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8	->Meet Mr. X, leader and father.\
9	Mrs. X, combat specialist and mother.\
10	Tuesday X, team investigator and daughter.\
11	Truman X, technology expert and son!\
12	Together they form the world's first ultra-secret spy family!\
13	They work for SUPERIOR!\
14	Their nemesis? SNAFU, led by the evil Glowface.\
15	My name is Home Base -- I'm the house they live in.\
16	And this is... '''The X's'''!
17	--> -- '''Opening narration from [[SmartHouse Home Base]]'''
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19	''The X's'' was a short-lived [[Franchise/{{Nicktoons}} Nicktoon]] created by Carlos Ramos that aired on Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} from 2005 to 2006. It is about a [[SuperFamilyTeam family of spies]], who must hide their identity from the outside world, but sometimes have a little trouble in doing so.
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21	The X's work for SUPERIOR. The X's have a young boy named Truman, a teenage girl named Tuesday, and many gadgets at their disposal. An organization called S.N.A.F.U. ([[FunWithAcronyms Society of Nefarious and Felonious Undertakings]]) is continually trying to cause trouble for the X's in their plans to take over the world.
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23	The family is often compared to the Creator/{{Pixar}}'s ''[[WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles Incredibles]]''.
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25	Series director David Marshall has made nearly the entire series available for viewing on his Platform/{{Vimeo}} [[https://vimeo.com/user18319683 page]].
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27	!!X-amples:
28	* AcademyOfEvil: The Supervillains of Tomorrow program, which trains future S.N.A.F.U. agents.
29	* AccidentalHero: Truman becomes this in the episode of the same name when he accidentally saves a baby from his own paintball prank.
30	* AccidentalMisnaming: Glowface calls Lorenzo "Fernando" once in "Truman X: Super Villain".
31	** He also calls Brandon "Manuel" in "Pinheads".
32	* AchievementsInIgnorance: The X's trying to wash their clothes at a laundromat leads to a flood that successfully prevents an ambush from S.N.A.F.U. by accident.
33	* AcidPool: Glowface has one with robot sharks in "Truman X: Super Villain".
34	* AcquaintedWithEmergencyServices: Truman's experiments with radioactive materials have caused so many meltdowns that the X's are on a FirstNameBasis with the decontamination squad.
35	* ActingUnnatural: The eponymous family is a perfectly normal family that acts just like a normal family would do, AND THEY'RE NOT SPIES!
36	* ActionMom: Mrs. X.
37	** This gets deconstructed in "No More Mrs. Nice X", where Mrs. X is such an Action Mom that she never relaxes and does everything in an extreme manner, annoying her family to the point they send her on a tranquility retreat.
38	* ActorAllusion: This isn't the first time Creator/WendieMalick voices a [[WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewGroove mom]] or a [[WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGenius secret agent]], the latter being from Nickelodeon, no less.
39	** Nor is it the first time Creator/TomKane voices [[Franchise/ThePowerpuffGirls a]] [[WesternAnimation/KimPossible villain]].[[note]]One of his previous roles even has a goatee.[[/note]]
40	** At the end of "The Haunting of Home Base", Sasquatch offers beef jerky to the X's while they're trick-or-treating. Sasquatch's voice actor, Randy Savage, used to be the spokesman for Slim Jim.
41	* AdultsDressedAsChildren: Mr. X dresses like a little boy in "AAIIEE! Robot" and "From Crusha with Love", though with a different costume each time.
42	* AffectionHatingKid: Tuesday and Truman both say "ew" when they see their mom kiss their dad in "Three Days of the Coin Op".
43	* AgeInsecurity: Mrs. X is shown to have this in "Homebody" when she stops her husband from revealing her true age.
44	* AllTheOtherReindeer: Some episodes reveal that everyone thinks the X's are weird.
45	* AllThereInTheScript: The X's next-door neighbors are only named in the credits in episodes where they are credited, listed as Wally, "Mrs. Wally" and Wally Jr. Although, the baby is called "Junior" twice in "Live and Let Diaper".
46	* AllWomenLoveShoes: Parodied in "Mission Irresponsible" when Mrs. X, trying to imitate Tuesday, asks for $10,000 to buy shoes.
47	* AlliterativeFamily: Tucker X, Trudy X, Truman X, and Tuesday X.
48	* AlliterativeName: '''S'''kipper '''S'''wenson, one of Tuesday's sleepover guests in "License to Slumber".
49	* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: Mr. and Mrs. X are sometimes this to their kids.
50	* AndYouThoughtItWasAGame: It takes Truman a while to realize that all the scary stuff happening at home isn't an act in "The Haunting of Home Base".
51	* AndTheAdventureContinues: "Truman X: Super Villain" ends with the X's getting a mission to stop a heist made by the Scream Queens.
52	* AngryFistShake: Glowface does this a few times.
53	* {{Animesque}}: The video Home Base makes of himself as a superhero has this art style.
54	* AnnoyingPatient: Everyone who got sick in "You Only Sneeze Twice".[[note]]Not counting Tuesday, who only gets sick at the end.[[/note]]
55	* AnswerCut:
56	** In "Wealth vs. Stealth", after Mr. X gives Glowface the X's' billion dollars, Truman worries that Glowface will do something bad with the money. Mr. X brushes Truman off, asking what Glowface could do with a billion dollars. Cue a rap video by "Glowy-F" and "L-Dog"!
57	** In "Pinheads", after Glowface demands to know where the X's have been during the heists, the scene changes to the bowling alley.
58	** After the X's capture Glowface's zombie army in "Secret Agent Manual", he wonders how he'll get the erasers he wants; the scene then changes to him shopping at World o' Pink.
59	* ArmorPiercingQuestion: In "No more Mrs. Nice X", Mrs. X goes to a spa retreat where she's still as trigger-happy as ever before. But it's only once the head of the retreat asks her if she thinks her combative ways are harming her family that she starts to ease up.
60	* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking:
61	** After the X's almost blew their cover on a picnic, Mr. X complains about his wife kicking other people, Truman blasting everything, and Tuesday's nay-saying.
62	** When Truman tries to get his family interested in Halloween in "The Haunting of Home Base", Tuesday points out that they see scarier stuff every day, listing Glowface and Sasquatch as examples, before Mrs. X adds, "Your father's ingrown back hair," and shudders.
63	** During the group therapy session Glowface gives the X's in "Family Issues", he diagnoses their "problems" as follows: Mr. X's laziness stems from a craving for support from his wife, Mrs. X's nagging comes from a fear of being unloved by her husband, Tuesday's rebellion is a cry for attention, and Truman's just a little weenie.
64	** Glowface showing off his lair in "Three Days of the Coin Op":
65	--->'''Glowface''': It's got a pit of doom! [[SharkPool A shark tank!]] An atomic disintegrator! Spinning blades of evil!! ''([[EvilLaugh laughs maniacally]])''
66	--->'''Lorenzo''': Those are ceiling fans, sir.
67	--->'''Glowface''': ''(stops laughing)'' Well, I'm sure we'll think of some way to do evil with them.
68	* ArtisticLicensePhysics: Glowface once used his electrical powers to bring a plethora of erasers to life as the "Rubber Colossus". In reality, this wouldn't work since rubber can't conduct electricity well.
69	* AstonishinglyAppropriateInterruption:
70	** When the Y's beat the X's to the punch at capturing Glowface in "Y's Up":
71	-->'''Mr. X''': Oh no, not-
72	-->'''Mr. Y''': The Y's at your service!
73	** This bit in "Breaking Camp":
74	-->'''Lorenzo''': Sir, satellite reconnaissance shows that the X's are at this facility. It is believed to be a new SUPERIOR training camp called-
75	-->'''Glowface''': Camp Katonka?!
76	* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: The Glow-zilla scheme in "Wee House".
77	* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: Sure, Tuesday and Truman [[SiblingRivalry frequently drive each other crazy]], but they do love each other deep down.
78	* BabysittingEpisode: "Live and Let Diaper" involves the X's looking after their neighbors' baby.
79	* BadBadActing:
80	** The dancing clown routine and puppet show Lorenzo performs for a sick Glowface in "You Only Sneeze Twice" involve this. Given his reluctance, it's justified.
81	*** There's also his pretending to be enthusiastic about Halloween in "The Haunting of Home Base".
82	** The X's reading the scripts for their new personas in "Family Issues".
83	* BadassFamily: They kick butt though in a rather goofy way.
84	* BaitAndSwitch:
85	** When the X's are assigned to protect a foreign ambassador at an art museum, Mr. X plans to disguise himself as a small child. While stating this offscreen, it seems like he disguised himself as a baby in a carriage, only for him to show up wearing a [[AdultsDressedAsChildren Little Lord Fauntleroy costume and holding a giant lollipop]].
