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** In another episode the school marching band can be seen holding up a banner that says "Thank you for not watching ''Series/EerieIndiana''", which aired on rival network Creator/{{NBC}}. Amusingly, Creator/FoxKids later picked up the reruns for ''Series/EerieIndiana'' after NBC cancelled it, which ultimately ended up giving the show a second chance in popularity and recognition.

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** In another episode the school marching band can be seen holding up a banner that says "Thank you for not watching ''Series/EerieIndiana''", which aired on rival network Creator/{{NBC}}. Amusingly, Creator/FoxKids later picked ended up the airing reruns for ''Series/EerieIndiana'' after NBC cancelled it, which ultimately ended up giving the show a second chance in popularity and recognition.
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** In another episode the school marching band can be seen holding up a banner that says "Thank you for not watching ''Series/EerieIndiana''", which aired on rival network Creator/{{NBC}}. Amusingly, Creator/FoxKids later picked up the reruns for ''Series/EerieIndiana'' after NBC cancelled it, which ultimately ended up giving the show a CultFollowing.

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** In another episode the school marching band can be seen holding up a banner that says "Thank you for not watching ''Series/EerieIndiana''", which aired on rival network Creator/{{NBC}}. Amusingly, Creator/FoxKids later picked up the reruns for ''Series/EerieIndiana'' after NBC cancelled it, which ultimately ended up giving the show a CultFollowing.second chance in popularity and recognition.
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** In another episode the school marching band can be seen holding up a banner that says "Thank you for not watching ''Series/EerieIndiana''", which aired on rival network Creator/{{NBC}}. Amusingly, Creator/FoxKids later picked up the reruns for ''Series/EerieIndiana'' after NBC cancelled it.

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** In another episode the school marching band can be seen holding up a banner that says "Thank you for not watching ''Series/EerieIndiana''", which aired on rival network Creator/{{NBC}}. Amusingly, Creator/FoxKids later picked up the reruns for ''Series/EerieIndiana'' after NBC cancelled it.it, which ultimately ended up giving the show a CultFollowing.
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** In another episode the school marching band can be seen holding up a banner that says "Thank you for not watching ''Series/EerieIndiana''."

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** In another episode the school marching band can be seen holding up a banner that says "Thank you for not watching ''Series/EerieIndiana''."''Series/EerieIndiana''", which aired on rival network Creator/{{NBC}}. Amusingly, Creator/FoxKids later picked up the reruns for ''Series/EerieIndiana'' after NBC cancelled it.
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* DeanBitterman: Miss Musso.

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* DeanBitterman: Miss Musso.Musso and Dr Pankow, which the latter is fitting as he is played by the actor who played the ObstructiveBureaucrat foster father Phil Simpson from ''Film/ChildsPlay2''.

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* IHaveThisFriend: Inverted in "Close But No Guitar": Parker decides to talk to his parents about Mikey deciding to drop out of school, but since he uses the trope phrase, his parents think ''he'' wants to drop out and want him to talk to a psychiatrist.
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It was clearly influenced by the classic teen movie ''Film/FerrisBuellersDayOff'' -- much more so than the movie's TV adaptation; many consider ''ParkerLewisCantLose'' to be the SpiritualSuccessor to the ''Ferris Bueller'' film. ''Parker Lewis Can't Lose'' actually had ''lower'' ratings than ''Ferris Bueller'', but the Fox network was still in its early years and thus had lower expectations, allowing ''Lewis'' to outlast ''Bueller'' by two seasons.

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It was clearly influenced by the classic teen movie ''Film/FerrisBuellersDayOff'' -- much more so than the movie's TV adaptation; many consider ''ParkerLewisCantLose'' ''Parker Lewis Can't Lose'' to be the SpiritualSuccessor to the ''Ferris Bueller'' film. ''Parker Lewis Can't Lose'' actually had ''lower'' ratings than ''Ferris Bueller'', but the Fox network was still in its early years and thus had lower expectations, allowing ''Lewis'' to outlast ''Bueller'' by two seasons.

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* CatchPhrase: "Coolness!", "Not a problem," "Synchronise Swatches!" "Food/Eat now!"

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* CatchPhrase: "Coolness!", "Not a problem," "Synchronise Swatches!" "Food/Eat now!"now!" "Mooomm!"


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** Parker was also a rather sympathetic example. Many of his schemes are designed to help ''others'' (like getting Kubiak into college, or helping Mikey talk to a girl he likes). That fact that he often benefits himself is just a bonus. He also has lines he won't cross, like altering grades.
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** In another episode the school marching band can be seen holding up a banner that says "Thank you for not watching ''EerieIndiana''."

