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• The entire episode "Lemons", instantly hailed as a highly moving and meaningful discussion of the issues that arose during the 2016 presidential election, and pegged by many as likely to be seen by future generations as an icon of the period's entertainment.
  • Bonus points for the fact that, instead of painting the people who voted for Donald Trump as a bunch of bigots, the episode took a balanced approach; at least one of the characters who voted for Trump was given very sympathetic reasons, and the show pointed out several of the flaws that Hilary Clinton had as a candidate, with the episode ending on the message that people on both sides need to stop calling each other names and try to understand each other, so the country won't stay so divided.
• Bow finally standing up to Ruby in "Mother Nature" with Dre supporting Bow's choice to kick Ruby out of the house. After several seasons of Bow putting up with Ruby's rudeness to her face in her home, it's really something.
• When Junior intends to take a walkabout trip to Australia during his gap year, Bow, who until then had been supportive of his choice, finally brings the hammer down and tells him to get his shit in gear and do something with his time off school.
• Any time Junior stands up to Dre.
• It is kind of awesome how Josh, the Butt-Monkey of Dre's coworkers, stands up to Dre in "Who's Afraid of the Big Black Man?" when the latter tries to justify leaving a little white girl in an elevator. Dre's so shocked by his outburst that he can't think of an immediate comeback.
• In "Hero Pizza", which handles the COVID-19 pandemic head-on through Rainbow's experiences working in the hospital, her intense "Reason You Suck" Speech to Junior over having his girlfriend over while the family was supposed to be under quarantine. Given that he had the audacity to do it in the first place, then outright lie to her about it, she was well within her rights to tear into him over it.
• "Babes in Boyland" has Diane taking Dre and Bow to task for the Double Standard in how they treat her dealing with her sexuality versus how they treat Jack doing the same thing.
  Dre: We don't have to worry about Jack as much because he can't get pregnant.
  Diane: But he can get someone pregnant! You always say you treat us the same but you don't.