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2	%%* CrazyIsCool:
3	%%** If you don't mind Franklin, he can seem like this.
4	%%** The wedding that Michael and Jay had planned for Junior was going to be this, a bit too much.
5	* CreatorsPet: Franklin, who in later episodes would have bigger impacts on the plot than Michael's wife and kids, to the point of becoming a recurring DeusExMachina. In the episode that deals with the remodel of the garage, he saves the day by revealing he's a certified contractor; and in the episode where Michael becomes a {{Jerkass}} after [[CurbStompBattle curb-stomping]] everyone in foosball, Franklin is the one who somehow has the skills to put him in his place.
6	%%* EnsembleDarkhorse: The CALVINATOR!
7	* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: The show's pretty popular in Brazil, due to it being constantly aired in an open TV channel, as well as in Italy and France, where it got frequents reruns.
8	* HilariousInHindsight: "Samba Story" has a throw away line about Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger and Creator/SylvesterStallone being in a movie together, [[Film/TheExpendables eight years before it actually happened]].
9	* MorePopularReplacement: The second Claire, played by Jennifer Nicole Freeman, is much more popular than the first one, played by Jazz Raycole in season 1. Justified, as season 1 only lasted 11 episodes and we get to know Freeman's Claire much more. Freeman's Claire was also a clumsier, more flawed character and this made her funnier.
10	* RetroactiveRecognition:
11	** Isn't that genius kid [[Series/{{Heroes}} Micah Sanders]]? Yep, [[Creator/NoahGrayCabey it's him]].
12	** In the episode "Crouching Mother, Hidden Father", a little girl singing a verse from [[Theatre/FunnyGirl "Don't Rain On My Parade"]] during a Kindergarten audition is none other than Creator/BeanieFeldstein around [[OlderThanTheyLook age 10]].
13	** Before his first big role as Sharkboy in ''Film/TheAdventuresOfSharkboyAndLavagirl'', a very young Creator/TaylorLautner played one of Franklin's bullies in an episode.
14	** Creator/JerryTrainor, best known for his role on ''Series/ICarly'', had a bit role in "The Bowling Show" as a ''Franchise/StarTrek'' fan.
15	** Creator/TJThyne, best known as Jack Hodgins from ''Series/{{Bones}}'', had [[YouLookFamiliar two different roles]] on this show. First as the pizza delivery guy in "Outbreak Money" and then as a store manager in "Open Your Heart".
16	** "Samba Story" (2002) features Creator/SofiaVergara in what was only her second or third acting role, after guest appearances on the soap opera ''Acapulco, cuerpo y alma'' (1995), and a supporting role in ''Film/BigTrouble'' (also in 2002).
17	%%* ToyShip: Kady and Franklin.
18	* ValuesDissonance: Most of the jokes about homosexuality (and LGBTQ+ topics, for that matter) are very clearly of a different time period. So much so, when the series was syndicated on [[Creator/NickAtNite Nick @ Nite]] in the mid 2010's, most, but not all, of these jokes were edited out (though this may also have been for timeslot reasons, but still).

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