History Series / GroundedForLife

* BuxomIsBetter: Claudia - In high school, she faked being ill in gym class to avoid having to do activities that would result in her breasts bouncing, much to the dismay of the boys.

* NamesTheSame: Invoked. In the last episode, Claudia gives birth to a second daughter and they decide to call her Rose to carry on the flower motif they already had with Lily. Everyone just assumes they named the baby after the woman from ''[[Film/{{Titanic 1997}} Titanic]],'' so they decide to change the baby's name.

* BuxomIsBetter: Claudia - In high school, she faked being ill in gym class to avoid having to do activities that would result in her {{Gainaxing}}, much to the dismay of the boys.

* TheParentProducedProject: One episode surrounded a science fair project for one of the boys, which Sean took over completely (at one point welding it in the bedroom). Claudia is paranoid that they're going to be caught out for it and even takes steps to disguise Sean's involvement... until they get to the science fair and find out that [[UpToEleven every other student's project was also done by a parent]].

* BrotherChuck: Henry's actor moved east with his family, so his character was dropped. He was still alluded to from time to time but never shown.

* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: Every episode title was either a real song title or a pun of one.

This DomCom, which aired on Creator/{{Fox}} from 2001–03 and Creator/TheWB from 2003–05, starred Creator/DonalLogue and Megyn Price as Sean and Claudia Finnerty, an Irish-American couple who lived in Staten Island, New York, while raising their three kids, Lily (Lynsey Bartilson), Jimmy (Griffin Frazen), and Henry (Jake Burbage).

The other main characters were Sean's shady and eccentric younger brother Eddie (Kevin Corrigan), Sean and Eddie's father Walt (Richard Riehle) and Brad O'Keefe (Creator/BretHarrison), the next-door neighbor who also served as Lily's love interest.

* DomCom
* EyeRoll: Lily Finnerty, as the BrattyTeenageDaughter, practically had this and a disgusted "ugh!" at her parents' meddling as her personal CatchPhrase.

The other main characters were Sean's shady and eccentric younger brother Eddie (Kevin Corrigan), Sean and Eddie's father Walt (Richard Riehle) and Brad O'Keefe (Bret Harrison), the next-door neighbor who also served as Lily's love interest.

* BrattyTeenageDaughter: Lily.

* GroundedForever

* FlashBack: Most episodes start about halfway through the story, so a significant part is told in flashback.

This DomCom, which aired on Creator/{{Fox}} from 2001–03 and Creator/TheWB from 2003–05, starred Creator/DonalLogue and Megyn Price as Sean and Claudia Finnerty, an Irish American couple who lived in Staten Island, New York, while raising their three kids, Lily (Lynsey Bartilson), Jimmy (Griffin Frazen), and Henry (Jake Burbage).

It lasted five seasons with 95 episodes.

Grounded For Life is a 2001 {{sitcom}} from {{FOX}}. The DomCom starred Creator/DonalLogue and Megyn Price as Sean and Claudia Finnerty, an Irish American couple who lived in Staten Island, New York, while raising their three kids, Lily (Lynsey Bartilson), Jimmy (Griffin Frazen), and Henry (Jake Burbage).

The other main characters were Sean's shady and eccentric younger brother Eddie (Kevin Corrigan), Sean and Eddie's father Walt (Richard Riehle) and Brad O'Keefe (Bret Harrison), the next door neighbour who also served as Lily's love interest.

The show heavily featured flashback & cutaway sequences to events that had previously taken place off camera, often revisited to show an event from another perspective.

It lasted 5 seasons with 95 episodes.

* MistakenForGay: Sean took his kids to the amusement park. It was "Gay Day" there and everyone was wearing a white t-shirt and jeans. Guess what he was wearing...
* NamesTheSame: Invoked. In the last episode, Claudia gives birth to a second daughter and they decide to call her Rose to carry on the flower motif they already had with Lily. Everyone just assumes they named the baby after the woman from ''[[Film/{{Titanic 1997}} Titanic]]'', so they decide to change the baby's name.

* MadeOutToBeAJerkass: Claudia finds out that Eddie had an adult movie shot at the house and bans him from the house. Of course, when the kids find out, they side with their poor uncle. It even has [[LampshadeHanging lampshading]]

* MinorWithFakeID: Brad finds out his former bully, Scott, has a fake ID and asks him to buy beer, but gets ripped off. Sean and Eddie force him to buy the beer for real, but just he goes to pay, a cop enters and arrests him for being a minor purchasing alcohol, which gets him suspended from the school basketball team.

* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: Every episode title was either a real a song title or a pun of one.

* DearNegativeReader: After spending [[{{In-universe}} the entirety]] of "Welcome to the Working Week (Take This Job and Shove It, Dad)" trying to win over a blogger who wrote a bad review of the bar he and Sean owned, Eddie wound up writing one to the critic. He even declared that he'd started his own blog, for the sole purpose of insulting the critic.

* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: Every episode tile was either a real a song title or a pun of one.

* {{Oireland}}: The Finnertys are of Irish descent. A later (small) plot point, in that Sean and Eddie bought a bar, and used their heritage to their advantage on St Patrick's Day, by touting the fact that ''their'' bar was run by a legitimatly Irish family, as opposed to their corporate rivals.

* OnceMoreWithClarity: Almost every episode is a series of flash backs flashing further back each time. One character may have a flashback to a hit and run driver taking out their car door, followed by another character revealing they were the hit and run driver late in the episode.

* ShoutOut: Jimmy was a fan of anime and Anime/DragonballZ was mentioned in one episode.

* TooDumbToLive: Henry, the poor boy believed ''anything'' he was told - For example, Jimmy once told Henry he was a robot and that's why there aren't baby photos of him.

* ChekovsGunman: Occasionally, characters that appeared in earlier episodes would appear more significantly later, such as "Crazy" Amy or Faye.