History Series / SixteenHundredPenn

President Dale Gilchrist (Bill Pullman) has a host of family issues to deal with while running the country. His new wife Emily (Jenna Elfman) is trying to become accepted as a member of the family. His oldest son Skip (JoshGad) is a LazyBum who has moved back home after wasting seven years of college partying. Oldest daughter Becca (Martha [=MacIsaac=]) is supposed to be the respectable one, but has just become pregnant as the series opens due to the LawOfInverseFertility. The First Family is rounded out with lesbian teen Marigold (Amara Miller) and preteen genius Xander (Benjamin Stockham). Press secretary Marshall Malloy (Andre Holland) is Becca's former boyfriend while lovable idiot D.B. (Robbie Amell) is her baby daddy, [[spoiler:except actually Marshall is the father after all]].

* DescendedCreator: JoshGad is one of the show's creators and also plays Skip

* {{Scandalgate}}: When Dale makes a joke about marriage being pointless, the press dubs the incident "Wedding-gate" and spends the next month harping on his supposed opposition to family values.

* NotImportantToThisEpisodeCamp: Marigold and Xander have spent a fair number of episodes here.

President Dale Gilchrist (Bill Pullman) has a host of family issues to deal with while running the country. His new wife Emily (Jenna Elfman) is trying to become accepted as a member of the family. His oldest son Skip (JoshGad) is a LazyBum who has moved back home after wasting seven years of college partying. Oldest daughter Becca (Martha [=MacIsaac=]) is supposed to be the respectable one, but has just become pregnant as the series opens due to the LawOfInverseFertility. The First Family is rounded out with lesbian teen Marigold (Amara Miller) and preteen genius Xander (Benjamin Stockham). Press secretary Marshall Malloy (Andre Holland) is Becca's former boyfriend [[spoiler:and also the father of her baby.]]

* WriteWhatYouKnow: One of the show's creators was a speechwriter for President BarackObama.

* AffectionateNickname: "Momily," coined by Skip.

* SecretKeeper: Emily for Marigold's sexuality until the latter comes out to Skip later on. Emily was going to be this for Becca's pregnancy at first, too, until the AccidentalPublicConfession.

* ArtisticLicenseGeography: There's no such thing as a "Princess of Andorra". Although the leaders of the country are called "co-princes", it's not a hereditary monarchy. The co-princes are a bishop appointed by ThePope and the other is the President of France (formerly the King of France). If there were an Andorran princess, she would be more properly referred to as "the President of France" (the other co-prince can't be female, being a Catholic bishop and all).

President Dale Gilchrist (Bill Pullman) has a host of family issues to deal with while running the country. His new wife Emily (Jenna Elfman) is trying to become accepted as a member of the family. His oldest son Skip (JoshGad) is a LazyBum who has moved back home after wasting seven years of college partying. Oldest daughter Becca (Martha [=MacIsaac=]) is supposed to be the respectable one, but has just become pregnant as the series opens due to the LawOfInverseFertility. The First Family is rounded out with two school-aged children, Marigold (Amara Miller) and Xander (Benjamin Stockham). Andre Holland also stars as press secretary Marshall Malloy.

* LawOfInverseFertility: Normally reserved Becca managed to get pregnant off the one time she had a one-night stand. However, it is mentioned that she did not use protection, making the trope slightly more plausible than normal.

* AccidentalPublicConfession: When Becca tells Emily that she's pregnant, they were in the middle of taping a TV segment and the mikes were still on. The next day it was the big story on all the broadcasts.

* SuddenlySexuality: At the end of the pilot, it turns out Xander isn't the only one with a crush on "Jessica." Margo has one, too.

* BelligerentSexualTension: Parodied in "Game Theory". Becca and D.B. get into a fight while painting a mural. In the middle of the fight, he kisses her and she pushes him away.
-->'''Becca''': This is just a fight! It's not a fight with romantic undertones!\\
'''D.B.''': Are you sure?\\
[[DoubleSubversion And then she kisses him later in the scene anyway.]]

* SuddenlySexuality: At the end of the pilot, it turns out Xander isn't the only one with a crush on "Jessica." Margo has one, too. [[HideYourLesbians This has not been mentioned again after the pilot]]. Incidentally, Jessica has appeared in one episode, "Frosting Nixon", where she's portrayed as an AlphaBitch and no reference is made to either Gilchrist kid having a crush on her.

* SuddenlySexuality: At the end of the pilot, it turns out Xander isn't the only one with a crush on "Jessica." Margo has one, too. [[HideYourLesbians This has not been mentioned again after the pilot]]. Incidentally, Jessica has appeared in one episode, "Frosting Nixon", where she's portrayed as an AlphaBitch.

* SuddenlySexuality: At the end of the pilot, it turns out Xander isn't the only one with a crush on "Jessica." Margo has one, too. [[HideYourLesbians This has not been mentioned again after the pilot.]]

* SuddenlySexuality: At the end of the pilot, it turns out Xander isn't the only one with a crush on "Jessica." Margo has one, too.

* GoGetterGirl: Becca is implied to normally be this trope, but so far we've only seen her while she is [[OutOfCharacterMoment acting out-of-character]] due to the drama of her pregnancy.

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