History Series / Reba

* InformedAttractiveness: Cheyenne constantly talks about how pretty she is, as does everyone else around her.

* AttemptedHomewrecker: Barbra Jean has no shame falling for other guys ''even after she married Brock''. ''[[UpToEleven She even refuses to let Reba get closer to them]]''.

A DomCom starring Music/RebaMcEntire set in Houston, Texas, that airing for six seasons on Creator/TheWB (2001–06) and then Creator/TheCW (2006-07).

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** Playing the trope straight, Brock drops the title of the episode "Lock and Loaded" [[spoiler: regarding having his vasectomy reversed.]]

* DrugsAreBad: An aesop the characters Reba, Brock and Barbra Jean have to deliver to Kyra in an episode of Season 3.

** Then there's Cheyenne herself, who is a perfect match for the equally-dumb Van. For starters, both thought having sex just once every month would ''never make Cheyenne pregnant''.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The first season was noticeably different from the rest of the series in both tone and structure. The fact that it was set in Texas was regularly part of the episodes' plots, with all the actors at least attempting a Southern regional accent. Van was more dumb than crazy. Barbra Jean (frequently referred to by her initials) was also a huge Jesus Freak. Cheyenne was more AlphaBitch than TheDitz, with Kyra even mentioning that she gets good grades. Brock wasn't nearly as vain. Reba was much more the OnlySaneMan instead of a ControlFreak. Though the show never fully abandoned plot and CharacterDevelopment, Cheyenne and Barbara Jean's pregnancies gave the season a strong, contained StoryArc rather than the more episodic nature of the later seasons. Finally, the show was generally much more serious and grounded, as the Hart family tried to navigate through Cheyenne's pregnancy and the Harts' divorce around ultra-conservative neighbors, school principals, etc. Much like ''Series/MarriedWithChildren'', the show kind of [[{{Flanderization}} Flanderized]] into more of a live-action cartoon and chose to emphasize comedy over drama.

* HasTwoMommies:
** Subverted in the episode "Van's Agent", as Reba and Sadie come clean about their secrets and agree to go to dinner as friends. Van, Cheyenne and Barbara Jean don't know about that and gleefully believe that Elizabeth will "have two grandmas".
** It's revealed in one episode as Van argues with Jake over being his soccer coach that one of Jake's friends has two moms.
-->'''Van''': Which father was it?
-->'''Jake''': It's not a dad.
-->'''Van''': Oh, is it one of Jimmy's two moms?!
-->'''Jake''': It's not a parent.

* BittersweetEnding: In the pilot episode, Brock and Reba's marriage ends due to Brock's infidelity, but Van and Cheyenne pull off a successful wedding and happy marriage. Van's parents will not come to the wedding and have kicked him out of the house, but on the bright side, he managed to arrange a honeymoon with Cheyenne at his uncle's beach house in Galveston.

* RageBreakingPoint: In the pilot, Reba finally loses it, shouting at everyone and giving the unfaithful Brock a big TheReasonYouSuckSpeech.

** At the start of the series, both couples Brock and Barbara Jean and Van and Cheyenne have unexpected pregnancies. They both get married to rectify their mistakes, but it causes more problems for Brock and Barbara Jean. In season 2, after Barbara Jean confessed she was pregnant with Brock's baby, Brock has a secret vasectomy to prevent any more unplanned pregnancies but this only angers Barbara Jean and Reba more as both women wanted more kids (Barbara Jean in the current marriage and Reba back when she and Brock were still married).

** "Jacob Mitchell Hart!"

* AluminumChristmasTrees: In the episode "For Sale, Cheap" Barbra Jean suggests that they should do Donkey Basketball at the next school auction, this is portrayed as another one of her crazy ideas, but as it turns out Donkey Basketball [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donkey_basketball does in fact exist]].

* UsefulNotes/AmericanAccents:
** Reba's trademark Oklahoma drawl, naturally.
** The rest of the cast did seem to be trying to affect Southern accents during the first season (Barbra Jean, especially.) Most didn't work very well, so by the second season, they just gave up.

* PoisonousFriend: Barbra Jean to Reba.

* TheGloriousWarOfSisterlyRivalry: Cheyenne and Kyra.
* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: Alluded to with Van and Cheyenne, even when newly married and pregnant at 17. And again during the sixth and final season. Averted with Reba and her then marriage to Brock as she sarcastically notes "trust me, married people don't act like that".
** In a season one episode "Is The Honeymoon Over Or Now What?", Kyra makes a lewd remark about hearing Van and Cheyenne's honeymoon.
-->'''Kyra''': Well I don't. I had to [[RightThroughTheWall listen to Van and Cheyenne]] [[UnusualEuphemism "making a van-wich"]] last night.
-->'''Reba''': ''(shocked)'' I beg your pardon?!

** Reba and Barbra Jean. (15 year age difference)
** Brock and Van. (27 year age difference)

** Brock and Van spends latter part of the episode "Parenting With Puppets" in a day spa for their "guy time", as Brock calls it. Said "guy time" gets marred (on top of Brock and Van being MistakenForGay) when the male masseuce, who is gay himself, reflects on him being with his boyfriend, which he calls as their "guy time", much to Brock's discomfort and Van's chagrin, especially since the whole "two guys spending time at a day spa" premise was entirely Brock's idea in the first place.

---> '''Van''': Well, it's not mine. And if it's not yours, then our three-year-old has a major problem.
---> '''Van''': What's going on, Cheyenne?

---> '''Reba''': ''(stunned)'' I did not know that.