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* SlapstickKnowsNoGender: Mickey gets the worst of it, but all of the female characters are subjected to various AmusingInjuries, among other humiliations.

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* SlapstickKnowsNoGender: {{Slapstick}}: Mickey gets the worst of it, but all of the female characters are subjected to various AmusingInjuries, among other humiliations.
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* DisappearedDad: Mickey's boyfriend Dante relates that his father left during his childhood. When other guys interested in her to hire an old man to pretend that he's the father to distract Dante so they can get her, Dante angrily beats his “dad” up for abandoning him.

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* DisappearedDad: Mickey's boyfriend Dante relates that his father left during his childhood. When other guys interested in her to hire an old man to pretend that he's the father to distract Dante so they can get her, Dante angrily beats his “dad” "dad" up for abandoning him.



* ManlyGay: Doug in “The Night Off”, a large tough guy who helps out Jimmy in a fight, is revealed to have a boyfriend later. Jimmy is quite dismayed and surprised by this at first.

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* ManlyGay: Doug in “The "The Night Off”, Off", a large tough guy who helps out Jimmy in a fight, is revealed to have a boyfriend later. Jimmy is quite dismayed and surprised by this at first.
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Ambiguously Brown wick cleaning. Characters are of the same ethnicity as the actors that play them.


** In Season 2, Sabrina sees an AmbiguouslyBrown girl (she's played by Pakistani-American actress Creator/SophiaAli) named Alexis for an episode, a [[LesbianJock star soccer player]].

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** In Season 2, Sabrina sees an AmbiguouslyBrown a dark-skinned girl (she's played by Pakistani-American actress Creator/SophiaAli) named Alexis for an episode, a [[LesbianJock star soccer player]].
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* NotActuallyHisChild: In Season 2, his mom reveals that Chip his dad isn't his birth father. Both of them react poorly to the revelation. [[spoiler:This is {{subverted}} when it turns out the other guy wasn't actually Chip's father. It turns out he's a different man whom his mom had sex with back then.]]

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* NotActuallyHisChild: In Season 2, his mom reveals that Chip his Chip's dad isn't his birth father. Both of them react poorly to the revelation. [[spoiler:This is {{subverted}} when it turns out the other guy wasn't actually Chip's father. It turns out he's a different man whom his mom had sex with back then.]]
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** When Mick tries to teach Chip about her ways of stealing and being a con artist, she asks him to hit her so she will look more natural in the environment. She tells Chip not to go easy on her because she is a woman. Chip punches her so hard that she flips over a table and lands head first to the ground..

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** When Mick tries to teach Chip about her ways of stealing and being a con artist, she asks him to hit her so she will look more natural in the environment. She tells Chip not to go easy on her because she is a woman. Chip punches her so hard that she flips over a table and lands head first to the ground..
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* WouldHitAGirl: When Jimmy is attacked by an entire high school girls soccer team, he begs them to relent, then starts firing back with full-strength haymakers while [[ApologeticAttacker apologizing profusely]].

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* WouldHitAGirl: WouldHitAGirl:
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When Jimmy is attacked by an entire high school girls soccer team, he begs them to relent, then starts firing back with full-strength haymakers while [[ApologeticAttacker apologizing profusely]]. profusely]].
** When Mick tries to teach Chip about her ways of stealing and being a con artist, she asks him to hit her so she will look more natural in the environment. She tells Chip not to go easy on her because she is a woman. Chip punches her so hard that she flips over a table and lands head first to the ground..

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* LesbianJock: Sabrina dates Alexis, a star women's soccer player, in "The Juice".



* LesbianJock: Sabrina dates Alexis, a star women's soccer player, in "The Juice".
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* NotActuallyHisChild: In Season 2, his mom reveals that Chip his dad isn't his birth father. Both of them react poorly to the revelation. [[spoiler:This is {{subverted}} when it turns out the other guy wasn't actually Chip's father.]]

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* NotActuallyHisChild: In Season 2, his mom reveals that Chip his dad isn't his birth father. Both of them react poorly to the revelation. [[spoiler:This is {{subverted}} when it turns out the other guy wasn't actually Chip's father. It turns out he's a different man whom his mom had sex with back then.]]
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* LesbianJock: Sabrina dates Alexis, a star women's soccer player, in "The Juice", who is only shown wearing her uniform and workout clothing. Alexis is short-haired too.

