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* MakingLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces: Jim promised to make love in all the mainland states before the 15th anniversary. To close off, he and Cheryl go to Indiana during said date and consummate in a basement, during a tornado, [[CaughtWithYourPants while a family is hiding...]]
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* MakingLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces: Jim promised to make love in all the mainland states before the 15th anniversary. To close off, he and Cheryl go to Indiana during said date and consummate in a basement, during a tornado, [[CaughtWithYourPants [[CaughtWithYourPantsDown while a family is hiding...]]
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* FanDisservice: Every ShirtlessScene with Andy.
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* MakingLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces: Jim promised to make love in all the mainland states before the 15th anniversary. To close off, he and Cheryl go to Indiana during said date and consummate in a basement, during a tornado, [[CaughtWithYourPants while a family is hiding...]]
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* PutOnABus: Kimberly Williams-Paisley
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* PutOnABus: Kimberly Williams-Paisley in the final season.
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* SureLetsGoWithThat: what with this show heavily relying on wacky antics, this is pretty much a given. Case in point - the episode with Andy buying... er, "second-hand" jewels for his fiancée, and hen sharing the same plan with Jim. When Cheryl asks Jim if that was in order to make it the "best birthday ever", he pretty much goes with that hypothesis.
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* SureLetsGoWithThat: what with this show heavily relying on wacky antics, this is pretty much a given. Case in point - the episode with Andy buying... er, "second-hand" jewels for his fiancée, and hen then sharing the same plan with Jim. When Cheryl asks Jim if that was in order to make it the "best birthday ever", he pretty much goes with that hypothesis.
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* StealthInsult: A meta example towards Cosmopolitan magazine. Drinking cosmo makes you a {{yandere}}, [[http://www.cracked.com/article_19066_7-psychotic-pieces-relationship-advice-from-cosmo.html hmm]].
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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: In "Jim Almighty", God gives Jim the ability to change girls how he wants. He soon regrets all the changes, and has to get God to reverse them.
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* BreastExpansion: In "Jim Almighty", the first thing Jim does with his new powers is make all women have big boobs. Cue Ruby and Gracie walking downstairs with giant boobs.
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* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: On the HalloweenEpisode, Jim's kids pick out their own costumes: Ruby is a cowgirl, Gracie goes as the StatueOfLiberty, and Kyle's costume is... Cinderella.
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* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: On the HalloweenEpisode, Jim's kids pick out their own costumes: Ruby is a cowgirl, Gracie goes as the StatueOfLiberty, UsefulNotes/StatueOfLiberty, and Kyle's costume is... Cinderella.
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* HappilyMarried: Unlike other {{DomCom}}s that ran during its time, Jim and Cheryl enjoyed a pleasant, equal marriage, with no AbuseIsOkayWhenItsFemaleOnMale, DoubleStandard, or any other things that you watch and think to yourself "why are these two married at all?".
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* HappilyMarried: Unlike other {{DomCom}}s that ran during its time, Jim and Cheryl enjoyed a pleasant, equal marriage, with no AbuseIsOkayWhenItsFemaleOnMale, DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale, DoubleStandard, or any other things that you watch and think to yourself "why are these two married at all?".
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* NoNameGiven: Jim, Cheryl, Andy and the kids are only referred to by their first names. Dana originally had no last name as well, but this changed after she married Dr. Ryan Gibson and adopted his surname.
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* NoNameGiven: Jim, Cheryl, Andy Andy, and the kids are only referred to by their first names. Dana originally had no last name as well, but this changed after she married Dr. Ryan Gibson and adopted his surname.
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* SiblingRivalry: Between Andy and Dana, and sometimes between both of them and Cheryl.
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* SiblingRivalry: Between Andy and Dana, and sometimes between the both of them and Cheryl.
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* RunningGag: Jim not remembering Kyle's name and referring to her as "the little one", followed by Cheryl reminding him of Kyle's name.
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* RunningGag: Jim not remembering Kyle's Gracie's (later Kyle's) name and referring to her her/him as "the little one", followed by Cheryl reminding him of Kyle's the name.
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* TheDanza: Jim Belushi as Jim.
