Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 29 (click to see context) from:
* ToxicFriendInfluence: Peg is the one who Steve to just play all day at the zoos and use Marcy's own money for snacks and souvenirs given Peg's belief that a household should only have one breadwinner.
to:
* ToxicFriendInfluence: Peg is the one who got Steve to just play all day at the zoos and use Marcy's own money for snacks and souvenirs given Peg's belief that a household should only have one breadwinner.breadwinner.
* UnconfessedUnemployment: A variant of an unconfessed discouraged worker where Steve lies to Marcy about actively looking for a job but he puts no effort into it and only goes about frolicking at zoos behind her back.
* UnconfessedUnemployment: A variant of an unconfessed discouraged worker where Steve lies to Marcy about actively looking for a job but he puts no effort into it and only goes about frolicking at zoos behind her back.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
Trope was cut/disambiguated due to cleanup
Deleted line(s) 12 (click to see context) :
* EatTheDog: After Buck ate his dinner, Al tries to eat Buck but is interrupted by Peg (who probably wouldn't have let him do so).
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 7 (click to see context) from:
* BlackComedyAnimalDeath: Steve's plan to free a turtle in captivity ends this way, as his attempt to set it free ends up killing the poor turtle because he tried to free a ''saltwater turtle'' into Lake Michigan. Making matters worse, Bosco was the LastOfHisKind.
to:
* BlackComedyAnimalDeath: BlackComedyPetDeath: Steve's plan to free a turtle in captivity ends this way, as his attempt to set it free ends up killing the poor turtle because he tried to free a ''saltwater turtle'' into Lake Michigan. Making matters worse, Bosco was the LastOfHisKind.
Changed line(s) 13 (click to see context) from:
* AFoolAndHisMoneyAreSoonParted: Defied. Marcy starts feeling bad for how she treated Steve and is going to tell him about the $25,000 reward for stopping the robber. On cue, a news reporter reveals Steve has been arrested for turtlenapping and killing the turtle by accident. Al thinks Marcy is going to bail him out after earning the bail is conveniently $25,000. Instead, this is the last straw for Marcy, and she lets him rot in jail and uses the money to buy a new car.
to:
* AFoolAndHisMoneyAreSoonParted: AFoolAndHisNewMoneyAreSoonParted: Defied. Marcy starts feeling bad for how she treated Steve and is going to tell him about the $25,000 reward for stopping the robber. On cue, a news reporter reveals Steve has been arrested for turtlenapping and killing the turtle by accident. Al thinks Marcy is going to bail him out after earning the bail is conveniently $25,000. Instead, this is the last straw for Marcy, and she lets him rot in jail and uses the money to buy a new car.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* BlackComedyAnimalDeath: Steve's plan to free a turtle in captivity ends this way, as his attempt to set it free ends up killing the poor turtle because he tried to free a ''saltwater turtle'' into Lake Michigan. Making matters worse, Bosco was the LastOfHisKind.
* ButtMonkey: Marcy. She quickly makes it clear she despises her new job and has to work longer hours, has to deal with Steve dragging his feet on finding a new job, and gets shot by a robber while waiting for her husband to apply at his old bank.
* ContinuitySnarl: Marcy claims this is the first time she kept a secret from Steve, even though [[Recap/MarriedWithChildrenS3E18TheHouseThatPegLost The House That Peg Lost]] implies Steve doesn't know their house is only in Marcy's name.
* ButtMonkey: Marcy. She quickly makes it clear she despises her new job and has to work longer hours, has to deal with Steve dragging his feet on finding a new job, and gets shot by a robber while waiting for her husband to apply at his old bank.
* ContinuitySnarl: Marcy claims this is the first time she kept a secret from Steve, even though [[Recap/MarriedWithChildrenS3E18TheHouseThatPegLost The House That Peg Lost]] implies Steve doesn't know their house is only in Marcy's name.
Added DiffLines:
* AFoolAndHisMoneyAreSoonParted: Defied. Marcy starts feeling bad for how she treated Steve and is going to tell him about the $25,000 reward for stopping the robber. On cue, a news reporter reveals Steve has been arrested for turtlenapping and killing the turtle by accident. Al thinks Marcy is going to bail him out after earning the bail is conveniently $25,000. Instead, this is the last straw for Marcy, and she lets him rot in jail and uses the money to buy a new car.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* ToxicFriendInfluence: Peg is the one who Steve to just play all day at the zoos and use Marcy's own money for snacks and souvenirs given Peg's belief that a household should only have one breadwinner.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 26 (click to see context) from:
* WorryingForTheWrongReason: After skipping out on his job hunt even after getting caught red-handed by Marcy, what's making Steve feel down? The turtle at the aquarium having a meager-sized water tank.
to:
* WorryingForTheWrongReason: After skipping out on his job hunt even after getting caught red-handed by Marcy, Marcy (who warned him she'll beat him up if he does it again), what's making Steve feel down? The turtle at the aquarium having a meager-sized water tank.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* StinkSnub: Steve begs Peg and Al to keep quiet about his skipping out on his job hunt just to gallivant at the zoo with Marcy's money to buy himself souvenirs and snacks. It's Kelly who tells off Marcy that Steve was just playing all day. Marcy then adds on Steve smells like wombat.
