History Recap / FIsForFamilyS4E4TheBWord

* RacistGrandma: When Gertrude talks about meeting Mike Wallace, Nana Rose makes a devil horn gesture and pointedly calls him ''"Myron"''. [[note]]In RealLife, Wallace's birth name was Myron Leon Wallace, and he was the son of Russian Jewish immigrants. Rose is repeatedly shown as holding anti-Semitic beliefs and being a supporter of Mussolini.[[/note]] [[spoiler:She is also not actually the grandmother of Philip and Anthony, as Babe was actually mothered by Rose's sister, who was a nun, with Rose being forced to raise him as her own son to prevent her sister from being disgraced for breaking her chastity vows.]]

** As a bonus, Bill sees that his paternal granddad's abusiveness after accidentally knocking over a display of baseball bats.

* ActuallyPrettyFunny: Ben Schrider finds the fact that Bill framed Jimmy for the hickey stick theft to be utterly amusing.

While Big Bill tries to take Bill to hockey tryouts, Bill soon sees his grandfather for what he is. Frank struggles to bond with his father-in-law Stan and uses his neighbors as buffers. Sue is hit with a surprise baby shower.

* {{Cliffhanger}}: Upset over her ambivalence over her pregnancy, made worse by seeing her old college girlfriend become a successful lawyer, Sue isn't paying attention when she is driving home from the baby shower and hits a large tree. The episode ends with an unconscious Sue with her head lying on the horn, causing it to blare continuously.

* Cliffhanger: Upset over her ambivalence over her pregnancy, made worse by seeing her old college girlfriend become a successful lawyer, Sue isn't paying attention when she is driving home from the baby shower and hits a large tree. The episode ends with an unconscious Sue with her head lying on the horn, causing it to blare continuously.

* {{Irony}}: After being shown only in flashbacks as Sue's unattractive college roommate who is jealous of her relationship with Frank, Gertrude attends Sue's baby shower as a wealthy, prestigious attorney who has appeared on ''Sixty Minutes'' and insinuates that she had an affair with Mike Wallace. This makes Sue feel bad that she dropped out of college to live in a paycheck-to-paycheck household with a fourth unwanted pregnancy.

* RacistGrandma: When Gertrude makes insinuations that she slept with Mike Wallace, Nana Rose makes a devil horn gesture and pointedly calls him ''"Myron"''. [[note]]In RealLife, Wallace's birth name was Myron Leon Wallace, and he was the son of Russian Jewish immigrants. Rose is repeatedly shown as holding anti-Semitic beliefs and being a supporter of Mussolini.[[/note]] [[spoiler:She is also not actually the grandmother of Philip and Anthony, as Babe was actually mothered by Rose's sister, who was a nun, with Rose being forced to raise him as her own son to prevent her sister from being disgraced for breaking her chastity vows.]]

* RacistGrandma: When Gertrude makes insinuations that she slept with Mike Wallace, Nana Rose makes a devil horn gesture and pointedly calls him ''"Myron"'' in an anti-Semitic gesture. In RealLife, Wallace's birth name was Myron Leon Wallace, and he was the son of Russian Jewish immigrants. Rose is repeatedly shown as holding anti-Semitic beliefs and being a supporter of Mussolini. [[spoiler:She is also not actually the grandmother of Philip and Anthony, as Babe was actually mothered by Rose's sister, who was a nun, with Rose being forced to raise him as her own son to prevent her sister from being disgraced for breaking her chastity vows.]]

* RacistGrandma: When Gertrude makes insinuations that she slept with Mike Wallace, Nana Rose makes a devil horn gesture and pointedly calls him ''"Myron"'' in an anti-Semitic gesture. In RealLife, Wallace's birth name was Myron Leon Wallace, and he was the son of Russian Jewish immigrants.

* [=Irony=]: After being shown only in flashbacks as Sue's unattractive college roommate who is jealous of her relationship with Frank, Gertrude attends Sue's baby shower as a wealthy, prestigious attorney who has appeared on ''Sixty Minutes'' and insinuates that she had an affair with Mike Wallace. This makes Sue feel bad that she dropped out of college to live in a paycheck-to-paycheck household with a fourth unwanted pregnancy.

* Irony: After being shown only in flashbacks as Sue's unattractive college roommate who is jealous of her relationship with Frank, Gertrude attends Sue's baby shower as a wealthy, prestigious attorney who has appeared on ''Sixty Minutes'' and insinuates that she had an affair with Mike Wallace. This makes Sue feel bad that she dropped out of college to live in a paycheck-to-paycheck household with a fourth unwanted pregnancy.

* RacistGrandma: When Gertrude makes insinuations that she slept with UsefulNotes/Mike Wallace, Nana Rose makes a devil horn gesture and pointedly calls him ''"Myron"'' in an anti-Semitic gesture. In RealLife, Wallace's birth name was Myron Leon Wallace, and he was the son of Russian Jewish immigrants.

** Babe reveals that when he got a tattoo while serving in the Navy, his father cut it off of his chest with a knife. After hearing stories from his friends about their abusive childhoods as well as his own, Babe returns home in tears promising to be a better father... until he sees the mess left in his house by Phil and Anthony fighting, and yells at Anthony for not "being a man" and minding his brother better.
--> '''Anthony''': I don't ''want'' to be a man! That was ''your'' mistake!

** Babe reveals that when he got a tattoo while serving in the Navy, his father cut it off of his chest with a knife. After hearing stories from his friends about his abusive childhood, Babe returns home in tears promising to be a better father... until he sees the mess left in his house by Phil and Anthony fighting, and yells at Anthony for not "being a man" and minding his brother better.

** Babe reveals that when he got a tattoo while serving in the Navy, his father cut it off of his chest with a knife.

* AbusiveDad: Stan had one as he disapproved of Stan's relationship with girl named Sophie to the point where he used his position as a cop to frame her for a crime which caused her father to accidentally murder her in a fit of rage.
** After Frank and his friends argue over whether Frank or Stan had the worse father, Otto Holtenwasser, who has been silent until this point, abruptly speaks up: "My father turned me in to the Gestapo." This shocks everybody into complete silence, after which Goomer uncomfortably says, "Yeah, that's the winner."

** After Frank and his friends argue over whether Frank or Stan had the worse father, Otto Holtenwasser, who has been silent until this point, abruptly speaks up: "My father turned me in to the Gestapo." The other men agree that his father was by far the worst father.