86	** In "To Err Is Truman", when Tuesday gives Truman a tube of superglue to play with in an attempt to get him in trouble, at first it sounds like Truman is thinking about getting into mischief, only for Home Base to appear, having changed his voice to sound like Truman's.
87	** In "In-Law Enforcement", Glowface plans to stretch Mr. and Mrs. X like spaghetti, stating that he got the idea while eating dinner the previous night. He asks the kids to guess what he had, and Tuesday says "We-", only to get interrupted by Glowface saying he had chicken pot pie.
88	* BattleCouple: Mr. and Mrs. X
89	* BattleStrip:
90	** After Glowface puts Mr. X and the kids in life-threatening danger to get Mrs. X back to her ActionMom self, she rips off the casual outfit she wore when she breaks her bonds, revealing her usual outfit.
91	** After Truman gets his parents and Tuesday to stop trying to be like the Y's, his sister and parents tear off the silly get-ups they had on, revealing their regular clothes underneath. Well, Mr. X is shown doing it; Mrs. X and Tuesday are implied to have done so off-screen.
92	* BecomingTheMask: In "Family Issues", the X's decide to pretend they have issues like everyone else to blend in better. After much practice (and electric shocks) they have their acts down pat... except it's not an act and they've [[GoneHorriblyRight accidentally brainwashed themselves]] into believing they're [[BigScrewedUpFamily a dysfunctional mess of miserable people]] (unless you count Truman, whose persona is [[StepfordSmiler perpetually saccharine and optimistic]]).
93	* BedsheetGhost: Two characters dress like this in "The Haunting of Home Base": first, Lorenzo when he and Glowface pose as trick-or-treaters- with voice-scrambling collars making them sound like children- to plant a virus in Home Base, and Mr. X when the X's go trick-or-treating at the end.
94	* BigFancyHouse: The X's get one after winning a billion dollars in "Wealth vs. Stealth".
95	* BigGuyLittleGuy: Lorenzo is taller than Glowface. In a variation on this trope, while [[BigBad Glowface is in charge]], [[HypercompetentSidekick Lorenzo is more competent]].
96	* BigNo: Home Base does this in "Missing Home" when he's forced to watch Glowface have three kittens shred a couch.
97	** Glowface's reaction when Brandon cuts the power at the TV studio before the former can conquer the world on live TV.
98	* BigWhat: While trying to convince Truman to join S.N.A.F.U. in "Truman X: Super Villain", Glowface offers him his very own jet and says it comes with the rank of "second-in-command". Overhearing this, and shocked at the possibility of being usurped, Lorenzo's attempted protest starts with this.
99	* BirthdayEpisode: "Boy's Best Fiend" is set on Truman's birthday.
100	** "Missing Home" takes place on Home Base's birthday.
101	* ABirthdayNotABreak: Deconstructed. In "Boy's Best Fiend", Truman has a problem with this trope coming into play on his birthday. Every year, from the time he was a baby, he had high hopes it would be the best birthday ever, only for [[TemptingFate those hopes to be dashed]] when his family's given a mission. Even on the very birthday that takes place in the episode, his family has to take a mission. The only good thing that comes out of it is that he meets his dog and the newest addition to the family.
102	** Home Base has a rather awful birthday in "Missing Home". The X's forget his birthday for more than half of the episode and don't treat him nicely, and he gets house-napped by S.N.A.F.U. and tormented by Glowface, who wants to know secrets about the X's. Thankfully, the X's eventually see the error of their ways, save Home Base and reconcile with him.
103	* BlackComedy:
104	** In "License to Slumber", Mrs. X hopes Tuesday's guests don't figure out the family's secret, because if they do, SUPERIOR would transfer the X's to the bottom of the ocean.
105	-->'''Tuesday''': SUPERIOR has a secret base there?
106	-->'''Mrs. X''': HaHaHaNo.
107	-->'''Tuesday''': [[DelayedOhCrap Oh... oh]].
108	** Two instances involving a deliriously ill Mrs. X in "You Only Sneeze Twice":
109	*** First there's this bit:
110	--->'''Mrs. X''': ''(producing a will and quill pen)'' Sweetie, Mommy needs you to help her write her will.
111	--->'''Tuesday''': No, Mommy doesn't.
112	*** Then, at Glowface's lair, Mrs. X talks with a southern accent and acts like her grandmother's calling her from heaven.
113	--->'''Tuesday''': Mom, you're not southern!
114	* BlackComedyPetDeath: Referenced in this exchange in "Untied":
115	-->'''Truman''': Dad, remember what you said when I lost my goldfish?
116	-->'''Mr. X''': Yeah. [[ComicallyMissingThePoint "You shouldn't have fed him soup."]]
117	* BlondBrunetteRedhead: Tuesday's slumber party guests in "License to Slumber": Skipper Swenson (blonde), [[{{Goth}} Annasthesia Montiho]] (ravenette), and Kimla Meeks (redhead).
118	* BoastfulRap: Glowface's music video at the end of "Wealth vs. Stealth".
119	* BorrowedCatchphrase: Mrs. X borrows "To the X-Jet!" from her husband in "You Only Sneeze Twice", though being sick makes it harder to say.
120	* BoundAndGagged:
121	** This is shown to have happened to various people at a TV studio in "The Spy Who Liked Me" and a mine in "No More Mrs. Nice X" when S.N.A.F.U. invaded said locations for Glowface's latest schemes.
122	** During the X's mission in "Live and Let Diaper", Mrs. X is revealed to done this to Lorenzo after kicking him down.
123	* BowlingForRatings: "Pinheads" involves the X's going bowling, and later competing in a match against S.N.A.F.U.
124	* BracesOfOrthodonticOverkill: Tuesday and Glowface wear these in "Meddle Mouth".
125	* BrattyFoodDemand: In "Accidental Hero", Glowface, while hoping for his latest evil scheme to be reported on Action Eye News, yells for Lorenzo to hurry up in bringing him a bowl of popcorn.
126	* BrattyHalfPint: Truman X, perhaps the most badass and ''least'' annoying example of the trope. He's meant to be a combination of Bart Simpson and Dexter from ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'', and frankly, [[BadassAdorable that combination]] [[LargeHam works]] ''[[LargeHam wonders.]]'' But even he is ''nothing'' compared to the girl who bullies him in the episode "From Crusha with Love".
127	* BrattyTeenageDaughter: Tuesday's a more [[DownplayedTrope downplayed example]].
128	* BrickJoke: In the first few minutes of "Pinheads", Glowface leads Lorenzo, Sasquatch and Brandon in three heists. Near the end of the episode, after they beat the X's in a bowling match, Glowface is suddenly placed in a cage. After he questions this, Mr. X reminds him of the heists committed before the match.
129	** In "You Only Sneeze Twice", one of Mr. X's requests for Tuesday is to put on a movie about a spy family. At the end of the episode, when she gets her family's virus, he offers to put on the same kind of movie for her.
130	** In "Breaking Camp", Mrs. X tries to teach the few campers a loon call, but accidentally summons an angry group of wild animals. Later, when Truman has to save his family, he uses that call to sic the animals on the bad guys.
131	** At the beginning of "X Takes a Holiday", Tuesday is telling one of her classmates on the phone about the party she and Truman are planning to throw and assures the person that her parents won't be there to do the Funky Chicken. Later, while Tuesday is lying to her mom on the phone about throwing a party when she and Truman have actually been taken captive by Glowface, Mrs. X expresses regret that she and her husband couldn't join their kids, saying "Your father and I would've done the Funky Chicken."
132	** In "Wee House", Truman calls Tuesday a poop-head after she gets him in trouble. Later, when their parents find out that her teasing Truman about his short height caused him to move out of the house and build his mini-house in the yard, Mr. X calls Tuesday a poop-head.
133	* BriefAccentImitation: While Tuesday and her parents try to emulate the Y's in "Y's Up", she speaks with a Cockney accent and uses some British slang. When Glowface asks what she's talking about, she drops the accent and says, "I don't know! I have an accent now, okay?"
134	* BuffySpeak: In "Three Days of the Coin Op" Mr. and Mrs. X call a laundromat a "laundry-catessen" and a "make-clothes-less-dirty machine's building", respectively.
135	* BullyingADragon: Glowface ''tries'' to do this to get Mrs. X back to normal in "No More Mrs. Nice X", but none of his ideas faze her.
136	* BumblingDad: Mr. X is your typical bumbling father, who knows 50 ways to destroy a man with his bare hands alone.
137	* ButtCannon: One of Truman's weapons.