* WorryingForTheWrongReason: After skipping out on his job hunt even after getting caught red-handed by Marcy, what's making Steve feel down? The turtle at the aquarium having a meager-sized water tank.
* WorryingForTheWrongReason: After skipping out on his job hunt even after getting caught red-handed by Marcy, what's making Steve feel down? The turtle at the aquarium having a meager-sized water tank.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* MamasBabyPapasMaybe: Al's snarky "Tell your Daddy you have the mailman's eyes" response to the Girl Scout facetiously (one hopes) implies this.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 24 (click to see context) from:
* YoungerThanHeLooks: Al introduces Marcy to an old man named Neil Cochoran, who, despite looking somewhere between 60 and 100 years old, is actually 38 because he's the father of eight kids.
to:
* YoungerThanHeLooks: Al introduces Marcy to an old man named Neil Cochoran, who, despite looking somewhere between 60 and 100 years old, is actually 38 30 because he's the father of eight kids.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 23 (click to see context) from:
* PovertyFood: Al at one point tries swallowing Cheese critters (something like sea monkeys).
to:
* PovertyFood: Al at one point tries swallowing Cheese critters (something like sea monkeys).monkeys).
*YoungerThanHeLooks: Al introduces Marcy to an old man named Neil Cochoran, who, despite looking somewhere between 60 and 100 years old, is actually 38 because he's the father of eight kids.
*YoungerThanHeLooks: Al introduces Marcy to an old man named Neil Cochoran, who, despite looking somewhere between 60 and 100 years old, is actually 38 because he's the father of eight kids.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 15 (click to see context) from:
* LaserGuidedKarma: Steve. After he blows off going on various job interviews, including a crucial one that Marcy helped to set up at the bank she works at (which ended with Marcy getting accidentally shot in the arm during a robbery), she confronts him and belts him in the face. He is also later arrested for drowning an endangered sea turtle in Lake Michigan due to mistakenly believing that it was in captivity. Marcy refuses to bail him out.
to:
* LaserGuidedKarma: Steve. After he blows off going on various job interviews, including a crucial one that Marcy helped to set up at the bank she works at (which ended with Marcy getting accidentally shot in the arm during a robbery), she confronts him and belts him in the face. He is also later arrested for drowning an endangered sea turtle in Lake Michigan due to mistakenly believing that it was in captivity. Marcy refuses to bail him out.out and uses the robbery reward money to buy a new car.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added line(s) 6 (click to see context) :
Following the events of "976-Shoe", Marcy wants Steve to look for a new job. However, Steve would rather take Peg, Bud, and Kelly to the zoo. Meanwhile, Al desperately tries to find something to eat at home.
Changed line(s) 6 (click to see context) from:
* DrowningMySorrows: Al and Marcy share drinks together at a bar
to:
* DrowningMySorrows: Al and Marcy share drinks together at a bar after Marcy gets shot in the arm and decks Steve for skipping out on his job interview at her bank.
Changed line(s) 8,10 (click to see context) from:
* GirlScoutsAreEvil: Courtney, the Chipmunk scout at the beginning who wanted Al to buy some of her cookies but Al being broke couldn't afford to. So she calls him a deadbeat and taunts him for being hungry.
* {{Hypocrite}}: Lazy, good-for-nothing unemployed Peggy calls Steve "pretty pathetic".
* InsaneTrollLogic: Courtney the Chipmunk girl scout complained to Al that it makes no sense to her that he doesn't want to buy any of his cookies because he's hungry. The truth is he doesn't have enough money and cannot afford to. Though she is a ManipulativeBastard and a con artist, so she's not to be trusted.
* {{Hypocrite}}: Lazy, good-for-nothing unemployed Peggy calls Steve "pretty pathetic".
* InsaneTrollLogic: Courtney the Chipmunk girl scout complained to Al that it makes no sense to her that he doesn't want to buy any of his cookies because he's hungry. The truth is he doesn't have enough money and cannot afford to. Though she is a ManipulativeBastard and a con artist, so she's not to be trusted.
to:
* GirlScoutsAreEvil: Courtney, the Chipmunk scout at the beginning who wanted Al to buy some of her cookies but Al being broke couldn't afford to. So she calls him a deadbeat and taunts insults him for being hungry.constantly hungry, taunts him with a box of cookies, and then refuses to sell one to him because he doesn't have any money.
