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* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Miss Shaw. An idealistic teacher with bold new ideas that was driven away by the conservative school board? Or an irresponsible teacher with terrible ideas that walked out on the students that needed her when she was forced to compromise? Lampshaded at the end when Old!Kevin notes that he didn't know if he should be angry at her or the school board.
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* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Miss Shaw. An idealistic teacher with bold new ideas that was driven away by the conservative school board? Or an irresponsible teacher with terrible ideas that walked out on the students that needed her when she was forced to compromise? Lampshaded at the end when Old!Kevin Adult Kevin notes that he didn't know if he should be angry at her or the school board.
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* JerkassWoobie: Becky Slater. DisproportionateRetribution aside, Kevin was the one that wronged her first. He's the one that asked her to go steady when he really still liked Wendy [[note]]at the time he felt insecure about being the only kid not going steady and Becky was available[[/note]] and strung her along until the truth came out. However, she definitely goes too far with her grudge and Kevin did feel bad about hurting her.
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*AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Miss Shaw. An idealistic teacher with bold new ideas that was driven away by the conservative school board? Or an irresponsible teacher with terrible ideas that walked out on the students that needed her when she was forced to compromise? Lampshaded at the end when Old!Kevin notes that he didn't know if he should be angry at her or the school board.
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Face Of The Band needed to be moved to the YMMV section.
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* FaceOfTheBand: Dan "Soupy" Campbell to some. Most of the songs are about his experiences (combined with some of the other band members' in a couple songs).
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!!!!For the band The Wonder Years:
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!!!!For the band The Wonder Years:
*Anvilicious: Much of The Greatest Generation can be summed up as "Conservatives suck."
*Anvilicious: Much of The Greatest Generation can be summed up as "Conservatives suck."
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** The episode Summer Song where Kevin meets a girl he really likes while on vacation and she promises to write back to him. [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse he never hears from her again]]
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** The episode Summer Song where Kevin meets a girl he really likes while on vacation and she promises to write back to him. He gets one letter but then [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse he never hears from her again]]
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** The episode Summer Song where Kevin meets a girl he really likes while on vacation and she promises to write back to him. [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse he never hears from her again]]
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* RetroactiveRecognition:
** "Hey, it's The Doctor from ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' as the asshole Gym teacher!"
** And Karen is married to Ross from ''Friends'', you do remember Karen don't you?
** And [[WesternAnimation/InvaderZim Dib!]]
** Seth Green plays a student in "Lunch Stories" and "Sex and Economics".
** [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] with Music/MarilynManson. Despite the urban legend that he played Paul, the role actually belonged to Josh Saviano.
** "Hey, it's The Doctor from ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' as the asshole Gym teacher!"
** And Karen is married to Ross from ''Friends'', you do remember Karen don't you?
** And [[WesternAnimation/InvaderZim Dib!]]
** Seth Green plays a student in "Lunch Stories" and "Sex and Economics".
** [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] with Music/MarilynManson. Despite the urban legend that he played Paul, the role actually belonged to Josh Saviano.
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* HilariousInHindsight:
** In the episode "Heart of Darkness", Paul says that he's allergic to contact lenses, but in the last two seasons he switches to contacts.
** Not to mention that in the episode before he starts wearing contacts, when Winnie informs Kevin that there's something he doesn't yet know about Paul, one of Kevin's guesses is that he's wearing contacts.
** In the episode "Heart of Darkness", Paul says that he's allergic to contact lenses, but in the last two seasons he switches to contacts.
** Not to mention that in the episode before he starts wearing contacts, when Winnie informs Kevin that there's something he doesn't yet know about Paul, one of Kevin's guesses is that he's wearing contacts.
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* HilariousInHindsight:
**HilariousInHindsight: In the episode "Heart of Darkness", Paul says that he's allergic to contact lenses, but in the last two seasons he switches to contacts.
** Not to mention that incontacts. In the episode before he starts wearing contacts, when Winnie informs Kevin that there's something he doesn't yet know about Paul, one of Kevin's guesses is that he's wearing contacts.
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* TearJerker:
** Built on a metric ton of these. Special stand-outs include the first episode's final revelation, Kevin's "I love you" to Winnie while she's sick at home, Kevin failing his piano recital utterly and admitting (in narration) that he doesn't even remember how to play anymore, and the SeriesFinale's ending commentary.
