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* CatchPhrase: Joe has "She's not my boss. I'm freelance."
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Melissa's co-worker Rhonda who appears for five episodes and is never seen nor mentioned again and is promptly replaced by her assistant Stephanie who was only mentioned in passing once before appearing on-screen, Stephanie herself also disappears without explanayion by season 4.
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Melissa's co-worker Rhonda who appears for five episodes and is never seen nor mentioned again and is promptly replaced by her assistant Stephanie who was only mentioned in passing once before appearing on-screen, Stephanie herself also disappears without explanayion by season 4.
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* CatchPhrase: CharacterCatchphrase: Joe has "She's not my boss. I'm freelance."
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Melissa's co-worker Rhonda who appears for five episodes and is never seen nor mentioned again and is promptly replaced by her assistant Stephanie who was only mentioned in passing once before appearing on-screen, Stephanie herself also disappears withoutexplanayion explanation by season 4.
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Melissa's co-worker Rhonda who appears for five episodes and is never seen nor mentioned again and is promptly replaced by her assistant Stephanie who was only mentioned in passing once before appearing on-screen, Stephanie herself also disappears without
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%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.
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* KarmaHoudini: Lewis Scanlon. He pulls off a ponzi scheme and leaves several people to take the fall including his own wife and his friend Joe Longo. His first and only on-screen appearance shows him as supposedly remorseful for the harm he has caused only to end with him escaping the law again in Joe's porsche.
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* KarmaHoudini: Lewis Scanlon. He pulls off a ponzi Ponzi scheme and leaves several people to take the fall including his own wife and his friend Joe Longo. His first and only on-screen appearance shows him as supposedly remorseful for the harm he has caused only to end with him escaping the law again in Joe's porsche.Porsche.
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* TeensAreShort: Averted. Both Ryder and Lennox are taller then Mel.
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* OverprotectiveDad: Joe ''really'' likes to interrogate and terrify any boy who shows interest in Lennox.
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* TwerpSweating: Joe ''really'' likes to interrogate and terrify any boy who shows interest in Lennox.
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* TheyDo: Unsurprisingly, Mel and Joe tie the knot at the end of the third season.
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* WorldOfSnark: [[SarcasmMode No kidding? I never would've guessed.]] To the point that the priest at Mel & Joe's wedding snarks about how they both have a tendency to want to get the last word in, so they decided who would take their vows first by coin toss.
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* WeddingFinale: Unsurprisingly, Mel and Joe tie the knot at the end of the third season.
* WorldOfSnark:[[SarcasmMode No kidding? I never would've guessed.]] To It's gotten to the point that where the priest at Mel & Joe's wedding snarks about how they both have a tendency to want to get the last word in, so they decided who would take their vows first by coin toss.
* WorldOfSnark:
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* EverythingsBetterWithPenguins: Mel wants Joe to get rid of his flat screen TV when she gets distracted by baby penguins on the screen.
** Then subverted at the end when another baby penguin is graphically eaten (but not seen by the viewers) by a leopard seal. Thus the TV seems to bounce between being in the living room and in Joe's room. In otherwords, it's there when it needs to be but not when it would interfere with the typical sitcom living room. This is even shown in the above episode when Ryder constantly moves the TV from Joe's room into the living room.
** Then subverted at the end when another baby penguin is graphically eaten (but not seen by the viewers) by a leopard seal. Thus the TV seems to bounce between being in the living room and in Joe's room. In otherwords, it's there when it needs to be but not when it would interfere with the typical sitcom living room. This is even shown in the above episode when Ryder constantly moves the TV from Joe's room into the living room.
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* OldShame: Mel views her old 'party girl' image as this.
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* SpiritualSuccessor: To ''Series/TheNanny'' and ''Series/WhosTheBoss''.
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** Mel routinely threatens to show up at school in a bathrobe and cry, which immediately gets the kids to do what she says.
