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* ''{{Dynasty}}'': Much of the first season focused on this, as the plot is kickstarted when the former SexySecretary of the male lead becomes his second wife as well as the female lead, which his adult/teenage sons and daughters '''really'' dislike. And then the ex-wife shows up in the second season...

* ''Series/TheSuiteLifeOfZackAndCody'' has this as both a RunningGag and an occasional cause of TearJerker moments. London Tipton's father is constantly marrying new women after his first wife, and all of them end up divorcing him fairly quickly. The one time we see a stepmother in person she does make an effort to make a bond with London, who at first wants none of it because she believes that her new stepmother will be gone faster than she can blink. London actually has a ''charm bracelet'' that lets her count how many step-mothers she's had.

* ''Series/GilmoreGirls'': Shows up more than once, perhaps unsurprisingly what with ''Gilmore Girls'' being a show about a single HotMom and her teenage daughter. Rory usually gets along well with Lorelai's boyfriends, and indeed gets upset at least once about her mother not properly breaking up with them.

* ''Series/TheSuiteLifeOfZackAndCody'' has this as both a RunningGag and an occasional cause of TearJerker moments. London Tipton's father is constantly marrying new women after his first wife, and all of them end up divorcing him fairly quickly. The one time we see a stepmother in person she does make an effort to make a bond with London, who at first wants none of it because she believes that her new stepmother will be gone faster than she can blink.

* ''TheBradyBunch'': This is the case of Parent With New Paramour taken to the ideal conclusion, with a relative minimum of tension between the parents and step children.

* ''{{Misfits}}'': Nathan and his mum's live-in boyfriend Jeremy do ''not'' get on - it seems to be mostly Nathan's fault though, and apparently he has a history of trying to ruin his mum's relationships (he even falsely accused one of her previous boyfriends of sexually assaulting him). He verbally abuses Jeremy a lot, even punching him for no good reason at one point and breaking the guy's nose. Nathan's mum gets sick of the situation and actually kicks her son out of the house, making him homeless. They do reconcile in the end though, and Nathan accepts that he was wrong to stand in the way of his mum's happiness and he moves out of the house permanently.
* ''PushingDaisies'': Has a tweaked example: Ned's father trots him off to boarding school and ignores him in favor of his new wife and kids.

* ''Series/Castle'': Alexis, who is used to basically being the mature one in the household, is personally fine with her father hooking up with Beckett.

** There's Giles, who had a somewhat tentative but eventually friendly and entirely mature and responsible platonic friendship with Joyce. You know, except for that one time they ate the band candy, reverted to the mental age of 16 and had sex on top of a police car. Twice. Something of a SubvertedTrope there, since Buffy canonically thinks of Giles as a father, but reacted with horror when she found out about the tryst - though that might have been because she got [[{{Squick}} the gory details]] [[PsychicPowers directly from Joyce's brain]], and the memory was apparently a very pleasant one. Also ''{{Dracula}}'', though that lasted even less time, and was offscreen. She seemed happy after when Joyce went out with a nice guy in season five, Joyce's hilariously squicky jokes notwithstanding. Of course, this being a JossWhedon show, [[spoiler:Joyce died the next day.]]

* ''Series/FreaksAndGeeks'': Has Bill's mom, [[Series/BabylonFive Susan Ivanova]] dating his gym coach, [[Film/BackToTheFuture Biff Tannen]]. Not only is this a to-the-letter case of example three, but Bill uses the opportunity to slack off in gym class and mouth of to the coach, placing said coach in a very difficult situation.

* ''{{iCarly}}'': Mrs. Benson started dating the doorman Lewbert in one episode. They end up [[ComedicSociopathy throwing Freddie down the stairs]] so they can break the FlorenceNightingaleEffect between his mom and Lewbert.
* ''MadMen'': Gives us something of a combination of an InvertedTrope and Type 1: Don Draper invites his secretary Megan Calvet on a vacation to California with him and his kids specifically because she handled them so well on a visit to the office. It's only on the trip that he sleeps with her and ''then'' proposes after she's established a firm rapport with Sally and Bobby: when he announces his decision to marry her, they are actually kind of happy it happened.
* ''MightyMorphinPowerRangers'': Season 3 had an episode with Kimberly fretting about her mother's new boyfriend, a french artist (JustifiedTrope in that the artist wished for them to move to France with him, putting Kimberly's Ranger career to an end).

