Line #15 WebAnimation/MeetTheMillers


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4	Meet The Millers is a 2000 WebAnimation series of five short episodes from ''Creator/IceboxEntertainment'' and created by David Zuckerman. The series is a satire of 1950s American life and evokes the sitcoms of that era, it focuses on titular Miller family, the parents Jim and Betty Miller, alongside their children Nicky, Nancy and Benji. The series features the voice talents of Creator/DanCastellaneta, Creator/MauriceLaMarche, Creator/PhilLaMarr and Creator/JeannieElias. The whole series can be found on Icebox's Website/YouTube [[https://www.youtube.com/user/IceBoxChannel channel]].
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6	It has no relation to the {{Creator/CBS}} sitcom ''Series/TheMillers'' nor the crime comedy film ''Film/WereTheMillers''.
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8	!!The series shows examples of the following tropes:
9	* ChildishToothGap: Benji not only has a tooth gap but also has YouthfulFreckles to fully show that he's the youngest Miller child.
10	* DomesticAbuse: Gus and Audrey's married life isn't the best to say the least, with Gus openly berating him in front of the Millers and when Audrey visits Betty she has to wear sunglasses to hide her black eye.
11	* TheFifties: The show is set during the 1950s, and it doesn't shy away from showcasing exaggerated DeliberateValuesDissonance.
12	* BritishBrevity: Only five episodes were produced.
13	* DeliberatelyMonochrome: Fitting the era depicted, the show is completelyy monochrome and it's even shown through an old television set.
14	* DeliberateValuesDissonance: The show unabashedly showcases political incorrectness befitting the era for historical accuracy, which includes but not limited to: blatant sexism, misogyny, domestic abuse, anti-Semitism and racism.
15	* RedScare: Due to Jim being a part of the FBI and the timeframe the series is set in. Fear and hatred for Communists is very apparent. Although to further exaggerate it they go with "Jew-loving commies".
16	* TokenMinority: Leroy is the only African-American character and due to the era the show takes place, he doesn't get much respect due to his race.
17	* UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist: Due to embodying some of the worst traits (that seemed fair for their day) of 1950s Americans, The Millers fit this trope to a T. Although the family patriarch Jim Miller takes the cake, frmo forbidding his wife to butt in with the DomesticAbuse problem that Audrey has with her husband (outright ordering her to not even ''dream'' about it), to Jim blackmailing the principal into kicking out Benji's teacher who has to make him repeat his grade due to his super low report card scores just so his son doesn't end up looking like a "retard"[[note]]Whats worse is that the file he tried to pass off as evidence for being a jew-loving commie is actually just papers showing off that said teacher they were kicking out was actually a decorated war hero[[/note]] and so much more.
18	* YouthfulFreckles: Benji, the youngest of the Miller Family's children has freckles and a ChildishToothGap.

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