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* LesbianJock: Sabrina dates Alexis, a star women's soccer player, in "The Juice", who is only shown wearing her uniform and workout clothing. Alexis is short-haired too.Juice".



* MasculineFeminineGayCouple: Sabrina, a feminine girl, and Alexis her short-haired {{lesbian jock}} girlfriend in "The Juice". They don't last long however.

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* MasculineFeminineGayCouple: Sabrina, a Sabrina (a girl with long hair who likes to wear blouses, skirts or dresses pretty often, while having traditionally feminine girl, and Alexis her interests) is with Alexis, a short-haired {{lesbian jock}} girlfriend in "The Juice".Juice" who's only shown wearing her uniform and workout clothing. They don't last long however.
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* DisappearedDad: Mickey's boyfriend Dante relates that his father left during his childhood. When other guys interested in her to hire an old man to pretend that he's the father to distract Dante so they can get her, Dante angrily beats his “dad” up for abandoning him.


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* LesbianJock: Sabrina dates Alexis, a star women's soccer player, in "The Juice", who is only shown wearing her uniform and workout clothing. Alexis is short-haired too.
* LipstickLesbian: Sabrina is a pretty femme girl, with long hair, wearing skirts, blouses or dresses frequently and liking girly things. In "The Juice" she dates Alexis, a {{lesbian jock}}. Sabrina also dates guys however, refusing any labels for her sexual orientation.


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* MasculineFeminineGayCouple: Sabrina, a feminine girl, and Alexis her short-haired {{lesbian jock}} girlfriend in "The Juice". They don't last long however.
* ManlyGay: Doug in “The Night Off”, a large tough guy who helps out Jimmy in a fight, is revealed to have a boyfriend later. Jimmy is quite dismayed and surprised by this at first.
* NoBisexuals: Sabrina gets annoyed when Mick calls her a lesbian in Season 2 for dating a girl, and had dated a boy prior, rejecting any labels to describe her sexual orientation.
* NotActuallyHisChild: In Season 2, his mom reveals that Chip his dad isn't his birth father. Both of them react poorly to the revelation. [[spoiler:This is {{subverted}} when it turns out the other guy wasn't actually Chip's father.]]


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* NWordPrivileges: Sabrina gets a lot of flack in one episode over reciting a rap song by Biggie Smalls, as this includes the n word.
* PregnancyScare: Mickey fakes this on Sabrina to insure she doesn't really get pregnant, after learning she's not using birth control of any kind with her boyfriend. It works, though not before her boyfriend chivalrously offers to marry her when they think she's actually pregnant.


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* TwoferTokenMinority:
** Alba, a Guatermalan woman who's the domestic servant of the Pembertons, is the only person of color in the main cast.
** In Season 2, Sabrina sees an AmbiguouslyBrown girl (she's played by Pakistani-American actress Creator/SophiaAli) named Alexis for an episode, a [[LesbianJock star soccer player]].


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* WorkoutFanservice: In different episodes, Sabrina and Alexis (her girlfriend for one episode) are both seen walking around wearing only a sparts bra with very brief shorts, both of them good-looking.
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* WhiteAngloSaxonProtestant: The Pemberton kids, especially Chip.

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%%"The Church" indicates they're Catholics. In any case this needs more details.* WhiteAngloSaxonProtestant: The Pemberton kids, especially Chip.
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** "Visit" has Chip and Ben go with Jimmy to visit the kids' dad in prison. Sabrina meanwhile goes with Mickey to see the kids' in prison too.

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** "Visit" "The Visit" has Chip and Ben go with Jimmy to visit the kids' dad in prison. Sabrina meanwhile goes with Mickey to see the kids' mom in prison too.
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* ChristianityIsCatholic: In "The Church" Alba goes back to church as a means of getting help with her drinking problem. Mickey has the kids do it too. They're all Catholic (very lapsed) it turns out, with no other denomination brought up in the series.
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* SurpriseIncest: Chip meets his biological father after learning about him, and finds that his half-sister is attracted to him. She kisses him, although Chip tries to resist this, and he stops things after she does.