** The entire SeriesFinale has to be one of the saddest, yet most enlightening in TV history.
** Can't forget the time a teacher he was starting to bond with passed away.
** Built on a metric ton of these. Special stand-outs include the first episode's final revelation, Kevin's "I love you" to Winnie while she's sick at home, Kevin failing his piano recital utterly and admitting (in narration) that he doesn't even remember how to play anymore, and the SeriesFinale's ending commentary.
** The entire SeriesFinale has to be one of the saddest, yet most enlightening in TV history.
** Can't forget the time a teacher he was starting to bond with passed away.
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* TearJerker:
**TearJerker: Built on a metric ton of these. Special stand-outs include the include:
** The first episode's finalrevelation, revelation
** Kevin's "I love you" to Winnie while she's sick athome, home.
** Kevin failing his piano recital utterly and admitting (in narration) that he doesn't even remember how to playanymore, and the anymore.
** The time a teacher Kevin was starting to bond with passed away.
** The SeriesFinale's endingcommentary.
**commentary. The entire SeriesFinale finale has to be one of the saddest, yet most enlightening in TV history.
** Can't forget the time a teacher he was starting to bond with passed away.history.
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** The first episode's final
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** Kevin failing his piano recital utterly and admitting (in narration) that he doesn't even remember how to play
** The time a teacher Kevin was starting to bond with passed away.
** The SeriesFinale's ending
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** Can't forget the time a teacher he was starting to bond with passed away.
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she is one of the main characters, and thefore oesn\'t fit the definition of the audiene-reaction
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* CreatorsPet: Winnie is/was this to some people because of the way she treated Kevin.
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* HilariousInHindsight: In the episode "Heart of Darkness", Paul says that he's allergic to contact lenses, but in the last two seasons he switches to contacts.
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* HilariousInHindsight: HilariousInHindsight:
** In the episode "Heart of Darkness", Paul says that he's allergic to contact lenses, but in the last two seasons he switches to contacts.
** In the episode "Heart of Darkness", Paul says that he's allergic to contact lenses, but in the last two seasons he switches to contacts.
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* TearJerker: Built on a metric ton of these. Special stand-outs include the first episode's final revelation, Kevin's "I love you" to Winnie while she's sick at home, Kevin failing his piano recital utterly and admitting (in narration) that he doesn't even remember how to play anymore, and the SeriesFinale's ending commentary.
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* TearJerker: TearJerker:
** Built on a metric ton of these. Special stand-outs include the first episode's final revelation, Kevin's "I love you" to Winnie while she's sick at home, Kevin failing his piano recital utterly and admitting (in narration) that he doesn't even remember how to play anymore, and the SeriesFinale's ending commentary.
** Built on a metric ton of these. Special stand-outs include the first episode's final revelation, Kevin's "I love you" to Winnie while she's sick at home, Kevin failing his piano recital utterly and admitting (in narration) that he doesn't even remember how to play anymore, and the SeriesFinale's ending commentary.
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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: While it would have been hard to really focus on it since the shows entire focus was on Kevin and the last episode ended during the summer, it's a shame that they couldn't have shown Chuck and Jeff's summer road trip in the last episode, or even have the narrator reveal anything that happened to them on that trip.
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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: While it would have been hard to really focus on it since the shows entire focus was on Kevin and the last episode ended during the summer, it's a shame that they couldn't have shown Chuck and Jeff's summer road trip in the last episode, or even have the narrator reveal anything that happened to them on that trip.trip.
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Karma Houdini isn\'t a YMMV Trope
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* KarmaHoudini: Becky Slater never gets in trouble for any of the mean things she does to Kevin after their break-up. Among the things she had done to him include knocking him out, telling most of the school the mean things Kevin said about them behind their backs when they were a couple, trying to run over Kevin with her bike, pouring Kevin's milk on his lap, and punching Kevin after he beats her in a race on the track field (keep in mind a teacher was there when that happened, and she got no apparent punishment).
** The cool students in charge of the yearbook in "Yearbook". They let Kevin pick funny quotes for each student, including "oink oink" for a fat student. Feeling guilty, Kevin tries to talk them into removing that quote. When Kevin points out that the principal will see it, they decide to go to fix things.... By telling him that Kevin tried to sneak that quote in, and after Kevin gets detention for it, they decide they don't need him for the yearbook anymore, and remain unpunished.
