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* ButterflyOfDoom: Grandma trips over May's briefcase, which she plops right in her path. Had May put the briefcase under the kitchen table instead, she and her family may not have grown senile thanks to promising to throw Grandma in Tranquil Gardens.
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* ForWantOfANail: Grandma trips over May's briefcase, which she plops right in her path. Had she put the briefcase under the kitchen table instead, she and her family may not have grown senile.
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The Rollins (Kate-[=McGregor=] Stewart, Paul Avery, and Kelly Wolf) are a self-centered suburban family who are tired of having to accommodate their senile and doddering Grandma (Jane Connel). When she trips and almost breaks something, the family plan to throw poor Grandma in the Tranquil Gardens Retirement Home against her will. The week before she's set to leave, the family invites Grandma to make a wish, and they promise to do whatever they can to make it come true. Grandma's wish does indeed come true, and her family begins, in the literal sense, to understand the hardships that come with growing old.
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The Rollins (Kate-[=McGregor=] Stewart, Paul Avery, and Kelly Wolf) are a self-centered suburban family who are tired of having to accommodate their senile and doddering Grandma (Jane Connel).Connell). When she trips and almost breaks something, the family plan to throw poor Grandma in the Tranquil Gardens Retirement Home against her will. The week before she's set to leave, the family invites Grandma to make a wish, and they promise to do whatever they can to make it come true. Grandma's wish does indeed come true, and her family begins, in the literal sense, to understand the hardships that come with growing old.
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The Rollins are a self-centered suburban family who are tired of having to accommodate their senile and doddering Grandma. When she trips and almost breaks something, the family plan to throw poor Grandma in the Tranquil Gardens Retirement Home against her will. The week before she's set to leave, the family invites Grandma to make a wish, and they promise to do whatever they can to make it come true. Grandma's wish does indeed come true, and her family begins, in the literal sense, to understand the hardships that come with growing old.
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The Rollins (Kate-[=McGregor=] Stewart, Paul Avery, and Kelly Wolf) are a self-centered suburban family who are tired of having to accommodate their senile and doddering Grandma.Grandma (Jane Connel). When she trips and almost breaks something, the family plan to throw poor Grandma in the Tranquil Gardens Retirement Home against her will. The week before she's set to leave, the family invites Grandma to make a wish, and they promise to do whatever they can to make it come true. Grandma's wish does indeed come true, and her family begins, in the literal sense, to understand the hardships that come with growing old.
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* TheDogBitesBack: After spending years treated as a doormat by her unsympathetic family, Grandma gets back at them by wishing for them to become older and more senile than she is.
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* TheDogBitesBack: After spending years being treated as a doormat by her unsympathetic family, Grandma gets back at them by wishing for them to become older and more senile than she is.
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* ShoutOut: In her youth, Grandma used be a dancer, having performed in the ''[[Film/ZiegfeldFollies1945 Ziegfeld Follies]]''. A senile Frank recalls how he snuck backstage to see her as a boy, claiming that she was prettier than Creator/GretaGarbo.
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* ShoutOut: In her youth, Grandma used to be a dancer, having performed in the ''[[Film/ZiegfeldFollies1945 Ziegfeld Follies]]''. A senile Frank recalls how he snuck backstage to see her as a boy, claiming that she was prettier than Creator/GretaGarbo.
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* VerbalBackpedaling: The Tranquil Gardens representative claims that the plumbing will cost money. The Rollins (minus Grandma) ''immedieately'' give him strange/dirty looks before he says he's [[BlatantLies joking]].
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* VerbalBackpedaling: The Tranquil Gardens representative claims that the plumbing will cost money. The Rollins (minus Grandma) ''immedieately'' ''immediately'' give him strange/dirty looks before he says he's [[BlatantLies joking]].
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* ShoutOut: In her youth, Grandma used be a dancer, having performed in the ''[[Film/ZiegfeldFollies1945 Ziegfeld Follies]]''. A senile Frank recalls how he snuck backstage to see her, claiming that she was prettier than Creator/GretaGarbo.
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* ShoutOut: In her youth, Grandma used be a dancer, having performed in the ''[[Film/ZiegfeldFollies1945 Ziegfeld Follies]]''. A senile Frank recalls how he snuck backstage to see her, her as a boy, claiming that she was prettier than Creator/GretaGarbo.
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* WellIntentionedExtremist: Their decision to throw Grandma in a home may be heartless, but the Rollins genuinely think she'll be safe and happy there. To be fair to them, the slides of Tranquil Gardens indicate that the place does its best to ensure that its residents are comfortable and have plenty recreational activities to do.
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* WellIntentionedExtremist: Their decision to throw Grandma in a home may be heartless, but the Rollins genuinely think she'll be safe and happy there. To be fair to them, the slides of Tranquil Gardens indicate that the place does its best to ensure that its residents are comfortable and have plenty of recreational activities to do.
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* ItsAllAboutMe: The entirety of the Rollins, since they're more preoccupied with their own wants and concerns than each other. They also hardly do anything to accommodate the enfeebled and forgetful Grandma, often ignoring her suggestions to do so and barely treating her with any respect. When she nearly slips and falls ''one time'', they promptly make the decision to throw her into a retirment home (albeit a nice one) in a week's time.
