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** Subverted by his best friend Cooper - the two were planning for several years to attend Harvard together (with Cooper, a mediocre student, planning to buy his way in) but eventually Cooper admits to Oliver that "their" plan is really just ''Oliver's'' plan, and he's only along for the ride. Once he discovers his passion is cuisine, he then decides to enroll in the Cambridge School of Culinary Arts, a real cooking school just a stone's throw from Harvard.
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** Cooper Bradford was mentioned in several episodes before finally appearing in the middle of season 1. His ''parents'', the richest couple in Westport, have never been seen in person, to emphasize his isolation from them.
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** Cooper Bradford was mentioned in several episodes before finally appearing in the middle of season 1. His ''parents'', the richest couple in Westport, have never been seen in person, to emphasize his isolation from them. [[spoiler: Cooper's father Doyle Bradford finally appears in the fifth season finale.]]
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** Milo Manheim, Creator/MegDonnelly's co-star in ''Film/Zombies2018'', gets a recurring role in the third season as Pierce, the actor who plays Seymour in the school's production of ''Theatre/LittleShopOfHorrors'', who frequently rehearses with her even though she's only playing Plant Bud #3.
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** Milo Manheim, Creator/MiloManheim, Creator/MegDonnelly's co-star in ''Film/Zombies2018'', gets a recurring role in the third season as Pierce, the actor who plays Seymour in the school's production of ''Theatre/LittleShopOfHorrors'', who frequently rehearses with her even though she's only playing Plant Bud #3.
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** Peyton Meyer, who joined the cast in season 2 as Taylor's boyfriend Trip, has appeared in more episodes with each successive season, including more than half of season 4, but continues to be billed as a guest star in the end credits. Notably he's appeared in more episodes than anyone ''not'' named in the opening credits.
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** Peyton Meyer, Creator/PeytonMeyer, who joined the cast in season 2 as Taylor's boyfriend Trip, has appeared in more episodes with each successive season, including more than half of season 4, but continues to be billed as a guest star in the end credits. Notably he's appeared in more episodes than anyone ''not'' named in the opening credits.
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''American Housewife'' is an Creator/{{ABC}} DomCom created by Sarah Dunn and starring [[Series/MikeAndMolly Katy Mixon]] and Creator/DiedrichBader.
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''American Housewife'' is an Creator/{{ABC}} DomCom created by Sarah Dunn and starring [[Series/MikeAndMolly Katy Mixon]] Creator/KatyMixon and Creator/DiedrichBader.
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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: This moment from the second season premiere:
--> '''Katie:''' Oliver, honey, you really have been working your butt off.
--> '''Oliver:''' What do you think I'm doing in my room every night with the door closed?
--> [[ParentalBonus Katie pauses and]] [[ADateWithRosiePalms looks at Oliver suggestively.]]
--> '''Oliver:''' Mom!
--> '''Katie:''' You're 13! I don't know!
--> '''Katie:''' Oliver, honey, you really have been working your butt off.
--> '''Oliver:''' What do you think I'm doing in my room every night with the door closed?
--> [[ParentalBonus Katie pauses and]] [[ADateWithRosiePalms looks at Oliver suggestively.]]
--> '''Oliver:''' Mom!
--> '''Katie:''' You're 13! I don't know!
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--> '''Katie:''' Oliver, honey, you really have been workingfuture, please check the trope page to make sure your butt off.
--> '''Oliver:''' What do you think I'm doing in my room every night withexample fits the door closed?
--> [[ParentalBonus Katie pauses and]] [[ADateWithRosiePalms looks at Oliver suggestively.]]
--> '''Oliver:''' Mom!
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--> '''Katie:''' Oliver, honey, you really have been working
--> '''Oliver:''' What do you think I'm doing in my room every night with
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--> '''Oliver:''' Mom!
--> '''Katie:''' You're 13! I don't know!
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** Milo Manheim, Meg Donnelly's co-star in ''Film/Zombies2018'', gets a recurring role in the third season as Pierce, the actor who plays Seymour in the school's production of ''Theatre/LittleShopOfHorrors'', who frequently rehearses with her even though she's only playing Plant Bud #3.
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** Milo Manheim, Meg Donnelly's Creator/MegDonnelly's co-star in ''Film/Zombies2018'', gets a recurring role in the third season as Pierce, the actor who plays Seymour in the school's production of ''Theatre/LittleShopOfHorrors'', who frequently rehearses with her even though she's only playing Plant Bud #3.