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** In another episode the school marching band can be seen holding up a banner that says "Thank you for not watching ''EerieIndiana''.''Series/EerieIndiana''."
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** When Parker is shipped off to detention, one of the people he meets there is [[MarriedWithChildren David Faustino wearing a "Polk High" shirt saying]] "I don't even go to this school!"

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** When Parker is shipped off to detention, one of the people he meets there is [[MarriedWithChildren [[Series/MarriedWithChildren David Faustino wearing a "Polk High" shirt saying]] "I don't even go to this school!"
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* ActorAllusion: Shelley goes undercover using the name "Shelley Nemec".
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** In another episode the school marching band can be seen holding up a banner that says "Thank you for not watching ''EerieIndiana''."
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* UnskilledButStrong: In one episode, Kubiak reveals that he actually doesn't know how to fight, and simply relied on his size for intimidation, leaving him rattled when a rival bully showed up who was unfazed by him.
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** When Parker is shipped off to detention, one of the people he meets there is [[MarriedWithChildren David Faustino wearing a "Polk High" shirt saying]] "I don't even go to this school!"

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* ShoutOut: Parker describes his [[TheRival rival]] Matt Styles:
--> '''Parker:''' Who does this Matt guy think he is, Ferris Bueller?
** In the same episode when Matt uses Parker's excuse Rolodex:
--> '''Parker:''' "[[StarWars I sense a disturbance in the force.]]"



* UnusualEuphemism: In the episode "Home Alone with Annie", Parker and his girlfriend keep dancing around the prospect of a... RelationshipUpgrade by referring to it as "watching cable (TV)."

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* UnusualEuphemism: In the episode "Home Alone with Annie", Parker and his girlfriend keep dancing around the prospect of a... RelationshipUpgrade by referring to it as "watching cable (TV)." "
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''Parker Lewis Can't Lose'' was a sitcom on the {{Fox}} network, running from [[TheNineties 1990 to 1993]]. It centered around a good-hearted (but low-scrupled) HighSchool wheeler-dealer and his two associates, and the scams, cons and manipulations that they got away with (mostly) day to day. It starred Corin Nemec, now known for playing the former TropeNamer for SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute on ''{{Stargate SG-1}}''.

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''Parker Lewis Can't Lose'' was a sitcom on the {{Fox}} network, running from [[TheNineties 1990 to 1993]]. It centered around a good-hearted (but low-scrupled) HighSchool wheeler-dealer and his two associates, and the scams, cons and manipulations that they got away with (mostly) day to day. It starred Corin Nemec, now known for playing the former TropeNamer for SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute on ''{{Stargate SG-1}}''.
''Series/StargateSG1''.
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* ExtremeOmnivore: Kube.

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* ExtremeOmnivore: Kube. At one point he's seen eating leaves off a tree.
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* CatchPhrase: "Coolness!", "Not a problem," "Synchronise Swatches!"

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* CatchPhrase: "Coolness!", "Not a problem," "Synchronise Swatches!"Swatches!" "Food/Eat now!"
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* ExtremeOmnivore: Kube.


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* MeanCharacterNiceActor: The Kube is this in-universe, as the atypical bully act he initially has is just to play up how people view him but he's actually a pretty decent guy at heart.
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* SittingOnTheRoof: In later seasons.
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* {{Expy}}: Parker Lewis, of Ferris Bueller.

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''Parker Lewis Can't Lose'' was a sitcom on the {{Fox}} network, running from [[TheNineties 1990 to 1993]]. It centered around a good-hearted (but low-scrupled) HighSchool wheeler-dealer and his two associates, and the scams, cons and manipulations that they got away with (mostly) day to day. It starred Corin Nemec, now known for playing the former TropeNamer for SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute on {{Stargate SG-1}}.

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''Parker Lewis Can't Lose'' was a sitcom on the {{Fox}} network, running from [[TheNineties 1990 to 1993]]. It centered around a good-hearted (but low-scrupled) HighSchool wheeler-dealer and his two associates, and the scams, cons and manipulations that they got away with (mostly) day to day. It starred Corin Nemec, now known for playing the former TropeNamer for SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute on {{Stargate SG-1}}.
''{{Stargate SG-1}}''.


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* GreatWhiteHunter: In "Future Shock", Principal Russo hires Great White Hunter Rex Huston to track down and retrieve Kube who is hiding in the ventilation system to avoid a vaccination.
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* {{Flanderization}}: In the early episodes, it was made clear that Kube's {{Hulkspeak}} and general attitude were an [[ObfuscatingStupidity act]], and that he was in fact both intelligent, capable of proper speech and highly sensitive.
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* MrsRobinson: Miss Musso tends to stare at virile young men... just long enough to make it awkward
* Nerd: Jerry is one of these in the biggest way... and a doormat.