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* DrinkOrder: How Jim judges women's personalities. White wine=classy yet unpretentious, lemon drop=high maintenance, and cosmos=AxeCrazy.
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* DrinkOrder: How Jim judges women's personalities. White wine=classy yet unpretentious, lemon drop=high maintenance, and cosmos=AxeCrazy.cosmos=AxCrazy.
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* RealLifeRelative: Jim's real-life son Robert Belushi appeared in about eleven episodes - sometimes as [[CastingGag an older version of Kyle]]. His daughter would also make occasional appearances as a random girl who'd snark at some form of misfortune a member of the cast might be experiencing.
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* RealLifeRelative: Jim's real-life son Robert Belushi appeared in about eleven episodes - sometimes as [[CastingGag an older version of Kyle]].
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* RealLifeRelative: Jim's real-life son Robert Belushi appeared in about eleven episodes - sometimes as [[CastingGag an older version of Kyle]]. His daughter would also make occasional appearances as a random girl who'd snark at some form of misfortune a member of the cast might be experiencing.
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* RealMenEatMeat: Jim and, to a vocally lessor extent, Andy.
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* RealMenEatMeat: Jim and, to a vocally lessor lesser extent, Andy.
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** this is most likely how Andy Knows the though having no kids of his own one wonders how. Though it's entirely possible he has watched TheSuiteLifeOnDeck with Jim's kids.
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* RunningGag: Jim not remembering Gracie's name and referring to her as "the little one", followed by Cheryl reminding him of Gracie's name.
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* RunningGag: Jim not remembering Gracie's Kyle's name and referring to her as "the little one", followed by Cheryl reminding him of Gracie's Kyle's name.
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Standard DomCom (2001-2009) with BumblingDad ([[JamesBelushi "Jim" Belushi]]) and long suffering [[UglyGuyHotWife hot wife]] (Courtney Thorne-Smith). A total of 182 episodes were released in its eight seasons.
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Standard DomCom (2001-2009) with BumblingDad ([[JamesBelushi ([[Creator/JamesBelushi "Jim" Belushi]]) and long suffering [[UglyGuyHotWife hot wife]] (Courtney Thorne-Smith). A total of 182 episodes were released in its eight seasons.
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* YouLookFamiliar: The same guest actor to play Jim's son in Imagine Spots of the future and for various other random roles throughout the series, including a waiter and a lonely guy at the bar-was Jim Belushi's real son.
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* YouLookFamiliar: The same guest actor to play Jim's son in Imagine Spots {{Imagine Spot}}s of the future and future--and for various other random roles throughout the series, including a waiter and a lonely guy at the bar-was bar--was Jim Belushi's real son.
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* IWantYouToMeetAnOldFriendOfMine: DanAykroyd guest starred in five episodes as an old friend of Jim's.
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* IWantYouToMeetAnOldFriendOfMine: DanAykroyd Creator/DanAykroyd guest starred in five episodes as an old friend of Jim's.
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* {{Jerkass}}: Everybody has their moment of this from time to time, but mostly Jim, Dana and Andy.
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* {{Jerkass}}: Everybody has their moment of this from time to time, but mostly time. The most prominent examples being Jim, Dana Dana, and Andy.
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* DeadpanSnarker: Dana.
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* DeadpanSnarker: Dana.Dana
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* MostAnnoyingSound: The Devlins, the single most irritating couple you'll ever meet, perpetually happy and overly friendly people who never get mad at anyone for anything, laugh at everything and make terrible jokes, and tend to show up unannounced.
* NoNameGiven: Jim, Cheryl, Andy and the kids are only referred to by their first names; Dana originally had no last name as well, but this changed after she married Dr. Ryan Gibson and adopted his surname.
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* AmericanFootball: Jim and Andy live and breathe it. BEARS, NOT PACKERS.
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* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: On the HalloweenEpisode, Jim's kids pick out their own costumes: Ruby is a cowgirl, Gracie goes as Statue of Liberty, and Kyle's costume is... Cinderella.
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* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: On the HalloweenEpisode, Jim's kids pick out their own costumes: Ruby is a cowgirl, Gracie goes as Statue of Liberty, the StatueOfLiberty, and Kyle's costume is... Cinderella.