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* SurpriseIncest: Chip meets his biological father after learning about him, and finds that his half-sister is attracted to him. She kisses him, although Chip tries to resist this, and he stops things after she does. [[spoiler:{{Subverted}} though later when it turns out they don't share a father.]]
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* SurpriseIncest: Chip meets his biological father after learning about him, and finds that his half-sister is attracted to him. She kisses him, although Chip tries to resist this, and he stops things after she does.
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** "Visit" has Chip and Ben go with Jimmy to visit the kids' dad in prison. Sabrina meanwhile goes with Mickey to see their mom in prison too.

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** "Visit" has Chip and Ben go with Jimmy to visit the kids' dad in prison. Sabrina meanwhile goes with Mickey to see their mom the kids' in prison too.
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** "Visit" has Chip and Ben go with Jimmy to visit the kids' dad in prison. Sabrina meanwhile goes with Mickey to see their mom in prison too.
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* CreepyChild: Ben has shown signs of this.

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* CreepyChild: Ben has shown signs of this.this, such as weirding his teacher out through sitting and blankly staring at her during recess instead of playing.
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* AffablyEvil: In "The Visit" Ben's separated from Chip and Jimmy when they visit Ben's/Chip's dad in prison, wandering into a cell block somehow. The dangerous, hardened prisoners he meets all treat him very well, and even kill his dad's cellmate (who they know [[PrisonRape is raping him]]) as a favor.

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* ArbitrarilyLargeBankAccount: Chip carries a thousand dollars in cash on him and is able to lend Mickey forty-two hundred dollars to pay off a loan shark, and even Ben has a black card.



* ArbitrarilyLargeBankAccount: Chip carries a thousand dollars in cash on him and is able to lend Mickey forty-two hundred dollars to pay off a loan shark, and even Ben has a black card.



* LowerClassLout: Mickey and especially Jimmy.

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* %%* LowerClassLout: Mickey and especially Jimmy.

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* BiggusDickus: Mickey advises Chip to get revenge on a school bully by "making fun of his tiny pecker". This backfires spectacularly, as it turns out the kid is unusually well-endowed.
-->'''Chip:''' I'm lucky he didn't beat me with it!


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* GagPenis: Mickey advises Chip to get revenge on a school bully by "making fun of his tiny pecker". This backfires spectacularly, as it turns out the kid is unusually well-endowed.
-->'''Chip:''' I'm lucky he didn't beat me with it!
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I Ate What clean up. The trope is when a character eats something, unaware of what they are consuming, and then reacts in disgust after they find out what it is. Misuse will be deleted or moved to another trope when applicable. Administrivia.Zero Context Examples will be removed or commented out depending on the amount of context within the entry.


* IAteWhat: After Mickey gets slashed up by the owl Sabrina was trying to release into the wild, Sabrina steals some meat from Mickey's plate.
-->'''Sabrina:''' This chicken is really good.\\
'''Mickey:''' Oh, honey... [[EatTheDog that's not chicken]].
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Sabrina (Creator/SofiaBlackDElia), a high school senior, is a vain but insecure AlphaBitch who sees her aunt as an obnoxious obstacle. Chip (Creator/ThomasBarbusca), the middle child, is a smug and entitled wanna-be sophisticate who is struggling for the respect he thinks he deserves. Ben (Jack Stanton), the youngest, is an adorable but precocious seven-year-old. Other characters include Alba (Carla Jimenez), the kids’ long-suffering maid, and Jimmy (Creator/ScottMacArthur), Mickey’s deadbeat not-boyfriend.

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Sabrina (Creator/SofiaBlackDElia), a high school senior, is a vain but insecure AlphaBitch who sees her aunt as an obnoxious obstacle. Chip (Creator/ThomasBarbusca), the middle child, is a smug and entitled wanna-be sophisticate who is struggling for the respect he thinks he deserves. Ben (Jack Stanton), (Creator/JackStanton), the youngest, is an adorable but precocious seven-year-old. Other characters include Alba (Carla Jimenez), (Creator/CarlaJimenez), the kids’ long-suffering maid, and Jimmy (Creator/ScottMacArthur), Mickey’s deadbeat not-boyfriend.
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Sabrina (Creator/SofiaBlackDElia), a high school senior, is a vain but insecure AlphaBitch who sees her aunt as an obnoxious obstacle. Chip (Thomas Barbusca), the middle child, is a smug and entitled wanna-be sophisticate who is struggling for the respect he thinks he deserves. Ben (Jack Stanton), the youngest, is an adorable but precocious seven-year-old. Other characters include Alba (Carla Jimenez), the kids’ long-suffering maid, and Jimmy (Scott [=MacArthur=]), Mickey’s deadbeat not-boyfriend.

