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* MesACrowd: During the ''Series/StarTrek / [[Series/BattlestarGalactica1978 Battlestar Galactica]]'' segment, there's a ''whole army'' of machete-wielding Bills storming the C.O.O.K.S.' ship.
* RealityWarper: His increasing presence also comes with a heaping helping of increasing InterfaceScrew. The more involved he becomes, the more nightmarish and surreal things get until all of the Cooks' are gradually replaced and glitched out in favor of copies of Bill.

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* {{Expy}}: Seems like a pretty clear parody on [[Series/{{Alf}} Alf]], in addition to [[WesternAnimation/ThunderCats1985 Snarf]].
* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: A terrifying elaborate puppet of a disgusting cat creature that's just thrown into the end of his section of the theme song as though his inclusion is completely normal in an otherwise entirely human cast.
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[[folder:Taylor Cook]]
->'''Played by:''' Kayte GiraltTruman Orr
The baby of The Cook Family.



* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: While technically the second to last of the first batch of Cooks introduced in the theme song, something about her appearance kind of sticks out like it were utilization of this trope. Maybe it's because of how she's drastically older than all the other kids, maybe it has something to do with how she's so provocatively dressed, or maybe it's just because of how Savannah sat there with her arms folded, looking at her angrily, instilling some emotions of conflict and negativity in a song that before provoked nothing but the delight and bliss of an old 60's-90's family sitcom but one things for certain; Melinda just doesn't really belong there.
** The fact that she didn't appear in any of the scenes after this also kind of turns her one appearance in the theme song into a big-lipped alligator moment.

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* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: While technically the second to last of the first batch of Cooks introduced AndStarring: Got this treatment in the theme song, something about her appearance kind of sticks out like it were utilization of this trope. Maybe it's because of how she's drastically older than all the other kids, maybe it has something to do with how she's so provocatively dressed, or maybe it's just because of how Savannah sat there with her arms folded, looking at her angrily, instilling some emotions of conflict and negativity in a song that before provoked nothing but the delight and bliss of an old 60's-90's family sitcom but "And Featuring: Truman Orr as Taylor Cook".
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one things for certain; Melinda just doesn't really belong there.
** The fact that she didn't appear in any
of the scenes after this also kind of turns her one appearance few characters in the theme song into a big-lipped alligator moment.show to actually have his name mentioned on screen, besides just his actor.
* TheCutie: His role is to just be the adorable one in the show.



[[folder:Taylor Cook]]
->'''Played by:''' Truman Orr
The baby of The Cook Family.

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->'''Played by:''' Truman Orr
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The baby other daughter of The Cook Family.Family, who plays baseball.



* AndStarring: Got this treatment in the theme song, with "And Featuring: Truman Orr as Taylor Cook".
** In fact, he's one of the few characters in the show to actually have his name mentioned on screen, besides just his actor.
* TheCutie: His role is to just be the adorable one in the show.

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* AndStarring: Got this treatment PassionateSportsGirl: She's a girl who's clearly really into baseball, as seen by how she wears a baseball cap and has a baseball and glove in the theme song, with "And Featuring: Truman Orr as Taylor Cook".
** In fact, he's one of the few characters in the show to actually have his name mentioned on screen, besides just his actor.
* TheCutie: His role is to just be the adorable one in the show.
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[[folder:Olivia Cook]]
->'''Played by:''' Jayla James
The other daughter of The Cook Family, who plays baseball.
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* PassionateSportsGirl: She's a girl who's clearly really into baseball, as seen by how she wears a baseball cap and has a baseball and glove in her room.
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* DrivenByEnvy: WordOfGod states that Bill [[spoiler: is killing the others because he wanted to be a sitcom dad and never had the opportunity.]]



* I'mAHumanitarian: After murdering thr others, Bill cooks a foot in thr oven and starts feasting on various body parts at the dinner table.

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* AllJustADream: Apparently, Darren is being hospitalized for a disease called "Theme Songitis", which causes him to imagine his life as a stereotypical sitcom theme song.

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* AllJustADream: Apparently, Darren is being hospitalized for a disease called "Theme Songitis", "Intronitis", which causes him to imagine his life as a stereotypical sitcom theme song.
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* I'mAHumanitarian: After murdering thr others, Bill cooks a foot in thr oven and starts feasting on various body parts at the dinner table.


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* SerialKiller: He starts murdering the other characters at random for some unknown reason.
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* {{Expy}}: Seems like a pretty clear parody on [[Series/{{Alf}} Alf]].

