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* TeensAreShort: Amber is pretty tiny, although during season 3, Max's actor has a pretty significant growth spurt, and already is competing height at age eleven with his 17 year old sister.
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* HollywoodDateless: A female example with Sarah; early in the season it is a joke between the women that she hasn't had a date in years, despite being attractive. Possibly justified in that she has two teenagers, and [[TheUnfairSex all men are terrified of women who already have kids]]. Totally not justified in that later on, two very different men who know she has children fall for her very quickly.
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* OverprotectiveDad: Adam and Kristina are both over protective to a fault. Many, many, ''many'' episodes have been done focusing on how they would rather stamp out their spouse or children's ambitious ideas out of fear that they might risk getting hurt trying something new.

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* BrotherChuck: The Lessings, who were Kristina and Adam's strongest support outside of the family during season 1 with advice for Max's condition declare they are getting a divorce in season 2. Afterwards, their appearances quickly diminish and are no longer even mentioned in season 3. In season 4 they make a single scene, quickly mention the divorce is off, and Kristina was less than thrilled to see them.


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* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: The Lessings, who were Kristina and Adam's strongest support outside of the family during season 1 with advice for Max's condition declare they are getting a divorce in season 2. Afterwards, their appearances quickly diminish and are no longer even mentioned in season 3. In season 4 they make a single scene, quickly mention the divorce is off, and Kristina was less than thrilled to see them.

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* ShoutOut: The scene in "Solace" where the TV automatically turns to ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' might be a reference to a scene in ''Film/{{Zathura}}'' where one of the brothers was watching sports and one of them changes the channel to Spongebob unexpectedly (Although, unlike Parenthood, the boy changed it during the middle of an episode, not the intro theme like the Parenthood episode).

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The scene in "Solace" where the TV automatically turns to ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' might be a reference to a scene in ''Film/{{Zathura}}'' where one of the brothers was watching sports and one of them changes the channel to Spongebob unexpectedly (Although, unlike Parenthood, the boy changed it during the middle of an episode, not the intro theme like the Parenthood episode). episode).
** Max and Hanks' daughter Ruby, who work together at Hanks' camera shop, are not the first [[Literature/MaxAndRuby cunning but stubborn Max and resourceful but snarky Ruby out there.]]
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* InformedWrongness: Jasmine unfairly blamed Crosby for the fight Max had with Jabbar after he expressed that he doesn’t want to have lunch with Max everyday. While Crosby didn’t handle the situation any better by forcing his son to have lunch with his cousin because “there’s something wrong with him”. She didn’t take into consideration that Adam was now his business partner in the Luncheonette. Or before Crosby could get a chance to bring up the issue Adam [[ ObliviousGuiltSlinging expressed gratitude of having Jabbar there to accompany Max at school.]] Also, there was nothing stopping Jasmine from talking to Adam or Kristina about it.

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* InformedWrongness: Jasmine unfairly blamed Crosby for the fight Max had with Jabbar after he expressed that he doesn’t want to have lunch with Max everyday. While Crosby didn’t handle the situation any better by forcing his son to have lunch with his cousin because “there’s something wrong with him”. She didn’t take into consideration that Adam was now his business partner in the Luncheonette. Or before Crosby could get a chance to bring up the issue Adam [[ ObliviousGuiltSlinging [[ObliviousGuiltSlinging expressed gratitude of having Jabbar there to accompany Max at school.]] Also, there was nothing stopping Jasmine from talking to Adam or Kristina about it.
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* InformedWrongness: Jasmine unfairly blamed Crosby for the fight Max had with Jabbar after he expressed that he doesn’t want to have lunch with Max everyday. While Crosby didn’t handle the situation any better by forcing his son to have lunch with his cousin because “there’s something wrong with him”. She didn’t take into consideration that Adam was now his business partner in the Luncheonette. Or before Crosby could get a chance to bring up the issue Adam [[ ObliviousGuiltSlinging expressed gratitude of having Jabbar there to accompany Max at school.]] Also, there was nothing stopping Jasmine from talking to Adam or Kristina about it.
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** Sydney becomes this after Joel and Julia adopt Victor, though this is because she’s used to being the focus of her parents.


