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* ADayInHerApron: In a variant, in one episode Harry attempts to take control over the grocery shopping when he sees [[MsRedInk how much his wife Irma wastes in seemingly inconvenient items]]. Said attempt [[EpicFail goes even more wrong and wastes even more money]] (he decides to drive to another county to buy a huge sack of beans that cost 50% less than the brand Irma buys… the huge sack's weight blows out two of Harry's tires and ruins the suspension).
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* MsRedInk: In one episode, Harry gets upset that his wife Irma wares too much money on grocery purchases, leading herself by how look the can looks (even if it costs five times more and holds only half of the content that other brands). He even has a nightmare in which Irma does a reverse version of ''Series/SupermarketSweep'' in which she has to pay the stuff she buys and it totals half a million dollars. [[ADayInHerApron Harry's attempt at inexpensive grocery shopping]] [[KafkaKomedy is a complete failure]].
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** On one episode, Ralph proposes repurposing '''Liberty Island''' as a high-security prisoner camp, and when Harry sarcastically says that the statue's torch could work as a place to put a spotlight for the guards, Ralph wholly agrees.
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** On one episode, Ralph proposes repurposing '''Liberty Island''' as a high-security prisoner camp, and when Harry sarcastically says that the statue's torch could work as a place to put a spotlight for the guards, [[SarcasmBlind Ralph wholly agrees.agrees]].
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Creator/HannaBarbera produced this 1972-1974 animated prime time series. Harry Boyle (voiced by a pre-''Series/HappyDays'' Tom Bosley) is a conservative businessman whose elder son, Chet, is a hippie who dropped out of college and does charity work, but won't get a job. His high-school aged daughter, Alice, is a sexually liberated feminist who, despite her weight, isn't afraid to wear skimpy clothes or be interested in sex (much to her parents' shock, who think she's too young and naïve to fully understand sex in the modern age or the fact that not everyone is appreciative of overweight people). Only his younger son, Jamie, shows any signs of sharing Harry's values, and his wife, Irma, stays out of the conflict, though she has dreams of finding her own identity and being more than just a wife and mother.
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Creator/HannaBarbera produced this 1972-1974 animated prime time series. Harry Boyle (voiced by a pre-''Series/HappyDays'' Tom Bosley) Creator/TomBosley) is a conservative businessman whose elder son, Chet, is a hippie who dropped out of college and does charity work, but won't get a job. His high-school aged daughter, Alice, is a sexually liberated feminist who, despite her weight, isn't afraid to wear skimpy clothes or be interested in sex (much to her parents' shock, who think she's too young and naïve to fully understand sex in the modern age or the fact that not everyone is appreciative of overweight people). Only his younger son, Jamie, shows any signs of sharing Harry's values, and his wife, Irma, stays out of the conflict, though she has dreams of finding her own identity and being more than just a wife and mother.
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* UrExample: Nearly two decades before ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons,'' this show would set the standard for the modern adult animated sitcom, [[FollowTheLeader and be highly influential.]]
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* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: The older Boyles (especially Harry) try to not be this but their children of course insist they are the moment that they are the slightest bit annoyed for any misunderstanding. Harry manages to solve the problem about Alice wishing to go to a dinner with a see-through shirt and no bra (and insisting that the beauty of the human body should not be shameful) by invoking this trope: he pretends he is going to go to the dinner only wearing his boxers and shoes and [[IronicEcho says that his body is a beauty and should be admired]] when Alice obviously refuses to let ''[[{{Gonk}} that]]'' human body be in exhibit.
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* VigilanteInjustice: PlayedforLaughs with Ralph's neighborhood militia, who are supposedly trying to prevent communism from spreading (on that end they are ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything) but in practice they just cause mayhem and intrude in people's lives unnecessarily.
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* VigilanteInjustice: PlayedforLaughs PlayedForLaughs with Ralph's neighborhood militia, who are supposedly trying to prevent communism from spreading (on that end they are ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything) but in practice they just cause mayhem and intrude in people's lives unnecessarily.
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* VigilanteInjustice: PlayedforLaughs with Ralph's neighborhood militia, who are supposedly trying to prevent communism from spreading (on that end they are ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything) but in practice they just cause mayhem and intrude in people's lives unnecessarily.
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* HugeGuyTinyGirl: Ralph and Whitaker.
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* HugeGuyTinyGirl: Ralph and Whitaker. He is somewhere shy of six feet tall while Whitaker only reaches to his waist.
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* {{Jerkass}}: Old Sara Whittaker. See DirtyOldWoman, for a start.
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* {{Jerkass}}: Old Sara Whittaker. See DirtyOldWoman, for Whittaker is a start.DirtyOldWoman and pretty trigger-happy (or tackle-happy). Even Ralph had to tell her to cut it out a couple of times.
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* NosyNeighbor: Ralph and Whitaker, to an infuriating degree. It didn't mattered how much Harry tried to keep things private, next thing he knew Ralph was there to try to "help".
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* NosyNeighbor: Ralph and Whitaker, to an infuriating degree. It didn't mattered how much Harry tried to keep things private, next thing he knew Ralph was there to try to "help"."[[UnwantedAssistance help]]".
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* DeliberateValuesDissonance: Harry mentions that his African American secretary was called "A negro" when he hired her. This term had already fallen out of use in TheSeventies.
* DrivesLikeCrazy: Harry's delivery driver repeatedly bumps into buildings with the delivery truck.
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%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.
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* TheThingThatWouldNotLeave: A couple of episodes make it clear that Chet has become this for Harry, notwithstanding the fact that he's Harry's son. The one episode where Harry actually asks Chet to pay for room and board in the hopes he will look for work actually ends up GoneHorriblyRight... because he works, and marvelously so, but just enough to make sure he will be able to afford room and board until he's an old man, and then instantly quits.
