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* TransparentCloset: Kenny. In retrospect a lot of the other characters realize this is true. There is also another student at Kenny's Catholic high school that is even deeper in the closet (until the end of season 1).
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* TransparentCloset: Kenny. In retrospect a lot of the other characters realize this is true. There is also Obviously Gay Stuart, another student at Kenny's Catholic high school that is even deeper in the closet (until the end of season 1).
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** In another episode, Kenny joins the wrestling team in order to help Jimmy out, and ends up winning matches and gaining praise and accolades from the school. Everything is going well until a student from the rival wrestling team refuses to wrestle Kenny because he's gay.
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* LittleMissConArtist: Shannon. Her revelation in the pilot episode is that she was keeping the money she was raising for charity for herself.
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* LittleMissConArtist: Shannon. Her revelation in the pilot episode is that she was keeping the money she was raising for charity for herself.herself and bought a car.
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* AmicableExes: Pat and Eileen are awkwardly maneuvering for this.
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* ItsAllAboutMe: Averted in "The Real Move". In the episode, Kenny and his gayness take a back seat to his parent's divorce. Becomes a RunningGag with people repeatedly telling him, "It's not all about your being gay Kenny." Kenny even starts to [[LampshadeHanging lampshade]] it:
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* ItsAllAboutMe: Averted in "The Real Move". In the episode, Kenny and his gayness take a back seat to his parent's divorce. Becomes a RunningGag with people repeatedly telling him, "It's not all about your you being gay Kenny." Kenny even starts to [[LampshadeHanging lampshade]] it:
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* ItsAllAboutMe: Averted in "The Real Move". In the episode, Kenny and his gayness take a back seat to his parent's divorce. Becomes a RunningGag with people repeatedly telling him, "It's not all about your being gay Kenny." Kenny even starts to [[LampshadeHanging lampshade]] it:
--> '''Father Bernard:''' Not everything's about you being gay son.
--> '''Kenny O'Neal:''' I know but I keep trying to wedge it in there.
--> '''Father Bernard:''' Not everything's about you being gay son.
--> '''Kenny O'Neal:''' I know but I keep trying to wedge it in there.
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* YaoiFangirl: The school's attempt to create a gay-straight alliance resulted in three of these accosting Kenny. Needless to say, he flees immediately.
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* YaoiFangirl: The school's attempt to create a gay-straight alliance resulted in three of these accosting Kenny. Needless to say, he flees immediately.immediately.
* WallpaperCamouflage: Allison wears drab brown clothes that often make her blend with wood paneling, making her unnoticeable.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Jimmy's revelation in the pilot is that he has anorexia, but it's never brought up in the series again.
* WallpaperCamouflage: Allison wears drab brown clothes that often make her blend with wood paneling, making her unnoticeable.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Jimmy's revelation in the pilot is that he has anorexia, but it's never brought up in the series again.
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* RealityEnsues: When Kenny comes out, most of his friends and family members are supportive, and he doesn't face a lot of challenges for it. When Allison is introduced in Season 2, it's pointed out that since she comes from a fairly conservative Asian family, she doesn't have any guarantee that coming out to her parents would work out nearly as well as it did for Kenny. The reality is, as far as the LGBTQ community has come in the United States, homophobia is still very much alive.
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* TransparentCloset: Kenny. In retrospect a lot of the other characters realize this is true. There also is another student at Kenny's Catholic high school that is even deeper in the closet.
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* TransparentCloset: Kenny. In retrospect a lot of the other characters realize this is true. There is also is another student at Kenny's Catholic high school that is even deeper in the closet.closet (until the end of season 1).
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* CampGay: Obviously Gay Stuart, the only other gay student at Kenny's school, who also happens to be dating a girl. By the end of the school year everyone's thinking he might actually be CampStraight. He comes out almost five minutes later.
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* CampGay: Obviously Gay Stuart, the only other gay student at Kenny's school, who also happens to be dating a girl. By the end of the school year everyone's thinking he might actually be CampStraight. He comes out almost less than five minutes later.