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* TeensAreMonsters: Amber gets accosted and slut shamed by Haddie’s friends in “Team Braverman”.
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* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: Crosby foolish Adam responsible
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* BothSidesHaveAPoint: In season 5, Sarah is using Hank’s computer at his shop to do an important work project. Max comes in demanding to use the computer for recreation but Sarah says she has a deadline and Max needs to wait. Max isn’t having it and the more Sarah refuses the more belligerent Max gets. When relaying the situation to Adam later on, Sarah says that Max doesn’t hear the word ‘no’ enough. Adam gets offended and states that dealing with Max is a little more complicated than that. While Adam is correct that raising a neuro-divergent child has more challenges than raising a neuro-typical child, Sarah also has a good observation in that Adam and Kristina have long since stopped even trying to set rules and boundaries with Max.
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** UpToEleven with Crosby.

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** UpToEleven %%** Exaggerated with Crosby.
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* AbsenteeActor : None of the main cast appear in every episode. Until the final season, the only characters who were present in every story were Adam, Kristina, Julia, Sarah and Crosby. However, sometimes, they were mentioned.
** By the sixth season, every character has been absent in at least two episodes.
*** With the exception of Las Vegas, and May God Bless and Keep You Always, which were also the two episodes with Haddie coming back, every other season 6 episode did not feature one or several characters.
*** "Happy birthday Zeek " did not feature Drew.
*** "The Waiting Room" did not feature the young kids and Kristina.
*** Drew and Amber were absent in "A Potpourri of Freaks"
*** Sarah and Hank were absent in "The Scale from Affection is Fluid", though Hank isn't a main character.
*** Zeek, Camille,Julia, Joel, Sydney and Victor were absent in "Too Big To fail"
*** Adam, Kristina, Crosby, Jasmine, Jabbar and Camille were absent in "These are The Times We Live In"
*** Adam, Sarah, Zeek, Joel, Julia, Sydney and Victor were absent in "Aaron Brownstein must be Stopped"
*** Crosby, Sydney, Victor, Jasmine and Amber were absent in "Lean In"
*** Jabbar in fact only returned in the finale.
*** Max, Sydney and Victor also were absent in "How did we Get There ?"
*** Drew did not appear in "We Made It Trough the Times ", so his penultimate episode was "Let's Go Home".
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* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: The family was already large and extended in the first season and only gets bigger
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* BaldWoman: [[spoiler:Kristina]] for the last chunk of Season 4 as a result of getting chemotherapy.

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* BaldWoman: BaldnessMeansSickness: [[spoiler:Kristina]] is bald for the last chunk of Season 4 as a result of getting chemotherapy.

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\n\n* ActorAllusion:
** One episode has Haddie and Amber talking about a movie that stars Michael Cera. Guess who played Michael Cera's girlfriend back on ''Series/ArrestedDevelopment'' (and kicks Cera's ass in ''Film/ScottPilgrimVsTheWorld''). Mae Whitman's character also wear a banana costume for Halloween, which is a reference to what is worn by the employees on Arrested Development at their Frozen Banana stand.
** Lauren Graham's character Sarah's first (albeit short-lived) love interest is a barista, and later on she dates her daughter's teacher, who is younger than her. In Graham's starring role in Series/GilmoreGirls, her character was a coffee addict who eventually fell in love with the man who served her coffee (He was a diner owner and served her food also, but she came in just for coffee often), and she dated early on-- and got engaged to-- her daughter's young teacher.
** In Season 3 Alex is explaining to Haddie why he doesn't think he should go to a high school party. Max says it's not a good idea because of the underage drinking, which he knows about because he watches ''Series/FridayNightLights''. Max is telling this to Alex, played by Michael B. Jordan who not only was a star on Friday Night Lights for two seasons but who also got his role on Parenthood through Jason Katims' executive producer position at both shows.
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The show explores the lives of the various families belonging to the Braverman clan. SugarWiki/NeedsMoreLove.

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* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Max likes Skittles. A lot. He is repeatedly bribed by his family throughout the series to perform mundane tasks in exchange for skittles, and once won a student presidential campaign using his desire to have more vending machines containing skittles to be available in school.

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* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Max likes Skittles.''Advertising/{{Skittles}}''. A lot. He is repeatedly bribed by his family throughout the series to perform mundane tasks in exchange for skittles, and once won a student presidential campaign using his desire to have more vending machines containing skittles to be available in school.
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* YourCheatingHeart: At some point or another in the series literally every single couple at some point encounters some form of physical or emotional affair.
** Zeek and Camille have both cheated on each other, Camille more recently.
** Crosby cheated on Jasmine after a big fight. [[Series/{{Friends}} They were not on a break.]]
** And now [[spoiler: Jasmine's cheated on Dr. Joe with Crosby.]]
** Sarah was caught in an emotional affair between two men battling for her love.
** One of the biggest threats to Kristina and Adam's marriage was her fear of how close Adam was getting with another woman.
** Season one caps off with Haddie's first love cheating on her with Amber. And in a much lesser extent, Amber had a crush on her teacher, and felt like he was "cheating" on her because he was dating Sarah.
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* SuddenlySexuality: [[spoiler: Haddie]] in the Season 5 finale.
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* FragileFlower: Kristina handles nothing well, though it's a 50/50 chance as to whether she'll cry or become comically irrational. Worse now that she's given birth to the latest Braverman.