138	* CallingYourBathroomBreaks: While having a PottyEmergency in "The Haunting of Home Base", Glowface says, "I'm about to finally see the X's destroyed, and I have to pee-pee!"
139	* CampWackyname: Camp Katonka in "Breaking Camp".
140	* CaptainObvious: "You know, WhenIWasYourAge I was younger."
141	* CaughtInASnare: In "Live and Let Diaper", shortly after the X's arrive at Glowface's lair, with the baby they're watching in tow, the spy family step into some ropes and get suspended from the ceiling by their ankles when Lorenzo pulls a lever.
142	* CaughtOnTape: Subverted in "To Err Is Truman": Home Base catches Truman taking a joyride in the X-Jet, only to remember he disabled his own cameras as part of Tuesday's plan to frame Truman for another toilet-bomb prank.
143	* CelebrityIsOverrated: The X's come to feel this way in "Wealth vs. Stealth" when they keep getting bothered by paparazzi after having won a billion dollars. In the end, they give Glowface a check for the money to get the paparazzi off their backs.
144	* ChainOfPeople: Happens with S.N.A.F.U. in "Photo Ops" when one of the fortress walls is broken in space.
145	* ChewOutFakeOut:
146	-->'''Mrs. X, on catching Truman changing the text in the spy manual with his Re-Textinator''': Truman, I can't believe... you've been keeping this to yourself!
147	* ChubbyMamaSkinnyPapa: The X's neighbor Wally is slim and his wife is overweight.
148	* ClockTampering: Home Base moves the second hand on a clock backwards to mess with Truman in "To Err Is Truman".
149	* ClothingSwitch: When Mr. and Mrs. X wind up switching ranks with their kids in "Mission: Irresponsible", Mr. X trades clothes with Truman while Mrs. X trades clothes with Tuesday. Oddly enough, while Tuesday's clothes fit well on her mother and vice versa, Truman's clothes are obviously ill-fitting on his father, whereas Truman simply wears a smaller-sized version of Mr. X's suit.
150	* ConscienceMakesYouGoBack: After Truman locks his family in a cage at Camp Katonka and hanging the cage from a tree, he tries to go back home, only to reluctantly return when he hears about them being in danger from S.N.A.F.U.
151	* ConsistentClothingStyle: Several characters have at least one article of clothing in their regular outfits come in more than one color scheme. Mrs. X and Truman's ensembles come in at least two, Tuesday's checked skirt comes in red and purple, and Glowface's jacket comes in at least half a dozen colors, to name a few.
152	** Lorenzo Suave in particular sports a suit that comes in about a dozen and a half distinct color schemes.
153	* ControlFreak: Mrs. X's persona in "Family Issues".
154	* ConveyorBeltODoom: The Crusher Mr. X and the kids are placed on in "No More Mrs. Nice X". It's even lampshaded:
155	-->'''Glowface''': This is what I love about mines. I mean, where else can you find a conveyor belt that leads to a giant crushing machine?
156	-->'''Lorenzo''': Oh, it's quite a savings on our DeathTrap budget, sir.
157	* CorrelationCausationGag: In "Breaking Camp", Glowface shows up at Camp Katonka and, seeing Tuesday and her parents locked in a cage hanging from a tree, decides to take credit for their capture, not knowing Truman was the one who really locked up his family.
158	* CoughSnarkCough: How Mr. X calls Glowface a talentless hack in "Photo Ops".
159	* CueCard: In "The Spy Who Liked Me", Glowface is plotting to broadcast his world conquest on TV, and at one point, he reads a cue card that says, "Now my minions!" After a pause, he asks Lorenzo to show him the next card, which says, "Destroy the X's!"
160	* CutenessProximity: When the X's are asked to babysit their neighbors' infant son, the spy family finds the baby adorable.
161	** Later, Glowface is reduced to this when he finds that the baby likes him.
162	* DartboardOfHate: The X's have a dartboard with a picture of Glowface on it.
163	* ADayInTheLimelight: Home Base has this in "Missing Home" and "Homebody".
164	* DayOfTheWeekName: The daughter's name is Tuesday.
165	* DeathTrap: The X's frequently have to escape from these.
166	* DeflectorShields: In "Y's Up", Glowface activates an impenetrable force field to protect himself and Lorenzo from the X's and Y's. Eventually, after Tuesday points out that an impenetrable force field means that not even air can get inside it, Glowface soon turns it off so the two baddies don't suffocate.
167	* DelayedOhCrap: After Tuesday asks Glowface if not even air can get inside his force field:
168	-->'''Glowface''': No, not even... oh.
169	* DemotedToExtra: Glowface only has a minor role in "To Err Is Truman", as [[TemporarilyAVillain Tuesday and Home Base are the episode's main antagonists]]. He only appears in a few brief scenes, and the only interaction he has with any of the X's is when Truman unwittingly attacks him off-screen at the end.
170	* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: "Tuesday dating makes me feel old! And... OLD!"
171	-->'''Mr. X, on hearing his action figure''': "Wow, that sounds exactly how I'd sound if I sounded like that."
172	-->'''Also Mr. X, on taking the family to see a counselor''': "No problem solving this "no problems" problem."
173	* TheDiaperChange: The X's do this with their neighbors' baby in the style of disposing nuclear materials.
174	* DidntThinkThisThrough[=/=]NiceJobFixingItVillain: Glowface has a habit of not considering that his actions can give the X's an advantage. For example:
175	** In "No More Mrs. Nice X", he puts Mr. X and the kids in life-threatening danger to make Mrs. X aggressive again, and after he succeeds, he's initially pleased, but soon realizes his mistake.
176	-->'''Glowface''': Wait, why did I do that?
177	** In "Y's Up", Glowface activates a force field to protect himself and Lorenzo from the X's and Y's, saying that nothing can get inside it. Later, when he points this out to the X's, Tuesday asks, "Oh, really? Not even... air?", making Glowface realize his mistake, and soon he turns off the force field, which of course prompts the X's to strike.
178	** The group therapy session Glowface gives the X's to solve their "Family Issues" makes it easier for them to stop him.
179	* DisruptingTheTheater: In "Meddle Mouth", Truman decides to mess with Tuesday during her date with Brandon by using a device to make her say crazy things. When they are at a movie theater, Truman uses the device to make Tuesday say that she likes screaming at movies and then do just that, resulting in everyone else leaving out of frustration.
180	* DoesThisMakeMeLookFat: Glowface complains that a HandPuppet of himself makes him look fat in "You Only Sneeze Twice".
181	* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The spy manual is very precious to Mr. X and he doesn't question it. He considers it holy, like another [[Literature/TheBible certain book]]...
182	* DontTellMama: In "No More Mrs. Nice X", a peaceful Mrs. X threatens to call the bad guys' mothers to report their evil deeds, scaring Glowface.
183	-->'''Glowface''': Stop her before she calls my mom!
184	* DoomsdayDevice: Glowface has plenty of these. Some are just plain silly, such as a machine that fills swimming pools with rotten meat, while a few others, including the Sonic Destructor, are actually dangerous.
185	** Played with in "You Only Sneeze Twice". Glowface had already built a device he wanted to use to bring Big Ben and the Eiffel Tower to life so he could make them wrestle. After he got sick, Lorenzo modified the device so that it could reverse the earth's gravity. In the end, neither of them get to use the machine for their intended purposes, as after seeing the sick members of the X's and S.N.A.F.U. trying to fight each other, Tuesday decides to [[DestroyTheVillainsWeapon destroy it]] and- to her brief confusion- is soon joined by Lorenzo (who was in a "let's just get this over with" mood).
186	* DopeSlap: Tuesday gives one to Truman after his unauthorized upgrade of Home Base causes him to crash.
187	** She also gives him one after he accidentally destroys the X-Jet in "Truman X: Super Villain".
188	* DownerEnding: "Three Days of the Coin Op" has one. Sure, the X's prevented a surprise attack from S.N.A.F.U. by accident, but they still failed SUPERIOR's cleanliness inspection when the vacuum cleaner holding all the mess explodes and dirties the house while the inspector's there, and they get transferred to a foreign country where they have to herd farting goats.
189	* DramaticIrony: PlayedForLaughs in "Three Days of the Coin Op": Glowface thinks the X's are out to get him when he sees they're near the secret entrance to his lair. They actually don't know of his presence until after they prevent a surprise attack from S.N.A.F.U. by accident.
190	* EdibleAmmunition: The Gum Gun shoots exactly what you think it does.
191	* {{Epiphora}}: After the X's get rich and assume the identity of the "Egg-Salads", Glowface becomes an obsessive admirer of them and asks, "Wouldn't it be groovy to meet them?", prompting this response from Lorenzo:
192	-->'''Lorenzo''': You ''have'' met them, hundreds of times. You have been beaten senseless by them hundreds of times. You have sworn to destroy them hundreds of times!