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* MostAnnoyingSound: The Devlins, the single most irritating couple you'll ever meet, perpetually happy and overly friendly people who never get mad at anyone for anything, laugh at everything and make terrible jokes.
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* MostAnnoyingSound: The Devlins, the single most irritating couple you'll ever meet, perpetually happy and overly friendly people who never get mad at anyone for anything, laugh at everything and make terrible jokes.jokes, and tend to show up unannounced.
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* MostAnnoyingSound: The Devlins, the single most IRRITATING couple you'll ever meet, both in-universe and out, they're perpetually happy and overly friendly people who NEVER seem to get mad at anyone for anything, they laugh at EVERYTHING in the most annoying way and make the WORST jokes imaginable. I know them being annoying was the point, but the writers succeeded in that department a little TOO well.
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* MostAnnoyingSound: The Devlins, the single most IRRITATING irritating couple you'll ever meet, both in-universe and out, they're perpetually happy and overly friendly people who NEVER seem to never get mad at anyone for anything, they laugh at EVERYTHING in the most annoying way everything and make the WORST jokes imaginable. I know them being annoying was the point, but the writers succeeded in that department a little TOO well.terrible jokes.
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* IWantYouToMeetAnOldFriendOfMine: DanAykroyd guest starred in two episodes as an old friend of Jim's.
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* TheAttic
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* SorryImGay: When Andy tries to flirt with Dana's boss, she says she is gay. After he says he had no idea, she says it just happened.
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* TheCameo: at the end of one episode Cole and Dylan Sprouse walk through the door and seem to know Jim.
** Though they are credited as themselves Andy shouts Zack and Cody when they walk through the door.
**this is most likely how Andy Knows the though having no kids of his own one wonders how. Though it's entirely possible he has watched TheSuiteLifeOnDeck with Jim's kids.
** Though they are credited as themselves Andy shouts Zack and Cody when they walk through the door.
**this is most likely how Andy Knows the though having no kids of his own one wonders how. Though it's entirely possible he has watched TheSuiteLifeOnDeck with Jim's kids.
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Standard DomCom (2001-2009) with BumblingDad ([[JamesBelushi "Jim" Belushi]]) and long suffering [[UglyGuyHotWife hot wife]] (Courtney Thorne-Smith). A total of 182 episodes were released in its eight seasons.
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!!'''Tropes include:'''
* AmericanFootball: Jim and Andy live and breathe it. BEARS, NOT PACKERS.
* AnalogyBackfire: When Andy dates a girl Jim dislikes, he compares this with him and Osama bin Laden being together to Cheryl and Andy (on separate occasions) in order to make his point, only for this trope to take place (Andy contemplates turning bin Laden in for reward, whereas Cheryl wonders whether the relationship is serious), much to Jim's frustration.
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: On the HalloweenEpisode, Jim's kids pick out their own costumes: Ruby is a cowgirl, Gracie goes as Statue of Liberty, and Kyle's costume is... Cinderella.
* TheAttic
* BackForTheFinale: Dana.
* BirthdayHater: Jim hates his birthday as a result of having been [[CaughtWithYourPantsDown caught with his pants down]] on his 13th birthday.
* BucketBoobyTrap: Double subverted. The kids tricked Andy into thinking they were going to do it, then when he refuses to fall for it and puts on his slippers, he gets pudding all over his feet. Then he chases the kids into the kitchen to get pudding dropped on his head.
* BumblingDad: Jim
* ButtMonkey: Andy
* TheCastShowOff: Jim Belushi wrote the theme song and he regularly performs in a band on the show showing off his harmonica skills.
* CaughtWithYourPantsDown: This happens in Jim's youth, causing him to detest surprise parties on his birthday.
* CrazyPrepared: Cheryl kept a binder listing all the times she was right about something and Jim was wrong from the day they started dating in the off-chance Jim suggested that he was right about things more than she was.
* TheCouch
* TheDanza: Jim Belushi as Jim.
* ADateWithRosiePalms: After getting turned down to take Cheryl to a baby shower in Jim's place, Andy quips: "I guess it's just me and my palm tonight."