** Kevin, apparently, in "Back to the Lake". When driving himself and Paul to work, he decides to skip work and go to the lake to see Cara, against Paul's will. While we never see what happens when they return to work, Kevin continues to be employed at Mr. Chong's Chinese restaurant while Paul is never seen or mentioned to be working there again.
** Also, in "Ladies and Gentlemen... The Rolling Stones", Kevin gets grounded. When the parents go out for the night, Jack tells Kevin [[ExactWords not to drive his car]], so Kevin drives Jack's car. He ends up wrecking the back of the car, and fears his parents finding out when they get back... [[spoiler: only for the person who had driven them to accidentally bump into the car before Jack could see that it was already wrecked... and then Kevin learns Norma had already wrecked it.]]
** The cool students in charge of the yearbook in "Yearbook". They let Kevin pick funny quotes for each student, including "oink oink" for a fat student. Feeling guilty, Kevin tries to talk them into removing that quote. When Kevin points out that the principal will see it, they decide to go to fix things.... By telling him that Kevin tried to sneak that quote in, and after Kevin gets detention for it, they decide they don't need him for the yearbook anymore, and remain unpunished.
** Kevin, apparently, in "Back to the Lake". When driving himself and Paul to work, he decides to skip work and go to the lake to see Cara, against Paul's will. While we never see what happens when they return to work, Kevin continues to be employed at Mr. Chong's Chinese restaurant while Paul is never seen or mentioned to be working there again.
** Also, in "Ladies and Gentlemen... The Rolling Stones", Kevin gets grounded. When the parents go out for the night, Jack tells Kevin [[ExactWords not to drive his car]], so Kevin drives Jack's car. He ends up wrecking the back of the car, and fears his parents finding out when they get back... [[spoiler: only for the person who had driven them to accidentally bump into the car before Jack could see that it was already wrecked... and then Kevin learns Norma had already wrecked it.]]
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* RetroactiveRecognition: "Hey, it's The Doctor from ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' as the asshole Gym teacher!"
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** "Hey, it's The Doctor from ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' as the asshole Gym teacher!"
** "Hey, it's The Doctor from ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' as the asshole Gym teacher!"
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* ConfirmationBias: A rather nasty case with Kevin's civics teacher. He does a number of prickish things, but Kevin only decides that he's irredeemably evil when it becomes apparent that he's a Republican.
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** And [[InvaderZim Dib!]]
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** And [[InvaderZim [[WesternAnimation/InvaderZim Dib!]]
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** [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] with MarilynManson. Despite the urban legend that he played Paul, the role actually belonged to Josh Saviano.
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** [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] with MarilynManson.Music/MarilynManson. Despite the urban legend that he played Paul, the role actually belonged to Josh Saviano.
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** Kevin, apparently, in "Back to the Lake". When driving himself and Paul to work, he decides to skip work and go to the lake to see Cara, against Paul's will. While we never see what happens when they return to work, Kevin continues to be employed at Mr. Chong's Chinese restaurant while Paul is never seen or mentioned to be working there again.
** Also, in "Ladies and Gentlemen... The Rolling Stones", Kevin gets grounded. When the parents go out for the night, Jack tells Kevin [[ExactWords not to drive his car]], so Kevin drives Jack's car. He ends up wrecking the back of the car, and fears his parents finding out when they get back... [[spoiler: only for the person who had driven them to accidentally bump into the car before Jack could see that it was already wrecked... and then Kevin learns Norma had already wrecked it.]]
** Also, in "Ladies and Gentlemen... The Rolling Stones", Kevin gets grounded. When the parents go out for the night, Jack tells Kevin [[ExactWords not to drive his car]], so Kevin drives Jack's car. He ends up wrecking the back of the car, and fears his parents finding out when they get back... [[spoiler: only for the person who had driven them to accidentally bump into the car before Jack could see that it was already wrecked... and then Kevin learns Norma had already wrecked it.]]
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* KarmaHoudini: Becky Slater never gets in trouble for any of the mean things she does to Kevin after their break-up. Among the things she had done to him include knocking him out, telling most of the school the mean things Kevin said about them behind their backs when they were a couple, trying to run over Kevin with her bike, pouring Kevin's milk on his lap, and punching Kevin after he beats her in a race on the track field (keep in mind a teacher was there when that happened, and she got no apparent punishment).
