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* ElderAbuse: MJ takes advantage of Margaret’s nurturing instinct to get money from her.
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** Charlie tends to have a fading memory so he could have thought his kids put him there.
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* Main/Foreshadowing: Foreshadowing: Margaret Jr. sits in Margaret's chair without asking, Just like Margaret sat in Jerry's chair without asking, giving the audience a hint that she is Margaret's daughter.
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* Foreshadowing: Margaret Jr. sits in Margaret's chair without asking, Just like Margaret sat in Jerry's chair without asking, giving the audience a hint that she is Margaret's daughter.
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* SpiritualSuccessor: The show is similar to ''Series/TheGoldenGirls'' in the fact that it focus's on senior citizens.
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* SaunaOfDeath: Sid pretends to have passed out in the sauna to lure Allison out of her office so Hank can steal the TV, To keep her from coming out he locks her in their with Sid.
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* ImpersonatingAnOfficer: Hank and Charlie hired someone to act as the police officer that breaks up their fake fight.
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* OrphanedPunchline: In "The Cool Kids Rig an Election" Hank doesn't get to tell the punchline for his joke until the end of the episode because he kept getting cut off by other people.
* PerformanceAnxiety: Hank does this when doing the Shady Meadows news for the first time, He was so anxious that he just whispered the entire script.
* PerformanceAnxiety: Hank does this when doing the Shady Meadows news for the first time, He was so anxious that he just whispered the entire script.
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* ScareCampaign: Margaret runs one of these campaigns with Sid, contrary to Hank trying to win people over with jokes.
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* BrosBeforeHoes: Hank chooses his friends over the younger woman he was dating.
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* CoolOldGuy: This is what the main characters think of themselves.
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* DecemberDecemberRomance: This is seen a lot, which is not surprising because the show takes place in a retirement home.
* DirtyOldMan: The characters talk about being attracted to younger people.
* DirtyOldMan: The characters talk about being attracted to younger people.
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* FalseTeethTomfoolery: Sid reports about someone leaving their teeth in the dining room on the Shady Meadows news.
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* GrumpyOldMan: Hank is an old opinionated person who complains about everything.
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* LikesOlderMen: The woman that hank was dating in "Hank the Cradle Robber" is in her 40's and claims to like older men.
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* ScrewPolitenessImASenior: This is a common joke on the show.
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* SeniorSleepCycle: Implied In "TV Heist" where the cool kids have trouble staying up until 8 so they can steal the TV.
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* UnwantedGlassesPlot: Hank doesn't want to get glasses because he thinks that glasses is the first step to losing your freedom.
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* UnwantedGlassesPlot: Hank doesn't want to get glasses because he thinks that glasses is the first step to losing your freedom.freedom.
* UpperClassTwit: Murray and the food snobs are wealthy people that only ever eat the best food there is.
* UpperClassTwit: Murray and the food snobs are wealthy people that only ever eat the best food there is.
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* TheSmurfettePrinciple: The main cast consists of three guys and the new girl at the retirement community.
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* TheDragAlong: Sid is described as this in the shows summary. "Sid, a naysaying, pill-popping hypochondriac who shoots down every scheme but still gets roped in"
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* TheDragAlong: Sid is described as this in the shows summary. "Sid, a naysaying, pill-popping hypochondriac who shoots down every scheme but still gets roped in"
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* NeverTrustATitle: They don't actually rig an election in "The Cool Kids Rig an Election."
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* DatingServiceDisaster: To boost Charlie and Hanks confidence, Sid and Margaret make fake accounts and flirt with them. This results in an IKnowYouKnowIKnow situation.
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* IKnowYouKnowIKnow: When Hank and Charlie find out that Sid and Margaret created fake dating profiles, they pretend to get into an argument, and plan a fist fight. Margaret figures out that they know about the fake profiles and are putting up an act, she proceeds to call out all the ways she knows they are faking the fight. She accuses Charlie of having a fake knife, and stabs the guy acting as a police officer in the arm to prove its fake, When in fact, it was a real knife, resulting in the guy suffering a stab wound.
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* IKnowYouKnowIKnow: When Hank and Charlie find out that Sid and Margaret created fake dating profiles, they pretend to get into an argument, and plan a fist fight. Margaret figures out that they know about the fake profiles and are putting up an act, she proceeds to call out all the ways she knows they are faking the fight. She accuses Charlie of having a fake knife, and stabs the guy acting as a police officer in the arm to prove its fake, When in fact, it was a real knife, resulting in the guy suffering a stab wound.
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* IKnowYouKnowIKnow: When Hank and Charlie find out that Sid and Margaret created fake dating profiles, they pretend to get into an argument, and plan a fist fight. Margaret figures out that they know about the fake profiles and are putting up an act, she proceeds to call out all the ways she knows they are faking the fight. She accuses Charlie of having a fake knife, and stabs the guy acting as a police officer in the arm to prove its fake, When in fact, it was a real knife, resulting in the guy suffering a stab wound.
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* BrickJoke: In the pilot one of the workers is shown fixing a table that is loose, later in the episode Hank places Jerry's ashes on the table and it falls breaking the vase holding the ashes.
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* BrickJoke: In the pilot one of the workers is shown fixing a table that is loose, later in the episode Hank places Jerry's ashes on the table and it falls breaking the vase urn holding the ashes.
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* BrickJoke: In the pilot one of the workers is shown fixing a table that is lose, loose, later in the episode Hank places Jerry's ashes on the table and it falls breaking the vase holding the ashes.
