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* AmbigiouslyGay
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* FourTemperamentEnsemble: Choleric.


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* EthicalSlut: She's a self-proclaimed nymphomaniac and proud of it. As is her daughter Janet.
** LovableSexManiac
* MrsRobinson



* DumbBlonde: Averted.
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* [[UglyGuyHotWife Ugly Guy, Hot Girlfriend]]: With Don.

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* [[UglyGuyHotWife Ugly Guy, Hot Girlfriend]]: With Don.
To Don, but it's played with -- Sally considers Don sexy (though it may just be the uniform and authority), and in one episode where she comes to obsess over her flaws, she convinces herself she's ugly and that Don is too good for her.

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* DeadpanSnarker

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* DeadpanSnarkerDeadpanSnarker: Usually at Dick's expense, though sometimes Mary's as well.
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* ActorAllusion: After years as [[Film/TheConeheads Prymaat Conehead,]] Ms. Curtin finally gets to play the ''human.''

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* ActorAllusion: After years as [[Film/TheConeheads [[Film/Coneheads Prymaat Conehead,]] Ms. Curtin finally gets to play the ''human.''
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* ActorAllusion: After years as [[Film/TheConeheads Prymaat Conehead,]] Ms. Curtin finally gets to play the ''human.''
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** Although even in the very first episode...
--> '''Sally''' ''(demonstrating):'' "They seem to have more power when I squeeze 'em together. What do you think?"
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* HairOfGold

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High Commander of the aliens.

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High Commander of the aliens.
aliens and as such patriarch of the family, he teaches physics at the local university. He somehow manages to be a condescending genius while also being an idiotic manchild, and has an on-off relationship with his co-worker Mary.



* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He's selfish, arrogant, condescending, and a complete drama queen, but he truly does love Mary and comes to care for the other aliens as family members rather than just crewmates. Worth noting that for better or worse, it's uncertain how much of this is due to his inexperience coping with human emotions.



Security Officer and Dick's "sister".

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Security Officer and Dick's "sister".
"sister", she comes to realize that by Earth standards, she's gorgeous, and learns to use her looks to get what she wants and use men as she pleases. However, she's still Security Officer and is easily the most {{Badass}} member of the family when required.



Information Officer and Dick's "son".

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Information Officer and Dick's "son".
"son". He's actually the oldest and perhaps smartest of the crew, and much of his character comes from being frustrated with the conflicts between his literal age and his teenaged body, such as why he can't date a middle-aged woman and hanging out at a senior's home where he fits right in.



Dick's "brother", Harry is the "transmitter" with which they contact the Home Planet.

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Dick's "brother", Harry is the "transmitter" with which they contact the Home Planet.
Planet. Otherwise though, his role is deliberately ambiguous as even the narration in the early episodes states -- "they had an extra seat".



Dick's (initially reluctant) Earthling love interest and an anthropology professor at his college.

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Dick's (initially reluctant) Earthling love interest and an anthropology professor at his college.
college. As much as she finds Dick insufferable and his family bizarre, she does come to care for them. Her work in anthropology often makes her the perfect foil for Dick, who is befuddled by Earth customs and society.



** Actually came in handy, as this rendered her immune to the drugged wine given to her by Charlotte from "Alien Hunter". Of course, it didn't help when she knocked Mary out with the gnome.

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** Actually came in handy, as this rendered her immune to the drugged wine given to her by Charlotte from "Alien Hunter". Of course, it didn't help when she knocked Mary out with the gnome.7
* [[MrExposition Ms. Exposition]]: Often gets the job of explaining social conventions to Dick.



Dick and Mary's secretary.

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Dick and Mary's secretary.
secretary, she's friends with Mary and often snarks at Dick's ignorance about humanity.



A portly, dim-witted cop with an overblown image of himself as an enforcer of justice.

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A portly, dim-witted cop with an overblown image of himself as an enforcer of justice.
justice. He's Sally's boyfriend and will do anything to please her, including playing up said overblown image to turn her on.
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* LargeHam

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* LargeHamLargeHam: He has three voices -- shouting, talking at normal volume but being overly emotional, and shouting while being overly emotional.
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Tommy's second girlfriend. Interestingly enough, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Larisa Oleynik also dated each other in ''TenThingsIHateAboutYou''.

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Tommy's second girlfriend. Interestingly enough, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Larisa Oleynik also dated each other in ''TenThingsIHateAboutYou''.
''Film/TenThingsIHateAboutYou''.

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* ManChild



* OneOfTheKids
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* ConsolationPrize: Harry was given a free tote bag along with the body he selected, implying that it's an unpoplular model.

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* ConsolationPrize: Harry was given a free tote bag along with the body he selected, implying that it's an unpoplular unpopular model.
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** Her reaction to being jilted for the first time was to break down her beau's door--still clutching her phone reciever and wearing last night's dress--and [[PreAssKickingOneLiner inquire about her date's phone service]] before breaking his arm.

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** Her reaction to being jilted for the first time was to break down her beau's door--still clutching her phone reciever receiver and [[KickingAssInAllHerFinery wearing last night's dress--and dress]]--and [[PreAssKickingOneLiner inquire about her date's phone service]] before breaking his arm.

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* ConsolationPrize: Harry was given a free tote bag along with the body he selected, implying that it's an unpopluar model.

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* ConsolationPrize: Harry was given a free tote bag along with the body he selected, implying that it's an unpopluar unpoplular model.


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* RealLifeWritesThePlot: French Stewart was born with a nerve condition which causes him to appear half-asleep all of the time. He exagerrates the squinty look as Harry.

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* ConsolationPrize: Harry was given a free tote bag along with the body he selected, implying that it's an unpopluar model.



* KavorkaMan

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* KavorkaManKavorkaMan: If he opens his eyes fully, he suddenly becomes a chick magnet.
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** Her reaction to being jilted for the first time was to break down her beau's door--still clutching her phone reciever and wearing last night's dress--and [[PreAssKickingOneLiner inquire about her date's phone service]] before breaking his arm.
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* BrutalHonesty: Most of the time except when he's denying his existence as an alien. The concept of lying was just as foreign to the aliens as emotions and gender were.
** One of the first season episodes focused on Dick discussing the concept of "ass kissing" to the other aliens in regards to a {{Jerkass}} professor who is having a party thrown in his honor, and fails to understand why people continue to suck up to him face-to-face yet badmouth him behind his back. Dick's blatant and carefree honesty towards the professor actually causes the professor to like Dick, so much so that when he dies at the party, Dick is shocked to discover he has to speak at his wake.

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* LoveTriangle: Managed to have not one, but two relationships with two different alien beings.


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* WeirdnessMagnet: Managed to have not one, but two relationships with two different alien beings.
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* ButtMonkey



* ButtMonkey: In later seasons.



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-->'''Tommy''': Nina, I need a woman's point of view for something. Um, my girlfriend's not speaking to me because I didn't ask her to a dance.\\
'''Nina''': Mmm. Send her flowers.\\
'''Tommy''': She once told me that flowers reminded her of the morbid stench of death.\\
'''Nina''': Okay... well, how about a gift? Maybe a nice makeup kit?\\
'''Tommy''': She sees makeup as a way for the arrogant misogynists to decorate the women they own and turn them into, you know, like vacuous playthings.\\
'''Nina''': Oh, I bet you two have a lot of fun.
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** [[LooneyTunes Sounds kind of familiar...]]

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