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* ProneToTears: Kristina handles nothing well, though it's a 50/50 chance as to whether she'll cry or become comically irrational. Worse now that she's given birth to the latest Braverman.
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* Absentee Actor : None of the main cast appear in every episode. Until the final season, the only characters who were present in every story were Adam, Kristina, Julia, Sarah and Crosby. However, sometimes, they were mentioned.

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* Absentee Actor AbsenteeActor : None of the main cast appear in every episode. Until the final season, the only characters who were present in every story were Adam, Kristina, Julia, Sarah and Crosby. However, sometimes, they were mentioned.
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* Absentee Actor : None of the main cast appear in every episode. Until the final season, the only characters who were present in every story were Adam, Kristina, Julia, Sarah and Crosby. However, sometimes, they were mentioned.
** By the sixth season, every character has been absent in at least two episodes.
*** With the exception of Las Vegas, and May God Bless and Keep You Always, which were also the two episodes with Haddie coming back, every other season 6 episode did not feature one or several characters.
*** "Happy birthday Zeek " did not feature Drew.
*** "The Waiting Room" did not feature the young kids and Kristina.
*** Drew and Amber were absent in "A Potpourri of Freaks"
*** Sarah and Hank were absent in "The Scale from Affection is Fluid", though Hank isn't a main character.
*** Zeek, Camille,Julia, Joel, Sydney and Victor were absent in "Too Big To fail"
*** Adam, Kristina, Crosby, Jasmine, Jabbar and Camille were absent in "These are The Times We Live In"
*** Adam, Sarah, Zeek, Joel, Julia, Sydney and Victor were absent in "Aaron Brownstein must be Stopped"
*** Crosby, Sydney, Victor, Jasmine and Amber were absent in "Lean In"
*** Jabbar in fact only returned in the finale.
*** Max, Sydney and Victor also were absent in "How did we Get There ?"
*** Drew did not appear in "We Made It Trough the Times ", so his penultimate episode was "Let's Go Home".


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* SiblingRivalry: Max and Haddie and later in the series [[spoiler: Sydney and Victor]]

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* SiblingRivalry: Max and Haddie have a rather one-sided one. Haddie gets frustrated, jealous, and overwhelmed at times by Max. The fact that Max isn't able to pick up on how irritated she gets with him both fills her with guilt and also makes her feel even more annoyed. By the end of the series though, with having some time away in college to finally have her own space, Haddie returns to apologize for Max as she comes to terms that she was more upset at the situation rather than him.
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and later in the series [[spoiler: Sydney and Victor]]Victor]] exhibit a pretty nasty intense one. They cool off over time, but even in the best of days they still fight a lot.
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** Sarah was caught in an emotional affair between two men battling for her love.
** One of the biggest threats to Kristina and Adam's marriage was her fear of how close Adam was getting with another woman.
** Season one caps off with Haddie's first love cheating on her with Amber. And in a much lesser extent, Amber had a crush on her teacher, and felt like he was "cheating" on her because he was dating Sarah.

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''Parenthood'' is the second television adaptation of the 1989 [[Film/{{Parenthood}} movie of the same name]], and like the first series (which [[ShortRunners lasted just 12 episodes]] in 1990), Creator/RonHoward (who directed the film) is an executive producer, although Jason Katims, executive producer of ''Series/FridayNightLights'', appears to be the main showrunner, and aired on Creator/{{NBC}} for six seasons, ending it's run in January 2015.

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''Parenthood'' is the second television adaptation of the 1989 [[Film/{{Parenthood}} movie of the same name]], and like the first series (which [[ShortRunners lasted just 12 episodes]] in 1990), Creator/RonHoward (who directed the film) is an executive producer, although Jason Katims, executive producer of ''Series/FridayNightLights'', appears to be the main showrunner, and aired on Creator/{{NBC}} for six seasons, ending it's its run in January 2015.


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Not to be confused with ''Series/TheParentHood''.
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* AspergerSyndrome: Adam and Kristina's son Max is diagnosed with it in the first episode. [[spoiler: In Season 5, Hank fears he may have it too after getting a book on it from Adam, and starts seeing Max's specialist Dr. Pelican.]]

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