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* KnightOfCerebus: [[spoiler: The second he starts to kill, he turns a funny parody video in a chilling horror story.]]
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* AlmightyJanitor: Bill has access to the Cooks' house, the police department, the office, and the kitchen, and nobody seems to be bothered by a man always dressed as an underclassman hanging around.

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* AlmightyJanitor: Bill has access to the Cooks' house, the police department, the office, and the kitchen, and nobody seems to be bothered by a man always dressed as an underclassman in casual clothes hanging around.

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''Film/TooManyCooks'' being a [[LongRunners long-runner]] which plot rests upon a DarkSecret, it casted many actors across the years, some of them even taking different roles in the sub-series.
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After William Tokarsky has been rejected for the main role, he was still offered another one as Bill, a background character who appears in strategic places and the only non-Cook character of the show.

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After William Tokarsky has been rejected for the main role, he was still offered another one as Bill, a background character who appears in strategic places and Bill is the only non-Cook character of the show.show. He appears in the background at strategic places.



* FreezeFrameBonus: Every segment shows him in the background at least once and the viewer is encouraged to find him.

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* FreezeFrameBonus: Every segment shows him in the background at least once and once.
* InterfaceScrew: Because Bill is a background character,
the viewer actor's name is encouraged to find him.never displayed like the others.

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* OneSteveLimit: Slightly broken. The cooks include a woman named Melissa when there's already a character named Melinda.



* OneSteveLimit: Slightly broken. The cooks include a woman named Melissa when there's already a character named Melinda.



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* ThePeepingTom: The opening shows him watching Marilyn naked in her room.



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->'''Played by:''' William Tokarsky
After William Tokarsky has been rejected for the main role, he was still offered another one as Bill, a background character who appears in strategic places and the only non-Cook character of the show.
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* AlmightyJanitor: Bill has access to the Cooks' house, the police department, the office, and the kitchen, and nobody seems to be bothered by a man always dressed as an underclassman hanging around.
* FreezeFrameBonus: Every segment shows him in the background at least once and the viewer is encouraged to find him.
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* DotingGrandparent: Seems to be a very young-spirited woman, despite her age.

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* BrotherSisterIncest: Assuming all of the Cooks are part of the same family, Chris is likely taking sexual pleasure from his own blood-related sister.
** Well, they could also be cousins but this doesn't really make it any less squicky.
* {{Nerd}}: A creepy nerd with glasses and a very punchable face.

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* BrotherSisterIncest: Assuming all of the Cooks are part of the same family, Chris is likely taking sexual pleasure from his own blood-related sister.
** Well, they could also be cousins but this doesn't really make it any less squicky.
* {{Nerd}}: A creepy nerd with glasses and a very punchable face.
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* {{Nerd}}: Warren is a total nerd, who even has his old little laboratory in his room.


* AwesomeMcCoolname: Armondo Del Cook ... Something about that just makes him sound like a [[DashingHispanic dashing Hispanic]] or a [[LatinLover Latin lover]] type character.
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** It's also suggested that she's married to T.L., making their polyamorous relationship come full circle.


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** It's also suggested that he's married to Sasha, himself, which brings their polyamorous marriage full circle.