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* ItsAllAboutMe: The entirety of the Rollins, since they're more preoccupied with their own wants and concerns than each other. They also hardly do anything to accommodate the enfeebled and forgetful Grandma, often ignoring her suggestions to do so and barely treating her with any respect. When she nearly slips and falls ''one time'', they promptly make the decision to throw her into a retirment retirement home (albeit a nice one) in a week's time.
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* [[CardCarryingVillain Card-Carrying Brat]]: Greta, an aspiring gymnast who doesn't care about being [[NiceGirl "sweet"]] and would rather much act [[SpoiledBrat "interesting"]].
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* [[CardCarryingVillain Card-Carrying Brat]]: Greta, an aspiring gymnast who doesn't care about being [[NiceGirl "sweet"]] and would much rather much act [[SpoiledBrat "interesting"]].
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* [[CardCarryingVillain Card-Carrying Brat]]: Greta, an aspiring gymnast who doesn't care about being [[NiceGirl "sweet"]] and would rather much act [["SpoiledBrat interesting"]].[[SpoiledBrat "interesting"]].
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* [[CardCarryingVillain Card-Carrying Brat]]: Greta, an aspiring gymnast who doesn't care about being "[[NiceGirl sweet]]" and would rather much act "[[SpoiledBrat interesting]]".
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* [[CardCarryingVillain Card-Carrying Brat]]: Greta, an aspiring gymnast who doesn't care about being "[[NiceGirl sweet]]" [[NiceGirl "sweet"]] and would rather much act "[[SpoiledBrat interesting]]".[["SpoiledBrat interesting"]].
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The Rollins family is growing tired having to accommodate the senile and doddering Grandma, and thus plan to throw her into a retirement home against her will. The week before she is set to leave, the family invites Grandma to make a wish. Grandma's wish soon comes true, and her family begins to understand the hardships that come with growing old... in the literal sense.
!!"Grandma's Last Wish" provides examples of:
* BecameTheirOwnAntithesis: The Rollins often treat Grandma like an underfoot burden rather than a member of the family who deserves proper accommodation. By the end of the episode, they become even more senile and old than she ever was, whereas Grandma becomes a gracefully aging woman.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Inverted. Rather, it's the ''family'' who should've been more careful offering a wish to the grandmother they were about to stuff in a nursing home, who wishes that they would better understand what it's like to be as old and senile as her.
* BigScrewedUpFamily: The Rollins, to a T. Aside from Grandma, they're all self-centered assholes who only care about themselves and their social lives, on top of communicating with each other almost exclusively by yelling.
* BodyHorror: Throughout the episode, the Rollins spend the week gradually growing as old and senile as Grandma, aging prematurely from the inside out.
* [[CardCarryingVillain Card-Carrying Brat]]: Greta Rollins, who doesn't care about being "[[NiceGirl sweet]]" and would rather much act "[[SpoiledBrat interesting]]".
* DeceasedParentsAreTheBest: Or at least, "Deceased Husbands are the Best". According to Grandma, her dear departed husband's greatest gift to her was that he always believed in her. Compared to her selfish son, daughter-in-law, and granddaughter, it's little wonder she misses her husband.
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: Grandma's actual name is never mentioned throughout the story.
* EvilOldFolks: Grandma gradually become an anti-heroic variation of one as her family grows old. On one hand, making your family prematurely age into elders is rather cruel. [[JustifiedTrope On the other hand]],it's not like her family weren't [[AssholeVictim deserving]] of such treatment to begin with.
* ItsAllAboutMe: The Rollins embody "selfishness". They hardly do anything to accommodate the enfeebled and forgetful Grandma, often ignore her suggestions to do so, and barely treat her with any respect. And when she fails to keep up with their family, they make the decision to throw her into a nursing home in a week's time.
* IWasQuiteALooker: If the photo of her as a swinger is any indication, Grandma used to be a very lovely young woman.
* LaserGuidedKarma: For trying to put their nice (if clumsy and forgetful) grandmother in a nursing home, the whole Rollins family now suffer the same frailties of old age as she does.
* LighterAndSofter: The episode is a comic piece about an old lady who wishes for her outrageously dysfunctional family to be elderly, so that they know what it's like to be her. The antics of the family themselves make the episode teeter into DenserAndWackier territory.
* PayEvilUntoEvil: Normally, wishing your son, daughter-in-law, and granddaughter to become as old and physically/mentally enfeebled as you would count as [[DisproportionateRetribution cruel and undeserving]]. But Grandma's family is so selfish and toxic that it's little wonder she makes the titular wish.
* RapidAging: Happens to the Rollins towards the end.
* ScatterbrainedSenior: Grandma. Towards the end, thanks to her wish, she gets better while the rest of her family become this trope.
* VerbalBackpedaling: The man in charge of the nursing home claims that the plumbing will cost money. The family gives him a look before he takes it back and says he's [[BlatantLies joking]].
!!"Grandma's Last Wish" provides examples of:
* BecameTheirOwnAntithesis: The Rollins often treat Grandma like an underfoot burden rather than a member of the family who deserves proper accommodation. By the end of the episode, they become even more senile and old than she ever was, whereas Grandma becomes a gracefully aging woman.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Inverted. Rather, it's the ''family'' who should've been more careful offering a wish to the grandmother they were about to stuff in a nursing home, who wishes that they would better understand what it's like to be as old and senile as her.