* {{Hypocrite}}: Lazy, good-for-nothing unemployed Peggy calls Steve "pretty pathetic" and asks Al to shoot her if she ever worries about not working (with Al asking if he can just "wing her now").
* {{Hypocrite}}: Lazy, good-for-nothing unemployed Peggy calls Steve "pretty pathetic".
* InsaneTrollLogic: Courtney the Chipmunk girl scout complained to Al that it makes no sense to her that he doesn't want to buy any of his cookies because he's hungry.hungry (telling him that her father says that he eats bugs and dirt). The truth is he doesn't have enough money and cannot afford to. Though she is a ManipulativeBastard and a con artist, so she's not to be trusted.
* {{Hypocrite}}: Lazy, good-for-nothing unemployed Peggy calls Steve "pretty pathetic" and asks Al to shoot her if she ever worries about not working (with Al asking if he can just "wing her now").
Changed line(s) 13 (click to see context) from:
* LaserGuidedKarma: Steve. After he blows off going on various job interviews, including a crucial one that Marcy helped to set up at the bank she works at, that caused her to be shot in the hand, she confronts him and belts him in the face. He is also later arrested for drowning an endangered sea turtle in Lake Michigan due to mistakenly believing that it was in captivity. Marcy refuses to bail him out.
to:
* LaserGuidedKarma: Steve. After he blows off going on various job interviews, including a crucial one that Marcy helped to set up at the bank she works at, that caused her to be at (which ended with Marcy getting accidentally shot in the hand, arm during a robbery), she confronts him and belts him in the face. He is also later arrested for drowning an endangered sea turtle in Lake Michigan due to mistakenly believing that it was in captivity. Marcy refuses to bail him out.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 10 (click to see context) from:
* InsaneTrollLogic: Courtney the Chipmunk girl scout complained to Al that it makes no sense to her that he doesn't want to buy any of his cookies because he's hungry. The truth is he just doesn't have enough money and cannot afford to. Though she is a ManipulativeBastard and a con artist, so she's not to be trusted.
to:
* InsaneTrollLogic: Courtney the Chipmunk girl scout complained to Al that it makes no sense to her that he doesn't want to buy any of his cookies because he's hungry. The truth is he just doesn't have enough money and cannot afford to. Though she is a ManipulativeBastard and a con artist, so she's not to be trusted.
Added DiffLines:
** Worst of all, she gets away with making Al starve and suffer by using up his money on herself having fun at zoos.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
* AllThereInTheManual: The Chipmunk Scout's name is given out as Courtney in the ending credits.
Changed line(s) 6,8 (click to see context) from:
* EatTheDog: Since Buck ate his dinner, Al tries to eat Buck but is interrupted by Peg (who probably wouldn't have let him do so).
* InsaneTrollLogic: The Chipmunk Girl Scout at the beginning complained to Al that it makes no sense to her that he doesn't want to buy any of his cookies because he's hungry. The truth is he just doesn't have enough money and cannoot afford to. Though she is a ManipulativeBastard and a con artist, so she's not to be trusted.
* KidsAreCruel: The Girl Scout at the beginning who wanted Al to buy some of her cookies but Al being broke couldn't afford to. So she calls him a deadbeat and taunts him for being hungry.
* InsaneTrollLogic: The Chipmunk Girl Scout at the beginning complained to Al that it makes no sense to her that he doesn't want to buy any of his cookies because he's hungry. The truth is he just doesn't have enough money and cannoot afford to. Though she is a ManipulativeBastard and a con artist, so she's not to be trusted.
* KidsAreCruel: The Girl Scout at the beginning who wanted Al to buy some of her cookies but Al being broke couldn't afford to. So she calls him a deadbeat and taunts him for being hungry.
to:
* EatTheDog: Since After Buck ate his dinner, Al tries to eat Buck but is interrupted by Peg (who probably wouldn't have let him do so).
* GirlScoutsAreEvil: Courtney, the Chipmunk scout at the beginning who wanted Al to buy some of her cookies but Al being broke couldn't afford to. So she calls him a deadbeat and taunts him for being hungry.
* InsaneTrollLogic:The Courtney the Chipmunk Girl Scout at the beginning girl scout complained to Al that it makes no sense to her that he doesn't want to buy any of his cookies because he's hungry. The truth is he just doesn't have enough money and cannoot cannot afford to. Though she is a ManipulativeBastard and a con artist, so she's not to be trusted. \n* KidsAreCruel: The Girl Scout at the beginning who wanted Al to buy some of her cookies but Al being broke couldn't afford to. So she calls him a deadbeat and taunts him for being hungry.
