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* FanPreferredCouple: Wendy/Middleman has about three times as many fanfics as both Wendy/Tyler and Middleman/Lacey on Website/ArchiveOfOurOwn and Website/FanFictionDotNet.

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* FanPreferredCouple: Wendy/Middleman has about three times as many fanfics as both Wendy/Tyler and Middleman/Lacey on Website/ArchiveOfOurOwn Platform/ArchiveOfOurOwn and Website/FanFictionDotNet.Platform/FanFictionDotNet.
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* SendingStuffToSaveTheShow: Middleman fans sent ABC Family M&Ms chocolate candies, because right-side-up, they're MM for Middleman, and upside-down, they're WW for Wendy Watson.
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** A frequent motif in dialogue is the exchange: "It's like a (blank)-nado." "A tornado made of (blank)?" A few years later, [[Film/{{Sharknado}} this movie]] gets made.

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** A frequent motif recurring exchange in dialogue is the exchange: is: "It's like a (blank)-nado." "A tornado made of (blank)?" A few years later, [[Film/{{Sharknado}} this movie]] gets made.

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* HilariousInHindsight: In "The Flying Fish Zombification", the Middleman is reading a book about zombies. The author's surname is [[Series/TheWalkingDead Dixon]].

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In "The Flying Fish Zombification", the Middleman is reading a book about zombies. The author's surname is [[Series/TheWalkingDead Dixon]].Dixon]].
** A frequent motif in dialogue is the exchange: "It's like a (blank)-nado." "A tornado made of (blank)?" A few years later, [[Film/{{Sharknado}} this movie]] gets made.

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* RetroactiveRecognition: Cindy, the CreepyChild from "The Boy-Band Superfan Interrogation" is Creator/EdenSher (or Sue Heck on ''Series/TheMiddle'').

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* RetroactiveRecognition: RetroactiveRecognition:
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Cindy, the CreepyChild from "The Boy-Band Superfan Interrogation" is Creator/EdenSher (or Sue Heck on ''Series/TheMiddle'').''Series/TheMiddle'').
** Eleanor Draper, the villain of "The Ectoplasmic Panhellenic Investigation," is Creator/AshleyJohnson.
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* RetroactiveRecognition: Cindy, the CreepyChild from "The Boy-Band Superfan Interrogation" is Creator/EdenSher (or Sue Heck on ''Series/TheMiddle'').

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* HoYay: Between the Middleman and [[spoiler:fake]] CSI tech Cecil Rodgers. Lampshaded by Wendy, of course

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* HoYay: Between the Middleman and [[spoiler:fake]] CSI tech Cecil Rodgers. Lampshaded by Wendy, Rodgers.
* MentorShip: Between the Middleman and Wendy according to some parts
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* FanPreferredCouple: Wendy/Middleman has about three times as many fanfics as both Wendy/Tyler and Middleman/Lacey on Website/ArchiveOfOurOwn and Website/FanFictionDotNet.
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* HarsherInHindsight: Kevin Sorbo plays a guy from the '60s with some jokes about his outdated parochial attitudes. Sorbo would later get in hot water for his offensive comments about the Ferguson riots, calling the town's black population "animals."

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* HarsherInHindsight: Kevin Sorbo Creator/KevinSorbo plays a guy from the '60s with some jokes about his outdated parochial attitudes. Sorbo would later get in hot water for his offensive comments about the Ferguson riots, calling the town's black population "animals."

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* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: In ''the DVD liner notes'', of all places, as the creator admits that his goal was to create a show that took place in a fantasy world far to the 'idealism' end of the sliding scale, in the hopes that the viewers would be inspired to move a little closer to that end themselves.



%%* HilariousInHindsight: In "The Doomsday Armageddon Apocalypse," Manservant Neville is basically [[MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Discord]].

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%%* * SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments: In ''the DVD liner notes'', of all places, as the creator admits that his goal was to create a show that took place in a fantasy world far to the 'idealism' end of the sliding scale, in the hopes that the viewers would be inspired to move a little closer to that end themselves.
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HilariousInHindsight: In "The Doomsday Armageddon Apocalypse," Manservant Neville is basically [[MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Discord]].