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[[folder:T.L. Cook]]
->'''Played by:''' Marc Farley
A fat guy who works at an office.
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* {{Polyamory}}: He's sexually active with married woman, Claire Cook and Darren is well aware of this but doesn't seem to care, mostly because he's also in a side-relationship with Sasha.
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[[folder:Archer Cook]]
->'''Played by:''' Charles Pittard
The angry boss at the office complex.
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* MeanBoss: A hot-headed, loud-mouthed angry boss, who's always screaming at T.L. and dropping piles of files on him to take care of, having little to no consideration to him and his feelings.
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[[folder:Aimee Cook]]
->'''Playe by:''' Karen Cassidy
A nosy co-worker at the office.
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* NosyNeighbor: Aimee was not-so-subtly listening through the wall to hear Archer chewing our T.L., even though this little debacle was neither her circus nor her monkey.
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[[folder:Cooks]]
-->'''Played by:''' Ricky Boynton ''(Cody)'', VC Fuqua ''(Logan)'', Nilsa Castro ''(Melissa)'', and Gregory Rose ''(Caleb)''
Four chefs who work as actual cooks.
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* {{Pun}}: The fact that they're cooks is a joke on how they're associated with The Cook Family.
* OneSteveLimit: Slightly broken. The cooks include a woman named Melissa when there's already a character named Melinda.
* SupremeChef: They're all implied to be excellent cooks.
* TokenMinority: Cody Cook is the token black guy and Melissa Cook is the token Hispanic woman.
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[[folder:Chris Cook]]
->'''Played by:''' Will Dove
A perverted teenager who spies on women changing
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* AbhorrentAdmirer: To Marilyn.
* AllMenArePerverts: Chris is basically your typical perverted man, just completely unbound by the obedience of laws, privacy, or basic human decency, allowing him to be so brazen that he just waltzes on up to a girl's bedroom and looks directly at her naked, as though there shouldn't be a problem.
* BrotherSisterIncest: Assuming all of the Cooks are part of the same family, Chris is likely taking sexual pleasure from his own blood-related sister.
** Well, they could also be cousins but this doesn't really make it any less squicky.
* {{Nerd}}: A creepy nerd with glasses and a very punchable face.
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[[folder:Marilyn Cook]]
->'''Played by:''' Veronica Sun
A topless girl who always goes around naked.
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* BrotherSisterIncest: Assuming all of the Cooks are from the same family, Marilyn is likely being spied on by a biological relative, who could very well be her immediate brother.
* MsFanservice: Marilyn is a beautiful and attractive blonde-haired woman, who wears a cute little ponytail, some short-cut ripped-up denim jeans, and absolutely nothing on top. Needless to say, she's the fan favorite of a lot of viewers for her character's attire.
* SceneryCensor: Always has her left arm covering her boobs.
* ToplessnessFromTheBack: In the last frame of the credits, Marilyn was seen topless from the back.
* WalkingShirtlessScene: Always walks around completely topless, even when she's in public situations like playing games with her family. Everyone around her just treats her like this is completely normal and doesn't even acknowledge it.

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** To boot, his actor has also got a crazy long name too.

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** To boot, his actor has also got an unusual name, "Gwydion Lashlee-Walton", which just sounds so epic as well.
* AwesomeMcCoolname: Armondo Del Cook ... Something about that just makes him sound like
a crazy long [[DashingHispanic dashing Hispanic]] or a [[LatinLover Latin lover]] type character.
* CoolKidAndLoserFriendship: The cool older brother to his loser brother, Warren.
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[[folder:Zoe Cook]]
->'''Played by:''' Ginny Gibbons
Another baby girl in The Cook Family.
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* TheCutie: Just another adorable little baby girl.
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[[folder:Dave and Thomas Van Cook]]
-->'''Played by:''' Dylan Schoenthal ''(Dave)'' and Logan Schoenthal ''(Thomas)''
Twin boys.
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* AerithAndBob: Again, we have a joke with one of the twins having the basic
name too.of Dylan and the other being named Thomas Van Cook, just to make him stand out more.
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[[folder:Grammy Cook]]
->'''Played by:''' Barbara Bruce
The grandmother who reads magazines.
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* {{Expy}}: Pretty much the exact same archetype as Veronica Van Cook. She was even seen sitting in the same chair and reading the same magazine about magazines.
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[[folder:Sasha Cook]]
->'''Played by:''' Mary [=McGahren=]
Another mother in The Cook Family.
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* {{Polyamory}}: Is sexually active with Darren Cook, the husband of Claire Cook but it seems that Claire is aware of this and doesn't care, especially since she's active with T.L. from the office.
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->''Played by:''' Smarf
A stupid-looking pet cat puppet in the family.
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* {{Expy}}: Seems like a pretty clear parody on [[Series/{{Alf}} Alf]].
* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: A terrifying elaborate puppet of a disgusting cat creature that's just thrown into the end of his section of the theme song as though his inclusion is completely normal in an otherwise entirely human cast.
* SeriesMascot: It's obvious that Smarf is meant to be this.
* TeamPet: Supposedly the pet cat of the family.
* TokenNonHuman: Was the only character in the show to not be a human being, until later on.
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* GoodParents: Despite making a few mistakes, such as overcooking the food in the oven, Claire is an overall, wonderful and loving mom, who provides for her family and wants the best for everyone she loves.


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* AlwaysSecondBest: It's implied that she feels inferior to her older sister, Melinda.


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* OvershadowedByAwesome: It seems that poor Savannah is always being overlooked by everyone around her because of her hotter older sister, Melinda.


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* TheCutie: As a baby, there's not much she can really do for the family aside from looking adorable.