** The cool students in charge of the yearbook in "Yearbook". They let Kevin pick funny quotes for each student, including "oink oink" for a fat student. Feeling guilty, Kevin tries to talk them into removing that quote. When Kevin points out that the principal will see it, they decide to go to fix things.... By telling him that Kevin tried to sneak that quote in, and after Kevin gets detention for it, they decide they don't need him for the yearbook anymore, and remain unpunished.
** The cool students in charge of the yearbook in "Yearbook". They let Kevin pick funny quotes for each student, including "oink oink" for a fat student. Feeling guilty, Kevin tries to talk them into removing that quote. When Kevin points out that the principal will see it, they decide to go to fix things.... By telling him that Kevin tried to sneak that quote in, and after Kevin gets detention for it, they decide they don't need him for the yearbook anymore, and remain unpunished.
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** Can't forget the time a teacher he was starting to bond with passed away.
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** Can't forget the time a teacher he was starting to bond with passed away.away.
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: While it would have been hard to really focus on it since the shows entire focus was on Kevin and the last episode ended during the summer, it's a shame that they couldn't have shown Chuck and Jeff's summer road trip in the last episode, or even have the narrator reveal anything that happened to them on that trip.
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: While it would have been hard to really focus on it since the shows entire focus was on Kevin and the last episode ended during the summer, it's a shame that they couldn't have shown Chuck and Jeff's summer road trip in the last episode, or even have the narrator reveal anything that happened to them on that trip.
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** Not to mention that in the episode before he starts wearing contacts, when Winnie informs Kevin that there's something he doesn't yet know about Paul, one of Kevin's guesses is that he's wearing contacts.
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* CreatorsPet: Winnie is/was this to some people because of the way she treated Kevin.
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* CreatorsPet: Winnie is/was this to some people because of the way she treated Kevin.
* HilariousInHindsight: In the episode "Heart of Darkness", Paul says that he's allergic to contact lenses, but in the last two seasons he switches to contacts.
* HilariousInHindsight: In the episode "Heart of Darkness", Paul says that he's allergic to contact lenses, but in the last two seasons he switches to contacts.
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** [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] with MarilynManson. Despite the urban legend that he played Paul, the role actually belonged to Josh Saviano.
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** Seth Green plays a student in "Lunch Stories" and "Sex and Economics".
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Crowning Moment of Funny
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* CrowningMomentOfFunny: The Gym teacher's utter failure at drawing the female reproductive system ("It looks like a COW").
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** The entire SeriesFinale has to be one of the saddest, yet most enlightening in TV history.
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** The entire SeriesFinale has to be one of the saddest, yet most enlightening in TV history.history.
** Can't forget the time a teacher he was starting to bond with passed away.
** Can't forget the time a teacher he was starting to bond with passed away.
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* RetroactiveRecognition: "Hey, it's The Doctor from ''StarTrekVoyager'' as the asshole Gym teacher!"
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* TearJerker: Built on a metric ton of these. Special stand-outs include the first episode's final revelation, Kevin's "I love you" to Winnie while she's sick at home, Kevin failing his piano recital utterly and admitting (in narration) that he doesn't even remember how to play anymore, and the SeriesFinale's ending commentary.
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* TearJerker: Built on a metric ton of these. Special stand-outs include the first episode's final revelation, Kevin's "I love you" to Winnie while she's sick at home, Kevin failing his piano recital utterly and admitting (in narration) that he doesn't even remember how to play anymore, and the SeriesFinale's ending commentary.commentary.
**The entire SeriesFinale has to be one of the saddest, yet most enlightening in TV history.
**The entire SeriesFinale has to be one of the saddest, yet most enlightening in TV history.
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* CreatorsPet: Winnie is/was this to some people because of the way she treated Kevin.
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* TheWesley: Winnie is/was this to some people because of the way she treated Kevin.
* TheWesley: Winnie is/was this to some people because of the way she treated Kevin.
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* TearJerker: Built on a metric ton of these. Special stand-outs include the first episode's final revelation, Kevin's "I love you" to Winnie while she's sick at home, Kevin failing his piano recital utterly and admitting (in narration) that he doesn't even remember how to play anymore, and the SeriesFinale's ending commentary.
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* TheWesley: Winnie is/was this to some people because of the way she treated Kevin.
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**And Karen is married to Ross from ''Friends'', you do remember Karen don't you?
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* RetroactiveRecognition: "Hey, it's The Doctor from ''StarTrekVoyager'' as the asshole Gym teacher!"