* ''FreaksAndGeeks'': Has Bill's mom, [[Series/BabylonFive Susan Ivanova]] dating his gym coach, [[Film/BackToTheFuture Biff Tannen]]. Not only is this a to-the-letter case of example three, but Bill uses the opportunity to slack off in gym class and mouth of to the coach, placing said coach in a very difficult situation.
* ''{{Glee}}'': Has Kurt's father Burt finding love with Finn's mother Carole. While they're one big happy family now, at the beginning both boys had issues with the relationship. Finn was afraid that Burt would try to replace his father, who died in Iraq when Finn was a baby, while Kurt jealously (and erroneously) believed that his father would rather have Finn as his son.
* ''GossipGirl'':

* ''BurnNotice'': Michael often lets his clients stay at his mother's house. He is hilariously ''horrified'', in one episode, when he finds out she slept with one of them.

* CallTheMidwife: Timmy actively ships his dad with [[spoiler: Sister Bernadette, going so far as to propose on his dad's behalf]].

** Buffy had her mother dating Ted, a gentleman whose only flaw was being a psychotically domineering killer robot.

* ''Series/{{Revolution}}'': Ben with Maggie. Charlie liked her so much that [[spoiler: she was quite upset with Maggie's death in "[[Recap/RevolutionS1E4ThePlagueDogs The Plague Dogs]]"]].

* ''Series/TheSarahJaneAdventures'': The title character's adopted son Luke, despite initial nervousness (and spying on his mother before finding out that she was disappearing to go on dates), gets along well with her new boyfriend/fiance and becomes the strongest supporter of her new relationship. He even brushes off his friends' valid concerns about the man's empty house with a warning not to spoil his mum's big day. [[spoiler:Of course, the relationship doesn't work out; the man had died weeks ago (thus the empty house), and the Trickster had revived him to serve as a trap for Sarah Jane. When he finds out, he chooses to die as he should have.]]

* ''GossipGirl'': Blair is excited to meet her mother's new boyfriend Cyrus, believing him to be a dashing, charming, worldly man. He turns out to be tiny, nearly bald and, well, played by Wallace Shawn.

* ''Series/{{Revolution}}'': Ben with Maggie. Charlie liked her so much that [[spoiler: she was quite upset with Maggie's death in episode 4]].

* ''RoyalPains'': Hank Lawson was none too pleased when his dad showed up, and was even ''less'' pleased when he took up with one of his best clients, "New Parts" Newburg.
* ''TheSarahJaneAdventures'': The title character's adopted son Luke, despite initial nervousness (and spying on his mother before finding out that she was disappearing to go on dates), gets along well with her new boyfriend/fiance and becomes the strongest supporter of her new relationship. He even brushes off his friends' valid concerns about the man's empty house with a warning not to spoil his mum's big day. [[spoiler:Of course, the relationship doesn't work out; the man had died weeks ago (thus the empty house), and the Trickster had revived him to serve as a trap for Sarah Jane. When he finds out, he chooses to die as he should have.]]
* ''VeronicaMars'': Twice with Veronica's father Keith Mars. The first is an attempted relationship with her guidance councelor, but he decides to call it off because Veronica is still coping with the [[MissingMom loss of her mother after she abandoned them both]]. The second is with her best friend Wallace's mother, which lasts quite a bit longer. This one just weirds Veronica out for a while but she later warms to the idea when she sees how they're happy together.

** When divorced Nina dated Jake, another newcomer and doctor, her son Sam seemed to like him.

** There's Giles, who had a somewhat tentative but eventually friendly and entirely mature and responsible platonic friendship with Joyce. You know, except for that one time they ate the band candy, reverted to the mental age of 16 and had sex on top of a police car. Twice. Something of a SubvertedTrope there, since Buffy canonically thinks of Giles as a father, but reacted with horror when she found out about the tryst - though that might have been because she got [[{{Squick}} the gory details]] [[PsychicPowers directly from Joyce's brain]], and the memory was apparently a very pleasant one. Also ''{{Dracula}}'', though that lasted even less time, and was offscreen. She seemed happy after when Joyce went out with a nice guy in season five, Joyce's hilariously squicky jokes notwithstanding. Of course, this being a JossWhedon show, [[spoiler:[[TearJerker Joyce died the next day.