* BigScrewedUpFamily: The Rollins, to a T. Aside from Grandma, they're all self-centered assholes who only care about themselves and their social lives, on top of communicating with each other almost exclusively by yelling.
* BodyHorror: Throughout the episode, the Rollins spend the week gradually growing as old and senile as Grandma, aging prematurely from the inside out.
* [[CardCarryingVillain Card-Carrying Brat]]: Greta Rollins, who doesn't care about being "[[NiceGirl sweet]]" and would rather much act "[[SpoiledBrat interesting]]".
* DeceasedParentsAreTheBest: Or at least, "Deceased Husbands are the Best". According to Grandma, her dear departed husband's greatest gift to her was that he always believed in her. Compared to her selfish son, daughter-in-law, and granddaughter, it's little wonder she misses her husband.
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: Grandma's actual name is never mentioned throughout the story.
* EvilOldFolks: Grandma gradually become an anti-heroic variation of one as her family grows old. On one hand, making your family prematurely age into elders is rather cruel. [[JustifiedTrope On the other hand]],it's not like her family weren't [[AssholeVictim deserving]] of such treatment to begin with.
* ItsAllAboutMe: The Rollins embody "selfishness". They hardly do anything to accommodate the enfeebled and forgetful Grandma, often ignore her suggestions to do so, and barely treat her with any respect. And when she fails to keep up with their family, they make the decision to throw her into a nursing home in a week's time.
* IWasQuiteALooker: If the photo of her as a swinger is any indication, Grandma used to be a very lovely young woman.
* LaserGuidedKarma: For trying to put their nice (if clumsy and forgetful) grandmother in a nursing home, the whole Rollins family now suffer the same frailties of old age as she does.
* LighterAndSofter: The episode is a comic piece about an old lady who wishes for her outrageously dysfunctional family to be elderly, so that they know what it's like to be her. The antics of the family themselves make the episode teeter into DenserAndWackier territory.
* PayEvilUntoEvil: Normally, wishing your son, daughter-in-law, and granddaughter to become as old and physically/mentally enfeebled as you would count as [[DisproportionateRetribution cruel and undeserving]]. But Grandma's family is so selfish and toxic that it's little wonder she makes the titular wish.
* RapidAging: Happens to the Rollins towards the end.
* ScatterbrainedSenior: Grandma. Towards the end, thanks to her wish, she gets better while the rest of her family become this trope.
* VerbalBackpedaling: The man in charge of the nursing home claims that the plumbing will cost money. The family gives him a look before he takes it back and says he's [[BlatantLies joking]].
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!! Grandma's Last Wish
The Rollins are a self-centered suburban familyis growing who are tired of having to accommodate the their senile and doddering Grandma, Grandma. When she trips and thus almost breaks something, the family plan to throw her into a retirement home poor Grandma in the Tranquil Gardens Retirement Home against her will. The week before she is she's set to leave, the family invites Grandma to make a wish. wish, and they promise to do whatever they can to make it come true. Grandma's wish soon comes does indeed come true, and her family begins begins, in the literal sense, to understand the hardships that come with growing old... in old.
!! Tropes:
* AmbiguouslyHuman: Grandma may be more than just an old lady, if theliteral sense.
!!"Grandma's Last Wish" provides examples of:
way she gets back at her family is any indication.
* AssholeVictim: May, Frank, and Greta, who treat Grandma like a burden, are reduced to oldies who become even more senile than her.
* BecameTheirOwnAntithesis: The Rollinsoften treat Grandma like as an underfoot burden rather than instead of a member of the family who that deserves proper accommodation. By the end of the episode, they become even more senile and old than she ever was, whereas thanks to her wish, Grandma becomes a gracefully aging woman.
woman while her family becomes even more old and senile than she ever was.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor:Inverted. Rather, it's Inverted, as the ''family'' ''Rollins'' are the ones who should've been more careful offering a wish to the grandmother Grandma, who they treated as a piece of garbage and were about to stuff in a nursing home, who wishes that home.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Even if she's not all there at times, Grandma tries her hardest to fit in with her hectic loudmouthed family, showing kindness whenever she can. That soon changes after theywould better understand what it's like get to be as old and senile as her.
talking about Tranquil Gardens.
* BigScrewedUpFamily:The Rollins, to a T. '''''The Rollins.''''' Aside from Grandma, they're all self-centered assholes jackasses who communicate almost exclusively by yelling and only care about themselves and their social lives, on top of communicating with each other almost exclusively by yelling.
lives.
* BodyHorror: Throughout the episode, the Rollinsspend the week gradually start growing as old and senile as Grandma, aging prematurely from the inside out.
* {{Bookends}}: The ragtime music that plays on Grandma's radio in the intro plays again at the end.
* BrickJoke: The beginning of the episode has May infuriating Greta by hogging the phone while she's expecting a call from her boyfriend Buzz. Halfway through the episode, after May sprains her ankle and gains a limp, Greta gets to repay the favor.
* [[CardCarryingVillain Card-Carrying Brat]]:Greta Rollins, Greta, an aspiring gymnast who doesn't care about being "[[NiceGirl sweet]]" and would rather much act "[[SpoiledBrat interesting]]".