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* TheThingThatWouldNotLeave: A couple of episodes make it clear that Chet has become this for Harry, notwithstanding the fact that he's Harry's son. The one episode where Harry actually asks Chet to pay for room and board in the hopes he will look for work actually ends up GoneHorriblyRight... because he works, and marvelously so, but just enough to make sure he will be able to afford room and board until he's an old man, and then instantly quits. Another episode has an exterminator who lives with the family for awhile.
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* VigilanteMilitia: Ralph's neighborhood militia, although Ralph and Old Sara Whitaker are the only members who constantly appear. Also PlayedForLaughs in that they are completely ineffective (they are completely unable to stop a cat burglar who has started to roam the neighborhood in the episode "The Prowler") and just come off as a bunch of more-crazy-than-usual {{Nosy Neighbor}}s.
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Meganekko is no longer a trope. It's a Fanspeak term. Moving wicks to Bespectacled Cutie when appropriate.
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* {{Meganekko}}: Irma and Alice both wear huge glasses that frame their faces.
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* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Old Sara Whittaker, who provided most of the ensuing hijinks in the series, barely appeared in the second season episodes wherein the first season, she's in almost every episode and was just as important a character as Ralph who she's mostly alongside due to their shared political views. In the third season and of the only four episodes, she disappeared completely.
** Jamie did not appear in the ''Love, American Style'' installment.
** Jamie did not appear in the ''Love, American Style'' installment.
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I hope I don't sound mean, but this is beyond a stretch.
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* PoorlyDisguisedPilot: Both the first and third seasons ended with one.
** The first feature a new married couple move in and basically take over the episode from the Boyles when they come to buy a couch. They were named George and Mona Perkins. During the 1970s Hanna Barbera had attempted to pitch a Gruesomes and the Twosomes series featured new modernized Gruesomes from ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'' moving in next door to a wholesome married twosome couple. George and Mona appear to be what remained of the twosomes couple imported into Harry Boyle's neighborhood.
** The third season had one for an attempted animated spinoff of ''Series/Car54WhereAreYou'' with this version of Toody being Irma's brother-in-law.
** The first feature a new married couple move in and basically take over the episode from the Boyles when they come to buy a couch. They were named George and Mona Perkins. During the 1970s Hanna Barbera had attempted to pitch a Gruesomes and the Twosomes series featured new modernized Gruesomes from ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'' moving in next door to a wholesome married twosome couple. George and Mona appear to be what remained of the twosomes couple imported into Harry Boyle's neighborhood.
** The third season had one for an attempted animated spinoff of ''Series/Car54WhereAreYou'' with this version of Toody being Irma's brother-in-law.
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* PoorlyDisguisedPilot: Both the first and third seasons ended with one.
** The first feature a new married couple move in and basically take over the episode from the Boyles when they come to buy a couch. They were named George and Mona Perkins. During the 1970s Hanna Barbera had attempted to pitch a Gruesomes and the Twosomes series featured new modernized Gruesomes from ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'' moving in next door to a wholesome married twosome couple. George and Mona appear to be what remained of the twosomes couple imported into Harry Boyle's neighborhood.
**The third season had one for an attempted animated spinoff of ''Series/Car54WhereAreYou'' with this version of Toody being Irma's brother-in-law.
** The first feature a new married couple move in and basically take over the episode from the Boyles when they come to buy a couch. They were named George and Mona Perkins. During the 1970s Hanna Barbera had attempted to pitch a Gruesomes and the Twosomes series featured new modernized Gruesomes from ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'' moving in next door to a wholesome married twosome couple. George and Mona appear to be what remained of the twosomes couple imported into Harry Boyle's neighborhood.
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Creator/HannaBarbera produced this 1972-1974 animated prime time series. Harry Boyle (voiced by a pre-''Series/HappyDays'' Tom Bosley) is a conservative businessman whose elder son, Chet, is a hippie and a who dropped out of college and does charity work, but won't get a job. His high-school aged daughter, Alice, is a sexually liberated feminist who, despite her weight, isn't afraid to wear skimpy clothes or be interested in sex (much to her parents' shock, who think she's too young and naïve to fully understand sex in the modern age or the fact that not everyone is appreciative of overweight people). Only his younger son, Jamie, shows any signs of sharing Harry's values, and his wife, Irma, stays out of the conflict, though she has dreams of finding her own identity and being more than just a wife and mother.
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* GameShowAppearance: To earn money for an anniversary gift, Irma appears on ''Series/LetsMakeADeal'', complete with Special Guest Voice [[InkSuitActor Monty Hall]] {{as himself}}.
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* GameShowAppearance: To earn money for an anniversary gift, Irma appears on ''Series/LetsMakeADeal'', complete with Special Guest Voice [[InkSuitActor Monty Hall]] {{as himself}}.Creator/MontyHall AsHimself.
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** It was syndicated and mainly aired during the "Primetime access" slot (7:30 Eastern) in many markets. It may have aired in primetime on independent stations.
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* BeeAfraid: In one episode, Harry gets two unwanted visitors -- a colony of bees and a bumbling live-in exterminator played by Creator/DonKnotts.
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* ScaryStingingSwarm: In one episode, Harry gets two unwanted visitors -- a colony of bees and a bumbling live-in exterminator played by Creator/DonKnotts.
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* YoungEntrepreneur: Jamie was typically this in contrast to BrilliantButLazy Chet and GranolaGirl Alice. Episodes giving him focus tended to have him looking for ways to make money, such as using an old camera to take pictures of people and charge them for the service.