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* BirthdayEpisode: Common throughout the seasons. By the end of season 4, every Otto has had one except for Taylor:
** Oliver turns 13 in the season 1 episode "Surprise".
** Anna-Kat turns 8 later in season 1, in "The Walk".
** The season 3 episode "Liar, Liar, Room on Fire" depicts Greg's birthday, though [[AgelessBirthdayEpisode his age is never stated]].
** Katie's big 4-0 is celebrated in the season 4 episode "Vacation" with a trip to Los Angeles.
** Oliver turns 13 in the season 1 episode "Surprise".
** Anna-Kat turns 8 later in season 1, in "The Walk".
** The season 3 episode "Liar, Liar, Room on Fire" depicts Greg's birthday, though [[AgelessBirthdayEpisode his age is never stated]].
** Katie's big 4-0 is celebrated in the season 4 episode "Vacation" with a trip to Los Angeles.
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** Cooper Bradford was mentioned in several episodes before finally appearing in the middle of season 1. His ''parents'', the richest couple in Westport, have never been seen in person, to emphasize his isolation from them.
** Doris and Angela frequently mention their (ex-)spouses, Richard and Celeste respectively. Both eventually appear towards the end of season 1. Their children are also almost never seen; ''one'' of Doris's four kids (her daughter Marigold) appears in ''one'' episode, and Angela's two sons are only ever seen in brief cutaways.
** Doris and Angela frequently mention their (ex-)spouses, Richard and Celeste respectively. Both eventually appear towards the end of season 1. Their children are also almost never seen; ''one'' of Doris's four kids (her daughter Marigold) appears in ''one'' episode, and Angela's two sons are only ever seen in brief cutaways.
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** Cooper Bradford's parents, the richest couple in Westport, have never been seen in person, to emphasize Cooper's isolation from them.
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* HighSchoolDance: The season finale of Season 4, appropriately titled "Prom."
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* HighSchoolDance: HighSchoolDance:
** The season 3 episode "The Dance", although apparently the entire student body of Westport Unified is allowed to attend.
** The season finale of Season 4, appropriately titled "Prom."" The episode ends before they actually get to the Prom.
** The season 3 episode "The Dance", although apparently the entire student body of Westport Unified is allowed to attend.
** The season finale of Season 4, appropriately titled "Prom.
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* [[SheIsNotMyGirlfriend He Is Not My Boyfriend]]: Oliver and Cooper increasingly find themselves having to say this when everyone else assumes them to be boyfriends. Including the other Ottos.
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* TheScapegoat: Upon meeting his half-brother of the same name, Greg is displeased, revealing he had not even bothered to try to get in touch with him for two years. While apologizing to his brother, Greg admits he still has a lot of anger for their father and was unfairly taking it out on him.
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** Greg is much more subtle about it than Katie but he generally seems to favor Taylor over the others.
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--> '''Greg:''' He's either as good an actor as Creator/IanMcKellen, or he's as gay as Ian McKellen.
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--> '''Greg:''' He's either as good an actor as Creator/IanMcKellen, or he's as gay as Ian McKellen.[=McKellen=].
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* SlobsVsSnobs: The Ottos, with their humble lower-middle class values, are frequently at odds with the more upper-class Newport citizens. Specifically, Katie's rivalry with next-door neighbor Viv.
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* SlobsVsSnobs: The Ottos, with their humble lower-middle class values, are frequently at odds with the more upper-class Newport Westport citizens. Specifically, Katie's rivalry with next-door neighbor Viv.
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* WrongSideOfTheTracks: A milder example. Oliver's girlfriend Gina is from South Branson, a less affluent area than Westport. The clash of cultures comes to head when Cooper makes Oliver choose between him or Gina.
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* WrongSideOfTheTracks: A milder example. Oliver's girlfriend Gina is from South Branson, Branford, a less affluent area than Westport. The clash of cultures comes to head when Cooper makes Oliver choose between him or Gina.
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* MandatoryLine: Doris and Angela in most of their appearances. According to Dietrich Bader, the "Second Breakfast" scenes are typically filmed on Monday mornings - in other words, Ali Wong and Carly Hughes do half a day's work per week. (This is especially convenient for Wong, who maintains an active touring stand-up career.) However, a few times a season, Doris and/or Angela [[ADayInTheLimelight will have a more prominent role]].