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* TheCutie: His role is to just be the adorable one in the show.
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[[folder:Olivia Cook]]
->'''Played by:''' Jayla James
The other daughter of The Cook Family, who plays baseball.
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* PassionateSportsGirl: She's a girl who's clearly really into baseball, as seen by how she wears a baseball cap and has a baseball and glove in her room.
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[[folder:Warren Cook]]
->'''Played by:''' Cameron Markeles
The other son of The Cook Family, who is a kid scientist.
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* ButtMonkey: Gets bullied by his mean older brother, Jim, who gives him noogies for being so smart.
* ChildProdigy: He's a young kid, who's into science, as seen by how he wears a labcoat and goggles and plays with beekers and bottles.
* SmartPeopleWearGlasses: His scientist look wouldn't be complete without them.
* {{Nerd}}: Warren is a total nerd, who even has his old little laboratory in his room.
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[[folder:Jim Cook]]
->'''Played by:''' Zack Shires
The big mean older brother, who always causes trouble.
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* BigBrotherBully: Jim is a big jerk, who's always picking on Warren and giving him noogies.
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[[folder:Armondo Del Cook]]
->'''Played by:''' Gwydion Lashlee-Walton
The cool older brother of The Cook Family.
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* AerithAndBob: Part of the reason his character sticks out so much is how he's got such a long and cool sounding name, especially when compared to his siblings with their basic names (Olivia, Warren, and Jim).
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->'''Played by:''' Ken [=DeLozier=]
The father of The Cook Family.
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* AllJustADream: Apparently, Darren is being hospitalized for a disease called "Theme Songitis", which causes him to imagine his life as a stereotypical sitcom theme song.
* GoodParents: Darren is an overall ideal upstanding father to the Cook family.
* {{Polyamory}}: Darren is married to Claire but also romantically and sexually involved with Sasha.
* RunningGag: A recurring joke involved with him is that he's always trying to take family photos on a camera timer but can't make it to the couch in time to be in the picture, himself.
* StandardFiftiesFather: Darren is portrayed as this, just being an average father in a cheesy old-timey sitcom.
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[[folder:Claire Cook]]
->'''Played by:''' Tara Ochs
The mother of The Cook Family.
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* FingerWag: Gave Harry this, when he was playing with his food.
* LethalChef: Overcooked the cookies she was making in the oven.
* MeaningfulName: Her last name being "Cook" is a joke on how she was cooking food in the oven.
* {{Polyamory}}: She's married to Darren but also romantically and sexually involved with T.L., which is part of her relationship.
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[[folder:Chloe Cook]]
->'''Played by:''' Katelyn Nacon
The preteen daughter of The Cook Family.
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* BrattyTeenageDaughter: Rested her head on her fist and made an exasperated face at grandma during the ''Roseanne'' table scene.
* StoppedCaring: She threw in the towel really quickly when her family was trying to move the couch.
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[[folder:Harry Cook]]
->'''Played by:''' Justin Scott
The preteen son of The Cook Family.
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* LovableJock: Seems like a typical jock archetype as he was seen lifting weights and winning a karate trophy, but is overall a very bright and kind-hearted guy as he's never demonstrated any signs of [[DumbJock stupidity]] or [[JerkJock rudeness]], sans that one time he played with his food at the table.
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[[folder:Savannah Cook]]
->'''Played by:''' Morgan Burch
The child daughter of The Cook Family.
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* BookSmart: Savannah is shown to read several different textbooks on all kinds of subjects, many of which are presumably related to her school subjects, though one could argue that she also reads books just for fun.
* ChildProdigy: As is a common trope in many sitcom families, Savannah is one of the youngest members of the family but she's also the one characterized as the most scholarly and well-educated of the other kids.
* CuteBookworm: The adorable little girl, who is very well-read, as her desk is shown to be tiled with educational books of all kinds.
* SmartPeopleWearGlasses: Savannah wears glasses, presumably to help her with reading.
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[[folder:Veronica Van Cook]]
->'''Played by:''' Linda Miller
The grandmother of The Cook Family.
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* DotingGrandparent: Seems to be a very young-spirited woman, despite her age.
* GrannyClassic: Just your average neighborhood grandma archetype.
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[[folder:Jenny Cook]]
->'''Played by:''' Layla & Lila Neal
The baby daughter of The Cook Family.
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[[folder:Melinda Cook]]
->'''Played by:''' Kayte Giralt
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* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: While technically the second to last of the first batch of Cooks introduced in the theme song, something about her appearance kind of sticks out like it were utilization of this trope. Maybe it's because of how she's drastically older than all the other kids, maybe it has something to do with how she's so provocatively dressed, or maybe it's just because of how Savannah sat there with her arms folded, looking at her angrily, instilling some emotions of conflict and negativity in a song that before provoked nothing but the delight and bliss of an old 60's-90's family sitcom but one things for certain; Melinda just doesn't really belong there.
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[[folder:Taylor Cook]]
->'''Played by:''' Truman Orr
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