** Of course, he's actually referring to his Palm Pilot.
** More explicitly hinted at in the episode where Jim has to give a sperm sample but asks Andy to give it in his place.
* DisappearedDad: Jim's dad left him when he was a kid, reuniting with him after 35 years.
* DrinkOrder: How Jim judges women's personalities. White wine=classy yet unpretentious, lemon drop=high maintenance, and cosmos=AxeCrazy.
* DoubleStandard: In several episodes Cheryl will get mad at Jim for saying something stupid, usually sexist. Only to later find herself in a situation in which proves Jim was right, and goes to great lengths to prevent him from finding out.
** For example in one episode Jim explains that men and women's brains are wired so they won't remember certain things, Cheryl gets mad at him, only to later find herself trapped in the garage because none of the girls can remember the key code for the door, which her toddler son punches in effortlessly. She makes one last ditch effort to prove him wrong but can't even remember the code when hes just explained it to her.
* EatingContest: Jim and Andy participate in one that involves hot dogs, whose winner would get to be in a local commercial for said hot dog. Too bad for them a woman ends up the winner. Jim's so disgruntled that he challenges her to another one.
* EscalatingWar: Between Jim and Andy, in two separate episodes, all for ''a grill''.
* HappilyMarried: Unlike other {{DomCom}}s that ran during its time, Jim and Cheryl enjoyed a pleasant, equal marriage, with no AbuseIsOkayWhenItsFemaleOnMale, DoubleStandard, or any other things that you watch and think to yourself "why are these two married at all?".
* GarageBand: Jim, Andy, and their friends have one.
* GroinAttack: Andy has been a victim of this.
* HotMom: Cheryl
* IWantYouToMeetAnOldFriendOfMine: DanAykroyd guest starred in two episodes as an old friend of Jim's.
* InstrumentalThemeTune
* IronicEchoCut: Jim competes in an EatingContest during a family picnic. Cheryl urges him to stop, but Jim replies: "They'd have to pump my stomach before I quit!" Cut to the next scene where paramedics carry Jim off to hospital, saying: "He'll be fine after we pump his stomach."
* {{Jerkass}}: Everybody has their moment of this from time to time, but mostly Jim, Dana and Andy.
* LongRunners
* LoonyFan: BEARS YAY, PACKERS NAY.
* MommasBoy: Andy, again.
* MostAnnoyingSound: The Devlins, the single most IRRITATING couple you'll ever meet, both in-universe and out, they're perpetually happy and overly friendly people who NEVER seem to get mad at anyone for anything, they laugh at EVERYTHING in the most annoying way and make the WORST jokes imaginable. I know them being annoying was the point, but the writers succeeded in that department a little TOO well.
* NoNameGiven: Jim, Cheryl, Andy and the kids are only referred to by their first names; Dana originally had no last name as well, but this changed after she married Dr. Ryan Gibson and adopted his surname.
* ObnoxiousInLaws: Played straight with Dana, but also averted with Andy.
** Jim's also got a very healthy and friendly relationship with his mother in-law, to the point that Andy often got jealous about Jim being her favourite "son". When Dana married Ryan, Jim actually became jealous of losing his spot.
* PaintballEpisode
* PracticalJoke: Cheryl, Andy, and Dana make Jim think his dead friend came back to life, because Jim stole back his playing card that said friend stole the day before he died.
* PrimalFear: Jim is terrified of spiders.
* PunctuatedForEmphasis: From Jim: "Give... me... the... check." In a different episode, Cheryl asks: "Did... you... write... those... notes?"
* PutOnABus: Kimberly Williams-Paisley
* ReadingTheStageDirectionsOutLoud: When Jim uses an earpiece and hidden microphone to communicate to Andy, he tells him to tell the girl he's picking up to "Stay beautiful," and walk away. Andy tells her "Stay beautiful and walk away." Twice.
* RealLifeRelative: Jim's real-life son Robert Belushi appeared in about eleven episodes - sometimes as [[CastingGag an older version of Kyle]].
* RealLifeWritesThePlot: Courtney Thorne-Smith's pregnancy was written in, and so were both of Kimberly Williams-Paisley's pregnancies.
* RealMenEatMeat: Jim and, to a vocally lessor extent, Andy.
