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** The show also has some elements in common with ‘’Series/MyThreeSons’’, also created by Don Fedderson. While the settings and details are different, both shows revolve around three siblings being raised by a single father figure (played by a well-known movie actor) and a live-in male housekeeper.

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** The show also has some elements in common with ‘’Series/MyThreeSons’’, ''Series/MyThreeSons'', also created by Don Fedderson. While the settings and details are different, both shows revolve around three siblings being raised by a single father figure (played by a well-known movie actor) and a live-in male housekeeper.
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** The show also has some elements in common with ‘’Series/MyThreeSons’’, also created by Don Fedderson. While the settings and details are different, both shows revolve around three siblings being raised by a single father figure and a live-in male housekeeper.

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** The show also has some elements in common with ‘’Series/MyThreeSons’’, also created by Don Fedderson. While the settings and details are different, both shows revolve around three siblings being raised by a single father figure (played by a well-known movie actor) and a live-in male housekeeper.

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* SpiritualSuccessor: ''Family Affair'' has several elements in common with the earlier show ''Series/BachelorFather''. Both involve a successful, footloose bachelor with a foreign manservant becoming responsible for his sibling's orphaned offspring.

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''Family Affair'' has several elements in common with the earlier show ''Series/BachelorFather''. Both involve a successful, footloose bachelor with a foreign manservant becoming responsible for his sibling's orphaned offspring.
** The show also has some elements in common with ‘’Series/MyThreeSons’’, also created by Don Fedderson. While the settings and details are different, both shows revolve around three siblings being raised by a single father figure and a live-in male housekeeper.
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* TearJerker: According to Johnny Whitaker, who played Jody, he and Anissa Jones were LikeBrotherAndSister both on and off set, and he still misses her very much. In a retrospective about the show, he said that her death has left him feeling like part of himself is absent.
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* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: At the end of "Christmas Came a Little Early" (where the family throws an early Christmas party for an IllGirl who won't live to see the real Christmas, without telling Buffy and Jody the reason why), why does Buffy cry at the end? Does she suddenly realize while lying in bed that Eve is going to die and that this was the real reason for the party? Or did she secretly know the truth all along?

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* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: At the end of "Christmas Came a Little Early" (where the family throws an early Christmas party for an IllGirl ill girl who won't live to see the real Christmas, without telling Buffy and Jody the reason why), why does Buffy cry at the end? Does she suddenly realize while lying in bed that Eve is going to die and that this was the real reason for the party? Or did she secretly know the truth all along?
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* CommonKnowledge: Many people believe that "Ava" is Buffy's real first name, with "Buffy" being a nickname based on her presumed middle name, "Elizabeth." Even IMDB.com lists her full name as such. Actually, "Ava" was the name Buffy briefly considered changing hers to after making a new friend called Lana (not [[Music/RoyOrbison that one]]) in the season 3 episode "The Latch-Key Kid." It's likely that hazy memories of the episode (as ''Family Affair'' was not widely syndicated for a long time) turned into general public misremembering of "Ava" as Buffy's actual first name, and then that became CommonKnowledge in the era of the web.
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* SpiritualSuccessor: ''Family Affair'' has several elements in common with the earlier show ''Series/BachelorFather''. Both involve a successful, footloose bachelor with a foreign manservant becoming responsible for his sibling's orphaned offspring.
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* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: At the end of "Christmas Came a Little Early" (where the family throws an early Christmas party for an IllGirl who won't live to see the real Christmas, without telling Buffy and Jody the reason why), why does Buffy cry at the end? Does she suddenly realize while lying in bed that Eve is going to die and that this was the real reason for the party? Or did she secretly know the truth all along?
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* CriticalResearchFailure: The children are said to come from Terre Haute, Indiana, but they always pronounce it as "Terre ''Hut''" instead of the correct local pronounciation "Terre ''Hoat''".
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* CriticalResearchFailure: The children are said to come from Terre Haute, Indiana, but they always pronounce it as "Terre ''Hut''" instead of the correct local pronounciation "Terre ''Hoat''".
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* OvershadowedByControversy: The show is best remembered for its controversial decision of keeping Buffy's age the same despite the fact Anissa Jones is already hitting puberty... and how the psychological effects may have led to her premature death at the age of 18.

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* OvershadowedByControversy: The show is best remembered for its controversial decision of keeping Buffy's age the same despite the fact Anissa Jones is was already hitting puberty... and how the psychological effects may have led to her premature death at the age of 18.
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* OvershadowedByControversy: The show is best remembered for its controversial decision of keeping Buffy's age the same despite the fact Anissa Jones is already hitting puberty... and how the psychological effects may have led to her premature death at the age of 18.
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* HarsherInHindsight: With all that tragic business about Anissa Jones NotAllowedToGrowUp, and the effect it had on her... watch a rerun of the Season One episode "Room With a Viewpoint" where Buffy acts out because she is worried that Cissy is growing up and leaving her behind. Try not to cry when Cissy and Uncle Bill reassure her that one day she will grow up too.
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* TearJerker: According to Johnny Whitaker, who played Jody, he and Anissa Jones were LikeBrotherAndSister both on and off set, and he still misses her very much. In a retrospective about the show, he said that her death has left him feeling like part of himself is absent.
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