorite: To her mother Dede.

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* TheUnfavorite: To her mother Dede.Dede, who constantly talks down on her and brings up her past mistakes whenever she visits.
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* NobleBigot: His homophobia has only slightly decreased with time, but he throws a lavish wedding for Cam and Mitch, whom he calls, in his toast, his ''sons''.

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* NobleBigot: His homophobia has only slightly decreased with time, but he throws a lavish wedding for Cam and Mitch, whom he calls, in his toast, his ''sons''. And, of course, as soon as he meets their adoptive daughter, who is crying, he fusses over her - and she ''instantly stops crying'' apparently able to tell he's a good person.

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