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* RacistGrandma: Eileen's mom, Agnes. We first hear her refusing to tip a Latino taxi driver.
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The close-knit, Chicago-based O'Neals seem to be the perfect Catholic family, but when surprising truths come to light, some lives take an unexpected turn. The middle son, Kenny, comes out as gay and his parents, Eileen and Pat, are getting a divorce. The show deals with the fallout from these decisions, as well as the shenanigans of Kenny's two siblings Jimmy and Shannon.
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The close-knit, Chicago-based O'Neals seem to be the perfect Catholic family, but when surprising truths come to light, some lives take an unexpected turn. The middle son, Kenny, son Kenny comes out as gay gay, and his parents, parents Eileen and Pat, Pat are getting a divorce. The show deals with the fallout from these decisions, as well as the shenanigans of Kenny's two siblings Jimmy and Shannon.
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* LittleMissConArtist: Shannon. Her revelation on the pilot episode is that she was keeping the money she was raising for charity for herself.
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* LittleMissConArtist: Shannon. Her revelation on in the pilot episode is that she was keeping the money she was raising for charity for herself.
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** There are sometimes where this comes into play though Kenny seems to find these points time of relief.
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** There are sometimes some times where this comes into play play, though Kenny seems to find these points a time of relief.
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* OutOfOrder: The only episodes shown in production order in the first season are the first two and the last two. This is most glaringly obvious with "The Real Lent", which was the third episode aired but the sixth in production order. In it, Kenny has his first gay date and meets up with the guy twice. However, the next episode features his first day back at school after coming out, which would make no sense since the previous episode obviously covered a few days.
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* OutOfOrder: The only episodes shown in production order in the first season are the first two and the last two. This is most glaringly obvious with "The Real Lent", which was the third episode aired but the sixth in production order. In it, Kenny has his first gay date and meets up with the guy twice. However, the next episode features his first day back at school after coming out, which would make no sense since the previous episode obviously covered a few days. This was also noted to make the depiction of Eileen's struggle to come to terms with having a gay son oddly realistic, as it comes off as a messy hodgepodge of conflicted emotions rather than the straight line to acceptance that had been intended.
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* PromIsForStraightKids: Averted. Kenny is prepared to fight for his right to take a male date to Prom at his school, but finds that they've already discussed and approved it much earlier. The problem then shifts to the fact that Kenny is the ''only'' gay kid at the school, which means he doesn't actually have a guy to take in the first place.
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* Mama'sBoy: Kenny was definitely this, his coming out damaged their relationship but they eventually manage to heal the rift for the most part.
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* Mama'sBoy: MamasBoy: Kenny was definitely this, his coming out damaged their relationship but they eventually manage to heal the rift for the most part.
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* Momma'sBoy: Kenny was definitely this, his coming out damaged their relationship but they eventually manage to heal the rift for the most part.
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* Momma'sBoy: Mama'sBoy: Kenny was definitely this, his coming out damaged their relationship but they eventually manage to heal the rift for the most part.
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* Momma'sBoy: Kenny was definitely this, his coming out damaged their relationship but they eventually manage to heal the rift for the most part.
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** There are sometimes where this comes into play though Kenny seems to find these points time of relief.
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** Though she comes off as outright Unitarian in comparison to her mother.
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* LittleMissConArtist: Shannon. Her revelation on the pilot episode is that she was keeping the money she was raising for charity for herself.
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* AwkwardFatherSonBondingActivity: In one episode Pat takes Kenny and Jimmy camping. Kenny obviously isn't too fond of it. He finds out later that Jimmy didn't want to go either, as he didn't want to reveal to Pat that he was quitting wrestling.
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* CampGay: Obviously Gay Stuart, the only other gay student at Kenny's school, who also happens to be dating a girl. By the end of the school year everyone's thinking he might actually be CampStraight. He comes out almost five minutes later.
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* MiddleChildSyndrome: Inverted, before he came out, Kenny was the favorite child and seems to be the most normal of the bunch, with Jimmy not being too smart and Shannon being somewhat strange.