* DeceasedParentsAreTheBest:Or at least, In this case "Deceased Husbands ''Husbands'' are the Best". According to Grandma, her dear departed husband's late husband Harry's greatest gift to her was that he always believed in her. Compared to her selfish son, daughter-in-law, and granddaughter, it's little wonder she misses Harry.
* TheDogBitesBack: After spending years treated as a doormat by herhusband.
unsympathetic family, Grandma gets back at them by wishing for them to become older and more senile than she is.
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: Grandma'sactual true name is never mentioned throughout the story.
mentioned.
* EvilOldFolks: Grandma graduallybecome becomes more of an anti-heroic variation of one anti-hero as her family grows old. On one hand, making your her family prematurely age into elders is rather cruel. [[JustifiedTrope On But on the other hand]],it's not like hand]], her family weren't was [[AssholeVictim highly deserving]] of such treatment to begin with.
* ForWantOfANail: Grandma trips over May's briefcase, which she plops right in her path. Had she put the briefcase under the kitchen table instead, she and her family may not have grown senile.
* ItsAllAboutMe: TheRollins embody "selfishness". entirety of the Rollins, since they're more preoccupied with their own wants and concerns than each other. They also hardly do anything to accommodate the enfeebled and forgetful Grandma, often ignore ignoring her suggestions to do so, so and barely treat treating her with any respect. And when When she fails to keep up with their family, nearly slips and falls ''one time'', they promptly make the decision to throw her into a nursing retirment home (albeit a nice one) in a week's time.
time.
** Not even Grandma herself is exempt from this, as she's far too busy being pleased that her wish is coming true to care that her relatives are being injured and brain-damaged.
* IWasQuiteALooker:If the The photo of her as a swinger is any indication, we see in the beginning shows that Grandma used to be a very lovely young woman.
* LaserGuidedKarma: For trying to puttheir the nice (if clumsy and forgetful) grandmother Grandma in a nursing home, the whole Rollins family now suffer the same frailties of old age as she does.
* LighterAndSofter: The episode is acomic piece about an comedy that centers on a somewhat senile old lady who wishes for her outrageously dysfunctional family to be elderly, so that they know what it's like to be her. The antics of the family themselves make the episode teeter into DenserAndWackier territory.
* NeverMessWithGranny: The Rollins learn this the hard way, as Grandma turns them even older and more senile than she ever was.
* NoIndoorVoice: To show how unsympathetic they are, the Rollins communicate exclusively by yelling. And they NEVER SHUT UP.
* NoSenseOfPersonalSpace: Frank and May keep moving closer and closer to Grandma to tell her about their plans to invite the representative of Tranquil Gardens to the house.
* PayEvilUntoEvil: Normally, wishing yourson, daughter-in-law, and granddaughter family to become as old and physically/mentally enfeebled as you would count as [[DisproportionateRetribution cruel and undeserving]]. But Grandma's family is so selfish and toxic that toxic, it's little wonder she makes the titular wish.
* RapidAging:Happens to the The Rollins towards get hit with this at the end.
end, thanks to Grandma's wish.
* ScatterbrainedSenior:Grandma. Grandma, with this being one of the reasons her family is getting tired of her. Towards the end, thanks to her wish, she gets better while the rest of her family become this trope.
even more senile than her.
* ShoutOut: In her youth, Grandma used be a dancer, having performed in the ''[[Film/ZiegfeldFollies1945 Ziegfeld Follies]]''. A senile Frank recalls how he snuck backstage to see her, claiming that she was prettier than Creator/GretaGarbo.
* TakingYouWithMe: In a non-lethal case, Grandma claims that her now-elderly family is going to be joining her at Tranquil Gardens.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Grandma happens to enjoy olives, often having a small cup of them for breakfast, along with a glass of tomato juice.
* VerbalBackpedaling: Theman in charge of the nursing home Tranquil Gardens representative claims that the plumbing will cost money. The family gives Rollins (minus Grandma) ''immedieately'' give him a look strange/dirty looks before he takes it back and says he's [[BlatantLies joking]].joking]].
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Their decision to throw Grandma in a home may be heartless, but the Rollins genuinely think she'll be safe and happy there. To be fair to them, the slides of Tranquil Gardens indicate that the place does its best to ensure that its residents are comfortable and have plenty recreational activities to do.
* WorldOfHam: The Rollins. Need we say more?
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Though they believe it's the best possible thing for her at this point, the Rollins agree unanimously to throw Grandma in a home after she slips and nearly falls one time.
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* AmbiguouslyHuman: Grandma may be more than just an old lady, if the
!!"Grandma's Last Wish" provides examples of:
* AssholeVictim: May, Frank, and Greta, who treat Grandma like a burden, are reduced to oldies who become even more senile than her.
* BecameTheirOwnAntithesis: The Rollins
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor:
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Even if she's not all there at times, Grandma tries her hardest to fit in with her hectic loudmouthed family, showing kindness whenever she can. That soon changes after they
* BigScrewedUpFamily:
* BodyHorror: Throughout the episode, the Rollins
* {{Bookends}}: The ragtime music that plays on Grandma's radio in the intro plays again at the end.
* BrickJoke: The beginning of the episode has May infuriating Greta by hogging the phone while she's expecting a call from her boyfriend Buzz. Halfway through the episode, after May sprains her ankle and gains a limp, Greta gets to repay the favor.
