History Series / Reba

* CryCute: Kyra is downright adorable during the few times she cries.

* IfItsYouItsOkay: Barbra Jean seems to have this for Reba as their unusual friendship has plenty of HoYay tendencies and Barbra Jean hopes that Reba will break her out of prison if she gets arrested. Then, admiring how tough she is, expresses desire that Reba be her "prison girlfriend". Reba is Squicked out by this and leaves. Barbra Jean then says even if they didn't end up in prison, she'd still want to be Reba's girlfriend.

** Cheyenne. Barbra Jean tries to teach her in one episode, and it backfires horribly; while [[DrowningMySorrows drowning her sorrows]] at her complete failure, she mentions how she taught her niece how to cook lasagna when she was ''six years old'' and worked at a church summer camp where she taught blind kids to cook, and she still couldn't make any progress with Cheyenne. [[FridgeBrilliance She could have been lying while drunk and was only fed up with Cheyenne's progress]], though when Reba comes home and Barbra Jean explains it, Reba simply agrees and says she's been there.

* LipstickLesbian: a minor character, Sadie Owens (portrayed by Wendie Malick) appears as such.

* RealSongThemeTune / DoItYourselfThemeTune: The theme song was a partial rewrite of Reba's 2002 single "I'm a Survivor."

* SpiritualSuccessor: ''Series/MalibuCountry''

* AbsenteeActor[=/=]WrittenInInfirmity:
** Kyra was absolutely nowhere to be seen for the ''vast majority'' of Season 5 (all but 2 of the 22 episodes that season), due to Scarlett Pomers' battle with anorexia (though some have speculated that was just a convenient excuse for network execs to focus on other characters like Jake at the expense of her character).
** {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d when she returned in Season 6:
-->''(Kyra walks into the house after long absence; huge audience applause)''\\
'''Van:''' What the hell? \\
'''Reba:''' Where have you been?\\
'''Kyra:''' I went to get something to eat.
** And then hinted at once more:
-->'''Van:''' Where are you going?\\
'''Kyra:''' Just going to grab something to eat.\\
'''Van:''' Okay, see you next year.

* RapunzelHair: Kyra. Lampshaded by Sue Montgomery.
--> '''Sue'''(playing with Kyra's hair): Hair so long. So very, very long.
-->'''Kyra''': Mom, make it stop.

* AdultFear:
** In an episode of Season 3, Kyra gets fed up with her father and stepmother's constant arguing and runs away. They confront her mother Reba on her rebellious behavior and Reba tells them that Kyra's not in her house either. All three parental guardians start to panic on where else could Kyra have disappeared to... Until she's revealed to have been taking refuge in Reba's house all that time.
** In Season 5, Van's playing hide-and-seek with his daughter Elizabeth. He loses her and immediately begins to panic. Until she pops out from hiding in the tree house and Van is relieved. Just goes as a reminder what happens when we lose track of our kids during hide-and-seek...

* IAteWhat: [[ZigzaggedTrope Zigzagged]] in the sixth-season episode "Trading Spaces", when Kyra informs Barbra Jean of her decision to move back to Reba's residence, Barbra Jean, shocked by the news, reacts by wiping the kitchen counter in an attempt to distract herself and appear calm, unaware that she's using her rice cake to do so (with cleaning solution applied to it). While the rice cake itself is fine for human consumption, the same can NOT be said about the cleaning solution, so her action of taking a bite into her rice cake, the cleaning solution and all, after Kyra leaves, results in her ejecting said rice cake out of her mouth solely due to the cleaning solution in it.

* IAteWhat: In the sixth-season episode "Trading Spaces", when Kyra informs Barbra Jean of her decision to move back to Reba's residence, Barbra Jean, shocked by the news, reacts by wiping the kitchen counter in an attempt to distract herself and appear calm, unaware that she's using her rice cake to do so (with cleaning solution applied to it). Imagine her surprise when she takes a bite into her rice cake, the cleaning solution and all, after Kyra leaves...

-> ''My roots are planted in the past\\

I'm a survivor''

Who I am is who I want to be\\

** Early in the episode "The Blond Leading the Blind", Cheyenne states that Van writes poetry when he's upset after Van seeing his car being wrecked, at which point Jake anticipates using one of Van's poems for his own use in class, only to change his mind after hearing Van recite a poem he wrote, as his response to Cheyenne asking him about his opinion towards Van's poem makes it clear.

