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** In "Charlie's Buddy," a man claiming to have served in the war with Charlie sweeps Rose off her feet, but it turns out he's a con artist who was trying to steal her money. This episode has sadly become more relevant today, as romance scams have flourished in the online dating age.
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** There's a lot of jokes at the expense of Phil's crossdressing throughout the series, including him wearing a teddy at his funeral, which is attended by several other crossdressers. However, that episode treats him sympathetically and delivers the message that men who crossdress can still be kind, respectable men.
** "Strange Bedfellows" ends with Gil Kessler revealing he was once Anna Maria Bonaducci, which serves as a bit of shock value appropriate for a sitcom of its era. However, the other characters don't misgender Gil (with Sophia's insistence she could "tell" being a BaitAndSwitch that she knew he was Italian) and when Rose ponders how the surgery works, the joke is mostly on her.
** There's a lot of jokes at the expense of Phil's crossdressing throughout the series, including him wearing a teddy at his funeral, which is attended by several other crossdressers. However, that episode treats him sympathetically and delivers the message that men who crossdress can still be kind, respectable men.
** "Strange Bedfellows" ends with Gil Kessler revealing he was once Anna Maria Bonaducci, which serves as a bit of shock value appropriate for a sitcom of its era. However, the other characters don't misgender Gil (with Sophia's insistence she could "tell" being a BaitAndSwitch that she knew he was Italian) and when Rose ponders how the surgery works, the joke is mostly on her.
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* Greta's comment about Diana Ross marrying white men in "Mixed Blessing", considering Ross' marriages to Robert Ellis Silberstein and Arne Næss Jr. resulted in four children, two of them being Evan Ross and Creator/TraceeEllisRoss
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* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: While it still isn’t right or politically correct for Dorothy to have a problem with Michael and Lorraine’s union due to race (even if she states that that is ''her'' own problem and doesn’t object on those grounds), another reason she could think that way is [[FridgeBrilliance the stigma mixed-race couples and children still faced]] in the 1980s (similar to what ''Film/GuessWhosComingToDinner'' touched on in the 1960s), as her later disliking the child being potentially named “Lamar Zbornak” hints at. The same thing could apply to Greta as well.
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* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: “Mixed Blessing”: While it still isn’t right or politically correct for Dorothy to have a problem with Michael and Lorraine’s union due to race (even if she states that that is ''her'' own problem and doesn’t object on those grounds), another reason she could think that way is [[FridgeBrilliance the stigma mixed-race couples and children still faced]] in the 1980s (similar to what ''Film/GuessWhosComingToDinner'' touched on in the 1960s), as her later disliking the child being potentially named “Lamar Zbornak” hints at. The same thing could apply to Greta as well.
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* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: While it still isn’t right or politically correct for Dorothy to have a problem with Michael and Lorraine’s union due to race (even if she states that that is ''her'' own problem and doesn’t object on those grounds), another reason she could think that way is [[FridgeBrilliance the stigma mixed-race couples and children still faced]] in the 1980s (similar to what ''Film/GuessWhosComingToDinner'' touched on in the 1960s), as her later disliking the child being potentially named “Lamar Zbornak” hints at. The same thing could apply to Greta as well.
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* Greta’s comment about Diana Ross marrying white men in “Mixed Blessing”, considering Ross’ marriages to Robert Ellis Silberstein and Arne Næss Jr. resulted in four children, two of them being Evan Ross and Creator/TraceeEllisRoss