* [[CardCarryingVillain Card-Carrying Brat]]:
* DeceasedParentsAreTheBest:
* TheDogBitesBack: After spending years treated as a doormat by her
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: Grandma's
* EvilOldFolks: Grandma gradually
* ForWantOfANail: Grandma trips over May's briefcase, which she plops right in her path. Had she put the briefcase under the kitchen table instead, she and her family may not have grown senile.
* ItsAllAboutMe: The
** Not even Grandma herself is exempt from this, as she's far too busy being pleased that her wish is coming true to care that her relatives are being injured and brain-damaged.
* IWasQuiteALooker:
* LaserGuidedKarma: For trying to put
* LighterAndSofter: The episode is a
* NeverMessWithGranny: The Rollins learn this the hard way, as Grandma turns them even older and more senile than she ever was.
* NoIndoorVoice: To show how unsympathetic they are, the Rollins communicate exclusively by yelling. And they NEVER SHUT UP.
* NoSenseOfPersonalSpace: Frank and May keep moving closer and closer to Grandma to tell her about their plans to invite the representative of Tranquil Gardens to the house.
* PayEvilUntoEvil: Normally, wishing your
* RapidAging:
* ScatterbrainedSenior:
* ShoutOut: In her youth, Grandma used be a dancer, having performed in the ''[[Film/ZiegfeldFollies1945 Ziegfeld Follies]]''. A senile Frank recalls how he snuck backstage to see her, claiming that she was prettier than Creator/GretaGarbo.
* TakingYouWithMe: In a non-lethal case, Grandma claims that her now-elderly family is going to be joining her at Tranquil Gardens.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Grandma happens to enjoy olives, often having a small cup of them for breakfast, along with a glass of tomato juice.
* VerbalBackpedaling: The
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Their decision to throw Grandma in a home may be heartless, but the Rollins genuinely think she'll be safe and happy there. To be fair to them, the slides of Tranquil Gardens indicate that the place does its best to ensure that its residents are comfortable and have plenty recreational activities to do.
* WorldOfHam: The Rollins. Need we say more?
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Though they believe it's the best possible thing for her at this point, the Rollins agree unanimously to throw Grandma in a home after she slips and nearly falls one time.
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* BigScrewedUpFamily: The Rollins, to a T. Aside from Grandma, they're all self-centered assholes who only care about themselves and their social lives who communicate almost exclusively by yelling.
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* BigScrewedUpFamily: The Rollins, to a T. Aside from Grandma, they're all self-centered assholes who only care about themselves and their social lives who communicate lives, on top of communicating with each other almost exclusively by yelling.
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* EvilOldFolks: Grandma gradually becomes one as her family grows old.
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* EvilOldFolks: Grandma gradually becomes become an anti-heroic variation of one as her family grows old.old. On one hand, making your family prematurely age into elders is rather cruel. [[JustifiedTrope On the other hand]],it's not like her family weren't [[AssholeVictim deserving]] of such treatment to begin with.
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* LighterAndSofter: The episode is a comic piece about an old lady who wishes that for her outrageously dysfunctional family to be elderly, so that they know what it's like to be her. The antics of the family themselves make the episode teeter into DenserAndWackier territory.
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* BecameTheirOwnAntithesis: The Rollins often treat Grandma like an underfoot burden rather than a member of their family who deserves proper accommodation. By the end of the episode, they become even more senile and old than she ever was, whereas Grandma becomes a gracefully aging woman.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Inverted. Rather, it's the ''family'' who should've been more careful offering a wish to the grandmother they were about to stuff in a nursing home. And she wishes they would better understand what it's like to be as old and senile as her.
* BigScrewedUpFamily: The Rollins, to a T. Aside from Grandma, they're all self-centered assholes who only care about themselves and their social lives, and communicate almost exclusively by yelling.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Inverted. Rather, it's the ''family'' who should've been more careful offering a wish to the grandmother they were about to stuff in a nursing home. And she wishes they would better understand what it's like to be as old and senile as her.
* BigScrewedUpFamily: The Rollins, to a T. Aside from Grandma, they're all self-centered assholes who only care about themselves and their social lives, and communicate almost exclusively by yelling.
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* BecameTheirOwnAntithesis: The Rollins often treat Grandma like an underfoot burden rather than a member of their the family who deserves proper accommodation. By the end of the episode, they become even more senile and old than she ever was, whereas Grandma becomes a gracefully aging woman.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Inverted. Rather, it's the ''family'' who should've been more careful offering a wish to the grandmother they were about to stuff in a nursinghome. And she home, who wishes that they would better understand what it's like to be as old and senile as her.
* BigScrewedUpFamily: The Rollins, to a T. Aside from Grandma, they're all self-centered assholes who only care about themselves and their sociallives, and lives who communicate almost exclusively by yelling.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Inverted. Rather, it's the ''family'' who should've been more careful offering a wish to the grandmother they were about to stuff in a nursing
* BigScrewedUpFamily: The Rollins, to a T. Aside from Grandma, they're all self-centered assholes who only care about themselves and their social
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* [[CardCarryingVillain Card-Carrying Brat]]: Greta Rollins, who doesn't care about being '[[NiceGirl sweet]]' and would rather much act "[[SpoiledBrat interesting]]".