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* FakeGuestStar: The show has built a large repertoire of supporting players but none of them has ever made it to the opening credits, which feature only the actors playing the Ottos and Katie's two Second Breakfast friends, Doris and Angela (who do appear in almost every episode but only get a MandatoryLine most of the time).
** Logan Pepper, who plays Cooper Bradford, has appeared in every season and though initially his appearances were infrequent, he appeared in half the episodes in season 4 and then his character ''moves in with the Ottos'' in season 5. Despite this, the actor retains the same low guest billing he got in season 1.
** Peyton Meyer, who joined the cast in season 2 as Taylor's boyfriend Trip, has appeared in more episodes with each successive season, including more than half of season 4, but continues to be billed as a guest star in the end credits. Notably he's appeared in more episodes than anyone ''not'' named in the opening credits.
** Logan Pepper, who plays Cooper Bradford, has appeared in every season and though initially his appearances were infrequent, he appeared in half the episodes in season 4 and then his character ''moves in with the Ottos'' in season 5. Despite this, the actor retains the same low guest billing he got in season 1.
** Peyton Meyer, who joined the cast in season 2 as Taylor's boyfriend Trip, has appeared in more episodes with each successive season, including more than half of season 4, but continues to be billed as a guest star in the end credits. Notably he's appeared in more episodes than anyone ''not'' named in the opening credits.
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* GoodParents: Katie and Greg, to the point that Oliver and Taylor begrudgingly admit they're turning out to be good people largely because of their influence.
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* GoodParents: Katie and Greg, to the point that Oliver and Taylor begrudgingly admit they're turning out to be good people largely because of their influence. In fact they're ''such'' good parents, especially in a town full of evidently ''lousy'' ones, that other kids have come to see them as parental figures, most notably Oliver's best friend Cooper.
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* PutOnABus: Taylor's first boyfriend, Eyo, stops appearing after they break up in season 2, though he continues to be mentioned (he apparently started dating the [[LastHetRomance male co-captain of the water polo team]]).
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* PutOnABus: Taylor's first boyfriend, Eyo, stops appearing after they break up in season 2, though he continues to be mentioned (he apparently started dating the [[LastHetRomance male co-captain of the water polo team]]).team]]) and his adoptive mother Tara continues to appear.
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* PutOnABus: Taylor's first boyfriend, Eyo, stops appearing after they break up in season 2.
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* PutOnABus: Taylor's first boyfriend, Eyo, stops appearing after they break up in season 2.2, though he continues to be mentioned (he apparently started dating the [[LastHetRomance male co-captain of the water polo team]]).
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* PutOnABus: Taylor's first boyfriend, Eyo, stops appearing after they break up in season 2.
** TheBusCameBack in the season 5 premiere when Eyo is revealed to be the class valedictorian at graduation.
** TheBusCameBack in the season 5 premiere when Eyo is revealed to be the class valedictorian at graduation.
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After receiving a full 22-episode season order on November 4, 2016, ABC ordered an additional episode a month later for a total of 23 episodes. The show was renewed for a second season on May 11, 2017. A third season order was announced on May 11, 2018. The fourth season premiered in its new Friday night time slot on September 27, 2019. Mid-season, the show was announced to be moving to Wednesdays and the timeslot vacated by ''Series/ModernFamily'', airing immediately after it for several weeks starting on March 18, 2020; the 21-episode order was pared down to 20 with the industry-wide cancellation of filming due to the coronavirus outbreak. A fifth season order was announced on May 21. It will return in yet ''another'' new timeslot, Wednesdays at 8:30, on October 28, 2020.
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After receiving a full 22-episode season order on November 4, 2016, ABC ordered an additional episode a month later for a total of 23 episodes. The show was renewed for a second season on May 11, 2017. A third season order was announced on May 11, 2018. The fourth season premiered in its new Friday night time slot on September 27, 2019. Mid-season, the show was announced to be moving to Wednesdays and the timeslot vacated by ''Series/ModernFamily'', airing immediately after it for several weeks starting on March 18, 2020; the 21-episode order was pared down to 20 with the industry-wide cancellation of filming due to the coronavirus outbreak. A fifth season order was announced on May 21. It will return returned in yet ''another'' new timeslot, Wednesdays at 8:30, on October 28, 2020.