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Sabrina (Creator/SofiaBlackDElia), a high school senior, is a vain but insecure AlphaBitch who sees her aunt as an obnoxious obstacle. Chip (Thomas Barbusca), (Creator/ThomasBarbusca), the middle child, is a smug and entitled wanna-be sophisticate who is struggling for the respect he thinks he deserves. Ben (Jack Stanton), the youngest, is an adorable but precocious seven-year-old. Other characters include Alba (Carla Jimenez), the kids’ long-suffering maid, and Jimmy (Scott [=MacArthur=]), (Creator/ScottMacArthur), Mickey’s deadbeat not-boyfriend.
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* GenderSeparatedEnsembleEpisode:
** The episode "The Bully" has a plot line where Jimmy takes Ben and Chip to the dentist, which leads to him doing some DIYDentistry to avoid having to pay the dentist. The episode's other subplot involved Mickey and Alba helping Sabrina get back at a girl who leaked her journal online.
** The episode "The Implant" has Jimmy taking Ben and Chip to see a ballgame. The other plot is Mickey trying to convince Sabrina not to get breast implants.
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* TokenHouseguest: The show's premise is that Sabrina, Chip, and Ben have to be looked after by their Aunt Mickey while their parents are on the run from the law. While watching over them, Mickey brings in her boyfriend Jimmy to live with them. There's also Alba, who lives with them.
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* JuryAndWitnessTampering: When Chip gets caught with naked pictures on his phone he must stand before the school's Honor Board, which Sabrina is a member of. Mickey thinks Sabrina should let Chip off since [[{{Nepotism}} he's family]]. When she doesn't, Mickey breaks into Sabrina's room and downloads her laptop's data to a USB stick. She threatens to release it unless Sabrina lets her brother off easily. Sabrina simply steals the drive back.
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Sabrina (Sofia Black D’Elia), a high school senior, is a vain but insecure AlphaBitch who sees her aunt as an obnoxious obstacle. Chip (Thomas Barbusca), the middle child, is a smug and entitled wanna-be sophisticate who is struggling for the respect he thinks he deserves. Ben (Jack Stanton), the youngest, is an adorable but precocious seven-year-old. Other characters include Alba (Carla Jimenez), the kids’ long-suffering maid, and Jimmy (Scott [=MacArthur=]), Mickey’s deadbeat not-boyfriend.

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Sabrina (Sofia Black D’Elia), (Creator/SofiaBlackDElia), a high school senior, is a vain but insecure AlphaBitch who sees her aunt as an obnoxious obstacle. Chip (Thomas Barbusca), the middle child, is a smug and entitled wanna-be sophisticate who is struggling for the respect he thinks he deserves. Ben (Jack Stanton), the youngest, is an adorable but precocious seven-year-old. Other characters include Alba (Carla Jimenez), the kids’ long-suffering maid, and Jimmy (Scott [=MacArthur=]), Mickey’s deadbeat not-boyfriend.
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Olson serves as co-executive producer for the series, which was created by her fellow ''Sunny'' alum John and Dave Chernin. The show ran for two seasons n Fox, from January 1st 2017 to May 10th, 2018.

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Olson serves as co-executive producer for the series, which was created by her fellow ''Sunny'' alum John and Dave Chernin. The show ran for two seasons n on Fox, from January 1st 2017 to May 10th, 2018.
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* ShoutOut: "Cake is for closers." is a clear reference to "Coffee is for closers." from the movie Ggarry Glen Ross.

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* ShoutOut: "Cake is for closers." is a clear reference to "Coffee is for closers." from the movie Ggarry Glengarry Glen Ross.

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