* ''{{Bones}}'': Booth's son Parker doesn't like his mother's current boyfriend, who appears to be a decent guy. Of course, Booth doesn't like said boyfriend either. But also inverted, as Parker seems to like Bones, his father's work partner and potential (''[[{{UST}} very]]'' potential) love interest. But then, Parker idolizes his dad (and mimics his dad's sarcastic nickname for mom's boyfriend) and Bones has a pool she lets him come over and swim in (Parker at one point suggests his dad should marry just for this reason, being largely unaware of their UST).
** In the most recent season, now that Brennan has had Booth's baby and they live together, Parker treats her just like a regular mom and seems happy when he spends time with them.

* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': Buffy had her mother dating Ted, a gentleman whose only flaw was being a psychotically domineering killer robot.
** And then there's Giles, who had a somewhat tentative but eventually friendly and entirely mature and responsible platonic friendship with Joyce. You know, except for that one time they ate the band candy, reverted to the mental age of 16 and had sex on top of a police car. Twice. Something of a SubvertedTrope there, since Buffy canonically thinks of Giles as a father, but reacted with horror when she found out about the tryst - though that might have been because she got [[{{Squick}} the gory details]] [[PsychicPowers directly from Joyce's brain]], and the memory was apparently a very pleasant one.
** Also ''{{Dracula}}'', though that lasted even less time, and was offscreen.
** She seemed happy after when Joyce went out with a nice guy in season five, Joyce's hilariously {{Squick}}y jokes notwithstanding. Of course, this being a JossWhedon show, [[spoiler:[[TearJerker Joyce died the next day]]]].

* ''{{The Brady Bunch}}'' is the case of Parent With New Paramour taken to the ideal conclusion, with a relative minimum of tension between the parents and step children.
* ''{{Pushing Daisies}}'' has a tweaked example: Ned's father trots him off to boarding school and ignores him in favor of his new wife and kids.
* [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Buffy]] had her mother dating Ted, a gentleman whose only flaw was being a psychotically domineering killer robot.
** And then there's Giles, who had a somewhat tentative but eventually friendly and entirely mature and responsible platonic friendship with Joyce. You know, except for that one time they ate the band candy, reverted to the mental age of 16 and had sex on top of a police car. Twice. Something of a [[SubvertedTrope subversion]] there, since Buffy canonically thinks of Giles as a father, but reacted with horror when she found out about the tryst - though that might have been because she got [[{{Squick}} the gory details]] [[PsychicPowers directly from Joyce's brain]], and the memory was apparently a very pleasant one.