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* MrsRobinson: Miss Musso tends to stare at virile young men... just long enough to make it awkward
awkward.
* Nerd: {{Nerd}}: Jerry is one of these in the biggest way... and a doormat.



* SittingSexyOnAPiano: once, during an ImagineSpot

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* SittingSexyOnAPiano: once, Once, during an ImagineSpotImagineSpot.
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* TakeThat: Soon after the ''Ferris Bueller'' series was cancelled, one episode ended with the camera pulling back to reveal the episode (still running) on a movie screen in a small theater. In the theater are two people, Parker Lewis and a teenage boy hidden in shadows. Parker turns to the other boy and says, "See, Ferris? That's how it's supposed to be done."
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theChick spot is filled occasionally...


** Sometimes drifts into a FiveManBand dynamic: TheHero = Parker, TheLancer = Mikey, TheSmartGuy = Jerry, TheBigGuy = Kube, and with an empty TheChick spot.

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** Sometimes drifts into a FiveManBand dynamic: TheHero = Parker, TheLancer = Mikey, TheSmartGuy = Jerry, TheBigGuy = Kube, and with an empty TheChick spot.spot (filled occasionally by Shelly, occasionally by the [[TemporaryLoveInterest temporary love interest]] ).
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Changed run date from \"early 90s\" to \"1990 to 1993\".


''Parker Lewis Can't Lose'' was an early [[TheNineties '90s]] sitcom on the {{Fox}} network. It centered around a good-hearted (but low-scrupled) HighSchool wheeler-dealer and his two associates, and the scams, cons and manipulations that they got away with (mostly) day to day. It starred Corin Nemec, now known for playing the former TropeNamer for SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute on {{Stargate SG-1}}.

It was clearly influenced by the classic teen movie ''Film/FerrisBuellersDayOff'' -- much more so than the movie's TV adaptation; many consider ''ParkerLewisCantLose'' to be the SpiritualSuccessor to the ''Ferris Bueller'' film. (''Parker Lewis Can't Lose'' actually had ''lower'' ratings than ''Ferris Bueller'', but the Fox network was still in its early years and thus had lower expectations.)

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''Parker Lewis Can't Lose'' was an early [[TheNineties '90s]] a sitcom on the {{Fox}} network.network, running from [[TheNineties 1990 to 1993]]. It centered around a good-hearted (but low-scrupled) HighSchool wheeler-dealer and his two associates, and the scams, cons and manipulations that they got away with (mostly) day to day. It starred Corin Nemec, now known for playing the former TropeNamer for SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute on {{Stargate SG-1}}.

It was clearly influenced by the classic teen movie ''Film/FerrisBuellersDayOff'' -- much more so than the movie's TV adaptation; many consider ''ParkerLewisCantLose'' to be the SpiritualSuccessor to the ''Ferris Bueller'' film. (''Parker ''Parker Lewis Can't Lose'' actually had ''lower'' ratings than ''Ferris Bueller'', but the Fox network was still in its early years and thus had lower expectations.)
expectations, allowing ''Lewis'' to outlast ''Bueller'' by two seasons.

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* BerserkButton: Kubiak and his lunch, don't ever touch it.

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* BerserkButton: Kubiak and his lunch, don't ever touch it. UrbanLegend states he once punched out (and possibly killed) a ''nun'' for sitting on his lunch bag.
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* BerserkButton: Kubiak and his lunch, don't ever touch it.


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* MrsRobinson: Miss Musso tends to stare at virile young men... just long enough to make it awkward
* Nerd: Jerry is one of these in the biggest way... and a doormat.


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* SubordinateExcuse: Frank Lemmer and Miss Musso.
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It was clearly influenced by the classic teen movie ''FerrisBuellersDayOff'' -- much more so than the movie's TV adaptation; many consider ''ParkerLewisCantLose'' to be the SpiritualSuccessor to the ''Ferris Bueller'' film. (''Parker Lewis Can't Lose'' actually had ''lower'' ratings than ''Ferris Bueller'', but the Fox network was still in its early years and thus had lower expectations.)

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It was clearly influenced by the classic teen movie ''FerrisBuellersDayOff'' ''Film/FerrisBuellersDayOff'' -- much more so than the movie's TV adaptation; many consider ''ParkerLewisCantLose'' to be the SpiritualSuccessor to the ''Ferris Bueller'' film. (''Parker Lewis Can't Lose'' actually had ''lower'' ratings than ''Ferris Bueller'', but the Fox network was still in its early years and thus had lower expectations.)

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