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* BeleagueredBureaucrat: Allison runs the retirement community. She tries to make it pleasant for everyone and mostly succeeds, but a hard job is made even harder by the main characters' antics.
* CreatorCameo: Co-creator Charlie Day briefly appears in the first episode as Chet, a handyman.
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** Sid even quoted this trope at Hanks friendsfuneral.funeral.
** The subplot in "Funeral Crashers" is Charlie and Sid doing just that. A loved one of the deceased plays a prank on them by claiming to mistake them for old war buddies and forcing them to play the parts, which helps him have some fun on an otherwise depressing day.
* IOweYouMyLife: In the first episode, Hank is insistent on properly honoring Jerry. He ultimately explains that Jerry was there for him after Lorraine cheated on him and left.
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** The subplot in "Funeral Crashers" is Charlie and Sid doing just that. A loved one of the deceased plays a prank on them by claiming to mistake them for old war buddies and forcing them to play the parts, which helps him have some fun on an otherwise depressing day.
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* ThanksgivingEpisode: "Thanksgiving at Murray's" sees Sid and Margaret taken advantage of by the community's local food snobs, while Hank and Charlie try to find something to eat and end up at Dudley's.
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** OnlySaneMan: Margaret
** TheSmartGuy: Sid
** ButtMonkey: Hank
** CasanovaWannabe: Charlie
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* ElectionDayEpisode: "The Cool Kids Rig an Election" has an election happening at Shady Meadows for activities coordinator.
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* TheFunInFuneral: Sid even quoted this trope at Hanks friends funeral.
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* LocalHangout: The cafeteria is where they eat and have most of their conversations.
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[[caption-width-right:300:Names from left to right: Sid, Margaret, Hank, Charlie]]
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* IdiosyncraticWipes: Interstitial home movie clips of oldsters living it up.
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* SeriesContinuityError: In the pilot Charlie claims his kids lied to him about having to go to the retirement community, but in "A Date With Destiny" Charlie says he is getting messages from his kids who are trying to find him, his kids should know where he is because they put them in a retirement community, making it unreasonable for them to be looking for him.
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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Charlie brought up a lot of stories from his past a lot in the pilot. This was toned down after the pilot.
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* FawltyTowersPlot: "Sid comes out" has Sid pretending to have a girlfriend to keep his son from finding out he is gay.
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* BleakAbyssRetirementCommunity: Subverted. The characters joke about the community, but it's decent enough. The worse they have to deal with is the sometimes patrionizing staff.
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''The Cool Kids'' is an American comedy series about four seniors at a retirement community called Shady Meadows. It began airing in September 2018.
After their friend Jerry dies, a trio of men meet the newest resident: a rebellious woman in her mid-60s named Margaret.
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!!''The Cool Kids'' provides examples of:
* TheAlcoholic: Margaret is usually seen drinking several times an episode.
* AlliterativeName: Hank Henderson's given name and surname both start with "h".
* TheBeard: Sid married a woman but came out to his wife in 1998 because he was afraid he'd die during Y2K.
* BirthdayEpisode: The second episode, "Margaret Turns 65", has Margaret being reluctantly dragged to a bar for her birthday. Hijinks occur when the bar won't let a group of seniors in.
* BleakAbyssRetirementCommunity: Subverted. The characters joke about the community, but it's decent enough. The worse they have to deal with is the sometimes patrionizing staff.
* CampGay: Sid is an effeminate and campy gay man who was closeted until the late 1990s.
* DorkInASweater: Sid is a awkward, flamboyant fellow who is frequently seen wearing a cardigan around his neck.
* DrowningMySorrows: Margaret drinks a lot but she starts drinking even ''more'' on her 65th birthday (to the point where she pours liquor on her pancakes). She really didn't want to be reminded of her age.
* NobodyIsGayOverFifty: Averted with Sid, who's openly gay and came out later in life.
* ReluctantRetiree: At 64-going-on-65, Margaret isn't so keen on settling down in a retirement community just yet.
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: The main cast consists of three guys and the new girl at the retirement community.
After their friend Jerry dies, a trio of men meet the newest resident: a rebellious woman in her mid-60s named Margaret.
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!!''The Cool Kids'' provides examples of:
* TheAlcoholic: Margaret is usually seen drinking several times an episode.
* AlliterativeName: Hank Henderson's given name and surname both start with "h".
* TheBeard: Sid married a woman but came out to his wife in 1998 because he was afraid he'd die during Y2K.
* BirthdayEpisode: The second episode, "Margaret Turns 65", has Margaret being reluctantly dragged to a bar for her birthday. Hijinks occur when the bar won't let a group of seniors in.
* BleakAbyssRetirementCommunity: Subverted. The characters joke about the community, but it's decent enough. The worse they have to deal with is the sometimes patrionizing staff.
* CampGay: Sid is an effeminate and campy gay man who was closeted until the late 1990s.
* DorkInASweater: Sid is a awkward, flamboyant fellow who is frequently seen wearing a cardigan around his neck.
* DrowningMySorrows: Margaret drinks a lot but she starts drinking even ''more'' on her 65th birthday (to the point where she pours liquor on her pancakes). She really didn't want to be reminded of her age.
* NobodyIsGayOverFifty: Averted with Sid, who's openly gay and came out later in life.
* ReluctantRetiree: At 64-going-on-65, Margaret isn't so keen on settling down in a retirement community just yet.
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: The main cast consists of three guys and the new girl at the retirement community.