* {{Irony}}: In "Fight or Flight", Van and Cheyenne are invited to a sports channel interview, which has Cheyenne all nervous while Van is thrilled to be on TV. Right before the show goes live, the roles switch. Now Van is absurdly nervous (and even runs away and pukes) while Cheyenne handles it with joy.

-->'''Jake''': [[DramaticPause It's great... to a second grader!]] *leaves*[[note]] [[DontExplainTheJoke Jake is approaching middle school by this point.]][[/note]]

* PerverseSexualLust:
* Discussed. In season 2, Reba and her guy of the week Brian discuss their first loves growing which happened to be cartoon characters: his was Wilma Flintstone and hers was Jughead.

-->'''Lori Ann, upon learning of Barbra Jean's past''': The woman's a tooth tart!

-->'''Jake''': YOU HIT DAD?!

** Kyra was absolutely nowhere to be seen for the ''vast majority'' of Season 5 (20 out of 22 episodes), due to Scarlett Pomers's battle with anorexia (though some have speculated that was just a convenient excuse for network execs to focus on other characters like Jake at the expense of her character).

-->''(Kyra walks into the house after long absence; audience applause)''\\

Who I am is who I want to be!\\

Who loves her kids and never stops!\\
With gentle hands and the heart of a fighter...\\
I'm a survivor!''

* RealityEnsues: As Reba points out to Cheyenne after Kyra rejects her apology for bullying her and ruining her 5th birthday party, "you can't just apologize to someone you bullied years ago and expect them to forgive you".

-->-- Theme song sung by Reba [=McEntire=]

** Reba gets upset if/when she gets compared to Barbra Jean and is told [[NotSoDifferent she's no better]].

* NotSoDifferent:
** Reba and Barbra Jean, though this is more pronounced in the last season.
** When Terry is presented to Reba as a new love interest, his advances (and Reba's complete indifference) don't help him get attached to her and reveals that he was being too strong because that's how a dumb blonde man woo'd his ex-wife. This is enough for Reba to start cracking jokes at the expense of Brock and Barbra Jean, who feel humiliated (after Reba felt humiliated for being forced to be with Terry by Barbra Jean).
** When Reba becomes best friends with [[Music/KellyClarkson Kelly]], her mannerisms are nearly the same as Barbra Jean's that Reba is questioned about how she can't feel and be best friends with Barbra Jean instead (though mostly because Barbra Jean took Brock away from her and she pushed herself into Reba's life anyway).

* TwoWordsICantCount: In the episode "Reba the Landlord", Van says "let it go" and "paper plates" quickly and insists on claiming each phrase as one word. Reba tries to correct Van once before [[NotSoDifferent doing it herself (using the phrase "let it go") late in the episode]].

-->(Kyra walks into the house after long absence; audience applause) '''Van:''' What the hell? \\

** Early in the episode "The Blond Leading the Blind", Van initially doesn't find it suspicious about Reba treating him with a plate of homemade cookies... until he gives a recount of him lending his car to Reba and seeing Reba's guilty expression.
--->'''Van''': We're nice to each other. She made me cookies; I lent her my car. *sees Reba's guilty facial expression* My car! *runs to his car*[[note]] Cue Van [[ScreamsLikeALittleGirl screaming in a high-pitched voice]] upon seeing the wrecked car.[[/note]]
** After viewing the video footage of Van's outrageous behavior and realizing that [[LikeFatherLikeSon he's turning into his own father regarding coaching sports]] late in "Bullets Over Brock", Van sees nothing wrong until further conversation with Cheyenne clues him in on how bad the circumstance is or will be, especially with regard to their own son.
--->'''Van''': It's weird. That's my father.
--->'''Cheyenne''': Nope, nope. I-I had the camera. It was you.
--->'''Van''': No, I know it was me, but the way I was acting, that was [[AbusiveParents my father]]. [[StageMom That's the way my dad coached me my whole life.]]
--->'''Cheyenne''': Oh, Van, that's so sad.
--->'''Van''': That's not sad. That's why I'm so good at sports.
--->'''Cheyenne''': Yeah, and it was probably why... you know --
--->'''Van''': Probably why what?
--->'''Cheyenne''': Well, why you hate your dad.
--->'''Van''': I don't hate my dad. I just, you know, don't talk to him. Or call him. Or think about him. Oh my gosh, I hate my dad, and I'm turning into him. Cheyenne, I don't want my well-enbrowed son to hate me!