* GirlScoutsAreEvil: Courtney, the Chipmunk scout at the beginning who wanted Al to buy some of her cookies but Al being broke couldn't afford to. So she calls him a deadbeat and taunts him for being hungry.
* InsaneTrollLogic:
Changed line(s) 11 (click to see context) from:
* LaserGuidedKarma: Steve. After he blows off going on various job interviews, including a crucial one that Marcy helped to set up at his old job, that caused her to be shot in the hand, she confronts him and belts him in the face. He is also later arrested for drowning an endangered sea turtle in Lake Michigan due to mistakenly believing that it was in captivity. Marcy refuses to bail him out.
to:
* LaserGuidedKarma: Steve. After he blows off going on various job interviews, including a crucial one that Marcy helped to set up at his old job, the bank she works at, that caused her to be shot in the hand, she confronts him and belts him in the face. He is also later arrested for drowning an endangered sea turtle in Lake Michigan due to mistakenly believing that it was in captivity. Marcy refuses to bail him out.
Changed line(s) 13 (click to see context) from:
* MeatOVision: Al hallucinates Buck as a whole roasted turkey with side vegetables since he hasn't eaten in days.
to:
* MeatOVision: Al hallucinates Buck as a whole roasted turkey with side vegetables since he hasn't eaten in days.days.
* PovertyFood: Al at one point tries swallowing Cheese critters (something like sea monkeys)
* PovertyFood: Al at one point tries swallowing Cheese critters (something like sea monkeys)
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 5 (click to see context) from:
* DowningMySorrows: Al and Marcy share drinks together at a bar
to:
* DowningMySorrows: DrowningMySorrows: Al and Marcy share drinks together at a bar
Added DiffLines:
* LaserGuidedKarma: Steve. After he blows off going on various job interviews, including a crucial one that Marcy helped to set up at his old job, that caused her to be shot in the hand, she confronts him and belts him in the face. He is also later arrested for drowning an endangered sea turtle in Lake Michigan due to mistakenly believing that it was in captivity. Marcy refuses to bail him out.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
* DowningMySorrows: Al and Marcy share drinks together at a bar
Changed line(s) 10 (click to see context) from:
* LazyHusband: What Steve has become to Marcy.
to:
* LazyHusband: What Steve has become to Marcy.Marcy.
* MeatOVision: Al hallucinates Buck as a whole roasted turkey with side vegetables since he hasn't eaten in days.
* MeatOVision: Al hallucinates Buck as a whole roasted turkey with side vegetables since he hasn't eaten in days.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
'''At the Zoo''' is an episode from Season 4 of ''Series/MarriedWithChildren''.
!!Tropes
* DisneylandDad: Steve plays this role to Peg, Kelly and Bud by taking them to the zoo and aquarium instead of looking for another job after he was fired from his previous job as a bank's loan officer in "976-SHOE".
* EatTheDog: Since Buck ate his dinner, Al tries to eat Buck but is interrupted by Peg (who probably wouldn't have let him do so).
* InsaneTrollLogic: The Chipmunk Girl Scout at the beginning complained to Al that it makes no sense to her that he doesn't want to buy any of his cookies because he's hungry. The truth is he just doesn't have enough money and cannoot afford to. Though she is a ManipulativeBastard and a con artist, so she's not to be trusted.
* KidsAreCruel: The Girl Scout at the beginning who wanted Al to buy some of her cookies but Al being broke couldn't afford to. So she calls him a deadbeat and taunts him for being hungry.
* LampshadeHanging: Al's opening liner.
-->'''Al''': I work in a shoe store, and still I'm not happy to come home.
* LazyHusband: What Steve has become to Marcy.
!!Tropes
* DisneylandDad: Steve plays this role to Peg, Kelly and Bud by taking them to the zoo and aquarium instead of looking for another job after he was fired from his previous job as a bank's loan officer in "976-SHOE".
* EatTheDog: Since Buck ate his dinner, Al tries to eat Buck but is interrupted by Peg (who probably wouldn't have let him do so).
* InsaneTrollLogic: The Chipmunk Girl Scout at the beginning complained to Al that it makes no sense to her that he doesn't want to buy any of his cookies because he's hungry. The truth is he just doesn't have enough money and cannoot afford to. Though she is a ManipulativeBastard and a con artist, so she's not to be trusted.
* KidsAreCruel: The Girl Scout at the beginning who wanted Al to buy some of her cookies but Al being broke couldn't afford to. So she calls him a deadbeat and taunts him for being hungry.
* LampshadeHanging: Al's opening liner.
-->'''Al''': I work in a shoe store, and still I'm not happy to come home.
* LazyHusband: What Steve has become to Marcy.