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* [[CardCarryingVillain Card-Carrying Brat]]: Greta Rollins, who doesn't care about being '[[NiceGirl sweet]]' "[[NiceGirl sweet]]" and would rather much act "[[SpoiledBrat interesting]]".
* LighterAndSofter: The episode is a comic piece about an old lady who wishes that her outrageously dysfunctional family to be elderly, so that they know what it's like to be her. The antics of the family themselves make the episode teeter into DenserAndWackier territory.
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* ScatterbrainedSenior: The protagonist of the story. Towards the end, thanks to her wish, she gets better while the rest of her family become this trope.
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* ScatterbrainedSenior: The protagonist of the story.Grandma. Towards the end, thanks to her wish, she gets better while the rest of her family become this trope.
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* BecameTheirOwnAntithesis: The family often treats the grandmother like an underfoot burden rather than a member of their family who deserves proper accommodation. By the end of the episode, they become even more senile and old than she ever was. Whereas, the grandmother becomes a gracefully aging woman.
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The Rollins family is growing tired having to accommodate the senile and doddering Grandma, and thus plan to throw her into a retirement home against her will. The week before she is set to leave, the family invites Grandma to make a wish. Grandma's wish soon comes true, and her family begins to understand the hardships that come with growing old... in the literal sense.
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* BecameTheirOwnAntithesis: Thefamily Rollins often treats the grandmother treat Grandma like an underfoot burden rather than a member of their family who deserves proper accommodation. By the end of the episode, they become even more senile and old than she ever was. Whereas, the grandmother was, whereas Grandma becomes a gracefully aging woman.
!!"Grandma's Last Wish" provides examples of:
* BecameTheirOwnAntithesis: The
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* BodyHorror: Throughout the episode, the family spend the week gradually growing as old and senile as the grandmother, aging prematurely from the inside out.
* [[CardCarryingVillain Card-Carrying Brat]]: Greta, the granddaughter, doesn't care to be '[[NiceGirl sweet]]' and would rather much act "[[SpoiledBrat interesting]]".
* DeceasedParentsAreTheBest: Or at least, "Deceased Husbands are the Best". According to the grandmother, her dear husband's greatest gift to her was that he always believed in her. Compared to her selfish son, daughter-in-law and granddaughter, it's little wonder she misses her husband.
* ItsAllAboutMe: The grandmother's family embodies "selfishness". They hardly do anything to accommodate the enfeebled and forgetful grandmother, often ignore her suggestions to do so, and barely treat her with any respect. And when she fails to keep up with their family, they make the decision to throw her into a nursing home in a week's time.
* IWasQuiteALooker: If the photo of her as a swinger is any indication, the grandmother used to be very lovely.
* LaserGuidedKarma: For trying to put their nice (if clumsy and forgetful) grandmother in a nursing home, her whole family now suffer the same frailties of old age as she does.
* PayEvilUntoEvil: Normally, wishing your son, daughter-in-law and granddaughter become as old and physically/mentally enfeebled as you would count as [[DisproportionateRetribution cruel and undeserving]]. But the grandmother's family is so selfish and toxic that it's little wonder she makes her titular wish.
* RapidAging: Happens to the family towards the end.
* [[CardCarryingVillain Card-Carrying Brat]]: Greta, the granddaughter, doesn't care to be '[[NiceGirl sweet]]' and would rather much act "[[SpoiledBrat interesting]]".
* DeceasedParentsAreTheBest: Or at least, "Deceased Husbands are the Best". According to the grandmother, her dear husband's greatest gift to her was that he always believed in her. Compared to her selfish son, daughter-in-law and granddaughter, it's little wonder she misses her husband.
* ItsAllAboutMe: The grandmother's family embodies "selfishness". They hardly do anything to accommodate the enfeebled and forgetful grandmother, often ignore her suggestions to do so, and barely treat her with any respect. And when she fails to keep up with their family, they make the decision to throw her into a nursing home in a week's time.
* IWasQuiteALooker: If the photo of her as a swinger is any indication, the grandmother used to be very lovely.
* LaserGuidedKarma: For trying to put their nice (if clumsy and forgetful) grandmother in a nursing home, her whole family now suffer the same frailties of old age as she does.
* PayEvilUntoEvil: Normally, wishing your son, daughter-in-law and granddaughter become as old and physically/mentally enfeebled as you would count as [[DisproportionateRetribution cruel and undeserving]]. But the grandmother's family is so selfish and toxic that it's little wonder she makes her titular wish.
* RapidAging: Happens to the family towards the end.
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* BigScrewedUpFamily: The Rollins, to a T. Aside from Grandma, they're all self-centered assholes who only care about themselves and their social lives, and communicate almost exclusively by yelling.
* BodyHorror: Throughout the episode, thefamily Rollins spend the week gradually growing as old and senile as the grandmother, Grandma, aging prematurely from the inside out.
* [[CardCarryingVillain Card-Carrying Brat]]:Greta, the granddaughter, Greta Rollins, who doesn't care to be about being '[[NiceGirl sweet]]' and would rather much act "[[SpoiledBrat interesting]]".