193	* EvenTheGuysWantHim: Platonic example: Truman hates Brandon, Tuesday's boyfriend. But Tuesday used a truth ray on him, who admits he finds Brandon cool and wants to be his sidekick. Truman is embarrassed about it afterwards.
194	* EverybodyCries: Tuesday and her parents crying over Truman leaving home and building his mini-house in the yard in "Wee House".
195	** They also cry together in "Family Issues", though this time in happiness as they [[GroupHug share a hug]] when all the X's reconcile in the group therapy session Glowface gives them.
196	* EveryoneHatesMimes: In "To Err Is Truman", Tuesday suggests that Truman get sent to mime camp if he misbehaves, an idea that horrifies him. Later, after their parents catch Tuesday trying to recreate Truman's toilet-bomb prank and frame him for it, [[LaserGuidedKarma she gets sent to mime camp as punishment]].
197	* EverytownAmerica: The X's suburban hometown is never identified.
198	* EvilDetectingBaby: Inverted in "Live and Let Diaper" when the baby the X's are watching, who was already crying when they reached Glowface's lair, calms down and takes a liking to him on sight.
199	* EvilLaugh: Glowface uses this a lot, and he hates when it gets interrupted.
200	** Lorenzo also has a few instances of it, most notably in "You Only Sneeze Twice".
201	** While not a villain, Truman sometimes uses one, too.
202	** Parodied in "Truman X: Super Villain", in that S.N.A.F.U.'s "Supervillains of Tomorrow" class teaches this.
203	** At the end of "Live in Let Diaper", the baby the X's sat for does one, as he bonded with Glowface on the family's mission earlier.
204	* ExposedToTheElements: When the family goes on a mission to the arctic and they get sick after they dress improperly, with the exception of Tuesday, who was the only one who bothered to wear her snowsuit.
205	* EyeScream:
206	** Downplayed in "Wealth vs. Stealth" when Lorenzo gets punched in the eye ([[NasalTrauma and the nose]], plus a few kicks in the chin) a few times by a Mrs. X action figure.
207	** One of Tuesday's lines for her rebellious teen persona in "Family Issues" mentions getting her eyelids pierced, which she finds disgusting.
208	* FacePalm:
209	** Truman does this when his dad's shoe phone's message plays in the photo studio in "Photo Ops".
210	** Tuesday does it in "Pinheads" when her family's bowling game gets interrupted by the bad guys.
211	* FacelessGoons: S.N.A.F.U. henchmen (they wear fishbowl helmets).
212	* {{Fainting}}: In "Y's Up", Lorenzo does this after taking a whiff of a dollar bill on which Glowface used his Money Bestinkifier. He promptly comes to when Mr. X literally drops into Glowface's lair.
213	* FakeInteractivity: PlayedForLaughs in "Mission: Irresponsible" when the kids make their parents watch an EdutainmentShow.
214	-->'''Squoodly Bear''': Can you find the color green?
215	-->'''Mr. and Mrs. X''': ''(pointing at the TV)'' That one!
216	-->'''Squoodly Bear''': Which one?
217	-->'''Mr. X''': ''(irate)'' Oh, for the love- That one! It's right there! Are you blind?!
218	* FancyDinner: Mr. and Mrs. X go out to eat at a French restaurant in "X Takes a Holiday".
219	* {{Fartillery}}: Truman has a raygun that makes its targets fart.
220	* FauxHorrific: In "Live and Let Diaper", Mr. X freaks out over the stuff at a playground, thinking it's all too dangerous for the baby he and his family are watching.
221	* {{Foreshadowing}}: In "Boy's Best Fiend", Truman gets a puppy for his birthday, with the tag reading "Man's best fiend". The X's mistake it for a simple typo, but as it turns out, Sasquatch was telegraphing that this dog was his sleeper agent assigned to take them down from the inside.
222	* ForgotToMindTheirHead: Mr. X bumps his head on a doorframe offscreen twice due to wearing elevator shoes in "Meddle Mouth".
223	-->'''Mr. X''': ''(offscreen)'' Well played, doorframe.
224	* ForgottenBirthday: The X's forget Home Base's birthday in "Missing Home".
225	* FourFingeredHands: Nearly everyone has these. It's lampshaded in "X Takes a Holiday" when Mr. and Mrs. X are surprised to notice he only has eight fingers total instead of ten.
226	** "The Spy Who Liked Me" also plays with this trope, when Lorenzo tells Glowface he's on the air in ten seconds and holds up eight fingers.
227	* FunWithAcronyms[=/=]NebulousEvilOrganization: The '''S'''ociety of '''N'''efarious '''A'''nd '''F'''elonius '''U'''ndertakings.
228	* FunnyBackgroundEvent: Robo-Mom beating Mr. X senseless while Truman assures Mrs. X that everything will be fine in "AAIIEE! Robot".
229	** Truman getting chased by an angry dog while Tuesday talks to Brandon in "Meddle Mouth".
230	* GaggingOnYourWords: Happens to Truman at first when he tries to apologize to his family in "Truman X: Super Villain", but he soon gets the words out.
231	* GettingTheBabyToSleep: In "Live and Let Diaper", the X's spend a good chunk of their babysitting job using silly methods to get their charge to stop crying.
232	* GiantWallOfWateryDoom: A variation PlayedForLaughs in "Three Days of the Coin Op": After Mr. X puts too much detergent in a washing machine at the laundromat, the machine overflows, and just as Glowface opens the door at the front of the secret hallway leading to his lair to send his army of henchmen to ambush the X's, the sudsy flood pours in, leaving Glowface, Lorenzo and the minions [[{{Pun}} washed up]] as it sends them back to the lair.
233	* GladIThoughtOfIt: Twice in "Accidental Hero" Glowface claims Lorenzo's inventions[[note]]a Tornado Generator and an Arachnobot[[/note]] as his own.
234	* GlowingEyelightsOfUndeath: In "The Haunting of Home Base", anyone zombified gets these.
235	* GoToYourRoom: Mr. X sends Truman to his room after Tuesday lies about him hitting her in "Wee House".
236	** Mrs. X also sends Truman to his room at one point in "Truman X: Super Villain".
237	* GoKartingWithBowser: Tuesday invokes this in "Pinheads" when she makes her family bowl against S.N.A.F.U. At the end, after Glowface gets arrested shortly after S.N.A.F.U. wins the match, the X's decide to challenge the rest of the team to a "best-2-out-of-3" rematch.
238	* GoneHorriblyRight:
239	** Mrs. X becomes too relaxed after her time at a tranquility retreat in "No More Mrs. Nice X" to the point she won't fight anymore.
240	** "Family Issues" has the X's try to pretend they have issues, only to be so ingrained into their roles that they [[BecomingTheMask develop actual issues]] that weren't even there before.
241	* GottaPassTheClass: In "Mock Tutors", Tuesday and Truman need to improve in cooking and tennis, respectively, so they won't have to go to summer school.
242	* GrapplingHookPistol: Truman saves himself from a very dangerous fall with one in "X Takes a Holiday".
243	* GretzkyHasTheBall: Both Mr. X and Glowface confuse bowling with other sports in "Pinheads":
244	** Mr. X yells "Touchdown!" when Tuesday gets a strike, and when she corrects him, he claims that a strike is "when you miss three times".
245	** Before the match between the X's and S.N.A.F.U., Glowface brandishes a hockey stick and tells his team to man their pucks, before Tuesday corrects him with "Balls!" Then later, when Glowface sees that the X's are ahead, he asks if the lower score wins like in golf, and is displeased when Lorenzo tells him the higher score wins.
246	* GrievousHarmWithABody: In "No More Mrs. Nice X", after Mrs. X reverts to her ActionMom self, she uses Glowface to hit several henchmen, then throws him right at Lorenzo.
247	** In "The Spy Who Liked Me" she also uses one of Glowface's minions to attack a few others.
248	** Mr. X throws a few of Glowface's henchmen at him in "Mission Irresponsible".
249	* GrossGumGag: "Untied" has quite a few, including Glowface shooting gum at the X's from a gun that chews the ammo, and his plot to [[ItMakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext fill Lake Ontario with a giant wad of gum]].
250	* HalloweenEpisode: "The Haunting of Home Base".
251	* HandPuppet:
252	** During the X's group therapy session in "Family Issues", Truman pretends that hand puppets of his parents are arguing.
253	** In "You Only Sneeze Twice", a sick Glowface has Lorenzo entertain him with a puppet show about the former, which involves the Glowface puppet bringing the Eiffel Tower and Big Ben to life for a wrestling match between them.