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* BreakingTheFourthWall: Katie normally keeps her narration to voice-over only, but on two occasions when the situation merits it, she (or perhaps Katy Mixon) has directly addressed the audience:
** In "A Mom's Parade", she says "Yeah, it's a musical. Deal with it."
** In "Graduation", when the new actress playing Anna-Kat is revealed, she says "Yeah, kids change."
** In "A Mom's Parade", she says "Yeah, it's a musical. Deal with it."
** In "Graduation", when the new actress playing Anna-Kat is revealed, she says "Yeah, kids change."
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* {{Adorkable}}: Greg is endearingly awkward and has certain character tics that Katie finds amusing. For example, before writing a paper, he will strike a power pose (for confidence), listen to jazz (to unlock his brain's creative centers), eat exactly seven almonds (for energy), and drink a glass of port (to loosen up) before going to work.
* EndearinglyDorky: Greg is endearingly awkward and has certain character tics that Katie finds amusing. For example, before writing a paper, he will strike a power pose (for confidence), listen to jazz (to unlock his brain's creative centers), eat exactly seven almonds (for energy), and drink a glass of port (to loosen up) before going to work.
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* SuperOCD: Anna-Kat has OCD and the condition is presented realistically, albeit humorously. The Ottos moved to Westport because the local school has a special needs program that provides Anna-Kat with the extra attention she needs and Katie is often helping her daughter with various coping exercises so Anna-Kat won't completely fall into her rituals.
** If Greg gets interrupted while working, he has to start his ritual described under Adorkable all over again. In the episode where this was shown he had to reboot so many times, he got too drunk to work.
** If Greg gets interrupted while working, he has to start his ritual described under Adorkable all over again. In the episode where this was shown he had to reboot so many times, he got too drunk to work.
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** Anna-Kat has OCD and the condition is presented realistically, albeit humorously. The Ottos moved to Westport because the local school has a special needs program that provides Anna-Kat with the extra attention she needs and Katie is often helping her daughter with various coping exercises so Anna-Kat won't completely fall into her rituals.
** If Greg gets interrupted while working, he has to start his ritual described underAdorkable EndearinglyDorky all over again. In the episode where this was shown he had to reboot so many times, he got too drunk to work.
** Anna-Kat has OCD and the condition is presented realistically, albeit humorously. The Ottos moved to Westport because the local school has a special needs program that provides Anna-Kat with the extra attention she needs and Katie is often helping her daughter with various coping exercises so Anna-Kat won't completely fall into her rituals.
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After receiving a full 22-episode season order on November 4, 2016, ABC ordered an additional episode a month later for a total of 23 episodes. The show was renewed for a second season on May 11, 2017. A third season order was announced on May 11, 2018. The fourth season premiered in its new Friday night time slot on September 27, 2019. Mid-season, the show was announced to be moving to Wednesdays and the timeslot vacated by ''Series/ModernFamily'', airing immediately after it for several weeks starting on March 18, 2020; the 21-episode order was pared down to 20 with the industry-wide cancellation of filming due to the coronavirus outbreak. A fifth season order was announced on May 21, 2020. It will return in yet ''another'' new timeslot, Wednesdays at 8:30, whenever the continued pandemic allows.
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After receiving a full 22-episode season order on November 4, 2016, ABC ordered an additional episode a month later for a total of 23 episodes. The show was renewed for a second season on May 11, 2017. A third season order was announced on May 11, 2018. The fourth season premiered in its new Friday night time slot on September 27, 2019. Mid-season, the show was announced to be moving to Wednesdays and the timeslot vacated by ''Series/ModernFamily'', airing immediately after it for several weeks starting on March 18, 2020; the 21-episode order was pared down to 20 with the industry-wide cancellation of filming due to the coronavirus outbreak. A fifth season order was announced on May 21, 2020. 21. It will return in yet ''another'' new timeslot, Wednesdays at 8:30, whenever the continued pandemic allows.
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* TeacherStudentRomance: A variant - Katie was a college student and Greg was a TA in a course she was taking at Duke University.[[note]]Presumably a soft-option or gen-ed course, since Greg is a history professor and Katie graduated with a degree in marketing.[[/note]] Greg admits he broke the rules when they started dating, but given that Katie was over 18 and Greg presumably ceased to be her TA after the semester was over, there were no lasting repercussions from this. (Other than the marriage and three kids, of course.)
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* SignificantReferenceDate: The episode "Surprise" takes place on Oliver's 13th birthday, and the party his parents throw for him involves an escape room with a secret code. Oliver deciphers the code to read 01-17-2004, his birthday. The episode originally aired on January 17, 2017.
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* HilariousOuttakes: In every season finale thus far, a blooper reel plays over the end credits.
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