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* ImagineSpot: Kenny has these quite often. He lampshades it in the first season finale when his crush Sebastian asks him to dance during an ABBA song at prom, just like Kenny imagined at the beginning of the episode.
-->'''Kenny''': Is this really happening? Because sometimes I hallucinate.
* MiddleChildSyndrome: Inverted, before he came out, Kenny was thefavorite favourite child and seems to be the most normal of the bunch, with Jimmy not being too smart and Shannon being somewhat strange.
-->'''Kenny''': Is this really happening? Because sometimes I hallucinate.
* MiddleChildSyndrome: Inverted, before he came out, Kenny was the
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* TransparentCloset: Kenny. In retrospect a lot of the other characters realize this is true. There also is another student at Kenny's Catholic high school that is even deeper in the closet.closet.
* YaoiFangirl: The school's attempt to create a gay-straight alliance resulted in three of these accosting Kenny. Needless to say, he flees immediately.
* YaoiFangirl: The school's attempt to create a gay-straight alliance resulted in three of these accosting Kenny. Needless to say, he flees immediately.
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* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: Each episode follows the format of "The Real (blank)".
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* TheBeard: Kenny's ex-girlfriend Mimi
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* TheBeard: Kenny's ex-girlfriend MimiMimi.
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* RealFakeWedding: A variant occurs in the episode where Kenny gets cast as the lead in his school's production of ''Romeo and Juliet''. Eileen gets too into planning the wedding scene of the play, making it seem like a real wedding. When Kenny confronts her about it, she says it's because he'll never have a traditional wedding like she always dreamed of.
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* OutOfOrder: The only episodes shown in production order in the first season are the first two and the last two. This is most glaringly obvious with "The Real Lent", which was the third episode aired but the sixth in production order. In it, Kenny has his first gay date and meets up with the guy twice. However, the next episode features his first day back at school after coming out, which would make no sense since the previous episode obviously covered a few days.
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* TheBeard: Kenny's girlfriend Mimiex-girlfriend Mimi
* DumbJock: Jimmy, to the point where Pat encourages him to stick with wrestling because that's the only way he'll get into college.
* DumbJock: Jimmy, to the point where Pat encourages him to stick with wrestling because that's the only way he'll get into college.
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* MyBelovedSmother: Eileen. One episode features Kenny spending more time with the mother of the child he's tutoring because she's more free-spirited.
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* BasementDweller: While the divorce is finalized, Pat is living in the basement.
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* GoodAngelBadAngel: Kenny's are Jesus and [[Disney/SleepingBeauty Maleficent]], respectively.
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The close-knit, Chicago-based O'Neals seem to be the perfect Catholic family, but when surprising truths come to light, some lives take an unexpected turn. The middle son, Kenny, comes out as gay and his parents, Eileen and Pat, are getting a divorce. The show deals with the fallout from these decisions, as well as the shenanigans of Kenny's two siblings Jimmy and Shannon.
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* TheBeard: Kenny's girlfriend Mimi
* FirstEpisodeSpoiler: Kenny being gay was in the promotional material for the show, however Pat and Eileen's divorce was not.
* HolierThanThou: Eileen, who is shown to be so Catholic that she keeps a Virgin Mary in the bathroom to watch over them.
* RaisedCatholic: Obviously, all of the children. However Shannon seems to be the only one who actively questions her faith, even going as far as to refuse to be confirmed in the Church.
* TransparentCloset: Kenny. In retrospect a lot of the other characters realize this is true. There also is another student at Kenny's Catholic high school that is even deeper in the closet.
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* TheBeard: Kenny's girlfriend Mimi
* FirstEpisodeSpoiler: Kenny being gay was in the promotional material for the show, however Pat and Eileen's divorce was not.
* HolierThanThou: Eileen, who is shown to be so Catholic that she keeps a Virgin Mary in the bathroom to watch over them.
* RaisedCatholic: Obviously, all of the children. However Shannon seems to be the only one who actively questions her faith, even going as far as to refuse to be confirmed in the Church.
* TransparentCloset: Kenny. In retrospect a lot of the other characters realize this is true. There also is another student at Kenny's Catholic high school that is even deeper in the closet.