254	* HappyDance: Glowface does the Robot after getting a gutter ball in "Pinheads". Granted, he didn't know gutter balls were bad until Lorenzo told him so.
255	* HeadDesk: A variant in "The Haunting of Home Base": After losing to the X's, a frustrated Glowface bangs his globe on Lorenzo's right arm (after several hours of [[PercussiveTherapy pounding the control panel with his fist]]).
256	* HeightInsult: Tuesday subjects Truman to these in "Wee House".
257	* HeelRealization: Tuesday has this when seeing "Glow-zilla" pretend that the X-Jet (while she and her parents are inside it) is a baby makes her compare it to the jokes she made mocking Truman's short stature in "Wee House".
258	** All the X's have this in "Missing Home" when they realize they forgot Home Base's birthday and regret how they treated him earlier.
259	* HereWeGoAgain: At the end of "Wee House", Truman decides to use Glowface's inflatable suit idea and become "Truman-zilla".
260	** Tuesday catches her family's virus at the end of "You Only Sneeze Twice".
261	* HoistByHisOwnPetard: A few times, Truman uses his technology skills to turn Glowface's inventions against him and S.N.A.F.U. (e.g. re-aiming the Sonic Destructor so that Glowface blows up his own lair with it by accident).
262	** In "Y's Up", Mr. X sets the Money Bestinkifier to "Glowface" and fires it at him.
263	* HurricaneOfPuns: The gum puns Glowface makes after shooting gum at the X's.
264	* IAteWhat: At a French restaurant, Mr. and Mrs. X are disgusted to find out they've been eating fried pig eyeballs.
265	* IHaveThisFriend: Truman tries this excuse when asking his dad for advice on getting a girlfriend in "A Truman Scorned".
266	* IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight:
267	** Truman gives one to Rex in "Boy's Best Fiend" to snap him out of Sasquatch's mind control.
268	** The family gives one to Truman in "Truman X: Super Villain".
269	* ILied: When Brandon is taken aback at Glowface breaking his promise not to hurt Tuesday, the villain says this.
270	-->'''Glowface''': What do you think "evil villain" means, anyway?
271	* ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne: In "Missing Home", an unappreciated Home Base tells the X's that they're "a bunch of incompetent nitwits" (who'd be nothing without him) and have "an appalling taste in footwear".
272	-->'''Mr. X:''' No one insults our shoes! [[GetOut Get out of my house!]]
273	* IWantMyMommy: Truman wails this verbatim in "No More Mrs. Nice X" after finding that Mrs. X's personality changed completely after her tranquility retreat.
274	* IWarnedYou: After the X's get ambushed by S.N.A.F.U. and taken into space in Glowface's flying fortress in "Photo Ops", an annoyed Truman tells his family he tried to warn them.
275	** On the opposite end, in "You Only Sneeze Twice", Lorenzo tells Glowface the same thing about the X's having arrived at S.N.A.F.U.'s headquarters.
276	* IfIHadANickel:
277	-->'''Mr. X''': "If I had a nickel for every time my cooking saved my life, I'd have $5.00."
278	-->'''Mrs. X, in her control freak persona''': "If I had a dollar for every dollar [Mr. X] never gave me, I'd have all his money."
279	* ImmediateSelfContradiction: Glowface's reaction to Home Base calling him a blithering idiot:
280	-->'''Glowface''': I am not an idiot! ''(whispers to Lorenzo)'' Look up "blithering" in the dictiomanary.
281	* InconsistentColoring: There's often a lack of consistency in coloring, whether it's characters' clothes or the background color. Notable examples include the background of the Glowy-F Rap video changing color every shot in "Wealth vs. Stealth", and in "X Takes a Holiday", the color scheme of Lorenzo's clothes changes several times all in one night.
282	* InjuredLimbEpisode: "AAIIEE! Robot" involves Mrs. X breaking her leg against a coffee table while on a mission with her family.
283	* TheInspectorIsComing: In "Three Days of the Coin Op" the X's need to keep their house in order for a cleanliness inspection.
284	* IrisOut: Episodes end with one shaped like an X.
285	* IsThisThingOn: Glowface asks this while testing the microphone for his Sonic Destructor, unaware that Truman rigged the machine to destroy the former's lair.
286	* IsThisThingStillOn: In "The Haunting of Home Base", Glowface leaves his microphone on when talking about planting a virus in Home Base and Truman hears it through one of Tuesday's stuffed animals, which were controlled by said virus.
287	* KaleidoscopeHair: Tuesday's hair constantly changes color, sometimes in-between scenes.
288	** Actually, pretty much everything changes color in-between scenes.
289	* KidsShouldntWatchHorrorFilms: The beginning of "Secret Agent Manual" has Truman begging to see a zombie movie and being refused by his dad.
290	* KingKongClimb: In "Wee House", Glowface, in a giant inflatable suit, is shown as having already grabbed the X-Jet (with Tuesday and her parents inside it) and climbed to the top of a tall building.
291	* KissedKeepsake: Or rather, handshook keepsake. After the X's become billionaires and assume the identity of the "Egg-Salads", Glowface wants to hang out with them. After shaking "Mr. Egg-Salad"'s hand, Glowface is elated and vows never to bathe again.
292	* LancerVsDragon: Tuesday's one-on-one fight with Lorenzo in "You Only Sneeze Twice".
293	* LavaPit: Tuesday and Truman are lowered toward- and manage to escape from- one in "X Takes a Holiday".
294	* LaxativePrank: A variant in "To Err Is Truman": Truman makes bran pancakes for his sister and parents as part of a prank to make bombs in the toilets go off on them.
295	* LazyHusband: The persona Mr. X picks in "Family Issues".
296	* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: When Home Base, with a body, gets drenched and rusts after a fire hydrant gets knocked over while he tries to catch the Scream Queens, he turns to the audience and comments that he thought rusting so quickly only happened in cartoons.
297	* LeftTheBackgroundMusicOn: Inverted in "Truman X: Super Villain": as Glowface talks on how he wants to recruit Truman, dramatic music plays in the background, only to stop at one point. Noticing this, he asks Lorenzo to replay the music on a stereo.
298	* LethalChef: Mrs. X, as shown in the show's intro. Mr. X was this at first, but he got better.
299	* LimitedSocialCircle: Tuesday and Truman don't appear to have any friends in their respective schools.
300	* LostInCharacter: The X's wind up taking the roles they play in "Family Issues" too seriously.
301	* LovingBully: Andrea in "From Crusha with Love".
302	* MadeOfIron: Mr. X doesn't feel any pain from his shoe catching on fire in "Photo Ops".
303	* MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext: Glowface's plot to launch a giant wad of gum into Lake Ontario in "Untied". [[LampshadeHanging Lorenzo even notes that he doesn't see the point.]]
304	* {{Malaproper}}: Glowface mispronounces "obliterate" as "obidlerate" and "olibderate" in "Family Issues".
305	** He also mispronounces "dictionary" as "dictiomanary" in "Missing Home".
306	* MaliciousMisnaming: Truman sometimes calls Tuesday "Big Butt".
307	* MamaBear: In "Truman X: Super Villain", when it appears that Truman has been captured by Glowface, Mrs. X becomes EXTREMELY pissed and drives the jet at fast speed to Glowface's lair, terrifying Mr. X.
308	* MassOhCrap:
309	** Tuesday and her parents when Glowface reveals himself in "Photo Ops".
310	** All the X's when Home Base announces that their new ranks have been made permanent in "Mission Irresponsible".
311	** Tuesday, Truman and Home Base when they find Glowface and Lorenzo have crashed Tuesday's party.
312	* MeaninglessVillainVictory: S.N.A.F.U. may have beaten the X's in a bowling match, but Glowface still gets locked up for the thefts committed before the match.
313	* MindControlEyes:
314	** In "Boy's Best Fiend", the animals get red concentric circles for eyes when Sasquatch mind-controls them.
315	** Parodied in the episode "Live and Let Diaper". Tuesday, as part of a series of pop psychology parenting experiments, attempts to hypnotize the baby the family's watching. Using the familiar "You are getting sleepy" intonation, she chants "Your eyes are becoming spinning spirals". She accidentally ends up hypnotizing herself, though this trope is still averted: her eyes simply roll around before she falls asleep.
316	* MinorInjuryOverreaction: Glowface freaking out over a paper cut in "The Haunting of Home Base".
317	* MistakenForCheating: In "Quit Your Day Job", Tuesday thinks Brandon's dating another girl behind her back after hearing about him hanging out with someone named Jody. As it turns out, Jody is both just a friend of Brandon's and a boy.
318	* MistakenForFlatulence: In "Live and Let Diaper", when the X's bring the baby they're watching on their mission, Glowface gets a whiff of the tyke's full diaper, and mistakenly assumes that Lorenzo farted.
