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* AlmostKiss: Repeatedly in ''Friends or Lovers?'', including a sudden cramp, an interruption by a teenager, but mostly by Helen's laughing. Eventually subverted, as they share a long, hot kiss afterwards.
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* BigNo: In "The Tennis Bum", Lowell does this after seeing his destroyed blimp.
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* AlliterativeName: Budd Bronski, and Helen Hackett (after she got married).
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* MakeOutPoint: Joe takes Helen to this in "Friends or Lovers?".
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* AdoredByTheNetwork: If it was any time between 1996 and 2001 and you were watching USANetwork, chances are reruns of the show were on the schedule of that channel six times a day or more (mainly because the studio that produced it also owned USA).
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* CatFight: Helen and Carol in "Return to Nantucket, Part 2". Luckily, Joe and Brian came to stop them...
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* {{Mondegreen}}: Antonio misheard the lyrics for a song to be this:
-->My goat knows the bowling score...
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-->Johnny rowed the boat to shore...
-->My goat knows the bowling score...
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-->Johnny rowed the boat to shore...
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* {{Mondegreen}}: Antonio misheard the lyrics for of a song to be this:
-->My''My goat knows the bowling score...
Whenscore'', when it's supposed to be this:
-->Johnnyactually ''Johnny rowed the boat to shore...shore;''
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* {{Mondegreen}}: Antonio misheard the lyrics for a song to be this:
-->My goat knows the bowling score...
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-->Johnny rowed the boat to shore...
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-->Johnny rowed the boat to shore...
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* ThirtyGambitPileup: Occurs near the end of "The Puppetmaster".
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* OutGambitted: Occurs near the end of "The Puppetmaster".
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** Joe and Brian's father probably had one; Brian mentioned that he didn't have to buy Playboys when he was Joe's age, he just read his dad's.
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* ThirtyGambitPileup: Occurs near the end of "The Puppetmaster".
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* BatmanGambit: In "The Puppetmaster", Brian hires an actor to play Helen's ideal man, who is supposed to make Helen fall in love with him, then he'll confess that he's a pilot so that Helen erases the 'no dating pilots' rule, and she'll no longer be able to use that excuse for Brian. This [[HilarityEnsues fails]] later, of course.
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* BigEater: Helen in the past, which was the reason she was so overweight.
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* BigEater: Helen in the past, which was the reason she was so overweight. She got better.
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** Joe and Brian's father probably had one; Brian mentioned that he didn't have to buy Playboys when he was Joe's age, he just read his dad's.
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** Roy has a stash of Playboys in his office.
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** Lowell's wife Bunny pretty much sleeps with everyone except Lowell.
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** She's shown to still goes on binges whenever she gets upset.
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* AlmostKiss: Repeatedly in ''Friends or Lovers?'', including a sudden cramp, an interruption by a teenager, but mostly by Helen's laughing. Eventually subverted, as they share a long kiss afterwards.
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* AlmostKiss: Repeatedly in ''Friends or Lovers?'', including a sudden cramp, an interruption by a teenager, but mostly by Helen's laughing. Eventually subverted, as they share a long long, hot kiss afterwards.
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* AlmostKiss: Repeatedly in ''Friends or Lovers?'', including a sudden cramp, an interruption by a teenager, but mostly by Helen's laughing. Eventually subverted, as they share a long kiss afterwards.
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* BigEater: Helen in the past, which was the reason she was so overweight.
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* ComfortFood: Everything, according to Helen. Every time she's anxious, worried or depressed she would eat a lot. A deconstruction, because it caused weight problems for her.
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* SiblingYinYang: Joe and Brian, especially in the early seasons.
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* [[RealSongThemeTune]]: Piano sonata No. 20 by Franz Schubert.
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* [[RealSongThemeTune]]: RealSongThemeTune: Piano sonata No. 20 by Franz Schubert.
* SlapSlapKiss: Joe and Helen during their break-up. The slapping was done with meat, apparently.
--->'''Joe''': One minute we're spanking each other with meat, and the next minute it got weird!
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* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Budd Bronski, the replacement character for Lowell
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Other characters included lovably dumb mechanic Lowell, daffy clerk Fay, greedy rival Roy, and Helen, the owner of a nearby lunch counter (and later, Joe's wife). Later, sad sack Antonio joined the cast (after Tony Shalhoub scored in a small role as a waiter).
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Other characters included lovably dumb mechanic Lowell, daffy clerk Fay, greedy rival Roy, and Helen, the owner of a nearby lunch counter (and later, Joe's wife). Later, sad sack Antonio joined the cast (after [[{{Monk}} Tony Shalhoub Shalhoub]] scored in a small role as a waiter).
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* DysfunctionalFamily: Joe and Brian's father went insane, their mother left them, leaving Joe to take care of Brian and his father. And their aunt Sarah smells like play-doh.
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* NeatFreak: Joe. Mostly lampshaded and mocked by Brian.
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* ReallyGetsAround: In a season 1 episode, Brian sets Joe up with a woman named Cindy who's an exaggerated version of this. She had slept with almost every men on the island - except Joe. This is deconstructed later on, though, and Cindy moved to Boston by the end of the episode to have a fresh start.
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* [[RealSongThemeTune RealInstrumentalThemeTune]]: Piano sonata No. 20 by Franz Schubert.
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* RealSongThemeTune: [[RealInstrumentalThemeTune RealSongThemeTune]]: Piano sonata No. 20 by Franz SchubertSchubert.
** Doubles to be an InstrumentalThemeTune.
** Doubles to be an InstrumentalThemeTune.
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* PornStash: Joe has ''{Playboy}'' magazines hidden in his secret compartment at his old house, along Brian's letters he was supposed to send Captain Kangaroo.
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* PornStash: Joe has ''{Playboy}'' Playboy magazines hidden in his secret compartment at his old house, along Brian's letters he was supposed to send Captain Kangaroo.
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* PornStash: Joe has ''{Playboy}'' magazines hidden in his secret compartment at his old house, along Brian's letters he was supposed to send Captain Kangaroo.