* DeceasedParentsAreTheBest: Or at least, "Deceased Husbands are the Best". According tothe grandmother, Grandma, her dear departed husband's greatest gift to her was that he always believed in her. Compared to her selfish son, daughter-in-law daughter-in-law, and granddaughter, it's little wonder she misses her husband.
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: Grandma's actual name is never mentioned throughout the story.
* ItsAllAboutMe: Thegrandmother's family embodies Rollins embody "selfishness". They hardly do anything to accommodate the enfeebled and forgetful grandmother, Grandma, often ignore her suggestions to do so, and barely treat her with any respect. And when she fails to keep up with their family, they make the decision to throw her into a nursing home in a week's time.
* IWasQuiteALooker: If the photo of her as a swinger is any indication,the grandmother Grandma used to be a very lovely.
lovely young woman.
* LaserGuidedKarma: For trying to put their nice (if clumsy and forgetful) grandmother in a nursing home,her the whole Rollins family now suffer the same frailties of old age as she does.
* PayEvilUntoEvil: Normally, wishing your son,daughter-in-law daughter-in-law, and granddaughter to become as old and physically/mentally enfeebled as you would count as [[DisproportionateRetribution cruel and undeserving]]. But the grandmother's Grandma's family is so selfish and toxic that it's little wonder she makes her the titular wish.
* RapidAging: Happens to thefamily Rollins towards the end.
* BodyHorror: Throughout the episode, the
* [[CardCarryingVillain Card-Carrying Brat]]:
* DeceasedParentsAreTheBest: Or at least, "Deceased Husbands are the Best". According to
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: Grandma's actual name is never mentioned throughout the story.
* ItsAllAboutMe: The
* IWasQuiteALooker: If the photo of her as a swinger is any indication,
* LaserGuidedKarma: For trying to put their nice (if clumsy and forgetful) grandmother in a nursing home,
* PayEvilUntoEvil: Normally, wishing your son,
* RapidAging: Happens to the
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* VerbalBackpedaling: The man in charge of the nursing home claims plumbing will cost money. The family gives him a look before he takes it back and says he's [[BlatantLies joking]].
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* VerbalBackpedaling: The man in charge of the nursing home claims that the plumbing will cost money. The family gives him a look before he takes it back and says he's [[BlatantLies joking]].
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* DeceasedParentsAreTheBest: Or at least, "Deceased Husbands are the Best". According to the grandmother, her dear husband's greatest gift to her was that he always believed in her.
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* DeceasedParentsAreTheBest: Or at least, "Deceased Husbands are the Best". According to the grandmother, her dear husband's greatest gift to her was that he always believed in her. Compared to her selfish son, daughter-in-law and granddaughter, it's little wonder she misses her husband.
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* BodyHorror: Throughout the episode, the family spend the week gradually growing as old and senile as her, aging prematurely from the inside out.
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* BodyHorror: Throughout the episode, the family spend the week gradually growing as old and senile as her, the grandmother, aging prematurely from the inside out.
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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: A variety. Rather, it's the ''family'' who should've been more careful offering a wish to the grandmother they were about to stuff in a nursing home. And she wishes they would better understand what it's like to be as old and senile as her.
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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: A variety.Inverted. Rather, it's the ''family'' who should've been more careful offering a wish to the grandmother they were about to stuff in a nursing home. And she wishes they would better understand what it's like to be as old and senile as her.
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* ScatterbrainedSenior: Towards the end, thanks to her wish, our protagonist gets better while the rest of her family become this trope.
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* ScatterbrainedSenior: The protagonist of the story. Towards the end, thanks to her wish, our protagonist she gets better while the rest of her family become this trope.
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* ScatterbrainedSenior: Our protagonist is one. Towards the end, thanks to her wish, she gets better while the rest of her family become this trope.
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* ScatterbrainedSenior: Our protagonist is one. Towards the end, thanks to her wish, she our protagonist gets better while the rest of her family become this trope.
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* ScatterbrainedSenior
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* ScatterbrainedSeniorScatterbrainedSenior: Our protagonist is one. Towards the end, thanks to her wish, she gets better while the rest of her family become this trope.
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* BodyHorror: Throughout the episode, the family spend the week gradually growing as old and senile as her, aging prematurely bit by bit.
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* BodyHorror: Throughout the episode, the family spend the week gradually growing as old and senile as her, aging prematurely bit by bit.from the inside out.
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* BodyHorror: Throughout the episode, the family spend the week gradually growing as old and senile as her, becoming bit by bit like elders.
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* BodyHorror: Throughout the episode, the family spend the week gradually growing as old and senile as her, becoming aging prematurely bit by bit like elders.bit.
* [[CardCarryingVillain Card-Carrying Brat]]: Greta, the granddaughter, doesn't care to be '[[NiceGirl sweet]]' and would rather much act "[[SpoiledBrat interesting]]".
* [[CardCarryingVillain Card-Carrying Brat]]: Greta, the granddaughter, doesn't care to be '[[NiceGirl sweet]]' and would rather much act "[[SpoiledBrat interesting]]".
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* PayEvilUntoEvil: Normally, wishing your younger relatives become as old and physically/mentally enfeebled as you would count as [[DisproportionateRetribution cruel and undeserving]]. But the grandmother's family is so selfish and toxic that it's little wonder she makes her titular wish.
