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* HiddenDepths: They're both talented bluegrass musicians, as seen when they perform "Sinner, You'd Better Get Ready" for May-May and Eli.
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* ClingyJealousGirl: She'll pull this on any woman who she thinks is her rival for BJ's attention, although she's always wrong. She tries it on his married lesbian coworker and even ''his own sister''.
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* VerbalTic: They have a tendency to unnecessarily pluralize words, which is fairly common in the South. Judy and Baby Billy do it the most.

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* VerbalTic: They all have a tendency to unnecessarily pluralize words, which is fairly common in the South. South and shows up frequently in Danny McBride's comedy. Judy and Baby Billy do it the most.most, like when Baby Billy describes the format of ''Bible Bonkers'' as "trivias from the Bible" or when Judy tells Amber she's "doing complements".
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* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain:
** At first she constantly makes fun of Aunt Tiffany's poor background and lack of education, frequently calling her some version of "poor, dumb hill person". This gradually goes away after she becomes Tiff's ParentalSubstitute.
** She also makes fun of Amber's origins in small-town Kentucky when she first meets her in the early 2000s.
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!!"Baby" Billy !!William "Baby Billy" Freeman
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* ArtifactTitle: Continues to go by "Baby Billy" despite pushing 70. Lampshaded by Aunt Tiffany when she's calling hospitals looking for him:
-->'''Tiffany:''' Baby William Freeman. No, he's not a baby. He's a slender, silver-haired man in his late 60s.
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* HiddenDepths: She's a good pianist, and puts her talents to use playing the theme song of Baby Billy's Bible Bonkers.
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* WhiteDwarfStarlet: He was famous as a kid and hasn't been particularly relevant for decades, but still carries himself like a celebrity.

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* WhiteDwarfStarlet: He was famous as a kid and hasn't been particularly relevant for decades, but still carries himself like a celebrity. Even his name hints at this, since he still insists on being called "Baby Billy" despite being almost 70.
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* JerkassHasAPoint: Although he's a very unpleasant person, he's absolutely right about Jesse's pep talk ringing hollow since everything was given to him.
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* WhiteDwarfStarlet: He was famous as a kid and hasn't been particularly relevant for decades, but still carries himself like a celebrity.

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* CoolCar: All of them have expensive luxury vehicles, with Jesse having a garage full of them, and all of the cars are matching in white. The centerpiece though is The Redeemer, Jesse's old monster truck which is as tacky as it is an efficient weapon.

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* CoolCar: All of them have The Gemstones drive expensive luxury vehicles, cars, all of which are matching in white with a VanityLicensePlate referencing the car's owner or the church.
** Eli has a Cadillac Escalade, and in "Interlude I" it's shown he drove a Rolls-Royce in the late 80s.
** Kelvin drives a Jeep Gladiator, usually with the doors and roof removed.
** Judy has a Tesla, and its automatic doors become a point of BlackComedy when they try to escape from Thaniel Block's cabin. She's also shown driving a Jaguar XF in Season 3.
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Jesse having has a garage full of them, and all of but his daily driver is a Dodge Challenger (ironically the cars are matching in white. Hellcat model). The centerpiece of his collection though is The Redeemer, Jesse's his old monster truck which is as tacky as it is an efficient weapon.
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* TechnicalVirgin: Despite her claiming to have experience with many men, BJ's the only one she's had actual sex with. [[spoiler: Even when she has an "affair" with her guitarist, it never progresses beyond kissing and groping.]]

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