* HoYay: Between the Middleman and [[spoiler: fake]] CSI tech Cecil Rodgers. Lampshaded by Wendy, of course

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* HoYay: Between the Middleman and [[spoiler: fake]] [[spoiler:fake]] CSI tech Cecil Rodgers. Lampshaded by Wendy, of course



* TheWoobie: Ida calls Middleman '69 this when he gets his hand melted. It may be a coincidence, however

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* TheWoobie: Ida calls Middleman '69 this when he gets his hand melted. It may be a coincidence, howeverhowever.
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* HilariousInHindsight: In "The Flying Fish Zombification", the Middleman is reading a book about zombies. The author's surname is [[Series/TheWalkingDead Dixon]].
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* HarsherInHindsight: Kevin Sorbo plays a guy from the '60s with some jokes about his outdated views on women. Sorbo would later get in hot water for his offensive comments about the Ferguson riots, calling the town's black population "animals."

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* HarsherInHindsight: Kevin Sorbo plays a guy from the '60s with some jokes about his outdated views on women.parochial attitudes. Sorbo would later get in hot water for his offensive comments about the Ferguson riots, calling the town's black population "animals."
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* HarsherInHindsight: Kevin Sorbo plays a guy from the '60s with some jokes about his outdated views on women. Sorbo would later get in hot water for his offensive comments about the Ferguson riots, calling the town's black population "animals."
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This doesn\'t expllain why it\'s H Ilarious in Hindsight, or why the two characters have any sort of relation to each other.


* HilariousInHindsight: In "The Doomsday Armageddon Apocalypse," Manservant Neville is basically [[MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Discord]].

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* %%* HilariousInHindsight: In "The Doomsday Armageddon Apocalypse," Manservant Neville is basically [[MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Discord]].
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* HilariousInHindsight: In "The Doomsday Armageddon Apocalypse," Manservant Neville is basically [[MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Discord]].
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too good to last cleanup


* TooGoodToLast: The show didn't even finish its first season on TV; the last episode was only released as a comic and a reading of the script.
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This isn\'t YMMV. Moving.


* JerkAss: Ida, who spends every episode making cranky, cutting remarks and casting aspersions on Dubbie's character. Still technically one of the good guys, though.
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* TooGoodToLast: The show didn't even finish its first season on TV; the last episode was only released as a comic and a reading of the script.

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* TooGoodToLast: The show didn't even finish its first season on TV; the last episode was only released as a comic and a reading of the script.script.
* TheWoobie: Ida calls Middleman '69 this when he gets his hand melted. It may be a coincidence, however
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* HoYay: Between the Middleman and [[spoiler: fake]] CSI tech Cecil Rodgers. Lampshaded by Wendy, of course
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* DesignatedVillain: Or JerkAss, depending on your point of view. Either way, it's subverted. Ida, who spends every episode making cranky, cutting remarks and casting aspersions on Dubbie's character, is one of the good guys.

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* DesignatedVillain: Or JerkAss, depending on your point of view. Either way, it's subverted. JerkAss: Ida, who spends every episode making cranky, cutting remarks and casting aspersions on Dubbie's character, is character. Still technically one of the good guys.guys, though.
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* TooGoodToLast: The show didn't even finish it's first season on TV, the last episode was only released as a comic and a reading of the script.

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* TooGoodToLast: The show didn't even finish it's its first season on TV, TV; the last episode was only released as a comic and a reading of the script.
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game, not a trope.


* BetterThanItSounds: Just ''try'' to recap an episode's plot to someone who's never seen the show.

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* TooGoodToLast: Alas, the show was not picked up for a second season.
** Didn't even finish it's first season...

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* TooGoodToLast: Alas, the The show was not picked up for a second season.
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didn't even finish it's first season...season on TV, the last episode was only released as a comic and a reading of the script.
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* TooGoodToLast: Alas, the show was not picked up for a second season.

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* TooGoodToLast: Alas, the show was not picked up for a second season.season.
** Didn't even finish it's first season...
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* DesignatedVillain: Or JerkAss, depending on your point of view. Either way, it's subverted. Ida, who spends every episode making cranky, cutting remarks and casting aspersions on Dubbie's character, is one of the good guys.

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