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* PayEvilUntoEvil: Normally, wishing your younger relatives son, daughter-in-law and granddaughter become as old and physically/mentally enfeebled as you would count as [[DisproportionateRetribution cruel and undeserving]]. But the grandmother's family is so selfish and toxic that it's little wonder she makes her titular wish.
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* BecameTheirOwnAntithesis: The family often treats the grandmother like an underfoot burden rather than a member of their family who deserves proper accommodation. By the end of the episode, they become even more senile and old than she ever was. Whereas, the grandmother becomes a gracefully aging woman, but [[PetTheDog offers her family come to the nursing home where they'll all be taken care of]].
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* BecameTheirOwnAntithesis: The family often treats the grandmother like an underfoot burden rather than a member of their family who deserves proper accommodation. By the end of the episode, they become even more senile and old than she ever was. Whereas, the grandmother becomes a gracefully aging woman, but [[PetTheDog offers her family come to the nursing home where they'll all be taken care of]].woman.
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* BecameTheirOwnAntithesis: The family often treats
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* BecameTheirOwnAntithesis: The family often treats the grandmother like an underfoot burden rather than a member of their family who deserves proper accommodation. By the end of the episode, they become even more senile and old than she ever was. Whereas, the grandmother becomes a gracefully aging woman, but [[PetTheDog offers her family come to the nursing home where they'll all be taken care of]].
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* VerbalBackpedaling:
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* VerbalBackpedaling:VerbalBackpedaling: The man in charge of the nursing home claims plumbing will cost money. The family gives him a look before he takes it back and says he's [[BlatantLies joking]].
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* RapidAging: Happens to the family towards the end.
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* RapidAging: Happens to the family towards the end.end.
* VerbalBackpedaling:
* VerbalBackpedaling:
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* LaserGuidedKarma: For trying to put their nice (if clumsy) grandmother in a nursing home, her whole family now acts and feels just as she does.
* PayEvilUntoEvil: Normally, wishing that someone were as old and somewhat senile as you would count as cruel. But the grandmother's family is so selfish and self-centered that it's little wonder she makes her titular wish.
* PayEvilUntoEvil: Normally, wishing that someone were as old and somewhat senile as you would count as cruel. But the grandmother's family is so selfish and self-centered that it's little wonder she makes her titular wish.
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* BecameTheirOwnAntithesis: The family often treats
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: A variety. Rather, it's the ''family'' who should've been more careful offering a wish to the grandmother they were about to stuff in a nursing home. And she wishes they would better understand what it's like to be as old and senile as her.
* BodyHorror: Throughout the episode, the family spend the week gradually growing as old and senile as her, becoming bit by bit like elders.
* DeceasedParentsAreTheBest: Or at least, "Deceased Husbands are the Best". According to the grandmother, her dear husband's greatest gift to her was that he always believed in her.
* ItsAllAboutMe: The grandmother's family embodies "selfishness". They hardly do anything to accommodate the enfeebled and forgetful grandmother, often ignore her suggestions to do so, and barely treat her with any respect. And when she fails to keep up with their family, they make the decision to throw her into a nursing home in a week's time.
* IWasQuiteALooker: If the photo of her as a swinger is any indication, the grandmother used to be very lovely.
* LaserGuidedKarma: For trying to put their nice (ifclumsy) clumsy and forgetful) grandmother in a nursing home, her whole family now acts and feels just suffer the same frailties of old age as she does.
* PayEvilUntoEvil: Normally, wishingthat someone were your younger relatives become as old and somewhat senile physically/mentally enfeebled as you would count as cruel. [[DisproportionateRetribution cruel and undeserving]]. But the grandmother's family is so selfish and self-centered toxic that it's little wonder she makes her titular wish.wish.
* RapidAging: Happens to the family towards the end.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: A variety. Rather, it's the ''family'' who should've been more careful offering a wish to the grandmother they were about to stuff in a nursing home. And she wishes they would better understand what it's like to be as old and senile as her.
* BodyHorror: Throughout the episode, the family spend the week gradually growing as old and senile as her, becoming bit by bit like elders.
* DeceasedParentsAreTheBest: Or at least, "Deceased Husbands are the Best". According to the grandmother, her dear husband's greatest gift to her was that he always believed in her.
* ItsAllAboutMe: The grandmother's family embodies "selfishness". They hardly do anything to accommodate the enfeebled and forgetful grandmother, often ignore her suggestions to do so, and barely treat her with any respect. And when she fails to keep up with their family, they make the decision to throw her into a nursing home in a week's time.
* IWasQuiteALooker: If the photo of her as a swinger is any indication, the grandmother used to be very lovely.
* LaserGuidedKarma: For trying to put their nice (if
* PayEvilUntoEvil: Normally, wishing
* RapidAging: Happens to the family towards the end.
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* LaserGuidedKarma: For trying to put their nice (if clumsy) grandmother in a nursing home, her whole family now acts and feels just as she does.
* PayEvilUntoEvil: Normally, wishing that someone were as old and somewhat senile as you would count as cruel. But the grandmother's family is so selfish and self-centered that it's little wonder she makes her titular wish.
* PayEvilUntoEvil: Normally, wishing that someone were as old and somewhat senile as you would count as cruel. But the grandmother's family is so selfish and self-centered that it's little wonder she makes her titular wish.