* RunningGag: Jim not remembering Gracie's name and referring to her as "the little one", followed by Cheryl reminding him of Gracie's name.
* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: Andy and Jim.
* ShockParty: The organizing variation; Jim throws one for Cheryl.
* ShotInTheAss: By a TURKEY named "Angry Pete".
* SiblingRivalry: Between Andy and Dana, and sometimes between both of them and Cheryl.
* SureLetsGoWithThat: what with this show heavily relying on wacky antics, this is pretty much a given. Case in point - the episode with Andy buying... er, "second-hand" jewels for his fiancée, and hen sharing the same plan with Jim. When Cheryl asks Jim if that was in order to make it the "best birthday ever", he pretty much goes with that hypothesis.
* UglyGuyHotWife: Jim and Cheryl.
* VitriolicBestBuds: Jim and Andy.
* YouLookFamiliar: The same guest actor to play Jim's son in Imagine Spots of the future and for various other random roles throughout the series, including a waiter and a lonely guy at the bar-was Jim Belushi's real son.
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Standard DomCom (2001-2009) with BumblingDad ([[JamesBelushi "Jim" Belushi]]) and long suffering [[UglyGuyHotWife hot wife]] (Courtney Thorne-Smith). A total of 182 episodes were released in its eight seasons.
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!!'''Tropes include:'''
* AmericanFootball: Jim and Andy live and breathe it. BEARS, NOT PACKERS.
* AnalogyBackfire: When Andy dates a girl Jim dislikes, he compares this with him and Osama bin Laden being together to Cheryl and Andy (on separate occasions) in order to make his point, only for this trope to take place (Andy contemplates turning bin Laden in for reward, whereas Cheryl wonders whether the relationship is serious), much to Jim's frustration.
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: On the HalloweenEpisode, Jim's kids pick out their own costumes: Ruby is a cowgirl, Gracie goes as Statue of Liberty, and Kyle's costume is... Cinderella.
* TheAttic
* BackForTheFinale: Dana.
* BirthdayHater: Jim hates his birthday as a result of having been [[CaughtWithYourPantsDown caught with his pants down]] on his 13th birthday.
* BucketBoobyTrap: Double subverted. The kids tricked Andy into thinking they were going to do it, then when he refuses to fall for it and puts on his slippers, he gets pudding all over his feet. Then he chases the kids into the kitchen to get pudding dropped on his head.
* BumblingDad: Jim
* ButtMonkey: Andy
* TheCastShowOff: Jim Belushi wrote the theme song and he regularly performs in a band on the show showing off his harmonica skills.
* CaughtWithYourPantsDown: This happens in Jim's youth, causing him to detest surprise parties on his birthday.
* CrazyPrepared: Cheryl kept a binder listing all the times she was right about something and Jim was wrong from the day they started dating in the off-chance Jim suggested that he was right about things more than she was.
* TheCouch
* TheDanza: Jim Belushi as Jim.
* ADateWithRosiePalms: After getting turned down to take Cheryl to a baby shower in Jim's place, Andy quips: "I guess it's just me and my palm tonight."
** Of course, he's actually referring to his Palm Pilot.
** More explicitly hinted at in the episode where Jim has to give a sperm sample but asks Andy to give it in his place.
* DisappearedDad: Jim's dad left him when he was a kid, reuniting with him after 35 years.
* DrinkOrder: How Jim judges women's personalities. White wine=classy yet unpretentious, lemon drop=high maintenance, and cosmos=AxeCrazy.
* DoubleStandard: In several episodes Cheryl will get mad at Jim for saying something stupid, usually sexist. Only to later find herself in a situation in which proves Jim was right, and goes to great lengths to prevent him from finding out.
** For example in one episode Jim explains that men and women's brains are wired so they won't remember certain things, Cheryl gets mad at him, only to later find herself trapped in the garage because none of the girls can remember the key code for the door, which her toddler son punches in effortlessly. She makes one last ditch effort to prove him wrong but can't even remember the code when hes just explained it to her.
* EatingContest: Jim and Andy participate in one that involves hot dogs, whose winner would get to be in a local commercial for said hot dog. Too bad for them a woman ends up the winner. Jim's so disgruntled that he challenges her to another one.