319	* MockingSingSong:
320	** Happens twice in "The Spy Who Liked Me":
321	-->'''Truman''': Tuesday likes a boy! Tuesday likes a boy!
322	-->''(later)''
323	-->'''Glowface''': Brandon likes a girl! Brandon likes a girl!
324	** When Tuesday catches her family's virus at the end of "You Only Sneeze Twice", Truman mockingly sings, "Someone's getting sick!"
325	* AMoltenDateWithDeath: Tuesday and Truman almost meet this fate in "X Takes a Holiday", but they escape from it offscreen.
326	* MourningAnObject: Mr. X is grief-stricken when his laser-tie gets disintegrated and even holds a funeral for it in the X's backyard in "Untied".
327	* MrFixit: Mr. X ''tries'' to be this in the episode of the same name, so he can be more like a normal dad.
328	* MundaneMadeAwesome: Mr. and Mrs. X ''try'' to blend in their superspy skills into the most mundane activities.
329	* NatureTinkling: In "Pinheads", Truman mentions that he tinkled in the potted plants while he and his family were at the bowling alley, even though he knew there was a men's bathroom there.
330	* NerdGlasses: Sci-fi geek Kimla Meeks has these.
331	* NewJobEpisode: "On Her Majesty's Postal Service" is about Mr. X working as a mailman.
332	* NiceJobBreakingItHero: The plot of "Truman X: Super Villain" is set in motion when Truman's reckless behavior on a mission destroys the X-Jet and endangers his family, landing him in big trouble with them.
333	* NightVisionGoggles: The X's put these on after Brandon cuts the power at the TV studio in "The Spy Who Liked Me".
334	** Truman also wears them after turning off the lights in Glowface's lair in "Truman X: Super Villain".
335	* NoFullNameGiven: The first names of Mr. and Mrs. X are never mentioned in the show. The same is true for Mr. and Mrs. Y.
336	** Likewise, Brandon's last name is never revealed either.
337	* NoYou: In "The Spy Who Liked Me", after Truman calls Glowface a poo-head, the latter retorts, "You're the poo-head, poo-head!"
338	* NoodleIncident:
339	** What happened to The Z's. The Y's imply that they were responsible, much to a horrified Mrs. X stating, "they said it was an accident."
340	** When Truman catches Tuesday wearing camouflage clothing outside of a mission in "License to Slumber", she threatens, "One more word, and Dad finds out what happened to Mrs. Quimby's cat."
341	** It's never explained how Truman attacked "Captain Pepe" in a past trip to Pepe's Lagoon, just that he can never "Arrgh" again.
342	* NotHelpingYourCase:
343	** In "Photo Ops", after they criticize his photography skills, Glowface suspects the X's are trying to make him do something stupid instead of killing them, and almost launches them into space with the time bombs they're on, but then decides to take their pictures first.
344	*** Earlier in that same episode, when the X's arrive at the photo place, Tuesday reminds her family to act normal, but when a cuckoo clock goes off, they all fire their blasters as it.
345	** In "Pinheads", Mrs. X complains that Tuesday accused her of bowling too hard, before proceeding to do just that.
346	* NotNowKiddo: In "Photo Ops", Truman notices S.N.A.F.U. technology and tries to tell his family, but they ignore him until Glowface reveals himself to them.
347	-->'''Truman''': [[IWarnedYou I tried to warn you...]]
348	* OhCrap:
349	** Sasquatch when Rex turns the other animals against him in "Boy's Best Fiend".
350	** In "AAIIEE! Robot", after Mrs. X attacks several henchmen from her wheelchair, Glowface and Lorenzo have this reaction when she catches them trying to sneak away.
351	*** The same is true in "Truman X: Super Villain" when they see that Truman tied them up over the acid vat with robot sharks.
352	** Truman when, after hearing about an upcoming trip to Pepe's Lagoon, he remembers that he rigged the toilets with bombs as a prank earlier in "To Err Is Truman".
353	-->'''Truman''': NO! Don't sit on the toilets!!
354	** Lorenzo in "No More Mrs Nice X" when he sees that Glowface, who was just thrown by Mrs. X, is about to hit him.
355	** Two examples in one scene in "X Takes a Holiday": First, Glowface and Lorenzo both have this reaction and run away when Truman fires shark missiles from his X-o-suit at them, then after Truman wonders where they went, he sees Glowface's airship and says, "Poop" before lasers are fired from it.
356	** Glowface in "The Haunting of Home Base" when he realizes that Lorenzo and many of the henchmen have been turned into zombies.
357	* OneWordTitle: "Doommates", "Pinheads", "Homebody" and "Untied".
358	* OneWordVocabulary: For Robo-Mom: "DESTROY! DESTROY! DESTROY!"
359	** The same is true for the Eggstroyer, which was also built by Truman.
360	* OnlySaneWoman: Tuesday.
361	* OwMyBodyPart: Two examples in "AAIIEE! Robot":
362	-->'''Mrs X''': ''(after bonking her shin on a coffee table)'' Great. Look at this. My leg's broken. ''(tries to move her leg and [[SickeningCrunch it cracks]])'' Ahh! Yep, broken.
363	** After Mrs. X attacks several henchmen with her wheelchair, one of them says, "I think you broke my leg."
364	* PapaWolf: See "Mr. Fix It".
365	-->'''''Nobody eats my son!'''''
366	* PaperThinDisguise: The whole show centers around this: a team of spies is placed undercover as a typical suburban family... but they aren't all that great at pretending that they ''are'' one.
367	* ParentalBonus:
368	** When Tuesday is about to go on a date with Brandon:
369	-->'''Mrs. X:''' Remember, sweetie, never divulge any spy secrets on the first date. Oh sure, he may seem nice, but he's only after one thing.
370	** Also... [=S.N.A.F.U.=] usually means something different than Society of Nefarious and Felonious Undertakings...[[note]]It traditionally means "Situation Normal, All [[PrecisionFStrike Fucked]] Up" (or "Fouled Up" if you're keeping it PG).[[/note]]
371	* PassThePopcorn: In "The Haunting of Home Base", Glowface and Lorenzo eat bacon pizza while watching Truman being terrorized by his zombified family on the surveillance monitors.
372	* PhotoMontage: Glowface taking pictures of the X's in "Photo Ops".
373	* PlayingHouse: Scout Y invites Truman to do this with her in "Y's Up".
374	* PopCulturePunEpisodeTitle:
375	** Several episode titles, such as "License to Slumber", "You Only Sneeze Twice" and "Live and Let Diaper", are references to ''Franchise/JamesBond'' titles.
376	** "AAIIEE! Robot" is a pun on ''Literature/IRobot''.
377	** "Three Days of the Coin Op" is a reference to ''Film/ThreeDaysOfTheCondor''.
378	** "Mission Irresponsible" is a pun on ''Series/MissionImpossible''.
379	** "X Takes a Holiday" is a nod to ''Film/DeathTakesAHoliday''.
380	** "Secret Agent Manual" alludes to the Johnny Rivers song "Secret Agent Man".
381	** "The Haunting of Home Base" is a reference to ''Literature/TheHauntingOfHillHouse''.
382	** The title for "Truman's Choice" could be a nod to ''Film/SophiesChoice''.
383	* PottyDance: Glowface is doing a very squirmy one during his brief PottyEmergency in "The Haunting of Home Base".
384	* PottyEmergency: Glowface has one in "The Haunting of Home Base", complete with a PottyDance.
385	* PrankCall: Mr. X is revealed to have made a few to Glowface in "Mission: Irresponsible", and found out too late that the latter has caller ID.
386	* ThePrankster: ''Tuesday'' is actually better at being this than Truman.
387	* PrecociousCrush: Truman's crush on Kimla in "A Truman Scorned".
388	* ProducePelting: A young Glowface gets pelted with tomatoes at the Camp Katonka pageant in a flashback in "Breaking Camp".
389	* ProperlyParanoid: Mr. X seems to be this about Brandon being a S.N.A.F.U. agent in "The Spy Who Liked Me", but it gets subverted after Glowface accidentally hits himself, Mr. and Mrs. X with Truman's Truth Ray, in which Mr. X reveals that he never actually thought Brandon was a spy, but was terrified at the thought of Tuesday having a boyfriend.
390	* PunBasedTitle: Most episodes have these, several of which are [[PopCulturePunBasedEpisodeTitles shout-outs]].
391	* PunchClockVillain: Brandon only interns at S.N.A.F.U. as a summer job to earn school credits and money for guitar lessons.
392	* PunchedAcrossTheRoom: Just one of the ways the X's attack their enemies.