* In ''Aquila'' one kid freaks out about their mother dating a new man, and spies on him, convinced he's up to something. Eventually he gets used to it.
* The TV show ''Series/ArrestedDevelopment'' played with this trope whenever Michael got a new love interest. He always worried about what his son thought of his dating, and usually ended up sabotaging the relationship because of that. Of course, while George Michael would usually be fine with it, the two times he didn't consult him were the two times he would in fact have minded. One, when Michael started dating the teacher he had a crush on, after misinterpreting George Michael's opinion of her. And two, with Jesse, because she's psycho.
* ''FreaksAndGeeks'' has Bill's mom, [[Series/BabylonFive Susan Ivanova]] dating his gym coach, [[Film/BackToTheFuture Biff Tannen]]. Not only is this a to-the-letter case of example three, but Bill uses the opportunity to slack off in gym class and mouth of to the coach, placing said coach in a very difficult situation.
* Much of the first season of ''{{Dynasty}}'' focused on this, as the plot is kickstarted when the former SexySecretary of the male lead becomes his second wife as well as the female lead, which his adult/teenage sons and daughters '''really'' dislike. And then the ex-wife shows up in the second season...
* In ''TheSarahJaneAdventures'', the title character's adopted son Luke, despite initial nervousness (and spying on his mother before finding out that she was disappearing to go on dates), gets along well with her new boyfriend/fiance and becomes the strongest supporter of her new relationship. He even brushes off his friends' valid concerns about the man's empty house with a warning not to spoil his mum's big day. [[spoiler:Of course, the relationship doesn't work out; the man had died weeks ago (thus the empty house), and the Trickster had revived him to serve as a trap for Sarah Jane. When he finds out, he chooses to die as he should have.]]
* In ''{{Misfits}}'', Nathan and his mum's live-in boyfriend Jeremy do ''not'' get on - it seems to be mostly Nathan's fault though, and apparently he has a history of trying to ruin his mum's relationships (he even falsely accused one of her previous boyfriends of sexually assaulting him). He verbally abuses Jeremy a lot, even punching him for no good reason at one point and breaking the guy's nose. Nathan's mum gets sick of the situation and actually kicks her son out of the house, making him homeless. They do reconcile in the end though, and Nathan accepts that he was wrong to stand in the way of his mum's happiness and he moves out of the house permanently.
* From ''{{Bones}}'', Booth's son Parker doesn't like his mother's current boyfriend, who appears to be a decent guy. Of course, Booth doesn't like said boyfriend either. But also inverted, as Parker seems to like Bones, his father's work partner and potential (''[[{{UST}} very]]'' potential) love interest. But then, Parker idolizes his dad (and mimics his dad's sarcastic nickname for mom's boyfriend) and Bones has a pool she lets him come over and swim in (Parker at one point suggests his dad should marry just for this reason, being largely unaware of their UST).
** In the most recent season, now that Brennan has had Booth's baby and they live together, Parker treats her just like a regular mom and seems happy when he spends time with them.
* In ''BurnNotice'', Michael often lets his clients stay at his mother's house. He is hilariously ''horrified'', in one episode, when he finds out she slept with one of them.
* [[RoyalPains Hank Lawson]] was none too pleased when his dad showed up, and was even ''less'' pleased when he took up with one of his best clients, "New Parts" Newburg.
* On ''GossipGirl'' Blair is excited to meet her mother's new boyfriend Cyrus, believing him to be a dashing, charming, worldly man. He turns out to be tiny, nearly bald and, well, played by Wallace Shawn.

* Mrs. Benson on ''{{iCarly}}'' started dating the doorman Lewbert in one episode. They end up [[ComedicSociopathy throwing Freddie down the stairs]] so they can break the FlorenceNightingaleEffect between his mom and Lewbert.
* In the '90s teen show ''California Dreams'', TheDitz Tiffany has been living with her dad since her mom walked out on them years before the time of the show. When Dad starts dating again, Tiffany is fine with it at first...until he starts blowing off his plans with her to be with the new girlfriend. She feels left out and unwanted, and makes a fool of herself trying to prove that the girlfriend isn't on the level (she's actually quite a nice person). The episode ends with something of a BrokenAesop, because while Tiffany apologizes for being insecure and acting like a bit of a bratty teenager, her father never apologizes for ditching her or hurting her feelings.
* ''{{Glee}}'' has Kurt's father Burt finding love with Finn's mother Carole. While they're one big happy family now, at the beginning both boys had issues with the relationship. Finn was afraid that Burt would try to replace his father, who died in Iraq when Finn was a baby, while Kurt jealously (and erroneously) believed that his father would rather have Finn as his son.

* ''MadMen'' gives us something of a combination of an inversion and Type 1: Don Draper invites his secretary Megan Calvet on a vacation to California with him and his kids specifically because she handled them so well on a visit to the office. It's only on the trip that he sleeps with her and ''then'' proposes after she's established a firm rapport with Sally and Bobby: when he announces his decision to marry her, they are actually kind of happy it happened.
* ''MightyMorphinPowerRangers'' season 3 had an episode with Kimberly fretting about her mother's new boyfriend, a french artist (Justified in that the artist wished for them to move to France with him, putting Kimberly's Ranger career to an end).
* ''Series/{{Revolution}}'': Ben with Maggie.
* On one episode of ''Series/EverybodyLovesRaymond'', Debra's mom, who recently divorced her dad, reveals that her dad plans to bring a date to Thanksgiving dinner. Her mom is okay with it, although Debra is upset, even though Ray points out that as long as her mother is happy, she should be happy.Everyone assumes that her dad's date will be a much younger woman, but it is actually a much older woman.