* EscalatingWar: Between Jim and Andy, in two separate episodes, all for ''a grill''.
* HappilyMarried: Unlike other {{DomCom}}s that ran during its time, Jim and Cheryl enjoyed a pleasant, equal marriage, with no AbuseIsOkayWhenItsFemaleOnMale, DoubleStandard, or any other things that you watch and think to yourself "why are these two married at all?".
* GarageBand: Jim, Andy, and their friends have one.
* GroinAttack: Andy has been a victim of this.
* HotMom: Cheryl
* IWantYouToMeetAnOldFriendOfMine: DanAykroyd guest starred in two episodes as an old friend of Jim's.
* InstrumentalThemeTune
* IronicEchoCut: Jim competes in an EatingContest during a family picnic. Cheryl urges him to stop, but Jim replies: "They'd have to pump my stomach before I quit!" Cut to the next scene where paramedics carry Jim off to hospital, saying: "He'll be fine after we pump his stomach."
* {{Jerkass}}: Everybody has their moment of this from time to time, but mostly Jim, Dana and Andy.
* LongRunners
* LoonyFan: BEARS YAY, PACKERS NAY.
* MommasBoy: Andy, again.
* MostAnnoyingSound: The Devlins, the single most IRRITATING couple you'll ever meet, both in-universe and out, they're perpetually happy and overly friendly people who NEVER seem to get mad at anyone for anything, they laugh at EVERYTHING in the most annoying way and make the WORST jokes imaginable. I know them being annoying was the point, but the writers succeeded in that department a little TOO well.
* NoNameGiven: Jim, Cheryl, Andy and the kids are only referred to by their first names; Dana originally had no last name as well, but this changed after she married Dr. Ryan Gibson and adopted his surname.
* ObnoxiousInLaws: Played straight with Dana, but also averted with Andy.
** Jim's also got a very healthy and friendly relationship with his mother in-law, to the point that Andy often got jealous about Jim being her favourite "son". When Dana married Ryan, Jim actually became jealous of losing his spot.
* PaintballEpisode
* PracticalJoke: Cheryl, Andy, and Dana make Jim think his dead friend came back to life, because Jim stole back his playing card that said friend stole the day before he died.
* PrimalFear: Jim is terrified of spiders.
* PunctuatedForEmphasis: From Jim: "Give... me... the... check." In a different episode, Cheryl asks: "Did... you... write... those... notes?"
* PutOnABus: Kimberly Williams-Paisley
* ReadingTheStageDirectionsOutLoud: When Jim uses an earpiece and hidden microphone to communicate to Andy, he tells him to tell the girl he's picking up to "Stay beautiful," and walk away. Andy tells her "Stay beautiful and walk away." Twice.
* RealLifeRelative: Jim's real-life son Robert Belushi appeared in about eleven episodes - sometimes as [[CastingGag an older version of Kyle]].
* RealLifeWritesThePlot: Courtney Thorne-Smith's pregnancy was written in, and so were both of Kimberly Williams-Paisley's pregnancies.
* RealMenEatMeat: Jim and, to a vocally lessor extent, Andy.
* RunningGag: Jim not remembering Gracie's name and referring to her as "the little one", followed by Cheryl reminding him of Gracie's name.
* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: Andy and Jim.
* ShockParty: The organizing variation; Jim throws one for Cheryl.
* ShotInTheAss: By a TURKEY named "Angry Pete".
* SiblingRivalry: Between Andy and Dana, and sometimes between both of them and Cheryl.
* SureLetsGoWithThat: what with this show heavily relying on wacky antics, this is pretty much a given. Case in point - the episode with Andy buying... er, "second-hand" jewels for his fiancée, and hen sharing the same plan with Jim. When Cheryl asks Jim if that was in order to make it the "best birthday ever", he pretty much goes with that hypothesis.
* UglyGuyHotWife: Jim and Cheryl.
* VitriolicBestBuds: Jim and Andy.
* YouLookFamiliar: The same guest actor to play Jim's son in Imagine Spots of the future and for various other random roles throughout the series, including a waiter and a lonely guy at the bar-was Jim Belushi's real son.
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