393	* PunctuatedForEmphasis:
394	-->'''Glowface after the X's defeat S.N.A.F.U. in "Photo Ops"''': I... hate... that... FAMILY!!!
395	* RedOniBlueOni: Glowface and Lorenzo, in that order (the former having red skin, no less).
396	* RhymingTitle: "Wealth vs. Stealth".
397	* TheRival: The Y's are this with the X's in "Y's Up".
398	* RobotMe: There have been two robot replicas of Truman on the show:
399	** The first, in "You Only Sneeze Twice", was built by Truman himself to play a prank on Tuesday.
400	** The second, in "Truman X: Super Villain" was built by Glowface, who had the real Truman kidnapped, to replace him.
401	* RoguesGallery: S.N.A.F.U. is a large group of villains, although Missing Link and the [=McVampires=] only appear in "Photo Ops", Bio-Harold appears only in two episodes, and even the Scream Queens, though appearing a little more often than the previous villains listed, don't show up as often as Glowface, Lorenzo Suave and Sasquatch.
402	* RoommateDrama: When Truman has to share Tuesday's room after his own bedroom gets destroyed.
403	* RuleOfFunny: The reason why Lorenzo waits until Glowface asks him to show another cue card for the latter to read in "The Spy Who Liked Me".
404	** Also probably why Tuesday tells Glowface and Lorenzo to stop dancing after her phone call ends instead of trying to escape from a death trap with Truman while the villains are distracted in "X Takes a Holiday".
405	* RuleOfThree:
406	** In "Boy's Best Fiend", when Truman has Home Base show the family footage of the former's birthdays being spoiled by missions, three clips are shown, the first from his 6th birthday, the second from his 3rd, and the last from his 1st.
407	** The first three scenes of "Pinheads" all involve S.N.A.F.U. heists.
408	** Three clips of Tuesday giving Truman atomic wedgies are shown in "Truman X: Super Villain".
409	** Glowface confesses three secrets while under the influence of Truman's Truth Ray in "The Spy Who Liked Me".
410	* RunningAwayFromHome: A variation in "Wee House": Truman doesn't leave home, per se, but builds himself a miniature replica of the house in the backyard to live in.
411	* RunningGag: Mr. X is frequently being attacked by animals, both wild and domesticated. If he is especially unfortunate, it's more than one in the same attack.
412	* SchoolPlay: "Theater of War" involves Tuesday competing against Seven Y for the role of Juliet in a high school production of ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet''.
413	* SecurityCling: Glowface's subordinates cling to him and each other while he parachutes back to Earth after the X's defeat them in "Photo Ops".
414	* SeverelySpecializedStore: World o' Pink sells nothing but erasers.
415	* ASharedSuffering: "You Only Sneeze Twice" involve the arduous experiences Tuesday and Lorenzo have taking care of the sick members of their respective groups. When their first attempt at a one-on-one fight gets postponed, she assures him that she understands what he's going through, and when they do get to fight each other, they even vent their mutual frustration.
416	* ShoutOut:
417	** In addition to the ''Franchise/JamesBond''-esque episode titles, one episode ha Mrs. X tells Tuesday, "Your license to kill does not include your brother."
418	** A few episodes have Mr. X exclaim, "Great Fleming's ghost!", a nod to Ian Fleming, the author of the James Bond novels.
419	** Mr. X has a shoe phone like [[Series/GetSmart Maxwell Smart]].
420	** At one point in "Pinheads", Mr. X does [[WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones Fred Flinstone's "Twinkle Toes" move]].
421	** Take a wild guess for [[Franchise/{{Godzilla}} "Glow-zilla" and "Truman-zilla"]].
422	** In "Secret Agent Manual", Truman watches a parody of ''Anime/YuGiOh''.
423	** At one point in "To Err Is Truman", Truman says, "I hope Dad didn't drink all the purple stuff", a reference to a Sunny Delight commercial from 1991.
424	*** Another scene in the same episode has Tuesday say, "[[Film/TheWarriors Truman, come out and play!]]" while tempting him with a tube of super glue.
425	** In "On Her Majesty's Postal Service", one of the names mentioned in Tuesday's diary when Mr. X reads it is [[WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}} Susie Carmichael]].
426	** Truman says "Aaayyy" like [[Series/HappyDays Fonzie]] while wearing sunglasses in "From Crusha with Love".
427	*** Also in that episode there's an {{Expy}} of Whack-a-Mole at Pork E. Bacon's called "Wacky Rat".
428	** When the X's go trick-or-treating at the end of "The Haunting of Home Base", Tuesday is dressed as the Film/BrideOfFrankenstein.
429	*** Earlier in the same episode, a teddy bear possessed by the virus Glowface planted in Home Base spins it's head 360 degrees, a nod to ''Film/TheExorcist''.
430	** In "Breaking Camp", the song Glowface performs in his musical "High Seas Hijinks" resembles "I Am the Captain of the Pinafore" from ''Theatre/HMSPinafore''.
431	** Kimla's hairstyle resembles that of Princess Leia in ''Film/ANewHope''.
432	* ShrunkInTheWash: Happens to the X's clothes in "Three Days of the Coin Op".
433	* SickEpisode: "You Only Sneeze Twice".
434	* SingleSexOffspring: Mr. and Mrs. Y have two daughters: Seven and Scout.
435	* {{Slapstick}}: Both the X's and their enemies take humorous lumps frequently.
436	* SlipperySwimsuit: Invoked when Tuesday steals Truman's trunks while swimming in the backyard pool in "Wee House".
437	* SlumberParty: Tuesday has one in "License to Slumber".
438	* SoapWithinAShow: After Mrs. X breaks her leg in "AAIIEE! Robot", she spends her time watching a telenovela. After she beats the bad guys in spite of her injury, her husband and kids watch the show with her.
439	* SoLongSuckers: In "AAIIEE! Robot", Glowface says this word-for-word before his failed attempt to escape the X's in his EscapePod, then repeats the phrase before leaving in a taxi Lorenzo hailed.
440	* SpannerInTheWorks:
441	** Just trying to figure out how to wash clothes in a laundromat leads the X's to prevent a surprise attack from S.N.A.F.U. without even knowing they were nearby in "Three Days of the Coin Op".
442	** At the end of "To Err is Truman", Truman gives in to a temptation to attack what appears to be the Pepe's Lagoon mascot again, without knowing it's actually Glowface in disguise.
443	* StatingTheSimpleSolution: In "Family Issues", when Glowface has trouble pronouncing "obliterate" as he rehearses his spiel for when the X's show up, Lorenzo suggests that Glowface say "destroy" instead. Glowface refuses, saying it'd throw off the rhythm.
444	* StealthPun: In "Live and Let Diaper", the first thing Mr. X does to get the baby the family's watching to stop crying is give him some cash. In other words, Mr. X gives the baby ''hush money''.
445	* StickySituation: The X's getting shot by Glowface's Gum Gun in "Untied".
446	* SubliminalAdvertising: "Three Days of the Coin Op" has a sign on one of the laundromat walls repeatedly saying "You Love the X's" as a FreezeFrameBonus.
447	* SuckECheeses: Pork E. Bacon's.
448	* SummerCampy: "Breaking Camp" is about Mr. X sending Truman to Camp Katonka obliviously against his will, and, after Truman puts the counselors in a cage hanging from a tree and tries to get a ride home, his parents and Tuesday replacing the counselors.
449	* SummerSchoolSucks: Tuesday and Truman's motivation to improve in cooking and tennis, respectively, in "Mock Tutors".
450	* SurroundedByIdiots: In "Three Days of the Coin Op", as Glowface has to push his henchmen back to stop them from trampling him and Lorenzo, he berates them for their stupidity.
451	-->'''Glowface''': Back, you ignorant peons! Back, you incompetent ninnies! ''(to Lorenzo)'' What's wrong with these people?
452	* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: Whenever casual bystanders are confused by the antics of the X's, they state they are not spies.
453	-->'''Mr. X:''' "I'm not a spy!"
454	** In "Breaking Camp", when Truman calls his dad and tells him the counselors went missing, he denies having anything to do with it. At this time, the counselors are in a cage hanging in the air, and they're all angry at him.
455	** A note telling the X's where Glowface's new headquarters is says "This is not a trap. Honest, it really isn't."
456	* SwappedRoles: Mr. and Mrs. X are forced to switch ranks with their kids for two days in "Mission Irresponsible".
457	* TakeOverTheWorld: S.N.A.F.U.'s goal.
458	* TemporarilyAVillain: Tuesday and Home Base were antagonists in "To Err is Truman".
459	* TemptingFate:
460	** In "Pinheads", when Tuesday insists on bowling with her family, she jokingly says, "Unless Glowface suddenly busts in or something." Guess what happens next?