** Joe showed up to Lennox's first All Night Party which prompted her friends to ask if she had forgotten her binky.
** Joe showed up to Lennox's first All Night Party which prompted her friends to ask if she had forgotten her binky.
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** Mel's sister — Lennox and Ryder's mother — is in jail, while their father is on the run. Mel is raising her niece and nephew because of this. It's implied that Mel and her sister didn't have the greatest childhood, with their senator father.
** Joe is not any better. He had a previous relationship with another woman and only finds out that she had a daughter behind his back 13 years later. The kicker? Joe's sister knew about the child but kept it a secret from him.
** Joe is not any better. He had a previous relationship with another woman and only finds out that she had a daughter behind his back 13 years later. The kicker? Joe's sister knew about the child but kept it a secret from him.
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** Mel's sister — Lennox and Ryder's mother — is in jail, while their father is on the run. Mel is raising her niece and nephew because of this. It's implied that Mel and her sister didn't have the greatest childhood, with their senator father.
father and alcoholic mother.
** Joe is not any better. He had a previous relationship with another woman and only finds out that she had a daughter behind his back 13 years later. The kicker? Joe's sister knew about the child but kept it a secret fromhim.him; moreover Joe's first wife Tiffany was an absolute ditz and a massive gold digger.
** Joe is not any better. He had a previous relationship with another woman and only finds out that she had a daughter behind his back 13 years later. The kicker? Joe's sister knew about the child but kept it a secret from
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* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Melissa's co-worker Rhonda who appears for five episodes and is never seen nor mentioned again.
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* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Melissa's co-worker Rhonda who appears for five episodes and is never seen nor mentioned again.again and is promptly replaced by her assistant Stephanie who was only mentioned in passing once before appearing on-screen, Stephanie herself also disappears without explanayion by season 4.
** "Game Night" frames the show's last clip show as the series' two longest-running couples (Mel and Joe, Lennox and Zander) competing in a home version of The Newlywed Game.
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* DysfunctionalFamily: Mel, Joe, Lennox and Ryder are definitely this already.
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* DysfunctionalFamily: Mel, Joe, Lennox and Ryder are definitely this already. already, Dani, Gloria and Russel add to it from time to time.
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** She later becomes disenchanted with the lifestyle when a very fanatical college professor attempts to destroy a small pedicure business over ideological reasons.
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** Averted with Emily who is profoundly offended by Bianca's transgression.
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** In one ocassion when Joe claims his ravioli are world famous Mel pokes fun at him by asking "Are they really famous? Were they in Dancing with the Stars?", to which Joe mutters "Finished higher than you."
** The Season four Halloween special "Witch Came First" is full of callbacks to Sabrina The Teenage Witch, complete with a cameo by Beth Broderick.
** The Season four Halloween special "Witch Came First" is full of callbacks to Sabrina The Teenage Witch, complete with a cameo by Beth Broderick.
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Local politician Mel Burke is a [[OldShame former]] HardDrinkingPartyGirl turned politician who must take care of her niece and nephew, Lennox and Ryder, after [[MissingMom their mother]] [[DisappearedDad and father]] are arrested for a [[TheCon ponzi]] [[WhiteCollarCrime scheme]] their father, Lewis Scanlon pulled. Joe Longo is a former employee of Scanlon who was left broke, jobless and publicly shamed in the wake of the scheme, despite having known nothing about it. Unable to find work due to his tarnished name, Joe hits rock bottom after his [[GoldDigger wife]] leaves him, and confronts Mel during one of her public addresses.
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Local politician Mel Burke is a [[OldShame former]] HardDrinkingPartyGirl turned politician who must take care of her niece and nephew, Lennox and Ryder, after [[MissingMom their mother]] is arrested and [[DisappearedDad and their father]] are arrested goes on the run for a [[TheCon ponzi]] [[WhiteCollarCrime scheme]] their the father, Lewis Scanlon Scanlon, pulled. Joe Longo is a former employee of Scanlon who was left broke, jobless and publicly shamed in the wake of the scheme, despite having known nothing about it. Unable to find work due to his tarnished name, Joe hits rock bottom after his [[GoldDigger wife]] leaves him, and confronts Mel during one of her public addresses.