461	** While modeling a new suit in a fashion show in "Wealth vs. Stealth", Mr. X says the suit's wolverine-proof. Cue a pack of vicious wolverines ripping up the suit.
462	* ThatsGottaHurt: After seeing Mrs. X break her leg by hitting it against a coffee table in "AAIIEE! Robot", Lorenzo tells Glowface that it "smarts like the dickens".
463	* ThereWillBeToiletPaper: Truman gets a lot of cuts on his face trying to shave while in his dad's rank in "Mission: Irresponsible".
464	* TieInCereal: InUniverse example: "Y's Up" reveals that Glowface has his own cereal, called "Glowy-O's".
465	* TimeBomb: In "Photo Ops", the X's are tied up on a pile of these, which Glowface plans to launch into space.
466	* TitleDrop: "Family Issues" has one: when Glowface fails to get the X's attention due to their conflicts with each other, Lorenzo tells him, "Sir, I believe they're having family issues."
467	* ToiletHumour:
468	** Truman pranks his family with bran pancakes and bombs in the toilets in "To Err is Truman".
469	** "Boy's Best Fiend" has Rex peeing on Tuesday at the end.
470	** Many jokes are made around the baby the X's are babysitting in "Live And Let Diaper" soiling himself.
471	** Truman using his fart gun on Tuesday and her guests in "License to Slumber".
472	** Glowface tries to anger Mrs. X into turning back to her old self in "No More Mrs. Nice X" by rubbing the spy manual on his butt. It doesn't work, though she notes it's unsanitary.
473	** Glowface having a PottyEmergency in "The Haunting of Home Base".
474	** One of the remodels Glowface adds to the house to torment Home Base in "Missing Home" is a toilet installed in the living room, that he's implied to use off-screen.
475	** "Three Days of the Coin Op" ends with the X's having been transferred to a foreign country where they have to herd farting goats.
476	** In "Meddle Mouth", when Brandon shows up with flowers for Tuesday, Truman uses his remote to make her say, "These hideous weeds smell like poo!", to her embarrassment and Brandon's amusement.
477	** The paparazzi emerging from inside a toilet to interview Truman in "Wealth vs. Stealth".
478	* TotallyRadical:
479	** Mr. X's impersonation of Truman in "Mission Irresponsible".
480	** The homebase system in Truman's mini-house talks like this.
481	* TwoPartEpisode: "Truman X: Super Villain" and "The Haunting of Home Base".
482	* UnmanlySecret: Mr. X tried to hide the fact he played with model trains from his family for fear they would think less of him. His wife and Tuesday don't have any issue with his hobby. Truman however reacts as he expected.
483	* UnusualEuphemism: "Fart monkeys!"
484	* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: On seeing Glowface throwing a tantrum in his secret lair behind the laundromat in "Three Days of the Coin Op", Mr. X just says, "Hey, it's Glowface," and he and his family look on in confusion.
485	* UrineTrouble: At the end of "Boy's Best Fiend", Rex pees on Tuesday's clothes.
486	* ValleyGirl: Mrs. X talks like this when pretending to be Tuesday in "Mission Irresponsible" (though that's not how the latter talks).
487	* VerbThis: In "Mission Irresponsible", after the X's arrive at Glowface's hideout back in their normal outfits and he asks what happened to their "hilarious attire", Mrs. X replies, "Hilarious this!" before the family beats him and his henchmen.
488	* VillainousBreakdown: PlayedForLaughs when Glowface throws a tantrum after the X's unwittingly prevent S.N.A.F.U. from ambushing them in "Three Days of the Coin Op".
489	* VillainousFriendship: Though it isn't always made obvious, Glowface and Lorenzo care about each other a great deal. Examples showing this friendship include Glowface expressing concern after Truman gave Lorenzo a wedgie off-screen in "X Takes a Holiday", a scared Glowface asking how Lorenzo would cope without him if Home Base shot the former in "Missing Home", and Lorenzo expressing sympathy when Glowface gets frustrated over mispronouncing "obliterate" while rehearsing his spiel for the X's in "Family Issues". Then there's this exchange near the end of "Truman X: Super Villain":
490	-->'''Glowface''': You know, buddy, we may be doomed, but there's no one I'd rather go to a fiery demise with than you.
491	-->'''Lorenzo''': ''([[AffectionateGestureToTheHead pats Glowface's globe]], touched by his words)'' Ditto, sir.
492	* VillainsOutShopping: There's is one episode Glowface was shopping for... of all things... ERASERS.
493	** At the beginning of "Y's Up", when the X's arrive at Glowface's lair, he's not doing anything evil, but just eating cereal instead.
494	-->'''Glowface''': Can't a supervillain eat his Glowy-O's in peace?!
495	** As mentioned in "You Only Sneeze Twice", Lorenzo Suave takes a pottery class on Wednesday nights.
496	* VisualPun: No points for guessing what Lorenzo was doing when Glowface, mistaking the bad smell from a baby the X's were watching for the former passing gas, tells him to "stop cuttin' the cheese!"
497	* WashMeGraffiti: In "No More Mrs. Nice X", one of the things Glowface does to try to anger an overly-relaxed Mrs. X is write "Wash Me" on the X-Jet. It doesn't work.
498	-->'''Mrs. X''': Good suggestion! Now I can use that new mega-scrubber I ordered from TV!
499	* WeAreNotGoingThroughThatAgain: Near the end of "Live and Let Diaper", the X's have had enough of babysitting, and when their neighbors offer to let them look after the baby more often, the X's simultaneously make up different excuses to get out of it.
500	* WeWantOurJerkBack: In "No More Mrs. Nice X", Mrs. X becomes a relaxed, doting mother after returning from a retreat. While Tuesday likes the change, Truman doesn't, and is actually [[ConditionedToAcceptHorror mortified by how normal his mom is]]. Towards the climax, every one (even Glowface) actually wants Mrs. X's former persona for differing reasons. Once she's back to her old self, Tuesday commentates that while it would be nice to have a non-violent mother, [[BeYourself she loves her combative mother just the way she is]].
501	* WeaponizedStench: The Money Bestinkifier gives its targets a terrible smell.
502	* {{Wedgie}}: Tuesday sometimes gives Truman these, as shown in "Doommates" and "Truman X: Super Villain".
503	** Truman gives his whole family wedgies all at once, then gives one to Glowface in "Truman X: Super Villain", and he mentions having given one to Lorenzo in "X Takes a Holiday".
504	** One of the ways Mr. X bullied Glowface when they were kids, according to the latter in "Breaking Camp", was giving him turbo-wedgies.
505	* WentToTheGreatXInTheSky: As the X's hold a funeral in the backyard for Mr. X's disintegrated laser tie in "Untied", the tie is said at one point to have gone to "that big tie rack in the sky".
506	* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: In "No More Mrs. Nice X", the X's are tied up and placed on a ConveyorBeltODoom leading to the Crusher, and after Glowface complains about how Mrs. X isn't as aggressive as before, Lorenzo suggests that Glowface just put the X's through the Crusher already, but Glowface says that it's not the same if she won't fight back.
507	* WildTeenParty: Tuesday tries to throw one while her parents are gone in "X Takes a Holiday", but it gets crashed by the bad guys. Later, when Tuesday and Truman are in a death trap, she gets a call from her parents checking on them, and she lies about throwing such a party so the parents think the kids are okay.
508	* WordSchmord: Tuesday saying, "Manual, schmanual!" in "Pinheads". It hurts her dad's feelings.
509	* WorkingThroughTheCold: Truman and his parents decide to join Tuesday on a mission, despite being sick. Later, Glowface, Sasquatch and the Scream Queens try to fight them while sick, with predictable results.
510	* WouldHurtAChild: The villains have no qualms about trying to murder Tuesday and Truman.
511	* XRaySparks: Glowface does this to Mr. X in "Photo Ops".
512	* YouAndWhatArmy: Glowface asks Truman this when the latter plans to stop the former's performance of "High Seas Hijinks" in "Breaking Camp". Truman answers, "This army!" and summons a group of wild animals to attack Glowface, Lorenzo and the S.N.A.F.U. soldiers with them.
513	* YouSaidYouWouldLetThemGo: In "The Spy Who Liked Me", Brandon steals Truman's Truth Ray and brings it to Glowface because the latter promised not to hurt Tuesday. When Glowface attacks her anyway, an appalled Brandon calls him out for breaking his promise, and Glowface replies, "ILied."
514	* YourHeadAsplode: Subverted in "You Only Sneeze Twice": Truman's head seems to explode from his fever, horrifying Tuesday, only for it to actually be an android built by Truman as a prank.

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